System Jazz

Mentioning food, the government program should include that too, so where is it?

The GMO burger filled the stomach earlier, but junk food will make you hungry within an hour.

It had been five hours since the adventure in the arcade, and all this excitement left me famished.

It's crazy to think how little I achieved in that time.

CineMraft is nuts, both in a good and bad way, and it almost turned me into a chain smoker.

Well, it is thanks to the feds this broke ass could buy the two packs, and they wouldn't let me out without this program.

The PC finally booted after the Kid's distraction.

The fans run at full speed from the start, and it doesn't look like it will survive another month.

In five more minutes, it manages to launch the browser too, and of course, Nickel's incognito mode is on.

Unlike with the controller where thinking about it is enough, this needs you to type in the address by hand.

The keyboard could take a cleaning, and a few buttons are missing.

The site to visit is dirty anyway, the darkest place in the clearnet, yet it can be a goldmine.

Wroddit dot com, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

And they might have exactly what I need.

A quick search in the subwroddits shows the w/CineMraft page, which has ten thousand members.

The first post is only a few months old though.

This title is brand new, the feds should have mentioned it.

Well, the page exists, and now for the real question: what is the fastest way to level up?

There are a few hits, and one has hundreds of comments, so let's go with that.

The OP didn't elaborate, his wording was almost the same.

[There is no reason to grind Exp, the levels only give you extra skill slots, or unlock your advanced classes.]

[Once you select your main class, they only add some flavor, you can completely ignore them. The bonuses are lame, so it's not worth it.]

The first reply argues for the sake of argument in classic Wroddit fashion.

Posts need a load of answers until relevant info takes over the 'everyone's stupid but me' type of comments.

The next one for example mentions a few spawn points with weak monsters.

[If you aren't on your milestone level, don't even think about PVP. You only get good Exp if you fight higher-level opponents, and if they kill you, you'll lose way more with the reset.]

So if you die, it's normal that your experience disappears?

CineMraft might be insane hardcore if there are no limitations to it.

They don't elaborate on it, the focus of this topic shifts when the next commenter says the exact opposite.

It's the longest thread in this post too.

[We ganked a crafter with a brand-new alt and five buddies in the starter village. He was high-level and carried a ridiculous loot. All +4 items worth a thousand platinum, and we each gained 10k Exp. You only need a trustworthy guy to pick it up when the GA comes.]

His comment has so much jargon in it that my head spins.

It's one thing to decipher what +4 items mean, but what is a GA?

And the zombies gave thirty experience points each, so ten thousand sure sounds a lot.

Still, he needed six other players for that, and I'm alone.

The last thing I saw before dying is that the second level needed double the experience of the first.

If the threshold keeps increasing, the tenth level would need twenty-five thousand alone.

And about fifty thousand to reach it. A kill like that could jumpstart anyone.

[You can't get Exp with ganking, the GA will kill you, and your level resets, idiot.]

Now there is a disagreement, and this GA thing too. Another user going by DragonS finally explains how it was possible.

The answer is long-winded and full of repetition, and he only drops enough info to lure me into reading it.

At least there is no slang in this one.

[You can set your notifications to manual so they persist until you close them. They would be still there, even if you died in the meantime. So gank and wait for his Guardian Angels to kill you, then confirm the message after respawn to claim the Exp.]

So GA stands for Guardian Angels, and they will kill you if you attack another player? Then why would you do that?

Other than the loot of course. You could get the experience too, using his method.

Yet, there is a reaction to this post, which makes the whole thing obsolete.

[They confirmed that this was an exploit and patched it.]

[Saying they patched it is a bit harsh. They removed this option and broke the death notifications with it. Now you no longer get a message when you die, which is annoying.]

[There are so many lazy solutions in the game, that it's surprising it still runs.]

[Why do you need a notification for dying? Who wouldn't realize it?]

Well, dear commenter, when I first died, it was hard to tell. And this explains why there wasn't a message about it.

The thread continues, even though they no longer talk about experience.

It still seems interesting enough to keep reading, the mention of exploits fires me up.

[Yeah, like the NPC traders. Do you know how every item costs ten times as much to buy and one-tenth to sell? Turns out, the thing that decides the multiplier is who starts the discussion.]

[How lazy are these programmers?]

[I can confirm, it's in the code in dialogs.yml.]

[If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.]

[The trader NPCs will never start convos, that check is all they need to apply the correct multipliers. Why would they add extra files if this simplifies their code?]

[They will phase out those NPCs soon anyway.]

The other thread with the death notification is even better. While that doesn't mention exploits, it touches on the controller settings.

I should have started it here, instead of putting that stupid headset on and jumping in blind.

[If you play with low sync or pain turned off and someone snipes you, you won't even realize that you died.]

[If you play AFK you deserve to die anyway. But yeah, fair point.]

I don't know what low sync means but the pain was brutal, and according to that post, you can turn that off somewhere.

How would you play AFK though, when there is no keyboard to be away from?

The headset only turns on if you wear it, the first thing to learn.

The thread soon devolves into the usual wroddit bullshit.

Two parties write the worst things about the others, and mods deleted half the comments.

The remaining ones are still rough, including in-game death threats and swearing. And also gems like the next one.

[If you come to play as a care bear, your mother wasted nine months on her labor. And she didn't even get a proper human. Only a noob that jerks off to his pixel goodies in virtual reality and is too afraid to be alive. Careful, not to choke on the air while breathing.]

As opposed to that, the other side's best argument was that PVPers are bullies.

The answer to the original question eludes me, but this finally looks interesting.

If nothing else, the different ways to play CineMraft cause tasty drama in the player base.