📚┃off-topic

[junior oyster]

I'm kidding

But it's definitely not my kind of game

[sand wigeon]

i really need a new controller
what kind of keybind is K

[junior oyster]

Nine-sols I heard great things about that but I'm not too keen so soulslikes

[sand wigeon]

it's a metroidvania

not a souls-like

[junior oyster]

I've heard the combat (bosses) are really tough though

[sand wigeon]

that's normal for metroidvanias

a game isn't made a souls-like because it's difficult

souls-like refers to a specific style of game

[junior oyster]

I'm more of an ori (blind forest) kind of guy

Anyway yea I plan on buying Dispatch at some point

[sand wigeon]

it wouldn't be worth it for me until there's new episodes (a ways off) because i've seen every single scene already

[junior oyster]

Damn

[sand wigeon]

i like difficulty in my games for the most part

it has to be good difficulty

[jovial bane]

Depends on the difficulty for me, I prefer it in slower more strategic games

[junior oyster]

I like StS like difficulty

Turn based but so not fast

I can't do honour mode for example in D:OS2

Scratch that I can only do story mode 😂

[jovial bane]

DOS2 I didn't like on high difficulties

BG3 I play exclusively on honour

Partially, because I can continue the game after wiping in BG3. Partially, because I know the system

[placid yarrow]

I generally don't love ironman but I'll play tactician on dos2 and stuff

There's only a few games I play on perma death/ironman where it's optional

[fierce moth]

oh. 4 crystals per time now

But 1 crystal only this time

[jovial bane]

so probably 3 is on average assuming you did the same maps ?

[warped wren]

funny belt acquired!

[jade jackal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3GfYYtr9v4 just encountered this

Very PoE2 core

[fierce moth]

I guess you're the last member who still play poe 2 here so you will reach lv 100 in this league

[desert jasper]

Tbh I kinda still want to do hollow palm build

[fierce moth]

this belt should keep you being invincible for a long time

[warped wren]

Nah lv 100 is pain

I'll only play a bit more

[desert jasper]

Hmm.. though I really should get the Arbiter kill first
Just missing the last one of the citadels

[fierce moth]

I'm surprised both of you can keep high damage in this period... It just quite hard to kill boss when boss difficulty is 8

[twilit mountain]

The fact that they nerfed Hollow Palm is wild to me

[desert jasper]

wait, they did?

[twilit mountain]

Yeah

[warped wren]

I mean, I have a pretty decent weapon, almost all 6-link gems, lv 19s mostly

[warped wren]

They don't want their precious animations breaking

[desert jasper]

Ah yea I did notice that in the patch notes but I didn't really notice it that much

Because you know, haven't played one of those builds

[junior oyster]

Time to nerf it some more lol

[warped wren]

All my major upgrades are like 30-40d+ now

Except lv 20 gems i guess

[junior oyster]

Yes Ichigo I agree with you

[desert jasper]

Okay yeah
you get temples much faster no win higher tier maps

[warped wren]

I'd rather stay broke than run temples lmao

Dogass mechanic

https://youtu.be/4pSGx8XhCWY?si=A6UrF30kzXLq55Nj

This guy cooked

[junior oyster]

Lol wth

I bet this makes Jonathan seethe

[jade jackal]

Just catching up on the Grim Dawn teasers, hot damn

[junior oyster]

Yeap

[jade jackal]

Long overdue, and very welcomed

[junior oyster]

Makes me want the dlc to release even quicker lol

[jade jackal]

Crate is leveling up

[junior oyster]

I mean it makes sense for their eventual gd2

Though that might not be till 2030+

[desert jasper]

i don't like arbiter

[maiden widget]

ended up farming holy relic alt gem in poe just to find out its kinda useless in ssf until much later and you can get at least enough cdr to get it low enough to be worth it, noice

[desert jasper]

that's not one that the ppl want, right?

[jovial bane]

yeee, when I've read it I felt like fun police has arrived

I have flashbacks to 0.2, it's not that bad, but I still quit the league rather early

but this time without LE to save me, I guess it's D4 and Inquisitor Martyr .__.

[desert jasper]

First one I see all league

and then I get 2 of them in the same map

[real kayak]

they seem way more common now, I've found 10+

[gilded elm]

It's already a bit overwhelming even with the little I have unlocked. So many characters, skills and the passive tree keeps expanding. Then there's runes to unlock as well... the depth is impressive. Kinda regret leaving the game in my library for so long without playing it lol

[jade jackal]

You shouldnt, the discovery is the fun, enjoy it and cherish it

You can't unlearn the meta

And yeah, they go crazy with achievements lol

[gilded elm]

I can already tell the synergies are going to get insane once you start to pick and choose what skills from other characters are available in your skill pool.

[jade jackal]

There are several very interesting passives that completely change how the skillbar looks like, yeah

[desert jasper]

Talking about soulstone survivors?

[gilded elm]

Yeah, it's really good

[desert jasper]

Yeah, it was fun what I played it
Only played some because had family share to it from friend

[gilded elm]

50% off now at <$8, kind of a steal

[jade jackal]

All in all my absolute favorite arena roguelite, and its not even close

[jade jackal]

when was the last time you played it?

[gilded elm]

I remember Boneraiser Minions being one of my all-time favorites of the genre, I might have to go back and play that again as well to compare, Soulstone might be up there for me.

Boneraiser ain't as mechanically deep, but it has its own charm.

[jade jackal]

There are hundreds of skills in the game rn, and i honestly dont think ive seen them all

but a recent patch came out, so i have an excuse

[desert jasper]

Honestly can't remember
it doesn't show it in my steam games anymore because it was under the old steam library sharing

[gilded elm]

I did try Soulstone Survivors when I first bought it many years ago, but only briefly. At the time, I didn't think much of it. I assume over the years it's changed a lot.

[jade jackal]

SoulStone survivors of now to the version of, say, 18 months ago

is like Last Epoch 0.92 to 1.3

[gilded elm]

Damn lol

Makes sense

I bought it back when it was in early access

And maybe that's why I didn't play it that much

It's just a completely different game now

[jade jackal]

They went from 16 to 22 classes, from 16 to 80 or so weapons, and tripled the amount of skills

2 new game modes, tons of other stuff

[warped wren]

Soulstone is way too addictive man

[gilded elm]

Right now the only complaint I have is the second game mode where after each round you have to pick new skills.

[warped wren]

And the issue with it for me became that it just turned into an infinite red circle dodging simulator

So I'd play for hours and then feel unsatisfied

[jade jackal]

I have 187 hours, and im still a good 20 or so from fully unlocking everything, granted, some of it on older versions where there wasnt anything to unlock further

I always find myself experimenting with off meta stuff, just to enjoy new synergies

[gilded elm]

Yeah the possible synergies to explore is a huge draw for me atm. Each character/weapon unlocks a set of skills, but being able to take those skills and use them on other characters through runes just changes the game drastically.

[jade jackal]

yeah, runes are build enablers

oh, they added another 20 or so new weapons from my last visit

And voicelines to characters

hope nothing is annoying

[gilded elm]

Voicelines are good, but they get annoying after a while because it's just repeat of what you've already heard over and over. I mean, not a big issue and you can disable them. Good to have for your initial experience, though.

Also the performance of this game is surprisingly really good. I'm impressed by how it maintains frames.

[desert jasper]

similacrum delivering

[jade jackal]

when shit gets crazy, i just push all skill visuals to 0 and regain all performance

[warped wren]

The ability to reduce visibility of effects is really good

Honestly I think ARPGs need that, at least PoE1 and 2 definitely do

[jade jackal]

LE needs that

[gilded elm]

Yeah I've been using that as needed, so far nothing has gotten too crazy that I need to go down to 0, just 0.6 so far.

[warped wren]

A vfx slider is just huge qol

Especially for people like me playing on old laptops

[gilded elm]

Even Megabonk recently added it, yeah ARPGs need it

[junior oyster]

Playing Trails in the Sky 1st chapter made me go all nostalgic again

Freaking love the music

[jade jackal]

There's some crazy spammy screen sized stuff that sort of forces you to go that far if you play sweaty lol

[gilded elm]

Yeah I bet lol

[jade jackal]

SoulStone Survivors is also a great game at teaching players damage bucket management

[gilded elm]

I don't really know what the damage formula is, beyond the obvious things that are almost universal to any game, such as crit damage being multiplicative with normal damage bonuses.

