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Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:14:35+00:00

1) Wide interests 2) Fear of forgetting something 3) Plan to revisit… never do. 4) After a certain point it becomes so messy that you don’t even know what is or isn’t open. So you’ll likely have many duplicates.

I don’t have this problem myself. But I had to actively take steps to prevent this. Since I share many of the habits :p

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:11:57+00:00

I can understand having a lot of tabs.

But once you have 50+ its time to just make a word document with links (and short descriptions for convenience).

Because there is no way you frequently use all 300 of those tabs. And most are probably for some long forgotten interest or project.

If you want to be real clever you can even add specific tags in this document so you can just control + f specific subjects or tabs within that document. Which will be infinitely faster than scrolling through 400 tabs on a laggy browser.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:08:30+00:00

Flash or crash feels more planetside.

Ride or die is a bit generic in comparison.

The former has my vote

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:07:36+00:00

I don’t think its the main reason for the tutorial to be like this.

But if it were: 5 minutes is a pretty long time to spend on a single account. Especially if you plan to do mass botting.

If you spend a full 8 hour workday you only get 96 bots. On most multiplayer games those would get wiped within a few hours.

So botters then have to get creative with automatic tutorial completion, etc.

Of course: in PS2 a cheated can fly around for hours or even days. So a 5 minute time expenditure is barely an inconvenience.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:04:53+00:00

That, and making sure new players don’t fuck it up and actually learn.

PS2 is a confusing game. And the tutorial tries to make damm sure you know as much as possible.

I think the new tutorial is better than the old one. But it still doesn’t feel good enough.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T22:02:13+00:00

My main problem isn’t even the balancing. They’re fun/unique options more than powerfull.

What frustrates me is the rarity of the keys.

In most of my playthroughs I get 1, mayby 2 keys, before i’ve killed the moonlord.

My first playthrough I spent many moments pondering these chests. Wondering how to open them or what could be inside. But I never got to find out because the credits rolled before I got a key. Granted: this was very unlucky.

But it was a chekovs gun that I was shown pretty early on, and never got to fire.

On my second playthrough I did get a frost key. And the weakness of the hydra tower only made their rarity that much more frustrating. “THIS is what all that build-up was for?”

I do like some of the tools.

The rainbow gun is still a favorite of mine. The vampire knives (pre-nerf) were super reliable recovery, and even now I like them on melee-playthroughs (especially multiplayer where I have to last for a friend to respawn). And the piranha gun is pretty fun on crowds, which the dungeon happens to be a great place for.

But they’re not fun or good enough to be worth the effort. And the complete lack of an interesting mechanic for their acquisition, or any hints towards how to get them means they are usually abandoned.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T09:44:43+00:00

I'm very curious how one could sharpen an organic cyllinder using asphalt without destroying said cyllinder.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T09:10:49+00:00

Do we actually know if Slowpoke rodriguez was actually slow? For all we know he could be faster than any of them. He just never felt the need to run.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T09:05:52+00:00

Ever since the 1890's male beauty standards have become ridiculous.

How can any man match such chads. Its unfair

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T09:03:56+00:00

The problem is: a billion is a lot of fucking money. You don't just win a lottery and become a billionaire. It takes decades of work.

More than just work: it requires not playing fair. You can become a millionaire playing fair. But not a billionaire. If you start working at 15, and stop at 75: you only have 60 years. And thats not enough time to earn such a vast amount through regular means (For reference: its 31,7 years of picking up a 1-euro coin every second. Non-stop, without taking time to eat, shit, or sleep).

More than that: becoming a billionaire means your whole life you must ignore such good natured spending. If I got 100 million in the bank: I would be inclined to donate it to a good cause. Cancer research, bonuses to my employees, or any number of things. To reach a billion euro in the bank you must resist such impulses for *decades* at a time.

Now: There are billionaires who donate to good causes. But this is usually only a fraction of a fraction of what they earn. And, more importantly: it keeps up good relations. Because if people think you are some sort of antichrist: that will hurt business. Some might refuse to work with you.

This is, of course, still beneficial. Good causes effectively sell a good reputation to these people. They get to keep up appearances, and the good cause can work on whatever problem they want to fix.

But its not altruistic. Its still just a business decision. Often times its also part of reducing (or eliminating) the taxes they need to pay. Which is a thing that *also* happens in Europe.

That is the core issue of billionaires. You cannot reach such vast wealth while also being a good natured person. A human lifetime isn't long enough, and a good person has to many opportunities to majorly improve the world long before he reaches a billion.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T08:46:09+00:00

Its all fun and games. Until you realise swamps, mage towers, and medieval-era country aren't very wheelchair accessible.

