Mycroft 🍊🐰 @Mycroft@meow.social

when u boost ur own toots https://meow.social/media/98yjCo4bl7Agi19-lJ4

It's #introductions time again?

I'm Mycroft, but you can also use Myke or Mike. I'm a late 30-something #furry with interests including but not limited to:
* #dnd and other #tabletop #rpg, like #starfinder or #fate
* #transformers from time to time, usually memories of g1 cartoon or current IDW comics
* #🐰
* #WoW #warcraft #hearthstone
* not understanding kids these days
* various eclectic things that catch my interest from time to time
* semisecret weird furry porn kinks

Made a new character on a new server in WoW. Say hello to Inlétharn, tauren death knight, currently still a loyal subject of the evil Lich King.

My new "temporary" schedule at work is incompatible with the small guild raid time, and AIE never had raid times I could make. When I was raiding in the small guild, I couldn't do my preferred role, as they constantly had too many healers, and I don't enjoy feral druid dps. (Soloing is OK if I outgear content.)

I'm torn on which server to focus on to level my characters in the new xpac, and if I should shop around to find a guild more suited to my tastes, and how to do that.

I've got my characters split across two servers. Half are on Earthen Ring for the AIE megaguild, in which I feel lost in a crowd, and guild chat can flow by so quickly it's hard to take part. The other half are on Bloodhoof, which I joined an old TBC friend's guild to start raiding. They never talk in guild chat, it's a crapshoot to see who shows up for raids (including people signed up *and* the raid leader), and they use problematic slang.

I pretty much got my short bucket list complete. I got my new warrior to 110 and somewhat moderately geared (not enough to go to Argus LFR though). I got all my 110s through the new max-out-artifact-power quest chain.

I'm tempted to try for the guardian druid form on the mage tower, but I don't play tank at all.

Only other thing to work on might be leveling alts to have 110 of each class.

This is my friend's cat Angel. She is 20 years old today. Boost this toot to wish her a happy birthday! #mastocats

*always*

Sanic! at the Disco
https://drawception.com/game/Z19Y9PsQTk/sanic-at-the-disco/

TIL a good portion of the internet considers the new Voltron character Shiro a "dad", when to me he looks barely old enough to be an adult.

Weird how my aging changes my perspective.

The NES Mini is back! Or was back, for a hot second, before it sold out everywhere. They're just a Linux-powered chip running an emulator, so why not roll your own and have greater utility?

Ars Technica has a guide on putting together a Raspberry Pi powered system, both hardware and software, that's easy to use once set up.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/one-upping-the-nes-classic-edition-with-the-raspberry-pi-3-and-retropie/

me, riding a unicorn inside a giant hamster ball: Okay, now for my third wish...

Developers who re-used open source software in violation of license, to enable homebrew and "backup" content to be played on the Nintendo Switch, have implemented nasty DRM on their paid product.

Pirated piracy software has anti-piracy measures.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/switch-pirates-dont-want-you-to-pirate-their-piracy-enabling-firmware/

Barbie has had some troublesome times in the past with technology and teaching, but that's behind her, now that she's a Robotics Engineer. New doll from Mattel shows Barbie building her own mechanical friend, and comes with an introductory course on programming.

And the concept of Barbie isn't limited to a white girl anymore. She now comes in four different "hair colors".

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/28/math-class-is-tough.html

Old Lesbians Try New Lesbian Slang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMGSHUFID_8

They're a hoot, especially when they learn OWL means Old Wise Lesbian.

An animation just added to World of Warcraft this past Tuesday has triggered some seizures in sensitive individuals. Blizzard, makers of the game, are aware, and are looking into it.

In the meantime, a mod maker has released an addon that disables these animations. It can be gotten from reputable mod platform curseforge: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/disable-artifact-instability

More info about the effect (and how to temp disable without an addon) https://blizzardwatch.com/2018/06/28/empowered-artifact-weapon-animation-may-cause-seizures/