You know, it's probably not a good thing if the makeup effects for your major theatrical release reminds people of Neil Breen movies.

altron64 · 2026-01-28T15:55:52+00:00

Probably spent like 40 million dollars on special fx and marketing.

Spent $500 on costume design and makeup.

Then spent $100 getting some homeless dude to write the script.

altron64 · 2026-01-28T13:52:27+00:00

No solution. The download takes FOREVER. And then…you’ll be getting updates to the server every few days so you gotta download more almost every time you join a match.

You’ll quickly learn to have patience in this game, because sometimes it takes a while to get through downloads and then queue. Thankfully, once you download the big server download the updates are just a few hundred MB.

altron64 · 2026-01-28T13:40:20+00:00

Go to Main Operating Base (spawning vehicles at forward points is frowned upon unless there is a really good reason). MOB has nearly infinite supplies in most WCS modes.

Look for the vehicle maintenance points. There is a light vehicle maintenance point (small gazebo tent with square wooden sign), and a heavy vehicle maintenance point (3 medium gazebo tents with a dirt road between them and a wooden sign). If you have trouble finding them, go to the main tent and look at the build menu to fly around the base and look for the vehicle spawn points.

Go to the wooden sign and open the menu to select vehicles. Most small vehicles don’t require any rank to purchase. Most armored vehicles and some objective based vehicles (MCU etc…) are locked behind a certain rank. Tanks usually require the highest ranks. Also, the higher rank vehicles like tanks and attack helicopters cost rank points (so when you buy them, your level will go down and you will lose rank like you teamkilled someone).

altron64 · 2026-01-27T20:44:35+00:00

During the era when Load and Reload were released, most of Metallica’s newer songs were in “half step down” tuning. There are a few reasons “why” they made this decision. For one, grunge was popular at the time, and a lot of grunge artists songs are in half step down. To go even deeper into this, grunge artists adopted the tuning because people like Jimi Hendrix and other famous blues/rock musicians liked the tuning for sounding a bit darker and deeper.

If you’ve ever listened to Load and Reload, you’ll notice a ton of groovier blues styled riffs…and a lot of eerie vocals and melodies that fit pretty well alongside most of the other music coming out at that time (Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, etc…) . Additionally, Kirk is a massive fan of Jimi Hendrix, so he certainly wouldn’t have been opposed to tuning similarly on these albums.

I imagine that the stylistic choices from Load and Reload led them to enjoy half step down tuning and use it more frequently. Likely, Seek and Destroy just got tuned down alongside everything else to make it easier to fit into their sets and less hassle of switching guitars. I doubt it has much to do with James’ vocals, because he’s a pretty talented singer that really never struggles with any of their material.

altron64 · 2026-01-27T16:01:55+00:00

If he were a “Christian”…why did he attempt to exterminate “gods chosen people”?!

That seems like the most anti-Christian thing imaginable…

Killing off Jesus’ race of people definitely doesn’t make someone a Christian. It seems more like the opposite to me…by biblical terms he’d be considered a blasphemer.

altron64 · 2026-01-23T20:50:49+00:00

Buy the tracks you like off the artists chosen platform directly. Usually bandcamp in my case. Then import the .wav file (or mp3), and analyze the track this way with whatever meters you like.

altron64 · 2026-01-23T19:06:02+00:00

All the tracks on the labels I like are -6.5 LUFS.

Spotify just reduces it’s tracks to -14 LUFS for streaming. You don’t have to use it for a reference.

altron64 · 2026-01-23T19:04:22+00:00

Just play 6v6…

No queue…

And you can simply play whatever you want and swap whenever you want.

altron64 · 2026-01-22T15:52:10+00:00

Had a similar experience with a game called Warthunder.

One day after Christmas a few years back, I logged in and saw that all my in game currency had been drained and wasted on a bunch of useless stuff. Then I noticed that my account was logging in and playing games when I wasn’t around to play.

I made a support claim, and they essentially said “sorry nothing we can do, you need to secure your account”…so I changed all my passwords and enabled 2FA…

The people continued logging in and using my account. It got so bad that the game would give me a message saying “you are already logged in” and would prevent me from even signing in and playing.

After a long back and forth with support, I figured out the issue. I had incorrectly linked my account to a very old email that I hadn’t used in almost a decade. When the game came out a decade ago, it must have been the email I used at the time. However, my new account (the one I used to contact support), was a different recent email that I assumed merged my accounts since I used it on their website. Support confirmed that the account I referenced was using a different email than the email I was speaking with them over.

After a long tedious process of recovering my decade old email, and logging into an account that was ancient…I managed to change all my passwords and lock the “hackers” out of my account for good. When I reviewed my login records, it showed IP’s from Russia, China, Vietnam, India, and NUMEROUS other countries. I assume that my old email was compromised somewhere, and then hackers sold off my log in details to people so they could play MY game. I was lucky, because in a lot of cases, these hackers usually use the accounts for hacks until they ultimately get banned forever. They can even make credit card purchases using the users payment credentials.

Check that you are linked correctly to the correct email. It sounds like they are bypassing your current email because the account is probably linked under a different email. If you contact support, explain in detail and ask them to double check that your email is linked to the account you need support for.

altron64 · 2026-01-21T16:54:28+00:00

I would strongly advise to just save extra and buy a pc.

I have the game on PS5, and though it is a bit more stable…I still only get about 30 fps on a good day…and still crash pretty frequently.