[desert jasper]

new wave unlocked

ofc it doesn't actually work

[junior oyster]

Oops that was me after cheat engine a billion gold lol

[jovial bane]

maybe I should grab Soulstone Survivors

[austere granite]

a little more

[warped wren]

I'm legit terrified of running t3 simu

For the last point

[desert jasper]

I'm in T3 simu now

I am afraid

[warped wren]

It's the rippiest content in the game by a mile

[ebon meadow]

Almost 3 k lol , ofitially almost a "grass hater title"

[gilded elm]

Can't hate grass if you don't know what it is

[ebon meadow]

Trueeeee

[desert jasper]

Also very unrewarding in general

[ebon meadow]

Can always go to u local hardware store and ask for astro turf sample to have on desc xdd

[warped wren]

I mean, it's a jackpot simulator

[ebon meadow]

Can touch grass and play video game

[warped wren]

Same as all the pinnacles

Except maybe xesht, where you can make some money off of breach ring drops and stuff

[desert jasper]

I just wish delirium dropped more splinters in general
earlier I ran a map, killed half of the map
0 splinters

[warped wren]

Yeah it's kinda dumb

[desert jasper]

Like wtf is up with that

[warped wren]

And it really makes the rares in a juiced map noticeably more scary

[desert jasper]

Meanwhile for some reason I get a bunch of delirium tablets
but I've literally only dropped 2 or 3 ritual tablets

And then who knows how many breach & abyss ones
because ofc those just keep on dropping all the time everywhere

[warped wren]

There's a reason why ritual tablets are expensive

They're unreasonably rare

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I guess it was too rewarding :^)

[ebon meadow]

Reading this I wonder if they went with character seeds in poe2

[warped wren]

Honestly the most consistent money is still breach and abyss

And essences

[ebon meadow]

I keep reading ofi Chanel and this and everyone says different things lul

[warped wren]

It really doesn't matter either way. All wealth acquisition in PoE2 is hardcore gamba

[ebon meadow]

Apparently it's sanctrum

[warped wren]

Most of my currency has come from selling crafts

[ebon meadow]

It always has been it's the dopamine from the game

No such thing as balanced loot drop

No guarantee drops and the odds always come to a 50/50

That's the meme surge

[desert jasper]

Sanctum is very risky
But yeah, sure if you can do the 1 honor challenge?
temporalis is currently like
2k divines for corrupted

[gilded elm]

I do like this Assassin build lol

[desert jasper]

Currently wave 10/15 in simulacrum

[ebon meadow]

That looks so colourful holy

[desert jasper]

Man it stresses me

[warped wren]

I would rather uninstall

[ebon meadow]

Same ,yet I play self inflicted ssf I genuinely don't sell anything in game just farm to buy something that is annoying to farm

[gilded elm]

It is very colorful yes lol

[jade jackal]

I would link clips, but all of it would be spoilers

[desert jasper]

I played through one floor 4 of sanctum
I think I'll never do it again

Would rather run 20 chaos in row

[jovial bane]

I like sanctum, but the loot is kind of trash

and farming Temporalis sounds incredibly unfun

[ebon meadow]

I don't like sanctrum neither I would actually prefer if they put something like old síntesis game witch they did they just renamed it to Vaal temple

Holy it's so funny seeing same mechanic template just in another theme

[desert jasper]

okay I failed the simu at wave 13

Yeah I'm not gonna try that again

already hate that thing

Seriously awful content

[ebon meadow]

Well and u don't get shotgunned when entering an area that's a fix

[ebon meadow]

It's to try hard really even for normal players ,let's leave things like that to players like Ben lmao

[warped wren]

yeah that's when it gets real shit

[ebon meadow]

The fact that u have to make a specific build for it is already a handbrake on it

[desert jasper]

I reaaally love it when drowning orb doesn't render

Yup, 10/10

[ebon meadow]

XD that's why my least favourite mob in game is river hags

It's my souleater in poe2

[desert jasper]

Like it's one of the worst designed things in poe

I hate that shit in poe1 also

and if I started explaining how I feel about them I'd get banned

[desert jasper]

It's more like
It's not balanced at all
extremely rippy, badly designed content

I honestly don't understand why they'd put delirium as one of the "core" mechanics in poe2

and then take away the thing that people liked about it
the rewards

[junior oyster]

Hatsune Miku

[desert jasper]

Another thing that goes up there is the frozen ground that just drops your action speed by 30%
At least they made the areas smaller
but holy shit Why

Like who thought that this is interactive, fun gameplay

[ebon meadow]

who ever put the initial dd on mobs and the ball one in poe1 lmao, i swear its a same phsyco (i do mean it in a nice way )

before they got reworked and nerfed

[jade jackal]

Fire, Fire!

[ebon meadow]

volotile dead took me all this time to remember yesus

same person that when they reworked first acts they decided lets make most monsters in the area to chill and slow u down during the run so the act feels longer

its rather the cold or the chaos efect every second freaking area that just for no reassons slows u speed

[desert jasper]

I don't mind volatile dead tbh
but all the on death effects do get me rather bored

[warped wren]

It's even worse now because you can't instill maps, so you just pray for the jackpot high value emotions

[desert jasper]

Yeah

Tbh I was looking for the chance for maps to drop as delirious

And couldn't find it
obviously

[fierce moth]

yes, good news for me

[junior oyster]

Still selling in ex?

I thought prices changed to chaos

[desert jasper]

A lot of people still sell in ex
but yes, a lot of people did change to chaos trading

[mental talon]

Corrupted the Talisman because I've got enough windfall, we won.

[desert jasper]

Honestly
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out they roll 1hander dmg rolls

[warped wren]

That's bonkers

Also are the added as extra runes actually worth it

I tried them and felt that base phys was just better

Granted my talisman is nowhere near that level

[mental talon]

Yes, they're on average 5=7% more damage

[warped wren]

Huh, that does sound worth

[twilit mountain]

HR violation in weapon form

[warped wren]

holy mother

[twilit mountain]

What

[warped wren]

Chance orb hit

[jovial bane]

nice

[fierce moth]

which price checker is it

[warped wren]

Exiled Exchange

[fierce moth]

https://pobb.in/F8QP1KJBQW-G

@twilit mountain is it a pure purple build?

I'm doubt on skill gems this build mentions mainly

Oh... That's the core, ok

[twilit mountain]

I just don't know why I wouldn't simply play the same skills on Invoker or like Ritualist and double up on damage scaling and defense scaling

[warped wren]

today is a day

[twilit mountain]

Could I borrow that, I'm poor rn >.>

[real kayak]

damn I bought 2 of those 2 days ago for 2.5 div each

[warped wren]

I already sold it 💀

oops

[real kayak]

dat temple inflation is wild

[warped wren]

saving for silly money gems now

Rakiata and Garukhan

[twilit mountain]

Those things and the breach gems are way overprice imho

[warped wren]

well, Garukhan for me would be an absolutely insane upgrade

Rakiata's is kinda whatever unless I wanna run a lot of urbiter (I don't)

Garukhan's interaction with Inevitable Critical is kinda wild

[twilit mountain]

Uberter is better

[warped wren]

uberturd

[twilit mountain]

TRUE

[fierce moth]

🤔 the issue is on ascendency itself? Good question

[twilit mountain]

That is what I haven been saying since literally the game came out, Kirra

[fierce moth]

emmmmmm I can play purple vfx by that unique ring, it let me confuse which ascendency should I play

[twilit mountain]

Just don't. The ring is not good.

[fierce moth]

🤔 then ritualist is the best choice because 3 ring slots are available

[twilit mountain]

3 ring slots which could all be used on something BETTER THAN OSIN

[fierce moth]

🤔 .....No more options for a chaos damage build except lich?

[twilit mountain]

You're not understanding

Chaos is fine.

Original Sin and Acolyte suck.

[fierce moth]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/jungroan/builds/zero-duration-titan-wip
Find another chaos damage build, it's titan, but the weapon...

lol I can't find this skill in game

perfect gem for lich I will say... if it's a spirit gem

[twilit mountain]

It's part of the weapon

[fierce moth]

oh...Make sense why this weapon is so valuable

[twilit mountain]

It's actually not the important part at all

The important part is the shrine effect

It gives massive damage as extra chaos and gives corpse explosion on kill, which can turn any skill into a screen clearer

[warped wren]

OSin doesn't suck

no more than any conversion sucking

[twilit mountain]

OSin has far, far less support on the tree

[warped wren]

it's just that it seems underwhelming as all hell compared to its PoE variant

[twilit mountain]

Every single build using OSin is straight up better if they just scale elemental and slap in damage as extra chaos

[warped wren]

kind of. It helps a lot if you're going poison

and if you don't wanna go plaguefinger

[twilit mountain]

not going Plague is throwing like mad

[warped wren]

I just hate those gloves, like I hate 90% of uniques in this game

because they punish you for using them with absolutely dogwater stats

[fierce moth]

alright. So just no more builds available to enjoy, literally

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/f44792ce-f16b-4663-a2f3-a0217a4c1e03/builds/5c22a560-82f4-44e5-9c00-1788deab53ab
It's chaos damage but still is a caster so no sense I play infernalist instead of lich

[twilit mountain]

Infernalist has bullshit amounts of damage scaling

I don't really understand why you're so focused on Lich being chaos

Lich is legit better as an elemental caster lol

[warped wren]

or as a summoner

managed to claw my way back to ~28d. Unfortunately that's not even halfway to Garukhan's

[twilit mountain]

Extremely minor complaint but I've realized at least part of why thematically the campaign feels shit to me. Every single act transition is just talking to an NPC to trigger a loading screen. PoE1 the acts are almost all physically connected to each other, nearly every act in it ends with you physically traversing to the next.

