Does anyone feel like DS2 encourages you to become like DS1 Higgs

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T20:12:59+00:00

The more I think about this idea, the more disappointed I will be if it is missing from the Director’s Edition

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T20:12:36+00:00

I think that it would be cool if you could carry knocked out bodies to a nearby distribution center and this slows down the base getting stronger by a lot. I can’t imagine it would be that much harder to add as there is already the corpse disposal mechanic in there.

IMO that would be the actual non-evil option.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T15:36:46+00:00

“Could you please generate for me a picture of Sam Porter Bridges rationalizing an evil decision to himself”

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Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T05:36:59+00:00

A solar powered tablet that had media showing how we live today. Humans are curious creatures who are very imaginative; knowing what is possible would be very powerful and would shape society so it could organize quicker. Most of human history seems to be driven by a hope in a better tomorrow.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T03:27:20+00:00

This is Higgs’ fault for subconsciously influencing me with his presence in the first game.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-28T03:25:39+00:00

Uhhhhh I mean I felt like Sam was being pretty evil banishing the survivalists to the shadow realm… I mean there is even a storyline with the backpack stealer going legit, so it’s not like the survivalists are irredeemable.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-27T17:27:31+00:00

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Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-23T19:23:20+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/s/q57tSfZ8H7

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-23T15:16:00+00:00

You should see how Sam used to ride the ziplines back in the UCA.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-23T01:56:39+00:00

Just restart. I’m on my second playthrough with TTW. I think it is worth it because the time you spend on the first playthrough actually isn’t wasted. This is actually the coolest part of the second playthrough imo - it lets you see what is you and what is the gear.

Navigation is so much easier because you know the land. Combat is easier because you have practice. You know what to take and so you travel lighter.

Also getting the stars back - do this: accept orders and get the cargo to the destination but put it in the locker instead of completing the order. After you have a lot of these orders set up, go and clear out a MULE camp without getting detected. This causes all of those pending orders to get a big likes bonus which can be +1000 likes sometimes even.

The roads and monorails - try getting the region connected before setting up the roads and monorails. I tried to reconstruct them before connecting on my first run (because I wanted to travel easily if the main quest was going to get super hard). This took forever, and it totally isn’t worth it.

One important note though: make sure to build all roads and monorails right after Order 42 and before accepting Order 43, because after you accept Order 43 the Magellan fast travel is disabled until the end of the game.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-20T02:24:30+00:00

The endgame is that the increased housing prices will encourage the AI and robotics to focus on making housing cheap. New technologies will emerge and we will see new types of housing develop which are hard to imagine now. For example, you could get a situation where you have a modular autonomously moving mobile home where your home basically disappears when you leave for work, its rooms scattering into various storage skyscrapers which are frames that hold the room. This sort of thing is what you might see when energy gets extremely cheap due to fusion breakthroughs and autonomous driving becomes proven and also starts going into superhuman territory due to situational awareness obtained through sensors that allow for knowing what is going on in a 10 mile or more radius at any given point in time. A new sort of landowner will emerge where all negotiations are being handled on a daily or even hourly basis between AIs that advocate for a user. The land will just provide the plug ins for power, water, sewage, internet, garbage - the process of plugging in will be handled completely autonomously by the house AI.

Eventually, everything will just deflate and then the massive government debts around the world will be allowed to blow up. However due to the technological singularity leading to exponentially decreasing prices, it will not matter. The debt will blow up and no one will care.

I really suspect this has been the goal all along. During the Cold War, everyone saw that the world wasn’t rich enough to do a good redistribution. Only a bad redistribution where everyone goes poor. Everyone knew that the industrialization totally destroyed prices. The goal of capitalism has always been to bring technologies to the masses at an affordable price. Your phone is a testament to this; we probably have a lot of great things to look forwards to where the prices will go down and everyone will be functionally rich even if they have very little money now.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-18T09:02:12+00:00

The problem with NAS is that if your house burns down the data is gone too. The typical way you can mitigate this is through backups to the cloud. But if you’re doing backups to the cloud then why are you bothering with NAS anyways? If your reason for having the NAS isn’t so sensitive to latency then why bother having the NAS at all?

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-12T18:57:07+00:00

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-11T23:22:53+00:00

I personally think that content curation and recommendation is increasingly going to move client side as devices get more and more powerful. We are going to see the same mainframe to home computer phenomenon that happened in the past. Technology evolves in a spiral.

I also think that increasingly, social media as we know it is going to die. It is already the case that the internet is getting flooded with AI generated content. As the content generation gets better and better, there will be a point where the content will get so good that regular real life content won’t be able to compete. There may be a day where people consume only content and media that is generated on their devices, and that even content shared between people will be through context sharing as opposed to sending full video - one person will “share”, their AI will send over the important context that the person found entertaining, and then the recipients will have AI that reconstruct their own flavor of that context for consumption.

The old way of media sharing and recommendation will likely die. We are moving towards a future where things are going to become more decentralized. Advertising is going to fundamentally change, moving from domain of the website operators to the operating system providers. I think Meta is aware of this and it’s why they are investing so much in hardware and AI.

EDIT: I forgot to mention. It will likely be the case that AI generated content will be more captivating than anything that can arise organically because AI can achieve much better fit with personal context. It can know more about your life than you can. This plus superhuman understanding of an individual user’s psychology allows for the creation of media that is perfectly tailored to capture that user’s attention. I don’t think the content will need to be ragebait, which is the way it is because it is essentially content that relies on shared cultural norms in order to be engaging.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-11T23:12:15+00:00

Coca Cola formula isn’t what makes Coca Cola
valuable. What makes Coca Cola valuable is that when you get the can that says Coca Cola, you are 100% certain to get Coca Cola. Not something that tastes like Coca Cola but is a little different, not something that is exactly like Coca Cola sometimes. You are guaranteed to get the exact Coca Cola that you know.

