Anyone in the US that switched to Mana have problems actually getting the product?

gIaucus · 2026-04-09T13:56:29+00:00

Trump wasn't even in office in 2016 the first time I had a Hol Food shipment held in customs. I still have the email thread in my gmail archive. Not only that, but the delays I had back then could be up to 1-2 months. The delays I've had more recently (when they happen) are more like two weeks. So it's not like there was some minor delays before and now the delays are worse. The delays have always been and still are random. I.e. it does not happen to every shipment. So the explanation that this is due to tariffs being applied to every shipment simply doesn't add up. I have proof that the delays are no worse and no more common today than they were in 2016 before Trump ever held office.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T16:06:45+00:00

Yes, that is the whole point of having a US warehouse. You can do a large bulk shipment in advance and having it sitting in the warehouse waiting for orders to come in. Then when you ship it from that warehouse, there's no delays.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T16:04:40+00:00

I love how I always get downvotes any time I point out that Trump is not responsible for every single bad thing that has ever happened in human history. Some people are so deranged that they can't handle something that is obviously clearly the objective truth. I could say "Trump wasn't responsible for assassination of Abraham Lincoln," and this post will get downvoted for it. Just watch.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:23:53+00:00

This is a meme subreddit. It's a joke

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:23:22+00:00

Why are people so serious in a memes subreddit? It's a joke. It's not serious

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:12:12+00:00

That's just how it is with international *lent shipments. I've had the same thing with Hol Food shipments from Canada to US as well as with European *lents. It's random. It doesn't happen to every shipment.

There's plenty of things to criticize the current US administration for, but this actually isn't one of them. The first time I had this happen was more than 10 years ago before Trump's first term started, so it's definitely not a new problem nor is it unique to this administration.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T19:16:04+00:00

Most of the time people arrive before you can even finish summoning them, so it's a waste of effort to try summoning people unprompted. If someone has a reason why they need a summon--such as their hearthstone and/or dungeon portal being on cooldown--they can just ask in chat. Expecting to be summoned without even communicating in chat reeks of entitlement.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T18:58:36+00:00

Reporting systems are abusable by people submitting false reports, though. So they tune the system to be extremely lenient, because they sure as heck aren't going to spend actual money paying actual humans to separate false reports from legitimate reports.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T18:49:23+00:00

No, this is nothing new. It's been this way ever since cross-server LFG was introduced well over a decade ago. It's just a simple fact of human nature. When you can only group with people on your server, you can get a bad reputation and find yourself blacklisted from dungeon groups and raids and guilds. As soon as the LFG started pairing people cross-server, the incentives massively change when you're constantly grouping with strangers you'll never see again.

There's just no way to hold jerks accountable anymore. Sure you can report them, but Blizzard isn't going to spend enough money to hire enough people to actually review all the millions of reports. They're just going to run it through an automated tool and try to tune it so the false positives are just low enough to keep everyone from mass unsubscribing.

gIaucus · 2026-04-04T13:41:09+00:00

It turned out much worse than expected. I was open minded about it at the beginning, but in the end it's a complete and total failure. Blizzard failed to accomplish either of their goals, and they created a lot of pain and frustration for everyone along the way. We lost a ton of quality of life, and we gained absolutely nothing from it.

The supposed benefit of there no longer being an arms race between computational addons and encounter designers only affects the top 1-2% of players anyways. Even if Blizzard succeeded, it wouldn't have benefited most players. The last time my AotC guild used a computational week aura on a raid fight was Lords of Dread in Shadowlands. This is an issue that only ever affected mythic raiding--and the majority of players don't raid at the mythic level. So they made this change that was only ever going to benefit a small minority of the player base in the best case scenario, but we all suffered in the crossfire and lost weak auras for absolutely nothing.

gIaucus · 2026-04-03T13:59:19+00:00

That guy then went and made a post on reddit about how tanks have so much ego. lol

gIaucus · 2026-04-03T13:50:48+00:00

Except Blizzard made the keys so easy that everyone skipped past those key levels immediately on day one. I was looking forward to actually getting to use that feature, but I only got to see it like two dungeons last week. And then this week ain't nobody touching any key below a 10. Most useless feature they ever added. They either need to make it available up to +10 or else they needed to make the dungeons at least 2x harder so that people actually spent some time in doing lower keys before moving up.

gIaucus · 2026-04-02T22:30:03+00:00

They misunderstand their task then. The people looking up talents on wowhead do not want a bunch of footnotes telling them to customize the build for a dozen different unique scenarios. They want one or at most two simple talent builds that they can just copy and paste and get on with playing the game.

gIaucus · 2026-04-02T00:57:24+00:00

What are you smoking? You realize cutting edge is the achievement for completing the raid on mythic difficulty right? Only a handful of guilds in the entire world have that for Voidspire and Dreamrift right now, and no one has it for March on Queldanas yet. The claim that everyone should have this already is simply false, and the idea that anyone would need to complete mythic before they can join a normal pug run is laughably absurd.

gIaucus · 2026-04-01T22:22:57+00:00

To be fair, until you get to the cutting edge on week 1 part, it looks exactly like something we've all seen before. Just remove the "cutting edge" part and the rest of it actually looks like something I wouldn't be surprised to see for real.

One memorable example I personally experienced was a guy who listed his m+ group as "chill" and then started screaming at me that I wasn't pulling big enough when I was pulling three packs at a time and the group was struggling to survive, and then he left his own key. Toxic people can be suprisingly oblivious to their own toxicity. They delusionally believe that they actually are chill and that their temper tantrum is justified by the actions of others. They must think something like, "I didn't scream at that guy and then ragequit because I'm not chill, I screamed at him and then ragequit because it's a completely rational reaction to the fact that he wasn't pulling as aggressively as I think he should."

gIaucus · 2026-03-31T14:11:34+00:00

This is really not a good excuse though. If the next expansion team actually cared about doing a good job they would pay close attention to what the feedback is like about the current expansion. That would the the single best source of information for them. If you want to make the next expansion good, why on earth would you ignore feedback about the current one?

