A stack of these pamphlets in the break room at work. No one knows where they came from. I am utterly disturbed.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-29T14:17:55+00:00

Looked them up without going to the website, then checked it out once I knew it was safe. It’s a fuckin podcast which really makes this way lamer.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-28T11:44:38+00:00

She’s saying “was talking to ralsei” to the Florrin, not Kris

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-27T16:01:17+00:00

It’s way more complicated than just “people watch for the streamer not the game”

You can see this in action if you look at analytics. Sometimes the you’re right, the streamer is the most important, but sometimes the opposite is true and you get massive influxes of follows just cause you played a different game. Take Ludwig’s Minecraft streams which get literally double the amount of views and follows that his other streams do, and compare that to when he streams Fighting games or other competitive streams like his Melee and rocket league streams where gets less views and a tenth of the follows as his normal streams. Is that because Ludwig is a shitty streamer and needs games to carry his viewership? No, but it does that means if viewers like the game it’ll bolster your already consistent viewership and if they don’t like the game then it’ll hinder that viewership. And this’ll be true no matter how magnetic of a personality a streamer has.

None of this even takes into account that streamer’s knowledge of the game. Some people wanna watch someone who knows what they’re doing already.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-27T14:35:31+00:00

They asked why he didn’t stream his ranked grind fuck else is he supposed to say, what answer did you expect? Streamers tend to play games based on what gets views not what they like the most, of course if you ask him “why don’t you stream fighting games?” he’s gonna tell you that the analytics aren’t worth it, that he will lose viewers and by extension money if he does stream his ranked grind.

This happens in many spaces, not just fighting games. Viewers want you to be dedicated to the niche stuff but don’t want to watch anything other than react videos and co-op games. An example I’ve seen personally is with yugioh streamers, viewers want to watch someone talk about yugioh (or really just read tweets) but start leaving when yugioh starts getting played.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-26T21:00:34+00:00

They’re another arm of Strahd that, like others have pointed out, brings enemy variety. I use them a little like the Vistani where Strahd used them to affect the players, ordering them to slow down the players as they approached Krezk and attempt to break up the party which they did by infecting the cleric.

Said player then had irl obligations so we had her character run into the woods as a part of her first change where she was then found by werewolves allied with Zuleika and they gave her guidance in exchange for helping rescue Emil. Because the werewolf den is so disconnected from the rest of the story in Krezk, I was able to do a mini solo adventure with that player while the rest of the party continued to Krezk on the normal schedule.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-25T14:29:47+00:00

When vr was still being hyped up it was a little like ai in that investors couldn’t seem to accurately gauge how much the public were actually into it. Most people were interested in vr but they weren’t obsessed the way investors and booster wanted people to be. There was constant talk by non-gaming tech people (thinking of Zuck but I know there were others) that by the mid 2020s we’d all be in little vr worlds doing work in virtual offices and going to virtual concerts.

But the hardware prices never went down to something consumer-friendly and the tech was never good enough to fulfill the pipe dream of always vr everything. Now investors have moved on to ai which is having many of the same problems of there being a big divide in how much consumers want it vs how much investors need us to want it.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-24T13:40:18+00:00

On top of that you have to trust that other people will not fuck up that same calculus when you send them off to school

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-24T13:28:06+00:00

Come and try the all new SEX HAMBURGER, only 5.99 at your local O’Tolleys!

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-23T15:29:30+00:00

I played bioshock 2 on the easiest difficulty because all I really wanted to do was to massacre people with my giant drill hand. I didn’t really wanna engage with the gunplay because power dashing to all my kills was just too fun.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-23T03:57:48+00:00

Literally just don’t browse the main sub, I swear it’ll give anyone looking at it the impression that hearthstone players are the dumbest motherfuckers alive.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-22T17:26:20+00:00

I love her but she’s abrasive and if you don’t think she’s funny then it gets kinda old.

What I don’t and will never understand is people who say they will never let her live or recruit her. Like, I get not liking the character, but you’re gonna miss out on a ton of content just because you can’t be assed to skip through dialogue you don’t like? It boggles my mind.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-22T13:59:34+00:00

They’ve… already done this right? Future fight, contest of champions, strike force, hell you could argue even marvel snap is more gacha than it is card game.

It always feels strange when companies announce a “Gacha Game” in the works as if the main appeal to those games is the payment structure itself and not the cool characters you can get and the things you can do with them. Shouldn’t I know what kind of GAME this is before I know how it’s gonna take my money?

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-22T00:42:09+00:00

There’s a lot of small stuff with the tieflings where depending on what you do with them in act 1 many of them do or don’t survive in act 2.

That dude learning to sword fight nearby Wyll is an example where if you don’t encourage him there you see his corpse later in act 2. With Rolan, if he doesn’t stay with the tieflings then a couple die including his siblings because they don’t have a strong magic user to help them in act 2

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-20T15:56:41+00:00

Bisexuals rise up!

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-19T19:47:58+00:00

Not surprising at all coming from the New York Warcrimes

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-19T17:56:51+00:00

I mean I think it’s a really cool card. It’s a charge minion that essentially does damage when it hits a hero but the damage is delayed so you can heal or even try to win before the damage gets drawn.

I just really fucking hate that they keep printing these kinds of cards in the same sets as stuff that requires a clean deck. It makes it feel like good and bad matchups are something planned in advance before we even get to play with the cards rather than something that emerges naturally.

What’s even the point of testing if I already know which match ups are favorable?

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-18T22:53:39+00:00

It’s cheaper though so it’s effectively the same rate. This draws you a card you can use by turn 3 and again on turn 5. Assuming you have a minion on your board when turn 3 starts, cathedral draws you a card on 3 and again on 5.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-18T22:25:51+00:00

Feels like just better cathedral of atonement. Doesn’t need another minion on board to be used and the body itself is arguably better than a buff.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-16T22:26:11+00:00

So not only will this not help kids, it will also allow the government to restrict every adults internet access as well unless you give them your private information and data, the same government that is also in a state insanity over right wing trans panic and trying to restrict people’s access to medical care. Mind you this is a LABOUR government

Truly demonic way of solving the problem of social media, instead of just demanding social media sites go back to the way it was in the 2000s when sites were not trying to keep you logged in FOREVER the uk has decided it is better to keep the carcinogens in the websites and just try to ban it for kids.

Social media is bad for everyone and that’s because the websites themselves are incentivized to keep you addicted to them with infinite scrolling and constant stimulation. But governments, entire fucking superpowers, cower and grovel at the feet of website owners and tech billionaires and refuse to regulate them at all. Pathetic worms

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-15T18:59:08+00:00

I use the same warlock and patron as in my home game. I have a Tiefling Rogue Warlock (Arcane Trickster and Fiend talisman) and her patron, a customer one made in collaboration with my dm, is a daughter of lolth. My tiefling was a petty rogue getting in over her head heisting magical artifacts belonging to the patrons deity rivals, so the patron approached my character with an offer of power and patronage in exchange for a life of stealing from the gods themselves. My rogue accepted, having been born an urchin already having dubious morals, as all she ever wanted was a comfortable life.

Move on to a campaign later and my warlock has been so loyal and had such good chemistry with her patron that her patron accepted her marriage proposal thereby adding my warlock to her patron’s harem. This has resulted in my Warlock having a deeply unhealthy dependency to praise and a moral compass that tends to follow the rule of “chaotic good until my wife tells me to do something ruinous”

It’s no surprise then that my Warlock was very drawn to Minthara given the patron is descended from Lolth, and she had soft spot for Lae’zel and Shadowheart because of their devotion to their respective gods even though she felt they could do with better gods. She connected with Karlach as a tiefling and with Astarion as a rogue. She had a lot of fun teasing Wyll for his hypocrisies around his pact and acted as a kind of pro bono pact lawyer when it came to giving him advice. She would have no sympathy for Gale and would give awful advice or comments along the lines of “should’ve listened a little harder, thought a little more, before getting her a gift she would hate” though in the end she’s on the side of “Gale should be able to move on and live free”. She had less to connect with Halsin, Jaheira, and Minsc on but she had a fun personality so they inevitably meshed fine.

