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is still 'For Love of the Game'.

Saw that it was on tv right now (only 40 min in) and I realized that it's been too long since I've seen this wonderful movie.



I should note that I absolutely love and adore 'Field of Dreams' and 'Bull Durham'. I can't for the life of me explain what exactly it is that puts this movie on top for me.

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Give me fun things to watch =P

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No one else played a super-dodge tiny sized character?

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Being merp'd is comparable to getting struck by a low blow and blindsided by a chair while the ref is accidentally knocked unconscious all at the same time.

Feel free to respond accordingly.

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Other good examples are the Kings Quest longplays by retsupurae. Good videos that are also long so you can just relax and enjoy.

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I don't know too many myself and I'm always looking for awesome thing to watch.

But here's an old one some of you have probably already seen, or rather listened to since it is basically just audio.

Hobss - This Is Why 11 Year Olds Shouldn't Raid



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Lisa it's your birthday!

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Serge, Glenn, Pip

Sometimes replace Serge for someone else, but Glenn and Pip forever.

Pip I would always build him super evasive with heals. People simply could not target him when you had the evasion gear on.

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"yay"

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And they are still going.

What a "speed" run.

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I got distracted watching ermine's stream.

I'm still around as well.

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They can't do buster-only in a race against each other.

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Bump.

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anyone want to get a game started?

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fraps?

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Digi, I will always expect a pun.


Also happy birthday!! Hope you do (or did) something special

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Awesome episode. One of my favorites.

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Also she doesn't bend so he can't remove her bending.

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Looks good to me

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>Wait expectantly for Chris to arrive the way that party members often do during the first boss fight of a JRPG.

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Your PC isn't even finished.

Buy it a week before your PC is finished?

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Under the circumstances, Ive been shockingly nice

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From: HeroicGammaRay | #070

but chest nerfs, jar nerfs, huge retroactive item changes, etc. they seem to be rebalancing the game around their LEAST desirable players

See that I can agree with, it feels like Blizzard has been making some mistakes in handling the gold farmers.

Yes, jars used to drop a decent amount of gold.
A decent amount for 1 person to pick up during their personal runs of the game.

An ABSURD amount of gold though for someone using bots on a hundred different computers.


But they need to find some other way to crack down rather than make the jars inherently less useful to farm. And the fact is changing their drop rate doesn't make the person with bots on 100 computers any further behind. They will still get 100x more gold than 1 person playing by themselves. Drop rate used to be X and they made 100X. Drop rate is now Y and they make 100Y. It doesn't really affect the issue that someone who is going out of their way to cheat is going to earn more and earn it faster than people playing the game as intended.


Not to mention the fact that the MF nerf to treasure chests makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Absolutely none.
They already removed all of the cheaply easy and farmable chests from the game, which is fine. It also removes the need to completely gimp resplendent chests. You can't get to them without actually doing some amount of work now, so why nerf their drops?



They need to be looking for more sophisticated ways to detect botting for one. And they need to be INCREDIBLY harsh in dealing with the general chat gold spammers. First offense? Ban. They want to get unbanned then let them try and call customer service and explain why they were spamming people with offers to sell them gold and power level them.

The problem of course is that those accounts need to get banned BEFORE they turn a profit. The cheaters are not going to stop if they make 400 bucks on an account before it gets banned. They will only understand when they start paying more for cdkeys than they are taking in by the cheating. And in game nerfs (other than the obvious fixes like with those resplendent chests) do not help that at all.

The 72 hour thing though? It actually does serve a practical purpose.

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So i was reading through the comments on that reddit link and got to this:


The mother of all videos for a "you cry; you lose" topic.
;_;

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User Name FootballCops

Account Created Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:57 PM
Last Visit Friday, June 22, 2012 1:44 AM


This must mean something. But what?

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From: Erugios | #003

I think at one point we forget what little bastards we were when we were children, so when we see stuff like this it is shocking. But in reality, we were probably much worse.

Children are terrible

That cannot be true.

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From: Paratroopa1 | #019

oh man I would so play a soccer game if it was commentated like this.

I think ExTha needs to do soccer Lets Plays as the announcer and put them on youtube. I would watch them.

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I'm pretty much limited to saying "AUGH" when something goes wrong and "YES!" when something goes right.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #003

The trailers didn't do it any favors.

This is my impression so far as well.

But aside from all the trailers I feel like I don't know very much about the actual plot of the movie. Only that she is taking a stand and taking her own life into her hands.

Where the plot goes from there is a mystery which is how I want it to be until I watch the movie. Might be good, might be bad, but nothing I've seen so far makes me think it's going to rival some of Pixar's best. But we'll see.

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3 links have been provided now.

