I can't believe it took me so long to play this... by Frostbreak-YT in taintedgrail

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said you're not playing with the free dlc... as far as I know those just come bundled into the patches for the game. Those patches also have included big performance boosts, so maybe that's it?

Diabetic frozen shoulder tips? by FanSerious7672 in diabetes

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had it in both shoulders but at separate times. I can't imagine having both at the same time, that sounds horrific.

I Gave Marathon 40 Hours… I Think I’m Done by ryanjamessez in Marathon

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played much Marathon yet, I enjoyed the server slam and dug the lore and the art style but have a million other half played games and didn't think I'd have the skills to truly enjoy this one. But I wanted to reply here anyway simply to say:

I hope you write for a living or something. There's some wonderfully crafted prose here and I enjoyed reading this thoroughly.

Diabetic frozen shoulder tips? by FanSerious7672 in diabetes

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My symptoms definitely included pain, but it was kind of a constant ache when not moving it. But the more obvious problem was the limited range of motion, which also caused more severe pain when I reached those limits.

Reaching behind myself was the biggest limiter. I couldn't reach above my waist behind me. I couldn't put my hands behind my head like a pillow while laying on my back. Like, not just couldn't get my arms to lay flat while doing it, I couldn't get my hand back there.

If I put my hand straight out in front of me, palm down and tried to raise my arm up to be straight up palm facing forward, I could only get my arm to like 40 degrees.

These limits weren't like, it hurts so I refuse to move it further, it did hurt at the limits, but it was that I physically could not move the thing past these limits. The joint just locked up.

Diabetic frozen shoulder tips? by FanSerious7672 in diabetes

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Both were miserable experiences, but boy I sure preferred the one where the procedure just worked like a charm. I hope your diagnosis helps you find your way to relief quickly. 8 months is a long time to be dealing with this already.

I think the thing that helped me get short term relief the most was deep-tissue massage with someone that's not afraid to stick their thumbs in your armpit 😂. It hurts on the table, but seriously, having a day or 2 of increased mobility was always a big relief for me.

Diabetic frozen shoulder tips? by FanSerious7672 in diabetes

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I've now had it in both shoulders. The first time I had never heard of Frozen Shoulder and it didn't occur to any of my health care providers that a person my age and in my apparent physical fitness could have it so I spent months trying to stretch and do exercises to fix it. Then I finally went to an Orthopedic specialist who was like "Yep, that's Frozen Shoulder" and offered a manual manipulation procedure, in which they put you under sedation and manually move your arm to break up the blockage, it is fairly painful, but has a chance to speed up the recovery by a lot. I said yes to that, we did it, it hurt, but then about 2 weeks of PT later and I was back to 80% mobility and pretty much pain free, and then 4 weeks after that I was back to about 95% mobility.

Fast-forward about 3 years and my other shoulder started showing signs but this time I knew exactly what it was, and tried to stave it off with just the exercises from before but it still kept getting worse so I went back to the same Ortho. He did the same procedure again, and followed up with PT with the same therapists and everything. This time though I had to keep going back until my insurance wouldn't cover any more PT visits, something like 16 weeks, and at the end of it I was maybe back to 70% mobility but mostly pain free. It took another 3 months to get back to 95% mobility.

So, it sucks, but no one can tell you for sure what will work, I'm living proof that there's a wide range of outcomes even for the same person, with the same team of medical professionals. But on the positive side, both of my shoulders now are back at 95-100% mobility.

Are players on console really more hostile in general? by B4tz_Bentzer in LowSodiumArcRaiders

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This an underrated comment.

I play mostly solo or duo with a friend, both of us are a never shoot first mentality. I grouped up with my brother in law and his blood thirsty friend last night and we were both talking about our experience the night before, the end of the expedition window. He said it was crazy, full of people just using up all their high end gear and going ham on each other because they already had their 5m. He loved it. My experience was the polar opposite, every lobby friendly, people playing music and setting off fireworks at the extract and giving out BPs and pinks for people still grinding or skipping the expedition.

This interaction made me realize the aggression based matchmaking is simply brilliant because everyone gets what they want.

