Comments on: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Patch

By: Viz

Viz — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:02:00 +0000

@IainC:
The lab supervisor at one of my summer jobs once complained that he had to program his from punch cards while he waited for me to rewrite programs from more modern programming languages into K&R C so he could understand them.

By: Mahkno

Mahkno — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:17:45 +0000

If you are a tank or a healer, or someone leveling up then this feature is for you. This feature has not improved my ability (as an L80 Rogue) to find pugs one bit. The wait times are still ridiculously long, topping out at 90 minutes on a Saturday night. My battlegroup must have a severe disparity between DPS classes and Healer/Tanks. On another night, I partied up with a healer and we had groups instantly.

The most annoying thing about the current implementation is that you can’t queue for BGs, Raids, and 5 mans concurrently. I used to be able to pass the time in battlegrounds while looking for groups. No more. My time window to play is too narrow to be dithering and waiting. So now.. after 30 minutes or so pass I just log off.

By: Drey

Drey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:35:25 +0000

And today’s lesson derived from Penny Arcade is: different people like different things.

I like the comic but the verbal eloquence Tycho demonstrates periodically in the news portion is what keeps me coming back to the site. The man can turn a phrase.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:55:31 +0000

You expect comic strip characters to age? *confused*

Although, to be honest, since those two characters are based on the creators, and they get a lot of their ideas from their own lives, but exaggerated, and being in your thirties but not being totally serious about everything is pretty common, I don’t actually see a problem…

What I like about Penny Arcade is that both the writer and artist keep striving to improve their craft and explore new ideas. Something that stale, repetitive strip comics don’t even attempt.

By: Vetarnias

Vetarnias — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:06:05 +0000

“Ah, Mr. Jennings’ column is up at MMORPG.com”

Ha! Beat you by about five minutes!

By: Vetarnias

Vetarnias — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:42 +0000

Ah, Mr. Jennings’ column is up at MMORPG.com: http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/3838

And he dares not to link to it from here. Shame on you, Sir. Especially since it’s about PvP.

@Hatch

I don’t understand the first PA reference, so I don’t get it. The second is meh. I think that what gets me with that comic is that if those two guys aged according to how long this strip has been going, they’d be in their late twenties/early thirties by now, and should definitely start acting their age.

But then, Garfield’d be thirty, and Tintin, in the last albums, would have been collecting his pension.

By: Hatch

Hatch — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:57 +0000

@Vetarnias

“By the way, does anyone else think Penny Arcade is an awful and definitely unfunny webcomic?”

You are WRONG sir. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/26/
VERY wrong. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/22/

By: Hatch

Hatch — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:13:31 +0000

Also, we appear to have two hatchs, don’t let the other hatch sully my name. That’s my job.

By: Hatch

Hatch — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:11:31 +0000

[quote]
You kids and your UPnP genital mutilation peripherals. In my day we had RS232s and we had to launch the scrotal abuse from a command line.
[/quote]

Was that /CBT?

By: Hely

Hely — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:48:46 +0000

I used the new LFG. I got occy. I tried it. Blizz really nerfed the heck out of it. My PUG just button mashed it’s way through. No deaths! It’s by far the easiest heroic in the game now. However, it’s still annoying and i still don’t want to do it.

If it comes up on my random heroic daily again I’ll do it, but not otherwise.