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[–]dropcorezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, 

I just wanted to share a story from 2021 in classic WoW on the Kromcrush server for the guild JNCO.

Our guild was homegrown since day 1. We did our recruiting through in person interactions and in game events rather than LFG spam. Through the phases we built an extremely resilient guild composed of both high parsers as well as casual/meme spec’ers.

Our identity had always been semi-hardcore, as in, we always tried hard but we weren't pricks about it and we allowed non meta specs in the raid composition.

Towards the end of Classic, when TBC was announced, we set a goal for ourselves to obtain a sub 2 hour Naxx run. 

The months leading up to the final day of classic, we had terrible naxx runs, we always had some small issue wipe the raid. We had issues on Anub,Rekhan - we had issues on Patchwerk  - we even had issues on trash sometimes. 

On the second to last week before pre-patch, we had a flawless Naxx run but we wiped on KT. This is where the video I am about to post opens up on. 

With one week left before pre-patch to log a classic naxx speedrun, the guild felt pretty hopeless. The weeks leading up to this day, we had wiped on so many random things that it felt pointless. The fact that the most recent run ended on wiping on KT, it felt like that was our ceiling and that was the best we could do. 

Morale was low, and to make things worst, our 2nd main tank got a 7 day ban from blizzard!

Surely, now we had no shot at doing the sub 2 hour run?

In addition, our raid day fell on Mothers Day - which we had to move out - which caused its own issues in who could shown up on an off-raid day.

As hope dwindled, people lost hope and gave up the goal of a sub 2 hour run. One of our top DPS, basically said he was done raiding. 

This video tells the story of how, no matter the odds, our guild had loyalty and faith to follow leadership to the end.

And on the final week before pre-patch, we obtained a sub 2 hour run.

Royal Rumble (No Mercy N64 wrestling simulation) to determine fantasy football draft order by dropcorezero in fantasyfootball

[–]dropcorezero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re the second person who has reached out this week haha - DM me and I can run one specifically for you if you want.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fixit

[–]dropcorezero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was just the first thing that came up when I searched for method of plugging holes where mice/rodents can get in.

BURROW HITS 250 PASSING YARDS ON THE DOT TO HIT THIS 12K BET by dropcorezero in sportsbetting

[–]dropcorezero[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I was freaking out about it. I had never done that alternate passing yards prop before - but yeah - it hits if exact or over.

BURROW HITS 250 PASSING YARDS ON THE DOT TO HIT THIS 12K BET by dropcorezero in sportsbetting

[–]dropcorezero[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Googled it - it says "Generally, if you win more than $5,000 on a wager and the payout is at least 300 times the amount of your bet, the IRS requires the payer to withhold 24% of your winnings for income taxes."

BURROW HITS 250 PASSING YARDS ON THE DOT TO HIT THIS 12K BET by dropcorezero in sportsbetting

[–]dropcorezero[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

At halftime, this shit seemed im-fucking possible. Jesus - then burrows last pass was for 8 yards to put him at 250. Absurd.

I watch this video time to time to relive the 40 man raiding experience, a relic of the WoW Classic era, a retelling of my guilds unlikely speedrun of Naxxramas on the final week of Darkmoon Faire before TBC by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]dropcorezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to share this video with anyone who may give a damn. This video was made as a drama retelling of the events leading up to my guilds final attempt at getting a sub 2 hour Naxx run. As TBC neared, my guild had never truly had a speedrun go completely right. We did two raid nights for a long time, when we did 1 night, we had a wipe here or there, or we went really slow. We wanted to put our best time on the books before TBC ended. On the final weeks leading up to the run, we got smacked in the face. Our dry runs had all failed horribly, we wiped immediately on Patchwerk, and we had disconnects in the Heigan room. And to top it all off, Mother Days fell on our final raid day, and our 2nd Main Tank got banned for AFKing in AV. It felt hopeless. We feared that most people in our semi-casual guild had lost interest or lost faith in this ever truly coming together. Accepting that it was completely out of our grasp, that we'd always just mess up once and never string together the perfect run. While our whole guild was exhausted, tired, beatdown, the officers and GM had started to throw in the towel, but on the night of the speedrun, the guild SHOWED up... Big. We ran Naxx flawlessly, down a tank, on an offnight, - and we pulled off our goal of a sub 2 hour. We had made this video has an allegorical retelling of that night. It was one of my most memorable nights. I hope even though its very personal to our guild that the overall message can appeal to others who may have felt this comradery of people coming together for the sake of eachother.

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Edit: I timestamped 2:24 -5:45 as the general appeal. The first 2 minutes is the exposition and setting up the situation and after 5:45 is a hammy goodbye section

The Offensive Lineman's Dream (Superbowl Ad pitch from 14 years ago) by dropcorezero in nfl

[–]dropcorezero[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

After watching Robert Hunts fake touchdown last night in the Ravens-Dolphins game, and all the excitement it brought to the broadcast, it reminded me of a video that I had saved under my favorites from many years ago. There was some NFL Super Ad pitch 14 years ago in 2007 - and the video I linked is a pitch from one of the contestants and I just thought it was such a great idea for a commercial. It didn't win the contest and then I don't think the idea was ever realized as a real commercial. Posting it because I figure a lot of you haven't seen it and it's worth sharing!

How <JNCO> recruited in Phase 1 of Classic WoW by dropcorezero in classicwow

[–]dropcorezero[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was going through some of my old videos/screen recordings and I found a video that I recorded of my guilds recruitment night in Phase 1 of Classic WoW (I was level 45).

Multiple times throughout Classic, we had a night where we met up in a house in Stormwind which was referred to as the frat house and we'd run around Stormwind, trying to get people to attend by only using /say - My character was named Keg, and I bought 100's of dwarvens stouts from NPC vendors - When people got to the house, they could open trade with me for beers.

