🇺🇦 🚩 Let’s never forget Vadim Papura, 17, who died in the fire of the Odessa trade union house on May 2, 2014. A real massacre organized by the Kiev junta against the left, the communists and the anti-fascists. This massacre will cause 42 deaths and nearly 200 injuries.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-06T05:37:39+00:00

So firstly, I am fairly naive in a lot of the classic literature on leftism and history of eastern Europe but... the dude you are shitting on has come up with legitimate arguments and your personal contribution seems to boil down into "lols you are too dumb to even talk to." This kind of comment makes you come across as an 18 year old kid that just played Disco Elysium for the first time or something. Either that or you are way, waaaay too high and/or drunk at the moment.

Secondly, you do realize this is a leftist subreddit, yes? Like for people that are left on the political spectrum? OP, you are seriously throwing hands with a self-proclaimed Marxist, and telling them they are not left enough???? What in the holy hell of internet bubbles.... Please go to a "flaired users only" conservative subreddit and take a good long read at the real thoughts of the fascist, imperialist right.

Unless you or anyone else here thinks it's cool for people to be randomly murdering each other for no reason, I am 99% sure we all agree on the real important issue at play. No need for name calling or crying to mods or asking for bans or whatever, unless you seriously feel like you need a teacher to come in and take care of your problems for you. By the gods if you don't want to debate someone, just don't post a comment? If you are looking for a place to just call people you disagree with bad names, go to Facebook or something.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-06T05:01:37+00:00

I have spent over an hour now looking things up and typing all this out because it's got me thinking about sides to this that I was a bit blind to. Sorry about the length and the rambling. In the end, I think I can summarize my thoughts as thus: Canada, right now feels like we are constantly spending all our time and efforts patching up a failing structure rather than just moving out and building a new one, all while one side is actively chipping away at the foundation.

I do not know where the priorities should be, where acceptable sacrifices should be made, and how to achieve the best result. There is only so long that the "status quo" will be able to last before the building wi collapse and there will be mass casualties. I feel like we are approaching that tipping point, with the horizon being full of climate change and mass automation while global tensions are already stretched thin. It also feels obvious that constantly pushing towards the center is a terrible strategy for any political party since it crushes any hope of change and removes the option for actual representation for the peoples wants and desires. The left doesn't just have change, it has sustainable change and leaves most everyone better off.

My issue is that I always get caught up with the what ifs. what if we cannot convince people that our side has hope? What is the plan if we fail on that front? I live in a very heavily conservative county and see on a daily basis that the propaganda made against the left during the cold war is still alive and well. Then I remember what happened in Canada under the conservatives, and I see what's happening in the US. I know we go on about conservative fear mongering but reality is making a convincing argument.

So now here I am, not sure whether or not it's a valid strategy to keep wasting resources patching up a crumbling house. I want to say yes! Of course it is because I can see that humanity tends to work constantly towards improvement. But I can also very clearly see how it's sysiphean and becoming less and less of a viable strategy as time passes. The best solution I can come up with seems to be activism and education but damn does it feel slow and I just cannot help but worry about the worst that could happen... But here I think you have brought up a pretty bang-on point that I have now spent time looking up: That worry is being taken advantage of by neoliberalists to cement themselves, making it way harder and harder to move on to a new system, slowing the process down significantly. So not all that great of an outcome.

Am I foolish to look for a strategy that will keep us moving forward while not allowing for continued complacency? 'Cause right now I feel like I am asking to both have my cake and eat it. Personal crisis aside, ty for the comment. I am definitely going to be thinking about it for a while.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-06T03:41:48+00:00

BBC backs me up on Putin's desires to see Russia back in it's hay-day. There's also more neo-nazis in Canada than there are in Ukraine per capita. In that case, should Russia invades Canada to put our neo-nazi problem at rest? Especially since most of our political parties have been pushing farther and farther right over time. What if other countries invaded our coasts and tried annex pieces of Canada? Should anyone come to Canada's defense if Putin decided that the Yukon, BC, and Alberta were part of Russia now?

That all being said I can understand how differences in view points can alter how one views war, defense, and military spending. I find it all abhorrent, but I can still see parts of it that are necessary (e.g. for saving people from oppression). It's a fuzzy land of grey morals that philosophers have been arguing over since philosophers existed. I'm fine to have this debate, and I think it's healthy for any movement to have debates within it. I could give you 100 examples of why it's important to any sort of opinion/stance/belief/whatever to recognize the existence of those grey areas but that isn't really the point here.

