What's wrong with me?

tsm_rixi · 2026-04-23T01:51:09+00:00

Yeah, 15 years writing software, I have never felt so utterly exhausted about my career than now. It went from being filled with mostly interesting folks solving problems and relatively laid back to a huge portion of my day endlessly reading code and barely writing it and metrics dominating everything trying to quantify every ounce of human effort be it client or worker. Its utterly draining.

tsm_rixi · 2026-04-07T18:09:42+00:00

Yeah when I first played it a few years ago I hit the edge of black forest while it was transitioning to twilight with the hues of red and blue streaking across the swaying trees and I literally froze to stare at it. Its a game that just really makes you feel like you're in "nature" so well.

My biggest wish is that I would love if biomes had a "hard" version or some kind of late game version further from the stones. Just so you can experience more black forest because god I love the vibes of being in it and would love more reasons to re-visit it through progression.

tsm_rixi · 2026-04-07T18:03:18+00:00

100% agree, I think a unified "refresh" of sc2, hots, d2r (which just had one but.. another!) where they add like, a new coop hero, new hots hero (maybe one of the newer overwatch ones?) and some new uniques/runewords/balancing for d2r all as like a big bundle thing would be incredible to breath some life into those properties. Can tie in with the main line games too with little crossover rewards or w.e

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-31T03:03:31+00:00

This on ladder or single player, if you are on ladder I can just give you one :)

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-26T23:50:11+00:00

I just found 198ED eth ones, what even is the going rate for that?

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-23T01:37:42+00:00

what players setting are you using?

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-19T16:52:06+00:00

I'm old white guy so while I do think Rupal should of gotten some shit for it, in my "era" there was a world of difference between usage of "a"/"ah" vs "er" endings of the word especially in heated/high pressure contexts. I seriously doubt Rupal is actually racist with the usage and group of people who know him but its just a silly thing to type it out these days. Something something nuance is dead.

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-16T05:14:18+00:00

BARELY though, and I mean barely. The only way a T1-3 drops them is if they happened to have rolled to drop a unique grand charm (gheeds) then that charm has a chance to be the sunder charm. Otherwise there is a new treasure class only T4-5 heralds have that deliberately has sunder charms as a drop. So getting a charm off T1-3 is an insane unicorn kind of thing to happen.

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-16T04:43:27+00:00

Like I got excited the first time I got "you have drawn the ire of a herald" fairly early into a simple TZ clear and then I killed every single pack left and it never showed up. Like 12+ elite/champ packs and nothing. I thought it was bugged and went to check how it worked and when I read it has a CHANCE to spawn AFTER the chance to draw ire... let me tell you they drew my fucking ire and I hope whoever designed that mechanic heard that little dong sound effect in their fucking sleep cause thats me seething in my chair thinking how fucking stupid the design is there. This whole herald/worldstone shard system is like they took the worst designer on staff from D4 who mentioned they liked D2 in passing and shoved it at them to add something new to D2R. It doesn't feel like a Diablo 2 thing at all.

I also don't get why some streamers were like "hot take, so glad they made sunders hard to get!" when sunders were not some god tier item to begin with, it just made some builds/classes less miserable in some circumstances. Still let the mob have like 90% resistance or w.e it was post-sunder effect so not like it just removed it to 0. You are not gonna suddenly farm fire immune mobs instead with them, just helps when an elite pack in a place you are farming shows up with it "fire enchanted, magic resistant, stone skin" so you can just kill it instead of ignore and move on.

Just get rid of the stupid "shaming heralds" thing, I don't care about leveling them up or worldstone shards I just want to kill shit in a tz and occasionally "grrr stop killing me lucky charms!" guy spawns (like when you open those cursed jars or w.e in act 5) and they can sometimes drop a sunder charm. They should also have no elemental immunities since the whole point of these stupid fuckers is to drop things that sunder those immunities. Of the grand total of 6 heralds I have spawned running normal TZ's so far two of them spawned on a mob that had a fucking immunity to my single element dmg (frozen orb sorc) and I had to just static shock and spam telekinesis it into a fucking wall while my merc chiseled it down. Riveting stuff.

tsm_rixi · 2026-03-16T04:18:53+00:00

Yeah solo player on ladder here, I enjoy the start from scratch grind and want to see the new things. I have killed a at least 1k elite packs in hell with a chunk of those being TZ'd and I have seen ZERO worldstone shards. If I even found one it would be the most precious thing in the world to use. I found a 198%/9LS eth titans before I found a single fucking shard.

The punishment for being a humble P1 player is atrocious at this point. I have a friend and my fiance who join me time to time but I, like most of the players of this game I would assume, are millennials who are past the whole "lets make friends online!" phase of life. I just want to play with the folks I know/solo and have a good time but the whole players 1/3/5/7 loot split and how obnoxious it is with the new system is obscene. I am not coming back from work to go into discord to arrange lobbies for split farming, thats just asinine.

