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Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

tyblazitar posted:

It came from LA mapchat...



I remember the very first time I played on an overflow map, someone was talking about their love for lolicon porn. When I told him to stop talking about whacking it to child porn he went on a screed about free speech. I'm sorry I didn't think to screenshot it at the time.

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Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.

Kessel posted:

Yes, it really should be just 500 or 700 gems or so.

Oh I meant the idea of summoning a black hole to chop down a tree, but yeah that too.

orcane
Jun 13, 2012

Fun Shoe

Kassad posted:

Oh I meant the idea of summoning a black hole to chop down a tree, but yeah that too.

:thejoke:

I think. I can never tell in this thread :v:

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




As a Canadian lumberjack, the very idea that a black hole can chop down a tree is preposterous

Arsten
Feb 18, 2003

CLAM DOWN posted:

As a Canadian lumberjack, the very idea that a black hole can chop down a tree is preposterous

I like the opposite tool, where you summon a sun to create a laser beam via magnifying glass.

For you Canadians: The sun is that thing Americans talk about but you never see.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

Kassad posted:

That seems rather excessive.

"I'm evolving!"

Illuyankas
Oct 22, 2010

Arsten posted:

For you Canadians: The sun is that thing Americans talk about but you never see.

*gun

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

they're canadian, not british

knowonecanknow
Apr 19, 2009

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007





*furiously spurts cum*

Illuyankas
Oct 22, 2010

^ surely that step was between putting the chips in the bowl and pouring the gravy on judging by that picture

LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

they're canadian, not british

oh of course, hunting, shooting the milkbags for sport etc etc

xthnru
Apr 6, 2007

FUCK YOU GUYS. I'm out.

CLAM DOWN posted:

*furiously spurts cum*

Dukka
Apr 28, 2007

lock teams or bust

CLAM DOWN posted:

As a Canadian lumberjack, the very idea that a black hole can chop down a tree is preposterous
lumbersexual

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011



is he going to chop wood with that fish

Waci
May 30, 2011

A boy and his dog.

CLAM DOWN posted:

As a Canadian lumberjack, the very idea that a black hole can chop down a tree is preposterous

At your mass, it's only a matter of time

lucifirius
Mar 7, 2016

Waci posted:

At your mass, it's only a matter of time

Oh my

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Waci omg

Mercurius
May 4, 2004

Amp it up.

Poutine is fantastic.

Lonk
Jan 26, 2012

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/wuv/Server-linking-is-not-working-well/first#post6343541

Basically ANet intends to change server linking to be every month and probably replace glicko. Upcoming poll on rewards for skirmishes OR replacing glicko with new system so yeah hope you enjoy your new crappy system instead of actual rewards in WvW.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Lonk posted:

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/wuv/Server-linking-is-not-working-well/first#post6343541

Basically ANet intends to change server linking to be every month and probably replace glicko. Upcoming poll on rewards for skirmishes OR replacing glicko with new system so yeah hope you enjoy your new crappy system instead of actual rewards in WvW.

what the poo poo do these words even mean

Blasphemeral
Jul 26, 2012

Three mongrel men in exchange for a party member? I found that one in the Faustian Bargain Bin.

CLAM DOWN posted:

what the poo poo do these words even mean

Exactly what I was scratching my head about.
Isn't Glicko that insurance mascot?




In other news, the new jumping puzzle is great--except for the fact that, after 3 hours of working on it, the checkpoint system (which I otherwise love) failed to revive me after I fell to my death from the very last set of jumps, completely wasting all of that time.

It is the first time I have ever rage-quit this game, and I think I'll be taking at least a couple weeks off.

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS
What we need is a Factions division similar to the Luxon/Kurzick split from GW1, but as a three-sided contention for territories in the current world. After you choose a side, you're locked into it for the month (each "battle" lasts for a month) after which you can realign yourself with someone else. There would be a nice looking pie chart showing the division of alignment, and if one faction was too heavily favored it would be locked out until the others were more balanced.

This would only work better if servers would stop getting bunched together, but rather just filtered into different instances of the world maps similar to how PvE is divided currently. If one map was basically dead it would offer to move you to a more populated instance. It would dissuade people from moving servers en masse, which would be better for the health of the content type. It might be more difficult to get an entire guild together on a map right after reset, but perhaps this could be avoided by giving grouped priority to a single instance of a map if you've formed the squad before entering, and upon entering the whole squad is given a travel to instance dialog.



I have one issue with WvW as it currently is: getting back to the fight on a losing side can take loving forever. That feels lovely. If your closest wp is contested you have no other options but to revive as the absolute edge of the map and run for ten minutes back to the battle.

TeaJay
Oct 9, 2012


Blasphemeral posted:


In other news, the new jumping puzzle is great--except for the fact that, after 3 hours of working on it, the checkpoint system (which I otherwise love) failed to revive me after I fell to my death from the very last set of jumps, completely wasting all of that time.

It is the first time I have ever rage-quit this game, and I think I'll be taking at least a couple weeks off.

I tried it a few times in the first evening, then took a teleport to friend to the end for the achievement and have no regrets about "challenging myself" or some poo poo. Challenge is one thing, masochism is another.

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS
So I was tinkering with the metabattle Viper's Necro build and I think I've made a more optimized setup, but I'd like your input.

Here's my setup for everything.

If the site's correct my build gives exactly 100% uptime of poison, bleed, and chill. My utility item gets better when you've got a bunch of minions out, but removing it doesn't impact condi duration at all. The popular metabattle build assumes you're running an expensive utility item in order to reach 100%.

Seems pretty legit, but I don't know how accurate this site is anymore. Anyway, is this actually a good build or am I missing something obvious?