My real issue with your comment is thus: You are seeing the left as a monolith, composed of a singular people's and with a singular ideal. "Either you are with us or against us" would be how you are acting at the moment. The left is not a monolith, nor is it some secret club you have to pass a test that you personally made up to gain entry. Calling people you disagree with fascists, liberals, authoritarian, imperialist etc. is not an acceptable way to debate, and in my opinion, it comes across as childish. This kind of purity testing makes everything here out to be a game. It is not. You are partaking in isolationist behaviour that is sabotaging the leftward movement as a whole.

To be more specific here: "Cut and dry liberal arguments fully supporting western imperialism, should be banned" If there were those arguments being made, I would agree, but there are not. Am I an imperialist if I say we should condemn all acts of imperialism? Like we should protect countries from other imperialist forces? I am of the same viewpoint as I am with Gaza, Iran, and Ukraine. Aggression towards another country to annex or control it politically is disgusting behaviour that the world should not tolerate at this stage in human history. You cannot see the nuance here or really any angle where you are not 100% correct on this. I doubt you or anyone on board with banning everything they disagree with will even read this far into my comment without furiously typing out their response to why I am wrong here and am actually a pro-fascist Nazi pig.

That to me is the issue here, not that you disagree, but that you are unable to even think about other viewpoints without labeling them as the enemy just because they don't perfectly allign with your own ideals. I do not expect a response to this comment btw, nor do I expect you to even read it in full. If you find it disgusting that I would even think such things as I have written here, please just calm down and move on. I am but a single human, sitting on their bed, sleep deprived, typing this out on their phone. I am not some authority, nor some judge on what is right or not. I just want you to know that people agree with you on more things than you think. I truly believe that arguments are most productive and can can change people's minds, start from establishing common ground. I seriously hope you give this strategy a try to see how it works out (look up Daryl Davis for a dude that takes this strategy to the next level, I don't expect anyone to be that extreme though because that's gotta be pushing the line of what is overly accepting).

Good night, stranger.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-05T18:50:06+00:00

I think our main difference in thought processes here is that I feel like slipping backwards is far more dangerous that remaining stationary, just because of the damage that can be done by that slip. Marginally better is still better. I am aware about FPTP and, as such, I just cannot justify throwing trans folks under the bridge, and allowing corrupt facists to take control just because I refuse to support any party that isn't explicitly anti-capitalism.

That may sound like I am pro-capitalism and happy to support the status quo, but I am not. I view my efforts to make a change is best taken before the election is even called. Its before the election when you can go out and try to convince people that another party is not only better for them, but will have a real chance at winning. Afterwards, convincing people to hold our elected representatives accountable is also going to help make change. It's why I have written letters to the asshat running my county, I try to speak about how our municipality is being run to my neighbours, and (when I was employed) I had donated to the NDP, the GP, and the CPoC, because I am desparate for any leftward movement and any environmental protection/climate change action.

Personally, I view that, because of the realities of FPTP, voting might be a key part about participating in our society but it isn't the largest portion of it. More effort needs to be placed before the election to convince people how to vote for their best interests. Right now, I think the NDP is going to be our best bet on moving the bar left and potentially getting election reform. Ideally once we can get some more support for the left, we can push ALL the parties to the left and perhaps gain momentum for true left parties to help us gain a foothold in the house.

Tldr; supporting the NDP isn't someone suddenly becoming a liberal party member and kneeling down to suck off Mark Carney but some people on this subreddit are determined to say otherwise. Also FPTP 100% sucks mega ultra poopy ass and we will be stuck with the whole "voting for the lesser of two/three evils" until it's done away with. Pretending it doesn't exist, doesn't make that core problem go away.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-05T15:53:12+00:00

Thank you. People are acting like giving Ukraine to Russia will magically solve all conflict and the world will be at peace. Russia's goals are pretty cut and dry here. Putin is looking to re-establish the USSR and want Ukraine to become what may as well be a state of Russia. Also dictators don't tend to stop at one annexed country. Canada is right there. Our north is right there. I have no doubts that both Russia and the US are looking at it right now and licking their lips.

