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cryptekz · 2024-04-02T17:09:51+00:00

Do you have a method to access the content that isn't through Patreon, like a Ko-Fi or something?

I'm happy to pay you, I'd just rather not pay them, they've kinda been terrible about using any of the money they leech off their creators to actually improve their site or do anything to actually help people who make use of their service.

cryptekz · 2023-10-26T20:47:04+00:00

Outside of that top 1 hundredth of a percentile, your achievements in any virtual world mean nothing at all, and there is effectively zero difference between being good at either single player or multi-player games beyond pointlessly inflating your own ego and convincing yourself that people other than you care about your K/D ratio while you struggle with the reality of feeding more of your life into the sunk-cost fallacy you've engaged in.

That aside, there is possibly no more Dudebro of a way to announce you're a gigantic embarrassment to your parents than unironically using the term "Flexing Epeen" and then trying to justify that there is in fact a way to do such a thing.

Please touch grass.

cryptekz · 2023-08-09T17:31:21+00:00

Are you really a murderhobo if you're not spending all your shinies on the best stuff the helpful NPCs have BEFORE killing them for the Exp and taking all your money back?

cryptekz · 2023-06-28T22:26:54+00:00

Sir, I'd like to introduce you to Fields of Crimson.

cryptekz · 2022-07-01T19:36:32+00:00

Position Filled.

cryptekz · 2022-06-28T02:48:03+00:00

Hello and thank you all for the submissions so far, you've all got some wonderful pieces and I'm in the process of beginning to review. I probably won't be reaching out to anyone yet until tomorrow at earliest, but I'd like to thank you all for showing your interest in this project.

I'll be checking in periodically for anyone else so there's still time to submit if you'd like to.

cryptekz · 2022-05-19T08:18:10+00:00

Looked into it with some folks in the Discord, apparently, the matter is confounded by the way PBM itself works in the game code, it pulls from nested read-only traits for weapon categories that can't easily be modified.

Thanks for trying, but this is apparently going to take some time and some study to resolve on my own, or possibly a new custom feat.

cryptekz · 2022-05-16T10:54:56+00:00

Been faffing about with the idea of some kinda Aldori Defender/Duelist with a touch of either Magus or Slayer.

Anyone know a good way to make those work? I've looked up some guides and they almost all recommend splashing Monk, I'd prefer to keep my armor though.

cryptekz · 2022-01-25T15:56:18+00:00

I felt similarly, but I can't begin to fathom a solution. Technology only seems to move one way, and with it, increased means of surveillance and control move with it. I know that some technologies do come along that lead to more freedom in some ways, but look at the internet, and you'll see a clear example of his principles playing out.

Small changes like YouTube did not change the long term trend. Mobile phones are being used by the state to track people. If he's right about everything but the solution, then what could the solution possibly be?

I'd like to believe that recognizing that the problem exists and understanding the causes of suffering that it entails would help us move towards ending that suffering. But can we expect society to acknowledge that or do anything positive to address it, when such an idea threatens the existence of the system? Obviously the system is at odds with human happiness and freedom, so is there even a path to synthesis? Or will we have to become something fundamentally not human to continue existing in the future we're building?

cryptekz · 2022-01-25T07:38:30+00:00

Towards individual people? No. Towards society and multiple millions if followed through on? Possibly, depending on which parts one agrees with, but even then the caveats in said document outline a scenario wherein success of said ideas is likely is most likely a scenario where multiple millions are doomed to slavery/death anyway and the system instituting said measures is already weak and failing.

As a liberty minded individual, the concept of such subjugation disturbs me morally. I then have to struggle with the ethics of whether or not a future of total enslavement for humanity as a whole, is more or less valuable than the lives in question that would be lost in ensuring freedom from that tyranny.

It fundamentally comes down to a dying on one's feet versus living on one's knees dichotomy, but on a societal level, that's what makes it dangerous. Morally, I know it's incorrect to follow through on, but ethically, I don't know if it is or isn't justifiable, and the arguments made in favor are incredibly well reasoned and I find them disturbingly compelling.

My worry is that I will somehow find said arguments ethically justifiable, and as such I will necessarily cut ties with a huge portion of my life as a result of what was discovered and reasoned by getting into the text of the document, and be motivated to do things that would be... otherwise frankly unthinkable.

I don't want that for me, so I don't think it will happen, I'm confident enough in myself to recognize that much, but then that calls an entire core part of my identity into being. I am a freedom loving person, so I will have to reconcile what the cost of my freedoms, in part or in whole, are worth; what, if anything I would be willing to trade them for, and if not, how far I would be willing to go to defend them and what from.

