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Yeah, by the time I was playing the party resistances were still there, but it wasn't applying to enemies anymore. One thing that made it very hard to solo all of AQ(40, I believe) for a long time was you had to do x amount of ice damage to one of the goo monsters, then do enough damage of any kind to shatter him repeatedly. It meant my undergeared & poorly played mage was necessary but also ineffective at pumping out enough damage to actually beat that boss.

Socks with sandals was very popular with the baseball players at my high school. It makes you look like a fool who completely misunderstands the point of sandals. Just wear slip on shoes (like a vans sneaker or a boat shoe) instead of a sandal in that case. (I am ardently against socks & sandals.)

Resistances continued to be present into Wrath of the Lich King. There is? was? (it may be gone now) even an achievement for beating Sapphiron with below x amount of Frost Resist gear in your raid. Also Priests were extra valuable because they could cast Shadow Resist on your party during Naxxaramas in WotLK. As far as the mage thing goes, I understand that fire mages aren't more effective than frost mages against ice monsters (for example), but it does change the way you play. That's all I was saying. The different flavors of magic simply change your approach to problems, but all under one class. There are random things that persist in WoW. I solo'd Sunwell a bunch in the past few months for pet farming and there are demons that will just be resistant to anything but fire damage, and as a priest I'll just have to wait forever for that to expire so i can do shadow damage.

Tall socks can make you look a couple ways. 1. If they're black socks & gym shorts, you wish you were a basketball player 2. If they're white socks & khakis or jorts, you look like a dad, specifically, my dad.

Yeah, I tried to touch on the above when I brought up Pokemon. "I think the combat in that game is largely regarded as the simplest part and what the campaign focuses on. The hidden depth in those games is optimizing teams and move sets and breeding and egg moves and all the layers to that seemingly impenetrable Pokemon onion. I think those damage type things are rarely very interesting, but if there's a system underneath that superficial layer that adds depth I can get really into it."

Was going to type something out, but really just l agree with Bjorn here.

I have and will continue to tweet about and talk about how much I love the Adventure Zone. It's my favorite podcast.

I have heard of people doing this as the seam being on the inside bothers some people. Then again, I sleep with socks on, something Lansbury called me the devil for, so I'm all in favor of unconventional sock opinions.

http://www.dayofthedevs.com/ Double Fine just announced its Day of the Devs line-up. November 7th, 2015 ABZÛ, ADR1FT, Badblood, Below, Botolo, Burly Men at Sea, Day of the Tentacle SE, Death's Gambit, Donut County, Fantastic Contraption,Pit People (Game 4), Gang Beasts, Gnog, Hyper, Light Drifter, Night in the Woods, Outer Wilds, Overland, Oxenfree, Rising Thunder, Scale, Secret Legend, Sound Self, Spy Party, Tacoma, Thumper, Tilt Brush, Wattam, What Remains of Edith Finch, Witchmarsh ...and MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED! Me & Ewokskick went last year and it was great and will probably go again this year!

Just an FYI - OXENFREE, the game I was most excited to get my hands on going into Day of the Devs, and am still very intrigued by has a January 2016 release date. This just got announced earlier this week.

Pokemon is like the ultimate example of a giant rock-paper-scissors game but there are like 13 different types of damage and each pokemon can have up to 2 types complicating things further. I think the combat in that game is largely regarded as the simplest part and what the campaign focuses on. The hidden depth in those games is optimizing teams and move sets and breeding and egg moves and all the layers to that seemingly impenetrable Pokemon onion. I think those damage type things are rarely very interesting, but if there's a system underneath that superficial layer that adds depth I can get really into it. I like the frost vs. fire vs. arcane vs. frostfire mage in WoW as well. The way those trees alter play (slowing with ice spells, DoTs with fire spells etc, procs & channeling on arcane) can dramatically change the experience of what playing as a Mage can mean.

Dropsy is my GOTY, and is currently 33% off on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/274350/

I bought a Mabel today because she's so cute. thanks target for having like 2 dozen of them on display.

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Yeah, W/ Bob & David didn't click for me, and I'm totally comfortable with that. I like both of those guys in different contexts and think Brian Posehn & Tom Kenny & Paul F. Tompkins are hilarious in other contexts, but this show is for a different audience than me.

I want Mabel real bad.

HUG IT! HUG IT! HUG IT! (I bought a Roald from Animal Crossing Amiibo card off ebay last night because i love him so much even though I don't a WiiU) I also bought a Jigglypuff amiibo before I owned SSB or there was amiibo capabilities for the 3DS so I may be giving bad advice.

"I guess it could be, but who would go to that kind of trouble?" is the joke that got me

http://davidmalki.tumblr.com/post/132692382183/kryten39-davidmalki-i-found-this-imported David Malki is the best.

I can't roll my r's in any capacity, so my American accent really shines when I try and pronounce German (there's like a guttural, rolled quality to German r's that I can't replicate), but it is a very approachable language as a(n native) English speaker from a pronunciation aspect. No silent letters, there aren't short/long vowel sounds that look the same on the page that you have to memorize, no irregular pronunciations except when they just straight up co-opt french words. Like I said, because there are so many words that are similar (haben = to have, Buch = Book, as a couple super basic vocab examples) it makes vocabulary memorization fairly straight forward, and verb conjugation is, like Jutranjo said, pretty easy as there are very limited irregular verbs. If you have a good understanding of english grammar, it may be easier for you to construct sensical sentences than me. Direct objects, indirect objects, independent clauses, etc. are all things that affect sentence structure & word choice in German, and because I know how to construct an English sentence doesn't mean I can accurately diagram one out, which hindered my growth and stunted my speaking ability. Reading for me was much easier.

Just an FYI, there is Duolingo that has German courses you can take to at least get some vocab under your belt. The hardest part of German for me (someone with rudimentary german language skills) is not vocab (there are a lot of cognates, and root words are easy to use to figure out what words mean) it's cases & noun genders in sentence construction. Like I know what the dative feminine articles are, but remembering the gender of a noun + figuring out in a grammatical sense when something is an indirect object was very hard for me.

Tbf they are very cute Amiibo.

I LOVE WINE.

I'm so excited for you to play the puzzle agent games video games, because they are truly delightful and 2 of my favorite games in the whole wide world.

They said on twitter they're adding in quick skip of previously read dialogue in a future patch. I'll go back maybe when they do that.