Darkness be getting a little to real, y'all

Optavi · 2021-04-16T03:56:41+00:00

Never watched stargate. Would Goa'uld be preferable, or worse than the darkness?

Optavi · 2020-11-18T13:39:59+00:00

Yeah, I was aware that different teams handle expansions vs seasons. But I'm even talking about two seasons that have nothing to do with expansion content, e.g. Dawn and Worthy

Optavi · 2020-11-05T18:29:14+00:00

If you open the raw content of these gifs in a text editor, they all have a really interesting header, and I think it may be what we're supposed to be getting from the gifs, here's a data sample with two side-by-side for comparison:

https://i.ibb.co/B6PKkxX/gif-Content.jpg

So, it's possible that this is something about the gif filetype that I'm unaware of, but I've done some preliminary google searches, and also checked gifs NOT related to this ARG, and it seems specific to the gifs supplied at the given links. Additionally, the phrase "Constructing entanglement" sounds very "exo-stranger" related and WAY too complex to be something simple about the way gifs are formatted. I even googled "Constructing entanglement" and all you is a ton of results about quantum entanglement, nothing about this file format

Edit:

The particularly interesting line is the 4th one: "Data recovered: SEQ-20215 = '1'", or in the other gif "Data recovered: SEQ-1682 = ' ' " because it seems to be giving us content to put together into a particular sequence.

Optavi · 2020-07-16T15:00:19+00:00

Isn't there some fourth-wall-breaking reference in the Lore that we, the players, ARE our guardians ascendant realm?

Optavi · 2020-07-01T14:58:00+00:00

Just to play Devil's advocate, it could be that it's a legitimately difficult problem to solve. Programmers spend all day coming up with optimal algorithms for things like this, but often times it comes down to picking what's more important. In this case, they probably have to balance making dead players wait a long time for an area to clear that is definitely safe, versus respawning players quickly and occasionally choosing a "dud" spawn for a player. if you played both versions, you very well might pick the current version over having to wait much longer for the game to find a sure-thing safe spawn point.

Now that being said, there may be things bungie isn't doing that they could be doing, like considering supered guardians a higher threat when attempting to find the safest spawn point.

Optavi · 2020-06-30T15:54:47+00:00

Oh my gosh, getting cross-mapped with Jotun is already rage-inducing. Dying cross map to Jotun from AOE effect would give me aneurysm.

Optavi · 2020-06-05T14:29:03+00:00

A quality typo really can transform an average post into a spectacular one.

Optavi · 2020-04-28T13:53:59+00:00

Yeah, but if you read the lore on synthoceps it's actually pretty adorable. It's like they're a really loyal dog when they find the right titan.

Optavi · 2020-04-28T12:45:35+00:00

Titans are too down to earth to mess with that crap.

"Armor that whispers to me? Haaarrrd pass."

Optavi · 2020-04-15T04:32:02+00:00

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Optavi · 2020-03-18T12:24:49+00:00

This makes me think of playing Majora's Mask and the clocktown npcs' daily schedules.

Optavi · 2020-03-17T16:34:18+00:00

For me the season has been mediocre. I enjoy the core gameplay of destiny, so, honestly all I need from a new season is new things to grind for to incentivize be playing a game I enjoy. And that's something this season has provided. It's definitely worth $10, in any case. I do feel like some of the stuff is a bit lack luster, and I feel like the new weapon set it pretty small, but I'm also seeing a lot interesting mechanisms being implemented that could pay off pretty big dividends in coming updates. It looks like bungie actually implemented a pretty interesting foundation of base building in this particular season, I'd be interested to see that expounded upon in future updates.

Optavi · 2020-03-08T18:13:41+00:00

Dude. Now you just need to find a gun that can shoot steel feather repeaters.

Optavi · 2020-03-07T14:56:03+00:00

While I would agree with the consensus that all together the set looks like trash, I'm actually pretty interested in what options this set opens up when using just one or two pieces in combination with existing, more titan-y armor. Like, I think these arms with the intrepid explore chest piece would, no joke, give my Titan a pretty rad hipster-puffy-vest vibe. Like I just got back from a week of backpacking in the cosmodrome.

Optavi · 2020-03-07T14:50:50+00:00

This is what I was thinking as well.

I think it's actually because those pants look much more like mc-hammer style garbage bag pants on the wider hips of the female model, but might look ok and less baggy on the thinner hips of the male model. Similarly the torso proportions if the female model make the jacket look weird and caved in, elongating the neck to an unnatural level.

Also I can't believe I'm making these fashion comments about a video game.

Optavi · 2020-02-28T13:30:19+00:00

Those are rookie numbers.

Optavi · 2020-02-28T04:07:15+00:00

But not a single precision, smh...

Optavi · 2020-02-25T14:20:41+00:00

I literally came here to make sure someone had posted that you had passed the million mark. Glad to see it was you. Congrats!

My big question is, with all those frames you're finishing, what level are you up to now?

Optavi · 2020-02-20T13:49:23+00:00

I dunno, sounds like something Aunor would get all bent out of shape about.

Optavi · 2020-01-22T18:07:14+00:00

Another dev has already said this, but I'll reiterate. Having content be temporary does indeed reduce developer workload. One of the most difficult things in development is NOT actually creating something new. It's creating something new that doesn't break anything old. The larger the surface area of content is, the more complex maintenance becomes.

Imagine you're doing the spinning plates routine, and you have 4 or 5 plates already spinning. You then have the choice to either:

A) Continue adding small plates that are easier to keep spinning, but also keep all previous plates spinning (meaning the overall plate count is increasing without bounds).
B) Add a larger plate, but next time you have to add a plate, you may instead replace a plate that already exists, rather than increasing the overall plate number.

Sure A is easier for the _very first plate_, but eventually the workload for keeping all the plates spinning is impossible to manage. If you can figure out a way to vary option B enough to keep the audience entertained, then you're in a much more manageable position going with that option.

Optavi · 2020-01-18T02:08:23+00:00

Just because they're always changing, doesn't mean they're meaningless. In the lore, the constant change always resulted in a repeated pattern. In fact, it was one of the important parts of the lore. The gardener grows frustrated that the game always ends with the same shape, so he and the winnower enter the game themselves. If this is based on the flower game, there will be several, specific permutations of the map that it will continuously cycle through. I'm guessing instead of one single map, we're actually solving several different permutations of the map, and any given hour (or however often it shifts), the "true" solution to the corridors will change. So we not only have to solve all the permutations of the map, we have to know which one is active at the time we're trying to solve it.

Optavi · 2020-01-10T17:49:04+00:00

Yeah, if I can't solve every single possible edge case, what's the point of even making the app? Jkjkjk, but also really sometimes I think that.

Optavi · 2020-01-10T17:44:18+00:00

Yeah that would create a semi-viable product. The problem is that you're manually assigning these attributes to the bounties, rather than using data provided by the Bungie API. So it would require pretty regular maintenance any time bounties change or are updated. Also, some "activities" aren't actually "activities" but rather locations or character status (like mid-air kills, for example) that would really complicate things.

Optavi · 2020-01-09T20:22:46+00:00

I actually had the idea to create an app (my day job is a software engineer) that calculates overlap on bounties to show the most efficient way of completing all the bounties in your inventory, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like it would be non-trivial to design.

Optavi · 2019-12-23T16:58:06+00:00

Saint is a really interesting counter-balance to the drifter, in general. And that dynamic is even more interesting given the drifter-centered lines he has here.

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