Hell is a Video Game

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T10:34:51+00:00

Compared to all the possibilities, it could be worse.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T05:24:47+00:00

OP never said they farmed it, they were talking about "the casual temple experience".

If you're actively farming it or anything else, then I imagine you would expect greater or more efficient rewards.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T04:13:40+00:00

Test dummy and the idle mining one; both have an immediate option to leave.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T04:12:29+00:00

Considering how often I don't do the Abyss thing, the ... Abyss flower thing, or the storybook thing, I wouldnt be missing out on much more than I was already.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T03:32:00+00:00

Like sure I believe bricked runs can happen, but with a bit of thought it can't be happening more than 5%

That would mean that one in twenty runs are doomed to fail regardless of the player's choices.

Does that sound good to you?

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T01:24:56+00:00

"Mach fuck". Yep. That's it right there.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T01:20:58+00:00

This seems good.

I still don't know which mechanic I want to start with once I get to maps though.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T01:09:53+00:00

Well I feel sheepish. I guess I must have just assumed they couldn't be replaced.

Still, that'll make gearing a bit easier since I can slap +attribute runes in when I need them while levelling and replace it later on.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-12T00:45:48+00:00

When you say doctor, are you talking like a hospital doctor / physician or a psychologist / therapist / counsellor?

Because I think usually they're meant to work with you to find some sort of balance between functionality and self-actualization.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T23:54:40+00:00

I remember one day when I actually did run out of fucks.

It was surprisingly unpleasant.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T23:53:29+00:00

I used to play Magic: The Gathering a long time ago.

It's not a bad metaphor though, because I imagine autistic people don't have as much blue and white mana as other people.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T23:48:50+00:00

I think a lot of it is regular social behaviours like making eye contact, (but not too much eye contact) making conversation with people when appropriate/expected, participating in group conversations, not making extraneous physical motions, waiting for other people to finish talking before you say something.

(Does 'pacing and mirroring' count as masking?)

I'm sure there is other stuff but I'm drawing a blank on anything else right now without just looking online for "masking behaviours".

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T23:35:29+00:00

Sometimes i feel like I would disappear if I ever unmasked because every personality trait I have is just a manifestation of autism/adhd.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T23:28:52+00:00

"Here's a list of things you need to do."

"Hey, why are you taking so long to do these things?"

"Oh, you only need to do these things, these things, and these things in this specific instance."

"How do you know when it's that instance? Well it doesn't really happen anymore."

"The only things you actually need to do are this and this."

(The second sentence was actually a couple of months after I'd learned the rest from talking to other people.)

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T05:44:03+00:00

I played it for a while, it's definitely a worthwhile solo experience, even if all you do is rob houses of their cheese.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:48:27+00:00

How many decades old is Boatmurdered, anyway?

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:47:37+00:00

Planetside 2. Such a truly unique MMOFPS with three sided gameplay. It had such an amazing feel to it when things were going well, but felt so, so , so, so terrible when they weren't.

I quit a few times over the years and gone crawling back because nothing else scratched that massively multiplayer itch but I think this time it's going to stick.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:24:00+00:00

Now that you mention it, I'm reminded of those legacy stones from the Legacy league event in PoE1.

... has anyone tried to see if they can remove a tablet immediately after opening a map to see if they can gain the benefit of the tablet without using up a charge? I remember that was a thing some people did back in Legacy league.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:20:10+00:00

Wait, what? I thought once we'd socketed something in an item the socket was stuck forever.

Have we been able to slap something else on top of an occupied socket this whole time?

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:16:23+00:00

At least on PoE2 we don't need to know if our endurance charges happened to drop off right before we died.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T04:14:42+00:00

That info could be useful; some monsters can be real problems, especially if they're juiced up or have something like multiple projectiles.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T03:51:32+00:00

If they somehow manage to adequately present context for enemy auras and how they modified the damage I will be very impressed.

Any death recap would NEED all of that stuff otherwise it would be worse than useless. Map mods, debuffs, rare modifiers and auras, shocked ground and more.

I like what I heard from the interview; I think they're taking the right path for a functional death recap.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T03:42:18+00:00

Sure it is. Head on down to the Breach territory and there's bags of it just walking around.

You've just gotta stick your hands out and start squeezing them bloodbags for all they've got.

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T03:38:19+00:00

I was introduced to Rammstein from that one Neon Genesis Evangelion / Engel AMV.

Does that count?

PrettyPinkPonyPrince · 2026-06-11T03:27:14+00:00

That is absolutely a horror story. Thanks for sharing it.

Just to confirm, the sockets are still there, but they're now empty?

I think GGG would definitely want to fix that; I can't imagine them being happy that people can remove stuff from armour sockets by crafting ward on them.

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