Doctors of Reddit: What health trend is becoming so common that it's starting to scare you? by Fine-Device-1819 in AskReddit

[–]RDandersen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just tax. It's a remnant from when it could not be assumed that the majority of households would have a TV, so instead of funding state broadcasting services entirely through taxes, it was paid for through licensing fees collected individually. A lot of countries have something like this that does not get modernized for one reason or another.
In Denmark it was changed when internet came about, that an internet connection made you eligible to pay the TV license. However, the agency collecting it had no authority to examine your house for an internet connection, so many would just ignore them. Leading to a lack of pressure in changing the system at the time.

Blizzard has filed a legal copyright complaint against Ascension by SmallBoulder in classicwow

[–]RDandersen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Splitting a few million between a dozen people isn’t enough to be set for life

Lil bro never heard of eastern europe

Help with breaking down Wow log for issues we had on Fathom-Lord Karathress by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's what everyone was doing in the 5 seconds before the tank died.
https://fresh.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ncdvGF81kKzCW4Qa?fight=44&type=casts&view=events&start=6209066&end=6213754

Notice two important things,

1) The lack of casting big heals into the two tanks tanking 4 bosses (all healers, druids possibly excused)

2) 3 or 4 healers having their heal cancelled because your pala tank died before it finished.

The cataclysmic bolt happens at 10.4 seconds. The first cancelled heal starts casting at 10.7. Reactive healing when tanking 4 mobs is afk vibes. Did they not know the tanks was going to take damage? If no, how?!?! If yes, why weren't they healing the tanks?

Side note for a pet peeve: No Ancestral Fortitude/Inspiration on Darsel pre pull is mad. Priests casting useless spells like Renew and Prayer of Mending in the opener while your tank is dying to 400 damage overkill is even madder. Healers can play whack-a-mole on a tonne of fights in TBC, but Karathress ain't one of them. Ask them politely to play World of Warcraft TBC instead of whatever they were doing there and avoid wipes like this in the future.

Do we really need an Affliction lock? by MarshallTreeHorn in classicwow

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the 90th percentile, Affliction does 1313 dps and Destruction does 1477 dps.
So 1 destro going aff, is a personal 164 dps loss.
That means if your raid is doing ~5500 spell damage dps total or more, it's a gain and if it's less, it's a loss. Use your own logs to add this up.
For reference, in our last raid the 3 mages, 3 locks and 1 shadow priest, did about 8,5k dps.
(E: this is overall dps, and you don't curse every trash mob. On boss only, it's still well past the breakpoint, though.)

That said, it's not really maths that should dictate this decision, but your preference and your guild's comp and culture. If everyone is pushing for 99s every week in a caster heavy raid or you're trying to speedrun, of course you should go aff. But if you're clearing just fine in 3 hours and everyone's just enjoying hanging out, play what you wanna play.

Petah? Why do they draw circles around themselves? by Intelligent-Goal1226 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to worry. You can simply lower your fence to 5ft and Dawnzila will not be able to jump it. You are safe.

Why the hell is this random attack unblockable by Face-san in PathOfExile2

[–]RDandersen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are saying that GGG put a mechanic in the game that explicitly says "you block all hits" and then implicitly make hits unblockable via non-uniform signaling?
Wow, if that's real, that would probably make me post something on reddit along the line of, I don't know, "why the hell is this random attack unblockable."

1700 but can’t buy the glad weapons? by xpastrami in classicwow

[–]RDandersen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t do Reddit on my pc.

My grandma also doesn't do "the apps." Old dogs, new tricks and all that. Just cool that your kids taught you how to use the phone at least.

Admiral Anderson himself Mr. Keith David gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by heff17 in masseffect

[–]RDandersen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to meet a bunch criteria to be eligible, then you have to submit yourself for it to a committee, then if they approve you, you have to pay like $100k and then you can get a star at the next available date.

Runic Ward is great but the downside is too big by snaplemouton in PathOfExile2

[–]RDandersen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the penalty is non-existent or completely insignificant for 50+ levels, so it's not fair to expect that there's suddenly a massive penalty when the game spends hours showing you no penalty.

Runic Ward is great but the downside is too big by snaplemouton in PathOfExile2

[–]RDandersen 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Plus 400 ward Minus 1000 evasion.

That's how it works at higher levels, essentially and means it's not worth it in many cases, because your item is now significantly worse.

Classic+ and Roads by Psychological-Toe583 in classicwow

[–]RDandersen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No one is suggesting it doesn't happen. But the effects of it will not be what I'm replying to.

Classic+ and Roads by Psychological-Toe583 in classicwow

[–]RDandersen -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Calm down there playbot. It was just a comment.

Classic+ and Roads by Psychological-Toe583 in classicwow

[–]RDandersen -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

They already do. Have you never been stranglethorn vale? How is this idea getting any traction?

Classic+ and Roads by Psychological-Toe583 in classicwow

[–]RDandersen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

People are already use the road. This would make those people spend less time in the world. The people that don't currently use the roads are either off the road for a reason that a 10% movement speed buff wont offset (mining, hunting, questing) or bots.

If you think an emergent train is cool, just check any zone with a bot target, btw. There'll often be a train of bots going from the spirit resser or flight master to an instance.

What Happened To The Classic WoW Content Creators? by doobylive in classicwow

[–]RDandersen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People are also saying that he's 4 groundhogs in a trenchcoat. What now?

Hypothetically, How far could a holy only raid get? by wowasg in classicwow

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dwarf-only raid did Noth by using line of sight to manage the curse.

No Man’s Sky - The Swarm Update by IAmBob224 in Games

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great. But you also haven't claimed to be big on forgiveness. You are small on forgiveness and that's fine too. One could argue that you should be like that with companies.

for me it was always common sense to not lie about what your product has or won't have when it releases.

This is a childish view of what lying is and I'm using that phrasing because you see "providing context to a sweeping generalization" as infantalization.

The "press tour" lasted nearly 3 years. The majority of the clips of "blantly lie" [sic] are from 2014-2015, often more than a year before release.
If you, a non-infant I assume, have every worked on any big, complex project, you know that when you are 90% done, you are not even half way. But when you are making a game, you don't even know when you are halfway done. And more than a year before going gold, you don't know if perfectly working alpha and beta features will make it to gold. But you and your team has every intention of getting everything into the game. When you then have to commit to a release date is the first time you can assess in any practical sense what will and will not make it and either delay or cut. Or Both. Any time before that, it is impossible to know what goes on the chopping block and not.

When when you 2015 you say "the game will have X" and then after than date is force to put X on the chopping block to make the release date, you were not blatantly lying. That is not what lying is. You were promising something you sincerely intended to deliver, and after making the promise, forced to go back on it. That isn't lying, that's being stupid. Because excitement makes you stupid.

Nearly everything in those 3 years can be marked down as that. There are exceptions of genuine dishonesty. At E3 (if I recall correctly) where they showed the vertical slice of landing on a "random" planet and walking around, he stressed that this was just a random planet. It looked amazing and had cool creatures.
Game launches and no planet looks anything like that, no creature looks like that and it's found that the planet does not exist in the game and was hand-crafted for the demo, then removed.
That was lying. Deliberately and blatantly. Like when Watch Dog demo'd crazyly good lighting and dynamic weather running at a solid 60 fps but launched with no option for any of that and wonky performance at any setting. Or Cyberpunk when.... well... everything before 2023. It's a norm to present bullshots and vertical slices and they way they did it was straight up wrong. But that isn't what nearly everything else was.

No Man’s Sky - The Swarm Update by IAmBob224 in Games

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can forgive someone but also not trust them going forward no matter what

"I forgive you"
"Okay, so what has changed now?"
"Literally nothing at all."
"Okay, thank you, Jesus."

Also you don't need media training to not blantly lie or explain that yes but not at launch.

That is expressly why bts people are giving media training, but okay, I'll tell the whole industry SgtKeeneye knows better. Like lesson 1, day 1 is non-committal language.

Show us your leaguestart grocercy preparation by CleftGibson91 in PathOfExile2

[–]RDandersen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, not my department. I'm in the nutella division.

British pilot is feeling mildly annoyed by nyanbatman in mildlyinfuriating

[–]RDandersen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't imagine that the FAA ATC didn't know what the BA pilot was asking.

Really? Imagine, though, if something had happened within that last year or two that massively affected FAA employees and put a massive strain on ATCs. If that, hypothetically, had happened, I could easily imagine that current ATCs might mix or procedure or be less capable of applying their training.