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Good to know Hussie's incredible sense of humor didn't die with Homestuck "ending"
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OliviaTremor posted...

2) Warner Bros is a minority owner of Rotten Tomatoes parent company.

Both reasons suck and it seems pretty not cool at all that WB has a stake in Rotten Tomatoes.

I mean this didn't help their other movies so I don't think it's a factor at all!
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Yeah, my ebook machine was a Nook (one with the digital screen) and it was ok but I never got used to it. Didn't read enough to justify buying a Kindle. And I tried phone apps but it's just not quite big enough. I just can't seem to shake the habit of reading physical books.
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I ordered Edgedancer on amazon two days ago to try to get it in before Oathbringer comes out, but fucking USPS lost my order. :\
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Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Between all the other big games that came out this year I played (Zelda, Stormblood, Mario, P5, Nier) and me slowly going through Witcher 3 as well, just no time to add another open world adventure to the backlog. And Xenoblade 2 is coming soon so it's even less likely.

Oh and Uncharted: Lost Legacy, which I only played for two hours before it took a backseat to other things.
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Shallan definitely suffers at times from Sanderson thinking his dialogue is WAY more clever than it actually is. His banter needs some work. She's also racist as hell, but at least that part seems like an intentional arc. She's solid and I like her overall, but she's not one of my favorites.
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Samurai7 posted...

This topic is making me feel like I need to read the wiki. I forget so much.

I'll probably also be on the wiki a lot for book 3. There is so much stuff in the books that I've forgotten more than I remember. And the world-hopping stuff goes completely over my head as I haven't read any other Sanderson.
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My favorite part about Sadeas is how the Kalinar POV in Book 1 hypes him up without even being there. You see how appalling it is for the bridge crew, but you're led to believe they're all that bad until you get snippets from other perspectives. No, it's just Saldeas's that's absolutely despicable, and he's been using it to great profit. It's horrible, and ruthless, and perfect. But more than that, he's the perfect foil to Dalinar, which made the thing with Adolin even more insane. Really enjoyed him.

Speaking of villains, I have high hopes for Taravangian, even if mostly because I'm itching to see more of that person.
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Is Edgedancer the short story about the "awesome" girl from book 2? I think I heard she was getting something and ignored it because I could not stand her chapter in WoR. But if it's really that important I can pick it up.
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Dalinar is also my favorite. So hype.
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In the post-game, Cappy will tell you if you are missing coins or moons from a sub-area when you enter it. It's pretty helpful.
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I believe you also need to collect every outfit and souvenir in the game to get all the moons, which means all purple coins.
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Not many people tend to associate him with Marvel, but Joss Whedon actually had a brief stint as an X-Men writer!
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Hate them unless they're also spicy. Or deep fried, but even then dill is way better.
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Piss
Shit
Who
Smooth
Numbers

Wow Wow and Best are my top 2 but these are good runner ups
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Arti posted...

I'd play the 3rd if I could import my save forward but they denied me the option

I thought you could link your saves to the Telltale account and import it from any device now? Though, I still haven't gotten around to trying it for S3.
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100 bits is $1. The extra price when you buy the bits is what Twitch gets.
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I don't mind when people ask me this, because if they don't they tend to assume I'm only white or occasionally latino, but I do mind that the response I get when I tell them I'm half-black (also known as "black") is "no you're not, you're kidding, right?" As if someone would willingly lie about being black to get that sick street cred.

Still, it's enough to cause me to have a brief crisis of identity every time I have to fill out a race identification form.
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whataburger does this, but it's fair because their spicy ketchup is godlike and if they didn't then people would probably just steal it all
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Special instructions are one thing, but people saying they should be calling on every order are ridiculous. That's gonna add 1-2 minutes per delivery, which doesn't sound like a lot but if you have 5 orders, last guy's order is now 10 minutes late. This guy fucked up and sounds like he doesn't care (or just forgot) but also shit does happen. I've been stiffed/yelled at more times for being slightly late than not calling, so I'm in any sort of hurry, guy who wants a call is probably going to deal with a knock or two before I go for the phone.

