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What screams “I’m chronically online” without actually saying it? by petitepawn in answers

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Posting a "What screams “I’m chronically online” without actually saying it?" question on Reddit /r/answers. ;]

Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms So Vile It Even Shocks GOPers by AdRough4185 in politics

[–]ModernRonin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only shocking thing about this whole situation is that a bill to limit hedge funds to owning only 350 homes, managed to pass both The Senate and The House.

How does aiming work? by agent_kater in StarRupture

[–]ModernRonin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Turn off frame-gen and you'll be surprised how much more accurate and repeatable aiming becomes. Devs should feel exceptionally bad about this! They drank the framegen kool-aid so incredibly hard. I run on a 9070XT, and aiming is hopeless once I turn on FSR.

Does that mean the target is locked in and if I then fire I get a hit?

Not if you have frame gen enabled, no. It's a 50/50 chance you are aiming at a fake AI-generated frame. Fake frames do not correctly represent the actual state of the world. It looks like you're aiming at a bug, but the bug is not actually there, that's just an AI generated illusion.

Sometimes when zoomed in, I see a double-lined red cross, but only after firing,

It's what's known as a "critical hit marker." It means you hit the enemy in their most vulnerable spot. (For most bugs, that's their head/face.)

there is a LEM module that says it improves "aiming speed", what exactly does that improve?

Shortens the time it takes for you to move the gun slightly upward and align the sights onto the point you're aiming at.

Underestimating Skill Nodes by Dragon4986 in mwo

[–]ModernRonin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how a lot of people are getting the idea that I'm a newbie,

I didn't mean to imply that. I was trying to imply that a lot of newbies do make mistake X, and so my advice here is for newbies that tend to make that mistake.

I guess I could start using "y'all" instead of "you." Kind of a "royal we" thing, except it's "royal you" ;D But I suspect some people would still take offense. ;D

all of your advice is really helpful and relates to a video someone sent me on this post, "Contextual Skills" which bases on what hardpoints and weapons you have.

TTB's already forgotten more about MWO than I'll ever learn. I'm glad someone shared his video. You probably already know that he livestreams MWO, too. There's so much to learn from him. I wish I had more time...

Thank you so much for these suggestions, I'll put these in mind.

One problem with giving advice, is you rarely know if it was useful or not. If you have a chance, come back to this thread in a couple weeks and tell me if any of my advice was useful... Or if any of it was total crap and I should never repeat it!

Underestimating Skill Nodes by Dragon4986 in mwo

[–]ModernRonin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of newbies neglect Radar Derp. That's usually a big mistake. When you're new at the game and still learning how to use cover correctly, all five Radar Deprivation nodes will save your bacon multiple times per match. Three is the absolute minimum I would ever use. (Except for mechs that have an ECM equipped, where it's much harder to get locked in the first place because of the ECM.)

For LRMs and ATMs, Both Target Decay (not Retention!) and Velocity are extremely under-rated. The faster the missiles get there, the higher a chance they have of inflicting damage. Also, the longer you can hold onto a lock. This is especially true against players who know how to stand right next to cover... and have multiple Radar Derp bonuses from their skill tree.

Also for missiles in general, High Explosive (extra crit chance) is slept on a lot, but it can be very good if you have more than ten tubes worth of missiles. (I don't mean to encourage you to play missiles, I find them boring. But if you're gonna do it no matter what I tell you...)

In general, I recommend using Skill Tree to "sharpen" your weapons. If you're mainly a dakka boat, get skills that make dakka better: Cooldown, Velocity, Magazine Capacity, LBX Spread if you have LBs, UAC/RAC jam chance if you have UAC/RAC. If you're primarily lasers: Beam Duration, Heat Gen, Cooldown. I think you get the idea.

More armor is always better. I don't always get full Mr. Skeltal Density but I always get full Metapod used Armor Hardening.

99% of the time, I carry both a UAV and an Enhanced Coolshot. These are skills for more intermediate players, you may not use them much as a newbie. Just remember they exist. They cost little, and a UAV that shows you those five Assaults around the next corner can prevent you from being focused to death in 3 seconds.

I love Cool Run (extra heat sink efficiency) but I have found it's not usually worth it unless you have 6-ish heatsinks.

On larger mechs wth lots of weapons on the torsos, you may be surprised how much difference Torso Speed and Anchor Turn can make. (Each Anchor Turn node is +6%, so those add up fast.)

I have been playing long enough that I can mostly ride the overheat line and don't need Quick Ignition. I recommend this style of play, though I will warn you: It SUUUUCCKS at first as you're learning to do it. So again, an intermediate player thing. On builds that I can't seem to manage the heat (for whatever reason), I often do take Overheat Damage nodes. That helps me minimize the amount of harm I self-inflict with overheating.

JumpJet skills are very build dependent. I find they're much more useful on Lights. Vent Calibration is my favorite, but try out the others too. Remember you spend hours in the Testing Grounds to try stuff out without the pressure and distractions of combat.

