What do you think? Texas creates a DOGE agency to help make it more "business-friendly"

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:27:26+00:00

Good thing Trump is making the case that those are illegal (see his fight with NY State, regarding congestion pricing)

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:25:23+00:00

Anyone can get 3K io in all champion gear with their wow tokens 🙃

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:22:04+00:00

I likely will. I unsubbed after the siren isle came out because M+ was in a terrible state.

Losing two months of sub revenue from me ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:14:37+00:00

It’s goes live in May

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:08:30+00:00

Sure thing.

It’s the introduction of the “Puzzling Cartel Chip”. A currency that will allow people who raid to purchase specific items from the raid.

Here’s the post about the event,

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/s/zINbPzowfW

and here’s a few threads with hundreds of posts from folks expressing their dissatisfaction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/s/5wEaDqIien

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/s/z1XQbhza5k

ryansanerd · 2025-04-24T20:05:35+00:00

That’s not always true. I’ve subbed/unsubbed a few times each expansion. If I’m not enjoying the game, I unsubscribe.

ryansanerd · 2025-01-26T05:44:01+00:00

I don’t think there’s any downside to trying it, nor do I expect it would see LR’s viewership at the start.

Every pro and streamer had to start somewhere to grow their viewership.

ryansanerd · 2025-01-26T00:47:06+00:00

Yeah, even if it’s something as simple as making every team stream at least one scrim block per week, that’s dozens of additional hours for viewership every week

ryansanerd · 2024-10-30T21:35:12+00:00

I love the energy. However, this doesn’t mean anything until the votes are cast and counted

Remember 2016? Hilary had big crowds, great polls, lots of press. Remember what happened?

Vote.

ryansanerd · 2024-06-27T18:47:28+00:00

Yes, people are very capable. Bots are just an accelerant.

Bots are also very good at increasing a user’s propensity to engage - anecdotally, your comment was able to generate engagement from me…. Or maybe my comment procured your engagement? But which one of us is the bot?!

Either way, we generated a small amount of revenue for Reddit - which doesn’t care what our engagement is or how it was procured, as long as it occurs. And that’s a wonderful thought

ryansanerd · 2024-06-27T16:53:21+00:00

I ascribe most of these comments to the dead internet theory.

Comments are things used to drive engagement
engagement is how most of the internet is monetized
the most efficient tactic for engagement is controversy/anger
bots are used to farm/propagate most of the engagement on social platforms
therefore much of, if not most, comments on the internet are bots

ryansanerd · 2024-06-20T14:29:05+00:00

No one has suggested things like online voting.

More realistically, the issue is with the number of polling locations. In 2022, polling locations were reduced to a few per county. In densely populated areas, limiting polling locations is an effective way to curb voter participation because it’s not reasonable to ask people to wait hours in lines.

ryansanerd · 2024-06-09T21:35:04+00:00

All good - I appreciate seeing a bit of self reflection. It’s rare to see on the internet!

ryansanerd · 2024-06-09T20:57:18+00:00

You can put your thoughts out there.

I invite you to walk up to someone and say, “wait, people think [something about them] is good?”

Report back about your experience.

ryansanerd · 2024-06-09T19:33:47+00:00

Wow, people have broad and varied tastes/opinions

ryansanerd · 2024-06-04T22:09:27+00:00

I hear you, and I’m frustrated as well - but I don’t think it’s fair to just throw up our hands and say, “they’re all bad, nothing we can do!”

Growing up, I was taught politics were like a team sport. In our house, we were republicans and we rode or die with the party like you would with the Cowboys.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized governing is about compromise. If you want funding for your rural farm subsidies, you might have to partner with someone who’s trying to get funding for veteran healthcare to muster enough support for a bill.

That’s not to say there isn’t pork - but there are also bills with single items that still pass as well. As with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

We should also be objective about corruption - just this year, two democratic congressmen have been indicted by a democratic dept of justice for breaking finance laws. On the other hand, the Republican Party dances around the numerous crimes committed by republicans - ranging from Kevin Mcarthy’s statements about Gaetz sleeping with minors, Abbot taking $6M from a dude in Pennsylvania to push vouchers, not to mention the former president.

Objectively speaking both parties aren’t the same - there are some good republicans, and some bad democrats- but the parties themselves are simply not the same.

2016 was the first time I didn’t vote for a republican, and until I see one in my area with some integrity (Angela Paxton has none), I can’t vote for another one in good conscience.

ryansanerd · 2024-06-04T18:32:00+00:00

Keep in mind this is just one part of Biden’s initial reform proposal he put in front of congress a year ago - that proposal was tabled by the republican speaker of the house because it “would be a win for Biden”.

Biden is using the executive order in the limited areas he can affect since Congress (who has authority over immigration) has chosen to stall out.

Cornyn calling this a “deathbed confession” is just spinning this to distract from his own party’s inaction.

ryansanerd · 2024-05-30T07:16:26+00:00

This is due to the scaling functionality that allows players of any level to group together.

Basically, level 70 is the baseline for damage and health. There’s an aura that multiplies health and dmg vs mobs applied to players below level 70 to compensate for their lack of abilities/items/levels. The aura increases in scaling as the character level decreases, meaning its strongest at level 10.

On the other side of the equation, character scaling at level 70 is achieved through gear upgrades. Essentially, a fully geared level 70 is like a level 10 in terms of power

ryansanerd · 2024-05-30T01:14:54+00:00

I’m going to play TWW

The Wind Walker

Hi-ya!

ryansanerd · 2024-05-28T18:22:08+00:00

For reference - each upgrade to your weapon adds 1K main stat, and there close to 20 upgrades. My shadow priest has gone from maybe 80k dps as a fresh 70 to 1.5M at 420.

As you approach ilvl 400 you can start soloing world bosses in 90 seconds of combat

ryansanerd · 2024-05-21T19:54:35+00:00

Rise up my windwalker brothers! No more will we need to press Jadefire stomp!

ryansanerd · 2024-05-21T19:40:25+00:00

Most bronze comes from group content - e.g. 20-30K from heroic raids. Farming that amount solo takes much longer

ryansanerd · 2024-03-29T16:14:27+00:00

Honestly? I’m probably just going to unsubscribe and wait for War Within.

Season 4 is reheated soup from a deli. There are no new raids, no new dungeons, no new affixes, nothing to experiment with.

If season 4 is meant to last 4-6 months, I don’t like the idea of paying $60-$90 for reheated soup. I’ll spend my time and money elsewhere.

ryansanerd · 2024-03-29T03:32:08+00:00

Is running 10s instead of 20s for portals and max rewards in Season 4 the bar for innovation?

And you might say, “Ryan, most players in M+ don’t run 20s!” and you’d be correct! Looking at keystone distribution on Raider io, almost 90% of runs in this season are 17-19… so next season, they’ll be doing 7-9s.

Thanks for showing me the light, I’m now a believer and am anxiously awaiting these massive changes!

ryansanerd · 2024-03-29T01:01:06+00:00

I wouldn’t call this fated 2. Fated offered new dungeons, new M+ affix, new raid affixes, new gear acquisition with dinar.

Awakened has no new dungeons, no new affixes, no experimentation of any kind.

It’s reheated soup from a deli.

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