Thread: Conan Exiles - Interest for a Community Server (PC)
I'd be interested in Region: US east
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
Yes, yes I do. Despite all of Jurassic Park 3's problems, it is still my favorite entry in the franchise (for a variety of reasons). A couple of things really hampered it: - The script being tossed 5 weeks before shooting. They should have waited for one they were truly happy with. Didn't even finish the script during production. - Keeping the raptors in the movie besides a cameo. Jurassic Park 3 was about moving on to new, different never before seen things and yet the Raptors and that whole dumb plotline bogs the entire movie down. To me, the Spino parts were mostly great (considering how last minute they were) and the aviary part was great too, and they were new to the franchise! (Although the aviary is straight out of the book). - Nonsensical character decisions because of the script. Why in the hell did Billy survive? - Odd cutting. To me, this is most apparent during the Spino river attack with the long shots of the kid on the phone trying to find his mom. That looked like a clear cover up that they did not have enough attack footage. So yes, I would more than welcome a "new" Jurassic Park 3 that actually tries to change the formula up because I think there is plenty of room to play in that pool. Could have also slow burn mixed in the genetic experimentation angle too. I actually liked World and Fallen Kingdom, but I do find myself wishing the third movie would strip it back, go smaller and try something different. There is nothing inherently wrong with bringing back the old dinos. But the new dinos just feel like cameos aside from the hybrids and the Mosasaur. From my view, the old dinos should be the cameos. The T-Rex is no longer impactful because we see so damned much of it.
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
Also: I don't find the whole "dinosaurs are loose on the mainland!" thing impactful at all since Lost World already showed how that would play out with the Rex. I still maintain that is the absolute worst addition to the franchise other than the gymnastics raptor bit because it completely undermined any future movie from doing it full scale. And that is absolutely how I felt about Fallen Kingdom, upon seeing the animals released on the mainland, my first instinct was "Oh here we go with the Lost World again"
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Hopefully they bring him back for the sequel. That would have made me so happy. Although it dying right away like that would have sucked. Hoping that means there is a bigger plan for it.
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
Yea, the supplemental material says that but I don't believe them. I'm pretty sure a Spinosaur will be back in the franchise at some point.
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Thread: Resetera's Top 100 Essential RPGs - Voting stage running until July 22nd!
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Thread: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
In the supplemental material all the Site B dinos were moved to the main island and then Sorna was destroyed. Even the Spinosaurus was allegedly moved but apparently it did not survive for whatever reason. I expect them to retcon this at some point and bring the Spino back. Or a new one. Hopefully one bigger than the one in JP3, which was still on the small end. The JP 3 Spino was still not even close to fully grown, only at 46 feet max. Spinos generally closed in at least 49.2 ft, if not 59.2 feet. You can see in this piece of supplementary material which dinos are alive (black) and dead (red):
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
I don't entirely agree. I really like the Spinosaur roar. They also made the Raptors more vocal. Other than that though, I agree.
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
I'd argue its partly because the Dilo is pretty much the most inaccurate dino in the entire franchise. Spielberg sized them down (though they were sized back up in World) and added the stupid frill. The other part of it, as others have said, the "medium sized" predator space has a lot of competition in the JP franchise. If you look at what else they've used predator wise that is the same size (roughly) as the Dilo is supposed to be: JP - Velociraptor, Baryonyx (book only + movie promotional material), Dilophosaurus JP 2 - Velociraptor, Carnotaurus (book only) JP 3 - Velociraptor, Ceratosaurus, Baryonyx* & Suchomimus* (*replaced by Spinosaur just before production) JP: W - Velociraptor JP: Fallen Kingdom: Velociraptor, Allosaurus (multiple, all juvenile), Baryonyx (for real this time!) , Carnotaurus (ish), Indoraptor The Velociraptor being as popular as it is kind of displaced all the other medium sized predators (and predators in general because it seems like they HAVE to appear) from the franchise until Fallen Kingdom, where they started to be used much more. That's arguably the "best" part of 3, they were not afraid to leave the T-Rex on the sidelines aside from the cameo to fight the Spino (and even that movie has way too much Raptor) TLDR: Like someone else said, Raptors.
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Thread: JurassicERA |OT| A New World Rises from a Fallen Kingdom
Just mentioned AFAIK. Was also mentioned in promotional material for the book/film:
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Thread: AVENGERS 4 | Speculation Thread (open Infinity War spoilers!)
This. Sprinkled in with some of the Infinity arc in terms of the Black Order and certain other references.
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Thread: Marvel Strike Force |OT| Blitzin' Makes Me Feel Good
My alliance crumbled and fell so I'm in need of a new one. I poked Great Lakes ERA (as Lateralis) but I'll join whoever has room on their raid team! I'm level 60 with an almost maxed team :)
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Thread: Marvel Strike Force |OT| Blitzin' Makes Me Feel Good
Thank you kindly!
