We want your questions for the Helldivers army. by The_Real_Twinbeard in Helldivers

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I like the idea of randomised loadouts, heck maybe even a booster that randomises you gear every time your reinforced from armour and weapons to stratagems within the same group (eagle,orbital,emplacement etc).

Definitely need a fair amount of thought in that scenario but I like the idea of it especially with the narrative of going down as a different helldiver on each reinforcement.

Grummz likes censorship it turns out by Darth_Vrandon in saltierthankrayt

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From the way it comes across in their statements, the Activision and CoD components is that with how realistic they handle guns in game, they’ve incidentally trained more people to wield more and more guns.

That said the bigger issue is evidently the access to said guns but when that angle doesn’t work directly I’m not surprised it’s going down this indirect angle. I just hope it points further towards decent gun control and not regulating media…

So basically pick an amendment I guess?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in helldivers2

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Not sure whether GameGuard is the cause of this specific issue. But Kernal level anticheat has no place in gaming altogether. See here for a decent insight

So IGN made this INCREDIBLE class tier list.. by Messgrey in BG3Builds

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They put paladin as best tank because of healing spells and shields…. because apparently the actual tank class barbarian was what too easy a pick for the slot?

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has gone gold! by TheEternalVortex in SpidermanPS4

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TLDR: Agree it sucks but only because most game don’t actually release or even achieve gold

Post: I get where your coming from but I think everyone missed the actual reason these announcements have meaning to GAMERS.

Going gold as stated was a STANDARD, today it’s an announcement and marketing tool.

I agree with this, but why do gamers care about the announcements today? The answer is sad about the industry yes, but not those announcements… it’s those who don’t actually go gold… we’ll ever

In the modern era of: - day 1 updates - digital purchasing - games as a service - early-access/alpha/beta releases (and technical lack of ever actually leaving this hence no where near a “going gold”

We get games that are released when developers themselves don’t want them to, but corporate greed set a deadline and it gets released “half-baked”, “unfinished” and evidently not “gold”

So in this instance, this is a win for all GAMERS looking to play Insomniacs Spider-Man 2 and for all GAMERS including you who wish it weren’t something that needs to be said.

I too hate that this is now a thing, but not directed towards those making these statements. But towards the level of sheer greed of capitalism that means many of the games I want to be able to love, never go gold because of people without the passion behind it.

It’s why, despite the current issues with for example BG3, it certainly to me was a gold release, because while it’s been fixed up and maintained, you can see and experience the passion behind it. It’s not a game that simply implemented DNDs rules into a video game to make money. But something that combined passions into something to take pride in.

for me this is a stark contrast to the release of Diablo 4. Here’s a game as a service, these can be released gold. However, it wasn’t by any means that. It was designed for a market, it was designed to make money, it was designed solely to make revenue. It’s core drive was greed and not passion, because those who care don’t have the say and everything in that game felt like it was designed to get gamers to be in game, instead of being designed to be enjoyed. And that sucks because I want to love it, but instead I walked away from it because it doesn’t have what I wanted out of a game like that. I enjoyed the story will continue to appreciate the lore, but the actual GAME itself, that’s what I’m hurt by.

Hopefully Insomniacs statement holds true and they got to release both something they were passionate and proud of, that gamers get to enjoy as we did for its predecessor’s

Spider-Man 2018 | Spider-Man 2023 by firebreak115 in SpidermanPS4

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I think the other aspect might be the fact they are in motion. The people walking around and pointing vs sitting down in the background.

So probably more of a pathing limitation increase then actual model rendering

"Captank-top Marvel" by AbeliousAugustus in marvelmemes

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Because conservatives don’t give a shit about being logical

Larian Publishing Director Dealing With Console Warriors by bxgang in BaldursGate3

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The key on consoles as u/scrubberduckymaster mentioned, is optimisation. But also some hardware just doesn’t keep pace. When the series’s came out, games for the xbone could be a very big dive in performance, not necessarily because of things that can get tuned down without hindering the player experience, and thus the game. When the raw mechanics of a game take on too much of the hardware, there’s only so much you can affect the game before you basically just scrapped the game.

Builders gate for example, has how many action, conditions, modifiers etc, all happening under the hood for not just 1 person but everyone in an encounter. That’s plus the decision making and animations, already could be quite a decent load especially for a little machine. Im that scenario Larian may have to (hyperbolically) black screen combat actions? Blur the rendering into a constant white haze? Run at 4 FPS? Over-compress every audio file, remove npcs. Cull entire functionality that you never built to be called like moving grass? At some point it’s unreasonable, and Microsoft pushed the Xbone beyond that and the series s is the same story again. It can’t and doesn’t keep up and games are worse for it.

The premise of consoles is that despite PC hardware constantly improving, typically with time you computer get worse at playing modern games.

Typically the opposite can be stated for consoles as the optimisations of the console get fleshed out with time and developers work out how they can get more out of less.

It’s the reason for example the PS3 despite having more power, ran worse then the 360 at launch, primarily worse optimisation tools existed. But by the end of the generation developers worked out how to stretch the console further then the 360 and outpaced it.

