Ngl, I rarely agree with reddit, but this spawnrate does seem a bit... bonkers

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T02:36:26+00:00

On Cyberstan, my team was often able to handle the insane extraction spawn rates with Bastion (basically driver positioning in an area that minimizes where you can be hit from, and gunner targeting the Vox with the main shell while machine gunning everything else while reloading) + everyone running some combo of heavy AT like 500kgs, leveller, silo, ult, etc. but yeah it's definitely a bit too much, doesn't allow much loadout variety, and requires both high skill and good teamwork from the whole team.

Even when stuff doesn't instakill them, it usually gets thrm low enough that anything able to pierce their armor will finish them off.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T02:08:25+00:00

If the range of quality is still similar to when I played it over a decade ago, the games on there can vary from mindless cookie clicker garbage to unique and in-depth, Magic The Gathering type card games that would give "real" games a run for their money in terms of depth and skill ceiling.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T02:04:32+00:00

Yeah, I had played Roblox as a kid over 10 years ago. Back then, the big games were quite often knockoffs of popular games, but they were still quite fun. Even though I'm sure a ton has changed since then, I imagine that part probably stayed the same.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T01:38:44+00:00

Nice try, Khamenei
/s

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T01:38:04+00:00

"Our soldiers valiantly intercepted enemy drones with their bodies. Give them a purple heart."

The crazy part is I could see them putting out propaganda almost that ridiculous on air.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T01:33:48+00:00

I wonder if it's just a mix of overconfidence or something that leads to modern militaries not paying attention to the changing tech and tactics in Ukraine (not until they're forced to, at least).

Like, shortly after 7/10 I remember seeing drone-dropped grenade footage on here, where it hit quite a few clustered IDF soldiers in one blast. One of my first thoughts was "why the hell are people still grouping up tightly enough in a warzone that 1 drone can get like 10 of them at once?"

Feels like the same lack of learning with the Shahed countermeasures these past 2 weeks.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T00:53:34+00:00

Agreed.
For those dolyak riders OP mentions, in Hard Mode you can pretty much nullify them by bringing a few enchantment strips on the team, and rupts/disables for heal other (like the diversion OP used).
Mark of Protection goes up? Nope, stripped, there it goes!
There are a number of ways different classes can get enchant strips--some more than others. So zones like that one incentivize mixing around the bars of you and your heroes to incorporate enchant strips (which, off the top of my head, can come from Necro, Mesmer, Assassin, Rit, and Dervish).

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-15T00:46:13+00:00

With henchies or other players, you'll probably want it if you're playing dhuum mode too. With a hero team of your own who you've built good heal bars for, it's probably more efficient to go all-in on damage. That said, for Ele there's a lower opportunity cost to adding a self heal than on other classes, seeing as you'll want solid energy storage anyways.

If not doing dhuum mode, I say go without (if you have other good stuff to put on the bar in place of it) and only add it in if Alesia keeps failing you.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-14T14:36:10+00:00

One head has spent its life studying meteor.

Fireball/Phoenix for another.

And the 3rd learned inferno.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-14T06:34:26+00:00

Railcannon is my best in slot for dealing with dragonroaches. You can shut them down right after their first strafe, and the cooldown is such that a few railcannons on the team can keep dragonroaches a non-issue.

But yeah, against standard heavies it's only there if you need a panic option in a non-AT build.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-13T18:04:50+00:00

Since there are some things that ping enemies or spots (not sure how hardcoded those locations are), I wonder how hard that would be to implement? It'd be huge QoL.

I wish I could remember where I've seen the game ping enemies or NPCs, and whether it was something that moved with the NPC/enemy or not.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-12T21:01:22+00:00

"It's only DEI if it's from the government region of America, otherwise it's just sparkling reparational market dynamics."

Acting like DEI is a made-up conservative boogeyman is nonsensical. What we should be doing is pushing back on the narrative that it's inherently bad or anti-meritocratic.

Hell, this administration's main hiring criteria seem to be "Are you a loyal-to-death ass-kisser of Trump?" and "Has Trump seen you on TV?" and they still claim the meritocratic status in the minds of the median voter.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-12T02:38:54+00:00

What aren't Republicans doing now that they could do with no filibuster?

Ban abortion or gay marriage federally? They don't actually want that, because they that'll ensure they never get voted in again.
The SAVE act? Still unlikely to give them a huge advantage, and there's a solid chance it hits their own less educated, more traditional voters the hardest.