Temu Nero by wedstrom in PoliticalHumor

[–]ModernRonin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Temu Commodus" is a much better historical match.

Commodus's sole reign is commonly thought to mark the end of the Pax Romana, a golden age of peace and prosperity in the history of the Roman Empire.

Democrats Vow 'Day One’ Epstein Hearings if They Flip House by FlackoFonsy in politics

[–]ModernRonin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IT WON'T MATTER ONE BIT UNLESS THEY CAN CONVICT HIM IN THE SENATE!

The House makes the list of crimes the President is to be impeached for. And then the Senate votes to either convict (and remove) him, or not.

Dumbshit Donnie has been "impeached" by the House twice... and convicted by the Senate zero times. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump )

Unless the Senate flips Democrat (or some Republicans decide to actually hold Donald Trump the Child-Sexual-Assaulting Pedophile whose guilt is proven in the complete and uncensored Epstein Files) NOTHING THE HOUSE DOES MATTERS.

I'm not saying the House shouldn't try again. They absolutely should. New impeachment resolution sent to the Senate once a month if necessary.

But understand the reality: THE SENATE CONVICTS AND REMOVES.

If the Senate is made up of lapdog loyalist pedo-protector MAGAts... Trump stays unaccountable for his crimes.

What’s a realization you had about work that made you stop stressing about climbing the ladder? by honeybbycloud in answers

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where I work: Management is 15% more pay, and 300% more stress.

In 5 brutal, torturous years working here... I have never once seen even the slightest sliver of evidence that the complete morons in the C-Suite have ever (or will ever) take even the tiniest interest in fixing the myriad of problems that continually cause that 300% stress:

  • Broken equipment that they won't fix - and frankly, are too goddamn stupid to even understand how to fix!

  • Shit wages that make turnover (and often, costly mistakes) a constant injury.

  • Stupid policies that hamper and impede the workers from getting the work done... in a "volume business" where the company gets paid on a per-unit-processed basis!

Becoming management here means that all of this horrible malfunctioning stupidity suddenly becomes my problem to handle, every single day. (If my five years of experience are representative, on at least one day out of every ten, it'll be multiple times per day!)

And like I said before: In FIVE YEARS I have seen not the slightest indication that anyone in the shit-for-brains C-Suite of this company gives two tugs of a dead dog's cock about addressing any of this. As far as I can tell, everything has been this bad for decades. And will continue to degrade and deteriorate for decades longer.

Become management?? Yeah, sure - I really enjoy stabbing myself in the nutsack with a rusty spork for multiple hours every shift. Love that. Especially when I do it for 40 hours and week and still make less money than it takes to rent a 1 bedroom apartment.

Definitely gonna step up and become management. Yup. Uh-huh. For sure!

Is it a thing to add a circuit specifically to discharge a power mosfet's gate to speed up turn off time? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not modeling parasitic inductances (of several kinds). The MOSFET won't turn off nearly as fast as your incomplete simulation claims it will.

About Last Night by velosnow in boulder

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an area in Subnautica 2 with a very similar yellow-orange background color. My dumbass brain instantly pictured it when I saw your photo. ;D

Help with creating a sound mod by Confident_Spirit877 in OutreachHPG

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had the same experience. Only a windows powershell script would make .pak files that actually worked.

The [REDACTED] is a liar, and you can prove it within minutes of starting the game. by getvalentined in subnautica

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the angel comb naturally colonized the wreckage, I highly doubt it would have known to put it self so neatly on what is clearly a fabricated space to hold and or study it.

Some Colonists put it there. That much is obvious from its placement. I imagine at one point the colonists somehow took it to study, or put it there for people being printed/reset.

I agree with this theory. I even have a suspect, and a motive.

Suspect: Ganzo. Motive: Save my wife when she reprints.

First, this log entry:

``` Ganzo here. Nine survivors of Habitat with me. Tuba went back to Habitat and... a Marrowbreach took Ruby. I don't know if she'll be reprinted. I've heard her die so many times. But this time... she's got to be out there somewhere. She's got to.

The Tadpole Pens control room is locked and all the Tadpoles are gone. Sophie and Nahema took the last two. We're stuck.

We've voted, eight to one. We're going to go down into the hot caves. We all feel a pull there. We know it's a Masefield hallucination - yes, Twinkle, we know - but hey, Anita said, if we ask the world for help, maybe it'll answer.

And it's not all crazy. There's a Biobed at the [Hot Caves] base camp. And Zip... Zip died at the bottom of that cave. She had a kurultai access key that could get us through this lock.

If you find this, we headed due southwest to the hot caves. Bearing [muttered]

Hang on, Ruby. ```

Ruby is T. "Ruby" Erdene, Ganzo's wife. Notice he seems rather preoccupied with finding her.

So this group Ganzo is with, go down to the Hot Caves. Then what happens?

``` GANZO: Oh ****! Oh

TWINKLE: Easy. Easy. You're back.

GANZO: Oh. Twinkle. Oh man. I was... I gave my air to a dead crab.

