Exactly. The way a lot of us were playing back then was just unhealthy, and don’t get me started on guild leaders, I’ve seen the best of them and the worst of them and even been the most mediocre of them!

Imagine being over forty, or even thirty, and being of the mindset that chasing digital heroin can ever be noble or character-building in any way. Good lord.

Oh man I haven’t thought of Everquest in a long time. My first college roommate failed out cause of that game. He also had to be told to shower because of that game.

You know, the bullshit farming they patched out of the game is the exact treadmill you are accusing then of fermenting.

You have to dodge the telegraphed attacks. And not just using the dodge button, like when you see him charging the big strike literally stop attacking and walk out of the clearly marked attack zone.

Hooray for “always online”. /facepalm

Thank you for writing that because I loved reading it. I’m like like level 70 something and have no idea what it means. but I loved reading it. 

Per the customer support chart, they “don’t have any tool available to them that would allow them to restore characters, regardless of the player’s responsibility (or lack thereof) in that death”.

They just need a appeals system. Have the game record the last minute of gameplay to a buffer in hardcore mode, and on death that minute of video gets saved and the person can appeal the death and Blizzard can see exactly what happened. 

The problem is if they do that just for a streamer, that’s preferential treatment. If they open it up for everyone, their team is going to be inundated with bazillions of HC death footage to sift through.  Probably better to work on the issues and keep moving forward instead of looking back.

Yeah, my situation is very similar, once teleporting and a couple times entering an instance. Oddly, or perhaps not so given the extra server stress, it all happened after early access ended.

I’m not playing on hardcore anytime soon. While the game has been relatively smooth, it has frozen up on me a few times. I’m usually right back where I was, but I believe that given the hardcore rules, that might be seen as a disconnect and a death, so I’m all set.

To be fair, the history of speed cubing only became required curriculum in American Highschools in the late 90s and most schools in the south refuse to teach it because of the Cube of Rubik’s association with summoning demons

I love that one kid making sure to come up like “hold on hold on everybody stay back nobody better FUCKING touch this”

How is that possible??? The video is def worth the watch for how the crowd appreciates and celebrates the new record. It’s just nice to see all kinds of skill celebrated.

Look, I still haven’t played this game, but I won’t until someone confirms the game has whistling bungholes, spleen spliters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker dos, hoosker don’ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers – with or without the scooter stick – and whistling kitty chasers.

Double-bladed orange lightsaber FTW, baby. Occasionally switching to crossguard because holy shit, it’s powerful. If you can get the timing right for parries, it’s brutally efficient. 

They’ve altered the deal, pray they don’t alter it any further.

Normal is not the same thing as right.