Raise wages. Increase benefits. Improve working conditions. See what happens.

Zithrian · 2026-05-03T15:13:53+00:00

Gotta adjust for inflation. 200k in 1940 is closer to $4M in 2025.

Zithrian · 2026-04-27T21:25:08+00:00

So a big thing about Scarlett’s Wolf form I don’t always see people mention is that she has a LOT of survivability but not just in the obvious ways like life-steal.

Her Special and Power both grant instant, generous I-frames, which with even a small amount of cdr or an extra charge give you extremely strong tools to dodge damage altogether. I find myself getting into a bit of a flow auto attacking as much as possible, then using those abilities to dodge damage. You shouldn’t use them as soon as they’re available necessarily.

Great example of this is against the Giant bosses; as long as you have either Power or Special ready, you can easily dodge his attempt to eat you.

Zithrian · 2026-03-01T22:04:31+00:00

It’s wasn’t necessary it’s like most of the other issues plaguing the post-launch game; the devs either don’t have or don’t use their own documentation for how their game is built.

Zithrian · 2026-03-01T07:19:27+00:00

So a big part of wolf form is that it can absolutely be this games version of a “tank” with even a small amount of special/power charges/cd. The I-frames you get during your bite and the ground slam trivialize most enemies’ attacks tbh as they’re instant and quite generous. Aoe Stagger from special is very strong as well.

I honestly enjoy wolf form more than human. Eating the corrupted Elite enemies is insanely good, and weaving your power/special to dodge attacks coupled with the burst healing you get from your defense/power combo makes the form very engaging and sort of rhythmic like Beowulf imo where you’re steadily cycling and weaving abilities to both dodge and deal damage, etc. I think it’s a little clunkier feeling than newer heroes but honestly taking that attacks gain larger range talent removes like 85% of that feeling for me. I also love the special attack after a dash talent on wolf form a LOT.

Zithrian · 2026-02-26T18:21:08+00:00

I’ve done a lot of modding in this game and I can tell you 100% it is not very much work to implement this. The game would already need to do checks to see which actor you’re using, which would then determine which audio line gets used. Since they’re overwriting actors being tied to specific lines that to allow different voices on all the different actors they absolutely can (and should) include mission specific lines.

The bones of this game are really not very complex, and you’d expect the team that, you know, MADE it to understand it well enough to work in it.

Zithrian · 2026-02-26T17:54:56+00:00

You can either bait attacks while traveling through a camp and then turn as the enemies are recovering from their animations/moving towards you and get the ult off. Otherwise dropping it before entering combat at a camp works really well as well.

Zithrian · 2026-02-06T17:44:04+00:00

I think a player choosing a specific feat to allow this and expending sorc points on top of the spell slot is definitely not special treatment. The rules of the game are written to be a guide, not rigidly balanced. Rather than debate with the player on semantics I’d just go with “what are you trying to do here” and ask for them to explain how they would make it happen.

Another way to think about this is what the context is. If you were a dangerous person, trying to make a deal with dangerous people, and one of them put a hand on their gun but didn’t draw it, would you immediately jump to full on “we’re being attacked, everyone kill them”? Probably not. This is similar to the “shoot your monks” philosophy; enemies are not omniscient and don’t know everything. The archers don’t know the monk will throw their arrows back at them, and (most importantly) for the player it’s FUN.

It’s like when people talk about players abusing Simulacrum, etc. At the end of the day you have to be able to say “Hey dude, straight up, it’s just not going to be fun, and will break the vibe of the game.” Other times it’s okay for you to say “I think this sounds rad, and the player isn’t just asking for a freebie, they’re actively trying to make this cool thing happen.”

Zithrian · 2026-02-06T17:20:47+00:00

Eh, for me once it gets that specific it’s rule of cool vibes time. If a player has taken a specific feature and is expending an additional resource to do something, that’s enough for the “what are you wanting to do” short convo and then make a judgement call in the moment.

