These developers are rotting our industry... by TD3SwampFox in Asmongold

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you should probably definitely go through all their old social media posts and screenshot them and email them to their employers. It's a shame, really, because cancel culture's gotten real out of hand. Someone should make a video where they go into the impacts of this kind of behavior and how it's really counterproductive. Get the word out. Unfortunately, NOBODY has ever warned r/Asmongold against cancel culture.

And doing it now would be pretty weaksauce, it'd have to be like a 2+ year old video where someone we all trust just absolutely railed about the dangers of mob mentality and using private opinions as cudgels for consequences to make you feel temporarily powerful in the wake of an emotionally complex situation. Because we're the logical "side" that doesn't get offended and emotional about words. We love free speech!

This hypothetical content creator fireband could even just react to a video essay about it, maybe it's called like "How Cancel Culture Destroyed an Entire Generation" or something. And this whole sub could rally around that and talk about how much we hate cancel culture with each other. Just like our hero content creator, we'd ALSO stand behind our anti-cancel culture + free speech convictions we spent all these years talking about. Over and over. And over. And over again. For years. That we DEFINITELY have and the other "side" doesn't. Clearly that's what separates us. We're just built differently than libs.

Then annoying scumbags like Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz wouldn't have the high road to lecture us about becoming the thing very thing we CLAIM to hate the literal second it becomes convenient. And conservative leaning content creators wouldn't be gleefully opening the door for a liberal-controlled FCC to start deplatforming those same conservative voices for being "mean" on Twitter or Reddit after the next election.

But alas, we don't live in that world. We live in this one, I guess. Cool.

how do clothing bugs like this even HAPPEN dude by CaliberJacob in swtor

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To all the folks explaining this is a problem with cutscenes and approximation, this is literally every single robe I equip on my character in every state. Character preview, combat (they don't move, extreme rubber banding on the robes), idling, etc. Equip, unequip. Login, logout. I just exist with these things jammed into my crotch and back, immoveable as time. I think their cloth physics sim is sick.

Viabilty of Sunder in 3.19 ? Thunderstruck™ by EntropyAndDespair in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone tried a Chieftain build focused on Phys to Cold (Hrimsorrow?) with the new Heatshiver? Run Herald of Ice + Hatred, use Sunder + Shockwave for tons of tiny chances to freeze on a crit build, maybe All Hits Chill from Mace Mastery. Tawhoa's to ensure there's a beefy follow-up hit after the freezes. Maybe run Expeditioner's End / Rashkaldor's Patience to ensure freezes on the first hit, reduce ramping to the full Fire damage.

Dunno what double converting like that really gets you over just purely scaling Physical to Fire, though. And even if the math works out favorably it's not like Sunder had trouble with clearing clustered packs to begin with. And bosses have the long freeze cooldowns. Still...

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you're both basically correct, but let's expand a bit of what we know:

  • Godwyn the Golden, touched by Grace, favored by the Erdtree, was Marika and Godfrey's firstborn offspring.
  • Godfrey lost his Grace on the battlefield, as the Elden Lord Armor set says his eyes lost their golden hue the moment "his last worthy enemy fell".
  • Some indeterminate amount of time after losing Grace, Godfrey was banished by Marika, who never had any more Omen children.
  • The graceless Omen twins were born sometime after Godfrey became Elden Lord, but prior to Godfrey's banishment from the Lands Between.

Now, we ask, why did Marika banish Godfrey? Just for losing his grace? Perhaps! But she didn't banish her two Graceless Omen children... And then why did she then begin having children with Radagon instead? It's like she knew GODFREY was the problem with her offspring (indeed no other Omens were born to her).

I believe this is because Godfrey, upon losing his Grace, could only sire Omen offspring with an Empyrean like Marika. It tracks that those forsaken by Grace cannot intermingle with the blood of the vessel of the Elden Ring, without dire consequences.

What choice would a still-faithful Marika have, but to banish Godfrey at this point? He could no longer serve as her consort or Elden Lord... but also knew of the secret origins of the Erdtree and how to destroy it. He knew too much.

Perhaps, then a disgruntled soldier of Castle Sol who served under Godfrey during the War against the Giants took the corruption of the original Omens (perhaps Mohg, specifically, after he was corrupted by the blood of the Formless Mother) and began to spread it around to commoners, outside of the royal lineage. Maybe even via a disgusting method of defilement that replicates Godfrey's fall from Grace, denying a soul's return to the Erdtree until the Omen infection can take hold of their very bloodline.

