Azdeus
-
Posts
1311 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
23
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Posts posted by Azdeus
-
-
I'm just going to point out that you don't need to be that stringent about the amount of water, don't force yourself to drink too much because that'll probably cause feel like vomiting. Just drink until you feel it's enough, any amount will help.
It's best to drink some extra fluids while you are partying.
-
I'm tripping on nostalgia. Remembering good old World of Warcraft times with buddies that has moved on or even passed on...
Wistful...
-
1
-
-
I liked WoW best before the Honor Kill patch. At that time there was so much socializing around and much more mature communication, after that the server started to fill up with jerks or more like the people started to behave that way. I was playing on PvP server from start, but before the Honor patch, there was the nice feel of danger everywhere. After Honor Patch, there was the feel, "who's gonna corpse camp me now"... Which ruined one part of WoW for me, but right after that, I joined a guild, and a new possibilities opened up. I ended, with my guild on a server, where Nihilum was playing (the wolrd first dudes) so this brought a lot of jerks as well, but communication outside of guild was pretty common, and finding a PuGs was never hard, even without dungeon finder. Then they added cross realm for it and it became boring. It pretty made even guild chat more silent. No one needed anyone else besides big raids and achievement farming... yeah, became bored a lot. I bought Cataclysm, but haven't even activated my serial key after that... sighs, never touched Pandaria
Mirror imaged essentially. I was on Earthen Ring RP from the beginning though, so the HK patch actually helped things a little in my case, because suddenly people were interested in PvP in a whole 'nother way.
I can easilly believe how the mood would've changed on an PvP server though.
Never bought Cata though, but it was a close call for a while.
-
It's something those in long-term guilds may not come to realise for a good while. By late 2005 I'd joined a raiding guild and more or less left the public channels forever. In early 2007 I accidentally ended up co-leading a new guild and became even more isolated from the 'outside', apart from recruiting exercises. It wasn't until about 2011, near the point where I quit for good, that, as an experiment, I started up a new character on a 'local' (i.e. Oceanic) server and went 1-85, somehow never communicating with a single other person. Granted, I didn't even try to talk to anyone myself, but when last in that sort of situation, more than half a decade prior, there'd be no shortage of people initiating some sort of contact (random pop-ups to join someone's random guild don't count).
I did more or less zero PvP in my last four years of playing so I can't say anything about that.
When you factor in Phasing into that... double-whammy. Alot of people can't even see your toon, just because you finished a questchain - hence you can't even go back to help people. Wich was really annoying on a RPPvP server where we were starting anew. I got corpsecamped and eventually asked for help; Noone in the channel that was interested in helping out and my friends could'nt even see me when they came there... Great stuff.
I remember Barrens general chat. Hot damn, there was alot of chatting going on. 'Course that was also because it was such an annoying place, but it was bearable because of social interactions there. Hell, you even got HELP from PEOPLE! You did'nt have to tab out to look at guides back then...
They've really succeeded in taking the Massive out of their MMO.
I did Wow for half an hour and Guildwars for about 6 month. That is the grand total of my MMO experience.
Although come to think of it now I'm playing Path of Exile. The first thing I did was turn off all the channels, there was nothing going on there except various spams. I wonder if that dynamic could be changed if there was no economy and no incentive to farm. There would just be a practical need to work together as a team.
Possibly, you could get guild recruitment spam and such though, but yeah. Removing the opportunity to trade would help with that bit.
-
I have just remembered another gripe about World of Warcraft. It's lost the community.
Something that actually bothered me when they first introduced the crossrealm dungeon/raidfinder, was that people stopped socializing on the server. You never had a chance to build up a reputation on the server as being a competent player, good person or funny. There was nothing of it, all the channels were dead besides the oafs that noone wanted to listen to and goldfarmer spam, so that did'nt compensate for anything. You rarely had the chance to meet an interesting person while pugging because they all came from different servers and you could'nt reliably start guilds or anything similar.
That goes double for PvP! You never really get to find build up any form of relationship with the other faction on the server either, even with the open BG areas. You never really find your nemesis or such either.
Though, people having to wait 30 minutes for a BG was'nt fun either, especially if there was a steamroll waiting to come down on them.
My opinion on this is somewhat screwed though, since I played on an PvE server, where the alliance players usually came over to chat/whinge and plead to get some scores.
