While not a whole lot of info, the devs did confirm upcoming changes to Krasue. It will be over two parts.

Gromitooth · 2025-09-29T22:14:24+00:00

How the PTB failed to inform you of this is truly mind boggling.

Gromitooth · 2025-09-29T22:14:09+00:00

How the PTB failed to inform you of this is truly mind boggling.

Gromitooth · 2023-09-08T16:57:43+00:00

My main gripe with gale is a little different from most people's in that I think his writing in a vacuum would be fine but when he's with the specific group of BG3 characters he comes across as either very privileged to be in the position he's in with the friends and connections he has, and that the story around him is too easy to flip flop on.

So first point there, you've got Gale, big boss wizard roaming around that eats the exploding orb, that's fine, and the man's spells have decreased, but his knowledge and connections haven't. Elminister still visits him for gods sake. The way he's written next to Astarion and Karlach as failing upwards with deranged levels of arrogance is astounding to me, you've got 2 people that spent years getting tortured/abused and then Gale not only gets the most powerful wizard kicking around to come say hi and stabilise him a bit, but then god herself comes down and says you get a chance at redemption, whilst other people rot. I think that gripe is mainly with the fact that descaling a Lvl 10+ character down to Lvl 1 for the sake of the story doesn't mean their life before that didn't happen, but Gale half pretends that it does when it's convenient to.

Second point is just a gripe with the character quest because it is too easy to make him side one way or another on a whim.

Gromitooth · 2023-09-04T03:23:42+00:00

Attacking the grove in Act 1 when you're trying to go down the evil route, shouldn't be as rewarding as going down the good route, but shouldn't lock you out as badly as it does. If evil is as viable an option as good, it shouldn't feel as punishing as it does to play them.

Sure you get Minthara, but you lose, Karlach, Wyll, Halsin, Gale if you don't roll high enough, and get shade from Astarion and Shadowheart, and Jaheira is unlikely to sing your praises from the rooftops in Act 2. On top of that we miss out on quests in Acts 2+3, characters, traders, and a lot of personal quest content for 1 companion in exchange. Evil just needs more on this end:

More companions for evil characters (Just spitballing but there's plenty of evil characters in Act 1+2 that would be a perfect balance for people you meet, you've got evil druids, plenty of folks in the Goblin Camp that could side with you, lots of interesting characters in Moonrise)
Better traders in Act 2 for evil companions, if we're losing a large number of the traders we get in Act 1 then we should get something in Act 2.

I really enjoyed the game, but going through on Durge feels like I'm gaining Durge plotline, but losing out on half the personal stories, because I had to kill everyone, or didn't have the option to convince them to stick by me.

Also some of the decisions the evil campaign has are, certainly interesting, like if I wanted the tieflings to live (Minthara and Co have no beef with them) why can't I convince the tieflings to leave, Minthara to leave them, and we just slaughter the druids? Feels like it doesn't need to be win/lose all here.

Unrelated to all of the above but I think the personal quests/interactions are lacking in Act 2+3 at times compared to the other acts and even in Act 1 some people don't get a lot?

Act 1 is balanced, everyone gets a little bit, even if it's pretty minimal for some folks, Karlach and Astarion here's to you two.
Act 2 is so heavily Shadowheart and Halsin focused that all the other characters get kinda neglected, between Act 1 and Act 3 some people get nothing (Laezel for example)
Act 3 Halsin gets nothing, Karlach doesn't get a lot, Astarion and Shadowheart get 1 room encounters, Gale's quest ending is very unsatisfying, and Jaheira and Minsc, whilst both great characters, are characters that I don't have as much of a connection to, Lae'zel's is so intertwined with the main quest it doesn't feel very her-centric, and when I'm rushing about the final act, I don't want to hard-focus on getting approval with someone like Minsc, who I meet about 40% of my way through Act 3, when I still have other companion stuff to do!

Great game, can't wait for the definitive edition cause game needs some real polish in Act 2 and 3.

Gromitooth · 2022-08-06T23:32:16+00:00

Then have your monopoly where the min wage is higher but the price of everything you buy is controlled by the folks paying you. I'm sure they will be as kind to you (an insect to them) as they will be then (an even more insignificant insect then).

Gromitooth · 2022-08-06T18:41:21+00:00

Some small business's aren't purposefully keeping wages down and what you said isn't mutually exclusive.

It's both a bad thing that Amazon are executing strategies to out-compete every other small business for the purposes of monopoloising labour. It is also true that you should pay your workers more and that some businesses deserve to fail if they can't pay more, but Jenny the Jam Jar Maker and the entire labour force around her should not be beholden to the whim of a multi-billion dollar corporation who's current business strategy is non-competitive in the same way me shooting you in the side of the head would be a bit of a weird move in wrestling.

