Everything posted by indy500fan
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The Game of Thrones TV series - Season 4
I definitely enjoyed having surround sound during the explosion scene, that was just awesome.
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Mass Effect Thread
Depends what you are looking for. When you are starting out spam recruitment packs until you get all the common weapons up to X. Then buy veteran packs to get uncommon weapons to X. If you are happy using the common weapons for a while then skip veteran packs, and go straight to premium spectre packs. After playing a while that's what I came up with, even though I don't really follow it. Kind of just buy whatever I feel like. EDIT: But if you are starting out then maxing commons with recruitment packs definitely is the way to go, some common level X weapons are good and I'll still use them.
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Minecraft General
I am completely new to Minecraft, just got it about a week ago on the 360. I've been avoiding it since it looked like a game I would get completely addicted to. Turns out I know myself fairly well, I was completely addicted after the first hour. Don't remember much of that night though since I was playing with friends and we decided to do shots everytime it turned night, and after 12 or so it gets pretty bad. Anyways, I am attempting to figure out everything on my own and not look at any guides, but I did have a question. Does pretty much every world have a decent amount of resources underground? I'm playing a single player map, probably 20 hours in it already, and haven't found any diamond, only a little redstone and only four gold ore. I'm playing a different map with friends, and within 4 hours or so I had already found multiple diamond/gold/redstone spots.
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The Game of Thrones TV series - Season 4
he's a Stark trying to be an Ironborn. that's the way I took that character when they showed that letter writing scene That's a good way to explain it, at least his character so far. On a completely unrelated note, when are you going to do another guess the movie contest? I haven't seen pfilc23 or Daan on here in a while so I might be able to get a second win :)
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Mass Effect Thread
I'm probably going to do the FBW/G/G to get the commendation, then drop down to silver to kill the reapers. Still haven't actually done a real gold mission yet.
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Is there a God?
It's a video game fansite forum. What were you expecting? A more equal distribution between do believe and don't believe.
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Is there a God?
Ii'm glad that there more "no god/gods" votes than anything else so far, it's not the results I was expecting.
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Real life pictures - 4
Wasn't your username Sue-something?
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Elder scrolls mmorpg
No interest in MMOs, when I first heard about this I didn't even bother looking it up to see if it was real or not. When my cousin mentioned it later I thought about it, maybe they would do it well, but then he mentioned later it would be like a normal MMO just Elder Scrolls universe. [bleep] that. There are a few ways they could make an awesome Elder Scrolls MMO but they wouldn't be economically viable (only a few people like me would like them). What they could do is make an Elder Scrolls game co-op, that would be [bleep]ing awesome.
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The Avengers
I actually didn't think Darkman was all that great.
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The Avengers
Yeah as enjoyable as it was I would still not give it the title "best". The Dark Knight would be up there, but Sin City would still probably be the best one I've seen.
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The Avengers
It was [bleep]ing awesome. Possibly my favourite Marvel movie yet. If you like Whedon stuff so far, you will definitely like this, and if you like Marvel superhero stuff you will like this. So if you are like me and love both, then it is one of the most enjoyable films I've ever watched.
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The Avengers
Going to see the midnight release tonight :) Going to get home and have to get up for work 3 hours after.
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The Game of Thrones TV series - Season 4
Agreed, this episode was FAR superior to the last (few). And while I'm not one of those violently opposed to sex scenes(After all, the book was pretty graphic as well), the last few were mostly done without a lot of reason or purpose, so they really took up far too much screen time. You could easily have cut out the scene with Joffrey and all of the scenes of Littlefinger in the brothel. Speaking of Littlefinger, am I the only one who is disappointed with his screen adaption? While the actor does a good job, I feel like his script makes him a lot less subtle than he is in the books, down to the point where you can't really believe his role as this kind of master schemer.... I disagree, I think the Joffrey scene was worth it. The show has showed him as a doucebag so far, but you don't hate him in the show at this point nearly as much as you do reading the books.
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Mass Effect Thread
Yeah I'd say about 50% through, if you play a 100% game then by the end you should be able to get at least three of all of them.
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Mass Effect Thread
I don't know if I ever realized they got something different. They don't do the circular frogger thing? It would work with a joystick, it was actually a little janky with the keyboard. I think they expected you to use the mouse for it but for some reason I never did. So I played my first two gold matches today. It was pretty awesome, did the generic FBW/Geth just to get my objective done for the weekend. Got first place in score both times which was unexpected, but I'm guessing there are a lot of people like me in there now rather than the normal gold players, just trying to get the weekend objective done.