We did steamroll through Arathi Basin 99% of the time, wich often led to the Alliance staying in their base sulking or going fishing. Wich in turn led to us running around naked inviting them to get some free HK's atleast...
Or us jumping into AB fighting an Alliance premade. In dresses. And winning. xD
TL/DR, Crossrealm killed WoW for me.
-
2
-
-
Subscriptions are slowly drying up and they ran out of new ideas so they're rehashing the plots of Warcraft 1-3.
*yawn*
Like Caverns of Time was'nt enough.
-
I always want to get into WoW but the graphics and the players always turn me off by level 20 or so
I've recieved roughly 80 text messages today from my RL friends trying to get me back into the game, that's the real danger in that game. Not that you get hooked yourself, but that you either drag your friends into it with you or they drag you into it.
I've never had problems with the graphics or art-style of vanilla WoW, I actually loved Eastern Kingdoms style. What really got to me was the ridiculously ugly and silly gear that came later on in the expansions, and to a small extent in the late vanilla times when Ahn'Quiraj and Zul'Gurub with it's semi-organic stuff came along.
The players really can be an annoyance though, can't argue with that. The memories that are flooding back are... interesting to say the least, especially when my friends and I decided to start on a new server... where it seemed all the rejects had gathered.
-
The secret to a clear conscience is a bad memory.
Thanks for the spelling correction, that one was really bad, even for me. :S
I always had a bad case of moral hangovers, until I realize that everyone actually needs to see you screw up once in a while. Now I always go for what will make a great story.. 'Cause the people we tend to love the most, are people we've seen in situations we hope never to be in ourselves.. Be stupid, you only have one chance and it's usually a lot better to regret what you've done that what you've missed.
The moral of the story, you convinced me to drink tequila tonight.
tThe problem is... I also feel ashamed for my friends actions. I've seen my friends do things that are ludicrously embarrassing... but I feel worse about it than they do.
-
1
-
-
Me two years ago. Still look the same essentially, but less clutter on the desk since I don't smoke anymore.
-
1
-
-
Well, you have to START a fight to have something to surrender from!
-
I wish I had a memory blank from when I had that much to drink... It's close to ten years, and I still cringe and feel shame. I wonder how my mates manage doing worse things than I did and keep a clear conciense.
-
We're a shadowcoalition of the scandinavian countries, made to look like we have a clue with the support of all the others; Oil-money from Norway, cell-phone money from Finland and... pastries and candy money from Denmark.
These moneys are used to build up the image of a strong socialist country that acts as a knowitall and made up as something to aspire to as to have the rest of the world be as comfy as possible for us when we finally dig out our horned helmets again!
This plan is something that has been started during the Viking Age as we call it, when we kidnapped all the pretty ladies from around Europe and started our export business of goods.
I'm pleased to report, it's so far working Just as Planned, and noone has got a clue yet.
*Mutters* Part of DENMARK?! The only reason why they were'nt made part of the Swedish EMPIRE is because we DID'NT WANT Denmark!!
-
3
-
-
Might've posted this before, I'm a wee bit tired;
-
Oby you have confirmed what I have always suspected, Sweden was created by powerful Western corporations in the last 100 years in order to breed hot blond women that will conquer the known world and force us to follow one government . Its not a real country !!!!
Hey, Sweden is doing what we've been doing the last thousand years; Exporting furniture around the world, having you furnish your homes in the fashion we find appealing, so that when the day comes, and we take over the world - we'll find it homey!
Ikea is'nt a company; It's a tactic!
-
1
-
-
I'm glad I'll never get any..
-
1
-
-
As my name is in Swedish order it'd be; Beware! The Windy Vampires.
If I turn it into the american order of names, it'd be; Death by Flying Vampires.
Or my very full name with all my last names, in the Swedish order; Beware! The Windy Muffin Vampire Werewolves.
For something completely different;
Aaaaah! No, Frodo! That's not what I meant with "You must destroy the Ring"!
-
Yay! I'm a great ape! 7/9!
Then again, I've watched alot of Roslings talks and such. I answered wrong on lifespan and literacy rate.
Also, Rosling is a pretty damn great TED talker, I've never had someone make statistics fun! :D
-
Hell, that could actually go either way, you could easilly call that an homage if that was just about any other developer...
