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Re: Mark Pincus Just A Poor Boy Whose Intentions Are Good; Please Don’t Let Him Be Misunderstood

caladein — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 06:05:24 -0000

Not really under "read" but their sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen is pretty good. But that's sort of it from Slate on a regular basis.

Re: RealID For Your FakeOrc

caladein — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:53:40 -0000

I've been baffled by how I'm on the complete other side of this discussion and it took a much smarter man than I, to quote an NPR piece, about a book, about another man much smarter than I for me to understand it.
I philosophically agree with Zuckerberg on honesty.
When I hear stories about jobs not wanting MMO players, especially from MMO players in said jobs, I don't think of how silly developers are, I think of how sad it is that people are being stupid and other people being forced to lie to get a paycheck.
I still think that this is a tempest in a tea cup for everyone who doesn't actively use the official forums, but I can now be sound in my understanding that it's simply a matter of disagreeing-about-first-principles.

Re: Widgets And Themes And Things

caladein — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:35:32 -0000

Naladini: Gold ads are much better than the 1 Rule to a flat stomach ads.

That and the blatant irony make gold seller ads here okay in my book.

Re: /Filmcast Ep. 58 - Public Enemies (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show)

caladein — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:08:13 -0000

Definitely agree on Devindra's anime recommendations. Cowboy Bebop's a great introduction although my heart as well lies with Evangelion. NGE is confusing enough as-is without having to figure out if you like anime or not at the same time.

Re: Patching Is So 2001

caladein — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:59:58 -0000

I don't have much issue with renaming your "patches" to fit a theme: Issues (CoH) or Books (LotRO) are the two big ones there.

If you're going to go for the quarterly mega-patch like WoW (post-BC), EVE, or Lineage 2, the title of "expansion" does seem a bit sleazy.

Re: Approaches to healing

caladein — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:54:03 -0000

I think one of the big new things in Ulduar is how it handles "raid healing" usually this has meant dealing with large areas of damage, but fights like Mimiron and Kologarn are more about dealing with a succession of spikes on random members of the raid. These encounters are really well suited for this style of Discipline play. (This is more true in 10-man than 25-man, but not by much.)

Penance and Improved/Glyphed Flash Heal are super-efficient for bursts, and the randomness of his damage in Phase 2/4 makes all the Aegis procs sure to be of use.