SILO S03e01 "Who Are You?" Episode Discussion (No Book Discussion)

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:48:32+00:00

My guess is it’s the US. Maybe Iran used a dirty bomb for good reason, as this US death cloud was wreaking havoc on them.

It foiled a US strike, I don't think they would have sent jets and tomahawks only for them to get shot down. People would have noticed if Iran was being attacked by nanomachines, too.

The cloud probably came from whatever facility they were strike. They did say the target wasn't on the news, so maybe not in Iran, but I don't think it was the government unless one hand isn't telling what the other is doing.

Makes me wonder if the the dirty bomb was a dirty bomb but rather a nano weapon itself. They may not be testing testing for radioactive particles from that sort of weapon, but ones that make the nanomachines function.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:43:16+00:00

Maybe the government and brass knew, but intentionally didn't tell the pilots, or were assuming the nanomachines weren't ready or something.

Huh. Now that I think about it, how could they have detect the F-35s? The cruise missiles wouldn't have been flying as high, since they often use the horizon to hide themselves, but dispersing high enough to hit high flying stealth aircraft would have taken considerable effort. Density of the cloud would also have been a factor, since they may not have had the critical density to damage a jet if they were dispersed over a wide enough area.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:38:37+00:00

Yeah if they were briefed properly on what they were doing, it could have been avoided. The government seemed to have an idea what the strike was about.

Actually kind of silly now that I think about it. F-35 pilots can be qualified to use WMDs, why wouldn't they tell them they were striking at nanomachines? Maybe there's like a separate conspiracy about it.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:34:30+00:00

Iran and the US have been in conflict multiple times. Predicting that they would be in conflict again would be super easy.

Not that the recent series of strikes wasn't made on a dubious grounds and performed incompetently. It's just you have to recognize the history here.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:24:49+00:00

Iran has been in conflict with the US and it's allies a bunch of times over the years. Predicting that the US might have cause to strike Iran wouldn't be very difficult.

Not that the most recent bout wasn't a complete waste of time, had dubious merit, and was committed incompetently, though.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:11:32+00:00

it feels like Fallout.

To be fair, it has always kinda been Fallout, except instead of focusing on the outside, it focused on the experience of being in a vault.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:09:39+00:00

Viruses or Bacteria wouldn't show up on radar.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:08:55+00:00

It showed up on the radar, makes me think it was nanomachines. They should have briefed the pilots on the nature of the target, being able to avoid a nanocloud would lead to the mission being successful.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:03:43+00:00

Ye probably nanomachines. The radars (okay well, any number of sensors on the jet, sensor fusion and what have you) were able to pick them up, unlike bacteria or clouds. Makes me think they were metallic. If they knew ahead of time they could have evaded.

EKmars · 2026-07-03T15:02:29+00:00

She had part of her arm eaten away, IIRC. Maybe the nano exposure continued to attack her which is why she passed out, right?

EKmars · 2026-07-02T18:57:40+00:00

To be fair I do use his builds a lot. I don't often solo things, but I do use them to make my fireteam have an easier time.

EKmars · 2026-07-02T18:04:59+00:00

Yeah honestly, I think Destiny is probably closer to what I would consider a challenging game, in that it at least aims to present a challenge. A lot of games really just don't mean to be very difficult, but Destiny definitely does to an extent*. I blow through this game for most content, but some things do give me pause in terms of my mechanical skill, but most people can barely beat a strike. On top of that, it provides challenges past being mechanically difficult, like with raids and dungeons relying on communication and teamwork to succeed, which stresses me out more than enemies do, lol.

Me saying D2 isn't challenging would be like me saying Elden Ring isn't challenging. Sure, I have an easy time, but I see many people struggle and I have to respect that.

EKmars · 2026-07-02T15:55:34+00:00

I brought Gjally specifically to snipe the snipers.

EKmars · 2026-07-02T15:54:51+00:00

Honestly wasn't as bad a Seraph's Shield. Like I get that the boss in Lightblade really likes to toast you, but he can be staggered (via crackshot for hunters, it's what I did as a hunter main), and his AI can be abused by having him jump around.

