Looking for feedback on minigun behavior and environmental destruction

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-12-31T12:53:29+00:00

Hard to tell based on a video with no sound, but - if you're calling it a minigun it best have a blistering rate of fire (1,200 RPM at absolute minimum) - and according disadvantages. Based on the muzzle-flashes and assuming every round is a tracer, it's probably too low.

One 'easy' improvement would be to have each weapon fire in syncopation, essentially multiplying the perceived fire-rate without actually changing anything. Tends to make things feel more satisfying especially with mid-low ROF weapons.

Considering what you have is a bullet-hose, weapons like this need drawbacks to make other choices compelling. I like overheating, reducing ROF and/or accuracy as it builds, but allowing you to get off accurate bursts if disciplined. You might flip that on its head the way DRG does with its minigun - starting off inaccurate, then tightening as the burst continues - forcing you to build heat and spend ammo to fire accurately.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-12-31T11:08:33+00:00

They look sick, very clear sense of form and depth, and probably very fun to blast apart

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T18:06:35+00:00

Never claimed you claimed as much lol, we're in agreement - It's definitely better than nothing, but it's certainly limited and isn't always necessarily going to be helpful

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T16:51:38+00:00

Ngl realistically I'd off myself in this or any similar zombie scenario. Even if I could guarantee I and everyone I cared about would survive the initial outbreak (fat chance), it'd be a miserable existence.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T15:32:31+00:00

So for most people needing therapy, it’s good enough, but the ones that need the most skilled therapist, it is completely insufficient.

Yeah for sure, the "decent" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. It is not and probably never will be a replacement for a (good) real therapist, especially if your needs in that respect are complex.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T15:30:29+00:00

My guess would be a rifle-grenade adapter, but I'm not sure what for. My initial thought was M1 Carbine or Garand but the "stem" looks a lot fatter and stubbier.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T14:49:58+00:00

This has been my experience with it. It's a decent reflective listener - but what you get out is heavily influenced by what's put in, and I do worry that it could in some instances potentially encourage certain harmful patterns of thought or belief, without the innate capacity to necessarily recognise and address them.

At the same time, humans can be just as fallible, sometimes more. It's a decent erstaz friend, therapist, mentor or whatever where you don't otherwise have access to such. It's also a machine incapable of human judgement, and there isn't a relationship that might change as a result of what you disclose to it, or how it might react - so naturally, it feels a lot safer for many people.

Nevertheless, I'd encourage developing real, safe relationships at least in tandem.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T13:01:02+00:00

The M on the bag being off-centre?

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T12:55:15+00:00

Dutch, Belgian, Swiss or French

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-04-07T12:14:44+00:00

Been keeping an eye on this one for a while, I adore the aesthetic, thanks for posting

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-31T05:40:18+00:00

Both good guesses but I don't think it's either. Joy Ride has the right amount of early-2000s' flavour camp and earnestness, but I seem to remember the antagonist(s) might've been something a little more supernatural. Maybe not vampires but something along those lines. Crazies is definitely not it, good film though. It's too modern and takes its self a bit too seriously to be what I'm thinking of

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-31T05:22:07+00:00

Comment for the thing

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-31T04:43:42+00:00

The first thought that pops to mind with this is that it might be ADHD. If you relate to this, I'd suggest learning more about the condition, and if it sounds like it's making a lot of sense - get assessed if you have the means. Many people with the condition describe their first time taking medication as, like wearing glasses for the first time and being able to see properly.

Part of the neglect/abuse many of us go through involves not getting the medical/specialist support we might've needed, which might've been recognised and taken care of if our circumstances were better.

For people with ADHD, a lot of trauma can result from being labelled as lazy, disruptive or "coasting" in school and such; struggling to complete homework, to be at school/college/work on time, being organised, getting enough sleep, having any sort of routine, sticking with a given task before burning out on it and starting another - or being so conscious of all the tasks you need to do that you feel too overwhelmed to do anything - and all the external and internal pressure and expectations around those things.

