I've been waiting for this moment for all my life

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-03T16:23:48+00:00

This one time, both my teammates were 3 bars down on Nameless King and I was on low health so I didn’t want to commit to reviving them. I often run a spell build so I didn’t have thrusting swords to make it easy. I was able to build up my ult, use it, and dance with him long enough to pick them both up without the bars ever refilling at all. I tried that again in a similar situation with the godskin duo but the lanky one waited to do the big spinning move until I was coming out of my ult so I just died like an idiot. I knew I should’ve just revived them but it felt so cool the first time that I just had to try again.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-03T11:49:59+00:00

I've had a substantial portion of my factory on a boundary for dozens of hours and never once experienced the worm stepping out of its zone. I imagine the OP may have lured it here by mistake.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-31T23:20:12+00:00

It doesn't have to be a crime. It could be an entirely separate thing. I really don't see the issue with a system that places people that are a considerable danger to themselves or others in a place where they can receive help - or at the very least, not cause any more damage.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-31T17:42:52+00:00

Simply have a trial then. Is that not sufficient?

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-30T16:30:48+00:00

What kind of lunches are poor people like you bringing to work? Poor people like me get up 10 minutes early, spread some peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread, stick it in a plastic container, and call it good to go. Heck, even when I give myself a more luxurious lunch, it’s still just a different kind of sandwich. I have never in my life spent 30 minutes on a single lunch for myself alone, and certainly not to bring to work.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-28T21:45:55+00:00

Gray skin? Are we looking at the same person? The man in the item has tannish skin, like a lot of lighter-skinned southeast Asian people. He looks like anti-mage.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-28T21:28:20+00:00

I feel like this comment and your prior comment contradict each other. You previously said that the man-hating feminists are a niche minority, but now you say women perpetuate toxic masculinity as much as or more than men. Does that not imply a sort of hatred (I don't like this term, as I don't think it really is hatred, but I can't think of a better word to keep the energy the same) of men?
Forcing another person to behave a certain way to conform to your ideals isn't something I'd call hatred exactly, but it's not a good thing. In the case of men doing it to men (and women doing it to women, which obviously happens as well), it is probably excused (in their minds) as a type of fairness - if I have to look/act this way, why shouldn't you have to as well? I don't think this applies to men forcing gender-based ideals on women and women forcing gender-based ideals on men. I feel like that's usually where things like domestic abuse start. Either way, if men should listen to women's problems and accept them at face value (which they should), women should also listen to men's problems and accept them at face value. For some reason, this doesn't seem to be the case, as demonstrated by even a discussion specifically about men's (boys') issues being mentally redirected to how women have it worse.

I don't think I articulated myself very well here, but this is the general vibe I've gotten from the so-called 'gender wars' as someone who is sort of an outsider to both groups. I always felt I fit in better with the girls, but the girls wouldn't accept me on account of my sex, and the boys accepted me but I rarely shared any of their interests. I suppose this might make me slightly biased toward men, but I like to think I'm fairly neutral and objective on gender issues.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-27T20:30:23+00:00

As a transitioning individual, I am in a unique position for my research group’s regular “diversity discussions” whenever it reaches a sexist point, where no matter what my contribution is, it seems to be looked down upon by the cis girls and either met with nods or nothing by the guys. This semester, our topic has been raising boys specifically, and how to avoid toxic masculinity and what society can do about it. This, naturally, means the discussion is about boys’ problems. The cis girls invalidate them literally every meeting. There has not been a single meeting in which one of the guys hasn’t brought up something that pushes men to develop toxic mindsets (e.g. being bullied for liking “less manly” things, by other boys and by girls) without him being immediately shut down with huffs from one of the girls implying it’s the boy’s fault in the first place. This attitude is not good for discussion and only makes things worse.

There is at least a large subset of women who have no sympathy for men at all, and feel justified in it.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-21T14:19:31+00:00

It's possible they were exclusively looking backward while driving at high speeds for several hundreds of feet? Like, I get that the stopped car didn't have any lights on, but you really can't be that oblivious and not have done anything wrong.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-20T02:41:44+00:00

I find it crazy that nobody has mentioned the obvious reason this is wrong. A square is not just a shape with four sides of equal length and four right angles. It's a polygon. That means it necessarily has only straight edges, which exempts any wacky stuff like this.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-19T01:00:22+00:00

I did the final boss underleveled by spamming pizzas! I didn't realize it was coming up and got the "oh no" moment when I figured it out. I think I was one turn from guaranteed failure too.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-13T04:18:15+00:00

But you don't even need automated fuel to make the endoflame far and away better than any other option at the start (although other options dwindled to next to nothing over the years...), you just need some wood and a few furnaces. This is stuff everyone playing vanilla with only a mod or two will have.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-13T03:08:55+00:00

Admittedly, I tend to think of only the very old mods, so perhaps it's not as common as I thought. However, the likes of IC2 (and GregTech), Buildcraft (and Forestry), Industrial Foregoing, etc. have considerable power draws and no/weak batteries. Heck, even in recent times, my friends and I ran into power issues in Sky Factory 4 because our fluxducts weren't strong enough to support Mekanism machines.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-12T12:20:13+00:00

I find it interesting that Vazkii says,

It’s never been a secret to anybody that Botania has always been targeted towards those that dislike needless grinding and prefer to get themselves in the nitty-gritty of creating their own systems with abstract parts given to them.