[warped wren]

huh, that's an accurate observation

never paid attention to it

enough I already hate in the campaign

[warped wren]

oh btw, as per my quick napkin math, Garukhan's would give me about +335% crit on Shred in an average case scenario

best case would be +425%

wheeze

that's worth the money

[twilit mountain]

Yeah I mean, that's really good. Still not something I'd spend 40div on though I cannot lie.

[warped wren]

70d

not 40

[twilit mountain]

Oh great, even worse

[warped wren]

unfortunately a fubgooner gem

[twilit mountain]

For that price I can buy a Dreamer and have infinite clear on any build I ever play

[warped wren]

clear hasn't been an issue for me for a while now

Lunar Blessing + Herald of Ice + armor explosions = multiple screen wipes

[twilit mountain]

I get that, what I'm saying is I'd prefer spending high amounts of money on something universal which Garukhan is not

[warped wren]

yeah true

you could put it on some AoE skill but it'd be hard to justify it

[desert jasper]

[twilit mountain]

omfg it's Diablo god damn 2 again @warped wren

[warped wren]

Huh, is it?

[twilit mountain]

That's exactly how D2 handles act transitions

[warped wren]

I really wish ARPG devs would pull their heads out of D2's ass

[twilit mountain]

I've been playing a lot of Diablo lately (2, 3, 4) it jsut popped into my head "why does this feel so familiar"

[desert jasper]

Friend complained about expedition immunities yesterday that its' like diablo2 immunities adn he hates it
tbh he did stream it on discord and for some reason during that expedition he did the immunities didn't highlight as yellow on the markers so he managed to get lightning + phys immune

then next map they did highlight again

[twilit mountain]

There's like 4-5 other mods, maybe more, that should be highlighted that aren't immunities imo

[desert jasper]

Hmm which ones are those?

[twilit mountain]

Block is a big one, can't be evaded or blocked, monster block rate

Brain

Armor shred was in my head but I read the word block

[desert jasper]

Yeah, i could see that

[warped wren]

Mobs always crit is another

It'll cook you in a juiced map

[fierce moth]

forget a thing... Why their hats are what wizards are proud of the most?

I thought wands or crystal balls are suppose to be what they're proud of the most

[desert jasper]

A wizard just isn't complete without a hat
The bigger the better

[maiden widget]

It's why druid didn't really make me want to play. I played it in PD2 and D2 already and 85% of the class looks like a 1:1 copy. Inspiration is fine but I want original things in poe2 as well not just a rehash

[twilit mountain]

It's literally just a loading screen tooltip from Diablo 3 that I found funny.

[desert jasper]

I should head out, enjoy the cold air a bit
but at the same I don't really feel like doing it

[desert jasper]

It was actually the perfect time for a walk

[desert jasper]

Finally made it to Atziri & managed to beat her
the rewards from the chests were... disappointing
Ah well

No atziri uniques
It dropped a drill neck isntead

yoink

[mental talon]

For some reason they buffed Temple quant and crystal generation, Im not complaining.

[junior oyster]

I'm lowkey disappointed lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fEzsQ6Hv8Y

Thought SC was already out

[fierce moth]

Wrecked ship ⚓

Done this work before 2026... Proud of that.

@quaint forge I own my version of acrylic painting about a giant ship too! Yeahhhhhh

(I remember that top 1 acrylic painting in 2024's fan art competition all the time)

It inspired me from I want to paint a giant ship :)
The pity is I can't find a canvas with the same size so mine is smaller...

This artist is quite smart that paint all ropes with curves... Because stright lines are tricky to paint

(My version is quite... Chaotic lol)

[jovial bane]

I also think putting too many details on the ropes would draw too much attention to them, and they have to be in the background compared to the rest of the ship

so it's smart

[fierce moth]

yes I guess the focus is bird

Bird -> dock -> cloud -> ropes

My focus is rope so...

[jovial bane]

the chickens, not the birds in the background right ?

I feel like I'm going nuts. Neyrelle in D4 kind of grows on me ?

[junior oyster]

She'll grow on me when she gets Leah'd

||not going to happen||

[jovial bane]

I feel like the character I hate the most is the MC

[junior oyster]

I hate all aside from Lilith

[jovial bane]

oi, Lorath is fine

[junior oyster]

He is hardly there but yea he is ok

[jade jackal]

I couldn't connect much to Neyrelle

I find her character a little too generic

I think Lorath was criminally underrepresented in the story so far

This horadrim member lived through at least 2 mass extintions with some of the craziest events happening in Sanctuary and our interactions with him are limited to maybe 10 minutes of screen time

[jovial bane]

connecting is a strong word for me, more like I don't dislike the idea of next horadrim having her backstory

and I think she is less annoying later on ?

Because the introduction was so bad 🥶

[jade jackal]

I don't mind that a character starts weak and gets stronger, its fine, that's development

but yeah, the events are a little weak

[jovial bane]

yeah, I think there is some attempt at character development in direction I like

But execution is, not exactly great

It lacks polish for the lack of better word

TBH, I really disliked how they've randomly axed Doran ? The other horadrim

[junior oyster]

I guess she gets a bit of a backbone later but I hate how she always feels whiny

[jovial bane]

oh yeah, she was insufferable

[junior oyster]

Like doesn't she make us the protag (if that's what we even are lol) decide to go against Lilith? The one being that (through trash methods too) is probably the most honest with us and seemingly wants to help us?

Then causes the release of Mephi

Idk I guess Lilith would have been equally bad down the line

[jovial bane]

I feel like it's the problem with protag writing. It's the character I start to dislike the most

[junior oyster]

Protag feels like a side character ngl

Like in D3 it felt like we were in control or something

Same with D2

Never played D1 so I wouldn't know

[jovial bane]

yes, that's my biggest gripe with the story in D4

Paladin feels like the best "default choice" story wise

[jade jackal]

Paladin is main character syndrome class

absolutely

What's better to fight demons with than a pure soldier of light

with heavenly powers

[junior oyster]

Crusader 👀

[jade jackal]

Crusaders and Paladins are same same to me

[junior oyster]

Yea I was joking

[jade jackal]

Both belong to the same church, its just that Crusaders have cooler backstories

So yeah, Crusaders are cooler

[junior oyster]

I'm gunna argue a demon hunter but that's not happening xD

I mean it's in their name :P

[jade jackal]

Demon hunters dont use light, they use explosives lol

and their story is also cool

[junior oyster]

Don't matter

[jade jackal]

I remember that jank cinematic someone had to cobble for the DH

[junior oyster]

Also personally I think necromancer fits the best

Like using fire to fight fire but it actually works

[jade jackal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ujTQBIObo

[junior oyster]

Can't watch that video without signing lol

[jade jackal]

The story is the the DH movement basically was born in the west, with active recruitment

[junior oyster]

But I know the video you on about

[jade jackal]

The idea is that DHs didnt need to go through all the paperwork Rogues do

they just needed vengeance

[junior oyster]

Meanwhile my favourite char the Wizard barely gets a trailer lol

[jade jackal]

She did get one

[junior oyster]

Yea it was hardly a trailer lol

[jade jackal]

These early D3 trailers we so rough, you knew they had no time

[junior oyster]

The monk one was cool though

[jade jackal]

Yes, despite the bizarre animation

[junior oyster]

Although with the wizard one it makes sense cuz she is sassy as hell anyway lol

[jade jackal]

Li Ming, i love her

She really embodies the rebelious nature of the class

[junior oyster]

Azula but yea

[jade jackal]

Li Ming https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Li-Ming

[junior oyster]

I know but she is the same VA of Azula from ATLA

[jade jackal]

idk who that is lol

I know who the DH is

its what her name

from CR

[junior oyster]

CR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gA3aeZ6LU

They took out the laugh ingame sigh

Also holy mana globes in that trailer lol

Ok wait no it was another trailer where she has her laugh

[abstract karma]

Dang wanted expand games library and didnt know that Mass Effect needs some F.. EA app without any way to deny it even trough mods

why companies needs so much bloatwares in our PC's..