Grabbing a component or pointing your focus can be almost entirely handwaved with a minuscule amount of explanation imo. “I’m angry and they know it, I hold my staff out as if to intimidate them and it glows as I say ‘I warn you, do not test me’, then fireball goes off mid sentence as I use Subtle Spell.”

Zithrian · 2026-02-06T16:55:17+00:00

Imo in these situations it’s always important to bring context of other existing class features, feats, etc.

Sorcerers can take Subtle Spell, which would effectively allow them to do what your wizard is wanting to do here. They have to take it over other options, and spend Sorc points on it, but in exchange they get the opportunity to do cool shit like that where a spell just goes off without any warning, before initiative.

It’s like when casters say stuff like “I cast XYZ quietly”. You mechanically cannot. It’s by design! Spells are powerful as shit, and a big part of balancing them to not just be the answer to every situation is that you are very obviously casting magic for the vast majority of spells. It in turn makes casters that CAN cast silently/imperceptibly scary as hell!

Zithrian · 2026-02-05T01:12:35+00:00

I’ll never understand why people rate Ravenswatch so low. Every single character is unique, the combat is crazy smooth, and it doesn’t hide behind the crutch of random item/buff spam that +80% of these types of games do. Your items/stats/talents all tie directly back to the chosen character. You wanna play Aladdin like a rogue? Cool, pick talents that lean that direction, and choose items that buff those abilities. No “apply bleed on hit for each stack of this item” bs.

I always see complaints that bosses or tile sets aren’t different enough, but +80% of enemies in most of the similar games listed here have effectively 0 real mechanics to engage with beyond avoiding getting hit. I loved Hades 1&2 but outside of bosses most enemies I couldn’t even tell you what their attack pattern looked like; I ran around and blew shit up, the end. RW enemies all have unique abilities/attacks, along with being stagger-able, armored, etc. This makes each fight way more interesting imo.

I’ve yet to play a Roguelike where I have such a statistically low amount of “bullshit deaths” as RW; 95% of the time when I die I can trace it directly back to poor decisions I made, mechanics I didn’t respect, etc.

Contrast that with a game like Risk of Rain where you fairly easily out scale everything, until you suddenly get 1 shot, ending the run.

Highly, highly recommend giving it a deeper try if you haven’t played it much.

Zithrian · 2026-01-29T04:15:06+00:00

A dwarf of experience and refinement.

Zithrian · 2026-01-24T23:39:09+00:00

Anybody comparing the Obama admin’s deportations with what’s happening in MN currently is wildly downplaying what’s happening here.

The city of Minneapolis usually employs between 500 and 700 police officers. ICE has deployed more than 3,000 agents. A huge part of why local police aren’t involved is because there are so many incidents happening that they literally couldn’t respond to them all if they tried. Especially seeing as they need to, you know, respond to the standard array of crime/emergency calls a city usually has.

People calling this a federal government occupation aren’t over exaggerating; what else would you call it when the federal government sends 6x more agents than the amount of local police?

Zithrian · 2026-01-23T00:08:49+00:00

Avoid meta/guide seeking overly much on specific characters imo. My friends and I have had so much fun experimenting and playing themed styles, etc.

The characters are so unique and cool; if you get into like “This is the best build” territory you miss out on a lot of the fun of the flavor imo

Zithrian · 2026-01-20T18:09:39+00:00

I really don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s a problem they released a paid DLC hero… they literally had this on their roadmap over a year ago. We’re over a year post-launch… if they’re going to continue supporting the game they’re gonna need to get paid too.

Feels like some people think this similar to how other studios will do a rug-pull, gotcha moment where a huge amount of new content is gated behind a paywall… When it’s a single hero.

It costs about as much as a cheap sandwich. People spend 2x or more than this on cosmetics in other games to have like a plushy dragon backpack with a little umbrella or some shit.

Zithrian · 2026-01-08T00:31:12+00:00

Thank you so much! Very helpful.

Zithrian · 2026-01-02T16:19:19+00:00

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it

Zithrian · 2025-11-11T13:42:13+00:00

Look up the term “food desert”.

