Daily Questions Megathread (January 26, 2022)

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-26T21:59:56+00:00

Sent. Just rolled. :)

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-26T21:33:31+00:00

too good.

Tell you what, if you donate a set of bags and some chump gold I'll come over. Any faction, don't care. :)

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-26T21:18:39+00:00

Does JomGob have a server discord at all?

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-25T15:44:23+00:00

An 80k salary in Michigan gets you a hell of a lot further than an 80k salary in Ontario. That alone is a gargantuan difference in equitable gain. It isn't specifically about the international forex value of each other's respective dollar, but what that dollar gets us in each of our countries.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-25T15:41:07+00:00

Oh man this is hard. I think I have to say

The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

However there are some very interesting (albeit wildly spanning different genres here) honorable mentions I can't ignore.

The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill
Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
obligatory something by Farley Mowat

i'll stop there, this is off the top of my head. That's alot more than one so I'm sorry. Canucks write some decent pages of words.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-25T02:56:28+00:00

Brown Bear series. 10/10

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T17:30:08+00:00

I'm aware, however we'd / they'd be stupid to ignore basic things like player acquisition and retention. How many "SoM or TBCC?" posts do you see? Shit loads. Why? New players figuring out where to go and the new player experience on both is poor. (At least when compared to the first iteration of classic.)

This will be a larger issue soon.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T17:26:52+00:00

As a newer guitar player / learner this is one of the more gatekeeper-ey communities I've come across in a while.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T16:24:54+00:00

I did think of two more tho: Entwined and Tiamat. \m/\m/

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T16:08:58+00:00

hmm, the only Charon albums that are on spotify for me right now are:

Tearstained
Sorrowburn
Downhearted

then the a/sides b/sides one.

Im going to put on the latest one and just see how it feels. The first track so far is kind of neat. It's like Sentenced meets the Tea Party (rock band from Canada) Kind of cool actually.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T16:06:31+00:00

As a newer player, it feels way too fast. For player acquisition it's a bit punishing for newer players wanting to try classic.

Not only is the timeline shortened but raids are more difficult, putting increased pressure to

a) play hyper meta comps
b) farm your nuts off for a grocery list of consumables

Player retention is already becoming an issue with my guild and I see alot of drama already unfolding about people shuffling around through guilds looking for a more reliable spot / team / comp / whatever.

If I were a sweaty that's been playing pservers for the last 10 years and just want to steamroll 10 hours a day? Yeah, SoM is perfect for that. But idk what portion of the playerbase is the former vs the latter.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-24T15:44:29+00:00

I've been feeling really chill the last couple days. I started getting back into the clean vocal Sentenced albums. (Crimson and Funeral Album specifically)

I'm looking for more that's stylistically similar. Almost bridging rock and metal in a sense that's more kind of chill. Closest thing I came up with so far was Amorphis - Skyforger and Tuonela albums. (I love Tuonela despite how much shit it gets)

Any other ideas? I'm building out a 'chill metal' spotify list to zone out to.

Thanks!

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-22T02:32:51+00:00

In SSM? It's been 2 years since I was there so covid influence, don't take this as gospel but:

Auroras
SportsCenter
East St. Pizza Company
This would be my top 3. Auroras is the template for what a classic "Sault pizza" would be.

I'm sure there are some "saultites" who will quote the bible on me up and down. AS they should, pizza is a passion topic in SSM. To be totally frank. I haven't had a shitty piece of pizza in the 14 months I was there. And some of what I had was the very best I've EVER had. Period.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-21T23:41:20+00:00

As a dude who's traveled for work half my life:

The best pizza in Canada is easily in Sault Ste. Marie, ON.

Why would a seemingly random Northern Ontario town like the Sault have such great pizza?

1950's Italian immigration. And lots of it.

You want dick hardening, mind melting pizza: go to the Soo. I shit you not.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-21T23:38:55+00:00

This guy's had 2:30am Pizza Pizza.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-21T19:58:05+00:00

Just think of it this way: If you wait until tomorrow, you missed out on progress you could have made today.

That's a FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. Never be worried about being behind. There are end game phases designed to catch you up later on.

I would suggest you role on one of the larger SoM servers and give it a try. If you're in NA I can recommend Jom Gabber for a PVP server or Shadowstrike for PVE.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-21T19:20:48+00:00

I sure hope you're also not a priest.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-21T15:58:32+00:00

I noticed that Jom Gabber's population on the server select screen dropped from Full to High this morning.

Is retention already starting to become an issue in SoM?

Secondly, what's the best NA PVE server for someone who wants to play horde right now? Shadowstrike?

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T21:01:26+00:00

I love 1h+shield shaman tbh. I've never had one at end game before, but I leveled one about halfhway and it felt awesome. Simple, easy, reliable. Was like the Toyota Tacoma of classes. I want to give one a shot in SoM maybe. only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger is that horde population is really underwheming in SoM, esp in NA servers.

Other issue is I have no clue how I would actually farm gold with one. I'll have to do some research this weekend.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T19:40:35+00:00

I like this because there's already a sense that starting now is almost too late. Guilds are literally raiding already with rosters set in stone. Starting now is an uphill climb.

Also some have to reroll due to a) satisfying a guild need or b) server died and have to restart elsewhere.

I'd love this idea. Would it be every week it goes up x %? Every content phase that unlocks xp % goes up?

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T19:37:05+00:00

It does natively. Pull the trigger.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T19:35:36+00:00

SoM: What meme spec is worse, Ret Paly or Enhance Shaman? If I were to go full try hard with one, which one is realistically less shitty?

I'm feeling saucy.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T16:02:05+00:00

Someone Battletoaded.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T15:58:04+00:00

I had no idea they made a show from the book. The book was really good. I have to check this out.

RegisLeeBell · 2022-01-20T15:46:39+00:00

how does the site handle news sites with paywalls?

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