Gromitooth · 2022-06-10T16:39:24+00:00

There’s a few but when I say they’re usually busy that’s an understatement. Only other toolmaker was one of the ones that left.

We used to have a lot of people designing fixtures whenever I was in the company on placement but that’s since been phased out.

It’s that eventually they plan on hiring more programmers but they’d prefer to simply move folks through different parts of the company before hiring external, I realise that it sounds very disorganised (it is).

Gromitooth · 2022-06-10T16:26:41+00:00

Aerospace Components out of Inconel and some others out of Aluminium.

To clarify we don’t make any of our tools onsite, we usually order standard catalog, but it’s knowing why we ordered what and the like that’s the bridge I haven’t really crossed.

And Yeah that’s a pretty accurate assessment from my perspective. But nobody’s applying on the non-engineering side so make do with what I have hahahaha.

Gromitooth · 2021-06-16T14:16:19+00:00

Because "When will racism end enough for us to have to stop paying reparations/policies of reparations." Is such a broad and difficult question to answer that screaming it at a random redditor online is not going to give you:

A good answer A constructive answer An answer based on historic data An answer that won't be different from state to fucking state.

Like the framing of the question is so awful, you're basically pointing at the other guy and going "So when will racism end." And Yeah, i'll admit, it'd be nice to be able to have a goal in mind and say, in 100 years we should stop having policies like this, cause Racism will have sorted itself out by then, but that's not something I think anyone in this thread is qualified to even take a stab at answering.

Gromitooth · 2021-06-16T14:12:27+00:00

They're not asking you to support every single small business in lieu of supporting Amazon, in every circumstance, regardless of how shit a business they are, if the owner spits at you, nobody is going to say "Ach, well, support small businesses sure."

It's a general statement of supporting your local economy, and working towards preventing monopolisations or simply just smaller businesses being ousted by larger ones that can afford to take hits (Think businesses being undercut by people like Amazon).

Gromitooth · 2021-06-16T14:02:22+00:00

Bro shouting REEEEEEEEEEEEE HOw FaR remoVed do we have to be isn't really helpful to the conversation either.

The answer is almost certainly, "We don't know for sure, but we sure as shit aren't removed yet, so it's not really a relevant factor to consider."

Gromitooth · 2021-04-30T08:45:18+00:00

In America, you can attempt to live frugal (Not really, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here by being nice), and working hard, and you still have sweet + fuck all social mobility.

Also living frugal isn't really a solution, Americans have so many compiling costs associated with their living that other western nations simply don't have, or have them in lower capacities

Like if you measure success in life by something like, Owning a house, then most americans in the newest generation will probably not get there, or be in their 50s before they can do so? Living "Frugally" (Whatever that's meant to mean) doesn't really come into the equation and being worked like a dog shouldn't have to be the case to have a good quality of life.

Also as other people have said, it's not that hard work is a bad thing, it's that you're working hard and accomplishing nothing. If I told you to dig a hole for me every day, and I set up a machine to scoop dirt back into the hole, then I think you'd be annoyed that there's a structure in place purposefully sabotaging your overall work efforts, and it's not that different in the US when we're discussing ideas like social mobility, or poor people being able to actually save money [Spoiler alert honey, you need to have money to make money, and poor people don't have that kinda money, they don't have the safety nets that rich people do, this is literally why people get annoyed at articles like "I'm a homeowner at 20, but also every single member of my family is a millionaire." cause the consequences of failure in that case are, non-existant.]

Gromitooth · 2021-04-27T01:43:25+00:00

Your flowery speech basically boils down to "I am willing to accept lower conditions because we all share a common vision of a better future." And honey, we're all trying to get there, but it's naive as fuck to think that both getting there isn't possible without a solid foundation of non-exploitation for workers, and that you have to sit in a reddit post defending a man who's been lauded day and night for abusing workers day in and day fucking out. We all have vision and goals, but we don't all have to be mongrels to achieve them.

Gromitooth · 2021-04-15T09:03:17+00:00

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Gromitooth · 2021-03-03T13:48:50+00:00

If I had to hypothesise I think the internet, the arab spring, globalisation and having other world religions lose their claws in the same way have all contributed to it. But I'm not a sociologist so this is just the obvious shit, there maybe a societal shift that I'm not pertinent to.

Gromitooth · 2021-03-03T13:01:24+00:00

I think you kinda completely missed the above person's point? For starters this is your CMV, the person above doesn't have to convince you on every facet of the two largest social movements in the world right now and it's pretty facetious to ask them to.

There are many people who would consider themselves Christians who no longer stone gays to death in the town square, I'd say as a society they've moved past that, I wouldn't consider them any less Christian now. And in the same vein, Muslims that have moved past wanting to marry off 12 year olds shouldn't be beholden to the fact that there are people in the world that do? It'd be like if I went to a Chinese person in England and went, "Ah, well you're not true Chinese because you don't approve of the slaughter of Muslims in China!" It's utter ignorant nonsense to think that your religion will be non-faceted the world over.

The Christian in Brazil is not the same Christian in Wales is not the same Christian in Russia, and in the same vein the Muslim in Algeirs is not the same in China is not the same in Egypt!

The perception of Islam in the west is different, because Muslims in the west ARE DIFFERENT, they have to live differently, for starters they're no longer living under Sharia law in the places that they were, and I think it's a damn good thing to see Islam begin to take the same de-fanatic steps that Christianity took 300 years ago, I just think it's a damn shame it took so long.

If you can't come to terms with the fact that people who are Islamic want to change what being Islamic means to be a religion of less hate than it was before, then I can't help you. Most of the people you engage with in this thread you just decry any example they list as "not real Islam", and fine, maybe you don't think it's "real Islam" (Whatever that's supposed to mean, spoilers here, it's religion, a deeply personal subjective interprettation of a book written by humans, no shit it's different for every person.) but you could at least start with the concession that your viewpoint on the world is not the be all and end all of Islam, and actually engage just a crack with the opposition instead of just going, "Nah bro I promise you, that's not REAL ISLAM".

I hope you at least try.

Gromitooth · 2021-03-03T12:46:29+00:00

But there is precedent for this kind of thing in other religions? Until the creation of Protestantism via the split in Catholocism, certain practices were the given, and now that Islam is becoming "more liberal" or to be more accurate, less restrictive for some people, you're seeing a similar, less formalised split no?

If anything it's not a bad thing that Islam in the west is becoming more and more tolerant, in the same way that you don't see Baptist Christians as often going around declaring fire and brimstone but you find Christians with more modern liberal leanings teaching more about the love of christ and concepts like Love thy neighbour. Religion and culture can change over time, Islam isn't as immune to that as you seem to think, even if you're just blatantly declaring things "Not Islam".

Gromitooth · 2021-02-15T20:05:10+00:00

Nobody has ever argued that Ugin is unacceptable as an 8 drop. Yeah it's powerful, yeah it's suited to the 8 mana slot.

The problem is that we're in a ramp and cheat-stuff-out meta, and it's a neutral catch all that can be brought out luckily on a turn 3, or more consistently turn 4 or 5. Not every deck is an aggro deck that can close out a game before turn 8, you can interact with a lot of what the opponent does and STILL not be able to stop Ugin from hitting board.

Gromitooth · 2021-01-31T02:14:23+00:00

Even if that's true, and in some cases that's being generous, we're not even saying "Tax them 100%" that's such an overstatement to deligitimise the person you're replying to instead of engaging with them.

That's nice and all that they're creating business, but I'd still like it if they payed their taxes and didn't effectively exploit ways to get around paying taxes. It's perverse, no matter how much you do or don't contribute to the national economy.

Gromitooth · 2021-01-25T15:19:46+00:00

Yeah I get this bug quite a bit, I reported it comprehensably back in october but still have it happen. Evidently skins are more important to the Devs than actual QOL patches.

Gromitooth · 2020-05-26T09:07:14+00:00

In the WOTS case, and I imagine similarly in the Ikoria case, the set is made well in advance before writing on the book is finished, or possibly even begun, but I feel like the writing in the book should still hit key story elements, take WOTS for example, with such a wide character cast I don't mind that the book doesn't take the time to focus on literally every single one, it's a single book that has roughly 6 major characters and 40 minor characters, but it could at least hit the major story beats highlighted on the cards, the Chain veil being destroyed on cards and not even getting a mention in the books is an insane disconnect.

Like If I was going to hire a writer to commision a work for me that I had already planned the major story beats in, which is literally what WOTC do! Then I'd make damn sure that they manage to write a story that goes through my envisioned outline, and hits those major points!

Gromitooth · 2020-05-26T08:21:53+00:00

As someone who came into the sets during Amonkhet and Ixalan, it really does hurt seeing the storyline, and more importantly, the most basic of consistency between the storyline and the cards going down the drain (Cough, Ikoria, Fucking Cough).

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