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On August 08 2021 21:25 PoulsenB wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2021 20:13 Slomo wrote:
Poulsen how is PoE? I was on vacation for 10 days right after league release and it already looks dead. Reddit crybabies are right about the nerfs? Reddit are a bunch of crybabies, I'm playing ssfsc and having a ton of fun (warchief totems champion), sure the game is slower and players lost some damage but if you roll a good build you can still go pretty fast and destroy content. The new league mechanic is fun too, it can be tedious when you have a lot of npc shards to spend at once but all in all I've been enjoying it, logbooks drop a lot of cool stuff. And if you feel like you are too slow and too squishy just roll a raider with crystal skin and you're good ;]
I ain't no meta slave, so raider is not an option atm. I started leveling a duelist thinking about playing a double strike boys build. From all the nerfs there is only one thing that really annoys me: flasks don't give immunity for their duration.
But I grew annoyed with PoE the last few leagues in general. Getting to the endgame burns me out most leagues. Acts are just a tutorial which takes forever, the current atlas progression gives me a headache and maven stuff is fun, but runs in a different direction than the atlas exploration. All the fucking clicking hurts my mouse hand. Uniques (and items in general) are all trash and everything is gambling which has an aversive effect on me. So I get to lvl92+, hit a wall of hand pain and realize "finally getting to the endgame" is already too much and then quit.
I want to like the game again, but it's too much of a time investment.
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Why do Americans say tuna fish sandwich
Is there a tuna dog????
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well for example in german that fish is called "thunfisch" i assume its the same deal in english that its name is actually "tuna fish" instead of "tuna"
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A lot of this type of thing depends on where you grow up. I've known people from the UK who will always say ice hockey where here it's just hockey unless you mean field hockey in which case we'll say field hockey but in the UK they might just say hockey referring to field hockey a lot of the time. Context stuff in language can be so confusing if you're not native to that specific area even if you are speaking the same language lol
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On August 08 2021 20:43 PassiveAce wrote:
The reporting on Activision is nuts. Not terribly surprising from the makers of cod tho
Listened to the coverage on Opening Arguments and was not shocked. Making the head of WoW the head of Blizzard resulting in a culture of rampant sexual assault and harassment is basically the ultimate in surprised Pikachu face meme. WoW was always weirdly sexual in comparison to WC3, and not in a good way (you can put sexual elements in your game without making it unintentionally creepy...)
That their games also went to shit simultaneously isn't a coincidence. I don't care if my programmers are lazy and only work 18 hours a week when they say they're working 40. If they're good enough I won't be able to tell the difference. I do care if they're drunk on the job and distracting (let alone harassing) coworkers, and that was apparently common for entire groups of guys to do at Blizzard.
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On August 08 2021 23:29 Slomo wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2021 21:25 PoulsenB wrote:On August 08 2021 20:13 Slomo wrote:
Poulsen how is PoE? I was on vacation for 10 days right after league release and it already looks dead. Reddit crybabies are right about the nerfs? Reddit are a bunch of crybabies, I'm playing ssfsc and having a ton of fun (warchief totems champion), sure the game is slower and players lost some damage but if you roll a good build you can still go pretty fast and destroy content. The new league mechanic is fun too, it can be tedious when you have a lot of npc shards to spend at once but all in all I've been enjoying it, logbooks drop a lot of cool stuff. And if you feel like you are too slow and too squishy just roll a raider with crystal skin and you're good ;] I ain't no meta slave, so raider is not an option atm. I started leveling a duelist thinking about playing a double strike boys build. From all the nerfs there is only one thing that really annoys me: flasks don't give immunity for their duration. But I grew annoyed with PoE the last few leagues in general. Getting to the endgame burns me out most leagues. Acts are just a tutorial which takes forever, the current atlas progression gives me a headache and maven stuff is fun, but runs in a different direction than the atlas exploration. All the fucking clicking hurts my mouse hand. Uniques (and items in general) are all trash and everything is gambling which has an aversive effect on me. So I get to lvl92+, hit a wall of hand pain and realize "finally getting to the endgame" is already too much and then quit. I want to like the game again, but it's too much of a time investment.
That's understandable, I've had similar feelings in the past leagues, but this time I made a conscious decision to stick it out and do some endgame stuff. I agree though they could change a lot of things and I hope they will in the future league patches.