[jovial bane]

and corrupt church of light with power of light

kind of hilarious when they call you a heretic, and you turn into god damn angel

[fierce moth]

Happy new year!

I wish I can get a new laptop in 2026, I want rtx 5070 version because it allow me to learn more in 3d environment art 🙏

[jovial bane]

finished VoH I think, overall campaign was better than I've expected

but it also flopped hard at the end

I think I like Mephisto the most in D4

[abstract karma]

Happy new year to you too. (Timezones weird thing)

Welp laptos of 2026 bro buy now current on stocks. And fastly due to nvidiia and hw shortages prices and qiaulities of hw performance will go to hell
New models will release barely with 16 gb and with nvidia trying push cloud subcriptions gaming you wont see good nvidia card in future max as ad for their cloud gaming

[jade jackal]

This is one of the commonly funny things about Diablo

This is like Jesus in South Park just hanging out with people

[jovial bane]

true

man, the ending in VoH is so nonsensical

the only sloppy excuse I can find is Mephisto being really well done, and he is corrupting everything he touches so yk. He is a character that can make you take stupid choices

But even that was so heavy handed

[fierce moth]

16GB? It mean a lot already

[jade jackal]

In terms of character - Mephisto is the coolest prime evil

he has the most personality out of the three

So i get the interest

[jovial bane]

I like how he tries to be subtle, to get in your head and corrupt you

[jade jackal]

I dont like the fact he got 2 expansions, but it would feel like one long expansion

[jovial bane]

ye, same

[jade jackal]

Diablo feels a bit like generic bad dude

his brothers and lesser evils have far more interesting motives

[jovial bane]

definitely

[jade jackal]

I wonder which Archangels will be back in LoH

I wanna see Auriel

[jovial bane]

same

[twilit mountain]

This is different than RAM which is what I believe Hersik is talking about

[jade jackal]

Knowing Tyrael's mission, she was a full partner

she should have been the new leading contact

Here's an easy guess - I think we are going to actively fight angels sometime in the future

[twilit mountain]

There's a pretty limited selection of cards with 16GB VRAM, even more limited with higher than that (at least for consumer use-cases)

[jade jackal]

If you can fork 400 dollars, you will get at a 16GB equipped card

I don't like it, but its the current status

[abstract karma]

well yes but even memory models to Card will rise at least in Nvidia for sure..

[jade jackal]

If you need 16GB on a laptop GPU, get a time machine

[twilit mountain]

Yeah, I mean, 5090s have I think 32GB in them and even MSRP on them is absolutely ridiculous, nevermind the massively inflated cost we're at now

[twilit mountain]

This is why I won't be replacing my laptop with another laptop. I'll just get a desktop again. It'll be expensive but at least it won't 1) occasionally burn me and 2) be able to be modified in the long run

[jade jackal]

oh 100%

And worst case, if space is an issue, there are various MATX solutions to at least make it somewhat compact

and not a huge tower of steel and glass

[fierce moth]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/none-of-us-are-at-good-at-action-rpgs-as-the-path-of-exile-2-player-who-beat-one-of-its-toughest-bosses-without-any-gear-what-did-i-just-witness/
lol it even become news

[jade jackal]

As it sort of should

Some people might view it as a sign of good design

I view it as a sign of a bad one, one that needs patching

[twilit mountain]

It's hust Frost Wall being Frost Wall really

[real kayak]

pcgamer just reads reddit and posts the top threads as news, it's dogshit "journalism"

[junior oyster]

I'll give pcgamer for putting StS2 as the most wanted game for 2026 over even gta 6

https://youtu.be/b9DJ0eynbX4?t=8675

Seeing the entire list on that channel there really are only two games I'm interested in lol

StS2 and GTA6

[jade jackal]

So, what are PoE2 players doing with all this divine inflation?

[desert jasper]

Honestly I haven't noticed it that much
Sold 2x atalui's bloodlettings at 7div both

[warped wren]

99% of it is just reddit jabber and overhype

Most gear hasn't meaningfully changed in price, and it's also easier to make money from ritual / breach / abyss stuff

[jade jackal]

Alright

[fierce moth]

👀 600+d

[mental talon]

Just like Affliction, there's more money to be made not doing Temples if you don't want too because people like me ain't doing that shit. I'll pay whatever price for non Temple drops because I'm not going to stop my farm so if it's 3-4 times the normal price, I'll stay pay. But Reddit is always mad so w.e.

[desert jasper]

Yeah, he found a headhunter early
and just then sold a chest armor for 300 divs
and stuff like that

[fierce moth]

I'm looking forward to how will the author react to that

[twilit mountain]

Level 20

Thorns leveling is so silly

[jade jackal]

I remember D3 used to have an achievement called "Me so Thorny"

[twilit mountain]

Movie reference I think?

[jade jackal]

In a way, yes

Its from Full Metal Jacket. With a word that sounds like Thorny

[twilit mountain]

Yeah, I knew the line but not the source (not much of a movie watcher)

[real kayak]

been getting lucky with fractured orb drops, 6 so far, about 1 per cleansed area

[jovial bane]

Happy new year !

[abstract karma]

Happy new year (from mine timezone)

[jade jackal]

Happy 2026 to everyone

[sand wigeon]

get your weird ai art out of here

[gilded elm]

They still can't get the fingers quite right lol

[gilded elm]

Something else feels off about it too, I can't really figure out what it is... is it the shading? It's something that's kind of universal to most AI art at the moment.

The right arm (with the can) looks like a dwarf's arm, that's obvious. There's something else though.

[fierce moth]

is it real that Unity have released a "enterprise minimum commitment program" before Christmas?

This fee would probably add to the 5% price increases for Enterprise and Pro customers, effective January 12

oh no

🤔 It seems more cost for EHG since then

2 relevant posts on linkedin only...😅

[gilded elm]

I doubt a 5% increase in the per seat cost of Unity Pro/Enterprise is going to hurt EHG.

[fierce moth]

My focus is on enterprise minimum commitment program #❔┃ask-the-community message

But I guess these fees will be helped by Krafton

[gilded elm]

So a 5% increase in the minimum commitment amount due (based on EHG's revenue, which is not that high) still doesn't actually seem like a big increase considering how much benefit they get from using Unity.

We don't know the exact figures of EHG's revenue, but based on KRAFTON's buyout price, we can infer it's not very high. Most likely, I would guess EHG's revenue falls under the lowest bracket of Unity's minimum commitment program.

[gilded elm]

So if EHG made anywhere between $25 million to $50 million in revenue this year, they would be required to pay Unity $250,000 in the next year, as a minimum commitment. This doesn't really seem that huge all things considered.

What's the alternative? Switch to Unreal Engine? EHG can't do that without hiring C++ developers, who are more expensive to hire than C# developers.

Besides, LE can't just switch engines any way.

Considering how much work Unity puts into their game engine, it doesn't seem like an entirely unreasonable ask from businesses with higher-than-normal revenue.

This is still way better than their previously very unpopular attempt to try and charge for installations back in 2023. $250,000 is 1% of $25 million and 0.5% of $50 million.

Unity is a business and they have to make money too.

And remember this only applies to "Made With Unity" gross revenue. Not revenue in general.

It's entirely possible that EHG's "Made With Unity" gross revenue is lower and they don't actually have to pay anything.

[fierce moth]

Zao is quite valuable himself it mean

[gilded elm]

Valuable? Because he knows C++? lol

GGG has a custom engine and they hire C++ developers, but they also tend to offer lower than market rate wages if I remember.

@fierce moth Have you heard of Glass Door? It's another website for professionals (like LinkedIn) but it's a place where you leave reviews about a company you work at or previously worked at.

[twilit mountain]

Nintendo is shockingly well received there iirc

[gilded elm]

Yeah Nintendo of America seems to have a decent score, not bad. I wonder if employment is actually good there.

Not unusual for a company to be terrible for consumers but great to employees.

[fierce moth]

thanks for introducing that

[fierce moth]

emmmmmm

[gilded elm]

Oh yes, Glass Door is very "give and take" with their information. You have to share your own information if you want to see what others have shared.

[fierce moth]

🫡 good block

[gilded elm]

This person was not very happy lol

Basically GGG doesn't pay very well compared to most other places.

[fierce moth]

lol how are you know I want to check out GGG's review

[gilded elm]

From what I could gather, GGG typically pays up to half as less as US-based salaries for example, even though the cost of living in Auckland is high.

[fierce moth]

well this experience is valuable anyways, it's a powerful proof of you're talented and expeienced enough to handle similar jobs from another companies

have worked in a famous company in this field is a bonus

[gilded elm]

It looks good on your resume and it's a good opportunity to live in New Zealand, but yeah it's apparently not a great salary to live on unless you're at a more senior or director level.