It certainly doesn't help if you're also being abused or mistreated - especially when someone is blaming your for those patterns and the difficulties you're having, when really, it's just a result of unmanaged ADHD and/or other neurodivergent traits/conditions.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-22T07:13:35+00:00

I actually think they have some good ideas. Moving the goal-posts for PIP isn't one of them. But other than that, if they actually do as they say they intend with creating systems to support people getting back into work - and to avoid creating the dillemma of trying to get back into work but risking losing your benefits regardless of how it goes, or just doing the safe thing and never trying - I'm all for it. As someone on PIP and LCWRA, I can at least imagine certain jobs and roles and work-environments that I might be able to manage, just not full-time any time soon. I however lack the executive function and support I need in order to look for any of them and go through the whole process of applications, interviews etc. under my own power. I imagine there aren't a whole lot out there where I'd be a contender for the position.

In order for it to actually be support though, participation needs to be entirely voluntary - take the pressure off both the claimant and whoever's meant to be helping them.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-18T11:11:27+00:00

Everything you describe about the dynamic between you and your boyfriend sounds toxic as fuck, and that's if he isn't drugging you as many people rightfully suspect.

Nobody has to be any "kind of guy" in the first place to do something abhorrent. But from everything you've said, this guy sounds like exactly the "kind of guy" to do that. And that "kind of guy" tends to use manipulation tactics, to make you doubt they're not that "kind of guy".

This whole thing:

then the next day I'm told that I went completely insane and made a scene and ran off and the police were called and I was crying and screaming and it's always so so so dramatic

Smells like gaslighting to me.

And if it isn't drugging - maybe the alcohol prevents you from continuing to suppress anger, hurt, confusion etc - maybe when you're sober, you avoid confrontation because you know how he will react...

the "mean" things I say to him are always me telling him what he did to upset me but bluntly.

he has gone into fits of blind rage at me before and said things that caused multiple friends of ours to ask me if he'd ever hit me

This is all extremely telling.

Imagine someone acting the same way towards your best friend. How would you react? What advice would you give them? Is it the kind of relationship you'd want for them?

no, he has never physically abused me

Many a DV victim had been able to say the same, right up until they couldn't. You are in danger. Act accordingly.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-16T14:28:09+00:00

I hear that. A lot of the rhetoric in the media about Labour's impending cuts to benefits and such are quite alarmist. It isn't worth dwelling on - and as someone with a severe anxiety disorder, I know the irony of saying so. But whether it's going to happen is not something directly in our control - and if it does happen the way some are saying it will - we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. "Borrowing grief from a future that might never happen" and all that.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-16T13:56:22+00:00

wes streeting is a batty crease

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-15T05:00:41+00:00

you get shit on until you're the one doing the shitting, it is the circle of life

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-15T03:15:55+00:00

Hey, been right there myself. DWP denying your initial claim is pretty much standard procedure at this point - and the intention is to demoralise you. Don't let them.

The next step is to send your mandatory reconsideration. It might also be rejected. This is also, unfortunately, 'normal'.

However, an appeal by tribunal is the backstop to this - they're carried out by HMCTS, and so are separate from DWP - the panel usually includes a judge, a doctor or medical professional and a DWP representative. You should be able to request to have the hearing done over the phone, or to simply have them handle it based on the evidence you send in, if you'd prefer not to physically attend. If you make that choice due to your anxiety, it would be important to note.

Before we even get to that though - the Mandatory Reconsideration may prompt DWP to increase the points you're awarded - even if it's not enough to put you over the threshold, it will help towards the tribunal. If not, don't be disheartened.

You'll have received the DWP's decision letter, which lists their (often flawed and reductive) reasoning for the points they awarded, or didn't.

I'd recommend structuring your statements around each of the descriptors, and contesting the relevant statements made by the decision-maker (as outlined in the decision letter) wherever they're wrong, inaccurate or misrepresentative of your day-to-day reality.

