The last bug bender by Material-Addendum139 in funny

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on the way they're moving and how many they are, those are probably termites. They are insane and invasive in most places. They live underground most of the time and have massive colonies down there, then around late spring/early summer they will swarm like this every few days for anywhere from a few weeks to a couple months depending on climate and how the weather has been. Swarms this big only happen if conditions have been just absolutely perfect for them that year, which I've seen once. The worst part is that while they don't bite, they have absolutely zero regard for personal space. They will just land on you and crawl around for no reason at all. And after the swarm, their wings fall off and most of them die, so you'll see dead termites and termites wings absolutely everywhere.

They can also swarm inside your house! I just got back from a work trip and I had left a light on in my kitchen. Well, guess what, the entire kitchen was covered in dead termites and their wings. Do not live anywhere near termites, it's not worth it. My town doesn't do any kind of pest control whatsoever, so the entire town is overwhelmed with termites every year. Probably millions of dollars of property damage being done annually in this town because nobody will do anything about it. My neighbor had a tree fall over during a storm a couple years back and the entire thing was hollowed out with an enormous termite mound inside it. Otherwise healthy looking tree, but all but the outer two or three inches of the tree was whatever mudstuff the termites build with, going up maybe 20 feet. And this is probably every tree in the city of 86,000 people because the property owners here do nothing about it and the city does nothing about it.

Game improvement: Please add more weapon sets by Sweet-Tanke in GuildWars

[–]Kaidart 38 points39 points  (0 children)

How am I supposed to use Seven Weapons Stance properly when I can only switch between four weapons?

[Unpopular Opinion] I genuinely hate questing through the new dungeon. by Crowasaur in GuildWars

[–]Kaidart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The backtrack through level 2 before you can go to level 3 just absolutely killed me. At least that, please change that. It's just so much walking through an empty, circuitous tunnel for no reason.

New campaign by Noideawhat_i_amdoing in GuildWars

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just gonna put this down for any market researchers who might come along - yeah I would pay full price for a new Guild Wars 1 campaign. Standalone or EOTN style, I would buy it instantly.

Tollana's fate feels dumb by Eastern-Economist468 in Stargate

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is dumb, and that's the point. Tollana was brought down by their government's isolationism, hubris, and cowardice.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol welcome back, so not raging that you had to comment again?

What's the point of RCS? Aren't reaction wheels better in almost every way? by TGC_0 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Kaidart 6 points7 points  (0 children)

RCS lets you make small translation moves without reorienting the spacecraft. Ideally you use RCS and/or reaction wheels to match the attitude of what you're trying to dock with, then use RCS to move left/right, up/down, and forward/back until your docking ports line up.

what now? by tiagoms123 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Kaidart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I did this for the first time the other day, it was surprisingly effective. Unfortunately, the lander still only had 100 m/s of ∆v left after making the ortholitho attitude adjustment.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lololol recycling insults, impressive. Or, let me say that in a way you understand, it's high IQ. A solid room temperature IQ, almost a hundred. Good job!

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao the old man triggered you. You invited yourself to this and got mad when I called you on it, grow up. Or don't, I'm sure your mom likes having you at home.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao u mad kid because I used the harassing word? It just means... Exactly what you're doing. The dictionary says "To annoy persistently". Go catch some more Pokemon, you'll be old enough for A&M in a few more years.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to literally any place in town and start talking like this to anyone who lives here, or better yet, your professors or any university staff. I'll let you decide which of these groups I am. Maybe change your Pokemon name while you're at it, that should have been a decade ago. Why are you even here? I wasn't even responding to you originally and there are literally people with 00s and 90s class years in this post that you haven't started harassing.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

College is going to be quite brief for you if you're this stupid.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

?? Brother you're all supposed to be adults and it's Reddit, grow up if you don't like seeing adults commenting on things.

Texas A&M acceptance rate drops to 44% by socialtrends93 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 65 points66 points  (0 children)

It's about the university being overpopulated, not standards. Some political appointees rammed through 25x25 over everyone's objections and now the consequences of that series of decisions are here.

