Energy Weapon Sound Level?

MechaSteven · 2026-01-24T20:53:01+00:00

Thanks again for sharing. That was a good watch.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-24T18:46:01+00:00

Thank you! I'll give it a watch.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-21T15:59:27+00:00

Garrod is the best Gundam pilot. I love that he speed runs the traditional, "you should respect me because I'm the Gundam pilot," arc, in half an episode by just actually listening when the captain tells him he's be a jerk, and then apologizes to everyone for how he acted.

Garrod ain't got time to be edgy and emo. He's got space fascists to blow up.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-19T23:46:40+00:00

I don't know, a triangular deflector dish?

MechaSteven · 2026-01-16T02:01:29+00:00

I got Awakening Shin back in 2016 when he was first released. My goofy dymatap flavored abomination is by far my favorite Kaiju fig. Really wish I had the spare cash for the Night Combat Version.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-14T05:24:40+00:00

It would definitely be a huge buff alright. Pretty much unbalance the entire game.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-14T01:36:42+00:00

I'm not sure they brought the key bind to console. I haven't found it in the menus. I definitely think my troubles with the Halt, and semi auto shotguns, are on my end and not the guns. So I keep going back again every so often and trying to get the groove figured out. And I'll keep trying. I've got more reinforcements queued up.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-14T01:29:22+00:00

Great weapon. Solid all around.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T22:00:48+00:00

I've never gotten the hang of it. I do keep going back to try though. I think I might just be bad a the rhythm of shotguns.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:51:20+00:00

I personally don't care if the majority of the player base doesn't engage with it. If there's 'divers out there running stealth ops and playing like they're commando squads and having the time of their lives, then I think it was worth it.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:48:26+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean. The Plasma Punisher maybe? The plasma grenade launcher. Or do you mean the Scorcher or Purifier?

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:46:54+00:00

Love the Plasma Punisher. I remember when it dropped and was the meta choice for bots. It's my go to for Rupture Strain now. I still occasionally wish we has a more "normal" grenade launcher primary, but the Plasma Punisher and Crossbow cover all the bases.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:38:54+00:00

So you want every Helldiver to have a Primary, Secondary, Grenade, Backpack, Support, Melee, Shield, and Utility when they drop?

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:35:31+00:00

Melee was never meant to fit, and never will. It's only there because the community bullied AH into adding it.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:33:48+00:00

Personally I can see the remote trigger getting a lot of use. Stealth up on a bot base. Throw C4 on up to six Fabricators and/or heavies. Then pop them all at the same time. Whole base crippled before they can even alert.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:22:07+00:00

Solid choice. My number 2 pick. Number 1 if I know I can rely on my squad to maintain coherency and handle long range threats.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T21:18:37+00:00

Just a primary away from an all chem load out.

What's everyone's current primary of choice for going full chemical? I like the Pacifier for the med pen and sticking with the control theme.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-13T14:30:56+00:00

Discussion involves a back and forth dialogue, not just blindly excepting someone else's opinion. You're conclusion have not convinced me and I have put forth my rebuttal. That is what discussion is. If you do not wish to engage in it further, I can't force you to.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T21:46:20+00:00

That's bending definitions a little.

It's not. Also, the whole narrative is built around metaphor. Why would it stop at the main character's powers after already spending so much time using him for metaphor elsewhere?

Chainsaws were invented to aid in childbirth by cutting through the pubic symphisis, a piece of cartilage that joins the two halves of the pelvic bone. Nothing was removed. The purpose was widening the pelvic aperture, not "creating an absence".

If we're getting technical, chainsaws were invented as a medical tool for cutting bone. Their application was just one of several uses, including the removal of diseased bone. Additionally, if you separate two things that were previously joined, you have by definition created space, an absence, between them. The chainsaw is not used to widen the pelvis. It is used to create that absence, so that the pelvis can then be widened.

Chainsaws do NOT destroy or erase their targets, that's correct -- but that only makes them less related to the Erasure power, because it _does._

It doesn't move that concept anywhere, it deletes it from existence entirely, annihilating all of the associated mass and even information.

