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First episode watched. I think its awesome - though moving too fast. They should spend more time here. Strongly disliked the first minute of exposition especially.

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Hmm, Visa has fallen pretty significantly from it's high in July at almost $250, to $212 yesterday. It fell to $201 today because Amazon announced they won't accept Visa cards issued in the UK due to the high fees they charge

I work for a large retail chain and deal with the payment processors and see exactly what these fees are, and I'm on Amazon's side on this one. Depending on the card someone comes in with, the fees charged to you can vary from almost nothing on a debit card, and credit cards can range from 0.5% to 3%. But you can't really do anything about it - you can't encourage anybody to use different cards and it would probably just look bad if you did. But obviously you gotta accept Visa and MasterCard or you can't do business - so Visa and MasterCard can charge you whatever fees they want and you just have to accept it. Getting charged 3% can have a massive impact on whether your business is even profitable.

I wonder if this is the sign of a long term shift in how people deal with Visa, in which case the share price could continue to fall, or if this drop is just a knee jerk reaction to something that's really not going to affect Visa much at all.

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Lopen - how will you look back on all of these hype posts you've been making, all the doubling down, if BBIG never goes up more than to $5-6 within the next year?

If Moonroof puts $50-100k in and loses because the stock drops more, what will you say?

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I forget where it is but for my mouse and keyboard, there's an option so that tab targeting only targets enemies in a nearby cone in front of me, so it doens't select enemies very far away that aren't in the fight. I wonder if that's the problem? Does controller have a similar setting?

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if you mean the armoire, it's just for special gear sets

like I completed the level 45 and 50 Dragoon quests and got the Drachen Armor and the Wyrm Armor as class armor. I can put that in there and there doesn't seem to be any limit on space, since it's only for specified items anways.

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How is Red Mage? I just unlocked it and it seems pretty fun

The idea of building up your black magic and white magic in tandem and then unleashing on the sword attacks seems really neat, and the dualcast really makes it fun.

Problems I expect

1) Everything gives exact charge and the black and white both give the same thing, so it looks like there actually isn't really going to be that much "managing" if you just press the same buttons in the same order all the time to get to your max charge in each category. Variability in how much a spell gives would make it a lot more dynamic. IE, you high roll on black magic so now you need a bunch of white magic to catch up. Without this, it seems like it would be fun at first but then just feel really repetitive later

2) the black and white magic do literally the same thing. It's just called something different. They are just nukes that do the same damage and give the same amount of charge. That doesn't make it feel like you are casting different schools of magic

3) no heals? the historical point of the red mage is a jack of all trades that can do black magic nukes, white magic heals, and physical damage, just not as well as the experts in those fields. no heals means thats not what he is. it's still a cool use of the theme that you use white magic in tandem with black magic even if no heals, but they dont feel different.... in continuation of point #2 - it would be great if the white magic had different effects, but a different implementation would be that the white magic is actually heals or support magic - so you need to alternate between shooting nukes and support stuff to buff your sword

then again this is all just thoughts on lvl 50 unlock, who knows how it ends up at higher levels

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Prozzak - Monday Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrRZHIZK-Y

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o7

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Probably nothing, but that's fine with me. I'm most concerned that they are going to expect me to fund their retirement since they have nothing

Ain't happening.

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somebody needs to stop me

im out here trying to get into ishgard zones without doing the MSQ so i can keep mining


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iv been trying some games in this NES collection on the Switch lately and its incredible how many of these are.... literally not games. theres nothing to do gameplay wise, they are buggy messes, theres not much theme wise.

Yet there are things like Castlevania that just work and that spawned franchises lasting tot his day

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Is there glamour storage? It seems that you can only glamour something you are holding on to, which means if you want to use something in the long term you'd have to hold onto it forever and take up your precious bag space?

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Well, thats pretty much what wow does too - make you experience the expansions first and then get flying later to make getting around easier. But then once you get flying - you never actually see people running around on the ground or do that yourself anymore. You land, kill a mob, flying mount up and fly 10 feet and kill mob, etc It's the epitome of a feature that improves player convenience at the cost of social and atmospheric immersion.

Part of what makes MMO's magical is that we are all sharing this world and interesting and funny things can happen from that. If you strip out opportunities for player interaction too much, then you never see them to the point that you are just playing a single player game. Why is this even an MMO at that point?

This game kinda gets towards that already - I definitely feel like I'm playing a single player campaign with the MSQ. The few things I do with other players, they may as well be bots... but that can be ok if there's other interesting things.

Still really enjoying the experience so far. Hopefully social aspects improve later on when I play with my friends a bit more. Opportunity to even do that is extremely limited, questing with my friend right now is actually very awkward to the point that it's not worth doing, which kinda sucks.


