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I actually used to allow ads on this site. I think I finally started blocking them around the point they started jamming them between topics. Or maybe it was between posts. It's been a long time, but I remember them at some point going from passive things on the side to disruptive content right in the middle of it all and that was when I stopped.

One of the tactics ogre games has you playing a character who is revealed in a post credits scene to be the villain from a different game and what we were playing was a stealth prequel/origin story for that villain.

Trumpo posted...

Who posted number 4?

Might as well clear your blocklist at this point. Most of the people you would normally block are already prevented from coming back and the handful of people left have been whipped into submission by the new stricter rules.

Relient_K posted...

As someone who only played commander, everything was being designed for commander was dumb. The fun part of commander was finding pieces in the sea of existing cards. When so much was designed with commander in mind, not just standard but even commander products, it completely warped too many formats for the worse.

There are some new fan formats out there worth trying if you're looking for something fresh. I recommend "Wacky races" where you attack a "finish line" by crewing vehicles and the first player to 10 "laps" wins.
https://blog.cardkingdom.com/fringe-format-wacky-races/

Because everything is driven by crewing vehicles and blocking opponent attempts at getting a lap, you're back to that "classic" commander feel of trying random shit to see what works.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I've tried 1 2 3 and Pre-Sequel and I legit can't get into any of them. I just don't gel with it at all.

They're really much better in couch co-op, which unfortunately was completely scuffed at launch in BL3 and they never really fixed it. We're talking "the game drops to single digit framerates for a few seconds if either player opens their inventory" levels of bad.

They went all in with crossover packs because they sell well, so the game's identity has kind of been destroyed. There's something weird about sitting down for a game of magic the gathering only to watch starscream get played to attack Minsc and boo from baldur's gate, but the attack gets blocked by aragorn and a tyranid.

This has made playing standard more complicated since only a handful of the most recent sets are tournament legal, drastically accelerating the rate at which people who want to play competitively need to spend money.

Meanwhile, the commander format has more or less taken over casual play to the point where wizards is starting to focus more and more on cards that are appropriate for that set which is created a giant rift in the player base.

Then to top it all off, they got caught recently using AI generated art in there advertising on social media.

If you like the franchise I would say go check out the character builder (like this: https://bl3skills.com/) and see if any of the cast has a skillset you think you'd really enjoy. If you do, it's worth $9. If you don't, don't bother.

Where the fuck is Robin?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/677ec6fe.jpg

Now watch you get banned for having a "hornyposting" username.

Smallville posted...

Oh you think they will get rid of board, but why?

Lots of speculation, but the short version is everyone expects Fandom is aiming to purge the social boards entirely because all they care about are the guides and Q&A sections. This is about gradual containment so that the entire community doesn't just leave all at once.

Foppe posted...

...so us Europeans can ask on a weekly base?

The first request is free, but the law allows Fandom to charge a "reasonable fee" on follow-up requests.

GDPR = General Data Protection Regulation
CCPA = California Consumer Privacy Act

There's no "standard form", but if you write Fandom they are required to respond, under penalties of up to 10M euros or 2% of the entire company's yearly profit for failure to comply in a reasonable time. The exact details of what they are required to provide are below. If you're unhappy with Fandom's latest changes to Gamefaqs, and are planning on leaving the site, at least consider sending a request first (along with your right to be forgotten in the EU) so they have to do all this work.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/

1. The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:
2. the purposes of the processing;
3. the categories of personal data concerned;
4. the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
5. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
6. the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
7. the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
8. where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
9. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
10. Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 relating to the transfer.
11. 1The controller shall provide a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. 2For any further copies requested by the data subject, the controller may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. 3Where the data subject makes the request by electronic means, and unless otherwise requested by the data subject, the information shall be provided in a commonly used electronic form.
12. The right to obtain a copy referred to in paragraph 3 shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

Cheater87 posted...

You can't log in without cookies.

"Strictly necessary" cookies are always on by default. Those are the ones for login. What you're disabling are all the money-making cookies, like the ones that track which pages you're going to or are used to serve personalized ads.

Smallville posted...

So if you have ever been in purg? You can't use this board or something?

The board is locked now. Only accounts not in purge who visited CE in the last year retained access. No new accounts will ever be able to visit CE, nor old accounts that haven't visited recently, nor accounts that were in purg at the time of the lock. Who you see in CE today is everyone who will ever be on CE going forward.

Friday bump.

Friday bump

Edit: also, keep in mind that this advice holds for anyone who is banned. So if you happen to know somebody who no longer has an account who lives in the EU make sure they know that they have these rights too.

Don't worry, DToast promised us that he has experiments in the works that will dramatically increase traffic. Not here. Never again here, but supposedly somewhere.

To be fair that's in 1970s money. That's closer to $1,500 today.

Boop... You say?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c0a227dd.jpg

Part of the problem is that electricity is never perfectly insulated. You lose a little bit transforming from the power source to the line, you lose a little bit more as it travels across low voltage lines, then you lose around 2 to 4% traveling over high voltage lines, then you lose a little bit more back on the low voltage lines, until ultimately the last little bit of loss happens at the transformer that converts it to other currents.

Power generation needs to be within a certain distance of the consumer in order to get it there without too much loss. Windmill farms and solar power plants require significant space to generate the equivalent energy of a traditional power plant and often need to be placed further away.

