NostraDavid
@NostraDavid@programming.dev
- Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union 2 days ago:
Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?
Blizzard now sells mounts at the price of 90 EUR, ~1.5x the base price of the game itself…
TBF, it’s a useful mount, but 90 fucking Euros…
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
Back and forth, forever.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
Summary: 3k hours into World of Warcraft, Retail + WotLK private server.
I’ve been playing vidya since… 1992? Classic Monochrome-green machine to play CalGames on.
Ever since then, my limit for a game tended to be about 100 hours. I got 500 hours into Clicker Heroes, sure, but that game was made to be run in the background, so that doesn’t really count.
It was not until I found World of Warcraft where I slowly pumped hour after hour into its massive world. I found it somewhere in 2021 - near the end of BFA. The Shadowlands beta was out, is when I started. OK sure, I played a few hours at a classmate’s house back in 2005, but I don’t feel that counts. Anyway, I found that there was a F2P version where I could freely try out most classes, quite a few races, and a ton of quests.
I’ve walked everywhere (I even tracked where I’ve been in a massive image of the worldmap for about 500 hours-ish?), I walked because the mounts weren’t available for F2P yet, did all the quests I could, tried every race (which includes the starter zones), every class available (had an excel where I planned it all out).
I ended up with 1000 hours. 500 for my main (Human Paladin - been wanting to play that since Warcraft 2), and another 500 spread out over my 40 or so alts. Ever since I’ve been coming back, because with each expansion release, a little bit more content becomes available, so I racked up another 500 hours there.
In the meantime, WotLK Classic was going to release, but my income was still shit, so I found Warmane, a non-Blizzard server. You could level 7x as fast, which I did a few times, simply to learn the difference between “Classic” and “Retail”.
Then it hit me. I want the Loremaster title. That meant doing a little over 3000 quests (about 99.99% of all quests in the game). But 7x made me level too fast. Luckily for me, there was a 0.5x XP option. So that’s how I grinded. I did every starter zone, every regular zone, every dungeon (I was typically the “overgeared” guy of the group, since the rest was rushing through). I had fun!
That grind took me 1000 hours total. Plus another 500 for all the alts before that.
I’m pretty sure I played over 3000 hours total.
Oh, and I ended up getting my Loremaster title, as well as the World Explorer Tabbard (because I’ve been everywhere).
My favourite places to run around was 100% the old world. Black Rock Depths just has an atmosphere that’s completely missing from TBC onwards :(
I’ve been thinking of playing TurtleWoW, but not sure if I can survive the Vanilla client - the WotLK one was already pretty rough 😂
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
Years of having good controls has ruined my ability
Where my WAXD gamers at? The Chaos Engine was a fun game, but the controls were a bit weird.
- Comment on Erasure 5 weeks ago:
Typical American response.
Alright, calm down, no need to insult me like that!
I’m just getting sick of the keyboard warriors that bitch and moan on the internet about the situation, yet have exactly zero plans to do literally anything about it. They could write to their representatives, they could work towards Dems winning local elections, they could become politically active by demonstrating, etc.
But all I see are online complaints; no plans. Storming the Capitol should be option Z, but maybe Americans can start with Plan A, eh?
- Comment on Erasure 5 weeks ago:
Fuck these nazis.
Are you going to storm the Capitol like your granddads stormed the beaches of Normandy? Are you going to only bitch about it on the internet, or are you actually going to do something about it - storming the Capitol not necessarily has to be a part of it - you can plan a better alternative.
- Comment on Desks 3 months ago:
Here’s a comparison:
I used www.diffchecker.com/image-compare/ - I uploaded the two files there.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 4 months ago:
The “Infinite monkey theorem” concerns itself with Probability (the mathematical field). It has been mathematically proven that given the random input (the mathematical kind - not the human-created kind) of the monkeys, and the infinite time, the probability of the “complete works of William Shakespeare” rolling out of the typewriter in between the other random output is
1.It’s a mathematical theorem that just uses monkeys to speak to the imagination, not a practical exercise, other than to prove the maths.
You should look into another brain-breaking probability problem called the “Monty Hall Problem”. Note that some of the greatest mathematical minds of the time failed said puzzle. Switching 100% increases the chance of winning. No, it won’t guarantee a win, but it will increase your chances, mathematically.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 4 months ago:
Aw boo! Where is your sense of fantasy!?
- Comment on pump up the jamz 4 months ago:
It starts with a nice piano, when the bass drops.
