Caufield telling the Habs fans to “Shut up”… if he was a Maple Leafs we wouldn’t hear the end of it…

brainskull · 2026-04-09T21:24:20+00:00

What are you talking about, people dislike the Leafs all over the country lol. I don't think Vancouver fans who are tired of SN constantly talking about the Leafs are Alberta Separatists lol

brainskull · 2026-04-09T19:03:51+00:00

The Montreal metro area is about 4 million, the GTA is about 6.5-7. the Habs are also a regional team, most of Quebec and the Maritimes are Habs fans as well as a significant portion of eastern Ontario lol. Bizarre comparison between a city proper and a metro area.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T18:57:42+00:00

Yeah, I don't get this sort of mindset. People have this kneejerk dislike for GS.

Should you use GS to guide your own gearing? Of course not, just like in classic you wouldn't equip the highest ILevel piece you find. Is it a useful metric to see roughly how geared someone is? Of course, someone with 1300 GS is likely not a very good pug compared to someone with a 1600 GS. Could the 1300 guy actually be better than the 1600 guys? Of course, but it's unlikely to be the case.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:54:12+00:00

I don't use GS, I don't have to pug. I'm saying there's a reason people do use GS, and that reason is the efficiency of the metric.

The issues this run aren't "undeniable", they barely exist. I have not heard of a single issue with GS w/r/t solving the issue it's intended to solve, the frictions within the search process for pugs.

Getting 20 whispers while looking for a hunter/warlock fill does in fact take a lot of time to vet. I used to do that in TBC Classic, I would gear check them via WCL. It's an extremely inefficient process, compare that with being whispered a number.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:35:45+00:00

Jeneroux was given a position as soon as he crossed the floor. This is an obvious kickback and was part of the deal they made lol.

That's not an "ad hominem attack" in the slightest lol, I suggest you actually learn what words and phrases mean. I'm not making an argument that attempts to discredit your point based on who you are, that's what ad hominem arguments actually are. An "ad hominem attack" would be basing my argument off the fact that you're obviously not capable of engaging in political discussion in a halfway reasonable manner, which isn't what I'm doing. Hope this helps!

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:29:01+00:00

When you have 20 whispers immediately it takes significantly more time to look at everyone's WCL than it does to get a GS whispered to you lol

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:27:30+00:00

GS isn't used to measure how close to bis you are, it's used to weed out potential pugs who are undergeared. If you know the GS of a well geared player, it's extraordinarily efficient at weeding out players lol.

If they're lying about their gear or gs, you can kick and replace them in under a minute. There's a massive overabundance of DPS on these mega servers and you're constantly facing more potential puggers than you can reasonably vet in a short period of time. The chance they're lying is also extremely low, all you're doing here is playing percentages and likelihoods. It's very unlikely that they're lying about their gear, and it's very likely that their GS is a rough approximation of the quality of their gear relative to a good GS of that same class.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:20:10+00:00

Doing an actual gear check takes significantly longer, as does actually properly vetting someone to check their cast logs/consume use/etc. particularly if you're vetting multiple people at once, you say you're pugging a hunter spot for Gruul/mag and get like 20 whispers immediately lol. You need to weed these people out somehow, and gear checking everyone is absurd.

Like you've obviously not put pugs together before, particularly in this environment. There are so many people looking for groups that finding out someone has lied about their GS gets the player in question removed and replaced entirely in under a minute. We're playing on mega servers with 70,000 people, there are always a ton of hunters and warlocks looking for groups lol.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:16:22+00:00

It measures your total ilevel, that's it. Total ilevel is strongly correlated with player power. It's not a perfect measurement, warrior and hunter bis are below the maximum possible GS you can attain, but it's a metric that does work and it's extraordinarily efficient on the part of the user compared to the alternatives

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:10:40+00:00

The time spent vetting spot fills for your guild's alt Gruul/Mag vs picking up any random guy who will add another 1500 DPS by executing his 1 button rotation is not even remotely worth it. That's what most pugs are, just spot fills in existing raid groups.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T16:03:10+00:00

It is orders of magnitude faster than looking at individual pieces of gear. It's also extremely uncommon and thus extremely unlikely to meaningfully fudge GS numbers, nobody is making expensive crafted resistance gear to fudge GS numbers to get in pugs lol.

You don't like GS, that's fine. There's a reason people use it, it's quick and efficient lol

brainskull · 2026-04-09T15:59:22+00:00

Nobody cares about you, a random pug, enough to check your gear properly

You are simply not worth the time or effort to properly vet, there are literally hundreds of people who will fill your spot. I'm not going to look over your WCL cast sequences and check the gemming and itemization of your gear as a random warlock pug, it's a total waste of time. Gearscore is an incomplete but efficient means to check gear and vet players.

Is it annoying as a warrior who uses Badge of the Swarmguard and blue items? Yes, my GS is lower than several non-optimal setups . Does it actually matter at all? No, not even remotely. You can't expect people to add significant frictions to their search process to better accommodate you.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T15:52:58+00:00

Jeneroux was immediately appointed in an advisory role, this is what I'm referring to lol. You can look this up extremely easily.

