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Quote:Yeah, but this was a Roulette, not a Gambit. Which is pretty much par for the course in a Bond movie, thus why I'm willing to overlook it. I thought the similarities to the Dark Knight movies and the re-use of some tropes recently used in the franchise was a bigger problem.
This is why I both like and hate the Xanatos gambit. It's great when pulled off right. But when it collapses, it kind of doesn't make sense. I much prefer the enemy who is seemingly invincible, but has a plausible weakness (see the movie version of John Carter).
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Quote:The rep comes quickly, there are enough things to do to break up monotony, you get the rep by playing the game and if you don't like playing the game, then why do you need another excuse to not play?
More to the point, Valor Points are worthless regardless of source unless you do those dailies.
Every single Valor Point item in MoP is gated behind Pandaria faction reputations - to be able to spend them, you HAVE to spend weeks (literally) grinding out the various faction reps first.
This is just looking for things to complain about. -
Quote:False. Pandaria dailies in WoW give Valor Points now.
Then do the same solo... oh wait: they dont let you even do ANY progress towards that solo. -
Quote:I never believed that any negotiations were being conducted in good faith in the first place, at least on NC's part.
Really? You'd rather be left believing that negotiations were still ongoing?
Talking about it meant NC's drones had to shovel the usual we're-so-sorry codswallop, which everyone saw through instantaneously because anyone my age or older has been inundated by it all our lives. All that statement did was dial the h8 up to h9. -
What I expected, and frankly they would have been better off saying nothing.
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Quote:Ctrl-rightclick to turn them into random components for the new system.
I have all of these components that I earned two years ago that are seemingly worthless now -- I haven't found any information to suggest otherwise. It's not a major impediment, just disappointing. -
Quote:In their defense, when they announced plans to make the Vibora Bay zone part of a paid expansion the forum population went ballistic, leading to the community rep who made the announcement getting sacked and the zone going out for free. If the fans are going to be outraged at the idea that new content might be worth paying for I can't really blame the developers for feeling that new content isn't worth their resources to develop.
CO strikes me as an understaffed Cryptic backwater....which is their MO, dating back to when they pulled most of the CoH team to work on the abortive Marvel game that eventually transmorgified into CO. They're all about the NEW SHINY and seem happy to let older projects whither while they chase the Next Big Project. -
Quote:A terrible movie whose trailers alone are enough to demonstrate why it shouldn't even exist. Ferrell demonstrated he really can act in Stranger Than Fiction, but pretty much the rest of his career is a giant case of Money, Dear Boy.
Ok, so I figured out Anchorman is a movie from the convo, but what the hell is it about? -
I'm on Uldum myself. I have characters all over the level range from 85 on down. Technically I'm in the guild I joined last year still but it looks like everyone else has switched to GW2.
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I got called to jury duty in May...and ended up as foreman in a murder trial. My first blog post is about the experience, link below, warning: lacks happy ending.
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FWIW, the Pandaren have been part of WC lore since at least WC3. Possibly earlier, I wouldn't know. That's way before Kung Fu Panda.
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Quote:Both Serpent Lantern and Demonflame can be soloed...at least, none of my characters had any trouble with them. Maybe some of the ATs would; I wouldn't know. Serpent Lantern, however, was obviously written by someone who thought the Citadel TF was a good idea as it has you do the same thing about nine times in a row. Run it once, maybe, just to see it, but after that forget it.
Sam, in CO try the Until Action Pack "Aftershock". It is part 3, following on Serpent Lantern and Demonflame, but those are both absolutely frustrating unless you have a really solid team. Aftershock can be solo'd, even by me on a freebie not-very smartly equipped Unleashed AT. It is creepy, it is fun, it has some totally unique mechanics (one mission you have to control NPC movements by talking to them in Local chat), and a suitably epic climax.
Aftershock is pretty good but the last act throws a planet-sized Idiot Ball. Whiteout is better, though the final fight can be annoying. -
I just re-started WoW too, if only to look around Pandaria a bit. It turns out my old guild (on Uldum) is now over in GW2 (with zero chance of me following them), sadly.
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I've been playing CO since it launched. My global is Venture-1. CO's only big problem now is that it's light on content and too much of what there is is way too goofy.
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Personally I prefer the star ratings to likes...but then, there's xkcd's take on it....
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Quote:Bingo.
THAT'S what made it sting so badly. Before that fateful Friday afternoon, there wasn't even a hint that this would happen, not for the players or the devs. In the span of minutes, we (players and devs alike) went from "having a bright future that promised years of updates and fun to come" to "game over, get out."
I'm used to death. I don't think I'll ever get used to being shivved. -
Done.
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It looks like this arc is going to require major surgery to become functional. Don't know if/when I'll get to it.
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IIRC, Cryptic's devs have said CO runs on an earlier version of their engine that isn't quite compatible with the Foundry. I have heard users say that CO is slated to get the Foundry after Neverwinter launches but I've never heard that said by anyone from Cryptic.
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I fixed the arc today. The problem, if you can believe this, turned out to be an objective named "An interesting-looking computer", because of the substring "sting-".
Honestly, if the game wasn't dying this would make me want to kill it. -
I make it a point not to care overly much about the opinions of people who both do not indent paragraphs and don't understand how to use white space.
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Done.
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Since there's slim hopes of the filter issues ever being fixed at this point I went in and tried to get this arc running again. This was complicated by the fact that the arc wasn't actually throwing an error in the editor, it just refused to start.
I finally determined that the only hitch appeared to be the name "Captain A. V. Livingston" in act II. I changed it to "Captain Livingston" and now the arc appears to be running again, though I didn't have time to do a full play-through.
It just boggles the mind that we had to put up with this. -
Amiga 2000 here. Gave up on it the second time the hard drive went toes-up a year or two after Commodore died.
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The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can't take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can't take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you change my life
No, no they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me
-- "They Can't Take That Away From Me", George and Ira Gershwin