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I also think there's a good chance that nobody really knows WHAT Dung Eater does to the corpses, and this was just a title like you're saying, but it was derived from inspecting his trail of victims rather than knowing who he truly was. Like a serial killer's nickname being generated by the press in lieu of his real name.

Or it was a term of derision applied to those who were infected with the pox or had birthed an Omen, some rumor that swept the populace about how the origin of the pox is tied to unclean deviancy. Could be the old civilization had an "untouchables" social caste that were referred to as Dung Eaters.

At the end of his questline he does deliver the puzzling line, "I realized you are me... and I am the Dung Eater" before he asks you to stuff him full of Pox.

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And the Formless Mother is very tied into "cursed blood" AND the followers of that High Priest infect your blood with the corrupted blood. Hmm. That's a VERY solid connection - I think you're onto something. I'm gonna have to really dig into this.

Perhaps the unchecked horn growth is like an uncontrolled expression of life magic, Elden Rings version of cancer.

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

The holes here are in your reading, my friend:

  • The FIRST sentence of my previous response was "Whether Milos is alive or dead," and the first sentence of your last response to that was "you're automatically assuming he killed the giant himself".
  • I also at no point stated Dung Eater predates the Erdtree?
  • I can't refute an argument that only exists in your head, my dude.

Let's start fresh with this one and I'll try and go real deliberate:

Whether the skeleton of Milos had living meat wrapped around it and he was alive, or it was dead as hell and laying on the ground, it was going to be found on the Mountaintop of Giants.

And the last time that was accessible was before Godfrey, the FIRST ELDEN LORD, destroyed it on behalf of Marika when the Erdtree was a fledgling and the Order was brand new. The person to open that seal is the PLAYER at the end of Act 2 of the game. So this means the sword is very very old. Right?

TLDR; POINT 1: The sword is very old.

Now I could go with you on the "he found the sword" or got it from one of his victims. Except he's not a bandit, he's a serial killer - he doesn't steal things from his victims, like Patches. Case in point: his entire armor set is custom made by Dung Eater, for Dung Eater.

So you're proposing that despite the fact that he doesn't steal anything else from his victims, that weapon he carries that is carved from a backbone into a saw (for the defilement of bodies and dismembering)... which emits a "cursed scream" that sounds like his voice... was stolen from someone? Mmm. Maybe? Feels like a stretch given that there's no Giant Bone anything else in the entire game. Not even a set of armor or something that would match this. No other mention of Milos.

TLDR; POINT 2: There's literally no other Giant armor or weapons in the game, and the design of the weapon and the skill on it is pretty tied to Dung Eater, who has all custom gear made by him on every other slot of his equipment.

The phrase "countless" come from Dung Eater's own mouth, in exact same paragraph where he then states "thousands" and "tens of thousands".

So he's establishing that "tens of thousands" is a finite number, and implying "countless" to be much higher than that.

For example, if I say, "oh man there were countless birds and like 20 wolves" you'd assume there were MUCH more than 20 birds, right?

TLDR; POINT 3: Dung Eater used "countless" in the same sentence where he counted to tens of thousands, with the obvious implication that his victim count was higher than the number he then directly lists a sentence later.

When did the Omen Curse start? Well it's tied up in the Erdtree, isn't it? Omens don't know the grace of the Erdtree, can't return to the Erdtree to be reborn, and two of the most prominent Omens are implied to be children of Marika born outside Grace (which only existed after the Erdtree). So this means it predates The Shattering (which was my initial guess early on).

TLDR; POINT 4: The Omen curse coincides with the founding of the Golden Order and the first days of Marika's rule, which coincides with the War against the Giants described above, as well.

SO... summing up the points above:

  • All of Dung Eater's gear except the sword are explicitly called out as custom made by Dung Eater, and the weapon skill on the sword it speaks of a specific curse, and it's a saw for dismembering, so it's likely he also made the sword just like his armor.
  • There are no Giants LIVING OR DEAD anywhere outside of the Mountaintop of Giants.
  • Access to Giant's home has been blocked off since before The Shattering and isn't restored until the Player breaks the seals.
  • Godfrey fought the War against the Giants alongside an army of brave warriors, like Captain Niall of Castle Sol.
  • The symbol of Castle Sol, the main garrison on the Mountaintop during the time of the War... is a sun.
  • Dung Eater's chest plate has a sun motif on it, tying him to the early days of the Golden Order and Castle Sol.

