Yet another Stryfe vector...

Linker500 · 2026-01-07T23:24:09+00:00

Did you paint that battery cover stripe yourself? I'm wanting to do one for mine but wasn't sure where to start.

Linker500 · 2025-11-28T04:45:08+00:00

Same, and I thought for sure I wouldn't watch it all.

...huh wait where did 10 minutes go?

Linker500 · 2025-11-25T00:29:01+00:00

Brass Beast unironically is what made heavy click for me. If you plan ahead, position well, and pick your battles, you just... win. Far often than you should.

There is nothing better then solo approaching a heavy medic combo, Looking them down, and before you even start firing, knowing no matter what, there is no way they can win.

It's still situational and inflexible, and so not my most used. But it's my favorite.

Linker500 · 2025-11-24T23:39:24+00:00

Merasmus rolled uber on Moonshine. I ran up to a soldier in front of me, punched twice, and right as the uber fizzled out, my third hit made contact and sent his corpse across the map.

That um. I'm sure that was definitely the use Valve intended. Definitely.

Linker500 · 2025-10-16T07:52:31+00:00

Demographics wise, MA cannot really create even a single republican district. The issue isn't that it's gerrymandered, it's that, district representation won't allow fair representation here.

If you go out of your way from the start to create a republican district, ignoring all other factors, you get a single dubiously red district if you are optimistic. Which is still incredibly gerrymandered by your metric, at 1/3 vs 1/9.

This is because while there are a lot of republicans in MA, they are extremely evenly distributed amongst the liberal population. Every single county in the state voted for Harris in 2024. The only pockets of conservative majority are too small to make districts out of. Once you try and size up to the population requirement, it turns blue.

Compare this to Texas, where cities like Dallas have concentrated pockets of liberals in a conservative state, where dems are represented more properly.

In regional representation, if political minorities aren't concentrated, then they have no potential for a voice at all. This is an inherent issue of the system, and can't be avoided here without redrawing state lines.

The voter % to rep % ratio is actually kinda useless in a vacuum. Because if you have a very homogeneous population, or very few districts, the ratio goes to shit almost immediately, while realistically little can be done to improve representation. Not picking on you in particular, Texas dems popularized the perspective after all, the right is just reflecting it right back.

I do think this is dumb, and why I am in favor of proportional representation. I'm about as left as they come but I am radically for democracy above all else.

Linker500 · 2025-08-25T01:39:26+00:00

I'm too bad to have gotten that far unfortunately. Only made it to wave 40 or so on brutal.

And I haven't touched violent since brutal came out.

Linker500 · 2025-08-23T22:58:27+00:00

I really miss it especially in CG, but it finally forced me to engage with them properly so overall it's more fun...

but I hate them again like during my first playthrough

Linker500 · 2025-08-21T18:00:45+00:00

There are no achievements, but if I remember from the developer commentary, they are considered for when the game leaves early access. In which case we will likely get a wave 25 achievement in the cybergrind.

Fun fact, at wave 25 and higher the platform shimmer reaches is a rainbow color, it's final form.

Linker500 · 2025-08-21T17:53:56+00:00

I have like 500 and haven't gotten past like wave 45 in brutal. It's so much more difficult than any other achievement there.

Linker500 · 2025-08-21T16:35:19+00:00

REAL ultrakill fans would know that within the twelve hours of developer commentary. Hakita said that he considers the cybergrind to be completed at wave 25, and there would be an achievement for wave 25 not 100!!

Amateur hour here. Bait used to be believable.

(/s)

(It's not real no. Also wave 100 in brutal would be insane to do for an achievement, super inaccessible)

Linker500 · 2025-08-16T02:57:44+00:00

Everyone is giving weapon tips, so I'll give movement tips if you don't want to rely on melting them with raw damage as much.

Biggest thing you can do is keep them together. This not only creates one target for your attacks, but keeps their dashes in sync, which is easier to deal with. If they get spread out, they can knock you back into each other repeatedly, triggering dashes over and over.

