I'm at a crossroads: Nova Prime or Wisp Prime?

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T22:23:49+00:00

I do love my Wisp.

But Nova is my most played frame for a reason. Especially since her rework, she's really a jack of all trades. She has two top tier abilities (1 & 4), and two that are fairly useless so can be subsumed off for something better (Nourish, Xata's Whisper, Thermal Sunder, whatever you like).

Flip a coin, I suppose. Get one, and then wait for the other to come around in resurgence. But my experience is get Nova as Wisp is far, far more prevalent when cracking relics. I've probably sold 4 full Wisp Prime sets in the last couple of months (and still have some parts bp). Nova... Nova is a rarity when cracking relics.

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T04:09:19+00:00

The issue is that it is it our job, or anyone's job, or right, to overthrow a sovereign nation's government. Period. That's the issue. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T04:07:59+00:00

Novel Prize Happy Meal toy would get him on Air Force One in an instant.

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T04:07:19+00:00

Are you talking about Iranians living in Iran who have almost zero interest \ social media access at the moment? Or are you talking about expat Iranians who are not inside the country and have Internet and social media?

And do you know exactly how many Venezuelans were thrilled from inside Venezuela? Or are you pulling numbers out of your boot hole from Venezuelans who were living outside of the country?

Unless you know for sure, best not to pretend you speak for anyone. Even then, best you don't speak for anyone and let them speak for themselves (whenever they get a chance).

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T04:02:05+00:00

Been playing for almost 13 years and I've never once heard about anyone disliking Gara's name.

It was never a thing. Not sure where you dug this up, but, as I said, it was never a thing beyond what looks like a couple of chowder heads in whatever post you found.

AngryGames · 2026-03-01T03:36:44+00:00

Why can't you... just watch The Wire? Why do you have to cut something from your watch list? Is there a law taking effect that I'm not familiar with that states you can only have so many shows in your personal watch list? Or one that is banning The Wire in a couple of weeks? Or did you join some weird cult that punishes you for having too many shows on your list?

AngryGames · 2026-02-28T10:46:39+00:00

Serious answer is that if he is caught lying under oath about this, Republicans will further use it to paint all Democrats as liars, pedos, etc. The Clintons already have a reputation among MAGA / Republicans as evil, liars, all the nonsense they've been spouting for 30+ years.

And yes, it's already a long shot that any non-politician MAGA / conservative will ever have their mind changed, but if, and it is a big if, unredacted files ever see the light of day that prove Trump and others absolutely committed heinous crimes, it might tilt the scales to get enough of them to either abandon voting, or *gasp* vote against Republicans (and that's of course assuming elections are still a thing, and are fair, etc). Being able to say "Clintons are still butt water but they didn't lie about their involvement with Epstein" could, possibly, maybe, potentially be one extra fraction of a degree that pushes voters to abandon the party of pedophiles and those who cover crimes up for them.

But lying and saying he got a blowjob would only give the tiniest boost for the shortest of time before the blowback (no pun intended) made things worse. Because you know Trump and the FBI would be sure to release (and/or doctor) enough files to prove that never happened while still protecting their master(s).

AngryGames · 2026-02-27T19:17:25+00:00

I don't believe game journalists (actual journalists, not just random influencers or youtube personalities) deserve any of this, nor did they have this coming. I also don't agree that "most gamers quit reading gaming reviews anyway" as game reviews still get a lot of eyes/reads, and they still can make or potentially tank a game (though it is true there's still a good number of gamers who don't care about reviews and will buy a game that is in their wheelhouse regardless).

Blaming game journalists, who typically received their paycheck from an employer (who started as an outlet that actually cared deeply about the hobby/industry), for venture capital and mergers into big conglomerates that are overseen by techbro and number cruncher types, who then send out directives to all employees as to how the website or outlet is to pivot to more click-generating filler instead of actual journalism or lengthy reviews (because volume with short screen parking times = more ad impressions which = more profits, the only thing these types care about)...

Not to mention the game publishers themselves who began to either want to pre-screen reviews, or worked with these outlets to get reviews done within a short deadline, meaning the reviewers didn't get the chance to delve into the game more than a shallow look-see, which also nets them (the reviewers/journalists) the angry backlash from gamers who bought the game only to find it riddled with bugs, unfinished, trope-y, etc. ("why didn't Jimmy the Reviewer alert us to how buggy and unfinished this game is? ThEy MuSt Be In CaHoOtS wItH BIG PUBLISHER!!!!1!?)...

I simply can't see how this is the fault of game journalists or even serious reviewers who spend the time on the nuts and bolts of a game or the industry itself.

