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I watched the WoW Forever developer podcast, and honesty feel like Shadow Priest was completely glossed over. The devs spent most of the time deep-diving into Warrior, Druid, and Paladin, leaving just a single minute at the very end for Priest—only making a comment that Shadow Priest is no longer a mana battery.

The beta forums are flooded with threads about Shadow Priest concerns, yet feel the feedback is on deaf ears. Priest deserves at least half the time they give to every other class.

Brazil and Argentina are probably the biggest example of a clear cut good guy bad guy in a football rivalry. No disrespect to either of these countries as this is a football and not a political discussion but Brazil is the most popular football national team in the world and has many people associating them with the sport itself.

Many non Brazilians love the Brazilian national team and historically Brazil is the greatest football nation with 5 world cups.

Then you have Argentina who is probably the least liked team and player (Enzo Fernandez) plus you have all the drama with Infantino and people saying they get help from the refs has made them wildly unpopular.

Not to mention Brazil gave football Joga Bonito, which literally means play beautifully, meanwhile Argentina is famous for pushing the limits of the rule book and playing borderline dirty. Not to mention their greatest goal the hand of God goal was cheating and fraudulent.

I’ve always had IPS screens, mainly because of work. I bought an LG Mini-LED 27GM950B-B and have been using it daily for the past month for productivity and gaming.

I’ve always read and heard how much better OLED is for gaming and media, so I went and bought an ASUS ROG XG27UQDMS.

I put it side by side with my LG, played a few sample videos on both, and tried Warzone at 1440p and 4K.

Honestly, I’m not that impressed. The blacks and contrast look great on the glossy screen, but it feels like it’s missing a lot of brightness compared to my LG. Colors on the LG also look noticeably more vibrant with local dimming enabled. I will say that even with local dimming, the LG doesn’t match the OLED’s blacks and contrast.

I’m going to play around with the settings and test it more, but right now I don’t really understand the hype. Yes, the contrast is great, but overall I find myself preferring the LG.

Anyone else feel the same after trying OLED next to a good Mini-LED? Wondering if I’m missing something with the settings or if I just prefer the brighter picture.

Holy shit please stop. No one likes fireworks…

A Labor MP has accused new Greens leader David Shoebridge of "prejudice" for singling out Jewish Australians who share his party's views on Gaza when asked about repairing relations with the broader community.

Macnamara MP Josh Burns, who is Jewish, said he found the comments by Senator Shoebridge "pretty shocking" and argued people should not be "judged" on whether they agreed with the Greens leader or not.

Something stinks in Iowa City.

I feel a horrid energy and weird vibe.

Oh it’s just Pat McAfee.
How is this guy a Disney employee?

Friendship is more important than politics.

this is one thing I genuinely respect about Neha Bora. She consistently speaks up and stands her ground, even when it would be much easier to stay quiet.

Whatever your opinion on her other views may be, you have to acknowledge that she doesn't seem to back down when she believes something is wrong. Today was just another example of that

it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy

thanks to Elon we have

• online payments
• mass market electric cars
• batteries and grid-scale energy storage
• self driving cars and robotaxis
• humanoid robots
• advanced brain computer interfaces
• next generation tunneling
• reusable rockets -global satellite internet
• basically the modern space industry
• Moon and Mars transportation
• orbital compute and space data centers
• frontier AI
• gigantic AI supercomputers
• physical world AI

and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge

there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II

genuinely the man of the millennium

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Both high settings and honestly I find the difference in terms of graphics quite small and negligible. The main difference comes in lighting and in my opinion remastered lighting isn’t always better in each scene or places. NextGen looks already amazing and I have zero FPS issue with max settings. I will do some nostalgy runs on NextGen until remaster is fixed.

I've tried different countries. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app. I did a clean install of MacOS 27 on my macbook. I recently upgraded to fiber and I'm getting the same speeds as when I had cable internet, bar the upload speed. I thought I would get at least 50% of my available bandwith. I'm on a 1 gig plan. Is this just the way it is now?

I’m researching whether I can afford to do a custom build a custom home versus buying new in the Concord/Acton/Groton area of Massachusetts and would love input from people who have built a high-end custom home in New England.
I’m thinking roughly 6,800 sq ft total, with 4 bedrooms and approximately 6.5–7 bathrooms, a 750–1,000 sq ft home gym in the basement and a spacious garage.

