It's Salt you Bitch.

I'm kinda of a douche that likes to rant a lot.

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I’m sure no one really cares, but because of the Tumblr changes, I won’t be posting on here anymore.

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Since it was asked:

I don’t post anywhere else, and at this point I don’t think I’m going to bother figuring out where the fuck I can blog about shit in peace.

I have a twitter that I don’t use, but I won’t even link it seeing how much of a shitshow it’s become. If I posted I’m sure I’d manage to get banned from there too.

I’m going to be 38 at the end of this month, and as such I’ve been an adult for almost 20 years and I’m sick and tired of how hard it is to find places to discuss things that I, as an adult, care about.

It’s especially weird to be alive right now when Sony is censoring their shit like crazy, Nintendo is playing up sex appeal in their products, and the following is a legit screenshot of an non-modded game on Steam:

I’ve moved site/blog too many times already, fuck it, I’m done.

I’m honestly not going to miss Tumblr.

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I’m sure no one really cares, but because of the Tumblr changes, I won’t be posting on here anymore.

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I feel that being an adult is about perfecting how well you can assess if you can tell someone to fuck off or not.

As you get older, you realize that you have to put up with a lot of shit from work, family and even friends. You can’t go around burning bridges willy nilly, so you let shit slide and bottle it up.

But if you get shit from someone that has no positive impact in your life and you don’t need to put up with it, it’s liberating how much dynamite you can set on that bridge before you blow it the fuck up.

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I’ve never been very social, but as I’m getting older I’m getting oddly interested into how fucking weird people are.

I’m realizing that, besides having a clear mental condition, like DSP has, it’s more and more common for people to see YouTubers that are real weirdos.

As it is, even some of the most social people don’t seem to realize that not everyone lives in the same country as them. 

For most of us the obvious comparison is the Japanese culture, where there’s a lot of nuance in social interactions that don’t quite make sense to us.

However, people who aren’t social in real life will join online communities. From hanging out in there smaller social bubbles, and these communities can be just a discord channel that ranges from anything from a channel for clan of people who play Destiny 2, to some weird fucked up fetish.

While for the most part there’s nothing wrong with that, these groups tend to have their own morals and standards, and depending on the people who are in it, can cause them to create some truly delusional motherfuckers because everyone in their social environment validates their insane ideas.

One of the issues with hanging out in a community where no one confronts anyone is that people don’t develop the ability to have a proper discussion, and then they go on the Steam forums or some shit, where people will disagree with them and make those dumb arguments that aren’t really arguments, just dumb things a child would say thinking they’re smart.

I spent part of the night watching videos on some YouTube drama, and I don’t wanna go into too much detail, but there’s this one guy who has a crusade against SJWs and feminists, he considers himself a smart person who “knows how to fix society”, you know the kind.

And it’s fucking amazing how much the guy has a double standard when it comes to presenting an argument. The guy can’t debate anyone for shit, he’s made an ass out of himself several times and is kind of a joke. But I bet that in the echo chamber he has with his fans, he still thinks he’s smart and that he was treated unjustly, and that he’s in the right but messed up presenting his point somehow.

You gotta ask yourself if you’re full of shit sometimes, you gotta step back, try to see yourself from an outsider’s perspective and think “Am i in the wrong?“

Because if you don’t and keep being in denial about that shit you turn into an asshole.

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Didn’t this JUST come out? 

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I heard the purge is happening, is there a place people are migrating to?

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So... Tera.

I’ve been playing it a bunch, seeing as I don’t really have anything better to do lately, and I need a distraction anyway.

Since getting back on Tera, I made a Brawler, a Priest and a Valkyrie. Both the brawler and priest are max level, and the Valkyrie is only 3 levels away.

The priest may seem like a weird choice, but I never made one. Sadly, kinda regret making it, wasn’t fun.

Both brawler and valkyrie are really fun, and I recomend both.

I’ve noticed mystics have some changes in their skills, and seem to be better healers now, so if you like support classes, you might like that.

I don’t know if I’m going to keep making new characters, stick with one, or play something else entirely, that shit mostly depends on real life.

Right now I have a max level warrior, lancer, berserker, brawler, priest, gunner and soon a valkyrie.

I’m deleting the warrior because as a tank, I already have 3 (Berserker, lancer and brawler), and as a dps, they don’t feels as good as valkyries, so they’re just pointless right now.

In Tera, warrior was always in a weird place. They have the stance mechanic and were meant to be able to switch between tanking and DPS, but in practice, that never really worked out like that, and most people played them as pure DPS.

