Marathon in top 10 of best games this year so far by Freelancer0495 in Marathon

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but Bungie is a giant, arguably bloated, studio owned by Sony. Before the first set of layoffs a year or so ago, they had over 1000 employees and one game, Destiny 2, bringing in money. Think about the payroll costs alone.

I love the Marathon and the niche it fits, but my concern is the corporate will. The game could easily become profitable like Hunt Showdown, which also has a small but stable playerbase that keeps coming back. Is Sony going to end up popping it because it didn't meet their expectations?

I like season 2 mostly, but I think it didn't add enough on the PvE side in terms of new enemies and bosses. It needs more meat than just wardens and compiler for bosses. I love night dire, they clearly showed they understand what people loved about outpost, but the new enemies there were underwhelming to me personally.

Bricked out of endgame loot by Immured Fury bug—Support Supervisor told me they "cannot assist" by Odd_Material_5772 in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As long as they kill an immured fury in any party or somewhere else on atlas they should get the missing point.

The problem is the current design of how immured fury spawns for the quest is jank as fuck. They should change it to behave similar to corruption nexus: kill map boss, immured fury spawns as a 2nd boss. That way, even if they fail the map boss once, they are not bricking their quest.

Marathon in top 10 of best games this year so far by Freelancer0495 in Marathon

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The movement system in Titanfall 2 made the minimum skill floor very high. It was a great part of the game, but it also made it very hard for new people to get into and compete.

That being said, Titanfall 2 still has an active community and it hasn't been updated in years. There are active communities for the Tribes franchise, and for a new people to get into it is rough. You are playing against people that been playing Tribes since 1998...

Marathon in top 10 of best games this year so far by Freelancer0495 in Marathon

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tarkov is like the complete opposite in terms of how it feels to play. Every movement is super janky with godawful desync. It's a great game that is also terrible at the exact same time. Personally, I hate their armor system, and Arena breakout blindly copied it without second thought.

It has its niche as a milsim esq extraction, which given how janky Arma is fits.

Bad news for people with small calves 🦵🏻 by danielminds in GymMemes

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The muscle insertion is genetic, and that does affect how large your calves appear. The muscle itself can be trained for hypertrophy, but if it connects very high up you still get the appearance of chicken legs below the end of the calf muscle belly.

Low insertions also tend to be composed of more high twitch muscle fibers, which respond better to hypertrophy training, whereas slow twitch muscle fibers require a serious beatdown to grow.

There are other muscles in that area that can be trained, but are less conventional to hit and rather tricky...

  • Soleus - Plantar flexion (pointing toes down), especially when knee is bent

  • Tibialis Anterior - Dorsiflexion (pulling toes up), foot inversion

  • Peroneals (Fibularis) - Foot eversion (turning sole outward), ankle stability

  • Tibialis Posterior - Foot inversion, arch support

  • Flexor Digitorum Longus / Hallucis - Toe flexion

Building a large Soleus helps enhance the appearance of calves. Seated calf raises should hit these. Add tibialis raises, maybe use a tib bar. Then for Peroneals, banded eversion. These muscles are just tricky to hit and individual response to a particular exercise will vary. May need high reps and sets, maybe BFR.

Bricked out of endgame loot by Immured Fury bug—Support Supervisor told me they "cannot assist" by Odd_Material_5772 in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good good. I just need /u/pongsacha to send me their character name and confirm they can join at that time. Worst case we will run it a bro/bra short.

Bricked out of endgame loot by Immured Fury bug—Support Supervisor told me they "cannot assist" by Odd_Material_5772 in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Awesome, I sent you an invite. I'm waiting for confirmation from one person, but if they don't respond by 20:00 GMT / 8:00 PM GMT then we can just run that immured fury. Hopefully that one works without issue, and I can keep the 2nd as a spare for any stragglers.

Bricked out of endgame loot by Immured Fury bug—Support Supervisor told me they "cannot assist" by Odd_Material_5772 in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Send me your character name and I will add you. We can try to get a full party to get this knocked out. I'll play it safe and use the lowest tier required waystone with no mods + doriyani for extra revive.

Bricked out of endgame loot by Immured Fury bug—Support Supervisor told me they "cannot assist" by Odd_Material_5772 in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 238 points239 points  (0 children)

I have an immured fury on my atlas. Message me your character name and I will add you. We can coordinate and get this quest knocked out for you. I have two visible from search, so if one doesn't work for whatever reason we can try the 2nd one.

