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Oct 21, 2024 15:27:34 GMT said:
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Oct 21, 2024 15:18:37 GMT said:
healer players in mmos are so annoying, like i've never seen a group of people so offended they have to do a job they chose to do.

"waaaah i don't wanna dps when i have nothing to heal" "waaaah i have to do a bit of extra healing to save this dps" "waaaah i have to interrupt a mob because the dps won't" "waaah i have to use party cc" "waaaaah i don't like when the tank pulls big and i have to actually try"

like as a healer, i enjoy doing all of these things? do you just want to get carried and do nothing?
Tbf the only mmo I play is ff, and whenever my main healer friend "acts up" it's justified. They aren't the type to whine but you can bet your ass if you're being stupid and standing  in aoes you could have avoided they'll make you suffer and wait a bit to be rezz'd. Yes they're a healer but at that point you kinda deserve a bit of a salt Mage as we like to call it. They're our healer not a "get out of being stupid free" card. And I'm sating this as someone who has been the stupid dps and gotten murked on mechanics. 

On the other hand there are some pretty bad healers. Like Genuine Bad. I've gotten healers who run ahead impatiently trying to be tank or some garbage and then die because...they aren't. Or healers being overconfident and demanding bigger pulls, being unable to keep up, and the party wiping. I also knew someone who always wanted to be party support but then kept chickening out or whining about mechs or difficulty unless the dungeon was under their level. As a dps, I sit in a pretty responsibility free zone and I'm content with it. My job is to do damage which is literally the easiest job.
I actually find healing, ESPECIALLY in FFXIV, to be easier than DPS. Something about healing just clicks in my brain, and it just makes sense. someone dies to avoidable damage? i can safely ignore their complaints, not my fault or responsibility. If someone's being a pain in the ass and not clicking their defensives, at a certain point, it's not my job to save them. I'm a 2k healer in WoW and I've healed mythic raids, and I don't worry about the floor eaters. It's not my fault if the DPS die to their own stupidity, and if I can't save them, I don't bother. I also don't have a res that works in battle, that's a mostly DPS and tank feature in WoW these days (unless I'm a resto druid, which I never am. Sorry!). So if you die to smth stupid, I get to leave you there and focus on the other people.

The thing is, in WoW Rn, a bunch of healers are complaining about a mechanic that is super easy to deal with. You can dispel it with a mass dispel, which only 2 healing classes have, or you can just burst-heal through it (and it doesn't stack with incoming damage, so if it happens during an AOE where you have to heal anyway, the affix removes itself). They're talking about how impossible the affix is to deal with, but you look at their keys done and the most they've cleared is a +5. And like, I handle that in 2 GCDs....

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healer players in mmos are so annoying, like i've never seen a group of people so offended they have to do a job they chose to do.

"waaaah i don't wanna dps when i have nothing to heal" "waaaah i have to do a bit of extra healing to save this dps" "waaaah i have to interrupt a mob because the dps won't" "waaah i have to use party cc" "waaaaah i don't like when the tank pulls big and i have to actually try"

like as a healer, i enjoy doing all of these things? do you just want to get carried and do nothing?
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Oct 15, 2024 17:37:55 GMT said:
dare i ask for furry/cutesy animal type artist recommendations who take commission? i am brainstorming christmas already and now have a furry in my life
hello i draw cute animals if you like my stuff we can talk

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Post a Random Thought written Oct 14, 2024 23:30:18 GMT
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Oct 14, 2024 19:21:40 GMT said:
**crashes back in after looking through the tera leaks**

ok i haven't gone down the rabbit hole (idk if anything weird got exposed from character profiles) but i just wanna say: creatures inc is amazing. it gets talked about how pokemon isn't that great bc the gameplay has been disappointing (it's true), and how some pokemon are just uncreative and lame (like maushold AND THEY'RE WRONG FIGHT ME) but as someone who's always looked around for monster/creature collecting games - and also a fan of digimon - pokemon designs are top tier. top tier as in they're so recognizable. you remember them. you can associate details and lore from their designs somehow. this also got brought up with palworld when people were saying palworld had cooler designs and... cooler doesn't mean it's more iconic. personal opinion time (i'm no artist or anything and i don't claim to have a good eye for art) but palworld lack "logic" in their designs and feels more like slapping together monster assets to make something. 

