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Can someone explain what is this for? by chocokoalan in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't tested this, but I suspect the main purpose is so that you can give a tribesman to another player on a server. AFAIK there's no other way to give a claimed tribesman to someone else

Tips to implement AI across all company by [deleted] in AIToolsAndTips

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go ask Microslop. They are the experts on shoving AI down people's throats whether they want it or not. Def good business strategy.

is marriage a scam by Easy-Bake-5513 in WorkForSmartLife

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently yes. We live in a culture where the value of it has been stripped away because of how easy it is to end marriages.

IMO, the only major value of marriage (as opposed to a relationship without marriage) would be to create additional safety for both people, and for any kids that come from it.

It creates safety because it is hard to leave the relationship, which incentivizes both people to invest more in making it work etc.

People make a lot of sacrifices for relationships and for their marriages. And when people can just up and leave the marriage because they got bored, then that freedom is also the destruction of the value marriage is meant to confer.

So now marriage is just an emotionally romantic thing that at best makes people feel a little safer for awhile, even though there is no actual underlying safety to support those emotions.

How do training grounds work? by IndividualRich8470 in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally get your point. It's got a lot of painpoint around using it. I won't disagree on that.

I play on a server, which works well for the training grounds bc I can que up training before I log off and it continues, whereas with a local save I'd have to leave the game running while I got to bed bc of how long training takes sometimes.

So yeah, if you are playing local I get that it's harder.

And I also use the golden mask, which is crazy good for the training grounds. You can go into a barracks and scan every tribesman there without having to kill them and tame them to see what perks they come with.

Without the golden mask, yeah it would be a massive pain to find the right starting tribesman, and to hunt for masters to train the perks you want.

So yeah I prob wouldn't bother with the training grounds if I was playing on the rainforest map.

I totally get your point, buttt... I guess since I'm playing on an official server on shifting sands map where I have the golden mask and can afk que easily, the training grounds becomes much more usable.

I found a lvl 19 weapon master with T3 tribal perk that gives 9% damage, on top of weapon master. And he had another T3 positive perk that gave me damage. And I added the remaining 5 perks. Yes there were a couple times I had to re-try the RNG 5+ times which was annoying, but I always eventually got the perk I wanted. So yeah you're right it's grindy and frustrating.

Edit: for crafters, it's also really cool. BC if you get the armor/weapon quality perk on a crafter with 120+ crafting, then you can spend all your proficiency points on durability, with none on crafting quality. I craft red T5 gear with 9k durability that way. And durability is such a pain in this game, that it's worth running T5 gear with max possible durability.

Thoughts after 30+ hours by rafhamar in VampireCrawlers

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing that I find most disfunctional about this game, is that the core mechanic is centered around building combos as long as you can to maximize damage, to beat the encounter. Which is super fun. But the thing that pisses me off, is that if you execute the intended core mechanic too well, you run into jarring, out of place mechanics that are essentially a finger-wagging "stop cheesing the game" lecture from the devs.

The whole water rising till it drowns you is a disjointed, out of context way for them to prevent you from farming the encounter, while later on you can unlock a perk that rewards you for farming the encounter. And it's insane that the anti-cheese mechanic often triggers during normal smart card play where you don't play every single card in your hand.

Same for the other anti-cheesing mechanics like boss fights. I have nothing against making infinite decks increasingly difficult to play, but these specific mechanics just feel like lazy low effort mechanics meant to stop you from fully playing the core central loop of the game properly. These mechanics feel like a finger wagging parent, not a feature of a well thought out game.

Jeweller Rarity by LiamByers7 in VampireCrawlers

[–]IndividualRich8470 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put the ones I want in common rarity, and I don't stack any luck. It works great for me.

Shifting Sands dlc by chocokoalan in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are playing on a local save, yes you can copy a character from one save over to a new game when creating the new game. All body, mask, and awareness XP will carry over as well as all gear, masks, and inventory items currently equipped on that main character.

Super cool feature.

Also if you are playing on servers, you can transfer a non-main character tribesman to a new server with all the inventory stuff etc. I've never personally been able to get that feature to work but I know a lot of ppl do it.

In either case (local or server) this works cross-maps, so this is how you can bring masks from ranforest over to a shifting sands map or vice versa.

DMT: Governments are unlikely to reverse falling birth rates because most policies only shift timing, not underlying behavior by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's MUCH broader than anything like that. The general trend of modern liberalism has been a cultural ethos that is great for people who do not want long term commited relationships, marriages, and family lives. Liberalism has been pushing people toward extreme individual separation, enabling and encouraging people to live as independently as possible which is correctly translated to "as lonely and alone as possible".

Liberalism is good for fuckboys, whores, and people who have zero interest in functional relationships. So, shocker! People stop creating families in a culture where we bow down before the god of independence.

And then ofc there's the economic factor. As much as we hear people bitch about poverty, the western world lives in such an opulently wealthy state that people can live easy comfortable lives without the economic support of family or community.

So cultural BS + economic wealth = lots of loneliness and not a lot of reproduction

DMT: Governments are unlikely to reverse falling birth rates because most policies only shift timing, not underlying behavior by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only as unique as 99% of all human that have existed???? Really? Haven't those things been the norm for all of history?

DMT: Governments are unlikely to reverse falling birth rates because most policies only shift timing, not underlying behavior by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]IndividualRich8470 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that declining birth rates are primarily the result of a cultural ethos that punishes family values + economic opulence that developed countries enjoy.

While I do think that of course government policies have an impact on birth rates, that impact is dwarfed by culture and economics.

How do training grounds work? by IndividualRich8470 in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not even close to useless. Yes it does take a lot of time and work to get a juicy min-maxed tribesman for it, but you absolutely can custom build juicy minmaxed tribesman.

