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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9893049" data-attributes="member: 18">Not sure what your point is, I mean, obviously, it's an ARPG but it doesn't change what people call things. The only people who insist on intentionally confusing people by calling Pillars &quot;PoE&quot; in 2026 are the most performatively groggy grogs in my experience. The only CRPG-oriented place I've seen it be popular as a term is that weird old (but still busy) site the name of which escapes me (it's black with red writing I think - or it used to be) which is basically the equivalent of the bar where Luke chops off a guy's arm from Stars Wars, only instead of weird aliens, it's unrepentantly anti-social types who still curse the existence of multiplayer games, wacky misanthropes and misogynists (but never misandrists), and the sort of people who throw their monitor out the window when they see a black guy in full plate armour. Not suggesting you're like that but that's the only &quot;CRPG community&quot; I'm aware of where they really do call Pillars &quot;PoE&quot; and it's because they really, really, really hate ARPGs and blame 1997's Diablo and 1998's EverQuest for ruining everything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9893049, member: 18"] Not sure what your point is, I mean, obviously, it's an ARPG but it doesn't change what people call things. The only people who insist on intentionally confusing people by calling Pillars "PoE" in 2026 are the most performatively groggy grogs in my experience. The only CRPG-oriented place I've seen it be popular as a term is that weird old (but still busy) site the name of which escapes me (it's black with red writing I think - or it used to be) which is basically the equivalent of the bar where Luke chops off a guy's arm from Stars Wars, only instead of weird aliens, it's unrepentantly anti-social types who still curse the existence of multiplayer games, wacky misanthropes and misogynists (but never misandrists), and the sort of people who throw their monitor out the window when they see a black guy in full plate armour. Not suggesting you're like that but that's the only "CRPG community" I'm aware of where they really do call Pillars "PoE" and it's because they really, really, really hate ARPGs and blame 1997's Diablo and 1998's EverQuest for ruining everything. [/QUOTE]

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