gamefreak is great. nintendo is a disappointment. also i think digimon and even ygo have been the only ones who have really put out distinct monster designs. i'd like to think there's a reason they really succeeded and become memorable. 

i gush about gamefreak but i actually love digimon and ygo designs more lmfao BUT!! pokemon to me are more = animals. digimon and ygo = fantasy monsters, even if they're not fantasy-themed. 

edit: wait shoutout to my demons in smt/persona. i love them too and i love their interpretations 
edit2: also doubling down on the ygo designs TAKAHASHI SENSEI IS AN AMAZING ARTIST!!!!



**lies down and sobs** also toriyama-sensei... 

edit3: ALSO LARGELY NOT RELATED TO THIS POST BUT IF SOMEONE SAYS "clamperl/luvdisc isn't anyone's favorite pokemon" IT'S ME I LOVE CLAMPERL AND LUVDISC. FIRST OF ALL, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE A BEAUTIFUL CLAM. A WONDERFUL SHELL WHOSE WEIGHT YOU CAN FEEL BUT ITS DESIGN, AND THEN A GENTLE SLEEPING BEBI INSIDE!!! aND THEN LUVDISC - it's A FLAT HEART SHAPED DISC HOW CUTE IS THAT!!!!!! and it flutters!! it's pink!!!! MY BABY WATER BABIES
palworld has always looked like the korean MMO version of pokemon and i'll stand by that. they're sleek, pretty, and ultimately lack any form of real identity. the problem with a lot of pokemon clones is that they're made by people whose personal taste in pokemon extends only to "pretty" Pokemon. like the reason yugioh and digimon and pokemon stand out is that they have monsters that are just weird or goofy or ugly. like. looking at palworld is like looking at the vision of someone who thinks Garbodor is a bad design.
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Post a Random Thought written Oct 10, 2024 22:10:11 GMT
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Oct 10, 2024 16:25:48 GMT said:
on that note if anyone has any non human dating game (doesnt have to be mature or sexy) lmk i also very much liked sucker for love (which also terrified the hell out of me but maybe i liked that too). Also boyfriend dungeon
Salting the Earth has big orc women and that's really the only thing that matters.

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gamer confessions written Oct 10, 2024 17:53:52 GMT
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i'm not the world's greatest healer but it makes a huge difference in healing when your dps is good.

like i play with people who use defensives and utility on near-CD and i feel like that makes a huge difference. Hell, I'm not a good DPS either but I click my defensive buttons on CD as well. I hope that makes my healers' lives better.

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Post a Random Thought written Oct 5, 2024 15:05:32 GMT
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just learned about the remarkable life of ibelin and honestly, i think the fact that WoW gave that young man a chance to live a life outside his home is deeply relatable as someone who had pretty extreme agoraphobia for a while.

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Post a Random Thought written Oct 5, 2024 2:05:25 GMT
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Oct 4, 2024 21:31:47 GMT said:
I don't think I entirely understand why some sites mandate specific writing perspectives. What if I want to write in present tense second person because that's how my creative juices flow best?
it bothers some people, idk.

i just don't join sites with those rules. they're a hard dealbreaker for me.

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Post a Random Thought written Oct 1, 2024 17:50:16 GMT
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Oct 1, 2024 17:44:29 GMT said:
Okay, but wanting your social lives separate from your rp lives feels counter-intuitive.

I'm more inclined to plot with people I'm friends with than take a risk on a stranger that may ghost in a few days.

I'll still post with strangers, it's just less stressful if it's someone you've gotten comfortable with.
there's a difference between "comfortable" and "friend" to me, tho, so like. while i'm social with my rp buddies, they're kinda kept at a certain distance unless we're actually friends. i'm fine with just being Friendly Acquaintances with most people I RP with.

like there's 2 circles of friendship and the outside circle is just people you aren't necessarily close with but do stuff with regularly, and i think most rp partners go there.

