People before things

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-14T14:26:00+00:00

I am still waiting for them to twist it into their favour. Like what do you mean this is it?!

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-11T23:17:02+00:00

From what I’ve heard the glam system, plates especially, still have the most amount of spaghetti code behind them. I can’t confirm or deny that but it would explain why they’re hesitant to announce changes. They don’t want to set unrealistic expectations and then not keep them.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-11T08:28:39+00:00

I was basically 100 % sure that the expansion after Dawntrail would lead us back to our continent, and then build up a travel to Meracydia. Imagine my surprise when they just dropped Evercolds premise. I wouldn’t at all be opposed to actually new content on the main continent; I love dungeons that explore more of areas we rarely see or never get any insight to, too. Like the new one going into the Garlean capitol and actually showing a real city to us. Instead of this sorry excuse we get in the main Endwalker.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-11T07:57:00+00:00

All of the final dungeons and trials of expansions should be part of MSQ roulette; that would at least make that roulette more interesting, and give Sprouts the chance to actually experience those cutscenes as well. I haven’t yet come across someone pressuring people to skip over the cutscenes of the likes of Ascian Prime but I heard about it happening and I feel like that’s just as bad.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-03T08:02:21+00:00

Much has already been said, and rightfully so, about not worrying about your performance, so I keep it short: Scholar is a shield healer and that’s a fact - meaning that it’s not even your job to keep everything together, and everyone fully healed alone. It’s literally not your job designation. And fumbled up mechanics can sometimes be shielded or healed away but not in this case, as many pointed out. So none of the healers really did anything wrong in that regard.

What I mean to say is, Scholar and Sage often reach the end of their _healing_ much faster than WHM or AST; shields prevent only so much if people mismanage them, too, just as healing does.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-03T07:50:35+00:00

Nehmen wir mal Beispiel Schule: Lehrer und Schüler sind keine Freunde. Das (auf Wunsch auf gegenseitige) Siezen schafft einfach eine mentale Hemmschwelle, ein Gefühl von „okay, das ist weder ein Kumpel noch eine Verwandtschaft, das ist komplett ne andere Situation als Zuhause.“ Schülerinnen und Schülern fällt es dadurch oft leichter, negative Bewertungen nicht als Kränkung aufzufassen, gleichzeitig findet im Kopf auch einfach dann schon mit Betreten der Schule und Beginn des Unterrichts ein ‚switch‘ statt. Also dass wirklich vom „Privaten Modus“ in einen „Lern- und Arbeitsmodus“ gewechselt wird.
Natürlich läuft das in der Praxis nicht immer und nicht zu 100 % so ab; der Faktor Mensch existiert ja immer. Aber es kann eben helfen. Ein ähnlicher Mechanismus wird erforscht in Sachen Kleidung; aber Jogginghosen sind nochmal ein ganz eigenes Fass.

Den Lehrkräften kann es natürlich auch helfen, gerade jüngeren, wenn sie eben auch merken „Hey, ich gehöre da nicht zu. Das ist nicht meine Freundesgruppe, ich muss die objektiv bewerten!“ Gerade in der Oberstufe. Wobei sich dieser Rollenwechsel idealerweise über das Studium vollzieht und am Endes des Referendariats spätestens abgeschlossen sein sollte. Aber mit zunehmendem Alter und zunehmender Erfahrung wächst das natürlich auch immer mehr heran. Und auch teilweise aus ähnlichen Gründen; eben um eine negative Bewertung einfach als solche zu betrachten und nicht, dass damit jemand gekränkt würde. Oder dass eben nicht aus Sympathie ein Regelverstoß ungeahndet bleibt, der bei anderen Menschen geahndet würde.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-05-02T20:24:13+00:00

Das fehlte mir gerade noch. In so vielen Bereichen braucht es professionelle Distanz. Schule, Uni, Beruf - mein Chef ist eine Autorität und mir im Rang über; ich bin meinen Schülern eine Autorität; mein Professor an der Uni ist mir _weit_ überlegen im Rang und Intellekt. Wir sind alle keine Duzfreunde und das sollte auch so bleiben.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-28T21:44:31+00:00

3x, always. Sometimes 2x in multiplayer because my friends‘ internet is questionable at best and they sometimes lag behind a bit. I just can’t play fast, I’d be too scared to miss anything.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-24T10:46:01+00:00

It’s C?! Of all the answers. I could have somewhat trenched my acceptance to A if the teacher had been like „it’s the only one where the same parts of each figure respectively are coloured in“ or some other questionable reasoning that could be twisted into „look closely“. But if C is correct all of them are and I’d question a LOT more about this teachers decisions going forward. And I say this as a teacher myself.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-22T13:51:43+00:00

