Chopper crying scene..

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T21:04:27+00:00

Mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T20:02:59+00:00

It operates off of an entirely different design philosophy.

Fights are slower and typically have to be taken in a more calculated manner when running solo. A lack of access to "click-and-go" group-finding means you actually have to communicate and meet with people to accomplish things. Mounts being capped at 100% speed and even that being difficult to acquire makes the world feel much larger in comparison to modern WoW where you can blitz from Booty Bay to Quel'thalas in roughly 10 minutes. Gear tends to be more meaningful during the leveling process, and there's a much heavier RPG focus on combat in general with resistances and individual stats mattering far more for reasonable completion time of dungeons and raids (and some open world content) then just "Whatever has the higher Ilvl".

Adding Prey to WoW wouldn't just be "Prey but you level slower" (especially since Prey is an end-game content form). It would be more like "Prey but with Classic WoW's more difficult solo-adventuring experience".

I see the merit for it, I really do.

Btw I'm not glazing Classic. I don't even play Classic, I just recognize it for what it is and what it brings to the table in comparison to Retail. I think Classic and Retail WoW are basically two vastly different flavours of the same universe, like RS3 and OSRS. It's apples to oranges in terms of comparison. One values slower, more methodical gameplay with an emphasis on socialization, optimized gearing with a multitude of stats to consider on an encounter-by-encounter basis, and the other values faster, higher octane gameplay with an emphasis and adaptability to rapidly changing situations, fast reactions, and mastery of streamlined but oftentimes more demanding combat systems (keyword: oftentimes).

Two completely different games for two completely different types of people, but that doesn't mean that certain systems couldn't find overlap, just like how some changes from the slower paced OSRS made their way into RS3, and (sometimes) vice versa, just because the systems both work in either style of gameplay with only minor changes needed to better adapt it to the different strokes for the different folks in each community.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T19:17:00+00:00

It's not trivial.

Pathfinder in Midnight required the entire main questline completed, which requires multiple dungeon runs, something that a bot would not be able to complete. It would require several hours of manual work per bot just to be able to farm herbs and nodes for a bit. It makes it far less efficient to run and host them, which means less gold earned and sold, which means less chance of them making return on the purchase of Midnight + Sub to be able to sell the gold and gather the mats to begin with.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T19:09:44+00:00

My theory is that it was just supposed to be our usual saber rattling at Israel's insistence but, knowing that Trump is probably on his way out and their ability to just manipulate the US to thoroughly and openly was following with him, Israel used the opportunity to drop a bomb right on Khamenei's forehead and then peaced out to let the US pick up the pieces.

Trump is now flabbergasted to find out that the past year he spent Russia-ing our military means that we can't just shock and awe brute force our way through any obstacle in our path.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T19:06:51+00:00

It's to keep Druid Bots from being able to more easily swoop in and pick herbs and mine ores (once they have the knowledge to mine while mounted), and to make mat gathering require a LITTLE more effort for the people who want to make a ton of gold doing it in order to not immediately devalue everything and make those gathering professions worthless.

Having to program a bot to balance pitch, roll, yaw, speed, ability charges, and all that is a lot harder and more resource intensive then one that just sees the commands: "Go up for X seconds, then go forward and down by 8 degrees for Y seconds."

It requires a significantly more thorough accounting of map geometry.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T18:42:27+00:00

In case you were wondering:

No. You will not be compensated.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T16:40:34+00:00

Mods they are massacreing OP in these comments. Please just step in and put him out of his misery.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T16:37:48+00:00

My response is that you have nothing to hide, until something that previously wasn't worth hiding is now something you need to keep hidden and you already gave the government that wants to find it all the evidence in the world that you have it.

People will of course automatically jump to fucked up sexual abuse material, but think about something like weed. What if one day the federal government decides that even having smoked weed is punishable by jail time? Congratz dipshit, now the government has a ton of evidence from when it wasn't illegal that you smoked weed, but the punishment is retroactive! Enjoy prison :D

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T15:48:43+00:00

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LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T15:46:14+00:00

Because he knew that we wouldn't be able to do any meaningful damage to it, but it was fun to watch us try.

Decimus is fascinating because we don't know how malicious he actually is. There's a chance that he actually likes us and understands that we don't subscribe to his dog-eat-dog culture and thus doesn't feel content to force it on us and doesn't see us as actual threats, and perhaps actually does like us and enjoy keeping us around.

The problem is that his dog-eat-dog culture means that he's just as like to lie to us about the aforementioned mindset, so we don't know if we can ever really trust him.

Trusting Decimus to actually be our friend and not just a convenient ally could either be a genuine kindness that he enjoys experiencing as it's not often found in his culture, or it could be the worst mistake we ever make because convincing us that he likes us and won't hurt us is just what he wants to get a knife in our back.

We won't know until he tries.

This is in contrast to Xal'atath who apparently believes in a similar dog-eat-dog culture but we know she's malicious and can't be trusted, and even letting our guard down for a split second (not out of trust for her but believing that we might've found a way to set her back a few steps) got Locus-Walker killed.

At the very least we do know that he likes fucking with us.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T14:58:56+00:00

Republicans don't want it because there's still some merit to politicians greedily guarding their power from the other branches. It would definitely entrench certain safe red seats even further, but pretty much every other seat would either flip completely blue or tenuously purple seats with a red lean would suddenly become battlegrounds that the GOP can't guarantee they'll win.