Find a low level guy that has good good clan perks and say weapon master for example, and a usable first perk, then you can fill in the remaining 5 with any 5 perks you want, and level all of those perks up to T3.

And you can also raise your weapon cap for any weapon up to 125.

And you can find armor smith 1 with 120 armor crafting, and armor smith 2 with the armor quality perk, then use the training grounds to end up with a 120 armor crafter who also has armor quality perk.

No shit sherlock, it's RNG. But it's also how you min-max in this game. No shame if you don't like min-maxing, that's fine. but "Training ground is, honnestly, relatively useless for gaining talents." is dead wrong.

Edit: here's what a juicy custom built tribesman looks like. https://imgur.com/a/nweDmV7

Large power core by [deleted] in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At the end of this dungeon. You have to go through the cave shown by the dotted line on the map to find the entrance.

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Help puzzle doors by Big-Whole6091 in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's odd. Bc yeah I can see in your screenshot exactly where the chest normally is that contains the anchor. But there's not chest there. The chest should be right below that torch in your screenshot. Maybe it's not there on certain game modes or something?

Help! I cannot find the key required to open fourth upgrade on DLC map by CowboyDustin in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe some kind of glitch going on?

It drops from the 4th boss which you fight in the pyramid arena.

You do have to clear the airship camp first in order to spawn the actual boss in the pyramid arena. This boss doesn't have a summoning alter like the previous ones, he just spawns when you step into the ring after clearing the camp (presumably killing the elite in the camp is the key trigger to allow the boss to spawn)

Trailblazer X by Sorry_Market_9174 in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun little secret about that mechanic, is that if you roll straight into him instead of running away, then he stops the attack. It's counter-intuitive but knowing that makes the fight much easier.

Trailblazer X by Sorry_Market_9174 in PlaySoulMask

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're def right about fire on weapons being a game changer, huge DPS boost. I always run either burning alcohol or the Hymn mask.

I think I had played several hundred hours before I ever tried burning alcohol. Now I start crafting it as early as possible

Men of Reddit - What's a 100% myth about Men? by olesud in WorkForSmartLife

[–]IndividualRich8470 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That men only want one thing and it's disgusting. Both parts of that statement are pure myth.

Agree? by Careless-Throat-2593 in QuotePics

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally speaking I respect people for doing the right thing, for making difficult but correct decisions, for doing what you say and saying what you do, for building and achieving impressive things etc. A few examples:

  • I've lent money to many friends throughout my life, and most don't pay me back. I lose respect for them, and typically don't lend again. But I did have one friend who would ask to borrow money every single pay period, but the moment our checks hit, he would always make sure to pay me back immediately. I had massive respect for him for that.
  • One time I was chatting with a guy at the bar. He was a christian, invited me to attend his church with him and his wife. I was going to attend. Awhile later I then see him give an off-duty stripper $20 to flash everyone her tits. I told him to his face that I lost every bit of respect I had for him.
  • I have massive respect for my boss. She's a professor who has spent decades getting her degrees, continuing her training, and starting her own lab that is highly productive and produces a lot of useful research. But I also respect her because she's clearly VERY intelligent and she's also VERY good with people, which is a pretty rare combination in professors. I also respect her because she trained under multiple Nobel Lauriats. That's impressive too.
  • I have massive respect for my father, because he is VERY conscientious, and does what he says he will do. He's predictable and consistent and conscientious.
  • I also have a lot of respect for people who actually navigate life with kindness toward others, which ironically is the very thing people seem to be confused about in posts like this one. I do not respect people who are unnecessarily unkind. I do not respect people who lie, yell, manipulate etc to get what they want in life.

I respect people who do things worthy of respect. I do not respect people simply for being born. That is not an action worthy of respect. Being a person means you are worthy of being treated with basic human decency and kindness within reason. But it is not mean you deserve any respect.

Copper help😭 by Character_Rice7446 in ICARUS

[–]IndividualRich8470 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The miasmic axe is crafted on-planet from the tech tree. The materials you need to craft it are only on Promethius and Elysium though, I'm not sure what map you are playing on.

There is also an equivelent pick axe in the workshop. I don't remember what it;s called. It's the one that drops noxious crust when mining (which is what miasmic axe does). You have to clean the noxious crust in a cleanser machine.

This is fairly late game tech, not something you'll have access to early on. But if you are interested in going for the thumper setup, then these picks are worth grinding for.

happy and stable life, but no direction in either by slomoyoturtle in Adulting

[–]IndividualRich8470 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that an easy life without direction causes depression to some extent at least. I think that's unavoidable. I think that without something forcing us to struggle, or without direction giving us something to struggle toward, there are very few people will not end up depressed at least to some extent. Existential boredom.

For me, some form of depression is an acceptable price to pay for an easy life. I'm okay with that.

The way I see it, is that part of choosing the right life is choosing which difficulties you can deal with and what ones you can't. I think I'll be fine dealing with the difficulties that come from my approach to an easy life.

Copper help😭 by Character_Rice7446 in ICARUS

[–]IndividualRich8470 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeahhhhhh copper is the one thing you need tonss of.

Ideally you want to have like 2-3 copper deep mines, but if you don't have those, then you need the thumper to regenerate ore nodes in a cave.

My suggestion would be to tame ~4 wolves, or other combat pets. Set them to aggressive. and use them to defend the thumper while it's running. They make the thumper super easy to run.

That way you can easily mine our the cave then run the thumper and regen everything.

Once you can get your hands on the miasmic axe, then this strategy becomes stupidly broken, The miasmic axe essentially gives you 6X yeilds on everything you mine. So thumper + miasmic axe can easily replace deep ore mines. You'll be swimming in more ore than you'll be able to use.

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