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China has as many natural resources as us, 4 times the population, has much newer infrastructure and is increasing investments on its people (e.g. higher education, healthcare) instead of cutting them like we are. If you think their GDP is number games then you're as foolish as the rich cunts...

It's hubris to assume the US Dollar will remain the world reserve currency when China will surpass our GDP in half a decade. Particularly when the USG likes to sanction everybody and our political leadership is so unstable. Overheating the money printers is the fastest way to unseat the USD...

BTC all-time-highed again hours after that tweet. Musk didn't start talking about Bitcoin until after it was 40k. If any rich asshole is driving this train, it's Michael Saylor, whos company literally just took on 1 billion USD of debt to buy more BTC after buying 70k+ coins and is giving...

BBC is fake news https://coinshares.com/insights/beware-of-lazy-research-bitcoin-mining-update

Fees are always much higher during bull runs. Even BTC fees drop to pennies during bear cycles. When I used crypto to pay for my VPN recently, I just used Litecoin to do it. Lightning is a bitcoin layer 2 solution that will become more adopted over time. It works like this: you enter a...

The entire point of blockchain is to decentralize control. BTC is far and away the most decentralized network. Without decentralization, blockchains are just super inefficient databases. Also I would say that the number one thing to look for is the competence and involvement of the developer...

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Coinbase fees (when in EZ mode) for buys and sells $200 or higher is 1.5% + a 0.5% spread, so it's effectively 2% on both sides

I recall some interview where they said they had data going back to 1.8 or something but choose 1.12 because it was 'the most complete' or whatever

Don't buy a coin just to diversify. These ain't blue chip stocks. I'm not a 'bitcoin maximalist' but virtually every other coin is trash, including top 10 ones. Put the majority of your money into BTC, which has outperformed all of them. You won't get 100x from BTC anymore but it's a lot...

The Feds have been trying to do that for decades. They launched a criminal investigation of the author of PGP in the early 90s for simply publishing open source code and a bill to ban encrypted communications failed in congress around the same time. Aside from grievous privacy violations, the...

Innoruuk hitting for 401s is the Velious era version. Level 50s attacking a quadding level 70 Innoruuk gonna have a hard time

This is why the #nochanges idiots are the ones who are in actuality the biggest proponents of change. Can't fix pathing exploit abuse that never happened 15 years ago because, #nochanges!!!!! Meanwhile game devolves into exploit riddled unplayable garbage. You can't handcuff yourself with a...

Strange comment considering I have never banned, suspended or even kicked (who didn't request it) anybody in 5 years. I used to time ticks and meditate while quad kiting on p99 because I lacked the mana pool to do it otherwise; also between cannibalizes. Nobody would consider this as any sort...

I named my pet Wolfie

The solution to this is to use a game streaming service like Stadia or the new Nvidia service and deny users the ability to install the game locally. If they were smart they would focus on using it as an anti-cheat, anti-spoiling medium instead of 'gee wiz now you can play Crysis on your...

What date did Sony root the dragons? The problem with leaving them unrooted is that Sony had NPC collision with geometry and the emus don't have this. On Sony servers when you pulled dragons through doors, they got stuck and warped on top of the pullers making pulling them much more difficult...

If I'm not mistaken, the circa 2001 Velious UI was also stuck with one window and multiple windows were not possible until the mid-Luclin UI revamp

Multiple chat windows? not classic

I don't know what bizarro world the people who claim that the AV map favors horde live in. They might as well say that the sky in green. Hardcore PvPers favor horde because of the aesthetics of the faction; hence horde players are better at PvP. Alliance players (generally speaking) tend to...

Excellent changes but it's not enough. Fix the goddamn exploit pulling, FFS. And do something about the AFK bots. I saw people asking for the removal of BG numbers in some of the many, many threads with people begging Blizzard to do something about AV. Can't give Blizzard credit for the...

'EQ Cam' is what Sony called the mousewheel cam and it was added to the game in June 2003, which is roughly 6 months after our client's date. We decided not to add it for a few reasons: 1) it's an out-of-era feature. 2) it provides an advantage to the user. 3) we can only add it to the PC...

Bazaar is in. PoK and PoK books are also in, even though it's out-of-era for Luclin. We're doing a kind of 'soft' progression.

You could always alt-tab with our client; the issue was that our older clients would often act as if you were still holding the alt key down when you switched back to the window. The client has been worked on over the years and this issue is now gone as far as I'm aware. One work-around to...

1) 8 hour games would not happen with today's playerbase, client and hardware. 2) *I* would play that because AV when done 'legit' is my favorite activity in the game and a large reason I subbed to begin with, hence why I'm super pissed over what it turned into. 3) It's dying as-is because...

The idea is that older AV + queue randomness will mitigate the problems with the horribly bad carrot design, not fix it entirely. Options are very limited due to this being a recreation, and older AV is something that is doable while still being true to the goal of being a creation. (also I...

It was much easier to defend in older versions of AV because there were NPCs to hide behind/aggro on players, particularly for Horde players. I used to run up the horde towers after being attacked to sick all the NPCs inside on them. Horde base now has virtually nothing. People started...

Both then and now. They like changes when it suits them (like how mounts function) but for PvP they throw up their hands and say 'nothing we can do so sorry!' Total bullshit when general races only became common in patch 1.12 so most of classic was AV playing out legit. Coordinating queuing...

AV is now nothing but alliance premades that win in 8 minutes or non-alliance premades full of undergeared players that get destroyed because the good and geared players are in premades. Way to go Blizzard, your negligence is beyond atrocious and an embarrassment to game development.

It sort of existed/exists on live EQ. Here's me doing it on Al'Kabor: When I was doing hate logic research on Live in 2015 I had discovered that low health aggro is equal to the NPC's hitpoints with a minimum of 500 and a maximum of 10,000. I didn't realize until later that it was current...

I won about half my AVs. (granted only did about a dozen) If horde goes defense they'll probably win because they have the more dedicated PvP players and a lot of alliance are just PvErs wanting faction rewards. Defenders have to be smart or they'll be road kill. What I do is this: I trap the...

Rated BGs was the one thing I'd have loved to have seen implemented while I was still playing the game

Oh, so Blizzard gives a fuck about 'win trading' but PUGs losing AVs on purpose in 5 minutes is just fine with them which is practically the same thing only without needing to communicate with anybody and instead is just a toxic meta that arose to abuse egregiously bad loopholes in game design...

I always defend. Some games I can't do much because I get no help. But more and more horde are defending and it's super fun when AVs end up in a brawl. People whine and cry about it but then end up with tons of honor anyway. Last game for me was 8374 honor (after diminishing returns) in 42...

Not likely

Just wanna say fuck you to the WoW dev who made the hunter PvP trinket

The EQ emu guys would be very glad to have a copy of your old EQ install if you're feeling generous

Ossoi is acting

Just play WoW with EQ players