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Mass Effect Thread
In my eyes it's canon to the paragon playthrough of the series. Yeah, in my paragon playthrough as well.
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The Game of Thrones TV series - Season 4
Be careful what torrents you get. Try to stick to a private site on those. I'm the contact the DMCA sends their notices to for my ISP, and I'd say a good 10-20% of them are for various Game of Thrones torrents.
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Mass Effect Thread
It doesn't have to happen...
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Mass Effect Thread
Also don't go out of your way to save them if they keep dying stupidly. I'll revive them if it is clear and I am running over them but if they die on the first few levels multiple times then I won't even bother with that.
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Mass Effect Thread
Play bronze, don't go any higher until you understand how it works, even if you are good. You aren't going to have any levels, good characters, or good weapons unlocked at the beginning so you won't be getting the highest score. And on that note, who gets the highest score doesn't matter at all. You all get the same XP at the end of the game. In this game there is no such thing as kill stealing since everyone gets the same XP at the end. I know I am reiterating it, but there are a lot of idiots out there who will go out of their way trying to get a better score and just cause a shit time for everyone else when they inevitably [bleep] up. In each mission there are 10+1 rounds. The regular rounds are just strait up survival. Rounds 3, 6, 10 and 11 are special. 3, 6, and 10 you have to complete objectives, which are random between three different kinds. They are self explanatory when you get in the game. Once again, there are going to be idiots out there who won't bother with objectives and will instead just kill enemies to try and get their score up. The main reason for them doing that is just to get their personal score higher, so they can feel better about themselves. There are probably a few people who incorrectly believe that since enemies are infinite on those rounds that spending as much time killing and doing the objectives slowly is worth it. For that particular game you may come up with a few thousand points more if you take your time on objectives, but that is at the cost of credits (which are way more important) and time (which is even more important). A bronze game takes 15 minutes or so, if you spend an extra minute on objectives and get 5000 points more (this is generous) then over 15 games you will have spent 15 minutes more and get 75000 more points. In that same 15 minutes you wasted you could have just played another game and got 150000 more points. Also if you spend extra time on objectives you lose the time bonus, so you are down a 1000 credits or so a game for 15 games, where as if you just did it quick and got an extra game in the same amount of time you would get the 15000 credits rather than losing them. There are times when you want to focus on killing rather than the objective, namely if the objective is overrun. Also all this applies to bronze and silver games, gold games you have to play differently. In those most of the team should not be going to the objective, only the cloaked infiltrator should be. Last round is the extraction round, in it you just have to survive and be inside the extraction zone when the two minutes run out. Once again there are many idiots out there who will run all over the map trying to get more score up, which would help the team if they live and get back to the extract point in time. The problem is they don't, often times they die out there. Just stick in the extract zone or at a choke point near the extract zone, don't worry the enemies will come to you. EDIT: Sorry this was probably more a rant than help. Don't worry, play a few games and you'll be fine. Your N7 rank will be low so people will understand. If they don't, then [bleep] them.
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Mass Effect Thread
Got GI and AJ, the GI is ok but I don't know how to play him since I am not the run up and shotgun type or all that great with sniper rifles. Currently messing around with not really using the cloak all that much, leaving hunter mode on all the time and using the Geth SMG like a normal soldier. It works ok, need to get a few more levels in everything though to really see if it will work or not.
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What movie(s) did you last see?
I never even heard of 21 Jump Street, then last Friday at book club we decided to go see it afterwards. Just from the description it sounded like another stupid-funny comedy, one that I would enjoy but never would want to spend money on in a theater. It turned out to actually be really funny, in the stupid-funny way but definitely worth it.
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Mass Effect Thread
Just finished my second playthrough, it's taken me a while since reading a lot of stuff about the ending kind of made me not in a rush to get a second playthrough finished. It's not as epic the second time through, but I am still happy with it. I'll probably do my third and last character when the DLC comes out to get the ending I didn't do yet.
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Mass Effect Thread
Hmm, that doesn't make sense. You should have had it full about 2/3 through the game if you are doing everything. Then if you play multiplayer and get up to 100% it should be about 1/3 of the way through the game to get the bar full. EDIT: These two links should help, I didn't use them the first time through but I did the second just so I didn't have to do guessing... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AmsYTS1wvgPwdGNZOExOQmJvZHd6aVJlbE4tTGw1NVE&rm=full http://alexjuice.com/images/design/infographic/me3-procurment-guide.png