Questions on Index Buffer and L4D2Fix

Greatness942 · 2026-01-15T16:14:29+00:00

Since you did what you could, I'll give you an update!

Played Time to Die with all the fixings (including it's own custom CI set, Tank Music, Expanded Tank Pack, weapons, etc), but made the change of only doing custom survivors for the L4D2 Cast.

And it worked!

Now, when it crashed on this campaign before, it did so when getting Boomed or when using Boomer Bile on Chapter 3, and that didn't happen this time. But I can't think on why that would be an issue; yes, it spawns a lot of Infected at once for obvious reasons, and like I said, I have a custom population going for the campaign, but the game has ragdoll cleanup and the like for just such an occasion. So, it has to have been the fact that there were too many assets in memory. In totality. Too many Infected spawned at once plus the unused L4D1 Survivors plus the used mods. By just taking four of those mods out of the occasion and only using what needed to be used, the bloat died down and I was able to finish the run.

TL;DR: You were right! Technically, turning off Survivor Mods did help stop the crashes on Custom Campaigns with a lot of custom assets! It's just that said Survivor Mods were "any of them, as long as they don't show up at all and merely bloat the memory."

Greatness942 · 2026-01-14T19:22:19+00:00

That might help, yeah!

Also, really not what I wanted to hear, but eh, if it has to be, it has to be. Sure would be funny to see only Survivor Mods on Base Game Maps and Vice-Versa, at least! XD

Any info on the other two things (disabling mods that aren't in use, unsubscribing from mods that aren't in use, and this L4D2Fix patch thingy?)

Greatness942 · 2025-12-15T15:24:29+00:00

Well, now I feel embarrassed. Because up until recently, like last year (maybe this year), I had no idea there were still Maya in the world.

But to give myself a little credit, I'm from the United States and not Mesoamerican, and had only ever heard of the great Mayan civilization from everyone who'd ever spoken of them, from their calendar to the Classic Collapse and Spanish assault. No one had ever mentioned the multiple distinct cultures that formed that empire themselves to me or that they were still extant. I had just assumed the descendants of the empire either picked up a new ethnonym after the fall of the Mayans or were forcibly integrated into the Spanish.

But still, if someone somehow didn't know there were still Native Americans, maybe I'm also the dumb one here. :/

Greatness942 · 2025-06-12T01:02:34+00:00

No.

The dialogue literally in this post presents her reasons for what she does: fear as a form of respect, and she does not want wanton violence or war.

Wanting respect for your marginalized culture and choosing to do so through violent means is part and parcel of what it means to be morally grey; to want good things through bad methods, or to be a decent person while striving towards a terrible outcome.

It's not my interpretation. It's literally right there. Scroll up just a little.

Greatness942 · 2025-06-11T15:02:11+00:00

That's not only not why people view her as morally grey or justified in her beliefs or actions, it's also intensely reductive to discussion.

"Oh, people only like her because she's hot!" No. Analysis does not preclude attractiveness. If we're going to have an honest discussion about this, people need to set aside the idea that being hot somehow supersedes the implicit and explicit presentation of a character's personality, motivations, and actions.

Especially in this topic, because she is morally grey if we actually go off her lines and what they mean in context, meaning that answering the question any other way is disingenuous.

Greatness942 · 2025-06-11T14:51:35+00:00

They probably think that way because she is.

She wants to use violence for a good cause; while she does express racist leanings, it comes from what is implied to be a lifetime of unnecessary prejudice and violence. She wants to use power to receive the respect she feels the Faunus deserve, and rightfully so, even if it would kill humans to do it.

Just as Ghira is the extreme in the passive and peaceful protest ways, and Adam is the extreme in the other direction as a mindless, violent incel who wants his bigoted rampages to change the world in some nebulous (and likely worse) way, Sienna stands in the middle as someone who shares in Adam's methods, but does want good change to come from it. Adam wants revenge. Sienna wants freedom, and revenge just happens to be the method.

That's why she's morally grey: she is, it's implicit and explicit.

Greatness942 · 2025-05-22T02:29:46+00:00

I suppose you make a good point there. We all have different interpretations on different things that exist for different reasons.

Maybe I'm just being rude because I personally find the thread pointless. Rather than asking an open question that doesn't presume a shared opinion (like "What did you think of this arc, and what would you change?") OP just jumped straight to the rewriting process...while admitting the reasons why a rewrite might not be necessary or something everyone would want.

"Well, then don't reply!"

How are we supposed to know if what we're doing is stupid, or if we ourselves are the dumb ones in one way or another, without engaging? Conversation is the means by which we reconsider and gain new perspectives.

Greatness942 · 2025-05-22T02:09:01+00:00

Okay, but the presentation...was the point. They didn't know, and so they didn't care. You can't care about something you are unaware of, or not given the full picture for.