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Thread: People on resetera with significant others - how did you meet him/her
Met on eHarmony after about 2-4 months of me seriously diving into the online dating pool. Met/went on dates with three other women, but once I met her I was no longer interested in anyone else. Fast forward two years (October 2018) and we will be getting married on the same month and day that we had our first date.
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Thread: People on resetera with significant others - how did you meet him/her
My fiancee was ready to get engaged after 6 months of dating. She knew I was the one that she wanted to be with (she's in her late 20s). I actually sold my parents house about 6-9 months into our relationship and decided to move closer to her neck of the woods (also gets me closer to work) and then she moved in when I did. After 6 months of living with her, I knew her good and bad habits inside and out. I'm in my early 30s and both her and I have the same wants in regards to number of kids, timing of kids and we are on the same page about virtually everything. While cliche, "when you know, you'll know" is apt for how her and I both feel. It also helps that both her and I are very experienced with what we don't want. Her and I actually thought it would be good to get married on the day of our first date, two years later, so we actually went ahead and planned all of it before getting engaged. While I did playfully torture her a bit with the engagement, we got officially engaged 2 months ago. I could not be happier with her.
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Thread: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
They actually cover this in the movie. This "generation" of Indoraptor that you see in the movie has a piss poor temperament because it was raised in isolation (which is why Wu kept saying he was a prototype and he is not to be sold). The whole point of Blue is for FUTURE Indoraptor generations. Wu even says that it may take a long time before they get it right, to which the villain says something to the effect of "sounds like a lot of money". Blue is extremely important to the future plans, the current Indoraptor was likely going to be destroyed once Blue was "captured". It was merely put up for auction to gauge future interest in the product line. Take issue with that explanation all you want, but it is very well explained during the movie.
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Thread: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
My fiancee wanted to go see this again and since we have Sinemia, we did. She really, really likes this movie (we did a marathon watch of the whole franchise prior to seeing Fallen Kingdom) and likes World 1 and World 2 a whole lot more than the original trilogy. I can see why too, she did not grow up with them like I did, and her entry point to the franchise to begin with was World. To her, the CGI in Jurassic Park 1 looks absolutely ancient (and it does, although it held up for a long time) and the plot was a little too plodding I think. She doesn't remember much of Jurassic Park 2 and 3 (to the point where she didn't remember the Spinosaur) but she remembers all of World 1 and World 2. I still love the original movie for what it is (although I do think it is inferior to the book) and Spielberg kind of bastardized some of my favorite Dinos. With that said, my personal favorite movie in the franchise remains 3 cause I love the Spinosaur and I embrace the pure camp territory of that film. Upon a re-watch of Fallen Kingdom I kind of wish they dropped the Indoraptor. I like what it did, but when I was watching the movie earlier today I wanted more of the Baryonyx and Allosaurus, especially the Baryonyx after it was supposed to be the main villain in 3. I also found myself thinking they could have dropped the whole mansion plot into its own movie and left the island escape as its own movie and fleshed them both out more into full fledged movies. To me it would have made complete sense that the Dinos are brought to the sanctuary island at the end of World II and then World III would have dealt with assholes capturing them and trying to auction them. I can't decide if what we got instead was truly the best way to go with the narrative. All that said, I still enjoyed The Lost World the least out of the 5 films (although I don't think its the worst directed, if that makes sense, to me that is World 1), especially since it is such a massive step down from the book for me. I'm interested to see what World 3 brings, but hopefully Trevorrow gets the boot. From my perspective, Fallen Kingdom looks so much better than World and is directed so much better than World. Wish Bayona had full reign.
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Thread: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
Can we just admit the best part of this movie is the Baryonyx running around smacking his head on things and getting burned by lava. I really did enjoy that dino and wanted more of him because he was the most entertaining bit.
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Thread: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
Really, really liked it. Having just marathoned the whole movie series the month before I thought it fit right in with the rest of them in the "enjoyable" camp. This movie made me wish even more than the San Diego section of the Lost World did not happen, because I can only imagine this ending would have been more powerful if it was an actual "What if?". To me, the horribleness of the T-Rex in San Diego kind of took some of the novelty out of it. My girlfriend cried multiple times throughout the movie, and its rare for a movie to do that. I think the Baryonyx was my favorite character, shame we didn't get more of him. I thought the movie worked best when it was playing up the horror side, although the Indoraptor being an almost literal mustache twirling villain was a bit much.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
Dean Ayala: "Thanks for re-posting this. As with all early meta-games, we're closely monitoring all the perception and data trends. If something becomes an issue we'll figure out how to address it. Otherwise, things have been going well. There is a good amount of class representation and deck popularity feels like it's still shifting pretty rapidly."
