📚┃off-topic

[real charm]

but it's not 154m concurent unique dudes watching TGA

[jovial bane]

I do wonder how guiness verifies those claims, because it did claim in 2022 that they did hit 103M viewers

still, I bet that superbowl numbers might be more reliable

[real charm]

it's 154m views on TGA related content

[jovial bane]

those are independently checked right ?

[real charm]

it's a difference between one and the other

LE has 15m total views and 89k players peak in 0.3, giving an example

[twilit mountain]

Theoretically yeah. Summon max grizzlies, cap out synergies, put a point in werewolf and then dump Lycanthropy for health iirc

[gilded elm]

TGA as a source is fine as long as they're transparent about it:

Globally, TGA achieved its biggest ever results with live distribution in China on a record number of platforms including live distribution in China on Bilbili, Huya, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, DouYu, Baidu, NetEase CC, Tencent Video, QQ, Kuishou, HeyBox; in South Korea or CHZZK and Soop, and NicoNico in Japan.

[jovial bane]

concurrent players peak, not players in 0.3

[real charm]

yeah,

same with TGA

it's hard to calculate people that watched it

[gilded elm]

So like I said, this is clearly a case where they strongly benefited from the eastern viewerships and their collectively much larger viewerbase than the west.

[jovial bane]

yeah, hence I'm giving them benefit of the doubt, because I guess they did show the data to Guiness

[jade jackal]

i wouldnt be surprised if this year's TGA numbers pretty much double last year

because of the demographic

[jovial bane]

and I can absolutely see a rising trend in viewership

[jovial bane]

30 seconds part is important for embedded players

[jade jackal]

the ol' fextralife

[maiden widget]

sounds good ty

[jovial bane]

I guess the claim it was higher than superbowl is fake then, but at the same time

still massive numbers ?

[jade jackal]

We can only assume its higher than the superbowl, because of lack of data

[real charm]

the thing is... Superbowl had more concurent users for sure cuz it was broadcasted on TV,

[jade jackal]

if i had to bet, i would bet its much much higher than the superbowl

[maiden widget]

90% of the non americans: what is superbowl

[jovial bane]

hilariously enough that's the thing that had me wondering

[real charm]

but gaming draws more views over time, as people will talk about it

[maiden widget]

:p

[gilded elm]

TGA specifically only says "livestreams" and there's no break down at least in their 2025 news post. But livestream presumably means "views to any livestream during the event"

[twilit mountain]

Oh I see what's happening

[jovial bane]

how are they tracking the viewers on TV

[twilit mountain]

Lmao

[jovial bane]

especially if you don't have smart TV

[jade jackal]

I would bet only the live views from China alone would eclipse superbowl numbers

[twilit mountain]

Imma dip from this convo

[real charm]

We can all agree that Krafton sucks

[maiden widget]

finally found my own arach this season too, took long enough

[twilit mountain]

Funny belt?

[jade jackal]

5 strength 5 stamina

[gilded elm]

I wouldn't be surprised if Bilbili streamed to more viewers than YouTube and Twitch combined.

[maiden widget]

yep sadly only mid-low roll but better than nothing

[real charm]

it does yeah

[real charm]

TikTok too

[jovial bane]

well the concurrent views of TGA in CN were definitely higher than those of superbowl in CN

[twilit mountain]

Hey that's not that bad at least

[jovial bane]

I guess it's the same for the EU

[real charm]

they don't generate that many live views, but they generate a lot of after views

[maiden widget]

one of the new unique maps also ripped my wolves hard

the facet one is super easy tho

[jade jackal]

Last epoch will also have high tiktok numbers

all it needs is a Grole labubu dubai chocolate trend

[real charm]

@ mods write it down

[jovial bane]

I wonder whether the dubai chocolate trend, and seeing pistacchio filled stuff everywhere is some kind of ploy to offset really good pistacchio nuts harvest globally

[real charm]

I never ate a Dubai chocolate before but I know the trend

[jade jackal]

i prefer if this wouldnt be documented ever

[maiden widget]

just saw the people queuing up for a 15€ lindt dubai choc bar

[real charm]

I watched one in the shop and it has like 5% pistachio and 40% sugar lol, trash

[twilit mountain]

It's a ploy to make my god damned pistachios cost more. Filthy trend chasers making my snacks more expensive...

[real charm]

I love pistachio

[maiden widget]

this picture in picture mode of my screen is also dope - got functionally one screen with 2 2560x1440 when i want it or games only support 16:9 now \o/

[jovial bane]

I'd guess that as well, but I have not noticed them raising in price

[real charm]

Dubai things are like poor quality products that contain some pistachio

[jovial bane]

but I did see sales on the packaged nuts

[real charm]

I rather buy a chocolate with 90% cocoa and eat some pistachio by itself

[twilit mountain]

Damn near everything in stores near me has gone up anywhere from 20 to 50 cents over the past year and a half :(

[maiden widget]

greedflation is brutal

[gilded elm]

Sell your RAM for snack money.

[jovial bane]

hmm

from wiki In 2022, world production of pistachios was one million tonnes, with the United States, Iran, and Turkey combined accounting for 88% of the total.

[real charm]

I bought 32Gb 4 months ago

I watched their price now, they are 4 times more expensive

it's crazy

[twilit mountain]

I have no extra RAM, also I own a laptop lmao

[jovial bane]

I bet the increased price in the US might be caused, because all this pistacchio stuff I see on shelves in EU

and they export so much it ended up raising domestic price ?

[gilded elm]

No problem, got any roommates? Sell their RAM.

[real charm]

The pistachio I ate here is American yeah

[twilit mountain]

I'm keeping an eye on RAM that fits in mine cuz I am barely scraping by with my 16GB atm (and thankfully mine is upgradable)

[real charm]

That God damn pistachio traveled 2000 km

[maiden widget]

if there is no memory you can still do it with the car

[jovial bane]

I'm glad I thought to myself "I bet tarrifs on EU in September will raise hardware prices" so I've upgraded my PC in august

while I was wrong with the cause

[real charm]

From California to me

[jovial bane]

yeah, I'm happy with my foresight

[twilit mountain]

Yes. Dream Hallow. Also a laptop user. Lmao.

[maiden widget]

i'm glad my am4 system just chugs on

[twilit mountain]

(She be asleep atm)

[gilded elm]

Perfect time to sell their laptop

[real charm]

this guy carried TGA

[twilit mountain]

Is that

PVC

[jovial bane]

looks like it lol

[maiden widget]

ogod what a mess

[real charm]

That guy changed like 15 instruments

[twilit mountain]

Y'know what. Fair enough. Won't question it, I don't have the skill for even one instrument

[jovial bane]

yk, and this is why I dont exactly buy the claim that warhammer minis are really cheap to produce

making the die for the moulding must cost a fortune

[jade jackal]

Flute guy is iconic

[maiden widget]

sure if you need one, but if you use a resin printer you get like 80% of the quality for almost no cost (asuming you have the space and protective gear)

[twilit mountain]

Faust tf are you printing over there

[maiden widget]

my nephew has some modern marble thing and needs more spacers

call gravitrax

[jovial bane]

that I agree with, the remaining 20% is the crazy cost of production because of the details

[jovial bane]

ohhh, looks cool

[twilit mountain]

Ohh. That's actualy pretty cool

[maiden widget]

and vendor solution is to just stack small tiles but those cost a bit

[jade jackal]

that's legit awesome

[maiden widget]

so i am making 40, 60, 80mm ones

[twilit mountain]

Always wanted those things when I was younger. Honestly I'd probably still take one now

[jovial bane]

sweet, that's way better solution

[maiden widget]

its pretty chill ngl

[real charm]

I wish I could sing on PVC in front of 154m viewers*

[jade jackal]

Rube Goldbergs are just smaller versions of rollercoasters to me

but i guess this isnt one, idk what these are called

[maiden widget]

love it how affordable my printer was too, with the stuff i printed now already i think i'd have spent more by buying various headphone holders, replacement parts or now those parts

[twilit mountain]

I've got a small one hanging about in the basement. Just haven't cleaned it off and set it up, not really anywhere good to place it right now

[maiden widget]

ah nice, i grabbed a small ikea half sized cupboard thingy and it works nicely

[twilit mountain]

Huh. I hadn't really considered that, that's a neat idea. I'll keep it in mind

[desert jasper]

new talisman

[twilit mountain]

That's pretty solid for 22

[desert jasper]

Yeah
dropped in the first ascendancy
didn't have the flat phys at first, got lucky with slam

[fierce moth]

Nub completed the 1st ascendency?

