📚┃off-topic

[pine summit]

has a non gacha server now too

[junior oyster]

Oops

Also wth happened to my pfp

[fierce moth]

lol

No one else got a banana pfp?

[sand wigeon]

I have no reason to equip that ugly avatar decoration

[fierce moth]

lol

I want to know why different users get different pfp but no available info

[maiden widget]

Interesting how many different things they made

[pine mist]

ohh you got a plant

my friend has a pink origami looking bird lol

[desert jasper]

All I got was a lame cassette

[pine mist]

so retro

[desert jasper]

Aye

[fierce moth]

It's confusing 🤷‍♀️

[sudden anchor]

were did you et tese fancy decorations?

[pine mist]

update your app, it's the discord 2025 rewind kinda goodie

"checkpoint", sorry

[sand wigeon]

That’s the best one

[jade jackal]

nah, im good

[junior oyster]

140%+ curr maps ready

Man that hurt to constantly reroll to avoid certain mods...

[desert jasper]

[junior oyster]

Wtf super laggy in maps

Did ggg just break my game wtf

[desert jasper]

They decided you are too powerful

[real charm]

doing the challenge?

there is a 200% unique map that i bought like 20 of them and then got 3 people since the map has like 4 wings with a boss that appears in the middel after, so we did 1 map in 20 secs

[fierce moth]

Ok all of my work for my career is done temporally. Game time.

[real charm]

i can provide help for any challenge, it was kind of an easy season

[junior oyster]

No

Just trying to make money lol

[real charm]

Ah lol

The stonks

[junior oyster]

And level up to 100

It turns out ggg didn't do anything

I have very bad net today for some reason

[real charm]

as an european gent, with a 7900x3d cpu, whenever people complain about problems with the game, its never about me. I never have problems on Frankfurt, and the cpu makes no lag, so most of the time its either a net, gateway or cpu problem

[junior oyster]

Yea it was 100% net lol

I have much better net now

[real charm]

i can't stress out how cpu dependent is poe, once i updated it, my problems dissapeared

[desert jasper]

Died at 33%
Thankfully had one of those omens in my inventory

[fierce moth]

Are you a fan of architectures?

🤔 I wonder which architectural style I should challenge after gothic cathedrals... To do fantasy architectures

Because gothic cathedrals suppose to be the most complicated one

[junior oyster]

Some maps I get nothing and then some maps I get some stuff

So I bought 2 jewellery delis and I guess 3rd one is random?

I'm 40% delirious

[warped wren]

use diviner delis

if you're hitting like 7+ rewards iirc they pay for themselves

[junior oyster]

Welp I've already used jewellery on them but maybe for my next batch

[fierce moth]

🤔 Jonathan will do painting too?

[junior oyster]

Ooops I didn't even realise I'd capped on chaos lol

Ooof chaos to div is 1:190

I'll see if it drops down sometime this week

That or it might just skyrocket as dead league

[warped wren]

if it's dead league then it will drop, people need chaos to reroll t17s

[jovial bane]

pretty much, yes

I like engineering in general

[real charm]

Hi-Fi Rush's new update regarding Krafton...

Having some spine.

[fierce moth]

I find an odd phenomenon, Vlad have friends with every active players here

Vlad's connection is quite strong

@south gust Thank you so much. And Kain.

No idea what happened, so the recap showed that, though.

🤔 ...So much drama will happen next week

[lime flare]

Guess a game?
Hint: Its an JRPG

[desert jasper]

Got to 52% today
I... probably could maybe get to lvl 100 this weekend 🤔

Well if it wasn't independence day tomorrow

[jovial bane]

I'm glad I had a hindsight to upgrade my PC in August

[gilded elm]

Now I'm regretting buying only 64gb instead of 128gb a while back

[junior stirrup]

I was on the fence whether to upgrade to a current-gen AMD chip so I had a better shot at getting 96 gigs working.

This sealed off that whim.

Kind of wanted a memory kit that didn't take a whole minute to train whenever I rebooted.

[junior oyster]

My pc died a few months ago

Was forced to buy a new pc

I guess I should have got more ram but honestly aside from gta 6 (if and when it comes out) I don't see such a huge warrant for so much ram for myself

[gilded elm]

For gaming, yeah not a huge need for more RAM. If you're developing though, could always use more.

[junior oyster]

True

Which is why I mentioned gta 6

[fierce moth]

🤔 Youtube release 2025 recap

[junior oyster]

You have an account for YouTube?

[fierce moth]

It's my music player 🤔

[maiden widget]

is that an am5 thing?

[junior stirrup]

DDR4 could be a bit sensitive too, but DDR5 can be much worse.

Current-gen AMD memory controllers are supposedly better and more compatible.

No idea about Intel, haven't had a personal one since 8700K.

[abstract karma]

welp nobody will buy product if its cost more than new car..
Will be nighmare next years.. still wonder if i should change my current laptop for latest set before stocks gets empty

[jade jackal]

Memory training happens at first boots, not on reboots

The whole idea behind training is to test all memory sub-latencies and determine stable values for future boots

While some motherboards reboot faster than others, none of them should take whole minutes, especially with a 2025 AGESA update

im running none-binary capacities on AM5 and have no issues

[junior stirrup]

I know that that's what it's supposed to be like, but mine is deeply cursed.

Good for you that your hardware works.

[fierce moth]

I doubt no new passive points available for chaos caster lich

[junior stirrup]

It's even on the vendor's QVL for once, did some proper research to ensure that.

No change over the years with firmware.

[jade jackal]

one minute for boot still isnt that terrible imo

as opposed to, what, 30 seconds

[junior stirrup]

It's a whole minute to get to anything resembling firmware, including on restarts.

So you sit there like an idiot hammering what you think is the correct F key to hit the short window at "POST" before it slips into Windows.

Not remotely exotic hardware either:

Even just two sticks in the proper channels/slots.

[jade jackal]

waiting an extra minute a day wouldnt kill my enjoyment out of using my computer, personally

but i get the frustration

[junior stirrup]

It's a thousand cuts and it's at the worst time when you need your computer.

I was considering getting a 9000 series CPU and a 96G kit, just to hope I could dodge this.

[jade jackal]

Sometimes this is a luck of the draw thing, sometimes its a specific motherboard series having a bit of a diva moment with those nonebinary kits

[junior stirrup]

It beats my previous lemon 5950X that misbehaved for years, with extremely untroubleshootable sporadic hardlocks.

[jade jackal]

Unfortunately, a motherboard like the prime board you have could be prone to these longer boots

but this is also very CPU specific

I have a diva 7800X3D that acts like that, while other CPUs boot much faster

it even refuses boot with my kits sometimes

[junior stirrup]

It's the worst thing when you kind of need to throw hardware at the problem to see what might be awry and have none spare.

I even waited out the first generations of DDR5 to dodge early adopter issues ^_^

[jade jackal]

You technically can narrow your incompatibility zone by using the most tested hardware combinations

But i have had some difficulties with complete kits that came straight out of big red themselves

(I review and test hardware, so i get to work with lots of combinations)

[junior stirrup]

This rig is pretty much smack dab in the middle of things. Not up in dual CCD land, not in the super high TDP, bit of an enthusiast motherboard but not from the worst vendors.

[jade jackal]

This really is up to what's out side the CCD composition, really, just up to that IO die

[junior stirrup]

Amusingly enough, I chose poorly there too, going for more M.2 capacity.

Not enough PCIe lanes for really fast NICs.

[jade jackal]

AM5 is not a platform for rich M.2 connectivity

but as long as bandwidth reaches it, its fine

AM5 is not a platform for any rich PCIe based device connectivity lol

in that regard the LGA1851 platform laps it a few times, despite the crappy CPUs

[junior stirrup]

I've got a 25G NIC now hanging off the PCH.

It'd starve if I used both ports on it.

[jade jackal]

yeah, you will not saturate such NICs on AM5's starving PCHs

But there's no desktop grade PCIe rich platform today, HEDT was just forgotten with all the money they make in servers now

[junior stirrup]

I forget the particular maths I did on it, it can do single port fine.