But as you pointed out yourself, real reason not to tip for bad service is that he'll just think you're an asshole. When I got a 0 tip I usually have no idea if the person is just a jerk or if I actually messed something up. Writing a note on the receipt or calling to complain is much more effective. You still look like an asshole, and maybe they still dont give a shit, but they can actually fix the issue or chew out the employee. With feedback, no tipping is fine (UNLESS it's tipshare, unlikely for delivery) but without you're just saying you were slightly inconvenienced but don't actually care that much.

Personal anecdote, feel free to ignore, but when I worked delivery, there was a regular customer who would always get a Dr Pepper with ice in a separate cup, plus some other custom order. Every delivery driver there ended up memorizing her ordering ticks and address so that the order went well. This wasn't for the tip, because she would only tip small amounts randomly when it was convenient for her. But if anything was wrong, she'd call to complain and waste everyone's time. No one liked her but we got her weird orders right most of the time because the squeaky wheel gets the grease in the service industry.
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It's a mix of all the previous 3d games. Big worlds to explore like 64 and Sunshine but the stuff in them reminds me more of the later games.
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swordz9 posted...

3D Land had so much padded bloat if you wanted to "complete" the game. Having to replay every level in the game to unlock the bonus last level? Yikes

Every 3d Mario game has done this since Galaxy 1. Really hope it's not the case with Odyssey.
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I'm curious as to why 7 seems so unpopular. 7 and 8 are both top tier, but 8 is largely just improving what 7 was already doing. Is it just the handheld factor + weird roster?

Also really surprised at DD popularity.

8 > 7 > DS > 64 > Wii > DD > SNES
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Also it's important to note that most of the money is going to the streamers. For example:

skullbone posted...

5000 bits = $64.40

This is $50 going to the streamer and $14.40 to twitch. Which, yes, is a big upcharge compared to PayPal or whatever, but that's why they have all this shiny nonsense to get people to use bits.
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Oh shit I read the two Stormlight books last year and this is my first time hearing the third one is coming out. Fuck yeah.

Sadly it still takes third priority behind Mario and Xenoblade 2
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that feeling when you feed a dummy spell into their secret to test counterspell but can't play the main spell this turn

and they play another secret
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I wonder if that also means you can't avoid damage with Mal'ganis if Apothecary dies before it.
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Huh, that's still weird. Definitely seemed like it was all at once.
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Actually, theres going to be an update that sounds like it'll fix that too!

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/20759378548#1

It took a while but it's good to see them address these unintuitive and inconsistent rules interactions.
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This might be a physical/digital thing because it's baffling to me. I also don't think you should have to memorize the cards you and your opponent played! Other games have graveyards you are allowed to look at whenever you want. Hearthstone doesn't. You have a play history but it's not comprehensive. The UI essentially marks each card for both players. So you get these little memory puzzles as a byproduct of having simpler design, which seems like a weird consequence. It increases skill, but for me it doesn't do it in a particularly interesting or fun way. The optimal way to be competitive is to take extensive notes, be really good at the memory game, or use a deck tracker.

On a related note, the game is a little bit inconsistent with revealed information. Handbuff effects actually are tracked while in the hand, but generated cards are not. The Death Knight card that steals a minion from the deck reveals what it generated, but other cards do not. Generated cards say "created by" when played, except secrets which have to be revealed first. I'd rather they track all this stuff the same way.
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wait, Coco isn't a sequel to Book of Life???
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I like being able to track things like "he has a babbling book spell, a Murloc and Dragon from Curator, and a reduced cost spell from Glyph," bur I think it's incredibly silly you can track individual cards using their positions in your opponent's hand.

Pls give me the ability to shuffle my hand just like in a real card game.
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There's a Quick Synthesis option, but I think you need to unlock it somehow by getting the crafter to 10 or 15. Also the failure rate is higher until your stats improve.
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Lancer? Prepare for Impulse Drive.

