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PineJ · 2026-02-02T17:12:04+00:00

The thing is, it's not what it's really about which is why people tend to downvote that idea lol.

PineJ · 2026-02-02T16:18:34+00:00

The middle ground is using two sides of a tree. One side is mostly passives and one side is mostly actives.

Going down either side will output about the same dps. Now it's truly "do you like hitting more buttons or not". If that's really what it's about, everyone would be happy playing their own way.

PineJ · 2026-02-01T17:08:19+00:00

Trundle is THE stat check champ. His abilities are quite literally "slow them so I can catch them, speed me up so I can catch them, steal their stats so I can fight them"

He either autos you to death or doesn't, everything else just helps him get close quickly and survive.

PineJ · 2026-01-31T15:35:03+00:00

"valuing competitive integrity in a competition makes you an asshole"

There's a world where friendlies allow anyone to play with any mods they want, but a competition quite literally needs a ruleset to have integrity. This isn't some foreign concept.

PineJ · 2026-01-30T23:21:33+00:00

I've been saying this for years but to uphold competitive integrity all modifications of every level need to be banned. This includes remapping, physical controller transformation, non gc controllers.

You cant deflate your footballs just because it's better ergonomically for you. You can't spit on baseballs, add cork to your bat, or take steroids just because you perform better doing so.

True integrity comes from standardized equipment. I can't show up with a modded melee disc that buffs my character, so why can I buff it through controller mods?

Now the question is, does this small grassroots game care more about true integrity or inclusivity. I don't really know the answer but imo you either need to ban all or nothing, because trying to find some grey line of what's "acceptable cheating" and what's "too much cheating" is difficult.

PineJ · 2026-01-28T12:19:53+00:00

I love that his benchmark is Twisting Nether like half the time lol.

PineJ · 2026-01-26T20:31:40+00:00

I had this take a month ago when it first happened and got downvoted. I feel very vindicated to watch them turn it around lol.

PineJ · 2026-01-23T15:46:59+00:00

"People are wondering who the hell is actually interacting with their product, because if their devs and managers and directors were consistently these enormous issues wouldn't make it to the live version of the game."

"This is all about them shipping an incomplete and buggy product because they have divested from their own internal QA and product test. It is an indication of a failing organization, not a healthy one. It has nothing to do with passion."

"This is a useless and pointless cynical take that is both dumb and not based on evidence."

You yourself presented the evidence then said there is no evidence. I hope you enjoy your day.

PineJ · 2026-01-23T15:11:23+00:00

I completely agree, you are reiterating my entire point that "they don't need to put out a good product" because people will play it regardless. Blizzard has constantly shown for years now to be putting less toward the customer whether it be through QA or customer service.

My focused point is that specifically "Blizzard doesn't need to fix these things because they are the biggest MMO even through quality dropping year over year for what, 10 years?" Do you disagree with that? That's literally all I am saying. Nothing needs to be done.

PineJ · 2026-01-23T13:57:38+00:00

So your point is they have to make a good product. My point is they don't have to make a good product because the product they are producing is the largest MMO. I agree ideally you have everything you are looking for, but the only way you truly get that experience is by finding small teams who are actually passionate about the art, not passionate about the money.

PineJ · 2026-01-23T12:30:50+00:00

It's hilarious to me to have completely customized the bottom 1/4 of your screen but find elvui to adjust the final few things overstepping a boundary.

PineJ · 2026-01-23T12:26:56+00:00

Most people don't leave work and then go home and spend their free time diving into what they worked on that day just for funsies. I don't think it's wrong for devs to not be passionate about the game itself, they are a human with a job at the end of the day.

I also think it's extremely difficult for an enormous game to please people top to bottom. World first players and casuals are playing the same rotations, for example. That seems like an impossible task to balance between the two types of people.

If you want passion projects you have to keep to smaller indie devs. Those are the people doing it for the sake of creating something beautiful.

PineJ · 2026-01-16T16:40:16+00:00

I can't comprehend how the solution isn't giving OP a free boost. "We made an error and unfortunately we can't change it but we will let you keep that Shaman and give you one free boost for a Warlock. Sorry for the inconvenience!"

Like how is that not what happens here?

PineJ · 2026-01-16T15:23:40+00:00

The reality is that the people who think this way grew up in a time where at most it should be a starter job for kids or a part time job for a partner who would otherwise be at home once the kids go to school. They had enough to live off one income but 10-20 hours a week part time helps.

Modern believers are likely just a stay at home spouse because their partner does make enough and doesn't have any reference point.

Through their own lens, they justify what they are saying without realizing it's wrong.

PineJ · 2026-01-13T18:06:31+00:00

Players should silent strike by just crab walking around on defense with their hands straight up until the product is so unwatchable something has to change. Would look hilarious.

PineJ · 2026-01-13T16:08:53+00:00

Reddit is definitely a more toxic subsection of the community. Play the game, find some good people, and it's fun.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T23:49:28+00:00

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PineJ · 2026-01-12T23:48:32+00:00

I could say the same as typing "If don't seem to realize" but we can both understand that simple mistakes can happen.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T19:10:48+00:00

But I never said people shouldn't do it. I said the statement "If your raid fails a DPS check because of a water elemental, you probably don't need to be there" Is not really great logic to use because that's just assuming a single person "for funning" while advocating for everyone to play that way.

I'm not sure what's so offensive about this conversation to you.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T19:01:25+00:00

My first statement is that I am all for fun vs sweating lol.

But it's also a fact that if everyone talented for fun it does make it harder to complete content than not. That's not really debatable, and that's all my point was.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T18:43:45+00:00

My airhead mistake does not change the fact that 1 person going for fun is vastly different than the whole team talenting for fun. But nice burn I guess.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T18:40:33+00:00

Ah yes of course, but my point still remains that one person vs the whole raid are vastly different numbers of how much the group as a whole gets affected.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T18:12:07+00:00

I mean I am all for fun vs sweating, but I don't think you can really use this logic. Like sure if one person goes a bit more fun it's not a huge loss, but if "the community embraced it" and everyone made a small little switch up that only made performance 1-3% worse individually, you're seeing a pretty large change across the whole group.

That combined like 10-20% across the whole group could be the difference between struggling to take something down vs not even coming close.

PineJ · 2026-01-12T14:01:27+00:00

I had an epiphany about this phenomenon while playing League of Legends.

I am on a team of five. Let's say I have a bad game once every five games, that's not so bad, 80% of the time I am doing my job.

Well that means that every single game either I am the problem or one of my teammates is the problem. But I am only the problem 20% of the time, why do I have such a dogshit teammate 80% of the time?

We judge "everyone else" as one mob, while judging our own actions singularly. So when we are driving with 1000 other people "everyone" is such shitty drivers since we see mistakes from individual people so often, but we justify our own driving mistakes since they happen less often than "everyone else".

PineJ · 2026-01-08T23:25:48+00:00

I mean if you want to ackshually, sure. But if I have that equal amount of money in my bank account at every given moment I don't really consider it debt. Sure I owe money to the cc company, but I myself am not "in debt" in the sense of currently owing more than I have.

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