To Imane, pt 78

Before I wrote the post, pt 73, I was thinking something like this:

What do Al Qaeda, the US National Socialist party, and the Church of Satan have in common? They never talk about jobs.

I didn't really want to mention them.

Watched part of Hotman 2, after it was mentioned in the comments of Gegon: New Ability. Not sure how the Korean title relates to the name, "hotman": maybe a literal translation? When he was healed by the druid in his party who was stealthing next to him, I had to watch it like five times until I understood where the second heal was coming from. Saw the first consumable and kept rewinding to search his bars for the second consumable, since potion didn't go on cooldown, until I finally looked elsewhere on the screen and saw the Regrowth graphic appear on him and the buff in the upper-right.

You may or may not be familiar with the Epic Maneuver fad. I think it was before your time. "Acting like a thing is difficult, when in fact it is not difficult", although the page notes that some people think it's for things that are truly difficult.

Wanting to have the friendly player nearby is understandable. World PvP is, or was, inherently unbalanced: you might want 1v1s but get a 1v4. So: "Epic Maneuver" is a comment on the use of dramatic music, the song used by Hotman, for something that is not really difficult. 'Epic music' songs on YouTube often have comments like "I listened to this while washing the dishes and" (I can't think of how to complete this), or "my cat listened to this and turned into a tiger".

I think a better use of the song at the start of Hotman 2 was in The Memories of Sun.

And a better example of a PvP scene featuring a healer is in Gegon: New Ability, from 10:11. It starts with a 2v1, but does not end there: it becomes 2v3, which Gegon and the NE shadow priest Shalliya win (at 10:34 Shalliya takes a 2k crit fireball, 40% of her health: opponents were not undergeared), then a different scene featuring the same player. I notice, for the first time, that Gegon is not using Dampen Magic in either scene, and I think it would make sense to use, even with a priest ally whose heals would be reduced by it.

So, as the second scene opens: they have just killed a Horde hunter. Gegon's buffs are at 13 minutes, so he has been alive for at least 17 minutes. A 2v3 is about to become a 2v4 due to an approaching player, but they kill one player, so it remains a 2v3. Two more players arrive, making it a 2v5. Another Alliance player becomes visible at 11:26, so 3v5 (but mouseover tooltip at 11:41 shows that this player was only lvl 40). They kill two players, making it 3v3, but another Horde player arrives at 11:40, so back to 3v4. A hunter pet attacks the third Alliance player at 11:43, so it's 3v5. Gegon kills the druid just after the third Alliance player dies, making it 2v4, until two more players attack him from the side (making it 2v6) and kill him — the hunter and mage that they killed at the start of the scene, who have resurrected.

Better than 2v1-ing a single player, as Hotman did.

Suppose that everyone in the world is smart. Does it change what you do?

I don't want to publish this. I doubt many people would get the point of me mentioning WoW PvP videos. If this site ever matters, this post is just more 'filler' material that wastes the time of people who read it. By writing it, there's a chance it will lead to a useful result, but also a high probability that it will not. It makes me think of a question like this: "would you press a button that has a small chance to do a lot of good, if each time you press it, a bad thing happens? Like a person or animal being harmed, perhaps fatally? Trolley problem but probabilistic: 1% chance to save 5000 people each time you press it, but 100% chance to harm one person, would you keep pressing it until the 5000 people are saved?"

GirlDeMo(Angel Beats) - Crow Song(Lyrics In Description)

https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Crow_Song

If you’re only going to say annoying things,
Let the jet black wings carry you away and just disappear.

(Pronouns open to interpretation: https://www.marumaru-x.com/japanese-song/play-q9oqwe4o4y has Japanese lyrics, lines 18 and 19, which do not include the word "you". Note lost in translation, くれ > くれる "to give to me, to do for me", "of neutral politeness and most commonly used".)