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Marlamin @marlam.in · 28/09/2026

Yeah, that was my point pretty much. Awaiting for overlays to address it, then.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 28/09/2026

Updating CEF alone won't fix that issue, is there confirmation it is related?

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 28/09/2026

Trigger warning: Elon Musk.

2 discord messages from me, "wow what a beautiful landscale <picture of untouched louisana landscape> it would be a shame if something happened to it" and a followup message saying "well shit <picture of elon musk stepping out of a helicopter>"

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 26/09/2026

This post perfectly explains what I was talking about a while back regarding developers that get sucked into AI losing their way and probably not even realizing it. blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/o...

blog.bustikiller.com

One month without AI

Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — ...

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 26/09/2026

The fair is in town but they're renovating the town hall (reopening July 2027!) so they had to squish it a bit more than usual. Heh.

A fair with fancy lights with a very ancient building in the middle being renovated

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 25/09/2026

Multi-line comments that are relatively equally aligned line break wise, some far too verbose for a real human to have written them. Human developers especially for throwaway projects like that usually don't bother commenting code to that degree.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 25/09/2026

*looks inside* *vibe-coded* Why am I not surprised? This time the greater good wins, so whatever. Feels like there's an easier more official solution to this, though. ;)

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 25/09/2026

Honestly, not really. :(

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Some new strings in Forever talking about in-game voice chat integration with Discord. Not sure if this is coming to Forever or if it is just Modern WoW stuff given the shared clients. We'll find out soon enough, maybe in a future 12.1.5 PTR build or with the release of the 12.1.7 PTR. Very neat!

$Diff showing the following voice chat strings: 60347 VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE Preferred Voice Chat Service 0x1 60348 VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE_DISCORD Discord 0x1 60349 VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE_LEGACY Legacy 0x1 60350 OPTION_TOOLTIP_VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE 0x1 60351 OPTION_TOOLTIP_VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE_DISCORD In-Game Voice (Discord)\n\nUses World of Warcraft's built-in voice chat powered by Discord when you are the group leader.\n\nYou can link your Discord account to inherit Discord keybind and volume settings (optional, under Social settings).\n\nOther players do not require a Discord account to join.\n\nDoes not support Text-to-Speech or Speech-to-Text. 0x1 60352 OPTION_TOOLTIP_VOICE_CHAT_SERVICE_LEGACY In-Game Voice (Legacy)\n\nUses World of Warcraft's older voice chat service when you are the group leader.\n\nUse this option if you require Text-to-Speech or Speech-to-Text. 0x1 60353 VOICE_CHAT_MODE_FORMAT Voice Chat: |cnHIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR:%s|r 0x1 60354 VOICE_CHAT_MODE_NONE None 0x1 60355 VOICE_CHAT_MODE_LEGACY In-Game Voice (Legacy) 0x1 60356 VOICE_CHAT_MODE_DISCORD In-Game Voice (Discord) 0x1 60357 VOICE_CHAT_MODE_CUSTOM Other 0x1 60358 VOICE_CHAT_JOIN_GROUP_TEXT This group is using voice chat for easier communication. 0x1 60359 VOICE_CHAT_JOIN_GROUP_DISCORD_TEXT Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text are not supported in this channel because it uses the Discord service. If you need these features, ask the party leader to switch voice chat to the Legacy service. 0x1 60360 VOICE_CHAT_JOIN_GROUP_BUTTON Join Voice Chat 0x1 60361 DISCORD_VOICE_TTS_STT_UNSUPPORTED Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text are not supported in this channel because it uses the Discord service. If you need these features, ask the party leader to switch voice chat to the Legacy service. 0x1$

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Spoiler: marlam.in/u/telabimlea... There was this image many leak seasons ago that did the rounds of what appeared to be a Kul Tiran soldier (pre-BfA) moving a crate of Tel'Abim bananas. Wasn't mine, but it stuck around as kind of a meme.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Made this guy in Blender a bit ago for fun. Really simple composition but I think he's chill and it was nice to do something remotely creative again. Might use him in some upcoming stuff. Anyone* know what it is a reference to? (*Datamining server users barred from guessing)

A green armored soldier holding a crate of bananas with a stack of bananas on the floor

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

It may run better/look fine for you, I wouldn't judge the quality of the overall game by the performance on just my PC. The story from what I did see looked interesting, at least.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Loved Control 1 and I'm sure I'd love this if it ran/looked better. Maybe I'll give it another chance in the future, but I could very well use that money for something else right now. <3 Remedy Entertainment, sorry.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Requested a refund for Control Resonant, first time I use that system but the performance just isn't there for me even though I'm above minimum requirements. Apparently you can fiddle with the settings but the render resolution was already noticeably lower as is. Game is too expensive for that.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Sarcasm aside, if you'd really want to change the landscape around spoiler culture/datamining for WoW: Forever you wouldn't be posting said spoilers even after it was mentioned elsewhere. Just admit it is your business model to spoil and own that, don't pretend otherwise. If it is not, simply stop.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 24/09/2026

Sorry guys, someone somewhere mentioned a thing they found in the Forever game files so now we're forced to spoil it too. We didn't want to write and make a whole news post about it, really. We're only doing this out of our well known journalistic integrity and would never post any spoilers first. 🙄

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 23/09/2026

May 2003 - 0.3.4.2953 June 2009 - 3.x.x.10000 (3.1.x/3.2.0) May 2015 - 6.2.0.20000 April 2019 - 8.x.x.30000 (8.1.5/8.2.0) Aug 2021 - 9.1.0.40000 June 2023 - 10.1.0.50000 March 2025 - 1.15.7.60000 September 2026 - 99.0.0.70000 (internal dev) The tradition is kind of ruined now. :(

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 23/09/2026

Another thing to add to the list of cool new/improved stuff to look at... www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhj...

