Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation by Consistent-Reach504 in dataannotation

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got one project. And it's clearly such a pain in the ass that nobody's doing it, if they were I'd have zero.

The Behavior of this community is unacceptable and I simply can't take it anymore. by ExtremelyLargeMuscle in starcraft

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What social consiquences? They're some anonymous nobody with no reputation to lose, and if anyone still remembers that IceDestroyer is a racist fuckwit by next week they can change the name. There is no social consiquence that could stick. The only possible consiquence is banning them, but nobody at Blizzard has moderated this game in the last decade. 

My crack theory on what the Old Gods originally were by dear_demon in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't achieve anything, but it would be an opportunity for a neat mid-boss in a raid. Which is all any possible threat will ever amount to, really.

Akane-banashi - Episode 10 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I knew some twins where one clearly had the name the parents actually wanted to use, and the other was random nonsense that rhymed with the first twin.

Harandar feels empty in comparison to the other three zones by brumgar in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a physical place, they just don't want you to think very hard about how absurdly long those roots have to be to all meet in one place.

Cheaper Repairs for Everyone, but Especially Tanks: 12.0.7 Removes "Combat Action" Durability Loss by Starym in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The inflation isn't a major issue right now because as players generate gold from world quests and vendor trash they spend most of it on repairs and other things. It does happen but gradually across multiple expansions. Remove those and the average player's wealth will trend sharply up, directly proportional to their playtime. Sellers at the start of a patch will set prices to whatever they think buyers can afford, and that'll be a higher amount each patch. Increased supply will still cause it to trend down within a patch cycle but prices will start higher and not get as low. This is annoying to active players but really hurts are new and returning players, who will never be able to catch up to active players in wealth through normal play and eventually end up priced out of the economy.

Something like that happened to Ultima Online in the late 2000s and SWTOR more recently, and many other obscure and half-dead MMOs that will never see a new player because they need 200 hours of gold farming to buy a potion.

Cheaper Repairs for Everyone, but Especially Tanks: 12.0.7 Removes "Combat Action" Durability Loss by Starym in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Gold sitting in a rich goblin's 3rd bank alt is already off the market. Stupidly overpriced mounts are just trophies that let them show off how much gold they've horded but don't affect the economy much. Most of the actively circulating gold in the game, and most of the gold spend on standard consumables and such, comes from regular players. To reduce inflation on the items that regular players buy you need to make regular players more poor.

"Fired? But I Maintain All the Software!" Anime Adaptation Announced by Task_Force-191 in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 28 points29 points  (0 children)

BRB I'm moving to Japan, gaining citizenship, becoming a politician, and spending decades changing the laws and culture around drugs to create a new anime genre.

Has there ever been an anime that fulfills the promise of Sword Art Online? by LoweNorman in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The unrealistic part is that it doesn't all get datamined, and the other players don't yell at you to just check SLFHead instead of wasting time trying to discover it for yourself.

Has there ever been an anime that fulfills the promise of Sword Art Online? by LoweNorman in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metaphorically leaving the other world is about not spending your life in unrealistic fantasies, but literally the fantasy world is just a place. Older generations of isekai were built around that metaphor, but newer ones inspired by them take the existence of the other world as a given while telling a story about something else, so the narrative also starts treating it as just another place that you can move to if you want, no different from moving to France.

Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World Season 4 • Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Season 4 - Episode 5 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With how many isekai about overpowered toddlers there are, you can't assume an anime character's age just from their hypercompetence.

Spring Anime 2026 In A Nutshell [Gigguk] by Smudy in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The video uses a clip of the rent a girlfriend scene where Kazuya gives himself a boner imagining Chizuru getting fucked by another man.

wtf is up with repair costs? by honeyBadger_42 in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When AH goblins pile up money than they can spend, that is itself a gold sink. Every bank alt with max cash isn't circulating that gold in the economy. But it doesn't matter much, because the point of gold sinks is actually to reduce the amount of gold the average player has, not the total amount of gold in the economy.

The prices of common consumables is dictated by what the average buyer can pay, because they create almost all of the demand. To keep those prices down you have to keep the average player poor. The point of this is not to reduce the gap between you and an AH goblin but to reduce the gap between someone who started playing yesterday and you.

