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She's so cute!

I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it's still banned. There's no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.

Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It's basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.

I'll take a Frieren for free! What an absolute steal!

I want to attack Nazarick so Albedo can suffocate me to death with those badonkadonks.

It has a lot of frustrating things in it. You lose EXP if you die. The quests have a maximum level you can do them at and still get credit, and the monsters are designed to be too strong to solo. Items break down over time, so you need merchants to make stuff for you. Anything not in your inventory or a safehouse chest goes poof at maintenance. Just yesterday I was doing a quest to follow a treasure map and I got the message "a gust of wind blows your treasure map away!" and I had to start over. It's certainly hardcore in a lot of respects.

While the difficulty is challenging, what pisses me off is two things:

1. A lot of the monsters are low quality. Meaning they have weird names, and no detailed description when you look at them. They also aren't fully simulated creatures like the player is. Meaning they don't actually have guild levels, they don't have skills or spells like the player does (even if it appears they do) and they don't have mana, so they never actually run out of juice to "cast spells" (which are just a type of attack they use). That's right spellcasting monsters don't actually cast spells. They all roll a dice that determines what attack they use each round, and if it's a "spell" it just types a line similar to what a spell would be, and sticks on some damage. They mimic the appearance of a character in the game but they aren't fully formed characters like players are.

I would love to play a MUD where all the monsters and NPC's are fully simulated and detailed!

2. The game is piecemeal and doesn't have consistent quality in its zones. I think different people made each zone and each zone has a wildly different aesthetic. Some places will have evil monsters and demons, and be really dark and foreboding. Other places are like Wribble Village where you have to save the cute pink wribbles from the meanie blorts who are bullying them. It's weird and breaks immersion when you visit different areas that feel like they belong in a different game entirely. What's worse is the cutesy areas just don't fit with the hardcore game mechanics. The game is designed to be as brutal as possible - death is painful. Your items break down, you lose progress, you're constantly struggling. Then you have to do a quest to save cute cuddly pink things in a barney the dinosaur style level.

That said, I suffer through it because it's an established MUD with a large playerbase, lots of online resources and documentation, has a client on Steam, and I like the character customization and multiclassing system. You feel genuinely unique with all the race class options. Different backgrounds, different guild combos. Very few other MUDs have this much character customization.

Are you kidding?

A few days ago there was a thread on reddit about a kid wandering onto a track and an athlete sprinted into him. I think it was in r/kidsarefuckingstupid and I made the comment that in roman times, they likely would have fed the kid to the lions (which is something they did to people in the colliseum)

Got slapped with a site-wide ban. I appealed, and explained that I wasn't wishing harm upon the kid, just making an observation that his behavior wouldn't have been considered acceptable in the old days. I apologized.

Nothing. No response. I suspect the appeal page doesn't even work. I don't think they read it or care about it.

I've tried creating alt accounts but they all get banned almost immediately. I think I basically have an IP ban.

The fact that they ban me, for making a snide comment that is twisted into a "threat" but then don't actually ban people for making real, legitimate threats? That's fucking wild.

Same thing happened to me. I admit I'll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I've never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don't understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.

Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won't be.

I love it. Frieren is hot and I love seeing her show off some skin!

I know this is late, but I've been playing BatMUD a lot recently. My character is Iofhua and I'm a level 28 Ent Tzarakk. I've been trying to collect zinium for the rexx-tec event. I want to get over 300 zin so I can make an indestructible backpack. It's been hard. I don't know how to get most of the items to turn in for zin.

I am sad there is no Youjo Senki cummunity in ani.social

That's weasel speak. Hiding behind a user agreement is a pathetic excuse for bad behavior on the part of the developer. The developer decides what is in that agreement. It can be changed at any time, and 'but you agreed to this" is a poor excuse for laziness and disrespect for the community that supported them for so many years.

Transitioning the game into an offline mode could be done with some development time spent on a final update. Take out the multiplayer stuff, let the game run offline, and put the game up for sale as an idler for like $5 or $10. It might not make much money but it lets players continue to play a game that they love. It shows that you as a developer care about your product and the customers who have supported you for so long.