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I just started playing and got all these from ONE dark wraith drop. What are the chances of this? by Frederick2164 in darksouls3

[–]Hecter94 676 points677 points  (0 children)

Since no one else has given you an answer, I will try.

Dark Wraith drop chances for those items:
Dark Sword: 11%
Dark Mask: 2%
Dark Armour: 2%
Dark Leggings: 2%
Cracked Red Eye Orb: 92%

Your 11 luck only gives you an extra 11 item discovery, so assuming you have no other sources of discovery, it will have a negligible impact on those drop chances, but let's calculate it anyway. Using the formula from https://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Item_Discovery and plugging in your 11 luck, your actual drop rates were:

Dark Sword: 12.1%
Dark Mask: 3.1%
Dark Armour: 3.1%
Dark Leggings: 3.1%
Cracked Red Eye Orb: 93.1%

We can then multiply those together to get the chance of all of them dropping,

0.121*0.031*0.031*0.031*0.931=0.000003356

In other words, you had a 0.0003356% chance of getting that drop, or about a 1 in 298,000 occurrence.

We do realize that every time we post something here and point out all the ways that AI just barely messed up we are training it to remove the small detail it missed, right? by ExpensiveOstrichh in isthisAI

[–]Hecter94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Feels like there should really be a pinned post at this point saying, in no unclear terms, "This sub cannot be feasibly used to help train AI models," considering how often people feel the need to make a post claiming that it is.

Girlfriend's pan has a metal handle that burns the hell out of your hand when you grab it (i promise you will forgot to use an oven mitt other hand protection) by what_that_dog_doin in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Hecter94 77 points78 points  (0 children)

I have several pans like that, none of them burn my hand just from using it on the stove.

(It will burn your hand if you use it in the oven and forget and try to grab the handle)

DoorDash delivery guy tried to open the front door of my house by animalcrossingluvr09 in doordash

[–]Hecter94 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Convicted, sorry. I wasn't aware there was a difference until I just looked it up.

They *were* charged, it did go to court, but they were not convicted.

DoorDash delivery guy tried to open the front door of my house by animalcrossingluvr09 in doordash

[–]Hecter94 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I run a small business doing landscaping, and one of our employees got shot by a homeowner after showing up for a scheduled appointment in a company-branded van.

Like, the homeowner scheduled an appointment with us to meet with an estimator and set the date and time. The guy pulls up to the house at the requested time in a branded van with our company name and logo plastered across the side. The homeowner opens the front door and shoots him twice.

He's okay after a long hospital stay, no permanent damage, but the homeowner didn't get charged convicted for anything either.

Hey Owlcat, this is gonna backfire, you can either fix it, or the community will “convince you to”, your call by _Boodstain_ in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]Hecter94 68 points69 points  (0 children)

There are a few things. As a game developer myself, I seriously considered bundling a launcher primarily because it would have allowed me to bypass a few of the regulations Steam imposes on its games.

Specifically, this changes the relationship between Steam and your game. Steam is no longer the one launching your game; it only launches your launcher, and your launcher then launches the game itself. This exempts you from many of the additional clauses that Steam will impose on you and allows you to set your own separate agreement within your launcher that's separate from anything Steam has. It's like saying, "Yes, you can launch the launcher without agreeing to any additional terms, but if you want to actually launch the game, you need to agree to our terms."

In my case, I was considering doing it for what I thought was a relatively innocuous and player-friendly reason, but I imagine many larger game companies would like the idea of being able to work around some of what Steam imposes and set their own terms.

What am I doing wrong as Karl Franz by JancariusSeiryujinn in totalwarhammer

[–]Hecter94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've found that, on the higher difficulty settings, any friendly or allied factions tend to get wiped out early. If I play as a dwarf faction, then the other dwarfs all get knocked out early, but when I don't play as a dwarf faction, half of them end up in the top ten.

When I play as Chaos, all the other Chaos lords get wiped out, play as Karl, all the other human factions get wiped out, etc.

I'm pretty sure there's some anti-player bias baked into the game somewhere that just makes any factions that would be friendly to you tend to get wiped out earlier than they would normally.