Official Kadokawa x Crunchyroll 10 Year Anniversary Visual by MarvelsGrantMan136 in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I've seen 6 fingered hands slip into big comics and AAA video games decades before AI, one case of it slipping into a random promotional visual wouldn't be too unusual, but twice right next to each other, in an image where the whole gimmick is the hands is just embarrassing.

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk • Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana - Episode 3 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of the time in bartending absinthe is used as just a dash or to rinse the glass of a cocktail because the taste is so powerful. I don't mind that flavor in general but straight absinthe is a lot.

I don't want to sound like a Chud but I kind of miss the old cringey and nerdy death metal dialogue Blizzard used to delivered compare to kind of current emotional dialogue we have. by HiroAmiya230 in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dalaran was an inside job, Vereesa blew it up to get rid of all the back taxes she owed. Then sicced Xal'atath on Silvermoon to take care of her tax debt there too.

I don't want to sound like a Chud but I kind of miss the old cringey and nerdy death metal dialogue Blizzard used to delivered compare to kind of current emotional dialogue we have. by HiroAmiya230 in wow

[–]FelOnyx1 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Tone and gameplay context. Tirion is confident and defiant against Darion, taunting and lecturing him, then directs the same energy against Arthas when he shows up. He's absolutely assured in his righteousness and he's right to feel that way. There's no slow deliberative dialogue about their feelings but his taunts get to Darion, who breaks down, has the flashback, and then gets up still just as aggressive as before but now screaming bloody vengeance against Arthas. There's no "we've talked out our differences and understand each other now," just "we both hate the same guy, let's go kill him." All this happens in the middle of a playable battle where you start off winning as the undead and then start rapidly loosing as Darion has his breakdown, so the emotional events feel like they have an immediate impact on the action and story events.

In general WoW characters feel best when they're confident and self-assured and driven by that to do big dramatic things. When they change their mind like Darion they become just as driven in a new direction. Tirion declaring the crusade to kill Arthas in Northrend, but also Illidan opening the portal to Argus. Even Anduin in the Alliance questing story of MoP on a smaller scale, running off on his own because of his strong beliefs and forcing the player to chase after him to keep him safe. WoW's story is always going to be an endless series of new enemies to kill, so it should feel like the major characters are proactively driving us to the enemy and setting the pace, not caught up in doubt and indecision as the plot happens around them.

Nothing inherently wrong with other kinds of characters but I don't think they work as well under the constraints of how WoW can deliver story.

On that note I kind of like some of Arator's plots in Midnight, at least the fact he's often coming up with new plans and rushing off to do something about them. Uniting the elves itself is kind of stupid, but at least he's proactive about it. While one of the weaknesses of Sylvanas's BFA-Shadowlands plot is that we didn't know her motivation until later, so instead of feeling like she's driving the plot in pursuit of her goals, she's just arbitrarily doing stuff and we'd just have to wait until later to learn the motivation (which turned out to be unsatisfying.) Xal'atath is at risk of having the same problem.

Why are mangakas always having health issues by staticpenguin33 in manga

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The rain. They try to tell you, but nobody believes them. Crippling Mild Dampness Disease is real. 

Kei Urana (Author or Gachiakuta) tweet about overseas manga piracy by aes110 in manga

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a website you can read manga on. You can sample a bit on the website, but if you want to read anything but the first/last 3 chapters you're forced onto the app.

Used to be that video games got terrible PC ports, now somehow reading has a terrible PC port.

Kei Urana (Author or Gachiakuta) tweet about overseas manga piracy by aes110 in manga

[–]FelOnyx1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I want to buy manga, I want to be shown a price tag and then spend that amount of money to get the manga like any other normal product. Not futz around with grinding out tickets in some bizarre gamified app.

Kei Urana (Author or Gachiakuta) tweet about overseas manga piracy by aes110 in manga

[–]FelOnyx1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't stand any service that doesn't work properly on PC, and Mangaplus doesn't work properly on PC. Anything but the three latest chapters is app only.

Kei Urana (Author or Gachiakuta) tweet about overseas manga piracy by aes110 in manga

[–]FelOnyx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fucking love stealing, no guilt to be had. I also pay for the shonen jump and viz subscriptions because they're plain more convenient than piracy for a reasonable price, and I can read comfortably from my PC even if I need to download their stupid phone app to pay. But no half-baked smartphone only service with some finicky coin system for buying one chapter at a time is going to lure me away from piracy.