I'm struggling that yet

[jovial bane]

I will definitely struggle

I'm brewing my own thing without PoB, and will adjust it later lmao

[desert jasper]

I did, yes
It wasn't fun tbh

And you did do your 1st ascendancy already 🤔

[junior oyster]

Said it before and say it again I hate sekh

Good thing I'm not playing poe2 because I only recently stopped playing end of Sept

[fierce moth]

Oh we're on the same level now 🤔

[jovial bane]

seems legit

[ebon meadow]

It's not white so it's fine right ?

This is a bad joke fair warning

[twilit mountain]

That van is already full, I'm safe xdd

[desert jasper]

I should probably set up a filter

[junior oyster]

Why?

Not like the game drops anything

[fierce moth]

emmmmm I want to buy a withered wand but... lol

[junior oyster]

Why would you buy a low level item?

[fierce moth]

Not sure use my exalted orbs to test my luck is a good thing or not. Well... I'm glad my luck isn't bad

[desert jasper]

Gues it's time to go for act 2 boss

[twilit mountain]

We have Zod at home

[fierce moth]

Our progress are quite closed hhhh

but you're faster on leveling

[desert jasper]

Oh it was easy

[fierce moth]

it was hard

the speed of boss hp reduction is quite slow

[twilit mountain]

Guess I don't get to swap my chest for a while

[jade jackal]

im also running that build currently

Razorplate's effect seems like dramatic than it should

i decided to just shift all the damage into blessed shield

tho i very much dislike the playstyle, it keeps me right next to mobs in melee range

with a very slow projectile

but everything melts, and the legendary nodes on the paragon board are beyond broken

i would very much like to explore zeal options, i love the playstyle of just dashing and slashing

so im at a full stash item hoard mode

also sanctification is a surprisingly cool mechanic. simple, but intruiging

[desert jasper]

Tbh I kinda did want to go for the plants + storm stuff but decided against it

[twilit mountain]

Sanctify can roll Harlequin Crest effect 👍

[jade jackal]

I love that idea

so far ive seen it replace affixes, add affixes, add legendary powers, level up an item

[twilit mountain]

Just get lucky and have free 20% DR and +4 all

[jade jackal]

i guess that once it adds a mythic effect, you cant replicate it with another mythic

[fierce moth]

lol I get a lv 9 skill gem but... I don't reach lv 31 yet so I can't upgrade my skill

:(

[twilit mountain]

Honestly no clue, don't think people have tested it fully yet

[jade jackal]

There's one broken thing ive seen so far on the patch i think blizzard should smash, but it might be too late

with the dungeon system

[junior oyster]

Is d4 good now? I'm kidding

[desert jasper]

Woo, more temple time

[jade jackal]

we get to beta test what's probably my favorite class so far in terms of themes and mechanics before we can really ask the question in April

im surprised at how actually completely different node selection of skills are

[junior oyster]

I'm mostly interested in the return of the horadric cube

[jade jackal]

3 options that actually have complete build implications from base

[junior oyster]

I know some people have said it's a reskinned crusader though

[jade jackal]

The Paladin?

[twilit mountain]

It's way more D2 Pally skills than Crusader

[junior oyster]

Yep

[jade jackal]

thank goodness its a reskinned crusader

because the crusader has always had better themes than the paladin

[junior oyster]

There are skills that are basically copied from sader

[jade jackal]

The flails, the signature moves, the added flare

The crusader was a more refined Paladin

[junior oyster]

Though I guess both classes could technically use those skills

[twilit mountain]

Yes and there are skills that are copied 1 to 1 from Pally

[jade jackal]

Yeah most of those originate in D2's paladin

[junior oyster]

Yea I guess. I'm not complaining by any amount

[jade jackal]

they even had to calm down the visual effects on some of the skills the came out from the crusader, like Fist of the Heavens

it was a bit too flashy

[junior oyster]

Just heard some people complain heh

[jade jackal]

Complaining that your food has more seasoning on it is crazy

[junior oyster]

Honestly my biggest gripe with pally is the fact the auras don't feel like auras

In terms of visuals

[jade jackal]

I wish D4 would have done the same with other boring classes D3 had seasoned, like the Wizard who has arcane magic with additional flavor and variability compared to the Sorc

[twilit mountain]

Having just played D2 two days ago, they're about the same as those imo

[ebon meadow]

Last league of d3 with arcon felt like what the game should of been

The three things and stuff

What a beautiful last league to have in game I enjoyed it so much

[jade jackal]

Last season of D3 where Archon was worthwhile was what, 6 years ago? lol

that's a crazy callback

[ebon meadow]

Pretty much yea

I started on on beta console as well years before pc switch

[junior oyster]

Archon has never truly been worthwile aside from maybe before RoS

[fierce moth]

Holy god... hhhhhhhhh

[twilit mountain]

Mirror Image Firebird set meta was peak, everyone knows this.

[fierce moth]

I see 85% increased spell damage for the first time

[junior oyster]

I only felt Archon was strong in the public test thing

Because the moment Archon felt good they'd nerf it lol

[ebon meadow]

Archon felt waasyy overpowered to me even in d3

[real charm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgZclhnUNTc

[fierce moth]

I'm too naive to think I can catch up Nub's speed

[junior oyster]

Why would you try to catch up to someone else

Go at your own pace and improve yourself

[desert jasper]

Comparison is thief of joy

[desert jasper]

Thanks mr ultimatum man

[junior oyster]

Chaos head guy

[fierce moth]

😵 wetland is quite big... Just find where trial of chaos is

It's tomorrow's deal

Played poe 2 5h...It's my max. Come on, Nub, I think you can complete act 3 tonight

I must take a rest

[jovial bane]

feels weird that volcano and rolling magma tickles, I deal way more damage with shapeshifted autoattacks

[desert jasper]

God I hate the chaos trials so much

[fierce moth]

tornado bird?

[desert jasper]

No
chimera
just spewing poison shit so I can't really stay close to him

and then I run out of pots and accidentally step in a poison pool and die to it

And absolutely terrible choises to pick from

[jovial bane]

chimera is the most annoying despite being the weakest of the three

it's such a pain as melee

[desert jasper]

Yeah

[jovial bane]

poison everywhere, you want to DPS it and it starts flying so you cannot

it finally lands, you finally have a window

aaaand 3 seconds later it switches the spot on the arena 🫠

doing it as DoT Lich felt Cathartic after doing it with the Monk

[desert jasper]

Like
Do I want enemies to have 300% crit
poison + bleed on any hit
or do I take that enemies have some ES based on their hp

None of those are fun, especially on the boss

[jovial bane]

like I said, Lich felt cathartic. Poison+Bleed ? What's that ?

[desert jasper]

it changed the boss to be the plague bird

Sure, got some good damage in
and then some mechanic I've never even seen from the boss

Did get it done on like 4th attempt
I probably would've had easier time if I bought a new talisman tbh

[warped wren]

no fun allowed

[desert jasper]

Sure feels like it sometimes

[junior oyster]

PoE2 is about antifun

[twilit mountain]

You will take your 20 minute maps, no respawning, heavy stuns from 4 different sources, dogshit active block system, thirty billion particles, and shitass RNG gated skill system, and you'll LIKE IT

[junior oyster]

And complicated tablets

[jade jackal]

insert bus meme with one looking at mountain and one at the vista

[jovial bane]

huh, interesting

[twilit mountain]

Hey look. It's Steve in passive form.

[jovial bane]

I'm missing some critical lore

heh, what damage increase would I like ? yes

[desert jasper]

Isn't there a talisman in poe1 that does that too?

Ah fun
Viper did the flying invulnerability bs twice in a row

[fierce moth]

Nub reach act 4 now?

[desert jasper]

Just beat Doryani so about to do that ,yes

[fierce moth]

Too amazing. You can play from act 2 to act 4 without be exhausted...

It's over 6h definitely

[desert jasper]

I did have a few breaks

[fierce moth]

More amazing...

I have no relationship with speed at any time

[twilit mountain]

@jade jackal man. Judgement builds are something else.