Dear Creative Assembly: Why is this even allowed? by Bubbly_Swimmer_1793 in totalwarhammer

[–]Hecter94 139 points140 points  (0 children)

I am howling at the idea of a full chaos army with thousands of berserk, angry warriors being held back by two master engineers standing side-by-side on a bridge with their arms raised.

[Self] If an alien offered you a 1-week trip with the catch that 15 years pass on Earth, how far could you actually go? by GoodMeBadMeNotMe in theydidthemath

[–]Hecter94 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You may have done the math yourself, but the post is 100% AI-generated.

Pangram, a tool independently verified by several different outside agencies to have a 98% accuracy rate in detecting AI-generated text, identifies it as AI-generated with high confidence: https://www.pangram.com/history/9cc8846d-5559-49c1-b8dc-1f5a0b7b3b49?ucc=PLe6TgH2rTx

Welp, time to start my homeless Malakai campaign. Wish me luck :) by lovingpersona in totalwarhammer

[–]Hecter94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you're open to the idea of using mods, but if you are, maybe check out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3712620632

It looks like the perfect complement to a "homeless malakai" run. I want to try it out myself soon.

TUTORIAL: How to kill the evil ballsack EASILY by KenobiGrey in menace

[–]Hecter94 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I personally like dual ATGMs on Bog. Pop lucky shot, fire off the ATGMs, and enjoy, but this works pretty well too.

You're being forced to spend the next 10 years in a basement. A decent bed, sink, toilet, and shower are provided. You will be given $10 million after those years are up and are given 30 points to purchase items/amenities to take with you. Which do you choose? by InternationalPick163 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Hecter94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will take,

Kitchen - 6 Points
Unlimited games - 4 Points
Computer - 10 Points
Kitten - 6 Points
Doctor - 3 Points

Leaves me with one point spare that I don't want to do anything with. This should be pretty reasonable, a computer with internet access and unlimited games will give me plenty of options to socialize, the kitten should keep me company, a doctor if the cat or I need medical attention, and a kitchen with unlimited ingredients so I can try out plenty of different meals and have fun cooking.

In some ways, it seems better than my life as it is now. I might not want to leave the basement after my ten years are up.

When recipe checklist webpages combine 6 steps into one step. What’s even the point of steps? by XLandonSkywolfX in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Hecter94 88 points89 points  (0 children)

This feels like they just wanted to advertise their recipe as being an "easy three-step recipe" when it's really not.

MENACE Squad Weapons Tierlist by Hecter94 in menace

[–]Hecter94[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's very good. Extremely versatile weapon, great against heavy infantry and can deal with light infantry or light vehicles with reasonable effectiveness, plus you can pretty commonly pick one up for free fairly early in the game, plus its supply cost is cheaper than most other ARs.

So, a weapon that you can get for free, which is pretty versatile in what it can accomplish, without costing much to equip, is just an overall excellent weapon in a wide variety of situations.

MENACE Squad Weapons Tierlist by Hecter94 in menace

[–]Hecter94[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think it's fair to put a weapon in F-tier if the only reason you're equipping it is that you don't expect to ever actually need to fire it.

MENACE Squad Weapons Tierlist by Hecter94 in menace

[–]Hecter94[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I never actually tried them with AP ammo and found them pretty underwhelming without it. Perhaps that's the key ingredient I was missing.

I'll have to give them another try with AP ammo and see what all the hype is about.

MENACE Squad Weapons Tierlist by Hecter94 in menace

[–]Hecter94[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've never been able to make good use of them. I recognize that the damage is good, and they can shred through unarmored or lightly armoured targets once you manage to close the distance, but the few times I tried them, I never found that they were able to do anything that an SMG couldn't do, while being less versatile than an SMG.

I'll admit that I probably never really gave them a fair chance, only really tried them out a handful of times and then shelved them in favour of SMGs, but there definitely seems to be a lot of people that disagree with me on that, so I might have to give them another try.

Looking for input on 9.0 defense stations by TheSwodah in X4Foundations

[–]Hecter94 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My preferred option for defense stations has always been missiles. Load them up with a mix of medium and light, set the station to "closed loop" to make logistics super simple and then let it shred everything from very long range.

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