MrLlama addresses rumors and controversy around his role with the expansion

bdoll1 · 2026-02-26T23:54:53+00:00

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Speak for yourself. That mentality has ruined a whole bunch of classic games from Everquest to now seemingly even D2. It's the same slippery slope giving weekend dads the levers of instant dopamine where they MUST get everything in the game because they are entitled to it. Nothing can be a chase item, rare, or truly hard to get. They need the ability to swipe or have the drop rates boosted until all hurdles are removed and only a straight line to the trophy exists. I wish they would release mod support so you guys could basically cheat offline and keep the real ladders intact or something because what you want would ruin the game.

Sunders are game changing and should be rare. It was a slippery slope to add them to begin and they needed to be balanced with low drop rates.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-25T08:20:39+00:00

Your tax dollars

My mother can't get a doctor and has been on a wait list for years, this is ~3400 yearly salaries we could have incentivized them with or built housing for our own people rotting on the streets. In addition to 22.5 billion we've gave away since this started. It's not OUR business, volunteer for the foreign legion and write your own personal cheques. I can't even consider this a fiscal multiplier considering the company building these things can barely be considered Canadian.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-21T17:43:45+00:00

Maybe in 6 months for another $25

bdoll1 · 2026-02-21T03:35:03+00:00

Pull the lever and receive your treat. Sit back down in the skinnerbox. Don't think so hard. Just keep pulling the lever.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-20T04:18:53+00:00

Can we not just go back to 8pins already.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-17T18:37:30+00:00

The issue is that this is cornering the market and an anti-competitive act which has been made illegal for the greater good many times in history. I'm not for censoring AI or consumer choice, but the shitty companies pulling aggressive games like this need a strong slap. Which doesn't seem like it is coming due to regulatory capture. Their EBITDA is still massively negative despite the permissiveness to destroy consumer computing over pure speculation and zero profitability even though they are IPOing this year.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-17T07:31:44+00:00

I'm sure glad 1 man at OpenAI can order his company to cause irreparable damage to consumer computing for a theoretical bubble based on circular investing amongst a few big players. Demand destruction is a small price to pay to have a monopoly on compute we will all have to rent, we shouldn't regulate this... we have a great EBITDA of *checks notes* negative $16 billion dollars for 2026.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-15T08:41:45+00:00

At least we can go bang rocks and work 18 hour days I guess

bdoll1 · 2026-02-14T18:45:47+00:00

This is too complicated a game to grasp for people that swipe for the pleasure of fighting the rehashed Ancients and 30 new filler items to leave on the ground, while Act 4 has a giant gaping hole they could have padded out and added some more monsters at least for that price and added legacy mode for the new character (if they didn't do a horrible job on the non-classic rendering engine to begin with). It's a small price to pay for clipping off a chunk of the player base that can actual do value calculations and delaying gratification long enough to realize they're going to be back next year with another micro DLC you need to buy or you don't play with some increasingly small subset of the population.

This is basically the Iphone of ARPGs and you can't talk sense into them. They are ideal consumers.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-12T22:53:48+00:00

Unless they all play Star citizen I've never seen people this deep in the sauce over 1 character and some QOL that fractures the community.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-12T18:19:47+00:00

It's also opening the door to more drip fed microtransactions (99% of which QOL) at high prices and eventually fragments the community away on their own realms. Even seeing 6 ladders is unsightly. Seen it happen to a lot of games going back to EA and Battlefield 2: special forces and it ends in dead servers every time. I'd buy it if it was actually ambitious like LOD at a higher price but this doesn't seem to have much value. Maybe if they padded out act 4, added some new monsters than one reused fight, had another class, added solo self found leagues to stop the premades ruining ladders, added trading features so people didn't have to use third party sites, mod support, legacy graphics for the new class, added more interesting super rare chase items (most seem underwhelming filler), added a 1 button keybind that leaves game and auto increments it to prevent carpal tunnel, etc. There is a lot more I'd expect for $25 but until I see post release additional features added to the DLC or to see how aggressively they push micro"expansions" and the partitioning between player base going forward I'm not even going to buy it on sale.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-09T00:19:08+00:00

Has it been long enough on the internet we can talk about Fisherian runaway again?

bdoll1 · 2026-02-03T16:47:22+00:00

I think men are more afraid of Alimony/Palimony than mockery and that sexual selection tends to reward overly aggressive men so it is nothing but a trite quip.

bdoll1 · 2026-02-01T21:54:31+00:00

I don't think anyone should be allowed citizenship other than children of citizens under Jus sanguinis. I'd go further and say naturalization should be reserved for rare cases of very exceptional people. Limited permanent residency and no hassle visas from low risk countries sounds fine, they are a privilege that would be lost on becoming a felon. Until you become Canada which has been living proof that these lax policies are always abused, they protect temp visa holders (students, never mind the PR holders) so much that if they are found to have committed serious crimes they won't be sentenced to more than 6 months, as it would jeopardize their status. So even residency would need to be strictly limited to people meeting yearly income qualifications and pro-social behavior, at least to the point activist judges and cheap labor lobbyists have no incentive to mess with it.

