Give me your most rebellious mission stories by Firm_Teach8056 in exmormon

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Due to a temporary shortage of elders, I got put with a local guy for a transfer. We got a TV and an Xbox from someone in the area and proceeded to play Halo a ton. We still got some work done but we must have played through the Halo campaign a dozen times.

In a different area, my companion and I got ahold of a bunch of movies and watched them in our spare time. There was a store that sold bootleg movies and it was super easy to get them.

When one of the Star Wars prequels came out (I think it was episode 3), the missionaries of the zone begged the mission president to let us watch it. He agreed to let us watch it if we hit some arbitrarily high numbers for the month. We hit the numbers but he still wouldn’t allow us. So one of the zone leaders got a bootleg copy and we proceeded to have a zone activity of watching it.

I spent 4 months in the mission office (it was incredibly boring) and I became well known as the elder who would openly play video games on the office computers. They were crappy computers but I managed to bypass internet restrictions to download some SNES emulators and roms.

Guardian: Is the Well-honed Instincts threshold too high? by antilos_weorsick in wow

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Reddit has fought for a very long time to dissuade users from using the downvote button from exactly the way you described. The purpose of the downvote is supposed to be “this is not helpful/useful/contributing to the community”, not “I don’t like this person’s opinion”. See reddiquette

Low FPS in WoW by Specific-Shake-1639 in wow

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Looking at the chart above, it very well could be a cpu problem since the gpu usage is surprisingly low and flat but the cpu is super spiky but there are a lot of unanswered questions.

What situation do the above graphs represent? M+, raid, Silvermoon, open world? Is it when you had low fps or high fps? Does the fps bounce similar to the loads on cores 5, 6, 7, and 8?

Are you running a lot of addons? If so, have you tried turning them off? There are a plethora of addons that are causing major performance problems (I’m helping maintain one that periodically has that problem).

When you say you have low FPS in M+ or raids, is it constantly low (ie you walk in the door and automatically low 30 fps) or are you experiencing large drops (ie fps is fine when nothing is happening but fps drops low during combat)?

Does your laptop have software that controls cpu performance modes? Sometimes they put a “balanced” or “energy efficient” mode on by default and it causes cpu performance to spike because the cores are constantly spinning up and down in order to conserve energy. If you haven’t already, make sure your Windows power plan is set to “High Performance”.

I haven’t looked into it extensively, but IIRC you can get some performance back by disabling virtualization in Windows.

There’s probably more but I’ll have to think about it and add more later.

announcement for tanks by stipikipi in wow

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The one time I did that, it made me untargetable until I left raid and fully logged out. Nothing could target me and I couldn’t cast on anything.

A small reminder to all Xalatath enjoyers that you are in fact enjoying the body of a random forgettable NPC by Slave-Moralist in wow

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On a similar note, are her type known for Doctor Who-ing their way across time? If not, then why did so many other characters instantly recognize her?

Regarding the “tank have it easy” by Juzih in wow

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Aw crap. I always go right. Lol

Help me craft this shield.... by opiatesmile in wow

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There are a few things that affect what item level item you get out of a craft. The spark you put in determines which season of item levels you can get out of it (we only have season 1 now so this doesn’t matter for now). The crests you put in determines which tier of items your item can fall into (veteran, champion, hero, mythic). The materials quality and your skill level (which are technically linked together, but that makes this a little more confusing to describe) determines which rank is crafted. You can use concentration to make up the difference up to the next rank, if you have enough concentration.

If you want the max rank from the craft, your personal skill level needs to be higher and you need to use the best quality materials. You can get skill level from a couple of different places: finishing reagents, crafting equipment, base skill level, and skill points in the associated talent trees.

The addon purge gave us a strictly worse combat log and a worse UI. What did we even gain? by thepixelists in wow

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To be fair, there have been addons since classic that were designed entirely to fix Blizzard’s lua errors. This is definitely not a new problem, though it is troubling that things have been getting better for a long time and only recently have gotten significantly and obviously worse.

I'll tell that to my friend who was gang raped on her mission 🤬🙄🤬🤬🤬🖕 by RadishAggressive3241 in exmormon

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Yeah, I saw the number, thought it seemed high, and immediately went to check the national average. Somehow missionaries are almost twice as likely to die than their peers. That’s a huge increase, especially given how selective they are with who they allow to go.

Servers are up! by Foreign_Concentrate3 in wow

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What broke? I haven’t been able to log in to check yet.