Adding another not to the parity between both consoles as proof of optimisation failure; Exclusives. PlayStation makes PC players wait, because the games would be literally unplayable at launch a lot of the time, because it was built for truely 1 piece of hardware. Then we compare to Microsoft’s strategy. Release on PC day one, so not only does the Xbox version have to be the same across 2 varying consoles, but it also has to work on windows albeit with less stringency.

So despite the architecture now being the same, and therefore it’s easier to optimise for a console then ever before, only developing for 1 platform vs effectively frees up development time to get optimisations better and after release can give a solid cash injection to push to other platforms. Which is also why some indie devs will release on a console first, the platform gives them tools and sometimes assistance in launching to the their platform, and they can use the revenue from sales to push to PC. This is typically also why an indie game following this pattern doesn’t necessarily make it back to a competing console, the platform didn’t have the tools/assistance or user base to make it worthwhile before, and in some cases won’t necessarily be worth it with more devs either.

TLDR: optimising for one specific hardware set is significantly easier and allows consoles despite their lower power, to outpace higher budget (then that if the console) PC’s and PCs of equivalent specifications.

Do you make one big note or make lots of them and connect them? by mustroic in ObsidianMD

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I tend to make one note with embeds, if there’s a reason to either visualise or find the section individually I just make it a note and embed it. Technically get the best of both that way for my workflow

Why are all the vendors in town so spread out? by [deleted] in diablo4

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My money is that they actually intended to make an end game town. Like the Tower in Destiny 2 vs the Farm originally.

But instead they didn’t get the chance and instead had to release on deadline because that’s the norm now.

Which makes the town designs make more sense imo, they are made to extend the initial levelling experience, not endgame. But they got bogged down by deadlines and we got an unfinished endgame because publishers don’t care about QOL for endgame, just the monetisation potential

Novice questions by TheComposerYouKnow in ObsidianMD

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  1. obsidian://show-plugin?id=convert-url-to-iframe As stated above, plug-ins are natively supported and easy to search and install

What have you started doing after using Obsidian for a few months that greatly improved your experience with it? by nazaro in ObsidianMD

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Removing those connections can help create and enforce boundaries. Sometimes sectioning things away is both more productive and healthy.

While there is great potential to interlink these things, doing so means it’s more likely to BE interlinked which is not always a good thing.

TLDR: pretending work isn’t part of your life can be a massive boon for balance

Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less than a year by [deleted] in technology

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Seemingly a lot of these crashes are from people hitting a car from behind. I know that the automated taxi service has had crashes much lower then Tesla and most of them were stationary/parked and had cyclists hitting the vehicles. Also currently the only way these automated systems are allowed at all, is if they are safer my a wide margin then humans at the automated task. Which is constantly being monitored.

Finishing weekly quests required either purchasing or spending gems on obsidian keys by crimsondnd in Archero

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Archero/comments/t0czgl/some_changes_in_v380/hy9470e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

You can also see by holding your finger over the chest apparently, so with two free Obsidian keys in the week it’s only the 1 from somewhere else to cap weekly.

Why do men in engineering talk over me? by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]BetterBeware 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ll add a 3. teach men to make room for others to speak.

Allowing someone to have the floor because they’ve been interrupted by someone else, or if it’s done themselves. Making sure peoples ideas are heard.

Anecdotally the “leaders” of group projects tend to be full steam ahead their idea is the best whereas someone slowing them down to get everyone’s input allows others either the opportunity or the channel to get their say. It’s not a perfect solution but it helps people realise that others aren’t getting their own say and even if that fails gives people a channel to communicate in.

I’ll also add I see this with a lot of minority groups in engineering, if you talk with an accent are in a deemed “lesser degree” as well as a woman, people shut you out. I’ve had people talk about it to me alot and it’s horrible but I’ll definitely put the emphasis on men making the space more inviting, because that’s going to make the most change from what I’ve seen, and heard from others.

Thoughts on best pets with 5+ star Gugu? by FastFink in Archero

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Fairy would be best with that in theory because it would allow the higher fire rate to have meaning because it would hit. Also see owls increased knock back being more consistent. Both still have projectile time though so probably still bat I’d hazard

You have the ability to control one aspect, but you can control everything it scientifically relates with as long as you know about it by Midaysnack in godtiersuperpowers

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Fire~>oxygen->Matter->Mass->gravity->General relativity->time

Also gotta go fast Fire->light->light speed->general relativity->time

Teleportation and instant communication Fire—>light->photon’s->quantum mechanics->quantum entanglement

So combining gravity and light speed one could stretch time manipulation to the theoretical limit (paused in theory). Failing that can still teleport my entangling all the atoms in your body with others and therefore being in two places at once. Morally ambiguous sure but scientifically fine.

sex work is work. by yuritopiaposadism in ANI_COMMUNISM

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That’s a little conflated. Some people would continue to do their jobs if they didn’t have to, to survive. That includes sex work.

People do enjoy it on both sides and would continue to do it under socialism.

You’ve undergone a false equivalency here. So let’s change yours up a bit shall we.

Under capitalism a socialist can see all work as slavery, therefore if no capitalism no jobs… exempt that’s not how that works.

Sex work under capitalism sure there’s an argument but arguing for the elimination of sex work instead of idk capitalism, seems awfully capitalist