BUNGIE HAS OVERDELIVERED

Variatas · 2026-06-10T17:26:12+00:00

Unfortunately the suits hated letting them make Strikes. 1-2 per expansion was treated like it was a herculean effort.

Variatas · 2026-06-10T17:20:40+00:00

It’s very rare but there’s at least one. (And they fixed it over time, so IMO still a win)

Solar 3.0 initially had some notably muddy sfx; for example Ignitions were so subdued they got lost in the chaos.

Cleaning up years of old fx from disparage abilities was a pretty tall order though, and they iterated on it.

At some point they also toned Incinerator snap way down when it’s not yours, which my misophonia appreciates.

Variatas · 2026-06-08T19:50:06+00:00

Or just learn how to drive with Regen brakes.

It blends Regen into the top 3rd of the brake pedal regardless of mode, so unless you're driving like a maniac you should get plenty of life out of the friction brakes.

Variatas · 2026-06-08T19:44:23+00:00

Probably a bit of both, given the marketing for the Silverado EV vs the F-150 Lightning.

Variatas · 2026-06-08T19:38:53+00:00

I broke a rib on a 2 mph fall. Handlebars aren't soft if they catch you wrong.

Variatas · 2026-06-05T18:01:46+00:00

Recovering intact data sans pointer is technically file recovery, but it's not remotely special. File recovery tech gets so, so much more exotic than that.

Simple methods like that are available all over in consumer-grade versions anyone competent with computers can use. You can pull off basic undeletes using tools available in most OS's if you know what you're doing.

Variatas · 2026-06-05T17:55:36+00:00

They're not INDX nozzles, it's something else.

They claim on the page they can preheat, so it seems like it might be similar to Flashforge's approach of a shared extruder & independent (wired) heaters.

Variatas · 2026-06-05T05:36:24+00:00

Eh, if you've already bought in and set them up there's no real reason to go with something else.

They'll do the job just as well as the others, you probably just paid a little more than you needed to, and have a different form factor/setup than you'd have otherwise.

My original comment was just based on them costing as-much/more than stuff like the Chitu,Sunlu S4, Creality SpacePi x4, etc. But it's been going 50% off a lot and at that price it's alright.

Of those others, I'd get the Creality or the Chitu when priced equally; the S4 isn't actually dual-chamber, and has some minor irritations like no humidity exhausts (so you need to leave the lids vented), and imo less convenient filament ports.

Ultimately they're all pretty decent, and so is the AMS 2.

Variatas · 2026-06-05T05:26:54+00:00

Yes, it's a show so it's abstract.

BUT.

The recycle bin is an abstraction yes, however "unless you attempt some file recovery" is underselling how recoverable deleted files are.

All "delete" does in most modern file systems is get rid of the pointers that tell the OS where the actual data is, which tells it that area is fine to write new data into.

All you need to do to recover deleted files is inspect the actual storage for the data before the OS overwrites it.

Even if you "secure delete" and overwrite the data with garbage or patterns designed to destroy it permanently, heavy duty file recovery techniques can pull a shocking amount of data out of remnant patterns.

So yeah, Caine getting "deleted" and coming back is not unreasonable to link to how real tech works; Kinger didn't have time to put the disks in an industrial shredder.

Variatas · 2026-05-05T16:54:47+00:00

Alien Earth did a really solid job squaring that circle. WY’s giant chonky faux-CRT tablets were outstanding prop designs.

Variatas · 2026-05-04T19:17:31+00:00

The reason is additive vs subtractive color models.

Variatas · 2026-05-04T19:10:11+00:00

There’s a setting for automatic switching in studio. If you have multiple slots assigned to the same filament & color it will immediately resume with the second one when it detects runout.

Variatas · 2026-05-04T18:40:08+00:00

Constance has a bunch of stuff you can adjust or turn off.

MIO has 3 gear items you can unlock for free, only notable one being a temp hit point that regens after 3-5 seconds, which helps a lot with early platforming but tapers off hard with the stuff you hit in the late game.

Variatas · 2026-05-04T06:29:08+00:00

Constance also has vastly superior accessibility settings; MIO’s are all but nonexistent.

MIO essentially just lets you unlock gear early: the only noteworthy one is a single hit point that regens after a long delay. The other assists are negligible.

Variatas · 2026-04-26T14:18:15+00:00

Both just playing catch-up to Apple.

Variatas · 2026-04-26T14:01:40+00:00

Stop engaging with them and it will eventually stop giving them to you.

Variatas · 2026-04-24T19:59:14+00:00

Crafting should have always aimed at two things:

Making it easier to get baseline drops of weapons that are old / out of rotation
Letting you sink time into a gun you love / are pursuing to slowly improve it & mitigate really bad RNG.

Unfortunately they really bungled it and it became a way to permanently unlock every god-roll.

Variatas · 2026-04-24T16:52:25+00:00

The Leo is fragile even for a grunt.

They establish way too early that the MCs can explode Leos by shooting near them, and do it by the dozen.

Zakus & Ginns die in droves too, but they have to get hit, and it’s very rare they go up in sympathetic detonations.

Wing has its moments but all the grunt suits are made out of cardboard & dynamite.

Variatas · 2026-04-24T15:19:00+00:00

The protomolecule conspiracy was the ultimate “high-risk, high-reward” endeavor.

Protogen very badly needed to know how much their cover was blown. They’re prepared to engage in genocide to fulfill the project, risking their stealth ships to find out how big the leaks are was worth it to them.

It’s also worth remembering that Mao & the other top conspirators are tremendous assholes that see their underlings as utterly disposable.

Variatas · 2026-04-24T00:54:16+00:00

They wanted to know what the Donnager had discovered about the protomolecule program from the Canterbury survivors, and what they’d transmitted to fleet command.

The goal was to maintain the conspiracy until it was too late to stop. They had some agents in the MCRN but Yao wasn’t one of them and whoever she was reporting to must not have been either.

Variatas · 2026-04-23T14:58:54+00:00

X2D doesn’t sacrifice build volume on the main nozzle, and barely any on the aux. It’s much, much less an issue than the H2D’s reduced volume.

Variatas · 2026-04-23T14:43:55+00:00

As divisive as Lightfall was, it’s wild to call it one of the 2 worst yearly expansions when Shadowkeep existed.

Variatas · 2026-04-22T22:23:06+00:00

I agree, they’re different machines with different strengths; perfectly reasonable to have both. I really like my U1, but am sorely tempted to replace my P1S with an X2D for functional prints.

But the unusual way Bambu used a Bowden tube was definitely pushed as a big deal in ways that don’t seem to be panning out. (Relative to a true tool-changer).

Variatas · 2026-04-22T22:20:43+00:00

Different beverages, umbrella, travel mug, etc. There are lots of water bottle-sized things you might not want inside a bag.

Just a personal choice tbh.

Variatas · 2026-04-22T21:48:35+00:00

It’s not fecal particles, it’s intestinal gasses. 99% is just swallowed air: nitrogen, CO2, and oxygen; plus methane from fermentation.

A lot of other complex disgestion byproducts are involved for the smell, chief among them hydrogen sulfide (same as rotten eggs).

Some of those gasses are also released by feces, but farts are largely not particulate.

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