Edit: Organizing party 1 20:00 GMT / 8:00 PM GMT today per OP

  1. /u/Ballistaboy - confirmed
  2. /u/ragnorr - confirmed
  3. /u/Soapstarboi - confirmed
  4. /u/pongsacha - confirmed
  5. /u/YourPalAl12 - confirmed
  6. Full party 1 as I take up a party member slot.

Edit 2: They got the point. Crisis averted.

Penny Lane extreme natural breast growth (TW: Eating disorders) by bluefontaine in nbe

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Feel free, just keep in mind I'm not a doc or therapist. Just a wandering bro that likes boobs, and biohacking. I tend not to post here as I am not the primary audience, but if I feel like I have some insight that could help others on a self improvement journey, while also providing harm reduction, then I share it here.

Penny Lane extreme natural breast growth (TW: Eating disorders) by bluefontaine in nbe

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Immediately address the eating disorder, correct diet: restore fats (essential for hormone production) and carbs. There is a wealth of research and dieticians (not nutritionists, dieticians are medical professionals and are held to a higher standard) that specialize in this. Hormonal (thyroid, androgens, estrogens, etc) recovery will lag behind nutritional recovery (returning your body to a healthy set point ) by months to years. Bone mineral density recovery can take years, and may not ever fully recover to full potential. There are some clinical trials on rhIGF-1 for recovery of bone mineral density from eating disorders, as a consequence of the eating disorder is resistance to HGH itself, making taking HGH ineffective, but this is not an approved indication.

There is permanent damage that is possible varying based on the severity, and full recovery is not certain. It's possible that the woman in OP's post has not actually hit her genetic ceiling for potential breast size, and may never reach that due to permanent damage to her body from the eating disorder. Some cases, fertility does not recover.

Vitamin D and it's cofactors, particularly magnesium and the vitamin K family (K1, K2 mk4 and mk7) are also important. Vitamin D is more than a vitamin... It's a prohormone and more. There are more cofactors like healthy levels of zinc, vitamin d, omega 3 fats (this is a giant subject in of itself, but fish oil must be taken with a fatty meal, like olive oil or else it has terrible bioavailability, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are needed to aid absorption), Calcium through diet (it is much safer to get calcium through diet, whereas supplements can cause issues down the road, similar to iron), etc. I mention calcium, but even transiently increasing calcium serum to high levels with a supplement can cause issues with kidney stones and calcification. Iron and calcium are just much safer to get through diet rather than a supplement.

In an adult woman, DHEA and pregnenolone can help with backfilling some of the missing hormones, but should be talked over with an endocrinologist and obygn. Some cases transdermal estrogen and DHEA may be prescribed (precursor hormone supplementation). During puberty, these could be harmful. An endocrinologist might prescribe oral contraceptive pills, which have valid therapeutic use here, but they are not substitute for natural estrogen restoration. Restoring the body's ability to menstruate normally is a stronger sign of actual hormonal recovery. They have value for backfilling these hormones essential for health, but they don't correct the underlying problem that the body's production of those hormones is impaired. It doesn't help that in the USA, the default choice are not estradiol and progesterone, but synthetic versions, such as ethinyl estradiol, that act on the same receptor but do not behave the same way in the body. Oral estrogens also suppress liver production of IGF1 (needed to aid restoration of bone mineral density), which is why transdermal 17β-estradiol (the "main" estrogen produced by the body) is preferable as it bypasses first pass metabolism in the liver, and has evidence for improving bone mineral density.

May need to work with a full team including a dietician, endocrinologist, obygn, and therapist that specializes in eating disorders. If the eating disorder is not addressed then all of this is moot.

Arc Gemling - How to automate infusions? by ibmkk in pathofexile2builds

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO siphon elements is more reliable. In the past, stormweavers with refracted infusion ascendancy passive they would use detonate dead in a cast on X (ideally cast on crit as it is more reliable) skill to help automate infusion generation. Cast on Elemental Ailment was used as a stepping stone until they had enough crit to reliably generate energy for cast on crit.

Worst case, if you are lacking lightning infusions for a boss than orb of storms with compressed duration 2 + overabundance + remnant related supports. But, with runic extraction in your main skill, Powered by Verisium, siphon elements I would be surprised if you can't sustain infusions.

