The Bridge

MakaMido

12:00

OHHHHHH

Wipqozn

@twobugs nah, we're just joking. Bojack is a super fun time happy show you should watch.

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Right @fredley?

Arperum

@MakaMido Uhm... Can you chat in English please? I think most of us don't speak Spanish.

I certainly don't.

Kevin van der Velden

So this is a thing that people made CC @Unionhawk

Statue with people for scale

It's also 480 dollar

MakaMido

I don't even know what "Hala Madrid y nada mas" is. All I know that it is a slogan for Real Madrid a football/soccer tem in Spain @Arperum

fredley

@Wipqozn Right!

Kevin van der Velden

12:04

@MakaMido and why are you saying it here?

Arperum

@MakaMido WHy exactly were you randomly shouting that then?

MakaMido

@KevinvanderVelden @Arperum Don't ask me i am weird

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum INB4

Arperum

@MakaMido Too bad. We did ask. We're weird too.

fredley

@twobugs Plan to get through the first 5-6 episodes. It doesn't get properly into the story until then.

two bugs

12:05

@Wipqozn Well at least that weird orange haired guy picked the proper waifu

Kevin van der Velden

@MakaMido don't be weird by being random, that's not the good type of weird

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden SHUSH. You're supposed to be falling asleep around now because of lack of sleep.

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Otherwise I fail to see how this resolved anything whatsoever

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum Oh I've been doing that for the past 2 hours

Sugar rush hyyypeee zzzzz

MakaMido

As Jacksfilms said Random ≠ Funny

Arperum

12:06

@MakaMido Yes. SO don't do it.

@KevinvanderVelden offers some more candy

MakaMido

@Arperum ok don't get mad

Ronan

I should get back to watching Horse Show.

Arperum

My 1.7kg bag of candy is nearly gone. And that's sad.

fredley

@Ronan yesssssssssss

Wipqozn

@twobugs I like how Ichigo still hasnt shown any actual interest in her. But WHATEVER, SHE HAS A LARGE CHEST THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS RIGHT LOLOLOL

Ronan

12:07

I've seen the first season.

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@fredley OK

@Wipqozn Better than Rukia who has 0 character

Wipqozn

ah shitty mangas, how I love to hate you

GnomeSlice

Man i got like 12 kills as iggy laat night and we still lost cause one of our players quit in the first 10 minutes

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Oh wait did i describe EVERY CHARACTER IN THE SERIES

Wipqozn

@twobugs More like ruki-who

two bugs

12:08

YES I DID

Chad got what, a single panel?

A guy who has fought and killed superdemons is now a boxer or something...?

fredley

@twobugs Around episode 6 or so it starts getting 3real, and begins the downward spiral into abject ~~misery~~ joy and happiness

Wipqozn

@twobugs hahahaha yes. It was a bit better near the start, but it falls into typical "way too many charaters in a shit manga" trap of folks just being some cliche, or their character just being wht they look like

like all the female characters in bleach don't have much of a character beyond "to meet this fetish"

two bugs

See I liked up through the Soul Society arc because it was stupid but it kinda knew it

And it was like fun stupid

fredley

@Ronan Highly recommend 2 and 3. It only gets better and better.

Wipqozn

@twobugs yeah same here.

I mean that was back when I was in high school so who knows, maybe not I'd feel different, but meh

Kevin van der Velden

12:10

@fredley By which you obviously mean happier and happier, right?

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden of course

two bugs

2 chapters of Billy Bat today, which is great

Ronan

I don't have netflix at the moment, so I'll have to get it again.

two bugs

Excited to read those

fredley

@Ronan You don't have Netflix? weird.

two bugs

12:10

Urosawa's work is always stellar even if it does tend to dwell on some of the same themes

MakaMido

I thought there was a room chat just for this show right?

