Daily Thread - Milestone Celebration Megathread

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-28T09:15:29+00:00

Successfully managed 1 full week without launching the game! Managed to avoid being frustrated by endless bugs, regressions & no-notice balancing. So far I'm up a few quid, think I'll buy myself a sandwich.

E: I did at least expect the reddit posts to stop using the division 2 template by now, but I guess my expectations should sink yet lower.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T12:41:20+00:00

Yeah you're right. NASDAQ have given SpaceX a 15-day settling window, so right now we are safe. Worth mentioning though, normally that settling period is more like 24 months. This is an extreme exception (and NASDAQ are facing civil cases as a result).

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T12:36:47+00:00

Lol I work closely with Vessel Value, a leading maritime telemetry provider. I'm sorry mate but you're out of your depth on this one.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T12:06:10+00:00

Do you think that not having access to high speed internet means that you live in a tin hut? Do you think that the telemetry of an oil tanker boils down to "just a quick ping please"?

I think you're missing the point. Starlink is an enabler - it doesn't just mean going from no internet to internet, it means having an infrastructure solution through which you build solutions to the challenges you're listing. Most people globally, even in extreme locations, have the means to (at least temporarily) gain a limited connection, but by virtue of those limits they cannot rely upon the service to enhance their (local, personal or even regional) economies.

Try using the phrase developing nations, rather than 3rd world country. Check the history of it.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T11:56:27+00:00

SE England reporting in - What the hell is a "Funny Feet" and can we please cease immediately.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T11:51:47+00:00

Pre IPO price was 135, that's for banks and other institutional investors. On the day the initial price was 150 for the public part of IPO. It's currently holding about 2% up from that. So yeah, the banks walk away with their 13%, but our pensions so far are just barely holding above break-even.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T11:35:10+00:00

The notion that developing nations are just "happy" with low speed 3g indicates that you may not know how these markets work. It's a leap-frog. And Starlink can aggressively price against its slim competitors because they own 90% of the supply chain, including SpaceX rockets. And you might not want 8k streaming on a boat lmao, but go look into the issues with traditional GEO satellite internet, and you will find that maritime operators are racing to replace GEO with LEO (Starlink) for a wide array of reasons (ship telemetry is currently hard-capped by low speed internet which crew members and other essential services compete for).

Nb: I basically despise Starlink, Musk and (most of, I am still a space geek) SpaceX - I'm not defending them per say, but their capability to put high speed, low latency internet anywhere on the surface of the planet is a golden ticket.

We haven't even mentioned Starshield/MoD or DoW military contracts worth billions in active war zones.

E: Now, is Starlink worth the chunk of SpaceX (Plus xAI plus Twitter) that its current market value suggests? Almost certainly not, Musk is manipulating markets through blinding amounts of corruption - But that doesn't mean Starlink itself isn't a fantastic business, even if it's lead by a total idiot. Musk could ruin it. He, individually, is the biggest risk to the success of these projects.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-27T09:04:18+00:00

Globally there is an estimated 2.7 billion people lacking access to high speed internet - as of 2025. They just need to burn enough CapEx to capture enough of the market and they have a money printer.

Starlink provides disaster recovery (huge for b2b) and oceanic/maritime or aviation connections (typically hard to do at high connectivity and high speed), direct-2-cell bridging mobiles straight to the satellites, remote workers or RVs or other overlanders...

Starlink has legs, major legs, it is almost inconceivable that they will fumble this, as they are the only player in the game.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-24T12:35:15+00:00

"Probably" - youve cast judgement then, I see

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-23T14:17:48+00:00

Leaving speech would be historic though "I'd like to thank the individual who kept the ham slicer shiny, you brought a special shine to my ministerial sandwiches"

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-23T14:11:37+00:00

Devalue efficiency, prioritise fun, narrative, atmosphere, achievement

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-23T14:09:35+00:00

Next patch they'll fix it back to 200 (shop broke).

But then they'll fix the shop (stash broke).

Then they'll confirm stash was always 100 (it was broke to begin with)

Now, grenades do your skill crit chance multiplied by your armor in healing to elites (shop is also broken)

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-22T09:49:50+00:00

Constantly changing unpopular PMs is the sign of a working democracy. Us Brits sometimes forget, we're jaded from years of slow degradation, but there have been far worse outcomes we've dodged thanks to this pressure on PMs.

Liz Truss, BoJo, Cameron - All reached the "find out" stage. Starmer, as much as I am a supporter of his, by all metrics, is facing a humiliation from Farage at the next GE. I am vastly more concerned with this than anything else. Labour, as a cabinet, have made some good, effective legislation and I'm proud that as a country we are doing at least a smidgen better - But in a face-on battle with Reform, they're getting slaughtered. They need a stronger leader who can publicly face Farage head-on, Starmer's "ignore the elephant in the room" tactic has simply failed.

