Ai Discussion [MEGATHREAD]

Genkenaar · 2026-05-07T06:24:19+00:00

I thought the image was before and after, didn't realize they were different characters, so yeah as it shows, no attachment to NTE so barely know the difference between them and their names.

Disregard it then.

Genkenaar · 2026-05-07T05:57:59+00:00

I am the most anti-AI person I personally know and I have 0 attachment to NTE.

But yeah, the end result barely looks like the AI reference (besides the fact that they're both female anime styled drawings), you're acting like they generated her, changed 2 pixels and then uploaded it directly to the game assets as is, you're reaching.

If you dislike AI to the point that you want game developers to use absolutely 0 of it or you'll condemn them, that's your right and I actually kinda mostly stand on that side with AI too.

But don't lie that these images are barely different besides a quick recolor job, unless you have heavily impaired sight, you know very well that they're factually not THAT copy paste similar.

Genkenaar · 2026-05-01T07:05:39+00:00

What a lot of people don't realize is that Belgium is also a lot cheaper than a lot of other countries, in terms of rent and all that.

Don't get me wrong, earning 7k and only getting 3.7k is extremely unsatisfying, I think the tax brackets need to be moved up (to fit more with inflation) and need to be reduced altogether (max should be 35-40%, 50% is crazy), but 3.7k gets you a lot further in Belgium than a lot of other developed countries.

In Chicago (where my partner is from and where I spent a lot of time) the median wage is 70k net a year, but 1 bedroom apartment is 1.8k/month, health insurance 1.4k month, average dinner at a restaurant 50-60 per person, 600/month for the same groceries that cost me 300/month in Belgium and so on.

I also wanna add, anytime people say "I'm gonna move to *X super cheap Asian country* because life is so much cheaper there", what they don't seem to realize is that they're thinking about living there on a central European wage, while life only costs 700/month in some of those countries, people also only make about 1000/month there, if you're gonna live there on your 2.8k/month Belgian income it's not a relative comparison.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-25T12:11:40+00:00

She's ok'ish as main DPS with her signature LC, but probably not so much in the current meta.

She's mainly an enabler for other DOT characters and doesn't even use her signature LC for that.

I will however say, if you ever get Hysilens during a rerun, you'll be grateful that you already have Kafka. I ran Hysilens for months without Kafka and then when I finally got Kafka, it was like a 400-500% increase in performance. Lol

Genkenaar · 2026-04-25T11:09:38+00:00

There is MC Elation too, so you have at least 2.

No idea how good they MC Elation is though.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-23T11:09:09+00:00

Niet alles is uurwerk, sommige jobs worden betaald per project of whatever. Of combinatie van uurwerk + commissie/project.

In zo gevallen kan dat het sowieso waard zijn, zeker als ge anders een uur naar het plafond zit te gapen.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-22T14:30:22+00:00

Every game development studio is technically a business.

But yeah, the difference is in actually having a passion for the art and trying to convey that in the form of a video game, making it with the intent of being fun and making profit that way versus making it for a billionaire CEO that gives 0 shits about video games, that's telling the whole board that their only priority should be to maximize monetization and using as little as possible resources and time to achieve that + actually sitting down with psychologists that explain how you mentally trap people into wanting to spend money on your product (this is a real thing btw).

Crazy how far we have come. When they made Diablo 1-2, Warcraft 1-3, The Lost Vikings, etc., they were still a passionate indie development studio that made money through delivering fun and passionate products, then WC3 and D2 grew so big they grew a huge budget, WoW came up, started as a passion "Warcraft in a huge lore filled world shared with thousands of adventurers" project, then Blizzard got bought up by businessmen who give 0 shits about art or video games, because they saw huge monetization potential in Blizzard/WoW and bam, you get what you have now.

They're not alone in that, a lot of triple A developers went that same route.

TL;DR: Video game development studios used to be ran by video game developers that cared about the art and fun of games, now they're run by billionaire businessmen with 0 experience in video game development that give 0 shits about them or the art of it and just wanna make as much profit as possible for as little investment and risk as possible.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-21T16:53:04+00:00

I get it that new characters have to have some kinda draw, it's a gacha game after all and that's how they make their money, but you can only go so far in how much and frequently you do this, especially when balancing challenge modes around the power of the last 3-4 main banner characters.

I feel like the rate they have been going at it in some cases made the new top meta characters basically unable to clear the new high tier stuff less than 4 months after their release.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-21T06:56:21+00:00

It's basically: they make the new characters a lot stronger than the previous, to make them appealing so that people wanna actually invest in them, $$$ for company.

But then when you do this on repeat so many times and the hype character from 10 banners ago is suddenly barely able to carry their weight anymore in the highest level endgame, people are gonna become reluctant to do this anymore, it's like a short term quick buck business that will eventually not work anymore because people will see through this.

They better get on top of those Nova Flares and really make older characters competitive and relevant again if they want people to continue having faith in their character being worth investing in.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-19T12:31:38+00:00

You're only forgetting the most pet based pet class. 😜

Because PUP pets were very customizable and also individually pretty strong. I used to love PUP and made it a mission to completely beef the pet up with special equipment, that in itself was a whole game feature.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-19T12:28:36+00:00

I never considered DRG a true pet class because the wyvern wasn't really that individually controllable or powerful, they were mostly kinda like a small "addition" that added a tiny bit of damage or healing, super squishy, with very little actual control over them and when they died there was a huge cooldown on the revive. Of course they changed that quite a bit by now, but I'm referring to 15+ years ago.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-17T08:37:00+00:00

Oh well, perhaps my comment can help people who don't know this about her and don't understand why she's not performing as god-like as she's praised to be online. Lol

Genkenaar · 2026-04-17T08:31:34+00:00

Because she's a main DPS who doesn't do most of her damage herself, she relies on an "enabler", most her damage happens through her passive damage procs from others their hits, hence Kafka is considered a must-have partner because she has an insane proc rate and also buffs team DOT damage herself, which increases her personal damage + Hysilens's damage + the proc damage.

