#Lootbox.

[renesassing]

im not explaining this

[greatwyrmgold]

Wait wait wait. The Cross Guild pays its bounties with lootboxes? Emperor Buggy is even more wicked than I had imagined...

[the-magnus-archives-wiki]

as someone who worked at a charity shop for two years

it do be like that

[facts-i-just-made-up]

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[cuntstable]

overwatch is honestly worse than genshin. i can say this now having been subjected to both

[kotoneshiomiofficial]

thats the thing they really dont make games like they used to. not because bad/unethical game design decisions are anything new but because modern gaming i feel is really formulaic. they find something that Works and you'll be seeing it for the next decade. like even big companies back in the 90s werent afraid to try new things or innovate, when now they're scared of entire genres. racing games are pretty much just forza, gran turismo, and whatever indie games you can find like aero GPX. and forget weirder stuff like racing lagoon (a genuinely good racer that mixes rpg elements and a heavy story very intuitively).

what im saying is a lot of classic (or hidden gem) games were products of their time, and i really do think we lost something. even with indie devs the same trends happen. i mean every other game for the past few years is a deck builder of some description regardless if it actually serves the other mechanics or not. maybe its just nostalgia for a time i didnt live through but i really wish the gaming industry was different.

[cyborg-hydra-girl-thing]

warframe on mobile is.. not great

BUT i can run through void exterminates as xaku and farm out lith/meso/neo relics whenever i’ve got 5 minutes which was all i really wanted

[yoiku]

So I played through episode 12 yesterday and episode 13 today between my cleaning sprees and i only cried a little maybe dozen times through it all, so all I can say is that the main story continues to deliver. Wasn't very keen on the storytelling style of ep13 at first, but definitely warmed up to it along the way. Getting scenes from the wiewpoint and in the thoughts of so many characters in just one episode turned out to be pretty refreshing. I did feel a bit overwhelmed as well but i'll put that on me chewing through it all in one day. Sometimes I feel a bit worried that where is the main story going to go after a huge chunk of it comes to a conclusion, but at the same time... If the side stories have proved anything, its that there are so many things about the entire world and lore to explore. And I have to admit I'm still getting more curious about it all. if you told me 5 years ago that the story and universe in a gacha game(derogative) is going to be something i'm obsessing over, I would've been so pissed at you even suggesting that. Anyway, its a nice feeling to be so interested in something. I've lost interest in so many things and i feel like over the years its getting harder and harder for me to really get into something.

[juniepops]

ultimately the ability to be an unrepentant hater over things is one of the great human rights and joies des vivres that i would never begrudge anyone for taking part in but it is really funny/kind of annoying when people punch down on specific gacha games that they clearly know nothing about exclusively for being gachas. especially when they have a barely concealed if not proudly open contempt for people who play them, like giving off the vibe they assume every gacha game is???? idk just an anime babe png roulette with zero substance? and anyone who plays them is like stupid or foolish or has no self control or whatever. like i know it's hard to believe but sometimes things are good in ways that pull people in and simultaneously bad in ways that are objectively predatory business practices and your criticism of them will be enriched by understanding this

[duckthuffler]

BE MY THWEETHEART!!

[fandom-trash-xl]

Me: I can't believe they put Frieza (character I like) in Fortnite (game I don't like). This is truly the monkey's paw of getting content. Also me: I must see him doing all the silly little dances NOW.

[medicinemane]

There's honestly... just so many people, just so so so so so many people in this world where I'm like... aren't you people tired of this fucking... you know, I was going to call them clowns but that's really disrespectful to clowns, these people could never get their face on an egg...

Anyway, aren't you tired of this childish jackass? Don't you just want to ignore them and never have to hear about them again? If we just ignored them they legitimately would go away... don't you want that?

And this applies to... just ungodly amounts of people, from jake paul to even elon musk (just... don't touch his shit, he'll run out of money eventually with how bad he is with it), to just... name an annoying famous person and you'll name someone I've literally forgotten right now that I could never have to hear about again if people would just ignore them (unless they committed crimes, investigators are welcome to pay attention while gathering a case)

Yet the answer's always "no, we're paying so much attention to them!" and I'm just like... why? Why would you watch jake paul box? I heard about that and was like "he's still doing that shit?", and yet I guess it made a lot of money yet again and it's just like... ignore him

These people could go away, and yet

[goldom]

Ok rant mode activated by that comic because it is so painfully accurate and I'm a professional editor and an English major sooo, ahem. Look at this nonsense. What happened that they started writing like this?

That's 142 words to describe one effect, and I'm willing to wager half of them are unnecessary. Let me try.

"When any equipping character heals a party member, the total outgoing healing by all equipping party members for the next 6s will be tracked, up to 15,000 healing. After 6s, the next 5 times your active party member hits an opponent within the next 10s, the DMG dealt will be increased by 8% of the tracked healing amount."

58 words. Under half, just by not over-explaining basic mechanics (why list every possible type of attack after saying 'hits an opponent?') and by removing the two effect names, which serve no purpose but to add confusion. As far as I can tell this is functionally identical – and if it's not, well, that goes to show how hard the original is to understand.

The only reason to give proper names to invisible effects like this is if you're going to make some other item also interact with those effects – say, a weapon that does xyz if you're under the effect of Yearning. But they never do.

[homestuckconfession]

if im gonna be honest they should make ult dirk a gambling addict

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[bumpscosity]

cookie run ovenbreak fell off btw but im so nostalgic abt it i can't fully let it go

[lhazaar]

i'm gonna need people to stop asking the tumblr aita blog about their genshin impact drama. the answer can never be anything other than "you all suck and are going to have diagnosable gambling problems in under three years, stop ruining friendships over a slot machine"