I sell chipped emerald to scammers

If I have enough time (which is almost never), I sometimes spend a day buying stuff on PC and then sell it on PS, XBox or Switch to make profit. Thats almost always profitable since the player base there is smaller and stuff is more expensive.

Emralded tsjachos for ists.

Leveling and selling everything I don't need along the line. One man's garbage is another man's treasure

This post was edited by babun1024 on Apr 15 2026 04:10am

One man’s trash is another man’s good ungarbage

is this authors niche not using spacing


Pgems and ists, I love pgems and ists it makes me happy getting them and its pretty easy to make money with them if you bother

This post was edited by dubstepmammoth on Apr 15 2026 04:33am

Haha! Point taken!

Although, i would usually frame this to be less about niche-construction and more about cognitive loading and chunking, which is incidentally another favorite topic of mine.

Sadly, with the modern extreme drop in reading of texttypes such as novels, textbooks, and so on - reading unbroken blocks of texts becomes more and more intolerable for the average reader. For that reason paragraph spacing, i think, even of the kind that i would consider conceptually arbitrary and in no service to the point of the text, becomes more and more prevalent.

For example take almost all news outlets online, (i here google "yahoo news article and click:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teen-girl-killed-her-dog-103344284.html)
Here, oftentimes a TITLE is longer than a spaced paragraph! And an article with only 30 lines may "paragraph space" 10+ times. A paragraph will soon be shorter than a sentence it seems! This seems to me an absurd way to consume/take in text, but i suppose i am wrong-by-majority-decision.

It was only half a year or so ago that we discussed this in my lab, and my labmate disagrees with me. He thinks it is more about attention spans (and the neuroscientifically controversial term "executive function") more generally. He believes that this smaller "text chunking" is not text specific, but more just like the shortening of videos on youtube shorts or instagram/tiktok etc.

I tend to view this as less of a general thing and believe people can retain quite immaculate abilties of concentration/attention in very context specific ways. But who knows. What do you think?

Do you think there's something specific about the Ists and Pgems that make you like this specifically? Does it have to do with their relevance over time in D2, or perhaps the size of the currency in relation to the/your economy? Or something else? Perhaps you beleive it to have been random that your focus fell there?

This post was edited by emiq on Apr 15 2026 05:03am

I like your style emiq

Honestly the initial comment on it was just being a contrarian ass to poke fun at the wall of text but I do agree with what you’re saying in some cases. I think it honestly depends on the purpose and content of the text, if the text is built to flow in paragraphs it can be jarring to not have that visual accompaniment, it also depends on the spacing of the individual lines in my opinion. Usually in books walls of text aren’t too bad due to dialogue and other descriptions causing variations in line length but somewhere like a forum where the way posts are formatted can cause them to look like a literal block.

I both agree and disagree on it being similar to short form media, I don’t think that the spacing itself is necessarily an issue, I just got a whiff of the aesthetically pleasing formatting you can do in markdown and have gotten used to 1.5x line spacing in other areas. As long as the content is sound, the spacing shouldn’t matter but at the end of the day if humans can make things more visually appealing and comfortable, they do. Brutalist architecture by definition meets its need of function but it never took off because even though you’re technically fine in a plain concrete dwelling, humans will want to make it look nicer for the sake of it looking nicer.

Depending on what you’re writing about using more spacing is an easy way to visually chunk out ideas for your reader and to make your writing more digestible and aesthetically pleasing to the reader. That being said written media has taken a nosedive where quality and reading level is concerned. Just about every article is “x SLAMS y” “z in SHAMBLES you won’t believe what happens” and is gamified to make you click on their links. The average reading level around the world is awful and in the capitalistic pursuit of ever increasing profits news outlets and journals have willfully lobotomized themselves to court the lowest common denominator.

For the Ists and Pgems I just think they’re neat easiest way for an unlucky new player to start making some money. When you start dealing with them in bulk it becomes really easy to find your margins. Beyond that the ist > hr conversion rate can be subjective and at least +/- 1 in most cases making it really easy to eek out profit

How I make fg:

1. Get character and full stash full of caster amulet craft recipe pieces.
2. Roll all of them.
3. Do the easiest roll back method in the history of the game.
4. Join a new game and do it again until I get something worthwhile
5. Have reseller sell it for me and he gets 25% cut
6. Repeat forever (not by hand)

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Apr 15 2026 05:32am