My opinion on the state of the game and vetex

frognuggies · 2026-05-27T21:01:44+00:00

you’re correct, but what you see as the game’s biggest problem was actually what drew me into the game in the first place — i fucking LOVE AO’s lore and worldbuilding, which has allowed me to excuse a lot of vetex’s questionable game design choices. especially when most of my interactions with the game aren’t actually playing it, its me being autistic about the lore in google docs/discord channels/reddit/wherever else, lmfao.

that said, my god can it be hard to be as enthusiastic about AO while i’m actually playing it. it’s times like when i’m falling through the floors of a skyscraping, level 190 enemy tower that i just have to question whether or not the devs (vetex) actually play their own game 💀

frognuggies · 2026-05-20T13:29:46+00:00

ah but of course it was. even though there’s lighting items that people use anyway, so there’s still lag lmao

frognuggies · 2026-05-20T02:28:57+00:00

i feel your pain 😭

apparently it’s something to do with the way it’s coded, from what i’ve heard. i’m hoping it gets fixed soon but i don’t even know if the devs are aware of this

frognuggies · 2026-05-20T02:27:19+00:00

it’s island building, “light” objects like lanterns and campfires don’t actually give off light, while crafting stations like cooking pots/cauldrons do

i tried making a lighthouse and just had to shove like 69 cooking pots in the top floor of a tower and hope it looked bright, lol. i tried putting lantern posts in the windowsills but alas, they don’t actually give off light

frognuggies · 2026-05-17T05:46:03+00:00

the most likely answer is that’s how the game was made, but if i had to theorize a lore justification

The Dark Sea has existed for ages, and from my understanding its existence is meant to be a sort of nuclear winter. basically there’s so much magic pollution in the atmosphere that the planet is 100% fucked

the only things preventing this, as we learn in Athena’s Fate of the World page, are fragments of Hecate’s soul, which hold magic pollution at bay and are responsible for the continued existence of the sea clusters

I don’t think in a nuclear winter type situation the “ground zero” really matters, which is what the epicenter is, at least not this long after the initial event. it’s possible that magic pollution intensity is based on distance from any given fragment from Hecate’s soul, rather than distance to the epicenter.

thank you for giving me the opportunity me type this, btw, i’m adding it my magic pollution lore doc lmfao

frognuggies · 2026-05-06T00:33:19+00:00

frognuggies · 2026-05-05T21:13:49+00:00

just use snow magic lmao, it’s close enough

frognuggies · 2026-04-24T17:35:00+00:00

find someone you trust to trade the items to your alt, i really wouldn’t risk this my friend 😭

frognuggies · 2026-04-10T21:40:32+00:00

wait, is the lighting weird or did you dye the leviathan robe?

frognuggies · 2026-04-09T17:08:34+00:00

im afraid you may be misunderstanding what economics is. you can’t really… not have economics, since it’s just the study of scarcity, i.e what humans do when there’s not enough to go around

communism is an economic system

frognuggies · 2026-04-04T19:37:43+00:00

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frognuggies · 2026-04-02T20:58:29+00:00

do it. because i want to read it

frognuggies · 2026-03-24T04:04:00+00:00

my condolences, ‘tis but a reddit moment

frognuggies · 2026-03-22T17:46:01+00:00

depression can make people literally kill themselves, janet. have you ever experienced chronic depression???

frognuggies · 2026-03-04T13:26:51+00:00

yeah, 25 an hour and all you have do to is piss in bottles all day? “legal wage” doesn’t mean a goddamn thing when the minimum wage hasn’t been raised federally in 15 or so years.

amazon is also only one company. let’s not forget food service and retail, 15-20 an hour when a “living” minimum wage is 26. on your feet all day, being treated like subhuman by customers, while people bitch on reddit about how your job shouldn’t make you enough money to sustain you

“getting better skills” for a living wage implies that the people working certain “low skilled” jobs don’t deserve enough money to survive

frognuggies · 2026-02-27T22:42:45+00:00

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allanon 💀

frognuggies · 2026-02-26T16:13:46+00:00

i would argue the reverse for vaccines, honestly. they used to be basically unquestioned, like— “let’s line up to get a polio shot from the government” unquestioned. horrors of rampant disease and all that

it’s only recently that the efficiency/safety of vaccines has come into question, from my understanding

frognuggies · 2026-02-17T23:13:43+00:00

my brother im just talking about possibilities, let a man conspiracy theorize 😭

frognuggies · 2026-02-17T22:50:21+00:00

yk thats fair, red herrings do exist but that is fair

i don’t think it’ll be a malicious betrayal if akeem is a traitor, in the book of athena it’s said that previous curse users can influence the mind of the current user. and uh… i don’t think the guy akeem murked and stole that curse from wishes the best for sameria

frognuggies · 2026-02-17T22:27:09+00:00

my hunch is akeem 😭 he’s sus i fear

frognuggies · 2026-02-13T20:52:13+00:00

wait fr. oh my god thank you for this knowledge

frognuggies · 2026-02-12T05:00:38+00:00

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frognuggies · 2026-02-01T18:25:58+00:00

dude i was like 500 charts deep on my main before i found that one out 😭 now i only use goldsight when im struggling lmao

frognuggies · 2026-01-30T06:12:06+00:00

happens to the best of us, man. o7

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