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I don't know when you last played WC3 (and also I never played it), but I do know Phoenix has been reworked a lot in the past. Also her ult seems mostly useless unless you have like an enigma or a Tide with a refresher or a Magnus to ult and push them into the supernova. It takes an excruciatingly long time to actually go off (though it does have a 1000 radius, so there's that), and only FIVE ATTACKS TO STOP at level 1. Ten attacks at level 3, when everyone's gonna have faster attack speed anyway. Any marginally coordinated team is going to be able to stop it pretty easily. Might be good bait, though. ALL OF THIS FROM TWENTY MINUTES IN A BOT GAME SO WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW, REALLY

Wow that sounds like a terrible work environment. I used flash devices on a weekly basis at a giant mobile games developer, alongside Dropbox. What a weird thing. ):

Holy shit this man is insane!

Wow that is way bigger than I thought it'd be. Also I thought they weren't supposed to open until they had 'em all! Dang.

phoeniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix PHOENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIX aw yeah Also Shadow Fiend is removed from the test client. Another remodeling event like Wraith Knight?

Yeah I read up on it after I discovered the connection. As Tanu implied, I only ever watched the live action TV show, and never read Archie or Sabrina comics, so the news blew my mind. I never would've guessed in a million years.

yes

Yeah I think that looks much better.

Yes that is most important thing to me too.

what just happened

No I think that's the best idea of all, because it doesn't make me feel sad about Nick getting a super shitty no-effort painting!

HEY fuck you guy we do what we want

Are we labeling the Jake portrait as J Allard.

WHEN YOU HATE IT IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!

These are things I think I can do.

Clearly not!

I was astonished that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a character that exists in the Archie universe. Like what??

My eyes are also blue. Might we float in each other's eye pools?

I've been unabashedly enjoying me some poppy rocky with underlying chippy tuney.

Would you perhaps say... Congrats Nick? he he he he he too weird huh

BABY WARIO! Everyone loves Wario! Anyway, I found that game kind of... lacking soul? I dunno. I just don't remember being enthralled by it like I was the SNES game, which I've played since and still love. I wouldn't recommend it. It's okay, but just felt super bland to me. I know some people like it, though. SHRUG.

There's no virtual reality. It's more, uh... Basically the way it sells it is that the world of the MMO has always existed for real (though everyone who played the game naturally assumed it was all made by some game developer), and they've just been controlling these avatars in the world. One day the "Apocalypse" (as they call it) happens and thousands of people are transported inside this world. They still have a lot of the abilities of an MMO (like communicating telepathically, also known as direct messaging or whatever), and they can't die permanently (although they do some interesting things with that). And there are the NPCs, called the People of the Land, who are actually real people indirectly (and sometimes directly) affected by the Adventurers. The MMO tropes exist, but they aren't core to what the show is actually about. The show is ACTUALLY about these people trying to survive in these weird circumstances. So, that's the basic setup, and I don't want to dance around it, because it is, at its core, about a bunch of normal dudes suddenly becoming their in-game avatars. But the things they do with it are interesting, I think. Like I said, a good majority of what happens isn't the actual direct conflict - though there is some of that - it's about communicating with other adventurers and with the People of the Land. It's about negotiating treaties and alliances. It's about strategy and planning. All of which is why I initially compared it to Spice and Wolf. On the surface, Spice and Wolf looks like some trash anime about a dude and a wolf girl and oh I bet they'll fall in love BLARGH - but when you actually watch it, it's about the ins and outs of trading and economics in a feudal setting. I'd say Log Horizon definitely has a higher trope-to-interesting ratio than Spice and Wolf does, but it's still really interesting to me. The past few episodes have really established this huge tension between the adventurers and the People of the Land and I dig it a lot. U: Also my favorite character is a princess.

I was like "is it the underwater music PLEASE BE THE UNDERWATER MUSIC" and it is. Nice. I'm probably one of two people that prefers the DKC1 soundtrack to every other DK soundtrack in existence. Jungle Beat almost makes it just for how interactive and dynamic it was, but I love me some DKC1.

Heh, was going to say the same thing. Man it is nice out today I'll tell you what I am going to miss San Francisco*. I think, before/besides the stress of being laid off and searching for a job for SIX MONTHS, this is where I've been happiest in my life. I once cited my six-month stint in Japan as the happiest time in my life, but it's been USURPED. C'est la vie. ONWARD AND UPWARD, FRIENDS! *And I'm abandoning my wild fantasy of some day forcing myself upon the 'cast and becoming an Official Thumb. Teehee!

I know I'm the only person here who's actually watching Log Horizon BUT DAMN IS IT GOOD. There've been a few blehs but for the most part everything manages to be tense without relying entirely on combat. It's all about planning and negotiating. Kind of AMAZING. GEEZ.