Honestly I think GGG should stop trying to mandate New Zealand relocation lol

But who knows maybe New Zealand law requires them to do so, no idea.

[twilit mountain]

To my understanding it's not a GGG thing so much as it is an NZ thing

[gilded elm]

Thing is, GGG should be able to create an American or European subsidiary, open a US or EU office and hire talent that way.

It makes sense that NZ wants NZ citizens and residents working in NZ companies.

I highly doubt NZ has laws and regulations that prevent international growth of a company.

Being NZ-only drastically limits the pool of available talent because I don't imagine many people are jumping at the opportunity to move to a whole different country only to earn less money than they could in their current country.

[twilit mountain]

Could be a bit of that predatory "if you can get someone into their 'dream' job they'll take lower pay for the opportunity" sitch

[fierce moth]

I have no fate with game industry in recent 5 years anyways. What I can do are obverse, learn more events, try more new games, connect more people, that's all

[gilded elm]

Maybe, I could kinda see that especially since I think that game dev is one of those fields people get into out of a deep passion for games and art.

More so than most other fields.

[fierce moth]

let's talk about work for a game after I'm 30+ lol

[gilded elm]

Even in the US (and I assume it's the same everywhere else), game dev jobs typically pay less than other kinds of software development jobs. I think part of that could be that predatory hiring mentality that exploits peoples' passion lol

[gilded elm]

Add to that, it also creates a situation where moving on is difficult because now your life is tethered to New Zealand lol

Moving internationally is such a major pain.

Although this is an AI-generated answer, it does ring true for me so I mostly trust the data it's citing (~13 different websites). And your idea of the passion tax makes a lot more sense too:

[fierce moth]

If you say passion-driven... Emmmmmmmm gameplay of this game influenced a lot

Dislike is dislike, I can't change that

[gilded elm]

Basically, companies will exploit your passion to offer you less money.

Because they know you are passionate, they know you will want to do that job no matter what.

[fierce moth]

🤔 How to break this case, convince the company to give me more money?

You can't say I'm not passionate too

[gilded elm]

Well, when you have no experience then you don't have much choice. I think for your first job you should basically accept lower pay until you have 2-3 years of experience.

But after you have experience, then I think it's really about focusing more about the value you bring to a company and less about your passion for your craft.

[fierce moth]

😔 So I must be controlled by employer for the first job

[gilded elm]

Unfortunately that's just how it's always been in most software-based jobs.

[twilit mountain]

Shit that's how it is for most jobs in general

[gilded elm]

Yep, very true

Work is really not meant to make you happy. If you are happy with the work you do, you are one of the very few people who are.

[fierce moth]

If you are happy with the work you do, you are one of the very few people who are.

that's just quite toxic because work is the most important part in the life of 24-55 years old

most people must work for decades

[gilded elm]

Yes, I agree. I think most people probably would agree. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in lol

[twilit mountain]

I simply do not agree that work is "the most important part of life" for anyone, it's a necessity born out of societal structures. Work should not be even remotely close to majority of your time spent, in my opinion, and nowhere near the top in matters of importance to one's life.

[gilded elm]

Well yes, I don't think it's the most important, but it definitely is a toxic way to live your life.

[gilded elm]

I do recognize that a market driven economy has been enormously beneficial in technologically advancing civilization. Without some form of capitalism, it's unclear where society's collective interests would have led us. Maybe we'd be exploring our solar system, but we wouldn't have a big consumer-driven video gaming or even artistic culture, as an example. That said, I definitely agree that the current wealth gap is beyond cruel and there's definitely a better middle ground we should be striving to achieve.

[twilit mountain]

Frankly, I cannot get into my opinions on economic systems and the world we live in within this server. I'll sum it up by saying that I'm staunchly anti-capitalist by nature and growing up severely underprivileged has only furthered that stance within me.

[warped wren]

happy new year to all of you!

[fierce moth]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/The_Artisan_of_Glimmith/
Oh I think it'll the 1st new game I try in 2026

Long time to not able to enjoy the pure fun from puzzles

[gilded elm]

My Steam calendar looks sad lol

[fierce moth]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/321480/Sigils_of_Elohim/?curator_clanid=33025992
Last time I played similar games is this one... 2021 stuff I think

I'm not into environment puzzles in The Talos Principle 1&2 so much (too hard), the same logic apply to portal 1&2 so I never play portal 2. But I love these mini puzzles...

[gilded elm]

Maybe you should play Blue Prince

I still need to finish that game

[fierce moth]

Your flavour on games quite vast and diverse

I can feel what you like is play games itself, no matter the game is

lol I think I will not try that. 3 of puzzle pros not recommend that

I have no idea what gameplay is it yet after watched all trailers of that on steam

pure puzzle games loved by these puzzle pros usually lack of aesthetics or levels are too hard. Tricky to find the balance

I'm not as smart as them

[gilded elm]

Blue Prince is one of the highly acclaimed games of 2025.

[fierce moth]

indeed. The data is amazing

🤔 feel like it's a other type of... Vaal temple xd

[twilit mountain]

Well, no, you see Blue Prince is actually good

[gilded elm]

lol

Basically seems like a lot of people aren't fond of the RNG

As far as negatives go.

[fierce moth]

Well, no trade so no economy in blue prince so it's better

[twilit mountain]

That

Is a skill issue

Blue Prince RNG is so malleable that someone using their brain can go from day 1 (in game) and then finish t he main overarching puzzle before they even hit double digit days

[gilded elm]

I assume the RNG issue for those people is they don't play long enough to make meaningful progress on their meta progression.

[maiden widget]

wanted to try blue prince but kinda forgot about it and now gamepass ran out

guess ill pick it up on sale some time in the future

[gilded elm]

Basically from what I can tell, those people want to spend more time on actual puzzles than having to manipulate their RNG.

But the roguelite aspect of that should've been a clear indicator that RNG would be a factor.

[gilded elm]

It's on sale right now for 34% off, unless you meant the next sale (probably Spring).

[maiden widget]

yeah next one, started ssf poe1 and reading some black library novels currently

[gilded elm]

Which one

[maiden widget]

read the first ultramarines novel and was surprised how decent it was, not a huge fan of the blue lads

was more into gaunt and the inquisitors

[gilded elm]

I haven't read/listened to any of those, I don't think. Those are the ones with Uriel Ventris, right?

Not a big fan of Ultramarines either so never really got into their books.

[maiden widget]

yep same but the intro/prologue was cool and the first book as well, can't say much more yet gonna start the next one today or tomorrow

[gilded elm]

Nice, might have to give it a try. Graham McNeill is one of the good Black Library authors for sure.

[maiden widget]

the souldrinkers stuff was also cool for me years ago but didnt really reread it recently

there's very few writers for GW i dont really enjoy

its all pretty solid for what it is imo

[gilded elm]

Yeah mostly the same. Still, some are just way better than others haha. I don't actually know much about the Soul Drinkers, but a whole chapter falling to Chaos sounds like a cool premise.

Damn, no audiobooks for this series.

Oh wait, maybe part of this anthology? https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Successors-Audiobook/B09S3YJ2PG

Ah nevermind, this is about the new Soul Drinkers chapter created from Primaris marines.

[maiden widget]

seems to be a new short story

[gilded elm]

Yeah I don't think that story is about the old Soul Drinkers that fell to Chaos.

[maiden widget]

i still probably expect the series to be a bit worse than never things but i remember ben counter novels as also being pretty ok

and i just found out theres 2-3 books i didnt know exist yet

so i guess ill put the reread on my list

[gilded elm]

Ben Counter did write Galaxy in Flames (book 3 of Horus Heresy) which was a banger.

[maiden widget]

nice

[warped wren]

dropped a stack of 10 reaver catalysts in breach

apparently 1 div = 8 of them lmao

crazy

breach is an actual money printer rn

if Ange does my currency exchanges overnight, I'll be 2/3rds of the way to Garukhan's

[fierce moth]

😵 New Year day is quite scary. Everywhere in shopping malls full of people. Even restrooms are in quene.

[abstract karma]

me chilling because tommorow starts work again and i have to go to cosutomer firm to run our software
it would be all Ok if i didnt need to get up early >.>

[fierce moth]

:) crazy people flow (in quene to underground station)

Gonna eat mcgribbles

Christmas not done yet obviously.

