dead [he/him]

That was a clickbait story. In Path of Exile 1/2, if you click like over 10 times per second, you can get disconnected for performing too many actions. It’s not anything serious. I’ve seen people bind left click to their mouse wheel to click faster and if you scroll too quickly then you get disconnected.

Elon bragged on twitter with a screenshot of this disconnect message from button mashing. It’s not a ban, it just logs you out.

GGG said early access lasts 6 months to 1 year. The early access costs $30 to play. When POE2 leaves early access, it will be free to play.

There’s supposed to be a next expansion (3.26) for POE 1 released in March 2025.

This is called SDH subtitles if you prefer this type of subtitle. Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing. It’s made for people who have hearing disabilities.

The real story here is that North Carolina implemented Obama’s 2010 Medicaid expansion in December 2023. Which means that North Carolina declined to take free federal money and let people die from lack of coverage for almost 14 fucking years. As part of the implementation, the government is paying off the medical debts of low income people accrued from 2014 to 2023.

Then in September, this company decides to “forgive” 11500 debts right after the government started paying off old debts. That seems suspicious. Why would this company turn down government money from old debts? Seems like the company was trying to scam poor people and realized that the government wouldn’t pay the phony bills, so then the debt magically disappears.

Why is it in the news again after the CEO shooting when it happened in September? Because it gets clicks. It’s coworker talk. “Hey Bob, ye heard the medical companies are forgiving debts after they got shots? haha”

Here’s your build guide for swinging a big hammer as a woman character.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/slam-chronomancer-paintmaster

my new feed is half full of typical nazi propaganda youtubers

Here’s a list of channels to avoid for political reasons.

Here’s a list of channels that have good info. I copied this list and labeled some channels I recognize. As a rule of thumb, avoid channels with robot/ai voices.

BTW, the game starts at level 70 when you gain access to The Atlas. Everything that you do before reaching level 70 is only the tutorial for POE 2.

Unfortunately both ingame chat and forums/reddit

You can change your in-game chat channel. You type “/global #” into the chat but replace # with a number. I like channel 4040, which is a channel for achievement completion, but it always has the same group of people in there and there is friendly chatter. Channel 5055 is the designated reddit channel.

I wish this was true. POE 1 is my favorite game ever. GGG was supposed to release the next POE 1 expansion this month but they delayed it until March. In the past, POE 1 expansions lasted for 3 months. By the time the current POE 1 expansion ends, it will have run for 7 months. We lost an entire POE 1 expansion because of this POE 2 release and it’s likely GGG will cut POE 1 development even more.

POE 2 feels really bad. I’ve done 40/40 on 10 POE expansions (completed the game 100%, 10 times).

It feels like POE 2 was modeled after Ruthless Mode in POE 1. Ruthless Mode is a game mode in POE 1 that is only really liked by one streamer named Kripparian. Kripparian is a blizzard-fanboy who only played POE 1 in the beta and complains that POE 1 is too rewarding and easy. One time I watched a Kripparian video where he explained that he buzzes his hair short because he doesn’t shower often and doesn’t want people to notice from greasy hair. Ruthless mode has existed in POE 1 for 5 POE expansions now. Every expansion Kripparian plays ruthless mode for 1-2 weeks and then quits because it’s too hard to play the game with barely any items. (Duh!)

Ruthless mode is a mode of POE 1 where the crafting bench is removed, monsters barely drop any loot, skill gems are only obtained from monster drops, bosses go back to full HP when you die, all movement skills have been removed. Everyone in the POE 1 community hates ruthless mode. Only like less than 1% of POE 1 players think that ruthless mode is good. Nobody who plays Ruthless Mode has actually even completed the game.

All of the characteristics of Ruthless Mode have transferred to POE 2. There’s no movement skills, you can only dodge roll. If you become surrounded, you are trapped and die. You can’t move through enemies at all, Normal monsters take 5-6 hits to kill. Barely any loot drops. If you die, the whole zone repopulates and resets and you lose any items that were on the ground. Bosses are very difficult to kill. Most of the bosses have abilities that are hard to avoid and kill you in 1 hit. If you die, the boss respawns with full health. The bosses drop very little loot. You will lose 10 times to every boss before beating it. Almost everything kills you in 1 hit because barely any items drop and they removed most of the defensive passives from the passive tree. There’s very high difficulty and very little reward.

I’m wishing GGG would have just released another POE1 expansion instead of this. The next POE1 expansion (3.26) was supposed to be released this month but they delayed it until March because of POE 2.