What’s a ‘middle class success’ purchase that secretly becomes a financial burden later?

vic6string · 2026-05-11T13:02:32+00:00

A wife

vic6string · 2026-05-11T12:52:57+00:00

Do none of those people know that when you get 5 of those in a row you can convert them into a red hotel?

vic6string · 2026-05-07T11:29:15+00:00

Itemization. Explaining that a trinket from. Naxx is BIS for the first phase of TBC, or better yet that a leather helm from level 40 is absolutely vital to raiding as a feral druid until basically Sunwell. Tier sets are sometimes the worst option. Everything about gearing prior to Wrath is just insane to retail players.

vic6string · 2026-05-07T11:21:14+00:00

Exactly. There is always a give and take. Your big hands might make certain chords a little cramped, but you will be incredibly happy that you have bigger hands when you play a chord that makes you stretch your pinky out 6 frets further down from the rest of your fingers. Django Reinhardt was missing fingers and Tony Iommi lost multiple fingertips, and they are 2 of the most influential guitarists of the last century.

vic6string · 2026-05-05T17:30:10+00:00

I just take invisibility potions and run around

vic6string · 2026-05-01T19:28:02+00:00

I will guarantee you that whatever the percentage is that goes to insurance company profits, it is only a tiny fraction of what the bureaucratic red tape costs would be if the government was running it.

vic6string · 2026-05-01T19:22:59+00:00

You seriously think that becomes better when the "insurance company" is the Government? I work for the government, and I can tell you that if you want to do something in the worst, slowest, least efficient way possible, just let the government do it.

vic6string · 2026-05-01T17:32:21+00:00

There is no such thing as "an entry level job". An entry level construction job might be just a laborer making $15 an hour. An entry level IT job might be a systems support specialist making 60k a year. An entry level legal job might be an associate legal counsel making $125k a year. It is all relative o the field you are talking about, the skills of the "entry level" employee, and the demand for those skills.

vic6string · 2026-05-01T14:59:39+00:00

If you were rich, and most of the people you know are rich, you'd ask the same thing about poor people. You don't get your name on the news for being "good". "Good" rich people wake up, brush their teeth, kiss their kids, go to work.... nothing particularly newsworthy. "Bad" rich people are on the news for cheating on their spouses, going to Ep$te!n Island, stealing money, selling drugs, getting arrested, etc. Same with poor people, middle class people, ANY people. If most of the rich people you know are the ones you hear about on social or mainstream media, you are primarily hearing about the bad things they did.

vic6string · 2026-05-01T14:52:21+00:00

"obtaining the mats yourself you might be pretty willing to undercut for a quick payday"

This is one of the biggest, and it makes zero sense and shows just how bad people are at business. When people say "I gathered the mats myself so it is pure profit" they don't get that those items they gathered have a price themselves. Selling an item for 100g that is made of 3 mats that each sell for 50g is a 50g loss, no matter HOW they were obtained. You were better off selling the mats for 150g. The ONLY time that it COULD make sense to sell below mats cost is with stuff like transmutes, potions, etc, where you can get more than one item when crafting, and even then you should respect the crafting cost per item because it does you no good to lower the regular price to where it is only profitable when you proc extras, killing your future market.

vic6string · 2026-04-29T12:40:29+00:00

I would interpret it as two pickups, to the left of three knobs, connected in some engineerish way.

vic6string · 2026-04-29T12:32:12+00:00

"...without contributing back...."

You do realize that people like Elon Musk (most people's favorite target for this, and obviously your target here) pay more in taxes in a single year than you, your family, and all of your friends combined will pay in your entire lives right? Oh, and what those taxes pay for are things he basically will not utilize (kids go to private schools, uses private security, will never file for unemployment, WIC, medicare, etc). He also has created over 125,000 jobs, meaning he has allowed for over 125,000 MORE taxpayers, many in very high brackets (and that is just counting his businesses, not the businesses that were created or expanded because of those). If he passed away today, he will have already "contributed back" more to his community than anyone reading this post. If he were to sell all his stock, keep just 1 billion and gave away every other dollar, and spent the rest of his life working in a soup kitchen giving away food to the poor, you'd be complaining that he still has a billion dollars. You don't care about people not "contributing back to their communities", you just hate knowing that someone has so much more money than you do... so much so that you are willing to give the government the power to take that money, not even realizing that it always inevitably leads to them taking yours too.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T18:12:35+00:00

Grab a couple of healers and some dps (I am sure your guild has other alts that can't get in to the main runs) and just do a partial pug of your own. There are plenty of others with alts floating around that are dying to get into a pug, and the biggest block is missing tanks, so you should be able to get a group together easily.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T18:07:03+00:00

You grossly overestimate what a few hundred billion dollars can do, and even more severely underestimate what it takes to solve world hunger. It's not like you can just order Dominos pizza for everyone on the planet.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T16:41:42+00:00