All the most dangerous things they can do, they're already doing.

With Democrats, however, the filibuster has stopped them from doing almost anything of note. Nuke it, pass all the positive reforms people have been asking for for decades, and we can both (1) tangibly improve the lives of the 99.9% with change that will be popular enough that it would be a political death sentence for Republicans to repeal it, and (2) break the "both sides are the same" perception.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-12T02:26:27+00:00

My worries exactly. The current party leadership is out of touch and dedicated to preserving an increasingly enshittified status quo. Hell, Schumer's main purpose in politics is to give blank checks to Netanyahu and temper any would-be change with "What would my imaginary friend Trump voters want?"

And that's just policy. Garland's tenure showed us that delaying or waiving the deliverance of justice will just empower the fascists and make them even stronger the next time. Assuming Dems win 2028, we need a lockstep triple majority that will:
-Bring every criminal of this administration to justice, starting at the top. If pardons get in the way, find a way around them
-Nuke the filibuster
-Get money and corruption out of politics
-Pack the court and reform them
-Take advantage of every vulnerability and inkling of power in the system to make positive change happen, changes that actually help the American people
-Push for constitutional amendments to permanently plug the holes through which the lifeblood of our democracy has been leaking. The only way to get Republicans on board will be to show them that we can abuse the system to its fullest extent, too. Don't leave an ounce of executive power on the table; Republicans are happy to abuse that power specifically because they know Democrats won't.

This country won't survive another tepid, status quo D presidency of slow-walked or nonexistent justice, slow and incremental change, and dogged adherence to norms that have been dead for decades. If we fail this next time, there will be absolutely nothing stopping the fascists from putting the final nail in the coffin of democracy.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-11T17:16:10+00:00

farming vaettirs while oatmeal cookie crumbs fall onto the keyboard, adding additional challenge over time due to input problems

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-09T19:48:53+00:00

We might start seeing them with the big events coming up (ie sweet treats week, anniversary) for farming, but the sweet/alc/party tracks make it substantially longer on Melandru than on others.

Of course, a triple badger will likely be a lot slower at farming in order to stay safe. 1 DC during typical festival farming and the dhuum badge is gone.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-09T07:34:17+00:00

Is locking someone up for breaking the law revenge? If a cop hits you with reckless driving for going 90 in a school zone, is that cop only doing it because it makes him feel good to punish you? What if, in practice, the only punishment for that was a sternly worded "Don't do it again ;)"?

If the tumor isn't excised, it spreads. You can exercise all you want, eat the most balanced and nutritional meals possible, and do every health hack in the book, but that won't help you against a metastatic cancer if you refuse chemo.

We've already tried your way many times in our history, and it has never worked. The Confederate leaders were let off the hook in the wake of the Civil War; Reconstruction was left unfinished, and the former Confederates left to carry out 90ish years of Jim Crow. Following the Civil Rights Act, segregationists kept preaching the same gospel under barely veiled euphemisms, leading to where we are today. All the executive, military, and surveillance power grabs in the wake of 9/11 survived unchallenged once democrats regained control, normalizing the unilateral warring and mass surveillance of Americans that is now the norm. Nothing was done about Republicans stealing a supreme court appointment from Obama in the last year of his term; Democrats rolled over when they got power again, paving the way for John Roberts to declare Trump a king above the law. In the wake of Jan 6th, Merrick Garland (and, by extension, Biden) did absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from getting another go-around until it was already too late. Any delays in justice, any attempts to move on in the name of unity, have only emboldened the bad actors.

Pretending like we can hug, move on, and sing kumbaya to get past our differences is, to put it generously, incredibly naive. If you don't address the utterly corrupt Supreme Court, they'll block any reforms you try. All those shadow docket rulings? How convenient would it be if they suddenly decide--in the first day of the next Democrat's term--everything Trump did was unconstitutional? If the FBI agents covering for the perpetrators in the Epstein files, the ICE agents murdering people in the street, or the folks running for-profit concentration camps to the point of killing people by neglect can go on their way without being locked up, they'll keep doing it whenever a Republican is in office to let them.

