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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:30
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:20
rusty_shackleford wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:15
The first Diablo actually had a good story btw.
That's the one that ends with the protagonist shoving a magical diablo rock dildo into their forehead completely undoing all of their work right?
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind such retardation.
He was tricked into thinking he was powerful enough to contain diablo
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:30
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:20
rusty_shackleford wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:15
The first Diablo actually had a good story btw.
That's the one that ends with the protagonist shoving a magical diablo rock dildo into their forehead completely undoing all of their work right?
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind such retardation.
The protag was anglo
I'm just stating the facts.
Question is are you going to gargle the truth or swallow?
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Taking on far more burden than he's capable of because everyone else is too incompetent is an anglo trait, yes.
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It's cool that the D1 protags show up as bosses in D2 but it makes me sad
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:39
Taking on far more burden than he's capable of because everyone else is too incompetent is an anglo trait, yes.
So is undeserved confidence and smug superiority even while everything you've ever worked for is crumbling and being undone around you. :toot:
I'm just stating the facts.
Question is are you going to gargle the truth or swallow?
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:32
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:30
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:20

That's the one that ends with the protagonist shoving a magical diablo rock dildo into their forehead completely undoing all of their work right?
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind such retardation.
He was tricked into thinking he was powerful enough to contain diablo
I don’t know how thinking inserting a soul stone in your forehead that is evil incarnate was going to work out by sheer willpower.

That’s not confidence that just being suicidally stupid.
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Oyster Sauce wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:41
It's cool that the D1 protags show up as bosses in D2 but it makes me sad
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1. Yeah, I enjoyed the lore in the original Diablo manual, sue me.

2. The necromancer chick in Diablo 4 is really hot and I played her first because of that.
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Zothique wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:09
2. The necromancer chick in Diablo 4 is really hot and I played her first because of that.
https://www.wikihow.com/Start-Hormone-R ... to-Female)
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Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:25
Zothique wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:09
2. The necromancer chick in Diablo 4 is really hot and I played her first because of that.
https://www.wikihow.com/Start-Hormone-R ... to-Female)
Nothing weird about playing a chick in a game.

If your going to stare at a *** in a video game might as well make it an attractive one.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:36
Nothing weird about playing a chick in a game.
There is actually
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:36
If your going to stare at a *** in a video game might as well make it an attractive one.
This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.
Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.
You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
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Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47
There is actually
I would like to hear your reasons why you think it’s weird.

Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.
Slow down on the projection there. I think the avatar looks cool thats the beginning, middle and end of it. I don’t know how you think having a female avatar makes me coomer and is a pipeline for becoming a ***** but that says a lot about you then me when that’s the first thing you leap to conclusion to.

Then again your the same person lusting over Astarion with not so subtle homoerotic comments, not to mention your post Thread for Posting Attractive Men
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
I really don’t know why you think the avatar is ****** demon but that’s your own projection.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47
There is actually
I would like to hear your reasons why you think it’s weird.

Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.
Slow down on the projection there. I think the avatar looks cool thats the beginning, middle and end of it. I don’t know how you think having a female avatar makes me coomer and is a pipeline for becoming a ***** but that says a lot about you then me when that’s the first thing you leap to conclusion to.

Then again your the same person lusting over Astarion with not so subtle homoerotic comments, not to mention your post Thread for Posting Attractive Men
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
I really don’t know why you think the avatar is ****** demon but that’s your own projection.

I'm just stating the facts.
Question is are you going to gargle the truth or swallow?
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47
There is actually
I would like to hear your reasons why you think it’s weird.

Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.
Slow down on the projection there. I think the avatar looks cool thats the beginning, middle and end of it. I don’t know how you think having a female avatar makes me coomer and is a pipeline for becoming a ***** but that says a lot about you then me when that’s the first thing you leap to conclusion to.

Then again your the same person lusting over Astarion with not so subtle homoerotic comments, not to mention your post Thread for Posting Attractive Men
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
I really don’t know why you think the avatar is ****** demon but that’s your own projection.
Liking women is gay, don'tcha know.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47
There is actually
I would like to hear your reasons why you think it’s weird.

Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.
Slow down on the projection there. I think the avatar looks cool thats the beginning, middle and end of it. I don’t know how you think having a female avatar makes me coomer and is a pipeline for becoming a ***** but that says a lot about you then me when that’s the first thing you leap to conclusion to.

Then again your the same person lusting over Astarion with not so subtle homoerotic comments, not to mention your post Thread for Posting Attractive Men
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
I really don’t know why you think the avatar is ****** demon but that’s your own projection.
Liking women is gay, don'tcha know.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
I think the avatar looks cool
woman

looks cool


pick one
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Manny V wrote: October 9th, 2024, 02:49
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
I think the avatar looks cool
woman

looks cool


pick one
Both can be true in fictional settings.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 8th, 2024, 21:55
I don’t know how thinking inserting a soul stone in your forehead that is evil incarnate was going to work out by sheer willpower.

