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Yeah you queue up for 10 floors at a time with either a matched or premade party. For a matched party you can only go up to floor 30; you can also start from either floor 1 or 21 (once you've cleared 1-20 once). Since it's a pretty efficient leveling method most people will just spam 21-30, which is quite easy.

The floors after 30 get quite a bit harder. You have an hour time limit for each 10 floor set, so if you're running 21-100 it'll take at most 8 hours (for the lower sets you're probably actually taking more like 30 minutes, and from what I've seen time is less of an issue than in past deep dungeons here so even in the higher sets it'll probably be more like 40-50). We were just blazing through in my run last night though and completing even a lot of the high sets in like 30 minutes.

Welp complaining works, managed to get an Orthos clear tonight!

Everyone else in my group had cleared before and we got through it super fast (under four hours I think). My gold sacks all had junk in them, though

I dont think theres a consensus on whether ShB or EW has the best MSQ (I prefer EWs but theyre both great)

Also man Im getting pretty frustrated trying to clear Orthos. I lost a very promising run yesterday on 69 because the tank decided for no reason to do a mass pull (I guess to storm) and we got OHKOd by a falak (does a massive donut aoe). There was absolutely no reason to take the risk; we had like 25 minutes left in the set. Im almost tempted to try to solo instead, but I dont think Im careful/focused enough (though my mistakes are typically not the type that would wipe a group).

For those curious basically the (completely bullshit) theory of the case is that the FDA rushed approval of the drug and that it's unsafe (they didn't and it isn't, and the time period for challenging it on that basis is like six years, not 22)

I dunno if you guys have been following this but theres a good chance that a Trump-appointed judge in Texas will soon issue a nationwide injunction banning Mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug that was approved by the FDA like two decades ago

https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-judge-consider-banning-abortion-pill-us-2023-03-15/

Hard choice between Boyhood and La La Land which are probably my favorite two movies of the past decade. The only other one I've seen is 1917 (which was pretty good).

For a full ranking, uh

Parasite > Birdman > EEAAO > Shape of Water > Spotlight > 12 Years a Slave

Parasite I think

I liked Boyhood and La La Land better than any of the actual winners though

Dukes one of the few schools I always root against so I hope you win!

My understanding is that they werent subject to the same regulations as big banks even though they were pretty large; the solution is probably for Congress to make banks like them subject to those regulations after all I think

It's not a bailout of the bank itself. It's of the bank's depositors; it's a good thing.

https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1635043093522300930?s=21

The investors in the bank should lose their money, but depositors need to be made whole (or close to it). If not a lot of random people are gonna be fired just because of the bank their employer used and itll cause risk of some other banks collapsing.

Natsuno was my favorite as well

Yeah you should really delete that post Crescent

GAA1 is okay, but definitely below average for the series

GAA2 is very good

Oh also if you wanna make any EO weapons I'd recommmend converting around 60 aetherpool or so to keep getting guaranteed aetherpool ups on 21-30 rather than feeling really bad about going down from 99/99 later (not looking forward to that when I decide I'm willing to make PotD/HoH weapons...)

Got up to floor 81 in Orthos before wiping to a red mob

Protip: pull before using storms so they don't instantly tick back up to 10% hp, which can be too much to eat through before they wipe your whole party

tcaz2 posted...

4th Gens were my favorite, personally. Interceptors everywhere brrrr

Those and 2nd gen(?) towers were my go-tos

Did the new tribal and Manderville quests

The duty in the Manderville quest was everything I ever wanted

Wow, what an episode

More or less saw the twists coming, but it was very well executed and David was a twisted-as-fuck villain. I did think after he slapped the girl whose dad Joel killed and referred to himself as her father that it was gonna turn out to be a full-on sex cult, but with what he tried to do to Ellie I guess I wasn't too far off.

Yes

Yinz is not a word!

You could ignore the destruction sections for a while if you wanted to, but eventually you'd be blocked from progressing the story until you completed a bunch of it. I'd suggest just periodically doing a bit of it as you feel like it.

Tag!

Xenoblade 3

Didnt quite finish it, either

Neopets and then Runescape

Pokemon Yellow I assume?

Not sure if there was any online game before that.... I think Neopets was after?

Yes

One of my friends has done a bunch of solo PotD and HoH so hopefully I can get him to carry me through the new DD

Ive beat HoH a few times, but for PotD the best Ive done is wiping a few times in the 180s and it feels so bad to have that much progress destroyed

Man, I was listening to the FFRK Dragonking music again (each FF had a fight against Bahamut with the same music for phases 1 and 2, and then it changed to a game-specific mix in phase 3) and they're so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6zpIqHxGs

What a great game. RIP

2 > 1 > V3 imo

On the plus side the one thing that makes me feel better about taking nine years to do my PhD is that it was still entirely contained within the time GRRM was writing Winds of Winter

A Song of Ice and Fire so you can join us in waiting forever for the last two books

https://twitter.com/alex_moukala/status/1630654646132850689?s=21

masterplum posted...

Don't get me wrong he should never have printed this one. It has a lot of issues, but you can see an actual funny person behind it which is way better than a lot of cartoonists. Looking at you Jim Davis

Garfield Minus Garfield is hilarious tbh

They both do a really good job imo

I play persona games with a guide on my first playthrough and I still enjoy them a lot

There was an occasion or two where my file wasn't lining up with what the guide said should be happening and it was quite stressful (though it didn't end up mattering)

I suspect that there's a major reason you're finding this part so difficult...!

Nice

LordoftheMorons posted...

I have vivid memories of a youtube video that had cutscenes of that section of the game set to DragonForce's Body Breakdown that I used to watch back when I originally played the game in early high school or something, but unfortunately last I checked it was taken down and my nostalgia is unsated

Apparently this still exists after all!

Not gonna link it though because I totally forgot that it had FMV footage from all throughout the game though the ending

Milwaukee was much nicer than I expected it to be (though I was only there for a week for a conference)

I still have like 8 EW cards to get... the dungeon ones feel like such a chore, and I haven't farmed any EW extremes so I'm also missing several trial cards (and trying to get those on normal seems like a waste if I'll eventually farm the extreme mounts)

Phoenix

Thanks!

Lancet was also my last ShB fish; not a fun one!

Portal
Pokemon

Some good choices here! Id read a 13 Sentinels, Tales of the Abyss, or ZTD topic, and a few others are games Im potentially interested in playing myself.

Kirby

Augh, I'm sick for the first time in three years

I did a covid test and it came back negative, but it's definitely on the nasty side if it's just a cold.