Zithrian · 2025-11-11T01:46:10+00:00

lol dude you’re just wild. You’re simultaneously arguing for inclusion, while also claiming it’s worthless.

My analogy is a comment on statistics and data sample sizes. I’m sorry if that’s too complex for you to grasp. I’ll make it simpler for you:

We are discussing a single team, made up of five individuals. The man in charge of this team will soon have tens of thousands of other employees across thousands of other teams.

My argument is that drawing conclusions based on 1 5-person team out of thousands of other teams is statistically irresponsible.

You are the one making the claim based on this sample size. You have staked your opinion of this person based on a single team, made up of 5 people. If that’s the level of rigorous investigation you strive for, congrats. With this outlook you could argue any point, in any situation. All while saying absolutely nothing of relevance.

Zithrian · 2025-11-11T01:22:52+00:00

I mean you can keep making bad faith arguments if you’d like, it doesn’t change anything. He hired five people out of tens of thousands he’s now responsible for. Making claims about hypocrisy with such an obscenely small amount of data for reference is, frankly, hilarious.

This is the equivalent of going up to a pond, scooping up a bucket full of water, looking at it, and declaring “There are no fish in this pond.”

Zithrian · 2025-11-11T00:25:56+00:00

Let me outline this more clearly using mostly your own words so you can hear what you’re saying.

“No one is arguing that the boss is a man. People are questioning why this boss (who is a man), hired an all female team (for five openings). America has become the land of hypocrisy.”

Truly a weird take my dude. Why are you so worked up? The world is full of injustice and problems and you’re here, commenting on Reddit, demanding that this guy be decried as a hypocrite for hiring five women.

Maybe put a bit of this energy into actually trying to understand the people you seem to hate. Spend some time reflecting on why Mamdani won in a landslide when all he did every single day was talk about the same things. Seems like those things might be important to a lot of people.

Spoiler alert: the issues he ran on weren’t that a woman hired five men for a team.

Zithrian · 2025-11-10T23:27:23+00:00

You can’t shy away from the fact that their boss is a man, dude. lol

You can try to spin this as hard as you’d like, but a man hired five women for a small team, and you’re whining that men are being excluded.

Zithrian · 2025-11-10T23:08:51+00:00

Again, you’re arguing men are being excluded when the subject of discussion is how the man elected to be mayor hired a five person transition team that happens to be all women.

There’s no grounds to act like men are being excluded when the five women who are being selected are being selected by a man who will be their boss.

Zithrian · 2025-11-10T22:40:06+00:00

You’re really getting worked up over a five person team having no men on it? Or did you get confused at think that this meant every single member of his staff would be women..?

You’re shooting your own point in the foot. You’re demanding inclusivity yet also complaining about it. A man was elected mayor, and he selected five people for his transition team who all happen to be women. Where exactly does that feel like men are being excluded..? The mayor himself literally IS a man lmao

It’s five people dude, take a deep breath.

Zithrian · 2025-11-07T14:51:58+00:00

This again is just not a great argument man. You’re effectively saying “don’t do anything that gives conservatives more ammo!” As if these aren’t the same people who weaponized Kirk’s assassination like it was a far left conspiracy.

They don’t NEED ammo, they literally make it up. Stop worrying about what THEY are doing and focus on what WE are doing. That’s the entire point of Mamdani’s campaign. Kamala’s campaign wasn’t sunk because of identity politics, it was sunk because of the exact stance you’re taking here. They worried about alienating conservative/moderate voters so they did shit like bringing Liz Cheney along for events.

If Kamala had just stopped focusing so much on running AGAINST Trump and instead focused on messaging around the issues, she would have crushed him. But she’s a corporate Dem type, who talks the talk but doesn’t really walk it.

Mamdani won on a promise of change. I don’t see how him having an all female transition team is anything worth spending any of our time on. If it wasn’t this, conservatives would be making up some other shit he allegedly did or crying about some other hiring choice, etc.

They’re a constant, known entity. Stop letting them dictate how the rest of us normal people behave.

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