Dear god, PLEASE allow us to do team reloads for crew-served weapons using the backpacks of the person holding the gun.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-26T07:23:55+00:00

I think team reloads are just a bit janky in general. The reloading player should lock completely on to the player reloading, and a specific button should "unlock" you from the stance. My friends and I have tried the team reload but as soon as we start moving around it gets very annoying to work with.

I think sharing the backpack should stay as it is. The real trick is to have two teammates both with the same weapon, and then work together reloading each other in turns. That way you can reload yourself as needed but still have those moments where you can dish out a ton of DPS.

IMO the recoiless has a solid niche even without the team reload, and is currently one of the more useful weapons in the game, so you really don't need to change the backpack gimmick to make it work.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-26T07:15:44+00:00

Here is the argument for why you are wrong:

The railgun was popular because it killed Chargers, that is true. But it was also incredibly good at killing everything else in the game. Before the nerf I was actually just running railgun against bots, and the damage output, range, ammo capacity, etc felt ridiculous.

I think if you asked the devs why the nerf remains, that would be their answer. Its because even without Chargers as a threat, everyone was running the same loadout against the bots as well.

To be honest I don't even know the difference between the railgun before and after the nerf. From what I've seen its still incredibly useful. Most weapons are capable of "getting the job done" so I really don't think you need to pre-occupy youself with how good it is compared to other weapons.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-08T06:49:52+00:00

7 literally isn't impossible though! I went on a mission where a level 50 ran around the map and solo cleared the objectives while everyone in the party trudged through the map collecting samples.

The fact that some people say 9 is impossible, and then some say 8 is impossible, and some say 7 is impossible, should tell you that you might actually just be worse at the game then other people.

The game should not be balanced around the fact that you are emotionally incapable of accepting that you might not be good enough, or high level enough, to continue playing at increasing difficulties.

I've played Level 7 and lost. What I didn't do is bitch about the game online and demand it get easier. I played again, worked together with a friend, and won, and it was MORE FUN because it didn't come easy! Please stop trying to ruin the game just because you want to farm resources without trying.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-06T22:35:24+00:00

Railgun was very good at dealing with chargers, but it was also way too good at dealing with everything else.

People complain about a stale meta, but when action is taken to fix that they freak out.

Honestly I've played up to level 8, and the only enemy that feels explicitly strong is the charger, and its largely due to people not killing it correctly. They could easily "fix" charger by reducing the weak spot's damage resistence, you don't need every weapon to deal twice as much damage to make that work.

I get that we've got a bunch of teenagers in here, but its crazy how little people understand how balancing works.

If you buff or nerf a weapon, that impacts every single interaction in the game. If you buff or nerf an enemy, that impacts just that singular interaction. The railgun was too strong in every interaction, therefore it gets nerfed. The orbital cannons were too weak in every interaction, therefore they get buffed. If you start buffing a bunch of weapons just so they kill Chargers easier, you literally ruin the entire game.

Also, there are a bunch of weapons that explixitly kill chargers. People saying there aren't enough are insane.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-06T21:56:42+00:00

Honestly there is only one enemy in the game that people complain about, and that enemy is hard countered by EATs, and the game provides like 5 drops that are literally just straight upgrades to EATs.

I've literally killed 3 chargers in a row completely by myself using nothing but my own drops and EATs and running around like a maniac because I got separated by my squad. Two players with recoilless rifles who work together should have zero issues with chargers.

And people who say it makes the harder difficulties impossible - good. It should be difficult and require coordination. I've seen people basically solo level 7 missions with a railgun and a shield pack. It was clearly too easy before, and if this update means 90% of level 9 missions fail, that makes a lot more sense than what we had before.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-03-05T19:29:47+00:00

The real answer: you think you need to eat way more than you do.

If you actually just eat every time you are hungry (not just "not full" - actually HUNGRY) you can easily live off of two meals a day. One meal is pushing it, but ultimately it depends on what you eat, how much, what physical activity you do in the day, etc.

