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Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:17 PM ET
Sorry, I don't play World of Warcraft anymore.
- Scabeh


Too bad... new release soon I think... all over twitter.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:19 PM ET
Too bad... new release soon I think... all over twitter.
- Mashadar



it's gonna suck for sure, Blizzard is a joke now.
Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:19 PM ET
you were gone for a while but it's been like this basically the whole time... it got a bit more busy with the Laine acquisition but that's it.
- Pat1993


Yeah, I was just burnt out on hockey (and the same discussion, mostly not about hockey).

The Laine deal really got me energized for some Habs games now.

I wanna see how this all plays out.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:22 PM ET
Yeah, I was just burnt out on hockey (and the same discussion, mostly not about hockey).

The Laine deal really got me energized for some Habs games now.

I wanna see how this all plays out.

- Mashadar


yeah, at the end of the day it takes some actual hockey to get things going, with training camp at least we'll be able to speculate how amazing Anderson is going to be.
MortChicken
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: I like to wash women's feet -Pat1993
Joined: 08.07.2018

Aug 22 @ 1:22 PM ET
it's gonna suck for sure, Blizzard is a joke now.
- Pat1993

Yeah everything is about paywalling. I miss when you bought a game and you got the whole (frank)ing game.
Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:22 PM ET
it's gonna suck for sure, Blizzard is a joke now.
- Pat1993


I still casually play... been gaming with the same bunch of folks since the early 90s, when we played / coded LPMuds. We moved around (Lotro, ESO, etc..) but played Warcraft mostly.

The core group is still there.

So I like hanging out with them, shooting the poop, playing a little warcraft, getting carried in content.

Of course, a lot easier to keep in touch now, but still fun to play games with the same friends from 30+ years ago.
Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:25 PM ET
yeah, at the end of the day it takes some actual hockey to get things going, with training camp at least we'll be able to speculate how amazing Anderson is going to be.
- Pat1993


Anderson is my dark horse pick this season.

(I mean, hard to be worse than last year).

If they manage to move Dvorak (or even Evans), I can see a Dach / Laine / Anderson line being interesting.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:25 PM ET
Yeah everything is about paywalling. I miss when you bought a game and you got the whole (frank)ing game.
- MortChicken


exactly. and when more time was spent by developers making the game actually be good, instead of coming up with new esthetic packages that do jack poop.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:26 PM ET
I still casually play... been gaming with the same bunch of folks since the early 90s, when we played / coded LPMuds. We moved around (Lotro, ESO, etc..) but played Warcraft mostly.

The core group is still there.

So I like hanging out with them, shooting the poop, playing a little warcraft, getting carried in content.

Of course, a lot easier to keep in touch now, but still fun to play games with the same friends from 30+ years ago.

- Mashadar


I have no idea what all that means. I played Diablo mostly, last time I played Warcraft regularly was with Warcraft II loll.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Aug 22 @ 1:28 PM ET
Sorry, I don't play World of Warcraft anymore.
- Scabeh

Every now and then I get weird nostalgia for it. Worries me since I haven't played it since 2008. Quite the memorable game.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:29 PM ET
Anderson is my dark horse pick this season.

(I mean, hard to be worse than last year).

If they manage to move Dvorak (or even Evans), I can see a Dach / Laine / Anderson line being interesting.

- Mashadar


some have brought up the idea of a "1-2-3 line", with Slaf (1st overall) Laine (2nd overall) and Dach (3rd overall), which could be very interesting, but I'd keep Slaf with Suzuki and Caufield for sure, at least for now.
mr.peanut
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Generational Poster, QC
Joined: 12.18.2011

Aug 22 @ 1:29 PM ET
Every now and then I get weird nostalgia for it. Worries me since I haven't played it since 2008. Quite the memorable game.
- AdamFrench

Nerd
AGalchenyuk27
Utah Hockey Club
Location: He was responsible for the term “Gordie Howe hat trick”, where a player scored a goal, added an , NB
Joined: 02.05.2013

Aug 22 @ 1:31 PM ET
are you watching a live stream..?
- Pat1993

You're a live stream, you are!
Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:31 PM ET
I have no idea what all that means. I played Diablo mostly, last time I played Warcraft regularly was with Warcraft II loll.
- Pat1993


Back in the days before webpages....