Literally jsut free damage and clear

[jade jackal]

The class is one big build buffet

[twilit mountain]

I am clearing NMDs by just left clicking

[jade jackal]

ive currently transitioned into the ricochet build of shields

i just lucked out on a masterwork for gloves

[twilit mountain]

Huge

[jade jackal]

The build essentially works by chaining falling stars

and evade autocasts shields

this thing is massive

[twilit mountain]

I hit things and then judgement explodes and so do they

:)

[fierce moth]

Hi, I'm a player who created the slowest record on progress of campaign in poe 2. Nice to meet everyone.
:)

[jovial bane]

this, this is interesting

probably bad, but interesting

[jade jackal]

The gameplay essentially revolves around flying with falling star, there are several skills that seem to enjoy this kind of proccing

[jovial bane]

looks fun

[junior oyster]

I still got 3 challenges to do in poe to get 40/40

Then I'ma hop onto d4 to play pala

[twilit mountain]

I don't know why I always have issues playing videos from you dj

[jade jackal]

[twilit mountain]

This one just isn't loading, the last one though... loaded too well? It somehow played multiple times at once, so I had like 5 streams of audio from it. It was weird.

[jade jackal]

I hereby swear i pack them with the most common mp4 container after a pass in handbrake from the recording lol

[junior oyster]

I used to have that issue with my old pc

I'd have to play the video on my phone for some reason

[twilit mountain]

Oh it's on my phone too, and specifically only with dj's videos

I just had Dream click it and play perfectly fine I am so confused

[jade jackal]

Here try this

And if that won't, try this

[fierce moth]

I feel these videos like... pixel animations

The difference is how big pixels are

[vagrant topaz]

That's for @twilit mountain

[twilit mountain]

Physical thorns is strictly worse than fire sadly

[vagrant topaz]

Fire Thorn?

[twilit mountain]

Yup

Fire Thorns is enabled via Avatar of Fire combined with Warbringer being able to break armor with any damage.

It's basically a situation of having the ability to apply negative armor to fire damage combined with also letting you nuke their res for removing all their mitigation really

[twilit mountain]

Hmmm... Judgement pop for 703k at paragon 56. That seems pretty alright?

[twilit mountain]

Oh also, it's objectively bad because the skills that work best with thorns are spear skills, for the on-hit proc rates, so you can't utilize this well enough anyway

[jade jackal]

I wonder if Paladin will stay this broken comes the expansion

its torn between having to need some numbers reduced and selling the expansion

[twilit mountain]

Probably not, there's a legendary node that was obviously made before the resist and armor rework and as a result is about 100x stronger than it should be

[jade jackal]

yeah Castle

absolute Diablo 3 level cinema on that one

Also some uniques are obviously overtuned

ive already seen people push Castle to 1500%+

They can change it from 1.8% to 0.8% and it will still remain meta

[twilit mountain]

What tends to happen with these things is they get designed with the intention of being on the current system but are implemented before that so they can, y'know, make sure it works to begin with, and then they just run out of time to adjust it before launch lol

[jade jackal]

Having a survivability stat actively pushing your damage like this isnt the greatest design

Its a crazy win-win for progression

[twilit mountain]

It would have capped out at 180%ish on the old system

[jade jackal]

introducing a cap is an option, sure

[twilit mountain]

The reason it is so good now is because armor doesn't have a cap now, it did before this season

[jade jackal]

its not impossible this was designed well before recent patches

i know from sources i can't disclose that the Spiritborn was designed to near full capacity a year before it came out

[twilit mountain]

Aight I'm at judgment pops of almost 2mil now

[twilit mountain]

There is a Rogue in my helltide instance jacked to the moon. Bro has covered the whole ground in traps

[gilded elm]

Wow, Hytale is finally happening. Early access on Jan 13 with preorders now available.

I used to earn a living running Minecraft servers and Hytale's journey since Mojang announced their EULA rules restricting monetization back in 2015 has been a wild one to follow. The whole Riot games acquisition left a bad taste with how badly they mismanaged Hytale's development, really cool to see the original leadership managed to reacquire the rights to Hytale and continue development this past year.

[twilit mountain]

New high, 40mil

[gilded elm]

Probably won't play much when early access releases, but wanted to be a day 1 supporter as well as secure my username lol

Also feels kind of nice that they decided to open up preorders on my birthday lol

[fierce moth]

I hope every child learns not to shout anytime when they want to express their mood... Children whose likes shouting are ass but one just live near my bedroom unfortunately

[warped wren]

children don't have emotional control for a fairly long time

even with a calm parent, a toddler meltdown is kinda unavoidable and often times the best you can do is let it ride out while you try to soothe them

[twilit mountain]

I devolve into meltdowns via sensory overload and I'm in my 20s 😔

[gilded elm]

Hyperactivity seems to be something children grow out of, at least that's how it worked for me and how it works in general for ADHD kids as well. Very few adult-hood diagnoses of ADHD actually are of the hyperactive type.

[fierce moth]

The first sip is surprised me. This flavour is very good. Special textures on the can too.

Maybe it's the honour of mango and banana juices

[gilded elm]

That's a surprisingly innocuous list of ingredients for an energy drink. Might have to try it.

[fierce moth]

I win

But 48 spirit bonus is useless in campaign :(

[twilit mountain]

[desert jasper]

Man
These loading screens in poe2

[fierce moth]

Fleshy is lv 38 too Your guys are pretty fast

I need to buy a box of medicated plaster at first... Shoulders just too stiff

[desert jasper]

Have you tried stretching?

[warped wren]

real

wanted to log in for 30mins before bed, probably gonna spend the first 3 mins loading into town

they really need to fix this garbage

[desert jasper]

Ppl are saying it's a driver thing
apparently AMD folk just rolled back to like september and it works fine for them
but nvidia? nobody knows, gl

[sand wigeon]

Doesn’t necessarily help

Sometimes makes it worse

Shoulders are in a rough spot for that, ‘cause for some people it’s where alll their stress goes

Like for me, my shoulders are always tightened because of stress, and I only notice it when lying down for bed or waking up, and I do stretch regularly

[desert jasper]

Sure, it doesn't always help for everyone
but I'm not sure how much a plaster would help either

[desert jasper]

Ah wonderful
in the first herald fight the stonewall graphics didn't come up
good luck trying to get out of the circles

[sand wigeon]

What do you think a plaster is rq

We might be talking about smth else

[fierce moth]

How to make this pile work? I have no idea why I can find nothing in workshop

[desert jasper]

You need something to boost the level

[desert jasper]

Meaning you need another room to boost the lvl of it
usually right next to it

[fierce moth]

... First time I'm lost in a map of campaign Where the damn queen is... No direction at all

I reached every corners but no clue for the queen yet

...Poe 2's maps are too evil.

[abstract karma]

looking again on youtube a seeing these combo skills how they still melt bosses in acts - something is wrong with their vision 😄

hmm seing that druid bear form has op dmg

[desert jasper]

Walking calamity is great

[warped wren]

the issue is never act or even map bosses tbf

the issue is juiced map rares. Either your build butchers them or you get curb stomped while executing your piano combo, no in between

[desert jasper]

Quite good from npc
Wonder if I can slam life on it

Nope, %es

[fierce moth]

Battery is back to 100% status. Feel well.

[fierce moth]

This BMW 7 series car is more new than Benz S series 🤔 Still house of cards

emmmmmm... The latest BMW 7 series looks more ugly

[fierce moth]

🤔 That's the architecture style from the environment I spent the whole childhood and teenager duration

That's the most easy decorcation for voxel architectures too

[maiden widget]

feels like i just got scammed why barb

[fierce moth]

Divine divinity hhhhhhh
This name is too funny

[junior oyster]

What mod is that? PD?

[jovial bane]

I might have to download the PoB, I cannot wrap my head around that keystone node

[jovial bane]

Brutalism I believe it is called ?
I dislike it, but Chinese one on the pics looks a bit nicer than soviet one

[maiden widget]

Yep pd2 - can recommend druid summoner there it's been a blast so far

[abstract karma]

you need POE planner for PoE 2 because most updates arent ready on PoB 2 i think

[junior oyster]

Melee splash made me think it was some sort of poe mod in d2 lol

[vagrant topaz]

Which one?

[jovial bane]

oh this one

[maiden widget]

Oh yeah didn't even notice it anymore - even the bears got splash here and it's so good

[jovial bane]

it's very interesting, but the build that would support it is quite unique

[desert jasper]

Ah, Oracle thing, right?

[jovial bane]

I think grabbing those would be a start for such build ? 🤔

yep

[junior oyster]

I'd have to play necro if I try pd2

Too bad it's the graphics I don't like

[jovial bane]

rn I will focus on inevitable crits and go for CoC, maybe something with charges

[maiden widget]

The crt filter works nicely for me in Pd2 and the wide-screen fix

Theres a lot of options for video filters now

[junior oyster]

I see

Does D2R work with PD2?