On a tangent, It’s weird how in their promo art, they tend to mostly go with white hair.

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Mistakes are still being made.

I have to admit though, game’s changed a lil since I last played. it’s even more streamlined and leveling has been super fast.

...And I’ve come to realize I’m very much into lingerie.

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Help, I’m about to make a huge mistake again...

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Priceless.

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My experience waking up today:

“Hitman 2? 4 days early?”

“But...”

“What...”

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In a way, It’s really fucking depressing to play Wakfu.

Moving around in maps is so much worse than i remembered it, it’s so fucking slow and annoying. this 2012 game still won’t run well on modern system because Java.

But by far, the worse part is the visuals: Characters always appear tiny and blurry ingame, gear is literally clownish and hides most of your character.

I mean, even the devs know their gear is shit:

This is the very first item in the costume cash shop, and honestly, probably one of the most popular ones.

Simple math would indicate it costs 5 bucks to make your character not look like a clown. Per character.

This is such a weird fucking way to make money off your game, purposely make it ugly as sin and make people pay just to turn that shit off.

You know how in most MMORPGs, it’s just a basic option to hide your helmet and/or cape?

In Wakfu you have to pay for that.

In most, if not all other games like this, you get a stash, and often it’s shared by your characters.

In Wakfu you have to pay for that.

Since like a year ago, they put an ad on the hud ingame to remind you how much they nickle and dime people. Sometimes a bigger ad will popup to tell you how much you’re losing for not paying a monthly fee.

Always fucking reminding your that, as a non subscriber:

you get 30% less XP from quests and battles

you get 50% less XP for professions

you get 1/2 or 1/3 XP for your secondary characters

you get 30% less currency in combat

you get 10% less item drop rate

you get half of dungeon tokens

you do not have a stash

you can’t enter the lastest areas of the game

you can’t fill you health in 1 click

you have to pay for transport

your pets lose HP

you recycle runes slower

you can’t play with 3 characters at once, only 1

you can’t respec skill pages as much as you’d like

I mean fuck me, look at this:

Unless you point at the huge “3X“, you wouldn’t even know it’s a subscriber only thing.

For the longest time I thought it was a cool feature they implemented to encourage people to make new characters. How wrong I was.

Here’s the thing though, even if all the subscriber stuff was enable for everyone by default, I still think the game would be subpar.

It’s just not all that fun.

Server population is low, and has been that way for a while. Devs keeps saying they’re gonna merge servers to get population up to a decent amount, but have been delaying that for literal years.

It’s crazy to me that when less and less people playing, they got so aggressive and dickish with perks and restrictions.

One thing I used to be into when I played a bunch was crafting, and back in the day, it would take time, but you could level up all your jobs to max level.

At some point when they started adding endgame updates, they moved the resources around in such a way that it became impossible to level up certain jobs. several resources where located in the “pay only” areas.

Of course whiteknights were like “oh, you can just buy the resource from the auction house“ completely missing the point that gathering the resource yourself is what levels up your job.

This game has actively become worse and worse over time and it’s fucking tragic, because the characters, designs, regions, and in short, the art for this game is really fucking great, and it’s in the service of a clunky Disgaea clone that really isn’t all that fun.

Play something like Path of Exile, which is not turn based, but is still essentially a similar type of game as Wakfu, and it blows your mind away how fucking good PoE is, and how much it allows you to have without having to spend money on it.

PoE stands out because of it’s skill system, and it’s giant passive tree and the build possibilities it offers when combined with unique items. It doesn’t make you level up your masters with each character, it doesn’t make you re-unlock the trials of ascension, it doesn’t make you setup different hideouts with every character.

Wakfu doesn’t really bring anything new to the table, it has DnD styled combat, and forces you to go through some really horrible quests, and you have to do all the annoying shit every single time for every characters.

Some notably horrible quests/fights are the mount exam, the american football AND european football games.

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I’m gonna make a huge mistake today:

Because I hate myself.

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Something I tend to say is “There’s no difference between a cheater and a really good sniper”, And by that, I mean for whoever is playing against them.

I’m still somehow surprised that FPS games still allow snipers.

In TF2 in particular, When a sniper is really good, it makes almost all other classes not viable to play, there is no counter to them except spy and other snipers, and honestly, spy is not a good enough counter.

the ability to just 1 shot most classes instantly is clearly broken and should have major downsides.

For the spy, it requires infiltrating the enemy side, having to avoid being detected and hope the enemy doesn’t turn around and randomly check if you’re a spy. You’re always really close to danger and easy to kill.

