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i enjoy filler too

i never truly recovered from filler hell
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but like

why make these topics
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I think the kinds of movies he's talking about do exist, but the MCU isn't that, and it's pathetic that he and people like him can't tell the difference.
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i absolutely love the meeseeks episode

is he keeping his shoulders square?

ooooh he's tryin!
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doesnt the article say 6 months ban?
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The whole concept sounds so ludicrous though. Like Blizzard HQ and Brack can't come up with their own PR statement? What Chinese person would even write this for them? Blizzard China? Netease? The Chinese government? Why would that be easier than just Brack or his team writing it?

And this would mean Blizzard is so thoroughly whipped, that not only are they trying to appease the Chinese government before issues occur, they are actually directly being told what to do?
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i've been reading a lot of Tales of Demons and Gods lately which is a chinese light novel, and the grammar he's describing is what I see there all of the time. i would absolutely not say i'm knowledgeable about chinese writing, but the examples he's pointing out are common in the literature i happen to be reading.

I remember thinking the structure of the post was odd when reading it but never in a million years would i have even considered that someone chinese wrote this

but after reading that chain... it's entirely possible.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Nothing except a change in policy going forward that is actually enforced will make a difference, and that's not going to happen.

this is really what getting over this comes down to for me

ok, they relaxed the punishment on blitzchung which is good

but i believe blizzard punished blitzchung harshly because they are acting in the interest of appeasing china

i want to know that blizzard in the future will not treat it's community based on appeasing an authoritarian government. this apology did nothing to convince me of that.
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I don't really accept this.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

my authenticator basically never works anyways soooo
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this thread is kinda interesting

Tencent owns 40% of Epic (which is why that one developer earlier says he'll never go on the Epic launcher) but the owner of Epic is majority shareholder and is swearing he'll never capitulate to this kind of stuff.

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352?s=20
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maybe that blizzard topic will be purged when you get power back and you won't have to read it anymore
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A buddy of mine lives near the Bay Area and apparently a large area around there is suddenly going to lose power in an hour, and it might be out a day or a week

they just started announcing this like a few hours ago

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/pge-power-shutdown-california/index.html

how does this come out of nowhere
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how does your wife feel about episode 37 of one piece

i recommended it for scarlet's 100 episode recommendation topic cuz i think it's the best
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Personally I'm not too fussed at NBA and Blizzard and whatever company deciding to bow down to pressure. American outrage is beneficial to the protesters imo.

I just hope more of this outrage is directly at the CCP. This incident won't affect them much for now the rest of the world realize must what scumbags (an understatement) they are. They are hell bent on destroying my home and I wish nothing less than their complete collapse.

Are you actually in Hong Kong? What's the situation actually like from your perspective?
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Is there anywhere that says China asked Blizzard to do this?

It seems to me from the speed of reaction, that they just saw someone say something anti China and IMMEDIATELY acted to enforce China censor on China's behalf before China ever has a chance to take issue with them

That's the most terrifying thing at all - that Blizzard would be willing to completely destroy someone like this just out of fear of that China might cause problems for them doing business in China if they don't. If they are willing to do that to maintain their ability to do business in China, then as far as I'm concerned they are completely under the thumb of the Chinese government, and will do it to anyone.

They didn't just ignore it or make a statement that the comments by this player don't reflect the opinions of Blizzard or something, they went out of their way to completely remove this guy to appease China's taste for blood. Like you can see the thought process of Blizzard here - "Oh, this guy said something pro Hong Kong. We have to take action immediately before China blames us for this and bans us from selling WoW in China". Would they have done this if the guy had made ANY OTHER sort of political statement? I don't think so. It's entirely out of fear of China.

TomNook, do you really think this is the normal and acceptable way for business to protect their brand?
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Blizzard isn't "standing up for their brand", they are decisively acting before China possibly ever blames them for this, falling in line with Chinese state censorship.

