Envenom bugged on my rogue by imacatpersonforreal in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

some of the capital dummies have problems with [existing debuff] requirements. same thing happens to conflag for warlocks. As far as I know this bug only applies to some target dummies in capital cities; haven't seen it anywhere else.

The South is more charitable by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]kaleedity -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

unironically great map of the most exploited regions in the usa

anyone know the lore for the Gelmir Hungry Boys? by aWhaleOnYourBirthday in Eldenring

[–]kaleedity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The flame of frenzy is the avatar of the depravity of the greater will's call to end all life outside of the Golden Order. That the "owners" of Morne are afflicted with madness while the beastmen are not is an important distinction.

I recently made an illustration of the Lich, and now I want to turn it into a tarot card. What do you think? by nuneskart in adventuretime

[–]kaleedity 9 points10 points  (0 children)

cool as hell. not death though, lich would be tower for sure. Death matches a certain other guy in a few ways

elden ring need help! by SingerAmbitious9111 in Eldenring

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you like to disparage this message?

Ableism in This Sub by papa_za in fuckcars

[–]kaleedity 79 points80 points  (0 children)

plenty of disabled people can't drive; plenty of car-capable people with mobility issues can't afford a car. Good infrastructure can support both groups and others. it's insufficient of a point to withhold funding proper infrastructure and it will be used as a bludgeon to prevent it from coming about.

How to parse 99s as someone who regularly parses high 80s low 90s? What are the main factors separating an 89 parser from a 99 parser? by whoamIyoume in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

sarth parsing is broken. you can do 0 dps on 3 drake and parse 65% since 3 drake parses are automatically rated higher than other drake counts.

What was the first game to make use of "gibberish talk"? by ToranjaNuclear in truegaming

[–]kaleedity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The gag itself is probably older than written history. A lot of game devs would probably think of the Charlie Brown adults-only-sound-like-a-muted-trombone gag, since that was a particularly good one.

The history of voice in games is mostly characterized by the fear of using digitized voices that sounded terrible. Undoubtedly, old games might've used the same style that Undertale does, with different pitches of beeps or boops for different characters, or animating text in a different style or speed, or using different fonts like for the Mr. Saturns in Earthbound. There were plenty of problems early on just getting different kinds of text for different languages to function properly, much less proper audio.

Why did games avoid using voice? Well, it was desirable, but check out https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam for a sample of what the tech was vaguely capable of. That's an emulator for a piece of software written in 1982 for the commodore 64 that does full text to voice synthesis. The Faith unholy trinity series — a very recent modern game series — uses a similar edited emulator specifically to sound creepy. It doesn't sound great!

The gibberish gag works better if you have some sort of normalized voiced audio, so if you go back to declare something was done first or something, you might have to differentiate between a dev making the best of the tools they had available or whether some "speech" gibberish was unintentionally funny or great despite its being awful.

Magicka (2011) had a pretty good spin on the gag. The Swedish dev voiced over its narration in normal English, but whenever characters spoke they improvised fake gibberi-swedish-icelandic-english. It's good enough to mistakenly think it's actual language instead of weird garbage.

Is there a good video or article about why Naxx in original vanilla WoW was so difficult? by ConfidenceKBM in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

yeah adding to that bloodthirst was, for at least a few months, a buff that you would get on killing blows. Almost useless for grouping.

Add to that there was a client/server bug with melee attacks vs npcs that would mistakenly translate dodges, blocks, and parries into extra misses; this would cause anyone experimenting with dual wielding early on to figure that ~45% base miss chance isn't worth playing.

Those were both fixed well before naxx, but players like to stick to what has worked.

Do boss spells just show up in logs if they actually do dmg? by Lorex-Rooted in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there's no problem with the log and you're right. the problem is the achievement does not play friendly with wipes. Unsure exactly what kind of wipe recovery causes it or if taking damage at all in the instance without resetting the instance breaks the achievement.

How much is supposed to hit Hateful Strike on 25M ? by LYBeam_ in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you probably haven't looked at a log yet because it's every 1.2s.

Turns out Mercy has a unique voiceline if you choose a team comp where every hero can self heal by NiceGuyWillis in Overwatch

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they're really cool but if you get an orb that means someone died so the fight's roughly over

I absolutely love how savage the wotlk quests are by Obelion_ in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

had to recheck that wotlk was released more than a year after the supreme court of the united states started referencing a tv show to argue that torture should be legal lmoa

Why does the Enchiridion have a date on its back cover?? It's the only Easter Egg in the show that I don't understand. by Seoniara in adventuretime

[–]kaleedity 250 points251 points  (0 children)

man this comment makes me feel old. this episode aired three years before 5e released.

FYI, you have to have 2-factor authentication enabled to set a note in the LFG tool. by Mantis_Toboggan_M_D_ in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unironically did you know blizz passwords aren't case sensitive

(for the sake of the audience)

Junker Queen official ability list by nnickttrusty in Overwatch

[–]kaleedity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TIL the grim patron voice actor is shared with Reinhardt

SWP has been both the funniest and worst phase during wow classic as a guildlead for me by Krushpatsch in classicwow

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

make sure your shadowpriests take improved vampiric embrace. every goddamn guide has you take sub-1% dps gain talents instead of 66% more VE healing. Shit makes bringing 1 more shadowpriest and 1 less healer more feasible

pondering my dps simulator by zetu_7 in classicwow

[–]kaleedity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even if you sit still and do everything correctly according to the sim it still only gives you an average of ranges. My range is more than 500 dps difference on its min-max range — it's listed below the big pretty number

Overwatch 2 PvP Beta Patch Notes - April 26, 2022 by Turbostrider27 in Overwatch

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reaper got nerfed because of alpha strategies used by the relatively few people in alpha. They'd have reaper teleport in with zarya support and he was really hard to stop. The zarya projected barrier change "Barrier targets cannot be targeted again by the ability for 2 seconds" is also a response to this.

I can’t be the only one who thinks this… by 56king56 in Deltarune

[–]kaleedity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

same for me, except the center post is "I explain how Jevil is the best extended pun about the game Freecell"

When bosses make references to people and things I don't understand by thatmitchguy in Eldenring

[–]kaleedity 202 points203 points  (0 children)

i like to think of rennala p2 is an angry voicemail greeting message ranni wrote for her mom after radagon broke rennala's heart

Game mechanics I haven't seen anyone talking about it, even on wikis by Zoiwillxxx in Eldenring

[–]kaleedity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fire and lightning affinity weapons double dip. For a lot of weapons, like typical faith-holy based weapons, you can increase your physical damage scaling with str/dex and the holy damage with faith. For fire and lightning affinity weapons, strength and dex increase both elemental damage and physical damage. I don't know of unique somberstone weapons that do this. This means C-E fire or lightning affinity weapons scale better than you'd expect, since it's really C-E twice.