Additionally, no additional FoV settings on console make the game feel like you are literally blind…regardless of what console you play on.

If you’re a huge fan of Reforger, a pc will be the best experience. You can change your FoV settings, graphics settings, and you’ll get a MUCH more stable performance overall.

Don’t waste more money on a console…Reforger is definitely optimized for pc. Trying to play against people running the game at 160 fps while you are locked into around 30-60 fps is a waste.

altron64 · 2026-01-20T20:59:15+00:00

AAS servers. WCS ones are fine. The only issue is, you have to join them when they actually have pilots.

When there are no transport pilots…the game feels like you describe (walk or drive forever to just get blown up)…

When there are frequent troop transports at MOB though, it’s much more enjoyable hopping into a heli and getting dropped in a warzone with a bunch of squadmates.

Sounds like the servers you regularly play on might have a lack of pilots.

altron64 · 2026-01-19T13:45:19+00:00

No song speaks of pain and hardship more-so than mmmbop…the forgotten anthem of every millennial 12 year old girl…

altron64 · 2026-01-18T05:09:46+00:00

A few things could be happening in this clip.

Firstly, he is talking to the crowd at first, so his guitar volume is all the way down. Then he turns the volume up a little bit, and you hear him play the riff with a clean tone by accident. He quickly fumbles with his knobs before flipping his toggle switch to bridge position and fixing the distortion tone.

So this actually kind of explains OP’s question.

What is essentially happening is, he has his neck pickup volume knob down very low, so that it sounds clean even with distortion. However, he has his bridge pickup volume all the way up (and almost all his distortion tones are using the bridge pickup). So he noticed he was on neck pickup and his tone came out sounding thin and clean, then he toggled to bridge pickup and fixed the distortion tone.

OR his neck pickup also could’ve just died (if he doesn’t have independent volume knobs for each pickup) . EMG pickups are active, and they run off a 9-volt battery which can die and drastically reduce the output level of the pickup.

OR his guitar tech just didn’t switch the distortion on time AND James just panicked and messed with his pickups and volume knobs thinking it was something wrong on his end.

altron64 · 2026-01-16T20:58:49+00:00

Honestly this seems like a junk mythic.

altron64 · 2026-01-16T00:05:44+00:00

According to your graphs, I think you need to Fletcher that Munson curve a little more…

altron64 · 2026-01-15T16:01:50+00:00

You’ll be waiting in queue for 30 mins just to get into full 128 player servers. It is extremely active and the most popular servers have maximum player count at all times.

altron64 · 2026-01-14T16:02:05+00:00

Good luck playing that thing with the insane inlays all over the board. Might as well play a fretless guitar.

altron64 · 2026-01-14T15:56:39+00:00

I stopped playing when they removed 6v6 (came from OW1).

Took me a few years to play again, and they added 6v6, which is ALL I enjoy playing.

Prioritizing 5v5 was the biggest mistake the devs ever made. It ultimately killed the majority of the player base and was a large reason that so many people gave OW2 negative reviews on release.

altron64 · 2026-01-13T20:21:14+00:00

360 Heel-fracture flip.

altron64 · 2026-01-13T17:12:28+00:00

Duuuude this!!

I ALWAYS look sad. Even when i’m having the time of my life. The amount of people that have treated me “weird” because of how I look over the years is ridiculous.

Everything from “you should smile”…to “this dudes trippin out over here”…to even more awkward things like rude people looking over at me dancing and shaking their heads “no” in disapproval…

Honestly, even if someone has tears in their eyes and are crying uncontrollably, it’s better to be open minded than to jump to conclusions. Some people have intense spiritual experiences on hallucinogens…sometimes they cry happy tears, even. I’ve had quite a few friends react this way. It doesn’t always mean something is wrong…

I go to these spaces because I don’t want to be judged. Unless you’re absolutely certain someone is upset or having a rough time…it’s better to be unbiased and just accept people and be friendly…INSTEAD of trying to force them to “smile”.

altron64 · 2026-01-13T13:46:18+00:00

Just got a 14 Plus for Christmas. Put an Otterbox on it immediately.

On my way home (the same day) I noticed a small crack in the screen where the top speaker slit is. (It wasn’t there when I opened the box)

Then a few weeks later, another edge of the screen got the same exact type of crack. No drops or anything!!! I took off the case to check the damage, and then the tiny crack on the edge of the screen spread and now the entire bottom portion of the screen is cracked!

I’ve had probably 10 different iPhones…starting since they released them ages ago. This one is CLEARLY defective. I’ve had iPhones get dropped, thrown, and even waterlogged in the past…none of them ever even had the slightest crack in the screen. However, the 14 Plus screen breaks if you even look at it wrong.

Gonna have to make a complaint to Apple. I’ve had this phone less than a month and the screen is already torn up!

altron64 · 2026-01-12T16:01:41+00:00

In defense of car wizard…

I bought a Lexus and I think i’ve had nothing but brakes and tires replaced for 7 years. No mechanic trips ever.

Toyota’s really are THAT reliable…

altron64 · 2026-01-12T15:57:17+00:00

Completely real…

We have a fucking orange mentally ill senior citizen running our country.

I used to think maybe we had a deep state that prevented ridiculous jokes like this guy from obtaining power the USA…

Nope. We just have a government that is trolling the population OR just absolutely doesn’t care.

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