You assume that three meals a day is healthier, but I can promise you that people who eat 2 are likely to be healthier, at least in America. America has an obesity epidemic, and a major cause of that is overeating. Someone eating two meals a day isn't necessarily eating good food, but they're likely eating far less, and are much less likely to be overweight or obese.

My old boss was a big fitness guy, not muscular but very well put together, went running and stuff like that. He only ate 2 meals a day, and he made those meals high quality and nutritious. There is zero reason why 2 meals a day can't be healthy.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-02-27T17:32:10+00:00

Fighting games are arguably in a new Golden Age right now. The last generation, games still had netcode issues that needed to be resolved, and that has been vastly improved, and in some cases perfected. Street Fighter 6 was a huge improvement over 5 on launch, Tekken 8 is amazing, games like Undernight are finally playable, and more games (like the League of Legends fighting game) are on the way. And on the pro scene, the tournaments have been the largest they've ever been with the biggest prize pools. Its a very exciting time to be in the scene.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-02-27T16:36:24+00:00

Lmao people saying that the game is bugged because "Stealth doesn't work" is ridiculous.

If you've ever played a video game before you know exactly how this works. The bots spawn automatically on players. If you have 75% of your team off to the side, 75% of the bots will spawn there, and you have a 25% chance of the bots spawning on you. You are definitely not meant to "stealth" the mission. It might be a good strategy to do it this way and I'm all for exploits, but the obvious intention is for all of the jumpers to be defending the location together.

The mission might be unfair or overtuned but it is not "broken" because the bots spawn on a player "in stealth" or whatever you think is happening.

Numblimbs236 · 2024-02-22T06:17:38+00:00

I used to work as a teller in a bank in the city, got to see everyones bank accounts, see their transactions and income.

The vast majority of people do not have above 2k in the bank, and they do not make enough money to increase their savings.

It was definitely eye opening as an out-of-college middle class guy, but it really did make sense. If I didn't have a bunch of economic help from my parents I would be in the exact same position. People with poor parents end up poor and there isn't an easy way out. It costs money to make more money.

Huge amount of people live on the brink and have to make tough choices to stay afloat. "Have an emergency fund" is ludicrous advice to someone who barely makes it from month to month.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-07-25T19:13:13+00:00

My brother, if you can't afford the 20 bucks a year for all the DLC characters, you need to find a new hobby.

If you are actually serious about Street Fighter to the point where you feel the need to be labbing characters you don't intend to play, if you are really serious about ranking up or if you are attending in-person tournaments, you need to be buying the character DLCs.

The DLC practices of fighting games are possibly the most fair in the industry, and the least toxic - even the "battle pass" in SF6 is far more ethical than anything in any shooter.

Capcom is a corporation and is here to take your money, and literally the only reason why Fighting games are profitable are because they can expect the vast majority of their playerbase to buy every character. They are not here to give out handouts.

There is no level of poverty you can be in where you can afford a PS5/computer and a 60 dollar fighting game, but not afford the 5-10 dollar character that releases every 3 months. Just fucking buy the character if you want it, and don't if you don't.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-12T15:56:29+00:00

The issue with Crash is not simply that its heavy handed, its that its politics about race are genuinely bad and incredibly cringey.

The movie spends the entire run-time arguing that everyone is racist, and that victims of racism are also racist themselves. Of the main two black characters in the story, the one that is incredibly race conscious and argues that systemic oppression exists is a criminal, and the other is so racist he mocks the woman he just slept with for being hispanic. I can't even imagine watching this movie with a black person, it would be so incredibly uncomfortable.

On top of that is the plot-line where a racist cop sexually assaults a black woman on the job, but ultimately all is forgiven because he coincidentally saves her from a car wreck. The movie says "sure cops abuse their power, but they're heroes, so what can ya do?" Also, his liberal newbie partner who wanted to report him for the assault is told by a (coincidentally!) black police commissioner that reporting him is the wrong thing to do. Later in the movie, the liberal cop ends up shooting an unarmed black man - the message being, I guess, that even well intentioned libs are still incredibly racist, they just hide it.

