In Which Gevlon Succinctly Sums Up the Essence of the Holy Trinity of Tank/Heal/DPS

Tank and healer needs SOME skills. Not much, but still. DPS doesn't need ANY skills. 5-mans from RFC to HC-HoR can be done even if 1-2 DPS are facerolling in ungemmed-unenchanted gear. And that's exactly what they do. If they would be tanks or healers, the group couldn't get past the first trashpack.

The game consist of
10% tanks
10% healers
30% DPS
50% Utter crap who queue up as DPS.

 

A comment from Tobold's post Nobody Wants to Play With You!

~_o The goblin strikes!

Guild Wars 2, please don't break my heart. :(

Fowl Slander!

Repeatedly have the ignorant brought this inglorious slander to Our attention, this libel perpetuated by those fearful of Our golden goodness, Our chickenny tastiness, Our apotheosis of all things juicy and battery.

For I say to ye, doth yon pink python in any way resemble Our juicy chickenny bits of succulent goodness, coated by Our beauteous golden crisp?

Fie unto he who would claim so, for verily, but order one of Us in the Sacred Temple of the Golden Arches, and ye shall see (and taste) that it be not so.

Scaling | Kill Ten Rats

If you hit for 5 damage each time and your opponent has 100 hit points, you are weak and low level, and combat is slow. If you hit for 500 damage each time and your opponent has 10,000 hit points, you are powerful and high level, and combat is epic. I hypothesize that most people have trouble conceptualizing division.

Adam Phillips on the happiness myth | Books | The Guardian

We all want to be happy, we want our children to be happy, and there are countless books advising us how to achieve happiness. But is this really what we should be aiming for?

Interesting stuff on the nature and pursuit of happiness, and whether the pursuit of happiness *should* be a right.

After all, lopping off the legs of a live dog (or substitute sentient creature of your choice) and then chomping on the bloodied spasming toes might make me incredibly happy, but there might just possibly be something wrong with making the pursuit of that particular type of happiness a right.

(Of course, if you're a Rot Wallow, that makes it all okay.)