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From: Eoin | #013

One really important point to get clear: the means software publishers cannot prevent sales of licenses. It does not mean that they have to facilitate those sales. This doesn't, for example, mean that Sony have to allow PSN games to be resellable.

This is the crucial part here. I know people are saying "lol Steam has to let us resell games now" but that is 100% not true. Steam won't be able to, for example, stop you from selling your entire account to someone else. They are not going to let you resell individual games.

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Oh just realized I missed my own Sage day 3 days ago.

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Shows usually start the same time each year so like... April/May again.

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Amon's motivations were dumb and didn't make a lot of sense. "My daddy made me bloodbend so now I want to rid the world of bending forever!" Plus the whole mystery of how he was able to remove bending had a disappointing resolution "because... BLOODBENDING!". Overall, I thought Tarrlok was better written.

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Interesting theory I read on another board: Korra was contemplating suicide before Aang showed up. In the POV shot, her tear falls off the cliff so she had to be leaning over it. She decides against it and sits back down... Aang shows up and comments that she had hit her "lowest point".

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I would highly recommend looking up her cat daddy dance video on youtube.

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Also, Tarrlok clearly the best character in this series.

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Finale was great, don't over analyze a show aimed at preteens >>.

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Took my three hours to get Staff of Herding argh. Liquid Rainbow took forever, the cave spawned like 5 times before I finally got the Mysterious Chest to spawn.

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2. People start telling him that's not cool.

Replace that part with people completely overreacting, needlessly insulting him, white knighting, etc.

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Assuming the second laptop has a free slot... Five minutes max. Also, if the second laptop is 32bit then you are already maxed anyway.

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I pledged $10.

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TheCodeisBosco posted...

Good lord, that's dire. I love theme parks to death, but I could never justify that.

Depending on how many days you go, Universal Studios is either much better or a hell of a lot worse. If you go 4 days, it's about $40 per day - certainly not bad by any means, especially since you get access to both Universal parks. If you go for 3, it's about $51. But if you only want 1 day? $123.

$123. For one person. Yikes.

Protip: Don't buy a 2-park pass if you are only going for 1 day since you won't be able to do everything anyway. Single park single day is still $88 but yeah.

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According to "the inflation calculator" that I found via Google, "What cost $12 in 1982 would cost $26.75 in 2010"... so more like 325%.

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Hmmm searched things that are under $5 on RMAH and some of them are so tempting... But it feels so wrong to pay real moneys FOR PIXELS.

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Yeah saw an article on this a while back. Loeb thinks the kids can't follow the overarching storyplots EMH had and wanted to make it completely episodic instead. This, along with the decision to do it in house, is why we are getting Avengers Assemble instead. Could still be good or it might flop, who knows.

Sidenote, I am not digging Young Justice Season 2 at all. I feel like they tried to do a JLU by expanding the cast but it's just not working. In Season 1 I met the team, I got to know the team, and I loved the team. But so far in Season 2 I don't know/care about any of the new cast. I don't even know the names of the black guy and the wasp-ripoff. Wonder Girl initially pique my interest as this is the first time I've seen/read anything with her in it. I mean at least I've heard of her before (unlike black guy, wasp rip-off, Lagoon). But she's barely getting any screentime. Nightwing is all kinds of awesome though.

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Oh, you mean that wasn't completely obvious? >>

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If you rewatch Season 2, Tyrion actually whistles the tune of Rains of Castamere several times. Most notable when he walks in and takes his place on the small council.

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For anyone who cares enough... If you want Toonami to stick around the best thing to do is probably to tweet about it. TV ratings are weird and actually watching a show doesn't matter at all if you don't own a Nielsen box. DVRing also helps depending on what cable provider you have. Tweeting is easiest to do so yeah #toonami all the way.

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Clearly you've never had a Molten Chocolate Cake from Chili's. It's basically a lava cake on crack.

http://tinyurl.com/cblvgk7

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Yeah I expect that kind of technology to replace keyboards and mice altogether within like 10-15 years.

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Monica should be on the bottom. She's only not completely horrible if you compare her to like... Lily (HIMYM).

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TvGuide and other websites are reporting the finale will be a 70 minute special. Minor spoilers/episode preview synopsis thing:


Sunday, June 3 – Game of Thrones

“Valar Morghulis”

In the special 70-minute second season finale, Theon plans to call his men to action, but Luwin has some important advice for him first. Arya receives a gift from Jaquen. Daenery enters unfamiliar territory, and Brienne silences Jaime. 9 p.m. on HBO,

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Yeah I saw the sign for it... Didn't look meaty enough.

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This girl I know bought 100 shares @ $40 of Facebook. Sucks to be her.

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Sooo for rings (or items in general) that add damage, how is that calculated? On my monk, a +5-10 damage ring gives me more overall damage than my +40 Dex ring. According to the character sheet anyway. With the damage ring, it says my damage is like 500 but with the dex ring it's like 450? I thought 1 Dex was supposed to be 1 damage (among other things) increase in Monks.

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The video is pretty amusing though if you watch until the end.

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She mentions the 2010 Arista Records LLC v. Usenet.com, Inc. case, in which Arista Records requested the court calculate the damages by multiplying the maximum amount of damages ($150,000) by the number of infringements (878), or $131,700,000. The court found the defendants liable for $6,585,000, by multiplying the number of infringements by $7,500.

In this case, Limewire is liable for 11000 works (songs). They could have at least been reasonable and asked for 82.5 million (11000 * 7500).

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From: Silvercross | #108
That's quite possible. But if the rumors are true that it takes 6+ hours to finish the game on Normal, that's totally fine with me. Hell, I played Diablo 2 for 3 or 4 years. Obviously the game length didn't mean much to me.

