Infynis @ Infynis @midwest.social

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Before my time, I'm afraid. I hear it was great though

Both before my time, unfortunately, but I've only ever heard good things about them!

It's actually pretty unpopular in most games with hard end game content. Raiders want the best gear to come from the hardest content to make their efforts valuable and to feel rewarded.

I must spend too much time around crafters lol

Personally, I prefer it because it brings more types of play into endgame, and encourages socialization. That's the kind of opinions I've seen as well. So long as raids give other rewards people want, it isn't a problem. I think being able to raid for materials is also very cool

ESO has classes, but yeah, they can fill multiple roles, and you also take skills from other trees to complete your builds

SAO was classless, with players leveling up individual skills instead of their character as a whole (though of course there was also a player level). ESO is pretty similar in that regard, but RuneScape might be closer, especially since we know SAO has serious crafters. The biggest showpiece for SAO seemed to be the complex and expansive skill system. Not only did Kirito have his sword skills, and dual wielding, he also had alchemy and fishing skills, and some kind of thrown hunting needle.

It also has open-world housing, which is super rare. The only game I know of with something similar is Archeage, but AA is PvP focused (and I haven't played it in like 8 years). Probably works a lot better in a game where you know the exact number of players, and it can't increase lol

Crafted gear was better than drops, which is a in-game economic choice by the developer. It's hard to have serious crafters without that, so it made sense for the story. I don't have much personal experience with games where that is the case, but it's usually pretty popular.

Probably the thing that really set SAO apart though, and something I don't think we'll ever see in real games, was the fact that floors were only cleared once, so the game was less an MMO grind, and more an organized campaign by the hardcore players. The mega-dungeons that had to be mapped by players worked well in this system, but would probably be annoying in an actual game. At its heart, it was a single player RPG created for Kirito, because it had to be for the plot. A lot of it's "systems" can't really translate to real life

I see what you were going for, but I think privacy respecting device recommendations are too normal here for anyone to expect a joke

Coredy Robot Vacuum Cleaner, 1700Pa on Amazon. It's not available there, but it's gotta be out there somewhere

My Coredy is the epitome of a dumb vacuum. It doesn't connect to wifi, it doesn't have an app, it doesn't even make a map of the house as it goes. All it has is a remote with a seven segment display for a timer, and a can-do attitude

The best way to show how weird these goons actually are is just to put all their real, unabridged policy positions in plain text. They shout nonsense and ragebait for a reason

Can't believe the woke mob is coming for Pinocchio /s

We ate them 😔

They finally found her. The mythical undecided voter

There are many reasons to oppose the Olympics, but that the athletes are wasting their time and effort is not one of them

Upvoted because this is definitely an unpopular opinion

Turns out, the Electoral College can actually do the opposite of what it was intended for!

Since he was elected, I've been saying the real long-term damage he's going to do is going to be through the supreme court. I wish I had been wrong

That Babylon Bee headline, while not as punchy as it would have been from the Onion, is actually kind of funny for once

Where I live, we have a chain called Cottage Inn, that started on city over. They're my choice pretty much every time. They're open late for delivery, and make better pizza than the big chains 100% of the time, plus, since the mega-corps have increased their prices so much over the last couple years, Cottage Inn is basically the same price as well

When every other company manufacturing the same thing as you is making massive gains, because the whole market is expanding, and you're suddenly posting losses, that's going to raise so questions

And the most authentic