I wonder if it's possible to support conditional animations in WoW based on direction? I.e. use left-hand cast anim for targets at -1:-180, right hand for 0:179? Do channel anims raise arms if target is high? I'm drawing blanks on any examples. Point being, over-shoulder casts would be cool AF.

Rommath and Umbric ship name is Umbrat. No further questions.

It's weird how disconnected modern Quel'thalas feels from TBC Quel'thalas and Suramar. I appreciate wanting something to stand on its own, and wanting local narratives to be self-contained, but you can safely reference the most memorable part of the most memorable expansion that many JUST replayed.

"So that's what happens if you import all of Kalimdor into Blender," they noted, 6 hours later.

🚨New pre-print🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Today we're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 🧪🔬♀️ www.chi.ac.uk/news/chiches...

@kruithne.bsky.social @marlam.in Hey gang, my wow.export doesn't seem to be hitting anything when it tries to update? I've tried re-downloading and re-installing from 2.10 and have checked my network is fine.

Oh, this was Ula-Tek, it was always Ula-Tek

A stand for Artificial, and I stands for you. And that concludes our 3-week course.

@marlam.in I'll see your textureless Outland and raise you a giant Zandalari portcullis over Mulgore. I've had this appear very rarely in the sky box over certain Island Expeditions during certain weather.

Just verifying an old speculation video and oh my glob the pig race were Muslim coded wtaf old wow lore

Just putting together my kids 'Police and Protest' toy set ready for Christmas @goodlawproject.org

My hot take to close out 2025 is that Sonic 4 should be an adaptation of 'Sonic Heroes' and not 'Sonic CD'; and it should be an entire allegory for how kids can overcome the anxiety about their future prospects being replaced and governed by AI through better unionisation and collective action.

I want to level a Night Elf Shaman and a Kul Tiran Paladin and a Blood Elf Druid and an Orc Demon Hunter, and there's no good reason those aren't already all enabled.

All current candle orders will be shipping out tomorrow! You still have time to get your orders in for Christmas, too! grumpycandlecompany.com/collections/...

Join @profnatmilton.bsky.social at his inaugural lecture www.chi.ac.uk/news/alzheim...

Ion Hazzikostas and I have very different opinions about what constitutes as a "surgical change".

The threenager just learned a valuable life lesson over the course of a 3-hour battle to not nap: There might not be a limit to Dad's patience. Dad might be able to be bored forever. He doesn't know, you see, that my ADHD meds would've worn off if he'd just hung in there another 40 minutes. Fool.

I ordered Nando's today and when I collected it, the person serving me had the most amazing, smooth, dynamic voice; after we finished, I said "Sorry, I have to ask, do you do any VO work?". They got a huge smile on their face and said "I do, actually, I had a game come out just the other day..." 🤩

Interesting how you can chart the degeneracy of WoW by Remix expansions. Just got kicked from an LFG dungeon for AFK after reloading my UI for 15 seconds. So >I< get a 30 minute deserter timer, naturally.

Midnight Alpha and Legion Remix got me realising that Hunters, Warriors, DKs, Rogues, and Warlocks should all be able to (and queue as) Tank in any spec using their Class Trees. Gimme Parry on Overpower. Gimme LeechZerker. Gimme DW Frost with ASPD Slows. Gimme Sap/Eva Rogue. Give me Dark Apotheosis.

Hey @ketsuki.com I don't have twitter anymore so can you poke @archimtiros.bsky.social and remind him he can stop playing Sarah McLachlan after 9 years on loop.

I can't believe WoW cut math. I worried AI was going to create the largest entry skill gap in CS industries, but WoW really said "hold my many brain-dulling beers, small humans".

2nd year in a row, since my teaching hours were cut, that I've been given modules (6 this semester!), only to be told on Week 1 that they can only afford me till Week 5. The indignity, the gutting of my hope each time, is just hollowing. I think this one has finally broken me.

Oh, the Twisting Nether is based on DnDs The Upside Down, I can't believe I never (no pun intended) looked up the definition of 'nether'. Twisting Nether would literally be 'the realm of the twisted lower place'. This goes all the way back to The Last Guardian's Medivh encounter in anti-Karazhan.