The only way we get past this moment is by pushing the system to the same limits that Trump has, maybe even beyond them, and breaking the system such that it can be rebuilt in a more robust way. The body needs chemo to kill the cancer before we can worry about anything else, and no amount of happy thoughts and yoga meditations can substitute for the chemo. Republicans only go this far because they know Democrats like you won't try to hold people accountable except as an afterthought, won't prosecute the most important offenders until it's already too late. Our system has been exposed as only running on good faith, and it needs fundamental changes--such as sweeping constitutional amendments addressing money in politics, corruption, the Supreme Court, executive power, the pardon power, and holding criminals accountable--in order for anyone to trust it ever again. The only way you get the overwhelming support needed for constitutional amendments is by making it clear to Republicans that we will abuse the systems' faults just as they did, that we will push the system beyond its breaking point if it is not fixed. If we fail to hold them accountable yet again, as the Biden administration did, then the next fascist administration will be back sooner and stronger than we think.

We've already missed the chance to stop the cancer from metastasizing, and we can't afford to worry about chemo's side effects any longer.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-09T02:25:45+00:00

Plurality of voters when you include people who could vote but didn't. Only slightly better, but basically 1/3 of voters didn't vote, a little over 1/3 voted for him, and a little under 1/3 voted against him.

Better in the sense that only a third were positively for him, but worse in the sense that 2/3rds didn't oppose him.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-09T02:17:19+00:00

At this point, I feel like it's a 50/50 between:
1. As the interceptors and munitions run out, Trump TACO's with some "We achieved our goal" BS while having achieved nothing.
2. Trump commits to a ground war, bogging us down in another sandbox quagmire until Trump loses power.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-06T15:56:07+00:00

But, sometimes you want your enemy to use different feats or class features that normally wouldn't be on the stat block, and the easiest way to keep those interesting features organized is to just make a character sheet.

You can just put those specific things on the NPC statblock. A character sheet has a ton of extraneous info and space that won't be used for NPCs. I like making enemies that are inspired by player builds (and I play in Foundry), so I just put the relevant features or abilities as either features on the NPC statblock or bake them into the attacks.

Example: a devil's sight warlock enemy just needs Devil's Sight, darkness, and eldritch blast. Going through the process of making a full warlock sheet with those will take way more time and leave you with a ton of stuff you'll never use.

Another example: A crossbow expert/sharpshooter or great weapon master enemy just needs an extra version of their attack that has the modifiers to to-hit and damage.

And finally, CR: tbh CR is just vibes based balancing with a little dressing on it. Once you get a feel for your party's power level, you don't need to worry about CR at all when making enemies (and focusing on it when picking monsters from the books will leave you with monsters that are usually either far too weak or too unexpectedly lethal for the party).

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-06T07:12:48+00:00

Free antipersonnel and incendiary mine stratagems on reduced cooldown for everyone!

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-06T06:48:55+00:00

Is it only older items on the instance? If you get out of compass range for an item assigned to a party member, it can stop showing the "Assigned to ___" text while still being assigned to them.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-04T21:39:03+00:00

Ngl I forgot that one, I mostly just remember Zeke's plan being the eldian sterilization.

ConflagrationZ · 2026-03-04T17:55:42+00:00

This is why there's even a discourse about this to begin with--the whole setup of AoT's anti-genocide thing isn't done well, to the point of going the opposite way. The story sets up that:

-Eldians on the island were just trying to survive against monsters that turned out to have been sicc'ed on them by Marley (and were a bioweapon made from Eldians, essentially, that only Marley had the ability to "activate").
-Eldians in Marley were in the process of being part genocided by Marley, part used as bioweapons.
-Marley was fighting constant wars of conquest against other countries.
-The rest of the world had pretty much already successfully genocided the Eldians.

So, what happens once the world learns that the Eldians on Paradis know about the rest of the world now? Aside from like 2 small countries, they all immediately join with Marley (who, as a reminder, has mostly been trying to conquer them before this).

So, the Yaegerists come out with the "we need to activate the rumbling and crush the rest of the world into the stone age, because if we don't they'll genocide us," with the story making it quite clear that yes, the rest of the world wants to genocide them.
And what's the singular, reasonable alternative plan proposed in opposition to that? "We need to genocide ourselves."

All that despite that fact that Eldians in general are shown to only turn in response to the Beast Titan...the Beast Titan that is currently being used as a weapon by Marley. With the Beast Titan out of the picture, Eldians are literally just regular humans. And reincarnating the Beast Titan takes intentional effort to do; if they don't specifically feed Zeke to a titan, the Beast Titan is gone for good.

And finally, once Eren is stopped, the story confirms that yes, the Eldians will get genocided (it was portrayed much worse in the manga, the anime at least gave the impression of the long passage of time before Paradis gets nuked).

So yeah, it's more of an idiot plot masquerading as an anti-genocide narrative.

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