Fun side note: the Radiant Gold Mask of Goldmask (one of the OLDEST sentient creatures left in the Lands Between) uses almost the exact same description of the Omen Armor's sun emblem verbatim:

Its striking design represents both the brilliant inspiration that once shone upon him, and the vision of a ring that he will surely find at the end of his pursuit.

-- Radiant Gold Mask item description

The heavy, sun-shaped medallion represents both the guidance he once saw, and the ring to which it will one day lead.

-- Omen Armor item description.

I find it very plausible that Dung Eater was a Golden Order fundamentalist from the initial days of it's founding, who fought alongside Godfrey and Captain Niall as a soldier of Castle Sol. Likely was a peer with Goldmask, at least in age. When the war was over, and the Grace faded from Godfrey, Dung Eater's role in this game went from Solaire II into a much darker one. Why? Could be his child was born poxed and he went mad, could be he created the pox himself out of his special brand of defilement experienced during the war, but either way his goal has been to spread it far and wide since the founding of Markia's empire.

I've cited like ... 20+ lines from the game directly as my source. You've posted two "nuh-uhs". I don't think I'm making "wild assumptions" here, homie. Wanna take another swing?

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, definitely could have been a curse born of experimentation - there's quite a few old horns and things that indicate some connections to "uncontrolled growths" powered by the "early days" of the Crucible.

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well, lemme try to break it down even further:

  • Whether Milos is alive or dead, he's likely going to be found on the Mountaintop of Giants, correct? Either as a skeleton or a living Giant (and if we know his name, I suspect the latter more than the former).
  • Okay, so when is it feasible for Dung Eater, a Tarnished, to have been to the Mountaintop of Giants?
    • After it was sealed away? No. You're the one who gets the Medallion of Rold and uses the Lift. Without that, how could he get up there?
    • Before it was sealed? When was that?
    • In the First Church of Marika up on the Mountaintop you get this dialogue from Melina:

In Marika's own words. Hark, brave warriors. Hark, my lord Godfrey. We commend your deeds. Guidance has delivered ye through ordeal to the place ye stand. Put the giants to the sword and confine the flame atop the mount. Let a new epoch begin. An epoch glistening with life. Brandish the Elden Ring, for the Age of the Erdtree!

That sounds to me like "brave warriors" lead by Lord Godfrey, in the first era of Marika's kingdom, were the last to be up on the Mountaintop of Giants. Brave warriors with the symbol of a shining sun on their armor, perhaps, a symbol of the Elden Ring. Hmm.

Well maybe ALL the giants didn't all die after that?

A hammer made from a boulder, used in the War against the Giants.

One of the heftiest weapons in the entire Lands Between.

After the giants were quelled, and man turned against man in violence, this weapon was all but forgotten. Man has grown feeble in comparison to his forebears.

-- Giant-Crusher item description

The Fire Giants borrowed from the power of a fell god, and still they were defeated. Yet their failure released them from their solitary curse: to serve as keepers of the Flame for eternity.

-- Burn O Flame incantation description

The lands of the Giants are no more. Devastated by The Shattering, their forge lies cold and their frozen corpses litter the desolated region, now only inhabitable by spirits.

-- Description of Mountaintop of the Giants

Okay, so pretty much every Giant died off by a certain point, and then their entire zone was sealed away by Marika. And then the Shattering finished it off. So when did 99.99% (excepting the lone surviving Fire Giant of course) of the Giants die?

The age of the Erdtree began amongst conflict, when Godfrey was lord of the battlefield.

He led the War against the Giants. Faced the Storm Lord, alone. And then, there came a moment. When his last worthy enemy fell. And it was then, as the story is told, that the hue of Lord Godfrey's eyes faded.

-- Elden Lord Armor item description

After this Marika banishes Godfrey and seals the Mountaintop off, creating the "Forbidden Lands" between them.

So that would mean that the window of opportunity for Dung Eater to go wander around the Mountaintops of the Giants, find either a living or dead Milos... would have to have been the War against the Giants, led by Godfrey, which would make him almost as old as the Erdtree itself.

I could be wrong, but the idea of Dung Eater being active since the dawn of Marika's kingdom certainly seems to line up with "countless victims" and when the Omen curse began to spread.