Also some tips for leveling: try to get into a free company (guild). Most of them constantly have a buff up that gives a boost to EXP and there's usually a few shouting open recruitment in city centers. You can also eat food for another small boost (I think fresh water from tradecraft merchants is cheapest). And if anyone here is on Behemoth they can refer you and get you a head gear that boost EXP until level 25.
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If you didn't like the PC Principal season, then no, probably not. That's been their best recent season. Maybe go back and watch S18, that one had very light continuity that amounted to gags between episodes. That's also the style that they're going for this season.

S20 is just bad though.
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

Estelle/Yuri/Flynn (Tales of Vesperia)

You mean Yuri/Estelle/Rita
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Emoji is Japanese term created from combining "picture" with "character". It's a perfectly sensible term... in Japanese. I have no idea why English picked it up when there was already a preexisting term.

Because emoji as we know them now originated on Japanese phones, where they grew in popularity until being included as a standard internationally. But it's still the same set and that's why there's so many Japanese-styled ones.
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S1 finale was good because it was at least a little funny. It was also an intentional wind-down episode after the Evil Rick/Council episode.

This one...didn't really do anything for me.
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If I have to choose between having a bunch of powerful degenerate decks being viable and curvestone, I have to pick the first option. Playing fair is generally pretty boring.

The lack of targeted hand disruption and opposing turn interaction is always going to be a huge buff to these decks though.
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Blocksby posted...

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Does the manga version they were adapting from even have enough material to make more than a few episodes with?

King
Blizzard Group
Martial Arts Tournament
Early Garou stuff
Those are the main plot lines that the anime can use from the current manga. There's also some other one off episodes that they could still do.

Yeah I can't imagine they start the last arc without finishing it. And you probably get like 5 episodes max out of the first 3.
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Does the manga version they were adapting from even have enough material to make more than a few episodes with? I haven't checked in a while. I know the webcomic was much further along but adapting that they'd basically have to redesign everything on their own.
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Man I remember opening Huhuran day of release and being super excited about it. It was kinda ok back in the CotW days around ONiK but even then it was kinda slow. And now we just have the way less clunky rare!
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Metal has made me want to catch up on DC ever since I saw the picture of Bruce pulling Baby Darkseid out of his utility belt
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I was mostly interested in Winona Ryder's slow descent into madness, and the sheriff is interesting.

Their plotlines remain the best, but the teens end up getting a lot better. For the first three episodes their role is really unfocused but starts to make sense later. So you might change your opinion on them.

On the other hand, I didn't care for Eleven either. That whole plot basically stays exactly as cliche as you'd expect for the whole season.
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Though I seem to always get myself into cycles where I don't read it for half a year and completely forget about it. And then I remember it again so I binge it from the beginning to get caught up.

it's ok, the pacing has gone to complete shit for years so this is definitely the correct way to read it
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I read and loved Homestuck but I don't think I could in good conscience recommend it to someone.

Now, Problem Sleuth! That one I'd have no qualms about. Quality, wholesome, adventure game parody that isn't longer than Atlus Shrugged.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4

Also thirding Gunnerkrigg Court, now with a link. It's like Harry Potter except about magic/technology hybridization and also not really like that at all besides it takes place in a school.
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/

Dr. McNinja is a good one about a doctor who is also a ninja.
http://drmcninja.com/issues/

Cucumber Quest is a loving parody of Mario RPGs that also has its own clever stuff going on. Also, it's pretty.
http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/
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Riddler would have even less reason to make two dudes fight each other and make a big kyrptionian rock monster. You want someone like Ivy or Scarecrow, they're pretty much go-tos when heroes need to be brainwashed into doing something stupid. Or since they were going with Darkseid influencing certain characters....just make that the main plot instead of saving it for two movies down the line!

Also Riddler has probably been poisoned by Jim Carrey tbqh
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Oh my god, is Armorsmith the tech to beat the mirror now that they've introduced the rule where the player with the most armor wins? That's hilarious.
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