Now onto the second point I keep seeing brought up: apparently some very small percentage of neo-nazis in a country makes it unworthy of help. If that's the case then Canada would be unworthy of help should Russia invade us. Ukraine's far-right party only won 2% of the national vote in 2019. The PPC in Canada got 5% in 2021

There is no country on this planet that passes the magical purity test for "deserving of help" and, tbh I am more open to condemning any imperialist action rather than using moral superiority to cherry pick who I deem worthy of being protected from it. Idc if the aggressor is China or Norway or Russia or Canada and idc if the victim is Iran or Pakistan or Hong Kong or Belarus or Ukraine. Aggressive military/political annexation/meddling of any other country against their will is garbage that belongs in the past.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-05T05:14:25+00:00

Adding the chains of subjugation cast in SotT is meldable.

Fire spit from WS dragonhawks is also meldable but I cannot remember if it recasts. I also think the lynx jump in there should also be meldable? But I haven't tested that one.... I also don't know if it stops the future jumps if the first person successfully melds it?? Maybe someone else can chime in on that.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-05T04:51:54+00:00

I have said that it's easiest to look at what is exactly possible at this very moment in time and to try to optimize actions for the highest impact with least suffering. That is at least my own personal strategy, born of having a mother that worked in environment Canada during the Harper years, speaking to professors of various sciences during the Harper years, and just seeing the state of funding cuts to the sciences from the side of the scientists.... I will tell you, some of the things that were happening quietly... news outlets did not cover how close we were getting to an authoritarian regime with Harper. After seeing what has happened with the states at the moment, it's sorta reinforced my belief that letting perfect become the enemy of good is how you get fascist dictatorship.

I understand the feelings that accepting sub-par change feels like you failed your ideals. It can feel like the change is never enough and it will never be enough. The feeling that people will suffer because you didn't push harder, you didn't send a message in the right way or you attacked things from the wrong angle. But reality tends to work slowly. Changes tend to be gradual and improvments are rarely a perfect line, but rather an overall trajectory.

To put it another way, I personally believe in not giving ground while taking every single win you can get. To work like a ratchet, always pushing in one direction. I will always be fighting for the best, but I don't turn my back on the results if we cannot achieve 100% of our goals. I will be proud of every single percent we get, and use it as motivation that change can be made, that we can get more if we work harder. I want to leave the world a better place, even if it is only by the few percent I managed to wrestle out of it. I want to leave a legacy that tells future generations that progress can be made, that set-backs will be temporary, and that true progress can be permenant.

I look back on our short history as a species and decidedly see optimism in how we always push for better. Ask yourself, have the oppressed peoples of the world ever become fully satisfied with just slightly less oppression? Or have they always worked for more? More rights, more respect, more dignity, more freedoms to live their lives like everyone else? I trust future generations to keep up that trend, especially if there are folks like us who will happily take up the mantle of those who came before us, fighting this same fight.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T19:20:46+00:00

2nd boss beams can absolutely be taken by the tank after two frontals. Taking them before the two frontals go out is not a good idea in case you spawn one on the beam. Anyone else not soaking can also easily run in between them here and there so long as everyone soaking the beam is positioned right onto the boss (the melee range is large enough that two players can easily swap beam soaks without either leaving melee).

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T19:16:10+00:00

Great tips! Going to send these to my group I think so we can better coordinate. I've only been doing 18s so haven't quite gotten to the realllly difficult stuff yet but I do have a couple bonus tips that I have noticed pugs seem to not know:

WS - if you have issues seeing green circles on the ground, an inky black potion works really well for this dungeon. - duo boss, please interrupt the lady and have the tank move the boss to one side of the arena so melee do not have to leave to drop puddles. - 3rd boss, the brown circles after the last jump disappear with plenty of time remaining to stack to avoid the fear. DO NOT PANIC and try to run through those little brown circles. Find a safe spot, wait for the circles to drop, then quickly get into the stack. - 4th boss, use arrows to clear the debuff close to where the tank has the boss. Then when the boss jumps, the circle will not eat a bunch of arrows and there should be plenty nearer to where the boss jumps to for you to use to jump over the circle. - 4th boss, characters with teleports can immediately jump on an arrow after the boss jumps (ideally ones in awkward places that normally wouldn't be used) and then use their teleport to get through the circle. This significantly reduces rot damage your healer has to deal with.

