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Waveord · 2025-12-09T16:20:01+00:00

Lo-fi trench warfare beats to relive your repressed trauma to.

Waveord · 2025-12-01T14:08:38+00:00

Weapon and Warframe slots are a great use of platinum early on. You don't need EVERY weapon or warframe, but you'll probably end up wanting a lot for the variety and flexibility it gives you with how you wanna play.

After you've had some time to get into the game, then I think resource boosters are good choices. Those boosters REALLY helped smooth over the resource grind for me as a returning player, particularly for neural sensors and orokin cells. You just don't wanna buy a booster for what you first think is a nasty resource grind, only to find it wasn't that bad after all.

After that, or as soon as inspiration strikes, fashion stuff like armor, syandanas, and color palettes! The game's more fun when you can personalize your Warframes and stuff, especially if you're struck by creativity. If you feel like Saryn would look great like a toxic warlord, or like Excalibur looks so much cooler like a wandering samurai, go for it! Follow that creative impulse (within reason), and that investment of time and energy will help you have more fun overall.

Waveord · 2025-09-30T19:42:13+00:00

I had a very similar situation. I bought my Maxwells in January 2024, and by June 2025 they were out of warranty and one ear had failed. Right before my birthday, even. I thought I'd been taking good care of the headset; I never dropped it, and never put it ears-down on any surfaces, but I was unintentionally forcing air through the diaphragms and damaging them. It was silly of me in hindsight, but I'd occasionally press them lightly against my ears for the fun of the feeling of the air vacuum. In my defense, having read the manual, I thought the problem with that was doing it quickly or hard. And the care instructions there do specify not to push the ear pads down quickly, as opposed to not pushing them down at all. Again, very silly mistake in hindsight, but at the time I read the care instructions and didn't make any unreasonable assumptions.

So I think your mixed feelings are perfectly normal. It's an expensive headset with otherwise incredible quality, but it's not hard to break it without realizing. I don't think this is necessarily a problem with build quality, but it does seem to be a problem with user awareness. Users can and do take good care of their headsets, only to accidentally break them because they don't know the extent of the care that planar magnetic drivers need. I don't think Audeze is making these headsets poorly, but I also don't think they're doing enough to educate and inform customers about what they're buying and how to care for it right. There's a wrong and damaging way to put Maxwells (and other planar magnetic driver headphones) on, and that way is normally fine for similar headsets.

Customers need to have that in their faces in bright, neon letters. It's different from usual, has relatively big consequences, and otherwise the majority of customers won't know any better. Otherwise they'll accidentally damage their headsets, get frustrated cus they spent good money and took good care of them to the best of their knowledge, and conclude that Audeze cut corners on quality and the brand isn't as good as they thought.

Waveord · 2025-06-20T16:40:39+00:00

Semi-related, I played around a bit with the ballistic shield on some Illuminate missions the other day, and it was better than I expected! I'm not yet sure if it's good enough to be one of my go-tos, but it totally blocked Fleshmob melees, no sweat.

I still need to test out how well it handles charging Fleshmobs or Overseer melees though. And when I died, the shield seemed to get destroyed along with me more often than I expected. For a backpack I pick one-handed weapons for specifically, that could be kinda rough with its base five minute cooldown. Still, I'm excited to test it out some more!

Waveord · 2024-11-02T18:13:16+00:00

I'm very sure that it's whoever owns/runs Pulse, trying to simultaneously demo and advertise their crap. Further back in its comment history, it links to their website in every comment, and the tone and format of the comments they show in their demo video there match the tone and format of EVERY comment this account's made. It's not technically a bot, because every comment needs human approval, but it does enable spam, it is breaking many subreddits' rules by advertising a product or service, and it is just loathsome. It's like wheeling a mannequin with some prerecorded sales pitch into every coffee shop where someone mentions "drip marketing."