Thanks Anagram.

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Sure why not

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Man the link provided in this topic explaining the funny story.

Such a good link.

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From: pjbasis | #067

Wait this game has a real world money system?

Yes?

Chris has already made upwards of 50 dollars selling random drops he had no use for if I'm not mistake.

I've only made 16 dollars myself, but it doesn't take long to list stuff. And so if diablo items happen to sell, great. If they don't I'll live. I'm still having fun playing the game and receiving money on top of that is just a bonus.

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From: MarvelousGerbil | #048

lol "years later" I'll admit I beat the game twice (once with a Monk, once with a DH, higher difficulties don't interest me) and yeah, I played for about 60 hours, but I don't see myself picking it back up unless I get nostalgic a few weeks before the expansion comes out.

Then I guess I should ask you just what kind of game you thought you were buying.

This is one of the things that bothers me about many of the D3 complaints that I have read. The idea that Blizzard somehow misrepresented the game they were selling to people.

This is Diablo 3. I bolded the 3 because that is the important part. This is the THIRD game in the series and it is similar in many respects to its predecessors. The game is meant to be beaten multiple times. In many other games when you are first starting the game it gives you a difficulty option of "Normal or Hard" (maybe Expert as well?) and it is possible to play the games on the higher difficulty levels straight from the get go. Not so with Diablo. You aren't even allowed to begin a character in 'Nightmare' (the 2nd difficulty level) and even if you COULD you would be unable to kill anything with a level 1 character.


I wouldn't buy the next Madden game and get disappointed that it's a sports game.
I wouldn't buy a Final Fantasy game and be annoyed that I didn't get a point/click adventure game.
You shouldn't buy Diablo 3 and expect the content to stop just because you beat the game on normal.

That is completely contradictory to everything we already know about the series. And in Diablo games "normal" is more or less an introductory look at the game. Most people who have beaten the game on normal would agree that there is very little "real" difficulty to be found in normal difficulty.

I mean sure I could lament on all the things that diablo is NOT. Diablo 3 is NOT a game that you can fully experience in 20 hours. Diablo 3 is NOT without server problems from time to time. Diablo 3 is also NOT without it's share of spammers and hackers. (I learned this hard way when I got hacked and lost about 300k gold. I have earned and spent millions of gold since then.)

But what Diablo 3 IS is a fun and fairly polished game that delivers an incredible experience akin to its predecessors. And because of these things I have already logged 175 hours into my main character. I knew what I was buying and Blizzard delivered the kind of game I was expecting.

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HA! I expected this RKO ExTha!

*dodges the RKO*

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Bad?

Bad??

And pre-NJO is some of the best stuff ever.

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Wedge Antilles and I were just talking about this book the other day in the LoL topic.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/63130046/705720440



From: Murphiroth | #012

I, Jedi

This was my favorite Star Wars book for a long time.

I've actually started to not care for Stackpole quite as much as I used to, but 'I, Jedi' is still amazing.

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But the people stuck at level 13 don't actually have the game in their possession.

They have a bill for the game on the credit card they used to pay it online, yes. But basically it works like this:

1) Buy a physical copy of the game online, wait 3~ days for shipping and then start playing.

2) Buy a digital copy of the game, wait 3~ days for verication, but you can start playing act 1 content immediately.

Granted you can hit level 13 and kill the skeleton king in a matter of HOURS, but it does give you time to fully download the game (5 gigs? Which could take awhile for some connections) and at least try out the variety of classes to some extent before the rest of the game is ready. Which is more than you would do buying a physical copy that had to be shipped.



I don't particularly understand how this change is particularly effective in combating "fraud and other malicious activities that can weaken everyone's play experience", but I suppose it most do something.



From: MarvelousGerbil | #016

And yet the way botters sell gold is in general chat which the game now forces you into everytime you enter the game. Maybe there's no demand for it now that the RMAH is out (haven't played since) but that annoyed the piss out of me.

I left General chat once after the new patch and have not auto joined since. Yay?

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It is late and I'm not going to finish any of these.

But I will say that I even without your prompting I could tell within a minute that entry three was written by you chris. It just seemed distinctively in your style.

Maybe next time a round goes up let me know so I can try to pick yours out without the foreknowledge.

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I dunno about the sheep one tbh. The entire time I kept thinking "why is someone taking photographs of them saving the sheep instead of helping". (Still awesome and humanity saving though)


Favorites:
#6 (girl at a race, I hope her favorite movie is Cars =P)
#7 (3 year old's letter, too cute)
#15 (girl with the flower. I just can't help but grin)
#20 (dog on the pier)

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I was perusing topics on the D3 boards and ran across this post in a completely unrelated topic:

I buy sword. 200$. I not equip? Say barb?
I not use barb???

