naticus

I played from 2005 to 2009 and it was my first MMO. I learned a lot about my own addictive nature with WoW and MMOs in general.

I got lost in the minutiae of theorycrafting out builds and because of being in one of the more hardcore raid guilds during vanilla (5 raid nights a week), basically every raising resto druid on the server knew me and would cross faction just to hang out and talk builds and strategy. Was a ton of fun, but kept me so invested beyond even my raid schedule and when I quit, my druid alone had 1 year of in-game time.

Quitting WoW was easily the best decision I could have made (during WotLK) for my own mental health and for my (at the time) young professional career. I learned that of all the “close friends” didn’t actually give a damn when the game was removed from conversations. I had a lot of fun while playing but I allowed it to take over my social life to the point I didn’t realize I no longer had one.

It’s funny, the game that got me over WoW was Dragon Age: Origins which dropped within a few weeks of quitting. It felt and played kind of like a single player WoW in a weird way, and I just never felt like picking it back up.

I don’t really think about my time with WoW much and usually think about all the great moments, but then if I really think about it, I can remember all the incredibly toxic moments too and that keeps me away even though I’m sure 90% of all those people have moved on by now too.

https://youtu.be/ldiIVmdowg0

Absolutely wasn’t thinking of those but yes, completely. I don’t know why I blanked that out but I watched more of his videos than any other on Vine. WTF.

A guy at work mistook “capybara” for “chupacabra” several months back and I’ve started emailing him “Chupacabra Facts”. Just used AI to create a newsletter about capybaras and did a find/replace. Best part was when he sent a screenshot to our Teams chat that it for quarantined by Microsoft for phishing somehow lol. There wasn’t even a link in it, just AI slop.

I have to agree with Linus for the Linux kernel and for git. Not just because he’s well known, but there are few developers who have had the influence he has and continues to have on a daily basis over the course of the last few decades. I really worry what will happen when he finally decides to step down. He gets a lot of flak for his rants against other developers, but for good reason: he demands a certain level of coding quality because it effects billions of servers and workstations, but with no room for being tactful or gentle. Some devs get lazy and are inefficient, and that would effect stability for everyone. Also: I would hate to submit a module to Linus because I’m also lazy and inefficient in my coding.

Has he ever done a solo project though? Even the first game titled with his name, Pirates!, wasn’t solo. It was his project though.

And I can think of other games with people’s names before the game title, but they were the author of the source material and not involved with the game development itself: Tom Clancy and Clive Barker.

Lol I think you just described most malicious compliance posts. Just people throwing logic out the window while making demands, just to be swatted down by their own hubris.

Not with that attitude

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill reference.

Yeah I’m really interested to see how this one reviews. I knew nothing about it when I got an email about it. Within about 3 screenshots I thought “ah, new Dead Space”. Looks nice, but I do hope the story becomes a bit more intricate.

Yep I completely agree that our Democratic party does incredibly little. They got all upset at Trump calling them Do Nothing Democrats during his first term, but it’s the fucking truth. Voting Democrat is only the “lesser evil” because the alternatives are either fascists or independents who have no power hold whatsoever at ANY level of government in the entire nation.

The part that is infuriating for me is that I’d rather at least have a more centrist party if not outright liberal party, because Democrats are still conservative; they’re just further left of Republicans. The only liberal parties are independents and you cannot get federal power without first having local/city power, and then state power, and finally federal. It’ll never work on any other way in the US and that’s been proven for over 200 years.

You can’t fight from the inside if you’re on the outside.

It’s easy to point blame at something or someone when you’re completely unaffected by the problem and have zero personal stake. What I’m trying to tell you is that everyone needs to prioritize their own privacy online and it wouldn’t matter if I was a resistance general or the just the random dude on the street. We all have something to lose.

The only thing I will say is that I do work for government myself. No, it’s not an elected position, and no I’m not someone high up in legislation or anything like that. But I have been a public employee for decades now and my own state has proven that they can and will work to have someone forcefully resigned based on unfavorable social media posts.

So again, no.

But also “because of people like you” is exactly the kind of shit we should be fighting against saying in the first place, my dude. Because that leads to generalizations that those in power do take advantage of.

And I’m sure your uncle works for Nintendo. What’s your fucking point?

Jfc, no. Any work I may be doing does not need to be proven to you, and disclosing any of it would only be putting myself at risk. Do you even understand what kind of shit the feds are trying to use for digital surveillance? Or that our TSA literally are checking phones of people coming into our borders for anti-Trump social media posts? Why would I ever fucking tell you or anyone anything I participate in? That’s just how out of touch you are if you think I should.

I mean, you’re right if giving any facts is just an excuse now. This isn’t a list of reasons why we shouldn’t do something, it’s a list of reasons why it hasn’t worked at all yet, because people are trying, but you’d like to assume we all sit on our fat asses and do nothing I’m sure.

Why are you, so successful at installing despots around the world, that when a coup starts at home, you fail so damn hard at keeping the wigs off?

That is exactly the fucking answer. Who is doing this? Our military. Because they’re that god damned strong. You just listed a bunch of countries that while things may have been difficult, they do not at all compare to a super power’s military strength. They just don’t. That’s not something I’m happy about, and that’s not even American exceptionalism talking, that’s just the reality and the disparity of the different miliary strengths.

If you have already accepted your deaths, then why even bother replying to me on lemmy?

I’m not accepting it and you don’t get to say when I can and cannot speak out just because we disagree.

"I keep telling these people who are being crushed with an oppressive boot to stop being crushed with an oppressive boot, but they just won’t listen. "

Listen, what you’re saying has no nuance and is easy to say without having to take any action yourself. Even if you’re well meaning, only actions matter here and trying to have an understanding and context of actual life in America. It’s easy to be on the outside looking in on the trainwreck here.

You clearly have no idea how many protests and riots we’ve had in response, but it gets swiftly stomped out. You don’t seem to understand how the strength of one of (if not the) strongest military power can be used against its own people to end a peaceful protest with force. If the police won’t do it, they send in the National Guard.

I’m not proud of my country. I don’t make excuses for my country. In many ways I hate my country. But your words are tone deaf and frankly pathetic.

While I agree that private prisons are horrible, I can’t see how this would have changed anything had it been a public prison. This also happened 3 years after he left that job as a prison officer.

You have books?