I really can''t accept this. Cancelled my wow subscription and won't buy the blizzcon virtual ticket like I usual do. Shame, I've really been loving wow classic and was really excited for the announcements this year.

But I can't support this.
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none, but it's really only a matter of time. I'm a terrible driver

self driving cars pls
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its at the docks in shadowprey village
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I thought so too. The only problems are if you have competition, and if you hate going underwater.
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I guess so, if you consider anything with an villain face turning to an anti hero to be poorly written.
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I could not disagree with you more on Beast Wars. I don't think it's poorly written overall. There's definitely some "aged poorly" aspects at work here - Beast Wars and Reboot were the absolute cutting edge of 3d animation when they were made and sure, the animation doesn't hold up at all to todays standards and the way they recorded voice acting is poor on a technical level compared to more recent animation

But that doesn't mean the material doesn't hold up, and Code of a Hero does IMO. I haven't watched it in a very long time but I did rewatch it as an adult and think it really held up as a good example of strong characterization and growth in a children's show, something I'd like to see way more often in animation. I definitely see Beast Wars as belonging to the category of kids shows that aimed to be more than just generic children programming, and sought to give it's audience more.

As for who Dinobot is, you could consider him a Vegeta type character, which is why the choices he makes in this episode are compelling.
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I absolutely love that Simmons episode, real quality television right there.

I was going to recommend it but someone got to it first
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A crafting profession along with buying every spell would seriously hurt your gold
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

I've never seen the Walking Dead but I did watch a one man show of Mark Meer reenacting like 6 seasons of it and the Governor was highly entertaining

also Negan. You might be on to something with this good villains thing....
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it was different for all four of them!

I could describe what they talked about or my thoughts on each person but listening to this blew my mind in such a way that I'd like to see the responses of some people without being influenced by what i think
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you never know when sballen will surprise us with a return to the day and a half purge
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Because holy fuck



This really changed my opinion on some of these guys
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for finding groups btw - /join world and /join lookingforgroup

these are global channels that people spam groups in, you can see them from anywhere, not just in capital cities which is where Trade chat is available

Rightclick your chat window and go Create New Window and make another chat tab - set this one filtered to just chat channels 4 and 5 for those new channels, and unfilter them in your other chat windows, so you can just check that tab when you are looking for a group

I have a general chat tab that includes party chat, whispers, guild, /1 General, and the general loot and emote messages, then I have another one for party chat/whispers, another one for guild chat/whispers, and one for world and LFG.

The World and LFG chat window lets me keep that spam isolated from everything else, and the party and guild chat windows let me keep that history for recent chatting so messages from those groups don't get pushed off by general info on my main chat tab that I usually look at.
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Corrik7 posted...

CoolCly posted...

how long do you think a level there takes and how many levels do people spend there

You should get a level a run initially and about 50-70% a run after. If in a good group, they don't take long at all. Running out of bag space is a bigger issue usually which can slow you down some. Pretty quick. Leave there around 40ish. Nice and quick.

this is not even close to true

SM Cathedral and Armory give under 10k experience a run and a very quick 5man spell cleave group can do them in 15 minutes. A regular group or an inefficient spell cleave group will take significantly longer. It takes 50k to 80k experience per level in the 30 to 40 range. Even the most efficient spell cleaving group can only get one level in 2 hours, and a less efficient group and do it in 3 or maybe even 4.

I found when I did it that I was getting about 7.5k experience a run, so if I could do 4 runs in an hour that would be 30k exp an hour, which is roughly a level every 2 hours. But each group was hit or miss, some groups were 25 minutes every run, some groups could get a run done in 15 minutes but then the next run is 22 minutes because someone has to afk for 5 minutes etc. Either way, consistent 2 hour levels is a bit of a pipedream.

But even if you could get 2 hour levels, multiply that out over 10 levels.... 12 hours farming the dungeon was actually generous

and that's not just "running SM". Running SM with a normal group is pretty fun, but it's much slower than efficiently spell or melee cleave grinding it.