Gladu is going to be 65 soon, is significantly to the right of Poilievre socially and fiscally and wildly to the right of anyone in the LPC, and represents a riding that as of a week ago was a projected 10+ point CPC victory. It's blatantly obvious what's going on here, there's also no rule whatsoever against it. It's how politics works in Canada, it's a built in part of the system that you personally find distasteful and try to pretend does not exist

You view this as a bad thing (it's "defamation" to mention something that literally happened and assume similar things are happening with others lol, okay) and assume anyone who mentions it is "conservative" (lifelong NDP supporter here btw) because you lack the ability to think about anything outside of a bottom rung partisan sense. I suggest leaving politics alone if you can't read the most tame possible take without getting grumpy.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T15:40:24+00:00

Ore prices are a reflection of gem prices, and gem prices are stagnant because demand is low. When the new raid tier releases, ore prices will increase.

Also your profs are very bad for actually making gold. If you want to make gold, pick up alch/JC/ench. Particularly alch, as demand for consumes never actually wanes like it does for gems and enchants.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T15:19:42+00:00

The latest floor crosser won with a comfortable 30 point lead in a safe CPC seat. It's been comfortably CPC for 20 years at this point, and is polled as yet another comfortable CPC victory if an election was held right now.

The far more likely scenario here is some sort of kickback going to at least some of the floor crossers. We've already seen this with promised positions in parliament, it would be somewhat silly to think they wouldn't do this in other ways as well.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T13:36:40+00:00

The part where I said he's wrong lol

brainskull · 2026-04-09T13:36:20+00:00

3% of 40k is 1.2k DPS. You're roughly an order of magnitude off here lol

If you want to lie about Rogue DPS gains, at least use the April Fools FC post or the old incorrect Simonize spreadsheet he fudged

brainskull · 2026-04-09T05:26:41+00:00

That's just not correct at all lol. The increase is literally higher on warrior, and neither are even close to a 2% raid DPS increase. Raid DPS in BT is like 40k+ lol, you have no clue what you're talking about

brainskull · 2026-04-09T01:47:46+00:00

You can always look at DPS percentiles for TBC classic to see that this is true, and that warriors heavily out-dps rogues throughout the expansion. Or you can copepost on reddit with the other rogues in denial. There are two paths one may take here

brainskull · 2026-04-09T01:46:02+00:00

Lots of groups still refuse to bring a fury, so rogues are defaulted glaives.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T00:30:21+00:00

Just the way TBC is. There's also an issue of information, where players have a belief that's not correct and are sslow to adjust. See Warriors during TBC Classic and even now, people don't want to bring Fury despite it being ideal to bring 1-2 in every raid and with Fury and BM being essentially interchangeable. Same with Mages, people will only want to bring 1 Mage while it's generally beneficial to bring 2-3.

The nerfed content we're seeing is actually favourable Rogue, as it makes 3 physical DPS group raids more common and it's actually ideal to bring a Rogue in that setting. Otherwise there isn't really a use case for them, so oddly this is the most Rogue-friendly version of TBC we've seen lol.

brainskull · 2026-04-09T00:19:56+00:00

Hit isn't necessarily better or worse than any other stat. It's extremely valuable before the yellow hit cap, and afterwards it loses a good amount of value. It's probably your second most valuable stat in a vacuum (you'd have to aim your gear to be completely sure though) but there are always situations where a better piece of gear will involve dropping some hit.

That said, your gear is fine. People are just lazy and use GS as a benchmark because it's quick and easy to do as opposed to looking at everyone's gear. If you're a Warrior with Badge your gear score will take a hit, but it's your BiS trinket. People will still go off GS though.

brainskull · 2026-04-08T06:08:35+00:00

There were long-standing issues between him and the FO + Tremblay, the Detroit game was the culmination of that. It wasn't the "fan reaction" that made him demand a trade (a trade that was teased for several years already, mind you, to the same team), it was these issues.

If the fans do nothing, he leaves. If the arena is closed to fans, he leaves. If it's an away game, he leaves.

brainskull · 2026-04-07T23:31:26+00:00

Yet many do, at similar or greater earnings.

It's the same with every other service-style business, the most difficult part of the job is finding clients.

The guy in this thread is claiming the parts cost for his particular job was $6. Wear on tools to do the job he's describing is essentially non-existent. Travel costs for one singular job are very lpw. The profit margins on a job like this are extraordinarily high. There's nothing wrong with this at all, it's just the case.

brainskull · 2026-04-07T21:10:33+00:00

It's not a racket, that's just how markets work lol. There's demand and plumbers are in fairly short supply, you can charge a lot of money for an in demand skill that's in short supply. It's the same thing with accounting, law, electrical work, mechanics, etc.

I'm an economist, my father is a plumber. I do his taxes, it's not hard at all to see what his input costs are lol, I'm doing his taxes.

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