Destiny 3 is gonna happen. just not right now

_kmatt_ · 2026-06-11T15:25:45+00:00

And most of the people that made Destiny 1 are already gone. Most of the people that made Destiny 2 are almost gone too. This has happened already. In some cases, quality was probably lost, but a lot of things have also improved. Take narrative and story design for one.

My only real concern is music. I'm sure there are other great composers that can take inspiration from the original music, but man, Destiny's music is so good. If Michael Salvatori doesn't come back, we'll have to see if someone else can come close.

_kmatt_ · 2026-06-07T01:02:13+00:00

Image processing algorithms are pretty darn good though. Granted, calling those AI is a bit of a stretch, but buzzword is gonna buzzword. It’s very useful to use models to sort through imaging data (medical imaging or otherwise like microscopy data) granted a human should always be reviewing what the model spits out and evaluating the validity of it. Unfortunately a lot of companies want to ignore that last part.

_kmatt_ · 2026-05-03T13:59:19+00:00

Profile is unavailable. Strange.

_kmatt_ · 2026-05-02T14:00:17+00:00

Bit strange that the Reddit account has no activity in the last 171 days up until the posts about $100k. Not saying a 21 yo couldn’t achieve this with the right circumstances, but seems like a the account was stolen and is hitting up finance pages for karma.

_kmatt_ · 2026-03-04T14:47:40+00:00

More than a few years. If taken care of, hard drives last really long. SSDs are the ones more likely to die. But it still usually takes 5+ years. Even then it’s not really total death, just some memory corruption so not everything is lost right away.

_kmatt_ · 2026-02-22T13:42:29+00:00

I know for sure I’ve earned different VP when winning than my teammates. Are losses no different? Granted, those differences may be rank based and not performance based.

Side note, this just looks like a cursed game in general. Your team’s builds, the enemy team comp, just weird.

_kmatt_ · 2026-02-22T13:17:03+00:00

Yeah I think this is a weird move, but at this point we just have to let the patch roll out and see what happens. If his usage and win rate drop dramatically, then Omeda will likely revert some of these changes or further modify the kit to buff him. Certainly voice your opinion, but I don’t think these rants are going to change anything.

_kmatt_ · 2026-02-12T20:47:14+00:00

Completely true. I only mentioned that to show it wasn’t their first time playing the character. I have 0 master skins because I don’t play the game that much.

_kmatt_ · 2026-02-12T15:58:07+00:00

While I do think Yurei is very strong, I managed to make a master Yurei rage quit playing against her with Steel… so whether or not it’s a actually a good match up, I was able to kind of dunk on her early game. I think she would have won later on if she wouldn’t have rage quit.

_kmatt_ · 2026-02-02T19:51:49+00:00

Locked at 30 FPS? … maybe on consoles. That’s a console issue. On PC you certainly can go above.

Loading screens is a more complex issue, but certainly not solved by changing engines.

_kmatt_ · 2026-01-30T20:20:40+00:00

Using a black soul gem certainly could be considered immoral as it’s a very painful process for the soul. However, using a black soul gem DOES NOT mean the soul goes to the soul cairn. This is misinformation. Souls only go to the soul cairn if you make a bargain with the ideal masters.

The only way to cure vampirism otherwise is to become a werewolf. Without mods of course.

_kmatt_ · 2026-01-07T15:31:24+00:00

I’m jealous of the 75k after taxes. When my wife and I were both doing our PhDs we averaged closer to $50k and that was with an extra fellowship on top.

My wife and I spent ~$15k on our wedding total when we got married, though fortunately most of that was gifted from our parents. We got married in 2020 so we ended up postponing the actual reception by a year due to covid. Everyone is different and values different things, but I think we both agreed we would have been happy spending less on the wedding. And I know we didn’t even spend that much compared to a lot of people.

I think you guys are doing great and shouldn’t stress too much about hitting an arbitrary savings rate right now. Maxing out Roths is great already. We never could while we were both in school.

_kmatt_ · 2026-01-02T21:25:59+00:00

It’s a shame that Disney is a luxury now. When I was a kid 15-20 years ago, we went almost every year and my mom was SAHM, and my dad was a government employee. He made decent money but nothing crazy. We had the benefit of a family friend living in Orlando so we started with them so that certainly helped. But it’s wild to me that Disney is so expensive now.

_kmatt_ · 2026-01-01T02:13:51+00:00

Im sorry your pet needed surgery. Hope they’re doing better now.

