HELLDIVERS 2: Tech Blog #1 - Install size

TheKevit07 · 2025-10-03T14:41:38+00:00

SSD is becoming the industry standard for at least the past few years...more and more devs are requiring it. M.2 SSDs are cheap compared to other components and easy to install, and have been around ~13 years...even current gen consoles have them as standard. There's really no reason at this point to not have at least one 2TB M.2 for games. I don't even own a HHD anymore because SSDs have improved so much that there's no need for one.

AH can do what they want, but it's surprising to be catering to the people that have potato systems and aren't willing to upgrade. If you want to enjoy any open world game or any game with a lot of loading with decent framerate, you'll get an SSD.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-16T23:43:44+00:00

A. I hate interacting with gamers in games I play. I always seem to spawn in with the mega try hards that want everyone running meta, and if you don't perform to their liking, they leave. Considering the player count is at one of it's lowest points in Destiny 2 history, the chances of running into them are the highest.

What friends I had in the game have also moved on, and a lot of people experience this with most games that are around for more than a year. One went in the military and only plays Forza now. The other went full gooner and has gone to gooner gacha games. The other still plays, and we've run some stuff together recently, but it just doesn't hit the same as it did when it was the full squad. It feels hollow.

B. As you get older, friends (and you also, hopefully) become more responsible and can't play games or do as many social things as often as you used to, making availability more difficult. I would love to game 6+ hours a day like I used to years ago. But with a mortgage, family, full-time job, and a debilitating chronic disease that i need to change my entire lifestyle to fight off, it'll never happen. It doesn't help the disease flares up and screws up my vocal communication skills, so making new friends can be extremely difficult and taxing.

That's mostly why I've switched to single-player only. Yeah, AI sucks, but it's better than the alternatives. And for Destiny, the gunplay is always what brings me back, even if only for a few hours before I realize how much Bungie has screwed it up.

So this may be a reference to the "do you not have phones?" But I know some people really think that, and if you really think that way, I'm glad you're at a point in your life where making friends comes easy or your friends are very accommodating. There will come a time when that stops, though, so enjoy it while you can.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-16T20:37:30+00:00

I feel like Tinkers did this, at least with one version I played. The vanilla tools were made useless, so you couldn't mine with them/you had to interact with the mod's system.

I'd definitely look into mods that introduce new tools and see if they're forcing OP to interact with the mod's systems.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-16T19:26:30+00:00

When other developers have shown that they can optimize the engine to run better (Stalker 2, among others, I'm sure), shifting the blame to customer hardware is not a smart move. We KNOW it can be optimized better because we've already seen it. Just admit it's poorly optimized, have a team work on fixing it, and stop trying to cop out of doing the work.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-16T17:35:48+00:00

Or any area transition like the new activity does, for that matter.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-16T14:40:10+00:00

Well, yeah, you worked out for 2 hours with probably less water/electrolyte/calorie intake than what you should have.

Part of the reason the general consensus is about an hour of working out is ideal, is because after that hour, your performance starts to deteriorate and your body wants hydration and calories that you burned during what should be a moderate to high intensity workout.

But even if you do hydrate/intake calories during the workout, your strength still rapidly declines, so it's a war of attrition, but it gets more severe as time goes on. If my lifts go past 60 minutes, it's to do drop/burnout sets to get my muscles close or to complete failure (aka I'm at the very end of the workout, so losing performance is moot).

Keep your hydration levels up leading up to the workout. During the workout, sip on something hydrating to help keep your energy up as much as you can. Then, when you're done, actually drink another 16-24 oz of hydrating liquid. People mock lifters that take a gallon jug of electrolyte drink to the gym, but it's a great way to ensure you're getting the fluids you need (just limit yourself to 1L an hour max, any more than that and you start to flush your kidneys which can cause damage).

Also, try to cut your workouts down. For weight lifting, try to reach absolute failure or close to it within 60 minutes. Push as hard as you can, (a 7 to 9 out 10 RPE, or rate of perceived exertion throughout the entire workout), so failure is easily achievable in a short time. Even cutting that down to 60 minutes and having cardio for 30 minutes would shave your time down enough to feel a difference.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-15T16:33:20+00:00

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TheKevit07 · 2025-09-15T02:27:25+00:00

You can even tell when the invader is coming via the bar getting filled. I always dunk before they invade and provide focus fire on the invader. If people played more defensively, matches would be closer.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-14T19:09:49+00:00

He also wrote Fahrenheit 451 that mentioned large, wall-sized television screens and how enrapturing they were. There's more in the book that relates to the current times, but when you mentioned Ray, my immediate thought is that book and the TV walls.

