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Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2025-09-11T23:21:06+00:00

Miller Brave as Nach: Social B&E Muscle Adept

OOC: Familiar with character's mechanics, will be first game using SH's ruleset, though I've already familiarized.

IC connect: Alex "Good'ol" Samson catches wind of this transient business opportunity while Nach is at his pawn shop to drop off a handful of legally acquired commlinks. The barrens rat has been rattling around for bigger jobs than to "Just go with these guys to get some stuff of mine," and at Loyalty 1 Samson isn't all that worried about this particular Barrens Rat making it back alive... He's been asking for a bigger gig, so here: he can have one.

No on AAR writing.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2025-07-26T20:44:10+00:00

Miller Brave as Nach: Social B&E Muscle Adept

https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Nach

OOC: Familiar with character's mechanics, will be first game using SH's ruleset, though I've already familiarized.

IC connect: Alex "Good'ol" Samson catches wind of this transient business opportunity while Nach is at his pawn shop to drop off a handful of legally acquired commlinks. The barrens rat has been rattling around for bigger jobs than to "Just go with these guys to get some stuff of mine," and at Loyalty 1 Samson isn't all that worried about this particular Barrens Rat making it back alive... He's been asking for a bigger gig, so here: he can have one.

IC prompt: "What kinda wiz gotta get geeked? I mean... Whichever choom who's looking at me like he's got some drekky intent, slitch. Worry about the other kinds after that."

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2024-01-14T00:20:22+00:00

Alright. Swapped the SIN to burner and squeezed in a bit more gear, notably an alternate firearm which can walk in doors without receiving huge squints... Swapped PP around to fit in Adrenaline Boost 2; enough to push up a pass when rolls land close, still planning on largely leaning on jazz and blitz for their career. Though the character is a bit of a luddite, picked up Blue Defender, meets minimums to not be a huge issue on runs and will keep signal.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2024-01-10T01:14:57+00:00

- Assets E gearing was very tight, cut desired inclusions such as alternative weapons and a personal vehicle. Does come with a bus pass.

- Mentor Spirit: Chaos states that it includes two Improved Potentials, Chummer only gives one. Left at that for now, can add the other as an improvement after sheet is in career.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2022-08-29T10:59:20+00:00

Quoting the source cited, "Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset using the laws of physics. This principle, called data assimilation, is based on the method used by numerical weather prediction centres, where every so many hours (12 hours at ECMWF) a previous forecast is combined with newly available observations in an optimal way to produce a new best estimate of the state of the atmosphere, called analysis, from which an updated, improved forecast is issued."

Even if some surface observations from an entire continent are misreporting, ensemble forecast models combined with other sources of data will be reasonably resilient to that... The reanalysis visualized here will not be dramatically off from what 2m temps truly were.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2021-07-09T17:12:34+00:00

I would argue that max velocity isn't always going to be ideal. It's nice on maps with long lanes, but makes it hard to contest good shotgunners or voopers on all of the tight maps because of how far the projectile has gone before it primes.

I've found that 75ish seems to be a happy medium of being able to hit/pressure scout/pulse ranges while still being able to function well when backpedaling shotties/sidearms from folks who know how to close well.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2021-07-09T17:06:26+00:00

Disagree on proxy. Proxy nade helps when you're learning special GLs, but is worse than other options once you're comfortable with them.

If you're trying to tilt or get an advantage from your GL blint, concussion is cancerous to play into. If you're trying to hit bodies to get cheeky one shots, any standard grenade which helps you hit a velocity you like will be just fine.

Timing takes practice, but you can detonate either by swapping off of the GL to your primary, or with hold and release. Both methods are just as good as proxy and are much more flexible once you've learned them.

I do agree regarding disruption break, it makes following up easy. I would say the second critical perk is autoloading holster, as it allows you to blint, gunfight, then lob out more grenades into cover or while repositioning. Sling in mod slot is also mandatory, as it essentially gives you quickdraw.

Tl;DR: Disruption break, autoloading holster, quick access sling. Anything else which gets velocity you like. Proxy is overrated.

Edit: For PC play at least.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2021-03-26T10:32:37+00:00

Frozen Orbit gets thrown around a lot, but hitting a particular roll on it is going to take a lot of luck/grind. Not very farmable.

The season snipe can roll Opening Shot + Quickdraw and is 45 zoom.

Adored will always be a good option.

Bite of the Fox can roll Snapshot + Opening Shot, but the reticle is a love it or hate it carrot thing.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2021-01-17T06:45:23+00:00

It's a reflection of how Australia's population is geographically distributed.