I don't have netflix too

GnomeSlice

Oh Tebins! - Love You When You're Weak [Simplify]

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@GodEmperorDune

not trap

fkin cool sound

fredley

@MakaMido There's a few

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I mean, who else would have the balls to sign up for an Astro Boy tribute special

And then kill Astro Boy

MakaMido

@fredley what? Edit: Ok

GnomeSlice

12:11

@twobugs wtf

Wipqozn

@MakaMido There's one for folks who are up to date, and one for everyone to watch my misery as I get caught up

MakaMido

@Wipqozn okkkkk

Wipqozn

and no I'm not joking. The second chat was for everyone to watch my misery horse misery.

fredley

@Wipqozn Miseripqozn

GnomeSlice

Three only anime I've watched yo

to

Wipqozn

12:13

@GnomeSlice MAke Mushishi one of those

GnomeSlice

completion is robotech

Wipqozn

also read the manga

GnomeSlice

the only*

Wipqozn

also full metal alchemist brotherhood

MakaMido

God this is weird

fredley

12:13

@Wipqozn I enjoyed mushishi, but got a little bored after a while. All the episodes were essentially the same structure, but there was no overall story arc

Very pretty though

GnomeSlice

eh, I'm not a huge anime guy

fredley

@Wipqozn Just finished rewatching

My god that's a great series

GnomeSlice

@MakaMido Yeah sorry, I'm typing on my phone on the bus

sequoiad

just started reading FMA, it's been on my list for many, many years

fredley

@GnomeSlice FMA:B is amazing

Wipqozn

12:14

@fredley yeah, it's a love it or hate it kind of thing

@fredley IT really, really is

GnomeSlice

Welcome to the bridge though, @MakaMido, hope you enjoy your star

star

11

STAY

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@GnomeSlice Me neither

Manga is the superior format

GnomeSlice

@twobugs eh

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Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

GnomeSlice

visual novels are olay as long as they have nudes at the end to look forward to

two bugs

12:15

Whoa I didn't say Visual novels.

GnomeSlice

I tried reading naruto manga back in the day

it was cool i guess

I was also like 12

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley I should finish watching that

I've only watched FMA

two bugs

@GnomeSlice Well there's your mistake

Try reading something good instead

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden FMA:B is better

GnomeSlice

@twobugs hue

Arperum

12:16

@KevinvanderVelden You should indeed fix that.

fredley

I mean, FMA is great, but FMA:B is still better

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(I moderately enjoyed Naruto but it was really samey and drags in parts)

GnomeSlice

Yeah it does

I got bored

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@fredley I agree that FMA:B is way better but I thought FMA went completely off the rails

StrixVaria

@twobugs Naruto was pretty good. (I didn't start reading it until it was over, so I never had to wait for new chapters, which was mandatory for enjoyment.)

two bugs

12:16

And not really in a good way

fredley

@twobugs I hadn't read the manga, so I thought it was alright

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I watched FMA first, then read the manga. I might watch brotherhood at some point but meh

Anyway the FMA artist is really cool and I have huge respect for her

Quality series, she kept working while pregnant, realized the series was going to take more chapters than she wanted to wrap up so she just started making the chapters even longer

sequoiad

@StrixVaria when Naruto was good it was very good, but it did often go downhill between those points

GnomeSlice

idk where I got premium currency, but i used it on that

too bad i still blow ass with howie

Also bought one for Iggo but it's not that spectacular

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@StrixVaria I started following it during the Pain arc I think and it was... a trip at points

StrixVaria

12:19

@twobugs Pain was weird.

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Like when an entire city is nuked and then revived about... 5-10 chapters later

StrixVaria

Most of the Akatsuki were weird, though.

GnomeSlice

Everyone in Naruto except naruto himself is such an edgelord

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@GnomeSlice A few characters become less edgelord, but yeah that's accurate

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice I'm trying to think of a counterexample, but the best I can come up with is Sakura?

Maybe Jiraiya.

GnomeSlice

12:21

i was gonna say "and her"

StrixVaria

That's pretty accurate, though.

two bugs

Hell yes I love when you ask someone for more info and they actually give it to you

GnomeSlice

also the old guy maybe

that gary guy tho

2 edgy

gary

ergh

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Sasuke's character arc is really strange

StrixVaria

Ash's rival from Pokemon was in Naruto?

