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Thanks a lot guys.

While I did find that interesting, it didn't make a lot of sense to me - how does this not happen to wizards who get expelled and their wands taken away and forbidden to do magic? We know they exist, it's Hagrid's backstory.

Thanks. :D

Thank you!

No, Deathly Hallows Part 1 didn't have any lighthearted romps in it that were actually fun.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Extremely schizophrenic. There's a good lighthearted adventure romp about a muggle being dragged along with a wizard to save some animals buried under a dark story about abused children and twenty tons of setting up an arc for further movies. The lighthearted adventure romp is great, the rest of it not so much.

Oh dear, I seem to have proposed and my lady accepted. How dumb on her behalf.

Recount ends with Trump getting more votes. Duh, the Russian programs to swing more votes his way are still running, of course he's got more now. Let's see who bites.

And also because the earth would be too far away to care about shattering.

My five-month old black cat gets angry and attacks my behind when I fart.

The irony is how much of his campaign platform included the sentiment "they're laughing at us". Did nobody notice that he's the reason why?

Dungeon Keeper 2, when you hover too long on the Dark Mistresses having their fun in the torture chamber and the announcer chides you. "There's a word for Keepers like you..."

Vaguely hoping the news that Dustin Browder moved off the Heroes of the Storm team means this is happening, because his other lead design credit is StarCraft 2 and before Blizz he did CnC Red Alert 2, CnC Generals and Battle for Middle Earth. Seemed like a mistake to waste an RTS designer on a Moba.

hope you feel better. as an aside... http://www.healthtalk.umn.edu/2013/01/24/stomach-flu-myth/ HA! Good Fun! Hah, thanks. I did actually know that, but I figure the term stomach flu is so prevalent it counts as a shorthand for contagious gastrointestinal virus these days and it's much quicker to type on my phone.

This was a reply to Algroth. Typing on the phone takes too long. Warcraft 3 hasn't been a thing in years, but that doesn't take away that most Mobas are still the same gameplay, graphics and even characters as WarCraft 3 hero arenas. It boggles my mind. They haven't moved since 2003 and I was bored of them then. I think it's because they're non-game easy to watch. Watching one member of a team die is as obvious as ball-in-goal. I grew up watching Brood War. I know killing five workers in an RTS is a huge play. Moba fans need people to die with their only characters to even comprehend something important happened. Anyway, you're probably incorrect since everything Blizzard pushes as an eSport dies. Pushing it doesn't really make a scene. Blizz killed SC and ruined HotS by pushing it while Hearthstone was never intended as an eSport is flourishing. DotA was an eSport before Valve took it. They just advertise stuff, the community pushes it. Blizz learned from this, Overwatch launched without competitive modes and ladders, you can't push a competitive scene. CS:Go nearly died when they pushed it but they let it go and now it's huge. The only Moba I play occassionally now is HotS precisely because it's not competitive as an eSport anymore, so Blizz can just add bat**** crazy stuff like that two-headed ogre and the Firelord that becomes a raid boss. Dota and Lol haven't changed in 10 years? Why not watch Fifa instead?

Had a stomach flu earlier this week that had me vomiting so violently I lacerated my esophagus. The resulting pain and fever has taken me a while to recover from.

I will never understand how MOBAs became the posterboy for competitive gaming. Dota never stopped being WarCraft 3 for people who can't keep up with creeping their heroes and building a base at the same time. Which explains why it only took over that game's toxic cheese strat fanbase and also became the posterboy for awful nerd communities. :/

At 50 pages this thread has run its course. Since the Election is over, I feel no need to continue this thread in the instituted way we've been doing (Part XII etc.) but if someone wants to make another US politics thread, be my guest.

My favourite part was the look on the man in black's face in his last shot. In a way, he won.

I disagree. Evil is the default setting. Good kids are the result of parenting.

Thank you! I said that in another thread and people were like "its just a name bro"!

Just a reminder that posting images with words that are censored by the language filter is considered a workaround and is against forum guidelines. Please check and censor your images before you post them.

Just FYI reminder to everyone: Posting links to pirated material here is one of the few things that can and will get you banned here. Trying to bait someone into posting such links is therefore also considered... bad form, to say the least. We also prefer it if people would tackle the ball and not the man, so to speak. A bit too many personal jabs in this thread for my liking.

As for developers claiming Denuvo doesn't impact performance... well, that's what Blizzard said about Diablo 3 always being online and the rubberbanding issues I still have on it say otherwise. Developers and publishers will never admit their DRM software impacts performance, it would only add to the argument that paying customers get the short-end of the stick. Historically everything publishers and developers have said about DRM has been a lie, or at least suspect. Seems like a weird source to consider "trusted".

Apparently Shane Black, who directed among others The Nice Guys and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but also was Joker in the original Predator film ("why'd you say it twice?"), is remaking Predator. We'll see how that goes.