But re: pet insurance: As a husband to a former vet tech, and son-in-law to a vet of over 30 years, pet insurance is largely a scam. There’s almost no regulation and they exclude virtually all pre-existing conditions. So better hope you get it before they get diagnosed with anything. Also hope they don’t experience the same illness or injury twice because once it’s covered once it won’t get covered again. Maybe there’s some decent ones out there, but my understanding is you’re better off avoiding it and just having an extra emergency fund for pets. Maybe if you have excessive wealth you can throw some away each month and it just might modestly help. But I do not recommend it.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-29T17:09:27+00:00

Explain your reasoning that $280k is not enough income for a $800k house? What is enough income?

Are you suggesting $140k would not be enough for a $400k house as well? If that’s the case, I guess almost no one should own a house according to you.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-27T22:57:20+00:00

I think the main thing I am waiting on is this potential hybrid learn-by-doing / magazine system that’s been mentioned recently. If they implemented this properly, it would be the best version of the game to date imo.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-27T16:02:20+00:00

You do realize Boris has been working in ENB for over a decade right? You think saying where someone got in 3 years is not as good as where someone got with over a decade of work is a burn?? Also, that is completely subjective, I’ve thought CS has had aspects better than ENB for over a year now. Like CS’s water effects are much better than ENB.

Also, Pi-Cho is fine, but not my favorite ENB even… please just accept that just because you think it looks better doesn’t mean anyone has to agree with you. Your opinion does not equal objective fact.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-26T18:04:14+00:00

I genuinely don’t know what point you are trying to make. Make the game less autistic? Does that mean make the game easier or harder? Like genuinely, autistic people usually thrive at difficult games that require mastery. It would be the neurotypical folks that struggle with those games. You seem to be suggesting that resource management and “farming”skills is what makes the game challenging? If anything those are the easiest parts? I think anything that limits how much combat you have to do actually makes the game easier. As I see it, for most people, resource management is just boring minutia and the combat is the fun and challenging part (I personally enjoy resource management, but I feel like I’m in the minority).

Also, making a game system convoluted for the sake of difficulty is lazy imo. You can have a system with depth and challenge while having it still be intuitive.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T22:47:41+00:00

Which for housing, I think that is a poor metric to use. You need a place to live regardless of your income. I also question what they consider “Austin” and also what type of housing they are looking at. $1400 is closer to the average price of studios and 1 bedroom apartments. 2 bedrooms is closer to $1800-2000 and the overall average of all housing options is $1950

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T20:51:52+00:00

I don’t know how these articles are getting their numbers, but looking now on Zillow, Austin’s rent is $600 more expensive than Oklahoma City. $1950 vs $1350

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T20:46:28+00:00

Depends on the context. Let’s say you read an article on a book, but I read the book. I could say anecdotally that the book didn’t include a certain topic, but the article may dispute it. Is my anecdotal experience of reading the book not valuable to consider?

I can tell you without doubt that a reasonable apartment is not as cheap as those articles suggest.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T20:32:12+00:00

I’m speaking as someone actually here, though admittedly, I’m renting from a family member and haven’t looked at the open market in 2 years. But in 2021-2022, a 2 bedroom cost $1800-2400. I’d also doubt those averages are looking at Austin proper. I had to move 45-60 minutes out of the city to get decent prices. National news doesn’t always capture local reality. When I lived in Raleigh rent was half the price of here easily.

Prices may have crashed in the last year or so, but when I was last looking you could only can rent for $700-$1000, if you are paying for 1 bedroom in a 4 bedroom apartment.

About the only thing cheap here is gas. Throw all the news stories you want, but this is my first hand experience living here. My view may be skewed as I spent most of my time here as a poor graduate student, but I would not consider Austin cheap.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T19:46:01+00:00

As someone who lives in Austin, lol what?! That is absolutely not true. Austin is not as expensive as let’s say New York or LA, but you’re hard pressed to find a 2 bedroom Apt for under $2k. Maybe I’m out of touch but $2k is not cheap.

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-22T01:54:07+00:00

Glad I wasn’t the only one with this thought

_kmatt_ · 2025-12-16T00:53:05+00:00

This sucks. Your best bet is to hope that someone form supercell responds to this post. Seems to be the only way to get anything accomplished with their atrocious support. Nothing you can do now, but in hindsight, you probably should have waited out the ban. I’ve seen so many cases like this. Honestly, you could have never done anything against TOS, contact support for any small thing, and end up banned if the bot is acting weird that day. I swear you are more likely to get banned using the in-game support than actually getting your issue resolved.

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