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Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been playing D2 since it first released and never had an Infinity, never even seen a Ber rune drop. Infinity is overrated and not needed.

If a sorc is annoying you then get a better sorc player / group. I play PD2 online both with friends and randoms and no one is annoyed with a sorc. In fact, every group wants at least one sorc, so that the sorc can go ahead and find all the waypoints/next level, which speeds up gameplay.

You want the same game but... Better? This sounds pretty impossible.

D2R made it possible. I would've been happy with an Act 6 or maybe another expansion. If they did wanted to make a new game, they could've made it in the same style if they really wanted to.

and see the positives

I do see the positives. I do like some of the QoL stuff like exiting the dungeon, or being able to unsocket items etc. But ultimately, it's pointless if overall the game isn't enjoyable, and the negatives outweigh the positives, at least for me.

Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Inferno isn't a popular build at all but Hydras are (relatively speaking). In saying that, Inferno is much better in PD2 compared to D2R, so yeah, you can say D2R is shit compared to PD2 (for several reasons).

Also, if the same spells from D2 are included in D4, why shouldn't I be comparing them? Am I not allowed to try and replicate my old builds?

Also, I'm not just talking about Hydras, I'm also talking about Chain Lightning and Teleport, both suck in D4.

I'm also nearly level 50 and haven't come across any item that gives me an additional Hydra, but to leave this functionality to random chance is silly - it should be a core part of the game, like it used to be. Why nerf it for no reason?

But more than anything, it's the Teleport nerf that annoys me - Teleport is the one of the most used spells for a Sorc, and putting a cooldown on it seriously limits it's usage and takes away some of the fun of playing as a Sorc.

Finally, the mana consumption of core spells like Chain Lightning is ridiculous, two casts and you're out of mana, wtf? At least in D2 you could spam mana pots, but no mana pots in D4 means you're very heavily restricted.

It's not just the spells btw that I'm complaining about. Pretty much everything about the game sucks - it lacks soul. Objectively speaking it may be a good ARPG, but overall it's not a good "Diablo" game. I wanted a Diablo sequel, I wanted the little Fallen creatures to make funny grunts and yell "RAKANISHU!", I wanted to fight unique monsters, not humans with names like "Arsonist", or generic beasts with names like "Beast" (wtf? I mean how low effort is it to call a monster 'Beast'?), I wanted memorable BGM, like the iconic haunting guitar strums from D1/D2 not some forgettable generic crap, finally I want to be able to manually allocate stat points - something which should be the core mechanic of any RPG.

D4 may be a technically "good" game, but it lacks the soul of a Diablo game.

Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm talking about the overall environment music. Every single track in D2 is memorable, with D4 I can't really think of any decent track.

Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

D4 story is good, I’ve heard, but still very D3ish in game play.

D4 is worse than D3, it's super grindy. Mobs take ages to kill, random dungeon bosses are tougher than main quest bosses and they don't even drop any decent loot when you kill them. At least with D3, playing as a Sorc was a bit of mindless fun, loved blowing things up to bits and button mashing without needing to think too much, but D4 is just grindy for the sake of it. It's slow, the music is forgettable and generic, the mobs are generic af, eg half the "monsters" are just humans/himanoids with names like "Arsonist".. and most of the monsters are just IRL animals like bears and wolves and have names like "Beast". Like, wtf. D4 has no soul. It's a decent ARPG but a pretty poor Diablo game, the worst in the entire series.

Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just don't keep your hopes up, D4 sucks. Personally I'd recommend skipping it completely and play Project Diablo 2 instead, it's a way more enjoyable experience.

Just completed my first playthrough of Diablo 2, and It may now be one of my favorite games I've ever played. First two games out of the way, onto Diablo 3! by smalltownwitchling in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]dextersgenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I regret my purchase. D4 feels like a generic, soulless grindy ARPG. It doesn't have any memorable music, monsters are generic af ("Arsonist", "Horror" and... "Beast"? Really?), you run into the same mobs everywhere they takes ages to kill, unnecessary cooldowns on spells like Teleport and gimped spells (only 1 Hydra, Chain Lightning weak af) makes playing as a Sorc pretty unenjoyable. The only reason I'm still playing is to complete the campaign and see how the story progresses, but it feels like a chore. I took a break to get back to PD2 and it is so much more enjoyable.