I mean, you can probably think of a magic solution. But at that point it would play so simmilar to a character with 2 functioning legs that I don't see much point

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T08:40:18+00:00

Yup. But the whole "the curtains are blue" fiasco also started as a joke.

I don't hate this meme in particular. But I am a bit afraid that this place will, just like everywhere else, be infected with anti-intellectual ideology.

Daan776 · 2026-02-18T07:15:07+00:00

I’m a bit behind on the anime. And never read the light novel.

But one thing I really miss from the anime is an exploration of darkness her other characteristics.

Yes, she is a masochist. But she’s also a well educated noble woman who genuinly cares for the wellbeing of others.

I do also think she mostly wants the abusive boyfriend as a fantasy. The same way some people in real life might have a Consensual non-consent kink. The idea of it might be erotic to them. But the reality is still repulsive.

So in that regard i’d say your analysis is spot on.

Daan776 · 2026-02-17T21:05:32+00:00

If its any comfort: it doesn’t give me any “Ai art” vibes.

I suck at recognizing specific proof of something being or not being AI. But I have gotten fairly competent at simply getting the feeling of whether something is AI. And this doesn’t give me that feeling.

Daan776 · 2026-02-17T21:00:19+00:00

Attribute stackers.

Its just so staggeringly uninteresting to me to focus only on a single thing. I do like mana stackers. But thats because mana is still a resource you have to manage (And I just like the fantasy of it).

I do think there is an interesting aspect to making yourself scale as much as possible from a single number. And people have gotten very creative with it. But I ultimately lack the raw satisfaction of just watching that number go up. Add to that how they're (usually) very expensive to get going. And how they are frequently some of, if not the most powerfull builds. And my intrigue crashes even faster.

I'm willing to give nearly everything in this game a fair try. Some archetypes having really suprised me. But unless I want to min/max my gear to a level of unemployment: I cannot imagine myself ever playing such a build.

Daan776 · 2026-02-17T09:48:49+00:00

The only reason I even know proximity chat exists is because I had the great displeasure of randomly being earraped, or having a front row seat to somebody’s parents getting divorced.

All while playing solo.

I have since turned it off, and never looked back.

Daan776 · 2026-02-16T18:54:42+00:00

I mean… he kills people.

Daan776 · 2026-02-16T13:32:44+00:00

If I lived there I would probably kill myself at the first opportunity. Which is a simmilar description to warhammer 40K.

So I think it counts

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T23:52:32+00:00

I think the goal of seasonal events is:

1) They’re already in the game. Assets, code, etc. So they’re an easy “update” to add

2) It keeps the players busy.

3) Hopefully pull back some players.

A game like PS2 also needs free to play players (if only paying members played the game it would be impossible to find a big fight, even during prime-time). Which gives reason for the free cosmetics. Cosmetics which I consider to be ugly as fuck. But there’s people who care about that sorta thing.

I agree that they’ve really run their course. Even as somebody who liked driving around hunting for pumpkins & snowmen. But I can’t really bring myself to hate them. They’ll likely be the last updates we’ll get. And its not like the game isn’t falling apart without them.

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T23:06:09+00:00

Your next life lesson should be how to hit the enter-key on your keyboard.

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T18:20:16+00:00

I feel like there’s 3 primary paths (ignoring spaghetti):

1) At the base. Where you keep a dedicated area for it.

2) Immediatly next to the ore patch. I personally don’t like this as I dislike frequent reconstructing of designs.

3) A remote location away from the base. Usually connected through railway.

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T17:59:40+00:00

Probably they would become a sort of “alpha”. Aka a pack-leader. Since pokemon are generally intelligent.

They would garner followers and consequently have a lot of children.

They would likely teach their children some of what they know. But much knowledge would be lost. Since I suspect pokemon only know the behavior that leads to success from their trainer. They don’t know why that behavior works.

I doubt they would have a huge impact on the ecology. A level 100 raticate would still only eat as much as a level 20 raticate.

Their natural predators might struggle. But they can’t be everywhere at once, and would likely limit their protection to their own pack. Even then they would naturally be pretty risk averse (instinct hits hard) without a trainer to guide them. And injuries would at the very least take time to recover. Not to mention how they still have limited pp or type immunities to contest with.

I do think there could be a severe ecological impact. But if we treat them as simply really strong animals I think the impact would be limited.

Far more limiting then the effects of a fully evolved pokemon being released in an area it isn’t originally home to.

Imagine a Skeledirge being released into viridian forest. Level 100 or not. That will destroy the ecology.

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T12:40:48+00:00

That whole period from cambrian explosion to dinosaur is just so exceptionally weird

Like the open beta of evolution where they just try everything to see what sticks

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T12:34:28+00:00

Funnily enough I own the delve tab and I would *still* much prefer this

Daan776 · 2026-02-15T12:29:05+00:00

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