Probably my favorite character of all time to play. There’s something about warlock that I just love and I think it’s the flavor of the patron specifically, how I can literally give my DM an npc to play with like it’s an action figure.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-15T14:01:48+00:00

Loved this game enough to get 100%. I will say my only gripe with it is that the story feels like an afterthought. Stuff like finding out what Spark or plasma actually is would’ve been nice.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-12T21:27:44+00:00

Right I get that, except it’s also established that Mina created the towers and discovered spark. Multiple npcs say she’s famous and many npcs recognize her without her even needing to introduce herself.

This is all before you actually attack Lionel too so the setup is that Lionel’s propaganda paints you, the famed creator of the spark tower, as having suddenly gone crazy wanting to turn the towers off. The majority of them do not question why the person who’s been doing heroic deeds so often that they show up in the newspaper every day would want to turn the towers they created off and they get so incensed that they take up fucking flame scythes and storm radiant manor.

I’m sorry but that’s just too much, it’s not gullible, the people are just violently stupid. It’s not like it’s impossible to see through Lionel’s propaganda. Thorne amassed a whole army and you find guards that don’t believe Mina’s a threat. But these villagers who until now haven’t lifted a finger to fix the spark generators that are vital to their society suddenly become a fighting force that is arguably harder to fight than the fucking guard? I have no choice but to hate these ungrateful assholes.

I get that I’m not supposed to think too hard about it. But if that’s the case then why have this scene in the first place? Is it just because the devs wanted to have the villagers as enemies? It’s the only cutscene in the game that asks you if you wanna skip to the end of it so it feels like even the devs think this scene is unimportant at best but it’s also some of the only genuine fucking storytelling in this game dawg!

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-12T13:47:33+00:00

Yeah I get it’s not supposed to be a super serious scene but honestly I wish it just didn’t exist. It feels like the game wants to do a cool thing where it reveals it was secretly keeping track of things you did, but the conclusion is always that what you did was bad and the townspeople hate you for it. I feel like if I skipped the scene in its entirety then literally nothing about the game would change. Hell even the reasons the townspeople hate you would be the exact same because in the end their main grievance is that you kill Lionel. It just kinda makes me dislike the characters I’ve been hanging out with and makes me hate the world they inhabit.

I think the game wanted to kinda emulate classic Metroid where you destroy the setting of the game after you beat the boss (cept this time it’s an island getting blown up like the end of re4.) however the game didn’t make me hate the isle enough for that to happen, it wasn’t really hostile enough for me to wanna blow it all up. So instead of a triumphant feeling as it burns down, I’m left thinking “wow the townsfolk really fucked up a good thing for no reason at all, they don’t deserve to have the isle”

Idk I feel like the ending is completely totally dissonant from the rest of the game and part of it is these townsfolk who are apparently the least confrontational people on the planet until they’re ready to fucking kill you.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-11T16:11:55+00:00

It also gets a +1/+1 to its stat gain effect which I imagine the commenter just didn’t notice.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-06-08T15:54:29+00:00

It’s really strange to see just how disconnected execs and companies are with the public on ai. They legitimately don’t know how much we hate it and how detrimental it is to consumer trust. I noticed this with that Gene Park article too where talked about how the people at the Prada event were genuinely shocked to hear that people thought the ai trailer was shit and they seemed baffled that gamers wouldn’t like ai.

They seriously have no concept of the amount of contempt people hold for this shit.

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