Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

My favorite weird mod author story is the guy who made Gears ore for World of Warcraft. It was an addon that told you at a glance how good someone's gear was, so raid leaders could evaluate applicants quicker etc.

When Blizzard added a paid cosmetic mount to the game, some people got insanely mad about that including the addon author, so he quietly changed the addon to show anyone who owned the mount as having poo poo gear so nobody would invite them to groups. It took weeks before anyone caught on.

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

My favorite weird mod author story is the guy who made Gears ore for World of Warcraft. It was an addon that told you at a glance how good someone's gear was, so raid leaders could evaluate applicants quicker etc.

When Blizzard added a paid cosmetic mount to the game, some people got insanely mad about that including the addon author, so he quietly changed the addon to show anyone who owned the mount as having poo poo gear so nobody would invite them to groups. It took weeks before anyone caught on.

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

My favorite weird mod author story is the guy who made Gears ore for World of Warcraft. It was an addon that told you at a glance how good someone's gear was, so raid leaders could evaluate applicants quicker etc.

When Blizzard added a paid cosmetic mount to the game, some people got insanely mad about that including the addon author, so he quietly changed the addon to show anyone who owned the mount as having poo poo gear so nobody would invite them to groups. It took weeks before anyone caught on.

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

My favorite weird mod author story is the guy who made Gearscore for World of Warcraft. It was an addon that told you at a glance how good someone's gear was, so raid leaders could evaluate applicants quicker etc.

When Blizzard added a paid cosmetic mount to the game, some people got insanely mad about that including the addon author, so he quietly changed the addon to show anyone who owned the mount as having poo poo gear so nobody would invite them to groups. It took weeks before anyone caught on.

Anime Store Adventure posted:

Was it just that it was a paid cosmetic or was it something really funny that they were mad about?

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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

It was a spectral gryphon or something, nothing special but wow players like to get insanely angry over trivial things so

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Stux posted:

i had this.

Stux posted:

i had this.

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

My favorite weird mod author story is the guy who made Gearscore for World of Warcraft. It was an addon that told you at a glance how good someone's gear was, so raid leaders could evaluate applicants quicker etc.

When Blizzard added a paid cosmetic mount to the game, some people got insanely mad about that including the addon author, so he quietly changed the addon to show anyone who owned the mount as having poo poo gear so nobody would invite them to groups. It took weeks before anyone caught on.

Agesilaus posted:

Academic and professional institutions have waned where law schools exist and are often necessary to become a lawyer. The schools simply waste three years of your life and place you in an immense amount of debt, despite having very little to do with the practice of law, very little to do with the formation and support of gentlemanly practitioners, and ultimately very little to do with anything of value at all. Law schools are a black mark on academia and the legal profession, and allowing such dreadful institutions to serve as gatekeepers is really a harmful regression from better days.

Agesilaus posted:

Politically, culturally, economically, and socially, many modern societies are flawed in certain respects compared to ancient societies like that of Sparta. Modern America, for example, is oppressed by the nobility clause, does not have an explicit class-based society, and in many ways is governed and controlled by low class people given over to money. Importantly, the institutions are designed to be vulgar and are beholden to lower class interests.

Agesilaus posted:

If you lot can't respond to what I've said, then just move on. There's no need to trot out the same, tired joke about ancient graffiti. I never said ancients were better or worse at graffiti, in case you're legitimately wondering, so give it a rest.

Agesilaus posted:

I'm seriously laughing right now over how ridiculous and close-minded you lot are being[...]

Frosted Flake posted:

Did you skip your class on Classical democracy? Are you suggesting that we go back to social classes and citizenship? What is the ideal ratio of slaves to freedman?

No; yes; and that's a topic for discussion.