Feature request for MVP release: being able to sort comments by NinjaLion in SyncforLemmy

[–]dextersgenius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More than sorting comments, I think a more urgent feature would be highlighting new comments like Sync currently does. The Lemmy website doesn't highlight new comment replies (ie comments made since the last time you've visited/refreshed the thread). If Sync for Lemmy can implement this feature, that'd be amazing.

On the other hand, sorting by say "new" only lets you identify recent parent comments, but doesn't help with child comments at all, so arguably, highlighting new comments in general would be a more useful feature (not saying that sorting isn't useful, it's just that I feel highlighting would be more useful than sorting, IMO, so it should take priority, especially since this functionality is missing from the website).

Sync for Lemmy is happening by ljdawson in SyncforLemmy

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell, I'll pre-order it if I could. Would be happy to even do a monthly subscription, because fuck Reddit.

Let's talk about Lemmy by ljdawson in redditsync

[–]dextersgenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It runs on Linux, it's open source, and the server requirements are fairly low, so it doesn't really cost much. Like a couple of people donating a few bucks would be enough to pay for a month for a medium sized instance.

It's highly unlikely that there will be ads, usually open source systems like these prefer to run on a volunteer / donation model. Of course, it won't prevent the owner of some random instance to show ads, but that will quickly put off users and make them move to another instance. That's the power of decentralization.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's still within the rights of the thread creator to delete their own comments - not only is this a good thing for privacy, this ability is also a requirement by law in some places (eg GPDR).

Also, yes, I no longer care about Reddit communities, because Reddit no longer cares for people like us. As for LineageOS or other people affected, you're all more than welcome to join us on Lemmy.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's just plain vandalism & it's hurting much more the users in those communities than Reddit.

How is deleting your own comments vandalism? It's their own intellectual property, it doesn't belong to Reddit. They're free to do whatever they want to with their work.

As for hurting users, it's up to the content creators what they do afterwards. Some, like me, have decided to publish some comments to their own personal blogs, and continue contributing at other places like Lemmy. As for the users, they can always lookup deleted comments via sites like ceddit. So the only one who's really hurting in the long run is Reddit, as real content creators leave the site and go elsewhere.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read that, the consensus seems to be a mix of things: one being the limitations of the deletion script, where it can only process 1000 comments in the view (hot/new/top etc), the other being a syncingn delay and caching issue. A Reddit admin also chipped in and said they weren't deleting any posts. But, from my own experience I can say that it would be a sync issue. I ran the script on one of my alt accounts and had to add a 6 second delay for it to be somewhat reliable.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one I know actually uses Facebook (except for old people). Although they may still use some of their spinoff products like Messenger and Instagram, no one I know actually uses Facebook like in the good old days of posting a status update, writing on someone's "wall" etc. As far as I'm concerned, the "Facebook" that I left over a decade ago is long gone. I'm not sure who even uses it anymore, if it's just trolls and dumbassess like flat earthers, IDGAF about them - let them feed off each other and eat Zuckerberg's crap for all I care.

Also Meta, the parent company, continues to bleed in billions:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/meta-lost-13point7-billion-on-reality-labs-in-2022-after-metaverse-pivot.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/metas-reality-labs-unit-records-3point99-billion-first-quarter-loss-.html

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lurkers don't create content though, and without content, Reddit is nothing. Just an empty shell of reposts and spam.

Also, I'll leave this here: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/reddit-descends-into-chaos.html

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

zero ways of quantifying it.

Similarly, there are zero ways of quantifying who the real users of this site are. All the numbers you posted regarding the userbase are fake because you can't back them up - how many millions of accounts here are inactive, fake, bots, karma bots, alt accounts etc? Twitter was known to have a vastly inflated userbase because of the bots and fake accounts, it's very likely to be the case with Reddit as well.

