u/StrugglingCheesecake

I’ve been playing the game for about two seasons now. Stuck between Arc 2 and Arc 3. I say “stuck” but mainly progress has been slow on my own.

I ended up meeting a high level wizard who added me as a friend. Routinely we’ll go through main quests and side dungeons and they’re so high leveled that they do the damage while I play support. As far as results go, I think I’ve gotten further with their help than I would have without it. We’ve done it this way from Celestia to Azteca, and Khrsalis is next.

We chat while playing all the time. You’d think that this is an ideal gaming relationship but I’m just a little weirded out. They tell me frequently that I’m their favorite person to play with, that they appreciate the help I offer in fights, that the only reason they’re still playing the game is because they want to help us as much as possible, etc.

I’m not convinced. With the amount of damage they can do, I don’t see how they get anything out of playing the game with me. They’ll even invite me to swing sometimes and act impressed at the damage I can do, and it’s hard not to find this condescending.

We’ll schedule days to play together only to have them stay separate to tackle side dungeons and build up new wizards that also end up higher leveled than me because that’s how good they are at the game. Plus, they belong to a guild AND I know they have a number of different “pupils” that they’ve also helped get through the game. We’ve played together before. In other words, I feel like I’m getting mixed messages about what this person enjoys about playing with me.

So to all you high level wizards I ask, is this normal? Do you end up taking on rookies routinely, and does interacting with them or getting help from them become your favorite thing to do in the game?

Hey everyone. I learned the basic rules of chess when I was a kid - what the pieces were, how they moved, how to capture other pieces, and what the win conditions of the game were.

I played chess some with other people growing up, but I never learned the game in any further depth. The advice I keep getting when I ask about how to play chess better is, “think a few moves ahead.”

I have no idea how to do this. To be honest, the chessboard always looks like chaos to me. I can detect when my pieces are in danger with about 50% accuracy, and my every move is spent responding to what I see on the chessboard at the present moment. I don’t know how other people do it, or if there’s something wrong with me that I’m unable to.

So yeah, against some more experienced players, I’ve had a little luck because my strategy isn’t based on an educated strategy that they can predict, but it sure doesn’t feel good to win that way. How do I actually project in my mind what the chessboard might look like in two or three turns?

Hey Reddit, I could use a little help brainstorming.

I was neglected as a kid and subsequently, I spent most of my time watching TV and thinking that it was an accurate representation of the real world. I remember being scared of high school because I thought it would just be a bunch of sex, drugs and gangs. It ended up being a lot more like middle school than I’d been led to believe.

Anyway, I’m trying to unlearn a lot of things like this that I subconsciously learned growing up. There’s so many tv tropes out there, and a lot of them are hindering my personal growth, and I don’t actually have a solid idea about what they are BECAUSE there’s so many. I could use some help finding and listing different tv tropes where real life just does not work the same way.

So I will start with one of my own, and I’m hoping somebody else will come along and add to it.

TV trope 1 - self improvement via montage. I don’t have a realistic idea of how long it takes to develop or improve a skill that I want to have. I think that if I focus on my intention to improve, read some articles and practice a little, then I should have some solid progress made within a week or two. But even thinking about how long it takes to build a new habit - at least two months or so - I have to imagine that’s not accurate.

Guys I’m in Celestia and started looking for Spare Parts. Well there’s some in the blocked-off areas directly to the right of the entrance and down some stairs. I can see them from where Enid Crowe is but honestly this is driving me crazy.

How are you expected to reach these things? I see a cantrip ritual chest out there too and it just feels like somebody wants to play in my face about how impossible this stuff is to reach. What’s the point?

I’ve been leery about online fan communities of games in the past. So I joined the discord to check out the team up chat for console and NOT TWO SECONDS LATER, I run into a situation I couldn’t agree with.

You won’t find evidence of the thread in the discord because mod was quick to purge all of it. But what really burns me up is mod admitted to OP that they were in the right in the DMs, while serving OP a public mute for the incident. The whole thing is so gutless and weaselly.

But I see it. The mods just clear away any and all negativity in order to keep things pushing but nobody wants to talk about how this is the textbook way that bullies continue to function in broad daylight. So after trying to call attention to the situation again a few times, I threw my hands up and quit the server. This is why gamers have such a toxic reputation.

Call me dramatic but it’s just so weird to me that the Discord community is worse than the Reddit community.

Now watch this post get deleted by the mods.