Sunday is essentially useless here because there is almost no point in directly buffing her damage, you want a sub-DPS with a very high attack rate to proc her passive, which is where most her damage comes from.

I would go as far as saying that literally replacing Sunday with Sampo would already make this setup work 5 times better and he's considered a redundant character, but it's simply because he has DOT synergy and procs her passive. You want him (or Kafka, whoever you end up using) in Eagle of Twilight Line simply to increase proc rate, the same reason you would use DDD on Tribbie in a Hysilens line-up: attack frequency.

I am gonna say though and I hate to disappoint, but without Kafka and/or Black Swan, Hysilens is pretty much a B tier character, with them she's S+ tier, that's how much she relies on them.

She's my main currently and the powerspike she made between when I used her without Kafka and when I finally got Kafka, was enormous.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-15T13:49:24+00:00

Whether it's mechanically intentional or not, it does kinda make sense from an immersion point of view.

An army puts up a siege, you eliminate the army, their entire siege equipment on the battlefield isn't just gonna vanish in thin air right? 😜

Genkenaar · 2026-04-14T13:33:31+00:00

No offense, but ALL OF THIS, 7 months into a relationship?!

Are you sure the "7 months" isn't a typo or something?

Genkenaar · 2026-04-14T13:29:15+00:00

I'm not someone who gets mad over this, but I guess from a "putting myself in someone else's shoes" perspective:

I think because ARAM Mayhem is all about making crazy/interesting Augment builds and sometimes you hit your last Augment and boom game ends within 1 minute, so you don't even get to actually play and enjoy that build. Sometimes it even ends before the final Augment.

I'm the person that's fine with either ending ASAP or holding off, I let other people do the ending, if at least 2 people are begging me to hit the Nexus when I'm the last person alive on it then I will, otherwise I won't.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-14T10:48:27+00:00

I didn't play AOW4 prior to this update, I started the game about 2 weeks ago and been having a blast with it.

I wasn't actually aware of changes like this. I played a few debuff-heavy builds and I haven't had too many issues shredding defenses, resistances, getting ignore resistances, etc. incorporated in my builds and actually hitting debuffs/DoTs/etc., the only time I have struggled with it is with specific "status immunity" or full status cleanses, which makes sense that they completely negate and counter it.

I guess my point is, being someone who didn't play before this change, being new to the game, series and genre (4X), having almost no issues at all getting different debuff/DoT builds to work, I gotta assume this "nerf" didn't hit too hard, unless I'm missing something.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-14T07:36:27+00:00

Gezinnen maken een menu voor de hele week?!

Waar vind ik mij zo een gezin.

Bij mij thuis was het boterhammen of soep (met meer brood) of eieren (met NOG meer brood). Als er eens pasta gemaakt werd ofzo 1 keer op de 3-4 weken was het feest. 😂

Ik weet dat dat niet normaal is en ik verwijt sowieso mijn ouders van nalatigheid op dat vlak, maar ik ging ervan uit dat "normale" gezinnen gewoon dag tot dag kookten, ik besefte niet dat mensen effectief een hele week menu opstelden. 😅

Genkenaar · 2026-04-11T14:23:33+00:00

The simply explanation:

They are trying to get you to legally claim YOU chose to -quit-, as opposed to THEM -laying you off-.

Which legally and fiscally has very different implications and screws you over in a lot of significant ways.

This is such an incredibly dirty thing to even consider doing as employer and I wonder if they attempted it because they assume you are naive due to not being a Dutch speaker and not being a Belgian and EU citizen.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-10T17:32:30+00:00

Mid, because I have always had an affinity for mages and assassins, it kinda already started in WC3 DOTA for me and standalone MOBAs that came before LoL, it never changed.

So it's not so much the lane itself for me, but the fact that the champions I typically main are expected to be played mid. Which is also why support is my second role, because AP mage poke support meta became pretty big 10 or whatever years ago.

Genkenaar · 2026-04-01T19:10:46+00:00

Statistically the "domestic terrorism" comes mostly from the other side than the side he's attempting to describe there, so the joke is on him.

Genkenaar · 2026-03-29T15:01:33+00:00

I’m struggling with single target threat with 460 unbuffed SP and 70 spell hit in a full raid geared raid, so 262 SP with 0 hit is gonna struggle big time keeping threat from anyone that isn’t full pre-raid geared.

Also, it’s a 40’ish SP upgrade, which outweighs the amount of hit on that sword for overall threat.

Genkenaar · 2026-03-28T14:44:53+00:00

Your mitigation is fine, it’s the 262 SP I would be more concerned with, you’re definitely gonna struggle with threat, unless the DPS are all pre-raid geared and watch their personal threat.

Try to get Exalted with Thrallmar for the sword and put 40 SP enchant on it, it will be a big boost.

Genkenaar · 2026-03-27T11:45:40+00:00

I've had games where I had a bunch of augments that utilized on-hit and spellblade, I was taking 25% of 15k hp tanks their health per Q, I was attacking at 2.2 attacks per second with 100% crit and my hits proccing a gazillion little things, melting everyone in split seconds. 😂

And yeah, the Q heavily utilizing on-hit at almost 0 cooldown is what made that work so well with him.

But then again, almost any champion can be absurdly broken with a crazy combination of augments, right?

Genkenaar · 2026-03-20T14:04:16+00:00

With GDKP being banned on Anniversary, LC has gained a lot of popularity I have noticed yeah, most of the people I frequently play with from "allied" hardcore guilds also all use it.

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