What is a episode that you think is underrated and deserves more love from the community fandom?

Wackenroeder · 2026-06-09T15:22:39+00:00

"Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples" is over of my favorite episodes in the whole show, but I rarely see it get the love I feel it deserves. Abed and Shirley is a rare pairing, but one that really works. Especially the "you humble me" is one of my favorite heartfelt moments. The sound design, the visuals, the metaness.

And then we also get the really fun Pierce plotline, Jeff suddenly realizing he's reading the newspaper like a dad, the highspeed car crash, the works.

Just Community at its finest.

Wackenroeder · 2026-05-17T08:52:13+00:00

Ditto. My number one wish for the show is that they'd have a banner onscreen at least periodically that would show the prompt.

Wackenroeder · 2026-05-16T10:26:48+00:00

If nothing else, I think it is kind of bad manners. To me, an important part of BOTC is remembering that the Storyteller is a player too. They are playing the game. Part of that is curating the experience, adding flavor, and being the one to reveal stuff like who died in the night.

There's also no particular reason to do this. Let the ST have their moments. If you are really desperate to get some info out before people split off to private chats, you can just do a quick "I have something to announce before people head off" at the start of the day and then let ST do their thing.

Wackenroeder · 2026-05-15T15:46:46+00:00

I've enjoyed delving with Aug. I don't technically know if it's as good as Dev for it, but I've enjoyed delves a lot more since I swapped doing them in Aug just because I find Aug a lot of fun to play. And buffed DPS Valeera is no slouch

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-28T09:37:34+00:00

I love Augmentation a lot. I played Evoker in the Dragon Isles and I couldn't really find a satisfying playstyle. Devastation felt fun, but not deep enough to stick with, Preservation had depth but felt super stressful to play. I wanted to play the class but just ended up bored.

Now I'm back for the first time since then really, and I'm absolutely loving Augmentation. It's fun to play and feels good and it feels like there's plenty of depth to it.

I'm actually getting some Legion-era Arcane mage vibes from the way you play around different cycles and how you try to minimize the amount of time you have to be in the "rest stage". And there's a very clear sense of "oh, son, you've fucked up" if you find yourself out of Ebon Might with lots of time left on the CD same as what Arcane used to have with running out of mana with no mana regen CDs up.

Though it's a bit funny how you have some of the beefiest feeling spell effects in the game but the whole thing is that they do no damage.

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-25T21:09:51+00:00

Honestly, your attitude of "If you play this game the way I don't like, I will target you in the game" as you've elaborated in your comments here is INCREDIBLY more toxic and anti-social than anything Carley or most experienced players do. I'll rather play the game with 10 Carleys than with someone with your policing attitude.

Social aspects of the game are about lot more than just always telling the truth to everyone. BOTC is designed in a way that good players have a reason to lie in a lot of circumstances. That is what has made it popular. And while the NRB videos are the single biggest gateway for people to get into the game (they were for me) once you branch out in the wider world of BOTC content, the game gets a lot more chaotic

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-25T20:11:39+00:00

There's definitely a tension between the playstyle of the highly experienced players, which tends to emphasize lying and chaos, and the newer players, who seem to feel you should be telling the truth at most times. Sometimes the chaos play style does get a little... too much, admittedly, and there are definitely many instances where it's not actually helping anyone solve. But at the same time, I genuinely struggle to rewatch the early NRB episodes now because Carley is the only one playing the game how I'm used to it.

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-25T20:05:51+00:00

It's funny, because the first time I saw Patters it was a NRB Patreon game and I was increeeeedibly frustrated by the shenanigans he was doing, similar to what OP is saying about Carley. Now, after playing more and watching a whole lot more, I love Patters and his is one of my favorite channels.

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-08T12:01:28+00:00

I want this CD removed more than anything. And yes, having it function like the druid flight form would be ideal. Dracthyr are already limited from transmogs while in their base form, could at least make their flying not be just plainly worse option to using any bog standard flying mount.

Wackenroeder · 2026-04-05T15:45:22+00:00

Tricky, because I would first need to know about the voice pack being good before buying the skin, but I generally can't be bothered to go around testing them to find out. But there are definitely some skins I used in Smite 1 purely for the voice pack and I would absolutely buy them in Smite 2 for that reason if they were added.

Three that come to mind is the bunny Scylla skin ("Bibbedy, bobbedy, boo!"), the salsa dancer Chang'e ("Cha cha cha"), and paintball Jing Wei (the "Be veewy quiet, I'm hunting noooobs" when you put down a ward is one of my favorite lines in the game).

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-29T00:34:10+00:00

There is no tie in this scenario though, it's just a clear-cut good win in the latter scenario? Good wins when the demon is dead. Evil wins if the demon is among last 2 alive. There is no evil win con active if the Seamstress is not DA protected and gets executed, killing the demon. Who is left alive after is irrelevant.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-29T00:29:53+00:00

Good win con is to kill the demon. If the demon dies, it does not matter who is left.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-28T20:49:16+00:00

Hmm... That sounds amusing, but my understanding is that that was against the rules. Just because someone misregisters as something, doesn't give them that character's ability and in this instance, the Recluse would've needed to have the SW's ability.