Late Unpleasantness
Mar 26, 2008

s m o k e d

TeaJay posted:

I tried it a few times in the first evening, then took a teleport to friend to the end for the achievement and have no regrets about "challenging myself" or some poo poo. Challenge is one thing, masochism is another.

I missed the window, but grappled on to a pile of mesmers portaling their way to the top by fueling a single skilled jumper with alacrity. It was pretty quick.

Ember Bay has a secret language of mesh-model conflicts, and the jp is its masterpiece. Or maybe the caliph's steps/ramps.

Adhesive Gamin
Sep 29, 2010

Meatoberfest is in full swing.
What's "optimized" about running strictly weaker consumables, sigils, and runes just because Toxic crystals are expensive?

Swap out two of the Nightmare runes for Trapper and put Earth sigils in place of the Malice if you're just going cheap.

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS
Thanks for the condescending reply. It honestly caused me to question what I was obviously missing that I hadn't even second guessed my logic on to begin with.

loving duration can go above 100% time. I don't know why I was looking at it at if it were crit, where after a certain % it's just pointless to stack due to diminishing returns.

I feel so dumb for thinking "yeah, 100% length is optimal and there's no reason I'd want to increase it further."

Welp

Magres
Jul 14, 2011
Personally I just run full Viper with Berserker Runes and Malice+Earth Sigils. It's lazy and it works well

Quitte
Nov 2, 2011

nee-deep

nickhimself posted:

Thanks for the condescending reply. It honestly caused me to question what I was obviously missing that I hadn't even second guessed my logic on to begin with.

loving duration can go above 100% time. I don't know why I was looking at it at if it were crit, where after a certain % it's just pointless to stack due to diminishing returns.

I feel so dumb for thinking "yeah, 100% length is optimal and there's no reason I'd want to increase it further."

Welp

I think the problem with your build is you're missing out on bleed procs from Sigil of Geomancy/Earth but I'll leave the theorycrafting to someone else. Condi duration caps at 100% according to the wiki though.

Adhesive Gamin
Sep 29, 2010

Meatoberfest is in full swing.
Condition duration does actually cap at 100% extra, it isn't really written down anywhere in game. (The scepter trait doesn't count against this, nor the pistol trait on Engineer; equipping them basically replaces the appropriate skills on your bar with nearly identical versions that apply longer conditions, rather than adding to your condition duration stat)

Generally the theories with condi duration in PvE builds are:

No consumable buffs are better for raw DPS than 20% duration food and Toxic Focusing Crystal
Viper gear is statistically stronger than Sinister as long as you still benefit from the Expertise
Earth and Geomancy sigils are competitive with bonus condition duration sigils

So between the consumable buffs and condition duration traits it becomes a matter of figuring between a few loose options, e.g. maximum effort condi reaper has a Berserker rune and Thorns rune variant that each has its own virtues, and the real raid nerds do all the testing and spreadsheeting to figure out whether, for example, if its better to actually have 100% poison duration or if an Earth, Geomancy, or Bursting sigil is more dps than the Venom one that would get you capped.

Once you start making (fair) concessions about not spending a bunch of money on consumables it gets a bit fuzzier, but the 6 piece bonus on Nightmare runes isn't really that great.

ItBurns
Jul 24, 2007
glicko my b hole

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
Oh, good. Someone's doing the work that I'm too stupid and ignorant to.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


i've contracted raids

Roc
Nov 8, 2010
I guess amazon announced three games the studio they set up is working on. I guess this is the MMO they poached Colin for.

https://www.twitch.tv/playbreakaway/v/92134477?t=10m10s

quote:

New World is a massively multiplayer, open-ended sandbox game that allows you to carve your own destiny with other players in a living, hostile, cursed land.
How you play, what you do, and whom you work with or against is up to you.
Live on your own amidst the supernatural terrors or join with others to build thriving civilizations.
In this evolving world that transforms with the changing of the seasons, weather, and time of day, the only limit is your own ambition.
A release date for New World has not been set.


Also they are making a moba and a third person shooter.

lucifirius
Mar 7, 2016

Roc posted:

I guess amazon announced three games the studio they set up is working on. I guess this is the MMO they poached Colin for.

https://www.twitch.tv/playbreakaway/v/92134477?t=10m10s


Also they are making a moba and a third person shooter.

How ambitious.

ItBurns
Jul 24, 2007
They're missing an edgy retro side-scroller and a minecraft clone.

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS
I feel like the word sandbox, anymore, just means "there's not really going to be anything to do in this game because you can do whatever you want!"

It's a lazy way out of developing story and purpose, but who knows, maybe this game won't be like that and it'll actually feel like you've got reasons to do things

The graphics looked cool and I like medieval fantasy games

reitetsu
Sep 27, 2009

Should you find yourself here one day... In accordance with your crimes, you can rest assured I will give you the treatment you deserve.

nickhimself posted:

I feel like the word sandbox, anymore, just means "there's not really going to be anything to do in this game because you can do whatever you want!"

It's a lazy way out of developing story and purpose, but who knows, maybe this game won't be like that and it'll actually feel like you've got reasons to do things

Yeah, I read that and was immediately wary. "You can do whatever you want! No boundaries!" Okay, but that also means no story, no inspiration toward a goal, whether that means saving the world or being the prettiest princess. Grats, you made a robust tech demo, how about you use some of those professional writers and designers to give me way to fully enjoy the setting you've crafted?

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

All three of their games were conceptualized and designed with Twitch broadcasting and viewer integration in mind, so when they say "sandboxing" it might actually be a new thing. If one of the major criticisms of modern MMOs is how interaction on a Massive scale and community is lacking, and they are jumping into the arena with Twitch as their backbone, that's a lot of potential for hype.

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Lonk
Jan 26, 2012

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO




Which button on this thing do I press to kill myself?

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