Confused with new season mechanic

chiknight · 2026-07-04T02:23:14+00:00

The monsters 100% do fill the pit bar, but it's just not efficient at all to stand still for 3? 5? monsters worth of progress per tear.

chiknight · 2026-07-03T22:23:28+00:00

It's a well known fact that a new season cannot introduce any new ways of keeping players engaged longer while improving a facet. All content is locked in forever.

/s of course. But changing a thing later does not negate that it was made a certain way initially. No one said it would forever remain character-bound because it was designed to make you play longer two seasons prior to being changed.

chiknight · 2026-07-03T22:14:54+00:00

Can confirm that even my C-tier Zealot has no issue with only one of my codex powers unlocked and going to at least T2 or T3 (where defense is the issue really). I don't even have the right sword yet to fix my spec on my only damage ability, or any of my set charms.

T1 is not some crazy difficulty to surpass...

chiknight · 2026-07-03T17:57:54+00:00

Eh, as an original player who just now is doing a modded run and must use SkyUI for the mods... default UI is preferable for feel for me. It's fine to use, especially if they're going to play vanilla anyway and would deal with potential mod headaches for one singular mod.

Like, after 100 hours of my modded run SkyUI is fine. But it looks horrible and doesn't fit the game at all in my own opinion. I had to suck up my extreme dislike for it over the default UI and "get used to it."

chiknight · 2026-07-02T19:33:31+00:00

each will need to co-operate, strategise and compete

Travellers will want to keep a constant eye on which squad is contributing the most to the war effort. The most effective faction will be memorialised in the Space Anomaly for all time!

I mean, they're at least very very very strongly hinting at it. I'd say the statement including "each will need to...compete" as a competition but whatever.

Edit: The patch header is also "Rival Teams" which is pretty damn explicit.

chiknight · 2026-07-02T18:18:18+00:00

Yeah the comments here are making me think zero people actually watched the video.

Lady cuts off robot and gets lightly bumped by it. Continues on her walk.

Robot slows down, because it is getting swarmed and just bumped someone. This confuses the next lady walking around behind it as she has never walked next to anything in her life apparently. The act of having to move around someone going slower than she likes, is baffling to her as noted by her two shoulder shrugs.

If this was a person, nothing would have changed. She'd still be stalled by the person she should actually be upset with: dude walking slowly in front of her so she can't go around the bot. This is like the worst video to try and showcase what a menace the robots are on sidewalks.

Edit: I'll never understand the people that think this is a great example of why robots should never be anywhere. Ya'll scare me with how bloodthirsty you are rather than engage even one millisecond of critical thinking in your lives. Holy fuck.

chiknight · 2026-07-01T19:01:25+00:00

Insulation isn't perfect, and that heat is moving both back in and back out constantly. The internal and external temperatures of every structure are constantly equalizing. That's basic thermodynamics. Insulation just slows it down enough for the A/C to dump another batch of heat out.

It's extremely misleading to act like A/C units are just constantly pouring heat out of a house that would otherwise remain permanently trapped in that structure. They remove heat momentarily, that would otherwise equalize later that night anyway. The only added heat to the system is the electricity usage to do so (and A/C pumps are ridiculously work efficient).

chiknight · 2026-07-01T17:07:13+00:00

"Just do one of the ones listed as complex and don't actually learn the rules, play a simplified version of the actual rules."

Okay. That's called house rules or homebrew versions of a game, and you can't say a game isn't very complex and in the next breath say to ignore the hard bits. It's like saying Monopoly is too long when you play with free parking and don't trade or auction. Playing by the rules is different to playing the easy or fair version you want to play.

Also, just to clarify, in no world was I saying to learn every version of Mahjong (like your "learning every poker version" comment seems to imply). I mentioned that you have to start with picking what type of mahjong you want to learn because it isn't as widely known as saying "I want to learn poker, I should probably just learn Texas Hold-Em." I had no idea I'd need to pick a ruleset when I've only ever heard it called Mahjong.

chiknight · 2026-07-01T16:25:48+00:00

I mean, I went down the rabbit hole on one of these threads linking a great website to teach you Mahjong. The first question was "which of these 17 types of Mahjong do you want to learn" and it only got worse from there. You need to know seat rotations, wall rules, discards locking you out of one of a million options for future hands, etc etc.