[jade jackal]

with no other device pulling data out of the PCH, you technically can saturate up to 32Gbps

[junior stirrup]

Getting wire speed of like 23.7 Gbit/s in iperf3.

[jade jackal]

This sounds about right

[junior stirrup]

Unfortunately the Mellanox drivers on Windows aren't super great so I need to use jumbo frames as the NIC itself chokes in one direction.

Debian to Debian is rock solid.

[jade jackal]

Yeah, WIndows is like that with NICs

with Debian and the likes you that those speeds pretty much natively

I work with Ubuntu servers and all sorts of NICs, including Mellanox x series up to 100G and windows consistantly performs like crap

[junior stirrup]

Used to run my home network on 10G before I moved countries, slowly building up more junk in the closet now.

Want to wire the intensive machines with 25G and others at 2.5G or 10G, grab one of those snazzy Mikrotik switches.

[jade jackal]

What GBICs are you using for your high speed connectivity?

[junior stirrup]

Just grabbed some SFP28 AOCs and DACs off fs.com this time around.

[jade jackal]

I have had some really spotty performance with some of the cheaper units

[junior stirrup]

I think the only hardware I had serious trouble with last time was ASUS's consumer NIC on some Aquantia chipset.

If you torrented on it it would just fall over after a while.

[jade jackal]

Most of what im using now is directly Cisco and Intel ones

I convinced my workplace to invest in a good 48 + 6 QSFP port Cisco switch for me lol

[junior stirrup]

XG-C100F it was.

Small card with a short connector, but that's about the best I can say about it 😄

Ran most of the rest of my network on second-hand Mellanox ConnectX-2 I think.

[jade jackal]

Asus network hardware does not enter my realm, no chance in hell

[junior stirrup]

New NICs here are ConnectX-4 LX.

[jade jackal]

Mellanox stuff is great

[junior stirrup]

The switch that kicked off all this for me this time was the Mikrotik CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN:

Kind of liked the future-proofing there in SFP28 ports already broken out and a pair of 100G ports for when I want to go bananas.

[jade jackal]

I have absolutely no experience with Mikrotik... are they as easily programmable as Ciscos?

[junior stirrup]

I do as little as I can with switches, they're glorified hubs to me 😄

No VLANs or routing or prio or anything.

[jade jackal]

you run this out of box?

[junior stirrup]

Major selling point for these kinds of switches from MT is that they can be run in an apartment without ear protection.

Last one I had was a CRS317-1G-16S+RM:

[jade jackal]

Yeah i have never encountered a Mikrotik switch, im guessing they aren't all over the world

[junior stirrup]

Pretty stock, back then they had SwOS for plain switching and RouterOS if you wanted to do more on them, but the CPUs and non-switch hardware is quite anemic.

Upside of the CRS317 was that under my kinds of loads, it didn't even start the fans.

I haven't splurged on the CRS510 yet as I only have two high-speed machines thus far now.

There's just a fibre snaking its way from my workstation to the closet machine ^_^

[jade jackal]

Yeah all i work with is stuff i have at work, if i had to buy a switch for my home i'd probably consider

[junior stirrup]

The stuff we had at my last job was fun to play with but so much higher in scale as it was in HPC.

Also a lot of infiniband.

[jade jackal]

Currently my team captain is a new Cisco Nexus 9300 i got

no HPC stuff, just a server room

[junior stirrup]

Nice and cozy.

[jade jackal]

Most of my machines are 2-10K budget 1U servers

Dell, HP, Lenovo machines

[junior stirrup]

I've got fond memories of my cow-orkers trying to convince the Dell/HP reseller that we needed very particular machines and not "an Exchange server" or "a MSSQL server".

Ultimately, I've had less pressure to keep my "homelab" going after moving and getting a new job.

Job takes up a decent amount of time and I don't data mine or reverse engineer PoE anymore, which was the majority of what I did before.

[jade jackal]

I did some reverse engineering, parsing and other stuff for another big title, but it never required lots of compute

I would definitely not build a dedicated computer for it

[junior stirrup]

I still have like 14 terabytes of past PoE1 releases lying around.

[jade jackal]

Is any of it offline-playable?

[junior stirrup]

Nah, there's never been any servers available.

[jade jackal]

I wonder how the client works, if it requires server emulation

[junior stirrup]

This is just everything between 1.0.0 and current from Steam.

If you deduplicate it competently you're down to around 450 gigs of data, I had some neat ideas about building a CDN for tool people.

[junior stirrup]

As there's no offline or LAN mode, server code and data is mandatory.

More WoW than Diablo 😛

[jade jackal]

Well, in PoE1's case, i wonder how much demand there is for it

you see. for... Diablo, not much

the one serious service that existed for it just shut its doors down due to low demand and high upkeep

[junior stirrup]

I collected old releases for tooldev purposes and archaeology.

I wanted to be able to ask my system things like "given this file, how has it changed over time", filter out for all files of particular format versions, etc.

Ultimately not of much use to people, but a fun challenge to wrangle that much data and build systems around it.

[jade jackal]

Its a good practice in version management

[junior stirrup]

I had the prototype running on a dedicated host with spinning rust HDDs. The database queries for a metadata dataset that was larger than RAM... not great 😄

Adding indexes just made it worse.

Good chat, it's time to hit the sack.

[desert jasper]

Rest well

[fierce moth]

hit the sack. lol Vivid but no "sack" I have

[desert jasper]

hit the sack is just another "go sleep"

[fierce moth]

I stacked 3 books under my "sack" to give some height for that because my neck is quite weak

[junior oyster]

Lets see how many of my mappers died today

[desert jasper]

18

[junior oyster]

Yesterday I lost 2

[desert jasper]

Hopefully no losses today

[junior oyster]

Lost 1

Juicy box

[twilit mountain]

Damn

[junior oyster]

Too bad I got nothing else from the map lol

[desert jasper]

Just opened arcanist strongbox with 6 additional items
... 16 transmutations

[junior oyster]

Lol

Guess I sold em too cheap xD

[desert jasper]

Probably
Also just convenient to buy from same store instead of traveling to multiple hideouts

[junior oyster]

Honestly I'm fine with that

They only care about 16.5s now so I'd rather get rid of the junk

[junior oyster]

Damn

I never get anything from those lol

I still do them regardless

Also is that in normal t16s?

[desert jasper]

ye normal t16s

[junior oyster]

I hate this so much lol

Damn it it had to be just one lol #

[desert jasper]

Hmmh... maps with bated breath and other with springleaf

[junior oyster]

Although it did drop from the hive

[desert jasper]

I stopped running the hives
they just take too long

[junior oyster]

I do them mainly cuz I wanna clear the walls and ugly colour

[desert jasper]

But yeah I don't usually open the ghost strongbox because it never drops anything
oh, just sold 2div ralakesh boots all white sockets

[junior oyster]

My AW literally ate a covening wand infront of me lool

I was like where did it go

[desert jasper]

no covening wand for you

[junior oyster]

Lol I didn't mean to do this

Does anyone want this?

[fierce moth]

OoO

Direct difference on capacity
355ml & 500ml

[ebon meadow]

We don't get 355 ml in Spain lol I never seen that tin ,my favourite still the juiced ones

Was actually having my first one today after 2 months without daily

[fierce moth]

shxt Yarn break the gift box which saved my pixel craft glass

1st stuff destroy by her

[junior oyster]

Nice

[junior oyster]

I went a whole damn map without eater altars showing up

Damn

[desert jasper]

That's annoying when that happens

[junior oyster]

Yea I decided I don't wanna open them up any more

[sudden anchor]

That fridge is clean! Nice

[twilit mountain]

Robot space cowgirl with a lightsaber just dropped

[desert jasper]

Found... exalt shrine for 4 exalts at boss kill

[junior oyster]

Dang

I forgot I'm doing eater so at some point I could end up with a bunch of divines

Highly unlikely but still

[fierce moth]

@jovial bane@jade jackal What are your understandings of art deco?

