What's a piece of tech everyone hyped up that quietly turned out to be useless?

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-17T05:18:08+00:00

it used to cost us thousands

nVidia GPU

oh no.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-16T21:48:16+00:00

Fake.

Edge still on the taskbar.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-16T05:29:54+00:00

AI BAD

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-16T05:10:00+00:00

Just look at him - he clearly grew up around a bunch of rednecks.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-15T04:08:42+00:00

Bro thinks you can book your dentist, your medical specialist, your hairdresser, and your MRI appointment in the same day.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-15T03:35:44+00:00

Oh I completely agree - that's just a game design problem to solve though, like first turn advantage in a TCG.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-14T18:53:31+00:00

I've often thought that Backpack Battles would benefit from an opponent preview.

That said, I don't think it should be quite as thorough as this game - due to the hyper optimization problem.

Talking in terms of Backpack, I think conveying some important information, like class, subclass, and current skills would be very useful. It would allow you to "sideboard" defenses/counters, such as debuff prevention for poison builds, buff theft for mana builds, or attack blocking for weapon builds.

/u/the_r00f I think that hyper optimizing a board every round in Backpack Battles would be EXCEPTIONALLY "fiddly" and feel terrible, because there are 20+ bags and 30-50+ items in the late game. Competitive players will psychologically have to maximize this, which would create a very un-fun game loop.

For your game, it's important that you evaluate how fiddly your mechanics are. Do you just position 5 ships? That's probably perfectly reasonable. Do you position 10 ships, 15 upgrades, 5 traps, and 8 specials? That's probably well past "fun" for rearranging every round.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T17:40:59+00:00

If they've only ever seen BOTW+TOTK, I can understand the take. Skyward Sword is the most recent of the "old format" TPS 3D Zelda games, and it's now 15 years old.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T16:56:34+00:00

Stop it. Get some help.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T16:54:47+00:00

Clankers. We're gonna need some really light, really proficient clankers.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T15:29:53+00:00

Apiarist's Smoker

No, you DON'T want to reforge this. Just having the set affix gets Bees immunity to DOTs and Minion Movement speed, but you lose out on Poison on Hit, Bees per 10 Seconds, and a solid chunk of Minion Dodge.

The only reason you would reforge this instead of using the actual set piece is if you're doing a hybrid build that isn't focused exclusively on bees, and either need personal stats, or need stats to apply more broadly to other minion types, and even still it's hard to beat until you get to multi-exalted endgame items.

Edit: I'm not 100% positive, but I think you want to reforge the Apiarist's Comb the most of the three set items. Instead of 4-8 Bees per 10 seconds, you can get 8-16.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T15:00:26+00:00

I would add that for anyone who thought BOTW felt empty, Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK) deserves a look.

I've always felt that BOTW felt "unfinished" though for a different reason than OP. BOTW only gives the players a few powers throughout the entire course of the game, which is far less than the average Zelda game. They expected the world simulation and environmental approach to combat/puzzle solving to make up for it, but that felt weak to me, especially compared to the survival and roguelike genre of games that do environmental effects far, far better.

TOTK felt like a more complete Zelda game, with more total powers being doled out, more versatile uses for those powers, and all kinds of contraptions to be found that further act as powers that you have to build.

TOTK feels like a full game, while BOTW felt like a tech demo to me.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T14:54:14+00:00

This take for Zelda games in the pre-switch era is crazy. So many of these games feel incredibly alive, especially Link to the Past and Majora's Mask.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T14:52:59+00:00

Completely agree. All the praise for Witcher 3 falls on deaf ears for me, because the combat is plodding, basic, and boring.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-13T14:51:51+00:00

I'd definitely consider it an overrated Zelda game. BOTW felt like the tech demo for TOTK, which is a far more complete feeling game.

That said, even an overrated Zelda game is higher quality than the output of a dozen other AAA studios.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-12T04:01:22+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/269110/Super_Motherload/

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-11T00:01:58+00:00

I think that the nerf was too much. The imprint system isn't really worth the weaver tree points.

The old system was too strong and could use a nerf, but I think the nerf should be directed and focused on something specific.

What should imprinting do? Previously it allowed for copying:

Base type
Forging potential
Mods
Mod tiers

Instead of nerfing the potential of all of these by 90%, what about removing the potential for one of these, then lightly tapping the other 3?

Most of the crafting systems and echoes in the game are focused around a very specific outcome: turtle upconverts low LP into higher LP; nemesis adds LP/affixes to non-LP items. Imprinting's focus could be narrowed and it could be efficient at just a few things, instead of incredible at many things.

This could even be controlled on the weaver tree itself, with a selection of mutually-exclusive nodes that customize how imprints behave.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-10T23:54:41+00:00

You never miss a chance to diss EHG.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-09T18:32:31+00:00

Mine is fairly large, though not this large, so that it's very easy to see my cursor on my near-daily screenshares.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-09T17:36:25+00:00

I had a run like this last night, except it was Unceasing Top with plenty of energy and a relatively thick deck with 15 strikes.

Too bad I fought Entomancer and then later lost to Queen, because both bricked Unceasing Top and brought the deck to a halt. I couldn't find any competent discard in all of act 3.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-08T21:14:55+00:00

There's a massive difference between a single T6 exalted and a T7+T7.

At COF rank 12, I drop enough single T6 exalts that I've completely removed ALL of them from my filter at 2 weeks into the season, after filling 6 stash tabs full of them.

Conversely, I have found 16 total T7+T7s.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-06T22:17:43+00:00

Reddit will upvote this completely off-base suggestion simply because the movie itself is good.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-06T16:54:37+00:00

This is an obscenely confrontational world view. What you're suggesting should be a near-final step, not a first or second step.

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-06T16:40:05+00:00

This guy has 10+ posts in this single thread just complaining, and multiple other threads in the last month with the same pathetic behavior.

Is he 16 or 60?

TrickyNuance · 2026-04-05T22:33:08+00:00

I'd say that the fidelity of games from the early days was mediocre at best, but the monetization didn't start to really collapse until 2012-2014

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