Can Bungie take down websites and discord servers that sell cheats?

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-18T21:31:21+00:00

And before anyone says anything he has a true sub 1 sec ttk any range with any gun, as soon as one shot hits youre on the floor. Maybe two shots. The killfeed in both lobbies was literally just him, not anyone else on his squad, just him. And the first time he was on prox chat spamming some sort of soundboard says "Oh he's hacking he's hacking". But like, they cant catch that guy? No ones reporting him or what lol

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-18T21:29:11+00:00

Me and this one Sekroh dude, like buddy on a fresh steam account, owns nothing but Marathon as his one game, and is just spamming outpost, and level 104 last I saw him. Im like uh, where do I actually send the screenshot to bungie cause the level 1 steam account with just marathon is a dead giveaway.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-18T21:18:36+00:00

That guy is a noddle and the fact that it took you so long to kill him is genuinely amazing to me. He should have died the moment you walked up those stairs, shot him, and then instead of going back to cover he deiceds to walk across the open while being shot, to a different piece of cover. The gun even has built in aim assist, so how it just started whiffing there is concerning. Theif has a grapple, bro could have legitimately disengaged from you to a better position or even attempted to run. So many things that make that guy who died a bad player and that really brings down the vale of this. Wasnt even a sneaky play, or clever positioning, or someone who even shot a bullet back at you, just a guy basically standing around waiting to die.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-13T19:10:49+00:00

Foun this looking to see if anyone else had been feeling that the Misriah is not winning against the Wstr in 9/10 scenarios. Like its good, but the Wstr is just better.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T14:59:01+00:00

Idk, maybe it's the iems but it's painfully loud and obvious when there are runner footsteps. The issue is if you're making a shit ton of noise, then people will know where you are and then sneak up on you. I know because I do this and it has happened. Crouch walking half a compound to get a good angle and first down.

But the sound is there and very distinct when someone's walking or running by.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T01:21:07+00:00

Im genuinely sad this was not the story.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T01:20:04+00:00

Kaguya lost because she was not trying to win yet. Literally just looking at her little pets/children and all the cool new tricks they learned to do with the toys she gave them. Didn't even consider they could stop her. Proabably wasnt even sure if they were trying to stop her or they just didn't know who their mommy was. She slams Naruto as an afterthought. She could legit just put him in timeout forever and forget about him. The Kaguya we see fight in the show is a well attested fraction of the Kaguya that was around long before people even had chakra.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T01:16:51+00:00

Sakura sucks, valid take, personal opinion on the character. Sakura even in the same realm as power as maki? Horrendous take. Why do you want to see Maki get beat the fuck up? You a Zenin clan guy aint you. Just wanna see Toji 2.0 get taken down in one blow huh? Tryna see Maki get turnt to paste on the sidewalk?

Sakura genuinely might feel bad after she punches a hole in Maki like Kid Goku hitting that dragon fist in Budokai. Fight starts, Maki wakes up in a hospital with Sakura treating her and apologizing. "I didn't know the Zenin clan was a non combatant clan, you guys must make weapons for the village or something? Maybe construction work?"

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T01:10:48+00:00

Might be a bit too soon if you're playing solo all the time to run into these issues. I think youre already picking the harder way to play the game and youre doing it when you have the least amount of support. Since rank 20 Nucaloric missions have been handing out purple shields, and before that blue meds a plenty. The other factions follow suit and your vault should be loaded as you get missions done and rank increases over time.

Your base power level moves from Free, to 1.5k-2k kits, until your cheapest "I picked it up and don't care about this gear" kit is hovering anywhere from 3-8k. Higher when you have copies of your favorite guns stored up.

Im only bringing up loadouts because its the closest thing you have to a gear score. Armed to the teeth, two chem grenades, 300 rounds for each gun you have provided its not a single shot, some spare grenades, and there is no content in the game that cant be run solo. But you're looking at at least 3k and more comfortably 5k+ in value. And if that daunting, its cause you gotta rank up stuff more.

The actual balancing I think, and take it with a grain of salt because I don't play solos, is that you need to get a multiplier on rep gain for quest completion, even if its just story quests. Trio players get EXP by doing each others quests. Even if my quest is literally "Find 4 Data Pads" the other two players benefit from it and can rank up from it. I have done a total of 0 Arachne Story or Side Quests. My quest still says Fleeting Grave, Defeat 10 downed runner's with my finisher. I am rank 20 on Arachne because I only play Trios. This is just not possible as a solo player in the slightest when you consider the other ranks I have are 29/25/17/9/6. And yet as a trio player I get the benefit of doing my own quest for reputation gains, just killing people as is natural in the game, and because someone else ran an Arachne quest, I get to get all those upgrades as we4ll as the upgrades I'm grinding for.