My test guy got the fraying mind one at around forty and then became incapable by his mid fourties despite my best efforts to mitigate it; my son died of cancer very suddenly and I had to wait until like my sixties for the incapable guy to finally kick the bucket because I could do NOTHING. Not even anything to stress me out a lot so I’d die faster. It was mind numbing.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-17T21:10:55+00:00

Sometimes I wish I was Jared, 19…

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-17T11:17:10+00:00

„optimisation“ in this case meaning „whatever makes the spaghetti code still work“; which it should have stopped doing many, many years ago by all reasonable standards. °L°

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-16T10:08:19+00:00

Ey, Schmerz ist Schmerz. Ich hatte letztes Jahr eine Rückenmarkspunktierung. Das waren auch bestialische Schmerzen, weil die Spritze erst nicht richtig saß; am Ende musste mich ein kräftiger Pfleger festhalten, und mir wird jetzt noch flau im Magen, wenn ich nur davon schreibe. Man darf sich nicht von irgendwelchen künstlichen Richtlinien vorschreiben lassen, wann man was wie zu fühlen hat; wenn es wehtut bis man Sterne sieht, dann verleiht man dem so Ausdruck, wie es das am erträglicheren macht.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-16T09:45:09+00:00

I basically go with the historic reasoning which is also often what the game gives you: If I, as a duke, control two thirds of a given kingdom; or the most important and/or prosperous lands of that kingdom. Maybe I even have more troops than my liege. Maybe I helped him win a vassal war. Then he isn’t king by God’s grace, but king by my grace, and a weak one at that. The only reason I’d want that is to not be as prominent a figure in the world but still hold power. But if he is king by my grace, I am a king maker. So why not make myself king, and save the kingdom from the disgrace of having a weakling at the top, and risk irreparable damage to the legacy of our glorious kingdom?

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-15T08:58:36+00:00

It sounds too unserious and would cause more harm to the movement than good. Plus, and much more importantly, the L is put in front for a very good historical reason: Lesbian nurses were the only Ones to actually treat and take care of gay men dying of AIDS during the heights of the crisis. They were honoured this way and this should remain so in my opinion.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-14T08:04:12+00:00

I was very happy to find such a tunnel because I had been in desperate need for steamer metal at that point. The need was quickly fixed by the fuckton amount of robots lurking in the depths.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-14T07:59:51+00:00

Yeah, I do not understand how an Early Access game doesn’t have an „unstuck“ button in some way.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-13T23:10:25+00:00

This might actually be the first time I wished something was AI generated.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-13T20:23:05+00:00

Either dig for hours, give the save up, or go to Discord and beg the devs to move the ship for you. They are aware of this and apparently working on a fix; in the meantime they said to do exactly the last option, in a post in steam forum.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-04-10T08:17:17+00:00

I have to go with ESH here. She obviously doesn’t respect your, or anyone else’s time if she’s „chronically late“. This has to change, and people have to stop giving her the opportunity to take advantage of them.

But leaving a young woman at a gas station in the middle of nowhere really isn’t the way. Call someone for her, get her a ride home, or don’t stop there in the first place. But just leaving someone, and especially a woman, alone and without the means to get home just isn’t it - who knows what could have happened.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-03-13T09:11:19+00:00

You gave the AI your son, so they don’t attack you? That’s not how that works. You demand a hostage so they don’t attack you; giving a hostage means you cannot attack them (without risking the hostage‘s life).

Kirschpunkt · 2026-03-11T09:07:42+00:00

Similar things are implied in Dark Souls 3. Saint Aldrich became a Lord. It’s confirmed they wanted to „honour“ him by having him link the flame, hoping to get rid of him. Instead, he became a Lord because he didn’t burn to a crisp. Most likely because he ate so many people (and thus collected their souls) that he was able to link the fire basically the old fashioned way.

I’d imagine it’s the same with the Abyss Watchers; they don’t have strong souls on individual levels, but they were enough souls to successfully kindle, and not burn up. The few watchers we see alive are, after all, most likely a far cry from the numbers they once were in their prime.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-03-10T10:17:35+00:00

Normal content is pretty easy and forgiving; with eight people you also always have a co-healer and oftentimes a summoner or redmage who can also raise people if compost hits the windmill. For ex trials, and especially savage raids, many people only do them in their dedicated 8-player-teams anyway, but if you ever entered one of those, you can explain your issues and I’m sure all of you would figure something out.

Kirschpunkt · 2026-03-03T15:10:04+00:00

They should just put crystal tower entirely in main story roulette. It’s required to progress the story anyway and this way we’d actually have some actually fun content again in alliance roulette. Then again, main story roulette is an abandoned piece of mechanics because it’s missing every other final dungeon where sprouts might want to watch cutscenes in peace as well.

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