GnomeSlice

12:21

Yes

Unionhawk

yes

GnomeSlice

he had a fake eye

or something

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice Kakashi?

GnomeSlice

and pretty sure he eats sand

Arperum

Apparently a village in Belgium with 33 people living in it has a ton of spawning spots for rare pokemon. ANd they want the thousands of daily pokemon hunters to go away at midnight, because they want some sleep.

two bugs

12:22

No the Naruto author is just obsessed with eyes

GnomeSlice

no gaara or whatever

StrixVaria

Oh, Gaara's eyes were fine.

GnomeSlice

king of the edgelords

Kevin van der Velden

@MakaMido I thought you were saying he probably downloaded it from the play store given the error

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Gaara becomes a good guy

I thought he had a decent arc

StrixVaria

12:22

@GnomeSlice I'm not saying he's not an edgelord, but Sasuke's entire plot arc was him trying to maximize his edgelordiness.

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Sasuke is like good -> bad -> edgelord -> moar edge -> good -> haha jk

StrixVaria

I don't really see anyone higher than him on the list.

GnomeSlice

Yeah true

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And then good again

GnomeSlice

haha you're right I forgot sasuke

sequoiad

12:23

what about Obito?

two bugs

Obito was a big 'wat'

GnomeSlice

also the big frog isn't too edgy

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The frogs were cool

StrixVaria

@sequoiad He's up there too.

sequoiad

and Itachi

GnomeSlice

12:24

yes

sasukes brother right

our something

StrixVaria

Itachi acts like an edgelord as a disguise.

GnomeSlice

oh

I never got that far

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden There is no proof of piracy though.

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Itachi killed everyone because he's really a good guy, see

GnomeSlice

is he the guy with the fuct up eye

Kevin van der Velden

12:26

@Arperum which is why I asked where he got it from

sequoiad

Itachi out-sasuked sasuke before sasuke even tried to sasuke

Unionhawk

@twobugs SPOOLERS

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There was some Russian kid who killed himself when Itachi died

StrixVaria

@twobugs 4edgy6me

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Which was kind of premature given how a thing happens later

Arperum

12:27

@twobugs that is a spoiler.

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There

StrixVaria

I guess.

Arperum

Not that I'm watching or reading anymore. I watched up to early shippuuden. IIRC. But mostly together with my ex.

StrixVaria

Karin worst character?

sequoiad

It needed more Shikamaru

GnomeSlice

12:29

what have i started

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria no, @fredley worst character

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I don't want to spoil anything, I just kind of assume it's common enough knowledge since it happened like... 3 years ago?

No wait. Like 5

@GnomeSlice IT's all your fault

StrixVaria

@twobugs I don't think the anime is that far yet, even still.

two bugs

The anime finished a few weeks ago I think?

Arperum

@twobugs I did never finish watching naruto. I kinda want to know how it ends but don't have the time/motivation to go watch all the stuff I haven't seen yet.

sequoiad

12:30

@twobugs anime's still not finished by a fair way

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Or it's almost done

Nevermind then

@Arperum Haha we haven't even delved into the insanity

GnomeSlice

I can't take most anime chars seriously

Arperum

Because "oh god filler again"

GnomeSlice

At least most of the women in robotech except maybe Minmei were believable

two bugs

I've seen some clips from the anime and they have some really silly moments in filler

MakaMido

12:31

@KevinvanderVelden No

Arperum

@twobugs Probably. I should maybe just read the manga. Probably faster.

fredley

@Unionhawk :(

Kevin van der Velden

@MakaMido Yes I did, that is what I thought

Unionhawk

@fredley tbf, Bridge is worst anime

sequoiad

yep. when I'm watching one of the big series I tend to check wiki etc to find which filler arcs to skip

MakaMido

12:31

@KevinvanderVelden Ok

fredley

@Unionhawk DATA ACCEPTED

sequoiad

the answer is usually ALL OF THEM

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There's a scene of like, Susanso'o riding on the 9 nailed fox like a horse (this is filler)

That's all I know

MakaMido

Is this the biggest StackExchange Community

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And they included that scene in an opening so you don't have to watch the filler!

sequoiad

12:33

@MakaMido only when measured by ego size.

