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Reddit isn't FoH. My main account has been warned / suspended 3 times then permabanned for "glorifying violence", I was able to reverse the permaban with repeated filing for appeals but that account is now back to just being on its "last strike." Reddit uses AI to do a lot of its rule...

Just randomly hosting in countries that don't have reciprocal enforcement treaties with the U.S. would not have protected THJ. The judge's order enjoins the devs as individuals, they would not be protected if the servers were in Russia or Cuba or some place, because the devs live in the United...

The first TLP with fully instanced raiding was released less than 1 year after she said that. I'll also note--a lot of FOHers who dick ride games like Pantheon, M&M, etc specifically cite instancing of content as one of the worst things ever. While I've always thought that's stupid AF, Holly...

I never got into the WoWC stuff but Holly's job with WoW is a lot easier than her job with EQ, due to WoW just being a much more profitable / successful game. If a random person ran Microsoft for a year I doubt they'd do a good job, but it also wouldn't cause the company to bankrupt because big...

Back when I was TLPing on Lockjaw, Jchan was known as the "good dev", because almost all their devs were crap. We'd have SOE/DBG tell us "we can't create a login queue you just have to suffer through nonstop login server crashes." Then Jchan posts "actually I can probably make a login queue."...

Yes, I work in commercial insurance, surety bonds are regularly sold for court cases to companies involved in litigation. My company will write $3m and lower bonds for companies pretty liberally (above that are subject to stricter review), some extremely high percentage of court surety bonds for...

Not really. The law of nature states that the animal that can consume the most resources is "winning", just like the fattest bear is the most powerful in their area. Fat people are the alphas, skinny people are actually the sheep that exist only to work in service to the fat kings.

Not a good day for THJ.

Imagine thinking I leave my house.

Says someone who doesn't know me at all. I've infamously been raid logging min-efforting TLPs for years. I'm the opposite of someone who time sinks a TLP. I never do any of the autist group stuff, barely keep up with AAs.

That was my understanding but when I said that in Discord the other day a THJ player told me they haven't changed the boss powers, the bosses just don't have MOTM, but player power is higher because of the THJ hyper-itemized gear. No idea which is true just going off what I heard. Since I'm...

The main innovation being "host a server that's free to play." Because that is what is most important to about 90% of emu players, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. If you ever talk to emubots, they will often admit they play emu specifically because it is free. Now, some of the emus are...

The devs who have worked at SOE/DBG all say EQ2 is much easier to dev for and work with than EQ1. It may be a worse game but it's a more maintainable engine for sure.

That definitely isn't discussed enough when people opine about the EQ code base. The world EQ launched in was the world of shrink-wrapped software. Games had to launch at a specific time to make the money work, and by and large future maintainability of the project didn't matter much because...