When Classic first went live, there was a bug that raids weren't reducing experience properly, so people were going in with 10 people and clearing in 5 minutes and getting 50k exp per hour, so it was faster then, but that hasn't been possible for like almost a month.
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how long do you think a level there takes and how many levels do people spend there
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i pity people that actually spend 12 hours sm spamming because its slightly more efficient than actually enjoying the game
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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

anyone unfamiliar with dunkey should just watch his History of Gaming video

All-time classic

i think you have to pretty far down the dunkey rabbit hole to enjoy this video
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I know you are generally averse to anime, but this is one of my favourite episodes of anything, and I think it has something to offer you. and I think despite the serial nature of the show, it sets everything important you need to know within the episode.

One Piece - Episode 37

I need to think real hard about other nominations.
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you can't eat 20,000 calories a day on a regular basis and lose weight
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There's some assumptions made in his math that aren't necessarily true for sure. One, we don't actually know that it's 180 days. The pictures even say "6 monhts to 10 months ago". Two, 2000 is maybe okay for a rule of thumb ballpark to make generalities on, but it's a stand in for the persons actual total daily energy expenditure. Someone significantly overweight probably has a higher "sustaining" calorie total higher than 2000. That would be the amount of calories you eat to maintain your current weight. In order to lose weight, you need to have a deficit from that actual number, not the arbitrary 2000 number he stated.
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pjbasis posted...

trizob posted...

The average recommended amount of calories for an average woman is about 2000 cal/day.
You need to have a net negative of about 3500 calories to lose 1 pound.
6 months is about 180 days.
To lose 100 pounds in 180 days you need to lose about 0.56 lbs per day.
To lose 0.56 lbs per day you'd need to take in a net negative of around 1,960 cal/day.
Meaning she must have took in about 40 calories per day (plus whatever amount she was burning as exercise).
Seems healthy.

I don't understand.

You're not really supposed to be profiting off calories. If you break even you're doing fine I think.

What exactly do you mean?
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scarletspeed7 posted...

CoolCly posted...

Are you familiar with the Overwatch Animated Shorts? They are around 6 to 8 minutes each, and they typically a introduce a couple characters, a situation, and resolve it by the end. Think a one shot comic book. I find them very satisfying.

I've wanted to see thoughtful insight on these things for a long time. I talked Pumpkin into doing it for his episode watch through topic series.... but then he never came back to it

=(

I'm not a big fan of this since they didn't air on TV or a streaming service to my knowledge.

I guess that depends if you count youtube? That's their method of delivery. I'm not sure you can even watch them in game, they aren't actually really part of the game.
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The episode you ranked was actually really good. As much as I hate Jason, Michael's "Jason figured it out? oh.... this one hurts." is phenomenal.

also, after watching season 2, a friend of mine just happened to start season 1 so I watched the whole season along with him a couple days ago. It was even better watching Michael knowing his true intentions.
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All in all, this really bothers me. The moral integrity of these humans stuck in the Bad Place is the whole point of the show. You could argue "it's just a comedy" or something, so I shouldn't worry if they don't take it seriously, but I don't accept that, and this isn't just a comedy. That's why it's "peak tv". This show has so much more going for it than just being a silly comedy that doesn't take its concept seriously . So when its characters don't take its concept seriously, I have a hard time taking it seriously. This all really grated on me by the end of season 2, and when it ended, I didn't even feel like watching season 3. I'm not even sure I will. And that's a big dropoff from how I felt after season 1.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Are you familiar with the Overwatch Animated Shorts? They are around 6 to 8 minutes each, and they typically a introduce a couple characters, a situation, and resolve it by the end. Think a one shot comic book. I find them very satisfying.

