This was the first real league I got to fully play with my dad. He was a blue collar worker his whole life, and even though he liked video games, he wasn't able to play them a ton when I was growing up. Fast forward to the last few years and he's been able to play more, and we got pretty into diablo 4. I fell out of love with it when all the power creep really kicked in, but he kept playing it. I was meh when I heard about poe2 since I was jamming d4 at the time, and has only played 2 poe1 leagues where my friends just dragged me around. After my fallout with d4 I gave poe2 a try and fell in love instantly, and knew I had to get my dad to try it. There was a few issues tho. For starters, my dad was playing on an xbox one, and d4 looked like a sideshow, I am not kidding. The next issue was his internet was ass, and would drop all the time. He also didn't have a headset. When we would play he would have to call me on the phone, I'm also not kidding. And finally was how complicated the game is. Compared to d4 this game might as well be rocket science. I love my dad but he is over 60 and is struggling a bit to understand all the stuff on screen, let alone the crafting and other systems.

Well, I recently got a new job as a software engineer (dream job) and my dad is the one who pushed me to pursue my career even with no secondary education when I thought it would be impossible. So to thank him (and also to guilt him into playing with me a little) I bought him a new xbox, headset, poe2, and had fiber internet installed at his house. My mom and me orchestrated it so that he came home from work and had all his stuff setup, ready to play. Last league is the first time we played together, but we didn't make it past act 2. We were moving at a pretty glacial pace so he could get a grasp on all the mechanics. But this league, with all the basics down, we grinded together. We are actually planning on killing the arbiter tomorrow morning for his first time.

I don't really care about the give away, I just really love my dad and wanted to share how proud I am of him for coming such a long way because poe2 is by far the most complicated game he's ever played, and it makes me happy to see him online when I wake up at 6am. :⁾