I never did get too into PVP - I did enough arena to get a bunch of low hanging achievements and always enjoyed the occasional casual battleground, especially when there was a lot of downtime between patches… But otherwise PVE was my jam.

I think it’s a pretty easy call for me - World of Warcraft raiding was some of the most fun I’ve ever had gaming. The pinnacle was probably when my guild got Realm First! Fall of the Lich King (25-man heroic). We spent MONTHS grinding away at it - we had the 10-man realm first achievement as well and could clear heroic with a variety of group comps, 2 or 3 groups per week would run on off-raid nights. But for 25-man heroic, we could clear the rest of the raid in 2-3 hours as I recall, so we’d take some swings at him on night 1 and then we’d spend 2 full raid nights on The Lich King - the final boss of Ice Crown Citadel raid and in fact the final boss of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

For SEVEN months we did this. He was tough af. He had a number of abilities where a single person fucks up and either the whole raid wipes immediately, or it rapidly snowballs out of control otherwise. So after a month’s long uphill fight, and with competing guilds just as close as we were, it was an INSANE moment when we got our realm first kill. It was such a ridiculous high, everyone screaming with relief and excitement. The realm second kill happened that same night, too - so we just narrowly managed to earn our server first kill.

We continued with realm firsts in the Cataclsym expansion on Sinestra, Ragnaros, and Deathwing. I got my first and only legendary weapon - Dragonwrath this expansion. And finally the Mists of Pandaria expansion was the beginning of the end for our guild as a lot of long time players like myself started falling off, so after earning #1 for the first raid tier, things slipped from there. I had a ton of personal victories in game too - after earning Dragonwrath, the most esteemed of all was earning the achievement Insane in the Membrane.

And yet - none of those other victories remotely compared to that first kill of the Lich King. It was truly a special moment.

They’re talking about the news being a distraction, not your post.

What was your point then? I guess I didn’t understand.

… So in the sublemmy about stupid things that are true, we shouldn’t discuss the stupid things?

What in the fuck is happening. I’m disgusted that we have this plague of racism in 2025.

I loved it too. The m7 was excellent, then the m8 managed to level up everything great about the m7. Amazing phone.

Yeah - for years it was a primary deciding factor for me when it was time for a new phone - HTC One m7, HTC One m8, Moto X Pure Edition all had front facing speakers. I think by the end there were simply no longer any options though… And now 10 years later, they’re still pointing the speakers at the damned ground. 😿

Phablets, lmao. You invoke the ancient magicks.

I’m so far on the opposite side on this one though - I always have preferred large screen devices and today, I ADORE my folding pocket tablet most of all. 😍

Stereo front facing speakers.

I have no idea why these terrible downward facing speakers took off, HTC had it nailed in 2012. RIP, king of smartphones. I’m glad to at least have 2 proper speakers on my Fold6 and 7, rather than an amplified earpiece speaker… But this is just not how sound works. I shouldn’t have to cup my hand around the side to point the sound in the proper direction.

Of course I believe in freedom of speech, but Marco and the Felon-in-Chief CERTAINLY do not, so this is clearly a smoke screen. And frankly, I suspect that any previous examples of this happening are in the interest in basic human decency. The fact of the matter is that American businesses doing business internationally have to be held accountable for the laws of the countries they are operating in as well, so this all sounds completely ridiculous.

Oh definitely not - he has been attacking the Clean Air act.

At my last job, I started shortly after the union had negotiated a one-time payout of $500 for every associate, at the cost of the $2000+ bonuses department heads received yearly. The savings for the company were immense of course, because the recurring cost of paying bonuses was gone. And the masses were happy to vote for a free (as far as they were concerned) $500 payment. I still find myself wondering how many yay votes ended up as department heads down the line and realized how utterly stupid that was. But most won’t have done, and simply got free money.

I’m not sure that tactic could possibly work here - there would have to be a contingent of people who actually wanted that in the first place - and as far as I can tell, no Greenlander even wants to touch the US with a 1,300 mile pole.

I considered it when they warned about the increase and offered it at $75, but I just didn’t have the money to spend back then. Felt pretty stupid for not doing it, but I don’t even know what paid features they offer, and I’m clearly not missing them.

99% of my usage is at home as well, so this is unlikely to affect me - until that random 1% anyhow.

Thanks for that - I wasn’t aware of the relay service, but completely agree that this is what they should be charging for and not the remote play feature in its entirety. I’ll probably drag it out for a while by refusing to update the app and server… Might be able to make it work with Tailscale as others have suggested.

In the past I’ve paid for a month or two when I wanted to download to my devices remotely (and I think that’s the singular feature that I’ve ever cared about in the Plex pass). But to take features away and then try and charge me for them is a bridge too far, I can’t support that bad behavior.

But what infrastructure does this feature require? I’m direct connecting to my own personal server with perhaps credential handling and a handshake handled by Plex servers to connect. None of the media is passing through their servers - or it shouldn’t be if it is.

I disagree, but to each their own. You do have a potential option here:

https://www.clicks.tech/

100%! And, 6 generations in the tech is pretty well advanced now. I don’t mind being an early adopter, but with folding phones being so fragile and early ones having hideous and unusable cover screens for instance, I was fine waiting it out the issues until it was a bit more mature. They’re still getting continuously better, it’s a great time for anyone into the idea of a foldable.

That’s fine man, but you don’t have to tell us about it.

Agreed, from the Fold6. If you’re looking at it off axis, it’s QUITE noticeable, but during normal use when I’m looking at it head-on I don’t notice it visually. If I’m using it in landscape, I can feel it while scrolling - it’s the sort of thing that you expect to bother you, but it’s just not a big deal once you’re used to it.