I guess I never thought about "hung" but that makes sense. I default to "frozen" anyway. Sanity check and pow-wow for sure would be better to replace.
Isn't "dummy" originally talking about, well, a dummy? Like a crash test dummy? And then the negative connotation is applying that to a person? It seems like dummy is used properly in the context here?
"Native" seems a bit far reaching. Native doesn't have an intrinsic negative connotation, but I guess it is used to be negative or exclusionary.
Torchlight 3 and Infinite. I was a fan of Torchlight before there was Torchlight. I played Fate to death in college. I played Mythos during the beta. I probably put more hours into Torchlight and Torchlight 2 than I did into Diablo and Diablo 2 (and I put a lot of time into Diablo).
I actually had hope for Torchlight Frontiers. I thought it seemed like it could be what Mythos was trying to be - finally an online Torchlight game.
But then they forgot about all of that and essentially released "Torchlight 2 Mobile" but on PC.
I've only played a bit so I can't say if it's worth the asking price, but it's "refreshing" to play as an "old-school action RPG fan." I played some Diablo 4, POE and Last Epoch and all that but none of them have stuck for me. I find myself going back to Fate (Reawakened is very solid now after a few updates), Torchlight and even Diablo 1.
Titan Quest 2 is solid. It's slower paced, much like Grim Dawn. It feels much more like the campaign is the focus instead of something they expect you to skip through.
I will say while it's not as polished at this point, Dragonkin has a similar feeling if you're looking for more. Dragonkin is made by the team that made Warhammer Chaosbane but it has a lot more depth than that.
Something something both sides.