[gilded elm]

I can't stop spinning

[jade jackal]

S...peeeEEEeeeenn

[fierce moth]

Ok, double experiences ✅

1. Know what pancakes with maple syrup tastes.
2. Tried a mcgribble.
   Pancakes on mcgribbles are quite soft... Like eating sweet 🧽
   Cost: I'm quite full

[stone anvil]

yummy yummy yummy 😋

[fierce moth]

I prefer normal burger, this one will let me sick because too much calories in pancakes with syrup

[junior oyster]

Two nekos

[junior oyster]

Ah the sudden realisation

Man I'm glad the remake happened

[desert jasper]

I thought that was umamusume for a second

[junior oyster]

I hardly know anything about that game aside from it being some kind of anime horse racing game

[desert jasper]

Well yes, that's what it is
they're based on actual horses though

[gilded elm]

And it's a gacha

[junior oyster]

I mean the guy is Ichigo so...

[gilded elm]

Feels like one of the strongest builds I've made so far lol

Scales movement speed for damage

[jade jackal]

bloodlust very cool passive

im going to try a pet run, see how that works on the Beastmaster

Spiders and Tigers

[gilded elm]

Don't think I have spiders yet, still missing so much stuff... the amount of skills is crazy

[warped wren]

I think one of my most brain off builds in this game was a poison minion Houndmaster setup

But that was a long time ago, things have probably changed since

[jade jackal]

They hungry, they bite

[gilded elm]

Damn, gotta be millions of DPS lol

[junior oyster]

What is this game?

[jade jackal]

Soulstone Survivors

[jade jackal]

Things move a little faster when you have things unlocked, some of it includes the way you manipulate the skills offered to you

and their quality

[gilded elm]

Melted his punk ass

DPS is ramping

[jade jackal]

Ramping

its worth looking at the ailments tab too

[gilded elm]

Doesn't seem like ailments are doing much, just raw damage pushing through their HP before stuff like poison even ticks

I've just been scaling movement speed to pump damage with Viper's Pounce and Rift Fang which both have this bonus against Ambushed targets.

[jade jackal]

A good balance could be half and half

A good tip would be that in order to access specific skill/passive offerings -|| certain things need to be on your skill bar. Its how offerings are opened. ||

[fierce moth]

Completed all puzzles I can find in the demo. Enjoyable to solve them :)
Game is https://store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/The_Artisan_of_Glimmith/

[gilded elm]

Yeah, I think you mean stuff like the ability to apply an ailment on all skills, but you need a skill that can apply that ailment on your bar.

And then later on you can also get offered passives that apply an ailment whenever you apply another different ailment.

[jade jackal]

yeah, you basically unlock those chains

Its also worth not sleeping on passives like Leviathan, it is multiplicative to your entire build

[gilded elm]

Is it? I always been banishing it lmao

[jade jackal]

I know its a common thing people do lol

[gilded elm]

Wish the game used clear language when it comes to damage buckets

Didn't know Leviathan was multiplicative

[jade jackal]

yeah, its very trial and error

[gilded elm]

If that's the case, it's a lot easier to justify the loss of movement speed for probably most builds

[jade jackal]

There are many simple common mistakes people do. I dont wanna "solve" this to you, but how people divide skill points to different ailments also goes against numbers sometimes

[gilded elm]

I definitely plan to min max and most likely will end up looking up specific numbers and damage buckets. I like that this game has kept me engaged for so many hours without the need to look anything up, though

[jade jackal]

I almost never engaged with the community

[gilded elm]

Has been nice just being able to go with the flow, mix and match synergies without optimizing too much

[jade jackal]

the blind aspect of building is fun

but a lot of trial and error took place lol

[gilded elm]

It's definitely possible to make bad builds in this game, but the way it's setup it gives you a lot of room to learn and figure things out without screwing yourself too bad.

I really need to start focusing on unlocking runes because those are very clearly going to be key for optimizing builds.

[jade jackal]

I found myself using 1-2 classes i have the most fun going hard with, and used them to start unlocking stuff

and when helpful runes came in, made sure to use those on new classes

[gilded elm]

That's what I'm doing right now with the Assassin. Doing all the rituals so I can finish unlocking characters

And even just the one class has a lot of build variety, so I change up runes sometimes when I want to have a different skill pool for a different build

[jade jackal]

Some classes pose genuine challenge with different mechanics

I basically turned leveling their skilltree into a challenge

And some classes are "have fun, break the game"

I like jamming, just picking a class, thinking of a possible build, and building towards it

We've reached billions

[gilded elm]

I might be getting there soon in this ritual... maybe?

Is there a leaderboard in-game?

[jade jackal]

Nothing in game

So far the devs kind of avoided it, due to the exploititive nature of some builds

[gilded elm]

Makes sense, people would also just cheat it. It's a bit of a hassle for certain games to try and maintain a leaderboard, for example Megabonk isn't having a good time of it.

[jade jackal]

Yeah you can really break stuff

[fierce moth]

Ok all of them are done. 2 puzzles hided so well.

[junior oyster]

Game description says roguelite

So does that mean you keep all your skills and items after dying?

Or is it more like VS where you start with nothing (aside from maybe something similar to Hades with that mirror thing)?

[gilded elm]

I don't think there are any items, just unlockables. There's a bunch of different "stuff" like characters, different weapons for each character, general skills, character-specific skills, weapon skills, global skill tree, character-specific skill tree, runes and probably some stuff I'm forgetting. All of this you progressively unlock by playing the game, each different thing has its own unlock condition. Each run is as you might expect of a typical roguelike or roguelite, but also a bit different because I don't think the actual run time is a factor (maybe it is?) and it's based more on kills. So a good build can progress the run much quicker, but a bad build isn't necessarily punished for taking too long.

Feels like a decent build can finish a run in <10 minutes

[jade jackal]

This is when i put visibility on 0 btw lol

[junior oyster]

Looks like VS when you get the queens weapon upgrade

[sand wigeon]

cried at the endings

10/10

[warped wren]

AT LAST

[twilit mountain]

Gratz

[desert jasper]

Surely that's just Albino rhoa feather, right?

[twilit mountain]

Garukhan's Resolve or whatever it's called. The bifurcate crit support.

It and Rakiata have been massively inflated in price mainly due to Fub

[desert jasper]

Yeah

[warped wren]

been saving for it for i think 3 days

[desert jasper]

Man
I wanna hit the gym tomorrow but I'm sure it'll be full of ppl trying to do their new years resolution stuff

It's like first week or two it's always full so you can't get a proper workout done

[twilit mountain]

Just be like me and don't bother with making them

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I don't make them

but a lot of people do about how they'll get fit this year and go to the gym
and then they try for like a week and stop

[twilit mountain]

I've never really understood it. If you're trying to make large changes of some kind... why does it have to coincide with the start of a year, do it whenever you have the motivation and energy.

[desert jasper]

Because it's a convenient excuse
That they'll suddenly find the discipline to do something like that because year changed
Especially funny when they've never had such behaviour earlier

[twilit mountain]

Unrelated.
GGG can we please remove the need to open a map in the Ziggurat Refuge to unlock the ability to open maps in HO? At least on alts? It's really annoying to deal with loading screens about 6 times longer due to that.

[desert jasper]

Yeah that's extremely annoying

I forget it every time and then wonder why can't I open a map

[twilit mountain]

Yea guess what I did that brought that complaint up

[warped wren]

it's kinda wild I've pushed this char to this level of investment on this little playtime and without stepping foot in the temple

[fierce moth]

🤔 Underwood have been push Cathy downstairs and let her pass out for a while so she can't bring any troubles to him. It's why Underwood is died in his room later?

[junior oyster]

Yes

I understood everything you said Kirra ||not really||

[fierce moth]

House of Cards Season 6. E5 is what I'm watching

[desert jasper]

Surely you didn't try to open a map

[fierce moth]

the only season which Claire is the president 🤔

[desert jasper]

Tbh I stayed up way too late yesterday
been really tired all day
Kidna thinking of going to sleep early and then just hitting the gym super early when there's nobody else there at like 5 in the morning

[fierce moth]

Me too. Good night

Time to hit the sack

[desert jasper]

Good night

[twilit mountain]

I'm so good at this game

[warped wren]

I need to craft an awfully specific ammy

Unless I change a bunch of gear

[twilit mountain]

Bought it with res, armor, life for 3ex lol

[desert jasper]

[twilit mountain]

Man I sure love how every single boss in this game can just completely break out of nowhere and just ignore wind-ups or animation locks and throw out 3-4 moves at the same time

[desert jasper]

They do?

[twilit mountain]

Unfortunately

[desert jasper]

Well aint that grand

[gilded elm]

Feels like I'm shooting a Skittles laser beam

[fierce moth]

Nub wake up so early

Yarn wake me up

[twilit mountain]

Bonking a map boss for nearly 1.5 million damage is pretty funy

[twilit mountain]

taking hit after hit after hit with minimal build up on stun bar
one random ass breach monster hits me one time and instantly heavy stuns
Yeah okay game

[warped wren]

I cannot survive without an anti stun charm

Sometimes not even with it, if it's a +125 stun map that rolls full juice + Unstable Energies

[twilit mountain]

It was a heavy stun, stun charm doesn't do shit

Also I don't know why more shield gamers aren't using Resonating Shield. Freest god damn skill in the game.