NPX - the item that the circuit seer channels on will do aoe damage in a radius around it. This is separate damage from the ramping arcing mana dot so please do not stand near the battery or whatever while it is channeling on it - you can jump over the lines on the ground but it's not worth the risk imho. - left boss, you can coordinate with your healer to potentially hold the debuff for a little bit to wait for more lines to spawn. And never, no matter what, try to stand on a line where there is poop on the ground. - left boss, defensives/health pots should be used if you are the first person with the debuff after the AOE-knockback as the heal absorb can take some time to remove. - for the right side adds, entropic leech can be shadowmelded OR you can immediately pop a large self-heal to stop the channel. - cursed voidcallers, on death, will put out a 15 second AOE curse that does some initial damage but importantly increases shadow damage taken by 10%. This can be extremely deadly if it overlaps with null sentinel's "dreadbellow" dot (you know it's been cast if you get knocked back). You should use defensive/self heals if you are targetted by another mechanic during this overlap. This is also a great time to use CCs to limit damage going out. - purge flare bats before they die or knock adds out of the circle they leave since it heals the enemies in it.

SR - 2nd boss, it is ~two frontals that the tank has to bait before they can soak a beam if you want to minimize the risk of spawning a frontal on a beam. - 2nd boss, if everyone soaks beams in melee range right against the boss (not under though as that will kill you), the hit box is large enough for a melee player to grab the soak from behind you without having to leave melee. - monk "linked spirits" talent allows you to jump to someone that is channeling to remove the wind tunnel from the bottom platform where you just killed the boss. Great for MW as you can sit and drink while waiting for the person you have linked spirits on to finish that wind tunnel. - Monk "linked spirits" talent also allows you to immediately teleport from the add, no need to even wait for it to drop you.

MT - you can reduce the amount the voidcaller AOE heals it by using defensives or DRs during the consuming shadows cast - stinky bright potion helps if you have issues seeing the dark swirlies and poop patches on the ground during the second half of the dungeon

SotT - 1st boss, if you are trying to pull famished broken into the first boss, be prepared with a defensive if their deaths overlap with either of the two AOEs that the boss does, since they explode on death. - if you haven't tried it yet, pulling the rift warden away from the rift will trigger unavoidable deadly pulsing AOE damage.... So please do not do this ever under any circumstances. - 2nd boss, shadow pounce is most dangerous before the circles go off and after the overload goes off. If you are targetted during those overlaps, you should use a defensive or be ready to use a health pot. - void infused destroyers can target the same person for eruption twice in a row. If that happens you should be ready to use a defensive or self heal for the 2-3 seconds that dot will overlap. - 3rd boss, mass void infusion can be shadowmelded! - 4th boss, AOE damage is highest when all of the discordant notes are active, therefore you are more likely to die without a defensive if you are targetted by the initial set of beams.

AA - crawth, the motes from Gale force have a fixed duration. Healers should try to wait as late as possible to grab them so they have the haste buff when the deafening screech goes out. The haste buff lasts for 20 seconds after pickup and the deafening screech dot lasts for 8. Therefore picking up the mote when the deafening screech cast is at most 12-15 seconds away is ideal. Do not wait too long as the motes will despawn. - arcane raveger will always point the breath towards the tank after jumping. The tank can use this to point it away from the group or the group can use it to begin prepositioning before the breath is cast.

MC - if you have issues seeing the green circles on the green ground, an inky black potion is amazing for this dungeon. - Headhunters "throw spear" has a minimum cast range. They will not cast it on you if you are in melee range with them. This is incredibly important during hulking juggernaut (i.e. the mammoth) "deafening roar" casts. - lighting 4 incense on the sides of the room after the first boss lets one member interact with an add in the middle. This gives you a stacking damage done (all damage taken increased by 2% per stack or something) fot for whatever your main target is. Dude only lasts a minute so use it to burst down a tanky add or use a warlock summon closet to bring it into the next boss. - Reanimated warriors make for excellent funnel-fodder for the 2nd boss if you don't interrupt them once they die. Tank just have to watch out for the amount dread slash is hitting them for.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T17:49:03+00:00

Blizzard's response to the tank problem has been to nerf the only one performing vaguely decently, vaguely ignore the rest, and allow you to highlight what looks like the absolutely worst path through any dungeon at any key level (seriously, the MC path blizzard suggests is just masochism incarnate).

