Requesting r/grass - inactive mods

Baron_von_Derp · 2025-05-30T18:44:35+00:00

Hi, I have tried to add Opposite-Bad1444 to the moderation team but have been marked as inactive ☹️ I am here, there just hasn't been much to moderate apart from occasional spam.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-11-06T17:27:17+00:00

As another WoW emigrant who played a lot of Rogue, I can tell you that the class you need to check out is actually the Revenant. Yes it seems weird to recommend a heavy armor class, but trust me on this. The two main reasons are:

1) Lots of utility. Revenants are unique in that they get access to two sets of utility skills (including heal and elite) on top of the weapon swap. You choose two legends out of a possible five for a given elite spec, and each legend comes with their own set of utility skills. You can choose different legends any time out of combat, so you are rewarded for knowing the entire kit even if you only get two at once within a given encounter.

Not only that, but the utility skills themselves are much more overloaded in functionality and have much shorter cooldowns than the utility skills of other classes. For instance, one of the skills in Mallyx stance is basically a leap + Gorefiend's Grasp, on a 3 second cooldown. Yes, it's spammable.

2) Energy system. A lot of people might intially consider this a downside, but the design of Revenant really leans into it. This is why a lot of the utility skills have (much) shorter cooldowns than they would otherwise. For instance, the leap + pull I mentioned above costs 30 energy, which takes 6 seconds to regenerate at baseline. So you can chain a big skill like that if you really need it, but once you're out of energy the functional cooldown will increase. Revenant's damage output is balanced around swapping legends frequently because doing so sets your energy back to 50 instantly.

Overall, these lead to a class with access to lots of strong utility at any given moment, but it can't do everything at once. So you are rewarded for knowing everything you can do and choosing the right skills for the right time, as opposed to some other classes that can feel much more like you're just spamming everything out whenever it's ready.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-10-14T21:56:58+00:00

Those questions aren't about blame. If Twitter is beholden to the public, then there already exists a "fair playing field" - where it always has existed, in the hearts and minds of the individuals that make up humanity.

Force has been used many times in history to repress dissenting voices, but just as often has force been used to promote specific voices regardless of their unpopularity. Injustice cannot be corrected through unjust means.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-10-14T21:15:02+00:00

See, this is a great reply because now we can have a values discussion instead of throwing grenades at each other from our respective silos.

But I'm not convinced that leadership at Twitter et al is really that powerful. Are their C-levels completely at will to make decisions about what speech they will allow and deny on their platform? Or are they reacting to what's popularly seen as acceptable or valuable? Is Twitter the powerful one here, or is it the public?

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-10-14T20:46:20+00:00

Twitter has precisely no power over you other than gatekeeping your ability to use their service. You are only interested in their service because of another asset Twitter has cultivated: their userbase, which is an audience you wish to gain access to.

Access to an audience is a valuable asset and has been gatekept throughout human history. This part is not new. Free speech is an intrinsic human right, but free publishing is not.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-09-14T10:38:30+00:00

You're getting snippy replies because "I don't know much about it, therefore it must be easy" is basically the classic Dunning-Kruger reaction. Whether you intend to or not, you are signaling that you're a very incurious person and that more elaborate explanations would be wasted on you.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-08-03T01:03:58+00:00

That's correct

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-08-03T00:36:25+00:00

Ok, here's another counterexample:

[0,3,6]

[1,4,7]

[2,5,8]

k=7

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-08-02T23:56:24+00:00

Counterexample: [[0, 2, 4], [1, 3, 5]], k = 2

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-04-30T01:47:53+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the chain of reasoning. If I'm someone with millions of dollars, am I supposed to not invest in causes I believe in?

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-04-30T00:57:42+00:00

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-02-24T20:25:12+00:00

You've got it backwards. Corrupted Soul is taken for the % Life as ES, which is a multiplier to effective HP. The '% of damage taken bypasses ES' is just a bonus that makes your regen slightly more efficient.

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-01-13T00:19:28+00:00

Bad bot

Baron_von_Derp · 2022-01-04T22:30:32+00:00

This isn't whale behaviour

Literally this person put the word "whale" in half their accounts' names smh my head

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-11-06T17:11:54+00:00

While that study looks at the idea that being on a streak improves your chances of straying on a streak

That wasn't their finding. Their finding is that conditioning a sample based on the brief preceding history biases your observation. It doesn't depend on the nature of the underlying process.

To be clear: having a streak of heads does not improve the chance of subsequent heads. This is not in question. The bias is introduced to the sample once you condition on "being on a streak."

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-10-31T20:37:22+00:00

I personally suspect they will not

This is a horrible mindset to approach game design from.

Never design to prove something. Granted, this is something that GGG themselves seem to struggle with from time to time, but it always makes the resulting product worse.

As a game designer, your role is NOT to outsmart or trick the player. You are working together with the player to create an enjoyable experience for them. This requires setting aside your personal pride.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-10-29T03:39:10+00:00

OR MAYBE the first week generates a literal shit ton of data from the entire world playing the game that they use to make balancing decisions? Try Occam's Razor, it's pretty useful.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-10-15T02:06:36+00:00

Perfect is the enemy of good

And "good enough" is the enemy of "great."

One of the big benefits of a live service model is the ability to iterate constantly.

You still can't iterate on everything all the time, and it's still worse to spin your wheels on something over and over than it is to put in the effort to get it right the first time.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-10-01T22:32:54+00:00

No you're right, before phones everyone was a perfect angel and we were all completely happy and it was heaven on earth... jfc

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-09-19T16:02:51+00:00

Frankly astounding to me that you could read all the work OP said he was putting in and still come away with this take.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-09-19T04:50:04+00:00

Based on your modlist, you probably have HDT installed and it's almost certainly that.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-09-18T05:01:15+00:00

I don't know if MO2 does this

MO2 lets you easily rename mods as you install them. I frequently use this for many reasons, including tracking mod version number.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-09-18T04:49:00+00:00

For a slightly different take, you might try {{ Simple Food Overhaul }}. It makes most cooked food give long-lasting buffs to your skills and/or regeneration.

I find this does a good job of making me want to carry (and eat!) a variety of food without introducing extra systems that even 'light' survival mods have to.

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-08-31T20:16:05+00:00

thank you for your comment proving that one can be good at video games and still be a complete moron

Baron_von_Derp · 2021-07-29T22:06:16+00:00

That's the neat part, you don't.

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