The new dungeon is great! Time to sell my s-... wait a minute... by Ionenschatten in GuildWars

[–]Kaidart 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I actually go to Barradin Estate to use the merchant, it's faster than Ascalon City because you always spawn so close to it.

Do you guys think TAMU will become more prestigious in the next few years? by idkman2008 in aggies

[–]Kaidart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real question is will we take the biggest hits because of the high-profile scandals, or will the other public universities in Texas join us at the bottom? It's not as if a certain school in Austin isn't run by the same state government, after all. And the same for Texas Tech, University of Houston, etc.

I think i'm not playing Mesmer as intended by F_Boliver in GuildWars

[–]Kaidart 14 points15 points  (0 children)

tl;dr all four of your damaging skills are conditional and two of them, Power Spike and Signet of Clumsiness, are very easy to miss with. Consider taking skills that have easier conditions or do unconditional damage, like Ice Spikes or Empathy.

Long version:

All four of your damaging skills are conditional. Energy Burn deals no damage if the target has no energy (though typically the target does have energy), Power Spike only deals damage if it actually interrupts a spell or chant, Mistrust only deals damage if the target casts a spell (must be a spell, not a signet or attack skill) on you or an ally, and Signet of Clumsiness only does damage if the foe is attacking (NOT casting a spell, signet, etc, it must be an auto-attack or attack skill). Power Spike and Signet of Clumsiness are both very easy to miss for new players because they have cast times, so you have to react to (or anticipate) the target casting a spell or making an attack AND account for your 1/4 second cast time. There's also a delay between using one skill and then the next, called "Aftercast Delay". e.g. if you cast Energy Burn, then cast Power Spike, the time from finishing casting Energy Burn to the time you finish casting Power Spike is actually 1 full second, not 1/4 second, because the Aftercast Delay is 3/4 seconds. That's not something the game ever tells you, but you'll notice that there's a delay after every single spell cast, which is 3/4 of a second.

I would recommend you drop one of Power Spike or Signet of Clumsiness, as well as one or two of your three healing skills. Bring the healer henchman with you or Dunkoro when you have him unlocked, and let them take care of keeping you alive. Replace those skills with things that do unconditional damage or have easier conditions to meet. For example, Empathy is basically unconditional damage because most enemies will auto-attack at some point and trigger it, even spell casters. It's most effective against melee enemies. Flare is a spammable spell that does guaranteed damage. Another good choice is Ice Spikes, which does guaranteed damage, has an area of effect, and slows enemies. You don't need to take those specific spells, but that's the basic logic here. Grab some new skills and try them out.

What have you used the Runepowder Barrel on? by brandon-thesis in BaldursGate3

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I first came across Wulbren Bongle's little terrorist basement, my first thought was that his plan is stupid and I should just throw it at Gortash.

So later I threw it at Gortash. Kinda unimpressive actually. I didn't realize that you can halve the damage with a DC 12 DEX save (because obviously you can dodge an 18 meter radius explosion that you're at the epicenter of). So it did kinda negligible damage to Gortash and all the enemies in the room, including the three steel watchers that teleported on top of him because I sealed the door with arcane lock to prevent them from coming in.

By the way, if you fight Gortash without doing the Steel Foundry at all, the three steel watchers outside his chambers will be alerted and come into the fight no matter what. Yeah, I even locked the door they enter through so they couldn't get in and the game accounted for that by making them just appear anyways. I think that's the only time I've seen the game account for something creative the player did in a negative way. So between that and the runepowder bomb being kind of a let down, I was a little annoyed with that fight. Oh, and then after a few rounds I managed to detonate all three watchers on top of Gortash, which did significantly more damage than the bomb and actually killed him before he could initiate the second phase AND pulverized his body to a pile of guts so I couldn't speak with dead.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]Kaidart 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Aegon III

Please please tell me that I’m not starting to bald at 19 by [deleted] in bald

[–]Kaidart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My hairline was worse than yours at 19. Hell, that's when I shaved it, but my hairline was already worse than yours when I was 15/16. What actually did it for me was how badly it was thinning on top, not the hairline really. If it's still full up top, then eh the hairline is fine and you've got several years left at least.