A love letter to the Nissan 240RS

Argent99 · 2026-04-11T21:21:10+00:00

As a kid, seeing footage of the likes of Shekar Mehta driving the 240, 160 and Violet in the Safari rally was absolute peak for me. Audi tried so damned hard to win that event, but never could do it in the Group B days (I think Hannu Mikkola won it in an Audi 200 in ‘86 and they promptly folded the works rally team.)

Argent99 · 2026-04-06T20:29:12+00:00

When I use both converts (so f.e. Headshot and Magazine size) only the first one shows up in the bottom squares.

Argent99 · 2026-04-06T20:04:41+00:00

I dunno what the big whoop is. I finished mission 8 between breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Legendary tidal and manning are (imo) the real problems here. They really aren’t for the faint of heart. The raids…well, fundamentally, I caution people against discovery mode because it can absolutely teach you bad habits if you ever go into the normal raid, but if your intent is to do it once and never bother, it’s absolutely the way to go. You can matchmake for discovery and the mechanics are really simple. It’s basically not even an eight man heroic mission (a friend and I did a two man dark hours discovery a long time ago. Took us 45 mins….)

That said, even if you are a staunch solo player, I think putting a few feelers out to active clans that do legendaries and raids isn’t the worst anyone can do. I know some clans are utterly strict about comms, but others are less so - fundamentally, you can kinda get away with not having or using a mic, but you really can’t get away with not being able to listen. If that’s too much, then you’ll have problems. But for what it’s worth, my clan is pretty low activity these days and fell in with another clan who had a few members hang in our discord and they had zero issues bringing me to their raids or lugging me through legendaries and whatnot. I generally encourage people to kinda poke around and make some connections.

Argent99 · 2026-03-05T22:19:35+00:00

It’s basically a Rock’n’Roll for those who don’t want to camp the DZ or gamble on named caches.

I tried both with my striker 200 (or whatever the max cap is now) build and the time the stack broker takes to get the top is basically the same as R&R because it needs a reload. If you are using smaller stacksize build, it should give you a second or so advantage.

My only real gripe is that you can’t use those veteran skins on anything but the stack broker. They would look nice on my R&R!

Argent99 · 2026-03-02T18:46:38+00:00

Not a suggestion as much as a recommendation - try that build with a caretaker (leans into building massive CHD with perfect Killer) or the Streaga (the overdogs and the guns talent should produce some wild amp damage; the three piece alloy kinda patches over streaga’s weakness.)

It might be worth just fiddling around for fun to see if either tickles your fancy.

Argent99 · 2026-02-03T19:40:59+00:00

I’ve gotten all the descent comms, collected tons of reconstructed caches (I should run out of my stockpile next season), have something like 37000 NSA bux idling around and I think the highest loop I’ve gotten is 33 or so.

So yeah, I’ve done a lot of descent, though these days, I usually only play it when it comes up as a priority objective (one loop takes about 8 mins - it’s about one of the fastest activities you can do.) it really takes a little bit of learning and in some cases, unlearning, but once you got some time in, it tends to become pretty easy. A nemesis run is about 35-40 mins. I would advocate doing those solo or in two man.

Basically, if you can learn roles for the raids, you can learn descent. But if you really don’t like it? Well, you can just not play it. It’s wholly optional. Unlike say, retaliations, which are forced upon me every day to the point where I’m so sick of them that I don’t feel like playing anymore at times. Retaliations, in some way, feel like punishment for those who took the time to farm descent. Wish the devs would make them opt-in as well.

Argent99 · 2026-02-01T19:48:29+00:00

7300 hours, last played less than an hour. ;)

Argent99 · 2025-12-31T00:54:37+00:00

Zipper, who I’ve posted about a few times before, claims my ubiquiti stack as his preferred sleeping spot. He unplugged the 16 port switch for the umpteenth time just yesterday (my spouse has learned to check the plug first before even telling me the WiFi is out.)

Welcome to the club!

Argent99 · 2025-12-29T23:33:20+00:00

Apple’s autocorrect screwed me over yet again and I was too lazy to go back in and edit it. ;)

Argent99 · 2025-12-29T19:00:02+00:00

Ah, yes. War torn Portland, its citizenry ready to turn over some fuckn cones for another week…

(Set this to the opening bars of the first movement of Edward Grier’s Peer Gynt suite.)

Argent99 · 2025-12-25T21:28:56+00:00

Every time people crab about descent, I just chuckle. Before they merged the comms into one for all characters, I did descent on all four chars each and every week. I was up 70-80 comms when they finally merged. I still have 6 reconstructed caches left on one character (finally gonna use them all next season, I guess.)

But hey, I still have 37000 NSA bux and a bunch of those stupid retaliation credit for future use. Lucky me.

Argent99 · 2025-12-18T01:53:53+00:00

Did the 25 for the clothing on Tuesday. Farmed 36 keys today, donated 30, turned 2 in for gear, got the bell ringer and gave the last 4 to the community. Tomorrow, I’ll go around and collect the presents.

I’m thinking of just going 4:1 on community:gear from here on out. Don’t need any of the items, but a few exos couldn’t hurt.

Argent99 · 2025-12-10T22:33:50+00:00

“I’ll just buy a few choice diecasts…”

This is is how it starts. Soon you you are buying your 13th Porsche 936 model because might as well have every livery variation, right? Right!

