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I'm about to arrive in Seattle :3

Not for TI, sadly, but still

Kaname_Madoka posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Neat! Be sure to post about it on your MySpace page. I'll be going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend.

I hope my pooka shell necklace doesn't break on me.

At least she put in effort

This was just lazy

Chill never invited me there :(

Harpie posted...

when ce gets too close for comfort




lol enjoy the concert :)

Oh you're Seattle then? Lol :P

Asherlee10 posted...

OctilIery posted...

You tried

I was trying to be a jerk. I would appreciate an emotional response from you.

I'm gonna cry now ;_;

Asherlee10 posted...

Neat! Be sure to post about it on your MySpace page. I'll be going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend.

I hope my pooka shell necklace doesn't break on me.

You tried

YourDrunkFather posted...

I saw them all when they stopped in Toronto. Metallica is still crazy good live

I've technically seen them before, but I had to leave just a couple songs in because I was 14 and had family waiting to give me a ride. They were touring with Linkin Park and limp bizkit.

Going strictly off Comedy, the only thing I can think of is Community.

Bump

Anyone else going to this show?

DuranOfForcena posted...

if you seriously believe Trump has any hope whatsoever of getting re-elected, then you have no chance in life.

This. He might be replaced by another republican if democrats don't get their shit together, but I don't see him winning another term.

Pretty damn hyped, and Volbeat is opening, never listened to them before I realized that but they're awesome.

Rip Secret. I'm not surprised, but I'm a little disappointed lol

DarthAragorn posted...

LordFarquad1312 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

They're talking animals

Then I fail to see why the ethnicity of the actors matters.

It doesn't

Which is why they should have kept Jeremy Irons

Maybe he want available?

Ivynn posted...

Rafiki and Simba's mother were played by black actors in the original.

So was Mufasa.

In fact, they cast the same guy for Mufasa.

Bump for hype!

Vertania posted...

Is it at CenturyLink? I went to a couple big concerts at the Tacoma Dome last year and really hated how they were set up. You pay $150+ to sit in a chair half way across the stadium. They might get better shows, but the demand drives up prices way too high.

Saw Megadeth for free last month at a small venue in NY and was able to get right up next to the stage. Easily one of the top 5 best shows I've seen.

Yeah, centurylink

GODTIER posted...

Power chords!!

Avenged sevenfold is opening, so lots of sweeps too

Taking the train up to Seattle to see Metallica, sleeping I a hostel there, then wandering the city briefly before coming back to Portland and seeing Royal Blood here before going home. I'm hyped!

NibeIungsnarf posted...

Sanderson books are like Land Before Time sequels. They get shit out faster than they can be quality-controlled.

Except they're generally extremely high quality, and the last book in this series was released in march 2014.

BootyGif posted...

not familiar with his work. he does scifi?

Fantasy. One of the best writers in the genre right now.

https://twitter.com/PeterAhlstrom/status/893510460011577345

A sample from his book is longer than a lot of full books. Jesus.

The actual start of it was that rather than using all poor as slaves regardless of race, they figured out they could more safely have black people be slaves while poor white folk could be given a marginal amount of power above them to turn them against each other.

Except for venom, Tbqh. 3 overall was worse, but Sandman was still given a great performance even if the writing sucked.

Bullet_Wing posted...

The way you phrased the topic title... Did she die or did you break up?

Break up. Wasn't particularly nasty, and we're still friends, so not as bad as it could be, but shit still sucks.

GODTIER posted...

20 minutes at 1.6 miles is slow as hell.

Yeah, I know. From what I was reading, for a beginner, if I can get it down to 15 that'll be about average, and I can go from there. I'm not making specific goals beyond that, because I want to start small.

glitteringfairy posted...

This is pathetic. You need to hit the bottle

Nah, I drink enough with friends.

Gonna make my body suffer as much as the rest of me, because if I'm busy killing myself through exercise I'm too busy for Depression to win!

I have a gym membership for 24 hour fitness, but I really don't know how to even go about setting up a good workout plan. Are there any particularly good apps for it, so I can efficiently start?

I also do a lot of walks, and have recently started running. Just got back from running about 1.6 miles, took about 20 minutes I think, going to work on getting more accurate distance and time when I go tomorrow night.

Also need to work on eating better, but I'm slowly improving that. Biggest issue is with getting enough at work, gotta stop getting snacks and bring food more consistently.

DrizztLink posted...

OctilIery posted...

Lets be honest here, Dresden is a shitty wizard with powerful friends. Like, I legitimately get the feeling anyone on the high council would destroy him.

He admits that regularly.

He's in the top twenty or so when it comes to straight brawls, but McCoy could magically crush him in seconds, Listens-to-Winds could drop him, and the Merlin's wards could stop Dresden's best punch like ten feet of steel.

