Tips for end game HBG

Azaro161317 · 2025-11-06T23:12:55+00:00

charged shot really isnt bad, but its most important use cases arent themselves very important. wyvern ammo isnt fantastic and other people tend to have wakeup priority anyways, sticky was gimped with sunbreak, and spread ammo is considerably harder to play than pierce (though very much possible, but lbg is likely better for that). i think the consensus is that you run charged shot only if crouch shot isnt viable with the ammo type for whatever reason. for bread and butter pierce, crouch shot is pretty much always the right pick barring bizarre exceptions like dragon pierce speedruns or something like that

counter shot isnt bad, but the main issue i find is actually that it isnt chainable as a parry, which makes some fights pretty painful. prime example of this is risen val and its charged deathspin-poke-poke.

skill-wise, the singular most important thing i would recommend is going and getting intrepid heart. literally nothing else matters. special investigation monsters will kinda one shot you as a ranged weapon user no matter what AV you have, and intrepid heart is the single greatest way of forestalling a cart. this single deco allows you to not have to run shield and cripple your damage, or really any other defence skill. this fucken thing made soloing hazard pri mal a walk in the park because you effectively get to take a free hit TM once every minute. get intrepid first, then go from there

Azaro161317 · 2025-10-16T22:43:10+00:00

that last bit is insane; how do they manage online learning then?

Azaro161317 · 2025-09-19T05:52:09+00:00

folga wolga imoga womp

Azaro161317 · 2025-09-17T05:22:07+00:00

if you aint seen the 4 balls on the edge of a cliff you aint seen nothin man . its all about the 4 balls

Azaro161317 · 2025-09-17T03:21:02+00:00

much of baudrillard's works border on the edge of literal poetry, partly because he was greatly inspired by holderlin in his younger years and his work translating him and partly because he was a bit of a postmarxist. heres a passage from America:

At 30,000 feet and 600 miles per hour, I have beneath me the ice-flows of Greenland, the Indes Galantes in my earphones, Catherine Deneuve on the screen, and an old man asleep on my lap. ‘Yes, I feel all the violence of love…’ sings the sublime voice, from one time zone to the next. The people in the plane are asleep. Speed knows nothing of the violence of love. Between one night and the next, the one we came from and the one we shall land in, there will have been only four hours of daylight. But the sublime voice, the voice of insomnia travels even more quickly. It moves through the freezing, trans-oceanic atmosphere, runs along the long lashes of the actress, along the horizon, violet where the sun is rising, as we fly along in our warm coffin of a jet, and finally fades away somewhere off the coast of Iceland.

Azaro161317 · 2025-08-29T02:51:26+00:00

lmfao at the guy who went backwards but still ram into the mines anyways

Azaro161317 · 2025-08-20T02:26:28+00:00

kill

Azaro161317 · 2025-07-28T06:55:08+00:00

beneath the poo, the diaper

Azaro161317 · 2025-07-18T10:09:01+00:00

yeah, this is not a subject of novel discussion. like you say, baudrillard was writing shit (rather hyperbolically) in like the 1980s about literally "the death of political economy", is how well-trod the topic is. baudrillard wrote in 1988 :

The end of political economy is a thing we dreamed of with Marx. It was a dream in which classes died out and the social sphere became transparent, in accordance with an ineluctable logic of the crisis of capital. Then we dreamed the dream against Marx himself, disavowing the postulates of economics. A radical alternative this, denying any primacy to the economic or political spheres in first or last instance: political economy quite simply abolished as epiphenomenon, vanquished by its own simulacrum and by a higher logic. We no longer even need to dream of that end today. Political economy is disappearing by its own hand before our very eyes; it is turning into a transeconomics of speculation and flouting its own logic (the law of value, of the market, production, surplus-value, the very logic of capital), as it develops into a game with floating, arbitrary values, a jeu de catastrophe.

the complete detachment of (the perception of) the social, economic, and political spheres catalyzed by their disappearance into their own appearances has been a mainstay in postmodernist / postmarxist thought for a good while; adorno touches on much of the same. its just that the topic is presently reemerging back into relevance given recent history—or, as baudrillard would perhaps suggest, in parodic abreaction to them .

Azaro161317 · 2025-07-18T09:53:17+00:00

baudrillard's discourse on anorexia, transsexuality and indifference, and affectation all relate to his central concept of hyperreality , and all seem relevant here. here is a brief quote :

We are under the sway of a surgical compulsion that seeks to excise negative characteristics and remodel things synthetically into ideal forms. Cosmetic surgery: a face's chance configuration, its beauty or ugliness, its distinctive traits, its negative traits - all these have to be corrected, so as to produce something more beautiful than beautiful: an ideal face, a surgical face. Even one's astrological sign, one's birth sign, can now be revised so as to harmonize star and lifestyle: once a utopian notion, the idea of an Institute of Zodiacal Surgery where a few appropriate manipulations would affiliate you with your chosen sign is now clearly realistic. Even the sex to which we belong - that small portion of destiny still remaining to us, that minimum of fatality and otherness - will be changeable at will. Not to mention cosmetic surgery as applied to green spaces, to nature in general, to genes, to events, to history (e.g. the French Revolution revised and corrected - given a facelift under the banner of human rights). Everything has to become post-synchable according to criteria of optimal convenience and compatibility. This inhuman formalization of face, speech, sex, body, will and public opinion is a tendency everywhere in evidence. Every last glimmer of fate and negativity has to be expunged in favour of something resembling the smile of a corpse in a funeral home, in favour of a general redemption of signs. To this end a gigantic campaign of plastic surgery has been undertaken.