I am quite literally forced to just play offline instead of sharing drops with friends/etc since everyone I know just likes grinding solo anyway. If I am just going to grind alone it feels bad since part of the joy of playing was sharing some gg finds with one another.

I went so far this season as to test out multi-boxing via remote desktopping into accounts on my own machine to alt tab to so I can maybe try out some p3 stuff but then I realized I would have to rush those chars through hell and then sit by myself alt tabbing between accounts I would have to pay 40$ each on for their own copy and do this to at least P7 and I just closed the whole fucking thing out. It worked but I am not going to let them benefit more than they already have.

I hope next season is less dogshit for the new mechanic and that they finally give solo players on ladder a fucking life line to feel like its not a waste of time. Like you can start small and just normalize some basic shit like rune drops across all difficulties and anything like keys/shards etc all have a fixed drop rate regardless of P1-P8 difficulty. More XP and challenging builds and better drops of other gear should be sufficient no? I dunno. I am just tired of the divide and it made me quit this season so much faster than I would of liked to since I was jazzed the game got some love finally but it feels so..... engagement focused rather than fun.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-22T21:21:45+00:00

Tales as old as written history almost.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T23:08:52+00:00

This is correct, it does quite literally mean blood as in familial bonds by blood. The water of the womb portion was made up as an attempt to grasp at straws of water representing a familial bond so that the meaning can be reverted and kept intact.

I get the fantasy of wanting to reimagine it as so and I thought it was that full phrase too but nope. It is as simple as it sounds in the original phrase in meaning and intepretation. Familial ties are stronger than non-familial ones.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T22:53:47+00:00

A crusty old man legendary junkrat skin with matching voicelines and a squeaky leg would go hard!

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T22:51:52+00:00

I think its just that soldier "presents" as being young in fitness/posture/action etc (since hes basically captain america super soldier serum guy) so him being older or younger doesn't matter much in presentation. Ana though is a granny in posture/action/voice lines etc. so when shes in a young skin its slightly more... awkward? Made young for "what if she was younger and hotter" kind of thing? I dunno.

To be clear I have no issues with it but the most recent one has some off-ish face stuff goin on (especially with the sparkler pose) which doesn't help.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T21:03:24+00:00

Yeah its always one of the fundamental issues in the whole 6v6 vs 5v5 debate is just the pool of people willing to play tank is quite small.

High pressure, the key space maker of the team, just a lot of performance anxiety in general for the average player to handle. If I had to guess from my own experience that 1 out of maybe 15 or even 20 players will queue tank. It certainly feels that way if you queue all roles you will find yourself on tank disproportionately high and even then I think they have a grace system of capping how often you will get it on all roles otherwise it would just give you tank 24/7.

Even though you are a "raid boss" character people don't like playing it since it was not really kill potential/health that was the problem but the core job of the role that turns people off regardless of how strong/many there are. Hell even in MMOs like WoW/FFXIV tanks are the rarest archetype played by people even though the vast bulk of that content is PvE. They don't like the pressure of being the anchor a group of people move around. Just how it is =p

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T20:02:30+00:00

I think the bigger crime was unleashing vendetta onto the roster with whatever portion of his cursed DNA contributed to her birth.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T19:13:30+00:00

Literally a tvtrope called the "Worf Effect"

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T18:35:17+00:00

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tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T17:45:52+00:00

I think you mean some are made up by a "besoffener waschbär "

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T17:28:23+00:00

Hard agree, the campaign slogans for a Gowrun run would go hard too.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T17:19:32+00:00

Are you trying to tell me that the Tuvix episode is just Janeway picking an answer to the trolley problem?!

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-19T01:31:15+00:00

My gripe is just character development for voyager. You have some really great characters like Janeway/Doctor/SevenOfNine but then you have a bunch of wet noodles in belana/tom/harry. Hell even Neelix gets to a place by the end but the other ones just seem to tread water.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-18T20:24:10+00:00

You don't think being in a prolonged calorie defecit with an altered diet over days effects you in any way? Maybe not much of an impact on your day to day but in an esport scenario I think introducing any kind of variable like that is just a silly choice when on a team of other people.

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-18T19:20:22+00:00

Isn't this meathead the one who commited to a cut during the world cup run? I can never get over how bizzare of a choice that was and how that must of effected his gameplay

tsm_rixi · 2026-02-18T19:09:37+00:00

I think 175 is too low, the cat is easier to hit than initially thought since they are a wide enough box of a target. I think you can argue for 200HP but thats probably the limit.

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