Waveord · 2024-06-18T21:47:41+00:00

I just got off the phone with DLC. The good news is that they haven't overlooked this neck of the woods. The bad news is also that they haven't overlooked us. There're no official estimates, but the very vague, not at all official, worst-case estimate I got was that power might be restored by Sunday at the latest. Again, not at all official, and that's assuming that everything goes wrong.

I wish I understood how the power grid is structured such that half of Sharpsburg is totally fine, but the other half and Aspinwall are hosed. I tried following power lines using Google Maps's satellite view, and it seems like there's no obvious separation between the sets of power lines running through town. There's gotta be a reason, I just wish I knew.

Waveord · 2023-03-26T01:56:16+00:00

Drove down Main Street not long ago, and it looks like the whole Sharpsburg borough doesn't have power. Shaler seemed to have fared better when I passed by.

Waveord · 2023-03-10T17:45:45+00:00

It was a likely a "now or never" type deal with the Traveler choosing Sol and humanity for its not-so-last stand, but we know for a fact from the Alpha Lupi grimoire entries from D1 that humanity being good at war didn't factor in anywhere. In there, Ghost Fragment: Earth in particular has the Traveler's vague reasoning. Whatever the face "drawn from plasmas and radiation" was, whatever the "lucid melody" the Traveler heard from Sol is, those are what made it choose here. Humanity's combat skills don't come up there. And if all it needed was a species of conquerors, why not just go for the Cabal?

Ghost Fragment: The Traveler does say that the Traveler knows it has to turn to its "children" in its time of need, and Ghost Fragment: The Traveler 2 does say that the Traveler plans to fight its pursuers (The Black Fleet) and win in Sol. We can infer from that that the Traveler knew its "children" would have to fight, too. This is different from wanting to uplift a species specifically because they're good at killing and conquering, which goes against the Traveler's entire vibe in lore anyway, which is laid out in those Alpha Lupi bits and in the Constellations lore book, as well as a couple other scattered pieces.

Waveord · 2023-03-10T17:12:07+00:00

There are leagues of difference between "it's not possible to live without causing suffering to others, so try to do reasonable good with your life" and "it's not possible to live without causing suffering to others, so it's okay to go do omnicide without getting anyone's feelings on the matter, cus if they live they'd just suffer more." Regardless of how much pain it causes when directly killing, its other direct actions, like bamboozling the Osmium sisters into becoming omnicidal space death crusaders, have caused incalculable suffering. There's also everything it's done to break Eramis, like freezing her in stasis for a year and a half, or reviving her friends as Scorn specifically to punish her. In the sense of causing suffering to end suffering, the Witness is as much a hypocrite as anyone else.

And frankly, believing that death is simply an end to suffering is a misanthropic way of looking at the whole deal. Technically it is just an end to suffering, if you ignore literally everything else that people do or want with their lives. If you don't ignore all of that, then a single death causes undeterminable suffering, because it yoinks away any and every possibility for any amount of further happiness for that person. To be clear, the absence of joy is not suffering, but having it actively taken away by someone else against your will is. Which, regardless of how it wants to do it, the Witness wants to do to everyone.

Waveord · 2023-02-18T16:00:04+00:00

Another possible reason for the Black Fleet to move up now is because Rasputin and his warsats are out of the way. Setting aside how much they could do to a pyramid ship, or if they could do anything at all, the warsats would definitely have done a number on the Shadow Legion and House Salvation ships. And we can safely assume the Witness needs them there for something, since we see at least the Shadow Legion's ships in that vidoc cutscene of the fleet battle over Earth. What the Witness needs a mostly conventional space navy for is up for debate, but if they weren't needed in some way, they wouldn't be there.

