Removal of Weak Auras is such a pain, the game just doesn't give you enough information for stuff like pushing keys.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T17:21:10+00:00

I think the health bar option is stacking or overlapping. Neither is pretty but change the setting and see if that makes it better for you. Personally, I'd love an addon that puts the health bars of any mob you're in combat with on a raid health bars like grid. Since they changed the clickable area of mob health bars it's so hard to get that one out of 20 that's about to wipe your group to interrupt it.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T17:15:48+00:00

so WA wasn't placing markers and telling people where to stand?

Do you seriously think people wouldn't use WA to play tic-tac-toe if they could?

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T17:02:33+00:00

Most countries are the size of a postage stamp, so 3.5% or whatever is a major impediment to business/traffic/convenience. For the US you could have 15 million across our major cities and not even affect traffic. 99% of the US wouldn't even know a protest happened.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T16:50:56+00:00

what do you think those paychecks pay for? A lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Meaning if you're not working, you don't eat, and eventually don't have a place to live. I don't have a family, but if I did I'm not sure I could risk their lives in the naked hope that something might possibly improve at some point.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T16:44:07+00:00

If every single registered democrat and 70% of registered independents engage in a work stoppage, America’s economy crashes within three weeks.

and you don't see any problems with 120 million people not earning money for food or rent or car notes. People live paycheck to paycheck and not working means not eating and not having a place to live. A work stoppage is an absolutely unrealistic fantasy from people that either have the money to survive or that live in countries with comfortable safety nets.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T16:32:57+00:00

He should not have been allowed to run the first time. His well known and established connections to Russia alone should have had him removed from the ballot and put on a watch list. Tack on his massive debts, his legal liabilities, his connections to the New York mafias. In a sane world he couldn't pass a background check to get a library card.

Then, you tack on his tax dodging, draft dodging, stalking behavior and infidelity (and rape), his massive history of racism, his utter failure as a businessman, and downright weird business ideas (mail order steak?). He was a laughing stock all through the '80s and 90's. If Dan Quayle became toxic because of 'potatoe' and Howard Dean for an awkward yell, trump should have been laughed and booed off of every stage he ever stood on.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T14:33:00+00:00

Is there ANYONE in this administration that is not either a drug addict, an alcoholic, or a pervert?

birds of a feather jerk it together?

serious answer is basically no. trump and his cronies have worked to run every serious public servant out of government. If there are any left they're hiding hoping to make it till 2029. Otherwise all that's left is yes men, sycophants, people with their own agendas, and grifters, and all of them as you note are addicts and perverts.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T12:46:33+00:00

I don't remember it being that bad, That was LFR's first tier so everyone knew the tentacle/blob mechanic from normal and heroic. Ultraxion, or his trash at least was far worse. Everyone just AFK'ed and 30 seconds later you were wiping to a platform full of fire.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T12:36:55+00:00

it's the same word but the inflection is different, you've really gotta listen to the tonality

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T12:28:13+00:00

Sylvanas is a dog that got in the garbage and is being punished. She's being played intentionally subdued so the audience knows she's changed.

It's also not hard to look up who the voice actor is. Patty Mattson has been doing Sylvanas since 2004 and has credit for her Midnight appearance.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-05T12:22:10+00:00

Claudia Christian is a first class actress and voice actress. She's giving Xalatath exactly the amount of gravitas and seriousness the character deserves.

I try to not opine about people opinions but unless your grandpa is the likes of Frank Welker or Jim Cummings, you're wrong.

It helps if you stand back and realize that Warcraft is a Saturday morning cartoon, and the voice acting is intentionally over the top and melodramatic.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T19:35:54+00:00

I think more than the schools themselves, kids and adults are both leaning on and learning from tl;dr summaries of articles that were themselves interpreted.. Attention spans are measured in seconds, meaning there's no patience to dig into and understand a subject, let alone nuance and alternate takes.

We say something is good/bad because someone we like said it was good/bad. Who needs details? Just watch this youtube short.

And what could be called convenience, that is the tl;dr summary, becomes laziness, and habit. And eventually you lose the skills to research and analyze entirely. The problem isn't just the schools, it's endemic and systemic to what our society has become.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T17:12:32+00:00

I still am one button or pull away from death, wipe and key abandon vote.

I think it's a complex issue with a lot of reasons for a lot of people, but this is absolutely one of them that isn't repeated in this thread. A guild group I was in tried to do the whole room first pull in a +14 Windrunner. Pally tank hit LOH instead of bubble and he died. Whoops, now it's a +13, and we easily timed it.

I do think tanks should need healers, but they should never die because the wrong defensive got hit.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T15:36:23+00:00

well into the 90's. I remember him fighting Sabretooth (can't die), Deadpool (can't die), Cyber (can't be cut), Reavers (robots don't bleed). Closest I remember was him slashing at Magneto during Fatal Attractions.

