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  • To add from what everyone is saying, the only real new system that you missed is strikes. Basically a 10 people single boss battle, like raids but without the filler and pre-events. Very puggable, especially what people call the easy 3 (shiverpeaks pass, voice/claw of the fallen, fraenir of jormag)

    If you want to avoid story spoilers, be sure to follow the story until the end of the norn map of IBS before joining them.

    EoD added a new mount, skiffs (boat), plus some new systems that you won’t find outside of those maps anyway, so don’t worry too much about it. But of course you need it to use the elite specs

    The last expansion instead gave us new weapons without the traitline and unlocked elite specs’ weapons to be used regardless of the spec. To unlock all of that you need to play the expansion until a certain point tho. If you don’t have the skyscale in the expansion there is also a new way to get it that should be a bit faster

    In general, there wasn’t any big shake to things, it’s mostly more of the same and some new side things. The only real difference is a bit of powecreep and that now every class can cover any role.

    So take your time, play everything in order and all the new things will appear step by step



  • You suggested them to read Nietzsche and from it you got he mourns the decline of religion through all of his works? Maybe you should also get a re-read.

    The decline of religion is stated as a fact, killed by men’s rationality and evolution. As any evolution it has opportunities and risks, in this case the bigger risk is the loss of morality.

    But the only thing he clearly advocates for is overcoming religion and God because they are not needed anymore. The new Man should make its own meaning and rules.

    It’s the whole concept of the übermensch which is the single central point of his all system.

    The quote is not supposed to be his opinion (not directly at least), it’s a character in a story.

    It’s like taking the stance of Cephalus in the Plato’s Republic and say it’s Plato’s opinion, while it’s clearly just a tool to let Socrates speak.




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    Liked the story better than EoD, even if it was dumb to see the commander keeping his “secret” without a second thought after jormag and onis

    And they still overuse >!deaths of new characters!< way too much, it doesn’t have any weight when done like that

    Anyway the story was different, no dragons, overall with a good pacing too. Also finally some new lore, and no magitech

    So I still enjoyed it more than anything since PoF and S4 times

    Also I’m interested in seeing the rest of it, especially if we end up “crossing over”, that place looked great

    The maps are nice (nothing too great but enjoyable), rifts last the right amount of time to avoid becoming too boring immediately, the masteries fill up quick enough too

    The vault system left me with a positive impression, it’s clearly something new to patch up (more dailies to choose between, mix between the games modes) but it shows potential. And they added gemstore items and gold to it, this can’t be appreciated enough

    Relics were frankly a disaster. Almost all of them are boring, no more summons, interesting effects were removed, especially for condi builds there is basically no choice. For many builds not equipping a relic or equipping a bad one makes realistically no difference compared to equipping a “good” one

    The idea to separate the bonus from the runes was good, but there was no reason to change the effects, especially not like that. They need a complete relics overhaul ASAP

    The armor sets were nice but lacking variety. Also it has to be seen how annoying the legendary armor grind will be

    I haven’t tried the strikes yet, so I can’t really say much.

    All in all, I am satisfied. There are some things to fix but it looks like a step in the right direction



  • There are a few technical problems with that. First of all, the cost of each instance would become quickly unbearable since everyone has all the duplicated data.

    Second problem, a malign entity could just come, create its own instance, spam everything and everyone with ads or whatever and suddenly every instance is full of that stuff. Also, how do you handle defederating in that case?

    What has been proposed before instead was to make some kind of mega communities that gather all posts from communities with the same name across instances



  • Italians where also the ones that invented the republic, so what?

    Fascism was and will always be a disgrace in Italian history, but maybe you should research Piazzale Loreto to see how much people ended up liking fascism in the end.

    Of course there are extremist idiots in Italy like in any other country, but Italy official position on it was made very clear.

    Even making a fascist group or association is literally a crime in Italian law.

    This doesn’t change that the current situation is very bad of course, but right wing populism and fascism are not nearly the same thing, even if one could lead to the other



  • After WW2 italian socialist and communist parties where between the strongest ones in non USRR europe (if not the number one), but let’s just spout random nonsense for no reason

    While the extreme right wing never disappeared, they were as much as a niche as the extreme left.

    The country stayed between the left and the center until well into the 90s when a moderate right became more prominent and started to be closer to a 50/50 split

    The general right wing radicalization we’re seeing now is way more recent and it’s hardly a phenomenon exclusive to Italy.

    I totally agree that the current Italian government is ridiculous and that this problem with extreme right wing populism is becoming very serious in most western countries, Italy included.

    But comparing this to a culture ingrained love for fascism when fascism didn’t last for even 1% of Italian history and culture is just asinine and ignorant.

    This kind of attitude is ironically very similar to the racism you’re trying to criticize


  • Yeah, but the admin clarified in some replies that the moderation problems and possibility of receiving ads are already enough to choose to defederate. They didn’t give the absolute certainty but basically made their intentions clear.

    But I agree with you, most people wanted to get a clear message against it and not just a “if that happens we will very likely defederate”.

    I still think both approaches are fine, it’s good to decide by ethics and it’s good to wait and decide by rationality too. No wrong choices, it’s just a matter of preference


  • They explained the situation very well, and it’s not exactly as you described it.

    Thread is outside the fediverse now, so there is literally nothing to defederate.

    And they already basically admitted that in case of threads federating, they would defederate.

    It was one of the few instances (if not the only one) to put down exactly what practical problems federating would cause instead of simply taking an ethical stance or regurgitating the usual nonsense EEE argument.

    But people wanted an immediate, strong and ethical stance (which is also understandable), so they didn’t like the wait and they didn’t care about an objective analysis of pro and cons


  • I don’t know what people are smoking, maybe it’s too much heat, but air conditioning is very common and normal here in Italy too.

    I don’t know what a cooling center is, but there is AC everywhere, and when there isn’t it’s a choice of the owner to avoid installing it.

    Also it’s not the first time we reach similar temperatures sadly. We get around 40°C basically every year. The south of Italy is clearly on a very high and uncommon peak, tho.

    The situation is different in other countries like Germany, northern France or England. Until a few years ago they never needed AC at all so most homes don’t have it and it’s not even that easy and immediate to have it installed