(For djelectric: I'm curious about your dad's opinions for that)

[jade jackal]

im not much into Art Deco, its not my style

oh sister my father is long long gone

Its also important to know that Art Deco isn't just a single style

its divided by movements, eras, locations

American Colonial Art Deco isn't post middle ages European Art Deco

[fierce moth]

Oh NO. I'm quite sorry to hear that. It's tough... Your father just sleep with his favourite things forever.

And yes... the info I got about art deco is US exclusive

[desert jasper]

What's that super strong boss in Wildwood that chases you and kills you 🤔
Had the fun time of seeing it

[fierce moth]

I'm wondering why this building isn't belong to art deco, what should I add if I want to transform it to art deco style.

Someone told me colours and shapes are wrong... No stepping especially

Understand what the essence of this term is tricky

[desert jasper]

Ah right, the incarnation of agony

[junior oyster]

Ahhh damn it everyone selling dunes but not jv damn

[desert jasper]

16.5s, right?

[junior oyster]

Yep

I mean I could technically do dunes because the likely hood for hitting apo is incredibly low

[desert jasper]

at 60% now

Dunes is pretty consistent with the div card drops

[junior oyster]

Yea I probably might buy them

Also dunes mean no annoying trees

[desert jasper]

Yeah, the layout is very good too

[junior oyster]

Yea it's either dunes or beach tbf

But dunes is more popular

[desert jasper]

I think I've some 16.5 dunes

and beach too

if you want them

[junior oyster]

Nah I'ma buy em

Bought 36 to test it out

[desert jasper]

Hmm only actually have 4 of both

[junior oyster]

Lol

Dunes also drops the fortunate which is probably more common than the mirror shard one

Ofc I might be wrong

[desert jasper]

Yeah I've had pretty ocnsistent The Fortunate drops in dunes

and I'm not running 16.5s or super well rolled maps

ofc sure it would be nice getting something more valuable than The Fortunate
I did try to run Grave Through to scry that somewhere else
but I didn't get the seer in like 30 times and I got bored of the map

[fierce moth]

The wooden box remind me of @shrewd mirage 's work

[jovial bane]

oh if you mean understanding the styles, Im back at this.
I'm more into technical side of solutions

I can tell it looks cool, but that's about it

[fierce moth]

That's the focus of Chinese education... Which I dislike so much

Aesthetic education is quite poor here

[jovial bane]

I knew couple of girls who were after interior decoration, or something along those lines. But those were from art universities, so I think that's more of the focus of those unis ?

Art never been my strong side sadly

[crisp copper]

Hi, how long does it usually take for the mods to respond to the ModMail ?

[jade jackal]

I just stick to what i know for my own place's interior design

[desert jasper]

Depends how busy it is and the question
I wouldn't expect to get a resposne during the weekend.

[crisp copper]

Okay, it's not exactly urgent urgent anyways

[fierce moth]

well... Exams & scores. The most disgusting thing I deal for 6 years

Art education is money-consuming so maybe it's the main reason I never can touch that

[desert jasper]

Just gave a sacred blossom to someone in the global so he could get the oshabi kill
first mosnter in the next map dropped a divine orb

[jovial bane]

It's horribly nerve wracking. I've scored on my "extended math" highschool exam 64/100 (100/100 is like couple of students per country btw). Never had so mixed feelings. On the one hand it's not bad score, on the other it's not amazing either

[fierce moth]

I always connect art education with middle class...

wow better than me a lot. 20-40/150 I can get on maths in highschool hhhh

I never understand what the hell Chinese maths exams are doing

[desert jasper]

From a strongbox

[jovial bane]

that was my "literature" score x'D

[fierce moth]

30-40/100 on physicals too

[jovial bane]

well "polish"

[fierce moth]

(60/100 is the line)

[jovial bane]

30 iirc here, which is odd because 30% is the passing score everywhere except the universities where it goes up to 50%

[junior oyster]

Hate tentacle fiends lol

Otherwise very juicy map

[jovial bane]

But it hardly matters, because the higher score the better. Universities have limited spots, and they take people with higher scores first

[desert jasper]

Tentacle fiends were the uhh.. elder explosion ones?

[junior oyster]

I think so

It's just I can zoom through the map but trying to get curr and not dying is kinda annoying

Also maven is there too lol

[fierce moth]

Yes higher scores is the only metric for Chinese unversities, which will balance the difference between the rich and the poor, but it bring bad side effects on Chinese always be aggressive on everything and want to prove I'm better than another people

[jovial bane]

ah yes, so called rat race

[fierce moth]

It's the most impressive culture barrier I feel after I touched English community

People just quite anxious about what can I do if I'm failed at this competition

[junior oyster]

Alright got a few maps ready with 140%+ curr

Just need to add deli 40-60% and qual them up

[jovial bane]

It's unhealthy at longer run.

[desert jasper]

gl

[junior oyster]

All ready

[desert jasper]

I should prepare some food soon tbh

[junior oyster]

Nice double abo from my first map

And 2x div lol

[desert jasper]

Nice

I'm gonna cook something now
already at 65%
Tbh I think the abyss nodes were way faster for exp than going all in on Beyond
But I really got annoyed at chasing the abyss, especially when there were 3 of them on the map lol

[junior oyster]

Damn you definitely caught up to me lol

I'm at 76%

Hmm never thought about using abyss as exp tbf

[desert jasper]

Well you have some time to grind now that I'm taking a break to cook

Abyss is good experience
bad for loot though
but getting the chain of nodes at top and throwing in the basic abyss scarab for +1 extra abyss and the craft option
it's surprisingly fast... but seriously annoying

[junior oyster]

Yea I'm aware

I could do some t16s with abyss only

[fierce moth]

Sure. It have guided me to the edge of the death.

Hah I can understand why art Neoveau is here, what the sense of art Neoveau is in 4 mins but I still no idea on these things for art deco after 1h 😅

Art Neoveau is much more simple to understand :(

Ok I can sure my steam pfp is belong to Art Neoveau because it's one of representation of luxurious and overtly feminine look, by colourful glass :)

That looks like a Japanese lady, Japanese art is inspired by Art Neoveau.

[jovial bane]

that looks real good 😮

[desert jasper]

Yea that's pretty

[junior oyster]

Ok so killing mobs in fortress gives no progress to the deli counter but everything else does

[desert jasper]

It tried

[fierce moth]

It come from this game

Oh... Remind me of a thing, why le have zero item on steam point shop 🤔

[desert jasper]

Because EHG hasn't made any

[neon sigil]

money

my zdps mspaint build idea for the new league

[junior oyster]

Damn a natural drop

[fierce moth]

?

[junior oyster]

In jv it'd be the mirror shard one though

Oh well

[neon sigil]

🐴 unnecessary expense for a company that is already struggling financially.

[desert jasper]

Yeah, they drop surprisingly often

[junior oyster]

First in 5 maps for me lol

[desert jasper]

I've turned in 2 stacks of them

[fierce moth]

Which expense they need...? They just need to do some deliver work

[neon sigil]

Work costs money.

[desert jasper]

Sometimes I wish we didn't need to explain the most simple things

[junior oyster]

Sheesh 7c

[neon sigil]

Should've labelled one for 7div /s

[desert jasper]

They fixed those so it gives a warning if there's one for higher price

And I wouldn't do that
goes against my morals

[neon sigil]

yo what!? that is awesome.

[neon sigil]

yee, that's why the /s.
I think it's horrible

[twilit mountain]

Morals be damned, video game capitalism is forever

[neon sigil]

oh deias, did you ever do anything with that amulet you wanted to craft on?

[desert jasper]

Alright, dinner is ready

[neon sigil]

Seeya nub

[desert jasper]

oh i'll still be here
and playing
just responding slower etc because trying to eat

[neon sigil]

🧙‍♂️ A true gamer.
Enjoy the meal!

