I think that was mostly about PVP balance, and about fixing major inconsistencies in abilities. PVE-wise, WoW was very much “this class is only good in PVE for this role” until BC. Playing a warrior? Without a very specific AQ/BWL gear combo, you’re a tank and only a tank.  Playing a shaman?  You’re healing bub. …

Don’t burn them - microwave them!  It creates all sorts of nifty sparks and patterns!

It seems to categorically indicate that the player is intended to go on a date with Aeris, but I’m not sure we can conclude anything regarding “true love” from this. I do love these explorations of the differences between localizations though, because they are fascinating! I’m a huge fan of Clyde Mandelin’s…

Ok, well, it seems we’re at a point where we’re just going to have to agree to disagree. I didn’t intend to suggest I had given better arguments - I hoped it was clear that I realized I may have simply missed your line of reasoning, not that I was dismissing it, but it seems that got overlooked. I disagree with you…

I apologize if I missed it, but outside of you stating that you don’t think it’s likely that everyone would pirate games, and that you think that more piracy would lead to greater consumer power as companies paid more attention to consumer needs, I don’t think you’ve given any reasoning for why you believe that. It’s…

Well, why would it matter should be obvious - if the cost of games gets too high, and everyone pirates them, then what you called an “unreasonable assumption,” that is, that everyone would pirate games, becomes inevitable. And once we approach that asymptote, the money basically vanishes, and with it, any game that…

I 100% agree that copyright law extending so far after the death of the inventor is stifling. The fact that Mickey Mouse is not public domain at this point is patently ridiculous, especially when you consider how much of the House of Mouse was built upon stories already in the public domain (mostly European fairy…

I agree both that the “everyone pirates” scenario is unreasonable but I qualified it further down and showed how it doesn’t need to be that extreme to still cause the consequences I mentioned.  I also agree that “significantly negative” is subjective, but I think a world in which there were no AAA games would be worse…

So what if everyone pirated all gaming software? I admit this is an extreme case and very unlikely - not everyone has the capability or inclination to do so - but if we say “it’s ok to pirate,” then what if everyone does it? Heck, we don’t have to be that extreme - what if we say that 50% of all current paying consumer…

The problem is one of collective action. Have you ever heard of the Tragedy of the Commons? You don’t need to read the whole wikipedia article, just the intro paragraph should be sufficient if you aren’t familiar with it already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Girls, girls, you’re BOTH pretty! XD

But seriously, you both have good points, and if you weren’t arguing completely around one another you’d probably see that. Ivybug is, at the core, correct - ethics (I prefer to use this term than “morality” because “morality” brings up some negative connotations regarding religion…

Online dating isn’t for everybody, so no judgment here if it isn’t for you. But if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed. Trust me, I’m ALL too familiar with how that goes. ;)

I beat Sigrun after maybe a dozen tries, before I finished the game. Then I went and played the last part of the game, and I was almost disappointed by how easy it was in comparison. Sigrun is definitely one of the most satisfying “challenge bosses” I’ve encountered in a game, because she’s hard, but she really does…

Don’t let the horror stories get you down.  Online dating is a numbers game, and whenever you’re in a numbers game, you’re gonna get a normal distribution of the population.  The horror stories are the only ones that get told - there’s plenty of perfectly normal people out there, but “he was ok we just didn’t click”…

One of the nice things about living in the Saarland is that I can pop over to Aldi or Edeka and pick up a packet of maultaschen for only a few euros.  Make some chicken broth, add a bit of vinegar, and you’ve got an excellent meal for a winter’s night.

The meaning isn’t actually that far off from one of the ways we use “shit” in English, such as “you’re shitting me.”

I think the Dr. is right on both of these LWs. Looking Backwards has been definitely acting like a PoS towards his current girlfriend. The “we stopped before it went to far” line could work the first time, but not the second time, and definitely not on time 3+, regardless of the fact that I think it’s a bunch of…

You always give good advice Arnheim, but if there’s anything I’d add for LW2, it’s that in my opinion you (almost) never want to end a relationship because of the possibility of another one. While his attraction to A can be the spark that makes him interrogate his feelings, ultimately realizing that his relationship…

Ah I wish Too Human had been better.  I liked what it was, but it could’ve been so much more.

I may have misunderstood you, so apologies if I did, but Lidl is not affiliated with either Aldi or Aldi Süd - it’s an entirely separate chain, owned by the same guy who owns Kaufhof, another German chain. Trader Joe’s is owned by the group that owns Aldi Nord. What’s really confusing is that, in Germany, stores…