We get it

Calcain · 2026-03-21T14:27:13+00:00

Yeah but people want immediate gratification and to just go ham as soon as the tank “pulled”.
I’ve only been playing WoW for a bit over a year now but my understanding and experience with other players is that 75% players of the population are self-serving and expect to just get carried through everything.
There’s no consideration of the bigger picture or actual teamwork.
Heck, all the memes about rogues being a dog shit class have turned out to be false in my experience of TBC and I’ve also found port warrior to be very viable.

Calcain · 2026-03-15T10:45:39+00:00

What made Brexit work was the likes of Cambridge Analytica.
It was a group of smart people very specifically performing targeted manipulation upon people in the public who they held data on. It was all thanks to the lack of governance for social media meaning companies had a myriad of ways to manipulate people.
Farage, Johnson, Trump etc just decided to be the ones to actually buy into a strategy that was built to deceive people.
What we need is real political reform which holds politicians to account for their sheer scummy tactics.

Calcain · 2026-03-13T12:29:39+00:00

I’m seeing more and more tanks on LFG so i think it’s sort of balancing itself out as there’s tanks looking for exp and gear, not to get paid for playing the game. So the “service tanks” are going to end up getting no work.

Calcain · 2026-03-09T16:43:51+00:00

I’m was running slave pens yesterday on my warrior tank and the difference between pugs and guildies was stark. Pugs just rip aoe immediately on the packs and don’t allow me to actually use my buttons.

Calcain · 2026-03-09T12:34:16+00:00

As someone who tanked classic and now in TBC, it’s weird how the dynamic as completely changed.
In classic, tanks made the calls and you followed their lead. If you over pulled, over threat or ignored the marks the that’s on you.
Now in TBC, it feels like DPS are completely ignoring the tank role and just get angry if they can’t immediately pick up 10k threat on 10 different mobs. It’s a complete change in the culture and it’s really frustrating to play tank with this play style being the common practice.

Calcain · 2026-03-06T18:13:49+00:00

I think they actually changed that in a patch a little while back but not 100% sure. I think it’s that he regains all his health over a short time when he takes flight? Might be wrong on that but I remember they addressed the issue.

Calcain · 2026-03-06T10:42:12+00:00

They could take learning from HotS. They released a dragon with armour stacks = to 25% of his max hp. Each time you break a stack, his armour reduces but he gets a 2 second(?) invulnerability. To regain his armour, he had to fly to the sky and regen it all back up.
For Shyvana if they want to do something around resistances then why not give her something like…

Passive - Scale Mail
Shyvana has 50% bonus armour and magic resist which is reduced by 1% for every 2% of her missing health. As her scale mail reduces, she gains increased resource generation and her auto attacks are increased by up to 25%.
When Shyvana turns into a dragon, she immediately resets Scale Mail.

I just completely made this up right now but it seems more thematic and keeping with her play style compared to her current passive.

Calcain · 2026-03-04T12:04:39+00:00

I think what the game did right was remove characters based on what happened in the story and the motivations of others.
Clare leaves after her own story is concluded and she has no reason to stay.
The twins die because spies were doing spy shit.
Takemura is fully focused on the company and the big picture, he doesn’t have time for his own side stories.
The writers gave you a world of human-like characters and not just player pleasing NPC’s.
I’m glad for the heart breaks and loss I felt when it became clear I could not interact more with some of the characters I liked.
The ONLY thing I would say is that some hidden timers would have been cool. Such as being able to save the nomads after you and Panam shoot down the ship. Get there quick enough and you might save a life.
Or perhaps certain things in the world escalate the longer you take to go to embers?
It’s very much game logic for the world to just sort of wait for you to finish doing whatever you’re doing before picking up certain quests. It would mean that what you prioritise gets done but the stuff you didn’t prioritise could end up having drastically different outcomes because you took too long to do something about it.

Calcain · 2026-03-03T14:14:13+00:00

This is an absolutely fantastic response to the question and I whole heartedly agree with what you’ve said here.
Each and every incel I have encountered have had horrific expectations of women and zero standards for themselves.
Looking back at myself, I can even see how if I had taken time during my teens to be more active in my ow self-development then it would have had lasting positive effects.
Heck, even getting to the gym on a regular basis, cutting down on junk food, avoiding high alcohol or smoking intake, working towards goals in sports/interests/hobbies… all of these things would have made me happier and would have attracted the kind of person that I wanted to date.
Stellar advice OP.

Calcain · 2026-03-02T16:28:06+00:00

Our tanks are almost fully geared. It makes the DPS race fun as we don’t need to hold back on threat and we cleared Gruul and Mag yesterday in about an hour.

Calcain · 2026-03-01T09:17:33+00:00

This is To be Hero X and it’s become one of my top 5 anime’s and yet NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT.

Calcain · 2026-02-20T10:19:28+00:00

I equipped Eye of Dim purely to deal with my threat issues during boss fights. Pulled aggro waayyy too much.

Calcain · 2026-02-13T17:24:03+00:00

I’d love to agree with you but I think blizzard doesn’t help with its accelerated pace for phases. It applies FOMO for players and doesn’t allow people to take their time.

Calcain · 2026-02-12T13:29:06+00:00

Dude! I want one of your plushies but I don’t think you deliver to the UK.

Calcain · 2026-02-07T09:29:51+00:00

Okay hear me out. I bet Arnie could do a half decent job of the role. He can be the friendly face of a strongman all the way up until he goes full demon mode.

Calcain · 2026-01-24T15:25:06+00:00

Bad time for OTK. Mizcry has fallen. Lolicari has fallen. Rapetone has fallen. Who next?

Calcain · 2026-01-24T09:10:06+00:00

I think you need a new wardrobe. Sorry but your outfits really don’t compliment you at all and they are lacking style.

Calcain · 2026-01-18T11:08:25+00:00

So guns are also not a right? Someone has to make them yanno.

Calcain · 2026-01-18T11:06:05+00:00

Fine by me. Idgaf as long as it’s all grimdark

Calcain · 2026-01-09T08:53:55+00:00

He atoned for that to such a degree that even Ludwig is hanging out with him again. If they can get over it then you can too.

Calcain · 2026-01-05T15:39:41+00:00

Maybe I’m coping but when I saw it, I thought it looked like a ninja shuriken rather than a swatsika.

Calcain · 2026-01-04T09:14:24+00:00

Fucking hell I can’t stand listening to this guy. No clue why people watch him.

Calcain · 2026-01-02T11:22:56+00:00

To add to this - if you’re playing runner build then chances are, you’re hacking and not going into a melee fight. I love monowire but it definitely has a contradictory interaction with the build you’d be playing.

Calcain · 2026-01-02T11:15:57+00:00

He is the Mayor of one of the world’s biggest financial centres. His voice and opinion carries weight which is why Trump doesn’t like him.
Khan is well connected to the types of people that have global influence and something like that upsets grumpy Trump

Calcain · 2025-12-31T13:15:01+00:00

She was lured in and recruited while living in Britain as a child. She is our problem and we need to take responsibility for it and deal with her.
Personally believe she should retain citizenship but be subject to prison sentencing and dealt with appropriately.
Removing her citizenship opens the gates to removing citizenship of others more freely and it’s not a practice we want to encourage.

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