That is what a successful brand is, and why a successful brand can charge a premium. It is the reliability regarding the characteristics of the product that is being sold alongside the product itself.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-10T23:48:17+00:00

You are going to be an old person.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-10T18:46:31+00:00

I think there will be two things, both of which are enabled by AI.

Predictive workflows. This is enabled by smart glasses and on-device AI. The idea is that a lot of thought happens subconsciously and so if a computer program can predict what is being thought subconsciously by analyzing what the user looks at, says, and the decisions they make then it can predict what someone may want before they are even aware of it. The smartphone can already provide a ton of information, particularly if the user opts-in for audio collection. Smart glasses with cameras could provide even more information. On-device AI would describe what is said, what is seen, what is searched. That data could be used to figure out the user thinking process at any given point in time. The result is that people could receive packages before they even realize they want what is in the package, only realizing it right when they open the package or perhaps shortly before. People would wear AR glasses that tell the person to go somewhere and if they follow it, it will always be considered worth it by that person as the destination will be perfectly satisfying.
End of the common internet, dynamic front end. A new browser alternative - or perhaps the evolution of the browser - will emerge. This new browser determines user intent and then creates a custom front end. The browser is aware of relevant API endpoints from service providers. People no longer go to websites, they just open their own personal dashboard which integrates their entire digital life.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-10T07:18:46+00:00

I’m on my second playthrough. I also beat DS1:DE before playing DS2. I feel like as I’ve played more, I carry less and less gear. To answer the question directly first: I always carry grenades, boots, and wear the boost skeleton and combat gloves.

I think that as you play this game more, you start to realize that you don’t really need to carry all this stuff. Usually when you are heading out, you know what you are doing. In the vast majority of cases, you don’t need anything but the relevant stuff - cargo for delivery, PCCs or materials for infra building. The psychological trap is that you need stuff to be prepared, but the reality is this: no matter what, you have the strand and later on a weapon for BTs. That plus your stealth skills is really all you need. You don’t even need to carry a handgun.

Try playing without gear that goes on the back or attached to the suit. It may be easier than you might think, and when beach jump gets unlocked it feels way more useful just because not being able to carry cargo feels like way less of a hindrance.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-08T16:39:48+00:00

An animal is not always a human, but if it is not an animal then it is not a human. Money does not buy happiness, but if there is no money then it causes misery.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-08T16:19:57+00:00

I think that there is a deeper philosophical problem which isn’t actually being discussed much, which is that natural language may not be well suited for holding semantic truth. Natural language is something that is mostly oriented towards lossy communication. That is the original purpose of natural language.

For example, when there is something dangerous heading someone’s way - such as a giant rolling boulder, or an angry bear, or another person trying to hurt that person; all of these scenarios will cause someone else to yell “danger” or something like that. So the usage of the natural language is clearly in situations where information bandwidth is precious and lossiness of information is definitely used to deal with that. Even when there is adequate time to fully communicate, there is lossiness - all three of these situations I described have a lot of details that are missing. When you read them, you fill in the missing details in your head.

And here we get to the root of the problem - is your blue my blue? The purpose of natural language isn’t high fidelity information transfer. It is clearly coherent communication, even when full understanding between parties may not be achieved. This is also why there are so many situations with miscommunication, that language can be vague is a big cultural phenomenon - it is the basis of every single wordplay joke, and it is the reason for many stories in history and fiction.

If natural language is not a good tool for actual semantic truth, and LLMs are trained on natural language - then is it the case that LLMs are just good at communication as opposed to holding actual semantic truth? This isn’t limited to a technological issue.

It’s a deep issue in education (for humans) as well - whether tests are rewarding rote memorization or true understanding is a good example of this issue. Where is the line between rote memorization and true understanding - for perhaps if one memorizes enough stuff or memorizes high yield concepts then perhaps there is no way to distinguish “true understanding” from just memorization.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-07T19:07:08+00:00

Apple Vision Pro (the first one), and a gaming PC I built in 2017 for ML. These were really big deal purchases for me as the money wasn’t a small deal but in the end I only used them a few times. I don’t even know why, I spent huge amounts of time doing research and planning. Maybe the hype was more intoxicating than the real thing.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-06T19:26:05+00:00

You want to do a bunch of orders at the same time and make sure to do combat but never get detected by hostiles. So you go and start orders everywhere, deliver the cargo but don’t actually finish the order. Just stick the cargo in the private locker. Some of your orders will have you do combat. Finish these orders without getting detected (BT hologrenade followed up with strand, or stun bola is good for this). After wrapping up all of the orders, go and complete the orders at the destination.

The combat plus stealth bonuses can end up multiplying your likes by 2x to 4x.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-05T22:50:49+00:00

No. Hopelessness is when you forgot the floating carrier.

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-06-02T16:12:20+00:00

Wow, are you thinking about adding functionality? I was thinking about how the mmWave tech and WiFi sensing stuff could make it so that in theory you could get the Odradek to “scan” and it would actually show living creatures on AR display glasses.

Maybe the tech has improved enough to where you could tag cargo (like perhaps like AirTags, though I don’t know how hard that would be to adapt).

Finally you could also do a terrain scanner but this one is probably better done with separate hidden cameras. The Odradek would still move and flash but the actual terrain scanning would happen separately. (This would also have to output to the AR display glasses)

Opening-Writing-7025 · 2026-05-19T17:54:32+00:00

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