arcane

If a chat bubble showed up for every player serverwide each time I had a comment to make in general chat, I would hope I would have the decency to just not talk in general chat. Oh well.

I asked the question because you proposed stripping the damage from a power that is 99% used for damage. Sure some people mention the heal without realizing it’s way too tiny to be effective for anything. So basically you’re advocating that the power should do nothing.

Lol what do you think Ground Zero does?

With all due respect Rudra, on the spectrum from your good takes to your niche af patrol xp position, this is closer to the latter. Whether or not the OP’s proposal is the correct fix, surely needing seven single target attacks in your primary is not a hill worth dying on?

Give Experimentation and Force of Will the Sorcery treatment (where T5’s are standardized and the other 4 powers are buffed) Revamp Kinetic Melee Earth themed support set Guitar blast animations for Sonic/Symphony (pinch harmonic sound effect for bonus points) Badge for veteran level 1,000 4 star ITF gives an accolade like 4 star Aeon and 4 star LGTF already do Delete Mastermind AT Use of a changeling bind or macro triggers a temporary game ban (term negotiable) Ban Max from Excelsior general chat

You are a logical guy and thus I believe you know damn well that one faction’s requests not being implemented doesn’t mean no discussion was had.

We already have a reward for vet level 99, and vet level 100 really isn’t that high. I would be in favor of some kind of badge for vet level 1,000 though.

Two of three 4* TF’s already give accolades. I would be totally in favor of adding an accolade for 4* ITF, but I’m sure it would be like the other two - not designed to provide a combat advantage.

This isn’t happening in reality. What’s actually happening is posters are disagreeing with you, and you’ve invented this narrative either to insult them or to get them to be moderated.

Allow players to delete their forum accounts tbh

To be fair to Rudra here, isn’t every mastermind terrible?

I’m not saying you’re lying. But I (1) sometimes say “TL;DR” instead of reading novel-sized posts and (2) smoke too much weed. So, no, I genuinely can’t think of a valid example of toxic positivity on this forum off the top of my head. EDIT: I am certain you’ve been on the receiving end of insults over this issue because insults fly every which way over anything contentious on this forum. I just don’t have a specific instance I can recall. I’m sure I could study some old open beta focused feedback threads and find examples.

Don’t feel too bad for me; I do bite back a smidge. But yeah that’s the state of things from my perspective.

(1) Some posters on this forum have been antagonizing me and insulting me for a span of several years. Their sheer hatred for me couldn’t be more obvious. So, while there is merit to your first paragraph, I don’t really intend to extend grace in this scenario. I’d just get the same big fat middle finger from these folks either way. (2) Okay, so maybe it can exist. But perhaps, if toxic positivity really exists, we can prove it with receipts rather than smear with insinuations. If posters are just going to use this term as a baseless insult rather than an argument, I’d say the term is still bullshit in this case.

To address you, my PoV is that there is a lot of “the devs are a volunteer team btw” and “I think this feature is fine as is”, but beyond that this feels like a bit of hyperbole. And I never liked the DDL term either. That being said, (1) it’s been awhile since we’ve had a big beta patch to argue about so it’s quite possible my memory is fuzzy and (2) you have presumably been on the receiving end of this stuff and are thus more likely to have some bad memories of it than I am. So, I’m not saying you’re wrong about what you’ve experienced, but this new term still seems like bullshit to me. As does every other term that follows the format of “toxic _______”. I’m open to reviewing past examples but I don’t see that rabbit hole as necessary.

The problem that you’re not addressing is the fact mentioned above that people can be invited to a 1 man SG by accident. Hotkeys and whatnot. Apparently JJ’s done it and I know I’ve received accidental invites from unaware teammates multiple times as well. That said, I feel like the right permissions settings would address that issue? Not sure what JJ is doing there.

I’m sorry you’re exasperated. I wish everyone would just agree with me too. But apparently you get pushback when you decide to shit all over people you don’t like. It’s the way of the world. We will be okay. Maybe.

At the end of the day, this term is designed to deride people for having a certain opinion and implies that said people couldn’t have arrived at said opinion in good faith (obviously without any evidence of bad faith). In other words, it’s a word used to smear those we disagree with, as we’ve already established. Personally, there’s a silver lining to these kinds of dishonest words existing. That silver lining being: it helps one to quickly identify people with bad intentions. Like, no matter who you align with, I’m sure we can all think of some political buzzwords where all credibility is thrown out the window the second you read that word in an article. That kind of thing.

Hey guys just fyi my flight home was delayed 5 times and I plan to be a little less aggressive tomorrow.

Yeah I read the article after I made that initial post. Essentially people that use the term are frustrated that the game in question isn’t conforming to their every whim, so, in their frustration, they use this term to slander the majority of the player base. Pretty disgusting shit.

Okay I know what this thread is about now. Toxic positivity is a new term invented for the sole purpose of smearing people that are enjoying a game rather than agreeing with another’s disdain for it. Good to know there’s more bad faith bullshit out there. PSA: it is not toxic to enjoy a video game. It is 110% toxic to call people toxic for enjoying a video game.

So is anyone going to explain what toxic positivity is? I can guess, but my guess is that it’s bullshit.

Just to chime in here: I’m primarily farming with my spines/fire still because I’m addicted to the vet levels. But I did make a new afk farming assistant on my main account in the last year for when I’m not already sitting on something on that account. And Stone/Rad is where I wound up too. Brimstone + Rooted is just exactly what the afk farm doctor ordered. Edit: and I do believe the Stone/Rad was notably faster than the Spines/Fire, the few times I’ve had them simultaneously sitting in separate maps.

Well maybe I’m outvoted. Certainly damage procs could still improve a damage aura’s output, but I’m still under the impression that they make a more radical difference in single target attacks and high recharge AoE’s. So I usually use my aura and my low recharge AoE’s to get my accuracy/recharge bonus situation in order. But that’s just me.

As a side note, no matter who it’s coming from, I view “don’t like it don’t do it” as a logical fallacy and just ignore that argument with an eyeroll now. Obviously everything is interconnected here and affects everyone.