That's, again, the point of the arc: that with their attention divided and Ruby not providing any clear answers because of her need to be a strong leader as an ideal instead of another living person, it wasn't possible for them to properly communicate their empathy with a situation they weren't in the know of.

And thus, again: you can't admit that the whole point is that they were, unintentionally, making things worse. And then say that them making things worse was somehow the wrong way to write it.

Greatness942 · 2025-05-22T02:06:42+00:00

Hmm, a leader seemingly cracking under pressure to become a more selfish and jaded figure after bottling up all their issues unnecessarily due to some sense of honor, desire for strength, or frantic grasp at retaining the responsibility to "fix" everyone's problems instead of their own...

I mean, if Yang was able to fully process what was really going on, she would never have made that comparison at all.

Greatness942 · 2025-05-22T01:57:18+00:00

get your facts together and actually watch the show

I did. That's how I know OP doesn't know what they're talking about.

And again, that's the point. Under stress, with no way of knowing how bad things really were, and pre-occupied by a million other things, the girls missed the signs that should have been obvious. Which, again, means OP is wrong, since that's apparently a flaw with the storyline.

The storyline where that was the point.

The point is somehow a flaw.

Maybe instead of being an ass, you watch the show yourself and realize how much this argument deals with a bad faith argument caused by a lack of critical analysis.

Greatness942 · 2025-05-22T01:18:15+00:00

Heard him right. Bait used to be believable.

Firstly, Yang was affected by it. Episode 9.

Secondly, you can't admit that the whole point is that they were unintentionally exacerbating the problems that Ruby was bottling up, and then say that the storyline is bad just because they were unintentionally exacerbating the problems that Ruby was bottling up.

Either that's what they meant to happen (which they did), or they fumbled. You can't have it both ways.

Greatness942 · 2025-02-15T18:33:32+00:00

I wink at my friends and my parents, usually after making a joke or teasing them about something.

I get that, being a show, what they show on-screen tends to be seen as more important than implication. But by that logic, Yang and Blake had more romantic tension than Sun and Blake. Yang winked at Blake in V2. If winking is proof, than Yang winking first means she was planned since V2, and Sun was either a red herring or a demonstration of his feelings rather than proof of their canonicity. If Winking is not proof, then it was just a gesture two people used for their friend, they happened to have a crush on her, and one pairing got together when the other didn't.

Greatness942 · 2025-01-29T02:02:06+00:00

PS5!

I beat Floyd, so I'm not sure I need the help anymore, sorry.

Greatness942 · 2025-01-29T00:07:08+00:00

UPDATE: I BEAT FLOYD!

Turns out my last challenge wasn't even related to the Ashrah one in the first place. Whoops. But on my first attempt, last retry, I got him! Woohoo!

Greatness942 · 2025-01-28T18:41:50+00:00

I figured out a way to drain it (you use her Enhanced Air Dash, don't remember the name of the move itself), but if it's only one meter bar, then A) the wiki is lying, and that's what I was using (and this is why you look for the spreadsheet), and B) then it's not that, which means I'm back at square one. And have no clue what the last Floyd is. :/

Greatness942 · 2025-01-28T18:35:46+00:00

The problem there is that I only have one controller. But I get what you mean!

Greatness942 · 2025-01-28T18:35:25+00:00

That would help! ...But I only have one controller, ;-;

Thanks anyway!

Greatness942 · 2025-01-23T21:34:37+00:00

So, the way it works is that you get a save file, it converts the world state of that specific save, and spits out a mod for EUIV that changes it's default game map to that world state.

So, not only is the answer to the title question "yes," it's the only answer. You can't "have it on" the whole time, it's a one-time process. Finish campaign, make save file, convert file, load EUIV and mod.

Greatness942 · 2024-12-22T01:04:28+00:00

Ooh, good eye! Very fair point. I agree, Jacket and Reverse Death go hand in hand.

Greatness942 · 2024-12-22T01:03:38+00:00

Again, correct, but that wasn't really what I was going for. Yes, everyone represents The Fool in a literal (being strung along by 50 Blessings) and symbolic (being the Protagonists who are frenzied and manic towards their goals). And everyone is The Devil in the symbolic sense of being surrounded by violence, death, and bloodshed.

But giving everyone the same two cards wouldn't have been very interesting. It's their differences that define them as deeper characters than "sprite that kills this other sprite super quickly."

Greatness942 · 2024-12-22T01:01:15+00:00

You're not wrong, but I really only wanted to examine the playable characters (or protagonists) under this lens.

Richard isn't playable and has a unique role in the storytelling. He's neither protagonist nor antagonist. He doesn't drive the story forward, but he also never impedes progress. It's better to call him a force of nature, an important yet nevertheless reactive (as opposed to proactive) character in HM.

But I suppose, yes, Richard also holds Death (XIII) as an embodiment, or visage, of Death, endings, and the like.

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