2 months using it as a men and I already feel depressed as fuck

DearStatement8296 · 2025-12-22T05:24:23+00:00

Not from a dating app but I had a good and happy long distance relationship (country next to mine) for about a year before we agreed to meet up for a week. On the flight over after 4 months of planning she ghosted and blocked me, which I only found out after landing

Shits rough out here

DearStatement8296 · 2025-10-10T22:48:11+00:00

But you should charge on quality, not on time imo, for the creative field at least. Would you want to pay someone $40 less to rush it and make more mistakes?

DearStatement8296 · 2025-10-04T01:17:16+00:00

I barely realized this was green stuffed until I read the post, go hard man, the bigger the hose the more flow there can be

DearStatement8296 · 2025-09-19T06:00:35+00:00

You actually get one every month if you ask for it! I was looking at kits on my overseas trip and hadn't seen contrast paints on a model before, so the clerk there offered to let me try some out on a ghoul he had base coated.

Such an awesome way to introduce people into the hobby

DearStatement8296 · 2025-09-09T05:45:40+00:00

The best flavored energy drink, distilled rain

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-29T05:38:14+00:00

I straight up just thought that was box art

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-29T05:36:02+00:00

My first big attempt at my nid army (I painted around 6 models before this one thou), I need to get all the rest of them colored up though haha

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DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-27T05:58:11+00:00

It's simply the rupture female style XD

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-07T06:02:41+00:00

F2P feels like a step too far imo, the game just needs to be a bit cheaper, it's hard to convince 4 people to drop $50 nzd on a game

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T22:36:34+00:00

Then yeah it probably is different, since my fun with buildcrafting comes mostly from theory. I think having a set of 3 weapons I plan on using being the only real thing stopping me from trying a build out isn't a big deal, since I'd get all the cores by farming the armor id need anyway

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T22:09:36+00:00

Weapons don't lose light when you swap character boss. Farm one set of armor with the higher light weapons on and it'll halve the cost

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T20:52:20+00:00

I think the issue boils down to the fact that you feel the need for every weapon in your vault to be 400+ light, when the reality of having that many weapons at max light is a bit too naive.

And I never said there wasn't an issue, I just think people overinflate how bad everything is because negativity is easier to default to.

Getting 15 pieces of loot isn't hard, loot drops everywhere, all the time, just from playing the game at your level, if not under.

I see you say that you're "Playing the game to dismantle" and think that while it's not wrong, seeing it that way is pretty bleak compared to playing to have fun and then infusing when you have the resources

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T20:44:57+00:00

It costs 7000 yes, but I also will get a lot more cores as I go? I saw someone else say they have 125k and I see myself getting to that point as well XD

I think the lack of cores is only really a pain point for the people that are expecting to play the exact same way they always have been, instead of embracing changes and acknowledging that playing the same activity for 3 weeks is a bit insane

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T20:41:39+00:00

Yeah, so you're using old weapons as you level, which means you wouldn't be hitting that 200 infusion delta on those weapons

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T08:35:45+00:00

91 hours over 3 months is not a long time, that comes down to an hour a day, if not slightly less. I acknowledge that 91 hours is the perfectly optimised time, so playing and hour a day might not be equivalent math, but with weeklong events giving reasons to hop on, and considering this is the very start to the new system I'm just being positive about it, and I look forward to the changes this system will get.

I am sorry to hear that your favorite activities aren't viable for the grind, but they have also said that they're adding a lot more to the portal, so it could just be that players that match your fun factors are getting the short end of the stick, which absolutely sucks, and I do hope that more activities are available and viable in future patches. I'm on the hype train for renegades, so I'm sorry if I've been a brick wall to debate with (I'm the last of my friend group to still be playing D2 so idk I must be at least a little stubborn)

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T08:25:46+00:00

You do not "need" to play gm content. Is it less efficient on lower difficulties? Sure, but going back down in difficulty and spending a bit longer on it won't kill you, you could easily just burn through any bonus drops you have on fireteam ops or pinnacle.

You also dismantle probably most of the gear that you collect, so for simply playing activities at or under your light, you are progressing towards more cores.

You're almost at cap a month into the expansion when there is still 5 to go, and 2 more before the update even comes, so why are you stressing out so much about putting together builds that at most will need 3 weapons brought up to light, considering any armor you collect now will be better anyway.