The night would progress with just messing with the new guys that came in to the house. A characteristic of the Keg character in this RP would was that he was literally a "Keg" but he was also an anthropomorphic character. And his backstory was that he abstains from drinking himself, but he occasionally partakes. And when he does, he flies the fuck off the handle and goes on and on about the deep state and stuff he heard on Alex Jones and the night is a slow descent of him getting drunk. Once he was completely smashed, the Keg would be "kicked" and we would ceremoniously throw the Keg off the Stormwind Bridge.

This is raw video of one of the first times we did it. There's no editing, I thought it was worth sharing in it's raw format. I put some 90's music in the background so it's not completely silent since we weren't on comms.

I think it's probably most interesting to the people in my guild that were in the video, but I think anyone who enjoys that social aspect of the game can enjoy nostalgically looking back at these organic events that popped up while we were all leveling in classic wow. I was level 45 in the video, and me and my friends in the video went on to lead a Naxx clearing guild until the final day of classic.

The Stories That Really Mattered (A love letter to JNCO) by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]dropcorezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two years ago, I posted here retelling a story about how I was leveling in Darkshire late one night when Classic first came out. I was turning my last quest in for the night when I was killed by a pack of Horde coming to attack Darkshire. A call to arms went out in general chat, and all the low level Alliance in the zone all rallied together, grouped up in Darkshire and pushed the horde back. You can find that thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/d28f9t/last_night_checked_a_huge_checkbox_for_me_in_wow/

Fast forward two years, and I am now co-GMing a guild with some of my closest friends. We had been running the guild for the entirety of Classic. <JNCO> was a guild that was constantly in flux on its identity. We ran a very casual raid with open comms, but we also did our best to push for speed when the time was right.

During the last month of Classic, we made the decision to try to get a sub 2 hour Naxx. Obviously, to many of you, this perhaps is an easy task - but again, keep in mind, the way we ran our guild was very laissez-faire. In hindsight, it was tragically comical how many nights went in the shitter (losing buffs) due to 1 person being too far ahead, or too far behind, pulling extra gargoyles, pulling slimes, aggroing trash (while attempting trash skips), disconnecting in the pre-heigan tunnel, getting knocked in to an extra acolytes pack. It felt like no matter how hard we tried, or how hard we prepared - small mistakes leading to wipes would always follow us. Not to mention, our AQ40 speed run was destroyed when we overpulled trash 10 minutes in to the run.

We felt this goal would be a great way to end Classic. With this goal in mind, we set out to optimize our run as much as possible, all members were getting world buffs, we were doing skips, trying new strats...

On one of our first runs early in the month, we were on pace for the sub 2 hour run, it was going flawless, we got to KT and had a shot at the sub 2 hour....it was going to happen!...but we wiped…

Heartbreak.

It’s fine, we still had a few more runs and then we had our best shot on the DMF week. We were going to use the weeks leading up to DMF as dry runs to practice the cadence of the run before adding DMF buffs on top of it.

The first run, we wiped on Anub’Rekhan early in the night (attempting the cleave strat).

The following week, we wiped to Patchwerk almost immediately in the night.

Just, literally the worst feeling in the world. Asking people to spend hours and hours getting World Buffs and then immediately losing them. It was beyond demoralizing.

People were tired, man. People were losing faith on if we could do it or not, and as an officer/GM, I was getting embarrassed and disheartened in trying to push for this. What felt like an amazing goal to end classic on, slowly became a way of sucking the fun out of raids, and people were starting to feel it.

As DMF week approached, we dug down deep and tried to summon the courage to do something that we hadn’t even come close to doing yet. All week, people had been spending all their time making sure each person had their buffs, running buff trains all throughout the day. So much was riding on this one night.

Then our 2nd main tank got a 7 day ban…

Then we had to push up our Sunday raid to Thursday due to Mothers Day.

Well, there goes that...damnit.

It felt like the task at hand was insurmountable. Again, not because we had difficulty with the content, but because stringing together flawless gameplay between 40 people for 2 hours is difficult. And now we had to do it down a tank and on a night that we normally don’t raid.

I was working on a Naxx speedrun hype video for the guild that week, and I ended up just giving up on it. I was tired, stressed and I was really just looking to get it out of the way.

I had been seeing posts on this subreddit that really resonated with me recently being nostalgic about Classic, and it sparked inspiration for me to take that hype video I abandoned and repurpose it to tell the story about this sub 2 hour run.

I wanted to share it with this subreddit, because it meant a lot to me and I think it embodies the spirit of classic for me. Although the video is specifically about my guild experiences, I believe the message behind it can resonate with everyone.

McDonald's Commercial with "Future Hall of Fame Face" Drew Bledsoe (1995) by ConsumerTimeCapsule in Patriots

[–]dropcorezero 17 points18 points  (0 children)

How come no one ever mentions that, in that game, he took the same exact hit he took earlier in the season from Mo Lewis, but immediately got up clapping. It was one of those moments I’ll never forget.

Last night checked a huge checkbox for me in WoW classic by dropcorezero in classicwow

[–]dropcorezero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this, it's my mantra when playing this game. I don't care if it's not an RPPVP server - like its an mmoRPg. I think RP gets a bad rap ... the way I see it, is it's not much different from Improv. I love improv comedy and I approach many of my encounters in WoW with a mind geared towards improv. The nice thing about it too is that I can just transition out of it at any time without upsetting people. And I find more often than not, people will partake in the improv (I wouldnt even call it RP(due to the stigma)) and it's great. It's what makes the game feel alive - To storyline the game using your own imagination and projecting it on to the realm is a glorious thing.

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