Kevin van der Velden

Also by pokemon go questions

MakaMido

@KevinvanderVelden LOL

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Anyway, @Wipqozn and I were just talking about Bleach originally because the last chapter just came out

We both followed it since like high school so this is basically the end of an era

Even if it was a shitty era

Kevin van der Velden

I mean, it is a @Wipqozn era

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The best thing Naruto ever did was piss people off with the canon pairings at the end

Now I should work or something

MakaMido

12:35

I deleted my Pokemon Scanner Question because: 1. It was against the sites rules
2. I didn't want to start contreversy(I hate english yay(jk))
3. I found a good app

Annnnd I didn't want to lose reputation

Unionhawk

also, lol the pokemon anime

That might be a spoiler in and of itself, idk

Arperum

@twobugs Why would you stab nine nails in a fox. That's terrible.

two bugs

Man remember being a kid and watching the Pokemon anime and it looped around like uh Saffron city?

That was an evil thing to do to children

sequoiad

@Arperum to create a really bad band name?

MakaMido

@twobugs now we are in a pokemon anime

arda

12:38

@MakaMido wow

Arperum

@sequoiad Eh. That's pretty lame compared to some grindcore band names.

arda

Never thought of it that way

MakaMido

@arda ?? Edit: ahh ok

MIND BLOWN

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@Arperum has really mastered the always wait 2 minutes technique

Arperum

(and no: not going to link the worst one I half know, I do not want that in my work search history plus I'm pretty sure I'd get flagged just for mentioning the name)

Kevin van der Velden

12:40

@twobugs I also remembered to wait 2 minutes but then forgot about it

sequoiad

in other, WoW related news, thoughts on the gamescom reveal?

MakaMido

what?

two bugs

@sequoiad 7.1 Looks good and I think it sets a good precedent for this expansion

Rapid content deliveries between raid tiers is something the game needs

sequoiad

@twobugs it does, a lot of people have been asking for this for a long time

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I just worry it'll be too soon, but I'm sure they've considered that

sequoiad

12:43

I like the idea of going back to having mid-expansion 5-mans added as well

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: How to scroll sideways on morph menu?

How to scroll sideways on morph menu? I play on a server and couldn't find out - noone knew.

Unionhawk

In other non-WoW-but-GamesCom-related-news, ELITE DANGEROUS 2.2

FINALLY THE ORCA HAS A USE

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@sequoiad I do too. They're basically always well received but very resource intensive to design

Arperum

@Unionhawk For an added payment of your soul?

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It sounds like they're planning around them though which is perfect

Kevin van der Velden

12:46

@Unionhawk oh yeah I should play that with my vive

arda

@KevinvanderVelden either router is fried or the fuse. Will fix the description when I get Internet at pc again

Unionhawk

13:01

Hahahahahaha they added passenger missions, and passengers (or just VIPs maybe) can ask to be taken into conflict zones

that's amazing

(that should be safe as long as you keep your distance and remain neutral)

sequoiad

@twobugs yeah I can imagine, with mythic dungeons as well for small-group content and world quests there should be quite a lot to do when not raiding

arda

@arda fuse. flipped a switch in fusebox and internet is back up

sequoiad

@twobugs there is also potential within the story for them to extend the same redesign to other old content as well

two bugs

Yup, I'm excited for Legion. I think they're doing a good job addressing concerns people rightfully had after Warlords.

Unionhawk

ugh

sequoiad

13:12

If I have one concern right now, it's that maybe Legion could be a bit too ambitious?