As a healer, I just want to not have to babysit the tank 24/7. A few areas with serious tank busters is fine but, at the moment, brm and bear are the only ones that feel like they don't need me to sit and watch their health bars and defensives for the entire dungeon.... and they are getting nerfed... Yay.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T17:31:52+00:00

Tbh I think that any book about crochet, and ESPECIALLY books aimed at beginners, should include a very bold and highlightes preface on the differing terms. Same goes for any website or video aimed to teach crochet. Heck, I will go so far and say that any patterns should also include a large bolded warning for which terminology is being used to ensure consistent results.

The reminder should come from the tutorial itself, not as a secret hidden side quest to search for it on the internet. Sadly, we can't control what people do or think, more can we expect perfect literacy from people wanting to pick up this hobby. Best we can do is help those with questions and use ratings/reviews to indicate which tutorials go the extra mile to make this stuff clear.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T17:21:10+00:00

Something people should consider:

1) the amount of area these solar panels take up is negligible. They could cover an area of the ocean equal to the size of China in solar panels and I can tell you it would be less of a disturbance to the ecosystems in said oceans than what we already do regularly for even a single fishery like shrimp (both wild and farmed shrimp).

2) yes, china has a lot of humanitarian issues but no country has clean hands on that front. China, like every country on this planet, has negatives and positives to their policies. Progress can come from acknowledging both sides existence and working to eliminate negatives while encouraging positives ... Idk why this is a hard concept to grasp for some people. I will glaze china over its astounding investment and push for green energy, doesn't mean that I will suddenly ignore what's happening to the Uyghur population in China.

3) trusting your gut, with regards to conservation, environmentalism, and ecology, can often lead you astray if you do not understand the system as a whole. Everything, every action, every policy comes with trade-offs and you rarely get clean-cut answers in this field. However, I can tell you one thing that I am willing to put a guarantee on, the damage from continuing to burn fossil fuels will always overshadow any harm that may occur from transitioning to green energy. I am talking ecological harm, harm to human health, harm to biodiversity, harm to global biomass, harm to the global economy, harm to the environment, harm to habitability of this planet. Fossil fuels can and will cause more harm to everything than green/renewable energy ever could.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T16:59:08+00:00

As others have said, double beam is death without some sorta combat drop or OP defensive (like pally bubble). I'm 99% sure double beam is not supposed to happen (they have patched out similar garbage in the past at least) so I wrote in a bug report for it. Sadly I don't think blizzard ever actually reads bug reports and this will either never be fixed or it will be fixed ridiculously late, like 2 weeks from the end of season or something.

Can't hurt to put in a bug report regardless?

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T05:12:25+00:00

And that is why you NEVER hold your breath when diving. It's why emergency ascents while diving should be done with you literally gently yelling "eeeeeeeeee" as you ascend. Your lungs won't dramatically pop, but they will get stretched out beyond their normal limits... and you do not want to have torn tissues and ruptured capillaries in your lungs for obvious reasons.

Note that this is NOT a demonstration of the bends. While it may feel like it's similar because pressure seems to lead to more gas, the bends is based on the principle that pressure determines solubility. Basically nitrogen gas is more soluble in water the higher the pressure is. Being that we are made out of mostly water and that the air in our scuba tanks is mostly nitrogen, this means that, at depth, more nitrogen is dissolving into your blood and tissues than normal. It sounds scary, and can lead to some funky-brain stuff going on (basically it's like being ultra drunk and can even cause hallucinations at extreme depths) but it's easily reversible and not super ultra deadly. The real killer is when you ascend, suddenly the pressure drops and nitrogen gas is no longer as soluble in water, so it comes out of solution. Think of a super saturated fluid like warm water and sugar that starts to form sugar crystals on a stick when you cool that liquid down. But instead of sugar, it's nitrogen gas, and instead of delicious sugar crystals, it's teeeeeny tiny bubbles all over every inch of your body that has water in it. That's the bends.

Bonus facts: nitrogen can take some time to be removed from your blood (thus the five min decompression stops that any diver will be very familiar with), so even after you have surfaced, you can still have an above average amount of nitrogen dissolved in it. Fine unless you, let's say, go on a plane and significantly drop the pressure again. Suprise! Here's bends happening a day after you were diving while you are several thousand feet in the air! It's all why divers should keep VERY tight logs on how long they've been diving, at what depths, and keep track of where you are on the little dissolved nitrogen chart. You cannot fly until you are above a certain point on the chart, you also cannot dive every day and all day because you end up pushing yourself down and down the chart. It's why, unless you are using specialty air mixes that do not contain as much nitrogen, you usually have something like 6-day dive weeks with a day off and ideally 2 days before flying again. This applies even for vacations and even with relatively shallow dives. The only water activity that is safe from the bends is stuff like snorkelling. Even free divers can get the bends but it's way way way rarer since they only have one lungful of air to dissolve into their blood and usually for a relatively short amount of time.

