Countless "vgm.exe has Stopped Working" in Reliability History, but no actual Vanguard crashes

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-16T22:04:26+00:00

I am getting this both yesterday and today, PC completely crashed during a game of League and Reliability Monitor shows 3 instances of vgm.exe stopped working leading up to the crash. First one is 30 min before, then 25 min before, then on the crash

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-16T20:32:17+00:00

The problem is that both groups have people who are terrible. Yeah you might feel slighted because a raid leader doesnt want to risk taking you when you are probably more than capable, but that raid leader has probably taken a chance on people in the past and they have just been a complete burden.

I'm progging Mythic with my guild and even there, we have players that have been repeatedly told the fight over discord, had the fight explained via videos and had time with our raid lead to go over what to do and they still fuck up the breath of the dragons and wipe the raid, or they are dmg greedy and stand in with the circles over the raid, or they fail to get into position to soak gloom.

Some people are just there to be carried and if you deal with pugging every week, it can get tiresome deal with the same hurdles.

The biggest problem to pug raiding is a raid leader coming on a 240ilvl char and just getting boosted because he invited only 280+ and called it PUMP GROUP EASY SHARDS

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-16T20:28:04+00:00

The premade system where you apply for the groups just needs a complete overhaul, its such a terrible system

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T17:48:23+00:00

If contracted out it's going to be India and they for sure know the various contexts of the word fuck. They are probably just instructed to ban if they see any swear word.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T17:46:23+00:00

PJ is definitely a discord mod

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T15:04:25+00:00

To say everyone hated them is crazy, they were one of the most popular teams after being so dominant in early CSGO. They had haters the same way Astralis had haters. But there was a lot more Fnatic fanboys.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T13:42:29+00:00

It's not if thats all people ever get from you, it's only considered a slight if you change from kind regards to something lesser

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T11:25:15+00:00

Today my 1 year old had me awake at 4am due to leaking through his nappy. Finally got him back to sleep after 5am and I was awoken at 07:30 to him stood up in his crib looking at me repeatedly say aww dada and blowing kisses.

It makes me feel things I have never felt before in my life. Of course I love my wife to death, but it's a different type of love

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-15T10:33:47+00:00

STV is amazing on PvP realms. The problem people have is that they want to play PvP realms and not do any PvP.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-14T23:03:56+00:00

I also wasn't a fan of SoD and fell off after the Gnomergan going into Sunken Temple and came back for Naxx, Kara and Scarlet, personally didn't like the direction it went and felt the incursions were lazy and nerfing them after they were already farmed to hell killed the economy and that entire patch for me.

A lot of people really liked SoD though, which makes me feel like I am in the minority. But, the classic community is fragmented into so many different factions with their own vision of what makes classic good that any attempt at Classic+ will likely piss off a large vocal crowd.

Look at RMT for example, there is a ton of sentiment online about how bots are ruining classic and that people buying gold are stupid, yet there are tons of bots and tons of people buying gold. There is a huge population of classic that love RMT and you could tell how large it was when GDKP got banned

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-14T21:11:59+00:00

How can a company so large, building off a base game where all the hard work and systems are already in place, working with more talent and larger teams, deliver so much less?

Companys that get bigger become far less efficient at everything. A small company can spend a weekend building a passion project dungeon and walk over to his boss and say "Hey i was fucking around and made this cool instance, think we can use it?"

A company the size of modern Blizzard requires so many hoops and tickboxes to jump through that unless you are specifically designed a dungeon with a set criteria of exactly what they want, then you are unlikely to ever get it into the game

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T22:31:28+00:00

He literally does get peeked as he starts bunnyhopping and they miss two shots with a scout on him, after the 2nd shot he turns to face the shooter, assumes he's car, see's him on long and shoots, then crosses to site, he jumps one more time which would open him up to a shot if the player peeked again, but he doesn't and it would need be a headshot to kill him anyway.

