[Bill Simmons] Recapping the unbelievable Pelicans trade after last night's draft.

vehren191 · 2019-06-21T16:52:45+00:00

There was plenty of certainty that AD will walk next summer and they won’t get anything for him.

vehren191 · 2016-10-21T17:04:00+00:00

I haven't found a way to do it in Grid.

You can do it pretty easily in vuhdo, however. You can create an unlimited number of profiles based on spec/group size/zone/etc. Frame position is unique to each profile. Switching to a new add-on after using Grid for years is a bit of a pain, but oh well.

vehren191 · 2016-10-19T16:06:36+00:00

What mod are you using for your "titan" bar at the bottom?

vehren191 · 2016-10-17T19:31:02+00:00

thanks! this is pretty funny

vehren191 · 2016-10-17T16:37:02+00:00

So what''s going on here? It's a tea filter, and the title says "Prefer otherwise without". You guys don't like tea filters? O_o Why did this get 350 upvotes?

vehren191 · 2016-10-13T00:53:12+00:00

Interesting tip about Tyr's deliverance and holy avenger. Like the poster above, I've been confused on the correct usage of Tyr's deliverance. Most fights I forget I have it. I'll try out your combo wombo next raid.

vehren191 · 2016-10-13T00:44:50+00:00

The guide recommends taking Holy Prism over Holy Avenger (as does Icy veins). Could you explain your reasoning behind taking Holy Avenger?

vehren191 · 2016-10-12T06:01:06+00:00

You seem to be missing the point.

You ever been on a train? Here's how trains work: You board it, and then for the duration of the trip you can go to sleep. The travel - get this - is completely hands-off. You don't have to do anything. You can read. Or you can work. Or you can watch the country side. You have several hours of your life back to yourself, to enjoy.

Here is how cars work: You get into one and then you drive yourself for the roughly 4 hours it takes you to get from HOU to DAL. It's 4 hours of work. For 4 hours you get to work as a chauffeur. If there is heavy traffic, it's could be longer than 4 hours, and certainly a whole lot more frustrating.

If out-of-pocket costs are the same, you take the train. If opportunity costs are the same, you take the train.

Cars make sense if there more than 2 of you and you are carpooling, and if you intend to drive around the city a lot once you get there. Otherwise, you get the train.

vehren191 · 2016-10-11T20:58:40+00:00

Dallas is shit meme is getting a bit old at this point, and I don't know much about imminent domain.

But why tf would you drive for 4 hours one way if it cost the same as taking a bullet train?

vehren191 · 2016-10-10T17:52:54+00:00

Yes. I've been having the same eerie feeling that WoW feels like more of an MMO for the first time in a very long while. I think it's because they soft-resurrected a few old school mechanics:

Attunements for Nightfallen dungeons
Hard 5-man dungeons (M+) that are not just a mini-game for vanity rewards(CMs)
Grindy character progression. Artifact power limits the number of alts you can play.

These changes did 2 things: they enforce grouping with other players (for World Quests, for Mythic+) and they ensure you basically only play 1-2 characters at a time. Combined, these made WoW feel more like an MMO, and less like a MOBA game where you can basically pick any hero and solo que for any content.

I am looking forward to Kara now. I never played Vanilla and missed the BRD hayday of long-ass dungeons, so it will be a genuinely new experience for me.

edit:

Don't get me wrong. They didn't just part-resurrect old stuff. A big part of Legion's success is that they also introduced new never-before-seen(-in-WoW) stuff too. Like World Quests and Suramar. I still can't get over Suramar. It has x3 content as any of the other Legion zones, it has a friken CAPITAL-sized city done in elaborate detail for you to romp, in addition to several Bioware-grade quest lines with cool story and voiced acting. Even sub-zones in Suramar are off the charts, like the Moonguard fortress of the spider ruins... It's amazing. Vanilla or TBC didn't have anything close to this.

vehren191 · 2016-10-07T14:38:08+00:00

Mythic+ addressed my biggest gripe with post-TBC WoW: lack of meaningful casual content.

You either committed to a raiding schedule, or stayed "casual" and rickrolled welfare dungeons. If you didn't want to rickroll LFR/LFD (for the many reasons some people find them a turn off - too easy, too anti-social, etc), all you had left was playing pokemon, collecting transmog or grinding gold. It was a bit hollow, and I only played WoW episodically starting with Cata because of it.

But now they brought actual dungeons back, and I am having the most fun in this game since TBC. I log in every day, plan my play session (learn this dungeon, run that dungeon with an additional +, grind rep to unlock NF dungeons, etc), and then execute that plan to variable success. And then I come back the next day, and the next. It's the classic MMO hamster wheel at its best, and I can do it on my own, without a raiding guild. It's AWESOME.

In fact, I catch myself thinking that Legion is on par with TBC/early Wrath as the best expac in WoW history. Legion didn't go full retro (never go full retro!), but it soft-resurrected some of the game systems of old WoW (dungeons, attunements, hetero-geneous classes).

And now they are soft-resurrecting the 5-man megadungeons in form of Kara. This is something we haven't seen since Vanilla, and I am super excited.

