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I just saw a bloody facebook ad for a service teaching you how to parse in FF14 and I swear to god I would set the whole fucking world on fire right now
Also if your impulse is to drop into this thread to defend parsing or tell me how great it is, may I offer a preemptive response https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/827391509854957569
Real talk, I've heard all the arguments for why parsing is necessary, the big supposedly unassailable one being "how can I improve my DPS otherwise since I don't have any data?!"
My response to that is twofold:
My response to that is twofold:
1.) My right to not be surveilled above and beyond the scope of the in-game tools trumps your need to spreadsheet your deeps
2.) My desire for parsing not to be weaponized against strangers trumps your need to spreadsheet your deeps
2.) My desire for parsing not to be weaponized against strangers trumps your need to spreadsheet your deeps
Perhaps critically
3.) I would have considerably fewer objections to parsing that's provided by the UI and ONLY applies to YOU instead of watching every player yet somehow nobody seems to want to advocate for that.
3.) I would have considerably fewer objections to parsing that's provided by the UI and ONLY applies to YOU instead of watching every player yet somehow nobody seems to want to advocate for that.
"It sounds like you're saying your playstyle and values are more important than mine."
Yes, powergaming theorycrafter, I am saying that exact thing.
Yes, powergaming theorycrafter, I am saying that exact thing.
I used to have a counterargument to this because I didn't want people to feel like their playstyle was being belittled but SOMEHOW
the venn diagram of "weaponizes parses against strangers," "vehement parse defender," and "sociopath" is a complete circle.
the venn diagram of "weaponizes parses against strangers," "vehement parse defender," and "sociopath" is a complete circle.
It's almost as if a meritocratic toxic nerd masculinity is threaded deeply into the theorycrafting playstyle and the two cannot be easily pulled apart yet theorycrafters don't seem to want to admit that fact! So weird!
Anyhow if this soapbox seems tall it's because I've seen this surveillance elitism shit happen over and over again in online game spaces without any sort of pushback or solve so I'm gonna keep being mad about it, thanks in advance.
Parsing diehards were also GearScore true believers in WoW. I guarantee it.