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On August 09 2021 11:24 Nevuk wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2021 20:43 PassiveAce wrote:
The reporting on Activision is nuts. Not terribly surprising from the makers of cod tho Listened to the coverage on Opening Arguments and was not shocked. Making the head of WoW the head of Blizzard resulting in a culture of rampant sexual assault and harassment is basically the ultimate in surprised Pikachu face meme. WoW was always weirdly sexual in comparison to WC3, and not in a good way (you can put sexual elements in your game without making it unintentionally creepy...) That their games also went to shit simultaneously isn't a coincidence. I don't care if my programmers are lazy and only work 18 hours a week when they say they're working 40. If they're good enough I won't be able to tell the difference. I do care if they're drunk on the job and distracting (let alone harassing) coworkers, and that was apparently common for entire groups of guys to do at Blizzard.
Have you ever seen the twitter account of Mark Kern, the lead designer for vanilla WoW? Last time I checked he only posts complaints about how girls butts are too small in video games now lmao
Edit- looks like he deleted most of the cringiest stuff but there's still a bunch of posts from other people replying to him with the smut they drew for him lol.
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On August 09 2021 18:56 PassiveAce wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2021 11:24 Nevuk wrote:On August 08 2021 20:43 PassiveAce wrote:
The reporting on Activision is nuts. Not terribly surprising from the makers of cod tho Listened to the coverage on Opening Arguments and was not shocked. Making the head of WoW the head of Blizzard resulting in a culture of rampant sexual assault and harassment is basically the ultimate in surprised Pikachu face meme. WoW was always weirdly sexual in comparison to WC3, and not in a good way (you can put sexual elements in your game without making it unintentionally creepy...) That their games also went to shit simultaneously isn't a coincidence. I don't care if my programmers are lazy and only work 18 hours a week when they say they're working 40. If they're good enough I won't be able to tell the difference. I do care if they're drunk on the job and distracting (let alone harassing) coworkers, and that was apparently common for entire groups of guys to do at Blizzard. Have you ever seen the twitter account of Mark Kern, the lead designer for vanilla WoW? Last time I checked he only posts complaints about how girls butts are too small in video games now lmao Edit- looks like he deleted most of the cringiest stuff but there's still a bunch of posts from other people replying to him with the smut they drew for him lol.
Oh Blizzard...
I'm glad Blizz made War2, Diablo, and BW. These were some of my most played childhood games. Broodwar probably being the best game of all time. Diablo2, Diablo3, SC2, and Overwatch are fine games. The rest have never been my cup of tea. Quality has obviously declined for a long time (Overwatch being the only exception I would say.) From what I see, Blizzard just doesn't make games that I'm interested in anymore. I don't see any changes in the employees, management, or company culture that will fix that, so I've pretty much written them off. On top of mediocre games, what a despicable company atmosphere.
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I think wc3:tft is as good as broodwar tbh
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On August 09 2021 21:50 Erasme wrote:
I think wc3:tft is as good as broodwar tbh
Probably, I just never got into it. Same with vanilla wow
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blizzard has had so many games that had such insane influence on gaming in general it's incredible that they're viewed so poorly in this day and age.
starcraft, wc3, WoW, diablo
all of these were revolutionary in their own ways and were literally genre defining and in some instances creating new genres all together
such a shame 
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A screenplay I wrote about Formula 1 racing ended up getting accepted into a film festival so that's cool
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On August 10 2021 08:20 plasmidghost wrote:
A screenplay I wrote about Formula 1 racing ended up getting accepted into a film festival so that's cool
That's awesome, congrats
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Yea that's awesome. Congrats on being accepted.
On another note it's nice to see I'm not the only GD thread Formula 1 fan 
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On August 10 2021 12:31 TheEmulator wrote:Yea that's awesome. Congrats on being accepted. On another note it's nice to see I'm not the only GD thread Formula 1 fan
Bruh, are you kidding me?
EDIT: @plasmidghost: What is it about? Current day F1 or some historic part?
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On August 10 2021 08:20 plasmidghost wrote:
A screenplay I wrote about Formula 1 racing ended up getting accepted into a film festival so that's cool
that's awesome  ))))
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On August 10 2021 08:20 plasmidghost wrote:
A screenplay I wrote about Formula 1 racing ended up getting accepted into a film festival so that's cool
Yoooooo congratulations!!
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On August 10 2021 12:31 TheEmulator wrote:Yea that's awesome. Congrats on being accepted. On another note it's nice to see I'm not the only GD thread Formula 1 fan
I find it very boring to watch. It is, oddly enough, too slow to be spectator friendly imo
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