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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ashes of Belo'ren. It's really neat to see in-game. I suspect it will be a popular mount to solo farm for two expansions from now.

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Star Anvil Studios @staranvil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Its October so it must be time to launch another Secret World Kickstarter! The Secret World: Europe will be launching soon. Follow to get notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The right side one. The left side one feels more like a casual top to wear around the house or for low key social meet-ups with friends. The middle one feels more like a 'business casual' top or part of the dress itself. The other two feel more like an addition to the dress.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You matter. Even when life forces you down the darkest roads, please remember there are points of light around you that you might not be able to see at the moment. I hope you can always find the help, hope, and strength to keep you moving forward each day to a better place.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love pieces like this: a character being playful and having fun. It gives things a comfortable intimacy that puts a smile on a person's face. :)

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish Blizzard would fix the issue, but I suspect MoP Classic isn't on their radar for this sort of sporadic bug. That's too bad as I like to have the versions of Wow around that I've played in case the mood strikes to go back. Even on unlimited internet, that download size is too much to accept.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had to uninstall #wow Mists of Pandaria Classic. It had started wanted to update all the time. 18GB updates each time. Yeah, no. I did the things suggested about fixing it, uninstall/reinstall MoPC & uninstall Battle.net, purge temp folders, and reinstall, but it would go right back to updating.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That reminds me so much of the 'attract mode' of Ultima V. :)

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd like to tell you not to worry, but I think that is impossible for any creator who cares about their work. You see all the ways you imagine you could improve it. We see your work as a thing of beauty & are happy. :) Thank you, but please don't rush to do commissions. Do them when you are ready.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really enjoy your work. I'm hoping one day you'll reopen your commissions because I'd love to have you do a picture of my Pandaren monk. Your work is never subpar. As long as you like it and the person you might have drawn it for are happy, then you're a success no matter who might see it.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd never heard of her or the song. Then again I haven't listened to the radio in over 25+ years. The moment I could listen to the music I liked and not what the big radio conglomerates wanted to shovel at me was the 'Death of Radio' for me.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The heat death of the universe will be caused by some install of RealPlayer continuing to buffer. ^_^

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026

A new cat has been discovered in Bolivia, the first time in over a century that scientists have confirmed a new feline species. Named Leopardus tilcayo, the cat weighs roughly five pounds and has a light brown coat patterned with dark rosettes.

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New cat species discovered in Bolivia for first time in over 100 years

Named Leopardus tilcayo, the new cat looks not unlike a leopard that shrank to the size of a house kitten.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You're not the only one. Time to install the beta client and enjoy that ever so exciting login queue. Now if Blizzard could only solve that problem...

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“It doesn’t bend that way!” I can still hear all of XT’s voice lines even today. Ulduar is one of my favorite raids in Wow.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So far it feels like Blizzard is trying to fire on all cylinders across all of their franchises. This is a good thing to see.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I feel for many of these opening ceremony presenters at Blizzcon. So many of them just do a terrible job at getting you excited about their games. Doing well at these types of presentations take a lot of time & effort to pull off. Hopefully the actual panels do a better job of generating excitement.

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Yllande @yllande.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today's my birthday! 🎂 If you've enjoyed my art this year, a like or retweet would mean the world. Thank youuu! 🤍

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Of course, the 50% rep buff starts the day _after_ I finish grinding out Steamwheedle rep... :sigh: (Now's the time to work on any rep you want to build (pre-12.1 reps.) #wow

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Done: Insane in the Membrane. #wow

The World of Warcraft achievement, Insane in the Membrane. It requires seven hard to level reputations.

Darkmoon Faire, which only happens once a month for a week.
Ravenholdt, which means killing mobs until Honored. After that you have to turn in 1440 Heavy Junkboxes, which can only be pick-pocketed by a rogue. Luckily the junkboxes can be mailed to other characters.
Bloodsail Buccaneers, which only needs to be at Honored. The catch is that raising your Bloodsail rep wrecks the four sub-factions of the Steamwheedle Cartel.
Steamwheedle Cartel (Booty Bay, Everlook, Gadgetzan, and Ratchet). Leveling these back up from 0/36,000 Hated means killing lots and lots of Southsea Pirates at five / two rep points per pirate. (Five for Gadgetzan and two for the other three). You're going to have to kill close to 30,000, yes, 30,000 pirates to go all the way to Exalted. 84,000 rep points in total.

This is why the title is "the Insane".

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nothing I'm writing is new or original. I just wanted to clarify my thoughts. I dislike certain people pushing LLMs everywhere as if they only had a hammer and saw everything as a nail. But I also dislike people who act as if LLMs can be made to go away only if we all stuck our head in the sand.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So... as a matter of self-preservation for our computer systems we need LLMs to keep digging through our computer code, our computer systems and finding all the bugs and flaws. That way we can fix the problems before people use those LLM-found holes for their dishonest purposes.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Now, to look at LLMs from another viewpoint. When it comes to *software*, I'm in favor of LLMs simply because the genie there is long out of the bottle. Whether we like it or not, LLMs are being used by everyone to break computer systems. We can't even keep current LLMs inside their sandbox.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I want to interact with things people put their hearts into. Things that let me make a human connection to their work. I want to see how they view the world, not something built on a statistical model over what the company stole and feed into their LLM. I want the real thing, not an imitation.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

