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I got to this late, but I just wanted to say that this interview was really interesting and it makes me want to play KOTOR2 a lot.

Considering that report also said dev kits were just going out now, a 2016 release seems pretty crazy.

I doubt they're lying. More likely the extent of the usage is people saying "xbox on/off". And uh, what is the outrage for? That they are keeping track of what features you use on the system? They basically say in the article that's how they decide what to develop further, redesign, etc., and I'm sure most modern software does something similar.

I doubt I'll buy any emotes, but I'm cool with them being a thing. The only one I would want, the slow clap, is sadly (and unsurprisingly) more expensive than the free Silver they are giving out. My real beef with this update is that for some reason they decided to reduce weapon parts from dismantling by 25%. I already have to level up my blues before I dismantle them to just to get by, which is itself a pain in the ass. If, in the near future, they become something I can buy with cash I'm peacing the fuck outta this game.

Favorite raid moment so far: I wanted to make a shorter gif version, but I don't have the know how to do that without having the result be like 30mb.

Regarding the Oryx fight: Anyway, assuming we don't end up pulling in any newbies, we've got the mechanics down well enough that I think we'll be able to slam through everything up to Oryx relatively quickly next time. I'm looking forward to beating this crazy thing.

Going to skip immediately to the initial encounter with

Important Update: Just changed the Clan name to Crota Today.

We got to Oryx and eventually called it quits. We did a few attempts blind before JonCole told us how it worked. Even so, he's uh...pretty tough.

Well right now the tag under your name is just "Idle Thumbs" or [iDLE]. I think I'm an admin in that clan though and am open to suggestions for changing either!

Pretty sure that wasn't me? I was very proud of myself for playing Something That Isn't Destiny last night (Witcher 3). I'm still at the timed mission...gonna try and do that part tonight or tomorrow morning depending on real world plans. Badfinger, clans are pretty worthless at the moment...there's a good reason the100.io exists.

Isn't that downplaying the infrastructure that Valve provides? I don't think it's fair to say they just sit there. Hosting games, pushing updates, and providing a marketplace isn't nothing. That said, I'd agree that their market dominance is unsettling and also that they should be more proactive about keeping the Steam marketplace healthy and discoverable. The whole offloading of that work onto end users via things like greenlight and curators is pretty weak.

Is your problem with the size of the cut they take or with the service existing at all? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of a lot of the gamification crap they've layered on top of the base service, but saying they just sit in the middle is selling them a bit short. I'm aware this is probably a huge derail, but it's not like HL3 is actually coming out so why not...

I would say Space Assholes, but I doubt that's allowed...

The second (and final) phase of the quest opened up today. Level 42 SABER strike. It was fun lightning bolting the hell out of knights in the first step. Hopefully none of the later steps are time gated since that gun looks pretty neat-o and I had to get ready for bed time Oh, and we also did a Tier 3 Court of Oryx thanks to some random guy trusting us to be competent. I thought I didn't get the calcified fragment for beating it because I had died and respawned outside the room right as we won, but after checking it looks like only the person that uses the rune gets the fragment. Boo. The fragments I saw everyone else get must have been for the Eris questline.

Yeah I just read about it this morning. Pretty neat! I think I'm ok with the time gating on some of these quests. Unless you are dedicating a LOT of your time to the game, many of these new quests take time to get through, so spreading them out prevents that quest page from becoming too overwhelming. Plus it mixes things up for those super dedicated players who would have otherwise burned through every bit of content in the first week. I set up a the100 match for this evening to do whatever, so if people want to knock this new thing out then, I'd be game. Re: the raid time, that sounds fine. Whose friend was it we pulled in last weekend? Wanna try and get him again to replace Mechanations?

And that's about it I'm fine with trying to knock it out Saturday. If we get to Oryx and start running out of patience, we can always look up some pro reddit strats. At some point ya just gotta get the thing done.

I think we'll be able to get back to where we quit relatively quickly. 75% of the time spent was figuring out mechanics/tactics or waiting for people to put their soup in the fridge. I agree with Vulpes wrt schedule: get to Oryx and figure out his mechanics on Saturday night, and if needed use Sunday night to finish things off. I don't want to reserve both my Friday and Saturday nights for video games My guess for what will be the biggest time sink on the re-run?

I read a few things on Golgoroth (where we ended up calling it quits) and think I see the key thing we were missing to make progress. I'll spoiler tag it I guess? Sounds like the plan is to start from the beginning next weekend? I think we can get back to where we stopped pretty quickly now. Edit: Want to add that this has been really fun so far and it's been cool figuring out the mechanics as we go. Good raid and a good group

Hey Mike, did you mean to do the reschedule for tonight? I'd rather do it on a Friday or Saturday night and also I'm guessing you're not up to 290 yet? Somewhat related, I finally made my way over to the Court of Oryx yesterday. Man that thing really dumps out engrams on you. I'd definitely recommend hitting that up if you want to get a lot of them quickly.

MIKE DANGER IT WAS MIKE DANGER

Well, I'm definitely running a warlock since it's the only one I've leveled so far. As far as subclass, I figured I'd play it by ear since I'm sure we'll have to modify our loadouts as we figure things out. Streaming...I'm fine either way, but does it really count as a stream if nobody watches?

Yeah, nice job! I'm glad to hear that this raid is the real deal. I don't expect us to finish but I'm hopeful we can figure out and clear a few sections over the course of the evening. The first time I ran the VoG I kept thinking about how bananas it must have been to figure out what the hell was going on, so I'm very excited. And good luck with the move, Jon. Moving is its own very special type of hell.

Copy/paste error. Should be working now guys