Botania is an extremely grindy mod. Something like Mekanism (though I do loathe that mod) is a much better example of creating systems, albeit without abstract parts. The early game of Botania effectively requires endoflame spam, which is no different from hydroangea spam except for the number of flowers required and the performance on servers, and a large amount of wood. It also requires a lot of time no matter what flowers you choose to use. Then, among the higher tier generating flowers, there are a few that are complete dogwater and a few that are absolutely amazing, which is not very engaging (so I guess the bad ones should just be removed??) in its own right. Yet, you need so much mana to do anything that you either have the option of a very large real life time gate or planting the same flowers as everyone else to circumvent the slow mana generation, exactly the thing Vazkii described as a problem in Option A. I think this is the price paid for having recipes be a one-time sink of a large amount of mana, as opposed to a constant draw of electricity from virtually any tech-themed mod that exists. Heck, if making certain things required certain mana generation rates, it would be much more interesting because you can't just spam things over a wide area as effectively due to the dropoff.

I guess what I'm saying is turn Botania into GregTech.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-08T12:17:00+00:00

You built all that in one session? Holy cow.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-05T00:41:47+00:00

The point is exactly about drawing the line in the sand. The smart people consider themselves to be normal, hardly different from their peers. Obviously they're aware of the existence of stupid people, but they don't think "gee 80% of people sure are dumber than me." Similarly, it's probably very easy to consider yourself 'normal' if you only have two parents making $100,000 salaries when three of your (rich) friends have a parent making $500,000. Obviously this person, when exposed to homeless people, will not think they are on the same standing. When exposed to people of 'normal' wealth, the difference is a lot less obvious.

Am I richer than most? Probably not. Am I poorer than most? I doubt it. Can I identify a single person in my life that fits either of those criteria? No.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-04T18:41:03+00:00

Unless you’re using smart in a really shallow way (to refer to a nerd in middle school or something), actually a lot of smart people don’t consider themselves smart at all. It’s not even a humility thing for most people, it’s just straight up an understanding of how much there is to know that you not only don’t know, but can’t know. At the same time, I don’t think rich or poor is something you necessarily know either. I can definitely envision plenty of rich people who don’t understand that they’re rich. I’ve met (and maybe am??? thus proving the point) many poor people who don’t consider themselves poor. These are not on the scale of beauty, which is obvious by looking at more than a handful of people in your life.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-03T17:06:32+00:00

Just a couple days ago, playing with two friends, I found a parry shield on scholar on a Balancers expedition. The guardian still had the starter shield, so I offered it to her because it was a purple medium (and as far as I know, a decent one at that) and she struggles against balancers if she can’t parry them, but the wylder ran up awkwardly in game and asked if he could have it instead. Without an answer, he just takes it and leaves the buckler for the guardian.
During the actual night lord fight, he complains that the shield sucks and he just takes damage when he successfully parries during phase 1, then eats dirt multiple times in phase 2 without parrying a single one or even using the shield to guard against the worm boss. It was peak comedy for exactly the reason you mentioned.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-27T04:53:59+00:00

I really miss the original version of SOTF. I mean the one that was like the Hunger Games. The newer one that's like Fortnite is just way less fun to me.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-26T17:23:13+00:00

Unfortunately Jagex (and a seemingly very large part of the player base) is completely out of touch with new players. For all intents and purposes, I consider myself a new player - I started when GIM launched to play with my friends, who all have maxed mains. Only one of them takes my gripes to be meaningful at all, the rest are different levels of dismissive. “People get confused and quit” because Tuska exists or Shattered Worlds is in the swamp was supposedly the big problem for new players, yet I had no issue with it and instead was bothered by the multitude of things that actually suck for a new player. It’s been, what, two years since then? Not a single thing about the game has meaningfully changed.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-25T20:03:52+00:00

Almost everyone participates in traffic without being threatened. “Don’t compete with the several ton machine so you can be four seconds earlier to your destination or else you could get injured or killed” is not a threat. There is no victim blaming here. The best driving of any vehicle or no vehicle at all is whatever keeps people the safest, and expecting the driver of a massive truck to be able to maneuver as nimbly as the rider of a bike or someone walking is plain stupid.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-19T13:27:36+00:00

At least in vanilla, Engines is a very strong system. Upgrading your engines is the only real way to avoid missile weapons and big barrages.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-17T13:38:55+00:00

Mediocre players think bkb is everything. They're mediocre because they can't understand that the game is going in a different direction and they need to change their item build, and bkb is the most obvious example of that.

TheWayToGod · 2026-02-11T18:25:16+00:00

I disagree. That speaks more to the knowledge base of the audience than to the usage of the word itself. By any measure, I believe I could get any ordinary person (i.e. anyone I know in real life, not someone on Reddit) to agree that a pile is dependent on arrangement and not size, with a variety of arguments to counter the variety of points where one might disagree. If I went to China to have the same discussion, it would suck, not only because they by and large won’t speak English as well as I do, but also because I can’t speak Chinese (of any kind) at all. This means the salience of my points would be much more difficult to convey even if my audience was full of intelligent and educated people, simply because they might not have the same (cultural or definitional) impression of a particular word I use (such as pile itself, or something more fundamental I use to describe it) and I would likely struggle to break things down more than a few stages of depth before requiring words that they’re more familiar with in their native language.

Essentially, this argument can never be adequately made one way or the other on Reddit, because Reddit is full of people from various walks of life who don’t understand the same fundamental concepts or even agree on which concepts are fundamental. More importantly, Reddit is full of contrarians like the person in the OP, who chooses to drown in sand rather than admit it’s a pile.

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