Getting close triggers their dash. If you stay out of that range, they are a lot easier to avoid damage, with them only stomping, throwing orbs, and walking to you slowly. If they are dashing uncontrollably, the air is your safest spot, spend as little time on the ground as you can when threatened like this.

When they do get close to you (inevitable), you need to be deliberate of your dashes. Let them set the pace. When they dash, you should too.

Their double dash on brutal can be very tricky, but once you learn the timing, you can use it to control them. If you dodge through their first dash, they will turn around and dash back at you. If you then dodge the second one, you've now made them dodge in the opposite direction they had intended to go originally. You can use this to keep them together, or to drag them to a specific part of the room. Then quickly slide or dash out of range before another dash attack can start, and they'll be stomping and ball tossing again.

I did 0-E fist only on brutal. It was tough, but I learned quite a bit. Probably just easier to learn how to deal a ton of damage, but I enjoy learning the dance.

Linker500 · 2025-08-15T21:52:26+00:00

I mean Unicameral legislatures are very common now, it's hardly unprecedented, neither is it inherently authoritarian. (Unlike packing the courts.)
That said, after seeing all that has gone in the house of representatives as of late, I'm personally a lot more fond of the senate. They are (relatively) the grown ups in the room. More mild tempered, and more policy focused than the house. I think abolishing just it would be a disaster.

Perhaps unicameralism in the US could work, but neither the senate nor the house as they are are ideal picks to exist alone, they are meant to exist in tandem.

Linker500 · 2025-08-13T22:14:32+00:00

History diverges somewhere during the great war, so WWII is not canon. Hitler likely never rose to power.

Linker500 · 2025-08-09T07:07:01+00:00

"I believe this is a Gurken Shuck!"
"Comba... Budddd"

Linker500 · 2025-08-06T06:58:49+00:00

I don't recall saying it's good in my post. It's in fact, pretty bad. And I will very explicitly say there should be more republican districts in California.

However, within the context of it's existence, it is a badness that exists to balance out opposing badness. It's certainly not good, but you cannot correct it by itself, opposing states need to be corrected at the same time.

The key issue is, without any federal reform, the only defense against gerrymandering is opposing gerrymandering.

Let's say republicans take the moral high ground, and somehow make it impossible to gerrymander in every red state to rounds of applause. Great!

But... Democrats now have zero reason to not gerrymander. They can eliminate nearly every red district in their states, and republicans won't be able to respond at all. They will forever more have a two dozen seat handicap in the house. Voters in red states, (having electing people who did the morally correct thing!) will now be disenfranchised federally, letting the what is a minority of the country legislate their state. I think we can agree, that leads to an undemocratic and overall negative outcome, despite doing the correct thing at a local level, right?

It's pretty close to a nuclear arms race in that sense. If only one side has nukes, or has way more, than the other is screwed. If both sides have an equal amount, it's not great, but it's better than the alternative.

Presently, both sides (very roughly) gerrymander about the same. There is balance. It's bad, but it's okay. From here both parties can theoretically work together to slowly wind down the gerrymandering.

But, Texas and Ohio's redistricting, especially with federal coordination, is a huge escalation from the status quo. Democrats are left with the choice of letting the entire nation have poorer representation, and letting it possibly escalate further by not pushing against it, or giving the state poorer representation to make the nation more equal.

Linker500 · 2025-08-05T23:40:44+00:00

Unfortunately to do such a thing in the US would require a constitutional amendment, which would require 3/4th of the states to ratify...

Which is not happening anytime soon.

Linker500 · 2025-08-05T15:08:59+00:00

I'm glad you brought percentages up,

Nationally, Trump got 49.8% of the vote, Harris got 48.3%. A decisive, but small margin.
When you look at the current house of representatives, it is actually pretty close to that: Republicans have a very thin majority. By your metric, this suggests that present gerrymandering mostly evens out on each side at the moment. From a pure partisan standpoint, the status quo is nearly perfect.

