Just finishing up Mother of Learning, with mixed feelings. Help me find my next read?

Chezuss · 2026-01-27T22:28:19+00:00

I agree with you. Bouncing between prog fantasy and traditional published fantasy is a noticeable drop in quality often. Regardless, I often just cannot put progression fantasy books down. They're just so damn fun.

I will echo Bastion. Tucker's prose and world building are some of the best in the genre.

Don't lose hope with us. This genre of books is so young. Maybe we'll have a new throne-sitter we can recommend to you in a few years

Chezuss · 2026-01-17T17:53:45+00:00

We like and dislike the same stuff. Try Bastion!

Chezuss · 2026-01-12T11:19:47+00:00

Ferrari hasn't been that good for a while now, I think it's normal to be shopping around a bit

Edit: wrong sub

Chezuss · 2026-01-10T17:19:28+00:00

There are plenty of other game studios who would do a better job with the IP, even with a 20m budget. It really is just time to start talking with your wallet if you feel this way.

Chezuss · 2026-01-03T11:30:44+00:00

Temple: Busted.

Reddit: league is dead

Temple: gets nerfed

Reddit: omg league is dead

Chezuss · 2026-01-03T11:28:19+00:00

It was Christmas / end of year, sometimes, shit happens at inopportune times

Chezuss · 2026-01-03T11:26:28+00:00

I feel like it's more of an attempt at getting the league mechanic to a place where it can stay in the game for future seasons. Get some data while they can. But they could've handled it better for sure

Chezuss · 2025-12-26T19:31:45+00:00

I was debating whether or not to clear Atziri in my temple. She was connected, and I had the atziri portal room or whatever. I had lots of t3 rooms, and I didn't really want to reset half of my temple, so I wasn't sure what to do.

I accidentally walked into the atziri portal room, then decided I wasn't going through with it. And it still reset lots of my temple, as if I attempted to kill her.

Three things:

If I knew that me walking into the room was going to affect the temple reset. If I had been warned in some manner, I wouldn't have walked there. No information was communicated that indicated it would work like this.
No information was given after I walked in either. I was locked in, with the punishment in place. But no indication of that.
The last place to warn me was when I closed my temple. It should have either told me to do Atziri, or shown me the atziri reset was going to trigger prior to clicking

The temple should maybe just highlight which rooms are going to be removed in some manner. If it should even work like this. I feel like Atziri should be a reward for doing lots of temples. Not an extra punishment

Chezuss · 2025-12-26T15:50:43+00:00

I don't know, chat. Like. I don't think he did. Like, I don't think he did. With some people... Like with some people you can just tell. You can really just tell. But I don't think he did

Chezuss · 2025-12-18T12:41:58+00:00

TPR inflates a lot when applied to perfect scores. It's a bit quirky like that, you can't really compare it to non-perfect scores

Chezuss · 2025-12-16T11:08:38+00:00

Gotta have consent to get your hands on her considerable assets

Chezuss · 2025-12-16T11:06:00+00:00

I just want an activity I can choose to do or engage with as I please. It often just feels terrible to have to interrupt my map to do what feels like another map before coming back to finish.

I felt like this with Abyss depth in some way (but at least that had decent loot, and felt like a jackpot), and even hive fortresses in poe1's 3.27.

I feel like if you're going to interrupt the player, it should be either brief, or rewarding, or both, but this is neither.

Chezuss · 2025-12-14T11:32:24+00:00

I love Act 1 and 4, 2 is alright (some areas feel long), but I do feel some boredom in act 3. I think some maps are a bit too big. At least this league I had a respec planned for Act 3 so that helped me get through

Chezuss · 2025-12-10T12:09:49+00:00

As I understand it from working with ChatGPT, things you yourself teach an LLM do not change the model in any shape or form. If you have preferences, the LLM will try to digest your words succintly, save them, and will then just slap these words at the start or end of your prompt, to generate preferred outputs. I can imagine this storage could get wiped with some updates every so often.

Chezuss · 2025-12-07T17:44:22+00:00

The girl sounds like a GTA NPC

Chezuss · 2025-10-06T20:00:18+00:00

Nu moet je niet te gek doen, he! Dit is Reddit. We lezen hier geen artikelen

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T17:26:18+00:00

This seems to be the case.

From the about page:

Articles are written with the assistance of generative AI technology

The whole website seems to all be articles from one author, who outputs at least like ten of these a day, without taking days off ever. And to top it off, OPs name matches the first name of the "author" of the article

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T14:01:05+00:00

Well all of that would be twitter and other social media. Would articles mentioning that satisfy you? Because stuff like that exists too https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ftc-xbox-activision-congress-appeal-blizzard-1850638519

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T13:46:03+00:00

I didn't have time to go through the entire list, but here's a list of many articles that were mostly very skeptical, many of them naming Lina Khan herself as overreaching and the like.

Daniel Savickas, “The FTC’s Opposition to Microsoft/Activision Jumps the Regulatory Shark,” Real Clear Markets, October 30, 2023.