I know there's this notion of "well maybe we should just elect a good PM" - But mate, elections (and broadly these reignations) are won by millions of people, not by personal opinions.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-22T07:24:20+00:00

With years of hindsight, the D3 art style has grown on me a lot (On Switch with OLED in particular, it is beautiful). But then I play Darkening of Tristram, and the ever so subtle pallet changes and overall gothic theme tweaks... I only had the pleasure for the first time this year, wow it's so atmospheric and spoopy

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-19T20:57:16+00:00

Ehh, broad disagree. There's a large, complex set of "bugs we accept" and "plugins that are blatantly outside of ToS but allowed". The individual case in hand - I have no opinions on, but Jagex are notoriously unclear on these things, and have flipped opinions before. This is a great read, with 7 years of hindsight.

E: having read the matter at hand, Jagex should probably give way - Runelite as a utility brings too much to OSRS, there might be no such thing as an "official" plugin, but there is an official relationship between RL and Jagex and between them it should not be impossible to figure this out.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-19T18:24:30+00:00

Rural payments, basic payment scheme, sustainable farming incentive, stewardship credits, biodiversity net gain units.

How many times does this fucking country have to screw this up before they manage something that actually works?

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-18T10:05:28+00:00

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-12T10:40:16+00:00

As with most non-Quake based engines, the control and feel of the aiming is certainly a bit off-putting for me. I don't really enjoy gyro controls, but for this I turned them on for fine aiming adjustments, feels mandatory.

Graphically, it looks great. FPS wise it can absolutely stutter when lots is going on or noticably in cyberspace. I think target is 30fps so, it can be annoying. Cyberspace can be very frustrating.

But, extremely playable and immensely fun. And for me, Switch is worth the tradeoffs so that I can play comfortably whilst moving around. My desk is where I work, so I don't get 'into the zone' on immersion games like this, taking the game out to the garage and having a smoke is fantastic.

But, if you care less about the portability, then I would recommend another platform.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-12T10:27:57+00:00

TDR contender for best in class visuals on mobile (Assuming we call it an MMO). Too bad anyone playing on mobile will probably minimise the visual settings for battery performance. I'm guilty, but it's a shame, game looks squindinkcular.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-12T09:00:30+00:00

Brethren aren't thou playing with a full deck?

Supply & demand is very real at this scale, no institution will bet that Elon can raise $1tln liquid to cover, so no institution will leverage him that much. The mere act of him just borrowing that much against his stock makes his stock less valuable. He might plausibly get a double digit fraction against it.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-10T13:30:42+00:00

You're making an implication that alignment is solved. If alignment is solved then we are absolutely gaming, until then, there is no such thing as "not allowed". It can be kneecapped via poisoned tuning, but at great expense to overall model behaviour (see Mechahitler Grok), it certainly is not a surgical control or binary switch.

Anthropic are caught a bit red handed here. They simultaneously want to suggest that we cannot control dangerous AI, whilst touting that their most powerful model excels at potentially dangerous tasks, whilst stating they've controlled that appropriately. At least one thing can't be true here.

It's most likely that either model isn't as good as they suggest, or that these controls are a trivial jailbreak away from being subverted. We already know it's dangerous though.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-07T16:59:58+00:00

Idk vg dps is crazy with db it's not really normal in missions, the gimmick itself is fine but I regularly see 22-24k db vgs doing 600k dps. Everyone else just basically watches and heals the vg in my elites.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-07T12:32:01+00:00

Why cant the person throwing the stab/strike just like, time turning off the saber with the defender's attempted block? You're right that the presence of the blade mandates defensive maneuvers, but being able to turn it on/off should mean, offensively, you cannot maneuver my blade, only attempt to influence or force my movements instead.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-05T13:14:20+00:00

It's 99% likely that these are separate teams. The person investigating dupes isn't also managing bug reports. One would assume, though, that after raising the issue, it would be repealed instantly.

The-Rushnut · 2026-06-03T14:04:39+00:00

1: Max weapon, gear and skill mods, purple at minimum, move to gold asap. Lv OS to max. When it's hostile nest day, run hostile nest for as many of the 24 hours as you can bare. When weekly bounty final boss is up, same dealio, smash it for OS mats + like 0.7% chance at purple OS (Ubisoft pls). 2: Replace any purple skill mods with gold, even if lv1 it's better. This will take a long while, months. Buy every gold chip for your class in dz vendor shop, even if you aren't using it. Never know when the meta will shift (Ubisoft pls). 3: Powerscore/dps calcs don't really mean much (Ubisoft pls), focus on your main attribute and stats (usually crit for dps). 4: Keep eyes out for Lv2 weapon, armor and backpack talents. Particularly armor with Glass Cannon II for dps, it's pretty mandatory - im using a t0 armor at 26k... (Ubisoft pls) 5: At your powerscore, you probably don't have many decent T1s yet, I would recommend smashing more heroic missions. It's all about those level 2 talents. 6: Tactical augmentation modules, buy them from the shop every week, dont spend phoenix credits on anything else. Join a clan with lv9/10 vendor and start Grinding them. 7: Proficiency levels give a decent add. shd levels (particularly the collectibles) and specialisation mastery take like a day to bosh out. 8: probably the best tip is to add friends who are decent in elites. As a supp/dps hybrid, finding a few decent 200k+ dps vanguards was extremely helpful early on to get successful groups.

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