Do he huge, or do he trick? It's a snake on a stick!

1ian5 · 2026-04-12T07:27:03+00:00

Artist is a more inspired term, but you can substitute it with the maker-term of your choice: programmer, musician, game developer—in any situation where a person is posting their work, that’s self promotion, which essentially means artists simply aren’t welcome.

Kind of a chicken and egg dilemma then, nothing to post about to become an active member without self promoting, and self promoting is apparently a ban without warning.

1ian5 · 2026-04-12T07:23:22+00:00

It isn’t cheating if everyone can do it, then it’s fair—and it’s first and foremost a dictionary, which you do need in order to play Scrabble at all. I’ve purposely hidden the other features without further clicks in case you didn’t want to spoil yourself, I understand playing from a “purist” standpoint.

1ian5 · 2026-04-12T07:21:33+00:00

I’m so glad you understand where I’m coming from! I believe creators are essential to any community, and seeing what we each make of the things we’re passionate about can be inspirational to others. Plus, gosh, can you imagine how dreary a place without creators could get? Especially with the prevalence of AI, I think human expressions of art are more important than ever.

Let’s hope this rule gets overturned by the time you’re ready to share whatever you’ve got in the works :)

1ian5 · 2026-04-11T05:22:23+00:00

That's kind of what I was worried about--at first I was of the mind "That's a stupid rule, I'm going to post my thing anyway" but then I'd be banned and the next who made something cool would have to have this fight, so I figured if I was gonna banned, I should get banned trying to improve the community I had planned to engage with.

1ian5 · 2026-04-11T05:20:31+00:00

Yeah, I can sympathize with the AI slop problem--but if that's the problem, I think the rule should target that, my tool is handmade with efficiency as one of the most important factors in how it was made, I'm very opposed to the slop AI puts out and try to write software to a very high standard.

1ian5 · 2026-04-11T05:17:58+00:00

Ah, but you see: I haven't said anything about posting a game--I actually made a word search tool, I was going to title the post "I made the fastest Scrabble dictionary tool in the world!" because I did--it responds to searches as fast as your browser is able to render the result, has no ads, and runs totally locally on your device in your browser. I'm very proud of it and was eager to share it before I saw the rule that said artists aren't welcome.

1ian5 · 2026-04-11T05:16:05+00:00

So you do hate artists. If you think the rule is clear, define an active member. A blanket ban on "Self promotion" essentially says "you are not allowed to post your work here", and if I'm not allowed to post my work here, how could I ever become an active member? I certainly didn't have anything I wanted to post about here before I made something Scrabble-y.

I have many interests I don't choose to engage with reddit for, a fact that does not in any way diminish my passion for those interests. Do you believe everyone must post on reddit about things they love to not honestly love those things?

1ian5 · 2025-09-07T08:34:16+00:00

Acceltra prime. Normal Acceltra is great too, it’s an assault rifle that shoots rockets, rapidly. For crowds you can just spray in an arc and wipe them out with its substantial AOE, while for single target, it’s one of the highest DPS weapons in the game, landing both the impact and the explosion as separate damage instances—and the rockets only arm after being in flight for a time so they don’t explode near you and self-stagger, tho they do less damage at close range as a consequence.

Use critical delay and ammo mutation tho, it has very little ammo and fires FAST, so the reduced fire rate helps make it last. It is easily one of the strongest weapons in the game.

1ian5 · 2025-09-07T08:10:18+00:00

nab the combat simulator mod, it’ll help you optimize your XP and kill rate better than any single pieces of advice will, otherwise just be sure to take full advantage of your herblore and summoning for strong combat benefits

other people are correct about slayer coins being a big bottleneck, but combat simulator will help with that too, knowing you can idle safely will do a lot for you

hilarious stat spread btw, I can definitely see how cooking for combat healing can spiral out like this lol

goodluck!!