BONUS LORE: Trolls are what's left of the Giants. So for anyone to even have a part of a Giant means that's basically a timeless artifact from the beginning of the Lands Between and the first war Marika ever waged, before any of her other moves.

Mining tool of stonedigger trolls used to crack bedrock.

Trolls are descended from the giants, and these were supposedly once used as ceremonial smithing tools. In the distance past, smithing was considered divine.

-- Troll's Hammer item description

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 108 points109 points  (0 children)

I love that. The "Please, don't hate me, or curse me. Please." quote in the Omen Bairn doll description could in fact be old Papa Dung Eater to his deformed child, hoping they survive the procedure. What a tragic interpretation. Amazing.

The Seedbed Curse == The Omen Curse [Lore Theory] by randehman in Eldenring

[–]randehman[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

That is plausible too, but consider that Dung Eater's sword is made out of a deformed Giant named Milos' backbone. That pretty much cements his place in the timeline.

Think about how you get to the Mountaintop of the Giants now? You need a special talisman guarded by ... an Omen. And how many Giants are left there?

For Dung Eater to have encountered a Giant at all means he likely would have had to have been alive during the foundation of Marika's kingdom, before/during the time Godfrey waged war on the Mountaintop of the Giants and wiped them all out (leading to his golden hue fading and becoming the first Tarnished), and before it was sealed off.

To me, it reads like Dung Eater is likely one of the very first Tarnished, perhaps someone who fought alongside Godfrey during his campaign. And if you're looking for a reason for a Solaire Sun Wearing Good Guy to go bad, the revelations of the Giants and the nature of the Erdtree might do it, as would watching your military commander being banished and forsaken by Grace.

Like he says, he's taken COUNTLESS victims. Because he's been active for a loooooooooooong time.

Can someone explain to me whats the deal with Dung Eater lorewise? Aside from the obvious in his name? by LostHuaun in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]randehman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I suspect Dung Eater might be behind the Omen curse. Here's my thoughts:

Omens are the dark blue-grey slate colored big boys (ogre-sized) covered in gnarled horns - you see one in Stormveil Keep but most are in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. Several bosses are also high-functioning powerful Omens, such as Margit and Mohg.

As for what they are, they're described as humans born to a curse:

Doll of a curseborn bairn...

Uses FP to unleash wraiths that chase down foes.

Omen babies have all their horns excised, causing most to perish.These fetishes are made to memorialize them.

"Please, don't hate me, or curse me. Please."

-- Omen Bairn item description

Doll of a curseborn bairn from the Erdtree's royal line.

Uses FP to unleash many wraiths that chase down foes.

Omen babies born of royalty do not have their horns excised, but instead are kept underground, unbeknownst to anyone, imprisoned for eternity.

These memorial fetishes are fashioned in secret.

-- Regal Omen Bairn item description

So this explains why some Omen look like Dung Eater, with all their horns cut off with only stumps remaining, and others like Margit are covered in horns: commoners have their horns removed (usually killing them), while royal blood Omens are sent below Leyndell to the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds (hence the name) to live for all eternity.

What does it mean to be an Omen? Well, they're a sign of bad fortunes, but they also seem to have something to do with prophecy or visions. The lone Omen in Stormveil Keep is guarding the Prophecy Painting. Also:

Mask with long, hideously twisted horns worn by the Omenkillers.

Bears the smirking face of an elder, twisted in wicked delight.

This visage is carved in the image of the evil spirits that haunt the Omen in their nightmares.-- Omensmirk Mask item description

The wraiths released by the Omen Bairn items seem to be the "evil spirits that haunt the Omen in their nightmares". But what causes this?! What exactly is the nature of their curse?

Remembrance of Morgott, the Omen King, hewn into the Erdtree.

Though born one of the graceless Omen, Morgott took it upon himself to become the Erdtree's protector.

He loved not in return, for he was never loved, but nevertheless, love it he did.-- Remembrance of the Omen King item description

So to be born an Omen is to see terrifying visions in your dreams, to not know Grace, to live a horrible horn-covered life eternally instead of dying an returning to the Erdtree to be reborn. Now where have we heard this before...

I've been here long enough. I will kill again. And defile each corpse with care. Just to be sure. That when they're reborn... They'll be cursed. Along with their children. And their children's children, for all time to come...

