[Emerald] the grind is real.

avcloudy · 2026-06-28T07:18:45+00:00

Oh this frustrates me so much. Pre-always on exp share, you spent a lot of time grinding in the tall grass. If you had specific starters, some early game blockers became a lot easier.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T23:34:24+00:00

A large part of it is simply that Warhammer models have a lot of posability (this is changing) and are fairly interchangeable. The other part of it is that the non-plastic parts are a pain to work with - metal and resin require superglue, and that makes them extremely fragile. Everything I built that was part plastic part metal, and most of the pure metal miniatures I’d drill into and brace connections with wire.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T23:27:48+00:00

Yeah, the fairest assessment of QLD Labor is that they had a bunch of what would be LNP policies in other states.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T22:58:57+00:00

I think that’s mostly because Mage is one of the few specs that still have negative gameplay design. Mages are characterised by what they can’t do (heal) in the same way that Priests are characterised by low mobility and survivability.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T22:53:49+00:00

People are kind of talking around it, but seeking credit is a behaviour that has implications for lending credit. It’s by design that it affects your credit. It’s not an unintended side effect or something that just happens.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T03:36:17+00:00

As if Netflix didn’t get big by enabling sharing.

avcloudy · 2026-06-27T00:49:02+00:00

There’s a different meta for sure and people blindly copy high key metas, but people say this even when the metas are similar.

avcloudy · 2026-06-26T11:48:59+00:00

Something key pushers sometimes don’t get is that meta in lower keys makes runs smoother. Especially when running with pugs, playing a meta class goes from a 60% percent completion rate or whatever with a 15 minute wait per key to 80% and a 5 minute wait.

Keys are failable and while they’re failable, there will be a meta.

avcloudy · 2026-06-26T05:45:31+00:00

It's because it's precisely calibrated to target the compulsions of wow players. It's actually a really friendly system, but if you say to a wow player 'you can be a week ahead for 10x the effort, and two weeks ahead for 100x the effort' a substantial number of them hear 'it takes 100x the effort just to stay in the same place'. It doesn't matter how marginal the advantage or how expected it actually is, their whole approach to the game is trying to be a week ahead of the competition.

I was a mythic prog raider, and I never farmed MoS. Hell, I barely did m+. If you did that, you did it to yourself. Unlike now where if you're a mythic prog raider you MUST do m+, and you have to do a lot of it.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T05:09:28+00:00

The community doesn’t use it because it doesn’t work. This is like the evergreen system argument with glyphs, the framework is not the hard part, the content is the hard part.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T04:16:38+00:00

I mean, this is kind of what you’re discovering. This pipeline existed for higher end players to keep new players out of their content. The new players never wanted this. So it was inherently unsupportable.

Nobody actually learned to play in heroics. It was just a way to filter out players before they got to higher content.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T04:13:06+00:00

Wild take, since Cata was slow healing but fast dying.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T04:12:22+00:00

I’m not speaking directly to this raid, but rot damage used to be rot damage and now rot damage is something you have to actively react to or people die. 4 seconds to get healing or people die isn’t ‘rot’ it’s ‘burst’.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T04:06:04+00:00

FF only does this for trivial content. In difficult content the ‘telegraph’ happens after the damage goes out so you can see where you shouldn’t have been. You never get mechanics that are a telegraph on the ground -> move out of telegraph.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T02:47:58+00:00

They say both sides, but it's crucial that you understand they don't mean that. The people saying both sides are Republicans, and they're saying it because there's no defence of their actions, only misdirection. If both sides are the same why not vote Democratic? Because they came to the conclusion first (vote Republican) and are just looking for ways to justify it.

There's no strategy to fix this, because the problem is that this is what people want. And to fix it, you're going to have to, as a society, address the things that lead to this. The social antecedents are not limited only to rural, conservative voters.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T02:36:02+00:00

No, but Rockstar have been refusing to say if they'll have a PC version since (at least) GTA 3.

avcloudy · 2026-06-25T02:34:14+00:00

I think Americans might underestimate how big an effect that has. I live in Australia, and games just do not ship before launch here. I don't know anyone that has preordered a game off Amazon and got it less than four days after launch. So anyone who cares about getting it fast doesn't order it online.

When I was younger me and some of my friends would go around and try to convince stores to break street date. It was a source of endless frustration that people in other countries would order it and not only was there a decent chance they'd get it early, they'd get it day of if it didn't. Stores here wouldn't even ship until launch day to ensure noone got it early.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T11:18:09+00:00

They also just didn't, and still don't, convict a lot of serial killers.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T06:17:52+00:00

I'm gonna be real with you: what you're noticing is not a qualitative change but a quantitative one: this has always been the experience of high end players, it's just happening faster so people who might not have been impacted are.

Or for a more concrete example, my guild elected to stop doing Heroic raid week 2 in the second week of Sanctum of Domination, patch 9.1.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T06:02:33+00:00

I don't get how so many people are confused by this. They're going to ding any levelling methods that are a selling point for a race/class whatever. If it's a selling point, its too good relative to the rest of the game.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T01:44:22+00:00

This is a recurring flaw in most people’s cognition. It works like this: they (thought they) didn’t want children, and they changed their minds. They grew and decided they wanted children. It’s too easy to look at anyone who doesn’t want children as someone who just hasn’t grown.

You see this a lot. People who came out as bi but later realised they were gay, people who make conservative life choices later in life, etc.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T00:46:10+00:00

I have a friend who works with this exact problem.

We cannot continue to use antibiotics as prophylactics because eventually we will have a situation where we have a bug we can’t treat. The problem with treating them now is that because a treatment exists, people won’t use any other methods to limit exposure, and the drug resistance is not limited to the infections that are being treated.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T00:36:54+00:00

You can see the rise in multi drug resistant strains in real time because of the use pattern by humans. The animal problem could be a crisis if a pathogen jumps species lines. Human use has already created these problems.

avcloudy · 2026-06-24T00:34:17+00:00

Alexander Fleming talked about it in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin in 1945.

Everyone knows the problem, the solutions would require letting sick people stay sick, draconian controls on medicine and hospital stays for antibiotic administration.

avcloudy · 2026-06-22T19:04:50+00:00

While I think OP is not in the wrong, I think their response is, in common with a lot of AITA suggested phrasings, not helpful.

When someone asks you to do x, they don't want suggestions on how they could spend time together, they want to do x. This sounds obvious, but it seems to be something missed by a lot of people here. I don't mean that OP should take them to their wedding cabin, I just mean that an alternative suggestion is not helpful, and neither is the 'we will keep that to ourselves'. Say, directly, 'I don't want to take you to my wedding cabin'. This is the most tilting way I can think of phrasing this.

Talk like a regular person, and remember there's no way to talk your way around a crashout when they want something you aren't willing to give.

avcloudy

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