[desert jasper]

Chicken sauce & rice

[radiant helm]

@sacred tide Whats your budget for the gpu

[sacred tide]

Oh I have been told to expect a gift this holiday season. Excited, it was strongly hinted it would be a video card :)

[fierce moth]

Rice

[radiant helm]

oh gotcha

[sacred tide]

Is the best food ever?

[radiant helm]

hopefully its a good one

[radiant helm]

Will be eating soon

[fierce moth]

I prefer noodles

[sacred tide]

Who doesn't love rice in 2025? Amirite?

Noodles too!

[junior oyster]

If you played stardew valley you know you are going to get mud

[sacred tide]

Both are amazing!

[junior oyster]

Lol had no idea this also applies to friendly npcs like Ailith xD

[desert jasper]

rice is great

And chicken goes well with it

[fierce moth]

🤔 Maybe I just never taste any good rice...

Different countries have different rice

[desert jasper]

It really depends on the rice and how it's cooked

69% experience

[jovial bane]

I absolutely love japanese rice personally

and I can confirm, like with bread the type of rice, country etc. matters a lot

[junior oyster]

I got to 83% but now my arms are kinda achy lol

Shoulders*

[desert jasper]

Tbh I don't think I'll actually catch up to you

[junior oyster]

Lol I'm not fussed xD

I'm more worried about dying but thankfully I do have the omen

[desert jasper]

As you should be worried
Could happen at any time

[junior oyster]

Yep

I was super careful about those annoying tentacle fiends

[desert jasper]

Also one reason I'm not running t16.5 or 17s for this is because I don't really wanna roll many maps in advance and look at the massive list of mods "can I do this without worrying too much"

I wanna do it with some eurobeat on the background and beer in my hand (optional)

[sand wigeon]

Rice with a nice curry is amazing on a cold day

Or rice with chicken

[junior oyster]

Not an aurabot but I wouldn't mind doing some maps together if you want :P

Today is out of the question though

Also after I hit 100 xD

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I'd probably rather hit 100 first

Also,
I've like... 10 of those in audiences already in my stash

They're about 32c each

[junior oyster]

Lol so they went up by roughly 2c since I last did ritual

Guess it makes sense since they are kinda common

[desert jasper]

They were more earlier in the league
like 36c when I started doing ritual

[junior oyster]

Think hive fortress would be better if we could do a 'skip' waves option

For builds that can do it fast ofc

[desert jasper]

Yeah I just don't do the fort anymore
24 waves? yeah nah

Sure the exp is fine
but I'd rather not sit there for that long

[junior oyster]

Damn not bad

Could have been a bit better though lol

[desert jasper]

hmm I seem to be having net issues

Oh
harbinger scarabs have gone up in price

1 for 2c now

[ivory swift]

not a single Three Faces in the Dark dropped in a stack of 3.

[fierce moth]

Gotcha in sport stars is too insane. Saw a video, a 1/1 exclusive card from a package of cards can sell up to...7427 pounds/9902 US dollars

That youtuber is quite lucky

[desert jasper]

nice drop

However, I'm not gonna run lava chambers for the chance of dropping more of those

[restive geyser]

Yo, if anyone wants to try out a demo of an arpg from a solo dev I'm posting it. I've been playing it recently to give feedback/find bugs and it's actually pretty fun. Just thought I'd share 🙂 https://no-skill-games.itch.io/gate

[desert jasper]

80% already 👀

[desert jasper]

looks good

[junior oyster]

Bruh

[desert jasper]

yes?

There were 2 diviners boxes next to each other
got to open the other one 5 times

[junior oyster]

And you got that drop in a freaking normal 16 lol

[desert jasper]

Yes

Also 2x Home cards from the same map

[junior oyster]

What scarabs are you using?

[desert jasper]

2x basic harbinger
the basic ritual
normal strongbox one + that they've higher chance to be openable again

[junior oyster]

Oh so you aren't doing full boxes

[desert jasper]

nah

The 2 hopes dropped from eldritch minions though

[junior oyster]

Hopes?

[desert jasper]

gives exceptional gem of random variety with 1-20% quality

oh wait, not hope

Home

had a brainfart and mixed the 2
but yeah, got 2 home cards

[jovial bane]

What's on top of the chicken ?

[real kayak]

looks like flavor

[desert jasper]

Maybe some burnt spices

All in all, looks great

[jovial bane]

Oh roasting looks great, I'm just curious what's the herb mix

[desert jasper]

Think i'll grind to 100 tonight actually
I might regret it tomorrow

[twilit mountain]

Nah you got this

[junior oyster]

I got like 8% to go but I'm done for today

[desert jasper]

94% already

[twilit mountain]

Damn you're close. Should be done within the hour if you go quick I think.

[desert jasper]

I hope you didn't actually get to 8% by losing all that exp

And hmm... yeah possibly an hour

If my stomach doesn't act up more

[twilit mountain]

Oh. Hope you're all good

[desert jasper]

Well, in the process of getting it checked out
And oh boy the last doctor's visit was the worst I've had

Probably getting endoscopy some time next year

[twilit mountain]

Urgh.... that's shitty, man.

[desert jasper]

ba dum tssh

It shouldn't be cancer, at least

[twilit mountain]

Well. That's good then. I think.

[junior oyster]

No death so far since hitting 99

[desert jasper]

Lucky
I've had 3

2 with omen

the last one was at 2% so it wasn't a big loss anyway

[junior oyster]

I've been playing pretty safely even in 16.5s

And yea I got the omen

[desert jasper]

I've also found like 6 more of those omens during this grind so i guess that's ez money

[junior oyster]

I bought one and the other one I got just now from mappers

[desert jasper]

Unless I go into the woods and meet that agony boss again

[junior oyster]

They also gave a valdos and key

[desert jasper]

nice

[junior oyster]

Well it's no brothers gift but they did fine

[desert jasper]

Also last time i ran ultimatum i got instagibbed by... something at wave 7

So i stopped doing them too

[junior oyster]

I'm not doing ultimatum lol

I just want to sell the expensive scarabs for ultimatum whenever I get them

[desert jasper]

Yeah I'm not specced to ulti
was just still doing them when i saw them bcs you know
should be pretty safe with glad 3x lucky block cws build

[sand wigeon]

Melted compound butter

It’s not burnt

It’s garlic and thyme

[jade jackal]

🧈

[desert jasper]

4 minutes over the hour

[twilit mountain]

Gratz!

[desert jasper]

Ty
Probably never again

took total of:
4 days, 18 hours and 12minutes

Could've done it faster, I think

[jovial bane]

mmm, simple but perfect

[fierce moth]

Sometimes English is confusing because I don't know which one should I remember, UK or US

[fierce moth]

Art Nouveau is flowery and decorative (curves are everywhere, always focus on plants) while Art Deco is sleek and streamlined (lines and shapes always geometric). Art Nouveau is less popular than Art Deco in actual life because Art Deco match with industrial design more. After all, geometric stuff is simpler to produce, so the cost is lower. Art Nouveau will be more fancy because these curves can be hard to deal.

Alright this is my understanding, not sure it's wrong or right

decorative patterns in cathedrals are Art Deco is my guessing based on that (oh but both of them suppose to be mixed. So Art deco + Art nouveau may be on the same pattern)

Voxel art is accessible with Art Deco only, regardless of the pattern.

[fierce moth]

🤔 ...I prefer the original one if Aussie Style Lemonade and original are all available on Monster Energy because the acid tastes quite unnatural. I like the acid from grapefruit the best.

It taste like soda with unnatural acid and without carbon dioxide

Big ❎

[fierce moth]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3620050/Almora_Darkosen/
Come from a mobile game, another loot-based ARPG is here

[junior stirrup]

Got started on lussekatter now, gonna be interesting to see if they work.

[fierce moth]

😅 I thought you done your lussekatter already... Let me show you something

It's a moodboard for all references I used for my voxel art. Lussekatter is one of them

The special picture, lussekatter's types showed me a thing: Inspirations can come from everything.

So thanks for your planned bread :)

I never know I can do arch in this shape before I learnt lussekatter's types

[junior stirrup]

Heh, cute.

