Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: Aug 17-21, 2009
Kugai:
AAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGHH!!!!!!!!
NOW what are they going to do?
akronnick:
Well, if I were Marigold, I'd disable Momo's capacitor. If I were Momo, I'd let her.
maddness:
--- Quote from: Team Venture on 20 Aug 2009, 17:22 ---
--- Quote from: maddness on 20 Aug 2009, 06:25 ---Not wholly. You can do half of the Black Fathoms Deep dungeon without launching an instance and I've just started Gnomergan and haven't run in to an instance yet.
If Marigold doesn't have back ups, she's going to be losing serious geek cred here.
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I-rony. Losing serious geek cred.... and you're citing your experience in Gnomergan and BFD?
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I don't know if you've heard, but there are other games besides WoW that people enjoy playing and the fact that I've only recently begun playing that particular game has nothing to do with geek cred. Also, gamers are not the only form of geekdom to be found. My point in this case was that she obviously knows something about computers and I would find it seriously hard to believe that she doesn't have buck ups at the very least.
--- Quote from: Team Venture on 20 Aug 2009, 17:22 ---For the record, they're all fucking instances. Instance=dungeon, they're entirely interchangeable words.
From the official WoW site: "An instance is a personal copy of the dungeon for you and your party. The only players in this instance will be yourself and members of your party - no one else can enter your dungeon instance. Instances allow you and a group of friends to have a more personal experience exploring, adventuring, or completing quests in your own private dungeon."
The second you walk into Gnomer, or BFD... you're in an instance!
Gah! How can you correct someone when you obviously have a astoundingly rudimentary grasp of the game itself?! Nerd rage... hulking... out.
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The point, sir or madame, was that I was not the only person there in Gnomergan and the first half of Black Fathoms Deep. There were other players and parties there. By the definition you yourself posted that does not qualify as an instance. How then can the terms be interchangeable?
Also, as much as I'd really like to be a level 80 and sit at my computer for endless hours gaming, like I did when I was in my teens and early 20's, I've got 3 kids that run me from 6:30 am to 9 pm and it takes a really long time to level when you've got about 4 playable hours max per day, that's if I wouldn't rather spend that time with my husband watching a movie or something. Gotta have your priorities straight.
Lildaani:
--- Quote from: Team Venture on 20 Aug 2009, 17:22 ---For the record, they're all fucking instances. Instance=dungeon, they're entirely interchangeable words.
From the official WoW site: "An instance is a personal copy of the dungeon for you and your party. The only players in this instance will be yourself and members of your party - no one else can enter your dungeon instance. Instances allow you and a group of friends to have a more personal experience exploring, adventuring, or completing quests in your own private dungeon."
The second you walk into Gnomer, or BFD... you're in an instance!
Gah! How can you correct someone when you obviously have a astoundingly rudimentary grasp of the game itself?! Nerd rage... hulking... out.
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had to get in on the nerdery. Admittedly I have never played WoW. However, in Everquest (the only true MMO,) There are dungeons that are not instances and instances that are not dungeons. Therefore, the words are not interchangeable.
pwned.
Also, it is entirely possible that Momo finished the raid and then got sucked into a regular after-raid group. I would think if she were still raiding she would have said "I want to finish this raid" rather than "instance." Either way, they were both being unreasonable.
St.Clair:
You're not actually in an instance until you walk through the swirly patch of corridor.
So there.
(To everyone else: most WoW dungeons have a "foyer" area, connected to the rest of the world and inhabited by monsters and so on. It isn't until you pass through the instance portal - which, as noted, looks like a semi-transparent vortex - that you/your group is shunted off into its own personal copy of the dungeon that's supposedly on the other side.)
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