Yes, people with obscene amounts of money that are heavily invested in oil are hindering the transition to renewable energy, but I also don't think a lot of people understand or appreciate the sheer volume of energy that the world needs generated and exactly how going fully renewable would make that possible when you can only transmit power so far from the source.

We get it, you're a Bitcoin shill pushing for a new world order where you get to be on top. Get in line with all the other revolutionaries.

Mrbakerman25 posted...

that was literally CE in like the mid 2000s, tho. as far as I remember

The two boards were always very similar. It's why most everyone from LUE moved here when that board got locked. But that was 20 years ago so even people that have been on CE for a long time might not remember what it was like back then.

Take the most chaotic day you can remember while browsing CE and imagine that every day was like that except there are so many people that a front page topic would fall to page 2 in less than a minute.

Baron_Ox posted...

same.

I've been skipping his movies for a while, but the twist kind of hooked me.

Supposedly his last few have been really good. Knock at the Cabin is apparently one of his best works in a long time.

epik_fail1 posted...

A lot of people claim my criticism of the game equate to "hate". It was lacking in rpg elements, being action is fine, but why does Trial of mana, a niche game remake got party members and not a high budget game.

Also the writing in the side quests late game was good, the gameplay part was incredibly boring in most side quests. Yakuza like a dragon and Infinite wealth have fairly simple side quests, but I don't remember getting bored in side quests. I was so disapointed when I got Cid and he was not playable. Cid, Joshua, Jill and Dion and maybe even nest bro Gav should have been playable characters

If I hated the game, I would not have finished it

I think there's a lot of criticism that is valid, but in some cases I feel like people's memory of JRPGs doesn't really line up with the genre. For example: complaints around weapons and armor being "just stats bonuses." This is true, but in nearly every classic JRPG that's exactly what it always was. You reach the latest town and you go to the weapon/armor shop and you buy everything because it's newer than what you have and thus better. MAYBE some secret endgame weapons had special effects, but in general that's how it always was. So when people say "the weapons are just stat upgrades" in regard to 16 not being a "real" JRPG I'm just left wondering how when that's exactly how nearly every other JRPG does it.

I took Dorothy Mantooth out for a nice seafood dinner and then never called her again.

I remember back when... was it Hollister?... that got in trouble because they would rank employees from 1-3 and only the most beautiful were assigned to the front of the store.

Weird Al is a national treasure and should be protected at all costs.

2011? Can you believe The Matrix is already a decade old? Just imagine how we'll feel when the movie is old enough to drink.

*starts aggressively stealing everything*

but in all seriousness, what you're describing sounds a lot like The Evil Within:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Within

The game centers on protagonist Sebastian Castellanos as he is pulled through a distorted world full of nightmarish locations and horrid creatures. Played in a third-person perspective, players battle disfigured nightmare-like enemies, including bosses, using guns and melee weapons, and progress through the levels, avoiding traps, using stealth, and finding collectables.

EDIT: the plot, to be specific. The gameplay you're proposing is way less combat oriented and sounds closer to Layers of Fear.

DToast is probably looking for the right spot to put some new f2p style "forum dailies" list so we're all good little workers who do free labor for the site in exchange for bonus karma rewards, because at this point the only possible "improvement" I expect Fandom to make is mobile game psychology bullshit meant to drive up daily engagement numbers.

They ignored the safe word.

Good news TC, we already had an irl Mecha fight:
https://youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM?feature=shared

WingsOfGood posted...

You really think they have it all setup for this? Like you post on some obscure board gamefaqs is never gonna delete it.

I don't think they do, but the penalties for failing to comply are in the ballpark of 10 million euros, so if fandom wants to be heavy-handed and force down policy on us that nobody wanted then I'm perfectly happy letting them deal with EU bureaucracy.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

They about to put a hit out on you mang

Yesterday was the topic about making sure that you disable your tracking cookies. Today is about your right to be forgotten. If anybody else has any suggestions, my plan is to just keep posting things that aren't a TOS violation but are very explicitly against fandom's business in protest of all their dumbass decisions.

After all this time, I'm not going to go out with anything lame like an account suicide, but I'll absolutely be a pain in the ass to corporate until they shut it all down.

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Tl;Dr - when you close your account if you live in the EU you have the right to demand that they permanently remove any and all personal information from their system. The link above explains how to fill out the digital form. Don't leave fandom a scrap of information that they can use to monetize.

Morning bump.

Could be worse. It could be like that new Beyonce album that was missing like 5 tracks from the record and CD version, some of which were the radio hits.

DarkAssassin89 posted...

Im using my phone to browse and my attempts to turn these off arent working.

That may be illegal. I would look into that.

TimeCrisis posted...

Anything else we should turn off on here

I'm trying to figure out what would be helpful and also a protest against Fandom that isn't a TOS violation. I need to do some digging, but any EU members quitting may be able to fill out one of those "right to be forgotten" forms which would legally require Fandom to strip any content associated with your account from their system in its entirety. Not sure if it applies here, but it would be a nice way for users quitting to stick it to Fandom.

If your post isn't a speech-to-text translation of an ad fandom serves it may be moddable.

--Zero- posted...

Whats fucked up is this board is private. Who are they protecting?

Advertisers. They're protecting their ad revenue.

It's the last season unless it makes an obscene amount of money and then they'll find an excuse to make another season.