[fierce moth]

To be more clear... I got that shape while I wanted to copy this shape

This one is the king

[junior oyster]

It usually doesn't matter as long as the right word is used

[fierce moth]

🤔 ...Nitro cosmic peach...Not good, not bad. The average.

32mg caffeine/ml. So I get 160mg caffeine if I drunk all

[junior stirrup]

getting there

[jade jackal]

My server room this morning

pretty much

the AC was off for 2 days and nobody told me lol

[sudden anchor]

Which one is better? I personally think its us and try to choose their words over uk's, to have some order in the way i look up while learning. Most of the words are cooler too and make more sense, like the jelly/jam stuff. Us seems to have been more progressive in general.

[junior stirrup]

aAaAaA

I kind of favoured UK English back home just because it wasn't US and it always annoyed someone 😄

These days living in an commonwealth nation, it's helping.

[jade jackal]

I logged in this morning with my coffee to my Slack full of "server is off?" DMs

[junior stirrup]

Monitoring is for the weak.

[jade jackal]

went in, thermostat shows 52c

im like, coollllll

we're beyond irreversable damage to expensive hardware

coool

[junior stirrup]

coool indeed.

[jade jackal]

ambient sensors read 58c peak, that's beyond what they are willing to warranty us lol

[junior stirrup]

"how strange, the sensors must've been configured for Fahrenheit"

[jade jackal]

this 3 hour sleep day is going to be difficult

and there's Formula 1 championship race in the middle, lord help me

[junior stirrup]

2 AM race Monday morning here, gonna watch it tomorrow after work instead.

[abstract karma]

dont support pokemon.. geez developers of latest game showed what they think of costumers

sometimes i have feeling that this franchise "evolve" as that character from same named anime

[fierce moth]

tq 2 have great fun after learnt how to play

(I mean the new mastery especially)

...But the boss design is quite stupid really

[abstract karma]

which version it is - 0.3 ?

[sudden anchor]

I like pokemon tho. Havent played a gameboy version in years.

But yea, reasons i don't play these are its staleness over gens and them being far too easy. Have you heard of pokemon reborn? Thats a difficult, dark atmospheric game, with improved battle mechanics, such as certain fields, which flat improve certain attacks or even have other connections - you can change the field with special interactions during battle or something, idk. Last playthrough i picked the wrong starter, which made it very difficult to progress at like lvl 70. It's a long story in the game and lots of pkm. You can choose between all the starters at the start. I recommend getting greyninja, it made the play if my friend far easier than mine. I chose based on new pkm i haven't played and look interesting (didnt even know their evolutions). It's doable with whatever you like, but kinda extreme sometimes.

I will get that actually on my rog ally, its the perfect game for a handheld. Good idea you sparked in me haha

[abstract karma]

nah unfortunately, i dont play this franchise.. at least in these days...
AS you say most of them are "same music"

Rather i invest time on different gold past games which i could play younger because i had no money for it

[sudden anchor]

Such as? Megaman?

I sometimes wonder how different Genres of games impact our development as a child especially.

[junior oyster]

Total annihilation

Diablo 2

Chrono trigger

Secret of mana 1 & 2

Legend of zelda a link to the past

Megaman x

Damn so many classics

Red alert

[abstract karma]

FRom AvP to Arx FAtalis, Balduer, Ice Wind, BioShock series, Dark Messiah (played 3x arx fatalis but never this one lol)
Deux Ex, Finish disnohored Series, Dungeon Seige, Fallout, Risen, Rage, Sacred 2, Serious SAm, System Shock 2, F.E.A.R
Nox..

I could probably dig more but these are in my libraries from sales past years which i hadnt opporunity play yet

that's good example - Chrono trigger need to write somewhere to buy it

[fierce moth]

Yes very stupid... Stick on the boss combat again. Pan. This is main quest...

[junior oyster]

Just emulate it

[abstract karma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5v89bywBA sometimes i watch videos like these too see what i've missed back then

[junior oyster]

I see ra2 in the thumbnail I'll probably watch

[abstract karma]

these games were back than just about gameplay.. no need for hyper graphic output nor sloppy writings

[maiden widget]

Let's be honest most current writing is ahead by a lot but they have their own benefits. Chrono trigger has amazing soundtrack pieces

[fierce moth]

Solved the Pan, at the end of act 1 finally

I understand why people say balance in tq 2 is too poor now

Quite hungry unfortunately... Prepare the dinner at first

[junior oyster]

Not bad at all

[junior oyster]

Finally lol

[fierce moth]

I enjoy bugs sometimes lol

[junior oyster]

Thought that was LE for a second

[desert jasper]

gratz on 100

[junior oyster]

Ty and I went to sleep last night so gratz to your 100 too!

[desert jasper]

Cheers
Gave away the apotechary cards, sephirots etc after that

[junior oyster]

You quit?

[desert jasper]

I'm pretty much done yeah
Started feeling that burnout is gonna come soon towards the end of the grind

[junior oyster]

I used the wrong deli on my map when using containment

I feel so annoyed at it xD

Was meant to either be currency or jewellers

Although it should still technically work when I open the boxes

[fierce moth]

🥱 I'm boring... Played it enough

The process is as same as act 1, the difference are enemies and environments only. I guess lots of places I didn't explore yet but nothing fresh attract me to explore more...

No extra room for my build to grow too...Only grinding enemies to level up or update gears.

[fierce moth]

Anyways... No loot-based ARPG can escape (break) the curse, "the contents of campaign are quite boring to play repeatedly".

[maiden widget]

everything will be boring when repeated enough

[twilit mountain]

Me who unironically enjoys the PoE1 campaign

[maiden widget]

maybe youre the vampire of campaign loving and just steal our motivation

[twilit mountain]

You might be on to something

[junior oyster]

It's why I stick to one toon in most arpgs unless the build really really sucks

[twilit mountain]

Idk, I get a weird satisfaction every time I figure out a slight efficiency increase in the PoE1 campaign

[junior oyster]

Do I need to do that to then be able to witness moment of reverence?

I'm aware there are two more 'echoes'

[twilit mountain]

I have literally no idea, I can't remember those things if my life depended on it

[junior oyster]

I see

Maybe not then

[rotund garnet]

does anyone know if there is minions/pets in Titan Quest 2?

[fierce moth]

....You told the truth

[fierce moth]

minions only, it's what forge doing

summon devices = minion build

[rotund garnet]

devices dont sound like minions

[fierce moth]

Maybe that's why devs don't interested in playing their games

They repeat to face the same contents days and days

[rotund garnet]

well its in EA so maybe the will include pets with 1.0

[fierce moth]

🤔 I think I can't endure the same job for years is why I enjoying to do some creative stuff

But be creative always mean be risky... Bosses dislike risks

[twilit mountain]

I mean this in the nicest way, I'd wait for someone else to answer Van, Kirra's English is a little rough

[rotund garnet]

alright! ty

[fierce moth]

...? Van isn't here at weekend

[twilit mountain]

Case in point

[fierce moth]

Ohhhh you mean the other Van. Because I don't answer his questions

[rotund garnet]

🙂 ?

[fierce moth]

I'm done after I typed them. I'm welcome another players to add more details, of course

🤔 Maybe this screenshot can prove device = minions

[sand wigeon]

[rotund garnet]

i get it

[desert jasper]

Well, minions usually aren't static things that stand still
but actively seeking out targets
it's essentially similar to a totem

[mental talon]

Aight, we out 🫡

[desert jasper]

5 locks & 3 mirrors
wew lad

[mental talon]

Liquidate like 3-4 more things should probably leave this league with like 6-7 Mirrors. Then it's time to buy more Alt Arts

[twilit mountain]

Ah, a collector of the fine arts

[mental talon]

The only reason I care enough to get Mirrors in the first place, fashion is the real endgame.

[twilit mountain]

Valid

What's your favorite acquisition so far?

[fierce moth]

hah... yes yes yes yes

I forget totems. Totems is one of minions.

