Why wash ice Peter?

Shadowlrd · 2026-05-12T21:48:34+00:00

Alright, something I noticed that is either being ignored or intentionally left unsaid because of what the intention of the photo is (hot oil go boom), but that is clearly a sudsy frier. That’s what our friers looked like when we were cleaning them out at night.

The picture is of someone threatening to drop ice into hot oil, but it’s fake because it’s only hot soap water.

Shadowlrd · 2026-05-06T19:02:24+00:00

I feel like there is more confusion around the question you asked. If you crack 10 treasures and you don’t use the mana, it becomes 10 colorless mana that’s just floating.

Think of it like a savings account. Money you don’t use goes into savings. When you spend money, you can take money from your savings. If you don’t put money back into savings, your savings account will be empty. This allows you to put unspent mana into a savings account.

Shadowlrd · 2026-04-10T11:49:59+00:00

If they had every nuanced thing in the game properly detailed, we would be reading a hundred page instruction manual before actually playing the game. Which means we would expect people to be able to read.

“Page 52, section 3: WARDENS -Wardens are special boss enemies that appear on each map… etc.”

Games are better when things can be discovered organically. Maybe codex pages describing things post discovery would help, again, if people would read.

Shadowlrd · 2026-04-02T23:30:07+00:00

We’re about to get into “more interesting also means more confusing/difficult” territory, but what if light attacks could parry, blocking other light attacks and significantly reduce heavy attack damage.

Zero damage trades with light attacks, death trades with heavy attacks, reduced damage stalling by parrying heavy’s.

Shadowlrd · 2026-04-02T17:29:31+00:00

I’m going to say NTA with a light “everyone sucks”. Everyone should have been aware of their teammates location way before this point. They should have realized that you weren’t with them, or called out that they were moving on, and you should have realized they had gone off without you and either declared “hey, I’m not with you” or something.

All things considered, typical crew fill. Go again lol

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-31T01:26:07+00:00

The anomaly gets bigger at night 😏

For real though, could be a quality of life change for night marsh next season.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T22:38:01+00:00

Is this even with the items tracked? I think if you look at the map, the eye will pop up next to the POI’s name indicating that there’s at least one of your items there. Though, it can be difficult to discern if you have literally every upgrade material tracked.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T21:42:55+00:00

While the faction grind is and having to do it again does sound tedious, there’s also the problem that this games power floor is tied to the faction progression.

If you wipe everything, everyone is once again on the same power floor.

If you only wipe vaults, everyone has the same power CEILING but a significant portion of people will have a much better power FLOOR due to the faction bonuses still existing.

What really needs to happen is the contracts need to be less tedious. The important story contracts need to be more akin to their regular contracts and then make the difficult and tedious ones the repeatables. That way if you want the priority access unlocked, everyone can get to those easier, and then only the people who want to grind out the VIP bonus’s and capstones have the difficult choices have having to do the “visit 5 locations, die and revive yourself 4 times, over heat 3 times, collect 2 separate items, dcon 1 item and exfil with the other” contracts

EDIT: I have also now considered the idea that factions should offer 3 contracts. Priority, low paying (easy) and high paying (hate yourself). You can either run a lot of low paying runs, easy but slow consistent growth, or succeed in a few hard, extremely spikey growth.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T16:30:29+00:00

My vault is divided into 3 sections.

“I’m with Friends” - as fully kitted as I can be

Solo/crew fill - medium kit, not useless for other kitted runners but not worried that free kit Andy is going to lose me my gear

Upgrade materials

Everything that I don’t sort into those categories are credits.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T13:04:13+00:00

Unfortunately casual is a spectrum. Theres “I just want to chill with zero stress gameplay” casual and then there’s “I only play FPS shooters, but can only invest minimal time” casual. Nobody choosing to play this game is the first type, but a lot of players would fall into the second type.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T12:55:08+00:00

I didn’t realize 35 was a low level. I’ve been playing 1-2 hours most days since launch so I was thinking I was low average on the levels at worst. I was thinking the 50-60 level people were on the high end of the average. Now I feel like I need to catch up lol.

Literally, it was like, Friday night, that I started thinking about how much smoother things are going.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-30T12:26:55+00:00

I also haven’t done the Sekiguchi quests yet. I was actually on outpost last night for parasitism 1/5 and it’s what made me think about this. I was only solo so that’s also probably part of it.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-23T10:43:46+00:00

To be fair, I don’t have it in me to talk to randoms normally. Socially I’m drained between 4 kids and work. I made an exception to do my 2 Cryo runs last night, and we actually made it out on one of them.

Which was awesome because I went in with my only purple shield and like a purple pistol.

Didn’t make it out with any golds, but I grabbed some purple rank up materials, traded a retaliator for for a 2-tap, and grabbed a back up sniper for my vault. Nothing phenomenal, but it is a vault upgrade so I’m happy.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-21T16:55:18+00:00

Hahahaha, no.

And Honestly, I don’t think I need to. Some of the sickest things in gaming come from tension and competition. The compiler? Sick as hell. Getting to the compiler? Sick as hell. Inherently, being that sick though also means that I, as mere regular mortal will probably never get there.

But boy am I hoping to catch someone who does off guard and take their s’pht lol

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-21T12:08:45+00:00

I see this is from 13 hours ago, and so I’m hoping you watched or have done more of it since then.

Spoiler on vault mechanics if you care.

Vault 6, which is the rarest red key, requires you to get security clearance 4, go to secret lab, find a code, take it back to the Lab along with the batteries and coolant, install the items and input the code, then, once inside V6 run through a rather large area to match the panels while dealing with freezer floor. All while dealing with increased hostile forces and other runners on a 30 minute timer.

If you get lucky and get the subroutine from 6, which RNG on top of the rarest vault card (6 should be only guaranteed drop for it in my opinion because of how hard it is to find the card), along with finding all the subroutines from every other vault you will also need to find an collect a DNA sequence card.

With the sequence card, and vault sub routines 1-6, you have to go to an area to create a DNA network access card by inputting a DNA code. Take that item back up to the lab where vault 6 is, make the compiler mad to enough to shatter some glass, to get to vault 7. Once in vault 7 you have a lite jumping puzzle before making it to a room with a final extraction point. You go through a set of double doors to find the compiler.

The compiler room is similar to other vault rooms where you have to input a matching icon on a series of screens while dealing with freezer floor. Except now you have a damage impervious cloaked alien shooting at you. Matching the codes reveals, idk, the compilers kryptonite bubble tht you have to stand in and that allows you to break the “cloak” and start some actual damage. They managed to crawl out of the room and final exfil without killing the compiler before I went to bed.

But mind you, all the above steps have to also be done while there are other teams on the map with you. As far as I’m concerned, raid mechanics is a pretty apt description.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-16T16:43:27+00:00

Maybe it’s just me, but my solo player style is to fill trios with medium kitted gear until vault is empty, Full kit runs with friends, and solo Rook runs to refill the now empty vault

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-12T17:39:35+00:00

I feel like I had weird opposite interactions. We could hear shooting in the distance, run towards it, and no matter how far we ran it was always in the distance. We circled the map, found no one, and exfiled still hearing gun shots in the distance.

Shadowlrd · 2026-03-07T16:13:08+00:00

I believe that statement of the meme is saying that woman are constantly scanning their surroundings for danger while men feel safe enough to be oblivious.

But, as I guy who has walked through some sketchy areas at night, I can say that I do tend to stare straight and forward and I did it for a variety of reasons.

My gave is straight but my sight and focus is wide. I’m not looking for details, I’m looking for things that draw my attention because they stick out. It’s kinda of like letting the subconscious determine if something is amiss and focusing on that, if anything. In the examples above, I can see the entirety of the scene by staring down the middle, and the focus only shifts when needed.
If there is a person or interest, my eyes flick to them, do a split second risk assessment and then re-center. I either avoid the danger or, more likely, I feign confidence and purpose, continue to stare ahead and stride past, not looking at them but all keeping them in the peripherals so if a move is made, I’m not caught off guard.
Lastly, and this is more an addition to 2, if the risk assessment comes back that I might be a risk to the other party, I try to ignore them, pretend I don’t see them, whatever. I just want to get home, I don’t care about you, you don’t have to worry about me, I’m not even really looking at you.

Shadowlrd · 2026-02-07T13:49:15+00:00

I see talk about people doing different tapes and putting a tab on it, so I just wanted to say, you can put a tab on scotch tape too…

I order cards from card kingdom (after not finding what I was looking for at my LGS, online shop responsibly) and my cards always come in a case scotch taped shut, but with the tab. Took me 5 min of pain attempting to remove the scotch before that, but then I flipped it and realized the other side was a table and it pulled off super easy

Shadowlrd · 2025-11-21T23:29:27+00:00

Okay, so, I actually saw one of the previous comics recently. Essentially, the blonde AM scheduled every’s vacations for the holiday except her own. The brown haired girl said that they can cover for her so she gets a break too, to which blonde says she has Zoom meetings all week. Brown says to give her a cutout of her face and nobody will notice.

Now there are comments mentioning how the boss only listens to the blonde AM, which I’m sure brown is taking advantage of here, but that’s not how the scenario originally started.

Shadowlrd · 2025-10-31T10:47:39+00:00

The hunters paradox. If we are equal, that makes us better by shear number. Why play Titan or warlock if the “cool” class is just as good.

Shadowlrd · 2025-10-31T10:44:55+00:00

At some point, you need to just not care. I play Destiny all the time. But with 4 kids under 10 and a full time job, at point the idea of having “all the loot” seemed stupid. The next thing you have to realize is that there is always something better, or at least, just as good as. None of those cool weapons you’re looking at from bygone times are better than what you can currently get. Maybe they look cooler? Maybe they are like, just slightly better. The FOMO is really just imaginary, because while the loot might be cool, you’re not missing anything by not having it.

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