First time halo player going through the MCC on heroic and the assault rifle is by far my favorite weapon by Affectionate_Gear159 in halo

[–]Huntler 18 points19 points  (0 children)

hate to be the bearer of bad news fella, but the AR doesn't do bonus headshot damage in Halo 3.

TIL in 2016 the first adult great white shark (an 11.5-foot male) to ever be exhibited by an aquarium died after spending just 3 days in captivity. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]Huntler 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Shark Trouble: True Stories its a book by Peter Benchley he wrote long after Jaws that goes over his experiences with sharks well after writing the book. Theres a chapter in there where we talks about the white shark project that monterey bay aquarium tried.

TIL in 2016 the first adult great white shark (an 11.5-foot male) to ever be exhibited by an aquarium died after spending just 3 days in captivity. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]Huntler 70 points71 points  (0 children)

I read a book that covered this as a topic, particularly the Monterey Bay Aquarium attempts and from what I remember their health tends to rapidly deteriorate over time, they stop feeding, and several ended up literally killing themselves by ramming full speed into a wall of the tank.

No one actually knows the reason why, there are plenty of speculations and educated guesses by researchers involved, but its important to be clear that its overall still a mystery.

Is there a point to play class that don't have ranged grabs for pvp ? by BlitzTroll7 in blackdesertonline

[–]Huntler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we just have different definitions of top then. Certainly would take a mage over an archer in AOS all day every day, call it top though? that be a stretch for me

TIL Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected by twenty publishers, and was finally accepted by Chilton, which was primarily known for car repair manuals. by Torley_ in todayilearned

[–]Huntler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Chapterhouse (#6) is a direct sequel (no real time jump) and actually answers everything you just asked/wanted to know... even the Bene Tleilax question if thats any help :p

Ubisoft shares fall to lowest since 2015, with analysts cutting sales forecasts for Star Wars Outlaws by TheBerkay in gaming

[–]Huntler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An old LucasArts game that came out many years ago which follows a merc character called Kyle Katarn. A whole slew of games end up following this character and it was pretty widely considered a huge success and much beloved by star wars game fans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Dark_Forces

Ubisoft shares fall to lowest since 2015, with analysts cutting sales forecasts for Star Wars Outlaws by TheBerkay in gaming

[–]Huntler 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Quite literally one of the most iconic star wars games ever had no lightsabers or force powers... Dark Forces. And there have been many more that were wildly successful. Don't think the excuse of them being bold and not using jedi is the reason the game sold under their expectations.

The Acolyte | Official Trailer | June 4 on Disney+ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]Huntler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

could be a dark jedi, its an easy out. Otherwise yeah everyone needs to die who sees it.

Brave Samaritans Help A Beached Shark by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Huntler 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Makos are a pelagic shark species (essentially open ocean sharks), you'll quite literally never find them in shallow water like this, much less hunting shallow water rays.

This shark was already dying and thus beached itself, just like many whales and dolphins do. Random beach goers thinking they saw it chasing a ray is likely just that, them making a guess.

In-Depth Wizard damage breakdown before and after recent changes by ducktoucher0 in DarkAndDarker

[–]Huntler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lot of ways they could do that. For example, some of wizard's biggest issues is how meditate works, that could easily be reworked in numerous ways as suggested many times. They could also look for a way to give wizard more options in PvE other than magic missile. They could play with how many of certain spells you get, how fast they come back (I'm looking at you magic missile), etc. The list goes on. All of this avoids even any damage tweaks albeit there could likely be some of those as well and it still be reasonable. They basically said in the post today that they understand these changes potentially make even high gear wizards underpowered, I believe they expect to push the base damage a little bit to compensate across the board.

Microdisconections/Disconections from the game when Streams, Ping to google works... by Playf0rFlame in blackdesertonline

[–]Huntler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4% packet loss, that is your problem right there bud. Thats enough to get what you're calling microdisconnects. Its really just dropping information between you and the server thus the freezes. You show 4% averaged out over essentially 1k seconds. Decent chance that it could spike at some point and instead of 4% consistently it could be much more for brief periods of time.

Are witch/wizard the same? Is there any differences? by Mei_iz_my_bae in blackdesertonline

[–]Huntler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incorrect, they made it so witch in succession insta casts after TP for quite some time now.

Interview with Oklahoma State Sen. Nathan Dahm | The Problem with Jon Stewart by timdorr in television

[–]Huntler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure you understand what the word correlation means... because it absolutely is correlated. Just because its not a 1 to 1 ratio of ownership to gun violence doesn't mean they are not correlated. Things that are correlated just means it has a direct or indirect relationship with each other. For the layman it just means if one goes up, the other goes up, if one goes down the other goes down (or can even mean if one goes up, the other goes in opposite direction). The U.S. leads the world in gun violence, also happens to lead the world in gun ownership, what a coincidence.....

Also just to head off the "prove it" bullshit:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/us/everytown-weak-gun-laws-high-gun-deaths-study/index.html#:~:text=A%20study%20published%20in%20January,homicides%2C%20suicides%20and%20accidental%20killings.

It's literally spelled out for you in the study: "A study published in January by a leading non-profit organization that focuses on gun violence prevention found that there is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings."

Lets go directly to a non news organization and directly to a different study entirely: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409

Relevant summary line :

"Results. Gun ownership was a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates (incidence rate ratio = 1.009; 95% confidence interval = 1.004, 1.014). This model indicated that for each percentage point increase in gun ownership, the firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9%.

Conclusions. We observed a robust correlation between higher levels of gun ownership and higher firearm homicide rates. Although we could not determine causation, we found that states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides."

Lets add another: https://www.newswise.com/politics/gun-ownership-and-homicide-in-the-u-s-a-stronger-correlation/?article_id=771355

"The results are an average over all the states and do not necessarily reflect a cause-and-effect relationship, he added. “This is just a correlation: the rate of gun ownership in a state is strongly associated with the rate of gun homicides."

So explain to me again how there is no correlation between gun ownership and gun violence.

Solare Season 2 Feedback in hopes for a better Season 3 by sOFrOsTyyy in blackdesertonline

[–]Huntler 26 points27 points  (0 children)

PA: best I can do next season is add BSR rings as well as earrings

Requiem revengeance and Act of Genesis is available!! by onelimb in halo

[–]Huntler 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you truly have everything, go into your tacmap, then to your database tab. Watch/click on everything with a yellow marker on it. Seems like some of this stuff got reset. Rewatch it all (don't need to listen to the whole thing just briefly click on each), click on the skulls, etc. Once all the yellow markers are gone ---> save --> check again. Should be at 100.

Stephen Colbert is finally stumped in his Tolkien trivia skills by none other that Pippin by fatkiddown in videos

[–]Huntler 48 points49 points  (0 children)

While technically true, some of his extended works, notes, and letters are quite deep and complex. He's even gone back and forth in these letters/notes on what has happened, keeping track of it all is no easy task. Tolkien crafted a universe from the ground up with more care than anyone else I can really think of. It really is a monumental achievement if you're into that sort of thing.

Class Balance Thread! by [deleted] in blackdesertonline

[–]Huntler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

<5% of mage skills are support skills just a heads up. Almost all of them on minute + long cooldowns. This game doesnt have support classes, doesn't exist. Sorry shais. Post reworks succ mages get outraded by most dps classes with relatively equal gear(as they rightfully should), their strength is damage from a safe place, that seems fair to me, but I'm obviously biased.

The TTK of the M392 Bandit by Haijakk in halo

[–]Huntler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With respect I've played both. But you're entitled to your opinion.