[desert jasper]

In last epoch they are
in path of exile they aren't counted as minions

[jade jackal]

Totems imo shouldnt be counted as minions

of any kind

Hydrahedron is totems

but i guess that depends on if they have an HP and are destructable by enemies

[fierce moth]

what totems count as in poe and what totems suppose to be counted?

[desert jasper]

Totems are you in poe
They scale off of everything you

[junior oyster]

In terraria you have minions and sentries

Although I can't remember if sentries were affected by minion stats

[mental talon]

Alt art Stormcloud. But I haven't played bows in years LMAO

I was like "This'll look sick once I play bows again" 2 years later my dumbass still hasn't found a reason to play Bows

[junior oyster]

I'll never do a 100% again lol

[fierce moth]

hhhhhh I guess real CEO will not self-introduce in this way? It's like Chinlish 🤔

CEO from a financial Investment company I mean

[desert jasper]

Nah
Those companies usually get lrage enough that the CEO doesn't really show for the normal workers

[fierce moth]

Oh... I realised what's wrong. If someone is the CEO of a company, this employee is sure to know who their boss is, and self-introduction should be done by the employee instead of the boss

lol this video is quite childish

[radiant helm]

While in the seasonal downtime

lets play the good diablo

[desert jasper]

I'm probably not playing anything for a few days tbh

[maiden widget]

[fierce moth]

me too, wait for poe 2

[mental talon]

Got any plans or just gonna chill?

[fierce moth]

Ok another application for a job but the requirement is illustrator for casual comics. Maybe I can go to self-introduce and ask where can I get a job by going to the location directly

[desert jasper]

Hopefully just relax a bit
maybe get some workout done

[mental talon]

Understandable.

[fierce moth]

EHG will announce new roadmap soon and I'm not done all works for the latest artwork so I think I will not free next week

No way to cook a self game is the only thing I know

[abstract karma]

druid huh.. azoat with vaal properties hmm Yes i want new act.. Druid can be tried next season, wish you luck tho PoE 2 is just too long

[desert jasper]

yeah sadly no new act

[neon sigil]

There mods for d2 reforged?

[radiant helm]

Theres some yes

[neon sigil]

[abstract karma]

their income from both games are too great to try actually finish PoE 2 in shortest time to 1.0

[radiant helm]

Including eastern sun

they remade it for resurrected

[neon sigil]

Might have to try resurrected

[abstract karma]

i want to play D2 but i just dont like needs to buy it trough stupid Blizzard.. Why they can't sell it anywhere else >.>

at least D1 could be bough and hell mode isnt bad too

[radiant helm]

You can buy it on blizzard, them not use their launcher anymore with the mod

you just copy the files and use the mod launcher 😄

you can even play on lan wich is what i'm doing

[abstract karma]

yes these thing i know but you will have forvered bound purchase in blizzard..
I'm still angry how they discarded their Wacraft 3 Reforged to some amatuers >.>

[radiant helm]

Yeah unfortunately there's no way around it

but atleast with the mod you dont need to log in their launcher every single time you wanna play

wich is a big upgrade

[abstract karma]

welp maybe if blizzard wouldn'T be jerk about money i would buy their overpiced games

same as that news how big joke is their Housing in WoW 😄

[warped wren]

not exactly

totems have their own life pool and resistances, but their offensive stats come from you, though you can get totem-exclusive bonsuses to those as well. They also have the same charges as you.

[desert jasper]

Well it was easier to tell Kirra that they scale off of your stats than start breaking it down a bit more

[warped wren]

true lol

[junior oyster]

I realised I should have done the memory stuff at 70%...

Good news is I did do remembered and feared at 70%

No idea what screaming is though

[twilit mountain]

Screaming is Eater

[junior oyster]

Yea just did it

Ty though xD

So why do people have so many of these forbidden flesh/flame?

For gamba purposes

Oh I'm guessing the ones they have are from ubers

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/s/uEVrTRFjWh

Damn the best suggestion I seen.

[junior oyster]

GGG only like to add colour to enemies and their attacks

And specific colours that make it hard to see what's going on

[shell lynx]

@real charm https://youtu.be/88pkWqlvDL4?si=G2nS_757AT7cyvku

[desert jasper]

Ah
too bad none of the auras have alt qualities anymore

[fierce moth]

I'm not into games inspired by lord of the rings but lord of the rings ambient music are attractive

🤔 Oh I think I discovered a hidden gem. A bunch of high quality free ambient music which relevant to movies this youtuber created

[fierce moth]

Why I feel this actress look a bit familiar... She acted one of roles in Harry Potter films too?

[jade jackal]

Last Epoch patch 2.0 - the @$# update

[desert jasper]

I got bored so I'm checking the breachlords fight again
I've to say, Esh running charge attack animation is hilarious

I'd kinda like to get Tul's shield

It just looks kinda neat

Also I think I'd really prefer the 2 as separate fights
Also shame we didn't get xoph and Uul

The fight is also visually a mess when they are both doing their things in the last phase

It seems that the easiest way to avoid Tul's barrage thingy is by just being inside the model

[fierce moth]

Looks like it's a good idea for a Christmas gift?

Quite soft and fluffy.

Apple pillow, quite creative and cute

Alright I admit I want one

Ok It's mine :)

[desert jasper]

It looks nice enough

[blissful token]

Yarn will decorate it with fur

[jovial bane]

Hopefully new PoE update won't suck like the Amazon season 😐

But at least Oxygen not Included captured me again

[fierce moth]

A bunch of capybara :)

[fierce moth]

She did it on my office chair already... It's her bed

[jovial bane]

neat

[fierce moth]

250ml. Quite flat. What can I do with this shape?

It's a cup.

[desert jasper]

Use it to measure 250ml for some baking

[fierce moth]

At least 10 salesmen surround me when I took these photos (They're too passionate so I'm shy)

Channel's Chanel's graphic design is top.

[jovial bane]

Drink tea, or measure stuff I guess.
But for measuring there are better shapes

For tea on the one hand it takes a lot of space, on the other it's hard to knock it down by accident

[fierce moth]

Lol this bag by Chanel is quite creative

Oh yes 🔮. Classic and romantic gift for any festivals

Seen the 1st crystal ball but can't afford that while I'm 9 years old, forget how long it took me to own one but I owned that in 12 years old.

It's a quite open vessel for any mini fantasy scenes but the size is strictly limited

That old crystal ball isn't here anymore, but I still remember that how beautiful it's while I gaze at that

I remembered a group of players in Lego master Australia have been built that?

Forgot which season is it...

!? S7 are released already? Alright my memory is stayed on S6 yet... A global competition for past champions. (I have watched S1 - S6)

Good new tv series available for chilling 🍿

Oh that's S6, released in last year? Alright chaos memory

[jovial bane]

probably because of chanel logo lol

[jovial bane]

I like the design of it

[fierce moth]

No, I never own anythings with Chanel logo

Luxury stuff never connect to my life

[jovial bane]

Ah, I've misunderstood

Me neither tbh

[fierce moth]

It's why I'm obsessed to golden, marble stuff

Shiny, sparkling and fancy

[jovial bane]

I like golden with red more, kind of basic taste lol

[fierce moth]

But I hided my desire for too long time so I almost forget my flavour

[junior oyster]

I lowkey hate brand stuff but I do sometimes fall into that trap

[fierce moth]

Golden with deep red, deep blue, black, deep grey, deep green and deep purple. All of them are good combos

[jovial bane]

yes

[fierce moth]

Deep or dark...

Oh deep is right

[jovial bane]

I can only tell the difference, because of miniature painting

[ebon meadow]

Golden and black ,and I do fall for brands a lot but with a weird taste I do like Kenzo a lot

And guess and emporio fan ,I like shopping

[junior oyster]

Used to be big fan of Nike now I don't care as long as my feet are comfortable

[sudden anchor]

What shoes are comfortable? My friend got these toeshoes, he says it's nice, but i'm not convinced. I think i have zero shoes with a good fit. They are too narrow at the front, where it should be wider. I'm looking to improve my shoewear.