But snipers, fuck that. Just sit way the fuck behind the frontline, super cozy and safe, and kill in 1 shot.

This is a bit of a tangent, but I’d like to get into it anyway:

If you listened to the TF2 commentary where they explained their design philosophy, this is the sniper part:

The Sniper Rifle was another tricky design problem. To meet players expectations, a Sniper Rifle has to be able to kill an opponent with a single shot to the head.

Honestly, I feel like that was the biggest mistake right there.

“Players expected a broken ass class, so we did it.“

 On the flip side, we need to insure sure it cannot be snap fired from the hip with the same effect because then in the hands of an experienced player, it can be the game's most lethal short range weapon; negating the Snipers primary weakness. 

They were well aware that this was a shitshow, and had the most potential to be broken.

Oh, but you know, player expectations and all.

To solve this, we implemented a charging damage meter that only appears when it the Sniper is zoomed. 

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This solution has several beneficial side effects. The low damage when un-zoomed (initial zoom) insures that Snipers can't kill opponents with impromptu snap fire. 

yea, snipers can only kill scouts, engineers, medics, spies and other snipers in a faction of a second. That already sounds super balanced.

That’s assuming we’re only dealing with full health, if a pyro or demo is missing as little as 25 health, they go down as easily.

The charge time means Snipers can deal out low damage shots quickly or highly damaging shots at slow intervals

First of all, calling 150 dmg “low damage” is really weird when it 1 shots half of the classes.

2nd of all, you know, they could quickly shoot you twice with no charge and get it done that way.

The time that it takes to get a full charge is longer than taking 2 shots.

which allows opponents to overwhelm them with a well coordinated rush. The high damage at the end of the charge rewards Sniper-esque behaviors such as locating a decent vantage point and taking very deliberate shots.

This is so fucking stupid.

They assumed that snipers would require full charges to kill things, and that 150 dmg was “low damage”. I doesn’t even feel like they’re talkin about the same game at this point.

It takes snipers no time at all to kill anything that isn’t a heavy, and heavies are the easiest prey for them.anything that could rush a sniper from a mile away won’t kill it until they’re super close to it, and the sniper will 1 shot it.

I don’t understand how any class in the game can be nerfed and sniper still be allowed to exist as is.

Bonus: How would I balance the sniper?

Soldier walking speed, 90 health, quickscope dmg 100 and full charge dmg 200.

Why is a class that barely walks that fast? The sniper playstyle is to stand around. If scouts are fast because it suits their role, snipers should be slower than the average speed.

As such, why so much health? 1 rocket should kill the fucker, and that’s generous since rockets aren’t hitscan. It feels super safe to snipe because almost nothing will kill your right away.

Seriously, how do you fuck up the concept of a glass canon?

Why so much fucking quickscope damage? Followin what Valve said, it should be low damage when there’s no charge.

A full charge should kill everything except heavies. Heavies are already not a good class, allowing the cheapest class to wipe them out with no effort is bullshit, they’re easy to hit as it is.

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You know...

It’s kind of hypocritical that some artists are like “You have to make big breasts sag because it’s realistic“ when absolutely no other part of the anatomy they draw has that degree of realism to it.

Simplifying feet, fingers, hands, elbows, knees, torsos, waists, faces, thighs, bellies, etc... that’s all ok, but god forbid you makes boobs not sag.

And it’s not that they can’t, a few of the people i’m thinking about are fantastic artists with excellent knowledge of anatomy.

But at this point, it’s clear they just have a fetish for big saggy boobs. Just say you like saggy breasts and don’t impose your shit rules on other people.

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It amuses me.

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As I’m posting this, I’m playing MVM mode on TF2, waiting for assholes to press that fucking F4 key.

I’m sick and tired of this.

Engies building sentries next to each other and neither knows how to move when a sentry buster gets to them.

Engies building a dispenser behind them, really fucking out of the way so it doesn’t help the team at all.

Scouts that don’t pick up money.

The entire team fucking off and not picking up the money on the ground when a round ends.

Engies moving their sentry in front of the tank and letting the fucking thing get crushed by it.

I was in a game yesterday where NO ONE KNEW HOW TO READY UP. I waited around to see how long the charade would last, and after idling around for 10 mins everyone left.

This was a game of MVM where people picked their class, bought their upgrades, setup the defense, and waited without pressing F4, and eventually quit.

I can’t handle this shit.

The stress is giving me chest pains again.