Miscellaneous Points on a Saturday
Bunch of junk that didn’t really fit anywhere… and… go!
Real ID
Holy crappo, this is a good thing. Now you can opt-out of friend-of-friend and facebook and still use Real ID – or opt out of Real ID entirely without behaving like a child.
FYI, I will still be opting out of Real ID entirely. People who know my real name IRL can find me regardless.
I have discovered that there is no way from within parental controls to just disable parental controls from my account now that I don’t need them anymore to disable Real ID. Annoyance! And I can only change Real ID settings, should I wish to do so, from within parental controls, and not at all the “normal” way that adults can. More annoyance.
I even tried giving my "child" full privs to see if I could disable parental controls by using them for absolutely nothing and being the most permissive parent on earth. No dice. I still get this message if I try to fiddle with Real ID settings normally.
I’ve contacted Blizzard and hopefully it won’t be too much of a pain to get them removed. It’s just the principle of the thing – I don’t want to potentially miss out on something later on because my account is flagged as belonging to a child.
The Future of Grid
Ok, I don’t care if 4.0 is going to drop next week or in a bajillion years – I know, I have faith, that there’s gonna be Grid (even if it’s not ready for 4.0 now) so I’m gonna continue publishing my Grid articles like nothing’s going on.1 And I know that plugins will be updated and prevail. Healbot and Vuhdo, you evil second-rate losers, you will NOT win this round.
Blog Junk
Because, you know, if you’re reading in a feed reader, you won’t notice any of this stuff on your own.
New/Updated Pages
Guides
We’ve “cleared the decks” so to speak to make way for post 4.0/Cata information on the class guides page which will be filled with yummy updated guides as they become available. Don’t worry, the old guides page is still available for your convenience.
Also, we’re gonna try out a new compilation page for raid and instance strats. It’s pretty barren at the moment, but as reports come in, it will be filled.
Did you find a guide or article for 4.0 that we should add? Please let us know!
Addons
Ok, addons are SRS BZNS here. In addition to ye olde Healer Addons page, we now have the Grid Page (for all articles on this site relating to Grid) and Zelmaru’s Addons page, because, you know, you all want to be like me. ATT plans to make his addon page (for magey/warriory stuff) when he sorts out his post-4.0/cata addon list.
Extremely important bees
And of course, the BEE PIT now has its own page. Because it’s important. For tossing people.
If you want to contribute art to the bee pit or want us to link a bee pit article you’ve done, please let us know.
Other Site Stuff
Flydown Menus Totally Not In the Theme
All those pages listed above? Yeah they’re on flydown menus. From a plugin. And I styled the CSS myself, yo. It looks bad-ass cause it matches the sidebar headers. There was also a lot of swearing involved.
For you mobile readers out there, you may not be able to browse our pages through the awesomeness of the menus, but you do have your very own Site Pages index, available, as always, in the mobile theme.
Deep Thoughts Rotating Quotes
Our awesomest quotes rotate on the home page. They link to the articles in which we said such awesome things. You will be mesmerized.
- Since I started writing them already and I’m not about to scrap perfectly good work. ↩
Vuhdo, an evil second-rate loser? Them’s fightin’ words! Don’t you know not to bring up politics, religion, or healing addon of choice in polite company?
I didn’t notice you defending Healbot, eh?