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into pugs and really if the solution is continuously guild hop until you find one that you like at what point to you decide to go and do something else that aside i think this is just more of the same as far as wow goes for the people who seek out drama they ll find it in spades with this addon for the people who are part of a guild of any real cohesion then this is a non issue for them for people who stick to lfr and normal heroic mode instances and delves this won t affect them at all it s only the people who want to try something different to push themselves beyond the basics that will find issues exacerbated by this addon if blizzard wants to turn the casual crowd into something more then this addon and the community culture will torpedo that but maybe blizzard doesn t want to bother trying any more because that s not what they measure success at in microsoft there it s all about whether you met your profit numbers and if another mount or two in the cash shop will get them there that s what we should expect i had to go login to retail to make sure i had the server right eta corrected grammar and some wording posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels addons fomo guild pugs retail videos wow classic friday august 30 2024 a short ponderable for a friday one of the things i ve just gotten into the habit of doing is logging into curseforge before i enter into wow considering that it only takes a few seconds to make sure my addons are updated it s not a big deal but yesterday i just realized that something is a bit out of date no not my addons she s nice and all but why hasn t alexstrasza been replaced by that elf that looks like a purple female version of kael thas either someone at curseforge is lying down on the job or blizz hasn t provided a new graphic for use i remember that when dragonflight released this graphic was already set at about a month before the dragon isles opened up blaugust2024 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2024 addons musings retail wednesday july 27 2022 third party ponderables just how important are achievements to the retail community it may not seem like big deal but i wondered about it today because i was thinking about the arms race that blizz found itself engaged with addons such as deadly boss mods according to far too many videos and blog posts i ve come across over the past couple of years the complexity of raids has amped up by blizz in an attempt to counter dbm and other third party addons providing a counter to the already existing boss mechanics dbm provides alerts on certain mechanics so blizz makes them more complex so dbm adjusts to compensate for the complex mechanics and so on and so forth but i wondered about achievements for a pretty simple reason blizz has the ability to sense third party addons and if it detects them blizz has the ability to encode a change to wow to block achievements based on the presence of said third party addons think of it this way you push hard for a world first kill and you finally get it but blizz denies you the achievement because you were using addons or certain types of addons that wait for certain flags and act on those flags such as dbm i d presume that the wow community would be a wee bit upset about that but just how upset is something i have no insight on if wow wanted to kill off addons that s one way of achieving that goal without resorting to an official ban on addons that s for sure of course blizz would have to dial back the boss mechanics if they wanted to give raids a fighting chance against them but still yeah i think the popping of the dbm bubble like the fed raising interest rates is probably an extreme solution to the problem but i have no idea just how raids would function in a no addons allowed wow environment it obviously works in other mmos such as ff xiv and swtor but wow is an mmo built upon third party addons like dbm and elvui discuss eta changed some grammar posted by redbeard at 6 36 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels addons mmos musings retail thursday june 23 2022 creating wilderness when there is none one day a couple of decades ago i was working away at my job as a software qa engineer with the npr interview program fresh air playing through my headset the subject of terry gross interview that day was jon krakauer the author of into the wild for those unfamiliar with the story it s about 22 year old recent college grad chris mccandless who grew disenchanted with his family and decided to basically take off on his own he abandoned his car gave his entire savings to charity and even burned the cash in his wallet and set off into the unknown eventually his body was found in the alaskan wilderness having starved to death jon originally wrote an article for outside magazine about chris and later expanded it into the book we know of today after listening to the interview i made a point of stopping by our local bookstore on the way back home and picking up a copy after a week or so of staring at it wondering whether i was ready to read it i finally gave in and devoured the thing in a day today you can find into the wild and jon s most well known book into thin air in summer reading lists for high schools and universities when i last visited my local bookstore into the wild was on the large summer reading list shelf surrounded by more classic fare such as dune and the aeneid into the wild is a tragedy caused by hubris but a fascinating one nevertheless when i read the book one thing kept coming back to haunt me just how in the age of maps and global knowledge of entire areas did chris mccandless get lost in the wilderness even in the 90s before smart phones that were more powerful than the best pcs of the era you had access to everything you needed to survive in the alaskan wilderness where you were and where to go chris wanted to go to a blank spot on the map and without any of those left he decided the best way to achieve his goal was to simply get rid of the map i ve thought a lot over the years about that decision chris mccandless made to throw away the map because it has a certain amount of appeal while it is frequently construed to sticking your fingers in your ears and going lalalalala i can t heeeear you if you want to test yourself without relying upon modern conveniences the cheapest way to do so is to remove those conveniences how much of a challenge is the challenge if sensors and monitors tell you everything you need to know in the same way a gps vest is worn by footballers these days certainly even with all of the advanced tech in the world there s still plenty of challenge and in quite a few endeavors that challenge can still prove fatal i suppose that is the same sort of impulse and hubris that causes people to ignore instruction manuals when installing building something only with potentially far more