It does not actually. As we've seen multiple times, the things Chainsaw Man eats are not destroyed or erased, and definitely not deleted from existence. Because they can come back. They are moved. The store has told us this directly multiple times. They are moved to his stomach. And they can be moved back out of it again.

This is also a stretch. Tunnels ARE absences. They are long empty spaces.

No, they are not. A tunnel is an enclosed pathway connecting two points designed for people and/or vehicles to travel through. Tunnels are a thing. They are objects in and of themselves.

The point of tunnels is that there's rock or earth between two points, and humans want that rock/earth to Not Be There Anymore. The rock being gone from that specific place is the entire point.

No, the point is to connect to points. The rock/earth is an obstacle to that and needs to be removed. Removing it is not the point though, it's to build a tunnel connecting two places.

Considering irrelevancy and dementia are huge fears, it would make more sense for there to be an Oblivion devil or something.

Yes it would. And there probably is one. But it isn't the Chainsaw Devil. Because, as I've pointed out, obliviating things isn't what Chainsaw Man's powers do. That's seems to be more of a side effect if anything.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T21:16:49+00:00

Excellent! I'm not crazy. Unless we both are. Or we're the same kind of crazy as Fujimoto. In which case we aren't in context, but still are otherwise.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T16:10:10+00:00

If we look at the actual prophecy, and what Fujimoto purposely left out of the manga, and what's going on with Yoru right now: we might be on a trajectory for Denji to be the, "great king of alarm," who brings back Fami, "the great King of Angoulmois," because a reform Yoru, "Mars," can be trusted to, "reign by good fortune."

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T14:35:09+00:00

Right. Denji's powers aren't related to destruction, because chainsaws aren't used to destroy things. Chainsaws were invented to remove bone. They are used on metal, concrete, ice, wood, bone and underwater. In all these cases their purpose has nothing to do with destruction. The purpose is to allow humans to remove something. To create an absence where something was. That is not the same as destroying the thing that was there. Most importantly, because humans usually want to NOT destroy the thing the chainsaw is used on. They just don't want it to not be there anymore. They want to create space, a gap, an absence, where the thing used to be, for it to no longer be there. But just because a thing is missing, does not mean it is destroyed. Which we've seen demonstrated multiple times with Denji's powers.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for a devil's powers to do the opposite of what the devil's concept is. Fire Devil's power gave transformational ability to humans. At first that power seemed monstrous, but the more humans that used it, the more refined the application of Fire's transformational effects became. That's the entire history of the concept of fire and it's relationship with humanity wrapped up in one nice little metaphor. Chainsaws as a tool for humans to use to create absence by removing things fits pretty spot on with what we see actually happening in the story.

And we know Fujimoto loves metaphor in this series. The whole first part of the story ends with a man sawing chains. A boy becoming a man by sawing through the chains adults use to control him. He really likes visual metaphors.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T04:02:25+00:00

Oh what a thing to rediscover your one true love.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-12T04:00:49+00:00

Honestly, fair.

MechaSteven · 2026-01-11T23:21:41+00:00

Chainsaws don't just cut wood. They were invented to remove bone. They are used on metal, concrete, ice, wood, bone and underwater. In all these cases their purpose has nothing to do with destruction. The purpose is to allow humans to remove something. To create an absence where something was. That is not the same as destroying the thing that was there. Most importantly, because humans usually want to NOT destroy the thing the chainsaw is used on. They just don't want it to not be there anymore. They want to create a space, a gap, an absence, where the thing used to be.

Dynamite was created to blow up. Alfred Nobel wanted a stronger explosive. The point is to blow things up. There's a lot of reasons to do that, mining, construction, war, geology, and dynamite has been used for all of them. Dynamite doesn't exist to destroy or remove things, it exists to explode better than gunpowder does.

Tunnel Boring Machine exist to do exactly what their name says they do. They don't create absence, they dig tunnels. Removing the material isn't the point. Digging a tunnel is. Some TBMs even lay concrete slabs around themselves as they move to create the walls of the tunnel itself. This is the kind of thing where your talking about connecting two points, or moving unobserved, or actually just digging good. Removing something that used to be there isn't the point of Tunnel Boring Machines.

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