[desert jasper]

Well see
people have different feet
so something that's comfortable to me might not be comfortable to you
Are you sure you are buying the right size?

[sudden anchor]

Yes, the problem is the unnatural form of most shoes, i think. So i'm looking for experience with shoes that have the natural footprint in mind. It's surprising to see people being happy with ordinary shoes. What kind of feet do you have? Mine are crippled at the small toe, from being caged in.

[desert jasper]

Well I mostly wear running shoes
in winter a bit different ones that don't let water through & are warmer

Honestly if you have the money you might want to see an expert about it that could recommend shoes for you
My doctor recommended it to me too tbh

[sand wigeon]

As someone with pretty intense feet problems including oddly shaped feet, a good pair of work boots with a wide toe-box have been a godsend

I went from every step hurting to being able to walk for miles

[ebon meadow]

1990 rebooks

Most comfortable shit my grand parent get me every 4 years

[sand wigeon]

Goddamn, every four years?

How expensive are they?

[ebon meadow]

These are almost 4 years

[ebon meadow]

They not it's like 90€

But they handle some party and festivals

[sand wigeon]

I mean, that’s kinda my fear

I’ve never needed to replace my shoes every four years

It just seems like they’re not very well put together

But I’ve also never worn sneakers

[ebon meadow]

They are 4x4 shoes ,been there festival beaches people spilling drinks ,walking thru mud

U wipe them with a little bit of bleach and they are new

It's like timberlands of trainers model

[sand wigeon]

They’re definitely not my style nor fit but I hope they’re as good as you say

[ebon meadow]

The model sucks I rather use DCshoes sides or dressing moccasins

[sand wigeon]

The area I live does not really support sneakers, so

[sudden anchor]

I have the same i think. Mine are quite heavy, 1 kg both, but comfortable.
Yea, sucks to need different looking shoes, my feet are quite broad at the tip, but i think it's gonna be worth it. Good chat, thank you!

[desert jasper]

1kg? sheesh

Not even my work shoes are that heavy and they've steel toes and stuff

hmm.. actually let's see
i never measured the work shoes

[ebon meadow]

Xdd my work shoes are 1.4kg each sparco

[desert jasper]

Yeah just checked
they're 600g

[ebon meadow]

Similar model more sorry rebook has a very high heal cushion cushuned bottom

[sand wigeon]

Is it because the sneakers have so much padding around the tongue and ankle?

[sudden anchor]

Yep, they have some sturdy, big padding around the ankle + thick sole Really high quality. I haven't even bought them myself. One day they were infront of my house. Idk from whom tho

[ebon meadow]

I do have a black version but it's Massimo's that have a higher heal lol 4 hours with them and it's like playing a football game

[sand wigeon]

I pretty much exclusively wear shoes that go quite far above my ankle

[fierce moth]

Sauna is the most iconic thing in Finland, meatballs is the most iconic thing in Sweden, am I right?

I guess movies is the most iconic thing in US?

[desert jasper]

Finland also has tens of thousands of lakes

[fierce moth]

How much rate you guess it will be worked?
I guess... Potatoes and carrots.

lol special way to give numbers

[vagrant topaz]

iConic not iRonic

[fierce moth]

Thanks. Typo+1

I can imagine how confusing the Swedish and Finnish are if they listened my question

[desert jasper]

I didn't even see that tbh

Got to go do some early christmas shopping

[fierce moth]

oh quite cool. Chinese dragon VS Medieval dragon in e2, S7 lego master Australia

[fierce moth]

What an interesting species is... First time to know a type of bird like... Bins 🤔

[jovial bane]

probably likes eating food people throw away

seagulls I think do the same sometimes

[desert jasper]

Crows and some other birds do it here too

[jade jackal]

[desert jasper]

poe2 league coming with skill that grows plants
and you can water them

[jade jackal]

oh its from the preview. ||Man i hate AI generated slop with every fiber of my being.||

[real charm]

yeah nub explained it perfectly

its druid human form that can grow plants and water them for them to bloom, water also gets enemies wet, and that increases lightining damage

[jade jackal]

I like the mechanics shown

[real charm]

i'm going to play rage bear

or lighting shaman

[jade jackal]

But I also know that mechanics that require a lot of intricacy disappear to fast paced gameplay prioritized by players

So, cool ideas, but yeah, cool in previews

[real charm]

act 1 mechanics pog

[real charm]

same

[jade jackal]

pretty much act 1 mechanics yeah

before gameplay devolves into 1-2 button macro spam

[real charm]

tbh, i don't mind using more buttons for bosses, like wetting the boss before a giant shock spam

but for trash, yeah 1 button

[jade jackal]

The problem isn't mechanics working

its that for the same time range, people just figure out much higher damage combinations

These 1-2 step mechanics fail to reward players

[real charm]

true, but with them giving us less mobs, but stronger, its astep in right direction

[jade jackal]

I think so too, its good to slow down once in a while

[real charm]

and as a RF player, not like i'm rushing for fastest zoom zoom playstyle

[jade jackal]

otherwise you end up like PoE1

[real charm]

i played deadeye last league in poe 2, and believe it or not, i enjoyed it less than RF

player enjoyement is nice too

[jade jackal]

im definitely going to participate, though i have a bit of a crippling worry missing this much PoE2 is going to send me into utter confusion after coming back

Last time i visited was a lot of time ago

And i like running blind, which is something GGG really punishes players for

[real charm]

and had my 40/40 loved RF

not really, they added a lot of QoL, we had abyss last league which was a banger and they added like 28 bosses

[desert jasper]

Tbh some of the abyss stuff was very badly balanced, especially against melee

[jade jackal]

yeah im not planning to play melee

[real charm]

ah, since i played deadeye, i didn't play melee

[jade jackal]

i know PoE2 particularly punishes melee

[real charm]

eh there is some good melee, that doesn't act like melee anymore

[jade jackal]

Recent patch notes seem to only add to the freedom of ranged specs

[desert jasper]

Like the abyss enemies that just teleported on you and created a cloud of poop at their feet that dealt insane dmg
good luck getting close to that to be melee

[jade jackal]

The weight of having to relearn PoE2 might convince me to not join 0.4 at all lol

[real charm]

is not like you have to be super efficient

people worry too mouch about playing meta/ bis/ whatever

meanwhile, i have a friend that does capaign in 70h playing wacky stuff and he is having a blast

not just in poe, in any game, take LE by example, there are people day 2 uberorth and levle 100

take your time and just enjoy playing for the sake of playing

[jade jackal]

I dont care about meta, its why im playing blind

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I'm probably just going druid
and hope it's good without being a spellcaster hybrid

Or maybe if there's some sort of way to automate casting the stuff while being a bear

[fierce moth]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536510/The_God_Slayer/

Another new Chinese game.

I'm worrying about how performance will going because explosion and water vfx will use lots of GPU's RAM 🤔

[jovial bane]

ah yes, let me stand there for three seconds to hit the anvil for 3 attacks smith of kitava

[desert jasper]

God, it was so hilariously awful
I remember trying to watch some streamer use it and it was just... 10/10

[jade jackal]

ARPGs are so movement and APM focused even channeling while standing skills hit the sack on every major title currently running

[desert jasper]

It would've been fine if it was just the animation hitting once and it lasted more than 3 attacks
they actually had to give it something like dmg reduction or shit
can't really remember it

[jovial bane]

they've sped it up

among other things, I think it got couple of buffs

still nobody uses it

[desert jasper]

Yeah it did get a few buffs
but as far as I've understood it's still not really worth using

[jovial bane]

I am concerned about 0.4 PoE2. Namely instead of maps increasing mob density, the mobs are stronger but drop more loot

I just have flashbacks to archnemesis ...

