Here’s a question that occurred to me while I was walking home from the subway recently: What’s the average winning roll in a five-man group, assuming everyone rolls? That is, if you randomly chose five numbers between one and 100, what is the expected value of the highest one?
I know a bit of statistics, but [...]
A present? How lovely! Let me just open it and … oh, hey. It’s a very small gnome. In very revealing clothing. Okay, I appreciate the thought, but you obviously know nothing about my taste in gifts. Is Chris Hansen going to show up and ask me to take a seat? I hope you at [...]
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So when was the last time your holiday stocking was covered with Shadowfiends, tree form and daggers? [...]
The random dungeon finder is not only great for gearing up alts and getting mains the necessary badges to fill out their gear — it’s an amazing tool which forces an increase in the WoW community’s collective knowledge about instances and game mechanics. And while some of these game mechanics will be a discussion for [...]
In backchannel team discussion, Dan O’Halloran asked us to nominate our best stories for the year. “I don’t mean the most popular or even the most commented on,” he wrote, but “editorials, class columns, analysis, or even funny or touching posts,” the ones we were happiest and/or proudest of writing. I’d like to think that [...]
Zach is a Battlegrounds freak. Even if he doesn’t raid or quest or sell things at the auction house, he’ll make sure to get a small dose of Battlegrounds PvP to brighten up his day. You should, too. They’re like vitamins. Bloody, face-melting, honor-gaining, sword-clashing vitamins.
This little thing called patch 3.3 came out some time [...]
The story of the Culling of Stratholme is cool, the first time you do it. However after about the hundreth time it gets to be a bit much. And thanks to the random heroic dungeon finder, I practically have Arthas‘ speech memorized now; he and I yell in sync at the end of each run [...]
Our podcast reached the end of part one last weekend, as both Turpster and I announced that we’d be leaving the show. But we didn’t let it become a sad affair — Matthew Rossi and Chase Christian both joined us for some Warcraft discussion (including when it’s ok to votekick someone, and lots of Battered [...]
Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
Hang on, guys, while I reach back for my Drama Mamas hat … Just a sec, turning on my helm display … [...]