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man how cool is this guy telling people how little he cares and thinks, don't strain yourself typing a sentence there tony twist man some might say i care to much about punchuation and stuff but those people are wack care too much Too much, dammit, too much! Educational standards are slipping. Send in the grammar police!

Moved to general game discussions...

Time to break up the thread a bit... more stuff here

Start of old thread End of old thread (cue somebody post some news!)

Got the keys to a new place a few days ago. Got electricity yesterday. Won't get any of my furniture until mid next week. No ETA for internet connection. Ah well, could have been worse. Living in a serviced apartment just across the street at the moment. I hate the extra expense though, but I'm a bit at the mercy of the removal company.

Hey! If I as a Hispanic male choose to go to a Klan rally and declare my hispanicness, then the government has to guarantee my safety...that's how free speech works, right? I'm beginning to see why the follow up to free speech was getting a gun. I thought "Free Speech" just meant it isn't the government who is going to shoot you for expressing your opinion Still mostly playing Guild Wars 2. I finally got my own little 'Mawdrey II' crafted. The adorable little Venus Flytrap doesn't eat people though, just bloodstone dust. Otherwise cycling through a number of single player games, both old and new. Master of Orion 2, Nier: Automata, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Oh, and another multiplayer game when I need to switch my brain off, Killing Floor 2. So much splatter, so little brains required

Baseball for geeks I guess... Relativistic Baseball Poor disintegrating pitcher and unsuspecting batter. "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base."

There are few things that can replace lots of experience. It'll come in time

Would you kindly stop making sense Sir?... it's unbecoming, unusual and it baffles people

I guess that says something about my age, that I still think of forums as this shiny new replacement for usernet. Having fond memories of rec.games.interplay and similar groups

Close, but not quite. It's part of the Warhammer universe, of which the Warhammer 40k universe is a derivative, hence many similarities Edit: I guess WH40K is Warhammer in space.

Start of old thread End of old thread Continuing the previous conversation about horse testicles... On a different note, still playing Guild Wars 2. Finally got a pet seed and started on third and last phase of getting 'Mawdrey II', my own little man eating "Feed me!" plant

Most of the (story) bossfights range from annoying to extremely obnoxious. They've fixed the last HoT boss a long time ago though, most of the stuff you Google is probably just way out of date (you can just go stand in the shield bubble with the NPCs nowadays, which makes him trivial). Caudecus also was nerfed a few times but if you are there on the wrong class (or build) you'll have a bad time. I got lucky there from what I hear by bringing a Daredevil. Now the Path of Fire final bosses, those are just extremely obnoxious, I absolutely hated those fights (chances of running through PoF story with another character are, for me, close to zero) As for Chronomancer (which is the class I play most of the time) I find it perfectly highlights the weaknesses of the game. It's a class that requires you to blindly follow a "rotation" for optimal result in group play because the UI doesn't give you the information you need for a more reactive play style. And all of that in the name of "avoiding players having to play the UI" bollocks, I mean, like how you don't have to play the UI during the Soulless Horror encounter, tanking at a boss while staring at a little debuff icon (that moves around) isn't playing the UI, according to Anet They've now made it even worse and you have even less flexibility in the traits and abilities you can use if you want optimal result on top of making running two Chronomancers in raids pretty much mandatory (the flexibility was what attracted me to the class in the first place...) In this case, the Caudecus fight went like this twice in a row... I whittle him down to 30%... remembering to use my counter magic ability, throwing rocks at his shield etc.... then he summons a veteran jade armour and it's pretty much game over. The jade guy jumps over to me and kills me in one blow (I'm a warrior with close to 25k hp). My companions get perma-dazed and can't rez me, they are just standing there, swaying on their feet. Ok, respawn inside instance, walk up to the mesmer portal leading to the fight, hit 'F' and... I'm insta-dead. As in not just downed, dead. I tried to create a sequence of 'F','Direction','Direction' to roll out of harms way the moment I go through the portal, but I never get to do the evade, goes from max health to dead (and as mentioned, really dead). Rinse and repeat 20 times with the same outcome and I gave up. Tried it two days in a row with the same result, once Jade guy shows up, I do not last 1 second and can't join the fight from a respawn.

Still playing Guild Wars 2 when I have the time. Got myself a griffon mount. A great addition to the game, if a bit pricey and hard to get. I've completed the core story a few time and the two expansions once each. Also completed Living World Season 2 and currently working my way through season 3. But.... ffs ANet, if you mean for people to bring a raid group for a mid story boss fight, at least add 'Group' to the event description. It's a lot of frustration dying over and over and the look for hints on youtube, just to see that all the "solutions" is to bring a fully maxed out team in what is otherwise just a solo story. Looking at you, last fight in Heart of Thorns and Inquisitor Caudecus in Lake Doric (a bit more than halfway through season 3) Starting to get the hang of playing Chronomancer... Alacrity on demand indeed, but still not getting maximum value out of my Continuum Splits. Dying a lot less on my thief too now compared to the beginning.

The removal guys picked up the furniture today. i've been busy packing and moving stuff around, including carrying stuff downstairs from the upper floor, this old body just doesn't feel like 18 anymore. In fact, it feels like it's been through a good beating Cleaners won't be here before the day after tomorrow, but that's Ok, agreed to let the backdoor stay unlocked so they can let themself in and make the place presentable before handing it back to the owner. For once not moving between countries, but just between states. Oh, and yay me, at least it's just one night tonight sleeping on the floor. Looking forward to a hotel in Melbourne tomorrow with a bed and a chair to sit on

My first Tequatl the Sunless kill... I love those massive Boss brawls.

A teenage boy trying to grow up? Nah, not sure really. Kash and Jory weren't really someone I cared about either. Rox was Ok if somewhat underused. Taimi... well, I got a soft spot for the spunky little progeny.

As an old Warhammer 40k and Rogue Trader player, there was no end to the make-up peddlers in space. A rouge trader in every star system...

Tybalt may be my favourite, but the other two mentors (VIgil and Priory) weren't bad either. I think though, the runner up for me as NPC is Taimi. The progeny got attitude ...and then she had you help her coordinate some big lenses so the team could fry all the bugs in the chamber

Tybalt Leftpaw is one of my favourite NPC's in the game!

Hands up if you've been to an Apple store or seen a major Apple reseller... In Guild Wars 2 Apple dealers are a bit more modest!

Having fun with Guild Wars 2 crafting... made my first pair of ascended gloves and an ascended axe. I'm now completely broke I probably do need to get into lower tier fractals and see if it isn't a bit less painful to get materials that way

Dragon Quest XI and its singleplayer. Thank you. What a shame, it does look like a fun game.

@HoonDing: I'm curious. What IS that game you're posting pictures from and is it something that can be played as co-cop teamwork?

Normally I would just hit close tab or move on, not really liking most of these compilation youtube videos, but watching the first 60 seconds convinced me this one was actually worth watching. Some really stunning things taking place there.... (edit: yes, the front picture is pure click bait which is why i ignored it at first, a friend had linked me to it)