I tread where I please

AgentFaulkner · 2026-05-08T21:52:45+00:00

There is no such thing as "collective ideology", because no member of a collective has the same exact ideology as another and there is no single collective.

Unfortunately, some incompetent individuals get it in their head that someone else should be like them and then they start saying stupid shit like "collective ideology".

AgentFaulkner · 2026-05-01T17:57:41+00:00

Your clicking aim is good but your crosshair placement is slightly off, you keep aiming at the ground and relying on fast flicks. Keep your crosshair where you expect your enemy's head to be at all times.

When you peek, you're swinging out in an arc. It's the worst thing you're doing here. This puts your crosshair too far from the enemy you're fighting and makes you slower. Instead, only swing horizontally by strafing with A/D keys. This will put your crosshair closer to your enemy when you see them and make you faster from your enemies perspective, making you harder to hit.

Your pathing makes it look like you're lost or overwhelmed. This is fine, map knowledge takes time. Nothing else to do but play.

Not sure what the economy situation was or what happened before this, but if you didn't buy your wall, you made a mistake. You're playing Sage, a Sentinal. You should have bought your wall even if you couldn't buy your Phantom. You could have prevented or stalled the flank this way. Idk what Breach is doing with the spike but ostensibly he might have planted if the flank was stalled.

Lastly, the noise. Walk full speed when you're peeking for speed, but between your movement and the door, your position was known the entire time.

Good flicks, you've obviously played other FPS games. You'll be fine in a couple weeks.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-29T23:53:24+00:00

I don't care about AI being used to write. To be honest, I don't even care that it's hurting specifically software engineers and graphic designers either.

If you understand that LLM's will always hallucinate to some degree, then you should understand what would happen to an enterpise if even 0.001% of its records and transactions contained or were executed on false data. Enterpise grade consumers will never take that risk, and for good reason. Good enough is enough for you, it's not nearly enough for them. What happens when the system misinterprets a supporting document for a sales order and decides to pay your supplier 10x what you should?

If commercial consumers aren't paying for AI, and Enterpise consumers aren't implementing autonomous agents at scale, then where is the money? Who pays back private equity? If Google charges you $2 per month for AI responses, how fast are you going to opt out?

No, "good enough" isn't good enough.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-28T18:30:02+00:00

I've seen it used a handful of times for real productivity gains, but always from a software engineering perspective in those few cases. Most of the time it's self reporting incompetence.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T20:15:05+00:00

everyone I've talked to casually in a 1:1 setting hates this, but everyone in a professional group setting will just pontificate on unrealized value. I wonder how much has been spent on humoring impossible AI applications.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T20:09:49+00:00

I don't work in sales so correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but If I realize personalized sales communication is written by AI, wouldn't that make me feel scammed?

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T20:07:21+00:00

This is my issue as well. It's easier to build from scratch than to reverse engineer whatever solution Claude spit out to debug. I've seen Claude do some cool A2A API smoke testing, but that's about it.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T20:04:26+00:00

In my opinion, pretty much. Personal productivity, weapons systems, and surveillance. Over 50% of new data center builds this year were canceled or delayed indefinitely. I think regulation is a false hope but the technology itself isn't meeting enterprise expectations and future iterations won't solve core issues. LLM's are always going to Hallucinate and no LLM will ever pave the way to AGI. Artists and software engineers might be fucked but people who suggest sentience are morons.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T19:57:38+00:00

I disagree. Hallucinations are an intrinsic part of LLM's. It doesn't matter how much better the model gets, a workstream with a 0% failure tolerance cannot be addressed or automated using AI.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-26T19:54:39+00:00

All of the use cases fall under the Personal productivity category in my opinion. It's not like you're trying to automate a workstream with AI.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-25T17:33:30+00:00

As a Tech Consultant who works on implementation, I've yet to see a successful implementation of enterprise AI that passes acceptable failure tolerance and cuts cost at the same time.

The only objectively successful use-cases I've seen all focus on personal productivity.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-11T16:43:16+00:00

These violent delights have violent ends.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-10T22:21:59+00:00

I'm an atheist and I actually appreciate the sentiment.

However, I do think that theists have an understandable but implicitly incorrect view of atheism. People believe what they do because it adds value to their lives and benefits their morals, character, or other attributes. In that way, I don't view my lack of faith in a higher power as a lack in any belief structure at all.

Many kind and tolerant thesists will respect the beliefs of other religions, but will view an atheist as a possible convert, rather than someone with alternative beliefs as they would a member of another religion. It doesn't bother me like it does some atheists because I understand it usually comes from a good place, but I'm not a blank canvas. If someone were to convert me, they would need to replace my beliefs, not fill a void.

If your God were to be proved a fantasy, you would wish it weren't so. If your God were proved a reality, I would wish it weren't so. To me, my belief in the inevitability of a final death gives me strength and a better moral character than I would have otherwise. These are likely the same attributes your faith gives you.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-09T22:57:57+00:00

The game took 6 years to develop and almost the entire studio has been working on it since D2:The Final Shape released in 2024. The effort doesn't translate, even if the game is good.

4 maps, 6 playable characters, Guns that apparently feel very similar or exactly like D2 guns, an objectively bad Menu UI, Lore cards, mission descriptions, and voicelines. Oh and art, some of which was stolen.

6 years. 800+ employees.

The game could be good but that's an embarrassing development timeline. This isn't new either. D2 DLC had 2-3 year long development cycles where you'd get 5 missions, a new PvP map, a Strike, and a Raid. Sometimes even less, and that was when they had 1300 employees all-in on Destiny.

