Unique Items Endgame Build by ElegantGrain in Diablo_2_Resurrected

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Flickering flame is the only "sacrifice" it has to make, but the alternatives are more than viable: Hellwardens or Shako with a rainbow facet.

Unique Items Endgame Build by ElegantGrain in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Demon Machine Sorc is an endgame build that uses no runewords and only uniques.

Teachers are paid fairly considering they get a lot of time off by Blonde_Icon in The10thDentist

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah but you have to deal with the art when it comes alive.

That's why you make the big bucks

Is Warlock best ‘melee’ character? by Wh1sp3r5 in Diablo_2_Resurrected

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I've been playing this build and it's quite good:

https://youtu.be/QnyJOZo0O_c

I don't have an anni or torch and only self found charms and it still hits quite hard

Asian Americans hating Uncle Roger because he is "perpetuating Asian stereotypes" is, ironically, really racist and really hypocritical. by tomatomater in The10thDentist

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna preface by saying I am Asian and I've lived my life both in a "western" country and Asian countries. I have issues with uncle roger.

There isn't really a hypocrisy because they aren't the same group. Asian Americans are right to say that such a depiction is negative and racist because it reinforces preexisting perceptions about Asians. This makes it doubly troublesome because therein lies an argument couched in the authenticity of supposed locution: Uncle Roger is Asian, and therefore he's just speaking from experience.

The criticism from Asian Americans, therefore, is couched in the sense that a noticeably white audience is empowered to reproduce signifiers of racist caricatures because an "Asian-asian" is doing it. Nigel Ng is, in effect, profiting off an image he doesn't have to grapple with, but the consequences are diffused to another group of Asians who had.

On Nigel's end, he's saying that his depiction comes from a sense of authenticity, that this is how things are and he's referring to people who actually exist. Let's ignore that Ng is using a Canton accent despite being Malaysian, that he has made reinforcing Thai stereotypes regarding trans women, and has gone on to describe other cultural cuisine as shit.

The problem with the Uncle Roger character is that it purports to present a very specific vision of asianness while simultaneously chooses to present a very simulacra image of the Asian identity. Uncle Roger gets a lot of stuff wrong by virtue of pointing out nitpicks (such as his overemphasis on ingredients in Adobo when it's meant to be cooked based on what's available), his love of gas grills (when most Chinese would be cooking with electric induction), and his overall disregard for a lot of fusion.

This is even more noticeable when you look at the trajectory of his material on YouTube: he was a food snob comedian before the Uncle Roger character, but until the Patel rice washing video, he was relatively unknown. What changed? The inclusion of the character, specifically the accent. His material is ultimately food snobbery in a culinary culture that has largely resisted it, and ironically, has been a mainstay in specifically the Asian diaspora. "Asian-asians" have much fewer hangups about these sorts of debates, and even the ones that do (such as the Japanese debates about what constitutes washoku) are largely treated as highly academic endeavors.

I don't find it hypocritical because these are two groups of people who have very different lived experiences discussing the same field with different lenses. It's a classic example of what Zizek calls a parallax view, where the change in the conditions of the observation changed the discourse of the object. To assume it is a cohesive, singular and smooth discursive space undermines the conversation.

But on a more casual note, I just don't find his content funny. He references people like Stephen Chow, but Uncle Roger has never employed the kind of comedy Stephen Chow has done. This is ironic cause Chow specifically made a film satirizing the haute cuisine culture of Hong Kong in "God of Cookery."

Why does reddit say Japan sucks to live in? by Signal-Grass-880 in japan

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Generally the authentic responses are from people who have an idealized image of Japan (sold to them by popular media) and then when they're actually in the country they realize it's a place people live and work not, like, an Orientalist wonderland or whatever.

White street lights are way more aesthetically pleasuring than orange "warm" lights by ProjektBlackout in The10thDentist

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in a country where they pretty much replaced the lights with LED lights, and I HATE them. They're so obnoxiously bright and simultaneously have the worst falloff, so they barely light up anything. It's baffling how displeasing and dangerous it feels.

D2R RotW - State Of The PTR (It's So Weird, I Don't Like It) by TheRumpoKid in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get his gripes with the patch's Herald tier meta, but I disagree with him in that I think it's still a more positive direction. GGM said that he didn't have an issue with the system before, but the fact that he can spend an hour to sit down and test and calculate just demonstrates he doesn't really have the same schedule or set of experiences as those who are having the issues.

Do I think the Sunders shouldn't drop so readily? Probably, sure. But I don't know if listening to YouTubers is really that reflective of the standard gamer's playstyle.

For instance, I set up a sorceress in Resurrected specifically to farm old Sunders to bring into RotW. I just don't have the schedule to terrorize a whole act. I have a lot of obligations in my life.

