Thanks for your response and I do understand your view of Reddit as a company. I still considerate it to be the moronic cousin of Digg and forums of old so it’s not my first choice either… but it is the most popular one (and simply works better than Lemmy) so you can have some engaging and productive discussions there. At least some of the time. Sifting through its culture of upvoting snark can be annoying in finding good answers and opinions. I legit lol’d when I saw OpenAI partnered with Reddit to train AI as that’s largely like tapping into the brain of a 12 year old.
Discord is my least favorite platform as it can definitely be a cultural bubble of like-minded opinions. It’s also shut off to search and there’s no way to back it up so all that great knowledge can be forever lost if the group or company suddenly shut down without warning. It also demands you visit it regularly to keep up with the fast and endless stream of convos which not everyone has time to do.
The problems with all these platforms can sometimes mean you have to find straight answers from a forum post from 2007 which’ll probably still be there and useful in 2037… forever immune to our modern online issues with critical thinking, reading comprehension, and empathy. Fortunately, the SPD wiki is fantastic in providing up to date knowledge transfer.
Anyway, regarding the stone change, I personally would’ve liked a new ID stone rather than repurposing the disarming stone, but like I said, you’ve been on point for years, so don’t take my detail oriented style of writing as meaning I think it’s the end of this corner of the world. It was just an interesting convo that I brought over to broaden the discussion of what players here think might make the game better… and to help provide some more content and engagement here tbh.
Anyway, cheers and thanks for all your great work!
Thank you for enjoying my particular… idiom… in expressing how I felt after casually tossing a stone of disarming into a summoning trap room before reading the patch notes to quite suddenly and unexpectedly face being repeatedly thwacked by a mob of very agitated monsters that I was in no way prepared to deal with. In that moment, it produced an actual record scratch sound in my head and was still processing what had happened in my post.