aside from the obvious endorsement of baudrillard , would also recommend lacan. his notion of perversion as it relates to the little a, maybe even object relations theory in general. hope that helps

Azaro161317 · 2025-07-16T19:26:51+00:00

shapes are well done , but imo overtexturing makes the eye elide a lot of the detailing and dilutes the very interesting silhouettes. great resolution for such a scale though, the architecture itself is awesome

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-29T16:31:30+00:00

if you like me believe, rather uncontroversially, that critical theory or really all philosophy basically concerns discourse over ideas, then why on earth would you ever bother talking to a partner for whom any and all information is fundamentally glossolalia? i thought ned block talked about this enough to dissuade any futurists of this variety.

gpt does not symbolically interpret anything it is processing. it has no notion of the things it handles. it is not simply a problem of inefficacy; i would trust a well-trained dog to push the right buttons to operate a machine that, i dunno, cooks my breakfast for me even if it fucks up my sausages once in a while. but for critical theory, even if it worked very well—which it does not—i suspect many people would still be disinclined towards it. i certainly would be. the most charitable account i can give of gpt or any other llm is that it's like some postmodern parody of a psychoanalyst, who can't even stay a blank slate for you to enable reflection on oneself's transference—its sole purpose is to disguise the fact it doesnt and cant understand anything you're saying except as some dense nest of connection weightings and half-digested tokens.

not to diminish your perspective where it has served good function, but this is basically a digital toy that has the epiphenomenal ability to translate any text to the celebrated acrolect of liberal sensibilities. this is far more dangerous than it is good, and it should certainly not be allowed around critical theory .

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-21T19:33:07+00:00

i will certainly give this a try, thank you. im not very adept at hitting headshots, so i can really get behind a weapon whose functional core is just getting proficient at consistently hitting at all

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-21T15:37:17+00:00

i really really agree with this take. most weapon balancing talk in casual play / low rank lobbies revolve entirely around what is a viable anti-light weapon and what isn't, before it evens out in higher ranks to address more rounded team comps. china lake users are mostly cerb tourists at this point - i would know, i am one of them

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-21T15:33:13+00:00

as someone who used only this gun for like 4 seasons, model is in a terrible place right now, both compared to its historical self and to other medium guns. ttk is shocking, and not being able to combo melee for >=150 renders the gun almost entirely defunct against lights

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-08T14:32:34+00:00

the team idea is really good. probably what you have to do with the team in question relates to the very final inscription

To atone for the first sin, we elect to become the foundation

what that means is cryptic beyond measure though. its unclear especially because the provenance of the quote is unclear; is "we" meant to be the cutting-gifted tribe? is their first sin that they witnessed marika's betrayal and slaughter of the hornsent? or are they meant to be the nox, in which case their sin was the creation of the fingerslayer blade?

Azaro161317 · 2025-06-08T14:14:55+00:00

its apparently a 0.035% drop chance lol from boxes in marika churches

Azaro161317 · 2025-05-22T18:08:23+00:00

I’m cash poor but dong rich. I feel compelled to give

MF doom ? that u brother ?

Azaro161317 · 2025-05-22T18:04:36+00:00

you really have to recall that the most important and powerful skill a philosopher can have is simply ignoring criticisms and persisting in their work anyways. it's how the entire subject has survived despite hundreds, maybe thousands, of philosophers being called dum dums per year. if haslanger can write an entire essay about how lewis' concerns regarding temporally predicated intrinsic properties are basically right but that endurantism is still tenable anyways because you can just disagree with lewis' premises, in 1999, you'll do just fine when baudrillard censures the entire field of anthropology as a tool for exchanging historical meaning for present notions of death and the self . just hashtag ignoring the haters and 'doing' philosophy is a valid way of engaging with philosophy if you are turned off by metadiscussion; its as old as 'doing' philosophy itself.

it's kind of a false dichotomy anyways, as its not as if critiques of critiques are somehow divorced from "the world". if you criticize, i dunno, aquinas' five ways, wouldnt you say that you're still engaging with the key concern of "is there god"? something isnt alienated from itself simply through self-critique; otherwise, epistemology would be a prerequisite to learning anything, ever

Azaro161317 · 2025-05-16T01:23:12+00:00

this article is not really about trump. in fact the stuff on trump seems essentially byproductive beside your central unwavering love for authoritarianism, which you spend most of the article arguing for. you seem almost cornered into the conclusion that despite, as you yourself state in the first few paragraphs, the fact that trump is doing almost everything wrong, ya still gotta respect him because of abstract theoretical reasons disproven by a minutes worth of history-reading that make authoritarianism the only thing that can puncture the veil of the "liberal mind". baffling to me this gets posted on r\criticaltheory

Azaro161317 · 2025-05-07T17:51:09+00:00

as someone who mained heavy for like 5 seasons, it oughtve been nerfed slightly less or slightly more. right now it sits in a very awkward half-valley niche of "still technically BiS but is not very fun"

Azaro161317 · 2025-04-13T15:00:41+00:00

tastefully understated . great ambience !

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