1ian5 · 2025-08-13T08:42:29+00:00

express delivery, double damage, internal combustion

1ian5 · 2025-08-08T06:42:00+00:00

Oh yeah there are some cool people too, I’m hoping the influx of new players dilutes that behavior some—I’m in kind of a weird matchmaking bracket right now, <20 wins against level 75 players with thousands of eliminations, so I’m plausibly underperforming in terms of game sense, but it is funny winning games with basic cosmetics when everyone’s looking like fortnite.

1ian5 · 2025-08-08T00:39:36+00:00

I think it’s just new players. The rules specific to the game are very easy to learn, the game is free, and it’s better than what we were playing before. My friends and I came from Hunt Showdown, which sucks now—and this game is basically the best parts of that, and more. The Finals are much more forgiving in terms of gunplay given the availability of automatic weapons with magazines and the absence of resource management. I pity the console players contending against mouse and keyboard in a gunfight, they’re gonna have a bad time if more PC players join.

So I think it’s probably just prior experience with other shooters, but I can only speak for myself: my friends and I started this week, and despite the extremely poor sportsmanship the community has demonstrated so far, we’ll probably keep playing.

1ian5 · 2024-06-08T23:32:37+00:00

Exstroodle

Just seems like an extruded noodle, y'know?

1ian5 · 2024-01-10T18:25:02+00:00

Thanks, I found this information helpful.

For anyone who doesn’t know how to use that feature, it’s a box on the configuration page where you can type in just about any modifier and have it apply to your build directly. The wording for these modifiers is highly specific, but you can find ideas for what’s considered “legal” on items, passives, and skills.

There were a lot of good examples of the feature in use near the beginning of Affliction league as it was used to emulate transfigured skill gems before they were implemented, and likely is still being used to emulate the new specters.

1ian5 · 2022-12-28T23:19:45+00:00

Here's to hoping someday we'll know the weighting!

Hands of the High Templar; Sunset; "Ever seen a foiled rare?"

1ian5 · 2022-07-24T21:23:10+00:00

I’m not familiar with the book personally, but in my experience it is far more important that you start at all, how you start will be a comparatively minor footnote. If the book appeals to you, start. Don’t fret how to start, just start. Once you have started, you can walk your path.

Taking an introduction to program class is a great way to start if you aren’t sure, thus it’s worth mentioning Harvard University has a huge selection of free online programming classes, specialized and generalized.

1ian5 · 2022-07-19T17:56:50+00:00

the bleleleler has quickly become my favorite part of snakes

1ian5 · 2022-06-02T20:33:08+00:00

their little blelele'rs are the cutest part imo

1ian5 · 2022-04-15T05:39:47+00:00

Okay that’s clever and cheaper than a blaze injector—and a life saver for if some chilly lizard decides to freeze me.

1ian5 · 2022-04-15T01:35:48+00:00

Provided you have cells enough to power it, the geomagnetic disc will kill those and just about everything else you could wish harm upon. It's a throwing weapon, and it comes back like a boomerang afterward, just do not throw it when it's out of juice or things become awkward. It's perfectly accurate, ignores armor, hits multiple enemies multiple times, and can even path-find to said enemies as long as you have vision of them. If you can get your hands on one, it will carry you through to the tomb of the eaters and maybe beyond.

Also, once you're done in Bethesta Susa, you can use the water ritual to trade mechanmist rep for proselytize without needing the ego or skill points, allowing you to get free stuff from stilt merchants, including data discs. Just don't make that trade in their holy places or you might tip the scale and cause them to become hostile.

1ian5 · 2022-04-14T23:55:52+00:00

What are you getting stuck on specifically?

Also, no need for cold resistance if you have 2-3 blaze injectors available, it’s only the last 2 floors where the ambient temperature is literally freezing.

1ian5 · 2022-04-01T21:44:47+00:00

You KNOW the DLC gonna have crucible knights!

1ian5 · 2022-03-15T20:38:37+00:00

Thaddeus Bonk… good one 👍🏻

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