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Morning Discussion
by Xav de Matos, Aug 24, 2010 5:00am PDTLast night the subject of "Top 5 movies you hate that everyone loves" came up during a podcast I was a guest on. My list was shocking, apparently. Allow me to explain before I drop the hammer: I'm not a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings fan. I don't disparage those who adore those franchises but it's just not for me. Personal preference.
When I said I named Fellowship of the Rings as one of my "Top 5," I thought I heard the distant sounds of snipers readying their sights on my cranium. It's just a person opinion. I enjoyed "The Two Towers" and "Return of the King" enough to keep them off that list, but I will never watch "Fellowship" again. Again. Personal preference.
I don't know why I'm over explaining this. I know you understand, Internet. You never overreact to these kinds of things. What are some moves you hate that everyone loves?
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The jerseys came in yesterday, here's a pic: http://www.shackpics.com/files/cowboys_and_indians_h5mbhtekqvocxdias05d.jpg
On the left is the chakra wheel, which I guess is the national symbol of India (it's on the flag) and the other is just a wagon wheel. Boss designed it and I think it came out pretty good for about an hours work.
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The Toronto Underground Cinema is showing the original Batman movie on Friday, followed by a Q&A with Adam West himself.
http://www.torontoundergroundcinema.com/event.php?EV=Holy+ADAM+WEST,+Batman!
Who wants to make a Shackmeet out of this?
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Congrats to Ambit Energy who made #1. Good job dudes, making over 300 mil without going public.
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Who wants a free copy of Plain Sight? I have 2 going spare if you can answer either of these:
Who's my favourite football team?
or
What number am I thinking of (1-50 inclusive)?
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http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs/listing/87/
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"I don't think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything. So if used game buyers are upset they don't get the online feature set I don't really have much sympathy for them."
"That's a little blunt but we hope it doesn't disappoint people. We hope people understand that when the game's bought used we get cheated,"
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=261330
Does this guy not know where used games come from?
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These were recorded on the last day, when ArenaNet did a few freestyle GW2 presentations with stuff, that was not in the playable demo. You can see some cool areas and high level human ranger and elementalist professions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01N-1_KcRbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAh1OHBI4uM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtotOce2vkk
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Don't get me wrong, people can fuck shitty bastard cunts as much as they want, but it's just so unconvincing what cusses they use and where in their sentences. Does this aspect of The Wire get better? Was it just like that at the start because it was a pilot episode and the writers didn't really know what to do? Or is it going to get worse, because if it is I'll return the boxset now.
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Minus artifacts, this series looks to be extremely promising. There's something magical about day one, the formative beginning of a character's development as they move from levels zero through three.
I see a lot of people in various forums quibbling about the rules of the Starter Set, "is it 4.5e or an entirely new edition?" and "what about my 4e characters?". There's a great write-up at EN World http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/281177-d-d-essentials.html highlighting details about the new class system which big-picture wise is an optional and compatible, yet a different perspective on established characters, and other Essentials product overviews.
It's worth mentioning that the cover of the new Starter Set box uses the same artwork by Larry Elmore and the same logo from the original starter set http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dramp/2010July
Bill Slavicsek on the Essentials Rules Compendium:
"Because of the book’s focus on the game’s core, some rules didn’t make the cut. Rules for artifacts, for instance, aren’t included. In contrast, every power keyword that has appeared in our books is defined. The book also includes things that aren’t rules but provide context for understanding the game, which is a combination of game play and storytelling. For example, alignments are defined, since alignment is a core story conceit of the Dungeons & Dragons world." http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dramp/20100813
According to Slavicsek, "The Rules Compendium represents the current state of the game, reorganized and fully indexed."
14 days to release.
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Proposed Rule Change (4.20) or aka "Let's not play 9v8" (in reply) :
Map this week is pl_upward, (scoring in reply) :
Finally - if anyone wants to be a sub, post your steam profile!
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