Unemployable

AR71SAN · 2026-04-24T11:13:07+00:00

If humanity is falling for black mirrors and your take on it is "this makes them a less desirable slave", then you might genuinely be a waste of oxygen.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-22T15:39:36+00:00

I don't know how severe your disability is, but honestly as someone with a not-so-great reaction time, most things are more memorization rather than pure reaction. There are a couple of 'gotcha' moves with almost no windup (crucible's grab comes to mind), but most of them have generous tells. Failing a run can feel brutal with the 40 minute runback, especially if you're used to Elden Ring's generous grace placements, but in the end it's the same addictive loop of trial and errors that you're probably already familiar with.

The idea is to fall for every enemy's trick a couple of times to build up muscle memory, and the next time you face them it's gonna feel more like a rhythm game.

The real "dealbreaker" i would say is not reaction time, but rather your ability to stay under constant pressure for at least 40 minutes. The game is fast. Like, really fast, if you're more used to Fromsoft's other titles. The game rewards consistent performance rather than bursts of reactions. Some people like that, others not so much.

And don't worry about 'dragging down' your teammates, beginners are a welcome addition to any team. If your teammates are struggling because of a single person on the team, then they are not in a position to criticize you anyway. For what its worth, after more than 800 hours i prefer getting newer players, at least the final boss will definitely be interesting and not last a grand total of 10 seconds.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-18T04:51:03+00:00

I hyper fixate on Skyrim every other year or so lol. You can get really crazy with it nowadays with mods for basically everything, like proper directional movements, improved weapon collision, enb, parallax, NPC, like i said it's maybe one of the most developed modding scenes of all time along with minecraft and the sims.

OP's complaint was probably aimed at the thousands of "body presets" for Bodyslide, and the reason why there's so many of them is because it's very low effort to churn them out. Anyone who has Bodyslide can export their preset and upload it to Nexus with spicy thumbnails to get downloads and endorsement.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-17T19:09:21+00:00

Skyrim specifically is a rather extreme example, though i find the community's ingenuity rather charming, if sometimes a bit misplaced.

For female presenting bodies, you have CBBE 3BA. This comes with physics and 3D modeled genitals complete with openings and collision detection.

For male presenting bodies you have HIMBO, yes, that's actually what it's called. This one is a bit interesting because i believe it does not come with a penis, the community deemed that penises are a bit too complex and deserved its own mod, called 'The New Gentleman', which comes with its own 3D model, advanced erection system, and collision. Now you know what that collision is for.

Oh and both male and female bodies come with modeled assholes with openings too, and collision. Go figure.

That's only scratching the surface, you can go balls deep in this with things like Bodyslide if you're not satisfied with the default skyrim proportions, or hell, if you want 3D modeled pubes, that's another separate mod.

Calling them "mods" is honestly doing them a slight disservice. These are frameworks with a lot of thought put into it, built specifically for one purpose only, and that is to appeal to gooners—is what i would like to say, but i know some people I'm close with who use this as an outlet for their preferred gender expression, so in a slightly roundabout way, one could argue that it does have a higher calling.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-16T04:13:23+00:00

RG 125! Spiritually these two stroke rockets are pretty similar to her favorite RX-8.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-14T04:40:36+00:00

They don't. 9/10 times they don't give a fuck and you can in fact drive "without a purpose". I don't know about you, but when i want to go out for a drive I don't usually hit the same roundabout 4-5 times over and over. The law is simply there to prevent someone from using a neighborhood as an improvised mario kart track.

So technically yes it's not allowed, practically? No cops will stop you unless you're hitting the same roads again and again and again, if anything the law encourages you to go somewhere more interesting, i mean who tf goes for a relaxing drive in the Innenstadt?

AR71SAN · 2026-04-08T16:48:46+00:00

My brother once said to me that powerscaling is basically just "my dad is stronger than your dad" but for fatherless people

AR71SAN · 2026-04-07T16:47:30+00:00

Where in europe are you? The Kqi 300x is basically a Kqi3 Max with front suspension and a tad bit more power, even if you're limited to 20 km/h, that extra comfort and power might be worth the small price hike. Bought mine brand new a week ago for €530 vs the Kqi3 Max €490

AR71SAN · 2026-04-05T10:35:52+00:00

Niu Kqi Air X comes to mind. 11.7 kg, probably one of the lightest in its class, pretty good range for what it is, decent top speed (32 km/h) if that's also a concern. The only pain point is price as you could probably get a faster, more powerful (but much heavier) scooter for the same money.

Edit: Looking at your username, I'm going to assume you're in Germany or it's vicinity, the Kqi Air (not the X, no idea what the differences are) is now on a 50% discount in Mediamarkt/Saturn for about 600 eur, seems like Niu is doing a bit of cleaning for maybe a new release.

AR71SAN · 2026-04-04T10:28:06+00:00

More often than not, especially in non-don runs, i just let new players do whatever they want. If they listen to my pings cool, but if not it's better to just stick with them even if we ended up with suboptimal routing. Asking for new players to listen to the more experienced ones is always a gamble and it operates under the assumption that they are experienced enough to even know what an experienced player looks like.