That’s not confidence that just being suicidally stupid.
Actually, I think this is at least partly explained - or perhaps a better word is foreshadowed - in the manual(s) for D1 (and perhaps also D2).
The Prime Evils could not be destroyed by conventional means, but the meddling of Tyrael gave humans the soulstones in which it was possible to entrap the Evils.
That however meant one would spend the rest of one's days wrestling with the entity trapped. The statistics for these battles show that Tyrael's idea probably was crap. Not even the greatest of the horadrim wizards nor the most pious of the zakarumites were able to hold the evil at bay, so it is no wonder an upstart player character wasn't able to do so either.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 00:07
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47
There is actually
I would like to hear your reasons why you think it’s weird.

Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

This is the most generic response you could have possibly made.Even if this cope was true (it isn't) you're a massive coomer which is a part of the trooning out pipeline anyway.You should not want to embody the avatar of a woman.
Slow down on the projection there. I think the avatar looks cool thats the beginning, middle and end of it. I don’t know how you think having a female avatar makes me coomer and is a pipeline for becoming a ***** but that says a lot about you then me when that’s the first thing you leap to conclusion to.

Then again your the same person lusting over Astarion with not so subtle homoerotic comments, not to mention your post Thread for Posting Attractive Men
Vergil wrote: October 8th, 2024, 22:47

Fitting you have what appears to be some sort of ****** demon as your pfp here now that I think about it.
I really don’t know why you think the avatar is ****** demon but that’s your own projection.
Taking a Vergil post seriously and effort posting a response lol
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I really don’t give a **** about Neyrelle. The expansion goes out its way to act like the MC has some deep connection with her when she barely had 30 minute of screen time in the base game.Maybe if the game did more show not tell in the relationship then this wouldn’t be a glaring problem.

Neyrelle is just a worst version leah without any of the characterization or build up. D3 story has its issues but it did make those provital emotional moments matter when **** hits the fan.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 12:47
Neyrelle is just a worse version Leah without any of the characterization or build up.
:salute:
100% to the point. Probably the most useless and irritating NPC since ... well, Leah... and a certain cretin wannabe-vampire in BG3. :lol:
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fkirenicus wrote: October 9th, 2024, 14:26
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 9th, 2024, 12:47
Neyrelle is just a worse version Leah without any of the characterization or build up.
:salute:
100% to the point. Probably the most useless and irritating NPC since ... well, Leah... and a certain cretin wannabe-vampire in BG3. :lol:
To be fair D3 went through several revisions during its development both in story and gameplay so I’m surprised it didn’t end of being complete trash fire.

There is a really good video documenting the whole ordeal by indigo gaming.

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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 10th, 2024, 13:47

To be fair D3 went through several revisions during its development both in story and gameplay so I’m surprised it didn’t end of being complete trash fire.

There is a really good video documenting the whole ordeal by indigo gaming.

Thanks. I must admit, this video is a bit too long that I'll watch it all, but it is clear by the approx 20 first minutes that the devs chose a path that basically said "**** you" to the people who made them who Blizzard were. A bit like WotC, come to think of it. And several other companies. :sad:
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So, @Unhelpful Contrarian , was thinking of firing up D4 this weekend... Is that effort worthwhile, or do we spend 3 hours in queue to play 1 hour before being booted, like it was about a year ago? I read that the expansion has led to "tech difficulties" and that Blizzard claim they have been DDoS'ed. Do you know if the game is playable at all atm?
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fkirenicus wrote: October 11th, 2024, 07:44
So, @Unhelpful Contrarian , was thinking of firing up D4 this weekend... Is that effort worthwhile, or do we spend 3 hours in queue to play 1 hour before being booted, like it was about a year ago? I read that the expansion has led to "tech difficulties" and that Blizzard claim they have been DDoS'ed. Do you know if the game is playable at all atm?

So far other then the brief hiccups the expansion launch it been ok. It’s nothing like the D4 launch which was plague with issues.

(Not fun coming from work and having blizzard **** up there launch when you already allotted your limited free time for)

Most likely due to its high price point ( $50 what a joke :lol: ) and mixed reception there isn’t much buzz about it so that’s a possible reason why it’s been relatively easy to jump to a lobby.

Honestly can’t blame people for skipping it when the expansion is a glorified season content update, only difference is that it gives a mediocre story continuation. ( I only completed 23% so far)
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Kinda annoyed that the new expansion update nerf a lot of the skills to the point that I had to look up a build guide which I don’t like doing but such as it is.


Also a Fire sorcerer build is super effective and just melts enemies like butter.
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Just learned about the Lich King cosmetics so I'm gonna be doing a legally actionable threat to blizzard hq soon
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 12th, 2024, 17:19
Kinda annoyed that the new expansion update nerf a lot of the skills to the point that I had to look up a build guide which I don’t like doing but such as it is.


Also a Fire sorcerer build is super effective and just melts enemies like butter.
Just tested a necro and yes, changes have been made. :-/
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fkirenicus wrote: October 12th, 2024, 17:22
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 12th, 2024, 17:19
Kinda annoyed that the new expansion update nerf a lot of the skills to the point that I had to look up a build guide which I don’t like doing but such as it is.


Also a Fire sorcerer build is super effective and just melts enemies like butter.
Just tested a necro and yes, changes have been made. :-/
Worst part about it is that I know for a fact they change the regen time for equipment that gives health, which used to be per second to now every 5 seconds making my current build utterly useless