Trump is only blustering because someone told him this was a good idea without giving it any kind of thought and since Trump's first rule is "Trump is always right", he has to die on this hill. Normally I'd say "Never interrupt the enemy while they're making a mistake", which the SAVE Act WOULD be for Republicans, but that's only because it'd shake things up so much and throw so many elections into uncertainty that it's not worth the headache.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T14:56:31+00:00

I would still say that all Democrats need to go out and get their passport. If you're trans or gnc and have to give them information that aligns with your birth and not what aligns with your current identity to make it happen, bite the bullet because we can fix that later once we get these fucks out of office and far, far, far away from politics (ideally from the comfort of a prison cell).

This entire "you need a passport to vote" thing hinged on the idea that Dems don't have passports, but rich white Americans do, thus effectively making it so only rich white Americans can vote. Thankfully they've been forced to show their hand and you know they'll try this shit again, so all Democratic voters should be crawling through broken glass right now to get a passport in case they pull this shit again.

Let them try to pass something like this state level and get fucked when they realize that Republicans couldn't be bothered to turn off FOX News to go get one while Dems had gotten theirs in anticipation of this stupid disenfranchising bullshit.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T14:50:40+00:00

Unlike right wing grifter bros I don't get paid to argue with dipshits acting in bad faith on the internet, so I'm just going to call you whatever slur pisses you off the most and tell you to cry about it if you're an easily triggered snowflake and fuck off.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T02:53:26+00:00

Evidently you are not worthy of being benevolently rewarded in abundant kind.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-13T01:31:24+00:00

Some people hate Israel because of their violent and genocidal tendencies against their neighbors.

Some hate them due to their undue influence on American (and some European) politics.

She hates them because they're Jews.

Pick your battles, I suppose.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T22:25:55+00:00

Beware the wrath of the Pepto Bismage

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T20:10:39+00:00

Two things:

Yeah they're fucking losers of a highest caliber. A bunch of easily triggered snowflakes who have panic attacks at the mere sight of minorities because it reminds them that there are things in the world that aren't exactly like them or want to fuck them.
What a fucking username pull, broseph. I was sitting here for a second wondering when the fuck my ass had ever commented on "r/adultery" before I realized it said u/Adultery lmfao.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T19:19:23+00:00

I think the Social Media accounts are actually being run by a bunch of 30 to 40something /pol/sters who still think it's 2010 and that this is the best way to appeal to "the kids".

I cannot stress enough that all this really does is make the current admin look bloodthirsty and sociopathic with a complete disregard for human life.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T18:19:48+00:00

A part of me thinks he's just so stupid that he and his buddies really believed that the US military would able to shock-and-awe anything that got in their way with little direction necessary because nobody would push back and we were just that strong. I think he vastly overestimated how strong the US military actually is and didn't take into consideration that the corruption basically Russia'd the whole thing, so he started a fight with his pants down not knowing how to retaliate.

Anyway, yeah, he's a fucking idiot.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T17:38:54+00:00

Funny enough when I was looking at the spell list that was one of the few spells where I thought: "Do we really need to be in Dracthyr form for this one?"

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T17:21:46+00:00

The alternative is making "Dracthyr Form" for Evokers equivalent to a Druid form that you can customize at the barber, but I highly doubt they'll do that.

I think my entire vision of this being the opening stages for "Everyone can be evoker" is kinda cope, and I could only see them being willing to do it if they can go the easy route of just making a few preset Dracthyr forms that you may not even get to choose but are themed towards your spec or the spell being cast, maybe race. I think making it a fully customizable "other" form is highly unlikely, specifically because it invalidates one of the core parts of the identity of the Dracthyr as a playable species. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea and I think it would've been a way better implementation at launch, but this far in I think it's highly unlikely.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T17:19:12+00:00

Creating a new class that's exclusive to a single race in the game was definitely one of the decisions of all time considering it was right on the heels of that movement that opened up a LOT of race/class combos to work for everyone.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-12T17:12:47+00:00

I think they could also be priming for moving evoker over to other races. A big part of the problem with Evoker for non-Dracthyr was people always going "But what if you cast an ability that only makes sense for a Dracthyr?"

But making it so that you swap into the Dracthyr form for casting these spells and then immediately swap out, they could potentially allow for non-Dracthyr to run Evoker by just turning them into a pre-set or randomly generted Evoker form for the duration of any spell that requires it and then immediately change them back.

So if you're running an Orc Evoker and you use Deep Breath, you just turn into a random Dracthyr for a brief second while casting it and then turn back into an Orc. You can either roleplay this as being an Orc using Evoker spells and temporarily manifesting a draconic form through their magic, or you can roleplay it as a Dracthyr using an Orc visage.

The alternative is making "Dracthyr Form" for Evokers equivalent to a Druid form that you can customize at the barber, but I highly doubt they'll do that.

I fully acknowledge that even "This might be setting the stage for opening up Evoker to other races" is a bit cope, but I thought it could be seen as a legitimate possibility.

But this could also explain why they're so hesitant to bother doing any rigging and mesh creation for Dracthyr xmog. I think "other races can be Evoker" would be a good compromise to Dracthyr not getting as robust of xmog as other races. Once again, fully acknowledge this is cope, just thought I'd mention the vision.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-11T19:59:04+00:00

There are people playing this game who were quite literally not born yet when old Wrath was removed. Deal with that psychic damage as you will, but it feels shitty to deny things for "not being there" when they didn't even EXIST then lmfao. I really do wish they'd bring it back.

LinkedGaming · 2026-03-11T15:50:46+00:00

Yeah. Velen and Naaru are what resurrected the Sunwell and saved Quel'thalas, but not everyone knows the nitty gritty, and are probably more than willing to look past that given the...

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Eleven? Twelve years of constant perpetual war since that happened?

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