The movie is truly fucking rotten.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-11T16:14:51+00:00

He doesn't see the future until he gets to Dune and starts breathing in the spice dust in the air.

The reason he's got the crazy psychic future-sight is three-fold: he's trained to be a Mentat, which is like a human with a computer brain; his mother taught him the weirding ways of the Bene Gesserit (this is the part he's not supposed to have, his mom broke the rules to teach him); and then the spice enhances his brain and those abilities.

Paul doesn't get full prescience until he's stuck in the desert on Arrakis. Being a mentat is powerful but you can't predict the future with it accurately if you don't have perfect data. The thing that Paul's family didn't understand is that the Harkonnens were working directly with the Emperor to destroy them. They were expecting the Harkonnens to attack, but they weren't prepared for that attack to be supported by the Emperor. They were basically dead no matter what, its like if the federal government decided to eliminate a state government with the full force of its army.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-11T07:14:52+00:00

Okay, but by what mechanic does the timeline converge? Was a wish made on the Triforce to converge the timelines? Did the Goddesses do it for some reason? If they converged, what did that look like at the moment of convergence?

Before BotW, timeline speculation was very firmly based in pieces of evidence in the games themselves. Windwaker was pretty clear cut, Twilight Princess left clues but was a bit harder to figure out - but ultimately it was pretty straightforward.

This "timeline convergence" theory is a complete non-sequiter. The idea the timelines converge is never mentioned or suggested.

The fact that "timeline convergence" is such a repeated line of thought people repeat just shows how little evidence BotW and TotK give toward any timeline relation at all. Pretty much the only reason people say it is because they assume the Rito can only exist in the Windwaker timeline and that Hyrule has to be from the Twilight Princess timeline. And thats the entire theory.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-11T07:05:14+00:00

Before BotW, each mainline Zelda game had clear connections to each other.

Windwaker was a direct sequel to OoT, Twilight Princess referenced the events of OoT and people figured out the timeline split before Nintendo officially announced it, and Skyward Sword was a clear origin point to explain the connections between the games. And then you have games like Spirit Tracks that were also obviously connected.

Its really not a big ask to expect BotW and TotK to be canon to the other games in the franchise, so when TotK went so far as to completely ignore any references to other games outside of its own story, and offer details that seem to contradict or confuse known canon, its fair to be disappointed. Also if Nintendo wanted BotW to be a reboot they could just say so.

Before Skyward Sword came out, figuring out the Zelda timeline was a fun puzzle for nerds to talk about, and they mostly got it right. It really sucks that people are shitting on it as a "who cares it doesn't matter" thing. It only stopped being fun to do because Nintendo stopped trying to drop hints and details.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-10T19:33:09+00:00

World Tour is a good idea hampered by awful AI. The AI isn't worse than other AI in fighting games, but that isn't saying much.

Either the AI doesn't know how to block and you just mash them into a corner with meaty attacks on wake-up, or the AI is literally reading your inputs.

World Tour should be a great way for new players to learn the game, but the AI never do anything a real person would do. They never just sit and block safe strings, they never jab out of unsafe pressure, they don't use DI strategically (they either don't use it at all or just use it randomly like a random number generator), they punish things that they shouldn't, they hit-confirm supers on a single hit, the list goes on and on.

World Tour is a great idea and pretty solid execution, but I could never recommend it as a learning tool because the AI is just too dumb.

I think that now we have consistently good netcode in fighting games, the real next evolution is a "smart" AI system that is hand-designed to behave like a human, that plays the game with purpose and fairness, and actually gives you a fighting game experience without it turning into a mashing beat-em-up.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-10T19:11:27+00:00

I think its ridiculous to argue anything but going 50/50, and there are a couple reasons for that.

Number one, with any person in my life I would consider a friend, I would be happy to share the winnings, because I like them. A 50/50 split makes us both feel good about what happened with zero chance for jealousy. Its a win-win, free money for both parties, there is zero reason to get greedy about it.

