Would you like an in-game parser?

[Kaurie]

The problem with the perception of wasted time is everyone's opinions of what is acceptable are different. 30 seconds is nothing to me, but it may be an eternity for you. If looking up a 5 minute video on some rotation plus spending minutes/hours/whatever it takes to learn said rotation, why should someone have to spend more time than they're saving you? If you're going to group together all the time that's one thing sure, but some random person you're doing a run with/meeting in DF?

As for the bannable offense, it's a violation of the ToS to use a parser.



Parsing data is using a 3rd party program to collect information. Information that comes from your logs, sure, but it's still information. I am not sure what SE's stance on it officially is but my thoughts of it goes like such:Parsing isn't exactly data mining, but it is using unauthorized 3rd party software to read and interpret in game data. If people are using it for their own use and not using it to harm another's experience in the game, it's fine. Otherwise, it's something that needs to be dealt with. I'm sure you'd get warned once or twice before getting a ban.

Again, it has little to do with the amount of wasted time. If you are going slower at any amount due to "it only matters if we finish it" then you are holding back your team for your own reasons to the detriment of your team. It is similar to a group project where you are fine with a B and someone else may be fine with an A. Maybe stop considering the grades and just realize that you are directly impacting someone else, and that should be reason enough to do your best. I respect fully that there are varying levels of skill, I won't be mad if someone slows me down by 5 minutes because they are unskilled. I will be mad if they slow me down by 7 seconds because they just don't feel like trying. To me, the intent matters a lot more than the actual occurrence - as it is a matter of respect.

To further on that note, I do not expect someone to spend hours practicing on a dummy to do well. If they want to, that's awesome. What I want are for people to realize how they are doing, so they can make that choice themselves if they want to or not. In terms of being frustrated with people, I am only frustrated with the ones that can do better but just don't because "it's expert roulette, who cares?". It's selfish and lacks respect.

As for the bannable offense note, I was adding to what the person I quoted said. I am not sure if you missed it,

even if detected chances are GMs are gonna look the other way, but if you use one, openly admit it in chat and harass another player based on it you can bet your ass it's not gonna end well.

He qualified that you would need to actually harass someone to get punished. Which makes the ToS part of the parser sort-of useless or redundant, as harassment is already a separate clause and as he said, they will turn a blind eye if you don't harass. So in effect, the only thing at play here is harassment.