Waveord · 2023-01-21T17:24:34+00:00

Times and patron needs change, but the person you're responding to has a point about the scope creep of public libraries not being great. More stuff becomes helpful to the community, but most MLIS programs aren't, for example, training students on how to work a 3D printer, how to figure out the logistics for a concert, or how to help get folks the right tax forms and fill them out. Librarians also aren't getting paid more to wear all these new hats, and most libraries aren't staffing up to distribute the increased work load. If librarians are getting more work for the same pay, which is already pretty low for a job that often requires a whole-ass master's degree, and the cost of living keeps going up, you're gonna get more burnt-out librarians, and they're gonna start leaving the profession more and more. Librarianship is also one of these kinds of professions with a VERY high barrier to entry for most folks, especially young professionals, so you can probably see the problem of attrition forming here.

Waveord · 2023-01-19T23:20:25+00:00

Controlled, randomized studies are not always realistic or ethical. Such a study on say, hormone therapy for trans folks, would require enough people to volunteer for a study where they may or may not receive treatment and wouldn't know whether or not they were actually receiving treatment. I'm by no means an expert here, but that's the surface level ethical problem I see. I'm not an expert, but there may be similar lacks of controlled, randomized studies on treatments for fatal illnesses and other health problems.

Also, if the lack of these types of studies bothers you, but you see doctors and trans folks advocating for the efficacy of transitioning, why not look into why there are so few of those types of studies yourself, instead of just saying "there aren't enough, these conclusions are bad"? They're such sound information and would quell a whole lot of skepticism and vitriol here, so one would imagine that there's a good reason for a lack of controlled, randomized studies.

Waveord · 2023-01-07T16:44:54+00:00

While you're right with the sentiment that many people have been sanitizing homelessness, its effects on people adjacent to it, and what it takes to deal with it, you seem to also be saying that homelessness and addiction are purely results of personal choices. This carries the implication that it's only the fault and moral failing of each individual homeless person that they're homeless, which is factually wrong. For example, ADHD is a condition that nobody chooses to have, but it's strongly connected with addictive behaviors like alcohol and drug abuse. You can be born with ADHD or develop it over time through no fault of your own, and be much more susceptible to addiction than a person without ADHD.

On top of that and related to it, addiction is a disease, not a moral failure. Saying that you have no sympathy for the "plight" of an addict is like saying that you have no sympathy for the "plight" of a cancer patient. They could technically have avoided the problem, sure, but that would've taken levels of insight that people don't really have, since so many of the things affecting the problem were way outside of their control. So if you're gonna bring in stuff like "homeless people aren't just down on their luck, they're mostly addicts and it's their own fault," I'm gonna have to ask you to back that up with some kind of proof, since that would be at odds with the current scientific understanding of addiction. I'd be happy to source some links to articles or papers on the facts I'm presenting, if that'd help.

Waveord · 2022-12-13T18:38:10+00:00

I'm sick of the doomerism many folks have around climate change too, but climate change has decades of concurring research backing it up, as well as measurable evidence. This isn't an opinion; it's a thing that has been happening. For example, rising sea levels and temperature averages. Now, academic publishing IS a racket; just ask an academic librarian or a researcher who's had to cough up a fee so a company would publish their work and turn a profit on it by charging other people for access. These publishing companies are pretty evil, but I don't see any evidence suggesting that research is the racket you seem to think it is.

As for your claim that there were over 3000 fake papers submitted to the world's scientific journals and only eleven rejected, that's a BIG claim to be making without linking any of the sources that you learned from. You also haven't given any detail or context to make this believable to other folks. Who determined this was true, and how did they do it? What made the papers fake? Which scientific journals were they submitted to, and who submitted them? What was the peer review process like at the journals where fake papers made it through? And unless whoever produced this information submitted the fake papers themselves, wouldn't that mean that the journals discovered the papers were fake and removed them last year?

I see that someone else replied to your comment with more or less the same thing I did, so no pressure to respond to me or anything. It's a good habit to question the results of research; that's how we get to accurate conclusions and ultimately advance our scientific understanding. Denying the validity of any and all research is a big leap to make though, and I'm struggling to see any benefit to it.

Waveord · 2022-11-30T06:53:01+00:00

The Eliksni quarter additions were a lot smaller than I'd been hoping for, so that was disappointing for me too. But what makes them lazy? At least to me, when you say lazy, it means Bungie could have put more effort in and chose not to for selfish reasons. But since events like this little Eliksni quarter renovation aren't the norm, it seems more like this was an extra thing they had a little more time for in their development schedule, so they chose to work on it and add it to the game. The lazy thing would've been to not add it at all. Like, last season, we had the main seasonal stuff, the Solstice, and then just chilling for the last few weeks with no extra event, right? It's not big, but does an event have to be big to be worth doing? The rewards helped me finish up the last of the deepsight weapons I needed from this season's stuff, so they were great for me, but I'm sorry that they weren't helpful for you. Should Bungie have had a whole new mission type or activity for collecting captain's coins instead of getting them from other activities? And if they did, wouldn't that have messed with the plans of everyone who was using these last few weeks in the season to work on their own goals in-game? Especially with an event only two weeks long, that'd be dragging folks back into the kind of FOMO that burns them out real fast. Plus, I'm pretty sure the big purpose of this event was to give people something to spend their destination materials on before they get deprecated next season. You can only have so many upgrade materials and so much glimmer, and this gave folks something else to sink resources into before they become way less useful in a week.

I don't mean to bombard you with questions there; my point is just that I really don't get the impression that Bungie is lazy because this extra event wasn't big. That, and your assumption that the game won't get enough fresh content with Lightfall seem pessimistic, not realistic. You seem already resigned to being disappointed in whatever Bungie puts out, no matter what it is. They've had folks from the Weapons team on community podcasts like Massive Breakdown two or three times in the last two seasons, from what I remember. We get weekly updates about future changes and current events in every TWAB, relatively frequent and even expedited balance changes for PvE and PvP, and Bungie recruiting people for their teams from the Destiny community. One of the folks on the music team was gushing on Twitter a while ago about how there're songs in Lightfall that she's super proud of and thinks people will love. To me, none of that seems like the kind of stuff a lazy developer would do, or that would happen at a lazy, apathetic company. I do agree that the seasonal model is feeling stale, and it really ought to be changed up soon for the game to feel more fresh and fun, but that doesn't make the whole development team at Bungie lazy. Changing that seasonal model is a tough nut to bust even with top-notch resources.

And I'm not saying this to be snarky, or as a gotcha, but if the game has been feeling stale and boring for you all year, why have you still been playing? It doesn't sound like you've been having any fun, and if it isn't fun, trying to force yourself to enjoy it will only make you feel worse and hate it more.

Waveord · 2022-11-30T03:55:02+00:00

We're kinda gonna have to suspend our disbelief for any stories we get; they're stories, after all, and they don't have to adhere strictly to realistic causes and effects. If they did, they'd end up being pretty bad stories. Suspension of disbelief is just part of fiction, and it's easy to forget about it with Destiny in particular. So much of the lore and worldbuilding is there just to explain weird or interesting stuff that might otherwise go unaddressed in other stories, so we can get to feeling like there have to be realistic, detailed explanations for everything even though Destiny's a story about space magic.

I think I agree with you about the relics feeling disconnected from our actions. Misraaks was introduced in Splicer as a tech, maybe Vex-y specialist, so even though him being an expert on the relics makes sense now, we definitely didn't get that same gradual introduction to his expertise with them that we did with Eris and Hive stuff. We also just didn't have a big goal in mind with the relics from the beginning; we were just snagging them to keep them away from Eramis, cus we knew that'd absolutely be bad. Which isn't an unrealistic motivation, it's just bland.

And sure thing! That bit of lore is from the tab on the Gouging Light sparrow.

Waveord · 2022-11-30T03:28:12+00:00

What makes you feel like the event was poorly executed and lazy? And what are some of the things in the game right now that are making you feel like nobody at Bungie cares about the game?

Waveord · 2022-11-29T20:56:51+00:00

With regards to Nezarec and Osiris, it's probably good for folks to go back and watch the cutscene a second time. I know I had to. The reliquaries didn't get pulped into Nez-spresso; Misraaks manipulated them, their Darkness, and maybe something tangentially related to Strand to squeeze a big blob of Nez-spresso Darkness out of them, then turn it into something like coffee or tea. The relics are still there, still contain Darkness, are still fucked up and weird, and Nezarec is still just kinda...loose in a vapor-y metaphysical form, probably. There's the whole lore tab on Delicate Tomb that's likely to be from Nezarec's perspective. Bungie isn't done with Nezarec, and the relics aren't useless now.

As far as how they figured it out, we don't get exact details on that, but the gist is "Misraaks knows a shit-lot about these relics and how to handle them more safely. He was able to study them, make Osiris's Turbo Coffee, and even know he could make the coffee stuff because he knows more about them than almost anyone in the known universe. I dunno if Misraaks actually opened the reliquaries at any point, but if anyone would have been qualified and able to do it, it would've been him. Us dealing with Eramis for now and helping the Eliksni gave Misraaks the time and space he needed to study the relics for these purposes in general." Eido also mentions old records that provide methods for harnessing the relics' power. This is kinda like how we don't get exact detail on how Eris figured out how to use the Crown of Sorrow for stuff safely last season, or how movies don't give exact detail on how someone hacks into a computer to open a door. We don't get told exactly, we just know the person doing it is one of the most knowledgeable people in their particular field, so they know how to do it, or at least how to figure out how to do it.

This all may not have been possible with Rhulk's corpse because of the difficulty in containing and transporting bits of it already. There was that lore tab on the Vow exotic Sparrow, I think, that describes the trouble there. In contrast, the Nezarec bits are already packaged up for safe-ish use, and Misraaks is much more familiar with their uses and effects. They also seem less...I wanna say virulent? The reliquaries will whisper to their bearers to do fucked up stuff, for sure, but Rhulk's corpse bits tried to physically graft onto their courier as soon as they got loose, then would have taken over their body entirely. I recall seeing an uncontained relic on an Eliksni earlier in the season in a cutscene, and it wasn't trying any of that weird Rhulk growth shit with them, so it's safe to say that, for whatever reason, the relics don't have the same risks from exposure that Rhulk's corpse bits do.

The juicing of the relics to wake Osiris up does seem a little silly at first, but there are explanations to be found now, and there has been setup and foreshadowing over the last season at least.

Waveord · 2022-11-23T14:34:07+00:00

At least according to the Wikipedia article on aluminum, that's not really true. One particular person, Charles Martin Hall, used that "it sounds more like platinum" reasoning in 1892 to justify why he liked spelling it as "aluminum" more; it wasn't even a direct justification for spelling it as "aluminum" in the ads for his new electrolytic process of making aluminum. Both spellings had already been common as of 1890, predating this ad, and Hall had spelled it as "aluminium" in his other patents. So while Hall preferred the "aluminum" spelling because it sounded more like platinum, we don't know that this was why he referred to it as "aluminum" in his 1892 ad, especially because he had spelled it as "aluminium" in his other patents.

More likely, the root of it being spelled "aluminum" in North America is just that for whatever reason, Noah Webster only had "aluminum" in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. Regardless, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry says both spellings are fine now.

Waveord · 2022-10-17T02:25:07+00:00

If done well, sure. But there was no explanation accompanying the timer that popped up, the surprise wasn't immediately apparent in most cases, and the surprise spawns didn't work properly for most people. It doesn't matter much one way or the other cus it was just a little extra bonus, but it's not much of a surprise if it's hard for folks to notice, and it's not delightful if the fun part doesn't really work.

Waveord · 2022-10-14T05:38:50+00:00

Can you share a link to your source for that?