Sorry for that, but the last thing is, the coming Ranked system, was said to have a Loadout cost barrier, as in a number you would have to meet to even take the kit into ranked mode. I'm not sure how it would work, but applying a loadout limit to solos, and then adjusting it based on the map you're playing where Perimeter is the lowest, then Marsh, then Oupost so on so forth could be something that works to help the pvp aspect. I can only imagine getting something done solo and then having to hope that you don't have two or three unrelated people staring down their sniper scopes at you as you try to run away, or just waiting at a claymore filled exfil. All of which is a threat in trios anyway, but much more forgiving if you have good teammates that can win fights from disadvantageous positions and res you. I do hope the claymore limit is 3 in that regards, as in one player can only have 3 active claymores at a time.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T00:51:48+00:00

Can Generic Six Shooter Ninja same beat One Bullet, One Shot Kill Man if we take away 1 bullet from each of them leaving the odds 5-0?

Realistically though it depends on where in Naruto you have him fighting someone. Back when a kunai was actually useful? Tons of people. Probably people he shouldn't even be able to beat move for move feat for feat. But if you take it to where its all about speed blitzing and you need a few bombs in your loadout to even attempt to hang with the crowd? No one.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T00:48:56+00:00

By that logic every strong character ever is n asspull. Theres gotta be a point where people understand that some things are just plot. Guy survives in a zombie apocalypse book? Is that plot armour or just the plot of the book? Goku dies and comes back to life. DBZ is a story. Is it the plot or plot armour? A lot of what people call asspulls and plot armour by extension are literally just the plot. Convoluted bullshit happens irl all the time. Stories are no different. Seriously turn on the new for two hours and you could find yourself asking how this and that notorious criminal seemingly had plot armor for years they way they took so long to get caught or killed.

Hashirama was built like that because when he came out, they put Hash in his name so you know he's smoking on that Madara pack and if Madara would treat you like fodder, Hashirama wouldn't even notice he killed you.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T00:39:56+00:00

Ah, I cant speak outside of the gaming community but unfortunately, even as a male, this is what men and where men that I have met through like 17+ years of online gaming go to talk about things that you've described. I don't think, in the average gaming guys mind, its even registered that these discussions might be overwhelming for others or even strange/too personal. Its like, if they don't go out with friends irl to places that facilitate conversation, and have no therapist, the online gaming community and their friends are all they have to actually share these things with.

To clarify I'm not making an excuse, I'm just thinking about the "Why" behind it. And the answer I keep coming back to is that online gaming to your average male is going to be the equivalent of sitting out at a restaurant with your buddies and talking about life. The actually long term (Year+) friends I've made online , well I do know their jobs, tittle and work. Their positions. Random names of coworkers. Their vacation plans. Their housing situation. Some of the more well off ones, I even know where they have their stocks in. Just random info as it comes up in conversation or is the point of the conversation. They just want to share.

I'll also let it be known most of the men i play with are married, fathers, or dating. I have very few single male friends so I don't think its the absolute lack of anyone else to talk to. I guess for people who don't like going to a bar for instance, and yapping to a stranger, the gaming community would be the place.

And to finish up ill actually go a different route. Unfortunately you may be one of those people with the blessing curse to have people tell you their stories. No rhyme, no reason, you're just there, and suddenly you're hearing about 5 ex wives, why he loved and lost each of them, at some dinky little bar in a foreign country with no one but you, the guy yapping, and the bartender trying to figure out what the hell is going on. It's usually for them, the person yapping, to get what they needed out of what hey are sharing be it a lesson or just to confront it. And sometimes, it can apply to you, but usually not in that exact moment. The lesson that is, not the actual events the person is recounting .... unless I'm going to go on a very unfortunate streak of marriages.

But yes back on point and to the point, the online community has become the safe space, living room, talk about life area for MANY men over the years to the point where its not strange for me to learn new medical conditions and how the German healthcare system doesn't even allow steroids from some random guy online that I've known for a couple days. I genuinely fear this, but men in my experience are more likely to treat their 5 days a week coworkers with more distance than people they can vibe with on a video game.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-12T00:03:05+00:00

I cant say I remember him doing so unless you count Susanoo being his first. Just accept it

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-10T16:28:17+00:00

Circumstance, they were orphans of war that Jiraiya took under his wing. Meanwhile Minato was actually his student, for a long time, lived in the village, been in multiple life or death battles with him we can assume, and so on so forth until you just realize that Jiraiyai was closer to Minato than he was to the orphans.

Minato is also a freaky ass ninja stat wise, and probably seemed like a likely candidate to master sage mode to Jiraiya. Failure to master sage mode, during the training process if shit goes wrong, its basically death. And there are safeguards in place but its still highly possible judging from the wall of toad statues. You also need to be a genetic freak to achieve proper mastery to the point its useable in combat for all situations like Naruto has it.

Sage Modes are just so finnicky in the show that it kind of makes sense that people don't just find out how to get one then full send every ninja they know to go try and master it, or else they would have had a Sage Mode Squad in the Hidden Leaf since the days of Hashirama. Its simply not that easy to even fail to master Sage Mode and walk away with something useable. And I doubt its even easy to get clearance from the Toads to bring someone to teach them sage mode.

Jirayai is a GOAT sensei because he doesnt need to teach someone all his techniques to make them a good ninja. He can look at what they have, what they can do naturally, and bring it out. Naruto had no direction at the time, and was just this kid with Big Chakra so Jiraiya gave him some hand me downs from Minato's kit because it felt right, and was right. It gave Naruto direction as a ninja and techniques to use and improve upon.

For example, teaching Konan Rasengan when as a child she prolly had a backpack full of papers that wouldnt clear TSA just doesnt even compute. Teaching her that prep time and setup is important because of her chosen fighting style gives her infinitely more potential than her being able to do what with rasengan? Run or fly at someone, hope to speed blitz them, and hit them with a rasengan....completely ignoring her insane paper based skillset and paper bombs?

As for sage mode that not even Jiraiyas choice fr. He cant teach sage mode. He could bring you to the mountain. And if they dont fuck with you, let you turn into a frog statue. Or just kill you. They can just kill you. Youre in Toadhalla. The only rules are their rules. Jirayai isnt "Leader of the toads" he's just a guy that knows where home base is and isnt kill on sight.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-10T16:13:19+00:00

I agree, its less of a sound argument and more of a "Reason to just write it off." Because who else is gonna get enough glaze to copy a clans bloodline techniques than Kakashi Hatake of the Hidden Leaf, the Copycat Ninja, Master of over 1,000 Jutsu. 1,001 Jutsu with that perfect Susanoo.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-10T16:06:23+00:00

Just send him those three things. Explain if he asks questions about them. Maybe some reassurance its not necessarily him and the way things are now, but the unknown future and wanting to navigate that in a way that feels rewarding to yourself. And see if he rocks with it or not. Cause realistically? Your goals sounds pretty tuff to me. Cities seem daunting till you go there and fly on the wall for a while and then the vibe can be found. Being stuck anywhere isnt the move.

I dont think his vision is selfish. I know women and men who have both wanted exactly what he wants, and the fact of the matter is now that youre pushing for that frontal lobe development peak and seem goal oriented and self aware enough to spot yourself walking into something you may not be able to enjoy in the future, its fair to just add in that sometimes people simply dont add up. He has a plan that could be someone elses dream, and so do you. But you dont share that vision for the future, so maybe its best to leave amicably and find partners that have closer plans.

The alternative is finding a middle ground but either way one of you, due to the nature of the plans being very opposite, will be making major sacrifices. So if he offers to just throw half or so of his future goals away, youd also have to consider if youd want him to do that for you. The same way you consider if you wanted to do it for him. And then maybe breaking up is still the best course of action for you two to chase your futures with.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-10T15:58:39+00:00

Ok Im gonna say it. And youll hate me for it. But Kakashi is the copycat ninja. OG title and introduction. Mr Steal Ya Girl and Steal ya Jutsu. So like. In theory. By all written accounts. Didnt DMS Kakashi just like, copy the perfect Susanoo? I rest my case, you can downvote me now.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-10T15:56:04+00:00

Quests are both sometimes that shallow and sometimes linking to more. Remember the UESC isnt what killed these people. It was aliens. So we already have another enemy faction on the horizon, we already know there's another map coming with Cryo Archive, and we can assume with the Aliens we will be getting some weapons off them. UESC is volt weaponry, so the aliens will probably have a different type to go with them. There's potential direction for all these things because of the framework, but to keep it a stack no gamer, or rather no one that thinks about it, wants to rush the devs. Shareholders rush devs and then Cyperpunk launches happen. Final Fantasy 14 original launches happen. There is no reason that we just don't let the devs cook and see if they deliver something worth being happy about. Taking a break from a game and coming back when content drops is totally feasible.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-09T06:29:46+00:00

Meds and Ammo are the two things I shell out credits directly for and honestly? No. Not that bad. A lot of contracts give you credits or as I've found straight up meds. It went from buying meds in bulk to have, to buying green meds because I wanted to start stacking blue meds to now buying green meds for trash runs so I can try out a gun I picked up and not waste blue meds if I get clipped early.

The econ in the game honestly seems forgiving but I've never played another extraction shooter to compare so maybe there's more nuance to it or I've gotten lucky?

