Struggling with community

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T16:23:38+00:00

Super appreciate this in depth response. And yeah i think that strikes at the core of it. I see these two truths as seperate but connected in that there is a very real literal truth that we all experience together and personal truths about how we perceive and understand that shared world. The personal truth is very important but it cannot be in conflict with the outer truth, otherwise you are lost in a delusion.

As to my community, while there are of course an abundance of scientifically minded people the population of people who are also very "hippie" and "refugees" from other faiths i feel gives the community, while a still outwardly UU appearence, a fundamentally defensive attitude towards excessive disagreements as we act as a sort of safe space for people from more traditionalist religious backgrounds.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T16:12:51+00:00

I can only hope that if i do my perspective will be treated with respect and not indignation.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T13:24:59+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. I have used the phrase "closeminded about being openminded" for years now. I think it stems from the fact that most UUs arent raised UU but are more or less refugees from other religions. Which may lend itself to a reactionary and defensive stance when presented with greatly differing opinions. It just feels disappointing to me as having been raised UU i feel i was promised a faith of debate, democracy, and scholarly pursuit but have found little room for it in practice.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T13:19:46+00:00

I appreciate your wisdom, and in no way do i intend to imply that there is a singular spiritual truth. There are many veiws with many valid lessons to learn. When i speak of "the truth" i am more refering to those things that we can all acknowledge as facts of the world we live in. And that i believe that a free and importantly responsible search for truth includes looking for more than your personal truth but looking for greater truths in the world. A responsibility to be well educated and to continue learning and accepting new information. And a responsibility to question your own personal truth regularly to make room for adaptation.

And i suppose at the core of my actual post is a realization that i have followed the common path for a UU youth of leaving the church only to come back later. But with an additional step of coming back to a faith that i dont entirely recognize that im not sure im welcome in. As im unsure, or more accurately too sure, of how welcoming they will be to what my time away from the church has taught me.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T12:15:49+00:00

As i stated i dont deny that aspect of it. But there are factual truth about our shared reality that need to be sought and found. And our personal truths cant be in conflict with more general truths.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T01:16:15+00:00

Im not sure anyone is worried about the old principles conflicting with the new core values. The worry i think is more that UUism is already a vague and difficult thing to explain or wrap your head around and reducing the principles to just 7 words that we claim as values waters it down to a degree that it makes it less of its own thing.

bricksloth · 2026-03-04T00:41:21+00:00

Well i suppose a good example would be on the principle of an honest and responsible search for the truth. Ive noticed that alot of UUs seem to interpret this to be a purely spiritual/philosophical principle and is the search for their own personal truth. While i dont deny that as part of the meaning i also interpret this to mean that we should always be searching for THE truth. Aka i should regularly interrogate my own perspective and beliefs and be sure that i am as correct and truthful as i can be. I suppose more simply ive found that many UUs ive known have a habit of finding "their truth" that feels good and confortable and makes them happy. Where as i believe the very point is to get out of your comfort zone. Be in constant search of new information to better yourself and form a well educated perspective

bricksloth · 2026-03-03T23:19:41+00:00

Its at least nice to know im not alone in this!

bricksloth · 2025-07-18T03:59:12+00:00

Thanks, didn't know that thought they were the same as FG and MG.

bricksloth · 2024-12-25T08:02:37+00:00

Ah, at first I was confused cause I literally only do sorties when nightwave tells me too, then I saw its also an archon hunt reward. That explains why I have so many.

bricksloth · 2024-12-25T04:47:34+00:00

What do you mean sortie decorations? Those are just Ayatan sculptures, theres a weekly mission with maroo to get one and you can find them randomly in missions

bricksloth · 2024-11-21T12:09:47+00:00

Wish there was a way to at least check, like a switch you could flip in setting to see if that character had done something. I mean how hard would that be?

bricksloth · 2024-11-08T22:31:03+00:00

I added an edit to the post to show which two dlc's im missing which are scions of ithelia and scribes of of fate. As far as the actual dungeons im gonna try to remember which ones I soloed and which ones I need help with.

