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Looks like the earnings call hasn't been good...

Wow (pun intended). More fun? O'Rly.gif

Haven't seen much about this, just discovered the "minor drama": Yes, that's Blizzard newest co-lead, selling carries in WoW.

I'm pretty sure the original strategy was simply to force everyone into the Facebook ecosystem. If you already have a Facebook account, why aren't you using it for the rest? "Everything you do, you do it via Facebook", that kind of things. Same thing as "use your Facebook account to log into any...

I wonder how much the sales plummeted that they need to "separate the accounts": https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/meta-removing-facebook-login-requirement-for-quest-headsets-by-next-year/

They know it's their last opportunity. Because at one point, even Congress won't be able to pass that pork when facing stuff like SpaceShip. I mean, half the two-billion-a-launch SLS missions could easily fit on Falcon Heavy in expandable mode (official price 150M$).

FTFY

Watched a few videos on the topic, the current hypothesis on inner monologue is a repurported self-correction mechanism. When you talk, your language center feeds the physical bits (lung/vocal cords), and simultaneously feeds back into your hearing center, so if you're speaking "wrong", you can...

To be honest, ARR MSQ is a bit of a mess, because they were hurrying to fix from an even bigger mess. But it is tolerable. However, the nickname "World of Cinematics" is appropriate. When you get an explicit prompt "set aside an hour before accepting this quest", you do know it's going to be...

Not only that, but people have noticed that the only feature interesting in 9.1.5 - which lands on Nov 2nd - is the Mage Tower with Legion Timewalking, which comes... "early December". That is, "just in time for you to sub an additional month".

He. People tend to mistake him for a female due to writing, but that's a he.

One of the reasons I loled in that "wow players get into ff14" video is that I could recognize myself as the cut-scene skipper. "Wait, you skipped the dungeon intro scene?" "Yea, I'll probably get it later on youtube, don't want to keep you guys waiti..." "DO NOT!" "ABSOLUTELY" "ENJOY YOUR...

If you ever tried to write a webseries, you'll find out that burn-out is a permanent threat. I admire those people who get webnovel contracts and stuff. That's why they include the right to pull out your story and reassign it - all their authors flame out and burn. Travis Deverell (Shirtaloon...

I'm not familiar with what a chargeback entails for both the customer and the company (I know companies get hit with fees and their payment processor statistics can get them kicked out, but what about the CC holder?). But given the shit you've been peddled and the way it was, I'd go straight for...

Blizzard stopped giving those, instead bundling everything into a global Blizzardwide "MAU" (Monthly Active Users), which also includes shenanigans, like WoW players doing the Heartstone promo just to get a mount: they count as "two" MAU for that month (despite using the same account) since they...

And did (but only after his original main actor died waiting for the movie to be shot).

For the SJW crowd, there is no such thing as satire.

Yea. Chinese liking a ... Japanese game?

And the purge goes on: https://www.wowhead.com/news/george-the-corpsegrinder-reference-removed-and-quest-dialogue-updates-324531 TL;DR: Latest victims are allusion to George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher for his official profanities against Alliance, and Don Quixote's entire quest line of "saving"...

You'd think it shouldn't. But that's Blizzard.

Another fun story: TL;DW: Player tames a gorilla, which gets named by default by the game as "Gorilla". Bunch of people decide to spam report the name as "offensive". Players gets a suspension and a pet renaming after a "thorough investigation" and a stern warning that his account is liable...

All of the wowhead articles dealing with "those" issues are pre-locked for comments.

The point stands. I'm sure there's great value for it. If you cared for all those things, you probably would have picked it. But if all you want is a PS5... then you're being told by BB "purchase all those services you never used and don't want to, and maybe you'll get a PS5 at MSRP". There's a...

Ahahahahah... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/best-buy-offers-exclusive-access-to-ps5-stock-if-you-pay-extra-200-a-year/

Oh, there will be a 10.0. The thing is, it might be the first expansion to... cough... reuse previous systems. Because nobody will be paying for new ones, they'll be told to reuse code. You'll have spreadsheet-designed loot ladders, maximum model re-use with minimal recolors, and a single...

He's published the series first on RR (Royal Road) plus Patreon. On RR, we've just finished book 7 (Arc #3, book 1), book 8 starts next week (it's already started on Patreon). Note - unless you've got some of the interlude chapters with book 3, in which case it should be obvious immediately...

That's because it's not Amazon. Bezos founded BO as a completely separate entity, and well before Musk founded SpaceX, and the first thing he did was to recruit and put in charge people straight out of classic Aerospace while he was still busy managing Amazon for the next 15 years. His first...

Yea, I'm not holding my breath for an Arrogant Youngmaster Template A-style return.

Because it is not exactly zero gravity. The comet is tiny (4 km diameter), but that's still a significant mass. It exerts a minuscule gravity (around 2 mm/s^2, or 0.02% of Earth's gravity). You can probably achieve escape velocity by jumping... but those rocks don't have legs. If they hit the...

At least he's honest about modern art.

I ended up bailing out during book 2. Most of the quirkiness was still there, but not as good and new anymore. Plus they were too much reality-based (yes, they live through COVID times) and... well, it didn't click anymore. But book 1 is one of the best fantasy/scifi-ish dungeon stories I've...

Aren't those the ones that California made illegal due to how much power they drain even when in sleep mode?

If you're interested in tales of plagues and horrible things happening, Connie Willis's "The Doomsday Book" (a play of words on the Domesday Book) is a tale of a stranded time-traveller in the Black Plague era as well. It's not entirely horror, but it's grim to an extreme.

Two more weeks!

There's a second one? (/s)

The original one was in the mid-80s on arcades.

Took them too long to release, they lost the momentum they had back in the Kickstarter days.

I agree. Which is why I went out of programming and into real estate investment. May I interest you in some opportunities about a bridge in upper NY? No. I've dealt with both software editors, in-house dev, and the users. What people want today is code-that-ship. That's it. You used to write...

And then someone comes up and says "yikes, database locks are hammering my performance, stop locking transactions!". Once you've read www.thedailywtf.com regularly, you stop believing in the innate competence of developers. Because there's the Right way, the Wrong way, and the way of the...

They really didn't like the "we didn't tell anyone initially" and "by the way, we're flying again without taking time to properly figure out why, because paying customers".