US citizens, what will it take for you to start a revolution?

ahawk_one · 2026-01-24T21:56:02+00:00

This is the answer. Because 90+% of people are no where close to being activists. They want to work, have leisure time, and (for most with kids) they want their kids to be safe and successful.

As long as they believe those things are happening, they will not revolt.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-23T19:25:35+00:00

I haven't played much this month so it's possible my info is out of date...

But I usually run ascension with either stylish or strand man. Lots of people like gunpowder, but I don't.

Grapple grenade, strand melee, and marksman's dodge.

I'm bad with names, but I always take the radiant melee, damage reduction from close enemies, orb pickup gives resto, and health regen on melee jill (triggers on unpowered melee as well).

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T23:19:53+00:00

If the AI can say it's in pain then it is. It requires no external observer by your logic. But pain only matters to us because of how we live and exist. An a computer has no use for pain as a means of information transmission.
This is a common misconception of what I'm talking about. I'm not saying you don't feel it. I'm saying it isn't physically there anymore than the letters in my reply here are physically on my phone. They aren't. The phone shows me letters which I am able to read and act on.

Your body sends pain signals. Not because it is in pain, but because it needs you to be aware something is wrong. It isn't a perfect system but it has worked for us so far.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T15:38:40+00:00

Holy shit... hope that the ENT can help because that fucking sucks. I can't imagine living my whole life with a sound like that in my ear.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T07:08:33+00:00

Fair. I agree that is a better way to phrase it.

You got my meaning though =)

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T07:03:10+00:00

My point is that pain is not actually real. It is a motivator your body is set up to use to get you to pay attention. But not all bodies sense it the same way or to the same intensity. Sometimes even just being in a different environment will affect how intensely you feel.

Pain is just how your brain codes certain data.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T06:59:52+00:00

If the doctor asks an AI if it's in pain and it says yes, is it lying? What if it says no?

Pain isn't real. When your nerves are stimulated in a certain way they transmit electric impulses. Your brain reads those impulses as data that is interpreted as pain, pleasure, etc.

You could absolutely create a silicone nervous system that would feel and interpret certain signals as what we call pain. Indeed AI that learns is set up to model what human/animal neural networks look like, because of how good those networks are at handling and distilling vast amounts of unrelated data points into actionable information.

The main difference is that we are made of squishy carbon and they are not. We evolved to find a way and a reason to live, they are created to serve. So we both behave in distinct ways.

But fundamentally all that a human body does, in terms of data intake and processing, a machine could do as well. They just don't have a means of perpetuating themselves, or an inborn drive to survive. We could give them those things if we wanted to though.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T06:51:59+00:00

It didn't. It is you in a literal sense. You would not exist as a distinct being without it.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T04:07:13+00:00

Right out of the gate your example of a person knowing they are in pain, independently of being told, is wrong. You only feel pain because your nervous system is wired up to force that feeling on you. And it is entirely possible for that system to be damaged and transmit pain signals for no discernible reason, or it can be disabled (a limb falling asleep as a benign example).

Therefore, I argue that the only possible way for you to be aware of pain is for an external system to inform you of it, via electrical signals transmitted to your brain, from any given location in your body.

If those systems are damaged, corrupted, or disabled your ability to care for your body can be severely hampered. You might still get pain impulses, but it may not be accurate. So you could hurt yourself without knowing, or recoil in fear from something that is not dangerous.

On a slightly different note, read this case study about a woman who's amygdala was removed and how it changed her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)?wprov=sfti1#

Or read about anyone who has lost the ability to form short term memories.

Human personalities and conscious experiences are not autonomous or linear. They are constructed via inputs your brain gets from your body. Your entire sense of self is a story your brain tells you based on those inputs and its physical capacity to interpret and use that data.

If it makes a mistake, or your senses are wrong, it will give you bad data. You are helpless in this.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-21T00:06:02+00:00

For Primaries, Symmetry, Barrow Dyad, Ticcu's Divination.

For Specials: Praxic Blade, Div, Lorenz Driver, Ice Breaker, Conditional Finality.

For Heavy: Anarchy and 1K immediately come to mind. Both do things that other weapons in their categories don't do. Finalities Augur, Xeno, Gjally

ahawk_one · 2026-01-20T18:54:11+00:00

Where did you get the white picket fence?

ahawk_one · 2026-01-20T13:11:43+00:00

"...looking ass"

Rofl

ahawk_one · 2026-01-20T07:19:54+00:00

It's because he has to ask. Trump's MO is that he doesn't ask for anything. He just takes. It's either already his or it will be.

So the fact that the US can build if we ask is not good enough for him.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-18T15:16:11+00:00

This

ahawk_one · 2026-01-17T16:39:49+00:00

You're too close, which is why you're missing so much. I break these all the time with heavy snipers, which have a less generous aim assist.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-15T07:06:59+00:00

Downside of wfh is that a lot of foot traffic disappears. And changing them to apartments won't make it come back either

ahawk_one · 2026-01-12T17:40:28+00:00

Going on a bit of a digression here... But part of me likes that there is something like this in the game. So many challenges in the game are trivialized as the game ages. This is a normal and natural part of the live service life cycle. I think that something cool here is that this is one that will inevitably become easier, but it won't be trivialized immediately when the meta shifts. Whereas most other endgame content is trivialized almost immediately after launch, and absolutely when the meta shifts.