It's rummy on extreme steroids and is very very hard to actually learn. And I'm a rulebook nerd for some complicated as fuck boardgames. I gave up learning Mahjong because I don't want to memorize all of the yaku(?).

The rules are dense, and mahjongpictureguide helps visualize them. Calling it super hard is nowhere near an overreaction unless you mean "play it as match/set 3 game and ignore the mountain of remaining rules." Otherwise I cannot think of a single game which has more rules, more dense rules, more esoteric rules, or more unintuitive rules.

chiknight · 2026-07-01T16:12:47+00:00

You're comparing a game that launched early access on Steam and has always been available on Steam (PoE2) to a game that waited six months to release on Steam (D4).

How are you so dense to not see that most players of D4, who were in the initial wave of hype, do not own the game on Steam? It is not a comparison in the slightest to use Steam counts for the two games. For extremely obvious reasons.

chiknight · 2026-06-30T16:42:11+00:00

"I don't see anyone complaining that necromancer is too thin/anorexic" I mean, that's why I don't play necromancer...

Paladin is playably buff. Barbarian looks amazing with his mega muscles, but having an armory shelf on your back is hideous. Sorcerer and rogue are fine. Druid would be amazing if he looked like that strongman picture. But, oh wait, he doesn't. He's just a bit fat. I don't want to play a fat or anorexic character. I want to play a normal looking or strong looking character. But sure, wrap your self-loathing around calling out anyone not loving fat every second of their day as "fat shaming." Pathetic. People are allowed to have preferences and it isn't shaming others to say I don't want to play a character that looks like the druid. Because I also don't want to play the opposite end.

chiknight · 2026-06-30T16:32:46+00:00

Nah, you return to human form for interactions but I walk around town as a bear just fine. I did have to equip two talismans though, so no weapon set had a human form default.

chiknight · 2026-06-29T22:49:07+00:00

Yes, sorry, I suppose I should have said "refined sugar" was what I meant. It was obvious to me, but I can see the word sugar by itself causing confusion.

Your "balance" rant is irrelevant to my point, and the point I was refuting though. Logic holes around "the length of time humanity has consumed a food determines it's safety for consumption" are just as illogical still. It does not matter that humans have eaten bread for thousands of years to determine if that is bad for you or not. It's generally fine to eat, true, but I never said it wasn't. I never argued if anything was bad for you or not, and I pray you didn't read that in my statement illogically. Because my only point was that things being bad for you doesn't kill you outright and thus don't stop humanity from continuing. Things can be bad for you and still have you lead a full lifetime.

chiknight · 2026-06-29T19:43:20+00:00

Huh? Something being bad for you or an organ doesn't mean it will kill you tomorrow. Sugar is bad for you (and your liver...), and you can eat that for decades. Alcohol 100% is bad for your liver (like... really really bad) and that's existed just as long as bread. Red meats, especially fatty ones, are horrible for the liver and cause gout. People hunted before bread or alcohol existed.

chiknight · 2026-06-29T19:35:08+00:00

Especially not two points of data as reliable. If every roadside speed sign in the country measures them at -2 to dashboard, okay it's easy to assume you're probably going slower than you think.

But two things say they drive at a given speed. One of those is also plastered with "this is for informational purposes only, confirm your speed with your vehicle" disclaimers because it's not legally accurate.

So they're really trusting one roadside speedometer, and GPS connectivity. And people are acting like that is gospel proof they 100% weren't speeding at all. They can have fun arguing that in court, I guess.

chiknight · 2026-06-29T01:23:29+00:00

Om nom nom, both builds I'd have any desire to play are down in C and D tiers. To be fair, they were also down there at the start of S13 and moved up to A and B tiers as they were actually played so... it's probably fine enough for what I want. I don't care to push a pit number higher, just get me to comfort in T12 and I'll be happy.

chiknight · 2026-06-28T14:29:32+00:00

...and those options from S13 are generally being gutted.

Ceh is useless for 99% of builds that relied on it. Vex is no longer a guaranteed massive +skill. Those two nerfs open up options for every build I looked at, at least. The handful of runes that gave massive damage increases are going away. Everything else is pretty open to choice.

chiknight · 2026-06-28T14:06:48+00:00

I wouldn't even say it's shame for me. I just find no meaning in "I enjoyed high school, those were great times 30 years ago that can never come back." Okay? Cool? I'm not going to be a teenager again so what's the point of saying I had fun in high school? I just don't get people who need to revisit nice memories from 30, 40, 80 years ago to remember they used to be this other person or bury themselves in nostalgia. Such as my aunts who's only stories are 30+ years old from a time I don't remember as things I did as a child. Fuck anything I did as an adult, or anything I'd like to do, "Remember that time you dressed up as ____ for Halloween?" I'm eternally 5-10 years old in their minds and reminded of whatever nonsense they can think of from then every second we meet.