Full block + armor break + decent damage on a shield build. Why would you NOT use it

[fierce moth]

Figured out why 🤣

Thanks for it heat my quilt up so I'll comfortable to take a nap soon

[warped wren]

maybe their youtuber didn't tell them to

[twilit mountain]

....you might be right

[warped wren]

I guess I bought it at the right time...?

could also be the sharp drop in divine value tbf

divs were like 400+ yesterday and today they're at 240-250

[sand wigeon]

Become the YouTuber

[twilit mountain]

I do not feel like dealing with PoE players as a content creator.

[warped wren]

dealing with poe players

💀

[sand wigeon]

mommy asmr

[twilit mountain]

I'd rather die

[sand wigeon]

sigh

fine i’ll do it

[twilit mountain]

You know I'm right!

[sand wigeon]

a trans woman who doesn’t have the voice of the most stereotypical woman ever?

the right-leaning arpg community would eat her alive

[fierce moth]

what the key word of a type of magic, you can press hot key to check out the value of all colours on a picture in photoshop?

Ohhhh...Grayscale. Yes I forget that

ctrl + Y is that magic

[sudden anchor]

How do you know the way you're feeling is a specific gender? I can tell myself I am feeling like a man, but what is that? Maybe I'm feeling more like a woman, who knows

[fierce moth]

hhhhh
One thing you will never feel if you're a man, it's blooding regularly

Oh...And queue up in restroom. But I'm not sure if it's exclusive due to population

[fierce moth]

😂

Interesting... Christmas tree can be any shapes in anywhere... If you want to spend Christmas really 🤔

I like these Christmas trees more too, because they can go to my stomach hhhh

Remind me of a French dessert, a tower form of cream puffs/macarons

🤔 Figure out which food can be the ingredient of Christmas tree is a tricky question...

Oh, I have an answer, potatoes. Cut it as strips to fry then spread some coarse salt and cumin powder.

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I woke up and couldn't get more sleep until a bit later
But i was already sleeping again by that message

[fierce moth]

https://youtu.be/jgDYlmRwXF8?si=QKkFiFMSVnYrX-i7

This video is genius and inspired. It's what I try to look for in my acrylic painting but I don't know what is it before I watched that.

I understand how to deal with objects with complex details like trees or brushes since then 👍

I guess I have used that logic in voxel Aggorat but I didn't realize that lol

Tldr: Try to hatch where these tangles are with your style.

[fierce moth]

Yes, it works so well :)

I can draw plants with a pen only!
Plus with the reference.

It will work better if I use multiple pens (0.25/0.4/0.5/1.0)

Figured out how to use my dusty Sakura pens finally 😁

[sand wigeon]

she is definitely a woman

because she wants to be

don’t come at me with transphobia lol

[sand wigeon]

and not everyone who has periods is a woman. trans men exist, nonbinary people exist, genderfluid people exist, etcetera

[sudden anchor]

It is internalized sexism. When someone interprets their feelings as “male” or “female,” they are not discovering an inner truth, but applying learned social stereotypes to neutral human states. Inner experience does not need a gender label to be real or legitimate.

[fierce moth]

Freeze-dried strawberries are quite 😋
Especially when you had a dinner which full of noises and form of ingredients you dislike to eat at all.

Glad to bring a package of snack I like with me tonight.

[gilded elm]

This isn't really the place and I would caution against speaking so matter-of-factly on sensitive psychological topics. There isn't any objective fact to anything you're saying and the tone you approach this with only serves to aggravate, not debate. Appeal to what you consider authoritative research all you want, but it's not an objective fact.

[sand wigeon]

yeah i’m not engaging this

[jade jackal]

Chat im about 1 inch away from a complete head manbun, i can't wait to not having hair all over

[sand wigeon]

REAL

my hair is like at my shoulder blades

i desperately need a haircut

i hate having longer hair

[gilded elm]

I grew out my hair once, recently got it cut. Never doing that again, tried it and it's not for me. Long hair sucks.

[sand wigeon]

it’s so time consuming to take care of

i was super sick for a few years and practically bedridden, my hair grew to the point it reached my thighs. that was AWFUL.

[jade jackal]

last time was in highschool, but i like to think this would be my last go before the genes take over and start either graying my hair or make it go away

[gilded elm]

Doesn't help if you got super oily hair too lol

[jade jackal]

but yeah, lots of maintenance

hair knots, split ends

[gilded elm]

Practically doubles the time you spend in the shower too

[jade jackal]

oh yeah the shampoo bottles are running out fast

and conditionaire is basically a wheel of forture to how my hair will look like when i wake up, its completely random

it could be curly, it could be smooth

[sand wigeon]

I still have the image of when I got it all cut off

[sand wigeon]

“what do people do spending 45 minutes in the shower”
wash. hair.

[gilded elm]

Cut at home? Must be nice, closest place near me charged me $50 to cut my long hair lmao

[sand wigeon]

My grandmother was a hairdresser in the 90’s, she brought her scissors and did it for me

[jade jackal]

The only way this hair goes out is with a machine

im not planning on any style

just a single number

[desert jasper]

I just actually cut my hair
Was shoulder length, now got a nice buzzcut

[sand wigeon]

Hell yeah

[gilded elm]

Feels kinda like a scam getting charged more for long hair lol

[sand wigeon]

Crazy to do that in winter but I also live in Winter Land

[sand wigeon]

It IS more to work through and does take longer, and since barbers are charged per customer and not time allotted, it makes sense

[jade jackal]

Im using a front tie to hold my headphones from slipping forward, i look like a pikmin

[gilded elm]

Even when you're going from long to short? I figured it would be about as easy as a trim lol

[sand wigeon]

IMO it should be time allotted, so people with short hair who want extremely particular adjustments also get charged more, where people who want a run of the mill cut should be charged less

[gilded elm]

But that's why I'm not a barber or hairdresser lol

[sand wigeon]

No, you have to appropriately cut it all to length which takes a lot more effort when it’s long

It also matters how layered your hair is though

My hair is dry and fizzy with about eighty billion layers to it

[gilded elm]

Fair, they did a good job tbh. Best hair style I've had in a while lol

[sand wigeon]

Hells yeah, glad to hear it

[jade jackal]

im a bit of a hair criminal, ever since i went full head at 3mm, i just grew it out without any care

no corrections whatsoever

[sand wigeon]

That’s how you get very unhealthy hair unfortunately

[desert jasper]

I do that too
until I get annoyed and cut it short again

[gilded elm]

So if I'm 39 and my hairline is still fine, what are the odds that I have male pattern baldness? lol

I think because my dad has it, I don't have it.

[sand wigeon]

Male pattern baldness and a receding hairline aren’t always connected

[jade jackal]

it can still appear later

my dad only started balding at around 45

[gilded elm]

[desert jasper]

On an unrelated note
I bought new bedsheets today
It was a tough decision between cat themed & pepsi ones but ended with the pepsi
Gonna have dreams of pepsiman

[sand wigeon]

You can have one or the other, but usually they’re together

I need to get those like fancy bamboo sheets sometime, the ones that stay very cool

[desert jasper]

I know a guy that started going bald at like 14 already
he gave up at 16 and just been shaving his head since then

too bad that some people throw insults at him for it

[gilded elm]

I don't wanna be a bald asian man D:

[jade jackal]

Half the reason i still grow out my hair is to spite my coworkers who are balding and graying at my age

[sand wigeon]

Assholes lol

[jade jackal]

[gilded elm]

Real, based flex

Baldness is scary

[desert jasper]

He's gotten used to it
But he doesn't deserve it

It's easy to ignore when the people just insult your looks and assume you're far right but know nothing of your character

[sand wigeon]

I’m used to people yelling at me for wearing a mask in public (are we still doing this in 2025) but that doesn’t make it right either

[gilded elm]

Honestly people who embrace baldness have generally been cool people in my life. It just takes a different kind of mentality I think.

[sand wigeon]

Getting used to abuse isn’t the lesson

[sand wigeon]

Idk why it would

It’s just not having head hair

It’s not that big a deal

[gilded elm]

Yeah but it's kind of a big deal for a lot of dudes (more so for women for sure, but dudes too)

Hair is a big part of self confidence.

And people who can let go of it just seem like they're kinda built different.

