Sorry! I guess it just did not federate over to me. If you check my instance’s copy of this it says “trash snacks”

You may want to edit the title, it says “trash snacks”

If the world had a population of friendly vampires I wonder how many more people the donor pool would gain…

I have seen one get used, and played in a musical theatre pit that called for a theremin player who could also play trumpet. That’s the only relevant stuff I have to say. Best wishes with the community!

I’m so proud of what I created and know I’ll never see it finished. So I figured I’d share it here! I’m particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!

Genuinely, clever solution. As someone who wants to wear shawls more often thanks for posting the pattern!

In my very amateur opinion you have nice tensioning, at least better than mine haha.

I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I’m back on a crocheting and knitting kick

Nice to know I am not the only one who does that.

You’re absolutely right! I figured I’d glom onto something established first, but I’d rather have an active mod especially since this does not seem to have grown too big. Do I need to sign up for your community? I remember moderation being… iffy between instances, especially if it’s an Mbin/Lemmy jump.

Social sciences are super cool and fascinating, but I ultimately went non-social-science STEM. How about you?

A Systems Thinking one

I had a lot of fun with this in college, had no idea it would pop up in “normal life” (or at least my random internet browsing for fun) under its name instead of just seeing “you know cause and effect isn’t always immediate” in a few arguments and going no deeper. Pleased to see it! Subscribed immediately.

Link works, thank you!

Nice to see original hobby drama not just reposted from Reddit!

When I originally submitted the post and the following comments I could absolutely swear I had that photo in here. It seems to have disappeared so I just edited it back in and I hope it doesn’t disappear again. Good memory, by the way!

I read this when it was posted elsewhere and I love the writing style. The repetition of the sha of anger dies etcetc is just very good brain tickles

Same, and that’s a huge part of why I reposted it here. A few nice HobbyDrama articles went down, probably due to their user deleting them or getting banned from Reddit or something. This one has popped up in my brain a few times because of its good writing and I figured I’d like to save it here in case the original copy goes down like some other posts did.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

It’s 10:15pm, Eastern Standard Time.

The Sha of Anger dies, as it has done every 15 minutes for the past 10 years.

I stand among two hundred players of all classes, waiting for the second it takes for the game to assign loot with bated breath.

The loot window continues its animation for a half second longer than usual, telling me I’ve been awarded a piece of loot and the game is now rolling a second die to determine what I’ll receive from my class-specific table.

The window flashes to display the piece of loot that’s been selected for me.

I have received Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent.

It’s November 16, 2022, 10:00pm, Eastern Standard Time

After a day of anger, bargaining, and depression (which is honestly hilarious when you remember this is about dressing up virtual paper dolls) the WoW community is moving towards a resigned acceptance that Blizzard will stay silent. The Dracthyr that were lucky enough to kill the Sha in time will keep their mounts, the drop rate will stay as abysmally-low as it’s always been, and the world (of Warcraft) will spin on. For many, the prepatch experience has been soured slightly by the feeling that they’ve just missed their chance to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Then.

For the second time in as many days.

The unexpected happens.

Blizzard releases a list of hotfixes (small adjustments or bug fixes made to the game outside of a major patch) that went live a few minutes ago.

Buried among them, with no other mention of the chaos that has occurred over the last 24 hours, is one sentence:

“The drop chances for Son of Galleon’s Saddle, Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent, Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn, Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent, and Solar Spirehawk have been greatly increased.”

It is not clear what greatly increased means.

It doesn’t matter.

It’s 10:15pm, Eastern Standard Time.

The Sha of Anger dies, as it has done every 15 minutes for the past 10 years.

Two hundred players of all classes (although there are probably a few more Dracthyr, since it never hurts to hope a little) stand around its body. Each waits for the second it takes for the game to assign loot with bated breath.

Two players receive the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent.

The drop rate is ~1%.

After ten years spanning six expansions, the dream of the adventurers that first set foot on the shores of Pandaria so long ago are finally realized.

The Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent is farmable.

“Compared to all else that has happened, it is a small change to the timeline, and one of which I approve.”

-Nozdormu, Dragon Aspect of Time

Epilogue

So what of your humble narrator?

Well, dear reader, it’s not a HobbyDrama post without a little personal investment on the part of the author. For you see I was one of those players that stormed the shores of Pandaria more than ten years ago in hope of securing a Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent of my own.

When the community finally determined just how rare the mount truly was, I gave up on farming it. Instead, like Jibbles or Bodehn or that first Dracthyr, I limited my attempts to the occasional pitstop on my travels. I racked up a few hundred kills between my alts this way over the past 10 years, but like a person buying a Powerball ticket when the pot gets large enough, I had never seen these kills as anything other than a fun shot at a mount I never actually expected to get.

I was among those who suggested blizzard raise the rates to 1% over the years, as I don’t think any reward in a game like WoW should be so rare as to make it unfarmable. But much like with my occasional Sha kill, I never expected these recommendations to bear any fruit.

I was not, sadly, among the garish waves of sacrificial drakes that felled the Sha on that fateful evening of November the 15th. I’d played for about an hour when the patch went live and leveled my Dracthyr through the starting area, but as those second and third Dracthyr were first discovering that something had gone wrong, I was logging off for the evening.

When I woke up the next morning to news that I’d missed a coin toss for a mount I’d wanted for the past decade. I was bummed that I’d missed my chance, but happy for the players that had been luckier than I had. Glitches like these (and the stories that come with them) are part of what make patches fun, and at the end of the day we’re all just trying to make our virtual little paper dolls look as cool as possible. I expected Blizzard would ignore this glitch now that it was fixed. “Exploit early and often.” is a saying in the WoW community for a reason, after all.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the news that Blizzard had raised the drop rates, even if we didn’t know what they were yet. Like any good researcher I knew the only way to find out our collective odds was to contribute by adding yet another player to the kill data that is so critical to have, so I logged onto my character, flew to Kun-Lai Summit, and waited.

Next and final part here

I feel this also belongs in some technology community, just not sure which one. General technology? Is there something more specific that would fit?

Oh hey, an Mbin-hosted community! Always nice to see.

I’m not personally interested in this myself, but props to you for continuing on after Kbin died.

I appreciate that the sidebar manages to explain what this is for people out of the loop without linking to Reddit.

Because I am an idiot and it is actually !digitalgarden@lemmy.world