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UshiromiyaEva posted...

At the very least you should wait to do any major investment in cross leveling until you beat 2.0 and unlock flying.

ooh that's a big win for efficiency but imo a loss for immersion. i'm not surprised there are flying mounts but i hoped there wasnt. I think it was bad for WoW in the long run. Though I'm guessing you can't fly over zones like in WoW and still have have to go through the entrances between areas

i'll probably keep doing it as I have

where are the grand company turn ins? i didn't see anybody looking like they are handing out levemetes or whatever at my HQ but maybe i'll just try talking to everyone and see.

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I think rotten tomatoes is often a useful indicator, but in a case like this - there may be valid reasons why the reviews are mixed but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie or you won't like it.

I'm definitely seeing both ends of "it's too much the same " and "it didn't follow the winning formula and sucks". so does this mean they actually did something unique and interesting outside of the standard MCU formula and that caused it to not hit with the reviewers as much, but will still be a hit with most people who love super hero movies and are *looking* for something to shake it up?

Or does it mean it sticks to the formula in the worst ways while doing a bunch of weird shit that doesn't make any sense?

Can't know what it is until people start seeing it. But I don't think the current review trend is at all telling me "this is a bad movie, don't bother".

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So I class changed to Summoner on like thursdayish after finally getting to the MSQ that lets you do it - and my class is level 40 now, while the MSQ is only 20. I may have done way too many side quests at low level...

But now I'm levelling my professions. My Botanist/Miner are 41 and my crafters are all 25-33.

...I kinda just want to keep levelling my professions. I might just go literally as far as I can with the zones I have available to me. Am I crazy?

Any tips on things while levelling that might actually be worth selling? I just dump some things for 100-1000 gil cuz I don't think anybody wants the junk I've been making, it mostly just seems equivalent to vendor gear. Though I did sell a couple high quality pieces for 6K though.


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very strong and unique premise - but i wonder how well this could hold up as a long running series. maybe better suited as a one shot movie?

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you can nuance your way out of a Yes, but i think it's pretty clearly a Yes if you have to choose Yes or No. It's extremely horror themed to the point that it does give that feeling in game, even if it doesn't really focus on those elements gameplay wise.

The anime didn't end up the way it is by accident.

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Heh, yeah that's a hard casting classic.

Does being in a party affect experience?

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Yeah, I think if it falls I'll buy back in at some point.

Tricky thing is that this was in my Tax Free Savings Account - which isn't really supposed to be used for buying and reselling constantly, so I'll just have to reallocate my gains to some ETF's or something, so the amount I rebuy in my trading account will be much smaller.

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Fastly? It was at $113 at the same time i bought that NET, now it's at $50. It's up and down all the time, though it seems like it's been on an upward trend recently.

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ok i finally bitched out and sold my 45 Cloudflare shares at $195.50. Bought at $75, my most successful non meme trade so far.

Earnings next Nov 4. Will it keep climbing until then and break $200? will it collapse afterwards????

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lol i bought like 4000 of some bio pharma stock BRTXQ for like $100 a year ago and two days ago they did an exact 4000 to 1 reverse split. My stock was only worth like $9 so now my 1 stock has a cost basis of $9. Since the price is up to $13 it now looks like im up 45% when I'm actually down 90%

the green makes me happier i guess

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

It does.

Bad timing lol.

Though if you spent $50 Canadian on the full complete collection AND Endwalker it sounds like you came out of that deal on top anyways.

I think I paid $25 for A Realm Reborn, $50 for Shadowbringers, and $50 for Endwalker. lol.

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Dels posted...

so, one area FFXIV is a bit weak in is classes get their first AoE skill at different levels, and until you have it, you're much less useful in dungeons

yes, bane will help you a lot

but at level 40, you'll get Outrage, which is basically Ruin but for multiple targets. That will make you feel a lot more useful.

Some classes get their AoE skill at level 15 and others don't get until 40, so, yeah.

ohh im level 38 Summoner now so that will be close. although the funny thing is that my MSQ is lagged way behind my level so I'm doing party stuff without access to Bane still ;_;

The party system seems strange - do I really just get to keep Scholar at my max level for free?

Also am I a crazy person for joining every single guild or is that normal

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tcaz2 posted...