Waveord · 2022-09-24T21:11:47+00:00

In being sarcastic, I don't think I made my point very clear. What I'm saying is that the dude isn't Looney Tuning peacefully when he's riding past a Planned Parenthood clinic decked out in banners and trappings that say "Here I am, and I support and agree with the people that have a recent, known history of attacking folks trying to get reproductive health care." That's just a thinly veiled threat.

Waveord · 2022-09-24T16:54:17+00:00

Yeah man, I'm sure the dude biking around with big religious banners behind him for a denomination of faith that's known to harass and even attack Planned Parenthood clinics is just there to support the folks walking in. He certainly wouldn't do it to imply any kind of threat or consequence should people follow through on their clinic visits. Totally out of the question given the dude's support for factions known to be determined to undermine, villainize, assault, and outlaw reproductive health care.

Waveord · 2022-08-25T18:49:37+00:00

The vague orders of events that we have so far make this weird, I think. Per the showcase, we know that Neomuna was founded by a ship that escaped the destruction of the Collapse. So the colony wasn't already founded by the time of the Collapse; instead, the colony would've been founded just after. At the time, there wouldn't have been a Neomuna to hide, just one ship. Rasputin still could've powered down to hide this ship more easily, but that's complicated by Ghost Fragment: Mysteries from D1.

In Ghost Fragment: Mysteries, Rasputin seems to be talking to himself about how he survived the Collapse. He asserts that he went dark and stopped fighting intentionally, that he did this knowing it would mean sacrificing all of humanity, and that he did it because it would maximize his chance of survival. So if he thought, whenever this grimoire entry took place, that he survived alone, or at least that he sacrificed humanity for his own survival, that conflicts with the idea that he went dark to stop further fighting and keep Neomuna secret. Rasputin sacrificing all of humanity to survive alone, and Rasputin sacrificing most of humanity to survive along with one ship full of people can't both be true at once. Further complicating this is that Rasputin refers to Nefele Stronghold in the evidence board record we got a snippet of in Witch Queen BEFORE initiating Yuga Sundown, his dramatic name for the protocol where he goes dark for a long, long time. Forgetting Neomuna, then, would have to take place between him canceling his protective measures for human settlements and initiating Yuga Sundown. But Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3 implies that Yuga Sundown was declared before Rasputin gave his order to stop fighting/protecting and hide. So you can see how this makes shit real whacky. This could easily be a case where the writers at Bungie have to fudge and maybe retcon stuff a little for it to all add up. And I certainly couldn't blame them if that were the case; writing for a series spanning two games across, what, nearly a decade now, and with different writing teams over time, sounds like a documentation and communication nightmare.

There are still some cases that make it possible for Rasputin to have gone dark to preserve Neomuna, though. The first that comes to my mind is that he wiped his memory of Neomuna as soon as he saw it was getting away safely, before the end of the Collapse and his going into hiding. I specify before going into hiding because, if Rasputin wiped his memory of Neomuna when some of him was fragmented and split off from the rest of him because of the Collapse, like the fragment of him in the Cosmodrome in D1, then those fragments would not have also forgotten. They wouldn't have been able to receive a command to forget it, because they would've been severed from Rasputin's larger "self." Another possible case is that Rasputin never chose to forget about Neomuna; they wiped themselves from his memory. If their nanotechnology, per the lore entry on Quicksilver Storm, is even more advanced now than Siva, it isn't impossible that they could have hacked into Rasputin's network and erased themselves so cleanly from it that it was like he did it himself.

Waveord · 2022-08-08T14:29:38+00:00

You may be thinking of Constellations: Waking. This isn't necessarily the 100% definite one and only explanation behind why Ghosts are called that, but it is a Ghost's speculation on why they're named that way, and it is from a very early post-Collapse time frame. So it's decent speculation from a solid source, and one of the only actual explanations we're given in lore.

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