I've wanted to see thoughtful insight on these things for a long time. I talked Pumpkin into doing it for his episode watch through topic series.... but then he never came back to it

=(
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Lastly, there's Jason. I'm honestly surprised to find there's people that not just find him okay, but actually really like him. I can't really find anything redeeming about him. He's really stupid, and he's a really bad person. He never understands what's going on, but it never results in funny situational comedy, it results in him giving a somewhat long mention of that time back in Florida that him and his buddy Pillboy took a bunch of drugs and threw eggs at an old lady in an alley or some shit. The story he tells never has a punch line, it never has relevance to the situation. It's just something I have to sit through. Every time, I wonder, should I just tune this out, or is it actually going to matter? It never maters. It never makes me laugh. It's just a dumb waste of time every single time. Ugh. He sucks. Every time an episode plot uses him, it usually has a moment where he takes a sad tone of voice, as if there's an emotional resolution happening. But there isn't. he usually doesn't even understand what's going on. He's not reacting to the characters around him, or the situation he's in, or growing. He's just making noises that have nothing to do with anything. His relationship with Janet wasn't particularly funny, but at least there was a somewhat interesting idea behind it: he's so dumb that he emotionally latched onto literal furniture. It grew interesting fruit for Janet's growth later, so I guess I can accept that. But man does his relationship with Tahani sucks. It's clearly just happening because the writers don't know what to do with either of them, so they just stuck them together and gave Janet a reason to malfunction. Man Jason sucks. At least with Tahani and Chidi, I had reasons they were good to begin with and devolved when the writers stopped using them well, but Jason has been bad the whole time.

Ultimately, the worst thing about all three of these characters in season 2, is that they have absolutely no self awareness of the situation they are in. They are doomed to eternal damnation, but Eleanor is the only one who even slightly cares and is trying to figure out a way out of the situation. The other three just always go back to to repeating their typical character quirks in every scene and don't even try to grow. And this became a big problem at the end of the season, when they tried to display that they had grown enough to get into the Good Place. They eagerly took the judge's tests to display how they have grown... but aside from Eleanor, not a single one of them have ever actually acknowledged that they NEED to grow. Tahani has had hints of her insecurity towards her sister, and Chidi's acknowledged his issues making choices. Both were talked about in the season finale, and maybe they don't remember that in their current memories, but they haven't even tried to

Jason has never once ever ever ever thought that he was a bad person and that the choices he makes are bad. he's never once tried to be a better person. Eleanor and Chidi just try to mitigate his dumb decision making, but they've never explicitly talked to him about it, and Tahani is too self absorbed to even notice. I often wonder why he's even a main cast member, since it's clear the writers do not even try to include him in the plot of the show or give him interesting things to do. Then at the end, they actually seem to think that all four of them have made an honest effort to improve and get into the Good Place?
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I'm a bit late here but I wanna talk about the Good Place, since I wanna do it somewhere and it was recently talked about here, so this is as good a place as any!

This will have spoilers up to the end of season 2.

I watched the first season from the first episode when it aired and love it the whole way through, and loved the finale. Back then I would have wholeheartedly agreed with the "peak TV" or "instant classic" comments in this topic.

Season 2, I never got around to watching until recently, and I gotta say, I am way less in love with this show now. All the stuff you say about the show reinventing itself constantly and being very high concept is true, but the part where you say it's all hung on a great cast is where I get stuck on, with three of them in particular.

To get this out of the way - Ted Danson as Michael as phenomenal. His wide eyed enthusiasm when playing an angel to his devilish charm when he's playing a demon, he's great. Maybe the best performance of his career, and he's had some great ones. Janet is also really good. And they both get some real hints at interesting character growth in this season, becoming like real people, with Michael's growing fondness for the humans and Janet, and Janet's growing self actualization. Though I would only go as far as to say they are hints, and the show didn't really go far enough to develope them as much as maybe they think they did to justify how they act by the end of the second season.

Kristin Bell is good, I'm a huge fan of Veronica Mars and she's great in this show. She's funny, and she fulfill's her role as the main character really well. The show hinges on Eleanor trying to navigate the precarious situation she's in and figure things out, as well as her never ending quest to be a better person. It works out well.