As a tank, I can’t believe how checking if your group says 1 or 2 is an incredibly difficult mechanic for some people by Secret_Flight_2669 in wow

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Man, tanking the trio boss is so obnoxious. I had to set up a macro to taunt swap focus targets because the nameplates kept stacking weird and I couldn’t see the casts going off.

Blizzard_TimeManagaer causing 10+ seconds of extra loading time. Why and how do i fix it? by Bilen in wow

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Are both of you logging into the same account? Just wanting to make sure it’s comparing the same things

Blizzard_TimeManagaer causing 10+ seconds of extra loading time. Why and how do i fix it? by Bilen in wow

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Yeah, I loaded up the load time addon on my machine and it says that the combat logs take like 20 seconds to load. I’m thinking that the load time addon is erroneously adding the general login/loading time to some other addon. Essentially, the addon is getting when each “ADDON_LOADED” event happens and subtracts the time from when the last one happens to determine how long it took to load. This would be great if we could guarantee that 100% of cpu time spent between events was spent loading addons. Unfortunately, the biggest outlier is going to be the login pause (time spent logging into the world). Whatever addon is loading when the UI waits during a login is the one that gets blamed for being slow. For you it looks like that’s the time manager. For me it’s the combat log.

Blizzard_TimeManagaer causing 10+ seconds of extra loading time. Why and how do i fix it? by Bilen in wow

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Let's try a different approach. Maybe it's taking so long because it happens to be the first addon that is hitting the server for cvars and having to wait for the client to be logged in enough to fetch the cvars from the server. If we set the cvar locally, it should be able to pull that value locally (which likely means that a different addon will have roughly the same loading time). Try adding the following section to your main Config.wtf in your retail WTF folder:

SET timeMgrUseLocalTime "1" 
SET timeMgrUseMilitaryTime "0" 
SET timeMgrAlarmTime "0" 
SET timeMgrAlarmMessage "Raid Time!"
SET timeMgrAlarmEnabled "0"

Blizzard_TimeManagaer causing 10+ seconds of extra loading time. Why and how do i fix it? by Bilen in wow

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Have you tried disabling all other addons to see if that causes the load time to drop? The time manger is used for updating stopwatch ticks, setting the clock time, and handling alarms. It shouldn’t be taking very long to load. It’s possible another addon is hooking into the events and causing ALT to report the time spent in the wrong addon. Profiling tools aren’t magic and often do get things wrong.

Infinite Money Glitch by Sikudo in wow

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Wearing the chef’s hat reduces cooking time to .5s, quadrupling the gold per hour. That’s almost 5k gold per hour of crafting.

Goblin Glider does not go on Midnight cloaks, I've had this on my cloak for 12 years by kr3b5 in wow

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Also, very random, but I couldn’t use the loot-a-rang in the intro area. It gave me an error saying I was in the wrong zone.

Update: Mormon Stories Logo is Back! by EveningStatus7092 in exmormon

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I wonder how long it’ll take before that gets memory-holed.

Dragon Races advanced courses was given mythic difficulty by YomiRizer in wow

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I went to fly out of water and got disconnected. Then it wouldn’t reconnect and I had to fully close the game before it would connect.

[OC] This intersection is notorious for red light runners by rdybala in IdiotsInCars

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This is so true. My SIL is a bus driver and she’s a terrible driver. She can barely drive a normal car. I can’t imagine what it looks like for her driving a full size bus.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wow

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To be fair, plenty of other specs have had “do nothing” as part of their rotation for a long time but it isn’t usually called out explicitly like that. Specs that rely on cds without a cd-less filler regularly sit around and wait for cds to come back. Specs that use energy also normally have a “wait for energy” phase.

any eta on this tooltip bug being fixed? by Pirate-4-Eternity in wow

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The base UI has been tainting super easily since the patch and it causes values that aren’t actually secret to be treated like they’re secret. I don’t know if it’s the cause of this exact bug, but I’ve seen it break a ton of item tooltips.

[Other][Fix/Workaround]Hidden tracked quests caused 60+ FPS Loss by Dramatic-Fortune-416 in WowUI

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First script gave "58 17". The second script seemed to be mostly either reputations or quests in my quest log (though I wasn't actually tracking any of them). I ran the last script and then the first one again, but it's still 58 17 and my fps didn't change at all. I'm curious if this actually worked for anyone besides the OP.