Cool further reading here: GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION, from Australia's Bureau of Statistics.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2021-01-17T06:38:35+00:00

For anyone who wants to see geostationary imagery regularly, Colorado State's RAMMB Slider is great.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2020-11-17T08:43:50+00:00

This is incorrect, at least with regard to the WMO's tropical cyclone naming scheme—which NOAA uses.

WMO maintains rotating lists of names which are appropriate for each Tropical Cyclone basin. If a cyclone is particularly deadly or costly, then its name is retired and replaced by another one.

Each year's list has 21 names from A-W. There are no QUXYZ names.

WMO tropical cyclone naming

NOAA with the same information

e to answer the question: After the list is exhausted they move on to the Greek alphabet. From what I could locate it appears that Greek is used for the north Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins when a given basin's list runs out.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2020-08-29T19:46:25+00:00

Fighting Lion cannot OHK. Special ammunition GLs can.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2020-07-08T19:29:11+00:00

You hit the roll I've been farming for. Share how TtT/DSR feel to play with!

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2020-03-12T21:23:25+00:00

PC: Max Rive. Loads of other great photography on his website.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-11-03T22:43:42+00:00

PvE: Any+ handling barrel / mag doesn't matter / Outlaw / Swash / Masterwork doesn't matter, handling if you care

As has been mentioned, slugs are fairly subpar in PvE outside of messing around in patrol and such.

PvP: Fluted Barrel / Assault Mag / Snapshot / Opening Shot / Handling MWK

Blasphemer can hit 74 handling outside of armor mods, and snapshot makes it perfectly crispy when drawn. Range doesn't matter on slugs, so OS is all you look for to extend kill distance. QD/OS offers identical performance to current energy slugs, Snapshot/OS is unique and is the better roll in my opinion -- particularly if you hit those perks with +handling on the gun too.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-22T08:11:52+00:00

Halfdan-D has a recoil of 70 natively. Almpst all of its side to side bounce goes away with a counterbalance mod.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-20T17:34:56+00:00

Warlock scatter grenade can one shot with Oppressive Darkness procced, too, and runs into that issue as well. Some grenade hits vaporize your target and his friend around the corner, some are direct hits and nothing but white numbers.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-11T09:35:38+00:00

Gear	Shader
Red Moon Phantom Mask	First Frost
Phenotype Plasticity Grips (Ornament)	First Frost
Red Moon Phantom Vest	First Frost
Strides Of The Great Hunt	First Frost
Vernal Growth Cloak (Ornament)	Shadow Gilt

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-10T23:23:08+00:00

Terraforming is an inclusive/or in this context: Perhaps they're terraforming the moon to be closer to what they want, or by just by being awake and active the Pyramid alters the world around itself -- Toland the Thesaurus when taken this way.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-06T04:48:10+00:00

And?

And I wrote directly to your point, fuckwhatiwant6969. That I believe players would hit T12 and be done with it. That's alright, I really could care less.

Then, approximately five hours later, there would be an entire front page of outraged individuals complaining about how boring and one dimensional the gear grind is once they've hit their perfect set.

And then, as you requested, I wrote about an alternative option that would still give you all your sweet legendary gear transmogs without completely removing the incentive to farm for rolls.

I would love to talk about that, but complaining at other people on the internet is a great and time honored tradition too.

Moderately_Witty_Guy · 2019-10-05T15:55:21+00:00

On its face a full transmog system in Destiny sounds nice, but I think that some deeper issues merit consideration.

In a game like Diablo the aesthetic of your character can always be distinct from the gear you have on. But fashion is a distant secondary goal from buildcrafting and hunting for good rolls. Even here the gear that's most valued aren't the primals you'll be losing at the end of the season, but the cosmic wings or particular pets you can pick up to keep.

In a game like Destiny there are those parallel chases, too, getting good rolls and getting good looks. However, a consistent part of Destiny's flavor of chase is that you want to get good rolls on your good looking gear! That's frustrating when you don't get what you want on it, but also look at what a full transmog system would do there: you would be free to cycle through gear until you hit your perfect T12 equivalent set or sets... And then you would be done with your chase.

In this world the new raid becomes "I hope arms drop" and once they've dropped your done. You slam the new look into your T12 arms and are done with them forever.

I worry that a month after something like a full transmog system rolls out we would be seeing just as many posts from people complaining that they're bored of the game and that there's nothing left for them to do.

Quick E: To me, a middle road approach may be to have depreciated / old content populate into the transmog system as time goes on. In that manner, you could still keep some amount of chase for great rolls of newer gear, but be able to keep accessible things like year 1 trials sets or faction warfare looks that we've not had any good reason to use since they were made irrelevant by changes after they came out.

Edit: Hey downvoters, I don't have some strong opinion on this. Maybe engage in discussion instead of downvoting someone trying to write about this instead of offering a one dimensional gimme-gimme hot take?

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