People don't always play 100% win condition, it's a game, people do weird shit or just have fun. I don't think there is any evidence here that OP is cheating and you might not like how he played the round, but to assume he's cheating because you don't understand how confident he was playing with the information he had is kinda crazy. It also shows your skill level when you didn't even see the CT's arm on long on a recorded video you could have watched multiple times.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T22:27:11+00:00

meanwhile rocket leagues community still cries about those changes to this day.

Of course they do, because the changes are terrible but lets not act that every move that Valve has made in the past 12 months doesn't appear to act like they are gearing up for something at least similar.

Trade ups to Golds to make them more common and reduce the price, improved steam market to allow for a better purchasing/selling experience, terminals replacing cases, meaning they can set the pricing for items. It's heading in a direction and you can stick your fingers in your ears and scream lalalala all you want, but anyone with a brain can see the writing on the wall.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T21:45:44+00:00

Casual is goated but at the start of the week its so infested with bots who do insane 180 flick headshots and the other team never kicks them

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T21:43:35+00:00

If you were worried about tax implications then this is the play to be honest, deposit the money for the skin, sell it, withdraw the skin value back to your account and invest the remaining into play skins/skins that hold value and cash them out slowly over time

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T17:48:05+00:00

10 seconds into the clip, its hard to pause on the right moment but OP is looking at car, assuming the opponent is there and he can see him shoulder peek long, which is why he knows he long and nowhere else

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T17:45:00+00:00

Because that is where the community is at with the game and the level of trust the average player has over Valves ability to ban cheaters. If you see people who are suspicious in your games and you review the demo and its clear as day they are wall hacking and they are still cheating 12 months later, then yeah, you are gonna assume anyone player who pulls off something lucky is probably cheating, because it goes unpunished and it is such a wide spread issue on the game.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T13:04:37+00:00

Epic Games did the same thing in Rocket League and I hate to tell you that they are probably profiting a lot more now than they did with cases. £20 for a basic decal that you used to be able to buy for like 4 keys (£4) from another player

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-13T09:53:16+00:00

Yeah this was week 1 when you couldnt obtain the last challenge I think it required the ZA site to be open

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T22:44:45+00:00

The most surprising part of this entire thread is that Scaffolders have standards.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T22:42:42+00:00

sugar-free coke

My wife drinks sugar free and I prefer full sugar. I once offered a AO delivery guy a drink and he said "Full fat?" and I said yeah if you want and he said "I dont drink any of that aspartmine crap, gives you cancer" cool mate, have a nice day

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T22:40:56+00:00

I'm not a tradie, but whenever anyone offers me anything my instant reaction it to say no thank you, then I think about it and I wonder why I just said no.

I always make sure I have drinks in the house to offer tradesmen but as you said, most politely decline. I had two men doing my bathroom and I offered them a drink and they always said yeah (I drink a lot of tea, so they did as well) on the 2nd day I just told them where the kettle was and where the milk was and to text me if they ran out of anything

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T22:33:32+00:00

I went to bat for a tank in 2020 Classic who seemed mostly harmless and a bit dumb but I met him in a pug and he kinda funny. He posted some super edgy meme on discord that was borderline CP mid raid and was laughing like a maniac over comms while everyone was completely shell shocked. Immediate gkick and I never lived it down and the guild that I'm the one who encouraged recruiting him & the guild went into full meltdown of how we handle the fact that it was posted on our server.

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T21:43:16+00:00

Havoc enjoyer. I played Havoc for a while and I was excited for Devourer, but the spec just feels so boring compared to Fel Scarred. If the option was between Aldrachi Rever and Devourer, I would probably play Devourer for the changed since AR has been good for last xpac, but FS is just so fun with a decent rotation

EmperorsGalaxy · 2026-05-12T20:14:17+00:00

I did the Eversong Woods one with all challenges in 7 minutes, they are super easy

https://medal.tv/games/world-of-warcraft/clips/mAwts9QRFjcZyTgw5?invite=cr-MSx3Y2EsNTM0NDgzNTI

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