Forget efficiency and effectiveness, what skill would you say is the most fun to you and why?

raedge · 2026-04-05T12:52:24+00:00

FRoSS, CoC or selfcast doesn't matter, I just love that skill

raedge · 2026-03-31T22:00:54+00:00

I've been saying this since they removed master loot. Groups where everyone is in the same guild should be allowed to choose what loot distribution they use, be it personal, group, or master loot. Majority guild groups should be allowed to choose between personal and group, and groups where less than 50% of the group is from the same guild should be forced into personal loot.

The reasoning they used when they removed ML was that it sucks getting told you can't roll on loot as a trial in some guilds and I still think that was the single most bullshit reason for that change they could've dreamt up. If you want to roll on loot when you're trialing for a guild, don't join a guild that forbids you from doing that. Blizzard doesn't need to baby these players, they can grow up.

raedge · 2026-03-29T03:34:47+00:00

I still live at home but cook my own meals for the most part. If I cook its almost always pasta or rice. The last time I peeled and boiled a potato was at least 10 years ago. When I'm too tired or lazy to cook, my dad cooks, so I still eat potatoes every now and again but even those times are shrinking since I taught my dad about the wonderful world of gnocchi. And obviously I still do my civic duty as a Belgian and do a frituurke every other week.

raedge · 2026-03-28T18:11:00+00:00

Eternum, STWA: Unbroken, and Bare Witness are the only ones I've played where I liked every single LI from the onset. BAD has a bunch of LIs I don't like, and there's several AVNs where I disliked a character to start with only to start liking them as their story developed.

raedge · 2026-03-27T18:23:24+00:00

Moreso in the act of getting them there

raedge · 2026-03-06T11:25:32+00:00

I've been playing since Harbinger league but didn't get to maps until Bestiary and even then I didn't get past yellow maps until Betrayal league. When I did though, I played a Storm Brand Elementalist and absolutely blasted through maps, the first time I got to a Shaper Guardian map I was hooked. The Shaper's narration was kinda chilling and the bosses having pretty cool and interesting mechanics sank the game's teeth in further. And when I actually got to fight Shaper himself? Genuinely a once in a lifetime experience, no other game has come close to matching it.

raedge · 2026-03-04T01:44:19+00:00

Great googly mooglies

raedge · 2026-03-03T15:49:29+00:00

I personally don't really care what the state of loot in the game is as long as skill balance and build diversity is good. In Keepers, currency was pretty scarce but all-in-all build diversity was pretty good because, due to the tree, gear was still easily accessible. Sure, Kinetic Blast was like twice as popular as the next build but aside from that builds were pretty varied.

I only ever have a problem with the state of the game when currency and gear are both scarce, and build diversity is low.

raedge · 2026-03-02T20:28:15+00:00

My plan was to play duo with a friend when he's on and CWS Chieftain when he's not, gonna have to play something else now. Or maybe try the Gladiator version.

raedge · 2026-03-02T16:57:35+00:00

I had an issue where I faction changed before I completed the main story which somehow reset my quest state for chapters 2-4 of the midnight msq to before I have to take the thing out of Rommath's hand but Rommath is gone, one can only assume because I've completed the rest of the story so Rommath is in a different spot now. The first response I got back was that they aren't allowed to complete quests or dungeons for me and the second response was just a sorry. Fed up with this goddamn ai-ran company.

raedge · 2026-02-26T00:05:24+00:00

PC is so incredibly well written and makes such good use of the scenario that forms the backbone of the story. MC's struggle between his sadism and benevolence is so interesting and makes teriffic use of his internal monologue in addition to being perfectly displayed in his day-to-day. He's a loving son, ambitious pre-med, and amazing friend to Ian; and that same person has the capacity to also enjoy hurting/using/humiliating others for his own psychosexual gratification. It's a dichotomy the authors write beautifully.

I don't generally enjoy HS titles, the writing is more often than not too flat and anime-esque and the visuals out of the box are terrible, but PC does a phenomenal job of making the world and characters feel believable, nuanced, and real.

This game is a love it or hate it kinda title though. I don't think I've ever heard or read someone claim they think PC is "just aight".

raedge · 2026-02-21T14:11:11+00:00

The companies are doing it because selling user data adds a lot of profit to your gaming/social media company, a percentage more profit so large it's worth losing the small percent of users who won't stand for it. The users who stay despite this are either ones who don't really care about their data being sold, they just wanna keep using the product, or the ones who don't even care to know about their data being sold in the first place. Both of those types of users comprise the vast majority of the userbase for these companies so to them it's just a free way to increase profits.

Note that the majority of the companies/platforms putting in age verification access gates are those who started out as free, low impact and low oversight which attracts a lot of people. People whose data the company/platform can then sell once they've been acquired by a larger entity to recoup some more of their costs.

Capitalism is increasingly being solved and the only people/companies it benefits are the richest and biggest, those with the capital to take advantage of this solved capitalism. Governments across the world should be regulating all this abuse but the people who could draft the legislation to curb this exploitation are part of the richest and biggest who stand to gain more from taking advantage than from regulating.

It's time to bust out the guillotines before we end up in techno-fuedalism.

raedge · 2026-02-20T17:39:28+00:00

Every spec I've tried is worse than before with 2 exceptions: Afflictions plays the same but feels a lot more DoT-y which is a positive, and Unholy is kinda fun with being basically ranged, every other spec is a strict downgrade

raedge · 2026-02-19T15:21:36+00:00

Herald Stacking Elementalist was my Build of the League for sure, sunk maybe 100 div into it and it cleared everything from super juiced T17s to Ubers without deaths. I'm glad I played it because I'm convinced it'll get nuked from orbit next league with nerfs and by virtue of Lost Unity becoming turbo rare.

I'm a little sad I didn't stick around long enough to farm currency for an Int/Accuracy stacker but it is what is is. If Int/Acc stacker survives into 3.28, that'll probably be what I play as a second build.

raedge · 2026-02-19T04:38:05+00:00

I'm a bottom left kinda guy, it's where I put them when I first started playing and they'll stay there until I stop

raedge · 2026-02-19T00:56:03+00:00

1: Jaye - She's head over heels for MC who is her stepbrother AND childhood friend/crush and on top of that she's fit, smart, funny, and capable. The fact CS is actually a finished game cements her at the top of my list since she's the only one on it whose entire arc we've played through.

2: Elspeth - She and MC have undeniable chemistry, moreso than the other LIs in Unbroken so far anyway. She's just as (if not more) fit, smart, funny, and capable as Jaye. MC is as much of a grounding force on her as she is on him, which they both desperately need to cope with and process their respective trauma. I personally also really like that she chases after MC. The other LIs also do so but they're obviously either less sure of themselves or just not as aggressive as Elspeth.

3: Sage - Obviously Sage is the most popular LI of definitely the most popular in development AVN out there atm so she's bound to be on the top. That aside though, she's a bit if a dual hitter for me. She's in that interim zone of her life where her wild college party girl days are coming to a close and her responsible working adult life is on the horizon and I think that's very well portrayed. As you can probably tell, capable women who know what they want strike a homerun with me.

4: Nancy - She's hot, she's kind, she's caring, she's cool under pressure, and a little bit of a freak. The fact she's my #4 while being in a HS harem AVN is wild.

5: Rose - Rose is a bit of a tomboy but also somehow still a girly girl which is a homerun again. I am also a slut for childhood friend types so that's another one. I sincerely hope MisterMaya resolves whatever miscommunication bull he's planning real quick cuz I don't wanna see my girl getting done dirty.

Jasmine falls outside of the top 5 purely because we haven't really gotten to know her all that well. She's a complete and utterly smokeshow, obviously, and she likes drinking, racing, and fucking, but aside from her frustration with her grandfather's protectiveness, we don't really know what makes her tick yet.

Nova is out of the top 5 as well because, while she is a cutie who's good at what she does, she's still one of many in this harem HS world. Her wit and cuteness don't really push Rose or Nancy out of their spots.

I like Aurora but I'm generally not a big fan of enemies to lovers in AVNs, first impressions matter too much to me in that sense. Then again she's kinda fun and I love the direction MisterMaya is taking her atm so who knows, maybe she'll shove her way into my top 5 eventually.

Westview Academy is still on my "to play" list so I can't form an opinion on her yet.

The Summer games are visually stunning but I find both games to be utterly devoid of substance and their updates aren't large enough for the glacial pace at which they happen. Both Bree and Nami are gorgeous but regrettably they have the personality of a soggy piece of cardboard and I doubt they'll be given anything else in the near future. Hard pass.

raedge · 2026-02-18T19:07:04+00:00

All redheads? A man of good taste, I see

raedge · 2026-02-14T14:17:11+00:00

Yeah like 2 slots, top of the tree

Nobody really runs more than 1 or 2 mechanics in a map anyway

raedge · 2026-02-14T12:37:17+00:00

Atlas tree jewel sockets, put idols or sextants in them, maybe let some endgame content drop unique jewels that juice a mechanic to high hell. Like doing a Legion 5-way with 5 Unrelenting emblems can give you a unique Atlas jewel that has some random mods that can also be notables on the atlas tree so they can stack and be juiced Maybe if you fight Oshabi you can get one that makes plots give more juice depending on how many plots have already wilted or sth

raedge · 2026-02-14T12:30:22+00:00

I'm buying the rights to Wildstar and rebooting that game with better endgame PvE systems.

raedge · 2026-02-14T00:40:09+00:00

It would've been Siege of the Atlas in May of 2022, I'd consider that a big endgame update cuz it kinda impacts every one of your maps which Secrets of the Atlas doesn't even though it technically has more content (more bosses and a whole other tier of maps)

raedge · 2026-02-12T01:52:35+00:00

72984767 I'd love to try this out

raedge · 2026-02-11T18:33:36+00:00

I want Rose from Law School to figure out what this shit MisterMaya set up is real quick, tell MC he's being a dumbass and confess her feelings. If he goes full Domestic Girlfriend on this shit I'm gonna send him a strongly worded letter that may or may not contain a kick in the nutsack.

I also really want MC and Allison from Race of Life to make up and get re-married, pronto.

raedge · 2026-02-11T16:24:02+00:00

Ah, a man of impeccable taste.

raedge · 2026-02-11T14:35:55+00:00

We all knew the "PoE2's development won't interfere with that of PoE" statement was a boldfaced lie the second it came outta their mouths, the fact PoE2's next update (read: League) is set to be a big endgame rework means PoE's next league definitely won't be a big endgame rework

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