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The current administration is nowhere near "Liberal". It's probably closer to conservative than it is to liberal.

Things have changed significantly on that front - the raid size is smaller (10 or 25 players) and the bosses drop more loot, plus bosses give points you can spend at a vendor to get more raid-level loot.

The burnout's still there, but it's more in the opposite direction now- a new raid comes out and the players are getting geared so fast that they have nothing to do afterwards.

IIRC those 5 mans were instances that were planned for launch and weren't ready for release. Not instances added as new content.

I mostly agree with what you're saying here, but your 3rd point is a tad disingenuous.

- Naxx was more or less recycled, but to me this is okay because very little of their population saw it when it was relevant.
- Onyxia wasn't really "content" for the last expansion that was supposed to mean anything. It was literally a bonus raid added in celebration of their 5th anniversary.
- The two (yes, only two) 5 mans that got "recycled" are only the same instance in name and layout only. The content inside the dungeon (you know, the part that counts) is completely different. The bosses are completely different, the drops are completely different, the trash is completely different. They are effectively brand new instances.
- Likewise, the 5 man Zul'Gurub is literally nothing like the Vanilla Zul'Gurub raid. Zul'aman is pretty much the same though. However, these two instances were patched into the game. The 4 instances added in WoLK after the expansion's release weren't exactly shining examples of creativity, either. Before that? In TBC and Vanilla you simply did not get new 5 man instances patched into the game.

Most games in the 80's and 90's were horrible too. Your expectations have just changed.

I for one hope that Watson's text-to-speech engine fails miserably and he starts mispronouncing category names like "The Pen Is Mightier".

Jeopardy is syndicated. It will show on different networks and at different times depending on where you live.

Simple answer to that- outlaw unions, throw them in jail, then they can repair all the buildings they want.

So you've never played most of their games and are surprised that you weren't able to extract fun out of the games you never bought, played, heard of, or know anything about?