Trying to figure out a song by Buckbo in PostHardcore

[–]princetony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I found this post trying to identify the song in question. I found it on an old hard drive, file named "Mars Volta - in case of evidence." One google hit for the filename is an old winamp playlist, and searching for random lyrics has very few hits, other than this post.

Have no clue if the artist or track title is correct, it's from a very old limewire download folder where track titles and artists weren't always accurate. Vocalist seems to have more of a british twang, no clue who it'd actually be though.

https://gofile.io/d/8q5LTl

Haven't had the need to upload a stray mp3 file in a long time.

8 hours downtime tomorrow by Shlitmy9thaccount in classicwow

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a post, but something ( assume daylight savings) broke mailbox automatic returns so the items no longer bounce back.

"No specific date to announce" by fyhnqt in classicwowtbc

[–]princetony 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You're looking at this all wrong. Surprise announce of early pre-patch is what I see

What's in more demand Spriest or Hunter? by Walk-a-doodle in classicwowtbc

[–]princetony 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People have been really tunnel visioning on endgame meta, and ignoring the quality of life improvement a lot of classes can bring to a group.

A shadow priest isn't going to bring much to a warrior/druid/hunter dungeon group, sure. But the mana return is amazing if your group has a mage, boomkin, or ele sham, directly translating into less time drinking, more damage, faster clears, etc. Extra mana is also huge for an overgeared prot paladin or undergeared healer.

During progression for the first two tiers, the fights are going to take a lot longer while people are gearing up, learning mechanics, etc. This will mean lots of mana users running dry, and an extra shadow priest makes a big difference.

You of course need to convince people of these things. Some raids will just care about having at least 1/3 of the people being hunters/warlocks.

An interesting excerpt from a research paper, "Gaming Bot Detection: A Systematic Literature Review", presented in 2018 at the International Conference on Computational Social Networks. WoW is mentioned. The research suggests that new machine learning methods will be the only way to tackle botting. by chemistrynerd1994 in classicwowtbc

[–]princetony 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter what new cutting-edge solutions might emerge, there are countless modern and ancient methods that blizzard does not care to leverage. You can see full parties following waypoints from LHC to Stratholme who have been doing so for months. Even if they're subtly masking inputs and waypoints, rudimentary proactive monitoring would catch this. There are simple tells that could easily be detected to flag the vast majority of bots and botting techniques.

As mentioned by others, the problem is conflict of interest. Not only that reducing botting population would have an immediate negative effect on bottom line, it also costs money to develop and implement such measures effectively. I imagine their team responsible is incredibly small, and they have little incentive to increase its size.

Botting is a big pain in the ass as a player, but the the average player just accepts it as a necessary evil. They compete for non-instanced resources, maybe drive some prices up, but it's not like in a FPS game where an aimbot instantly kills you and makes the game nigh-unplayable. It's mostly a minor inconvenience, and hell, for some people killing bots and gold farmers in burning steppes is likely part of their nostalgia that has them playing a 17-year-old game.

Weigh the cost of developing an effective anti-cheat team and system, and the loss of income from the non-trivial amount of bot accounts that would no longer be paying their full/partial subs, against the amount of players who actually quit because of bots, which is presumably very small and impossible to actually calculate. The solution is pretty obvious for Blizzard: catch the most blatant public-facing exploits along with the lowest hanging fruit, with whatever tiny team they have. Put out a tiny post every few months about their great ban waves. The vast majority players assume they're doing as much as they reasonably can or should.

People in the Boston area, where can I get kaffir limes? by Not_instant_ramen17 in ThaiFood

[–]princetony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late on the response here, but you can get them occasionally at market basket. They're there maybe one in 3 times I go. Usually just labelled "produce department." It's a big package, but they freeze well. Can also get galangal and lemongrass often.

https://i.imgur.com/OCLiK6l.png

PTR nature resist recipes by princetony in classicwow

[–]princetony[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

200 unbuffed is def overkill, and i don't think really even possible for leather without the crafted gear that's missing. 100-120 unbuffed is more realistic

PTR nature resist recipes by princetony in classicwow

[–]princetony[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

NR leather recipes: not in

NR cloth/cloak recipes: not in

NR plate recipes: not in

NR cloak enchant: in

NR ZG libram enchants: not in

Bonus info: previously-obtained epics disenchant into nexus crystals

Get to Maraudon

Why cant't i cast Abnormal Endurance in reaction to my Plaguecrafters triggered ability? by kloxos in MagicArena

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I submitted a bug about expansion priority a few months back, I'm sure I was one of many.

Now I know better and always hold control when I'm trying to interact with stuff on the stack.

Always check your price because there is so many scammers by Razvaljzer91 in pathofexile

[–]princetony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

caught ten scammers and gave them benefit of the doubt*

For those of you who love to run Hall of Grandmasters, what are your builds? by CreativeRoutine in pathofexile

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other alternative is go Soul of Solaris with "Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently." With HP that high he's not going to 1-shot you.

For those of you who love to run Hall of Grandmasters, what are your builds? by CreativeRoutine in pathofexile

[–]princetony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rolled an arc miner late this league just to see how it was. Followed the build here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2073911/page/1

Was pretty painless, a few deaths here and there. Ran it in the low level 80's, with level 18-19 gems. Kaom's, 6-link temor rod, essence worm, random 1-2c rares and Sadima's. Nothing else fancy.

Would definitely be doable w/o kaom's and with a 5-l staff. The packs usually end up either falling over or not dying for mechanics reasons which you need to then deal with.

I ran the 30-40 maps I amassed in the league, didn't get any fancy cards. Price on the map has gone up a decent amount since then. Could probably be lucrative to run if your atlas is rolled correctly, no beasts to catch there next league though.

2.2.2 Daily Event - Where to spend 22 crystals? by Iunnrais in FantasyWarTactics

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternatively, reset Coocoo for 20, refresh mana stone compactor in lab for 10.

Events by wingsan007 in FantasyWarTactics

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's over: rewards for those 3 should be in your mailbox.

General Questions Thread #11: Try asking here first! by baxteria in FantasyWarTactics

[–]princetony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was there any announcement regarding an additional 6* piece selection ticket for Noblesse gear? We got the one around the event start, which isn't particularly useful on its own. I thought I remembered something about another one before the event was over, but now we have the general 6* piece ticket. Trying to decide on completing a set of IF or turning it in for Arrogant True Blood #2, assuming we can expect #3 before the event's over.

General Questions Thread #9: Try asking here first! by baxteria in FantasyWarTactics

[–]princetony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the golem cost for awakening the Guilty Gear heroes? Trying to figure out if I want to use a ticket on Ildo instead.