Michael McMain

CEO / Founder of Xaviant. Hardcore gamer and drinker of fine Scotch Whiskey.

[Michael McMain @XaviantCEO]

Sorry, I didn’t intend to make it sound like it was low compared to everything else, I was just pointing out how easy it is to heat it versus making it vaporize. In the chicken “pop” example the water is vaporizing.

Of course soup “pops” too if you heat it on high for 2 minutes. 😂

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@Devon_Eriksen_ I found it interesting that the book portrayed powerful soldiers in powerful armor cutting through bugs. But the movie depicted powerful bugs with powerful armor cutting through soldiers.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ And that (in my viewer opinion) is why the writers of Game of Thrones failed. I saw commentary where they said “We were trying to decide who would kill the Night King. It couldn’t be Jon Snow because everyone expects that”. That proved to me they didn’t care about viewers.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ @ArchetypeTheory Or maybe you should try your hand at writing a script… 😀

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@Devon_Eriksen_ The extremely sad thing about this is none of the people that hold that utopian ideal of a “world without borders” have a shred of an idea what the actual cost is to insure humanity can survive such a world.

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@polikarakis @GPrime85 For me (I agree with OP) the issue is you simply get a series of waypoint tasks that feels super artificial. It feels like you are following a designer’s breadcrumb trail of tasks and not a story that is unfolding.

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@AI_EmeraldApple I like the game a lot but I think the PVP damage is too high. In Arc Raiders if I get surprised I almost always have a chance to run away and try to recover. In Marathon I (or my target will) go down almost instantly. The downed health pool is far too low as well.

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@byrons_bear @SandyofCthulhu Yeah Scully specifically went on that mission because they promised to pay for his spinal restoration. That is established like 10 minutes into the movie.

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@MattWalshBlog So wait, when your kid eventually uses AI to make an image asks you to look at what they did, you will tell them it is soulless?

When my son did this I told him it was awesome and made it my desktop background.

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Rather than fatigue, which is only negative. What if it was “Desperation”? Your damage goes up as does damage taken. Your perfect dodge and attack combo windows shrink, and window misses cause a “stumble” interrupt.

This gives higher reward for perfect play and increases tension as you push the limit.

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@artozek @SandyofCthulhu Same-ish quest in Nagrand during The Burning Crusade!

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@TheBlackHokage I think one cool approach could be avoidance of civilian casualties. Fighting normal bad guys is easy if you don’t care about innocents. But throw them into the mix and the skill-based gameplay is about surgical precision and not heavy button mashing.

That could be fun.

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@Doffx @NeverSinkDev You know what would be cool? Running a corrupted map with a corrupted tablet made a corrupted nexus with X nodes. Then you could bring it to you.

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@empyriangaming They are too big. I agree. What I hate most, though, is the long windy dead-ends. I don’t understand how those can be thought of as “fun”.

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@SandyofCthulhu When Fight Club went to DVD I brought it to my brother’s house for movie night.

After it ended my Dad yells “Who is the deranged maniac that brought this movie?” When I raised my hand he said “What the hell were you thinking?” Then my Mom said “I thought it was pretty good”.

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I remember standing at the top of that hill where the union soldiers were positioned. Looking down that long, steep slope to the distant tree line where the confederates initiated their charge I was overwhelmed with what had to be going through the union soldier’s minds: “Why are they doing this? It is too easy to kill them and they have to know that.”

I felt like they had to be looking at each other wanting an answer to what the hell was happening. There is no way someone would just throw their life away like this. It was a very eerie feeling.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ When long tweets come into my feed I usually think “ugh, not reading all this”.

Unless they come from you. Then I am like “Holy Shit! Let me get my coffee! This is gonna be good!”

You never disappoint.

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This issue is specific to Greenville SC airport. I had the same type of problem. They scolded me when I approached and told me I had to come back one hour before the gate closed. I said that made no sense and I was scolded by a second attendant and told to “sit down”.

That counter is subbed out to another company that contracts for AA. They are horrible. Once I got AA on the phone all of a sudden the counter staff were telling me “we never said we wouldn’t help you!”

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