I played EQ and I absolutely do not really remember it like this at all. Grab quest, go somewhere, kill mobs in that area for the next thousand years, and do raid bosses that have obscenely long resets and only one guild on the entire server can kill per reset. Grind for an eternity to level up crafting in-between.…

It’s nostalgia that makes you want to go back. Those days were great, but only because we didn’t know any better.

Admittedly I was not a big MMO player before WOW and only dabbled into some F2P MMO’s after a year of WOW. But FF XI (which came out about two years earlier) was my jam. I believe there were quests that took you from zone to zone, but once you were in an area, you were kind of blocked from safely progressing to a…

Nah, that’s how MMO games were before WoW for sure. Not much in the way of quests, you just kinda wander and explore and find/make your own adventures. Ultima came first, but EQ and AC followed very closely in those steps.

Final Fantasy XIV recently did something like this where they added the a new zone (Eureka) that had ZERO quest chains. It’s literally a giant open map with hundreds of mobs that you have to kill for dozens and dozens of hours to reach the max level of that zone.

It is, far and away, the most hated content FF has ever…

What an incredibly specific nostalgic memory of an MMO you have that does not in any way describe any MMO I can think of that was released that long ago, save perhaps for Star Wars Galaxies.

Right, this is the thing that drives me up the wall. People’s response in favor of killing net neutrality has been “chill bro you’re still going to be able to watch netflix and check your email” without thinking worse case scenarios. Yes, it’s unlikely I will be murdered but I still want a law against it.

I don’t pay for the cable package. I invested a relatively small amount in nordvpn and I watch tv shows other ways. I used to be a voice against piracy. But what do you call $70 a month for internet if not piracy? If I can’t be beating them, I be joining them. Yar.

I feel like the Battletech clan terms quiaff and quineg need an analog in English: basically quiaff is “I am asking you this question expecting an affirmative answer, and if not there had better be a good reason” (and the inverse for quineg, expecting a negative answer).

Parenting, and work management, would be so…

Nice deflection.

They MIGHT say no? No, this is where the real parenting comes in. They don’t get to say no. I’m not sure you’ve actually met children before.

Same. I use it as an acknowledgement that he was listening and even heard me to begin with.

I guess a lot of people hear “okay?” as a synonym for “do you understand?” but it seems ambiguous to me—I feel like it just opens the door to the kid saying “no, not okay.” (They might say no anyway and flip out, but that’s a topic for another story.)

To me, that “okay?” is like “Do you understand and agree?”

But, what is the internet *for*, if not to tell people what do, buy things, and menace women?

do we care? are we caring about this?

Well hey maybe you should stop telling Lifehacker Offspring what to write articles on. They’re doing it how they please and they’re doing a great job. K, thx bye

stop telling me how to parent my children. we all, collectively, don’t know shit and everyone does whatever they want anyway. I’m parenting how I please and we’re doing a great job. K, thx bye