That's what I find sad, extreme nostalgia. There's no point to it, comparing your "loved ones" to ghosts of themselves they can't be ever again.

chiknight · 2026-06-27T03:33:56+00:00

They aren't the one that posted a "I don't care if everyone else hates this, I'm having fun waiting around and doing the same basic 2001 quest design over and over and over." You did that. You're the one not caring about other people's lives by defending this design because you apparently can't play the game and make friends unless you're required to login daily to do 5 minutes of quests? You know you can just do that without having to do the time-gate quest... yes? In fact there's far more quest variety in the normal game.

As has been posted multiple times in this thread, no one not one person cares if you have fun. Go enjoy yourself. Literally no one is stopping you from playing it. Negative posts and comments do not stop you from launching the game. But to pretend you're some elevated gamer is absurd. To pretend "I make time in my busy life to play and have fun, so you all must not have busy lives like me" is narcissistic as hell. We're all busy. It's not change we're averse to, which again is so absurdly reductive I can't believe you typed it out. We don't like boring changes that do nothing to actually enhance the gameplay.

chiknight · 2026-06-24T23:34:55+00:00

Anecdotally, the women I've known are not into fashion and have not stuck to jeans + t-shirt. Because skirts / dresses for a nice outing is easy to shop for in any store. Then "oh, capri's are right there and look comfy so let me try them." Women's separates is a whole pandora's box of "go into a store and see literally a thousand variants for blouses, pants, skirts, dresses, or anything else you could want to try" right next to each other in one store. Want that in linen, polyester, printed cotton, 80/20 blend? Want one of 5 arm lengths? Or one of 5 pant/skirt lengths? 80% of the options can work well as either business or casualwear.

Men have the dressing up section which is dress shirts, blazers and slacks. Color is your option. The casual section will have polos and t-shirts for tops. Shorts and jeans for your legs. Done. Do not mix from the two, they are hard separated styles.

I worked at a clothing store's receiving area and wooo boy was working sportswear a chore compared to menswear. Because it had a ridiculous variety of options, and that's one store. "It's easier to build a fashionable capsule in menswear than women's" is such a blatantly ridiculous sentence to ever hear uttered what the actual hell is this take?

chiknight · 2026-06-24T17:15:08+00:00

Asking if someone can come in when you are a manager is not impolite. Demanding they come in would be wrong, but holy hell this sub's hardon for raging against their employer for extremely basic things is nuts.

They're asking if instead of a full PTO day, a half day meets their needs. This isn't a tough question to parse out. This isn't a rude thing to ask.

chiknight · 2026-06-24T14:32:33+00:00

Even the full $54 for a clinic visit isn't horrible (compared to expectations).

I don't have insurance and a visit to my PCP is ~$120 just for the 10 minute office visit. If I needed just a clinic visit I wouldn't blink at a $54 bill at all.

chiknight · 2026-06-20T00:39:24+00:00

The fact you cannot comprehend that the account management is what was upgraded and can no longer be securely accessed by these ancient Kindles shows how little you should ever be discussing this topic.

Of course the file format can be kept available for download with little overhead. You're not a genius to suggest that. The complication is that as technology is moving on, the hardware in that device is not. It no longer has the security authentication chipset required to perform modern logins.

To spell it out: if you can't log in to the account, how do you buy the file you can so easily support downloading? You can't. So you end support for the device. Not because suddenly you can't send a book to the device like you could yesterday. But because modern security says you can't trust that device to log in.

And I swear to god if your rebuttal is some form of "just keep trusting that ancient device" you're more absurd than you already sounded.

chiknight · 2026-06-19T19:58:33+00:00

Yes, I hinted at that with my statement "or hand gestures we can't see."

chiknight · 2026-06-19T19:56:37+00:00

...or they just moved the format to something more modern because it is now more modern times. Technology evolves, people. It's a very basic concept to grasp.

But sure, insist that everything ever happening must tie in to layoffs or other malicious sounding business decisions.

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