As a tip to anyone that might not know or is new:

Potency makes 'is damage worth it' very easy to calculate. Basically to use CoolCly's bio as an example, at that level you'll have Bio 2 which is 30 potency per tick (every 3s). Ruin does 180 potency. So after 6 ticks (18 seconds, or more than half duration), Bio 2 will have dealt more damage than a single cast of Ruin. Bane does make bio a lot better as well, because it means you're comparing one cast of Ruin to essentially multiple casts of Bio (ie if you apply Bio and then Bane it to 2 other targets, you've essentially cast Bio 3 times in the span it would take to cast 1 Ruin so it pays off in 6 seconds instead of 18)

Same thing applies to AoE calculations only you use targets instead of ticks. (though the general rule is AoE is better to use on 3 or more targets, single on 1-2- there are a few exceptions but it really don't matter most of the time unless you're trying to optimize endgame stuff)

So basically yeah especially early on in dungeons it doesn't actually make sense to bio non-bosses if they are dying really fast, which mobs don't really start living that long until around level 35-40 unless maybe you're grouped with a bunch of newbies. One of the reasons ARR is kind of annoying to get through isn't just the story pacing but for experienced gamers, it's very easy for quite a long time.

You're getting to the point where it does start to pick up both in terms of plot and gameplay fairly soon though, CoolCly. Bosses start having appreciable 'pay attention or die' mechanics around that level 35-40 range (they're still pretty easy at this point, mind, but they'll continue to ramp up from here) and rotations start getting more stuff to them.

(Edited to fix me being dumb at math)

Thanks for this! Potency is something i figured i'd have to look into because it seems like its meant to be a yardstick on how to compare abilities without getting too bogged down in actual current damage numbers, but it wasnt intuitive how to compare them, especially with how low the potency was on Dots. It seems its related to time somehow. for Dots its the potency per tick every 3s.

Is there a translation for cast time spells and instants or are those supposed to be directly comparable?


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whoa that $23 bundle includes Shadowbringers? I just went ahead and bought it and Endwalker for like $50 CAD each on steam so I could get the earring and I'm pretty certain I'm going to play this for awhile

damn!!!

at least i have my sweet sweet preferred exp buff to keep me warm at night =)

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what do you mean, not how you pictured it in your mind? It's the beginning, so it's naturally gonna be in there and the trailers would show people what they are in for in the short term


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Apparently they have renamed the taint to corruption

RIP memes

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also I feel like such a boomer playing in parties. theres so much flashy shit going on, and encounters are typically over so fast i have no idea what im supposed to do until the action is at least half over.

and as an Arcanist, I feel like I don't contribute anything. Putting dots on some mobs in a group is pointless when they die within 10 seconds after I apply them, and casting Ruin doesnt even do that much damage. I have no idea how the party is killing groups of mobs so quickly but I'm pretty sure i have nothing to with it

i just avoid the big telegraphed attacks and cast ruin at things...

Now that I'm 30 I can do the quest to get Bane though, which spreads my dots to everything, so that's something. Do I just keep doing my class quests to become a Summoner?

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i thought the hollow knight joke earlier was just memes

is it that a replayable game or is that just a personal favourite for yours?

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New full trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPAYuCt7Eco

The old teaser trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg

is that narg

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i think if your perspective was at all self reflective, you would have realized from this topic that you were in the wrong and been like, "ok yeah im being dumb sorry guys" and this would just be a funny experience everyone would laugh off, another classic b8 experience

but instead, your nature forces you to triple down and continue the insults. your perspective even now is the same - their attitudes are all wrong and toxic but you are the reasonable one. so it's natural that some good natured ribbing just escalates to "yeah, lasa is being so dumb". you expend other peoples good will with every post you make.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

you think the way privatebiscuit went about it was constructive? you think it was likely that my response to this was going to be "gee, now that he made a topic basically calling me an idiot, i realize the error of my ways"?

yeah, this is classic board 8 poking fun. i dunno how you could have made it so many years here and think this topic is at all strange. i wouldnt say this topic is even that hostile, i don't know how friendly you are with Biscuit in general but I think he would have made this topic about any of his closer b8 friends.

your reaction to it was massively over the top. i think if you had a little bit of self awareness, seeing this topic, along with everyone elses reactions, should provoke you into reflecting on if you might have been going too hard in that other topic. Instead, it's a kneejerk "fuck you". Just like your responses to everyone in that topic, it shows that your first reaction is always to go on the offensive instead of any self reflection.

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oh sorry i assumed it was about the new trailer

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Egregious fan service? I see almost none - and even the little i see looks like flashes to show that space has weird space hookers or something, which is pretty common in these kinds of settings. Faye is soooo toned down, which is a huge plus to me. There's stuff about Faye I really like in the anime, but it's really harmed but how fanservicy her design is and how tsundere a lot of her dialogue is based on. I think I'm going to like her a lot more here.

Her actress got tons of hate for not being just like Faye in leaked set photos a while ago, but those haters are crazy. It looks to me that they adapted her just right.