But the problem is with the other three.

I'm just as in love with Tahani as Eleanor is, but the show's writing isn't doing her any favours. In season 1, she was hilarious because she's always trying to pretentiously paint herself as the hero, but always failing (because Michael is setting her up to fail). It's funny watching her fall flat her face while still trying to act like she meant to fall. But that angle isn't really around in the second season. Tahani is really just there to add "This reminds me of the time I taught Johnny Depp how to act" or some other humble brag to a situation. That's it. if Tahani is in a conversation, that's all she'll ad to it (besides standing there being beautiful)

Chidi's strength is as Michael describes when he's convincing Eleanor to trust him - every single neighborhood attempt, Eleanor goes to Chidi for help, and every single time, Chidi helps her, even though it isn't the best thing for him personally to do. His moral drive gives him no other choice but to help him, which really helps the core of this show, since it really is so driven by morality. As for his "comedy", he definitely has good moments reacting to stuff, but his "thing" is that he's anxious and can't make a decision. This didn't really have negative impacts in season 1, but in season 2 I felt that, like Tahani, Chidi's job in many situations was to be a nervous guy who can't make a decision
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How would you feel about animated shorts that aren't a full TV episode length long. Would you take that as an episode? Or would you take a few that add up to one 23 minute episode?
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this really is a great topic series to follow, it's fun seeing an insightful analysis about basically any type of show

if there's one thing this series highlights is just how much great television there is in all kinds of different genres . I feel like basically everything nominated had people who would react with "what do you mean you've never heard of this! it's one of the best shows there is!" which is a testament to what a time we are living in. and i definitely haven't heard of many of the shows on this list let alone seen an episode of them.

btw incoming mega post about one of the shows you reviewed within the last week
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In a related idea, I'm about to hit 60 and it turns out that much of the Frost mage pre raid BIS is just greens with "Of Frozen Wrath" on them. Just +frost damage with no other stats. So I bought some boots for 50g and a helm and shoulders for 15g each. Total frost damage from the 3 items was 91.

My previous gear was mostly just intellect, stam, and spirit with about 21 spell damage between them, so frost damage increased by 70

I tested the damage on mobs outside the Undercity. With my int gear my frostbolts hit for 560 to 625, so 592 on average. With frost gear they hit for 620 to 680, so 650 on average. That's a 10% increase.

Blizzards went from doing 130 damage per tick to 134. That's only a 3% increase, so not nearly as significant.

My mana dropped from 5k to 4.2k. That's pretty much an entire Blizzard since blizzard costs 980.

Since fights only last a couple minutes, I think this means its a big increase in damage to use the frost gear for single target damage. For AOE damage / grinding I think it's not so good.
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It's not like he's played as a bad person
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

its not an either or situation
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as a canadian leftist i have no idea what grimlyn is talking about. Trudeau is more or less as leftist a leader as you can get, and though he's hated by the conservative alberta that I live in, leftists don't hate him.

also i dont care about blackface. i don't get why it's a political issue and why certain people get destroyed over it and sometimes it doesnt matter

did any of the people that normally get mad about it see tropic thunder
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my friends I'm playing with got ahead and got to level 55-57 and wanted to do a FULL BLACKROCK DEPTHS FIVE HOUR CLEAR

They told me to get to minimum level 53 if I wanted to be allowed in, since Thaurissianis like level 59 so I can't be too far below

When they finally started the run I was level 49.... but they had 4 and didn't want to bring a rando who might not stay the full five hours.... so they brought me anyway! I handed in some quests before heading over and dinged 50. It was a dungeon crawling blast to go through the whole thing and kill every single boss and pack.

I got enough exp to level to 51 while I was in there too. End of dungeon was super rough for me though lol. For most of it though my Blizzard was effective and did a lot of very useful slowing

I'm 52 now but unfortunately I'm gonna quit for a week, as much as I want to push for 60 I have a major exam next thursday and I can't really distract myself with this anymore ;_;
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