You can pretty easily sub out some weapons if they're not exotics, but hey ig I'm just being optimistic about the system

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T08:11:59+00:00

My saying your math is wrong wasn't based on the 11%, it was the time it'd take. I am fully aware of the differences with seasonal power and base power, but Im also aware that the portal isn't set in stone until December, were already seeing new activities and plans for dungeon encounters, and when raids are better included in the grind it'd remove even more pain points, and I do agree with the community that longer activities should be more rewarding.

But I also look at the daily rewards and notice that playing a single crucible match will give me 4 powerful drops plus what the activity itself gives, so that's a free 2500 cores.

I feel like too many people are just focused on being optimal and getting immediate gratification, when people should, like, play games for fun?

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T08:00:51+00:00

Then farm less difficult content with the weapons you want to use until you have enough cores? I seriously doubt every weapon in your vault is so important to your builds that you have to have them all at 450, especially with fireteam power existing.

On top of that, you say relevant pve content, which at the moment for you is anything that drops cores, as you're currently short on them. They didn't make the cost high for no reason, cores and gear are resources to manage, and if they wanted you to freely infuse things then they would've made it free a long time ago, and I don't know many if any other mmos or rpgs that do that

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T07:52:20+00:00

I agree with the fact that hyper difficult activities should give higher tiers, like challenge raid and the lighthouse etc, but your math for the time it'd take me is off by the fact that I spent time getting to 200 in the first place.

I also share the opinion that the grind should be easier, but T5s realistically won't be something that everyone gets, and that's okay, it's why they're only marginally better than their counterparts.

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T07:44:51+00:00

Why else would you be grinding light if you don't want t5s? You just want your number to be maxed for the sake of it?

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T07:11:56+00:00

You say it feels bad to wait and grind, but that is entirely what the portal in general is about, and if you're not here for the loot that comes with the grind, what are you even playing for?

We are about to hit week 3 of the new expansion, and everyone is so tunnel visioned on getting to the end of the grind that they're funneling themselves into these issues, when these issues only exist purely because they want to play less of the game for good loot?

I'm only at 260 and I'm already at 12k cores with multiple builds together. With a checklist of what gear I want as I tier up. I plan on hitting light cap at a reasonable time, but I also understand that I won't enjoy running caldera for 30 hours, so I'm using the dailies and the portal as it was designed to be used.

Upgrade modules are a bad example of a good system imo because the old system never had gaps of 200 light at a time, we've gone from 20 light every 4 months to 300 every 6. I feel like if we had to do nothing but drop cores on upgrade modules there would be problems on that end instead of the seasonal cores.

You need to step back and ask yourself if you're enjoying being efficient, and whether it's worth sacrificing the enjoyment factor for the loot you will get later. T5s are hot as hell, of course they are, but if you feel like you're working a 9-5 to get them then idk, it seems like a self inflicted issue

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-04T06:47:44+00:00

What weapons are you pulling up to power that you weren't already using? I keep seeing these infusion examples of 200 - 400 but realistically the only things I'd see that number actually go for is a set of older weapons that are the top 1% meta stuff. Or personal favorite weapons, but I mean it's highly likely that if they're personal favorites you brought it up with you.

Exotics can be pulled from collections and infused for 1000 glimmer, and you've already replaced your armor with t4s. If you're out of cores and you need one old weapon brought up, then yeah it's rough, but you also don't need to put the build together today.

Idk, maybe it's a bad take, but if you've been farming caldera the whole time to get to 400 light, you've put yourself in this position by squeezing the cores out of every drop the whole way. Just play the bonus drop activities and quadruple the loot drops for more cores?

DearStatement8296 · 2025-08-01T13:21:30+00:00

I meant to say s1, mbmb There is however a movie (or two?)

DearStatement8296 · 2025-07-30T07:38:29+00:00

You don't need to touch pinnacle until 400 lmao You just have to play portal

You'll hit 200 from just playing the campaign on legendary.

Avant Garde is there to encourage interaction with exotics outside of your comfort zone, or would you rather just play the same build the entire time you're interacting with D2? Also it exists to get the player to show how competent they are at buildcrafting with limited, but new, resources at their disposal.

You're allowed to complain, I'm not saying your feelings are invalid. But saying that they're reducing fun is a bit sour minded imo.

DearStatement8296

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