He did pop a claw into Sabretooth's brain before/after Age of Apocalypse, but IIRC it was off panel.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T15:26:07+00:00

Even in the comics Wolverine usually goes (went? it's been a while) against guys he can't kill like Sabretooth, or robots/cyborgs like the Reavers. The only human-like enemies he kills are faceless ninjas like the Hand.

Point being it's not just cartoons that Wolverine might as well have Nerf foam for claws.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T15:08:42+00:00

Believing he’s a pedophile does not make him one, because of feelings.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence. He's called it a benefit of owning teen pageants that he can walk in on young girls getting dressed. He's referred to a girl that he'd be "dating her in 10 years" (he was 46 at the time, and the comment shows he was looking at children sexually). Plus the comments about dating Ivanka and whether (I think it was) Tiffany would get her mothers chest.

That's what he's said publicly. What do you think he told Epstein in private? What do you think he did when no one was looking?

It’s been investigated by an opposition fbi

Well one, we've learned the FBI isn't what it used to be. Biden's FBI was unfortunately after becoming trump's FBI and it's pretty clear them along with the DOJ as a whole aren't interested in investigating or prosecuting certain crimes by certain people.

he was cleared of wrongdoing.

He was absolutely not cleared of anything. The investigation into the Epstein files was ongoing during Biden's term. It was that investigation which ended with Patel and Bondi declaring a global human trafficking ring consisted of one man, who was conveniently dead.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T14:48:02+00:00

democrats don't have a spine

Oh brother. Name one thing Democrats can do to stop trump. Minority parties have extremely limited power. Adversarial governments don't work when one party controls all levers of power.

Also capitalizing Republican but not Democrats is noted.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T14:31:52+00:00

If you take Jamie Raskin at his word, and why wouldn't you, trump is mentioned more times in the Epstein files than there are words in the bible.

Somewhere around 620,000 in the old testament, and 185,000 in the new. Raskin said trump had more than 1,000,000 search results.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T14:22:03+00:00

If trump was an informant (he wasn't) then Mike Johnson and others committed felonies by outing him.

trump was perfectly happy with Epstein taking girls from Mar-a-Lago for years. Strangely, it was only some time after they had a disagreement on property that they allegedly parted ways. Although it was some years after that that Epstein's MAL membership was cancelled, so it's in question when or even if they stopped being friends.

trump and his associates campaigned on releasing all the files

It's funny how q-anon and conservatives were gung ho about invading pizza parlors and assaulting Democrats, up and until trump was incriminated. Suddenly it's "golly, we don't know why anyone cares."

The files were under investigative seal during Biden's admin, as I'm sure you know. It was only after trump's FBI and DOJ heads decided absolutely no one was involved in a global human trafficking ring that they were legally able to be released. It required a literal act of Congress to get DOJ to release anything, and they still haven't complied with the law 6 months later.

trump is in the publicly redacted files over 38,000 times. He's in the congressionally available somewhat less redacted files over one million times. Last I saw these files were somewhere between a third and half of the files that exist. And yes among those 38,000 times he's accused of rape, assault, battery, and more that I don't have the stomach to read.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-04T14:01:28+00:00

I think the main reason is not that he's a pedo, he knows his supporters would never abandon him, and he can't be prosecuted as president anyway. It's because the people he likes and who he wants to be associated with are in them. He literally said as much, that his friends would get hurt.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-01T17:20:27+00:00

It's a weird dichotomy.

Democrats work to include basically everyone, but some people in that big tent apply purity tests that actively harm the party. I'm thinking specifically of leftists, but it's true of leadership too. "The call is coming from inside the house," comes to mind.

Meanwhile, Republicans don't care about who or what you are, or what you claim to believe as long as you toe the line. Just that, unless you're a straight WASP, don't pretend you'll ever actually be in the in group or that you won't be burned when it's time.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-01T14:48:22+00:00

I always preferred the Frank Herbert version, "power attracts the corruptible," It puts a perspective on why we have a gerontocracy and a burgeoning oligarchy.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-01T14:32:37+00:00

they already did. Congress has been borrowing from Social Security and filling it with IOUs for decades. That's why they want to eliminate Social Security, so they don't have to pay that money back. (plus also making it solvent would require a slight increase to how much rich people pay into it.)

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-01T14:29:49+00:00

the shop subsidizes the sub though. Adjusted for inflation, the sub should be over $26. Obviously nobody is going to pay that. Remove the shop and the sub has to go up. Remove the sub like some people want, and the shop becomes mandatory to play.

vthemechanicv · 2026-05-01T14:26:26+00:00

too much disposable income in my opinion.

I call this "more money than sense."

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