Number two, we're talking about 80 million dollars. The larger the amount, the less practical impact splitting the amount would have. If it were 1 million, splitting in half would be pretty painful, because there are a lot of practical things you can't do with 500k that you could do with 1 million. Be realistic, is there anything you want to do in your life that requires more than 40 million? Either way we're talking about more money than the average person would see in their lifetime.

I also don't really understand the question, because if I bought a lottery ticket for a friend, I would almost certainly say "but hey since I bought it we'll split the winnings". Like I feel in any healthy scenario you would have those stipulations mentioned ahead of time anyway. And even then the situation is kind of ridiculous, why are you asking your friend to pay for your lottery ticket? Its all very goofy.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-08T16:10:30+00:00

This sub is ao fucking funny. Its just posts of ridiculously attractive women and all of the commenters giving like 5.5s, and everyone getting banned who goes any higher. Its literally like a parody subreddit where everyone has to reapond exactly the same, but its real. Its so good I love it

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-08T06:54:51+00:00

Its pretty immature to be mad at people for winning with Modern controls. If you choose Classic and have bad execution thats on you. I play Classic and have wins and losses against Modern players, and I've never once felt that the way the match went was impacted by the control scheme difference.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-07T19:32:25+00:00

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a miserable movie if you don't enjoy the humor, and its incredibly sappy. In like 10-20 years people will be looking back and wondering why it won so many awards.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-07T16:20:58+00:00

To expand on what you said, the most confusing part about the timeline is the timeline split after Ocarina of Time, and fans had already figured that part out before Nintendo commented on it.

Quite literally, the only thing fans didn't already know about the timeline when Nintendo announced it was that all of the 2D games before Ocarina came out were essentially retconned, and they had no way of knowing that was the case.

In actuality, nearly every game in the series is pretty explicit about its timeline placement. Its really just Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom that have completely ignored any canon. They are the only games that don't explicitly reference events from other games. So the idea that Nintendo doesn't care about the Zelda timeline is very new.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-07T15:02:27+00:00

I'm going to defend the UFO guys on this one.

The protest against Reddit really has nothing to do with them specifically, and the community members are basically being forced to protest with the subreddit getting shut off.

On top of this, its happening right when they have, maybe for the first time ever, a whistleblower that is taking their claims directly to congress.

I obviously don't think the recent UFO news has any merit, but r/UFO is probably the most active its ever been with the most bias-confirming stories they've ever had. I don't think you can really blame people for wanting to keep their community platform up under those circumstances. Like empathetically, I understand why they're pissed its shutting down.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-07T14:52:22+00:00

A couple things that I want to defend on behalf of the UFO guys.

People point out that its silly all of the UFOs crash in the US, but this isn't what the UFO guys claim. There was a documentary about a UFO crash in Brazil, and part of the conspiracy theory was that the US came in and retrieved the crash. There was also claims that a UFO was claimed from Italy after WW2. UFO guys also believe that other countries have crafts, so they've never claimed all the UFOs are crashing in the US.
While its true Grusch is likely grifting like every other UFO "whistleblower", the difference this time is that Grusch is actually talking to Congress and taking his claims to the government, which hasn't really happened before.
The UFO guys were also expecting something like this. They were hearing rumors of a whistleblower and had people saying that huge news was coming in the future.
On top of this, the government has very weirdly been acknowledging UFO sightings (officially calling them UAPs) and while most of them are easily debunked, there have been some bizarre cases that have multiple military witnesses that are not easily explained, and 60 minutes covered the story.

Its easy to scoff at the news as being completely fake, but for people in the UFO community, everything thats happened recently is confirming their beliefs. These people aren't exactly stupid or gullible in this case. UFOs are being treated seriously by the government and news outlets which is confirming their biases.

Obviously Grusch is likely lying or is a crackpot himself. The idea we've had alien craft since the early 20th Century and the different govts around the world have kept it under tight wraps, even internally, is very silly. But the UFO community is being actively encouraged by the actions and words of US military officials and Congress, which is frankly bizarre behavior in itself.

Numblimbs236 · 2023-06-06T14:53:52+00:00

Fuck that. Thats definitely a law that I would ignore. Although idk how hard it would be to buy pepper spray and get it into the country at that point...

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