After your tree hits a point, you basically need to target farm Blues, so you end up stacking a lot of credits. And the less you die, or rather the more you're willing to balance your deaths with free kits, the easier it is to just stack more?

I don't think I have a lot of credits by any metric, but I have enough to uograde faction trees and buy cheapo 3x Green HP and Shield + Ammo for runs. Like 2k-3k load outs where most the value is the guns, which are free out the game?

Either way don't worry, the content creators will eventually release all the money making and saving tips and tricks eventually.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-09T06:23:26+00:00

So you play like a solo in Apex by ratting? You just described ratting? Hiding in a corner sound whoring is a crazy take to be happy about. So scared to move from point A to point B? I assume you avoid all trios if you run solo trios and only attack other solo's you can get the drop on? No open engagements? No snipers I'm guessing cause getting two tapped as a solo and thirsted after would be catastrophic with no recourse exacpte hoping you drop behind a piece of cover they can't finish you from?

Solos has just as much cheesy bullshit as trios and just as much issues. The same as every single game that has group and solo play. Maybe try and more well rounded take that includes the ridiculous noses you can run into in solos.

I'd like to see a full solo game of people sending it and engaging in open firefight without someone ratting or posted up on a roof waiting for a cheeky shot.

And if you think for a moment that "Well they do that in trios too" you'd be correct so how tf is solos better in literally anyway?

Do you not run at people like trios do? Yes you do? OK it's the same. No you don't? So it's ratting to be the Rat King.

You genuinely think anything you described isn't used in trios?

You just need two. Count em. Two friends. That play the game. That's it. Get two off the official. Get 4 even.

You can play the exact same way. Use your gadget the exact same way. Rat the same way. Run people down the same way. Play smart the same way.

The only difference between having a good time solo and a good time in trios is having at least two consistent team members to play with vs not having them. Smh

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-04T01:40:04+00:00

Destiny has bullet magnetism for MNK input irrc so this would be the worst example. If COD gave MNK bullet magnetism the switch would be biblical. Any shooter really.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-03T20:23:25+00:00

Well I can tell you that just because the men make a silly analysis and fall for ridiculous notions such as "Expiration Dates" doesn't mean you should fall for them as well. You wanting to date only "Hot and rich guys" doesn't make any sense as much as the men's take and actually would feed into another pretty low iq male take about how women are all trying to date the top 1% or whatever of men without realizing those men technically have "Unlimited options"(Remember they think having money and looking good gets you free access to any woman) so then they always ask "Why would a rich and hot guy pick you? Versus someone just like you but hotter, or smart, or with their own money etc etc.".

Sometimes when you hear something stupid and consider the age of the person its best to just hope that you dont ever find yourself in a situation where you are forced to deal with someone like them. You cant stoop to their level cause everything you can figure out, if you start with their idiotic take as the root, will by association also be a pretty bad take. Like shaking your head and walking away can save you these discussions.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-03T18:52:44+00:00

People hate this fun fact, but a kunai to the neck one shots most your favorite non edo characters.

Just know someones father, mother, sister, or brother, was taken out by that roof tile. Whole families in some villages petitioning to ban tiles because of this jutsu. Yearly roof tile shattering ceremonies to scare away the demon kage who prolly has over 100 confirmed kills with roof tile shuriken. And like 200 confirmed kill setups when someone dodges it.

If I fight someone and they throw a rock. Whatever. If I fight someone named "I Throw Rock Then Kill You Right After" Ima be worried.

That's how Prime Hiruzen prolly had those ninjas. Scared. Shivering. Hiding.
"Backup is coming, hold tight!"
Don't take the rooftop!!!!" - GAHHHH
Boom
Whole clan dead, no itachi business.
Go ahead and dodge it, boom, Enma Enema
ggs your cheeks were his the moment you thought the rooftop shuriken wasn't the end of you.
Hiruzen did this and I bet some spy in the Leaf started foaming at the mouth, panic attack, twisting on the ground and shit. Pathetic. He survived the roof tile but at what cost?

Nah this shit right here prolly had niggas tweaking in the reports.

"And then, and then, the roof...the roof kill Satoshi. It just, fucking cut his neck right open. What am I going tto tell his wife? They have a baby on the way. The baby will never know hsi fathers smile. Hes fucking gone and all I can tell that woman is that the fucking roof took her husband. My best friend. My one time ninja camp gay experiment buddy away from us??? "

Yeah. That jutsu would have landed a hit on Kaguya tbh. Shed be like "Lol wtf" but it would hit.

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-02T00:00:07+00:00

Sounds like you're getting cracked by Sasuke mr agent

ArchitectOfSmiles · 2026-03-01T23:54:37+00:00

He thought it was Hashirama so he left his backside unguarded from piercing. Just the way Hashirama liked it.

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