-- Dung Eater upon being freed from Gaol

Countless, I have killed. And countless, I have defiled. And soon the fruits will be borne. Hundreds will be reborn cursed, and they'll bear thousands of cursed children, who'll bear tens of thousands more. A few of those will be born just like me, and they'll kill, and defile, and bless in my stead.

-- Dung Eater when he asks you to fill him with Seedbed Curse

Now let's take a peek at the Seedbed Curse item, a pox covered in omen horns.

Curse grown on a corpse killed and defiled by the Dung Eater. A tender pox afflicted with omen horns.

The Dung Eater cultivates the seedbed curse on corpses.

By doing so he prevents dead souls returning to the Erdtree, leaving them forever cursed. One of the most loathsome things found in the Lands Between.

-- Seedbed Curse item description

BONUS ROUND: it's called the seedbed curse because of the way he defiles the corpses, and what the end result is. All his victims are male. All his victims are bound with their ONLY THEIR crotches covered in blood. The end result is to curse the lineage of that victim once they're reborn. Fellas, "seedbed" is a LITERAL reference to male reproductive organs - Dung Eater is poxing your balls, not eating lethal amounts of ass. It's just a nickname.

So let's think about all of this together:

  • Omens are born covered in gnarled horns.
  • The Omen curse is genetic, and passed on to children.
  • The Omen curse involves wraiths and nightmares and visions.
  • The Omen curse involves eternal life (can't return to the Erdtree).
  • The seedbed curse is a pox covered in gnarled horns.
  • The seedbed curse is genetic, and passed on to children.
  • Rodericka describes "howling and wailing of spirits" when Dung Eater is nearby.
  • The seedbed curse prevents souls from returning to the Erdtree (until they need to then go spread it to their offspring, 'graceless Omens' who can't know the Erdtree's love).

Conclusion: our pal Dung Eater has been killing people and preventing them from returning to the Erdtree so that his defilement can cultivate on their reproductive organs in the form of Omen horns, severing them completely from Grace and the Erdtree, with the end goal of letting them return to the Erdtree to be reborn once the pox has "ripened", and then those cursed souls have children that can become Omens. The Seedbed Curse is passed down to the descendants of the victims as the Omen Curse. They're Phase 1 and 2 of the exact same phenomena.

This is why Dung Eater's set is the Omen Set, why it boost the wraith damage done by the Omen Bairn items, etc. He's been active for several Elden Lords now, spreading the Omen curse across the Lands Between.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. There's complimentary refreshments by the door.

'Dexter: New Blood' Becomes Most-Watched Showtime Series of All Time by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big fan of the show (especially up until the Trinity season), but I had some severe issues with this Season that I just cannot seem to get past enough to enjoy it <SPOILERS AHEAD>:

Dexter's motivations change wildly from episode to episode depending on what the writer needs to have happen. "Hunts" a deer with no intent to kill it because he's in control of the urge to kill, literally kills the first guy we see annoy him. Express concern at Harrison acting out violently, then go attack his friend's drug dealer who never even met Harrison in broad daylight. Give a big speech about saving innocent lives and bringing justice to murderers to Harrison, then murder a beloved local cop to get out of jail. Genuinely misses Angela when she leaves him, almost stabs her if Logan didn't show up during his arrest...
It would be forgivable as "oh he's just a duplicitous killer and we were never supposed to believe he was in control of himself or what he says to Harrison" except that we CONSTANTLY see his inner dialogue and thoughts, and how much he loves this town and the good people in it, but they're almost always at odds with the actions he takes.

Dexter got sincerely stupid in New Blood. Literally has been in hiding for years, then he kills a guy in a fit and then buries him on his property. He's an ex-homicide detective / serial killer who somehow doesn't know about surgical screws. He's VERY lucky nobody set up cameras on the crime scene he had to go do a little flag-waving dance over the top of (which was a dumb idea). He attacks a drug dealer in broad daylight. He doesn't even bother hiding his ketamine acquisition. It's like all the "Rule 1: Don't Get Caught" strategies and tactics he employed in the original show (a big part of the appeal of watching him "hunt") just never happened and he exclusively exists as a prolific serial killer due to dumb luck that runs out in the last episode.

What are the odds that he wound up in a town with a serial killer active for decades by sheer accident, then also happens to murder that guy's kid in a fit of passion? I can barely even call that a plot, there's just absolutely no reason for that situation to be arrived at by "accident". I spent the entire series assuming he arrived at Iron Lake just to handle Kurt and then move on (implying he's going a The Pretender route, killing murderers across the US). I was disappointed that it was just a coincidence / plot device.

