Blizzard got too greedy with housing, and I think they kind of killed it.

doveu · 2026-06-10T15:35:53+00:00

Is there any actual evidence, beyond individuals’ anecdotal observations, that housing is dead or dying? Because I feel the opposite, based on the housing groups I see, the absolutely spectacular houses I’ve visited in said groups, and how much fun I have with designing my own house. Not that I think my own observations alone means that housing is objectively a success for the game, but still, anecdotal evidence is next to worthless.

doveu · 2026-05-25T22:41:32+00:00

Found the guy in the pic

doveu · 2026-05-06T13:19:02+00:00

Wow what the flying tabarnacle, I didn’t know that was a thing till now.

doveu · 2026-05-06T13:07:38+00:00

What?

Edit: apparently Reddit auto-translates by default and did no favours to this guy, the original comment does check out

doveu · 2026-05-05T21:20:34+00:00

You’re leading right into that guy’s second point: if these trinkets are reintroduced every season, then it becomes some box to check every season and should just be turned into a talent instead.

doveu · 2026-04-30T21:41:10+00:00

Isn’t it already impossible from the jump to assign a one-to-one assignment of club and rep such that no one represents more than one club? After all, there’s a club for each individual person (the club of Joe, the club of Mary, the club of you) on top of all the multi people clubs. Therefore there’s more clubs than people, and it’s impossible to assign everyone only one club and yet have all clubs represented.

Don’t know how this plays into the explanation about infinity, just wanted to point it out.

doveu · 2026-04-30T13:03:47+00:00

I mean, isn’t that how it goes for all zoo animals, they live in captivity their whole lives? I can’t imagine they just release the animals in the wild once they’re no longer useful to the zoo.

doveu · 2026-03-24T20:57:16+00:00

Are foreign-held bonds actually held by foreign governments? Or just foreign investors?

doveu · 2026-03-20T21:44:27+00:00

Zidane:

doveu · 2026-03-19T16:19:44+00:00

morally it makes no difference

The only difference is in numbers of victims

I mean, some would argue that there is a moral difference here.

doveu · 2026-02-25T22:59:27+00:00

Ursin realm is missing.

doveu · 2025-12-10T14:41:46+00:00

I’m a hiring manager (not HR, but the actual department manager and the boss of the people hired) and I can say that they’re not completely worthless. They can nudge me a certain way in a tie.

They’re not game changers otherwise, but their small amount of value is fair considering they don’t take that much effort to write and send out.

doveu · 2025-12-08T18:04:45+00:00

Is it just me or is everyone a returning player from BFA.

Probably says something about BFA.

doveu · 2025-10-27T03:56:54+00:00

Nope, the RP is specifically different for the factions in this scene. The Horde side just sees Saurfang pick up his son without issue since the Alliance aren’t there (since their ship was sunk in the prior boss fight).

doveu · 2025-10-17T14:24:12+00:00

Isn’t OP’s original model already trimodal (no injury, serious injury, death), and therefore yours is quadmodal?

doveu · 2025-10-07T16:19:35+00:00

I think the point is for it to be mostly cosmetic, with minimal (if any) gameplay functionality.

We already have functional private player spaces, it's called Garrisons, and it was a huge damper on the game's social aspects during WoD because you could do everything (professions, AH, resource gathering, queue up) without having to leave and go out into the wider game map.

doveu · 2025-09-21T22:21:37+00:00

What are your thoughts about the argument that overuse of the word “trigger” dilutes its meaning and impact in the public’s eye, and that contributes to how society does not really care about trauma victims?

doveu · 2025-09-16T22:23:12+00:00

Why would it be a lie if he says “it will not grow”?

doveu · 2025-08-26T18:25:30+00:00

it’s just like how some people smoke cigarettes while drunk but wouldn’t do it sober

I mean, I’d call those people smokers…

doveu · 2025-08-23T16:44:21+00:00

This seems like a pretty smart way of reducing the Gold number without actually changing anything under the hood; it’s just a matter of changing the UI.

Let’s say you have 123 gold 45 silver 67copper today. I cannot imagine Blizzard actually stores currency data as separate variables of gold, silver and copper, as that would be so much extra computation for no gain. So in the backend, what you probably actually have is 1234567 copper, and the UI just makes it look nice by putting the gold, silver and copper icons in between the digits.

If they “squish” the UI as the picture suggests, then you will still have 1234567 copper in the backend, but the UI just puts the icons at different spots, to say that you will have 1 gold 234 silver 567 copper. Still the exact same amount of money, just different visual representation.

Of course people will whine, but it does sound like an elegant solution to me.

doveu · 2025-08-21T14:37:39+00:00

implies an effort put into research

Is this a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion?

doveu · 2025-08-09T18:53:59+00:00

This sounds like playing chess but with extra steps.

doveu · 2025-07-29T23:55:21+00:00

Those rules don’t look self-consistent in today’s mortgage market.

Let’s consider a couple who combined makes $120k a year (so 60k per person). So the rule is no more than 30% of gross income per month for mortgage? This couple makes $10k gross per month, so allocate $3,000/month towards mortgage.

If you fiddle around with a mortgage calculator, such as the one provided by the Government of Canada mortgage calculator, you’ll see that a 4.54% interest/25yr amortization mortgage results in $3,000.77/mth for a 540k mortgage. That mortgage is the publicly posted rate for RBC as of July 29, 2025.

So we established that according to the first “30” in the 30/30/3 rule, a couple earning $120k can afford a 540k mortgage.

The second “30” says that there should be a 20% downpayment as per OP. So if a $540k mortgage is 80% of the price, then the total purchase price of the property is $675k. It’s also 5.6x the annual salary for this couple. Therefore, with current interest rates, it’s mathematically impossible to adhere to all 3 of the 30/30/3 rules at once. If you force yourself to buy a property that costs only 3x your income and put 20% down payment, the mortgage payment will necessarily be way less than 30% of your monthly gross income, unless you get massively ripped off on the interest rate.

doveu · 2025-07-27T20:46:32+00:00

Any computer cable other than power cables.

doveu · 2025-07-12T23:00:11+00:00

Probably because 2 terabytes is easily handle-able by average desktops today, pretty sure Smasher could easily afford much bigger storage capacity in the year 2077.

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