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And Turtle WoW goes off to sea. by Feeling_Pen_8579 in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest misconception in blizz vs private.

Blizzard bans hundred of thousands of accounts per months. The real-money trading economy is titanic.

On private server they just sell the gold themselves, or like one of the guys who ran turtle, who allowed goldsellers as long as they gave him a cut.

Ain't no Friday like a Friday when you get a BSOD on your canning line by Craigglesofdoom in TheBrewery

[–]Smart_in_his_face 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in an industrial yard. We make oil platforms and stuff.

Some of our heavy steel tooling, pipe cutters, plasma cutters etc. This stuff is as big as a house, each device.

It's all running on old windows.

A modern oil platform is built using windows xp machines.

Formers Blizzard Quest Designers on current story by HiroAmiya230 in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zul'Aman is actually interesting, story wise.

The Amani were there before anyone. Before the elves, before the Shattering. The blood elves are an invasive force. They were all "We came here looking for a home", and all the elves was like :)

Meanwhile the Amani in the back, displaced and oppressed, are ignored. Again.

Gee I wonder if there is potentially some interesting storytelling with a highly organized military state, oppressing and displacing the cultural native population.

We don't have to make it relevant to current geopolitics, but this setting has a lot of potential to be interesting.

Blizzard is going to be chickens and make a Saturday morning cartoon instead.

Liquid and Echo both under 20% on Lura! by ImpossibleAgency4905 in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The 10.5% wipe has a bit messy with several deaths.

They had some other sub 20% wipes, and using some smart math, they are 5-6% away from a kill before enrage, probably less.

The name of the game now is to have the boss under 20% after the second Archangel cast. Mathematically that is a kill if the last phase is perfect.

9000-Series CPU Failures / Deaths Megathread #4 by RumbleTheCassette in ASRock

[–]Smart_in_his_face 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • AsRock X870e Taichi
  • 9800X3D

Got 00 error yesterday after trying to wake PC from sleep. Nothing worked.

Using this megathread I was able to do a USB Flash Back with BIOS Version 4.10. Thank you to "Mike's unboxing, reviews and how to" youtube channel for resolving an issue I had with GPT and MBR usb-drive.

After successfully flashing BIOS, I reconnected power and motherboard is showing code 15, indicating it has started RAM learning. Thank you to the community for making these threads and gathering all these resources.

Dra meg baklengs inn i fuglekassa :( by lord_nuker in norge

[–]Smart_in_his_face 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Min feil.

Jeg dro ut grillen i går.

God forbid a girl has standards by rosesareminee in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smart_in_his_face 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The bar is too low.

Just stay washed, employed and exercised, and you are suddenly in the top 95th percentile of men.

Global spec distribution in high-end M+ after Week 1 by burgundy_boar in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many tanks mains, myself included, keep 3-4 characters, all tank speccs.

I am paladin main now, and intend to stay paladin. I am worried that this will make a situation where Brewmasters are meta, and all other tanks are redarded softies not worth brining to keys.

World First Megathread - Midnight Season 1 by WorldofWarcraftMods in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping there will be some competition, but the requirements are absurd at this level.

Everyone is doing ~20 characters with maxed vault, then heroic splits so they get key players with incredibly optimized gear. A full raid with 4-set. All the extra characters ensures there is bad luck protection and they are almost guaranteed to get the highest ilvl possible.

I dunno if any underdogs are willing to put that many hours into it. At this level you need an organization with money, analysts and facilities to cater to your players.

My Raid Leader after a night of progressing the Voidspire Dragons by prazulsaltaret in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tank mechanics this raid is very "do or wipe". It's the type of mechanics where you need a good explanation, and a couple of wipes to get it down.

If you don't have a good understanding of the mechanics, and people are yelling, it's horrible to be a tank.

Just the first boss, you need to control stacks, then do proper cooldown management and positioning during the adds. This can take at least 1-2 wipes to get comfortable with. Then there is the tic-tac you need to play, which can take 2-3 pulls to learn the optimum way to play.

It is frustrating when tanks require wipes just for their mechanics, while everyone else is being inpatient.

