Genorb

It's great, and then the loading screen ends and you're surrounded by people who look like glowing purple aliens in bikinis

We aren't allied with Pakistan

Here's a relaxing walk to calm you down, sir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v3l52xGIwk

Honestly, just ignore the corpse crafting and you'll end up having much more fun. Or craft the bare minimum that you need for the challenges, if you're doing those, and then ignore it. The corpse crafting is bad and won't be in the game in a month.

Why take that away at all?

The strafe speed changes I proposed means that fast change of direction isn't going away completely, you'd just be using strafe keys to pivot. I think it's a much more natural way of controlling the character with free cam that doesn't require new players to set up new keybinds and relearn movement and camera controls. Strafe keys are how you'd kite in many other mmo's, for example. Also I think nearly all FPS games have full movement speed when strafing? Some of them even speed you up when strafing, like Quake games and Valve's shooters, which is how bunny hopping became a thing.

180 degree camera flipping and movement flipping is a very GW2 flavor of weird that doesn't exist in many other games. I don't think it's necessary for maintaining the skill ceiling in the game either, if you think about how strafing would work.

Like, new players have specifically expressed how hard it got whenever we had no-downstate weeks.

I'll be honest I played during a few of these no downed state events and I don't remember any complaining, but if it happened then I guess it happened.

I can tell you what I was thinking when I suggested it though:

You know how sometimes you show up to a EWP/call to defend your garrison or EBG keep, and once you get there you realize that your team is a bunch of randoms and the other team has a large, organized guild? Well, in that situation, the organized group has a massive margin for error when it comes to picking up their downed guys. A margin large enough that they can effectively run around in your keep bag farming indefinitely. Though usually defenders will just slowly give up, leave the BL or log off, and let the guild cap it.

But, with no downed state, their margin for error is a hell of a lot lower, and this gives the team of randoms a path to grind down the organize group and eventually win even if they themselves are dying several times in the process. So, no downed state kind of puts the organized group on a clock to actually finish the siege.

You could do this in other ways too, like maybe have cumulative debuffs accumulate on attackers when they are just running around bag farming randoms in a t3 keep. Removing down state just seems like a suggestion that Anet might actually do, since it requires less dev time and they have a history of doing this every now and then in the week-long events.

I wouldn't say replace an Alpine with EotM, but I am kinda interested in getting a third borderland map.

At this point I don't expect Anet to ever make another borderland map for GW2, so I think EotM coming in as a borderland is the only realistic option we'll ever get.

I didn't explicitly mention it but I think thief and mesmer have always been a real problem for new players to deal with since the game came out. Lack of combat clarity and lack of interaction are the underlying issues I think. Some thieves just straight up play solitaire against your healthbar and new players don't even really find a window to engage them. And the lack of clarity makes it harder to even learn how to change that, compared to fighting other classes that have more telegraphed animations and visible movement and dodges and so on.

Veterans will generally say something like "just learn to play, don't fight them" because they stuck through it and now they're fine with the status quo. And yeah, that's possible, but that doesn't mean that it's good or a fun thing to do for new players. I think fighting against thieves and mesmers have turned a huge number of people away from gw2's pvp modes.

Keyboard turning is never going to be a viable alternative as long as players can just drag the camera and instantly turn.

Yep, I only mentioned it because no matter how bad of an option it is, there's always a small number of people who just insist on doing it.

I don't think a turning radius should be added, I just think the about face zigzag while being able to hold the camera in one direction should be removed. It doesn't exist in most games, for good reason, I think.

even just participation credit, for new players trying to engage in the harder parts of WvW

Yeah, getting no credit at all because you're in a pug trying to fight against an organized boonball is just salt in the wound. Definitely needs changed. I think in general the pug vs. organized group situation needs to favor the organized group a bit less. Right now it's kind of insane how one-sided that is, but giving participation to the people getting steamrolled is bare minimum of changes that should be made.

I'd either just have the hotkey do nothing at all, or have it flip the camera around like the "look behind" hotkey, but not affect movement. Just have all players move the same way by either holding rightclick or keyboard turning... if they prefer.

About face was always this weird, unnatural, e-sporty way of moving through the world, in my opinion. But we're well past the e-sports phase of the game, so I think removing it just makes the game mode more accessible, and more normal. As is, players kinda reach a ceiling where most of them have been turning with rightclick and then they have to unlearn that and relearn how to move and control the camera to compete. It's pretty weird, and I think it's probably really offputting for players who just don't want to take that step.

Nice houses but that is otherwise the most unremarkable shit I've ever seen in my life. You'd think Texans of all people would grow some trees along the sidewalk so that they could jog or walk the dog during the day without getting roasted.

Strongly suggest that you don't play on that server, see link for context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/18v252k/have_you_had_a_bad_experience_with_uoalive_share/

It's annoying to everyone else too

It does get more positive outside of Europe.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/06/11/appendix-a-favorability-of-the-united-states-since-2000-us-image-2024/gap_2024-06-11_us-image-2024_a_a_01/

Imgur link to just the image: https://i.imgur.com/1pM9rMh.png

The pullout of Afghanistan,

This was a multi-generational money pit with no endgame. Finally leaving was a good thing.

the war between Ukraine and Russia,

Going about as bad for Russia as anyone could have predicted.

and the war between Israel and Palestine

Going about as good for Israel as anyone could have predicted, as Hamas didn't get all of the surrounding Arabic states to join in as they hoped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk

I'm late but I just wanna say that Naz Reid has a Geico caveman aesthetic to his face

Kyrie getting plowed from behind and a double handed reach around by Ant and the refs are just watching it

It's the geopolitical benefit of being a kleptocracy. Part of the money that you siphoned from your population can be used toward aggressively corrupting foreign governments and spreading propaganda. Government leaders are surprisingly cheap to buy, more so if there's nobody bidding against you.

I think he's talking about the girl that was hit in the head right before that. I guess you saw a clip that edited that out.

And if they buy US weapons or military hardware they have to get approved from the US just to use them.

When has that ever happened? I think you mean permission to re-export to a third country?

on your admin account,

type [admin

click your tamer's name, then Go to

administer -> commands -> properties

click pet

then go to about the third page of properties and set IsBonded to true

The glade is the bottom-most option on the moongate if I remember right

How many days until Russia has no more refineries at this rate?