Jose posted:

did anyone else play Sven Co-op? Some of the levels people made for that mod were insane and it never made any sense but i had a lot of fun with friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAu6nLLW0co

STONE COLD 64 posted:

in 2006 i had gone to SDCC which was a fun time. there was a snakes on a plane experience, brian o'halleran was by the clerks 2 booth dressed as buddy christ, i got my dreamcast signed by diamond dallas page and virgil, great stuff. anyway after the third day we were kinda wiped and went to call it a trip.

me and my cousin are out in the valet pickup by the back entrance of the convention center and i notice final fantasy illustrator Yoshitaka Amano loading a bunch of portfolio cases into the back of his rental. i work up the courage and walk up to him and ask if i could just get a picture with him but he says "sorry, no english, sorry, sorry", not making eye contact, obv doesnt want to be bothered. i walk away kinda disappointed but then he sees my cousin smoking like 10 feet away, walks up to him and in perfect english asks "hey man could i borrow a cigarette?"

Endorph posted:

the buried lede in the minecraft fairy torture is that that guy names one of the fairies 'mom' and then never unpacks this

Brute Squad posted:

One of my favorite mod stories is that gmod modder who got banned, melted down, and pushed an update with a screaming goatse jumpscare to all his mods.

Brute Squad posted:

One of my favorite mod stories is that gmod modder who got banned, melted down, and pushed an update with a screaming goatse jumpscare to all his mods.

DaysBefore posted:

Don't Goatse
Download Inside

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Sentient Data posted:

Final Fantasy 14 is currently running an event where you can basically get a costume of an npc race that looks like this:


That outfit can be dyed to change its colors. There's also a mount (vehicle) that's a large gorilla carrying you in one arm while it runs around

Antivehicular posted:

This reminds me of when I was reading a bunch of WoW drama about Blizzard re-releasing some "prestige" mounts (that you used to only be able to get from codes on trading cards or something?) and decided to actually look up the mounts, and all of them looked about this stupid or much stupider

I mean, I love stupid MMO mounts as much as anyone, but it was amazing to look at this poo poo that people paid hundreds of real dollars for and were outraged that other people could now pay tens of real dollars for

Antivehicular posted:

This reminds me of when I was reading a bunch of WoW drama about Blizzard re-releasing some "prestige" mounts (that you used to only be able to get from codes on trading cards or something?) and decided to actually look up the mounts, and all of them looked about this stupid or much stupider

I mean, I love stupid MMO mounts as much as anyone, but it was amazing to look at this poo poo that people paid hundreds of real dollars for and were outraged that other people could now pay tens of real dollars for

Babe Magnet posted:

the guy who created etherium and led the development on NFTs and all they have wrought did so primarily motivated because blizzard nerfed the poo poo out of Siphon Life during Wrath of the Lich King. "I saw everything to do with either government regulation or corporate control as just being plain evil. And I assumed that people in those institutions were kind of like Mr. Burns, sitting behind their desks saying, ‘Excellent. How can I screw a thousand people over this time." lol

Deki posted:

I don't get the rage about giving people another shot at old prestige armors or mounts or whatever.

You've had years to be the special little guy with the shiny sword or whatever, why give a poo poo now that it probably looks worse than regular stuff due to being a 10 year old+ model?

Antivehicular posted:

I can almost understand it if it's prestige stuff you previously had to earn via gameplay achievements -- like, it's still pretty sad to be hung up on, but I can sort of get the logic of "what the gently caress, I spent weeks beating the Challenge of the Fartlord to get this cosmetic, and now any random dipshit can buy it for $20?" -- but I think the stuff I was looking at was never even gated by anything but money, by buying trading cards or whatever? So it was purely "people who pay less for the same thing I have are stealing from me and devaluing my purchase."

Marcade posted:

Meanwhile, FF14 has much cooler mounts, like

cheetah7071 posted:

The guy who knows way too much about pillows a few pages back reminded me of this thread, where someone posted asking "hey I really like this fork, does anybody know what make it is so I can get more forks like it?" and within five posts a Fork Knower showed up to post in detail about every brand it might be, and all the various advantages and disadvantages of the fork

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3950903&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Marcade posted:

Meanwhile, FF14 has much cooler mounts, like