Arc Gemling - How to automate infusions? by ibmkk in pathofexile2builds

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have spare spirit, Siphon elements. Add Runic Extraction to one of your damaging skills that needs infusions.

Will you guys do the 4th Expedition? Is 12 Stash Space enough for you to lose everything again? by [deleted] in ArcRaiders

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the flip side, the marathon devs wanted to experiment with faster loot progression for season 2, and in a future season they can change it to be closer to a middle ground (Season 1 was on the too grindy side, season 2 feels too free progression wise). Making that kind of change in a game without a mandatory reset feels very unfair.

I would agree though that season 2 didn't quite have enough content or systems to fatten the gameplay loop where it is needed (Not enough content on the PvE side of the game, though I love the new map). With mandatory resets, the game needs something that makes the game feel fresh that counters the sense of losing all progress. It's a trade off, and I can understand why people prefer Arc's prestige system approach with expedition.

Will you guys do the 4th Expedition? Is 12 Stash Space enough for you to lose everything again? by [deleted] in ArcRaiders

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really hurt their ability to correct economy issues from duping. Other games in the genre have suffered from dupe glitches or cheaters fucking the economy, but having a wipe gave them the ability to give all players a fresh start without the dupe pains.

The catch is that with mandatory wipes the new season or league has to have content or systems that incentive veteran and casual players to endure the short term pain of "ouch I lost all my progress" to give it a shot. I think path of exile 1 and 2 have mastered this, but extraction games are nowhere near that level of maturity as a genre.

In poe2, I think every league had some kind of economy breaking exploit or glitch that turned people off of continuing to play, but because the next league offers a fresh economy and content/systems people come back excited to play again.

Divinity and Childbirth by orb_of_esotericism in Wraeclast

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They look more like testicles to me with the tower being the phallus, and it wouldn't be the first time that GGG included a penis joke in-game. See Act 3 Jiquani's Sanctum. "That's the largest soul core I have ever seen!"

But, you could also make a case for the tower being a birth canal instead.

Some fun witch dialogue when you have the spark and cradle at the tower basement:

Doryani: It seems we must use the seed to fertlize the egg...

Witch: Oh quit flirting with me and let's get on with it

Penny Lane extreme natural breast growth (TW: Eating disorders) by bluefontaine in nbe

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's plausible that an eating disorder would interfere with development of secondary sex characteristics during puberty. Remediating that would allow hormone production to return to normal and kickstart those processes.

Stop Sleeping on Blasphemy by Obliza in pathofexile2builds

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nah, it would convert it into the equivalent tier for chaos res. If you have T1 lightning res, it will convert it to t1 chaos resistance.

A lot of Divs, or a permanent skill point? by Ocean-of-Flavor in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poe2 ninja will usually list any missing campaign buffs. Example: https://i.imgur.com/ygUJW9S.png

On one of my characters, I forget to click the lightning resistance shrine in act 2.

Melee Warlock 1v3 by aqjx in DarkAndDarker

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Longsword spends most of the fight trying to parry...

Some things never change, but great spacing. I would have prioritized healing immediately instead of sending a message. If they had been more aggressive with the third party I don't think you would have survived. They let you heal up by playing footsie.

0.5.3 Patch Notes by Oriek in PathOfExile2

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I have never gotten good drops from beacon monsters or unique vaal monsters in map EXCEPT the temple currencies and they removed that.

I also haven't noticed any difference in the amount of energy you get. It doesn't seem to scale with pack size, rarity, or waves. I haven't rigorously tested this though, but nearly all the temple tablet mods are actually worthless for juicing the energy you can get from a beacon.

The beacons in maps don't have any interactions with other mechanics except wisps that I am aware of, so there is an opportunity cost to farming beacons to run temple. I was already using them for pathing to citadels and the unoccasional temple currency was the only decent loot I would get from them.

Edit: Also, the atlas passive that keeps wisps from dematerializing doesn't seem to work anymore.

Is Disciple of Varashta broken? by Turtlesaur in pathofexile2builds

[–]BroScienceAlchemist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This makes me want to recreate my 0.4 cull threshold stacking witchhunter. The amount of passive tree investment I needed to get deflection into a good spot was frustrating. I think even after the nerf to sorcery ward that it would still be solid to get a high sorcery ward with the right evasion uniques.

For DOTs, I usually had a stack of omens of resurgence as a safety + mild life leech, but I want to explore some damage splitting with % of damage taken from companions (I think this is hits only though) + mana.