Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[SturmChurro]

The Path of Exile forums broke me. I'm never visiting that place again after one attempt.

I don't know your exact experience, but a lot of other forums are way more "toxic" that what a lot of people say these are like. It's why I always disagree with them on that point.

Space Coke (Zero) is now impossible to find, having been supplanted by the far inferior Marshmello collaboration Coke (Zero).

I never figured out what flavor the Space Coke was supposed to be exactly, but I grew to quite like the taste, and my disappointment it is no more is immesurable.

Soda? I don't really know how people can drink that stuff, to be honest. I have been given a root beer float in the relatively recent past (1 or 2 years ago), and it was way too sweet.

[RobynDaBank]

I don't know your exact experience, but a lot of other forums are way more "toxic" that what a lot of people say these are like. It's why I always disagree with them on that point.

I haunted forums of Blizzard games mostly, and while WoW and OW had "bearable" forum communities - there was at least a healthier mix of differing opinions - D2R and D3 were insufferable in some way. Full of rigid, cynical people who thought their opinion was king and were content with keeping things as they were whether for good or bad (D2R especially). I browsed New World forums as well when the game was new, and that was simply a laugh. So much uproar, so many things going wrong. Lost Ark for a while as well, but that place was a bit bad for my sanity so I stopped pretty quickly.

I've started playing PoE a bunch nowadays, and I didn't expect players thought how they said they do there even though I'm an avid reader of the in-game global chat. There's a massive divide between disillusioned people and those who lap up literally anything the developers put out. New league is on its way and some big balance changes were revealed in the "manifesto", and it's funny how they seem to backpedal on literally anything fun they create. The game has monsters and bosses that can come off like a bullet hell game - heck, one of the pinnacle bosses has a mechanic with that same name - and yet they also want to "slow down" players by nerfing their defensive and offensive power as much as possible. They created a problem in how overtuned their monsters have become expansion after expansion, but the only thing they see going wrong is some "power creep" (when players were much more powerful before). And for some reason, a big, big chunk of the players just want to be beat down. They want the game to numb their mind, they want it to make them log on day after day for hours on end. It's kinda pathetic.

[SturmChurro]

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I've been posting on forums since I was a kid, so I've seen all kinds. SWTOR, ESO with my beta account, Warframe with my beta account, Nexon, Steam community, Cdpr (Cyberpunk made me mad), etc.. etc..

There was this one thread in the SWTOR forums, I still remember to this day, some guy would post his like skimpy outfit (photoshopped?) male character. The thread was entirely about that. Just various screenshots of his male character and other male characters like this.

I posted on the Lost Ark forums as well, during the early month(s). I was mostly in skin threads or talking about artist class or something though, so you may have missed me. Also, I did get suspended at one point for disagreeing with their moderation - which I have posted about here. Now that place was something else, in terms of negativity.

PoE, I might have played that in beta as well; it was very early on, that's for sure. Never could get into the game. As for a fast paced or slow paced ARPG, I suppose Diablo players would prefer it more fast paced, and I think I have seen people say Diablo combat is better. I don't have a strong opinion on this subject, and lack the knowledge of PoE gameplay. I think I might have gotten past the prison boss (?) or something, a little after that. That's how much experience I have in that game. Also, always sorceress, or whatever that class is called.

[Cilia]

Soda? I don't really know how people can drink that stuff, to be honest. I have been given a root beer float in the relatively recent past (1 or 2 years ago), and it was way too sweet.

That's why I primarily drink diet / "Zero" sodas; I hate the syrupy sweetness of regular ones.

Of course aspartame is also not really good for you, but diet sodas are a relatively mild vice as far as I'm concerned.

[Theodric]

Soda? I don't really know how people can drink that stuff, to be honest. I have been given a root beer float in the relatively recent past (1 or 2 years ago), and it was way too sweet.

Yeah, each to their own but I can't stomach anything that tastes blatantly artificial. I mostly drink water and occasionally treat myself to a cup of tea or coffee. Especially when the weather is colder.