You can still have social encounters and camaraderie. That wasn't taken away. Before, you were forced into social interactions which isn't always everybody's cup of tea.
>Difficulty made it so that people felt pride in what they had achieved.
There are still plenty of difficult tasks still in the game mixed with achievements/mounts that can give you the same level of pride and satisfaction.
Why? Blizzard seems to have taken a game that many people grew up with and made it easier for casual players (some of those same people who grew up with it who now have jobs/kids/fuller life) to still be involved. I find it great that I can just click a button to find a raid group for the few hours I have a night to play. I can still experience the end game content without the time consuming grind to get the right gear and people to do it. Even if I still want to do that, I can with the heroic/mythic difficulties. Convenience has made the game way more accessible to way more people.
I actually have a question here, why would they re-release BC? Isn't the point of Classic to keep it in a certain period of time? When many people started the game and thought it was at its "peak"?
On a side-note: would it be interesting to have a second branch of the game, maybe not called Classic, that would follow the main-line of the game, but would be a large chunk of expansions behind? That way people could relive those old expansions as if they were the latest one released. Personally, I think I would be much more on board with that since the game would actually change over time.
My personal opinion, as soon as they forced the merge into the Twitch client, the quality went down greatly. The old Curse client was much simpler, easier to understand, and didn't have all of Twitch crammed into it all. It really didn't make sense to have an "all-in-one" application since both parts seemed very different in terms of audience.
To be fair, the amount of cheaters has gone down a lot in my games. There has to be some middle ground. I paid for a game that I want to be fair and fun for everyone. Fall Guys with cheaters takes away 100% of the fun.
I see what you mean, but at the same point, the $10 to pick up 5 tons of plastic in Asia doesn't seem to be happening for whatever reason. My reasoning is that $10 to pick up 1 ton of plastic is still a good option since the $10 to pick up 5 tons is not a guarantee.
>First of all, one common statistic is that 90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia.
>So while still very clever, I sadly don't think this could ever make a difference.
I get what you mean by this, but why can't these solutions be used in places that are willing to make a difference? Anywhere this is deployed is making a difference locally. In the grand scheme of the world, yes we do need some big solutions to get some places up to speed but if a bubble wall cleans up some of the 10% other plastic in the water, then I am all for it. We can't keep our heads in the sand over the 90%, but we need to be happy about the small victories we can get.
I remember hearing about the machine that picks up trash in Baltimore at the Inner Harbor. It would take the current and push the trash into the machines conveyor belt. It was probably pick up a percent of a percent of the total world trash, but it made the harbor area much cleaner.
>Another important thing is that I take long breaks (several weeks) whenever I feel I need to — which is probably harder to do if I’m a full time employee at a company.
A "Patreon-funded full-time job position" and the ability to take weeks off at a time? What an amazing career path Evan has taken. He sounds so passionate about Vue and he is fully funded to be able to do it. And what a good project to fund, always moving forward but at the same time pushing for the features that users want.
With link rot and all the lost pages of the day, I really do wonder how much information and effort is just lost to the sands of time over the years. This truly makes the Internet Archive such an important tool for everything we do on the internet. I know that is a commonly held belief here, but I really think many regular users need to come in contact with it and see the great benefit it has for us all.
>Facebook also plans to remove posts that both explicitly and implicitly aim to disenfranchise or prohibit people from voting; previously, the company removed only posts that actively discouraged people from voting. Now, a post that causes confusion around who is eligible to vote or some part of the voting process — such as a misstatement about what documentation is needed to receive a ballot — would also be removed.
In a country where about 61% [0] of voting-age people actually take the time to vote, I can't believe there are people trying to bring that number down more. It saddens me that anybody would want to silence a voice/vote through disinformation online. It also really confuses me on who this would even affect? I haven't seen any posts about this (I haven't been on Facebook in years) so I am unsure who the "target" audience is. Would the perpetrators just want a really low turnout, hoping one side is just smart enough to not listen? Or is it to just instill more confusion?
I actually took a trip to New Mexico when I was younger, the parts that we visited were awesome. All the people were amazingly friendly. I grew up in the Northeast so it was a pretty big culture shock. I believe it was in Albuquerque. We visited the Nuclear Museum and a couple little local shops and even a local reptile zoo. I would love to go back for the hot air balloon festival someday.
>Siena’s history dates back millennia. Houston, meanwhile, was founded in 1836.
Every time I am made aware of just how young the US is, it blows me away. I've never been to Europe, I would really love to go some day, but I can only imagine the feeling of actually seeing these really old places/structures in person.
I just got back from a trip to Las Vegas and every single restaurant we went to had a QR code + online menu. Now, I am not sure if it was related to the reasoning stated here, but all the menus were also very short, with only a few items each. Personally, I was quite happy to view the menu on my phone. I know for a fact though my parents and grandparents would have hated such a thing.
>The bar was named after Newman, who was vocal in calling for stronger roofs after going airborne twice in one year at Talladega. It then helped saved his life in the Daytona 2020 crash.
My gosh, after the first time, I'd be wary. After the second time, I'd be looking for a safer job. Good on him though, seriously. Pushing for something to make his sport safer for all.
Personally, I feel like I struggle with this a lot. Whether it be reading on here, or seeing it in the news, it is hard to not compare myself to a 20-something year old who just sold his/her company for hundreds of thousands of dollars while I sit around reading the stupid article and playing Dota or starting my millionth side project. It is easy to see that not everyone is going to do something like that, but I think it is really hard to internalize the fact that I am the one not doing that too.
Then I get into this "well, won't be me anyway, so why bother" mood where I accomplish even less with my free time. I have urge to do more, but it is a vicious cycle sometimes.
>Difficulty made it so that people felt pride in what they had achieved.
There are still plenty of difficult tasks still in the game mixed with achievements/mounts that can give you the same level of pride and satisfaction.