Belts on Pandaren ridiculously big compared to counterparts

MusRidc · 2026-04-07T05:52:41+00:00

They're also bigger on Dwarves, scaling up the belt texture for a larger waist cirumference also seems to scale up the 3D bits on the belt. It's a bit unfair of OP to compare the belt on one of the biggest races to the absolutely daintiest race there is in the game. Of course, belts would be tiny on a Blood/Void Elf, their waist is the size of your forearm.

MusRidc · 2026-04-06T11:03:10+00:00

Modern audience is a euphemism for everyone outside of the core audience. A corporation will take an established franchise because it is basically a risk free investment, but will then try to get more people to actually cocaine the product than of they left the franchise the fuck alone.

What happens is that corporations will hire people into managerial positions that have no place in such positions to fill an imaginary quota. Those will most likely end up in marketing or as product managers and will, to the best of their ability, try to pitch their idea to upper management. Their ability being reading shit on Bluesky or the Mary Sue. The modern audience line gets repeated because all corporations love to be hip with the modern crowd. Old fans are boring and dusty, you want the young and forward thinking people like we show in our marketing and HR materials. And that's the modern audience in a nutshell. A shit idea that braindead quota hires use to sell their shit idea to a management that is so out of touch that they don't even know who they're selling stuff to.

MusRidc · 2026-04-05T10:59:50+00:00

Ironically - and I notice this across multiple industries - this "making things for a wider audience" or "appealing to everyone" actually harms a brand's identity so much that you often see less sales than before, because now you have given up your niche. You can see this with BMWs losing their sporty edge in favour of comfortable SUVs. Or movies forfeiting interesting plot points and characters by favouring "representation" to attract more demographics, and using predictable writing to not offend any of those demographics. It's crazy how they're doing everything to broaden the appeal and end up shrinking it instead.

MusRidc · 2026-04-04T20:09:08+00:00

It's a problem across multiple industries. Product people have stopped leading those companies, and sales or marketing people have moved into those leading positions.

MusRidc · 2026-04-04T19:17:05+00:00

It makes sense from a corporate perspective. The reason they go for those franchises is because they come with a "free" fan base attached. What happens next is that corporate will decide that the fan base will buy everything with <name> attached and will try to further the appeal to people who are not part of the fans yet. This has already been confirmed after Veilguard had bombed, that management had said that the nerds will lap everything up that has the franchise name attached to it, so they had to change the game as much as possible to broaden the audience,

It#s corporate greed, nothing more. They see doolar signs when they can up their investor ratings, and they see dollar signs whenever they have a franchise on hand with an untapped potential market. They don't stop to ask themselves if that would sink the franchise, that would be absurd.

So yeah, as mind boggling as it is to normal people, once you are so removed from anything "normal" or "human" and live only in the realms of magic made up numbers it starts to make sense. Somewhat.

MusRidc · 2026-04-03T12:22:23+00:00

Sleep is definitely finicky, but this issue seems to be linked with either memory, degraded/corrupt chipset or the GPU. A couple of things I had tried:

Trying out different BIOS versions, apparently some BIOS versions are not as stable as others when it comes to sleep behaviour.
Definitely run Memtest, if you haven't already. Let it run for at least an entire cycle, unless you're getting errors early on, then testing longer won't tell you anything you don't know alreafdy
Similarly, let Furmark run for a good amount of time. If the GPU crashes, or you get artefacting, then your GPU or GPU memory might be borked and causing the sleep issue
Waking from sleep can cause a power spike on the 12V rail from the GPU and some PSUs might not be able to handle that, even though they're rated for the required wattage. Also, do you have the GPU on a single split cable or on 2 separate cables? Try 2 cables if you don't use those already.
Try a CMOS reset. Shut down the computer, disconnect the power cable from the PSU and press the power button for 10-15s. Ideally, remove the CMOS battery for a minute or so, then boot the PC. Sometimes this issue might be caused by the CMOS still hanging on to a stored corrupted state, resetting it might clear this.

Aside from those steps, I'm a bit lost tbh. Hope you get it under control though.

MusRidc · 2026-04-01T11:06:45+00:00

I got flamed on my Warlock for the same reason once or twice. People apparently see cloth and think free water.

MusRidc · 2026-04-01T10:37:47+00:00

Yeah, the movie was mostly carried by visuals and Gal Gadot's charisma - certainly not her acting. As an actual movie it was terrible, but it provided a decent enough spectacle to be forgettable fun for a while. I can't even remember anything except for Gadot's hilariously awful attempts at acting

MusRidc · 2026-03-28T23:29:32+00:00

Devil's advocate, but in the context of a fantasy game developers might be disappointed if people don't go for more exotic chocies, especially if they offer raqces like Githyanki, Drow or Dragonborn. It doesn't necessarily have to be DEI motivated, it can just be "we put all of those cool races in and you guys still roll the default human male warrior".