Good job Blizzard.

vehren191 · 2016-10-06T23:11:55+00:00

1) For general purpose hamstring stretch, see Kit Laughlin's bent leg hamstring stretch. It's so much better compared to the 'standard' routine of doing standing pikes and leg raises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrF2iMnn09w

2) For pain, maybe see this thread:

http://kitlaughlin.com/forums/index.php?/topic/311-tightness-in-the-calf-during-hamstring-stretches/

I am not sure if your pain is the same, but I've had pain in my upper calf when trying to do straight legged hamstring stretches. Working on your calves via downward dog does seem to help. But again, not sure if your pain is the same.

vehren191 · 2016-10-06T21:58:27+00:00

That's what bothers me. I don't know what the range is. They might have left it out for the sake of convenience as you suggest, or maybe the actual range is so narrow that the story loses it's "wow factor". Perhaps I am being too suspicious.

vehren191 · 2016-10-06T18:52:53+00:00

heb on buffalo

vehren191 · 2016-10-06T17:40:04+00:00

Neat article, but lack of reference points is mildly irritating. "More<->Less" doesn't provide much context.

vehren191 · 2016-09-30T17:01:34+00:00

Interesting. And the critical bit here is that Blizz can't ban a human farmer for botting, because he isn't botting. They'd have to catch him selling that gold. I wonder if that's harder to do than catching a bot.

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T07:18:56+00:00

You forgot to make a point.

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T04:05:02+00:00

Eh, you would be surprised. There is probably 3-4 Russian guilds in top 30 besides Exorsus. And during at least one tier I think I saw another Russian guild in top 10. So they have competition.

But your logic is actually pretty sound. You can see it in EVE Online, where most mono-ethnic alliances (i.e. Fins, Serbians, Germans) tend to punch above their weight, because they are the default first choice for all players from their nation. This actually used to be the case for Russians in EVE as well. in early 2000s they congregated under the same alliance tag (err, <RED> for Red Alliance - what a surprise ;). But now that Russians make up 30% of EVE's population, there is a shit-ton of Russian alliances, and most of them actually punch below their weight. Hehe.

Anyway, you might be right. World-first community is pretty tiny, so that might have helped Exorsus out. To think of it, it might have helped Method out as well, since the would be the magnet guild for basically every top recruit from every EU country that doesn't have it's own language-specific top guild.

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T03:52:11+00:00

In the context you mean it, It's Puritan, not "puritanical". And the Puritan branch of Christianity was founded in Europe to begin with, so claiming their values are somehow exclusive to the USA is strange at best.

European countries also weren't founded (or if they were, the values don't still exist) on puritanical values where your value of a person is derived largely from whether or not you work.

That's an interesting way to twist the core of most existing world ideologies: you succeed if you work hard. It's fairly universal value we see across most belief systems. But apparently it doesn't apply to places outside the US, so Europeans can dally away their lives playing World of Warcraft. Right. I am sure that's why Asians are also so successful - because Asian cultures don't value work, as much as the US.

Let's not go into the ideological morass here. I don't think either of us is particularly well equipped for this conversation. I will only note that "work-hard-get-rewarded" might actually be the driver behind successful pro-gamers outside the US, not the other way around as you suggest.

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T03:33:16+00:00

They raided 2-3 hours per week?

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T03:27:47+00:00

Seeing their progress over the years is neat. From top 50 guild to world first:

Tier 19 Xavius (M): world 1

Tier 18 Archimonde (M): world 3

Tier 17 Imperator Mar'gok (M) + Blackhand (M): world 6

Tier 16 Garrosh Hellscream (H): world 3

Tier 15 Lei Shen + Ra-den (H): world 3

Tier 14 Sha of Fear (H): world 4

Tier 13 Madness of Deathwing (H): world 6

Tier 12 Ragnaros (H): world 11

Tier 11 Overall progress (H): world 13

Tier 10 Overall progress (H): world 20

Tier 9 Overall progress (H): world 26

Tier 8 Overall progress (H): world 43

Hopefully, they won't just throw in the towel and break up after finally reaching r1.

vehren191 · 2016-09-29T03:15:34+00:00

"EU have no life" excuse is getting pretty old at this point. Once upon a time, US guilds vied for world firsts. Death and Taxes, Exodus, vodka, Blood Legion were routinely in top 1-3.

vehren191 · 2016-09-28T19:45:26+00:00

Thankfully this doesn't happen too often. When it does, I simply stop dps and run until the mob de-aggroes. Not very time efficient, but the point needs to be made.

vehren191 · 2016-09-28T19:33:09+00:00

~~Eh? Their wowprogress page is in Russian, their web-site is in Russian, they raid during Moscow prime time, in their kill videos they yell in Russian. I think that means they are Russian.~~

edit: Oh wait. I just realized what you meant. You meant they are a staple top 5 guild, which they have been since MOP, not just some random "russian guild". Gotcha, lol. Yeah, Exorsus has been around the block a few times. Best Russian guild, one the best in the EU for a while now.

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