Kevin van der Velden

I mean, it is blizzard, they've got quite a bit of experience with doing this thing

two bugs

I don't really think it's too ambitious

sequoiad

and I'm just hoping that Order Halls will not slide into being Garrison 2.0

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I think too ambitious was their plan for Warlords being a shorter expansion followed by Legion. That crashed and burned, but they've clearly got a ton of people working on Legion now who can produce good content

The team greatly increased in size and there were growing pains

sequoiad

@twobugs yeah, Warlords had some serious pacing issues, and the whole 6.1 "Selfie camera" patch didn't exactly help endear the unhappy players

two bugs

13:18

Well people massively overreacted to that I think

It shouldn't have been called "6.1"

Fluttershy

Blackwood Crossing: Reveal Trailer - gamescom 2016

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cc: @GnomeSlice

sequoiad

6.2 had some good stuff in it, but by that point it was almost like the damage had been done

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Well the biggest problem with Warlords is that the pacing sucked. If they had extended Highmaul a bit and given it a tier set (honestly just copy/paste the BRF tier into it), it could have been it's own tier

That would have given them enough time to work on a Foundry tier set and associated questing area

And then keep Tanaan as is

sequoiad

Highmaul was fun, in fact all the raiding in WoD was pretty much spot on imo

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If the first two were about 6-7 month tiers then the pacing would have been worlds better than another 14 month drought

sequoiad

13:25

It felt like they had this plan to release bits over time, then somehow they ended up rushing bits out instead

like the garrison levels

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I think they should have added new garrison buildings and kept building out follower content to be more interesting

sequoiad

the level 3 cinematic only really makes sense at 6.2

which made me think it was originally planned to take faaar longer to hit level 3

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Also the whole 6.2 end cinematic just feels like... they had planned for another patch or two to continue the story because there's just so much unresolved

We narrowly managed to defeat the legion, but the timeline is totally derailed and there's a super uneasy peace on Draenor

Both of those are good storyline hooks

arda

haha niantic support is a joke. they are apparently automatically marking ban appeals as solved instantly. While I'm happy that hackers are gone, I read many stories of people getting banned no reason on /r/pokemongo. While they might be lying, at least a proper ticket should be accepted so their account can be investigated

sequoiad

@twobugs honestly, I hated the garrison. When it was announced as being an optional thing I was like "yeah, that sounds cool"

Frank

13:28

Damn, AM2R is hard.

Wipqozn

@twobugs lolololol basically

sequoiad

but it wasn't really optional on release at all

two bugs

@sequoiad I think the idea is great, but the execution was very flawed

Having your own base you can customize? Sure, that's cool

Wipqozn

@twobugs I still groan that the author went with naruto X hinata since he thought it was more popular among fans. Like I know my shitty manga aren't literature, and the authors don't really have some creative vision in mind and just make shit up as they go, but damn.

sequoiad

@twobugs I would actually really like to see this as a future storyline at some point

two bugs

13:29

@Wipqozn It's way better than Naruto x Sakura

Hinata is the superior Waifu

sequoiad

go back and revisit Dreanor, catch up with Y'rel and Durotan

Wipqozn

@twobugs I agree. Hinata has, like, an actual character.

Or at least more than Sakura has

but still stupid to make your decision because "I thought it would be more popular"

two bugs

I think my complaints with the Garrison are that 1) they segmented the playerbase 2) they had no depth 3) the buildings weren't remotely balanced in terms of the perks they offered 4) it was pretty easy to 'finish' all they had

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs hinata best naruto character

two bugs

It seems to me like they designed the Garrison with the intent of having reputation like rewards without it just being a bar to fill. That's a Good Thing IMO. It just fell flat.

Wipqozn

13:32

@GnomeSlice Nice starbait

two bugs

From what I played of Legion the order halls are already way better than garrisons for a ton of reasons

sequoiad

@twobugs Order Hall missions are basically for artifact power or relics right?

