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Morons of the week
It doesn't matter if cobalt sells for more, saronite looks cooler. It doesn't matter that it's easier to get, he has time. It doesn't matter if guildies spoon-feed him the information. If someone is a moron, you can't do anything (by Rejuvinator): It seems Mammoth cutters will be the next ...
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The most annoying pictures
You come to some blog or news site for information. But instead you get a nice advertisement: [If you see no annoying picture, you are most probably reading this via RSS reader, please visit the blog in your browser]. The picture is annoying as the guy in the PuG with 1000DPS and the ...
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Surgeons and goblins
Tobold asked (long ago) a question that is asked thousand times before: why do bankers, business-leaders (not owners but managers), marketing gurus make more money than doctors or engineers in nuclear plants? The primitive answer is demand and supply: I don't have to pay that much for a doctor ...
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The pro version of "I farmed for free"
greedygoblin.blogspot.com — I didn't think that I will ever link anything on his blog, but hey Markco can surprise... me. He made up a perfect example for the pro version of "I farmed for free". The primitive version is that the idiot goes out, spend hours farming, then craft ... (more) The pro version of "I farmed for free"
Wailing and Deadmines on 19
As I already posted , the first bosses of both Wailing Caverns and Deadmines were done by Golmeg on lvl 19. Now I continued the instances. My girlfriend cleared the parts that were done last time and I've continued. Skum and Lord Serpentis were easy kills. Serpentis hits hard, but DoTs kill him ...
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The ability to act
Miss Medicina suggested to try to solo something with a non-pet class. Since I already had a lvl19 priest twink (add BoA chest, shoulder, staff, trinket), I thought I go to RFC first. I killed one (1) boss, Oggleflint and left. Not because I couldn't go forward. Because it was terribly boring ...
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Morons of the week
Cranberry of Runetotem found another genius: Jason found the classic, glyphseller telling you how to price. I love how they always ignore the "if the price is too low buy them and resell" line. I start to think that they are not morons, they just hope that the recipient is moron, follow their ...
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Bakers of the week
Croissants are so last year! If you want to run a successful bakery all you need are spiced bread and morons! Alan sold them only for 1G, way below their Real Value TM . I'm surprised he did not get whispers from other sellers! Xandros of Bloodscalp EU also made a moderate (678471%) profit on ...
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Whitopias and mature guilds
There is a rising ultra-nationalist party in my country, and many nationalist or even blatantly racist parties or movements rise around the world. Yet I could not really say anything smart about it. Like most educated people, I believed that nationalism and racism are simply ape subroutines ...
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Over a million
I was too busy with ideas, comments and sometimes even RL that always gets in the way, that I managed to pass another milestone. I passed it on Nov 9, but didn't notice it back then. This blog is beyond 1 million visits, also 1.6M pageviews and 220K individual visitors. Of course it means ...
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Arugal must die ... before 20!
When I started seeking challenging content outside of raid instances and found soloing low level dungeons I was pretty much noob in it. Clearing WC (lvl 20 endboss) with 2 lvl 24 characters? It seemed hard, but was easily done . RFC (lvl 16 endboss) at lvl 18 alone was harder, but still doable ...
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Inelastic demand and supply
There is a common belief among several AH players, that certain items have inelastic demand (and sometimes even supply) curves, meaning that increasing or decreasing the prices does not significantly affect the number of items bought. In such case it's the best to increase the prices as high as ...
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The level of animals
Some of my comments make me think. Others make me laugh. Some are so bad that it deserve its own post. Behold Peter who added his wisdom to my Friday post: To every "person of subnormal intelligence", including Gevlon who think that savings should be made by anyone with a brain and a job ...
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Morons of the week, part 2
There is almost no week without someone making a thread in the official forums about undercutting. (by Denethal) People beware of Kellibundy's powers! (by Fifththird) Buying a single strange dust for 100G is bad enough already. Don't make it worse by begging the gold back from the seller! ...
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Morons of the week
Do they mean it? Are they that stupid? I can't figure it out (by Fragmaggot): It began with a /trade LF engineer to craft bike If you learn from morons, you'll be one (by Bonewalker): Note: if you sell lower, you surely sell quicker. One could debate if it wouldn't sell higher. But claiming ...
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Orbs, tankards and CDS-es
Look at these sales! Aren't they beautiful? No, they are not! I bought the damn things for 2500G. I had 8 of them! Yep, there goes 12000G. Almost the price of the stupid Mammoth. Way to make some profit! The plan was to buy them on reset day (of week 4 ToC), and resell them for profit in the ...
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What crisis is?
"Why do people talk about crisis? There is no crisis at all!" That's what my girlfriend comments every time she goes to the mall. There are people buying stuff, just like yesterday, a week ago or a year ago. These times I used to cite different statistics, but she dismiss them as "there were ...
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What only free market can do
A reader linked this post about free markets. It claims that the value of the free market is not that it motivate people by their greed but other things. I can only agree with that. The communist countries those workers who didn't work enough were deported as "traitors". Beat that motivator. ...
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No means no!
greedygoblin.blogspot.com — I get such e-mails every week. Usually they are bots under some female name, wanting link exchange... or embed ads to my site. I usually delete them without consideration. If they seem to be a human-written letter from someone I've heard of, I decline. ... (more) No means no!
Different challenges
Spinks gave me lot of thinking with this old post of hers. She said "it speaks to something in player mentality where someone who levels naked (in game) or beats Ulduar in blue gear will be widely respected, whereas a group who go into a raid instance ‘blind’ so that they can figure out the ...
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