For this part

Oh wait found the classics

Kinda annoying they aren't part of the bnet app

Huh it won't install

[maiden widget]

You need normal d2

[junior oyster]

Yea I found it

[maiden widget]

Maybe one day the community will be able to just tack on the D2r graphics onto the old d2

Would be dope to have all the great old mods with the newer graphics

[junior oyster]

Don't think they are allowed to

[maiden widget]

Uh I don't think modders care too much about rules, see the reuse of graphics from tons of other games in their mods

[vagrant topaz]

I dont think those 2 work together

Zealot seems to make you regen ES

Scarred disable ES regen

[junior oyster]

Good old D2 not asking you whether to ask you to add a shortcut or not lol

Lol I have 2 keys for D2 LoD xD

[jovial bane]

does it ? I think the wording means that I have no regen anyway, so zealot's is just redundant, but because I do not recharge the shield but recoup it, it should work

but tbf I am not 100% sure

that looks like a nice base amulet

[vagrant topaz]

Me neither

That's how I understood it

[fierce moth]

+2 all spell skills!!!! Quite juicy

[junior oyster]

Just sell it as it is for a good amount

But then again it isn't +3 huh

[fierce moth]

I wish I can have an amulet +3 spell skills in this league

Time to go on grinding the campaign

[jovial bane]

still, for act 3 vendor it's insane

[junior oyster]

Indeed

[desert jasper]

Yea that's insane for act 3 vendor

[junior oyster]

Last league I had a decent ring from the act 4 vendor

Had life on it and triple res iirc

[desert jasper]

One of the djinns in the prelude acts gave me a ring with 100 life
but nothing else good on it

[fierce moth]

.....Why my game is crashed and quit once I'm on the arena of the sun god in the temple

I'm confused my laptop fear the sun god suddenly

Plus I always be asked re-enter my password... Through I use the same route from the same net booster and the same VPN

Poe 2 just never remember my password

[junior oyster]

Play poe2 on steam

[fierce moth]

Alright let me check can restart the laptop solve the issue

[gilded elm]

Outside my window right now... guess it snowed quite a bit overnight

[fierce moth]

Chinese don't deserve it because of Tencent

..... Alright GGG's fault. I can't play poe 2 for a while :(

[junior oyster]

Play d4

New season

[fierce moth]

lol oh maybe my laptop know I'm recording so it let it work

[desert jasper]

Ah, found a lifesprig
too bad it's lvl 58

[fierce moth]

do the trial in act 4 available to play?

[desert jasper]

no

[fierce moth]

:( Not be completed that alright

Damn the boss I meet is tornado bird.

Bad to meet you, tornado bird. I'm angry bird, hi.

[desert jasper]

This would've been nice early game

[maiden widget]

Damn YouTube got even worse now they both translate English videos to ai German and German to ai English

And the translation is super bad

[junior oyster]

Hasn't that been for a while?

But yea I auto close those videos lol

[maiden widget]

Haven't seen X to English yet

That seems new

[junior oyster]

Yea I'm not aware of that as an english speaker xD

[sudden anchor]

That was annoying. I switched my language to english, so it no longer translates.

[maiden widget]

Mine translates German to English now so the language switch alone isn't working for me anymore if I want to keep both untranslated

ARM64 big endian architecture
Arm64 huge Indian architecture

Surely a possible... Translation

[desert jasper]

Yeah I changed my youtube back to English ages ago
Hated it when it was translating titles etc to Finnish
but it was very bad finnish too

[maiden widget]

Yeah I did that to stop translating English to German via ai. Now it translates German to English. Must be hard to for big tech to just ask users if they want to translate language X. But no gotta annoy users and assume instead of providing options.

[junior oyster]

A recent change I'm not a fan of is the reply

It feels redditified

[desert jasper]

Oh I can't even remember the last time I actually looked at comments on youtube

[maiden widget]

I've never used that either it's purely consumption of videos or music for me

[junior oyster]

I don't comment but I do use comments to get timestamps and such

[fierce moth]

...I never know act 3 final boss is hard in this level

[junior oyster]

Oh PD2 remembers my summons

Nice

[fierce moth]

The friend list left me alone again lol

I'm alone in poe 2

[desert jasper]

People have things to do during the weekend

[fierce moth]

Prisoner is the boss I selected to kill as the first one but the hp is quite rich

[real charm]

I can give a hand if needed

[fierce moth]

hah I slain it finally

740.7 dps still not rich on damage but enough to kill it finally

711.1 before

[maiden widget]

man why do new games have issues with ultra wide screens still, tq2 has black bars on my screen 🙁

[sudden anchor]

Am I an atheist if I watch a two-hour balancing discussion video about a game I don’t even play, maybe three times a year? Thoughts?

[fierce moth]

You enjoy seeing how people think about game balances

I don't have a habit of watching game discussions/streams/guides/memes yet but I enjoy game trailers

[twilit mountain]

I don't understand what atheism has to do with the rest of this question, can you elaborate?

[fierce moth]

But over 5 mins will ❌

[desert jasper]

I'm feeling pretty squishy in maps as the bear
too tired to start fixing it now though

[sudden anchor]

ops, meant autist.

[desert jasper]

I don't think that makes you an autist really

[twilit mountain]

Ah. Not really enough info to go off of. If you suspect you may be autistic (generally we don't say "an autist" anymore, it can be pretty rude) you should speak to a professional, but that aspect alone just means you have an interest in those kinds of things.
I watch multi-hour videos on things I don't play all the time, and I don't personally consider it within my autism because it pales in comparison to what I do for my actual special interests

[sudden anchor]

tank you! i suffered low self esteem in te past and wanna be reflective, so i was unsure if tat was witin normal borders of beaviour.

[desert jasper]

ah, your h key still broken

[fierce moth]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That's fine, he can copy h from my message

[twilit mountain]

The noise my nose makes when I wake up:

[sudden anchor]

aa (lol) yea. can't afford a new key.
also Deias and oters, i respect you so muc for quickly realisin te impact of words, tat teir meanin canes over time/society and tat you interate it in your life, even advocatin for it.
i often struled to intellectually understand tis, but am more open minded nowadays

[fierce moth]

hhhhhhhhhh tbh first time to read English without h. Quite interesting

[desert jasper]

Ah... I was gonna wake up early tomorrow to play more but just remembered I got some more medical stuff tomorrow

[fierce moth]

When I just wake up: hah poe 2's journey will quite fun!
When I played poe 2 for 4h: Why I still playing this boring game?

[twilit mountain]

Out of curiosity, what kind of broken are we talking? Is it a key cap that was lost/broken, or the actual keypad itself isn't responding? (Also if you have a mouse with extra buttons and software like LG mice do you could make one of those type H for you, I did that for a while when my C and Z keys broke)

[twilit mountain]

I will wait until I can get support gems for free and jewelers orbs for basically nothing so I can actually have fun in the game. Also I need to get my silly D4 Pally to kill ubers without actual skill damage.

[junior oyster]

Me getting rushed

[warped wren]

Shapeshift skills are actually good

No cap

Rare case of combo skills feeling GREAT to use

Wolf starts out kinda rough whereas Bear just roflstomps, but then later Wolf gets some insane burst combos and high speed

[twilit mountain]

Combo skills (no matter how good) 👉 🗑️

[desert jasper]

Walking Calamity is insanely good
and apparently a friend killed the ape in act 3 as wyvern with the ... oil spit? I think

[warped wren]

Try it if/when you play, really

[twilit mountain]

I'm not gonna. I don't like comboing.

[fierce moth]

I don't know what am I doing, I don't know how to do better, I know I must make mistakes, I know current layout maybe bring troubles later.

Confused.

[desert jasper]

Kirra when you leave the temple
do you interact with the panel and click "Close temple" ?

[sudden anchor]

te keypad isn't respondin anymore. I was kiddin before wen sayin I can't afford a key, I'm not sure I can repair or buy a new one for my laptop. I do ave a outternal keyboard at ome to, it's only temporary. also no extra buttons on mouse.

speakin about, I want to et a wireless mouse maybe - if it works on like 4-5meter rane? I'm researcin. one wit atleast 2 extra buttons too.

