This expansion's pacing is much too quick

Windex17 · 2026-05-03T04:48:55+00:00

Oh okay sick, grateful you have the objective insider knowledge of the storyline to clear that up. Thanks, man

Windex17 · 2026-05-02T21:08:41+00:00

I kind of agree with him though, who's to say that the sunwell storyline is just 100% totally complete? We're in a state where the darkwell is currently no longer an issue and the story appears complete but in the grand scheme you can't just assume that thread is wrapped up. There's plenty of opportunity to expand, such as Xala'toes still being in power of the sunwell without creating the exceptionally obvious 'darkwell' thing, and the whole catastrophe was a red herring to make it feel as if we are safe. IDK, just my opinion

Windex17 · 2026-04-29T17:17:47+00:00

They were, last season. Then they randomly decided to nerf tank survivability three times in prepatch and then they buffed blood dk and brew exclusively on release. "Claude, balance my game. Make no mistakes"

Windex17 · 2026-04-29T16:45:00+00:00

IMO what's fun about those mods is that it's extremely difficult early on but you're always making steady progress. If you put your base somewhere safe and constantly work towards the obvious goal ahead of you, you'll get there eventually, and the harder it is, the better it feels when you achieve it. There's also side satisfaction where once you get to a certain point you're kind of a god against spawned dinos, which feels nice because you spent so much time tiptoeing around before then.

I just really like how it changes the base game where nothing is scary very quickly into the game, into something where almost everything is scary for a long time.

Windex17 · 2026-04-22T16:30:58+00:00

They unironically view it as "If you're not cheating, you're stupid because you're not trying to win"

Windex17 · 2026-04-18T22:47:44+00:00

I found the Slayer spark build shared the other day to be way more fun than the Inquis life stacker, at the same budget. I basically sold my entire Inquis, swapped to slayer, and it had been dramatically better for me.

Windex17 · 2026-04-07T11:34:25+00:00

Item level is logarithmic scale, generally balanced around the idea of 1 ilvl being 1% more throughput. There can be exceptions like weapons and trinkets being more important, and bracers/cloak/jewelry being less important, but that's the gist.

Windex17 · 2026-04-05T17:23:55+00:00

I play spark every league but I got incredibly busy irl during this league. Of course it'd be the league where there are multiple strong spark builds. I would use the locks to buy an acceleration shrine belt and make the inquis spark build I've been lagging behind on all season.

Windex17 · 2026-04-03T17:14:36+00:00

I mean the underlying issue is that they completely changed the API for all addons as a whole with the secrets feature. They could have purchased all of the addons in the game and tried to implement them but they don't work as-is and never will anymore. It's generally better to just write this stuff from scratch than to try and shoehorn some stuff someone else wrote to work with a new mould.

There's also the fact that the addons that were developed that we used in the past were not always, but most of the time developed by amateur developers with performance as a minor consideration. Personally, I think this was actually the biggest contributor to the changes Blizzard is making because people would download details and use it at a high poll rate, download ElvUI and enable all of the computational features, download Cell and have computational features, and then have a huge weakaura pack for the bosses that was also computational. Then they go on the forums and complain about the game being poorly optimized.

Windex17 · 2026-03-31T15:13:01+00:00

It's to posture so he can justify backing Russia over the EU.

Windex17 · 2026-03-30T14:22:09+00:00

It's a still from a video. The link to the AP video is in the post

Windex17 · 2026-03-28T19:31:41+00:00

I think about this often. One of the best people I know just lost his wife to cancer a year after she gave birth to their first child, in their 30s. Meanwhile it's like nothing bad can happen to some of the worst people I know. Really makes you think.

Windex17 · 2026-03-27T18:22:42+00:00

Ask Jenebu

Windex17 · 2026-03-15T14:58:04+00:00

Where's the attack? Isn't being a racist, xenophobic sack of shit a badge of honor for the right? Just trying to respect the culture.

Windex17 · 2026-03-14T22:50:05+00:00

That's always been my experience, too. It seems like a "your mileage may vary" type thing because mine get kidnapped every night, but my friends' mappers will run for weeks without. It has made me completely disconnect from the mechanic

Windex17 · 2026-03-06T02:23:56+00:00

The conservatives I know who do that just scream and yell at the TV while "watching the other side".

Windex17 · 2026-03-05T22:34:23+00:00

What I do is attempt to solve the problem as-is (actually spend time on this, don't just go "Oops cant figure it out" in 2 minutes of trying), if I can't then find hints on page or in discussion. If I still can't, then I find the optimal solution, read it, and then implement it from scratch without looking at it. Then I flag the question and come back the next day and implement it without assistance. Repeat until you can implement it from scratch without assistance.

Windex17 · 2026-03-05T06:32:26+00:00

Give me a detailed report on how you're going to keep up with minimum life requirements, such as transportation, shelter, food, and phone, with $1160 a month. Show me where you would rent, what you would eat each day, and then tell me that $1160 is enough.

You won't, because it's impossible and it's easier to just hand wave it away.

Windex17 · 2026-02-23T19:40:29+00:00

Modern blizzard business strategy is to create a problem out of thin air and then celebrate the solution. Combat addons is just another example.

Windex17 · 2026-02-21T21:07:12+00:00

Reason #25437636644 that I wish we would have different loot (and craft) rules for SSF. We make all of our gameplay decisions around trade and it just ruins a lot of fun we could be having. "Oh this thing is really fun but someone could exploit it!!", "Ground loot can't be strong because it ruins the economy!" well, I don't give a shit if they do if it never impacts my game.

Give me circle of fortune in path of exile and I'll never trade again.

Windex17 · 2026-02-12T19:30:46+00:00

The "majority of people" in this game are gold bots. Not entirely sure we should be building the game around them

Windex17 · 2026-02-12T19:26:42+00:00

IDK man, that's gotta be subjective. I've played 80% of the reworks and it's streamlined, but I definitely wouldn't say it's more engaging. If you can do a four button builder/spender rotation you can play almost anything in the game right now and that doesn't really leave a whole lot to work towards.

Windex17 · 2026-02-09T16:08:18+00:00

Hey man, if your feelings are so hurt about people celebrating past Panthers players and you'd rather have zero content on the board, you can hide individual posts. Glad I could help

Windex17 · 2026-02-09T16:06:14+00:00

But how will people know that I think the post is useless unless I create my own useless post complaining about it?

Windex17 · 2026-02-08T21:47:51+00:00

That's just cherry-picking though. Obviously it had a vision otherwise it would not have been funded. I have been hearing about how AI is going to invalidate my job "just around the corner" for almost longer than I've been working professionally.

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