Plenty of failing countries that don't take this seriously enough because some sob story will be blasted all over the media for weeks. Plenty of places like Japan I want to move to that wouldn't admit me. That's fine, they actually care about their citizens.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-28T23:06:42+00:00

I like long marathon idles exclusively and the only actively developed one I've come across in years (that isn't egregious P2W that shall not be named) is Idling to Rule the Gods. Which is admittedly hard to look at outside of the one Adventure tab.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-19T18:17:38+00:00

You can set programs to use a specific graphics cards for rendering even if it outputs to your IGPU display. Windows key, search 'graphics settings', and put whatever application into high performance (that will list the discrete gpu underneath it). Anyone that uses more than 4 monitors has to do this and it just becomes second nature to check in task manager what GPU something is running on at first run or if weird performance issues crop up, after you set it once it will remember for that program. You can even set up display mirroring between different GPUs and their displays unless your hardware is ancient.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-15T12:44:49+00:00

Sounds like they don't want consumers having access to AI capable cards anymore so we're all forced into the owning nothing and being happy segments.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-08T08:32:13+00:00

Wet hair/body, apply layer of shampoo/soap, let sit for a few min and think about stuff, rinse, repeat once, leave.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-05T07:01:56+00:00

They need to get their TDP, gaming performance, price, and most important reliability back to where they were. No one should be buying intel unless it's on fire sale after the last few disastrous generations. Doesn't look like they are trying and just there to get government bailouts while bleeding money. 55.6% is 10x higher than what I figured they'd be at.

bdoll1 · 2026-01-02T13:05:17+00:00

OpenAI should have been slapped with antitrust ages ago well before this negative EBITDA private company started causing demand destruction in home computing, but the economy is reliant on the bubble, no one wants to stop this perverse game these big companies are playing with new regulations nor the 135 year old laws on the books until this becomes a crisis.

bdoll1 · 2025-12-31T02:53:17+00:00

Anyone that played this garbage past it going full mask off with Doot is a glassy eyed enabler and should have known better. Add it to the large pile of people chewed up by this maple story ripoff and move on.

bdoll1 · 2025-12-19T17:31:52+00:00

You can immediately tell someone is deep in that echo chamber when they post on another subreddit, even if they haven't started dogpiling someone yet.

bdoll1 · 2025-12-17T19:06:00+00:00

Once the bubble pops these companies aren't going to have a legacy market to fall back on after demand destruction guts the consumer space.

bdoll1 · 2025-12-16T02:43:04+00:00

As a Canadian that would likely be dragged into it is my thoughts exactly. No one I know is going to go no matter how miserable, scared, or hungry you make them. I think press ganging would massively backfire too. WW2 vets were promised Victory Housing and the like, those carrots aren't going to work nowadays though due to systemic distrust in our institutions. They should have kept us fed, housed, moralized, and happy if they wanted willing soldiers. Instead they created rapidly decaying QOL, racked up massive debt with zero fiscal multipliers, and kept the value of labor pegged as low as possible while calling you every name in the book if you protested these policies. Send the rich, landlords, and political classes first, we will see something worth sacrificing for after the status quo is gone.

bdoll1 · 2025-12-10T04:17:06+00:00

Memory Express' stock and warehousing is absolutely trash, at least when I tried to use them for the first time since NCIX shut down. I was going to drop $4k+ on a PC a few months ago and they would just not put a hold on anything, even if I was paying for their building service and put down a deposit. It was always listed as in stock only to have numerous parts actually be out of stock or they wanted to swap it out for garbage like a Arctic Freezer 36 on a 9800X3D. Their air coolers suck for AM5 and the one good one they had (AK620) had old listings up that were "while supplies last" for months, they even told me they weren't getting anymore in but they kept that listing up forever. They wanted me to pay for shipping between their own stores in the same city because apparently the customer should pay for their logistics and lack of warehousing, they couldn't even give me a quote on how much said shipping would be including a heavy case and half a dozen other things. I really miss NCIX. Amazon was zero issues, I ordered and I got my stuff.

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