The original song is Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche, but that’s missing some oomph :P
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
“for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God” - Exodus 20:5
Says it all, really. This whole character trait is that he’s a jealous little asshole. He’s like Dolores Umbridge.
I’m aware Christians may make counter-claims, but I’ve read the old testament, and all he does is to come off as an absolute asshole - you either worship me, or else!
I wasn’t too surprised (but it made sense) that he (Elohim) originally came from the Canaanitic pantheon. How else can you be the only god, yet people shouldn’t worship other gods? He’s not, that’s how.
/rant
- Comment on Anon tests something 5 months ago:
What about ballsweat?
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 months ago:
Topologically speaking, the frog is a donut.
- Comment on dream job 5 months ago:
If not STEM, then HEAL? (Health, Education And Learning)
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 5 months ago:
I was referring to Borderlands: The Movie, not Mario.
And I’m blaming him a little as he still took the bag.
- Comment on Academic writing 5 months ago:
I understand; I was just being transparent with the fact that I’m a lazy motherfucker and that I used it to “translate” the text.
- Comment on Academic writing 5 months ago:
I asked ChatGPT to convert the text to common words:
“Academic writing is often hard to understand because it uses complicated words specific to a particular field, making it easier for experts to communicate with each other but harder for outsiders to follow. This keeps certain knowledge limited to a small group of people and maintains a cycle where only the educated or ‘in’ crowd can fully engage, while others are left out.”
- Comment on Thoughts 6 months ago:
You are now breathing manually. Take that, OP!
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 6 months ago:
I feel there’s this trend where movie directors must and shall make their own story in whatever world is in front of them, instead of trying to make a movie that would fit in the game, or simply take the game’s story and make a movie out of that.
It’s why Lord of The Ring was so fucking good (Christopher Lee/Saruman read the books every year of his life, and corrected Peter Jackson whenever necessary), whereas Rings of Power is shit (I mean, a loving Orc family? What the FUCK have they been snorting!?). It’s also why I’m hopeful to get something good out of Henry Cavill directing any 40k movie (that, or we’re getting nothing, at best. At worst someone else takes over and we’re getting female custodes for no good reason).
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 6 months ago:
OK, so it’s going to be a shitty movie and no one is going to watch it, other than YouTubers, so they can dunk on the movie.
This is a second shitty movie with Black Jack in it. Lets hope he’s not a trend setter.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 6 months ago:
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 6 months ago:
Make sure to have some LLM generate the comment for you, as LLMs learning synthetic data may fuck them up over time: AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 6 months ago:
I’ll just be accused of mansplaining
Have you actually been accused, or are you afraid of being accused? Because in reality, most people don’t give two shits about the idea of “mansplaining”.
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 6 months ago:
Meanwhile, I’m dealing with parents that believe in God, Jesus and the holy trinity while claiming they’re not religious.
Here’s how that works: First, you get preachers to redefine “religion” to mean “following the Biblical laws”, then you get them to talk about how Jesus did not come to “abolish Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”, which somehow means the old laws (don’t eat shellfish, don’t wear clothes made of mixed materials, etc) don’t apply anymore??? Anyway, Jesus said “until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”, but ye olde laws don’t apply, and my parents are not-religious Christians.
Oh well, at least they’re some of the most loving human beings that ever walked this earth, so if this is the worst I’ve got to complain about, then my life isn’t that bad 😂
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 6 months ago:
2024-08-30, but yes. Is that a German notation? Boo! ISO8601/RFC3339 or DEAAAAATH!
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
You are Quote, an amnesiac robot. The world appear to have gone to shit and you don’t know why.
It’s a 2D sidescroller, which if I told myself, I would find immediately boring, but the animation, controls and story combined as just so good. It’s so good.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
GTA 5 crashed on my machine when I finally shelled out 30 bucks for it, because the torrented version crashed at a specific mission.
One of a handful of games I’ve actually returned.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
Also, Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest (LBA1 remake) coming this December, LET’S GOOOO!
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 Classic (aka LBA2 or Twinsen’s Adventure)
You are Twinsen, a little tank-like controlled character that’s about to go on an adventure to save his planet!
The tank controls may be getting a bit used to, but you can jump, roll to the side, hop backwards, etc, so you can apply some creativity to your movement. Shout out to the Magicball Network for staying alive all those years!
Go out there, meet a godess, defeat a dictator!
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
This was my Diablo. Indeed very dumb, but fun in a weird way. downvoted because I already played it though!
