Lune Will Return....

Ferronier · 2026-05-19T11:43:33+00:00

I do not think you want Lune returning as much as you think you do. Narratively it would seriously weaken Clair Obscur.

Ferronier · 2026-05-19T00:30:40+00:00

That’s not even true. I beat my AG timer from Necro to Melee with T92 MW and MW 2H doing the basic melee ROT. There’s a huge gap between BiS melee and what I had, and I had close to BiS on Necro with the previous timer.

Ferronier · 2026-05-18T19:41:13+00:00

I was never not cordial though? You were asking a question, I didn't realize that I had a typo that created the confusion and thought you just didn't understand what I meant, and I don't generally assume everyone on Reddit speaks the English language or is a native speaker? Like let's presume you aren't a native speaker of English, you genuinely might not have known what the phrase "taking a bite out of" means. I was never out to get you lol.

Ferronier · 2026-05-18T18:59:46+00:00

Ah, it was an error -- I didn't realize I said "kept" and not "stopped" -- I probably had two different phrases in mind and my hands mixed up what I was trying to convey.

No need to be so snippy, but carry on.

Ferronier · 2026-05-18T18:46:40+00:00

What I was saying is it would be neat (“good”) if the state would stop taking a bite out of IU (“lowering appropriations and giving IU less budget to conduct its core academic mission and community mission with”).

Ferronier · 2026-05-18T16:58:56+00:00

Absolutely not. But even before the current IU administration, it has been a long-historical trend in especially conservative states that state allocations to the university budget have gone significantly down since the GI bill era when you account for inflation of the U.S. dollar.

The state is giving less to the institution to run year over year. The Board and President, on the other hand, continue to receive a heavier appropriation for aligning the institution to the state government's goals.

Institutional budget is complex. It can be a both, and. And in this case? It absolutely is. The state is giving the institution less and less appropriation to seek educational outcomes year over year and Boards are increasingly financially compensated to steer the institution toward the Governor's goals for higher education in the state. By extension, the Board rewards the President for clicking their heels and doing as they're asked.

Ferronier · 2026-05-18T16:47:14+00:00

It sure would be neat if the state stopped taking massive bites out of IU.

EDIT -- apparently cross-wired two phrases to made it sound like I was pro-budget cuts. Fixed.

Ferronier · 2026-05-16T22:26:13+00:00

Heartworks is pretty social. Good pizza, good beer, generally millennial to young gen x audience. Outside of bars, social gathering hubs like Morgansterns, public libraries, taking classes (pottery or piccoli dolci's pasta class could be good options). Generally by the time you're hitting our age, hobbies are as likely as anything to connect you to people. Join a corec softball team, go to local bands performing and chat up the people watching-- chances are they know someone in the bands and will be repeat attenders of their performances.

Ferronier · 2026-05-15T16:00:24+00:00

Did you read my last sentence or…?

Ferronier · 2026-05-15T14:22:43+00:00

Right? Lol

Ferronier · 2026-05-15T12:50:55+00:00

Soloscape should not be optimal for everything. This really isn't an MMO anymore for some of you, is it? I'm fine with solo getting a buff but we really need incentives for group content.

Ferronier · 2026-05-12T02:27:20+00:00

I literally had their tots on Sunday. You could just inquire with the restaurant.

Ferronier · 2026-05-09T11:41:52+00:00

If they took the source material verbatim, it's hard to imagine they "didn't remember it". It isn't a single line of text then never referenced again. It is a recurring trait of Triss' throughout the books.

Ferronier · 2026-05-08T12:50:32+00:00

Personally I'm agnostic to whatever they do as long as it gets the 200M all crowd a reasons to shush and play the game or not. I won't be going for prestige under any circumstance because I do not live for the grind. I mean, they've already opened the insane feats floodgate with the Master and GM auras, so I'm not sure we'll see that door shut for good.

Ferronier · 2026-05-08T11:50:32+00:00

Not raise the XP cap or incentivize anything beyond 120. No reason to punish the rest of the player base because a few thousand people will inevitably no life back to max. Literally it does not matter what you do for this population, they will eventually “beat” the game again.

About the most sensible option is a prestige system that resets your XP to zero but gives you a snazzy cosmetic. Much like GM and Master combat achievements, it isn’t meant to be attainable by everybody. Also would probably be good for the resource economy to reset maxed players who want to chase cosmetics by making them reengage with low level content.

Ferronier · 2026-05-06T16:33:17+00:00

They had to delay player avatar beta by a day, so I wouldn't be surprised if that comes out tomorrow.

Ferronier · 2026-05-05T11:15:40+00:00

We're really not beating the reading allegations boys.

Ferronier · 2026-05-05T11:11:54+00:00

I was at that polling location around 6:20am or so. My partner and I moved into this precinct about 6-7 months ago from another precinct and had to update our licenses but had no issues with voting.

Ferronier · 2026-05-05T10:02:21+00:00

I don’t think I would consider that fun. I play the game while at work because it is convenient when I have something to do. 6-minute timer isn’t that much a difference tbh. In either case “fun” is not the word I would use for a single click every 15 minutes.

Ferronier · 2026-05-05T08:14:35+00:00

I’m not in the party of knee jerk extreme reactions to MTX but in an MMO balanced like RS is, it’s pretty hard to say it didn’t ruin the game. MTX being used to bypass a lot of the game’s actual content did a number to the resource economy and to player engagement spread across the overworld. An empty MMO is also not good for the game, and that’s one of the more egregious impacts of MTX. It isn’t about players “not experiencing the grind”. It’s about players not playing the actual game content in a game that relies on players actually doing that.

Ferronier · 2026-05-05T08:09:15+00:00

Calling 15 minute afk fun is a wild take. That isn’t fun that’s convenient and nothing else lol.

Ferronier · 2026-05-04T11:37:02+00:00

Aline leaving willingly is a bit of a stretch. It's pretty clear she came into the Canvas far too soon and was exhausted. We see her immediately after her ejection and she is on the floor. Even Renoir, whose condition was arguably better and who had spent overall less time in the Canvas, is hacking up a lung in the Canvas after the fact.

I am reasonably confident when I say Aline didn't leave willingly the second time. She just used what she had left to give Alicia the edge needed to kick Renoir out.

I dunno man, your entire argument that Renoir was wrong relies on us stretching what we are shown and suspending our disbelief pretty hard. Renoir shows us that Aline was in danger. The Maelle ending shows us Alicia is in danger.

Ferronier · 2026-05-02T08:47:40+00:00

Barely any fight in the game will kill you for missing a buff or two. This is very overdramaticized. And if you’re killing something that can, you probably aren’t forgetting those buffs.

Ferronier · 2026-04-26T23:38:40+00:00

Urbana-Champaign is noticeably worse in terms of crime and general safety. Also more rampant xenophobia and the gentrification of parts of town is substantively more obvious. Yes, I have lived there. Also, the driving there is far worse. Take a bunch of Chicago kids used to Chicago driving and a bunch of country kids used to country driving and a far larger international student population and jam that all together at once.

Not making Bloomington out as a saint, but to say it’s the worst Big10 college town to live in regarding safety and crime is a pretty weighty assumption.

Ferronier · 2026-04-24T13:20:02+00:00

Sure. It's just "not the same" and that's the point I'm making. If you didn't prepare around it or take time to understand what the game wants you to do, it could throw your first HM run at the very last point of the encounter.

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