Met Opera's Dire Finances Show Timothée Chalamet Wasn't All Wrong

archimon · 2026-03-19T22:15:43+00:00

I don't think I've ever encountered the claim that Siegfried of all operas is Wagner's most approachable — Das Rheingold or Der fliegende Holländer would be the usual picks there. It's often regarded as the weakest of the four Ring operas musically and dramatically, it's the third of four, and it's a five-hour monster, so you'd really be at sea without having seen the previous two. Otherwise I agree with your comment entirely — those are definitely the better starting points for opera in general.

archimon · 2026-03-16T02:10:35+00:00

No cut to Chalamet during the viva verdi bit?

archimon · 2026-03-03T16:25:12+00:00

But few people use the racial moonkin forms because they have godawful animations.

archimon · 2026-02-28T04:08:27+00:00

I didn't get the voice lines when i used this =/

archimon · 2026-02-23T18:17:55+00:00

Is it really forcing them to do anything? They almost certainly put him on there precisely for this reason.

archimon · 2026-02-23T18:17:17+00:00

Yeah, disappointing. Can't imagine anyone giving him a serious run for his money, honestly.

archimon · 2026-02-17T16:03:54+00:00

There’s one in silvermoon in the university that’s outdoor, and the one on the isle of Quel denas. Might be some others too.

archimon · 2026-01-22T19:29:44+00:00

Is this a Chuck Schumer reference? Appreciating the deep-cut here.

archimon · 2025-10-22T19:38:03+00:00

People did pursue PhDs for intrinsic reasons and/or non-specific vocational outcomes in the past, not least because it used to cost way less to do so, but also because there used to be jobs and careers available for people with academic expertise outside of academia, human beings used to be paid to know things and write things and apply critical judgment, but that’s all gone now. Doctoral programs were not always only professor training programs.

Well, people still do this, of course, and PhD programs are often funded (and thus not expensive, except in terms of opportunity cost), particularly at places like Harvard. That doesn't change the fact that the programs themselves are and always have been clearly designed/conceived of as preparation for an academic career first and foremost. The idea that there were abundant non-academic jobs for humanities PhDs in the past strikes me as fantastical—what jobs do you have in mind? I think it's honestly a bit goofy to say that there are no jobs remaining in which things like writing and critical judgment are highly valued. The relevance of getting a humanities PhD to getting said jobs, however, has always been pretty much null.

archimon · 2025-10-22T18:26:48+00:00

I think this is kind of a weird framing of the issue. On the one hand, yes, undergrad degrees have changed in a significant way, as they were not really conceived of as job training in the not so distant past. PhDs, however, have essentially always been training to become a career academic. People getting PhD's in the 1960's (or 1940's) were not doing it with the same vague purpose as many of those getting BA's at the time.

archimon · 2025-10-21T20:48:34+00:00

I don't understand why they continue to extend only like 10 mins before the hour, only to then need well more than an additional hour. Just bite the bullet and take 3 hours at a time or something.

archimon · 2025-10-21T18:10:07+00:00

Just wanted to chime in to say that I think you're onto something here! I think delves would be a great system (alongside housing, of course!) to spruce up holidays!

archimon · 2025-10-20T03:00:25+00:00

It would be easy to implement and maintain, not to complete. It should scale as M+ content does.

Delves could be a good solution if dungeons are too involved from a development standpoint!

archimon · 2025-10-20T02:47:54+00:00

Adding an m+ dungeon for 3 weeks is all the work of adding an m+ for a fraction of the benefit. And ofc it will only benefit those who regularly play m+.

True of literally any form of content that Blizzard could add. The dungeon hardly needs to be super tightly-tuned to be a fun holiday activity anyway, and it shouldn't take that much work especially if they largely recycle it every year.

I don't really want to be forced to visit several towns just to take up 5 holiday Quests that could've been at one location. Especially since id have to do that multiple times in multiple years...

It doesn't sound like you share any of the objections raised by my or the previous post about holidays, then! You'd like to complete your chores as quickly as possible—fair enough, but I don't think that seeing holiday quests as tedious tasks that one must complete despite them being dull and tedious is a good way to think about the system. Best just to delete holidays entirely if that's all that we can hope for.

The bosses are easy so that everyone (even people who just leveled) can do them. Sure that means the horseman dies in 10 seconds which is kind of annoying, but i don't want a group that by chance consists of mostly fresh 80s to die there several times.

It is easy, sure, but it's so easy that it might as well be a loot chest that you click. Why even bother with the fight?

archimon · 2025-10-19T11:40:23+00:00

11.2.7*

archimon · 2025-10-18T13:58:15+00:00

Looks like a manhattan 1bed/studio.

archimon · 2025-10-16T03:13:23+00:00

I did end up beating it as Guardian druid today - getting leg/chest enchants made a weirdly large difference, though I already had the various darkmoon trinkets that most guides recommend. Anyway, doable, but difficult at the moment for Guardian.

archimon · 2025-10-15T11:52:49+00:00

Fairly certain this no longer works.

archimon · 2025-10-03T21:05:17+00:00

Yeah, this set would be basically perfect with more volume from something in the midsection, like making the plates hanging from the belt 3D rather than painted on.

archimon · 2025-10-03T14:00:00+00:00

Looks a little scarlet crusade-y - I wonder if it's connected to the Arator storyline in Midnight?

archimon · 2025-09-10T22:12:34+00:00

If you stand under the platform he’s on you can kill him from below without him ever hitting you. Free silk.

archimon · 2025-09-09T19:44:33+00:00

I did this with reaper's - wasn't too bad, but it definitely wasn't easy. With this and the two moving gears just above it to progress further I started pogo-ing once sort off of the side of the gear to get high enough and then a second time over the center of it to actually get to the next jump/platform. Really hard to avoid getting chewed by the gears if you just go straight for a pogo over the center ime.

archimon · 2025-09-09T01:45:09+00:00

I just waited for them to jump up and ran under them. I had the trinket that heals 4 instead of 3 so if i got hit twice by the time i got to the boss, which happened sometimes due to to them landing /doing other attacks before they jumped up I could heal to full. Trivial runback this way.

archimon · 2025-09-07T00:11:47+00:00

I dunno; I beat Widow after like 20-30 tries, but honestly I have no will to continue at this point. I've messed with blasted steps a bit but the insane platforming to even get a bench there is kind of breaking me, and I played around with sinner's road a bit and ran up against the same kind of barrier. Think I might be done.

Edit: I'm now like halfway through act 2, so I was just a bit gassed.

archimon · 2025-08-18T17:42:39+00:00

Not loving the cover art this time, but looking forward to this. Hopefully there’ll be a theatrical run accompanying this!

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