-
Pathfinder per se, is a rules set. Paizo ran with it when you had all the fan kick-off over Wizards creating DnD4th Ed. (Which I have to say has some pretty art, but some pretty goddamned awful mechanics).
However, Paizo have also created a Campaign Setting to go along with it. Part of what helped push it is they had the big online shop set up, and they print the books but also publish pdf versions are much reduced prices as well. They also do the "loyalty" thing that if you have an account and set up a subscription you get reduced prices.
There's the "Pathfinder RPG Books" which are pretty much core mechanics and interesting variations, the "Campaign Books" which are purely setting stuff, the "Player Companion" stuff which are a mix of player options, ideas, and more fluff all wound around the Campaign setting but a lot can be used easily enough outside, and the Adventure Paths they run (which are long arc stories, publish one adventure a month, done in 6 month chunks).
Clever move! We're not for want of fantasy RPG's up here, what with DoD (Drakar och Demoner / Dragons and Demons), Eon and others, so we never did go to that ruleset except for licenced games and just to own the books for sake of having them.
Sounds like a pretty neat book to have though, we might have to get some of them. For free. Because Sweden? It's fricking pwnge.
If you can be bothered with beaurocrazy that is.
I wanna give up, not in a depressed kinda way, just in the "ugh, adult life is waaay too much responsibility" kinda way.. and I don't even have kids, so I'm also kidding myself..
Oh well, back on the horse (or whatever the equivalent English idiom is).
Snel hest?
Oh, right, and about the doctors from yesterday; They looked at my left eye and shrugged. Said that if it gets worse, use meds. If I run out of meds, call them for more.
._.
-
Hey Woldan, that snowy valley picture is really amazing! If I had'nt been as ludicrously unfit as I am, I'd have begged to be shown around some day.
-
After much hemming and hawing, Bungie finally gives a "no" on Destiny for PC
Apparently they can easily do four different console versions, but a PC version would destroy them. How shocking after they couldn't even be bothered to port the complete Halo trilogy to Windows, just stopping at 2.
Why would they want to have to do actual work when they can easilly coast on the consoles?
It's still not a definete no though, what he said is more like it's not going to be a PC version released along the console versions, but might come later on.
-
Games can have their own built in memory management systems actually. It can really help with things like memory fragmentation and the like (more of a concern on the consoles than on the PC, however. On Eclipse we had a memory manager called the Small Block Allocator that dealt with the requests for very small amounts of memory and the like. So while the OS goes "Oh you want a 4 MB memory block? Okay." Internally, we work with that 4 MB memory block in a way that the OS is oblivious to because as far as the OS is concerned, it handed us a chunk of memory and it's ours to do with what we want.For DAO and DA2, it was pretty much required to prevent excessive memory fragmentation (if you have 100MB of memory but your largest block is 5 MB, you'll fail a memory request for 6MB which typically results in a crash).
Whether or not this is genuinely the issue with Ghosts I'm pretty oblivious to (for obvious reasons), but games definitely do handle their own memory allocations from time to time (there may also be potential performance optimizations depending on the level of control the software may exert on how it structures its memory).
Thanks Alan!
-
Ah, cool. Is it a world in itself or just a ruleset in the same vein as D&D?
I've never had much contact with D&D since we've mostly been playing local games of the fantasy variety. I'm personally not a fan of systems that take actions away from the player (Such as Defence as a passive stat). We do have things like Star Wars, Wheel of Time and Midnight, but they've never been our most played games.
-
Pathfinder.
Ah, not heard much about it, D&D3.5 variant or something, right?
Got a scheduled appointment to the hospital to check my iritis on the right eye, wich is'nt clear yet annoyingly. And friday evening I noticed some reddening around my left eye aswell, so I'm pretty damn certain it's started there aswell.
Started selfmedicating at once since the opthalmologists department was closed when I noticed it, and since it has'nt progressed like it did the first time and actually started to look better with the meds I'm going to assume that it's iritis.
Oh, and after going to the hospital I'm dropping in on my friends for some Only War RPG.
What you did today
in Way Off-Topic
Posted
My mother's 54 and she still never gets hangovers, and boy... she does drink alot. Probably could take drink Ros and Kaine under the table after each other and wake up at 9 the morning after without any sign of headache.
I've read or heard somewhere that it's in the genes, but I'm usually to busy to feel ashamed about stuff the day after to feel if I have an headache...