@Ganymede said in TrekMUSH & Guardians of the Galaxy MUD:
@surreality said in TrekMUSH & Guardians of the Galaxy MUD:
I mean, I've run a business RL for years, and been paid to entertain people in the past, but I don't talk about my M* projects as being 'run by a long-time business owner and former professional entertainer'.
I wouldn't either, because that sounds a lot like Donald Trump to me.
Can you imagine what a MU* ran by Trump would be like?
So far (and I realize it's only just the beginning with no idea of the end-game) Legion is fantastic.
The things I've enjoyed the most:
Classes are finally distinct. Each has a massive, different quest chain for their artifact weapon and class hall, with their own ways of fighting the incoming invasion; on my Druid (no spoilers) I've gained access to some pretty nifty areas, interacted with major characters from Warcraft's lore and certain NPCs greet my accomplished character with custom emotes. It's really great.
Phasing is yielding fruit big time; gone are the days of 60 people on their mounts sitting on the quest givers while you were trying to click on that one pixel to get out of there, and yet you still actually see people around in the world doing things, as opposed to being locked up in your Garrison all on your lonesome.
Some of the new zones are freakin' gorgeous too. The game's engine might be old now but they've really mastered it and it shows.
I did four 5-man runs yesterday (I got really sleepy by the end or I'd have done more). They seem pretty undertuned as most encounters are very forgiving to people standing in fires or whatever but maybe that's also due to everyone's gear - people play their mains on day 1 - being far superior to what Blizzard expects fresh 100s to be in the normal leveling process. The drops are pretty subpar, 685-700, so it looks like 104-105 is when we'll start actually switching from WoD to Legion-acquired stuff.
Oh, and I gotta figure out how to fit in my artifact weapon to the healing rotation. Btw resto druids can level just fine without switching talents, as long as they have Balance affinity picked up, but I don't know if all healing specs can do the same.
My Druid, Taurobolium, whose surgically picked transmogs will have gone to shit by tonight when he'll be in mismatched green drops from random boars and rewards for killing ten wolves. 
Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.
@Auspice I feel you. I hate moving almost as much as my cat does.
Witcher3 is the best single-player game I've played in years.
8 hours before I get to get my claws into Legion and slay demons. Curse my lack of cushy financial independence!
@Misadventure A fellow stealther! Let's fight crime.
Less than twenty four hours for Legion!
Are you prepared?
@Thenomain Sure, and as soon as you point out which of coding, knitting, playing video games, getting into fashion or playing a musical instrument is on the first tier of needs I'll agree with you.
I was bringing up things people do. For fun, as a hobby, as an obsession, as a social thing.
I won't pretend to understand the draw in many of them (there are some knitters here who can speak up!) but I love that they exist and they can be so involved in these things I know nothing about.
@Thenomain Weeeell, you don't have to do much of anything. You don't have to code, knit, play video games, get into fashion or play a musical instrument. There's esoteric terminology and some very invested communities for all of the above.
To each their own. (Which is what I love)
Farmer's Walks, Suitcase Carries and Pallof Presses are great.
Not a link per se but I read it today and it made me laugh.
"I’ve arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically."
@ThatGuyThere said in Pokemon Go:
Not sure on the texting thing, but I know companies have been sued when products have been misused and it resulted in harm. Not sure what the success rate is on those types of cases.
Gany might chip in here but a whole lot of people and companies have been sued over just about anything and the fact doesn't make it hold any merit, success rate aside. It's just that P:GO is very highly publicised so they're a nice target right now - but for the life of me I can't see why they'd be responsible for neglectful users, that'd open a dangerous precedence for any kind of mobile game or application ("of course I hit someone with my car Your Honor, my boss sent me an e-mail! It's his fault.").
When you're driving do nothing else - just drive. It's not that hard.
While on the issue though the barrage of articles about how P:GO's playerbase has diminished since launch are sighing-worthy too. What? People get bored of games weeks after they start playing them? You don't say.
@Thenomain I can't quite fathom how a mouse+keyboard would be worse than using a controller but that might be because I suck at the latter.
The one advantage I give to controllers is you can use them while laying down or sitting away from a solid flat surface.
Yeah, media is jumping on 'deaths by PGO' lately. They are a handful of deaths across the world for a game played by millions, and it'd be no different if the same victims were distracted by anything else at all at the time.
The correct news should be "distracted driver/pedestrian is killed". The exact thing they were doing at the time is largely irrelevant, they knew they weren't supposed to be doing that (hell, the game in question actually spams you to remind you if somehow you've failed at adulting).
My main for Legion will be the restoration Druid. I strongly considered a mistweaver Monk monk instead, since they are rarer which bears some advantages on its own, but their mana conservation is annoying. Perhaps I'm making a mistake - judging a class at level 100 instead of 110 - but we'll see.
Druids also get to sneak around for quest objectives and eventually insta-flight form will be awesome as usual so there's that.
@Cobaltasaurus After Tuesday I'll be queuing for 5-mans often while leveling. If you want a pocket healbot, you're on my friends' list.
@Wizz said in Mostly Mage, Partially Descent Mux:
It's just not a cut-and-dry fight, white room scenarios are extremely inane for that reason.
Well of course they are, that's why it's fun sometimes.
I wouldn't do it on a public channel and spam everyone else but here it's okay, I think.