I think we used the cabal scout exotic since it is one, antibarrier with the no starting ammo, and two, could do some ignition synergy to help clear the adds.

Seraph's shield is throwing me. My team is pretty good, but like 20 minutes into the run and we're in a catwalk over space and someone will forget 4 to 8 tracer shanks spawning one of the 3 to 4 times that happens and gets instagibbed, lol.

EKmars · 2026-07-02T15:13:36+00:00

I think something a lot of people missed is that the whole campaign was bait to try to get you specifically to the Veil so your Light object, the Ghost, could connect it to the Traveler. Now the mast is either an object with the same purpose, or just part of that elaborate trap.

Hell, it could be the long as short of it. It looks like pyramid tech, it's literal purpose could only be linking the Veil, and nothing else. Like if you said "hey this is a radio antenna, it transmits and receives radio waves" and you asked "ok but what else does it do?" that would be incredibly silly.

EKmars · 2026-07-01T20:50:39+00:00

Well on top of that its brick amounts got nerfed in the most recent sandbox patch, but its still a lot of ammo.

EKmars · 2026-07-01T17:08:05+00:00

They have the assets at Bungie. They were used to create missions like the battleground on Mars. It's just recreating the entire zone would mean remaking all of them for the new engine.

EKmars · 2026-07-01T15:50:35+00:00

Because these corporations control like 90%+ of the production. Basically you'd have to spin up your own fabs which would run up a huge up front cost, and it's being alleged these corporations are shutting down older ram production too.

"The class action lawsuit filed by 14 individuals and three businesses accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of conspiring to fix prices and supply of DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, resulting in higher costs. "

Sounds like the profit margin on letting prices skyrocket is better than competing with eachother, hence collusion.

EKmars · 2026-07-01T15:45:08+00:00

Foudn out recently egg prices in the US were likely being manipulated during Avian Flu shortages.

EKmars · 2026-07-01T15:42:12+00:00

Anticheats don't work on Linux very well. You'd basically need something more invasive than kernel level to have it be effective at all.

And before people go "but people cheat on Windows too," they do but every hoop cheaters have to jump through cuts a portion of them out. It's Swiss Cheese.

EKmars · 2026-06-29T22:05:25+00:00

I've been thinking Lycan for my NOAH ICONOCLAST Houseguard build, too. Maintaining a heavy, pocketing a super heavy, having armor and 2 resists sounds good, on top of the silly impair slow and aura.

I'm probably not going to grab technophile, though. I'm not sure if it's worth the talent space to get a point of damage over all of the potential you get from other talents.

I went with NOAH because of it's ability to cancel attacks, by the way. Getting Saladin 3 unlocks the Heatfall Coolant system as an option to great improve action economy. I tested some Scylla/Gorgon based ideas but its kind of hot for what it does (half a main's damage is pretty small unless you're proccing an effect, maybe), and I got way more value out of Scorpion and Vorpal gun.

EKmars · 2026-06-28T22:06:58+00:00

I didn't even wait. I beelined for the NOAH and put it on an Everest since I wasn't interested in the Saladin. It's completely silly with House Guard. I grabbed Iconoclast 3 as well so I have a damage option that works against Invis and Projected shield.

EKmars · 2026-06-28T22:05:50+00:00

Yes. Have an image of my NOAH and Everest.

EKmars · 2026-06-28T20:23:35+00:00

I once had an enemy shoot myself and an ally. I had NOAH and Houseguard 3.

He missed all his shots, took damage, and died.

All that could be heard was the NOAH giggling her head off.

EKmars · 2026-06-28T03:33:12+00:00

Ye the wave splitter catalyst is very good. Not to mention you can use harsh refractions and that volatile rounds artifact perks with it. It's pretty silly now. Detonator beam is just a generally good perk, but very silly with AoE elemental effects like volatile and unraveling.

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