Not sure why but it made me laugh <_<

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someone else needs to host now ^_^

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Eh, farming act 1 seemed fairly successful for me today. Even excluding the level 55 legendary shield (which I expect will turn 7-10 bucks on the RMAH when I have a slot) I got a good amount of 62 and 63 gear.

Yeah most of my rolls on them were crappy, but that is always the case. It is the nature of rolling for stats.

I did however pick up maybe 10 or so items that I think are worth going on the AH.

And in addition to those items I probably also farmed about 90 or 100 infernal level dust which got sold for 2 to 2.1k each. Even when you aren't finding upgrades for yourself every crappy level 60 you roll is still an extra 2k in the bank just from the salvage dusts. I could have a week of runs where I find absolutely nothing to put on myself and through a combination of salvage dusts and the occasional piece of gear that will sell for at least 10k I'll still get enough to afford something I really want.




But yeah I kind of still really hate them forcing all chests to be completely worthless.

Why call them RESPLENDENT chests if they are full of CRAP?


Btw for those of you running act 1I noticed today that one of the Eventss you get in the crypts in the cemetary seems to drop much better loot that it is supposed to. I haven't done Jar of Souls yet since the patch, but twice now I have done the other quest where you have to collect the woman's remains and then you click the sarcophagus afterwards to collect your reward. Well as far as I can tell when you click the sarcophagus it counts as cashing in an elite pack. You don't reset your valor stack timer, but I have gotten 3 rares each time I did it. Red got 2 rares and Shoe got 1. It is cashing out MUCH better than events are supposed to.

It gave pretty good loot even before, but my assumption at the time was that cashing in the quest was equivalent to opening a Resplendent Chest, but that no longer seems to be the case since the RChests are all terrible. It honestly feels like I'm getting the +1 Rare for cashing in the quest with 5 valor stacks. I can't think of any reason why I would have gotten 3 rares both times I cashed it in, I never got quite so much before. And that's with 5 stacks and no MF gear. Next time I turn that quest in I'm going to put MF gear on first and see how it reacts to 300+% magic find.

So yeah if you're running act 1 keep your eye out for that event. It's done all right by me so far.

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From: HeroicGammaRay | #352

also is it just me or does the game run significantly less smoothly post-patch? i'd just check the fps counter but it's bugged and displays a constant 0 fps

Well my games resolution changed during the patch so it looked really ugly. But it seems to be running fine for me.

But yeah FPS counter being bugged is annoying. I have it turned on pretty much constantly to gauge how my computer is handling things.

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Part of me has always expected their bending was not permanently removed, but now that Lin got her bending removed in such a powerful way I think I would look back on that scene differently when it's confirmed it isn't permanent.

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From: Blizzard | #Patch 1.0.3

Witch Doctor

Active Skills
Summon Zombie Dogs
Skill Rune – Leeching Beasts
Tooltip has been updated for clarity: "Your Zombie Dogs heal 50% of the damage they deal as Life divided evenly between themselves and you." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)

The only change WD got was a tooltip change?



From: Blizzard | #Patch 1.0.3

Magic Weapon

When activated, a buff icon will now appear that displays the amount of time remaining

About time. Now they just need a timer for Familiar as well.



From: Blizzard | #Patch 1.0.3

Leaders of Invulnerable Minions packs have had their health pools reduced

Mortar monsters can now hurl projectiles farther, but their minimum range has also been increased by 100%

YES! To both of these.

I hate invulnerable minions with a fiery passion and I HATE mortars who can hit me when I'm RIGHT ****ing next to them.





I'm really disappointed by the chest magic find nerf. Really disappointed. But I still liked quite a few of the changes.

Kind of annoying to see a ton of boss nerfs, but I suppose it is better for the game in general so I can live with those.

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You recall incorrectly, sir.

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I'm pretty sure my predictions were the best.

*mingles*

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And even with walkthroughs I don't use a walkthrough to beat the game, I'll use it to get all the random crap that I would have NO chance of knowing about otherwise.

I mean look at FFX. I'm generally the completionist sort and so when I learned you get items for dodging lightning bolts I figured "okay I'll see how many I can dodge". And I probably would have dodged quite a few and tried it a good many times. I may have even forced myself to hit 100 bolts.

It would not have even occurred to me to try for 200. Which essentially requires Encounter None gear which I didn't even have access to the first time I reached the thunder plains. And even if i happened to accidentally get to 200 I would have thought to myself "well what the hell, I dodged 200 lightning bolts and they give me the crappiest weapon I've ever seen".

Walkthroughs, imo, are there to help you get the most out of a game when you would otherwise not have.

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