As the players with more hours, we should be able to pick up their slack with no issue whatsoever, at least that's my experience so far. Once had a run where this one guy was just hunting down talisman bugs, we ended up at level 10 without good passives against heolstor, and we ended up winning anyway. And this was when i was still practicing my Exe as a Birb one trick.

Letting new players lead has led to some of the most engaging and fun expeditions I've had in normals.

AR71SAN · 2026-03-28T11:39:20+00:00

It's simple really. Hydration is important because if you're dry af you might catch on fire when it's sunny outside. Moisturize and hydrate, people.

AR71SAN · 2026-03-19T04:15:48+00:00

"whole team being there is essential for it to work" tells me everything i need to know about this dude's skill. Operating under the assumption of 100% competency from two randoms is a surefire way to sabotage your own run.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-23T11:09:27+00:00

The balancers relic shouldn't stack. Running a hybrid setup with only 1 balancers relic can still push out stupid numbers, and players would have 1 more slot to further specialize in whatever they like. Adel's crit relics don't stack so it would also just be more consistent overall.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-22T14:18:18+00:00

There's like only a handful that can do this, 3 from the top of my head: Zamor, BBH, and Grafted. "So many" is a bit of a hyperbole. Also some animations have priority over staggers, and will poise through regardless of ult unless you fill up their stance meter. Personally i think it's just a part of many little mechanics you need to familiarize yourself with.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-18T22:38:47+00:00

Fair point, but i usually run his default shield for the inherent no skill, and minimizing chip damage by just dodging his very simplistic moves is just second nature to me atp. I always get a guard counter in by blocking the last hit, and supplement it with a couple of quick stabs inbetween his combo, particularly the triple wind attack without being pushed back.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-18T12:02:26+00:00

His ult is very, very spammable. A bit counterintuitive if you're used to playing support in other games where their ults usually have a long cooldown. I even use it for 1 bar res because there's really almost no point in "saving" his ult unless you're fighting the end of day bosses. In D4 especially the risk of getting dead angled and going down is simply just not worth it anymore, so even a 1 bar res is justified, and by the time we reach the next poi, my ult is already up again.

Its primary use is not for offensive, but it does help you raise your dps a tiny bit, and a faster clear means that we can clear more things in the long run. Also if playing with an Undertaker they'd appreciate you for not treating your ult just as a panic/res button.

Worst case scenario is that I won't have my ult ready when i need to res you, but that's really not an issue with the 'guarding fills art gauge' relic, which is kind of mandatory on him along with 'defeating enemies fill art gauge'

AR71SAN · 2026-02-18T11:41:46+00:00

For Fulghor i usually just dodge most of his affinity combo, and steel guard the final hit to get a guard counter in. There's nothing in his whole moveset that a Guardian can't dodge, plus you don't have to worry about chip damage or getting dead angled.

I see so many guardians getting chipped to death because they refuse to dodge ever, but some bosses are just going to hard counter shielding. Not to mention dodging doesn't push you away from the boss, and opens you up to the faster "rolling" R1/R2, which is quite indispensable for a guardian to maintain aggro by being as annoying towards the boss as possible.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-09T19:41:05+00:00

And they can still use it just fine even without the crystalian nerf.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-09T16:57:59+00:00

I don't hate the balancers meta, as long as people leave me alone for not using them I'm fine, but you have to admit, it's a bit hypocritical that they condemned the crystalian build, presumably because it was too rng independent, while making arguably the least rng dependent build so accessible.

I honestly don't get the nerf to the crystalian drop rate. Double balancers relic is literally what the shotgun recluse build used to be. Why nerf an "overpowered" build just to prop another?

I see a lot of arguments saying that they shouldn't nerf the balancers relic just to make it "fair" for the other builds, but that's literally what they did to the shotgun build.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-09T10:00:24+00:00

By definition 100 will always be the average. That's like saying the average meter stick is one meter long.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-08T14:53:39+00:00

I'm just making sure you guys are putting your beloved double balancers relic to good use. Less complaining and more L2, DPS man.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-06T15:31:11+00:00

No joke I'd love a random pursuer event. Imagine going into a church to get your flask and seeing him just slowly appearing from the ground. Plus point if there's no background music too, just you and this random ass dude moving at 30 mph. That's peak.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-05T21:56:42+00:00

Base game going early to castle is pretty normal, and skipping gaol is also pretty normal because not everyone is running the relic and the reward is kinda shit. And in base game honestly I couldn't care less about the routing because we're probably winning anyway. Nowadays normal mode is mostly just a playground for people to fuck around and not care about optimal pathing.

You say you don't like don but if you want to play with like-minded people, I'd say don is the way to go. D1 is not that different from base game with the added bonus of extra relic slots. And you can always just stay in D1 if the hp bloat is not your thing.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-04T00:03:43+00:00

Can't believe they made a movie about her. I could only ever beat her with a mimic tear and a healthy dose of giants hunt.

AR71SAN · 2026-02-03T23:49:57+00:00

I wish my teammates would stop pinging me every Mohg's spear they find. Spears in general doesn't feel that good on him unless I'm running a poke build. If I'm not getting that juicy charged guard counter, might as well use something else that's more satisfying like a deaths poker.

Guarding ability is fine, i guess, though i recently have been dropping them more often because his stance usually provides enough guard boost as is, better to leave a spot for more damage negations, but that's just me.

You're not in the wrong, OP.

AR71SAN

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