{"id":5348,"date":"2012-08-29T02:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:13:17","slug":"i-said-some-things-on-twitter-tonight-which-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5348","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5348 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5349#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9hw7nuDEB1roeliao1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5350#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9hw7nuDEB1roeliao2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I said some things on Twitter tonight which might have been taken out of context. I&#8217;m sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p>I play World of Warcraft on two computers: a MacBook from 2008 and a Mac Mini Server from 2011. The Mini is now my main computer; it&#8217;s the one in my standing desk, in front of my treadmill, and it&#8217;s a great computer. I&#8217;m really happy with it. It runs WoW fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My MacBook, though, is where I actually spend most of my time playing with other people. It&#8217;s the one that I&#8217;ll have with me during raid time, during evening pvp time, during times I want to relax and chill out. I started playing WoW on it, and it&#8217;s never run WoW very well &#8211; it has an integrated video card, the GMA X3100, which isn&#8217;t all that great &#8211; but it has run it. I was able to run the Beta on it, though when Diablo III came out and wouldn&#8217;t even install on it I knew it was nearing the end of life for a video game machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because I could run the Beta on the MacBook, I didn&#8217;t expect what I saw when I launched the 5.0.4 client tonight &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/wow\/en\/forum\/topic\/6413133605\">massive flickering<\/a>. Some character screens were &#8230; mostly there, others (gnomes, looking at you) were mostly not. Logging into the game is a disorienting experience &#8211; one instant the frame will be mostly normal, then the floor will drop out, or rise up, or be partly there. It&#8217;s an unpleasant experience. You can see the in-game experience above.<\/p>\n<p>I gave it a try, though, figuring that I could at least use it as a chat client. But then I noticed that my MacBook was hot. REALLY hot. So I downloaded a temperature meter and watched my CPUs go from 50 degrees C to 80-90, spiking up to 98.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no good. That&#8217;s going to fry the inside of an otherwise serviceable machine.<\/p>\n<p>So I closed WoW and uninstalled it from my laptop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My playtime just got dramatically cut. I log in occasionally during the day to fiddle about while on the treadmill or on a boring call, but I don&#8217;t go and run dungeons and BGs (except on lunch breaks.) I normally am on my laptop at night, because I&#8217;m trying to find a balance between being around my family and playing a video game, and now it&#8217;s either I go back into my office (where I&#8217;ve been all day) or I don&#8217;t play at all.<\/p>\n<p>Either I&#8217;ll get a lot more writing done this way, or I&#8217;ll get more treadmill time in, or I&#8217;ll just find something else to do. I&#8217;m not going to spend $2k on a new laptop just after buying a server. I&#8217;m just &#8230; not. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mean to alarm folks with some of the things I said on Twitter tonight. Everything I said was true, but without context it came off poorly. My laptop won&#8217;t run a game I really enjoy and comprises a big part of my online identity. I&#8217;m not cut off completely, but I am restricted, so my plans have to change. If you lose 15-20 hours of playtime a week, you have to adapt and be realistic about what you can and can&#8217;t accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>This is life, it happens. I&#8217;m not angry about it. I am surprised and unprepared, which I don&#8217;t like and don&#8217;t appreciate &#8211; but just because it looks bad now, doesn&#8217;t mean it will turn out bad.<\/p>\n<p>Life has a way of disguising gift horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said some things on Twitter tonight which might have been taken out of context. I&#8217;m sorry about that. 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