Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: Aug 17-21, 2009
nichidani:
yeah, there are. rule 34.
maddness:
--- Quote from: Team Venture on 22 Aug 2009, 10:58 ---2: I was just pointing out the irony in making a comment about geek cred alongside references to instances that came out 5 years ago.
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My comment on her geek cred had nothing to do with WoW, nor does geek cred in general have anything to do with WoW, so why would that be ironic?
--- Quote from: Team Venture on 22 Aug 2009, 10:58 ---3: Your original point was that you can do part of a dungeon without having done an instance. I disagree. The dungeon is the instance, and vice versa. If you haven't gone through the portal you're just out the front of the damn place. Anyone who has played a lot of WoW and would like to disagree with me here, go ahead. You don't say "oh hey I did half of Wailing Caverns today" when all you did was clear to the door!
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Just because players have decided that the terms dungeon and instance are interchangeable does not make it factually correct. It's true that you can not clear an entire instance dungeon without going through an instance, but that does not make the entire dungeon an instance. Blizzard defines instances as zones within a dungeon.
--- Quote ---... two types of dungeons while playing World of Warcraft: micro dungeons and world dungeons. <cut> Micro dungeon locations will include tombs, haunted mines, ice caves, and sunken ships to name a few. The transition into and out of these dungeons will be seamless, and you'll be able to run into other players anywhere along the way. <cut> World dungeons <cut> are grander in scale than micro dungeons and are specifically designed for more epic encounters. All these locations have common areas where players can meet up and fight together. But, deeper in the dungeons are areas set up specifically for more private group adventures. These areas, called "instanced zones," allow you and a group of friends to have a more personal experience, exploring, adventuring, or completing quests in your own private dungeon.
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Random832:
The problem is people who parrot the term "instance" without originally knowing what that means, imagining it to refer to dungeons generally, and then going through contortions to justify their usage as the "correct" usage and people correcting them as being somehow wrong.
evilbobthebob:
Or maybe the problem is that a passing mention of a game in a comic is being taken much too seriously :-P
maddness:
I know. My brain tends to get hung up on pointless facts. Sorry, folks. :angel:
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