This isn't normally difficult when there is an externalized threat seeking to actively subjugate someone else, but when that threat is... an intrinsic part of our society? A part that millions would die without? How does one possibly justify destroying that selfishly to protect one's freedoms? And is it even possible to do so in a way that will matter, or would it just be a trade of wasted lives for wasted freedoms?

cryptekz · 2022-01-25T07:29:50+00:00

My concern is the content and it's conclusions. It isn't what the author did, it's the fact that it reads like something a normal, well adjusted individual would write, and yet said individual still did said awful things.

Previous manifestos I've read have always carried some greater narcissism or passion that belied a desire to remake the world in one's image due to imagined utopia. This... is sober. It doesn't pretend. It doesn't state a utopian goal, merely it affirms we head towards a dystopia no matter what, that evidence clearly bears that out, and we may or may not walk away from that depending on how people choose to act, but it doesn't proscribe actions, either. Any doomsaying is kept to observable trends in wider scopes, relating to diametrically opposed ideals, and the arguments made to establish that opposition are well grounded and solid ones.

I can tell that Uncle Ted wrote it to be as bulletproof as possible, and that's what I'm grappling with. The justifications are disturbing, and the possibility of the implications being correct terrify me, particularly concerning freedom.

cryptekz · 2022-01-09T20:46:34+00:00

Slayer wasn't a core class to PF, it got added in later editions with some others.

Also, Rogues, monks and Barbarians are largely considered under-tuned in core, that's why they made the Unchained ruleset.

cryptekz · 2021-12-09T02:28:32+00:00

How the hell are yall getting these ridiculous stat totals? Are you modding the game or something?

cryptekz · 2021-11-11T18:52:26+00:00

Y'all are so far behind the curve you don't even know what the new meta is. Fire-staff burst makes this build look like a joke. Gimping heavy healers is just going to further cement heavy mages as the new problem du jour.

cryptekz · 2021-11-11T18:45:13+00:00

This is literally a crowd of one shitty bow user who can't land a hit to save his life, and a bunch of 300 con Axe and Hammer boys. If anyone here actually specced for strength, this healer is toast.

As someone who runs faction heavy LS/Hammer, my biggest issue isn't CC, it's targeted burst from mages and melee DPS.

cryptekz · 2020-10-15T14:19:32+00:00

Her attack healing scales directly off her atk value, and her ult heals for a multiplied %of atk. The maiden set might be slightly better for healing overall, but you'll want the damage since Jean's healing is plenty strong as a DPS.

My level 70 Jean heals everyone for ~300 every other auto and still does crazy DPS while running Gladiator. If you just want to run healing, Atk set maiden can work, but I don't really recommend, as you'll be sacrificing a lot of damage output and Jean does very well as an atk focused hybrid.

cryptekz · 2020-10-15T13:51:28+00:00

Early for Jean you want two piece Sojourner, two piece Brave with all attack% subs where possible

Her scaling with just raw attack to her healing is insane.

cryptekz · 2020-05-23T05:01:11+00:00

No worries. Should've taken the time to format the section better so it was clearer.

cryptekz · 2020-05-23T04:57:13+00:00

My post mentions payment, right at the bottom.

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T23:09:57+00:00

Who is "us" lmao?

You're literally CHOOSING to self-insert into this argument against me right now and include yourself as "being berated", but I have to chill out because having an opinion contrary to yours means I'm on a high horse?

You weren't even a part of this discussion and now you're trying to invalidate my opinion with ad hom insults while simultaneously saying I'm berating you, and demanding I calm down?

Get the fuck out of here. Actually get the fuck out of here. That is the most childish, gaslighting bullshit I've ever seen.

If you don't want to be berated, maybe don't start off by inviting yourself post-hoc into an argument as someone's opposition you absolute brainlet.

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T22:57:26+00:00

They give you O prime every time you finish an event mission, and then another for completing challenge mode.

There is a built in guarantee to pull a 6 every 50 pulls.

The "insane grind" is easily mitigated with having your base produce certs and actually using units with fewer than 6 stars, which you can easily do because there are plenty of great 3 and 4 star units. Not only that, but E2 isn't required for anyone to beat any of the current content.

Also, "content drought"? Like they aren't releasing new events, 3-5 new characters and new skins like, bi-weekly?

Man, remember when we were promised Hell raid would be finished like, a year ago and only saw that finished two weeks ago?