[desert jasper]

Tbh I know 1 guy who is probably better off with the maps not having that much density in poe2
Like he got to tier... 14s or 15s in season 3 but ended up running them mostly white because the moment he put any rarity he got wrecked and just lost exp

[jovial bane]

tbf Abyss was ridiculous in that regard

I had one map that dropped me to like 10 FPSes, because all the abyss rifts spawned in one place

Luckily being contagion lich meant I didn't really care, but still

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I was playing poison pathfinder and my poison prolif took care of it

but I remember the first few abyss I saw my first character in the league
it was baaad

I also remember seeing my first wolves in the 2nd area
They instantly killed me from 100 >0 in 3 hits
I've no idea what even happened there

I wish I had recorded it

[jovial bane]

PoE2 was ... an experience

[desert jasper]

And tbh even if I did go with the poison pathfinder and cleared plenty of maps
I didn't even get to the end game bosses because I just didn't find them

[jovial bane]

I've never fought arbiter of ash, never found the citadel last league in fact

somehow

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I didn't find a citadel either

or wait, I think I found one
but it was behind a map that had the bugged boss that couldn't be killed
and because of that I had to do a really long path around to get to it

and I just kinda stopped there

The whole Crow boss just not going to 2nd phase and becoming immune to dmg
which has been a thing on & off since the game came to early access

[jovial bane]

oof

[warped wren]

40% more augments and regals

this is a buff

[twilit mountain]

I beat uber Arbiter last patch just so I could say the game was still dogshit 👍

[desert jasper]

We did start a 3man playthrough with 2 friends
it was... super rough tbh
we got to act3 and we kinda just stopped there

[lost finch]

If I was EHG, I'd say the more that people complain the more monetized the game gets.

[twilit mountain]

Ok bub

[desert jasper]

Because that's a good way to lead busienss

[hushed nacelle]

well its true if someone says anything about the game good or bad

[desert jasper]

2 freshly joined accounts instantly agreeing
I see

[hushed nacelle]

well i mean im a fresh account but i do understand how it works

like lets say theres this streamer and theres some random drama the more people who talk about it the more people know about the streamer the more views and attention that streamer gets

[twilit mountain]

This isn't a streamer though, it's a video game that is hemorraging players every season and has been getting almost exclusively negative attention lol

it doesn't gain money by people talking, it gains money by people paying, and if people are leaving and telling others not to spend, that has the opposite effect

[hushed nacelle]

same concept tho publicity good or bad is still publicity

e

[twilit mountain]

Publicity doesn't equal profit in this case, mate

[hushed nacelle]

CORRECT

Like heres my take tho
we are getting free content but we have to pay for a new ch i think its fine they arnt making alot of money from skins and the game is losing to other rps like poe even tho its way better then poe

they prob make most of there cash at the start of a season anyways

[junior oyster]

It's not better than poe2 even

[twilit mountain]

aight that last sentence tells me all I need to know

[hushed nacelle]

ay i like it more then poe2

[junior oyster]

Aside from crafting ofc

[hushed nacelle]

thats just my hot take

i also think brink was a fantasitc fps parcore game

[junior oyster]

Also skins or even dlc payment isn't the issue for most people. It's paying for new classes that will definitely be better than the originals

[hushed nacelle]

i think it really depends

if the class is like 10 dollars i dont see a problem with it

if its like 25 i can see a big problem with it

Now if its bundled with the legendary edition cosmetic pack well

i cant complain

[junior oyster]

Shouldn't have to pay for new classes imo

[twilit mountain]

I take issue with it being even $1 personally. I was told I would not pay for future content and I will die on the hill that they should have adhered to that.

[hushed nacelle]

idk if you can count a new class content or not

well you could argue it tho

but we are still getting "free content"

[jovial bane]

my hot take is after the hypothetical increase of quality of MTX (as well as quantity) the game should be F2P with gacha and battlepass

but that's me

[hushed nacelle]

no plz

i know u are joking but plz

[twilit mountain]

Is it something that is playable and beyond cosmetic? Yes? It's content.

[jovial bane]

I'm dead serious

[hushed nacelle]

nah

[jovial bane]

Ofc cosmetics only

[hushed nacelle]

whos mtx?

the smg?

[jovial bane]

microtransations, so skins

[hushed nacelle]

where does the x come from?

[twilit mountain]

It comes from the "sactions" sound in the "transactions" part being similar to an x in words like "xylophone" or "Xerox"

[hushed nacelle]

BRO JUST SAY YOUR A KINGDOM HEART FAN

[jovial bane]

yeah, it's a bit odd abbreviation

that's why I usually use MT$

but it feels weird in context of skins in LE or PoE

[hushed nacelle]

I WOULD just says kins

skins*

[twilit mountain]

I mean. I am. But you asked for an explanation so I gave you the explanation.

[hushed nacelle]

I could tell only kingdom heart fans know X name off the top of there head

[jovial bane]

I swear someone used it above, so I thought I was using the same abbreviation as someone in convo

But I've imagined it

😐

Xerox is a fairly known printer brand

[twilit mountain]

^

I can't tell you when MTX started getting used, I've heard it for at least 10 years

[jovial bane]

I think so too ?

[gilded elm]

The use of "TX" and "TXN" for "transaction" goes back decades in IT.

[jovial bane]

hmm til

but it's not an intuitive abbreviation, because it's phonetic

[hushed nacelle]

txn makes sense

[jovial bane]

It honestly took me a while to realise what X stands for

[bronze chasm]

They removed the Clown Emoji from the latest news 🤡🤣

[sand wigeon]

Xuviae

I’m no KH fam

Fan

[hushed nacelle]

If you know the name kingdom heart that makes you a fan

[sand wigeon]

What

[warped wren]

guess off-topic is back to its regularly scheduled dogshit takes

[hushed nacelle]

I dont make the rules i just amke the rules up as i go

[sand wigeon]

I live with the KH fan of course I know the name

[twilit mountain]

Hi that's me

[hushed nacelle]

Kh fan by association

[sand wigeon]

I will divine your end

[twilit mountain]

I moved in over two years ago and in less than a week I bought the entire series on PS4 with the intention of making her play them as soon as we fix the system

[sand wigeon]

True

Christ is it cold

[twilit mountain]

(The disc drive is having issues, we've just not had the money to deal with it yet)

[hushed nacelle]

You should just bug a gabcube for the soul reason of stealing games and emulating your childhood

[twilit mountain]

I don't really want to give more money to Valve than necessary tbqh

[hushed nacelle]

They csn do no wrong

[sand wigeon]

They can

[twilit mountain]

Besides, I can already steal and emulate as I wish, I have a computer

[sand wigeon]

Their CEO is racist

[hushed nacelle]

Who isnt racist in 2025

[sand wigeon]

Okay buddy

[hushed nacelle]

Everyones a little racist

Like i hate Chinese mmos

Cuz gold farming

That makes me racist says the people on twitter

[sand wigeon]

<@&1161418687471956101>

[hushed nacelle]

Welp this is the end for me sry guys

[sand wigeon]

Yep

The end

Fin

So anyway

It has been snowing sooo much

My back is sore from shoveling constantly lol

We went from no snow and relatively warm temps (40F/4C) to extremely cold and lots of snow

[blissful token]

So..... march

[mental talon]

lol

[blissful token]

Why do i feel like alot of text but nth exciting

[real charm]

Poe 2 announced new twitch drop for TGA. So I think they are going to announce something.

https://youtu.be/gDLwl-rIe3E?si=ywGq8TY5RWlwv_q7

[blissful token]

Ehh skill sigil moved to the orobyss expansion

Paid class with skill sigil..... i like where this is going

[sand wigeon]

Once again PoE 2 has shown it is About Not Having Fun

[twilit mountain]

Nuh uh, Lightning Arrow is there still

[sand wigeon]

Just like PoE1 then

The Chad PoE1 LS meta vs The Losercore PoE2 LA meta

[twilit mountain]

I miss pre-nerf LS. 6-8 projectiles per attack in random directions with returns was so peak

[sand wigeon]

I miss pre-nerf default melee

[jovial bane]

not for long I feel, at least by reading the patch notes

or at least maybe not on Deadeye lol

[fierce moth]

Mar. 27th... Let me count...

S3 will last 7 months+