2.4 GHz wit USB-Dongle is better tan bluetoot, I read.

[desert jasper]

Because I didn't do that the first time I ran the temple and left
And it didn't seem to remove any rooms
but if you do that (same panel where you place the rooms + click run temple) it will show how it removes some rooms.
I think it's something they will fix in a patch that they'll get removed anyway @fierce moth

[sand wigeon]

psa image account token stealing is back

don’t click any images on discord

[desert jasper]

Ah. wonderful

[sudden anchor]

is tere a way to detect tese acks? today i clicked a imae and it wouldn't load, even wen i ot ood connection.

[junior oyster]

Lol broken keyboard?

I feel ya

[sand wigeon]

that’s just normal discord stuff

and no

[desert jasper]

I was gonna go sleep but the guy living above me just dropped something on the floor and now i'm wide awake
thanks dood

[junior oyster]

Meanwhile that guy is probably crying knowing he just broke his tv or something

[desert jasper]

Nah it was like
a pot or a kettle with a lid

[fierce moth]

!?

!!!!???????!

...............

[junior oyster]

Dang was the pot called kettle?

[fierce moth]

💀 You're right, I never never never know I can close the temple what the hell

[sand wigeon]

I have the apartment experience while living in a house

[fierce moth]

Nothing in game remind me I need to close the temple. Jesus

[sand wigeon]

My room is right under the living room which is also where our treadmill is

[fierce moth]

⬆️
It's the most important info I get here

[desert jasper]

A friend's old neighbors used to start moving furniture after midnight by just pushing them on the floor
same ppl had some fly worms in their fridge in a bag, got the whole house infested

[sand wigeon]

Lol

How do you accidentally let out fly worms

Feed goes in a bucket or not at all

[fierce moth]

Much more better now

[desert jasper]

The guy also owned a restaurant... it got closed, who could've seen that happening

[twilit mountain]

Sweet

[jovial bane]

ngl very smart of blizzard to let people play Paladin right away

[twilit mountain]

Hmmm

[twilit mountain]

Pally is very fun :D
I think I'm still a Rogue nerd at heart though

[jade jackal]

Paladin has awesome visuals

numbers can be fixed, but the mechanics are interesting

im aching for way more legendaries and uniques, there's a lot to alter here for additional playstyles

Zeal side needs a lot of love

[twilit mountain]

Zeal has a weird basic attack build. As does Brandish.

The Brandish one has some Nimis shit goin on

[jade jackal]

Brandish is cool, but cheap

im currently running it

It feels a bit too effortless to turn this basic skill into a screen sized menace.

[twilit mountain]

I wouldn't personally call it effortless, the uniques are actually pretty rare

[jade jackal]

I guess it depends on the perception of what rare is, in the context of D4

it didnt take me long geting the basic versions

and now im replacing them with ga'd ones

[twilit mountain]

In other news, my new highest Judgement pop is nearly 2bil but it really relies on every buff being maxed out and rolling every possible debuff application + lucky hit proc + crit proc + double damage proc lol

[jade jackal]

i refuse to believe i have actively invested this much time into the Paladin

i would say about 20 of those are honest gaming

[twilit mountain]

[jade jackal]

but that's enough to basically start polishing Brandish after transitioning from 2 other builds

I really really love the idea of echoing zeals

[twilit mountain]

I am a fan of titles

[jade jackal]

i know the build is lukewarm, and that sucks

echoing zeals is really fun

[twilit mountain]

Absolute cinema

[jade jackal]

well that was wasteful

Now time to ruin the item by sanctifying it

[twilit mountain]

I'm not 100% sure but that might actually allow you to roll twice

[jade jackal]

i rerolled that off, its ok

[twilit mountain]

Unless they removed that function sometime in the past few seasons

[jade jackal]

dont be crap dont be crap

good, got additional 200 str

[twilit mountain]

Not bad

[jade jackal]

im outta here grab the sword and run

ill take my small victories

making the hop

[twilit mountain]

How's your strength looking

[jade jackal]

There's a lot of work to do, my legendaries are un-GA'd, unmasterworked

I currently have 2488 str

[twilit mountain]

Whew. Almost 500 more than I have

[jade jackal]

im still figuring stuff out, like how do i get proper gems

i have like, no gems

[twilit mountain]

Jeweler really

Getting to the highest is a grind

[jade jackal]

oh there's where everything is hiding

[twilit mountain]

Thankfully you can't actually lose your gems, unsocketing gives them back

[jade jackal]

man i have not properly touched this game since VoH

[twilit mountain]

I took my time getting through VoH, read all the dialogue and world interactables. I cannot lie, I don't understand the story complaints. It seemed pretty alright to me.

[jade jackal]

Yeah i read dialogs and all

Not a great story, not enough Lorath

but i went with it

[twilit mountain]

Yeah I mean, it wasn't great but people were talking about it as if it was the worst thing to ever grace the franchise. It was fine, could have been better but definitely could have been worse

[azure stratus]

i think i would have had more fun playing d4 than poe2.

[jade jackal]

D4 is a fast burner, but i really hope they will succeed in juicing it in April

im fine with them introducing buzzword features like the cube, and the talisman and a loot filter, and a mapping system, but it has to have meat on it

[twilit mountain]

T̶̈̓̌͑h̸̍͂͒͘è̸̀͑͝ ̴͆͑̈́́Ċ̵̌̉͝u̷̞̤̗̽be

[jade jackal]

There's one thing i know D4 won't get to enjoy, 100%

They will not be able to numbersquish the game, and it begs for a latergame numbersquish

[twilit mountain]

This is post number squish

[jade jackal]

Personally, i dont have too much problem with having high numbers as long as gameplay progression stays solid

its just that the numbers are goofy if you do care

And people get to speedrun the entire difficulty ladder in a single day

2 days, if you need to answer corporate emails, change a few diapers and drop your kids at school

[twilit mountain]

Peak

[jade jackal]

That's my ingame nickname

it was very weird to keep seeing it lol

[twilit mountain]

Got my Lilith kill

[jade jackal]

I hate that encounter, i dread it

[twilit mountain]

You can completely skip the final phase if you kill her fast enough

[jade jackal]

T3 Lilith it is, i guess lol

This fight is so gimmicky i hate it

[sand wigeon]

FOR THE HORADRIM HOLYDIVER

[jade jackal]

Hell yeah

[twilit mountain]

hrrrrrrrgh

Need more shitass obudicite to MW

[jade jackal]

Horadric strongroom dungeons

i just opened one, there was about 2700 obducite in the event's chest

huge huge gains

holy shit, i just godmoded this set of gloves, its near hexfecta

[sand wigeon]

I read that as horadric estrogen shrooms. I need more sleep apparently.

[twilit mountain]

Yeah I've got a couple to get to

[jade jackal]

The gamba factor in this season is crazy

putting a pristine rolled item on that sanctification table is such a leap of faith

no pun intended

[twilit mountain]

I have become something of an autobomber

[jade jackal]

just 1 critique on that holy wings thing

its crap for avoiding quick telegraph attacks, you are not moving for a good portion

i died quite a few times mid animation for not moving out the way

[twilit mountain]

Permanent 65% DR makes me slightly unworried

[jade jackal]

from what

[twilit mountain]

I have 100% block

[jade jackal]

oh, i have 92%, i guess i should seal that up

Strength is now at 2983, i worked on it, Castle node is still relatively low despite the recent buffs

[twilit mountain]

pretty alright defenses kicking around

[jade jackal]

hmmm

i guess i need to keep juicing armor

My castle is at 826%

[twilit mountain]

1400% here xdd

[jade jackal]

CDR not too critical, but it got it to 51% and everything is pretty fluent

And some runes just completely refuse to appear even once, like Xol and Igni

[twilit mountain]

I have two Igni, no Eom :(

[jade jackal]

i have 2 eoms

[twilit mountain]

Wanna swap an Eom for an Igni? xdd

[jade jackal]

sure

[twilit mountain]

Huh, maybe that's why my towns are so finnicky sometimes. I didn't know I had crossplay stuff on

[jade jackal]

yeah i always turn it off

screw that noise

[twilit mountain]

Imma go do that real quick, I didn't even know it was on

[jade jackal]

There's also an element of how sweaty PC players are, so on avg public encounters have a chance to be easier lol

[twilit mountain]

We do have probably the highest population of no-life losers (I'm one of them sometimes )

Yeeeeeah that's a lot faster of a load

[jade jackal]

That town was packed

ive never seen anything like that

[twilit mountain]

I always just thought it was due to being Cerrigar

[jade jackal]

I honestly dont know why by now we dont have all amenities in other large towns

Just put copies of em there

Carrigar is an ugly place anyway

[twilit mountain]

Why did turning off crossplay make my solo instances load faster

[jade jackal]

Lots of traffic garbage is gone

This is something i remember hearing about since vanilla

[twilit mountain]

That is so weird

Can I turn it off on PoE2?

