No. No one is shining light on the fact that they have removed tons of features. This same imagery is in the old version. The same 3D buildings. They just put it in a browser and took tools away.

I completely agree with your sentiments at the beginning, but they aren’t giving it attention. They are taking attention away from the fact that they are removing features and launching a dumbed down version compared to its previous iterations. It is an amazing tool in its current standalone form, but not this browser…

Not to be negative, but the only really new feature compared to earlier versions is the I’m Feeling Lucky button, which is really cool. But this new version is missing tons of things the older ones have.

Don’t blame millennials, blame the Nielsen company. Their methodology is still behind the times despite incorporating automatic, electronic set-top meters and “people meters” [Orwellian as that seems to me] and some web viewership (but not enough, and not weighted highly enough, IMO). They rely on non-random sampling…

I think this was the scene that completely sold me on Babylon 5 back in the day (when it was on TV). The perspective discussed in this dialogue is/was massively appealing to me. And the execution and acting were perfect. Babylon 5 might not have had a comparatively large effects budget, but it could get you to suspend…

Far be it from me to bring pessimism and depression to such an adorable trend, but this kind of stuff seems hugely risky in a psychological/emotional sense considering the rate of miscarriages and stillbirths that persists even in modern times. Then again, maybe the people who are into shooting bags of chalk with big…

Wow, I’m not into the maniacal shooter-god role that lots of COD fans are painted as playing, but this looks like an exciting COD and I liked the trailer. I’m fine with gritty spacejet gunport - the more spacejets, the merrier I am.

Christian... decepticons?

I actually prefer a grind, myself, so not fun, I agree. I prefer a more balanced leveling experience - one where you experience the world, not leapfrog through zones.

Big proponent of game preservation here as well, but when was there ever a static version of original WoW? Patches, content or tweak related, came often. Maybe you’re talking about version archiving, in which case you’d need to start with the alpha builds... and honestly, don’t you think MMOs are kind of like living…

Yeah... you just described the exact experience I have playing mainstream WoW. You can do all those things. All those things. Like... that’s all there is in the game to do and you are encouraged to do it. Resource spawns are hardly ever an issue. Quest mobs... ok, you got me, but you usually outlevel the quest while…

QFT: “That’s not why people like MMO’s, dudes.”

Really? Because I am playing more Blizzard games than ever before, so maybe their old “edge” stopped me and now their “edgelessness” is more fun? I have no idea, but as soon as I get home, Battle.net is up and I am playing SOMETHING they have created the rest of the night...

I agree, too much thumb-in-assery. By making insta-travel such a necessity in the game they are endorsing the idea that moving around in their game world is boring, when it really isn’t (or shouldn’t be). A good MMO mixes the ass pains and the ass thumbs into a fun cocktail, IMO, and WoW used to do that better. (Still…

It could be Russians, the North Koreans, or the Martians. My bunker has the answer. Wait, don’t drive away. Oh well, no problem.

Or we could just stop reproducing like we’re going out of style, instead. That’s probably the only real solution to resource problems. We’ve extracted and refined millions upon millions of tons of metals and other elements over the last few centuries. All we do is bury it underground again (landfills) and refine more…

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Was it faster or just more intense?

All we’ve DONE is mitigate - we’ve mitigated nature to this point. You can always build fortifications to prevent flooding along rivers but it comes at a cost to other people. The world is round, we can’t keep mitigating and fucking stuff up upriver as a result.

You could have just said this and I would have starred you: