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Someone needs to edit Hael's posts.

Given that he lost to Vizzle fair and square.

Na its all cool man I want to get ******** up

I'd do it, except Omi won by default.

[Fist pump.]

Hero Quest would be impossible for me to find.

*Looks at other ones.*

Shogun is a great board game. It's similar to Risk, but different enough that its a lot of fun. They recently remade it due to its popularity, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

The brackets are simply made up of the people who have been approved for the tournament already. That isn't to say that there still won't be no-shows or people hardly posting at all, so those of you on the waiting list don't be discouraged just yet.

Of course, once we hit round 2 I think we'll be set.

I never got to play FFXI much. What little I did though, it was fun. Personally, needed more PVP elements to really grasp my interest, and given I've not paid attention to XIV at all, I'm going to just assume/pretend it has addressed this.

I actually don't think I had a single craft (fishing is not a craft >_<) under 20. I had Smithing at 72, Goldsmithing at 48 or so, Leathercraft I left at 60, and most of the others were 20-30.

And yes, leveling was fun because it's like doing a series of bossfights. You're not killing a thousand of something to get a level, felling them with a few seconds of effort while soloing a group of three at a time. No, it's six of you vs one of them, and you'll be taking swings at the thing for a good 2 minutes. In WoW the end boss of a dungeon doesn't take 2 minutes to kill unless it's an actual raid dungeon where you have 20-40 people.

Plus, party mechanics. They work. You have jobs to do, and since the equipment you get has, at best, a marginal increase to your overall effectiveness attached to it the difference between a good player and a poor player was so much more significant than the value of your gear.

Linkshells though... never really got into them, which was probably why I didn't level that high. I'm not the kind of person that likes to join a group full if high level players as a low level player and just leech off of their generosity for a year until I'm capable of contributing. It doesn't sit well with me.