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Now that we all agree that Super Rares will take 1,024 shards to create, can everyone admit that Mental was totally right about this a month ago?!?!
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Look at that! Two Corrs, a Defender, a Rad 'troller, a Stone brute for tanking... looks like we have room on the team for some Stalker action! Whadaya say, Voo? Let's do this!
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Glee is a repeat, so I'm IN!
I'd love to bring my Nin/Regen Stalker, who has never completed LRSF, but I have a Cold/Cold Corr, DP/Dark Corr, Demon/Dark MM if those will work better. -
SB is a Universal Good, but that's no excuse for pestering someone about it.
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Nerd rage... subsiding... but I have a headache.
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I quit, but came back for the new Halloween mission.
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Snow Crash is the only Stephenson book on Kindle? That's a crime! I'd at least expect Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, and Anathem to be on there.
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Recently I finished Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy... excellent philosophical fantasy series.
Currently I'm reading Flashfoward, the book the ill-fated ABC series was based on. The story is interesting, but I can see how they had to punch it up to make a TV show out of it.
Next up is the 2010 Hugo-winning The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Sounds like an interesting take on a dystopian future. -
I may be biased as I was a survivor of a 4 hour Tin Mage attempt on a PUG last week, but I find myself agreeing with Sam and Johnny. We certainly weren't an optimized team (one Empath, no tank, no buff/debuff to speak of) but it was brutal. I'm sure it was way more than 144 deaths (we wiped on Director 11 about six or seven times) and we couldn't get past Neuron in the (I hope) final mission.
Challenging content is a good thing, but I would hope that we get completely new enemies for this. Praetorians routinely get beat to a pulp in Tina's arc, and now they're godlike? War works seem like epic enemies and that makes sense, but Malta and Praetorians feel unnaturally powerful.
I would like to see Battalion show up. They were supposed to be an enemy group that was beyond powerful and you would need special enhancements (Alpha boosts, maybe?) to take on. Here's hoping we see them later on.
On a side note Sam did seem to enjoy the LGTF I ran on Saturday. -
Quote:Paying customers can buy the book or not. GRRM has made some mistakes in over-communicating in the past, but that doesn't justify people screaming at him to finish a series he started before he dies. The books will come out or they won't, and if he does pass before he finishes then the publisher will just hire someone else to finish them. I bet GRRM has better notes on his series than Jordan did on WoT.Then he should shut the **** up about finishing the next book. Stop getting your fans' -- your PAYING CUSTOMERS -- hopes up and then have a failure to launch. Take some Author Viagra and get back to work. This isn't an impatience thing, this is a "he will die before he finishes the series" thing. Me, I don't care any more, I'm done with it. One good book out of four isn't enough to keep me interested.
Since GRRM is not your *****, you don't get to complain about how and when he talks about his work. -
Quote:I think a lot of people (not including you on this), need to remember: George R.R. Martin is not your *****.5 years between books. Endless rumors of it being near done and yet no book. Known health issues. At his current rate we are looking at a kind estimate of 15 years. He's 62 now. I'll hopefully assume he gets off his butt and finishes it and then kicks back and simply does editing for the Wild Card series and other stuff. I'm just saying that I and others are taking a wait and see approach in terms of this series being actually finished by him.
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Quote:Did Jordan have an original target? It seemed like once the initial four book story arc was done he was content to go on forever.Same thing happened in the Wheel of Time series. The author got long winded and it extended beyond what was the original target number for books in the series.
I see GRRM as the antidote to Jordan. Yes, he's gone on one book more than he originally planned (so far), but at least you get the idea that he knows where his story is going and he isn't adding arbitrary new characters and plot lines like Jordan did. -
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We didn't end up finishing that run. Clearing the Mitos took a little longer than usual, and they people starting logging until it was just four of us left. We finished clearing, but the Tank logged after one unsuccessful attempt on Hami.
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Masterful.
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I think the spoiler you're talking about way too much information to give Rick at this point in the story, but who knows? I think it's obvious that the writers are playing with the fact that readers of the comic have a lot more information about the story than they normally would.
I think both possibilities would require secrecy: the first because it's a personal matter for Rick (that his wife is pregnant but not by him), and the second because Jenner would only want the nominal leader to have the information to prevent the group from falling apart right then and there (obviously he was willing to let the group crisp with him, but when he saw they were going on anyway he wouldn't want to sow the seeds of their destruction by making that revelation public). -
This is going to be amazing.
I have no idea how it will be received, but I'll be happy as long as they do GoT justice and I can buy the season on DVD.
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Quote:I look at it this way: a pregnancy screen isn't out of the question in an ELE situation. Sure, Dr. Povitch is going to die, and he thinks humanity is doomed, but he might be curious if this nascent community was already starting to reproduce, even in the face of zombie apocalypse.Frankly if what the Doctor whispered into Rick's ear was something along the lines of "Your wife is pregnant" I'm going to be pretty annoyed with this show because that would be a completely stupid thing to whisper. The Doctor wouldn't bother to waste what was effectively his last dying thoughts/concerns to Rick over something so mundane and silly. He would have absolutely no idea that her being pregnant was a "secret" thing between Shane and her and while he was checking for the zombie pathogens he's not going to be wasting any time with paternity DNA testing.
Who's to say this is a secret between Shane and Lori? Neither may know (I don't know how it plays out in the comic), but Povitch does know that Rick is not the father, so that's why he'd whisper it to him so that Rick can make the choice about what he does with that information. -
Quote:He got blood samples from everyone. He could easily have run a paternity test to rule out Rick, and then just for kicks he could have checked the other men to see if they were the father.Well except for the Shane part. Most likely it would just be "Your wife is pregnant and some other mumbo jumbo"
Just my thoughts
I just thought of something... his real name wasn't Dr. Jenner... it was Dr. Povitch!
This was the spoiler I was alluding to earlier. -
So what did Jenner whisper to Rick?
My guess is it was <spoiler from comic book>.