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Oct 1, 2024 7:07:37 GMT said:

there are bad faith actors deliberately causing problems. when you've seen people actually sit on "canon positions" just for the sake of denying other people, or "sniping" face claims: this is where the line draws.
Is this actually a real thing that happens, and not just people who got a canon position/FC and then just…don’t get to go to the entire writing part of the hobby?

I’m having a difficult time believing there are a) people who do this to deliberately cause problems and b) people who actually admit to this and it’s not just some speculation.

Once you get into a negative mindset, it’s easy to start seeing evidence of malice where none exists. Maybe I’m too positive that “ha ha, I am going to take this canon position just so no one can take it!” seems like an absurd position to take.
i won't dispute that there isn't one person or clique that does it, but most of it just seems to be general inactivity in the animanga community, as it's been for all time. i don't think every case is malicious.

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Post a Random Thought written Sept 24, 2024 15:46:48 GMT
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realizing i low-key hate baldur's gate 3 and it's not even larian's fault

the game is objectively well made and Larian is objectively talented. i just can't fkin stand forgotten realms.

i wanna go to the alternate universe where rogue trader got baldur's gate 3's budget (and there's also a second lauryn hill album).

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Thoughts on stats in a Roleplay? written Sept 24, 2024 15:40:16 GMT
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i'm not a big fan of forum-specific stat systems just b/c i don't like imbalanced games.

i don't like putting time and effort into a RP character only to find out the system balanced them around has rendered them functionally useless.

i also don't like "simple" stat systems designed to pigeonhole characters into specific playstyles and not really allow for much build variance or flexibility. If there's a clear meta, people are gonna play for it in an RP, and the more imbalanced the system, the clearer that Meta is.

i am ok with people using playtested systems on their forums. and i'm also more ok with non-D&D systems, mostly because I do not want to go anywhere near Faerun. hate Faerun. Might play in Krynn, but you will catch me dead before joining a Baldur's Gate RP.

Also honestly I think going self-hosted is better for stat RP just because MyBB is more customizable than Jcink, if you want an integrated-into-the-forum stat system. I've considered it, but hosting costs and learning all that PHP blugh.
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Post a Random Thought written Sept 18, 2024 21:06:13 GMT
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Sept 18, 2024 19:22:20 GMT said:
If anything I'd like to talk about skewing back towards lower expectations and making rp a "free" hobby again. Not everyone has the money to fork over for expensive custom skins, templates, or graphics. If they do and they want those things it's fine but too often I see someone turn their nose up because someone doesn't have as pretty of graphics or has an edited skin that many sites have used so now it's simply not good enough.

Even premades cost money, and a good chunk of money too, if they aren't the free variety. Not all people have that kind of money to toss at a hobby that's meant to be relaxing. It's not supposed to be a popularity contest or pissing match.

Maybe some people need to step back and remember that. It's almost like some people forget what having fun is...
tbh if we want to start having free skins be standard, we need to severely lower graphical expectations for sites. a skin with full HTML templates takes many days to code, and it's fine to want compensation for that amount of work. i tend to side-eye people that complain about cookie cutter skins b/c they're contributing to a problem that's causing sites to not open as often.

the only time i'll pass on a site because of the skin is if i literally can't read it, because the purpose of a site is to read text, and if I can't do that, I can't RP. This is also why I have a tendency of not joining sites that use external templates; having to nag people to remember to use legible font sizes is exhausting and I'd rather just not. honestly it's made me want to include !important for a 1rem font size for every skin i create so no one can make the text smaller.
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Sept 17, 2024 17:09:08 GMT said:
the forum scene isn’t dead just because you don’t like any of the options available.

every time i see this sentence I think it’s dumb.
tbh there are higher standards for forums these days and that's led to fewer forums being opened. but considering how back in the "good old days," most forums usually died in a month, i don't really see an issue with that.

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