Oni-Goroshi in Current League - are You gonna farm it or drop it?

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ChanBalam wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

Killing UH is not unlike hanazukare.

Funny how that's sort of what I was going for even though I didn't know the specific term for it (so thanks for that little lesson!). Such a Japanese concept: exhaustion from viewing something considered sublime and beautiful. Curiously, I couldn't find a direct and sufficient translation of what to me might have psychologically preceded the very notion of cherry-blossom viewing as significant: ennui. There are words for components of it: boredom, tedium, weariness. 無為無聊 for example. Muiburyou. Boredom, tedium, 'ennui'.

http://www.romajidesu.com/kanji/%E7%84%A1%E7%82%BA%E7%84%A1%E8%81%8A

I like how the kanji is literally 'no change no slightly' i.e. nothing's different, not even a little bit. How depressing.

But that doesn't really capture the rational for feeling that way, which is a sort of listlessness and despair about one's own pointless existence or lack of purpose. That's ennui.

Curiously, something like the Goddess grind sidesteps the ennui inherent to a lot of open-ended gaming like PoE where you have to create your own goals in the void by giving you one...a very distant one, and one that has little in the way of visible progress towards the achievement, but it's there. If you just...keep...at...it...

Hello my friend, I do not know Japanese so I am useless at exploring the subtleties of its meanings. I came across that particular word/phrase some years ago and when thinking about the experience of earning OG, it seemed to fit the end of the battle pretty well: exhaustion, the sudden beauty of Uber Hillock's appearance and a satisfying end to a long day.

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ChanBalam wrote:

But wait!!! Ennui is English now right? It just has its roots elsewhere. ;)

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DoubleU wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

But wait!!! Ennui is English now right? It just has its roots elsewhere. ;)

We use it in English, but it is not an "English" word.

Off topic:

This was my very first Oni, 90% when it dropped and I corrupted it after I had farmed a second one.

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Hallsttattian wrote:

If PoE will still run on my potato friday I will farm one again in Heist.

Better spend the first few hours of the league pummeling Hillock than crashing as is new league standard cuz my potato is baked, rotten and stinky.

Last one I farmed in Metamorph rests in a remove only tab in standard

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Someone, not me, but someone, should suggest to GGG that there be a system-style announcement for the first kill of Uber Hillock of the league...I mean, if entering a zone for the first time is worth bothering everyone else playing, surely the first Oni-Goroshi saved from Hillock's foul torso is as well.