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Increased weather effects are coming to WoW: Forever Beta Zones

YouTube video by World of Warcraft

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 23/09/2026

Surely they'll get paid 3 times as much.... right? Right?

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 23/09/2026

Ah yes, I love not seeing the same video as everyone else and (timestamped) comments possibly no longer making sense.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 22/09/2026

Wanted to get this out the door just so I could start on my new zone design blog post. It'll take a while, but it'll be good. Anyways, here's my review of all the panels I watched as well as BlizzCon as a whole (and a note interviews/lack of Retail openness). blog.marlam.in/blizzcon-202...

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BlizzCon 2026 review | Marlamin's blog

Wow, what a BlizzCon! I have a lot of thoughts and feelings to express, so here goes!

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 22/09/2026

Very much agree here, I've had my taste of fame with past projects and it is most definitely not for me. Just let me obsess about my little obsessions and hopefully find like-minded people in the process, but I don't want my takes, rants and info dumps to 'break containment' beyond that.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 22/09/2026

One thing I will say is that there was another study recently that showed reading ability/comprehension has also gone down significantly in children. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation but if bigotry is going up while cognitive abilities are going down... just saying. 🤔

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 21/09/2026

I hear that hypothetically Jellyfin 12 which released this month fixed most of the performance issues with large libraries. Or so I've heard.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

I still think the prices are pretty high, they should apply the "buy 1 for <special currency> and unlock ability to buy more with gold" thing here, imo.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

Force redownloading everything by deleting the Data folder (or just getting rid of MoP Classic with high-res textures) helps for now, but with all the unused modern crud in 1.60 I feel like this issue is going to get more common.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

My WoW install hit over 256GB in its Data/data folder a bit ago and Battle.net started constantly updating installs. Checked the index files and the files say that it should be able to go up to 1TB in theory, but that limit used to be 256GB. Wonder if something somewhere is still limited at that?

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

Yup. Feeling delves could be a great fit for initially exploring this without getting into dealing with rewards/player power. Won't be surprised if a variant that's a handful of delve maps with edit mode enabled in combination with showcases shows up at some point. Still a few steps to go, though.🙏

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

I truly hope they keep going down that path, both for the housing community as well as the wider WoW community. With the idea of "alternative" stories now also on the table with Forever, that opens up whole avenues of things they could explore together with UGC in the future. I hope they see that.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 20/09/2026

We are coming up on 1 year of WoW housing (I count testing) and the amount of creativity I've seen has surpassed all my expectations. So many talented artists out there and I can't wait to see whats made next. With housing, it feels like the Blizzard that is open to user-generated content is back.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 19/09/2026

This is still on my list too, I have it but just haven't started it yet. The short film and Jasika's performance are great, loved her in Fringe and glad to see she's still doing, well, Fringe stuff.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 19/09/2026

I just know if this were posted in the MMO-C speculation/hype thread pre-announcement it'd be seen as a crazy conspiracy theory and the person would be laughed out of the thread. I love it.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

As for console support, they do have an API now to detect if WoW is being run on a handheld platform, so the Rog Ally X is likely the kind of console they'd initially be aiming for (and future Xbox PC-based consoles/handhelds by extension given they run the same OS).

API diff showing C_Client.PlatformIsHandheld() function

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

Yeah, in terms of UIs Retail has many more complexities they'd have to support, so that'll probably not come anytime soon. I think it is like most Forever features, they'll see how it goes and then expand it to Retail if they deem it worth it. That said, hope some of it is in 12.1.7 for Talebound.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

IDK, they like keeping their Interface code shared and the amount of things they had to do for controller support touches on a lot of things. At the very least we'll likely see the APIs and improvements to the existing controller support coming over, even if e.g. the frontend changes are left out.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

There are a LOT of non-Forever assets in here and I really hope they clean up the build before launch as this is going to waste a bunch of disk space/download size. Not all of it is shared with Retail as almost all 11.1+ files are different versions compared to what is currently live.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

Based on some further detective work looking at which versions of files are in WoW Forever/1.60.1, I'm guessing that the latest branch-wide 'content' snapshot that it is based on was taken around January 2025. The version of Undermine is similar to what PTR started with and K'aresh is almost done.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

This is definitely true, but this is arguably worse. Changing course and going back on something that was said isn't necessary a failure and the community should learn that. WoW is a live service game (games?) and pretending things don't and shouldn't change is not something the community should do.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

They don't want to commit to anything yet because the Retail team rarely does and when they do they talk about it only right before it ships. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already working on it, maybe we'll even see it used in e.g. Northrend. One can hope.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 18/09/2026

It's both. What they meant in that interview is that it's new tech for the shared engine + it is hand crafted fog volumes, water flow and lighting tweaks and that it isn't just flipping a switch, but that it requires them to author these things for Retail as well (which has much larger world(s)).

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 17/09/2026

Another problem is BlizzCon interviews, which for some reason get scheduled before/during the announcements, so they aren't as useful as they could be and largely repeat what we already know. Anyways, I'll go into this more in the BlizzCon blog post coming at some point after things calm down.

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 17/09/2026

Not my usual positive post, but I think the Retail team need to adjust their PR strategy a little. Not only was the Q&A almost entirely a regurgitation of what was already answered, but the style of not actually answering the questions needs a fix (surprised some were even asked, props to Kaivax).

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 17/09/2026

I don't think that's necessarily the case, there's plenty devs including e.g. Maria that are more... forthcoming and willing to outright say stuff even if they adjust course later. It feels like game directors are more prone to not give answers, so maybe they shouldn't be in the foreground as much.

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