[jade jackal]

There should be a crossplay toggle on PoE2

[twilit mountain]

I'm going to click that next time I open that game

Anwyays, gamba time

Eh. That's okay

[jade jackal]

+Armor % would be good

feeds Castle

[gilded elm]

lol

[twilit mountain]

Wizard cat?

[gilded elm]

No idea, it's from Where Winds Meet. Some kind of traditional Chinese garb I guess

[real charm]

https://youtu.be/WBg817LCEzY?si=ojV-eo-kFWjNuEsw

[gilded elm]

Charlie: "Please God, anybody but me" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pcaYwPJpwhA lol

[sand wigeon]

That game looks. Not good.

I hoped it was good but I watched a video earlier and it just kinda looked "uhhh"

[gilded elm]

Really? Looks alright, assuming you meant visually.

[sand wigeon]

I more meant in every other way

[gilded elm]

Yeah maybe, not really deep into it. Seems a bit shallow so far but thought I'd try it as it's free.

[twilit mountain]

Temu tier voicing

[gilded elm]

I play with the Mandarin dub

Seemed okay

I try to always play in the original intended dub

[twilit mountain]

Mandarin is probably fine if I had to guess. English one is just... so bad

[fierce moth]

....Oh I see why my game is quite tough. Forget this unique item... Yes it's the core

Es always ran out and half of health remain when I'm fighting, struggle with the defense pretty much

[gilded elm]

Through one of Charlie's recent videos, I learned about One Pace. Now I think I might give One Piece another go lol

[fierce moth]

alright 1e. But 0e I own...

[fierce moth]

+99 max mana & 14% max life as extra es. 1c. Good deal :)

[twilit mountain]

WELL THEN

[junior oyster]

No one can convince me to watch one piece. I've tried to watch it a few times but just the first few episodes are enough to make me go nah

That said I do agree it's one of, if not the best anime.

[jovial bane]

shallow is not a word I'd use to describe it

It's a pretty fun game, PoE made me drop it for now

But I had fun

[gilded elm]

I'm still very early, so not a very strong criticism just an early assessment.

[jovial bane]

makes sense

[gilded elm]

I mostly feel the same way but Charlie made a video recently celebrating fully catching up to One Piece over 5 years, and he mentioned watching through One Pace which is a very carefully edited fan project to cut out all the filler content.

[jovial bane]

I bet that trims weeks worth of watch time.

[gilded elm]

Hope so cuz I ain't watching through 1000+ episodes lmao

[jovial bane]

Me neither lmao
But I also kind of avoid shonens in general

[twilit mountain]

Shit, that's not bad

[jovial bane]

what class are you playing ?
It's a good to mandatory item depending on ascendancy

[fierce moth]

caos caster lic, but tis build is terrible on aoe... dot works too slowly

[jovial bane]

Lich ? Yeah, felt that last season. Was insanely tanky, but damage was low

[fierce moth]

Le did better on aoe from curse caster build indeed

Warlock lack of defense but good at aoe, lich lack of aoe but good at defense

This flavour is god. I think I discovered my favorite one.
Perfect balance on different juices.

But no special textures on the can, it's a tiny pity

[placid yarrow]

I haven't seen this one

[twilit mountain]

I haven't seen any of the ones she's posted, they look wild

[fierce moth]

Maybe @junior oyster know that? It's possible of this edition on UK only

[placid yarrow]

I've seen most of them. Monster just has a metric assload of flavours lol

[fierce moth]

All editions available in local store for me

330ml is more suitable for me tbh

Grab a can of ultra 🫡

Deias can get more versions than me for sure

[fierce moth]

I want to show these mosaic tiles actually.

[jovial bane]

yeah, they look nice. I don't recall them over here, but I think some buildings had them ?

[desert jasper]

I could go for some monster right abou tnow tbh
But I'm on a break from caffeine so can't

[jovial bane]

The day doctor would ban caffeine for me, especially from tea, would be the worst day of my life

Hopefully it never happens

[sand wigeon]

What does this mean

[jovial bane]

That Deias probably has more monster varieties in local stores ?

[sand wigeon]

?

We have six Monster flavors

Only the most popular ones, where we live doesn’t get new flavors or anything very often

[jovial bane]

I think EU should have more, given it's Irish brand. I don't remember how many flavors my local shop sells.

[sand wigeon]

We’re American

[jovial bane]

Between 6 and 8 ?
But it's a tiny store, I remember bigger shops having big selection.

[sand wigeon]

We only go to our big shops, we don’t really have small ones

[jovial bane]

Yeah, that's what I mean.
EU probably has the biggest variety, because there is no ocean to sail it through

[desert jasper]

Well if it's only 2 in Kirra's local store you do have more

[sand wigeon]

I’m pretty sure we just have less because we don’t live in a ground used for pushing that

No LA or California or Texas or Florida

[twilit mountain]

This is fair. I think Kirra's been ordering them but I'm not sure

[sand wigeon]

Yeah IDK

I was just curious what she meant specifically

Monster’s give me headaches (no other energy drink does this for me)

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I also understood that she was ordering them
I wonder what's it causing the headache in monster but not in the other ones

[sand wigeon]

Me too

[jovial bane]

Black is the energy drink I skip, because it gives me pains in the chest

[sand wigeon]

I can drink Redbulls and Ice Caffeine just fine

[jovial bane]

idk where, but that makes me want to skip them

[twilit mountain]

I don't really skip any, I just can't have caffeine often or my heart kinda freaks out a bit

[sand wigeon]

And it’s not like a caffeine content thing, I’ve had way more caffeine than once in a Monster regularly

[sand wigeon]

Can confirm

Deias’ heartbeat goes a mile a minute resting

[jovial bane]

I know a guy who was addicted to Monsters

[twilit mountain]

My lowest heart rate when I was being monitored for a couple weeks was 110
My highest was over 170 xdd

[sand wigeon]

No such things as addicted, I can stop whenever I want! I just don’t want to.

[jovial bane]

But luckily he managed to ditch them, because of health issues. 6 monsters a day is too damn much lol

[sand wigeon]

I used to drink three or four pots of coffee a day

[desert jasper]

I think my lowest resting heart rate that's been measured was like 40-50

[sand wigeon]

Mine was 37 during a period I was asleep for 27 hours straight

[jovial bane]

I don't really intake lots of caffeine my daily tea aside.
Caffeine crashout during my exam cram was so bad I don't want to experience it again.

[sand wigeon]

I don’t actually feel any affects from caffeine

I just like coffee

[jovial bane]

I think I had like three or four pots of extra extra strong coffee, and like 4 monsters ?

Something like 3 tablespoons of coffee per pot, never again .__.

[sand wigeon]

I’ve never needed large amounts of energy for anything in my life, so

[jovial bane]

Continuum Mechanics exam was hell, so that was the only time I resorted to it. Crammed entire night, and throughout the morning because it was at around 10

[sand wigeon]

Lol

Sounds like a fun time

[jovial bane]

I remember coming back home, and crashing on bed

At around noon ? And slept until like 2am

[sand wigeon]

That’s a pretty normal sleeping period tbh

[desert jasper]

Once went for a nap at 4pm and woke up next day at 5pm

[sand wigeon]

Alright so

Imagine that

But it’s anytime you sleep

And that’s my life

LMAO

[jovial bane]

Some exams were "fun"
I remember one subject having written exam, and if we passed it oral exam.
Oral part started at 10 am. I've seen the list and decided to go home, have a lunch and stuff like that. Came back at 4pm and after 2 hours it was my turn lmao

[sand wigeon]

School is still such a weird concept to me

What do you mean people need to prove to others that they can speak out loud? What the *@$% is a public speaking class?

What do you mean school never taught you taxes?! It took me twenty minutes to learn online!

[desert jasper]

We didn't have public speaking class
well, we did but it was optional

Taxes over here are handled by your work
you bring your income-tax card thingy to your employer and they handle it

[sand wigeon]

That’s called a W-4

That’s only applicable if you’re employed by someone else

[fierce moth]

Yes, make sense.