I would expect the average initial playthrough to be around 8-10 hours. Blizzard has stated there are 4 acts with Act 4 being shorter (similar to D2). Act 1 on the Open Beta took me 3.5 hours when I took my time and a little less than 2 hours when I rushed.

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Can Korra Airbend at all yet? She's been in Republic City for like... a month or two? She should be able to bend like a small gust of wind at this point at least. They haven't really said anything either way but if she can't then Tenzin actually is a terrible teacher.

And Yakon was mentioned by Tarrlok (sketchy Councilman guy) as a threat to Republic City that Aang "dealt with" 40 years ago. A lot of people are assuming he has something to do with Amon and is the guy shown in Korra's flashbacks (which are likely being sent to her from Aang). Additional speculation (read: wild mass guessing) is that some sort of tragedy was involved that resulted in the death of a Gaang member.

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"Hamburgers" is worse. Who the hell eats a burger without cheese?

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Jon/Ygritte scene was totally weird, not sure where they are going with that. Also the episode titles must have been messed up somehow because that episode had nothing to do with "The Old Gods and the New". It would have been more fitting for the last episode when Brienne swore her oath to Cat.

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All new, don't remember when.

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I thought of Stunfisk.

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I think you mean Ike is too busy with Soren.

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An upcoming videogame called Young Justice: Legacy is supposed to help bridge the gap between the two seasons. The tagline for the game is "one will rise, one will fall, one will die". Speculation is that Artemis dies while Kid Flash becomes the Flash (rise) or melds with the speed force (fall) while Aqualad becomes Aquaman (rise) or Black Manta (fall). However, the show creators have been lame about this previously when they said someone that "no one is safe and someone will die" in Season 1. That turned out to be Kent Nelson (original Dr. Fate host) who only appeared for that one episode.

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Five year timeskip. Zatanna and Rocket got promoted to the JL. Dick became Nightwing and leads the Team. Superboy and Miss Martian decided to remain on the team. No signs of Artemis, Kid Flash, Red Arrow or Aqualad. New members include Robin (Tim Drake) Blue Beetle, Beast Boy, Bumblebee, Lagoon Boy, Wonder Girl, Batgirl, and Mal Duncan.

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I don't think Korra's flashback was a coincidence. It took place at Aang's memorial so I think Aang is trying to reach out to her and tell her something. Unfortunately she sucks at being spiritual so he can only do it when she is at his memorial + knocked out. Aang knows who Amon is and possibly had to do with his creation. Maybe it has something to do with this "Yakon" guy that Aang "took care of" 42 years ago.

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Why do they all look so miserable/angry? And is that Mako cheating on Korra =O?

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*ULTRA SPOILERS POSSIBLY*
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Regarding Gregor's recast; the actor said in a blog post he was simply not asked to reprise his role and he would be happy to take it again. I assume the showrunners didn't like working with him for whatever reason... Maybe he was late all the time or couldn't act or simply smelled bad lol.

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The "Ned box" was weird to me. It looked too small to properly fit his body properly (unless they really squished him and chopped him up...) but how would he already be decomposed into just bones? I know they refer to it as his "bones" in both the book and the show but I always figured that was just weird phrasing.


*SPOILERS IN LINK*




Regarding where Stannis/Davos/Mel are I have a theory but it's pretty spoilery so I will link to my post in the "book spoilers" topic on the TV cable board: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/226-television-cable-and-satellite/62370618/699179098

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I'm confused. Were Davos and Mel sneaking into or out of Storm's End? Either one would actually be a slight deviation from the books IIRC.

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He didn't attack any little boys. He stole the horseostrich from a girl (Song) in "Cave of Two Lovers" where Iroh ingested a poison plant and they had to get help. He taught a boy (Lee) how to use broadswords in "Zuko Alone". Neither of them are likely to be related to Amon; I just got them mixed up.

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Oh yeah I mixed up two characters. The little boy from Zuko Alone is different from the girl he stole the horseostrich from.

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Lame theory time: Didn't Zuko steal a horse from a farmer/his kid? What if the kid went to Zuko later to say something but there was a misunderstanding and Zuko's guards burned the kids face... Farmer's kid becomes Amon!

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Beat Leoric, was pretty fun. Actually died once to him because I wasn't paying attention and he did his special like twice a in a row while I stood there like a moron. The second time I knew to dodge but he actually only did his special like 3-4 times and just summoned skeletons the whole time.

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I only played for an hour and it was alright. Seems like a game I can play for like a month and get bored of. Click to move (instead of arrow/ASWD) I felt was kind of a step backwards.

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Just saw episode 3. Thoughts...

- Kinda lame that shooting lightning apparently only requires like moderately competent firebending skills now. I mean the gang leader dude knowing it would be fine but... Mako and some random dudes at the power plant knowing it kind of takes away its uniqueness. I mean yeah we have metalbending cops but I figured they were like the SWAT/special forces team or w/e and it wasn't that widespread.

- I guess guy with lightning sticks is the new Combustion Man. I was expecting Mako to pull a fast one on him and redirect his lightning. Perhaps he will learn to do it later after some waterbending inspiration from Korra. After all, that is how Iroh learned it.

- I have mixed feelings about pushing the Korra/Mako thing so early. On one hand it avoids having to deal with rabid shippers (although I'm sure there will still be some) but on the other hand it's kind of boring to establish the official couple so early on.

- Yeah Amon is totally not spirit/energybending. It's probably just advanced chi-blocking that takes longer (maybe a few days?) to wear off. Calling it now, he's gonna do it to Korra... she'll freak, do a spiritual journey (hello Aang) and unlock her bending again.

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Well, that is the point of being a stress test.

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