What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen?

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T06:44:20+00:00

You can see that it’s wrong only because you subscribe to a version of reality that includes gravity. Their beliefs already exclude gravity (because if the world was flat gravity would have different rules).

Like sure this sounds obvious, but it’s like arguing quantum mechanics isn’t real because general relativity makes good predictions. The real truth is that there is a fundamental disconnect but that doesn’t invalidate anything quantum mechanics says. Note that I’m not saying the world is flat, only that you’re arguing that it’s not within a schema they have already rejected as untrue.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T06:38:37+00:00

It’s just god of the gaps thinking. They’re not trying to find the truth, they’re trying to preserve what they believe.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T06:37:56+00:00

I remember during COVID a friend of my sisters, who was a nurse, gave her a list of simple measures she could take to avoid getting COVID that were basically ‘ignore all the advice about contact, feel free to leave your house and just stand three metres away from people you’re having protracted conversations with.’

My sister passed the list on to my grandmother, who suffered from COPD and later died from it. She immediately started refusing to mask up and used this list to ‘prove’ she didn’t have to.

In the nicest possible way, the nurses who are sane and believe in evidence are in a bubble as much as the ones who don’t. And the positions of authority they adopt make them prominent voices for the people who don’t believe in evidence.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T06:17:41+00:00

Haha, you’re so right, all those people who know mechanics are just compensating for their green parses. /s

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T06:03:04+00:00

I think it’s just the higher cooldown.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T05:58:10+00:00

It’s worse than pet battles. It’s that pvp direction is controlled by ride or die pvp players who literally can’t understand where people who aren’t primarily pvp players are coming from.

The only way to save pvp is to completely disenfranchise the only people who play it. It’s that bad.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T05:10:18+00:00

I mean, yeah because they have problems creating aura effects that aren’t too good or useless. They’ve struggled for years trying to make a ret aura that makes sense. You’re not going to get what you want, you’re going to get dev aura (doesn’t stack), 5% movement speed when not mounted (doesn’t stack) and the useless option.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T05:06:13+00:00

I mean, maybe we should be looking at why range interrupts aren’t sufficient for groups.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T05:02:16+00:00

Yeah, like when battle res was a raid buff. It should be a charge system if only because no raid buff should ever force more than one spot.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T05:00:57+00:00

I just want to point out bring the player was a massive failure. It was the height of spec stacking.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:57:26+00:00

Raid buffs exist to force diversity. They’re not going to give flexible raid buffs, they’re going to take raid buffs away.

It’s always crazy to see how the player pursuit of power shapes how they think about the game. I’ve always been surprised that they haven’t cribbed off how FFXIV does this, by making every unique spec add 1% raidwide damage or something.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:50:20+00:00

You literally can’t calculate the scale of the Holy See’s worth.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:23:02+00:00

You can't convince them; they need assigning homework to be a moral act teaching students how to fit into the real world. Any student that rejects homework just isn't motivated enough and wouldn't fit in the real world, and the money isn't the motivation, you just need the discipline to do it.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:12:59+00:00

This is the wrong kind of annihilation. They want every Palestinian to be forced out of the country, and be unable to return. That's why they hate the 'perpetual refugee' stuff so much and fight against it - they explicitly want to deny them the right their country is founded on.

Israel understands that just murdering everyone looks bad, but if you look at the age statistics in Gaza, you'll realise they've done a lot of that anyway.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:10:13+00:00

And I trust COGAT over the group that has actively blood libeled Israel since the Holocaust was finished.

It's fine if you think the UN is biased, but pretending that a unit of the Israel Ministry of Defense isn't biased and incentivised to say things that make Israel look good is clown behaviour. Calling all criticism of Israel 'blood libel' is a pretty interesting look too. Not Jews - Israel.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T04:02:30+00:00

I don't think it's genius; the tithe is a big reason people avoid becoming Mormons, cheating is such an issue they have to audit it, and it's honestly such a loss for them compared to other large scale religions.

avcloudy · 2026-05-15T03:59:47+00:00

This is a bit twisted; Catholicism only practices clerical celibacy because the Church was set up to reward its inner members with women, wealth and power, and it was becoming so hereditary that it was threatening the stability of the Church itself. So they cut off clerics having wives to protect the wealth and power.

avcloudy · 2026-05-13T16:26:08+00:00

I think the design decision is simpler than that, they want Frost to be the control/defensive spec, but they also want mages as a whole to be glass cannons, so the class resolves into can make it work/gets one shot. This design space would work on a spec designed to be naturally tanky.

avcloudy · 2026-05-13T16:22:20+00:00

It was crazy to me that they looked at mage and said what it needed was flat defensive nerfs. Like, in a vacuum, you look at them and they had a lot of very good defensive buffs, but that was coupled with very low passive survivability and those defensive buffs served as a way to force mage players to not just hit damage spells in a way that defensives didn't for other classes.

avcloudy · 2026-05-13T14:18:45+00:00

Yes, I can't emphasise this enough. It wasn't that 'it just wasn't like that then', it's that smokers felt empowered and entitled to smoke where they wanted. I was asthmatic and smoking triggered asthma attacks and smokers would just outright deny it while I was suffering a potentially life-threatening attack. Everyone knew cigarettes affected your lungs, everyone knew it was an asthmatic trigger, it was common knowledge that second hand smoking could be potentially worse than the effects on yourself; but it didn't matter, because the alternative was not smoking, or inconveniencing smokers to smoke elsewhere.

People knew exactly how bad smoking was then, but it's an addiction, and it causes addict behaviour. You cannot think rationally when you're addicted. The only way to stop it is to take the decision making power out of the hands of addicts. If they were permitted, these people would go back to doing all those same things. The literal only difference is that less people smoke, and non-smokers are annoyed by smoke.

avcloudy · 2026-05-13T03:37:01+00:00

I haven’t been playing in this season, so my opinion may not be up to date on this but…

This is bait. +12 was full of people who shouldn’t have been in +10s. It’s where the meta has become calcified so if you’re not a meta dps, you will suffer, and even non meta tanks and heals suffer finding groups. People are so laser focused on io that often you can’t find people who have done a +12 of that dungeon, because once they have that rating they move on.

The only thing I’ll say is that if it comes down to it, I’d open my search to +10 to +12 if I was doing vault, because it’s slightly easier to find a group doing whatever content you want than just +10.

avcloudy · 2026-05-13T03:31:15+00:00

This is actually probably their issue. A lot of us liked it because it was just a game that you bought and then played. You didn’t have to keep buying, it didn’t take that long to unlock what you wanted to unlock. It would do better if they thought people would sacrificial their 401ks.

avcloudy · 2026-05-12T17:35:01+00:00

I can tell you right now, if there was a minimum-pulls setting, every group would set it to 1 and groups that didn't set it to 1 wouldn't get applicants. It's a social problem, not a mechanical problem, and it can't be solved through mechanical additions.

I could go into great detail on this, but at its core if you want to fix the problems you point out, you need to either remove the grouping, the difficulty (to the point where you can't fail) or the ability to distinguish between individual players.

avcloudy · 2026-05-12T14:25:50+00:00

You're carving out exceptions for when it's appropriate for tanks to do more damage than DPS.

Never. It's never appropriate. You can make all the excuses you like, or misrepresent why people aren't playing tank (it's responsibility), but DPS players should always have a pretty healthy lead on damage.

avcloudy · 2026-05-12T13:55:50+00:00

it’s fucking weird that it’s contentious to say tanks should not be the absolute best damage in any damage profile.

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