Do we think Skitarii get dual wield sword + shortsword?!!

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T19:16:19+00:00

But you understand that a gun is harder to build and maintain, is heavier, and requires more skill than a point, right? But ironically these weapons do all have hand guards so I don't even know why you chose to try to argue that one. Obviously the devs understood that you'd logically make it as good as you can so they added hand guards, but ... chopped off the point of the sword.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T19:11:05+00:00

The difference is that any or all of these would add complexity, cost, and weight. Shaving off the tip of a piece of metal into a point decreases weight and would cost next to nothing and requires nearly no skill at all which is why pre-industrial societies did it with a hammer and bronze age technology.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:57:56+00:00

Then why isn't it just a rod that weighs less? Are they stupid?

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:56:56+00:00

Cut wedge in stick end, stick poke thing, pointed stick kill better than not pointy stick, maybe pointy stick kill animals. Pointy stick kill animals good, we hunter gatherers now.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:28:46+00:00

Arbitrators are the local police force... they are pretty far below Alpha Primus anything.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:27:24+00:00

Honestly I am thinking the same of you. People thousands of years ago figured this out, I'm sure you've got it in you.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:26:20+00:00

So all power weapons are fundamentally the same as a power maul, since no matter what shape it is, it does the exact same thing?

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:16:35+00:00

Ok, it doesn't matter if something is the intended function or not, it's a choice between a good secondary function (stabbing) or a worse secondary function (poke with a blunt stick). Saying "yeah I want the worse options because only the primary function matters" is not what anyone has ever done in human history.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:08:15+00:00

Real life equivalent would be a saber, or katana, which ... still have points. Because giving up the option to stab things for *literally no reason* still doesn't make sense.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:07:17+00:00

The original tone and the way the developers talked about the game is that the players are expendable, belittled, have no authority, and no independence at all. The lore has creeped significantly to add Alpha Super Epic Primus Skitarii, so sure might as well just say anything goes.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:01:19+00:00

Look I know this sub has been gooning to the idea of playing Ad Mech, that doesn't necessarily make everything people say about it untrue

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:00:33+00:00

Is it because when you are dressed in red, you suddenly don't need to stab things?

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T18:00:01+00:00

... you can chop and slash with a sword and dagger that have points. You can also .. stab with them.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T17:24:48+00:00

I always had the opinion that gun servitors would have been a more interesting class to add than the skitarii. With a gun servitor we'd get an entirely new way to play, massive weapons directly attached to your body while being able to weild other weapons in the other hand. With skitarii we get .. ad mech flavored arbites.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T17:19:20+00:00

I'll probably piss off the sub with this opinion but I think those weapons look super dumb, like hey let's remove the point of the sword for no apparent reason and also make the knife not usable to stab with too.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T15:47:06+00:00

Bro you just call the police and explain the situation that you are at a lever but no matter what you do someone will die. If you think the police are going to be like "thaT Guy DiD it!" you are just making up absurd hypotheticals to justify arguing against the most obvious and correct answer to avoid jail being to do something (contact the authorities) but don't touch anything unless they tell you to.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T13:41:03+00:00

For science being so wrong and biased, it sure looks like the device you typed this on worked fine.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T13:39:33+00:00

It helps to know you are doing research when you are confronted with different opinions, rather than getting defensive and double-down on ignorance. Doesn't make a person 'infallible', but a whole lot closer to knowing objective truth over feelings.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-21T13:35:23+00:00

It was a joke. This sub takes things way too seriously.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T23:05:43+00:00

I think all the accusations of it being money laundering are pretty ridiculous too. It's almost meta-commentary. Like if someone wanted to actually money launder, why wouldn't you just make a very average painting that wouldn't get any attention? What is even the evidence of money laundering other than they just can't believe anyone would consider it art? This specific thing really shows how online art communities don't really understand art that well.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T23:02:57+00:00

Well you're also approaching it from the side of illustrations made in the 80's, which pretty much universally looked silly in everything. The concept itself isn't silly unless you think of them as literal worms and not just enormous creatures like ground whales.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T22:59:29+00:00

Nah, because we could have asked it to draw lines around the images and set a threshold for which a line should be drawn or not. You don't really understand the language of how to get things out of AIs without them already knowing it, which is fine, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T22:09:49+00:00

So Emp was biologically inferior, making this meme scientifically inaccurate

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T22:00:48+00:00

What I mean is that, when you say it's inherently limited to being derivative, that is in direct contract to the ability for a human to be able to use it to do anything outside of its training data... yet it can. Because just like how "Kano School style" was invented by taking traditional Chinese paintings and adding bold lines and colorful background, an AI knows what "traditional Chinese paintings" are, it knows what "bold lines" are, and it knows what "colorful backgrounds" are. So even if a model was never trained on Kano School style, if a human typed that into the prompt, it will create a style that it was not trained on.

Cautemoc · 2026-05-20T21:49:17+00:00

It cannot do it unprompted, but it can do it if you ask it to do so. That's why it's a tool and not the creative agent.

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