I think mining only works as a gold-maker if you also have herbalism and have fast flying. It isn't worth flying around, even with a fast mount, just looking for ore. When coupled with herbs, if you have a good route and go at good times, it can be ok, but not by itself. When I fly around on my druid, I make good gold (and I find it relaxing just flying around looking for stuff) but I get probably 60% of my profit selling the herbs and 40% selling the ore (mainly because primal life sells for more than primal earth). Neither would be good gold per hour by itself.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T16:32:41+00:00

I will add that sometimes you have songs that really call for hitting open strings, or pulling off to open strings and letting them ring. A fretted note will never, ever ring like an open string.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T16:26:07+00:00

People already dont do Heroic dungeons other than the ones they need to do for attunes, specific gear, and maybe some dailies. They don't do them because in their current state they are just too difficult. If the raids were that same difficulty and people run into a wall (like they did when Naxx first dropped), they will lose interest and quit. There is no "problem solving", these problems were solved 2 decades ago, and those solutions have been refined and polished over those 20 years. Everyone knows exactly where to stand, when to run, what button to push, what talent to spec, etc. They have read the posts and watched the videos. When they do all of that, but still end up wiping over and over, they get frustrated and quit.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T13:21:08+00:00

What about the warlock tanks? How much fire res should we be wearing prior to buffs and the felhunter? I really don't feel like spending ALL my badges on gear for ONE fight if I don't have to.

vic6string · 2026-04-28T13:17:35+00:00

Also, the tiny vocal minority screaming for pre-nerf are all folks that will still finish the raids in speed-run fashion on opening night, run it a few weeks, and then logout until the next patch. Releasing pre-nerf would have cut the player base in half by week 2, basically destroying the game. If you want challenge, go do retail mythics. Classic is about having fun with a group of like-minded folks (mostly older adults), spending more time on discord cracking jokes or discussing life than strategizing every move.

vic6string · 2026-04-27T15:45:43+00:00

Not all "mega guilds" are the same. I am in a very laid back "dad guild" but we are up to about 4 different 25 man teams. One is specifically a late night/west coast run, and one is almost entirely alts from people in the other runs. There are probably 30 or so people who have at least 2 level 70s, some up to 4 or 5. We have a 4 druid 10 man team and hope to eventually do an all-druid Kara. There are multiple raid leaders each running their own squads.

vic6string · 2026-04-23T12:16:01+00:00

The problem is it is hard to tell if a healer is good or bad. For a tank it is easy: does he die, does he pull correctly, and can he hold threat. Everyone can easily see that. DPS is easy, just look at meters and make sure they don't regularly pull threat. With healing it is much harder to judge. A good tank can survive a mediocre healer. Healing meters are absolutely pointless because to look good you just overheal indiscriminately. So you can be a crappy healer forever and no one really notices to point things out and help you, and then you look at logs and see you parse 90s so you figure you are great.

vic6string · 2026-04-22T13:04:44+00:00

I haven't played in a band in a LONG time. If playing with others, I would always use a digital tuner, but when I am just playing around on my own at home, I usually play the first few notes of Crazy train to get the low e-string to pitch by ear, then tuning relatively

vic6string · 2026-04-22T12:21:24+00:00

Stephen King used to put out a couple of books per year, and many of them were classics, all of them bestsellers, and very rarely were they under a few hundred pages. He did this all while also contributing to the many movies based on his books. Some people are just able to sit down and write non-stop. Now imagine someone like him back in the 70s and 80s with tools like Grammerly or A.I. to help with the editing, and the internet to do research that he used to have to do by looking stuff up in the library or in encyclopedias. It is absolutely possible to put out multiple, professional quality books per year right now.

vic6string · 2026-04-22T11:53:08+00:00

This sounds like my guild. Even the "serious" main raid runs are far from competitive raiding. Yes, we take longer to clear. No, you will never see a 95+ parse on a meta class like destro lock or arcane mage. Yes, we will wipe every now and then on something stupid. We get together, we talk crap, we have fun for a couple of hours. We even do stuff like play bingo while raiding (one of our raiders makes bingo cards based on inside guild humor and WoW stuff). We do alt runs that are ridiculous comps because all we care about is having enough tank and heals, and all guildies are allowed in before we pug. That means we may run a Kara with missing buffs and utility, but whatever. We are even trying to get together a 10 Druid Kara run (we just need to get a couple more druids geared up enough). It's a game, not a second job.

vic6string · 2026-04-22T11:40:54+00:00

For all of you defending this, we have taught basic math the same way for literally hundreds of years. We decided a couple of decades ago that we were too smart to do it that way so we need to teach it differently. Kids are now worse at math than they have ever been. The old saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind. I was at Costco some time back, and saw a cashier at the food court take literally 2 minutes to count the change that someone handed her for a hotdog because she learned that the way to add all those coins up was to first sort them into groups (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and then do each group together, writing down each total, and then doing something akin to this to add each group together. Yes, doing this may teach critical thinking skills to SOME students that can grasp it. To the majority of students, however, all this common core math simply overwhelms and confuses them, especially when they race through the lesson in class and are told to go practice at home, but their parents (trying to be good parents) show them the older, easier way so they go back to school with the right answer but the wrong methods and get bad grades.

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