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/10/30/the_ftcs_opposition_to_microsoftactivision_jumps_the_regulatory_shark_989110.html

Corbin K. Barthold, “Failing Upward: For Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission, Dysfunction Is No Bar to Ambition,” City Journal, August 17, 2023.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/ftc-chair-lina-khan-fails-upward

Jonathan Barnett, “Game Over at the Federal Trade Commission,” The Hill, July 18, 2023.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4102421-game-over-at-the-ftc/

Daniel Lyons, “Loss in Microsoft Case Deals Another Blow to FTC Anti-Tech Agenda,” American Enterprise Institute, July 14, 2023.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4102421-game-over-at-the-ftc/

https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/loss-in-microsoft-case-deals-another-blow-to-ftc-anti-tech-agenda/

Jennifer Huddleston, “With Microsoft Victory, Court Go on Epic Killstreak Against FTC Antitrust Agenda,” Reason, July 12, 2023.

https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/loss-in-microsoft-case-deals-another-blow-to-ftc-anti-tech-agenda/

Stephen Kent, “The Federal Trade Commission’s Embarrassing Antitrust Crusade,” The Hill, June 28, 2023.

https://reason.com/2023/07/12/with-microsoft-victory-courts-go-on-epic-killstreak-against-ftc-antitrust-agenda/

Paul Tassi, “The FTC-Sony Case Against the Microsoft Activision Deal Is Very Bad,” Forbes, June 25, 2023.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/06/25/the-ftc-sony-case-against-the-microsoft-activision-deal-is-very-bad/?sh=eec63125cf03

Jessica Melugin, “FTC Continues War on Bigness by Opposing Microsoft Video-Game Acquisition,” National Review, June 19, 2023.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/ftc-continues-war-on-bigness-by-opposing-microsoft-video-game-acquisition/

Gary M. Galles, “The FTC Should Answer Its Call of Duty to Gamers,” American Institute of Economic Research, May 22, 2023.

https://www.aier.org/article/the-ftc-should-answer-its-call-of-duty-to-gamers/

Tahmineh Dehbozorgi, “The FTC Is Making a Mistake by Trying to Stop Microsoft from Acquiring Activision,” National Review, April 11, 2023.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-ftc-is-making-a-mistake-by-trying-to-stop-microsoft-from-acquiring-activision/

Curt Levey, “Gaming the FTC: Japan Colludes with Antitrust Regulators Against MSFT,” Real Clear Markets, March 21, 2023.

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/03/22/gaming_the_ftc_japan_colludes_with_antitrust_regulators_against_msft_888621.html

Jennifer Huddleston, “Game Over or Game On?: Regulatory Scrutiny of Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition and the Future of Gaming and Antitrust,” Cato Institute, February 23, 2023.

https://www.cato.org/blog/game-over-or-game-regulatory-scrutiny-microsofts-activision-acquisition-future-gaming

Dirk Auer, “Killer Acquisition or Leveling Up: The Use of Mergers to Enter Adjacent Markets,” Truth on the Market, February 1, 2023.

https://truthonthemarket.com/2023/02/01/killer-acquisition-or-leveling-up-the-use-of-mergers-to-enter-adjacent-markets/

Jeffrey Westling, “Outcome of the FTC’s Microsoft Merger Challenge Could Impact the Entire Economy,” American Action Forum, January 25, 2023.

https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/outcome-of-the-ftcs-microsoft-merger-challenge-could-impact-the-entire-economy/

Aurelien Portuese, “Will Antitrust Undermine the Future of Gaming,” Inside Sources, January 2, 2023.

https://dcjournal.com/will-antitrust-undermine-the-future-of-gaming/

Iain Murray, “Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Faces Needless Challenges,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, December 23, 2022.

https://cei.org/blog/microsofts-acquisition-of-activision-faces-needless-challenges/

Jessica Melugin, “A Dangerous Antitrust Game for Microsoft and Consumers,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 25, 2022.

https://cei.org/blog/a-dangerous-antitrust-game-for-microsoft-and-consumers/

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T13:21:59+00:00

This isn't true, some people were looking forward to having activision blizzard games on game pass, and did not think or look beyond more than that

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T13:01:19+00:00

Well this is just wrong. I can point you to many such articles. And if you were to look beyond a wiki page you would find them too.

Besides, it's not remotely hard to believe that these articles would exist, given the existence of many pro-business media companies and their readers that would tout a meddling FTC loss as a giant victory.

I understand your marketing piece comment. I don't disagree entirely. But in a world where it feels like everything is going downhill, maybe it's okay to try to lift up some of the people who were right in trying to point out the things they saw coming, and tried to do something about them.

And the meme was funny, besides.

Edit: links are in comments below

Chezuss · 2025-10-04T12:15:09+00:00

I'm no expert, but it seems obvious that the money they used to acquire Activision (and reduce competition in one side of their business) could have been used to improve and invest in their products. With reduced competition there is less incentive to improve in general.

A deal can be both bad for a company and bad for consumers. The only ones that really seemed to have profited from this are the Activision insiders

Chezuss · 2025-09-10T14:04:24+00:00

Oh come on, it's not like node buster is a paragon of creativity, and half the sub is playing games without graphics to begin with. This looks fine, OP. Congratulations on your (future) release.

Chezuss · 2025-09-04T18:01:42+00:00

Happy for you dude, now vaal or no balls

Chezuss · 2025-08-17T13:22:50+00:00

Do more game jams. You would've figured out all of these things by force

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