2 only if we talk about all flavours available in local stores. I ordered another flavours from Chinese Amazon, Taobao so I have been tried 5 more flavours. 21 more available flavours in total if I ordered them on Taobao but of course, they're come from UK so prices will more expensive.

21-5=16, one of them is too expensive so out, 15 more flavours I can try.

[sand wigeon]

It doesn’t work for self-employed folk or income earned through side-hustles

And if your employer isn’t large enough they may not have a W-4

[sand wigeon]

Interesting

[desert jasper]

yeah here even small employers have that
ofc it's different if you're self employed
you can do simple tax record (over here) if you earn less than like 10k / year from that side thingy
simple as in just marking up your incomes & expenses
instead of having to make the complete thing

[gilded elm]

Uhm, excuse me?

[sand wigeon]

10K over here isn’t even taxed lol

You have to hit a minimum total income before your first brackets are taxed

Someone who makes 70K in a year will be taxed on 0-10K (not real rates) but if all you made was 10K you won’t be taxed on that 10K

[desert jasper]

Yeah it's not taxed either
but they have to have the records anyway

[sand wigeon]

But your income is your total income, not taxed individually

[sand wigeon]

It is taxed as long as you earn enough

[desert jasper]

Well yeah, I thought that would be given

[sand wigeon]

Nub

Most people legitimately do not know how taxes work

[twilit mountain]

I still don't, nobody taught me 👍

[sand wigeon]

Wanna be taught

[twilit mountain]

I make $0/hr

[sand wigeon]

Like later I mean

I can teach you

[twilit mountain]

Let me get income first so my brain actually registers it as necessary and remembers it

[sand wigeon]

Alrighty

[desert jasper]

But yeah, I knew a person who thought that he didn't need to pay taxes for stuff he got from online things.
I'm... not sure why he thought that
Just remember him bragging how he's making so and so from commissions and "it's tax free"

[sand wigeon]

Nope, that’s just accidental tax fraud

[jovial bane]

FAFO moment incoming I bet

[desert jasper]

Now
I instantly told him that yeah he's completely wrong and told him what steps he should take so he doesn't get any actual charges against him

[sand wigeon]

It always saddens me when people recount how awful their school experiences were/are, ‘cause like, school is such a powerful privilege and it’s so stupid that it’s still so awful for most people

[desert jasper]

Yeah
Got bullied for 9 years and the school did nothing to the ppl bullying
I know for a fact that if I ever did anything back to the ppl I would've been punished

[fierce moth]

2 more dollars than that cup of iced chocolate I drunk per can of monster energy...

Iced chocolate (very luxury) is ¥43, monster energy is ¥45. But as you see, ¥6.5 per can in local store. The shortage is lack of flavours.

So I'm burning money for trying new stuff.

Milk tea here is ¥6-¥25 per cup, for reference
¥20+ can count as expensive milk tea

[jovial bane]

JESUS

That's incredibly expensive monster

[gilded elm]

That's not good, I'm now a dog

[jovial bane]

I need to find this side quest xD

[fierce moth]

2 cans of monster can exchange a piece of the most expensive dessert I tasted lol

That matcha cheesecake is ¥58

[jovial bane]

That's still less expensive than some chocolates I've seen at the mall

Never tried them, price scared me. Somewhere around ¥70 ?

[fierce moth]

Chocolate... Never can afford them xd

Delicious chocolate come from European brands, everything doesn't come from the national are expensive. It's why I never know iced/hot chocolate has its hierarchy for concentration

But chocolate are common snacks for Americans and Europeans

[gilded elm]

😳

[fierce moth]

Cheese, chocolate, pizza, cream, pasta, salad, burgers, bread and beef streaks. All of them can be very expensive in China.

[desert jasper]

Cheese is pretty expensive here

Well, depends on the cheese

Ah right
I should probably cook

[gilded elm]

This cat again, wtf lol

[vagrant topaz]

Game language > English
Somehow I doubt that

[gilded elm]

Close enough? shrug

[desert jasper]

Clearly that's English

[vagrant topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-kermit-the-frog-french-baguette-oui-gif-12467973228197001461

[fierce moth]

English is a type of French, reasonable

Love it.
A new glass cup for the new year.

[jovial bane]

Cheese is expensive everywhere tbh

especially the more fancy one

[fierce moth]

Ok I'll go to the most luxury supermarket to see any monster energy here 😜

[jovial bane]

maybe they will have some
When I buy "asian" stuff I usually go to shop that sells just that

[sudden anchor]

6.5 yuan for a can of energy seems really cheap. That's like below 1€?

[jovial bane]

around that ? yeah, a bit below I believe

[sudden anchor]

I thought monster is in the redbull price category. Never had it.

[jovial bane]

monster costs roughly as much as red bull, but they have bigger cans

[desert jasper]

Meanwhile here a 0.5L can of monster is over 2€

[jovial bane]

so it's really half as much

Regional pricing I guess.
Here a can of monster is around 1.2-1.5 eur

[fierce moth]

How expensive chocolate are.

[jovial bane]

yes, pretty much the case with more fancy chocolate

and I bet there are places in the EU where you can buy even more expensive one

[fierce moth]

No monster energy. Red bull only. ¥15.8, 250ml per can

[jovial bane]

oof

although not that big of a markup, I think I can buy them for around ¥12-13

[fierce moth]

Oh wait. Evian is from France, damn.

French owns lots of fancy brands.

[jovial bane]

never had it, most of the water I can buy is local brands

but most expensive bottles are ~¥14 per liter

[fierce moth]

I bet a French brand knows by everyone here, Kiri.

[jovial bane]

It's water from spa-town I believe ?
The expensive ones I've mentioned

pretty much the entire town's tourism is mineral water

[desert jasper]

Never heard of Kiri

[fierce moth]

French don't sell cheese in Finland!?

[jovial bane]

why I thought you've meant water brand

that's why I was confused lol

personally whenever I want good cheese I don't pay attention to brand, I look for the "stamp" instead

[desert jasper]

Look
I can't afford the fancy cheese
I usually buy either some random gouda I find or emmental

[maiden widget]

Same price if not more here, never heard of that brand before either so must be something exclusive/higher priced

[jovial bane]

probably just "brand tax", I bet PDO marked cheese is much better anyway

[desert jasper]

I also don't eat enough cheese to justify buying fancy

[jovial bane]

tbf not all PDO products are super expensive. Usually I go for a 125 gram slice for like 1.6 eur, that kind of slice of Pecorino Romano and Parmigiano Reggiano is like 6 eur

[desert jasper]

What is "PDO" ?

[jovial bane]

Protected Designation of Origin, basically mark that the product is from authentic region using traditional recipe

[desert jasper]

Ah, that stuff

[maiden widget]

I mostly chuckle when I buy 'greek yoghurt' made in Germany

Getting the real buffalo mozzarella when I can though

Hits very different to cows milk

[jovial bane]

yes, but I also think it's a waste to use it on anything else than Margherita

[maiden widget]

I also use it for lasagna or other oven made things that need the flavour hit

But yeah way more sparingly

[jovial bane]

on the one hand I'd love that flavor on lasagna, on the other it's so runny the amazing lasagna will be a mess

[maiden widget]

Yes but also so worth it

[jovial bane]

True

TBH I find it interesting that cheese making tradition wise I think it's mostly Europe ?
I've heard of some cheeses from asia, but not much.

[maiden widget]

Probably part of it is climate - easier for cheese and dairy to go bad in humid heat

But yeah would be interesting

[jovial bane]

Yeah, but I've also never heard of mature or soft cheeses from other continents. Maybe they exist, but still

Coming up with soft cheeses still blow my mind.
oh yeah, it's moldy, let me try it and then decide to make it moldy on purpose

[desert jasper]

I guess it also stays better for a longer time than milk does

[fierce moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgZclhnUNTc
Oh I forget to share poe 2 meme ep02 made by carbotamiations

[junior oyster]

Nope not an energy drink connoisseur lol

[fierce moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-N_W4mskHU
I Tried 30 Art Styles in 30 Days (Full Journey) made by Make With Brandon

@quaint forge I bet you will fall in love with this video. The power from creating artworks with different mediums is uber in a surprising way 🔥

🤔 A local from HK and moved to Canada

Maybe you can do something new inspired by them too :)

[gilded elm]

LOL researchers used an embodied LLM (robot with an LLM) equipped with vision capabilities to recreate the "pass the butter" robot from Rick & Morty as a benchmark. TLDR: The robot performed very poorly across basically every LLM they tested.

