Nikki Seven / LBR vs Reddit

[Zetanio]

Off topic, but speaking of horrible spawns... remember Argus?

Every 18-30 hours either he or Leech King would spawn. If Argus happened to spawn, the droprate of his necklace was below 50%. So you'd have to camp him for 24 hours just to get his spawn time to know if the window was open or not, and then come back the next day and sit there for 18-30 hours and compete against bots for the chance to kill a mob that might not spawn, for a drop that might not drop. Well... wiki says it was 18-30 hours, but in my experience it was pretty much always 22-26. I can remember one night deciding to sit at my computer and pull an all-nighter after getting the spawn time, and he never popped. I got home from the bars and literally sat there all fucking night. Felt like garbage for two days after that. What a waste.

6 months later I switched to a dead server and ran there, and he was up, just sitting there. I was floored. That stupid motherfucker was just sitting there! After months of agony. Got the drop, almost screamed with excitement but my girlfriend was sleeping, so I was running around the living room like a fucking imbecile, while simultaneously trying not to be loud about it. I was new to the LS I was in, having just transferred, so I couldn't really celebrate with anybody I knew in chat. It felt like the most anti-climactic triumph of all time. They were a social LS too, so when I told them what happened, they were like, "Oh... ok. Grats! Anybody wanna run Moblin Maze Mongers?" Like no big fucking deal.

I wore that damn thing for years, even after it wasn't BiS anymore. I was never on top of the game by any means, by the standards that BG set. But I did have that stupid necklace... and if that wasn't the worst damn spawn in the game, I don't wanna know what was.

My heart hurts just reading this.

I had a similar experience with that fucking piece of shit Jaggedy-Eared Jack.

I was like

0/200+?

Fuck you Jack. Eat fucking cocks.

[Ragns]

This thread in a nutshell:

[Ksandra]

Off topic, but speaking of horrible spawns... remember Argus?

Every 18-30 hours either he or Leech King would spawn. If Argus happened to spawn, the droprate of his necklace was below 50%. So you'd have to camp him for 24 hours just to get his spawn time to know if the window was open or not, and then come back the next day and sit there for 18-30 hours and compete against bots for the chance to kill a mob that might not spawn, for a drop that might not drop. Well... wiki says it was 18-30 hours, but in my experience it was pretty much always 22-26. I can remember one night deciding to sit at my computer and pull an all-nighter after getting the spawn time, and he never popped. I got home from the bars and literally sat there all fucking night. Felt like garbage for two days after that. What a waste.

6 months later I switched to a dead server and ran there, and he was up, just sitting there. I was floored. That stupid motherfucker was just sitting there! After months of agony. Got the drop, almost screamed with excitement but my girlfriend was sleeping, so I was running around the living room like a fucking imbecile, while simultaneously trying not to be loud about it. I was new to the LS I was in, having just transferred, so I couldn't really celebrate with anybody I knew in chat. It felt like the most anti-climactic triumph of all time. They were a social LS too, so when I told them what happened, they were like, "Oh... ok. Grats! Anybody wanna run Moblin Maze Mongers?" Like no big fucking deal.

I wore that damn thing for years, even after it wasn't BiS anymore. I was never on top of the game by any means, by the standards that BG set. But I did have that stupid necklace... and if that wasn't the worst damn spawn in the game, I don't wanna know what was.

I had a friend who played on the ps2, and taped the trigger + game pad on his controller to spin the camera and target arrow around. He then fell asleep every night smashing X to voke. Woke up in the middle of the night one day to the sound of it going off and he got the drop.




Then he got a pc and botted the shit out of that game.

[Renavi]

lol

https://nikkisevenffxiv.wordpress.co...estering-aids/

[Lokus]

That's some serious PTSD.

[Deuce]

I've been upset before, but nothing has made me so upset that I need to make a top 10 list of reasons for why it sucks.

[Worm]

Could his writing be more shit?

"triple XXXL"
"sprays their malignant bukkake"
"lexical Chicken Littles."
"This particular porcine genius"
"Ultimately, the broken status quo is their master, and they suckle on it’s teat like a junkie to a needle."

[AlastorTGN]

Now see, I thought that was at least actually funny in places like the origin email of all this, not like being a badass telling cancer sufferers to die or any of that bollocks abouth is personal life.

But I agree a little with what you said on his writing, the longer his posts are the more self indulgent they come across, like he isn't actually being erudite he's just trying to show off. (Reminds me of Razorfist actually)

[Churchill]

nigga literally said mr happy is good, what more do you need

[Black]

Top notch stuff

[Spider-Dan]

Nikki Seven (the kdumbf person) wrote in an email saying how the /r/ffxiv community sucks whiny ass. Arthars called into the show saying how the NA PUG community needs to Get Good at PUGing compared to the JP community. They are two different people talking about two different topics;

While that's technically true, on his blog Nikki/KMFDM also cites the success of JPs as evidence that Western players in this game suck, due to the carebear nature of the Western audience. Which leads one to the question: do you imagine that it is more common or less common for Japanese players to speak of "taking a steaming log of a shit directly into the mouth of the status quo, then kicking it in the jaw when you're finished"?

If your entire persona is based on the premise that you are an unabashed asshole and care nothing for the niceties of polite society, you probably shouldn't be pointing at the Japanese as the ideal standard and complaining that we aren't more like them.

[Zetanio]

Reading that gave me space AIDS.

I'm now dead.

Fish for me friends.

[BaneTheBrawler]

let me just carve a chunk off these fine sneakers over here... right... now put it on the hook.... and cast!


now we wait.

[Silenka]

If your entire persona is based on the premise that you are an unabashed asshole and care nothing for the niceties of polite society, you probably shouldn't be pointing at the Japanese as the ideal standard and complaining that we aren't more like them.

As someone who has worked closely with Japanese people, I laughed out loud at how correct you are.
This douche would be ejected from Japanese company so fast he'd have to change his character name to Rocket Man.

[AlastorTGN]

Watching his AS3 vid of his kill on Youtube atm, seems pretty legit to me so far.

[Miroku_Asura]

I kind of feel like this guy is the FFXIV version of Starcade >.>

[TheDirtyHobo]

This isn't true for exactly the reason you said: failure penalties.

Imagine if you were only allowed 2-3 wipes per week of coil/AS. XIV would take MUCH longer to learn and master, because you simply don't get the same number of reps.

If XI allowed you to easily restart and retry BCs/HNMs after wipes, you'd be right: the game would be ridiculously easy compared to XIV. But because XI is much stingier about allowing attempts, there is a much higher emphasis on executing correctly on the first try. XIV is much more forgiving in comparison.

I disagree that satisfying pop/claim conditions to get more attempts counts as "individual player skill," but at this point it's just semantics. They were difficult in completely different ways, and I personally think that XI's difficulty is about as 'artificial' as it gets. Not that XIV is all that much better.

[Deathbringer]

I kind of feel like this guy is the FFXIV version of Starcade >.>

Missing his version of Debbie Gibson before he can get that title

[Churchill]

http://darkrenegadesmusings.blogspot...ch?q=Churchill

[Silenka]

Oh no, not violence!