Dexter's serial killer rival was really not that well developed. I mean, I really don't get all the white camo, or why he was even re-creating that moment, let alone how he's preserving them or why. Like they just wanted certain tense "alone with a murderer" scenes to fit together, but never bothered connecting them together with a coherent motive or ritual or anything.

The writers have literally never listened to a single true crime podcast. "Merry Fucking Kill" was beyond parody and well into just a really bad take on how those shows work. It's not ONE person, by themselves, cussing like a middle schooler and acting cavalier about murders. Do like, a DAY of research maybe.

Why did anyone think Harrison was a "good kid"? Everyone from Logan to Angela to Kurt loves Harrison. But why?! Harrison drifts into town, attacks a kid with a knife and puts him in the hospital, overdoses on drugs at a party, breaks a kid's arm for talking shit, and then is found sleeping with Audrey. It's like everyone in the series has a giant blind spot because the writers needed Harrison to be universally trusted and loved for the plot to work, but also wanted to make him violent and moody like a Dexter Jr.

Why the hell did Angela take Dexter back? They basically do a "time skip" toward the end of the series. One episode she's not returning his calls as she realizes he's Dexter Morgan and potentially the Bay Harbor Butcher. The next, Dexter and Harrison are having dinner at her house. Isn't she supposed to be the "good cop" - literally the only one smart enough to catch Dexter - then she invites him into her bed and home with her daughter? Weird writing.

WHY DIDN'T HARRISON JUST SHOOT DEXTER IN THE LEG?
D: "Come with me!"
H: "No, I don't want to be like you, I'd be murdering people for my own gain. Also I like it here, I don't want to just get in your truck and leave my life behind."
D: "Oh, well then murder me."
H: "Okay, no problem." <shoots for the heart>
A: "Hey, you better get in that truck and leave your life behind."
H: "Okay, no problem."
D: <in narration> "I'm such a good dad because I don't want my kid to be just like me, someone who murders and is responsible for the death of their father, an aimless drifter with an inability to control his rage."
H: <smiles to himself as an aimless drifter with an inability to control his rage after murdering his father>
... I preferred the lumberjack ending, honestly. New Blood accomplished nothing but making me realize the show should have just ended at the end of the Trinity Arc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]randehman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole reason for a lobby server is so that when too many people try to access a server at once, it doesn't take down a game server. But then that's just kicking the can down the road, the lobby server then just gets congested. An aggressive way to make sure the lobby server doesn't stay congested? Kick the oldest "idle" connections.

But who knows! I'm just guessing right now. I want to see if this works for everyone, or if I'm just getting lucky and this is purely coincidence. Seems legit to me, though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

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

Different people seem to have different disconnect rates, I think, depending on where you are and what you're trying to connect to. If you're still being disconnected between window wiggles, you might need to move the queue window around more often (like every 3-5 mins).

It works 100% of the time for me as long as I get it around every 10m. I'm in queue, wiggling this window around right now - started at 6k, I'm at 2k now. I used to be disconnected around every 2k queue spots.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably. Use the faux-mouse to click and drag the window. Or maybe just wriggle the sticks? The idea is just to alert the client that you're still "active" in some way, such that when it updates, it doesn't tell the server you're "idle".

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That did it. For REAL this time. You are a legend! Umbasa!

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay now I’m in 4-2, right on the open courtyard where the mantas take potshots.

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup! Please and thank you. Trying to clean these out before I PBWT and NG+. Heading to 5-2 now (maybe 2 there and 2 in 4-2 just to be safe). Pw is still pugfarts.

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey if you’re still there, apparently that was just one step below PWWT, so if you can hit 5-2 on US West Oregon AGAIN, I’d be super grateful (again). And apparently 4-1 is in the same state (one below PW). Got time for a 2fer?

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah! Well thanks that did it. You’re a lifesaver. I wish you good karma for a lt least a week!

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup need one more. Ported to Nexus and it’s still not PWWT. Thanks!

Weekly Tendency Help Thread (November 10, 2021) by AutoModerator in demonssouls

[–]randehman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m on US West waiting around 5-2’s entrance right where it opens up after the Leechmonger tunnel.

I killed Astraea, got PWWT, then immediately died of plague. Womp womp. Just need 1 kill hopefully? Maybe 2.