disastrous results the thing that gnaws at me about chris throwing away the map is that i do that sort of thing in some of my own endeavors when i was about 13 or so my parents drove the family up to indianapolis to visit the children s museum if you ever are in indy it is worth a visit if your kid or you likes dinosaurs from theculturetrip com one of the exhibits there was about gears and levers and among the interactive displays they had there were two differing gears with their teeth intertwined the idea was to provide an example as to see which could move first the smaller or the larger if you know your mechanical engineering or you ve ever ridden a bike with multiple gears you ought to know that the smaller gear has the advantage here and yes even back then i knew that courtesy of 6th grade science class but when my father offered to compete against me i chose the larger gear why because i wanted the challenge to see if i could win through physical strength even though all the advantages were with my dad of course i lost and as he began to point out why based on the display i said i already know that then you shouldn t have chosen the wrong gear he snapped and walked away yes i was an arrogant adolescent teen but how could i explain to my dad that i deliberately chose the larger gear because i wanted a physical challenge rather than the safe and smart option he was in absolutely no mood to hear about that and to him i just proved my stupidity by choosing the wrong gear rather than using my mind to choose the correct one compared to this stuff the way i play video games is pretty much small potatoes however my approach to video games and to a lesser extent boardgames and pencil and paper rpgs is to eschew the optimal or smart option and instead deliberately choose other options because well just because like say leveling card via the old world instead of going to outland okay that s not a fair assessment because that was a very specific challenge but i m thinking in terms of playing as a frost mage when frost is considered the inferior mage spec when compared to fire and arcane or ignoring the allure of all sorts of required addons and playing with as few addons and or weakauras as possible after all i didn t even install dbm at all in wow classic until my first foray into zul gurub and i learned to expect different boss mechanics the old fashioned way by watching for visual and audible cues from the bosses themselves but by far the biggest addon i refuse to use is the one that i think of first when i think of throwing away the map questie i will admit that there is one thing i completely enjoy about questie that i can tell exactly when other people i m grouped with are done with a quest it allows me to make an informed decision as to whether i want to continue grinding toward my own quest completion or just go with the flow and follow the others and work on their completion at the expense of my own before you say it i ll insert a frustrated reaction from my questing buddy to cover it for you sigh i ve had this conversation with people before so don t bother i really don t care about whether i complete quests when i m grouped with someone that s not why i m grouped with them if i do ask to group with someone so i can complete a quest that s a different story but when i m just grouped with them to go questing or be social i really don t care if i complete any quests the thing about addons like questie is that it also defeats the purpose why i play video games i don t play for the end but for the journey in a video game throwing the map away by eschewing addons or not looking at a map too hard when you can t turn that stuff off in game means i explore and take my cues off of what is presented to me sometimes it takes me a while to find what i m looking for but you can bet all the in game gold or credits you have that i ll remember where it is the next time i pass through i ll look at road in lotro before you reach the ford of bruinen and go okay this is where those trolls caught me at night i ll have to go around right here to avoid them or in tbc classic this is where those bog lords have a bad habit of respawning quickly so i d better be ready for a rapid exit if that happens while i m fighting these two out there now events like that are why i play video games the questing and raiding and instance running are all incidental to that so why would i want to use something that minimizes my enjoyment and wonder to reach the end quicker now i get that for a lot of people the end is the goal so addons like questie or dailies or attune make perfect sense as a guildie put it and i suspected that he said it to tweak me since there were only three of us online at the time sure doing dailies is boring and repetitive but you never have an excuse to not have gold ever again but for someone who revels in the challenge of the journey forgoing these addons is akin to throwing away the map and proceeding onward into the wilderness there s a whole world out there waiting is that arrogant yeah probably not very smart oh definitely does it give me a sense of accomplishment in an era of fomo and rushing to the end hell yes yes that was the real title considering that i did just as much coding albeit for the test harness and to integrate the testing designs properly as a regular developer i certainly earned that engineer moniker jon is probably more well known as the author of both into thin air and under the banner of heaven but his entire catalogue is worth perusing here s the audio archive of the interview which based on the date means i likely heard the interview on a friday which is when fresh air repeats previous interviews from that season why friday because the air date was in january and i started that job in february into the wild by jon krakauer hardcover edition 1996 pg 174 such as what happened in jon krakauer s book into thin air which details his account of the disaster on mt everest in 1996 jon was actually there at the time climbing everest as part of an outside article about companies that will essentially escort you to the top of the mountain when the weather disaster unfolded in spite of all of the advanced tech of the time 8 people died more would have died were it not for the heroics of fellow climbers including an imax team present for a separate assignment and a nepalese helicopter pilot who pushed his craft to the limit to reach crippled climbers and get them to safety when jon came through cincinnati next year on a book tour for the release of into thin air his presentation was gut wrenching here s his interview with terry gross about it last night my questing buddy was not having that at all so i had to complete at least a few quests with her and her husband while i was grouped with them or she d get that mom voice out and boy would i be in for it posted by redbeard at 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