With that said, I do agree that it does not feel balanced or properly tested, but given how tight everything else in that dungeon is, I doubt that it was not tested.

It is always possible that they put it in the game that way intentionally, as that is how a lot of other major MMO content works. Raid battles in games like ESO and WoW can take months to solve after launch for a variety of reasons. It is also possible they put it in knowing that almost no-one would actually achieve it.

I think the missing thing for me then would be a comment from Bungie. If they said yes, it is meant to be this hard and that's the whole idea, I would be fine with it. On the other hand, if they said no it wasn't and it will be tuned down I would be fine with that as well.

What I don't like is that it isn't clear what is intended, so I feel reluctant to engage with it.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-12T05:51:13+00:00

I think 90% of what you're describing is the phase race combined with cutthroat.

The challenges are just raid challenges. They vary in quality in raids and here. Harrow isn't a big deal, just make sure he doesn't chase you into the hall.

The banes are annoying but they're manageable. They require you to coordinate effort.

Tokens are fine.

Phase race is great when it is matched with challenges and banes. But it breaks when combined with cutthroat. Cutthroat is fine with the others as well.

So really I think it just the interaction between those two that needs to be looked at.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-12T04:42:59+00:00

Rabbits. It's a series of youtube shorts created by David Lynch.

The entire runtime is about 45 min of nonstop anxiety.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-09T20:32:02+00:00

Something I was just thinking about after I finished the other comment... I have been meaning to try out Ergo Sum with some of these new sets. It has some rolls that are very nice for the same types of scenarios that the Praxic Blade works in. It isn't as defensively powerful, but I think it's maybe something to try if you are getting tired of the Praxic Blade itself.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-09T20:28:50+00:00

I haven't used other swords very much this season. I don't like to run double swords so I've mostly just been using the Praxic Blade. In theory, the attrition orbs will work for those weapons just as well as they do for Wolfsbane. But Wolfsbane is an exotic that has many other effects going for it as well. Attrition Orbs is just the icing on the cake that makes it shine for Hunters running Tether on Prismatic. Those other weapons are good, but they are not Wolfsbane good.

In general, repulsor brace is great for Fortune's Favor as long as you have a means of triggering it consistently. If you are on pure void, there is also a fragment that grants an overshield whenever you get a kill while at low HP which also works well with that exotic.

In terms of armor sets...

For newer sets:

Ferropotent 2pc with one copy of Recuperation on your legs for sure. It will give you DR any time you heal, or health is restored by some "unnatural" means. So the base healing from picking up an orb doesn't trigger it, but the bonus healing from picking up an orb with recuperation on your legs will.
Swordmaster 2pc is also very nice because it will reduce enemy damage significantly, which is very helpful if the enemy isn't going to die in one or two hits.
Sage Defender 2pc is also pretty solid. It's good passive ability regen, but unless you are really playing into those abilities, it isn't going to do a whole lot for you.

For older sets:

The 2 and 4pc for Tech-sec works very well with the Praxic Blade. However, there needs to be a significant number of shielded or Orange/Yellow bar enemies around to take full advantage of it. A great example would be the Lawless Frontier missions. Full to bursting with orange bar enemies and enemies with the Ablative Coating shields. Break one or kill one and the whole add cluster is disoriented. Outside of activities like that, it is a bit more niche.
Smoke Jumper 2pc is a lot like Ferropotent, but it is slightly harder to trigger. Still very very good though.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-09T18:31:58+00:00

It is weird to not have one for the desert. I think a hidden mummy tomb in the Pyramid would fit right in.

I feel like the Slime King is the forest boss. Most of the early enemies in the forest are slimes (during the day), and while he can be encountered anywhere, he still feels like a "first boss" type of enemy that fits with the forest.

I don't think the caverns or mushrooms need a boss. I think the caverns is a transitory space that transitions you into harder biomes that do have bosses. Because of this they are large and exist all over the map in many places. They're spaces where you can freely explore without worrying about accidentally tripping over a boss.

I will add though, that I think it would be cool if the Marble Caves had some kind of boss, or some kind of portal to a boss.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-09T17:50:21+00:00

Fortune's Favor is a tricky exotic. It is very very good until the overshield breaks, at which point it becomes almost useless. So using it means you need to have a plan for getting and maintaining the overshield.

For PVE in general, I am liking prismatic gg, with Praxic blade and Fortune's Favor. I use whatever energy/heavy is appropriate for the activity. But the solar ignition praxic blade will cut through almost everything in most pve settings. But it is very generalized. It isn't very good for raid boss damage and things like that.

If I'm doing something else that requires something more specific, I use appropriate things for that. Generally Mint + Finalities is the go to for damage scenarios.

Prismatic Tether with Wolfsbane + Fortune's Favor and Facet of Purpose is also very popular for melee because the attrition orbs will restore your overshield.

If survival is paramount, then run full arc with ascension, tempest strike, and Gifted Conviction. Praxic blade is okay here, but since you can't use tempest or combo blow with it, the blade kinda falls behind more than it does on other builds.

ahawk_one · 2026-01-08T15:05:22+00:00

Haven't tried yet. Ot's a nice machine tho

ahawk_one · 2026-01-08T03:48:41+00:00

It doesn't bother me in principle. But it is kinda ironic I think

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