[sand wigeon]

Like there are obvious extraneous feelings to factor in if the baldness is forced by a condition, but generally it’s just not having hair

[jade jackal]

My plan for baldness is that if it starts happening im going full in, no denial

[sand wigeon]

I guess I’m the odd one out

[jade jackal]

full head shave, maybe a good beard style

[gilded elm]

Yeah that's the way to go IMO

[jade jackal]

im going to embrace baldness

[gilded elm]

Hair implants are a big business I think

Did you see Bellular has been getting hair implants? He's upfront about it, I respect that. But yeah it's a big deal for men.

[jade jackal]

oh i had to google that person, looks familiar

yeah if i start balding, im going to own it

[gilded elm]

He used to do WoW videos and now he's mostly just doing gaming industry videos, taking jabs at AAA etc.

Pretty decent channel IMO

[sand wigeon]

Oh yeah here’s a killer motorcycle I saw (completely unrelated)

[gilded elm]

Harleys are great, as long as you don't have any neighbors who own them :D

[sand wigeon]

I want a motorcycle so bad

[gilded elm]

Not afraid of crazy American drivers?

[sand wigeon]

My plan is to get a cheap SUV and pay that off completely before I get a bike though

[sand wigeon]

I know the dangers, but it’s more cost efficient for the times I’d be using it, since I’ll only often have either me as a passenger or Deias

I won’t necessarily get a Harley either

I’m a Kawasaki fan

[gilded elm]

Nice, sports bikes are awesome

Not a motorctyle enthusiast or anything, but they just look and ride great. I've never owned one, but been the passenger of them many times.

[sand wigeon]

Mm, I’m working on my drivers license right now

I need to get my permit but finding a time to schedule the test has been annoying

Gotta love basic American necessities being delayed in my life thanks to mentioned sickness

[gilded elm]

Ah, the DMV. The most universally hated state government agency.

[sand wigeon]

Waited in a wrap-around line for five hours to get my state ID at 10 AM on a Tuesday

[gilded elm]

Five hours? Wow, I just scheduled an appointment online and walked in, waited 5 minutes and walked out after taking a photo lol

This is in Maryland.

[sand wigeon]

Something was especially up that day

Actually, I think it’s because we went in kinda near the real ID rollover

So a lot of people were there for that too

[gilded elm]

Ah, right. That was a couple years ago, wasn't it?

[sudden anchor]

I’m offering a conceptual perspective on language and categorization, not making a clinical or empirical claim. My argument is simply that feelings themselves don’t carry gendered properties, gender interpretations come from social frameworks applied to them.

[sand wigeon]

I think it was one or two? Yeah

[sand wigeon]

okay so if you aren’t arguing science then should i explain how being transgender works.

because being transgender isn’t based off “feelings”

it’s a biological error in the brain

[gilded elm]

Framing is everything when you're talking about sensitive topics. Speaking assertively sends the wrong impression. It's important that you convey your opinions as opinions rather than giving the impression that they are facts.

[sand wigeon]

people feel intense discomfort in their bodies because of the physical properties, it’s similar to disassociation

your brain literally does not recognize your body as fitting your brain

that is called ✨ gender dysphoria ✨ and it’s backed up by all reputable modern studies as being not a mental thing, but a biological thing

[gilded elm]

Keep in mind it's also extremely difficult (re: impossible) to understand how someone else is feeling if you've never experienced it yourself. Trying to explain it in the context of your own worldview and experiences doesn't really say much.

[sand wigeon]

yeah

just respect people

it doesn’t matter if you understand how they’re feeling or what they say

if someone asks to be called she/her you call them she/her. it’s not hard, and even if you simply try people will recognize and appreciate that

[gilded elm]

If someone tells me they can't control who they love or how they feel in their own body, who am I to doubt them?

[sand wigeon]

i have seen deias unable to look at herself in photos because it makes her so uncomfortable, that’s real. it’s her life, her every waking moment

don’t invalidate that. that goes for anyone with anything.

anyway

[gilded elm]

If you want to have an intellectual conversation on something, then approach it with an intellectual mindset rather than trying to contextualize everything into your own worldview.

[sand wigeon]

The Kawasaki Eliminator is probably what I’d want to start out with? Maybe eventually I’d swap, or choose something else, but I’m not sure

I have other stuff higher up on my “save to purchase” list anyway, like a rifle, handgun and shotgun

[gilded elm]

Is it like the budget option or something?

[sand wigeon]

Not to mention an SUV in the first place, though I already have one picked out, I think

[sand wigeon]

For Kawasaki, the MSRP is lower than some of their others, but it’s still pretty expensive ($6700 MSRP)

[gilded elm]

Really? Gun ownership kinda terrifies me. I understand it, but I'm just so afraid of owning a gun because I don't want to accidentally hurt someone or have someone take it and use it. I know gun safes are a thing and all, but it's just kinda scary lol

[sand wigeon]

I think I’ll look for a lightly used Hyundai Sante Fe 2012, I won’t need anything fancy

[sand wigeon]

Well, nobody in my family would take it or use it, I’m already trained in firearm operation and I also want to go hunting more regularly so I’ll need my own equipment

I also live in a place where wildlife is a possible danger so I want a handgun for EDC

[maiden widget]

A few weeks ago 3 bald people had a long ass discussion about best razors oil and others while claiming to not be as bald as the others. Took a lot to not burst out laughing all the time

[gilded elm]

Oh right, that could also potentially save big money on food, no?

[sand wigeon]

Yeah

[gilded elm]

I heard of people getting a giant meat freezer and they just work with a butcher to cut it up, give a portion to the butcher and you got basically year round meat.

[sand wigeon]

I live in a place with a lot of public hunting land, and there’s two hunting seasons (rifle and bow) for deer, plus bird hunting

Not to mention I also like wilderness survival as a hobby and I enjoy the process and science behind butchering, so it’s just three hobbies I can partake in rolled into one

[gilded elm]

Nice, that's a solid skill to have.

When I think Maine, I think seafood like lobster, though lol

[twilit mountain]

We mostly export that I think

[gilded elm]

Holy crap I didn't actually realize Maine was literally next door to a bunch of Canada lol

I know it was far east coast, but not that far

Weather must be... interesting there right now

[jade jackal]

man im the king of mashed potatoes

this bowl is going to disappear in 5 minutes

[gilded elm]

...with gravy?

[jade jackal]

no gravy, no

[gilded elm]

Heathen!

[jade jackal]

just creamy mash

[twilit mountain]

We're as far north and as far east as you can get in the mainland US yeah. And it's uh.... cold right now. Very cold.

[junior oyster]

It finally snowed here in Birmingham overnight but was black ice by like 9am lol

[gilded elm]

Next door to the "crazy" parts of Canada too! Does Maine get a lot of French Canadian stuff? lol

[sand wigeon]

Nope

Keep in mind you see “next door”

[twilit mountain]

Tourists sometimes, usually in Portland though

[sand wigeon]

In reality, there’s something called the 100 Mile Forest

[gilded elm]

Yeah Maine is a much bigger state than I originally thought it was.

[sand wigeon]

There’s a hundred miles of wilderness in between Maine and Canada that is basically uninhabited

[twilit mountain]

One of the highest concentrations of undeveloped land in the country iirc

[sand wigeon]

We also have the earliest sunrise in the continental USA! It’s in Acadia National Park

[jade jackal]

wait, Birmingham Alabama?

[sand wigeon]

Pretty sure that stat is Maine is 86% uninhabited forest

[gilded elm]

Over 80%? I thought we had a lot of uninhabited wilderness in Maryland, but that's way more

[junior oyster]

UK

Lol

[sand wigeon]

It’s no competition, DW

[fierce moth]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2974220/Styria/

Dev said their game isn't a roguelite.
Let's see. No demo available. The only trailer is here
https://www.moddb.com/games/styria

[sand wigeon]

I come from two families who have lived in Maine as far back as we can track, so I’m as Maine native as one can get really

[gilded elm]

I really like the New England vibe, like architecturally.

[sand wigeon]

(Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Maine)

[twilit mountain]

Meanwhile Maine is the third state I've lived in xdd

[sand wigeon]

Earliest sunrise in the USA is on that summit, on that island

[gilded elm]

That's beautiful

[jade jackal]

HDR overdrive fiesta

but definitely something id love to see every day

[sand wigeon]

I like Bradbury Mountain more

Forest as far as you can see

[jade jackal]

There's a good reason i visit Sweden every year

and its for these kinds of nature views

[sand wigeon]

Maine is beautiful

[gilded elm]

Yeah, as long as there's a trail. I'm terrified of snakes lol

[junior oyster]

I've lived in Birmingham most of my life

[sand wigeon]

If you ignore the residents and shitty cities lol

[sand wigeon]

We don’t have snakes really

And Bradbury is also one of the most hiked parks in Maine, so no worry there

[sand wigeon]

Too cold

We have garter snakes but that’s it, really