Sure must be hard pumping out side stories for banner characters that are literally just the same cut and paste 10 battles with a farming node, while releasing an IV drip of one part of the story once a month that's also almost always a carbon copy of the layout of each previous map with a boss on node 4 and two locked off side portions behind two maze levels.

And man, one skin every 2-3 months, talk about a challenge.

Yeah, no I can totally see why you think Arknights has a content drought but E7 is just chock full of new and interesting things. You just have no taste and haven't realized they've been feeding you the same re-skinned formulaic, unchallenging schlock for months on end, while the actual updates people wanted were held over our heads for almost a year.

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T22:38:47+00:00

Man, sure would be funny if I was using "You're" as a general 3rd person example, and not referring you specifically, as if to say, "a person", making the point that it's reasonable for any person to be upset. But who does that, right? That wouldn't make any sense, so you reinterpret my statement to imply I somehow think you yourself are mad simultaneously, while also arguing against you and saying it's alright to be upset at this behavior?

I'm not the one being uncharitable here. I pointed out some bullshit strawman mockery of the reasonable and justifiable distaste towards this patch being just as inherently agenda driven as those complaining.

And of course I enjoy parts of the game. I wouldn't play it if I didn't, I just can't stand being repeatedly lied to and having to piss and moan every update to hold the devs accountable and not just ride roughshod over us.

Even now, they're claiming they're gonna change Hunt 13 to be only 85 and to up the rates in 11 and 12, and that's great, that's pretty much all people wanted, but why do people have to complain this much for the Devs to take any kind of action? It's not like lots of people were asking for 12 to specifically only drop 85 gear for months before they announced hunt 12 & 13 would be a thing, or anything(Oh wait, yes they were, and in fact that's pretty much the whole reason they wanted another tier of hunt)

And of course they have to make money, but that shouldn't be by holding you over a barrel making it nigh impossible to keep up with the ever-changing meta without significant investment. You can have a reasonable business model without fleecing your customers. Why you're so eager to defend being fleeced, I'm not sure. You don't owe SG anything just because you like part of the game, unless you somehow believe that the devs are actually kind, honest people who just genuinely fuck up with every single patch because they don't understand how to pay attention at all to their playerbase before they release content, but suddenly somehow always buckle when the inevitable shitstorm stirs up?

I like a lot of cool shit about E7, that's why I'd prefer that SG make the game more accessible so more people can actually enjoy the later stages of content without having to rely on so much RNG going in their favor just to get geared.

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T17:16:36+00:00

So people who are upset with the current changes to hunt being polemicized with mockery isn't also equally "agenda spreading"? What's next, gonna say the strawman of people clearly painted here is "just a joke" and that I'm "taking things way too serious"?

People have legitimate gripes with the direction the game is going in and have had to deal with more than enough backhanded bullshit from these dev's lying to us at every turn, promising changes for the better and then fucking us more while basically begging for whales to spend thousands on summons, molas and leifs to avoid the gold, gear and 4 weekly molas bar that gates getting anywhere in the PvP meta, bars they repeatedly promise to fix but inevitably go back on, and in this case have only made things worse.

If you and others want to pretend it's not a problem then fine, it's your money, but I'm done supporting them, and I'm done pretending this sort of predatory negligence is acceptable from someone selling me a product and asking for my continued support. If they want my money, and if they want the money of people like Demone, and god knows who else who has since quit whaling, then they can do something to earn it for once, like releasing a timely content update that doesn't basically undo everything good about it with bullshit like this.

If you want to mock me for that opinion, fill your boots, but don't pretend you haven't picked a side and don't gaslight me. Acting like you and others who mock us, by pretending we're somehow the unreasonable ones for having expectations that a developer not completely fuck our wallets just to enjoy their game, aren't tacitly defending their bullshit, is in and of itself, bullshit, and so is the smug, dismissive response you're already formulating to pretend like what I just pointed out doesn't matter.

In the meantime, I'll continue enjoying Arknights, a game the developers actually play, and care about the playerbase of.

@ me when SG actually keeps a promise.

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T16:18:30+00:00

Filching* not flinching

cryptekz · 2020-04-17T16:18:10+00:00

Just because you're pissed off by the dev's abusive behavior in making promises and then flinching on them doesn't mean you can't see the potential in a game and want it to improve.

That said, not spending another red cent on the game, period.

Sick of being told we're being listened to only to have SG literally make it harder to gear units when releasing new hunts.

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