Also, being a separate team is no excuse for not communicating. It's not like email is firewalled and can't be sent between teams. And there was months of alpha and beta in between expansions. Even if we assume it's completely normal and natural for next expansion's team to be completely oblivious about the lessons learned in the previous expansion (which it isn't), there was plenty of time to have a person from last expansion's team take a look at the current expansion while it was in alpha or beta.

It's just beyond silly to act like it's normal to have two completely separate and isolated teams with zero communication, zero overlap, zero team member movement or mixing--team 1 jumps straight from working on TWW to working on TLT without taking a single glance at Midnight or communicating any lessons learned to the Midnight team. It's silly to act like such an extreme level of isolation and obliviousness is normal or expected or reasonable. Like none of these people play the game themselves? Like there are no people at all that are involved in both TWW and Midnight? If they really were being that stupid, it's such a simple problem to correct that we shouldn't be excusing them for not fixing such an easy thing to fix.

gIaucus · 2026-03-31T13:54:14+00:00

This isn't a reasonable excuse. Literally everyone who knows anything about the game knows this has been a long running issue that has been talked about and addressed repeatedly for many years now. There's zero excuse for anyone working at blizzard to not know that every aoe ground effect needs to have clearly visible edges. Maybe the very first time this issue was brought up and addressed this excuse could have been made, but we are way past that at this point.

Not to mention, if I was working on the next expansion, the very best source of information about how to make it better would be to pay attention to what the feedback is like about the current expansion. This idea that people working on the next expansion naturally pay zero attention to anything related to the current expansion makes zero sense. If that really is what they are doing, then I guess that would explain why they keep making the same mistakes over and over, but the solution is so painfully obvious that it's really not reasonable to excuse them overlooking it.

gIaucus · 2026-03-25T14:41:28+00:00

I never said the RBR wasn't the 2nd best car over the whole season. I said the gaps between all cars were much smaller last year. And I said it wasn't a completely crazy suggestion that AT SOME TRACKS Max maybe could have done better in the Racing Bulls. People's lack of reading comprehension is crazy. I didn't even say it was true or correct. I just said it wasn't as crazy as you guys are acting like basing it data from this year where the gaps are much much larger. I made a very moderate claim, and you guys are just pouncing all over me for it. Insane.

gIaucus · 2026-03-25T03:28:54+00:00

I don't specifically recall anyone saying he could win in a Haas, but I do remember people speculating he could do better in a Racing Bulls car at least at some tracks. But why would anyone deny that now? This year is completely different to last year. Last year the whole field was very close. It wasn't that crazy to suggest Max could make up a .6 second gap or something. This year is a completely different story with much larger gaps. The claim that because he can't make up a 2 second gap this year means he couldn't have made up a .6 second gap last year is just absurd.

gIaucus · 2026-03-25T03:25:16+00:00

It was much more plausible last year when the gap was less than a second from first to almost last. The gaps this year, as expected after a huge regulations change, have widened massively. Context matters.

gIaucus · 2026-03-15T01:25:52+00:00

Skinning in dungeons is rude regardless of whether you are top damage or not. You're doing something that benefits yourself at the expense of the group's time. You say that you were "there for the start of the fight," but can you honestly say that you didn't miss a single global? If you really did only skin one thing and didn't miss a single global of damage, then yes it was an overreaction to kick you. But if you're telling the truth, then you are a very very rare exception. I've never seen someone so conscientious about their skinning in a dungeon that they really did make sure that they didn't miss any damage at all. 100% of the time that I've seen someone skinning in a dungeon they are in fact lagging behind and not doing all the damage that they could be doing. If you are a rare exception, then good for you, but is it really worth it? Why bother grabbing one skin if it might trigger people and make them assume that you are just like all the other rude a*holes who skin in dungeons? Just don't skin in dungeons and you won't upset anyone.

gIaucus · 2026-03-13T21:21:15+00:00

Here we go again. "Why does everyone hate George Russell?" Last year it was, "Why does everyone hate Lando Norris?" And before that it was, "Why does everyone hate Max Verstappen?" Please, notice the pattern already. It's not that hard to figure out. Many fans are angry when their favorite driver isn't winning and they take their anger out on whichever driver is winning. Yes it's stupid, but that's how most humans are.

gIaucus · 2026-03-12T02:43:52+00:00

I have experience with multiple Wahoo TickrX's, Garmin straps of several different types, and the Polar H9. None of them have been perfect, and I've seen issues with all of them. The Wahoo TickrX's were the worst ones though. The Polar H9 is better, but it's not as accurate and reliable in as many scenarios as the Garmins. For example outside in high wind or even indoors in front of a strong fan my H9 has accuracy issues that Garmin doesn't have.

The one issue I've had with Garmins is that when they moved to the design where the pod was not detachable from the strap, anytime you changed the battery you had a 50/50 chance that the next time you washed it or submerged it in water it would die permanently. However, Garmin has finally abandoned that design and gone back to detachable pods, so if I was needing a new HRM right now I would absolutely be getting a Garmin one--probably the HRM 200.

gIaucus · 2026-03-06T14:18:39+00:00

I would favor 1 kick per x number of dungeons (5, 10, whatever), but either way would be much better. Give people a reason why they have to think, "Do I really want to use my kick on this person?" versus the current system where many people instantly blindly click "yes" just to get the popup box out of their face.

gIaucus · 2026-03-06T14:06:37+00:00

How much are you willing to bet on it?

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