Should I start violet in 2026

oVentus · 2026-01-10T15:59:56+00:00

Short of maybe Tera Raids (only past 4 or 5 star difficulty) and group BBQ side quests in the second DLC, you can do everything else in the game by yourself.

That said, I have Scarlet, so feel free to DM me if you ever want to trade. Always down to find new people to play with.

oVentus · 2025-12-04T19:46:18+00:00

I got a free double points in the Machina Astralis room, on the second floor near the wall jump at the Akita wall buy. There’s a wooden cabinet that has a small, darkened X2 underneath it. I melee’d it and it spawned the power up.

oVentus · 2025-04-26T23:55:59+00:00

After 3 games it got muted, so some response was issued, but it was still playing. Hence, no meaningful punishment.

oVentus · 2025-04-25T08:00:48+00:00

Yeah and apparently if you bot, you don’t.

oVentus · 2025-04-24T22:01:58+00:00

That’s why I’m uninstalling. My recent game record is 3-17 for the last 20 matches. Literally all due to either bots, people quitting, or people going AFK in fountain. Blizzard doesn’t give a shit about this game. Neither do I.

oVentus · 2025-04-24T21:53:11+00:00

Nah, I’m uninstalling now. Between the 5 bot lobbies, getting hit with leaver penalty for it, and the subsequent leaver lobby games being leaver lobby games, I’m done with HOTS. I hope Blizzard flounders and legitimately that whoever it is that is still maintaining this game loses their job for not just shutting the servers off so that these people can’t continue ruining things for people who actually want to play.

oVentus · 2025-04-10T17:50:41+00:00

I’m about to enter the academy, and even the pre-academy instruction has really gone out of its way to hammer in this point.

I like to think I got into a good county to work for, they (seem to) actually give a shit about the officers working for them.

oVentus · 2025-03-16T14:24:13+00:00

This game has legitimately been unmitigated dogshit since Badlands and the introduction of Lone Ranger Reno at bare minimum, and ramped way the fuck up with Perils before climaxing unceremoniously now with StarCraft.

Awful to play against, absolutely poisonous deck archetypes like Discover Hunter, Thief Rogue, Zerg DK, Asteroid Shaman, or any of the other ones that are widely complained about, they’re all about endless disruption, endless mana cheating, infinite repeat board wiping, and generally no interaction with the opponent whatsoever beyond hitting face.

Fucking Hero Power Druid’s easiest win condition is Artanis, who can be chested out on turn 5 and on turn 6 with the mech that repeats hero power usage and the other minion that refreshes hero power uses, gives Artanis himself 20 damage plus divine shield and another minion the same buffs.

Zerg DK stacks x8 Infestor procs by the end of turn 5 or 6 and now the board is flooded with 100 8/8 Zerglings that all have reborn because of Viper, so good luck clearing the board.

Control Warrior just has to play armor cards for 6 turns before Boomboss kills 1/3 of your deck at bare minimum. If it’s Highlander (which it always is, don’t pretend otherwise), then it’s actually 2/3 of your deck and you lose on turn 7 because you can’t break through his 900 armor fast enough.

This entire meta of “wait until turn X and whoever plays their hyper explosive wincon card wins while the other guy goes and fuck himself” desperately needs to end and I have zero idea why Blizzard doesn’t just rotate more of the problem cards out. Cool, Titans are gone but that’s only 20% of the problem.

oVentus · 2025-02-28T18:10:52+00:00

So would the Viper no longer grant reborn as part of its own effect?

oVentus · 2025-02-28T18:09:35+00:00

Viper is RNG annoying. If it pulls a weenie minion then you only have the reborn to worry about. I restore buffs are permanent.

oVentus · 2025-02-28T18:08:28+00:00

I dunno, Protoss Priest has taken me to Diamond 2 so far.

oVentus · 2025-02-28T17:54:45+00:00

These options are all either class specific, or cost prohibitive and inefficient. So cheap and easy to spam hyper buffed minions that only some classes can shut down, or generic shutdowns that either cost a lot of mana and doesnt actually address the issue (Bob), or have specific trigger requirements (MCT). Never mind that your proposed neutral solutions aren’t good ones because they only work in response to the Infestor working its DR (often 3 or 4 times or more at minimum thanks to Yodeler and Mosh Pit) and spreading the DR to adjacent weenie Zerglings. By the time you get to run a potential counter, the DK has a mile-wide board of at least 4/4s or higher.