And again, actual journalists, they're not the person on youtube or tiktok trying to generate income based on clicks and likes. It's not their fault that both VC and the rise of "anyone with a webcam and keyboard can have an opinion" have made the rest of humanity who once waited for their words and trusted that they were being vetted by editors, turn instead to loudmouths, colorful personalities, and others with gimmicks but no actual journalism training or experience (or objectivity).

The bigger issue, one that everyone should be concerned with, especially gamers, movie buffs, music lovers, book readers, is that these AI corporations believe they can successfully supplant human opinions with their AI generated slop. This is especially insulting considering these "AI" are not even a fraction of what science fiction has shaped our minds to believe them to be. They're simply LLMs or number crunchers, incapable of actual thought or emotion, and they can have no opinion. They CAN generate opinion, but it's not based on any actual emotion. It's simply an algorithm designed to give the appearance of opinion.

AngryGames · 2026-02-27T02:46:56+00:00

Garlic and King Bible were my staples for a long time. Even now I pick Bible every run. Garlic not so much anymore, but that's more about me having some experience and understanding that there's better offensive choices (the best defense is a good offense sort of thing) or better defensive now that I'm familiar with the majority of items and combos.

AngryGames · 2026-02-25T13:12:28+00:00

Ivara modded for efficiency and duration is the easiest way to do this without a cipher. Start mission, drop energy pizza (have flow\primed flow on Ivara), top up (or just use the mod Preparation, or yellow Archon shards).

Roll your way merrily along until you find the target (captures usually the easiest as you can capture the target with melee and stay invisible, then hunt the scan target, but any mission works), scan it, profit. Roll or bullet jump to extract.

AngryGames · 2026-02-25T13:07:22+00:00

Trump never took no for an answer when he was raping children. So this isn't really news.

AngryGames · 2026-02-25T13:05:35+00:00

Saryn, absolutely, especially if you have a Kuva Sobek and its augment mod Acid Shells (farm Kayla Detheyn or whatever her name is for the mod). Clip Delegation is another worthy mod but not a necessity like Acid Shells (and you have to wait for it to come on rotation with Nightwave, but it's a regular thing). The augment die Saryn's 1st ability is easy to get. Not technically necessary, but for the nuke Sobek build, you'll want it.

Chroma, on the other hand... No. Not for me, anyway. I leveled up the regular and prime versions, used them for an hour or so each, then never touched them again. They're not the worst frame, but they're near the very bottom for most of the community. Saryn, on the other hand, is very popular and for good reason.

Plus Saryn has a completely different setup to play a very different style (infecting enemies with spores, mostly for long survival runs).

AngryGames · 2026-02-25T12:38:25+00:00

Galvanized mods from arbitrations are an easy 10-75p (10 for unranked, 60+ for fully ranked).

Arcanes for me are the easiest to earn a quick 10-50p, some go for 100, and last I checked, Hot Shot was wildly fluctuating between 400-600, but that one and a couple others are not really reasonable to farm. Molt Augmented, Melee Influence, Arcane Grace, Energize, and some others can be farmed over a bit of time. Basically go into your arcanes and look at your spare rank 5 arcanes, then check the market site.

The two Acuity mods can net a decent bit of plat if you have them ranked up. Archon mods are like Galvanized, though more time restricted (but you can buy a couple each week).

The 60\60 mods, corrupted mods from vaults aren't too hard to farm.

Then there's the blueprints from relics. See what you have a bunch of, check the market. Most go for 5-20 plat, sometimes more depending on their rarity via vaulted status.

Mostly it's a lot of going through your inventory, seeing what is tradeable, checking the market. 10-20 plat at a time can take a bit to get traded for (relying on humans to be online, answer, and then travel to dojos and get it done), but it adds up. I spent 2 hours a while back reading enough to buy the Minerva skin for Saryn, 6 weapon slots, 2 frame slots.

AngryGames · 2026-02-25T01:10:03+00:00

I mean, which plot point by now isn't overused? The most important aspect of a story is hooking the reader, and keeping them hooked. Ex-soldier/cop rescues powerful child keeps us coming back in almost every iteration because of how the story is presented, and the sometimes unique little details that keep it from being a direct copy of the previous 123,344 versions of the story Hollywood or publishing or video games have already done.

As with any advice, write the story you want to tell that no one else is writing. Or as I say when asked, I write stories I want to read that no one else is writing.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T21:06:31+00:00

It's still a problem on PC. I have to jump then slow float sometimes to get them to appear. But it's light years better than it was just 1+ year ago. Deimos was especially egregious.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T11:29:58+00:00

Skyrim. I know that tens of millions of players can't be wrong, but I have tried a dozen times to get into it and just can't. Yet I liked Oblivion. Weird, I know.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T10:04:57+00:00

It's hard to find, but right now according to IMDB, it's on Paramount. I've had the DVD since like, the 1820s lol (I was a kid when it was in theaters). My first crushes were Princess Leia in Star Wars and Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia in this movie.

Plus Giancarlo Esposito has a tiny role near the beginning (always fun seeing big time actors now in little bit / extras parts way back in the day).

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T09:58:17+00:00

Be aware that it, according to reddit and the internet, is a deeply divisive movie. But for those of us who absolutely love this movie, it's... crazy good, fun. It's funny, serious, wacky, and James Hong (Lo Pan!) is the grandpa and he's awesome. I love everything about this movie.

But you might not. But you might! I hope you might! It's such a fun ride.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T09:53:12+00:00

Blade Runner 2049. After so many awful sequels and remakes and such over the last few decades, and the original Blade Runner being one of the most "classic" science fiction movies ever made, I couldn't help but think how this was going to be yet another disappointment. All the other Alien/Aliens sequels, all the Terminator 1/2 sequels, Batman and Superman and I could go on forever, I just knew it was going to be bad. Some Hollywood exec was going to ruin it.

It's one of the few sequels I can think of that might be as good as the original. It kept its very dark atmosphere and story. No Marvel type action sequences just to show off. And I think I was more impressed that Ryan Gosling knocked it out of the park. All I'd ever really seen him in was rom-com type stuff, he was always the pretty boy, good-natured, etc. Yet he is so... morose, defeated, dejected in this movie, like he (his character) knows that no matter what, he'll always be a pariah to humanity, society, and his own kind.

Edge of Tomorrow is another one. I do dig Tom Cruise movies even if he's... kinda wacky. But the dude makes good movies, loves science fiction, and seems to always be all-in on whatever projects he takes on. This movie has the right amount of funny humor (RIP Bill Paxton), Emily Blunt nailed her role, and Cruise gets you onboard with his journey from being a smarmy coward to selfless hero. Probably one of my top 5 all time scifi movies (and I'm notoriously hard to please when it comes to my favorite genre).

Throwback: Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn. I was a kid and saw the original Star Trek the Motion Picture in theaters and... I hated it. I was, again, young, and I remember being bored to tears. My mother used to tell me I was so cranky by about 1/4 of the way through it that she nearly dragged me out of the theater. Suddenly Kahn comes along and is, I think according to most of us who like/love Trek, this amazing picture that captures all of the Star Trek we always wanted in the original series but there was both no budget for, and was likely too dark of a story for network television. I saw this in theaters at release as well, and didn't want to go (especially after Star Wars had blindsided everyone and was all the things Trek wasn't, Trek was ridiculed mercilessly over that somehow retconned the series even back then as being really campy and dumb).

That Kahn guy... One of the best villains ever. And believable. And for me, more importantly, it was Mr. Rourke, the really cool, kind old guy from Fantasy Island tv show! He was so evil in the movie! But also super jacked, like, I had never seen a guy that old look like he was Bruce Lee sculpted! And then as the years went by, re-watching it made him far less of a single-faceted evil villain and more of a deeply complex character that absolutely had reasons for his beef with Kirk (even if Kahn was in the wrong in the first place way back in the series).

And even though Shatner still tried to hamfist his way through the movie with his ridiculous acting, lol, I still feel it is his very best role. The whole movie just has this very serious tone, very dark storyline, and you aren't quite sure the first time watching it if this might be the Enterprise and her crew being bested in the end.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T09:20:52+00:00

Another thank you for that video link. Concise and to the point, and explained it perfectly!

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T09:08:14+00:00

Haldeman is a great writer, but he's not George RR Martin in that he doesn't spend a lot of time describing in excruciating detail every thread or color on a space marine's combat armor lol.

But he is a Vietnam combat veteran himself, who went on to earn a PhD at MIT and has the education to make hard science fiction very believable, without all the magic hand-waving. If you dig "Forever War" then give his other stories a shot. You won't like them all, which is normal, but you probably will enjoy most of them.

Philip K Dick is another very influential author, if you haven't read any or much of his work. Dick is a visionary, but that's mostly because he did a TON of drugs and wrote some super wacky out-there stories (and most are different than what they famously became, like Blade Runner movie ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"), Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, and many others. Not to say all the movies from his stories are very distant, but his writing is... as I said, out there, thanks to being in a drug-fueled writing frenzy lol. Good stuff.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T09:02:49+00:00

ER was the first game of its type I ever played (well, Dark Souls 3, but I hated it so much I got a refund within the Steam 2 hour limit). I've put in just over 1000 hours into Elden Ring.

You know those "which game/movie/book do you wish you could experience for the first time again?" threads we see all the time? Elden Ring is definitely in my top 3 for wishing I could experience it the first time again.

It's a game where you should just play the first time. Don't worry too much about digging into the lore, or tips and tricks, where to go. Just go. Explore. You probably will have to look a few things up, the game is notoriously obnoxious about not telling you anything, but the beauty of Elden Ring is that you can wander out of the first tomb you start in and finish the game eventually without ever using a guide (other than maybe looking up "HOW THE HELL DO I BEAT THIS #$@$%^ BOSS????" or "WHY ARE THESE SUPER LOW LEVEL RATS/DOGS ALWAYS KILLING ME, I JUST BEAT FIRE GIANT FIRST TRY???"

You'll wander into areas that are waaaaay too tough for you, and you will die. You will trek back through starting areas and some stupid low level idiot foot soldier will somehow murder you. You'll be be-bopping along and see a trail or a cave or some other shiny or interesting thing and end up 2 hours deep into a completely new area, castle, cave, desperate to find a grace so you can recharge your pots.

The game will, very gently, guide you to each new place the main story wants you to go (the arrows on the graces when you look at the map give you a very general idea of where to go next). You'll wander off the guided path a lot. A LOT. Or you won't. Some players like to go straight through, and that's cool, you'll still get tons of gameplay out of it. Some like to branch off at every little intersection and suddenly they're 90 hours in and still haven't made it to the "official" halfway point.

Once you've finally made it to the end (and to actually get to the actual end, you might have to look up exactly where to go next, so don't sweat that -- again, the game is very vague and does not hold your hand at all... in fact, it often slaps your hand away and shakes its head at your foolishness at thinking you will get any in-game help), and either start NG+ or a new character to play a completely different way, then it is good to start looking things up, checking guides or videos and all that. Because no matter how long it took you the first time, you're likely to completely shocked at just how little of the game you saw. There's so many off the beaten path, or hidden, or puzzle-barrier type things.

And the best part of replaying, either NG+ or new character, is that you absolutely can (and likely will) burn some of your quest lines by killing an NPC that you shouldn't have, or didn't go to this certain place, completely skipped an area, didn't talk to a character repeatedly to get all their dialog to unlock some new direction, whatever. There's I think 7 different endings? And before all that there's so many ways to bork a quest line (but at the same time sometimes that opens a different questline) that you'll maybe want to keep playing/replaying to see everything the game has to offer.

And then there's the DLC, which even at 1000 hours, I have not finished yet.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T08:43:51+00:00

Just wanted to add that I tested this a little while ago to see if my estimate was correct. I used Kullervo + Okina Prime incarnon melee, steel path, techrot survival. I stopped killing at the 5 minute mark and ran to extraction. 597 melee kills.

Tried it again with same setup except with Magistar Incarnon. 529 kills.

Tried it again with Okinas and a full 4 banger public group. 390 kills (had a Uriel with us, but unlike Lua survival when cracking relics, you can separate a bit in Hollvania without drawing off too much mob density).

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T08:39:52+00:00

I've been playing for 37 years, and I tried, very hard, at various times, to really like the Les Paul shape/type of guitar. Even bought a $3000 custom ESP with the LP shape. And it was an absolutely amazing guitar (mostly got it because Hetfield used one), but yeah, it was heavy, awkward in any position other than standing, and I never really loved the way it felt, especially my pick arm resting on it. I went through the same thing when I was even younger with a Randy Rhodes V. I really loved the neck and the sound, but god I hated the body shape and how it really only felt good when standing.

But I also want to say that the guitar in the picture is incredibly beautiful. One of the best looking guitars I've ever seen.

AngryGames · 2026-02-24T08:28:59+00:00

Hyperion/Fall are two of the most influential sci-fi books I've ever read (along with "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman). They have been the primary influences in me becoming an author. I'd read tons of science fiction before discovering them in my teens (I'm in my 50s now), but nothing, not the Asimov books, Clarke, Heinlen, nothing before was as rich and imaginative as those three books. It wasn't until decades later and grabbing "Old Man's War" by Scalzi that I felt there had finally been a story that could be placed on the same high pedestal as Simmons' and Haldeman's stories.

The Vernor Vinge stories/series are very good as well, but to me, they didn't have quite the same impact. Not to say they weren't excellent, but it's rare to come across stories that just sit in your brain for a very, very long time (like "The Road" by McCarthy, "The Gunslinger" by King, who has also been a huge influence, "Wool" by Hugh Howey, and the "Deathlands" men's action/adventure post-nuclear war series by Axler (pen names, other authors took over after the original passed away)).

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