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New comment by lachtan in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

lachtan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:43:56 +0000

Payment to devs could be considered profit, but profit for the actual people, not the project as a whole and its owners. Also, remember, it's still work, even if it's work on a game. There are reasons not to call pay you get from work "profit"

New comment by lachtan in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

lachtan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:36:54 +0000

In WoW specifically, I'll chime in with some things I know about: - the WoW client contains a lot of stuff in their DBC (DataBase Client) files (for example spells and their effects, talents, achievements, etc), which you can extract (the file formats used are basically unchanged and well known since first WoW came out) - the client also uses WDB Cache files which contain things the player has encountered (creatures, items, quests), and volunteer players then send these files to projects like TrinityCore (probably the best known server emulator), which use them to build databases - for dungeon/boss scripting specifically, there's a lot of guilds competing for "world firsts" on official servers who collect a ton of information about boss behaviour, they then use that to develop addons, which help their players when actually doing the boss. then, when you want to implement the boss scripting in TrinityCore (or other emulator), these addons provide a decent starting point for things like abilities and their times, boss phases, etc. afterwards, volunteers report differences they encounter on official servers vs emulators in boss behavior

New comment by lachtan in "Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit"

lachtan — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:30:31 +0000

I feel like I've heard of a rule that there must always be at least two (or maybe exactly to) people in a cockpit in any given time to guard against this as well as hijacking and stuff, am I imagining this or missing something?

New comment by lachtan in "Zoom.us is down"

lachtan — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:17:48 +0000

Same for us, we're hosting 3 events right now, neither seems to be working, nor can we log in to their website.