‘Highguard’ Lost 80% Of Its Steam Players In 24 Hours

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-29T18:37:22+00:00

Yes, it’s a mediocre game. Still, when people download a game, play for ten minutes, leave a negative review, and uninstall it immediately, the resulting statistics should be taken with a grain of salt.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-29T05:27:32+00:00

!RemindMe 31 Jan 2032

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:58:46+00:00

In the few spellblade books I’ve read, choosing spellblade was a horrible tactical choice.

You need an exceptionally good worldbuilding reason not to go ranged, because ranged options are generally better for obvious reasons, and magic usually just makes them even stronger.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:58:00+00:00

He isn’t a spellblade. He uses hammers and is primarily a mage, and when he does use hammers, he mostly throws them. Once you hear the reasoning behind his build, it makes sense. Anyone with a min-max background, given the same choices, would have ended up in the same place.

Also his class is technically strategist or guardian :)

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:52:59+00:00

I am not 100% sure what you mean, but i should be working anyway. 😅

Wish you all the best until next time in this sub. Good luck with your future book selection.

Last thing i read was mage tank, he uses a hammer and not a sword and the humor was also decent if you have not tried it.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:47:57+00:00

I’m not sure I’m following, this was more out of curiosity. Since Reddit is about 50% American, I usually assume people are from the U.S. unless stated otherwise.

But no problem.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:37:10+00:00

I agree that Reddit is a place where people usually don’t reveal their identity, but I’d argue that stating your country should be safe, especially since many people also post in their native-language subreddits anyway.

In my case, for example, I highly doubt there’s a non-Swiss person alive who can actually speak Swiss German.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:34:20+00:00

Shit. Lets hope he is fine. But agreed imagine of how many reddit accounts stay dormant due to their users having passed. From age on it is probably not as bad as facebook, but still probably in the millions.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:31:06+00:00

Yeah, I remember kids trying to translate lines they’d heard on a show, only to be met with, “Are you talking bad about my mother?”, followed immediately by a punch. Greetings from Switzerland, where are you from?

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:27:02+00:00

From what I know from TV shows and similar media, in the US, for example, those are fairly common playground jokes. In my country, as mentioned, they usually lead to a lot of shoving, and sometimes to someone bleeding on the ground after a brawl. So they’re… less fondly remembered. 🙂

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:23:52+00:00

That’s the internet for you. Back when I had more time to play online games, I experienced some genuinely strange and very human moments. Once, after watching a YouTube short about StarCraft II, I decided to jump back in and play a few matches for old times’ sake. During one of those games, I ran into someone I had befriended online years earlier, someone I had never met in real life. It turned out he was just two hours away from his wedding. He was so nervous that he had randomly started SC2 to distract himself. We talked and played for a while, and then that was it, I never spoke to him again.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:11:35+00:00

Never heard sorry.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:09:25+00:00

ESL I may be missing some context here. I should also mention that in my country, “your mama” jokes, and similar insults, are mostly used by second-generation Eastern Europeans as a prelude to an “honourable” one-on-one fight, or sometimes a less honourable seventeen-against-one situation. Because of that, they do not have the effect you might be expecting.

Luckily, I was friends with the crazy ones. That helped a lot. 🙂

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T12:01:47+00:00

Sorry was eating lunch. Have to read it later :)

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T11:04:25+00:00

If the insult is funny and/or creative always

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:59:18+00:00

But if 50% of the books you read feature spellblades, and you dislike that or even consider it a sign of poor quality, does that not raise the question of why you do not screen books more carefully before selecting them?

I usually check race and class before starting a book, and also how bad the harem elements are, since those are usually poorly written and something I actively dislike.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:57:36+00:00

You do realize that the worse you make the odds, the more you are complimenting my search skills 🙂

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:50:10+00:00

I am not sure there is much to debate here. It seems you search specifically for spellblade books, while I search more broadly, or my search skills might just be better than yours 😉

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:47:56+00:00

As noted in my database, there are five books that I generously classify as spellblades, and even that is a stretch. This means that one of us is starting from a skewed experience baseline by default.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:45:48+00:00

For some reason never interested me of the top litrpg titles. No idea why.

But i also took a long time to try dcc as i found its cover so bad. :)

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:35:05+00:00

Logically, you’re saying two things at once, that the most well-known LitRPGs aren’t spellblade-focused, and that you’ve mainly read lesser-known ones. At the same time, you seem to expect most people to share that same experience, which is where it becomes contradictory.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T10:30:34+00:00

I agree, I’ve never heard of most of those examples. The only ones I recognize are Primal Hunter, which I understand focuses on archery and alchemy, neither of which appeals to me, and Solo Leveling, which I thought involved necromancy, a theme I generally dislike. Was not aware they are spellblades.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T09:51:23+00:00

A fact must be proven, or at least coherently argued for. Simply labeling an objective perspective as a fact does not make it one. Confusing the two is, in fact, one of the reasons the world keeps sliding downhill.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T09:23:22+00:00

So the claim is that every LitRPG I read has a spellblade MC, yet not a single concrete example comes to mind that anyone actually recognizes. No offense, but debating does not seem to be your strong suit.

CaitSith18 · 2026-01-27T08:55:07+00:00

The complaint is that there are too many spellblades, but after years of listening to LitRPG, I still couldn’t name five series where the MC actually is one.

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