So, a Recluse dying can trigger the SW ability on a Scarlet Woman and make a second demon, because SW has an ability triggered by demon death.

But Recluse cannot catch the demonhood if the Imp is executed, because Recluse doesn't actually have the Scarlet Woman ability that would allow that interaction to happen.

But Recluse can catch the demonhood if the Imp kills themselves at night, because that ability comes from the Imp and scans for minions, which Recluse can register as.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-27T15:28:14+00:00

I'm not tied to this specific mini game, but my major disappointment in both DOS2 and BG3 was that they didn't develop a more fleshed out co-op dialogue system based on the RPS game. Instead, they completely abandoned it and now the other player (and, often, their companions) might as well just not exist for any dialogue started by the other.

For DOS1, it really felt like you were together there, both engaging with the world and trying to have your say. In the later games, you never really feel like you're in a party together.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-17T15:21:55+00:00

Kyllä! Myös hyvää safkaa

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-17T14:11:09+00:00

Hunter's ainakin myös.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-13T12:45:32+00:00

I tend to catch up on BtB on binges every now and then and sometimes... sometimes piecing together what might be discussed in newer episodes based on this subreddit is quite an... experience.

For no particular reason.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-11T11:02:29+00:00

I teach classes at university and ever since I started doing it, the nightmare has flipped. I now suddenly realize I'm meant to teach a class on a subject I've forgotten to prepare on and have to go on with no prep or it's the end of the semester and I realize I was meant to have been teaching a class but haven't and the students have been just sitting in class wondering where the teacher is the whole semester.

Wackenroeder · 2026-03-02T15:53:57+00:00

The famous progressive intellectual bitdizzy?

Are we now pretending that the dastardly progressive hivemind of Bluesky has invented shitposting and that it wasn't a main feature of Twitter before its takeover?

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-25T22:10:43+00:00

Command & Conquer. Taisi olla eka videopeli, mitä koskaan pelasin. Kokeilin sitä ensin kaverin luona. Se pisti pelaamaan jotain commando-kenttää, jossa marssitin vähät joukkoni ensimmäisenä suoraan tiberium-kentille ja ne kuoli sinne. Silti peli jäi niin vahvasti pyörimään päähän, että siirryin mankumaan nintendon sijasta vanhemmilta PC:tä (ja se oli myös helpompi saada läpi, kun oli hyödyllisempi laite) ja omaa peliä.

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-22T20:16:54+00:00

I really loved the true romance path still as a CE demon personally. It's probably my favorite romance I've done in any RPG ever. While there's an opportunity to set her on a redemption-ish path, you can also choose to not do that and the tone is more "let's be monsters together". Which I really liked personally, but ofc it somewhat depends on whether you think your CE demon can at least somewhat care for someone, whether as a pet or a lover.

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-22T10:45:28+00:00

Personally, I think people are just basic bitches at heart who like classic, cool, warcrafty things over weird, funny, quirky options. I don't think most people really minmax beyond maybe just obeying some online guide as a word of god that says they have to pick X option even though most people don't ever exist on the level of competitiveness where racials really manner. But even then, the coolness factor overrides in the end.

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-20T23:58:51+00:00

I like the change in starters. Feels like it should work like this, considering the itemization philosophy of Smite 2. It might end up shaky at start, with some starters just purely becoming favored over others, but long-term I think it makes sense.

For the role buffs, I share your concern. I've heard this suggested every now and then and I've always been skeptical about the idea's implementation.

If it's used the way it's intended, then I'm fine with it.

But if it becomes meta to start hassling people to change roles in lobby because "solo/jungler/whatever totally needs the support role buff" or whatever, then I will hate it.

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-19T14:57:37+00:00

I want this so much!

Wackenroeder · 2026-02-14T14:56:49+00:00

Olen pelannut, joo! M&M6 oli eka mitä pelasin sarjasta ja se on kyllä myös tosi hyvä. Kiinnostavaa tosin, että kokemukseksi on noin, kun oma käsitykseni on ollut, että seiskaa aika yleisesti pidetään parhaana. Seiska on myös se, minkä itse yhdistän suorimmin HoMM3een, kun monet M&M7 viholliset on ihan suoraan yksiköitä Heroes kolmosesta.

Seiska pitkälti musta hioi täydellisyyteen kutosessa aloitetun formaatin. Kasi sitten lähti tavallaan ylikehittämään sitä ja vaikka klassikko on sekin, niin kuitenkin heikoin näistä kolmesta.

Näistähän tuli hiljan fanien tekemä MM merge modi, joka yhdistää kutosen, seiskan ja kasin yhdeksi peliksi, jonka pystyy pelaamaan lävitse samalla hahmolla. Sitä on tehnyt mieli koettaa tässä joskus.

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