What?
@maxicek is inactive for a month? Time to break the rules!
I have one of those too! Only 6 months though
But you know it can never be like that again. For all intents and purposes we know everything there is to know about the game (= closed system) and all that is left is the grind.
- Want more runes? Do 100 hours of Travincal with optimized characters. No guarantee of success.
- Want to complete the grail? Do 100 hours of Pits with optimized characters. No guarantee of success.
- Want to get a great amulet craft? Just farm LK, Cows and Travincal for 10 million hours with optimized characters. No guarantee of success.
- Want to gamble a useful rare Diadem? Just farm Travincal until the next ice age with optimized characters. No guarantee of success.
You get the idea.
Most things we do here are already 95-99% optimal and most events (drops, crafts, gambles) we want to happen are extremely unlikely if not astronomical. You could do everything correctly and spend your entire life running something and not get anything you wanted or needed. (And if you get it it probably is a 0.0001% increase to efficiency/dps/GF/MF/...)
The real fun was in the study of D2 and the grinding only felt fun as long as you made progress. I assume this is why
@PhineasB is still doing UT 99ers while we don't run anymore. Experience is hard progress while drops are ethereal. You can look back at a UT 99er and clearly see what you achieved. But you probably don't remember what you got just a month ago in the Pits. It is honestly depressing.
I recently stumbled upon this video:
It talks about slot machines (amongst other "games of skill") and it is uncanny how relatable it is. The same person made a Diablo 4 review incoorporating those ideas:
I already know who won't be allowed to play D5 in 13,5 years.
Turns out discord deletes your account if you are inactive for two years because storing a few MB of chat logs is a huge burden on the server. Oh well, at least I did delete all my D2 stuff by choice.
@ziambe Congratulations on the gold rush in 1.08

I remember Fruit showing me the wisp pentagram but I don't know if he found it in the code and what version his video was in. Guess I could check in our discord log ... oh wait
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all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain