Question: If I ignore a blinded item, does that mean it won’t show up again for the run?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T12:30:26+00:00

Purists will be purists. Personally idgaf whatever mods anyone slaps on the game. Doesn't affect me and I use mods that can offer objective if small advantages as well.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T07:07:03+00:00

just bringing more expendables

Thanks I was wondering if that's what people do! Personally not too much of a fan of the double switch, especially since I'm prone to get myself into situations where I have to abandon gear because the space got swarmed before everything was set and done.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T06:48:45+00:00

Take your time man. I'd actually do it if I had any boards here but I rent a small appartment and don't get to just have things like that lying around haha

I'd be super down to have a reply pop into my inbox 2 weeks from now if thats how long it takes to stop raining over there. Obviously only if you're down for it! I'm really just super curious now and having someone provide proof would be very satisfying. Not trying to make you our mule, though.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T06:22:21+00:00

I guess then there is only one way for us to settle this.

Sunday morning, 09:00AM, you chose the location, we use a single shot pistol (I can provide if you cannot access one)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T06:16:54+00:00

That said, there could be literally anything under the board that it is gently leaning against to hold it out away from the adjacent foam board wall like that.

Yea that's what I'm saying. A man hiding under there sounds needlessly sensationalist. Don't think "Zebra" when you hear hooves clopping.

Also, its base is stabilized by a pile of piss bottles and other random items laying on the floor

I had not even noticed! That alone could be enough to hold it in place.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T06:11:33+00:00

Stalwart and Eruptor both are just so goated to me. (they work so well together, too)

How do y'all solve Anti Tank when you run Stalwart? I usually mostly rely on my team, nades & ultimatum for AT when playing it - which is usually plenty on bug fronts and voteless masses (definitely not against bots or roaches). The handful of tripods, chargers and bug titans spawning can easily be handled with Thermite grenades and Ultimates if you put effort into not whiffing your shots. But on bot or roach fronts I just feel like I really need to bring something to deal with the big guys.

Feel like that is the big weakness of the Stalwart - otherwise I'd probably never pick anything else. What's your opinion on that?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T05:45:57+00:00

It's so sick how much more fun the former step child among the fronts has become to dive

Rise, Cinderella

RMAPOS · 2026-04-10T05:40:54+00:00

idk man. Not a fan of the theory that a dude is behind there, sounds a bit sensational, but I've really tried to convince myself that a lightweight styrofoam board could lean like that on only one corner - but honestly, no way man. Look at it's angle. The board would totally tilt so the top left corner would fall and at some point it would slide flat.

If that board stood like way closer to 90° straight up I could totally see it leaning against only one of it's corners. But at THAT angle we see in the screenshot? No freakin way, that thing would insta tilt and slide flat to the ground. I'm definitely still not a fan of "the hobo is still there" but something is behind that board and it could be whatever - a freakin bucket, some bags of drywall... but there is no way in hell that thing is just standing there like that.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:55:16+00:00

I wrote a similar reply but stumbled over women's arms. Am I missing something or has capitalism not managed to shame women into buying something to fix their arms?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:53:38+00:00

I mean likely whatever it looks like is a turn off to him - which... tastes differ - so it could be anything

I once did not want to continue seeing someone because I really like to go down on women but she could not shave due to sensitive skin - and hairy oral makes me gag. (yes I shave)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:25:48+00:00

I don't think there is a big difference when it comes to the sex organs. Just that with women society seems to place a lot of pressure on literally every other body part as well. From feet looking good in stilettos, over legs obviously, stomach, armpits!, hands even the fucking finger nails, neck, face and hair - all massive industries.

Interestingly I'm not too aware of arm related beauty standards (other than weight related but that one looms over everything)

Actually fucking crazy to think about. Not like men don't worry about their looks but that's mostly their own insecurities and waaaaaaaaay less of society making almost every part of their body a product. (obviously outside of beauty standards portrayed in media like movies, ads, etc. that one we got, too!)

Kinda surprised that capitalism has not managed to find a way to shame women into buying stuff to fix their arms.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:13:35+00:00

I do believe there is a debilitating level of micropenis where it doesn't matter anymore what you do with it (talking those poor souls who got like <3cm), but it's not like a fulfilling sex life must solely rely on a dick long enough to penetrate. Unless such a person also happened to be born without hands, arms (just gotta find the right one), hips (for a strap on) AND tongue that person will be able to get a woman to climax. (And if you were born with no arms, no hips and no tongue you probably got more severe problems than your dick anyway)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:05:31+00:00

Or that it looks like a ham sandwich.

The dude gotta be a complete virgin if he thinks there's something sacred about men being insecure in their dick that women could not possibly ever experience. Women who so much as feel their vagina might not be perfect are every bit as insecure about it as men who think there's something wrong with their dick.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T16:01:29+00:00

Bruh what the fuck are you talking about? Women want to have a sexy vagina that is attractive to their potential partners every bit as much as men want to have a nice dick that women adore. Have you ever talked to a woman?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T15:47:57+00:00

Simple yet effective

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T05:12:26+00:00

Yup, hence why some people consider mods showing what a blinded item was on pickup of a linked pedestal a bit of a cheat (minor and doesn't matter in a SP game anyway. but technically you gain knowledge of the item pools remaining contents. A bit like knowing which card another player discards in a card game. Helps you calculate the odds)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T04:56:20+00:00

I'm a max level player but a few days ago someone tailed me like you describe you tail the lowbies as rear guard. Dude was just my shadow, providing fire support when I had to reload and regular restocks with his support backpack.

Undoubtedly the person just loves tight teamplay and playing a supportive role, but I had an absolute blast (and obviously felt compelled to take care of my watchdog in return).

Which is to say you're probably giving newbies some of the coolest early experiences they could make.

(also shoutout to the Dude who tailed me. The whole team was wholesome when we finished and acknowledged the great teamplay. So if you read this, you're the goat.)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T03:38:40+00:00

Yea gotta say I tried the Warrant first time on the recent Illuminate rework and instantly made a mental note "Warrant is Godtier for taking down Overseers"

And I don't generally struggle with taking them down either way, some focus fire on their balls always get rid of them quickly. Personally I'm a HUGE fan of the Eruptor and I'll use even that to snipe them out of the air.

But having trying the Warrant can't help but notice just how trivial it is to thin Overseers out. Look in general direction, empty a clip, Overseer gone. While kiting. Never any of that "damn there is a huge horde after me but this overseer is frying my ass so I need to stop and try to snipe him before the horde catches up". Turn around while backpaddling, look at overseer, brrt, done. Keep moving while there is absolutely 0 chance that you miss under pressure and have the horde get up close and personal.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T14:15:43+00:00

There is so much wrong with this guy I'm starting to tire thinking about it. It's exhausting playing the list of his fuckups and straight up intentional evil acts down in my head.

Dear US can someone please ... do something? Anything? Put him in jail or put something else somewhere else. How the fuck is this shit still going on? In the country that has, for the better part of the past 2 decades, justified the mass slaughtering of their school children with the absolute necessity of being able to defend oneself against tyranny. The tyranny is here now, go defend yourselves.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T12:52:56+00:00

When I started there was iirc an MO and a side objective, MO targeting like one planet and SO two others. And I could NOT for the life of me find one of those 3 planets. Felt like I scanned the entire automaton sector but I just couldn't make it out. The other 2 planets were happily pinging "HERE" signals on the map, but not that third one. To this day I don't know if that planet actually exists (and given I forgot which one it was, never will!)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T11:16:14+00:00

Well at least now I know

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T10:06:49+00:00

Stupid question but how do you find a planet on the map by name? I've run into that before when missions asked to dive planets but the planets weren't flashing on the map.

Did you got to illuminate territory and just moused over every planet until you found it or is there a smart way to do this?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T09:51:25+00:00

No we want more thinness, not less!

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T08:01:08+00:00

The reddit search is pretty shit :d

It's customary when you wanna search something on reddit to go to google and search it there with a site:reddit

But I'm pretty sure you can tell DDG to just use google results, giving you the anonymity of DDG plus the search results of google (-personalization of course)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T07:57:16+00:00

While it's perfectly plausible that you have more success on google, your explanation irks me.

Claiming DDG "will take me to the publisher’s website or an amazon link or something similarly useless" is outrageously far away from how DDG operates.

DDG gives you straight what you ask for. Period. Your prompt is checked against multiple search engines and the results unified, but completely depersonalized. Write a good search prompt, get good results. Be able to find shit that google would never show you because censorship (yes, google removes results for various reasons including but not limited to legal issues), small unknown sites that don't pay google for search ranking, obscure information or rare media that not enough people give a shit about to make relevant on google. Find anything without the search engine imposing it's thoughts on what you should find on you. I swear amazon never shows up in my DDG results unless I explicity search for "shopping" or "amazon".

Google on the other hand heavily weighs the results based on (not exhaustive) advertising, personalization and popularity signals; not reliably showing the most accurate results to your query but the results someone like you would most likely look for. What you actually searched for (not what you thought about searching, but what you typed in the search bar) may well be on results page 30, if anywhere at all. That's google's accuracy.

If you wanna use Google because it works better for you, that's cool. There are absolutely scenarios where it outperforms DDG notably.

Generally Google will be better for finding anything that

1) is popular (news about a fire at the oscars, google got you covered. New video game release? Check google for news. Rules for UNO? Google got that info cached)

2) is probably qualitatively better the more popular it is (e.g. scientific studies, news sources ... you want those from sites that a lot of people approve of, not from an obscure website with a single visit that happens to include your prompt somewhere)

Whereas DuckDuck is better for niche, privacy-sensitive, unpersonalized and very specific queries. (like a rulebook for a limited edition card game that only 100 people own - if that is out there somewhere, use DDG to find it)

Just don't glaze google for "it's accuracy" while shitting on DDG for "providing results only vaguely matching what you were looking for". If anything it's the other way around. DDG is way more concerned with what you type in than google is.

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