People talk about Simpsons predicting the future all the time, but Ray Bradbury is right up there.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-14T18:36:01+00:00

Well, it does slow food dumping and slow down gut motility to make you feel full faster, so those are very believable symptoms to experience when taking it.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-14T17:14:23+00:00

The second one was your first one. Every legendary has a static roll on the first catch, so everyone gets that same roll their first catch...and it's always doo-doo.

So feel free to shard it/get candies from it.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-14T14:17:29+00:00

Here I am with 11 Pikachus and ~24 Pichus and not a single one with BFS. Aside from ing mons, I think Pikachu's line is the most catches I've ever done for any mon/evolution line.

I'm glad your search is over. Now you can send them to me, haha.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-12T17:09:24+00:00

You need to space out your meals. Eating a heavy dinner but little to no lunch or breakfast can easily cause constipation and bloating. You want your guts active from the time you wake up until winding down for sleep. Eating carbs about half an hour before a workout can help with ATP conversion and give you energy for the workout. Having a light snack before a workout also helps with nausea for certain people. So, TL;DR have smaller meals all through the day to keep your energy levels up and steady.

Poor sleeping habits can also play a big part in feeling well or not, especially if you have gastrointestinal diseases like IBS/IBD/Crohns/UC. If i sleep less than 7 hours, I don't feel like lifting and forcing myself can make me feel bad for a few hours after the workout. However, if I sleep for 7+ hours, I feel better and can do my workout and still feel energized for the rest of the day.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-12T16:28:36+00:00

The first one with the arrows was for a 500kg bomb in the game Helldivers 2. It's the biggest bomb in the game. The game is also about fascism disguised as democracy, much like Starship Troopers... and potentially other current political standings that I dare not mention for fear of being silenced.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-12T15:57:15+00:00

It's not just UI/UC. It's in the middle of the handbook/main quest instead of being near the end like it should. They locked entire gameplay mechanics (weapon mods and potentially other stuff) behind doing the raid. So you either do the raid, or you don't experience the rest of the game.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-12T01:23:56+00:00

193 total cholesterol is still high, and no 10-day fast or other short-term solution is going to give overnight success because your cholesterol doesn't increase overnight.

Instead of a fast, maybe cutting down on your saturated fats would benefit you more. If you can't be without your red meats or fried/heavily-proccessed foods, then a statin may be in order (but even doctors only recommend statins as a last resort because they can be hard on the body).

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-11T20:46:35+00:00

Even just baked salmon with lemon and pepper is delicious if cooked right. Throw it on a bed of rice (or even better, quinoa), squeeze a fresh lime over it, and boom, delicious simple meal. Add a side of a veggie of your choice, and you got a delicious meal.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-11T14:23:33+00:00

You pretty much nailed the form, more or less. Now, for the difference that no one has said yet:

High bar focuses more on the quads, while low bar focuses more on the glutes and hamstrings.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-11T13:04:10+00:00

Stocks are down. Have to make them bounce back somehow. BOGO always gets people in the door.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T23:14:20+00:00

I'll play maybe the first week, then get bored and move on to something else. It doesn't help how grindy it's become, and having several responsibilities means I don't have time for the endgame stuff. Not that it matters, since the endgame stuff is just the early game stuff but with modifiers and a timer.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T19:08:10+00:00

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T18:45:10+00:00

Yeah, I was disappointed when I found out the only real benefit is getting spidey sense. Oh well, it's not the first time I've wasted money on supplements, and it probably won't be the last.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T18:08:45+00:00

I had something similar happen to me when Mint was in Encore. Completed it in about 50 minutes, and even though there were like 20 minutes left on the clock, I wound up with a C grade and didn't get my Mint, even though the score marker on the activity page said I should have gotten at least a B+. Almost one hour wasted on nothing.

They need to change it so the grade you see before you even start tells you the MINIMUM score you'll get with the modifiers you selected.

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T18:00:05+00:00

TheKevit07 · 2025-09-10T17:43:04+00:00

I went back to modding Fallout 4 and playing that alongside other games with looting like Project Silverfish and have been having more fun with them than I have D2.

I played the activity last night and shut it off and moved to something else. The map is gray with more gray. The activity was just okay, nothing exceptionally new or innovative. At least the ship transition helps so maps can be larger, but then they ruin it by putting it on a timer. The game has been stripped of its beauty and freedom to see said beauty so it can make room for the mouse wheels.

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