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    Cersei Lannister and the Shallow Politics of Game of Thrones

    Loras Tyrell was never imprisoned in the books, for homosexuality or otherwise. To be fair the Faith of the Seven is almost certainly against homosexuality given all its other views. Very spot on article. They really missed out on a lot of opportunities with the TV show. Imagine if they'd had...
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    Nostalrius Vanilla WoW Servers Return Amid DDoS Attacks and High Player Counts

    Wut? There's no need to be a purist about it, patches and such are fine. I mean, there are servers without em, but they're buggy by nature. I mean, I play a TBC server a lot, it doesn't follow that I "may as well play live".
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    Nostalrius Vanilla WoW Servers Return Amid DDoS Attacks and High Player Counts

    That wasn't a "hammer" going down, the Nost team voluntarily closed up shop to keep the hope of legacy servers alive. Lots of servers get handed c&d and keep running.
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    Nostalrius Vanilla WoW Servers Return Amid DDoS Attacks and High Player Counts

    God forbid I play a game I paid for. You're kidding yourself if you think Blizzard has any intention of moving ahead with legacy servers. And who cares if the server goes down? The point of these servers is the journey, not the destination.
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    Elysium - Thoughts

    Don't be fooled by it keeping the same name: WoW is a completely different game now, with different mechanics and different draws. It's a streamlined rush to max level, and a lot of focus is put on your character and how important they are. Vanilla is a bit like Dark Souls in that a lot of...
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    Elysium - Thoughts

    So Elysium, the hype-est vanilla World of Warcraft server since Nost, is rolling off the production line right now. Anyone on it? I'm personally holding off for the fresh server launch next month, but I might log into the current PVE and PVP servers once the launch madness has died down a...
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    Poll: Would you rather be in vault 68 or vault 69

    >Implying there's a choice
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    The Nostalrius Vanilla WoW Servers Are Returning on December 17

    Well, good for you. Some of us love them.
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    The Nostalrius Vanilla WoW Servers Are Returning on December 17

    Vanilla WoW is a brilliant game that you can't play short of private servers. It's not immoral to use them, given that you can't play that game otherwise, and I'm guessing most people using them have actually bought the game. I refuse to believe that with all of Blizzard's legal resources...
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    The worst video game ending ever

    Neverwinter Nights 2. Started out meh, got interesting halfway through, and then screeched to a halt in a ridiculously frustrating final level, ending with a "And then everyone you liked died". When you compare with Mask of the Betrayer, it makes you wonder what the hell the creators were doing.
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    Your favorite games to hate-play

    This, this, a millon times this. My relationship with MOBAs is abusive; I go in, forgetting all the beatings it gave me in the past, I deal with being treated as a sub-human for a couple weeks, uninstall and swear off ever playing again. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
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    Box Office: 'Warcraft' Is A $430 Million Flop

    Of course not, yes, no, no, no, yes, yes. Not really seeing the relevance?