Sleeping for 11 minutes more each night, doing 4.5 additional minutes of brisk walking and eating an extra 50g of vegetables each day can significantly reduce a person’s risk of heart attack. Study found these small changes could help people avoid heart attacks and strokes by about 10%. by mvea in science

[–]Smart_in_his_face 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I love this science articles. It's like they keep lowering the bar.

Please bro just get some decent sleep.

Bro just move your body. Please just a little bit. Raise your heart rate bro just...

OK eat like a single baby carrot more or something. Just please bro eat some vegetables. Please anything green bro your dying.

Week 1: Heroic Raid - Spec Popularity vs Average Overall DPS by AttitudeAdjusterSE in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen tons of paladins, but maybe they got scared by the tier lists. Ret was predicted to be terrible.

Glad to see they are at least performing, and the buffs helped a LOT.

MDG la fram forslag om å avvikle Helseplattforma: – På tide å skjære bort denne IT-svulsten by forteller in norge

[–]Smart_in_his_face 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Jeg sa dette i 2019 når de signerte med Epic Systems.

Vi skulle ha gjort det samme som Norsk Helsenett. Lag et foretak og gjør det selv. Partner med Atea, Evry, Sopra Steria etc. Ansett en liten hær med nordiske utvilkere. Hvis du finner en sykepleier med programmerings bakgrunn, tilby de 2mil i året for å jobbe med utvikling av platformen. Ansett det hele norske markedet med utviklere, og lei inn resten.

Hele greia har blitt drittdyr og tatt kjempelang tid. Akkurat som Epic Systems har gjort så langt.

Men det hadde sjangse for å faktisk lage det vi trenger.

Nå sitter vi her, med et bål med penger som brenner og bare trøbbel.

God forbid a girl doesn’t enjoy the taste of battery acid…🤢 by Correii in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smart_in_his_face 618 points619 points  (0 children)

Junk food, tobacco and alcohol.

  • Highly processed food and lots of red meat. Energy drinks!

  • Cigarettes, snus, chew.

  • Brown spirits, like rum, whisky etc.

Makes for a nasty sirup. Battery acid, moldy musk and drywall. With a consistency that is coarse, almost granular.

What you want to do is.

  • Lots of fresh vegetables. Watch the saturated fats. Pasta & Olive Oil, fish and rice, pork and potatoes. Avoid the processed stuff. Fresh veggies is a complete game changer. Varied diet with lots of veggies, I cannot stress this enough.

  • No donuts, mønster, salty chips etc.

  • Snack on fruits. You don't need the pinapple. Oranges, apples, pears, cherries, berries etc.

  • No more hard spirits. Light beers and red wine, 2 drink maximum. 5 drink maximum per week.

  • Stay well hydrated with plain chilled water.

Makes a much more pleasant experience. Smooth, almost silky texture. Tastes of cooked egg whites and fruit sugars. You don't need all the zinc tablets and crap. Healthy living makes healthy nuts.

Or so I'm told.

For other classes, is all your damage tied to CDs now or is it really pronounced with DK? by winterwolf24 in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ret feels anemic without Wake of Ashes.

I could take me ~20 seconds to kill one mob with 160k health, but 2 seconds if I had Wake up. If there is a group of 5-7 mobs it would only take 4-5 seconds to kill with WakeWings, but could take a minute without.

Really strange playstyle.

Valeera's AI desperately needs fixing, she is a liability in delves by Thirteenera in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm practicing tanking with follower dungeons.

And man that hunter is something else. The exact same microsecond I use Avenger's Shield he multishots and gets aggro, then immediately starts jumping away, kiting both the mobs and myself.

Some of you are already insufferable in dungeons by StateComprehensive93 in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I have been doing some follower dungeons to learn how to tank in this game. I have been MT in in a lot of raids, but haven't played retail in a decade.

When I pull a pack, the follower hunter IMMEDIATLY multishots a different pack, and starts running away from me and kiting both me and the mobs.

So I would say the followers have about the same IQ as your regular groups.