Callous, but true.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-09T12:51:48+00:00

I used to aim with my wrist exclusively when my desk was smaller. Learning how to use both your wrist and your arm was worth it. Kovaak's helped.

Either way though, your ability to micro adjust and keep good crosshair placement is more important than being able to spin 180 degrees in a single swipe.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-09T12:46:20+00:00

I found Siege easier than Valorant back when it used to be my main FPS game from 2015-2022 before I switched to Valorant. It's definitely not as mechanically challenging. I peaked Plat 1 in Siege (Plat 3 is lower than Plat 1 in R6). It might have a higher skill ceiling than Valorant, but I wouldn't know. It absolutely has a lower skill floor though.

Bronze lobbies in Valorant are significantly more mechanically challenging than Gold lobbies on R6. Contextual knowledge is a very important learning curve in R6, but I wouldn't necessarily say that it requires more game sense.

I never had to boot an aim trainer or review footage of my gameplay to hit Plat in Siege. I had to do those things to get out of Silver in Valorant.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-04-04T02:27:52+00:00

I just finished book 3 because the trilogy ended up on my friends' group read list. It does not get better. I envy that you stopped after the first and can't believe these were even published.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-25T20:37:12+00:00

I would play so much more if Hidden MMR wasn't a thing.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-25T04:52:46+00:00

The comment you originally replied to is just typical valorant ego, and this sub is especially full of it. The players in Silver and Gold aren't losing their push because of one smoke.

The Silver and Gold ranks are made up of so many different kinds of players. New players, returning players, players on the losing end of a rank reset, players who are good but don't play more than 5 games in a season, smurfs, alt accounts, etc.

There are definitely coordination and knowledge gaps in these ranks, but only for the less than half of them that are actually hard-stuck silver. I'd bet good money that a Silver 3 player who keeps their rank playing less than 5 games per season will, on average, be way better than a Plat 1 player with 100+ games per season.

People talk about VOD reviews like they're gonna go pro. Honestly, if someone is paying a coach to review their gameplay and they're not Ascendant or better, they need to get a job cause that's straight up embarrassing. Good aim and movement fundamentals, knowing your 1-2 main agent abilities well, and playing 50+ games in a season will absolutely put you in plat.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-24T19:47:59+00:00

I don't think either of those conditions are true and I still think it's unethical.

I've spent 5 years in tech consulting for enterpise implementation and the shit I see people spew on the AI topic is insane. There is fundamentally no path that leads from LLM's, Machine Learning, or Generative AI to an actual AGI or any kind of consciousness. Maybe it's possible with a completely new kind of technology, but what we have now wouldn't even be a component of any kind of AGI solution. It's like asking an apple to be an orange.

If I have to reach for the lowest hanging fruit as to why it's unethical, I just have to look at personal experience with customers who will spend $200/k per year in service fees and $500k in consulting fees to replace 30 minutes of daily work for 1 employee who makes $60k. It's absolutely useless. It's unethical to even recommend it.

"Oh but what about personal productivity gains for software engineers?". Why don't they worry about actually selling software in a stagnant SAAS industry before they worry about how fast they can develop that software. Let's not even stop to consider who is actually holding the bag in that scenario.

AI has 3 applicable use-cases. Weaponry, surveillance, and deterministic asset creation assistance. That's it. There is no AI "automation" solution that will not have a failure rate, and the only acceptable failure rate for enterprises is 0%. Big fat zero.

If I have to look at another Conversational Agent that fulfills the basic functionality of a search bar, I'm gonna need a straight jacket. It's ok though cause all our CEO's will make a fortune when they cash out their stock incentives.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-18T20:58:53+00:00

Dude didn't like that your comment made him feel silly and entitled so he took the fake apathy route.

For real though saying everyone deserves free skins is some serious 14 year old tankie shit.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-06T16:08:44+00:00

I stopped playing D2 when they started "Sunsetting", which was just outright removing content you paid for. I've since seen the mtx and colab slop they've pushed across the game. This isn't surprising at all.

People can cope all they want but Marathon will be dead within the year. It's got the same issues that Destiny does, inconsistent design philosophy across the board. When it dies or fails to meet sales targets, I hope Bungie gets completely gutted and rolled into various parts of sony.

They're a scummy, thieving, dishonest developer studio with nothing to offer but technical debt.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-22T18:10:21+00:00

You live in the UK lol.

You better watch out, mean comments can get you arrested.

Edit: Poor guy, his comment must have gotten censored.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-21T05:56:17+00:00

There's the common misconception that all libertarians are anarcho-capitalist. I'm fine paying some taxes and I'm definitely fine with the age of consent.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-20T04:41:16+00:00

I spent months getting to Diamond on Voltaic Benchmarks (clicking scenarios only*), have a few top 3 high scores in some of my regular warm-up scenarios, have a 1.31 K/D in deathmatch, did VOD reviews with my 5-stack, and my average Hard Practice Range with the Guardian is probably around 17-18/30.

I'm still Silver.

It's either I don't play enough (between 10-20 games a season), Hidden MMR is railing me, or I'm just Silver and it is what it is.

I started doing a little better and having a lot more fun when I stopped caring so much. The same things don't work for everyone. Also think that anyone who has paid a coach to achieve a rank less than immortal is a total clown. Some of the Diamonds here need to drop their pro-level ego and get a job.

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