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Yes but they have like a storyline going along with them

The order halls are also way more interesting and alive than garrisons ever were

sequoiad

@twobugs well, I already have 2 reasons to do them then

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Even the ones people threw tantrums over (like rogue) are great

sequoiad

13:36

@twobugs are the Rogues mad that they're in a sewer :P

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They're mad it's not Ravenholdt, aka one of the most boring areas in the game

I personally think having a covert hideout in a flying magical city that even the mages themselves are not aware of is excellent

Plus they did a great job incorporating all these rogues you see from quests into the order hall

sequoiad

@twobugs why would they even want Ravenholdt? Underbelly is much more awesome and should set their WotLK PVP nostalgia senses on overdrive

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I don't know but hashtag "ravenholdtorriot" was a real thing

Along with people desperately trying to get hashtag "nocontent" trending for 6.1

sequoiad

although, I was kinda sad Druid order hall isn't Moonglade

It would have been nice to have an actual reason to go there again

two bugs

The druid hall is really cool, you can actually use those emerald dream portals all over the world

sequoiad

13:43

@twobugs yeah, when I actually got a look at it I was pleasantly surprised by how nice it was

two bugs

Hunter is probably the most boring I think, it's just some hunting lodge

But it's still interesting enough

sequoiad

@twobugs a DK mate was moaning about it being Archerus

Yuuki

Under Light's Hope Chapel is nice, but the Paladin order hall is basically a basement.

Which really makes the Paladins sound like a weekend meeting of the Boy Scouts.

Unionhawk

What https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/766246213079498752

Tweeted by JohnDingell on August 18, 2016 at 12:18 PM

What.

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Well, you're Boy Scouts who burn undead and demons with Holy Light

Yuuki

13:46

@Unionhawk He's trying to come up with something else because they're not going to be calling him "Mr. President".

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@sequoiad Meh, Archerus has always been great and was a class hall back in WotLK :P

sequoiad

@Yuuki they basically are, bunch of goody-two-shoes with their "rules", and religion, and "Seals", which are basically Scout badges :-P

Yuuki

So I got to 20 on the Paladin. Dropped Inscription for Skinning because I'm a poor mofo.

sequoiad

the Ashbringer basically has a badge bult into the design it as well!!

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I'd play Paladin but Blizzard is deadset on making DK and Paladin the least mobile classes in the game

Which is really frustrating

Also I think Retribution needs another design pass or two. It's in a weird spot.

Yuuki

13:50

@twobugs Apparently, Holy Paladins are supposed to heal in melee range now!

:D

cries

I'm assuming that's why the artifact gives you armor.

As opposed to the Druid one which procs an extra HoT.

two bugs

@Yuuki One of your heals is a cone, I don't think you're supposed to heal from melee entirely though

Blizzard didn't like Mistweaver doing that

Yuuki

Maybe not entirely from melee, but they said something about it in the class previews I read.

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I could be wrong, but I know getting targeted for ranged abilities while you were in melee range was a thing if you tried to heal from melee range in Warlords

Sterno

My dad tried to tell me the other day that anyone who doesn't vote because Trump is awful is like voting for Hillary and I tried to explain to him and failed that that's not how math works.

Arperum

@Sterno :(

Unionhawk

13:55

If you're not with us you're against us!

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@Sterno Well your dad is partially right in that our voting system is abit fuct

But he's also wrong otherwise

Kevin van der Velden

By not voting you're giving everyone else a bigger vote. If you would normally vote for democrats but now aren't then you're essentially taking a vote away from them and giving both parties half a vote

So it does sorta come out to -0.5 vote for democrats and 0.5 vote for trumpistant

Sterno

The whole "would normally vote" thing is a fallacy

Don't nominate someone who is an asshat or I won't vote for them

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I think this election is a pretty clear example of how both major parties need better primaries

The two major party candidates are two of the most disapproved of candidates in history.

Yuuki

Oh hey, Terminator: F--k You, Audience is on Amazon Prime.

Sterno

13:59

If I vote for Trump, Trump is +1. Clinton is +0. +1 net for Trump!
If I vote for Clinton, Clinton is +1. Trump is +0. -1 net for Trump!
If I don't vote, it's +0 net for Trump!

They idea that Trump somehow deserved my vote and can only lose it rather than gain it is ridiculous.

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