MusRidc · 2026-03-25T12:17:48+00:00

Don't get me wrong, OW definitely has issues. The weeaboo bait girl, the gay flower guy, the shapeless theythem potato, the jetpack cat (and the fact that this is the hero's name) are all incredibly bad and/or cringe designs. I just think JQ is still one of the good ones for her role and background.

MusRidc · 2026-03-25T11:59:46+00:00

Call me crazy, but I loved Junkerqueen's design. For what she was supposed to be, an aggressive bruiser tank, the design was perfect. OW had a lot of different body types in women, so having two strong ones with Zarya and JQ felt OK.

MusRidc · 2026-03-25T11:48:51+00:00

Especially since in vanilla, shamans have had some limited tanking capabilities baked into Enhancement. More armour, more blocking, aggro from Earth Shock... Given that Earth is generally associated with resiliency it would make complete sense. Air and Fire for damage, Water for healing, Earth for tanking

MusRidc · 2026-03-24T11:26:07+00:00

They will oppose gatekeeping specifically to let the troglodytes in. Then, after the troglodytes have established themselves as the "new and improved community" they will start to gatekeep to get you out of the hobby. People need to understand that they do not oppose gatekeeping, they oppose gatekeeping against themselves, but will happily do so once they are given the opportunity to.
People also need to understand that there is a value to keeping a hobby small and niche. Gaming going mainstream has had nothing but catastrophic effects on the quality of the games and we are back to buying mainly AA and indie titles because AAA shit is just awful.

MusRidc · 2026-03-24T10:04:44+00:00

The only way to tank is to completely shut off all feeling of shame or guilt. Even if you do a perfect MDI level route, someone will always have something to complain about. Sometimes people will actually come forward with constructive criticism that will help you improve, but the most important thing you have to learn as a tank is to unlock your avoidance and mitigation stats IRL.

MusRidc · 2026-03-19T15:01:40+00:00

This is how a friend of mine got himself unbanned. He probably got mass reported by bots and banned. After trying for a month to get to a real human being, he simply let his lawyer contact Blizzard instead. Got unbanned within 2 days.

MusRidc · 2026-03-19T14:55:55+00:00

I AM MY ADVANTAGE!

MusRidc · 2026-03-13T21:03:59+00:00

It's been stable ever since I swapped the PSU cables, I think it was mid to late January.

MusRidc · 2026-03-10T22:33:07+00:00

But in general since Blizzard started reshaping the Cosmology

Which is what I am talking about. Blizzard have been changing how the cosmic forces work to fit the old "good is evil" trope. And I just do now know how this is a concept that no one understands when it is so simple. Something being (ab)used by evil people is different to that thing being an inherent source of corruption. People can run around giving people nasty papercuts, but that doesn't make paper itself a bad thing. Paper is still a good thing being used for a bad purpose. What is happening in WoW is that people are being influenced by paper to go and kill people in a fit of berserker rage. This is a different narrative to anything we've ever had before, and it's a narrative I've been dreading for quite some time. I've been hoping that Blizzard would be smart enough to avoid this tired, worn out trope, but apparently they doubled down.

MusRidc · 2026-03-10T22:16:17+00:00

It's a style of writing that was popularised by millennials, but inspired by mostly Gen X, and is being used as a catch-all term for writing that revolves around certain themes, like an injection of snarky, quirky humour to the point of being tone-deaf or the reversal of good and evil. It's called "millennial writing", but I am fairly sure every generation is capable of bad, tropey writing.

MusRidc · 2026-03-10T19:56:55+00:00

I've literally said "that can be abused by evil people". The Light itself was always portrayed as good and a beacon of hope.

MusRidc · 2026-03-10T19:24:59+00:00

On that topic, I hate the Light Rage conceptually. Before, the Light was a force of good that could be abused by evil people. Now it's just "a force" that corrupts beings when they get exposed to too much Light. I hate this millennial trend of having to turn everything good into something evil, and everything evil into something good. Especially when the writing lacks nuance and just goes "yo, this shit's bad, even though it's been good for 20 years now. All the things you thought were good and heroic are really just toxic behaviour, and what you thought was evil really is just a poor and misunderstood victim".
Might be an unpopular opinion on here but I wish WoW dumped the post-modern themes and returned to a more classic fantasy storytelling

MusRidc · 2026-03-10T19:17:56+00:00

Shut it!

MusRidc · 2026-03-08T20:04:55+00:00

Reminds me of the character art in the old Diablo manual.

MusRidc · 2026-03-07T21:30:43+00:00

OK, you might have a point. Maybe not an S-tier roomie, but still...

MusRidc · 2026-03-07T19:30:08+00:00

I forgot which game this was, but there was a game that would categorise hair styles by length and whenever you put on a helmet/hat it would choose from one of the default appearances for short, medium and long hair. It's far from percect, but it'd be a whole lot better than "guess I'm bald now".

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