(For simplicity sake) The internet was like a series of links (think of a tree with branches, you go up / down levels), and some of those links connected people to the same central computer to play game.

An LP Mud (multi user dungeon) is basically a game like Warcraft, but in text format, where you have lots of people playing at the same time, can communicated, do events together, etc... etc...

Of course, it was all text, no voice back then.

But it was fun, especially when you could add to the code yourself and make quests and areas for others to play in, too.

Yeah.

(frank) I am old.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Aug 22 @ 1:32 PM ET
Nerd
- mr.peanut

4 years of playing a game will do that.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:32 PM ET
You're a live stream, you are!
- AGalchenyuk27



um, gee, thanks...?

Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:33 PM ET
some have brought up the idea of a "1-2-3 line", with Slaf (1st overall) Laine (2nd overall) and Dach (3rd overall), which could be very interesting, but I'd keep Slaf with Suzuki and Caufield for sure, at least for now.
- Pat1993


I think you want to split Laine and Slaf... but I could also see Laine with Suz and Slaf with Dach.

Again, can't wait to see what they try and what works.
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:33 PM ET
Back int he days before webpages....

(For simplicity sake) The internet was like a series of links (think of a tree with branches, you go up / down levels), and some of those links connected people to the same central computer to play game.

And LP Mud is basically a game like Warcraft, but in text format, where you have lots of people playing at the same time, can communicated, do events together, etc... etc...

Of course, it was all text, no voice back then.

But it was fun, especially when you could add to the code yourself and make quests and areas for others to play in, too.

Yeah.

(frank) I am old.

- Mashadar




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that's cool though, didn't think such a multiplayer text-based game even existed back in the day.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Aug 22 @ 1:34 PM ET
I think you want to split Laine and Slaf... but I could also see Laine with Suz and Slaf with Dach.

Again, can't wait to see what they try and what works.

- Mashadar

The line might be poop defensively, but that's probably the biggest line in the NHL if they did it. BEEF!
Pat1993
Montreal Canadiens
Location: disguise delimit, QC
Joined: 08.28.2009

Aug 22 @ 1:36 PM ET
I think you want to split Laine and Slaf... but I could also see Laine with Suz and Slaf with Dach.

Again, can't wait to see what they try and what works.

- Mashadar



for sure... with Laine and Dach in the lineup, all of a sudden you've got some very interesting possibilities to play around with.

also, with Hutson potentially being there you could have a more than decent power play.
Mashadar
Location: Let the creamy goaltending season begin! - EK
Joined: 08.31.2014

Aug 22 @ 1:36 PM ET
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that's cool though, didn't think such a multiplayer text-based game even existed back in the day.

- Pat1993


Like I said, met a lot of cool people there, have gone to meet them in person, been to weddings, gone on trips/vacations together... a lot less now that most of them have kids (SUCKERS!), but those kids are all slowly leaving the nest, so us old (frank)ers will get back to hanging out more eventually.
Xizord
Montreal Canadiens
Location: I am Eklund, QC
Joined: 01.03.2007

Aug 22 @ 1:37 PM ET
No he played with the Coyotes
- MortChicken


so other than two bad answers, nobody knows eh ?
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Aug 22 @ 1:37 PM ET
Like I said, met a lot of cool people there, have gone to meet them in person, been to weddings, gone on trips/vacations together... a lot less now that most of them have kids (SUCKERS!), but those kids are all slowly leaving the nest, so us old (frank)ers will get back to hanging out more eventually.
- Mashadar

Did you ever play Runescape? Think I wasted 100 hours of my life on that turd.
Xizord
Montreal Canadiens
Location: I am Eklund, QC
Joined: 01.03.2007

Aug 22 @ 1:37 PM ET
Blogger thing is already getting to your head huh
- MortChicken



jusqua quel point un roux peut t'il vraiment s'enfler la tête ?
Xizord
Montreal Canadiens
Location: I am Eklund, QC
Joined: 01.03.2007

Aug 22 @ 1:38 PM ET
it's gonna suck for sure, Blizzard is a joke now.
- Pat1993



really what changed ?

Not really a gamer, the only think I ever played was Diablo 2

and well Doom much before
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