This is a collection of notes on the Starcraft 2 speedrun I recently posted on Youtube:

Starcraft 2 Speedrun - YouTube

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This is a run of the full campaign on Normal difficulty. The total mission time is 2:35:21. Of that time, around 1:14 is on timed missions of fixed length (3 of the 19 missions end on a timer, but they're all quite long). I sped up the videos for these missions quite a bit so that the total amount of video for the run much shorter....

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This started out as a forum post giving my comments on Portal 2, but (surprise) it got kind of long, so now I'm just basically posting it as a review. This mainly concerns the single-player content; I'll be trying the co-op in a few days when my girlfriend is less busy, so I'll probably post about that later. There are no story spoilers for Portal 2.

Portal

First, a look back at the first Portal, which gives important context to understanding Portal 2. Portal was...

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Ordinarily I don't make posts to restate well-established rules of mechanics. May as well take the chance for a reminder in fact: the point of this blog is not really as a general source of Druid information. There are many blogs that reliably relay all current information and announcements. This is just a place for me to put original work or analysis that I do whenever I happen to do it--basically EJ-type forum posts that don't really belong on any particular thread.

Anyway, someone...

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I got back from Blizzcon yesterday. It was my first time there, and generally a great time. I tweeted occasional things that happened, but I'll try to remember a few highlights.

The big draws for me were socializing and watching the Starcraft. I don't think I did too much that was specifically WoW-related. As people who know me at all can probably imagine, I knew I'd find the Q&A sessions to be frustratingly inane, and there was little hope of substantial new information with...

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I haven't seen anyone else comment on this, but it seems level-based partial resists have gone away in 4.0. Previously, all spells lost 6% damage on average against a target 3 levels higher. But, examining the log of the night I raided as Moonkin this week revealed no evidence of partial resists, and I didn't observe any shooting at a level 83 target dummy for a few minutes.

Best I can tell, that mechanic is gone.

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