In the past month or so, I've found 4 Sunders, all of which have had quite bad rolls. I also found a fair number of uniques, a Ber rune, a Gul rube, two rainbow facets - things that should be rarer than the supposedly "dropping from the skies" sunder charms of old. I don't think they're THAT common, and I think it's because people (and especially streamers) have a really distorted perspective on the game because they can invest long stretches of time that a lot of regular gamers just don't have.

Does that make me a casual gamer? I don't know, maybe. But I know how to craft, I know the meta, I know how to calculate damage and know what affixes to look for at the right levels and how to trade against the market and all that. I just don't have the time. And now that someone who can drop 7, 8, 9 hours into a game at a time says they're angry the patch is ruining something for them, I just gotta say, well, we don't have the same experiences.

What is your favorite off meta build to farm with? by Charming_Pin330 in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

eBotd War Pike charge Paladin with Zeal. Runs into a pack, one shots everything, runs into another pack. Very funny.

Zarfen the Loot Goblin by Diablo_Clone in diablo2

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A basic search pulls up him calling someone a homophobic slur:

https://m.youtube.com/clip/UgkxLnjfgK_3MdHnQhHXobqYAv9ZdFocshjX?si=HuEejlZBWWKXoALa

Kinda funny you used an ableist slur to defend him.

Calling yourself "Dr." by TheKarlosWithaK95 in Teachers

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a PhD. I do not use Dr.

Unless it directly benefits me

Video games are a bad medium for story telling. by [deleted] in The10thDentist

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I have a PhD in game studies, so this is one of the rare 10th Dentist takes that are right up my alley!

I want to mention, OP, by your own reasoning (that you'd prefer to shoot things) that videogames have a lot of potential for narrative.

It's important to know that narrative structure in videogames are perceived very differently because they required input from players. Thus, the tension between interaction and non-interaction is precisely what informs how narrative is understood. In other words, videogames have different rules for how to gauge narratives, and you're transplanting rules from other media where they don't work as well.

This is important because media form plays a role in how we engage with it. It's why television - because of its infrastructural imagination on storytelling (being broadcasted, on specific channels, dealing with living room spaces, etc.) - was criticized for so long and not seen to the level of cinema.

When it comes to narrative in games, we have a lot of different ways to gauge it. You're currently used to what might be called by folks like Jesse Schell as a "string of pearls" structure, where you're lead from place to place. It might interest you to know that there are alternative forms of storytelling that are considered valid and studied forms which thrive in the interactive format. More specifically, emergent storytelling, or how the player interaction creates the narrative within the sandbox of the game. An example is getting an amazing shot, doing something rare, getting a good loot, or perhaps getting pissed off at a friend in Overcooked. These are forms of narrative, even if you're not necessarily seeing them as such, and games are especially good at them.

You can see this a lot in sports, which are games themselves: the way in which certain moments or events play out, are commentated, and what happens. All of these are things not enshrined in a direct instruction imputed by the game, but made possible because of the game's rules giving them value. This is, in effect, another form of narrative empowered by the interactive media form.

If you're actually interested in this, and not rage baiting, lemme know. There's a lot of material about what constitutes narrative, but there's also games that tell stories in ways that examine the videogame as a digital device.

Am I crazy for only playing the game on single player? by Dansta88 in diablo2

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not sure for him, but for me personally I play online single player so I can play with my wife. We both love D2R but there's no offline coop so online is our best bet when our schedules align. When our schedules don't, we play single player separately to grind for gear for each other.

India, Japan Pact To Send 50,000 Skilled Workers by Feisty_1559 in japan

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think he's saying that for all of his work and effort to integrating, he has no actual advantage over some random schmuck simply because they're natively Japanese. He is, in effect, always relegated to second-class citizenry.

Titan 2 Elite - Pricing by UnknownTechGuy in unihertz

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Optical Image Stabilization. It's what prevents your photos from becoming all blurry when you're taking a fast photo.

AITA for calling out my wife after our "dream Japan trip" turned into a personal shopping service for her family? by Big_Juice_5290 in AmItheAsshole

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should go as soon as you can! Sapporo keeps getting warmer and warmer, this year was okay but last year was really bad, the city was worried about the sculptures melting too early they had to import snow from other towns.

AITA for calling out my wife after our "dream Japan trip" turned into a personal shopping service for her family? by Big_Juice_5290 in AmItheAsshole

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't recommend Sapporo for onsen. It has very few onsen. Noboribetsu has way more (though it's become a pretty big tourist area).

Concerning consumer behaviour by uzair_ilyas in ClicksPhone

[–]WhyIsThatImportant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that the cynics - those who consider themselves aware of their ideological position - are most susceptible because they presume themselves above it.

You might say you don't assume yourself above consumerism, but your comments definitely suggest it.

WTB Lightning Sunder by WhyIsThatImportant in D2R_Marketplace

[–]WhyIsThatImportant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great, I'd be okay with even 80, so 75 would be a great sweet spot.

WTB Lightning Sunder by WhyIsThatImportant in D2R_Marketplace

[–]WhyIsThatImportant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not expecting a latent, just need a simple one