AI, more specifically LLMs are a, duh, contentious issue. As a content consumer, I don't want to see LLMs used for traditionally creative work. I want to see human art, hear human music, read human stories, play human games. It's the imperfections of human creativity that pulls me in.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very much recommended for improved sleeping, plus if you have heart issues in your family it lessens the risk of heart problems. Also, if you don't like the existing face mask for the CPAP you can get a 'nasal pillow' for just your nose. That's what both of us use on our CPAPs.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

when I brought it back in. A much easier process. Our insurance paid for both units. Basically, as long as we used our CPAP machines five hours a night for the first month the insurance would cover the costs of the units. It has made a big difference in both our quality of sleep.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When my wife had her sleep study done, she did it at the sleep study group at the hospital. It was basic have pads like an EKG attached, plus wear a mask. She stayed overnight there for the study. When I had mine done they sent a CPAP machine home with me and took the readings off the machine (1/x)

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So, the #wow Armory now includes all the versions of Wow Classic. That's really nice when you want to check on something without need to logout of one version into another. (Now if I could right-click on the system tray icon to launch any of the versions of Wow...) www.wowhead.com/classic/news...

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are dozens of us Pandaren players, dozens of us! ;-)

My female Pandaren Monk, Riushi. She's my current primary character in World of Warcraft.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ulduar. Another stellar trailer from Hurricane. youtu.be/viFhb2PDuYA?...

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Ulduar Trailer 2026

YouTube video by Hurricane

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

FYI: You can press the Eye icon in the lower left by the Back button to hide most of the UI. You would still need to black out character names if you wanted, but it does make for a nicer screenshot. It's one of those little things that's easy to miss. I did until someone told me about it.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That is going to be the most painful part of the grind for the Insane title. At least repeating the same actions over and over makes the bars[1] go up. ;) [1] Steamwheedle Cartel is made up of four separate subfactions. At least as you raise one it bleed over to the others and gives you some rep.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So... Riushi is now Exalted with Ravenholdt. The last quest turn-in was for one reputation point because the 280 previous quest turn-ins only got her to 20,999 or 21,000 needed. Now for Steamwheedle Cartel where I need around 84,000 reputation points to go from rock bottom Hated to Exalted.

The text on the screenshot reads:
Junkboxes Needed completed.
Reputation with Ravenholdt increased by 1.
You are now Exalted with Ravenholdt.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm going to ignore the count and pretend that one giant cup of noodles. :)

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Then you had to make sure your DOS / Windows settings matched what the hardware was actually set (jumpered) as. Heaven forbid if you added something 'exotic' like SCSI to your system. You would be tetris-ing things at several levels hoping you wouldn't have to touch it again.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Scout, chilling and watching me get ready for work this morning. Scratching under his chin gave me his blurbling purr. Seriously, when he purrs he sounds like a burbling brook. He's a big, muscular boy who weighs around 15 pounds (6.8kg) and is generally a sweetheart. #cat #box #chill

Scout, a ginger tom cat is chilling in a packing box. He fills the rectangular box and has his head laying on one corner with a paw up on one of the longer flaps. All is content in his world.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ah, surreal mornings. I am getting ready for work and my youngest is listening to a video about embalming from a lady who is quite enthusiastic about her work...

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

That's going to be the long, painful slog to grind out 84,000 rep points to Exalted 10 or so rep points per mob. (Plus any rep quests I haven't done.) Still, Bloodsail was quicker than doing Winterspring Frostsabers back in BC. That took around 20 to 24 hours, with the Thanksgiving rep buff.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

After rampaging through Booty Bay for four or five hours I hit Exalted with Bloodsail. Given the Booty Bay Bruisers don't scale to your level any more you can just gather them up and AoE them down reasonably easily. Of course my Steamwheedle Cartel rep hit 0 (out of 36,000) Hated.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I figured if I was going to hit Exalted in Bloodsail I ought to make sure I didn't accidentally screw it up. That took a couple of hours (screw you OOX/HL drop :P). After the Stranglethorn & Booty Bay quest chain I was around 29,000 Hated by Bloodsail. So not too bad of a place to start from.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm doing this on my Monk, Riushi, as she's my highest geared character and can do decent AoE. I was already around 19,000 Revered in DMF so being the token quest items & doing the profession quests maxxed that out. Then I did all the rep quests that could tank Bloodsail rep.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The next step of the Insane title done. (Darkmoon Faire rep basically being a gimmee at this point). Now I have to repair and get all my goblin rep to exalted. I didn't need to hit Exalted as Honored would do for the achievement, but I might as well max the rep while I was grinding it. #wow

A reputation bar in World of Warcraft: Bloodsail Buccaneers. The bar is maxxed out at Exalted. Once this was very difficult, but now it is mostly tedious to do.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The motor for the air conditioner has been fixed. While the inside temperature probably won't be back to normal until tomorrow morning, the added humidity from today is getting removed. I have invested in a pair of tower fans which I'm finding I like better than the traditional square box fans.

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our air conditioner isn’t working. It died last weekend, but nothing was done until today when we have a triple digit (40+ Celsius) heat index warning. Hopefully it will be fixed quickly. This is not an endeavor I want to be sweaty about. 😉

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Pallais @pallais.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My absolute favorite is the Vanilla version of Azshara. There's something about lonely places with the riot of autumn colors Azshara had. In the post-Cataclysm world, it would be Feralas as I love a good forest, though Zul'Drak can call me as I like a lot of the music there.

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