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Google nukes meta search engines >
Since Radar magazine doesn’t have it anymore (archive.org archive), and Scroogle isn’t showing it, here is the short story which inspired Scroogle:
This short story was published in the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. This story is copyrighted Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC-BY-NC-SA) There is also a list of translations of this story. I don’t know how many of those links are still good. Use archive.org if something’s gone missing.
Working with regular expressions while listening to dance music.
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World of Warcraft, discipline priests.
You look at your meters. Healing done shows your discipline priest at the bottom of the list. That’s good! It means your other healers are pulling their weight. The day a discipline priest outperforms a traditional healer in healing done is the day you send them home to retrain. Or maybe they were wearing their RP gear set to the raid?
You look at your healing + absorbs meters, and your discipline priest’s numbers are so beyond the next healer down that there is absolutely no comparison . What gives? Is something wrong? No, with numbers like that your Discipline Priest is simply doing their job correctly. It isn’t even an indication of that Discipline Priest being “better” than any other healer on your team!
You cannot compare an absorber with your traditional healers. I’ll explain.
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A while back I had a crazy idea about actually using a hybrid character as a hybrid. I’ll post an old essay of mine, just to get it out there.
First some thoughts which are more recent than this piece. Yes it was an oddball idea that I really wanted to try. Hybrids are under-utilized. This was also early WotLK and things may well have changed a lot since then. I also haven’t used a WotLK Shaman at all, so I’m probably wrong on a lot of things.
There are various assumptions about range, positioning and mana usage which are actually quite wrong in practice. Melee-range totems don’t offer too much of an advantage, being very close to a tank isn’t needed, etc.
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For a while now, I’ve been playing the online game World of Warcraft (“WoW”). Come to think of it, I’ve been extremely unproductive in anything that’s important to me in life because of this game. Hmm.
But my habit of searching and reviewing has stayed with me. One of the things which attracted me to this game in the first place is the possibility to customize the game client (Forum: UI and Macros). Since it is impossible to create one interface which is universally acceptable, it is extremely good to allow developer customization.
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Some people can plan long-term. Some people can make a daily to do list. I can do this too, but only for everyday things.
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It’s my nature to gain and lose interest in things, like the tides coming and going. I’ve tried all sorts of tricks to schedule and change focus, but they just don’t work for me. So I’m going to declare a new way of doing things. A way which works to my advantage. I’ll call it “rotating immersion“.
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“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” — They Live – (1988 movie)
There is a concept which I’ve been introduced to thanks to playing online games (corpse-running after a wipe). I don’t know where it came from, and I’m sure there are parallel phrases which convey the same meaning, but this phrase speaks to me..