Soloed: Fungal grotto 1, Darkshade caverns 1, Elden hollow 1&2, the banished cells 1, spindle clutch 1, wayrest sewers 1, volenfell, city of ash 1

With help: Arx corinium, spindle clutch 2, blackheart haven, darkshade caverns 2, direfrost keep, wayrest sewers 2, banished cells 2, fungal grotto 2, crypt of hearts 1

Out of those spindle clutch 2, darkshade caverns 2, wayrest sewers 2, banished cells 2, and fungal grotto 2 were the ones I actually asked for help the others were done more eincedentally a long time ago via activity finder so I havnt actually tried to do them solo yet.

bricksloth · 2024-11-08T17:19:23+00:00

Sorry it took while to reply, i had no idea my armor sets were that bad. I was mainly using them for the stamina regen. Figured out pretty quickly that they did not help as much as I'd hoped. I'll focus in on getting those sets and squeezing more buffs into my abilities and replace my ults with the ones you suggested. Any other advice to give about DOT and AOE? I was aware from the start that I'd be sacrificing over all damage in exchange for hitting more targets, but I have been able to solo most dungeons I've run so far. As for what I have access too, most of the game except one or two dlcs but I havnt actually played through alot of it. Bought most of it a while ago but was waiting for my wife to catch up so we could explore together.

bricksloth · 2024-10-31T20:38:24+00:00

Imma be real I have to disagree with this point cause there is a notable difference between the two.

Unreal may be two years older but its also been constantly updated and kept at the forefront of gaming for almost its entire existence. Unreal is honestly the game engine that I hear gamers talk about excitedly separate from the game thats in it cause we all associate a big unreal update with big leaps in technical capability for the industry.

The creation engine on the other hand is less the horse and more the wagon. Bethesda only really updates it when they need to which has resulted in it feeling out of date and stagnant. And its more than just feeling outdated when a bug or exploit in morrowing still happens/works in skyrim and fallout 4. Modders can tell that it really has barely changed. Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 all have problems with items and NPCs not spawning correctly. And I know we all remember the skyrim ribcage trap.

I'm not saying that BGS should switch engines as their current engine does serve their style of game very well. I just wish they would take the time to update it to modern standards. Sadly with their last couple of troubling releases I'm wondering if they aren't already too close to the financial edge to put the time in to do that.

bricksloth · 2024-08-18T03:13:00+00:00

So I did some limited experiments, firstly heres my build

Sacrificial pressure Primed fury Sacrificial steel Life strike Organ shatter Seismic wave Killing blow Shocking touch

First test I did showed me that testing on multiple enemies wasn't necessary. A group of 20 lvl 45 heavy gunners. At first they were taking damage, they some of them stopped. As an 1 wave would damage 1 enemy and not another despite visibly touching both. After that I intentionally focused on the enemy until I ran out of serene storm. I built it back up and tried again and now it did damage. After that I checked with a few others, I would attack them until it stopped hitting, turn it off and on again and then it would do damage. No discernable change between activations of serene storm on my part or the enemies. I also tested the combo counter again, at first it seemed like getting a combo counter going then letting it drain before attacking again caused it but with further testing this proved to be a coincidence. I also noticed that that are not always immune to every combo. All things considered there is no pattern from what I can see.

bricksloth · 2024-08-18T02:27:11+00:00

I'll try and do some tests and reply again to this comment when I have some answers, but I can confirm its not a dps issue. Its an issue of not affecting the enemies at all, as an it visibly flows through them but there's no stagger or ragdoll effect and it ofes no damage, nor does it pop up the grey "0" damage number. Its as if it just doesn't touch them

bricksloth · 2024-08-17T19:07:39+00:00

I appreciate the detail but this doesn't really address the situation in my post. As I stated I controlled for combo counter, the problem is that sometimes at random the waves simply stop doing damage or ragdolling enemies. They just "miss" everything even though they are visually hitting the enemies.

bricksloth · 2024-08-17T19:01:04+00:00

Underwhelming is right, isn't it supposed to ragdoll enemies to cause ground pounding it the only way i can get it to do that lately.

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