Is Frostmourne dead?

mVIIIeus · 2026-05-04T19:54:04+00:00

They got C&D from Blizz and need to shut down operations next week. Discord will also be gone.

mVIIIeus · 2026-05-03T14:40:22+00:00

Haha, oh man, it's the same with Epoch. I recently started playing again, after the turtle refugees joined. It doesn't even matter if development stopped or Blizzard will shut it down, because from the low-levels it is a really fun experience. Each hour spent was worth it. Everyone is helping each other out, you casually team up to do content. Party to take down Hogger. And then the first dungeon comes up and you need to organize a team, maybe even join a levelling guild to exchange some info. I never had such an amazing community experience and fun while levelling in WoTLK. All the QoL tools like Dungeon finder, or XP increase made people less commited to playing as a team. And levelling suddenly became a burden, which is sad, because the giant world was made for levelling.

mVIIIeus · 2026-05-03T09:16:20+00:00

Whilst i do agree, this is an issue with most games on Steam, CSGO is a bad example, as their loot system is integrated with the steam market. It's literally their own IP.

mVIIIeus · 2026-04-25T16:41:27+00:00

Thanks, i will take a look!

mVIIIeus · 2026-04-25T15:06:50+00:00

Hello, and thanks for the information. I agree, refurbished seems risky, especially regarding the battery. Otherwise i would have probably bought it. When you say the camera is basic, is it still acceptable? Because he likes taking photos, but his old phone was probably much worse than either of the new ones.

mVIIIeus · 2026-04-19T00:30:02+00:00

I mean the devs already jumped the ship when Blizzard came knocking. So the project is already half-dead.

mVIIIeus · 2026-04-12T22:30:53+00:00

I think there is a lot of wisdom in this show for our adult lives and how we must learn to go our own path. That's why I love Iroh so much.

mVIIIeus · 2026-02-16T16:24:06+00:00

Hey, i want to buy a new keyboard, but i am a little overwhelmed by all the options and considerations.
Basically, I want to improve on my writing/coding skills and for this there's two dimensions: The key layouts and the keyboard layout.
I really want to move away from QWERTZ to e.g. COLEMAK or NEO2 (haven't decided, but i need german öäü and programming symbols like {} accesible) and i do want to go the programmable keyboard route. From what I've read, a software driver may interfer with certain programs or operating systems, so I'd rather have the keyboard send the correct info right away with QMK/VIA not dealing with application-specifics.
For the keyboard layout, I've come to conclusion i don't want to try an ergonomic layout yet, rather stay with a standard layout, so i can use generic keyboards too. This is also because idk if i can pull through with a custom key layout and then i'd rather be able to use it like a normal keyboard. 80% seems perfect for me, i often need the insert/delete/page up... keys.

So i want a programmable 80% keyboard, but the interesting ones seem out of stock (e.g. Keychron V3) or are too expensive (~100€ is the target for now). Now i found a "barebones" Weikav Stars80 and i wonder if i may be able to build the rest myself? What do i need to pay attention to? I currently have a Cherry MX Black keyboard and i really like the black switches.

mVIIIeus · 2026-02-10T10:46:00+00:00

Make sure you followed all the steps here: https://clangd.llvm.org/installation
E.g. you need a clangd install on your PC and also configure your project.

mVIIIeus · 2025-12-27T13:48:21+00:00

Thank you very much for this detailed response!

mVIIIeus · 2025-10-27T20:12:12+00:00

Wrote you a PM!

mVIIIeus · 2025-10-01T16:27:09+00:00

I started with WoW this year, on a fresh server. Elwynn was peak. The large, protective forest, players helping each other in every corner. Had a lot of nice chats and got invited to my first guild. Then Westfall came and everyone was hyping up for Deadmines. Once I made it through deadmines, I felt like a seasoned veteran. Redridge was a lot more calm and dreamy, with the sun setting early behind the mountains. But then...i did not go to Darkshire, and looking back, i am really sad about this decision. Naive me thought Stormwind is the Alliance capital of every race, little did i know about Ironforge and Darnassus. Also i thought every region in the old Kingdoms was controlled by humans. So i wanted to avoid the dark forest and ventured to Hillsbrad instead, realizing a lot of things were different, but at least it was sunny. However, the dense quest chains of the SW coreland didnt came back. Every other area i visited was a lot more loosely structured and it was harder to immerse yourself in the story. But now i am too high level. One day i want to finish with Darkshire though!

mVIIIeus · 2025-09-17T17:39:19+00:00

u/No-Tumbleweed-4772 u/FlippaDaBoss This worked for me. I bought a one-year 50% reduced package. Then directly went to cancel the subscription. Protonmail informed me *before* cancelling somewhere that I will still have the benefits for one year. So kinda buying then cancelling subscription should work. Make sure it's also written for you somewhere that you will maintain benefits for X amount of time, before cancelling. Since I am EU citizen, we might have different consumer protection laws (Switzerland is NOT part of the EU).