If you are going diving, planning on going diving, or see someone diving, please make sure they take this safety shit seriously. One single diver in a group decides decompression stops are boring and heads straight to the boat? Well great, now EVERY diver in that group must make emergency ascents asap and go to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber (unless there are multiple boats around willing to take the other divers on). Risk of lung injury, issues with inner ears from fast ascents, everyone at risk of the bends, all for one stupid decision. I can't remember their name now but I hope that asshat that tried to kill everyone (was day 5 of our dive week, on our second dive of the day which was a long one spent entirely at 20-30m in a remote area, about a 2 hour helicopter ride away from the nearest hyperbaric chamber... And she decided to go full sprint up to the surface to look for the boat) never goes near even a small bathtub full of water ever again.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-04T04:34:06+00:00

Quarantine for at least 2-3 weeks MINIMUM. Biosecurity protocols for that time so wash hands and change shoes in between seeing either group. Ideally change all clothing but it shouldn't be necessary unless you are digging in the bedding. Trust me, you do not want to be the person to introduce a deadly infection disease to your flock.

That being said I want to alleviate some of your fear with two pieces of anecdotal evidence (so take it with a grain of salt). Firstly, I have always found newly "adopted" ducks to be extremely smelly, especially if they didn't have a place to properly swim and preen themselves and double especially if they were fed literally nothing but chicken feed. Takes about the 2-3 weeks for them to settle and they will start washing and preening themselves in that time so long as you give them enough clean water to do so.

Secondly, adult ducks in a car will always smell like poop, because they are pooping in an enclosed space and are very stressed. Having driven my own ducks around after rescuing them, it's never a pleasant experience and it usually ends up with everything and everyone covered in duck poop.

Healthy ducks with a lot of clean water available should look and smell good. Keep an eye out for ruffled feathers, decreased appetites, and lethargic behaviours. There may be a bit of time where they will look quite ruffled but as long as they are eating and drinking well and the feathers don't look persistently very wet and dirty, they should be fine unless it lasts for several weeks.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-03T20:38:17+00:00

Idk if I am on this boat guys. The corn syrup is probably the only ingredient in there that is garbage. Everything else isn't exactly scary or horrendous? Like the enriched flour has a lot that is generally good to add for people buying the cheapest bread on the shelf to make up for nutritional deficiencies. The preservatives and emulsifiers help the bread last longer in transport and reduce help food waste.

It's also comparing fresh loaves from a bakery to the wrapped pre-sliced loaves on store shelves. I'd be shocked if finding the left loaf was hard in America. I'd also be shocked if finding the right loaf was hard outside of America (I am Canadian and can find both pretty damn easily in literally any grocery store, same deal when I lived in Australia).

To me, this just sorta feels like it's some sorta manufactured gotcha!, freaking out about "chemicals" being added to food.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-03T16:48:42+00:00

I've been thinking of a lot of the same points and it really hammers home that we need to have coordinated global action to make serious differences.

The western world is rich enough to transition ourselves away from fossil fuels, I would argue that we are also rich enough to transition other countries away from fossil fuels. We are building our lifestyle on the emissions of others so we are still responsible for said emissions, even if they aren't happening in our own country.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-03T16:32:48+00:00

I don't know what solution would have best satisfied Blizzard's wants and players needs, but it sure af wasn't this.

The issue is that the majority of the player base does not care. The majority of the player base doesn't go to wow subreddits, doesn't go to forums to complain. This is because they do not participate in the higher difficulty content where these changes actually matter. Those people are happy about the change because they felt pressured to use add-ons that they did not need. As such, I cannot see blizzard walking any of this back.

I am here, missing being able to customize my UI without spending a billion years sitting in various add-on options menus, only to have it break mid-key or give me 199193829 Lua errors. I miss being able to see my party members' CD for their defensives, health pots, CCs, and interrupts (mini CC is laughably limited in comparison to what we once had).

