u/GWindborn

I have a rough idea of the genre and lore just from video games and Cthulhu and Innsmouth and that sort of thing being in the zeitgeist. I had read "At the Mountains of Madness" previously and I'm re-listening to it as a free podcast. I'm pretty sure I went through "The Call of Cthulhu" a long time ago. I'm a fan of creepy/horror pods like The Magnus Archives, TANIS, The Lovecraft Investigations, etc. (I just binged through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and need something new to fill the void.)

What's a good place to start, and what's a good listening order? If there are free podcast versions of things available, who are some of your favorites? I like the Mountains of Madness narrator I'm listening to but the audio balance is way off so I have to turn him way up, which makes the inevitable switch to commercials obnoxiously loud.

Arin was having a blast with the berry game. I was having a blast watching. The show is more about them having fun and the funny commentary than the game they're playing - to me, anyway. I don't think anybody tunes in because Arin is the world's greatest gamer, we tune in because we enjoy their personalities and their banter and the jokes that come out of the game's nonsense. I understand - "the algorithm".. I just wish they didn't have to jump from thing to thing to thing.

There are Americans in both series, but I don't know if they ever discuss language barriers. I could understand if someone like Star and Stripe learned Japanese due to her connection with All Might, but Captain Celebrity and his wife, not to mention all the fighter pilots?

Yes I know there are sites for this sort of thing, but I have some specific questions and I'd like to have folks experienced I can bounce questions off of if needed so thanks in advance! :)

I came back to WoW after a multi-year haitus and my friends are on TBC. I played the Druid to the 30's over the last couple weeks so I know how it works, and then I boosted to 58 from there. I had never played it in a group, so I only know how to solo really. I'm levelling up specifically to fill the Boomkin spot in their smallish raid group, so I'd like to not be too much of a novice when I get to that point.

The breakdowns I've seen just say to maintain Faerie Faire and cast Starfire over and over? Is that.. really it? No Wrath, no Moonfire, no Swarm?

What else can I be doing? We've done a couple dungeons and I've been asked to Innervate before so I have that locked and loaded, and I've had to emergency heal a time or two.

Should I bother to maintain Swarm and Moonfire DOTs or are they a waste in big group content?

As for soloing in my 60's to level up, getting up to my 30's and feeling out the character, I had been opening with Starfire, hitting Swarm and Moonfire, then Wrathing them down. (I know levelling as Balance isn't popular, but I figured I'd rather try it than Feral since that was what this character was ultimately going to be.) I haven't bothered with Faerie Fire solo since most of my damage is casting. Is that the ideal solo rotation or what should I be doing differently?

Itching for the next installment of the Ghost Hunters Adventure Club. Is he still writing or did he finally get arrested?

The game always starts fine, but after playing for a while clicking out of the window to Discord or something will cause a black screen for several seconds. On top of that I can't change any graphics settings within the game because it will black out and the timer to revert the settings will time out before it comes back up, so I can't confirm any changes. It then seems to follow me outside of WoW and I end up having to reboot my computer entirely.

Things I've tried: Disabled all overlays from Discord. Edited the config file as seen in older suggestions from Google. Checked my drivers. Changed from DX12 to DX11. Thought all was well after that but then it blacked out again and my monitor light and display indicated it had No signal, like I'd switched it to a different input with nothing coming through.

I can't change from Windowed (Fullscreen) to normal Windowed because of the issue I mentioned earlier. It's not a cable issue. It ONLY happens with WoW.

It isn't passing the sniff test but they keep responding to messages and say they're visiting from another country. They want to pre-pay with Venmo or Zelle. This is my first Marketplace experience so I'm not sure what to do here.

Edit: Thanks all, going with my gut and just blocking them

I set up a Roblox account specifically to play with my daughter but for some reason her chat comes up as a lock with **** for everything she says. I understand it's some kind of age verification thing even though she's "Trusted". How can we fix this?

If my connection is bad, just say so. I'm sitting in my office and I'm showing 5G+ with 4 bars of cell and nothing works. Internet won't load, no phone calls out, nothing. This isn't uncommon, I'll be out and about and have "5G" at the top of my screen and zero connection to anything. What gives? Am I expecting too much? My old 4G phones worked in the these locations.