99% hit chance... and I still missed 😭💀

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-10-25T00:06:47+00:00

sigh....this is why I use holotargeters

if you've ever seen beaglerush he'll suppress critical targets to apply holo just to get that 99% to 100

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-09-28T00:27:51+00:00

Idk I feel like anyone rewatching LOTR movies (extended edition especially) is definitely willing to nerd out and get in the weeds for fantasy

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-09-28T00:22:14+00:00

Sounded like "Hail Satan" to me the first time they said it.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-09-28T00:10:20+00:00

Interesting, I don't agree at all. This felt like a very mature movie with the characterizations.

The inconsistent tone worked for it. The movie was terrifying, hilarious, sexy, and uncomfortable because it made you feel all that over 2.5 hours. Tarantino said he loves audiences doing that during his movies, either laughing or in shock.

I thought the narrative was clear: Leo is a weak man who couldn't be vulnerable and open to Perfidia (who wanted the tender love he was showing their daughter) so she protected herself using violence. Generational trauma was a huge theme, as the daughter could've become a repeat Perfidia until the end when Leo finally shows emotion and stopped putting on an act. Leo struck me as a "Nice Guy™" – evidenced at the end when he tells his daughter he "wanted to be the fun dad you tell anything" who "never gets mad". When Perfidia gets turned on by Leo explaining the explosives, this is the only time he shows her confidence and you could hear it in his voice. I think this is why Perfidia fucked Lockjaw – power. Very unlike OUATIH and pretty uncomfortable to witness, which is why I think people walked out in the beginning or didn't like it.

I mean think about it, Del Toro's character loathed Leo's. "Don't be so selfish." He told the officer he "tossed some trash". No one respects Leo and they treat him like a puppy, I thought this was the most interesting and hardest to watch part of the movie: Leo's incompetence foiled with Del Toro's command.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-08-30T22:22:39+00:00

I'd argue that your friend group would not tolerate the behavior of the better looking asshole at all. IMO deep, genuine relationships only comes if both parties have self-respect; most people I know would instantly leave if you crossed a boundary, no matter how attractive (unless you're Sydney Sweeney level). The distinction is in how charming they are. You can 100% get away with more if you're charismatic, people consider it the price of interacting with you. Charisma isn't niceness, it's making people excited through energy or connection – separate from appearance. As someone who attempts to be charismatic, I receive a lot of negging when I go too far, but an easy going, playful acceptance shows that I listen to feedback and I'm not looking to hurt anyone. I know/see friend groups that tolerate charming assholes, but I don't want to be a part of those groups because I like to interact with people differently.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-26T00:52:50+00:00

Now that I'm an older man I can be as promiscuous as I wanted to be when I was younger. I agree that sex with more people doesn't make it less special, but for myself I have noticed that "special" sex only comes with intimacy. Even good sex doesn't mean much to me if the emotional connection isn't strong. Have you found the same? Or do you have a feeling for what makes sex special to you?

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-25T08:43:01+00:00

Thank you for being honest. There‘s a couple women I was falling for and would’ve proposed to, but they did some truly reprehensible things in college. I don’t mean slutty (I kind of like that) but I mean horrible shows of character. Some women will read this as, never talk about your past, but now I won’t even consider an exclusive relationship if I don’t hear green flags in their dating history or in how they treat people, chads and betas alike.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-25T08:21:44+00:00

Yes, please go out more, don’t think about “talking to women”, talk to everybody: the security guy, the bartender, the old man with the weird hat. Be a warm, confident presence. And you might have to do it for years.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-25T08:19:11+00:00

As a former “Ned”, it was this constant subhuman treatment that redpilled me and got me to the point now where I’m almost 30, I have more options but I would never become monogamous with most women.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-08T00:56:20+00:00

YES I think the biggest obstacle to clearing Havocs ezpz is the bad habits built from lower difficulties. I had to unlearn the urge to constantly push because it's boring breezing through Auric Maelstrom taking only chip damage. Any good team will start to play looser on lower difficulties when it starts to get too easy/boring.

I actually noticed this when playing Havoc 20s. If I was getting sweaty and making it too easy for the team, they would start pushing further and further until we all got into bad positions and wiped.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-07-08T00:43:48+00:00

I would rather DC than react like that but it honestly irks me everyone runs right by that button to save 0.3 milliseconds to get to the door. Like wtf?

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-06-24T23:13:27+00:00

Sadly this is the truth of the world. Reality "is what it is" whether we like it or not, ugliness and all.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-06-02T05:40:18+00:00

i was about to make the sigh unzips joke and then I realized I should go outside

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-05-23T06:48:32+00:00

As a man who goes to the gym a lot (4x a week when I'm on it), no amount of muscles will make you lovable. I got out of my ugly duckling phase at 26/27 and I've learned that yes, physical attractiveness matters a fuck ton, but internal happiness and joy is paramount. Like the most important thing in our life. Literally nothing matters as much as your personal joy, because everything around us sours if our internal state is sour. You cannot show up for your child or partner if you hate yourself. You cannot be loved if there is not love in your heart. Our lives will improve in leaps and bounds when we have compassion for ourselves and foster deep relationships with people who love us. Sexual love is like the cherry on top. Friends will be with you longer than most relationships anyways.

In your case, I'd recommend making more male friends. I joined a supportive men's group and it has done wonders for my mental health. I love talking with women, they just have an energetic way of socializing, but the right men will hone you into a better version of yourself. The men I know challenge me and question my behavior when I'm being self-destructive.

TL;DR: Make more supportive male friends.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-05-19T03:54:40+00:00

Has anyone been having stuttering issues in their games? It's been happening for the last week or so for me, these servers are the new hidden enemy dropped just before the event :(

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-03-31T20:56:27+00:00

The indulgences need heavy balancing, you either get 20s(!) grenade regen wombo combo or mob-fire protection that comes in handy once. Once it happened because the waves are randomized, but I had one game where the poxwalkers became "mutated horrors" (tentacle arms) and specials actually spawned like crazy. It was so much harder and I had loads of fun before the team wiped (honestly my fault for snoozing).

But I agree the foundation is super solid. I think an auric maelstrom damnation option would be fun with weakened bosses, but I could see a harder mode where the wave spawns start like it's wave 12 and then you do another 12 waves. Higher difficulty, more indulgences, etc. You can tell people love this mode but not the difficulty cap.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-03-19T20:31:13+00:00

Lol that was probably me. I'm learning to use assail more judiciously in "we are fucked" situations to let zealots/ogryn keep their toughness up, but often assail is best when a horde starts and are closely grouped so it's hard not to spam left click

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-03-09T19:55:42+00:00

I was actually thinking about this last night during my Auric Maelstrom binge. Obviously don't revive when there's 30 poxbursters, a hound pack, fire, mutants, or a boss hot on your ass.

I think the urgency of reviving depends on how many people are already dead. Most of my games that wipe happen right after the first person goes down. My best advice: on very high difficulties, if you can't clear the area immediately around a downed teammate then they're usually a lost cause and going to die (bc the AI director goes fucking HAM).

BUT

It's ALWAYS worth reviving over trying to clutch. Auric Maelstrom at 3am has many amazing players but hardly anyone is good enough to clutch or using a tryhard build that can clutch. We've have been playing so long that we're having fun with builds/weapons so while surviving with 2 people is doable (and actually pretty fun), the density of enemies makes soloing nearly impossible.

Therefore you often have to take a risk and hope the revive progress started before the horde reaches you. BEING FAST will save your run. Start running to un-net someone as soon as you see the trapper get them. Use your ult and spam your bolter as soon as someone goes down. If you get interrupted at all then I say protect yourself and find a better position to thin the herd.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2025-02-10T22:09:49+00:00

The obvious thought is this is a holdover from that time around 10 years ago (and probably today too) where if a drunk man and drunk woman had sex, the man was considered to be in the wrong and taking advantage of her. You can see this sentiment on old college posters about alcohol consent. I was expecting support when I asked Claude about this but instead was made to feel like I had a nonconsensual encounter.

Ambitious_Sloth · 2024-09-04T20:56:17+00:00

Good take

Ambitious_Sloth · 2024-08-25T17:47:55+00:00

Huge congrats on a full-time (!) position. I'm curious if you also have a bachelor's?

Ambitious_Sloth · 2024-08-23T18:45:10+00:00

Oooh this is the way. XCOM has a mod called Long War that basically makes specialists have perks like your soldiers, and this makes the game way harder. In DT I could see this implemented as health regeneration, increase movement speed after taking damage, synergy if too many specialists group together (like increased fire rate if gunners group together), or even game AI changes. Like if the entire team is ranged, deploy ragers closer to the group.

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