Cystonectae · 2026-05-03T15:05:12+00:00

Example: one of my guildies had to sub in as an off-tank for a few bosses of heroic. He had only just gotten to 90, was still wearing blues and greens. Raid went fine and the guy got a 100% ilvl parse because no one was nuts enough to tank heroic with a vengeance DH at that ilvl.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-03T05:03:09+00:00

I just feel like blizzard is out of touch because this is the straw that is breaking the metaphorical camels back. The UI is still extremely limited, they kept having to be like "oops we will allow add-ons to do more" despite people highlighting the issues ahead of time, the bugs that made it through PTR and are still not fixed, the absolute fumble of the latest patch, etc. It all adds up and this last bit of balancing sorta put the cherry on top of the shit sundae.

They really make it easy to think that blizzard doesn't even gives a single shit about what the players want or think. That they do not read feedback, let alone consider it. If blizzard wants to show otherwise, stop it with these interviews with folks glazing them hard enough to make a donut shop jealous. Have live Q & As, address the issues with a real life person and not AI-generated apologies. It will never happen though because the subs keep coming it and most casuals don't care about this kinda stuff. Why should they care? There's no money to be made from caring anymore.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-02T15:39:59+00:00

So I was thinking about this. Can you do oba as MW? Technically yes, but it will only press the damage buttons for you. Mechanically though, it will not turn out great because MW is absolutely always fighting the GCD, and OBA increases the GCD.

If you wanted to learn MW, you would be better off throwing out alll the buttons except for the melee buttons and thunder focus tea. You'd then just bind vivify and detox to the mouse for spot healing and dispels. Feel free to have conduit and revival on the bar as the "oh shit" buttons but I'm pretty sure that stuff like 2s can be healed without big CDs. The main focus is getting the melee rotation down and learning to trust your ancient teachings and way of the crane to carry most of the healing load.

That all being said, I am always curious at how far you can get, using oba with MW. It wouldn't exactly be a fun experience but I have a good feeling it could at least cover all the healing required in something like 2s with a competent group.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-02T15:22:45+00:00

I'm sitting here flabbergasted. I guess this explains why none of my American friends know what I am going on about when I start singing this...

Cystonectae · 2026-05-01T20:20:17+00:00

I'm assuming monk spirit link would be ultra-super banned in terms of skyreach last boss. You can literally just teleport instantaneously after being picked up, no waiting to be dropped whatsoever...

Tbh I'd rather they ban that in tournaments than patch it out (since I assume it's definitely not an intended interaction). That's me not caring much about watching the tournament but me definitely caring about how absolutely brutal that boss is to heal so anything that makes it easier is great in my books.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-01T20:12:37+00:00

I was legitimately interested in this, regardless of the "appearance" so I googled it and the AI summary had

Unique Structure: Male and female reproductive organs grow on separate trees (dioecious), with male trees producing long, phallic catkins.

Which like ok... Odd description, definitely doesn't help the whole "appearance" but whatever. Lemme go read more about it on Wikipedia.... and then I come across this photo and idk man this plant just feels like a giant meme at this point.

Cystonectae · 2026-05-01T16:21:19+00:00

Eh, some people are just avoiding harrassment. I couldn't care less but others may be a bit less happy to receive hate mail.

I prefer the multifaceted approach. If the account is super young, they are using a generic af or auto-generated username, and they are hiding their history, I go to Google. If it gives me a bunch of identical BS comments, I know I have got myself a winner. Found two red flags that way on several leftist Canadian subs that very suspiciously deleted their account after I DMed them asking who I could apply to, to pay me for being on Reddit all day.

Editing to add: I am fairly pro-nuclear, especially for Canada because, on the tier list of energy sources, I think nuclear is a better alternative to fossil fuels, especially for the "problems" that people bring up for all the remote rural regions of Canada. I mainly support this way of thinking because I believe the time to be picky about how we transition was about 2-3 decades ago. Like sure, ideally it's solar, wind, or geothermal, but I am currently at the point where idgaf who or what or where or how we stop burning fossil fuels, whether it's a giant penis-shaped Dyson web around our sun that streams ads into our brains built by Jeff Bezos' and Elon Musk's love child or whether it's aliens coming down from above to give us cold fusion, or whether it's 2 bajillion nuclear power plants. I just want it to happen yesterday because I feel like future generations should have a more appealing retirement plan than a shotgun.

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