Unless he's physically on Demonreach, he's a really powerful thug.

The books haven't progressed enough to show his full potential. The whole "starborn" thing with him and Elaine.

Mhmm, I'm really curious to see where things go. My brother in law and I agree, too, that what we know of the council is the tip of the iceberg, because nobody wants anyone to know how strong they are.

Lets be honest here, Dresden is a shitty wizard with powerful friends. Like, I legitimately get the feeling anyone on the high council would destroy him.

Barenziah Boy Toy posted...

Esrac posted...

"Just gonna take a quick pic of your license plate in case you rape and murder me tonight."

You DO realize that every woman that goes on a date with a stranger has to take that into consideration, right?

tbqh every person on a first date with someone they don't know well should do something like this to protect themselves, and every person should be ok with it being done. Shit sucks, but better to be safe.

Darmik posted...

Kajagogo posted...

Yea, I would have left her as well. That's a big red flag. You don't have any idea what kind of information she could be looking for. Time for that guy to change his plates.

What can you get with a plate number?

Not a thing without access to a few specific databases.

Feline_Heart posted...

OctilIery posted...

It was miles above Shamylan's recent work, but it was nowhere near Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, or even Signs. It was a fun but not amazing thriller with a couple mediocre twists.

It's definitely better than all of those. Because those other movies were just okay and Split was good

Yeah, no.

It was miles above Shamylan's recent work, but it was nowhere near Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, or even Signs. It was a fun but not amazing thriller with a couple mediocre twists.

Back_Stabbath posted...

idk i used to watch the build of the week series religiously and nearly every featured one was like that. Obviously there's a billion-gajillion builds for this game so they're not ALL like that, but whenever I ask for a bad-ass build or look them up on youtube almost every one I see is in that vein lol.

There are no aura skills like that, though. All the offensive auras still require you to attack.

Back_Stabbath posted...

And the best builds in PoE are literally about walking around the map with some stacking aura that kills everything around you automatically like a hammerdin in D2, but lamer.

That isn't true at all. Almost all the best skills have been active skills, with many of them being CoC builds.

I Like Toast posted...

Allanon23 posted...

Not necessarily. If you were CI and an armor/ev 5l dropped you'd most likely stay with the 4l CI.

so if you use one specific build, which actually is an end game build because your entire gear revolves around it, then you're wrong toast!!!!

like, really? you think that's a relevant or meaningful point?

That isn't one specific build. That's a concept that applies across the board for gearing. Evasion and you get a 5l ES item? You stay. Armor and you get 5l Evasion? You stay. Get an item with worse health or resistances but more links? You stay. Armor stats are FAR more important than links.

Allanon23 posted...

People normally get 5L around 55-60. So that's pretty much mid game I'd say. 6L are 1000000% a very late game item.

Yup. Most builds treat 6l as "strictly optional", because you usually don't need it until VERY lategame content.

I Like Toast posted...

if you're defining picking + 5 int over + 50 hp, sure, there's hundreds. Or, theres about 20. like every other ARPG

No, I'm defining it based on class and ascension selection, defensive options, and offensive skill build. There are tons of options for any of those three overall points, and they have a huge effect on how you build and play your character.

I Like Toast posted...

because level 35 is meaningfully different when the original claim is that they only matter "super late game" which is utter horseshit. They matter the second you get your first one.Because every item after is inferior no matter if it has better stats or not.

And unless you're paying out the ass or are extremely lucky, you aren't getting your first 5 link until around 50, and even if you do get one notably before then, the mana costs for using it are usually too prohibative. Hell, there are plenty of builds where you aren't even suggested to use your primary skill until level 50, or even 60 or later. Try using a righteous fire build before that and see how it goes for you.

Balrog0 posted...

Medussa posted...

can someone seriously explain to me Toast's point? i'm sick of fighting through his posting style to try to guess it.

someone said that this type of gear is very late game gear

toast is saying its not because you start getting it at lvl 30

other people are saying thats not a fair characterization since its rare at that level

is it really that hard to follow?

To clarify, it isn't just rare at that level, it's pretty useless. The way skills in PoE work is you have slots in your items, you can put a skill gem in there, and support gems to connect to it and change effects. Each support gem makes it stronger, but adds a percentage to the mana cost. So when you add a fifth gem into it, like he's suggesting, almost all builds will be unable to sustainably cast it because it drains more mana than your build generates, and most builds don't have a large mana pool because they have other gems taking a percentage off it - usually by level 40 or so, a build will have 25% or less of its total mana available. If you add a sixth gem at that point, which you can only do with a rare unique item that sells for an arm and a leg, you'll be lucky to be able to cast it more than a couple times without freeing up more mana.

