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Short answer: money.
Long answer: if you e.g. already have a character in WoW that you've spent 100 hours on, you're more likely to return to play WoW in the future than if you had to start all over again from scratch. Preventing you from losing all the time you've already spent in Blizzard's games by completely deleting your account, they're hoping to retain a higher chance of you returning some day.

This is the 2nd out of season April fools joke they've pulled.

This was reported on reddit as well as Twitter:
 
This was also reported on Blizzard forums to which a moderator responded by saying:
 
 
A gaming website reported on it and stated the following:
 
 
Apparently, some people cannot even delete their accounts even after following proper procedures because of their geographical location. This is from a Reddit user belonging to the thread I linked above
 
 
Thoughts:
Very troubling. I am unsure on as to what Blizzard is planning. I have never seen this kind of behavior before from a U.S company. I want to avoid making this thread political so please fight the urge if possible and discuss.

I've been really enjoying MrSuicideSheep's progressive house mixes:
They make excellent chill background music.

Cards in the UK are ALL chip & pin and have been for ages, they're even trialling ones with fingerprint chips in them. You can use contactless pay with these cards on transactions under £30, over that and you need to enter your pin. I think it's the same across the whole of Europe now.
 
Because of the RFID in cards, I got myself a wallet that blocks the signal so no one could stand behind me and try to read the card data... I recommend everyone does that.

i'm waiting for more digital wallet things
 
one thing i like about china is basically the 2 most used payment forms are cash, and digital wallet(WePay from wechat, AliPay)

Wait-- The Apple Credit cards are still using Magstripes? In 2019? Bloody hell,  as an Australian this blows my mind. We've been on chip-and-pin for years.

Yeah, no thanks. One wallet destroying hobby is enough for me.... 

Sooooo, after a incredibly stupid amount of testing by myself, bribing a two man horde of drunk IT-friends
and months of dispair incl. questioning my sanity it turned out to be a classic RTFM moment.
 
 
yep
 

 
 
 
 
 
Aaaaaanyway, PC runs as should, it is hanging on my wall and I finally installed and played Witcher III, game of the year 2017.
(The game most appropriate for this build, which you realise when you scroll aaaaaaaall the way up and read the time stamp of the first entry of this topic)
 
 
But does it keep its cool?
The main question of this build though was always; will the cooling fins deliver enough cooling capacity to a system on fire?
Gondor called for help, so I lit the combined beacon of Furmark and CPU Burner to see what happens.
 

 
I ran both tests at the same time to simulate a heavy load which would never occure in a real world application.
The GPU stayed surprisingly cool while the CPU was much hotter, but concerning the load not too much either.
I wonder if anyone has an idea as to why the GPU is so much cooler.
The temps rise faster at the beginning and as the pump starts to work more the curve flattens.
It ramped up to 4700 RPM at the end. Unfortunately I did not record the RPM at each data point.
 
The hotter the cooling fins get, the bigger the difference to ambient temperature (room at 21°C) and the
better the cooling efficiency.
Compared to an forced air cooled system, the mass of the cooling fins, pipes and about 3.5 liters of cooling liquid makes
a big difference. This is why I think the system needed a full 1.5h to reach thermal max. as there was a lot of
thermal mass to be "filled" first.
I guess you could just hook up a water loop to a 200L rainbarrel and run your PC savely for at least 10 hours.
Good idea for an episode of "bad cooling ideas", right @Linus?
 
At around 1h 30mins it seemed to me that the CPU's temperature had reached a plateau.
Within 20 minutes it only went up 1 °C.
I turned the burners off to see how the system would cool down. (graph past 90 minutes)
 
 
 
Thermal Imagery
The surface temperature was monitored with a FLIR camera module for a smartphone. It is the cheapest way
to get thermal imagery. Looking at the gray graph you see some irregularities, which I think are due to the
"cheap" module. A curve is noticable, but there are some peaks like around 45mins, which seem out of place.
 
 
To visualize I recorded the whole test in a thermal video timelapse. This shows the full 2 hours of the test.
 

20191010 Wall PC time lapse.MP4  
 
 
You notice that some of the elements stay cold.
This is because whereever there is an angle fitting, the brackets which transport the heat from the copper
pipes to the cooling fins couldn't be installed. If you count the big squares as one full cooling element then
there are a total of 19 elements. Of these, 4.5 are not used (marked blue), which is 23.7% of them. So there is almost
a quarter of the potential wasted. But at least it looks sexy
At the beginning I wanted to use solid copper blocks where the pipes would go into directly, eliminating the
need for angle fittings and providing a much more direct and efficient heat transfer. But as mentioned earlier, that
would have been 70kg more and something like 1000 bucks in copper alone.
I am glad the cooling capacity is enough nevertheless, but it made me think how I could have activated the
unused elements.
 

The diagram only shows the copper loop, not the flex tube loop to the pump in the back.
 
 
The pic below shows the two different mounting ways.

 
 
 
 
 
I will come back with photos of the finished product.
I'm still working out how to do the backlighting.
Does anyone know a good LED strip system which I
can hook up to the PC?
I need about 5m of strip though. So all these solutions
with 50cm long LED strips from PC tuners don't really
do it or are too expensive.

that's why you shouldn't cross the streams!!!!!! (FYI, another mod merged while I locked the other thread and wrote a message!  )

God is the ultimate programmer. I'm a big fan of The Universe beta.

source: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/10/08/ransomware-bitcoin-hacker-cryptocurrency-muhstik-rekt/
 
Great job by battleck who cares if it isn't technically legal he just saved a bunch of people from having to pay ransom to criminals. For most people who don't have important files they shouldn't pay the ransom and encourage the hackers. I know there's no files on my computer worth 0.09 bitcoins unless the price of bitcoins crash dramatically.

Got an MX Master 3 to replace my dying M500

This is exactly what @wasab is saying they should do.  Teaching is not merely presenting the material, but ensuring that it is understood.  This is done by giving examples in class, answering questions in class, and providing office hours for additional help.  It is confirmed via tests.  
 
Y'all are arguing the same point at each other, yet still miscommunicating greatly.

Got an MX Master 3 to replace my dying M500

That has been a thing with graphs for a long time. It would make no sense to have them start at 0, you would not see a difference between them, they would all be pretty much the same length.
 
Having them start at higher up the scale augments the tiny differences between the numbers, so you can better grasp them.
 

20% price cut would be nice.

If they could not be puttin a 5400 rpm drive in their new iMac, that would be neat.

i partly agree with blizzard, the player shouldn't have used his platform to express political views, even though i hate what the Chinese government is doing with Hong Kong.
 
but it also seems like blizz is picking sides.
 
i also admire blitzchung for standing up for what i believe is right though.
 
also tencent has too much of a stake in like everything

Then maybe they could should allow crossplay, but still keep the controller discrimination? (Mind blown) essentially, someone playing on a pc with a controller has no massive advantage over someone playing on console with a controller, so why not just open it up so people can play together, with the existing input restrictions.

I don't know, sounds pretty piracy to me. ?‍♂️

Woke up to my thread being combined with like 4 others and a crap ton of notifications ??
 
Actually thought I was popular for a minute ?

*goes out in public nude, gets arrested*
STOP OPPRESSING MY COSPLAY LIFESTYLE