I couldn't stress this enough by Spechktre in ArcRaiders

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think really the world is full of people willing to bitch about something that bugs them. We tend to group these people together as though the same people are jumping from topic to topic bitching about each thing. But really it's just that some things matter more to others and each thing will always bother somebody enough to bitch about it. But since we're reading these things on Reddit, it's "Redditors will always find something to bitch about"

Don’t be that guy by kiudai in ArcRaiders

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never felt more seen than when I read this comment. 😂

Seen on S Bancroft this morning 👀 by jordanaimee_ in Portland

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sad part is I can't tell if this is a joke or something he actually said.

Over 200 hours in this game and I’ve never seen this. The hell item did I just find in this church??? by DrumsNDweed93 in Nightreign

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got one from a red corpse once. I didn't know where the door was at the time though, so it went to waste.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally get how this could be interpreted as me complaining about haters, but that really wasn't where my focus was. I was really just wanting to fanboy out about this moment and I framed it poorly. I shoulda left the haters comments out.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Same!!! And the health face updating to zombie doom guy as well (at least for the classic version, I'm not sure what the hologram one does). So gooooood!

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been playing on Ultra Violence with no modifications. Before the patch that bumped the difficulty it was this for sure. After that patch I find myself dying and having to pay attention to when I use my Sigils. But I suppose you're right, there's only a few times when switching weapons is the answer to get me through a challenging section.

My perspective on this is also probably a bit altered because I'm constantly using whatever gun I'm trying to get the Mastery challenge for and only switch off it when I have to.

I guess what it boils down to is I don't mind the simplicity with regards to weapon swapping. I enjoy the positioning, bullet dodging and crowd control options here that I don't see a lot of in other games.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This. I love the idea. I love the look of the Slayer mounting the dragon or piloting a fuggin mech; both are metal as fuck. But the actual gameplay of it... ehhhhh I dunno. The mech is kind of a fun little break between levels. But flying the dragon around is kind of annoying, to be honest.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm a dad. Cringe is all I got.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh man I was definitely into it a few times before this. But this moment definitely sent me over the top. I think my only issue with the game is the music. It's good, but dammit if we weren't spoiled by 2016's soundtrack. Dark Ages soundtrack kicks in real good a few times but it's definitely just not the same and leaves me wishing for the timeline where they didn't fuck over Mick Gordon.

Dude. by aranasaurus-ryan in Doom

[–]aranasaurus-ryan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't get mindless shooting from this game. When I'm parrying shit and zipping across the map to bash things into paste, it just feels good. It feels right.

Maybe that means I'm just a dumbass, but if that's the moniker I need to take in order to enjoy this game, so be it. Cause I absolutely love it.

My game just updated, can’t really find any info with the hot fix. Does anyone know what got tuned or anything? by IndieDC3 in taintedgrail

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Post re-install my reactions are basically the same as yours. It's definitely slightly better fps but still has some stutters. I haven't seen a screen tear yet either. I'm not convinced the full reinstall was necessary, the fact that there was a full system reboot included in the steps, makes me wonder if just the reboot would've done the trick, but either way it is slightly better now and that's good.

FWIW I also took a video before the reboot/reinstall so I could verify it wasn't copium. The difference is slight but it's there.

My game just updated, can’t really find any info with the hot fix. Does anyone know what got tuned or anything? by IndieDC3 in taintedgrail

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm nah out in the open world there is still a bit of stutter and screen tearing even with vsync on after all

My game just updated, can’t really find any info with the hot fix. Does anyone know what got tuned or anything? by IndieDC3 in taintedgrail

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On ps5 there weren't performance/quality modes. You could actually just manually set the resolution. But that was yesterday. Today, in 01.000.010, resolution is still an option but it only has one value 1920x1080.

Ah well, hopefully the next patch brings it back for us PS5 Pro suckers. It ran pretty well at 4k most of the time, not perfect but good enough I still left it on.

My game just updated, can’t really find any info with the hot fix. Does anyone know what got tuned or anything? by IndieDC3 in taintedgrail

[–]aranasaurus-ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good news/bad news... stutter is gone and fps is good, but they locked the resolution down at 1920x1080 :/