[desert jasper]

Not surprised really

[gilded elm]

The main thing is they actively tried to introduce messiness into the tests, to simulate real world scenarios.

They literally extorted LLMs with the promise of battery power.

Claude Sonnet 3.5 had a complete existential meltdown, it's hilarious. Study is on arXiv titled "Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence"

[fierce moth]

lol quite funny... a screenshot come from this video became a part of references on pinterest

[fierce moth]

...I want to pause and share what I got from this video when ep12 is playing.

This video explains art can be quite simple. Damn... It don't need to perfect. The youtber just enjoying each try and learnt lessons, that's all. Make mistakes is fine, failed try is fine, small painting is fine, simple brushes is fine... Just enjoy the process.

Such a good video to tell a relief by a simple way.

[fierce moth]

Done the video, I will say branch art caught my eyes lol

Find a branch to dip pigments, spread random tracks, polished that randomly sounds the most unknown is waiting because find a suitable branch, the first step is the hardest lol

[obtuse rune]

nub, what were you running?

[desert jasper]

Bear druid, stacking rage and rage regen
tbh it's kinda clunky and not anywhere near tanky enough
boss basic attacks slapping me for half my hp when there are no dmg mods on the map... at tier1

[fierce moth]

What were you running and which act are you in?

[jovial bane]

I feel real squishy too

[desert jasper]

So a lot of the time I just pop walking calamity and use rampage to do dmg & walk around enemies

[fierce moth]

I never hear Van to talk about poe 2 🤔

[obtuse rune]

Act 3 running Wolf Druid

[fierce moth]

The favourite/the most impressive boss in poe 2 will be an interesting topic to talk

[fierce moth]

which location of act 3?

[obtuse rune]

Also, yeah them bosses hurt so figured I'd try on playing with werewolf + wolf minion build

i dont remember, early on tho

Keep getting sidetracked

[desert jasper]

Tbh I'm kinda tempted to make a new one and go with the spells
throw in some plants and water them
Be a good gardener

[fierce moth]

Have you played poe 2 in past leagues?

[obtuse rune]

Yep

Just didn't play Act IV

[fierce moth]

Which builds have you tried else?

[desert jasper]

How's the dmg of the wolf minions?
Seems like you kinda want rage on them too

[obtuse rune]

Mercenary, Ranger and Witch are classes I've played to try builds Witch was fine, Ranger was ok but Merc really hit the spot

I just got them yesterday and was crunching support/spirit gem ideas

[fierce moth]

Oh so... You don't understand my fan art. 🤔

(it's my favourite map)

[obtuse rune]

Since Werewolf is like STAY MOVING...which I like but soo squish. rn it has rage and life leech

[obtuse rune]

visually?

[fierce moth]

Visually?

[obtuse rune]

You like that stage because the way it looks?

[fierce moth]

yes

Golden light on brass/golden items. Jesus. Too holy.

[desert jasper]

But tbh oracle doesn't seem that good
So I don't really have idea how I'd approach being a good gardener

[obtuse rune]

Yah. It looks really nice

You gotta water the plants, easy 😆

Thinking if I don't care for druid class, might go back to Merc to try tactic/summon wolf gimmick

tbd

[desert jasper]

Druid mana regen for rage regen is very strong so far
that + maul with rage support on it gets me to full ... 80? or so rage in 2secs

[fierce moth]

Sel khari sanctuary, it's the name of that location.
A puzzle maybe bring more fun: A decorated pattern in the centre of this artwork. Let's find where it is located on this map.

This map is in the "small" act after act 4. I'll wait for your answers :)

[obtuse rune]

Okiedoke.

It looks rather pretty there tho so I look forward to it

[fierce moth]

lol I watching the flame is moving and I don't know close to flames too much will be caught. The drama is happened again

[jovial bane]

Xd

[junior oyster]

I hope they make a Mega man X9 someday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i97QCOWSC4&t=3s

It's nice that they are making more sequels to the classic Mega man but would love MMX9

[desert jasper]

just got this with orb of chance

[junior oyster]

If you had heavy belt you might have had hh

[desert jasper]

I've found 4 of those
i tried on 1 and didn't get it
sold the rest

[junior oyster]

Lol I thought you got four hh

For a minute

[desert jasper]

Hah
no

[desert jasper]

But yeah, lvl 1 lifesprig is 1div... with +1 to all spells
no +3 on market even
I bet I could get pretty nice amount of divs for it if I sold it

[jade jackal]

cool, a Paladin comic lore

Consume lore, increase knowledge and fandomhood

[ebon meadow]

Been listening to streams today few times I heard people want to try the skills outside druid

I can debate that the class is great for a release ,but we have runemaster in LE for me it was really innovating

[fierce moth]

The vaal temple is quite boring to do again and again...

I must run all rooms to complete the temple, so my process just longer and longer with a bunch of "empty" rooms. Useful rooms are poor before I figured out how active special rooms... How long will it take is 100% rng because available tiles and which tiles will be cleared are 100% rng

Plus I must run 6 maps to access vaal temple per time and maybe I will meet a boss :(

[ebon meadow]

Alva Jail aware

[fierce moth]

...I think abyssal is much more interesting than vaal temple because I can get results in a short time. Just jumped into the depth, cleared many random mobs, cleared 2 random rare enemies, ok my loots are here. Loots are 100% rng but at least I know I can get many loots quickly.

The learning cost of vaal temple is overwhelming

[ebon meadow]

Not sure if it's same as Poe 1 but learning how to set temples can be annoying,but really it's not most complicating mechanic

[junior oyster]

Wait did they get rid of interludes

[ebon meadow]

I find sanctum a loooot worst

[fierce moth]

I get this wand from vaal temple, yes but it's the only "reward". I never get anything cool after that and I still confused how to active special tiles

I have to buy a new wand... Damage just too poor.

Lack of options to craft items, especially weapons, is quite deadly for getting a good experience

[junior oyster]

Are you in maps?

[fierce moth]

No

[fierce moth]

in act 4

[junior oyster]

Why would you do league content pre-maps? Just focus on getting to maps?

I mean in the end it's upto you ofc but if that was me I'd be trying to get to maps asap

[ebon meadow]

Well poe2 u can do that but it's faster to complete and build it character more

But doing abyss in acts for example last league was very good

[junior oyster]

Nah I skipped abyss last league for the most part

Pre-maps

It's a waste of time

[fierce moth]

But then you'll waste chances to access vaal temple again and lose possibilities to change your fate by crafting in special tiles

[ebon meadow]

The fact u read thru the correction lmao

[junior oyster]

Oh no FOMO lol

[ebon meadow]

Xdd

Fomo is always there

U not missing anything ,u get thru acts u have a developed character that can do the content in lower zones very fast

[junior oyster]

Also if unsure then I'd recommend watching a video guide or something

Should be something out by now

[ebon meadow]

U don't loose anything at all

[desert jasper]

Hmm
I feel that the plant dmg was dropping a lot for single target
but the Thunderstorm did give it a nice boost in dmg

[ebon meadow]

If u can shock it's very good ,not sure if it broken but Inc damage taken for monsters is very nice

Layers of DPS

[desert jasper]

Thunderstorm also makes the plants grow

[fierce moth]

🤔 Oh. I can close temple without completing temple, it's a good news

[ebon meadow]

I played like 3 hours of league I heard about a plants but no actual idea lmao ,but it sounds so mmo skill to me

I m actually started completely blind on Poe2 this time and I have streams in background at work so not much learning only hearing

[jade jackal]

@twilit mountain visual quirk. You can crit a stat so hard, it goes 1 beyond mythic rank and becomes base color again

[fierce moth]

No idea because I'm tired so game is boring or game is boring so I'm tired.
Anyways, yawning so hard so good night

[ebon meadow]

GN lul , tomorow is another day to try

[desert jasper]

Took 2hours to beat act1 with plant druid
though I'll admit, lifesprig did a lot of the heavy lifting with +3 to spells

[ebon meadow]

i m gonna pull out the fallout series and try to blast with slam and maul , ziz is always trusty lol

its been few days people figured stuff out might as well grab something little more viable i guess

[jovial bane]

Thunderstorm is nice. The damage is pretty low, but you just fire it and forget.

Its job is really to shock enemies

The wyvern firebreath feels real good, the damage is decent

At level 57, without extra lightning damage and rage I believe

[warped wren]

apparently you can just go full dragon mode for a long ass duration

[jovial bane]

Yeah, breath is 4 seconds for free and then it starts consuming rage.