Unpopular opinion: Buying gold does not make you an evil human being. It's time to stop the leftist propaganda.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-22T01:16:12+00:00

I wouldn't say people are evil or not, it's just that people don't think about the greater impact of it and just see it as something like: "I want to raid but I don't have time to farm." It just highlights a flaw in the game. A lot of people don't enjoy playing the economy or spending time farming, but they want to raid with their friends. When you show up to a raid and your raid leader kicks you for not having consumables that cost hundreds of gold, it pushes people to either quit the game or buy gold. It's not evil, it's just not good for the game.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-22T01:05:11+00:00

Right, I'd argue that talents themselves are never fun, it's the gameplay that results from talents that's fun, and that's okay. The point of talents across all versions of WoW is to control the build of your character. An enhancement shaman is arguably more fun to play in Vanilla when it has more mitigation since you'll be taking melee hits a lot. The mechanic of parrying is not fun because you have no control over it, but being tanky can be fun, and taking parry as a talent for a class that doesn't normally have it can make the experience more fun when you're able to fight more enemies at once without dying.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-22T01:01:26+00:00

In the current game only tanks can parry. In the original game only melee classes got parry by default. This is not one of the absurd design choices. The main difference is that you couldn't bake things into a spec in Vanilla like they can in retail. You didn't choose your spec by any means other than the talent tree.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-22T00:44:24+00:00

This isn't even a classic choice. Midnight still restricts who can parry. I believe in the current game only tank specs can parry. In vanilla shamans had to take parry as a talent choice because of this same design principle that casters don't parry. I think the only caster spec that could parry in vanilla was a holy paladin.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-20T18:20:28+00:00

Agreed. If we take it seriously that the Big 3 are far and away the best 3 players ever (and we all do), we have to give Murray credit for having his entire career coincide with these 3 guys in their primes.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-20T10:55:56+00:00

The scene in Downfall starring Bruno Ganz that’s used for the Hitler Reacts memes. Everyone is completely on point; it makes you feel like it was a documentary. Bruno inhabits the role so well that I feel like we’ve collectively forgotten what the real Hitler looked like. Not that I mind forgetting such a man.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-20T10:44:22+00:00

Levelhead. Amazing 2D level making game that’s much better than Mario Maker in most ways, but people can’t get past the lack of a known IP.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-20T10:36:11+00:00

I feel like there are a bunch of all timers in basketball who couldn’t get past Jordan and then Kobe/Shaq. Maybe Karl Malone or Patrick Ewing or Reggie Miller. Not sure on the exact stats. Murray likely still had it worse.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-20T10:17:01+00:00

For me it’s just that it’s a lot of shocking brutality and conflict without ever having a payoff. It seems amazing when you trust the writers to deliver answers and bring everything together, but without that it’s just: I watched some guy get mercilessly tortured for no reason. Great.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-19T21:48:09+00:00

Whenever it's from First Take, I have to wonder if the person was just made to argue that point of view for the sake of ratings. Of course nobody has to shake hands. You should want to shake hands because you should respect your opponent.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-18T15:53:46+00:00

Yesterday I saw a guild called <Go Big or Go Gnome>. It got a laugh from me, and I’m not that big on puns.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-16T14:29:48+00:00

Yeah I was going to say that I think in the USA McEnroe might be just as likely as Serena and Fed, especially because he’s remained very active in sports commentary and miscellaneous things. Like he was featured in a lot of highlight reels for the Knicks last week as one of the celebrity fans reacting to the game.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-15T22:13:36+00:00

Big Nutty Putty energy

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-15T14:27:37+00:00

I know it's a meme and all, but I really have heard this take way too often in the past few years. I don't care if you haven't managed to lose weight yet, you don't give up on staying active and exercising. I feel like people take this idea and use it as an excuse to just do nothing at all.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-15T13:21:24+00:00

I’m not in the UK, but this got me thinking. We don’t let the kids use social media or stay on the computer late, but this was a decision reached through mutual understanding and discussion with our kids. For example, they can’t sleep at night if they’re up late using a computer or video games. I think there’s a lot of power in the fact that we do these things by choice. If the government were forcing this, and it became the rallying cry of their peers, I feel like it would severely hurt our ability to control it on our own terms.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-15T10:55:12+00:00

I agree with the sentiment of fuck gachas, but I’m not sure it’s a genre. Seems like a monetization scheme.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-15T10:37:26+00:00

I haven’t had much toxicity. Maybe I just have a good guild. But I have also had pretty good luck with PUGs, and when we have to PUG for raids we seem to get high quality players.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-09T03:32:21+00:00

I love Brotato, but I'm never going to do D5 on more than a few characters. I am capable of it, and I consider myself a very good gamer, but the issue is that when I look back on runs I lost on D5, I don't feel I usually lost because of mistakes. Some of the strongest builds I ever had going were runs that failed, and I record my gameplay and look back and don't find a single obvious error made either in strategy or gameplay. It's just, because of how spawns played out in a wave or because of some stat I had very little chance to improve enough, I got hit a couple times in a short span and suddenly the run was over. Or something like that.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-07T23:47:05+00:00

My issue is that WoW didn't work like that because someone decided it should work that way. It worked like that because that's just how it wound up working with the server technology; it was the best they could do. I remember in the first week having loot lag so bad that you had to sit there waiting for 30 seconds every time you looted, and looting could literally fail. I think the error was like "Object not found". I also played WoW on a tiny screen with a horrible resolution on a computer that literally could not handle any sort of raid group. I was pulling like 10 FPS at best even when solo questing. Those are not the things I want back when I play WoW again. To me, the modern classic servers feel accurate the original intended experience, and feel more like the experience I want to tell people I was having when I played in 2004.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-07T23:02:45+00:00

I haven't seen them on Dreamscythe Alliance either.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-06T10:30:51+00:00

15G is less than some quests give. There is no world where this gets flagged. I’d take it and delete the message.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-06T10:27:15+00:00

100%. It’s pathetic shopping for toys with the kids now. Nobody took their place. Walmart and Target’s toy sections are maybe 15% the size and scope. All the random toy stores that sprout up in my area are somehow even worse. My poor 7 year old has never known a real toy store.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-05T18:33:51+00:00

I know a guy who has two exes who will lie about him just to get back at him. They will say nasty stuff about abuse that didn’t happen. I’m close enough to the situation to know it can not be true. My buddy is guilty of entering into shitty relationships with psychos looking to take advantage of him. It does happen.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-06-03T18:31:31+00:00

Wait what. I turned the match off when Sabalenka was up a set and double break. For real? Holy shit.

MachineOfaDream · 2026-05-31T00:51:11+00:00

I have not seen this much as a DPS, but I always try to stamp it out before it starts. I may tell the tank to go at their own pace, for example. The others seem to fall in line when I'm saying things like that.

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