I love the other trailer a lot more for its style but this does a much better job of making this look like a good solid show. I'm officially moved from "cautiously optimistic" to "ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN"

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Nanis23 posted...

But Lasa is right about the social side
This topic is really uncalled for and in a poor taste

hard disagree

Lasa has displayed a distinct inability to step back during disagreements and question if he's right or not, to stop himself from just blindly arguing that he must have been right now matter how many arguments against him there are or how clear it is that literally everybody watching how offbase he is. Every single person that steps in and comments gets a nitpicky argument from Lasa that doesn't really mean anything but Lasa believes it wins him the argument.

even now, I don't think he believes anything about his actions in that topic were wrong, he's just finally been convinced that his original argument was wrong and has ceded that point. i dont think he regrets the way he acted and will do it again the next time a vaguely similar event occurs.

I understand Lasa doesn't feel good about being called out- but sometimes when you are being very hard headed and unable to hear anything outside your own perspective, you need calling out.

this topic was fully warranted

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paperwarior posted...

I think everyone involved here needs to start with the man in the mirror and ask him to change his ways

pffft have you ever considered changing YOUR ways

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Hey Lasa, hypothetical situation. You are being rather obtuse in that other topic, but you wee too stuck in your own mindset to step back and see it. They definitely made an incorrect conclusion in that article, but it was because of preconceived notions that most people would share, while the information they had was completely correct. Your assertion was that they aren't a good new source because of that Zendaya article where they reported something incorrectly - but their info was good, and their incorrect conclusion was fair and just looks humourous in hindsight with the facts as we now know them. That article is a bad example of poor reporting from them. That you are continuing to argue the point just makes you look less reasonable, like you are somehow actually unable to reconcile the facts of that article. Take care.


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Hey Lasa, hypothetical question. if you were to start saying "fuck off" and calling people "piece of shit", does that mean you are actually really mad in that scenario, or is that something you do ironically and are actually just having a giggle m8

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Hey Lasa, hypothetical situation. if you were say something and later realize that what you said was completely wrong and out of place, is it ever possible to walk it back and admit that, or is the only option to double down and assert everybody else has completely misunderstood the facts?

just a nice thought experiment


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Oh my god they just changed the Crystal servers from Preferred to Standard.

The entire reason I'm playing this game is because of a buddy of mine who is very sweaty and says hes not going to wait up if I fall behind (he's a top100 WoW raider). but he was gonna get the game on thursday

get fucked nerd. ill be waiting at the top.

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There's some nuance to if she's really playing "Mary Jane Watson" or not it's not significant enough to say that a news site breaking that story was incorrect....

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Lopen, you sound like a major pump and dump promoter lately. "If BBIG even reaches $6"..... you were raving about this stock at $8.

We have news of CEO and CFO changes, "I guess the ticker is changing", these are major sweeping changes that you weren't talking about before they were announced, then brush them off as if they were known news or not big deals or even good things. You say you get out based on news, but what news would it ever take?

I have no idea why you project such confidence about this stock but it really doesn't seem supported by anything. You sound bought into hype.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Summoner is getting an absolutely absurd rework in Endwalker. It's entire flow and fundemantals as a job will be different. Before it was a class that had big janky summoning phases between low impact damage over time faces, it didn't really feel like a Summoner. It was also one of the most complicated classes to master, even if it was casually pretty straightforward. Now it's ALL about the summons, and is going to be MUCH smoother, not to mention way cooler aesthetically.

https://youtu.be/TPbS4L-sLU8

https://youtu.be/cNG1QNQPlNE

Hmm, I'll have to look at this more. That Larryzaur guy seems to think this transforms the Summoner into a "true" summoner class but it looked like it just makes something next to you that casts a big ability then disappears rather than creating an autonomous guy that does stuff for you. This doesn't seem like a summoner to me, rather just a nuker whos spells are visually themed as if they are a summoner...

Is there a good place that consolidates guides and info on things, like a wiki or an icey veins or an elitisk jerks or something ????

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

It's still a good indication...except for Summoner, Endwalker's secret 3rd new job lol.

what do you mean by this? i was thinking of starting this game and I'm lookin at Summoner, but hasn't that been around forever?

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https://www.businessinsider.com/mystery-radio-waves-unknown-object-milky-way-center-2021-10?amp

wtf

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it's a new engine but it's certainly in the style of Stardew and shares a lot of mechanics - the town and relationships will be very similar, and the combat looks the same. hopefully more depth there. in all respects it looks like a sequel to Stardew Valley. Honestly, any more similar and it would just look like the same game.

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you know what, obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74

if they wanted to go the Wahlburg route with Sully, why didn't they just get this guy? it's gift wrapped for them

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there's no denying that his short feels like Drake, even if he's too old

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