Quote Originally Posted by Myrany View Post
No you are not JK. You have been on a "toxic casual" rant for pages.

Some streamer was dumb enough to stream with his mods showing. Someone reported and he got busted for it. Predictable. The rule for years has been turn a blind eye until its brought to attention with prove they can verify. Not surprising the streamer paid the price.

Not all casuals are toxic. Not all casuals that want nothing to do with parsers are "bad players." I look up my rotations. I wear the best gear I can get at the time (usually crafted because I am often 10 levels above where I am in the MSQ so cant get appropriate tomestone gear). I give 100% effort in any group content I do.

I simply refuse to have anything to do with parsers. I do not want to see one or have anyone else see my parses. I used a parser for years in another game. It absolutely ruined the game for me. I stressed so much if I made the smallest mistake that led me too be even a tiny bit below my optimal. I am done with min/maxing to that level.

I do MSQ group content. I want to do every raid at the minimal level and no more. I stay in my lane. So if they were to put a parser in I want to not see it and remove myself from being parsed as well. As I do not want to be pushed (and it would for me even if it is someone pointing out my parse on his meter) back into the min/max mentality that destroys MY fun.

Sorry I do not think that is toxic of me hence NOT a toxic casual

Edit: I know full well by this point someone has parsed me. They had the good sense to keep it to themselves so they didn't get busted. That leaves me the illusion of not being parsed. If a parser is in game then the motivation to keep it to themselves is gone and they will say something (even if it is not in a harassing way) and that would destroy things for me.
Hence the "toxic" in front of the word "casual".

You want to play in the gold saucer, do MSQ, glamour, and never care how well you're doing in a dungeon? Good for you. You're a casual.

You want to shriek about eeeeeeevil parsers used by mustache-twirling elitists who might be....reading your already publicly available numbers while *gasp* largely ignoring them and not saying anything about them? Or barge into a Twitch stream run by someone you've never met, who isn't on your server, who's neither seen nor spoken to you and likely never will, doing content you have zero interest in and yelling "YOSHI, YOSHI! He has a PARSER! BAN HIM!" like an obnoxious church lady? That's a toxic casual.

There's a difference.