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I had a dream the other day where I was a Time Lord. I was dating a Time Lady but in this weirdly non-linear way with me zipping around in my TARDIS fucking all of her regenerations through different periods of history. It was a good dream. It was a really weird, good dream.

I think putting non-cosmetic items up for sale is not good, but acceptable, as long as there's an alternate way to get them for free.

I have mixed feelings about it overall, but I think F2P can be a good business model for game developers and the consumer if done correctly. This probably goes without saying, but TF2 balances its F2P aspects pretty well. There are legitimate, free ways to get most of the weapons in the game and balance issues aside, the intent of the developer is to introduce sidegrades so people can pay for early access to new play styles and options, not necessarily advantages. The main issue I have with it even when it is how it affects new content, which really becomes a mixed bag. One on hand, F2P helps out a game's longevity because players will keep paying as long as developers update the game. On the other hand, this encourages the devs (and really, makes it necessary for them in some cases) to flood the game with bullshit gimmick items. Unless they charge for map packs, weapons or game modes, which are all fucking terrible things to put behind a pay wall, developers aren't going to put as much time and energy into those kinds of updates, or they'll become less frequent. In that way I think the model definitely causes a quantity over quality issue. Going F2P doesn't just make the game free, but in many ways cheapens the overall experience as well.

Should be on TPB. The episode's called "Deep Breath". Just FYI, this version is a pre-air screen test kind of thing, so most of the CGI is laughably unfinished, the music isn't all there (in several scenes they use tracks from The Dark Knight as a placeholder which is pretty weird), the new title sequence isn't included, it's in black and white and it has a watermark. That being said, if you just want to watch the episode to see what Capaldi's going to be like, it's worth ignoring the faults.

Has anyone watched the leaked premiere yet? I won't spoil anything, but Twelve is great. I'm very excited for this next season.

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Dammit, you can't make those jokes, we have someone who's colorblind! I guess I forgot to check my privilege.

I'm beginning to suspect binary might be color blind.

Just FYI, I have an assload of certain types of items (including some harder to find ones) so I've set up a little "store" thing near spawn where I'll be periodically dropping off free stuff like records, horse armor, arrows, enchant books and shit like that.

If the rep system's already based on TF2/Valve, why not just make the colors TF2 themed? For instance: Valve for admin Collector's for Mods Community for Donators Regular for the rest of us plebs or something. I don't think there are any colors in that palate save for maybe Haunted and Unique that are too garish.

Riight, I forgot cosmetic ranks are a thing now. I think the Holiday Punch ones work a lot better, actually. That or just the normal strange ranks.

Why are we all clothes now

The only one I've noticed is so far is 2-bit. I'm guessing he's either added more ranks higher than anyone's existing rep or ranks for specific numbers. Or for negative rep? Is that a possibility now?

If they had gone with white with gold/yellow lights or something I probably would have been fine with it because that fits a little better with the existing theme. The main issue I have with it is the whole white and blue thing is clearly being fueled by this "Apple design" fad (which is funny because even Apple doesn't make all of their shit glossy white any more) instead of it being a well thought out change with the actual character in mind.

Literally. Not a fan. Can we please grow out of this "everything needs to be white with blue lights because that's so modern" phase, please?

So now he's iRon Man?

The game sounds in the background are pretty obnoxious but I guess that's the point.

I don't own the first two Bioshocks on PC, so now would be a good time to get them.

The only problem with that is that new characters can easily be ignored. "Spider Man is black now" or "Thor is a woman now" puts diversity in the public eye much more effectively which I think is a good thing, at least for now.

Yeah, through a somewhat convoluted multiple timeline thing.