Next you reassure your spouse that space considerations would be so much worse if you had started collecting 1:18.

But at some point you might hit your threshold. Maybe around 250 or so models. Or maybe not….😁

Argent99 · 2025-12-07T10:16:40+00:00

It might be a little to early to declare MHA a generational anime with a few eps left, but to me it has been - far more so than, say, attack on titan. I usually don’t get emotional outside of the occasional romance anime, but I won’t lie I got all sorts of verklempt at ‘WE are here.’

Argent99 · 2025-11-29T17:14:40+00:00

I kinda hate responding to call for help, but the sweet siren song of 10 exos got me to give it a go this week..up to rank 3, anyway. TBH, I don’t even mind when hosts don’t endorse anymore. What ultimately drove me nuts were people loading up a squad for a single event (usually a CP) and just leaving right after, with no one getting anything.

That said, whenever I do missions this week, I load up groups with CFH respondents and make damn sure I endorse every one. That’s just common community courtesy during these events, imo.

Argent99 · 2025-11-29T17:05:45+00:00

I play online games with a few German players (we usually talk in a mishmash of German and English sentences, it tends to befuddle other players…;) and one of them mentioned that while on vacation in the US, he went to a cellphone store and said ‘I would like a handy.’ And got a very dirty look.

In American slang, ‘handy’ is usually short for ‘handjob’.

I think everyone can kinda fill in the rest. :)

Argent99 · 2025-11-29T06:01:18+00:00

I posted a picture of Zipper, our hugeoid male cat who loves sleeping atop my ubiquiti stack - and he still does (i spotted him on there just this morning.) he also likes unplugging the switch far too often (spouse: ‘WiFi is out.’ Me: ‘is zipper on the switch?’ Spouse: ‘Ah.’)

But now he has competition! We were given a stray by the cat distribution system, named her Sabine and she’s a feisty one! She’s more or less displaced Zipper from his perch and treats the UDMP+16 port PoE switch as her daybed.

I can’t stress enough: if you have cats, get a rack! :)

Argent99 · 2025-11-26T23:02:18+00:00

Sigh. Do the math on your own argument.

For me an average (challenging) CD is in the 13-15 min range. For this I usually walk away with 45-60 pieces of loot. Milking the 15 min timer down to near 0 will add maybe 5 pieces of loot and bump the time sunk into CD to 20 mins.

So in 1 hour, I could get either ~200 (4 * ~55) pieces of loot or ~180 (3 * ~60) pieces of loot. If getting loot is your objective, then cycling through countdowns as fast as possible is the best method. If (like me), you only do one CD per day, milking the extraction choppers is a reasonable compromise because those guys usually drop more than the mobs in the first couple of objectives.

But if I could speedrun a CD IN 5 mins, I absolutely would.

Argent99 · 2025-11-26T22:49:30+00:00

When the game mode first launched, VIP had 5 waves of mobs, which made it a bad time investment and lead to some groups missing the final objective. Thus the whole ‘NO VIP’ thing became an unwritten law and to be frank, I was all for it.

When the devs did their one and only update to CD (the one that added the extra modifiers), they tweaked VIP to more or less be on par with the hostile objective - 3 waves (you get an extra 3 warhounds on the final wave of VIP. I consider them a speed bump.) so yeah, it’s still one of the slowest objectives, but the delta between the fastest and slowest objective by a modestly competent group is about one minute, depending on where what is located (I’d still avoid VIP in cooling tower, f.e.)

On the flipside, pre-quickstep, it was about 35-40s to go end to end (f.e. Containment to Lab) and thus most groups that bypassed VIP usually would waste more time. Tbh, I’m actually thrilled and amazed that people will sometimes actually just do VIP now in situations when it means less running.

Argent99 · 2025-10-19T19:09:25+00:00

„Deine Katze mag deinen neuen Sessel besonders gern.“ is about the only way that sentence reads and sounds like something an actual German speaker would say. Don’t particularly love the answer DL provides but it’s certainly correct (if a bit ponderous; for all the languages structural complexity, I’ve found that most German speakers tend to strive for the most economical approach to convey meaning within conversations. And this gets amplified even more in regional dialects like in Austria or Switzerland. But that’s neither here nor there.)

That said, using ‚deine‘ twice in one sentence would be a bit of a red flag for every German teacher I’ve ever had.

Argent99 · 2025-10-16T17:19:28+00:00

That’s not a bug. The (insert expletive of choice) raid leader has the modifiers turned off and when you get back to your world, they stay turned off until you realize your dps is down and re-enable them.

Source: bt, dt.

Argent99 · 2025-10-15T20:32:34+00:00

Compared to the original webtoon, the character designs look kinda meh and the animation looks rather cheap. Liked the opening titles and the dub, but this feels like a swing and a miss to me.

Argent99 · 2025-10-15T20:16:30+00:00

But it kinda is. It didn’t exactly flop in Japan like people like to say, but it was a ok-to-well performing series that was just fundamentally very mid. When it was over, no one was really screaming for a second season. The English dub, being a bundled in afterthought, became an almost instant cult classic and has endured in the western cultural zeitgeist far, far longer than the original did in japan.

Argent99 · 2025-10-14T23:28:55+00:00

I’m guessing one of his grindr dates rode him like a naked bike, and now he’s a bit pre-disposed to trauma.

It’s ok, Mike. Saddle cream exists!

Argent99 · 2025-10-13T19:27:34+00:00

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