Excited to share that the latest issue of Geek Magazine (out Friday in France!) features my 6-page interview with @celiahodent.com! She champions Ethical Games, a collaborative initiative dedicated to defining and promoting ethical practices in games. Learn more and get involved: ethicalgames.org

I just read about the most inspired act of allyship of which I think I've ever heard. A really heart-warming story. Wish I could give details but they're not mine to share.

I prefer Resourcefulness because I trend towards low volume SSF (solo, self-found) crafting and professions. This right here feels so freaking bad, man. I don't care if it's justifiably balanced by some arcane maths... This just feels terrible. (That's the 24 silver cost flux proc'ing.) #Warcraft

Dion, once again, helping me convert my half-baked, tiredness-addled, fleeting thoughts from monitoring the 3 year-old's screen time into coherent words and actually important sentiments.

Why is Glad-tier Crafted Gear capped at 662 PvE item level, whilst Conquest gear is up to 704 by Champion track? I get that it's a bit less time-gated, but 1) the Conquest time-gate is very dumb in a post-Delves world, and, 2) Tier conversion is the real bottleneck and so doesn't compete /w crafted?

Give all Tanks an anti-Taunt to allow them to de-threat ("Intimidate"?) and reset mobs one-by-one, and cause them to become pull-resistant for like 30-60 seconds after they reset. That's literally all it would take.

I'm hype for Midnight, but honestly, this reveal just repeatedly confused me. Cinematic? Great stuff. I needed more than just the Flame's Radiance theme to explain to me what a dozen copy-pasted silhouettes mean. Game content? I'm having to piece together YT shorts and press kits for any context.

@damnyouwillis.bsky.social I can't find Jeph. Can you please yell at him (as we all have tinnitus now from the rock'n'roll, or crotch goblins) he can't use Faye's Dad's suicide as a cut-away gag 'cos anybody here that long is -at best- in the early stages of senility now. Please and thank you. o7

We don't have to push children into poverty. We don't have to make life harder for the sick and disabled. We don't have to aid and abet genocide. For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore. Join us at yourparty.uk

Brutal to learn that Margaret Boden has passed. An absolute powerhouse in the areas of AI and creativity. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/07...

@damnyouwillis.bsky.social Look at all these clowns worrying, as if you'd ever pass up the narrative option which leads to you being able to sell Joyce getting tag-teamed, as if you don't want the web comic equivalent of a 401k.

Oh no James Cleverly grew a beard and got hot, the tories will come back

The root issue with democracy is that options to create are exponential towards infinity and options to destroy are asymptotic towards zero; so, given a random distribution of people along the spectrum of societal decision making, they end up coalescing within the integral of destruction.

Why do no one thing in this expansion have anything to do with any other thing in this expansion; why am i logging on to roleplay as arthas while we announce space mummies, what was the point of the big crystal in that cave

My article on gender detachment is published in @sociusjournal.bsky.social! We often assume that everyone has a gender. But some people feel detached from gender. Based on 30 interviews with asexual individuals, I argue that gender categorization is compulsory--but it doesn't need to be.

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Hiya Martin, getting absolutely flooded with these ads on Youtube since midnight last night, and from multiple ad vendors, so it may be worth trying to raise it with them (well, "worth", like making ritual offerings to the gods on Olympus was "worth" it...)

Ah, of course, the two kinds of parenting unit. "Mum" and "Mum, but Dad holds the arms". So progressive. Bigly woke. Feminism is solved.

If this is an AI fake it will break my heart

The argument that GenAI trends towards a statistical average is a fallacy. For a start, it's your individuality that makes you a necessary liability to a capital interest; but, also, you can chain averages to reach what I call the "most-wrong right answers" and that is often where novelty lives.

I am, regrettably, available to make your game better as a designer. Looking for senior, principal, or lead roles on games that want to leverage my leadership, systems, progression, technical, live service (and more) background. Unfortunately, relocation from Orange County is not an option.

"Yesterday, delegates at the congress of the University and College Union, which represents more than 120,000 staff, backed a motion committing the union to calling on employers to support the right for workers to use the gendered spaces they believe to be appropriate to them" [Times]

@katymontgomerie.com I just realised Jo and Graham are the Jan and Michael (US Office) of TERFs.