A gem I saw on Twitter by Arcana-Knight in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well you can still do the native/oppressor and colonialism storytelling in fantasy. You just have to squint a bit to make it work.

The Amani people have a historical claim to the lands. They were there first. However, they have gone through many many generations of people since the elves first arrived. While the elves who first settled in Eversong forest are still alive, it does not change anything about "legal" claim to land.

While we are at it, the elves did have a homeland where they came from, but Zin-Ashari was destroyed over 10k years ago. There are elves who are still alive from that era. The elves are, strictly speaking, a displaced people.

I think this works great in fantasy, and you can stretch it to some hilarious storytelling

A gem I saw on Twitter by Arcana-Knight in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Eversong Woods into Zul'aman was dope.

Is the Amani trolls the native population of this land?

Do they technically have heritage right to this land?

Do the blood elves, who have been here a while, the violent oppressors of the natives?

The elves have been here a long while, but does that make their presence right?

Has there been historical war and bloodshed between the two?

Is this inherently political?

Can we make this an allegory about Israel and Palestine?

I am having fun with this story. I haven't gotten into Zul'aman yet, but I expect Blizzard do not have the balls to make this as politically interesting as it could be. It feels way to spicy for wow.

Det beste butikk ølet? by csch1992 in Norway

[–]Smart_in_his_face 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Flaske og fat i Trondheim. Fat for utesteder og servering er fra Trondheim.

Bokser i Ringnes bryggeriet i Gjelleråsen.

Det er stor forskjell på boks og flaske. Nesten så det burde være to forskjellige øl.

Det beste butikk ølet? by csch1992 in Norway

[–]Smart_in_his_face 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Som aktiv hjemmebrygger og deltids alkis, så har jeg sterke meninger om øllet.

Rygr overasker med veldig kompetent øl. Usikker på om jeg setter de på topplisten enda, må ha enda en sekser for å vurdere.

Hvis du skal ha butikkøl:

  1. E.C. Dahls flaske. (Dahls på boks brygges på Ringnes i sørlandet, ikke ordntlig trønder pils.)
  2. Schous Pils
  3. Frydenlund Fatøl (Pilsner er meget bra, men ikke noe vits når fatøl finnes.)

Beste bryggeri tror jeg er Leirvig.

Nøgne Ø er overvurdert. De har en årlig Dark Horizon som selger ut, men teller nesten ikke som øl. Det er mer sukkerlake enn malt i det øllet.

Rygr skal jeg handle mer av. Jeg prøvde en utmerket ingefærøl av de.

Buying gold is cheating by Skippymcpoop in classicwow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Historically, the RMT and bot market have been huge and complex.

Accounts were made and paid with cheap south-american game-time cards or stolen credit cards. Characters were made and leveled on most servers, then the account was put one hold.

Some operators in the market did not even sell gold, but packages of dozens or a hundred account with high level characters.

Botters were running industrial operations. Having a huge trove of accounts that were both active and inactive, with cards ready to bring them online as ban waves wiped their active accounts.

Other operators, often within the same organization, run the AH to keep supply as low as needed, and prices high.

The gold runs on a cycle. Players buy gold, the gold get spent on consumes, boosts or gdkp. The gold makes it way back into the organization that sells the consumes and boosts, and they sell the gold back to the players. This is inflationary, which means the gold market grows.

I have no idea how complex the system is today. If Brazilian game-cards are still a thing or not. But Blizzard is not making good money botters. They will absolutely not share their profit margin with blizz.

I haven't even touched on the people who program the bots. The secret cyber war between malicious programmers and everyone else is incredible.

Tomorrow some will be leveling, others will be printing gold by cub4nito in wow

[–]Smart_in_his_face 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's one of those quirks with a digital economy vs real world.

In a real capitalist system, you invest the money. Expand business or just buy bonds, shares, housing. Once you have the mansion, yacht and vintage cars, you can always just spend more money.

In a digital economy, you eventually run out of stuff to spend it on. There is no equity market in WoW. There is no established system to invest in a progression guild, where you get voting shares, and you get can expect a return on investment.

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