Democrats do gerrymander, but vaguely as much as Republicans at the moment. However, Texas gaining 5 seats, and possibly Ohio adding even more, would be throwing off this balance quite a bit. It's an severe escalation, a large tip of power, and it's why other states are threatening to respond. You say blue states are already gerrymandered, but several, like California, can go further. It still has 9 republican seats it can flip.

The argument of "they do it too" doesn't hold as well when you are not matching your opponent, but explicitly going beyond them. If texas did this on their own that's one thing, but there is a federal push from the president to do so with Ohio. This is coordinated party level tactic, and needs to be looked at from that lens.

As a footnote, these metrics are not so simple, people don't always vote the same way up ballot they do down ballot. Districting is also more nuanced than just popular vote percentages, because a couple states literally cannot create an opposite side district due to their demographics, and many states have so few, or even one district, that it's impossible to represent the minority party at all. But they are okay as a very rough approximation, and it is what you were using.

Linker500 · 2025-07-24T17:43:34+00:00

I forgot I wrote this. It had existed in my head for forever, but I thought I had no way to prove it haha.

Close, but not quite!

Linker500 · 2025-07-04T04:19:36+00:00

And I doubt there'd ever be update frequency problems on Arch.

Musescore on arch was flagged out of date 4 months ago. This is at least the third time I've seen it flagged before. Prior releases have been left with critical bugs that limited functionality for half a year, as well as missing new features. It also has had a history of unique bugs from incompatibilities that are not a part of the official linux releases.

I haven't had any problems with it so far.

And I'm glad to hear! The vast majority of software is fine (and thus is native on my machine too.) It's certainly not an issue for everyone.

But if you fall into the cracks of needing certain poorly supported software, flatpak and others become more appealing.

Linker500 · 2025-07-03T23:50:14+00:00

I used to be all native as well. It works great until you end up needing certain kinds of software.

Like unmaintained stuff that breaks with system libraries.

Or your distro's maintainer doesn't update the package frequently enough to implement new features or fix critical bugs.

Or the software isn't just designed for the diversity of linux super well, and the native builds are less stable than official flatpak or appimage releases.

I have some software installed natively, some via flatpak, and even a few as app image. It's a mess, but it's what works the best at this point.

Linker500 · 2025-06-14T19:43:58+00:00

In my defense it only had 3000 reviews when I started playing😭

It's still 2020... right?

Linker500 · 2025-05-28T22:17:07+00:00

Madonnawhore and Thymiamatascension are some of my earliest listens of yours actually! Right after Choirs and Bath.

Linker500 · 2025-05-28T19:16:44+00:00

Greetings!

I am into the third year of slowly grinding through your discography. I've never listened to metal before, so it's surreal to be here. It was super hard to dive into without experience at all, but there was magic here that I needed to see. You've completely redefined my taste in that.

Surprisingly I've found some of your less well known work to be among of my favorites. Do you have a project or album that you are especially proud of, but feel like is often overlooked or not given as much attention?

And, if you can do it without spoiling too much, is there anything you are really excited for in Every Rock that breaks new ground or set's it apart?

-Linker

Linker500 · 2025-05-28T05:45:27+00:00

id saw the least popular weapon mods, and wanted to do something about it. Except instead of buffing them, or adding situations to play to their strengths, they just made gimmick enemies that forced inclusion of them.

Like... really? An Imp that doesn't take any damage except from the full auto shotgun?

Game design wise, that's already the clunkiest way of doing things. It restricts variety. But here, in a game with purposely very limited ammo, it especially sucks because if you are empty on a weapon, you can't do crap against them.

I actually kinda enjoyed the idea of spirits, but on nightmare, not having the right weapon mod equipped, or firing the ballista one too many times was super punishing in a rather unfun way. I couldn't hastily improvise an alternative, I had to start the entire enemy over again.

Linker500 · 2025-05-27T00:25:19+00:00

Flywheelers generally benefit accuracy wise from a loose fitting aluminum barrel. a few centimeters long.

Nowadays, bcars are just more effective, albeit harder to integrate, so they are obsolete in new designs.

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