I Like Toast posted...

Classic octiwrong.

Except no, I'm not. As was pointed out, 5 sockets don't even drop at 30, beyond one unique.

I Like Toast posted...

Yes, it's literally what more effective means, that you are more viable. You can do more content, do it faster, which means you get your next upgrade faster, and continue to keep getting further ahead.

I should've said doesn't make them not viable. There are literally hundreds of builds that can do end all content.

Cookie Bag posted...

I mean... tabula rasa is a thing, that thing is what, ilvl 3? you can get one as early as the mud flats... so he's not wrong.

Technically, you can get it off Hillock >.>;

I Like Toast posted...

Lmao. Since when is level 30 very very late?

You aren't getting 5 or 6 sockets at 30 unless you're EXTREMELY lucky. More like 50+ for 5, 70+ for 6. Hell, at 30 if you got a 6 socket, you probably wouldn't even be able to use it because the mana cost would be insane.

I Like Toast posted...

The illusion of choice in poe is precisely that. You can choose to be less effective in both games. Or your going to follow the logical path of your build.

"There is a more effective build" doesn't make your build less viable. There are hundreds of viable builds in any given League when you consider skill choice, starting class and ascendancy, and defensive options.

ChromaticAngel posted...

lets be real. It won't. you could find a great weapon upgrade and have to discard it because the number of sockets is shorter, you could find some gear that has different colored sockets. It's like how some armor in D2 is straight up nonviable because you can't fit certain runewords in it.

Really? Because I've found a great item with worse sockets and crafted it with no problem.

I Like Toast posted...

lmao. Poe is just as cookie cutter as every ARPG. If anything PoE is worse because if you don't get all your gear with the right links and the right color you will be inferior.

Except you can modify the gear and links very reliably, and in PoE you have a LOT more options for variety. It isn't cookie cutter at all.

Lightsasori posted...

OctilIery posted...

Lightsasori posted...

Wedge Antilles posted...

I switched to HotS and haven't looked back. Much better community.

And it's just a funner game in general.

Eh, too shallow for me. Talents are nice, but they don't make up for items.

Items, gold, and last hitting is what contributes to a toxic community. The only toxicity I ever witnessed on HotS is when people make bad decisions in a teamfight that costs the game, but even that is still prevelant in LoL.

Lack of team play, refusing to pick for the team, bad positioning, bad decision making, feeding, etc.

Meanwhile, gold, experience, and items add a lot to League and Dota, giving far more depth to the gameplay.

roos1046 Reborn posted...

OctilIery posted...

Cookie Bag posted...

If only it was half as good as diablo 2.

It's far better than Diablo 2.

LMAO

not even close

It really is, just by virtue of having Diablo 2 to build off. So much more, and more expansive, while fixing many of the issues Diablo 2 had.

kirbymuncher posted...

diablo2 was fun and all but yeah I dunno how you could ever thing it's better than PoE. Unless you make mods or something since D2 actually supports that

To be fair, PoE has fairly good reason to not support mods, far too abusable when it doesn't have an offline mode.

spikethedevil posted...

The killer is really obvious when you first play as him if you think about it for about 5 seconds.

Mark your damn spoilers.

Cookie Bag posted...

If only it was half as good as diablo 2.

It's far better than Diablo 2.

Lightsasori posted...

Wedge Antilles posted...

I switched to HotS and haven't looked back. Much better community.

And it's just a funner game in general.

Eh, too shallow for me. Talents are nice, but they don't make up for items.

No more repeating acts in different difficulties. 10 acts will get you from 1 to lategame, and there will be no more leveling on the hardest difficulty level - that's exclusively for lategame now.

God of War 3 wasn't even disappointing, it was incredible.

ChromaticAngel posted...

OctilIery posted...

Do you want a game that's hard to get into, slower paced, and has an extremely high skill ceiling, where effort and skill are greatly rewarded? Get Dota 2.

Do you want a game that's extremely easy to get into, extremely fast paced, has a very low skill ceiling, and is largely catered to more casual playing where you just relax with friends? Get into HOTS.

Do you want something in the middle, that's pretty easy to get into, with a relatively quick pace, but still has a lot of room to grow skill wise, while not being as demanding? Get into League.

and when you want to play a game that's actually fun, play Smite.

Smite has plenty of its own issues.

CapnMuffin posted...

^ nice summary

I like LoL but I hate buying items and equipping runes or whatever those are. It's why I like HotS system... but something boring about the actual game play.

I dislike the rune system(though it's getting reworked, so that's cool), but items are fine. You can stick to the basic and do ok, or go for variety and do amazingly.

The game overall is one of the best thrillers ever made, and incredibly intense, as long as you're willing to accept that the ending doesn't hold up.