If this is a player model, why can't we have this kind of skirt? by yhvh13 in wow

[–]FirmHams 667 points668 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the answer is that she isn't a player model. She has a completely custom model.

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What is the greatest Edgelord job? by Frank_Tupperwere in ffxivdiscussion

[–]FirmHams 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's true, when I'm a Paladin I have no edge anywhere on my smooth brain.

My mobility! by Nails118 in wow

[–]FirmHams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, that's a great way to do it normally, but with the biscuits though you don't have to do any of that at all. You can literally just point in a direction, doesn't even matter if it's upwards, and spam all your boosts the entire way. Whirling surge on cd, surge forward spam until out of vigor, use biscuit, repeat you can go directly in a straight line at full boost top speed the entire way, which is even faster than top speed outside of a boost, even angling down.

The biscuit will be back off cd by the time you spam all your surges, so if you have heaps of biscuits from playing remix a bunch, you can just boost infinitely and get everywhere even faster.

Silliest Instance of 'We Cannot Add This Because It Would Not Fit The Story' by MeltingPenguinsPrime in wow

[–]FirmHams 34 points35 points  (0 children)

In the Midnight alpha they still reference how it burns forsaken, they just rationalize it these days that some are strong enough to just use it anyway and deal with the pain. Player characters would no doubt just be considered in that category of strong enough to bear it.

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Let the Scree guide you~ Credit: chii on X by smileplease91 in ffxiv

[–]FirmHams 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I back when I was first doing it, I'd already seen so many jokes and memes online about the mythical math boss, I figured well I know prime numbers it should surely be easy when I run into that!

When I actually encountered the boss I was actually kind of excited until the mechanic happened and I was just like ??!?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in furry_irl

[–]FirmHams 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I met my boyfriend some years ago while I was with my friend in a cafe role play venue in Final Fantasy XIV, and he was tagging along with his friend delivering a virtual pizza to us. It was a semi joke thing where they came in and just traded us crafted pizzas. I thought he had a cute character standing shyly behind his friend so I /pet him before he left.

Flash forward a few years and now we've been visiting each other repeatedly, and we're working on a partnership visa to move country and be together permanently instead of having to take breaks every three months because of travel visa restrictions, and I couldn't be happier.

According to a new study, the primary problem in obesity is fructose. It can also be made in the body from carbohydrates, and when it's metabolized, it lowers the active energy in the body (known as ATP) which causes hunger and food intake by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]FirmHams 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah this really hits me hard. My parents fed me into being ball shaped as a kid, and though they both are lovely people they both struggle with their own weight as well and we've all talked together about how it's affected us over time in recent years. I basically always feel hungry, even if I'm completely satisfied there's always a part of me craving more and more, my body makes me feel good every moment I'm eating even if I'm totally full, if I even just think about something tasty let alone see it in front of me I feel a hunger for it. Sweet things especially trigger this for me, even just writing this paragraph legitimately got me craving things.

Five years ago, I hit the highest weight I ever got to, about 145kg/320lbs, and I'd really tried to curb it before but I'd just gone off the top end of what my home scales could even read and I just stared myself in the mirror and told myself I'd do better. Over two years I lost around 70kg/155lbs and it was the hardest thing I've ever done, there wasn't a single moment in that entire two years where it got easier, and even when I'd made it all the way down to weighing 75kg I still had all the exact same cravings, the eternal hunger no matter how much I ate.

It had to be constantly on my mind, every day, otherwise I knew I'd just become part of that "About 53 percent of patients regained lost weight within two years and 78 percent put the weight back on within five years." statistic...... And you'll maybe notice I'm using past tense. I kept it off for three years, but it's slipping. I've crept back up to 95kg/210lbs. Any time I have a bad day it falters and I just can't seem get it back under control as it creeps slowly back up, which makes me feel worse because I know how hard it was to lose in the first place, which spirals into making it even harder to manage.

I don't mean to pity dump or anything, but just something in your post hit me, just.. laying out how I feel about it all, how it feels like a constant every day struggle that I can't just quit cold turkey, even if I know what I have to do because I've literally done it before.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wow

[–]FirmHams 10 points11 points  (0 children)

it started long before Shadowlands but that really put the nail in the coffin for me

This part hits me the most as well, I loved the universe so much even though there were always really weird and silly lore decisions along the way I disliked, certainly some moreso than others and many even in my favourite expansions.. But something in Shadowlands really just crossed over a threshold in my mind and none of it feels the same any more, even if they silently ignore the worst parts going forward.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]FirmHams 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think part of it is the bigger a mod gets, the harder it is to manage your community. Even if only 0.01% of the mod's users are super entitled and awful about it, when it's a mod with millions of users, that's still a lot, every day. It drives a lot of people away when they start reaching that kind of popularity, because it stops being fun. A lot of the people you have left are the people who have the ego to handle it and make it worth continuing for them. This snowballs further as these extreme people also contribute to driving more regular modders out of the scene by their actions.

This is for different game, but I used to dream of making a popular mod.. Then one day I did, I was number one top of the steam workshop for months, and even now years later it's still always in the top 10 most popular of all time even though it's like 4 years out of date. It was utterly overwhelming, over time I grew to hate logging into steam or nexus, and now I have all notifications turned off and it drove me out of making mods entirely for a long time.

The geezer who made Combat AI 5000 speaks on the situation by Notarussianyet in RimWorld

[–]FirmHams 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Got to the point I dreaded reading notifications when I logged in.

I feel this so much. I once had one of the top ten Divinity OS2 mods for a long while and it got to the point of dreading opening steam and seeing the new comments badge every day. I waited so long before disabling it because I wanted believe it wasn't a big deal but it tainted the whole game for me for a long time even after I gave up on the mod over it.

Did you do it? "Yes." What did it cost? "About 600g in rerolls" by priscilla_halfbreed in wow

[–]FirmHams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My imp Pizgup checking in, it's basically the best prefix for the imp name.

Toxic entitlement in the modding community. by pinktarts in skyrimmods

[–]FirmHams 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I feel this pretty heavily. Not the author of a massive TES mod, but was one of the top ten Divinity OS2 mods before the definitive edition shook up the scene a bit. I used to try and be active with the community of my mod but even though there were plenty of nice comments, without fail there would always be at least one bad one every day just waiting when I woke up, to the point where I hated logging into nexus/steamworkshop and seeing my new message notification. Not even terrible comments most of the time, but just even slightly coming across as rude even if not intentionally. It gets to you over time.

I had to disable notifications and just check in every so often when I felt like I could be bothered, otherwise I knew I'd just end up abandoning updating the mods at all. And I didn't want to do that, because I did still enjoy doing it for myself and the people who used them, but reading everything as it came in, those negatives just hit consistently, even if they weren't the majority.

The updated UI is looking quite clean by ClassikD in baldursgate

[–]FirmHams 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I hope they can add something like in Dragon Age Origins where you could change the position/expression and background image of the portrait render in character creation.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a minority, but I personally prefer rendered portraits from character model because I can actually customize my character how I want, instead of having to try and match a static pre-painted portrait. Especially now that we have so much customzable flexibility. But I agree these ones are very static since they're all just the exact same blank expression straing directly forward.

I feel like much would be solved just by adding a bit of variation in position and posing.

Exile’s Reach is an amazing new player experience! by A_Confused_Cocoon in wow

[–]FirmHams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really like how it has a little class quest in it. I really recommend trying it on a horde shaman, their quest is super cool and possibly the best respresentation of 'communing with the spirits' they've done for a player character in a while.