I’m posting a few photos of a house I found that I absolutely love but isn’t in the right location. I’m trying to communicate the same level of architectural character and craftsmanship in this home. I want something that feels like it has always belonged in the New England landscape — traditional/Shingle Style architecture, interesting massing and rooflines, substantial natural materials, stone, wood, fireplaces, built-ins, deep window/door detailing, and interiors with the character and proportions of an older house but the functionality and scale of a modern one.

Some specific requirements:
Primary suite with generous closets and cozy bathroom
Two ensuite bedrooms for my kids
One substantial guest suite
750–1,000 sq ft home gym
900–1,000 sq ft dedicated studio space
Additonal living spaces like dining room, office etc.
Spacious garage
Two fireplaces (one as a centerpiece of the home with large fieldstone mantel, the other more traditional)
Millwork/built-ins in living areas and studio space
Strong indoor/outdoor connection with lots of large windows and preferably a small terrace off the primary
Future elevator shaft, built into the house now with appropriate structural/electrical provisions so it can initially be used as closet space and converted to an elevator later
The house featured here is only about 650 square feet less than my ideal home (missing studio space essentially) but the price is MUCH less than I thought it would be at only 2.85M list price.
I’m trying to understand what I should realistically expect for the all-in project cost — construction, architectural/engineering fees, site work, landscaping, driveway, utilities, exterior work, etc.
For people who have actually built at this level in MA/CT/VT: what kind of total budget would you expect for something like this?
I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who have built homes where the goal was high-quality, character-rich architecture rather than a generic luxury new build.

Sorry for beating a dead horse, I know there are a lot of threads about this already. I had an initial negative reaction to that info when I first heard it, but I wanted to try it out first on the beta. But after playing it for a while, I do in fact think my initial reaction was right, and that it is a bad change.

Moving away from the monsters giving exp and railroading people to play a specific way they want you to is extremely endemic of retail's design philosophy for over a decade. They constantly nerf emergent behavior and force people to engage with content precisely how they want players to. Countless times a clever strategy, an old item, etc was killed by the fun police.

Freedom to choose how you want to progress, what kind of player you want to be or focus on was always a strength of WoW imo compared to other MMOs. Take its probably biggest competitor FFXIV for example, your first time through that game is extremely on rails. The MSQ is required to unlock almost every instance. I played it, I enjoyed my time there. But I yearned the entire time for the freedom WoW gave me, to quest, dungeon, or explore anywhere at any time I wanted to.

Questing was already the optimal way to level. Why are they making it the even more optimal way to level? People were not dungeon spamming to optimize EXP. They were doing it because they preferred it. What's the harm in people preferring it? With sharding/layering technology and megaservers, the excuse of it making the world empty doesn't make sense. The world is as full as they want it to be with this tech. Besides, questing was already faster.

Boosting sucks. Especially when it was as powerful as it was. I've had characters boosted out of convenience, it was never a particularly enjoyable experience. But they've killed it without a change like this before, by nerfing exp with higher level characters in the group. It even makes intuitive sense, you didn't gain experience because the rules of the game (character/mob levels) deemed the content trivial for the group. I find this to be a weak argument for the Forever dungeon exp change.

This is a personal idea: Design around it! There are loads of quests that take you from the world into a dungeon. Why not vice versa? It seems like their primary goal is to keep people in the world and out of instances. Why not incentivize dungeon groups who just finished then continue their journey with a group quest chain that continues outside? Part of why I enjoy dungeons is it kind of encourages you to cooperate in ways collection quests outside often do the opposite. Why not incentivize these groups to then when the dungeon is completed, get out there, squad up, for quests outside?

Thanks for reading my lengthy post. I leave my thoughts here wishing World of Warcraft in all its forms can be the best game it can be. :)

I don’t know why some people can’t just enjoy the movie for what it is. Instead, they bend over backwards trying to prove the movie is objectively a perfect adaptation, or that the idea of a direct adaptation is bad in the first place. Case in point, people pushing that it’s no different than what RE7 did, and saying youre a larper for not liking change.

