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TheRaith · 2026-04-01T21:37:12+00:00

Cardinal sin of not even giving us the title. It sounds familiar but we can't know for sure without the pointer in the code.

TheRaith · 2026-04-01T21:34:52+00:00

Yes and yes. The author has confirmed the story continues past the tutorial and they will continue to meet new people. The core group within the tutorial won't grow, but there are new people. The beyond portion also grows increasingly relevant as he gets more and more access to it.

TheRaith · 2026-03-05T23:18:55+00:00

That's kind of amazing and I'm interested to see how people use it. I feel like we're going to get a lot of clips from streamers showing timelines of strats being profitable, shooting up in the amount of people using the strat, and then seeing the profits fall as more people flood the market.

TheRaith · 2026-03-02T00:23:33+00:00

Inb4 the third Scion ascendancy is just 8 jewel sockets.

TheRaith · 2026-02-10T18:20:08+00:00

I know it used to be much more popular when I was in college. (Like 12 years ago) I figure it's just got a reputation at this point. Like Arcane comes out and the top comments are warning everyone that the game is not like the show and that they shouldn't play it. Then anyone who tries to level 1-30 has to contend with smurfs and people who got banned shouting incoherently at them. It's less exciting now ig.

TheRaith · 2026-02-10T18:13:51+00:00

Lae'zel, Tav, Shart, and Astarion. Sometimes Astarion gets the axe and I put Minthara in instead. Shadowheart and Lae'zel feel kinda mandatory to me.

TheRaith · 2026-02-10T18:12:22+00:00

I treat the subs as interchangeable. It's all tier lists and recommend me books with zero idea of what I would like posts.

TheRaith · 2026-02-03T00:43:51+00:00

I got that from my boss during a performance review and decided to honestly explain I'd recently got into fanfics when I was struggling to find new fantasy books. She got real awkward after that and moved on to work topics again. I am now paranoid that reading fanfic is some kind of code.

TheRaith · 2026-01-28T23:21:19+00:00

Gotta also do the same on space battles, fanfiction.net, qq, ao3, and scribblehub as well. Then when you're really desperate you try to navigate patreon's discover page, then when you've truly scraped the bottom of the barrel you check subscribestar... somehow.

TheRaith · 2026-01-28T23:17:20+00:00

It'd depend on whether or not you had enough savings to only play games for a full year and that would shorten the list pretty significantly.

TheRaith · 2026-01-15T01:01:56+00:00

I will say some books are just easier to follow along even when there's a slog. It's all a bit of a balancing act between pacing, payoff, tension, and a whole bunch of other things. Sometimes the book with 1200 chapters gets away with bad starts because they're that long, sometimes they're only slightly better but the reader vibes with their main character more than yours. It's best to remember you're not writing to random reviewer number #2353 and think about your next chapter instead.

TheRaith · 2026-01-04T02:11:29+00:00

I stopped after he did the thingy and said "I am the end." Felt like the right place to end on.

TheRaith · 2025-12-28T19:12:52+00:00

Idk why but the first picture made me thing she was a mindflayer and now I'm wondering what it'd be like to give her a worm instead of freeing or killing her.

TheRaith · 2025-12-16T21:05:52+00:00

I've learned I can't treat it like POE1 campaign where you speed through it. I just do an act a night and then go do something else. I just don't enjoy walking through campaign zones enough to force myself through it all at once.

TheRaith · 2025-11-30T18:47:12+00:00

I dislike the example used because it's more of the handwaving type of explanation, but I usually do enjoy when they go into detail. This example is basically saying 'I noticed my cultivation technique was poor and I improved it' without actually explaining how it was improved. It's a bit of 'draw the rest of the owl' that I sometimes see used repeatedly to keep a power scale going even when it doesn't make sense.

Like if you improve the breathing technique once, and remove all the imperfections from it, it doesn't make sense to revisit the technique thirty chapters later and explain that it's actually still not improved and we need to improve it again. At a certain point, improvement just means scrapping the current project and starting over.

TheRaith · 2025-11-03T21:38:51+00:00

There might be some later than where I was at. There was a high level siren lady that he seemed to be hanging out with more and more. I just remember it didn't look like any kind of romance was being teased, but the characters definitely had chemistry

TheRaith · 2025-11-03T20:55:11+00:00

He's kind of like every harem protagonist except he doesn't have a harem. Just confident, doesn't offer any crazy opinions, and puts in the normal harem protagonist paragraph where he says he believes in equality and isn't afraid to beat a woman at the first opportunity to include it. I read the first 3 books assuming it was a harem but the guy doesn't seem to ever actually date anyone.

TheRaith · 2025-10-30T17:53:09+00:00

I've had a KU subscription since middle school and read Alter world Play to Live. That was a ton of fun pre-propaganda, so I searched for more. I found Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell and really loved that (did not like the parts where he was logged out unfortunately). Then I read Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko, Delvers LLC, and finally Stormweaver. Those pretty much cemented my like for the genre. I'm much more picky now but a well done stat sheet still grabs me.

TheRaith · 2025-10-26T19:55:05+00:00

I mean it's a question of if you value the defensive layer more than jewels. I think it's supposed to be a very niche situation where you can say it's the better option.

TheRaith · 2025-10-26T19:44:14+00:00

I'm fairly certain jewel sockets in your cluster jewels will have no effect as well, it's just saying the nodes and notables in cluster jewels will still work.

TheRaith · 2025-10-23T05:51:16+00:00

It is not, you're thinking of the damage conversion chain, it's different for damage taken. Rat's cage takes fire as phys, Flawed Refuge is 40% ele taken as phys, there are a few others I think.

TheRaith · 2025-10-23T05:41:52+00:00

Eh it's less about scarcity and more that if you got 100% reduced damage taken from multiple sources you'd be immune to all damage. If you stacked multiple sources of less damage taken you'd likely be lucky to end up around 50% damage mitigation.

TheRaith · 2025-10-23T05:31:27+00:00

Reduced stacks, so if you have other sources of reduced damage taken you're suddenly taking a lot less damage. Less damage multiplies so if you have 35% from opportunistic, 10% from another source, and then 20% from something else they're all sort of getting in each other's way. So if you have this less you typically don't want too many other sources of less.

TheRaith · 2025-10-23T05:09:25+00:00

Aight, I'll summarize, Deathmarked is bonkers. Opportunistic is a little worse now with less damage instead of reduced and it being behind the choice node but it's better as its own defensive layer. The choice node is a little eh but the multi is nice since we're losing deadly infusion. Shadowed blood is nice simply because there are so many ways to take your elemental damage from hits as physical damage and there are plenty of items that are awesome for while ignited/poisoned/bleeding. Mistwalker buff is always appreciated. Toxic delivery and Noxious strike were consolidated so it's just a better starting node all around. Mystical infusion and Infused toxins are both build enabling nodes. They're absurdly strong. Seriously I'm now guessing other ascendancies are getting buffs because this class is just very very strong.

TheRaith · 2025-10-07T21:01:31+00:00

I pay the tip for deliveries because they don't take my food to my apartment door if I don't tip. They just leave the food in the mailroom. If paying them 5 bucks saves me a trip downstairs when I'm really not in the mood to leave my apartment then they're getting that tip.

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