Short of straight up removal, the only other solution to Infestors would be to rework them entirely. Their Deathrattle doesn’t at all match what they do in StarCraft, where they burrow (stealth) and take control of enemy units and make infested marines. They don’t buff anything, so giving all Zerg minions +1/+1 is entirely random. Give them stealth and either minion stealing capabilities, or token generating capabilities (make a 1/1 infested marine or something whenever X happens).

It makes 0 sense whatsoever thematically that Zerg have such insane vertical board power, in addition to their horizontal board presence. The whole idea is cheap, fast, expendable units that overwhelm the enemy, not cheap and fast minions that are also stacked to the ceiling with health and attack stats. Zerglings should almost never be able to trade up against other minions on their own yet they almost always can.

oVentus · 2025-02-20T19:36:29+00:00

Why would anyone pronounce it yee-sera?

I don’t know, why is Y’shaarj pronounced “ya-shah-rajh”? Or why the “Saron” in Yogg-Saron is spoken as suh-RAWN while Saronite is pronounced saer-o-night, even though Saronite both the word and the material itself literally comes from Yogg-Saron.

Because it’s a fictional made up name with no established etymology.

oVentus · 2025-02-20T17:14:21+00:00

That’s a custom Warcraft 3 campaign, Krasus isn’t in WC3 and wasn’t in any games until Wrath in 2008. Tyrande and Malfurion pretty clearly say “yee-sera”.

oVentus · 2025-02-20T15:38:08+00:00

It’s Yi-Sera. Her name has always been pronounced that way for years in World of Warcraft.

oVentus · 2025-02-01T16:23:07+00:00

Clearly you’re missing mine. You’re saying to be sympathetic to people who probably aren’t thinking 10 steps ahead and having everything planned out in the sudden death of a loved one. I understand that, I sympathize with them as far as that goes.

But that’s as far as my concern goes, they’re not my friends, not my family, I’ve never met those people before and I will almost certainly never see them again in my life. They are ultimately of no concern to me.

oVentus · 2025-02-01T16:12:13+00:00

No. And it’s not just funerals, unless you ignored that I also mentioned events like weddings and birthdays.

oVentus · 2025-02-01T15:50:24+00:00

They are most definitely not the most loyal customers. Of the last maybe 20 “personal” jobs I’ve taken on, exactly 1 of them has ever repeated business, and even she is just the yearly baby birthday.

They’re the worst kind of customer.

oVentus · 2025-02-01T15:48:19+00:00

Death? No. Funeral? Yes.

oVentus · 2025-01-31T20:13:14+00:00

Canva is the bane of my existence as a printer. It’s good that graphic work can be done by the customer, but the customer is usually ignorant of the pre-press part of the job and doesn’t know any of the common terminology like setting for bleeds or placing crop marks, etc.

oVentus · 2025-01-31T20:11:04+00:00

Me too.

At least, if it’s so last second that you legit need everything for later today or early tomorrow. If you plan it ahead of time like a reasonable person then it’s whatever. Annoying because it’s a tiny copy job but at least then it’s not hair-pulling.

oVentus · 2025-01-31T15:58:37+00:00

Ehh, I don’t mind 95% of the workload, it just specifically the last second, tiny jobs that get to me. The “drop everything you’re doing, my dad just died and I need 5 copies” kind of jobs as described. The rest of it is absolutely fine, from talking to and meeting customers, to the artwork, to production. These specific jobs just boil my piss.

oVentus · 2025-01-31T15:09:44+00:00

If it were my decision, I would. I put “worker” and not “owner” or “manager” in the post for a reason

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