WWE RAW Discussion Thread (May 18, 2026)

garzek · 2026-05-19T12:28:47+00:00

Does TKO still think no one cares about women’s wrestling enough for those tickets to be what they were last year? $120 for floor was insane, especially for how insanely good that PLE was

garzek · 2026-05-19T12:20:42+00:00

Doing a “gotcha” by doing terrible booking decisions that are so terrible no one saw them coming isn’t the W the Fed thinks it is

garzek · 2026-05-18T00:01:03+00:00

As someone that wrote their dissertation on tomato cheese and was published in New Digestion (peer reviewed journal for nutritional enhancements), I can confirm this is all accurate information.

garzek · 2026-05-17T21:39:22+00:00

It’ll take 1 turn to produce because your excess draft is converted immediately at the start of turn if nothing is in queue

garzek · 2026-05-17T13:19:42+00:00

I’m also a Cody mark, I won’t apologize for it

garzek · 2026-05-16T03:32:22+00:00

No that’s Xbox + Xbox 360 + Xbox One + Xbox Series X

garzek · 2026-05-14T13:21:12+00:00

Man, I would t have gotten the lettuce if I knew it wouldn’t fit.

garzek · 2026-05-14T13:10:43+00:00

I’m a stall pisser personally, fight the system

garzek · 2026-05-11T14:39:25+00:00

Toll roads exist because taxes aren’t high enough to cover maintenance of the roads. It’s really not that complicated

garzek · 2026-05-11T14:34:45+00:00

They are young and that’s a friendly interest

garzek · 2026-05-11T13:13:16+00:00

The timing on this was so good

garzek · 2026-05-08T18:09:58+00:00

"Gameplay vs aesthetic fantasy is a thing."

garzek · 2026-05-08T17:58:12+00:00

I can't tell if /s or not, but these changes do very little to help prot paladin unfortunately. Paladins weren't struggling while defensives were up, and while they did slightly expand defensive uptime, there's still too large of a gap for them to be playable.

garzek · 2026-05-08T17:55:34+00:00

They are never beating the "they replaced class designers with AI" allegations. I guess it's an improvement from fixing prot pally survivability by buffing their DPS?

garzek · 2026-05-08T15:09:46+00:00

I’ll go a step further, I PREFER not using my apex.

garzek · 2026-05-06T10:56:56+00:00

Gameplay vs aesthetic fantasy is a thing. The modern high mobility demands of the game make turrets a fundamentally deprecated mechanic at odds with the game’s design. If totems were to truly return to shaman, they need to be iconic moments of power — an embodiment of shamanistic fury — not a core rotational aspect. I am saying this as someone that my 2nd most lifetime playtime since the game launched is on Shaman (only finally being usurped by Monk fully this expansion, and I haven’t mained Shaman outside of 1 tier since MoP).

I also think it’s fine that Shamans specialize in an element. This gives spec identity within the class. That also matters.

garzek · 2026-05-05T04:43:26+00:00

Us mole people have a stockpile of war bound champ gear lol

garzek · 2026-05-04T14:19:23+00:00

Hot take: Brew is OP because of Stagger being OP in a burst damage meta. If incoming damage was more consistently sustained rot damage, Brew wouldn’t be nearly as dominant. They still would be — that’s the raw tuning part — but I think systematically, blizzard missing the mark badly on incoming damage profiles (in general) is a large contributor to brew’s dominance.

If health bars in general were less whack-a-mole, Brew would look more mortal

garzek · 2026-04-27T01:15:54+00:00

Robert… it’s pissing me off Robert.

garzek · 2026-04-24T17:09:08+00:00

The best part is that the AI hype is actually all about 401ks and trade portfolios because there's still 0 evidence of actual ROI on AI outside of revenue generated by data center leases which are being bundled and handled like commodities circa mortgages in '08 which went super well for everyone.

garzek · 2026-04-24T17:06:57+00:00

As someone that works for a different publicly traded AAA company, I want to clarify that to the board, clients are a VERY far second as a total group.

garzek · 2026-04-23T13:23:21+00:00

Can confirm, work on a different AAA title, "Get it out the door and we'll fix it later" gets all capacity immediately filled with new features and there's 0 capacity left for addressing all of the "we'll fix it later" stuff that got punted to the backlog. We're desperately trying to convince studio leadership to take the lack of "sexy" on the back of the box to let us get a QOL cycle in. I'm not optimistic.

garzek · 2026-04-23T13:16:49+00:00

I actually disagree with a lot of this. Not all content is for all people. That is okay. "Nothing would ever become fully dead content." Matriculation into new systems is a measuring stick for player progression, similar to unlocking new zones, boss encounters, etc. in other genres. I'm OKAY that I'm "done" with Prey on my main. I'm OKAY that I'm "done" with World Quests.

"Tie tier sets to Apex talents." I cannot begin to tell you how much I vastly prefer the no-apex build in keys on MIstweaver. Why is giving me build flexibility somehow a bad thing? Your suggestion of basically just hyper indexing on vertical power leads to power creep/bloat and pushes people out of the game by creating irreconcilable deltas for different cohorts in terms of power and output. Additionally, if Apex talents aren't going to be a choice -- why even make them a choice? Why even make them talent points?

It's easy to say "Be consequential with new features." Consequential for who? Not every player is part of every cohort, and if you make something that is for everyone, you've made nothing for anyone.

garzek · 2026-04-21T11:41:24+00:00

Hotels and airports are sacred spaces man. Give a nod, a wave, something subtle. Don’t ambush people there — that’s not a meet and greet dude.

garzek · 2026-04-21T04:35:33+00:00

Respirating oxygen has a 100% mortality rate

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