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
Shudderwock's only problem is the excessively long animations. The deck itself isn't really uber powerful. At most it is uninteractive, like quest rogue or quest mage, since how you play really does not matter since its a battlecry combo. You just have to kill them before they go ham. I hate uninteractive decks in general.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
### Spiteful Druid # Class: Druid # Format: Standard # Year of the Raven # # 2x (1) Fire Fly # 2x (1) Glacial Shard # 1x (2) Prince Keleseth # 2x (3) Druid of the Scythe # 2x (3) Greedy Sprite # 2x (3) Mind Control Tech # 2x (4) Saronite Chain Gang # 2x (4) Spellbreaker # 2x (4) Swift Messenger # 2x (5) Cobalt Scalebane # 1x (5) Harrison Jones # 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins # 1x (5) Rotten Applebaum # 2x (6) Spiteful Summoner # 1x (7) Countess Ashmore # 1x (7) Malfurion the Pestilent # 1x (8) Grand Archivist # 1x (8) The Lich King # 2x (10) Ultimate Infestation # AAECAbSKAwivBJAHws4CmdMCnOIC0OcCm/ACxfMCC94F8gWXwQLrwgKbywLKywKHzgL55gLX6wKL7gKQ7wIA # # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone I'm not a giant fan of some of the cards (for instance I use Harrison Jones so little currently) but because the deck is working so well I'm not going to touch it for now.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
Currently running a 80% win rate with Spiteful Druid. Hopefully it lasts!
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
Ended up going 12-2 with my dumb Druid deck. Will actually try and make it respectable tomorrow!
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
This deck sucks but I'm 7-0 with it because people have no idea what to do against it. I fully admit its a terrible deck, but its entertaining me.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
I'm actually playing quest armor/taunt Baku Warrior, its hilarious. It definitely counters Hunter too.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
That minion + the spellbook from earlier is going to allow quest mage to find all their minions that they need so much faster its not funny. I do hope it makes elemental mage kinda viable, thats been my favorite possible non-functioning archtype since Jaina has been revealed.
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
It's a goofy combo, but quest mage that finishes the quest, drops Alexstraza then 5-6+ apprentices (2 innate, 2 simalcrum, 2 from arugal) can just pay 8 for two pyros for lethal now if they are bored and want to do it. Sure it has no real practical implications, but fun for science!
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
Yay more elementals
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Thread: Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta
AOE outside of Geddon and Anomalous (lol). Bodies to protect face. Something very sticky. Pyros is way too slow, although it is value. You can argue that since its mage there would be a lot of room for blizzard, etc. But this archetype being peddled for Witchwood seems designed to be spell-less.
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Thread: Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread
One thing I've noticed lately in the past week is that my Amazon shipments are no longer arriving the day Amazon says they will. Instead they arrive at 6-6:30 AM the next day. I wonder if thats the deliverer being overworked due to the holidays or if hes just slacking.
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Thread: Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread
My home! Keep up the great work guys, its been fun hanging out with you guys on the ARK on our way over here.
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Thread: Marvel Cinematic Universe | We robbed you. Do you remember? That's us
Wonder if Mackie and Frosty got into a disagreement about Man of Steel again. I feel like Frosty tends to be a bit combative in interviews for no reason.
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Thread: Marvel Cinematic Universe | We robbed you. Do you remember? That's us
I feel the same. Mackie also tends to playfully troll. It would not surprise me if he did that to Frosty though and Frosty didn't get it/wasnt in the mood and it turned combative. However, they have interviewed together a bunch of times so I'd assume they are usually on the same wave length. I don't think it was Mackie. Don't think we will ever know though since everyone will squash it.
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Thread: Marvel Cinematic Universe | We robbed you. Do you remember? That's us
Hela taking place of Death makes very little sense. Especially since Death, the cosmic entity, is already established in the MCU as being a being that exists. Hela and Death are on very different planes, and this early Thanos story (Infinity Gauntlet) only works if it is Death, who is much more powerful than he is and basically ignores him. As for Hela, whether or not she is dead is kind of irrelevant, since she's Asgardian and Surtur caused Ragnarok. But I don't think she's gone for good if they want to bring her back.
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Thread: Marvel Cinematic Universe | We robbed you. Do you remember? That's us
Probably not until Black Panther.
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Thread: Marvel Cinematic Universe | We robbed you. Do you remember? That's us
I cannot wait for Thor next week. Seeing it thrice.
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Thread: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| A Realm Reset
Hit 70 DRG today. Damned fun. Now to figure out what is next to 70.
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Thread: Dark Souls: Remastered |OT| The Dark Souls of remasters
You can run up to them and make them follow you down the ramp. You can also kick the right one off the edge. You can also just roll past the right one at times. After you take one out, the other is a breeze.
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