Still a dick move to be mean about it if she wasn’t trans. Even with the “different context” it’s just people being rude to someone who really does look like their character, which isn’t exactly cool either.

Holy fuck, but TomatoRogue is in another thread explaining to everyone how people all behave the exact same in all contexts and at all times! I don't know who to believe anymore.

Lemmy is the nerdiest part of Reddit, my guy.

They walk among us.

Tbf, there were actual incidents where game news journalists gave preferential treatment to indie game devs they knew personally/went out drinking with/had dated. There was confirmation of that from leaked game journo email groups/chains. There was also concerns about preferential reviews being given to games that were running ads on a site. There was a small kernel about actual journalistic integrity concerns and what responsible disclosure means for games journalism.

Unfortunately that got swallowed up by a lot of bullshit:

• absolute waves and waves of women hate. Jesus christ that's a lot of misogyny.
• elitism about what qualified as a "real game" (I don't enjoy "walking simulators" but that doesn't mean they aren't video games)
• people unable to understand that just like movie critics are judging different criteria to movie consumers, game critics can judge based on different criteria to gamers
• weird group stalking behavior towards specific female game devs
• attacking creators themselves rather than whatever elements of their games people found lacking

What is GG?

It's a surprisingly good game for one that's been out so long! And they don't raise the level cap so taking a break doesn't mean you fall behind.

Highly recommend, even for short bursts of play.

… I wanna say duh? lol

OP also plays GW

Traumatic flashback to old MMOs that had 3 full bars of skills. Ugh. Guild Wars 2 nicely limits it to 10 skills at a time. Plus UI shortcuts like "inventory" and "equipment".

I bought it when it released. Does that mean that I can go back and play it again without paying more money? The subscription thing is what has stopped me from going back to Eve Online. I actually reinstalled it a month or so ago, logged in, saw that I couldn't even undock with the ship I was in, and uninstalled it. That was disappointing.

I'm referring to when they removed lesser signet of inspiration. The thing I liked about Chrono was that it was able to function as a hard support, taking care of boons and whatnot. I also really, really liked the fact that the meta builds were able to incorporate the shield and a couple wells. Like, there are too many elite specs where their "meta" builds don't actually incorporate their elite spec weapon or abilities, only the spec's skill tree. Finally, the spec just felt good to play because it felt very intuitive once you got the basic idea of how to maximize your boon uptime; lesser signet of inspiration meant you wanted to make sure your phantasms got boons, because when the phantasms expired, they'd give their boons back to you, which you could then give to allies using signet of inspiration.

I honestly think a better solution would have been to buff other classes that already had supporting potential than to nerf the shit out of Chrono. It just stopped feeling good to play and felt more like a rollercoaster where you spend time smacking something with a stick while you wait for everything to come off cool down, dump everything at once, and then wait a minute or two again.

Edit: I guess to use a Dota analogy, the way I saw chrono was that it was like Witch Doctor or Dazzle (hard supports, their skills are highly focused on buffing or assisting allies), but there weren't really any other Witch Doctors or Dazzles, so it was OP in comparison. Had there been other Witch Doctors or Dazzles, it wouldn't have seemed as OP.

Edit 2: there was also a lot of hate, toxicity and entitlement towards Mesmer players in general, which was starting to get to me. Mesmers aren't NPCs and don't owe you shit. I'll drop a portal for you out of the goodness of my heart, don't start bitching at me because I forgot or because the portal timed out and I can't be assed redoing the jumping puzzle for you. I was on EU servers though (that's where most of my friends were at the time), US servers might be nicer.