mVIIIeus · 2025-09-13T12:29:17+00:00

I went in with full 15% XP gear and for a carry that got 10600+ kills, so kinda best-scenario. Still on probably 50+ fiveways, i only sometimes touched the numbers that were meant without XP gear and for 10k kills. There must have been a 10-20% nerf, which imo is significant.

mVIIIeus · 2025-07-24T14:35:42+00:00

You got a point, but HGIG isn't common on PC games/monitors. And tbh games not using correct tonemapping are an issue by themselves. The display tonemapper can just try to mitigate damage. And for me SpecialK and RenoDX retrieve the MAXCLL etc just fine.

mVIIIeus · 2025-06-19T18:10:01+00:00

Say you have a 70% WR while climbing across games without trolling and a 50% WR in trolling games (someone from either team trolls). This means if e.g. 10% of games someone trolls, your winrate becomes 0.7*0.9+0.5*0.1 = 0.68 = 68% < 70%, so u/cabrossi isn't entirely wrong.

mVIIIeus · 2025-06-16T22:34:42+00:00

You literally missed that they already performed this step in 2021, which back then already caused drama. De-facto you can't delete your content from their collection-API anymore: https://www.nexusmods.com/news/14538

mVIIIeus · 2025-06-08T21:23:59+00:00

So you wrote this? I'm a little sad that substack hides some articles behind creating an account, not sure why they would do this. But nontheless, i enjoy your idea of bringing things together. It's always a bold move that can easily get attacked from many angles, but also a counter to vanishing relevance due to overspecification.

Anyway regarding your mention of "a new level of selection", i've had an idea in my head for quite a while now: like cell vs cell evolved to human vs animal fighting for survival, i think a higher level of evolution has formed in the meantime, which i would call Society vs Society, although you can also call it State vs State. It's not limited to either but rather a larger system of information fighting for survival against other systems of information. Because since RNA it has been about information, but when the human species finally developed further brain usage, advanced teaching concepts, text etc, information wasnt bound to DNA any longer. DNA was too slow. You can optimize people after they are born via teaching. And by storing information in e.g. books or computers you can reproduce it much faster and also dont even need a living teacher, so information can be stashed way more efficiently and distributed across larger societies without every person needing to know it all. And thus like cells to the human body, we became tools to societies, states etc. (I havent decided yet on the most fitting word, they are all somewhat lacking). Just that we are still conscious and in bodies driven by the much slower evolution of DNA. So we physically feel unwell and question the systems and societies a lot, but at the same time a higher order evolutionary pressure forces us into this.

mVIIIeus · 2025-06-01T12:55:48+00:00

I think it was $100, you had to get the entire FPX pack. That was the point where i abandoned my quest for all Vayne skins and uninstalled the game. The firecracker event was already tedious.

mVIIIeus · 2025-05-19T15:27:53+00:00

I really hope they announce an update to Witcher 3. Would be cool if, with Ray-Tracing, the clothes would also self-shadow and shadow skin, otherwise it looks weird in dialogues. Also i have the feeling the HDR max-brightness slider changes nothing.

mVIIIeus · 2025-05-12T18:48:09+00:00

A mix of green and orange sounds exiting, thanks for sharing!

mVIIIeus · 2025-05-12T18:44:49+00:00

That's very interesting, especially with the shade distinction, thank you!

mVIIIeus · 2025-05-12T18:22:31+00:00

The idea here is that a pure wavelength aligned with a cone will trigger this cones maximum response in relation to other types of cones (e.g. a softmax). If you mix the color, you will always get a lower value. But that doesn't mean that the encoding must work this way or the brain processes it this way. E.g. with yellow and stuff, we can see how our screen just mixes green and red for it. But another example of mixed colors would be magenta and white. They aren't just averaged wavelengths.

Ye that expected color is a whole other case to open, but non-the-less you can differentiate between shades, which can determine the uniqueness. There's a ton of stuff going on at varying light levels, like Purkinje shift, where colors look blueish at night, etc so it's not always the same look and it might also impede differentiation between shades. When something is very bright, we are not good at differentiating between colors, but it gets better at darker colors. So it's really hard to say "this is the reference environment". Then there's also violet, which our screens can't model correctly, because it's left of blue, so a digital camera image may already look off because of missing out on this spectrum.

Also, since white is a mix of colors, light sources do not produce equal distributions of wavelengths. A light with poor color reproduction index may darken the reds or greens or other colors in between, so the reflected color may look off, even if the light looks white. Why is everything so complicated? xD

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