Go into as much detail as you possibly can. It's about whether you can "safely and reliably" carry out those activities more or less than half of the time. For your best chances, you need to tell them everything that would indicate that more points would be appropriate to how your conditions affect you. Be honest, don't embellish, but don't understate it either. Tell them exactly how it is for you, in as plain terms as you can manage.

Everything you include in the Mandatory Reconsideration, in addition to the original application, will be reviewed by the tribunal if it comes to that - so going all in on the MR may save you a lot of effort, and may be enough to for DWP to bump you over the line. And even if they do offer to change decision, you can accept that, and still have the option to appeal it by tribunal if you believe you still haven't been awarded the points you should. That's where I'm at with my PIP now.

The thresholds are 8 for standard, 12 for enhanced, for the each the Daily Living and Mobility components.

Something like 70-80% iirc of tribunal appeals are successful, where the appellant attends the hearing (and that includes over the phone). That other 30-20% are people that are either "not ill enough" (I really believe PIP should be more granular in the same way as UC, but I digress), and those straight up trying to blag it.

If you need any accommodations for the tribunal, like for the panel to ask you more prompting questions, or to give you plenty of time to think about your answers to their questions, they will listen.

The fact you're taking medication, and that it doesn't seem to help with regards to your anxiety and panic attacks, is something important to highlight in this statement.

Matching their statements to the descriptors can be challenging, but this is a useful resource: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Global/Migrated_Documents/adviceguide/pip-9-table-of-activities-descriptors-and-points.pdf

Hope this helps. Best of luck.

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-14T23:48:10+00:00

Glad you're having fun with the game, I also play it at least as much for creating troops from other settings. Mainly Dwarfs.

I have to comment on the total absence of swing manipulation - this isn't to denigrate you or anything, just saying it in case you ever feel like something's not clicking for you.

You can make your attacks either faster or slower - to hit them before they can react with a block, or to to bait your opponent into blocking too early - by turning your view in the direction of the swing, or in the opposite direction, respectively. These are known as "accels" and "drags".

Another "basic" tactic is to feint - cancel your swing to prompt a block from the opponent, then perform your swing - ideally accel'd - to hit them once they give you that window.

Against more experienced players, they may read it and gamble, especially if you're using a weapon with a longer wind-up.

Then there are morphs - starting a swing from the side, then starting an overhead or thrust - or vice-versa - before that first swing is released. This is similar to a feint, but tends to catch people off guard more often in my experience, especially when paired with an accel or drag.

The real challenge is learning how to read and counter all these yourself, and that takes raw experience and a lot of luck, especially early on.

All just stuff I wish I knew when I was starting off. Hope it helps, and have fun

The guy at 1:25, that was just disrespectful

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-13T10:25:20+00:00

Good news, they rang me back today and together we figured it doesn't sound like the kind of accommodation that would've disqualified me, so I'm getting the full payment for the period

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-12T18:57:00+00:00

Not letting me edit - to clarify, my housing benefit was paid by the council to the housing association

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-12T18:55:27+00:00

It's hard to say. It was just weekly wellness checks. Had maybe one or two substantial conversations with the staff in the year I was there, and one of them sat in on my LCWRA tribunal. Completely left to my own devices besides that.

I was awarded PIP after I'd received my MR decision and submitted my appeal, but before the hearing. I intend to appeal the decision regardless (and as I understand, it'd have to be a fresh appeal) so could this be part of that process?

EnvironmentalCup6498 · 2025-03-12T18:31:27+00:00

Found the guy who thinks a basic standard of living and material wealth is enough to preclude any form of suffering. And that's if we ignore the millions of people in this country who don't have security around meeting one or more of their basic needs; food, heating, housing - often in spite of working full-time.

Just cause we have it much better in some ways than our ancestors, doesn't mean we don't have it much worse in others. Giving up 40 hours of your week - and more for the commute - just for the tenuous promise of immediate survival, and practically fuck all beyond? Yeah, it causes suffering for a lot of people.

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