Tuesday, March 17, 2026

To ???, pt 2

I have watched up to around 46:00 in the video I linked in the previous post, before I stopped again.

I thought about various things. Quests as puzzles, and how this is invalidated by the 'arrow' of the questing addon that is popular in Classic (other than with like the rogue quest with the parrot where not reading the quest text gets you killed). My suggestion to make only a subset of quests available to any particular player would not fix this; a guide could not tell the order in which to do quests, but it could give the answer to any 'puzzle' in a particular quest.

Mei talking about how she had done almost everything it was possible to do in World of Warcraft, in the context of her switching servers to play with a more casual guild (Death and Taxes) and like maybe trying to dissuade me from trying to follow her. The question of whether, at that point in time, she would have liked WoW to be a game that had more stuff for her to do, or if she was fine the way it was, considering it was affecting her school grades.

The MMO that Ghostcrawler is apparently working on; a lot of the things I've said should apply to any MMO, and it might be better if I tried to help that project than a Classic Plus version of WoW.

The way that I stopped at this point in the video because fundamentally, I saw a problem and looked for a solution or how to describe the solution, when I am really just trying to fill time and act in a boring way until someone shares the idea. When I quit WoW, i.e. cancelled my subscription that I might have (not sure) been paying for continuously since the game launched, despite not logging in to the game or even having a computer for over a year, it was in large part so I would not spend more of my life on something that was going to decline in quality, to the point that I could not recommend people play it. So that, at this moment in time 19 years later, I would not devote a lot of this post to talking about WoW.

The way that I probably spent a lot less time than Mei playing WoW (I might have played more at first, since after a short break around the time I met her she was supposed to start college soon), and took an opportunity to make her think that I might have quit playing a few months after WoW launched (partly so she wouldn't feel she would have to keep playing it), but she graduated from college despite the time she spent playing WoW while I did not.

The broader questions; beyond 'how to make WoW better', and 'whether it's good if WoW is better than other games if it only increases the parent company's profits', and 'what are the consequences if games are more enjoyable to play'.


The thing with 'the attitude of Jewish people is that it's better to be seen as smart, than to be seen as moral, while Muslim people would say the opposite'. So, if Israel's leaders know of this idea, and the war with Iran is related, then it was the attitude: 'being seen as dumb is undesirable'.

If this site is important, I didn't want to label Islam as dumb. I have tried to act in a way that extends the 'now' in my post. I have not done web searches for my current weight or my diet, because that was something I was trying to do every day. I have not had any multivitamin tablets since then, as it was something I was trying to do every 2~4 days, and to take one would be acknowledging the passing of time.

I am supposed to say something at this point that exploits the desire not to be seen as immoral, as contrasted with the desire not to be seen as dumb.

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