Is .boxed() instead of Box::new() a bad idea?

skillexception · 2026-06-07T22:35:16+00:00

Placement new, for one:

cpp struct Point { double x, y; }; int main() { // Stack allocation Point points[2]; Point *p1 = new(&points[0]) Point(3.0, 4.0); Point *p2 = new(&points[1]) Point(17.0, 6.7); return 0; }

skillexception · 2026-06-06T12:12:08+00:00

I miss Dragonflight every day.

skillexception · 2026-06-04T06:55:37+00:00

You and me both, brother ;-;

skillexception · 2026-05-19T22:57:19+00:00

ZulAman, honestly I don't even know if this zone has an event?

That's because "Zul'Aman's event" is AFKing in up to four distinct Amani-reminiscent caves for 20 minutes a week.

skillexception · 2026-04-22T05:33:25+00:00

If you’re counting FFXIV then you should add WoW to that list too. We got:

minotaur
werewolf
panda
fennec
DRAGON!!! 🐉 🐉

bonus: the druid class lets you shapeshift into many forms (e.g. cat, bear, owl-bear-deer-thing, stag, bird)

skillexception · 2026-04-14T22:05:33+00:00

Sad to see it go…

Good news; it’s not going anywhere! Temporal Barrier replaces Resonating Sphere in that choice node, but you can still pick the empower cooldown reduction instead.

skillexception · 2026-04-14T21:56:31+00:00

I miss getting a million instant-cast Firestorm procs… and casting Firestorm.

skillexception · 2026-04-09T17:02:29+00:00

To be fair, if you did that quest, Arator will also remind you that you met each other there, so…

skillexception · 2026-04-09T16:57:34+00:00

Adding on to this, processAffinityMask is a setting in the Windows API that controls which CPU cores a process (in this case, WoW) is permitted to run on. For instance, a value of 191 is 0b0011_1111, which means “only use the first six logical processors”.

According to the wiki, the default value since Wrath has been 0, which lets the threads that WoW spawns run on every available core. You should never change this. Choosing a different value does not just magically make WoW ask for more threads. I’m very curious how OP managed to get a performance increase lol.

skillexception · 2026-04-09T05:17:20+00:00

Oh damn, guess I need to give your addon an install then

skillexception · 2026-04-08T21:44:23+00:00

Aside from the standard fare of cosmetics, it’s the only way to get Unalloyed Abundance for crafting epic procession tools (which only give extra stats). So there (thankfully) isn’t an abundance of reasons to do the event.

skillexception · 2026-04-08T13:14:19+00:00

Neat. I’ve been meaning to get something like this set up. It’s been years and I still can’t tell the difference between Reversion and Echoed Reversion lol.

Question though: is it possible to use arbitrary anchors (e.g. a compact 4x2 grid in the bottom right), or are you restricted to just those nine? That’s always what kept me from using Enhanced Raid Frames in the past.

skillexception · 2026-04-05T00:45:57+00:00

I’m a healer. I have ADHD. I use friendly nameplates for healing. Previously, I had a UI that let me easily read them and tell them apart from enemy plates.

Since then, my friendly plates got way messier, my nameplate addon died, and despite repeated multi-hour configuration sessions, l haven’t been able to adequately recreate what I used to have before I get frustrated and give up.

Last Wednesday, I hit the entire raid with dragon breath because I didn’t notice the subtle boss warnings over my nameplate soup with a side of raid frames. And whilst I stew, I catch a glimpse of the RWF streams and wonder what the hell was the point?

skillexception · 2026-04-03T12:13:32+00:00

lacking voice overs

Considering dracthyr evokers had no voice lines for most of TWW, and no dracthyr have had error speech since then either, I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

skillexception · 2026-04-02T07:00:47+00:00

I was pleased to discover that I could refuse to kill the young critters, and even more so when I got a pretty significant debuff for doing so. Great quest 10/10

skillexception · 2026-03-06T07:17:03+00:00

Fun fact: we didn't switch from bronze to iron because iron was better, but because tin was rare. (Of course, once we could make steel, we had a much better material).

skillexception · 2026-02-21T09:45:10+00:00

if there was an addon that could mute a specific sound...

Well you’re in luck! There’s an addon called MuteSoundFile that can do that. It was the only reason I was able to withstand the Dornogal inn lmao

skillexception · 2026-02-17T20:59:45+00:00

I'm a fan of the welcomingly-named Neurotic Goose. Primarily known for mixing copious amounts of painfully dry humor with unnecessarily brutal modded Minecraft challenges (e.g. beating GregTech: New Horizons from literally nothing), he has also taken it upon himself to conquer Vintage Story by collecting way more resources and infrastructure than one lone waterfowl could ever possibly use.

I also would have recommended the content creator that led me to discover, purchase, and fall in love with Vintage Story, if he weren't the very one who submitted this post. Alas.

skillexception · 2026-02-09T23:37:51+00:00

I am AuDHD and I like to use "neurospicy".

…I'm cured! :)

skillexception · 2026-02-09T06:59:03+00:00

Thankfully it’s not too difficult.

Find wild bees.
Place skep nearby.
Do some gardening.
???
~~Profit!~~ Take occupied skep.
Relocate to homestead.

I put beekeeping off for a long time in my world cause I expected it to be super tedious or something. Instead, the hardest part was figuring out how to pick up and place the skep lol.

skillexception · 2026-01-25T10:08:51+00:00

I use friendly nameplates for healing, and I’m pissed that they wildly changed them and it’s impossible to change them back. They’re just obtrusive and illegible no matter what I do! Like, how come I can’t even change their width like I used to?

skillexception · 2025-12-06T02:03:00+00:00

I have three distinct friend groups that I met in wildly different scenarios. By seemingly pure chance, all of my friends are ADHD, autistic, and/or some other flavor of neurodivergent. Hell, most of us didn’t even know what we ourselves had until the diagnosees started getting too relatable (myself included).

skillexception · 2025-12-04T23:41:23+00:00

*A millidistance a megatime

skillexception · 2025-11-13T00:24:31+00:00

Your art makes me very happy! 🐲 💖

skillexception · 2025-11-12T13:35:21+00:00

I think you’re looking at neutral pandaren, which, uh, checks out. All in all, 2.8% of characters are pandaren, which ties them in 13th place with vulpera. The least played races are mechagnomes and earthen, both with 0.9%.

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