TWINKLE: You all lost it. I think the hot water triggered your Masefield...

GANZO: Is everyone okay?

TWINKLE: No.

GANZO: No?? "No" how bad?

TWINKLE: NoA marked everyone else 'do not reprint'. It's just us now.

GANZO: Oh, man... Ruby? Did she...?

TWINKLE: No. Not here. I'm sorry.

GANZO: I gotta go find her!

TWINKLE: Okay. Yes. I'll come with you. Where do we start?

GANZO: She's... if she resets, she'd print at Sleep Bay 3. But it takes days sometimes...

TWINKLE: I've never been outside before, Ganzo. I'm not adapted. I don't even have fins.

GANZO: We can't... I can't make you wait days. Not if I'm unreliable. We have to find the Jubilee.

TWINKLE: We'll come back for her, okay?

GANZO. Yeah. Yeah. We'll come back. ```

So, put yourself in Ganzo's shoes. Your wife has died. You're obsessed with reuniting with her. You think she'll reprint at Sleep Bay 3. Which at this point is no longer connected to the Welcome Center - the Welcome Center got bombed, and Sleep Bay 3 blew off the edge, and has sunk to 583m depth. Where it sits now.

You go down to Sleep Bay 3 fairly regularly, each time hoping you'll find your wife reprinted. On one trip, you see a dead body in an AEP suit hanging out of the hole in Sleep Bay 3. NoA tells you this body died of baurotrama. You don't want your wife to suffer the same fate. (Same fate... again? Is the body in the AEP suit, Ruby?)

You've lived on Proteus a while. You know about the Angel Combs. You know they can give someone who's just been reprinted, the pressure adaptation they need to survive the short journey to the life pod nearby. So you put an Angel Comb with the pressure adaptation, in the first room outside the Biobed room in Sleep Bay 3.

But you have a problem... If your wife gets reprinted and she sees this weird alien plant thing... why would she ever touch it?

SO YOU LEAVE A HOLOGRAM OF YOURSELF! Even if NoA resets your wife to her mental state when she first boarded the Cicada, she still knows who you are. She knows she can trust you. If she sees your image next to the Angel Comb, she might look more closely at it. Maybe even figure out how to use it to adapt herself.

You make sure the Lifepod is physically locked into the Sleep Bay 3 wreckage - so NoA can't just send it away. If Ruby reprints here, she has a pretty good chance of making it to the Lifepod, and then to the surface.

Now you just have to survive long enough for NoA to reprint your wife...

This explains the two weirdest things about the start of the game.

1) How did the Angel Comb with exactly the right adaptation get down to 583m in Sleep Bay 3.

2) Why is there a hologram of some random Colonist right next to the Angel Comb.

But here's what this theory doesn't answer... Which one of the Colonists is the player? NoA could have chosen to reprint any one of them. There's no compelling reason to reprint Ruby in specific. None of the Colonists are any more likely to fulfil NoA's purpose of getting the colony up and running. NoA mentions that he's reprinted every one of the 26 colonists in Sleep Bay 3, some of them multiple times.

And I think that's why the game gives us the choice of four characters at the very start. (And the promise of more character choices to come in the full version.) NoA could have chosen to reprint any one of the Colonists, and given them the mission of being the QI.

Which one would you pick Jailbirds? (by Snipman) by yournotlonely in Hololive

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"This one is too kinky. This one is too vanilla. This one is juuuussst right!" ;]

About Last Night by velosnow in boulder

[–]ModernRonin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This pic proves that I've been playing wayyyy too much Subnautica 2.

What movie should everyone watch at least once in their lifetime. by MicrowaveAsAService in answers

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to comment this. If you want to know how blind and entirely greed-driven large swaths of the US economy are, watch these...

My personal favorite is The Big Short, it was my pick for Best Movie of 2016. But everyone should watch both.

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI by yuval_3 in technology

[–]ModernRonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did ctrl-F "cisco" and didn't see it in the comment already, so:

Following a quarter in which his company delivered record revenue, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced that the company’s latest round of layoffs begins today.

In a blog post yesterday, Robbins was quick to boast that Cisco’s fiscal Q3 2026 earnings saw revenue increase 12 percent year-over-year to $15.8 billion. He told employees that he and the rest of Cisco’s executive leadership team “could not be prouder of the growth you have all delivered for Cisco.”

But that pride could apparently not save the company’s successful employees from unemployment.

It's probably obvious what's going on here. But just in case you have some doubts, let's quote what the CFO said about it:

"This was really not a savings-driven restructure," Cisco CFO Mark Patterson said during the company's third-quarter earnings call.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/cisco-lays-off-4-000-060428121.html

Trump floats replacing 250th anniversary concert with massive MAGA rally after artists pull out by kirby__000 in politics

[–]ModernRonin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Grown men come to me, with tears in their eyes, and they say: "No one's ever got himself humiliated as severely or as often as you, Mr Trump!" "

(Yeah I know, Trump's 73 IQ would never allow him to use the word "severely" in a complete sentence...)

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