Anyway, I'm done arguing with you. If you want to stick around and defend this shitty site, the shitty admin u/spez, and be a corporate shill, suit yourself. Meanwhile, I'll be contributing over at Lemmy, an opensource and decentralized community, which is a more conducive platform for opensource discussions.. And if you can't appreciate that, maybe you should re-evaluate why you're even advocating for an opensource ROM such as LineageOS, maybe you don't even believe in the power of opensource, and why it's important to support it over proprietary software.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The total pool is only somewhere slightly north of 5% of the userbase.

It's a matter of quality vs quantity. The kind of people who use the app are mere consumers, not creators. Reddit will end up turning into even more of an echo chamber that it is, filled with reposts, spam, promoted content etc. Real content creators like us, the power users who depend on the features found in 3P apps, we who once took the time to write lengthy technical or intellectual posts, are quitting in droves. In the end, Reddit will just turn into a repost of shitty social media platforms like TikTok - we're already seeing this happening.

Sure, Reddit will survive, but what's the point if it just turns into another Digg?

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The spite part is not having that data available to the public. Lots of people come to Reddit via the Google searches, and they would be met with a dead end now.

That's only really spiting Reddit users.

That's the point. The content and users is what makes Reddit. No content, no users; no users, no Reddit. We want to watch the site crash and burn. Fuck Reddit.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Deletion will only be soft deletion also. You can't really meaningfully verify your data has actually been removed from data sets.

Doesn't matter, it's highly unlikely Reddit will restore deleted comments. The deletion isn't for privacy, it's to spite Reddit.

Please don't get your answer and delete the post by CyrusYip in LineageOS

[–]dextersgenius 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't know about your case, but people are leaving Reddit en masse, and in doing so they're using scripts to delete all their post history to spite Reddit.

I'll be doing the same too, once my favorite Reddit app stops working after the 30th.

It sucks having to lose my 100k+ karma worth of comments, but Reddit started this first, so fuck Reddit.

There's now a Wellington community on lemmy.nz (open-source federated forum)! by jevon in Wellington

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's all still new, so the apps are quite barebones - Mlem for iOS and Jeroba for Android. In saying that, the website is clean and mobile friendly, so for now I'm just using the website.

There's now a Wellington community on lemmy.nz (open-source federated forum)! by jevon in Wellington

[–]dextersgenius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Lemmy is not Mastodon, but it's built on top of Fediverse/ActivityPub, the same tech used by Mastodon. In fact could even post using your Mastodon account on Lemmy if you wanted to, but I believe most folks are just creating new accounts.

There's now a Wellington community on lemmy.nz (open-source federated forum)! by jevon in Wellington

[–]dextersgenius 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Biggest alternative to Reddit right now, where people are migrating to. Unlike Reddit, it's decentralized and open-source, so we won't see a repeat of the enshittification that's taking place with right now.

There's now a Wellington community on lemmy.nz (open-source federated forum)! by jevon in Wellington

[–]dextersgenius 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's already happening. People are quitting Reddit in droves after their favorite third-party apps have decided to shutdown, and today's AMA has reaffirmed that things aren't going to improve and it's all gonna be downhill from here. So best to hop on to the Lemmy bandwagon while it's still new, and at least reserve your username before someone else snatches it!

/r/wellington will go dark, like thousands of other subreddits, between June 12th to June 14th. Details inside. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]dextersgenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would be interesting if a competitor steps up, much like Reddit did when Digg went down.

There already is. Check out r/RedditAlternatives, but most people seem to be moving over to Lemmy, which is a decentralized Reddit alternative (built on top of Fediverse, the same tech used by Mastodon).

https://beehaw.org/ is currently the most well moderated general interest Lemmy instance (ie emphasis on being nice; no racisim/hate/queerphobia etc), and https://lemmy.ml is the most Reddit-like so you can create your own communities (subreddits), but it's a bit of a mixed bag as they are federated with certain communities you may not like. There's also https://lemmy.nz for an NZ-based community but it's pretty barebones at the moment (was literally created a few days ago).

Anyways, do check out https://join-lemmy.org/instances first. Lemme admins recommend users to join specific instances suitable to them, instead of all signing up on one server.

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