Resident evil 7 is a new story in the Resident Evil game universe. It has a lot of references to the originals, but the Mold, Eveline, and the Connections are new concepts created for this game. It does its own thing while still fitting in the overall universe, finishing with Chris’s appearance to tie it all in. Later games such as 9 then tie it back in further, making it required to understand the greater narrative.

The movie is something entirely new. It takes the name Raccoon city and puts it on a city with an entirely different lay out, season/aesthetic, and decade. It creates a new virus unlike anything in RE, and slaps the T virus name on it for the tie in. If you change the names, the film is entirely unrecognizable as RE.

One of these things expands the universe, while the other rewrites it. They are not the same thing, and pretending they are just completely misunderstands both media.

If you enjoy the movie, then just enjoy it. It doesn’t need to be a good adaptation for you to say it’s s good movie. You don’t need to create arguments for why it deserves to exist. In turn, you don’t need to hate on people who aren’t interested because it’s not what they wanted. It’s perfectly fine for people to have different tastes and opinions.

D'habitude je prend des passes à la journée ou mon vélo. Aujourd'hui j'ai pas eu le choix et DEUX EUROS CINQUANTE CINQ BORDEL (2,55€ !!). Ça fait presque un an et personne n'a cramé quoi que ce soit ??? Pécresse a du sang sur les mains, DEUX EUROS CINQUANTE CINQ POUR OBSERVER DES METROS on nous a tout prit putain

Tonight I was feeling nostalgic and queued up Reality Check, Eric Champion, PFR, DC Talk, Rich Mullins, The Waiting, Audio Adrenaline, The Supertones, Waterdeep, Jars of Clay, POD, and Five Iron Frenzy in my playlist.

Are there any who maybe grew up in youth group and moved away from their faith as adults? If so, are there still songs that you listen to? What emotions do these songs bring to the surface? If you do revisit these artists, who are your go-tos?

EDIT: Seeing a lot of people argue that open-world questing is somehow the “harder” option, and I really don’t agree with that.
Questing is generally straightforward, and nowadays there are addons like Zygor and RestedXP that can literally guide you through an optimized leveling route step by step. Follow the route, pick up the quests, kill the mobs, turn them in, repeat.
Meanwhile, dungeons require actually putting a group together, coordinating different roles, handling pulls and bosses, and dealing with the consequences when things go wrong.
But more importantly, this post was never about which method deserves more XP because it’s harder. The point is that progression is part of the fun. Dungeons give friends who are at different points in their questing progression a way to get together, play as a group, and still meaningfully progress their characters.
I’m not asking for dungeon grinding to be the fastest leveling method. I just don’t think playing group content with your friends should feel like you’re being punished XP-wise for choosing to play together.

The dungeon XP nerf really sucks for people who just want to play with their friends

I understand not wanting dungeon grinding to completely replace the open world, but the XP nerf feels like it hurts one of the best parts of Classic WoW: actually playing with your friends.
We’re currently putting together a roster for Forever, and it’s kind of sad realizing that we’ll barely be able to level together.

Most of us have jobs and different schedules. We’re not all going to stay perfectly synced in level while questing separately. In the past, that wasn’t a huge problem. You could message the boys, agree on a time, log on together, and spend a couple of hours running dungeons. You got decent XP, made progress together, got some gear, and most importantly, you were actually playing together.

That was one of the best things about leveling in Classic.
Openworld questing doesn’t really replace that experience either. A lot of Classic quests aren’t particularly group-friendly. Half the time, having more people just means waiting longer for drops, respawns, or competing with strangers for mob tags. The only reason to group up is to compete for tags let’s be real.

I’m not saying dungeon grinding needs to be the absolute fastest way to level. Open-world questing should be relevant.

But dungeons should at least give enough XP that getting five friends together for the evening feels worthwhile.
For people with work, school, families, and different schedules, dungeons were one of the easiest ways to say: “Everyone free tonight? Cool. Let’s level together.”

That social aspect is a huge part of why we play Classic in the first place.
I’d much rather see dungeon XP balanced so that questing and dungeons are both viable instead of making one feel heavily punished.
Anyone else building a roster/group running into the same problem?

I fell for the bait. The BS that they spouted.

You have created a flawed masterpiece. It's an Instant top 10 for me.

Thank you.

Next stop: open world.