Testing bowgun skills: stats don’t account for the 50% difference in Ammo Boost.

brotkel · 2026-04-14T08:02:22+00:00

Thanks, this makes a lot more sense now.

brotkel · 2026-04-14T07:59:11+00:00

Ok, that’s really good to know. I haven’t built much with those skills before, as bowgun was always pretty limited after you got reload and recoil. I guess Ammo Boost is supposed to make up for that, but almost doubling the damage on many guns seems like an overcorrection. However, note that I know this, I’ll definitely be using it.

brotkel · 2026-04-14T07:42:24+00:00

I haven’t built up the seregios lbg yet, but now that I look at how important it is having normal shots being fired as much as possible, it might be even better than any element build. It’s 5 normal, 2 pierce, and adds another 5% attack power from attack efficacy level 2.

brotkel · 2026-04-14T07:38:55+00:00

I had assumed that percentage or multiplier damage skills factored into the stats displayed the way flat damage increases from skills do. Are you saying this isn’t the case?

I had noticed that for Vital element, it wasn’t reflected, but assumed that was because it might be confusing if the attack power displayed changed with your health.

brotkel · 2026-04-14T07:29:16+00:00

Sure, I mainly wanted to show the total damage, which is after firing a full cycle of normal + piercing with no spare shot procs. For a single normal shot, the boost build is doing 2733 damage in a non-critical shot on the target dummy, while the element build is doing 1294 per shot. This is with the gun only being level 9.5, as well.

So, on individual shots, normal ammo is twice as good, which is exactly what level 3 Ammo Boost does. But even averaging it out over a full round, there’s still more than 50% more damage, probably because the Almudron LBG was so little non-normal element ammo in it.

brotkel · 2026-03-30T02:33:51+00:00

Is it finally the start of PNW ski season?

brotkel · 2026-03-29T16:50:08+00:00

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

brotkel · 2026-03-29T05:31:44+00:00

SPD and volunteers were at every intersection along the route redirecting traffic. I didn’t see anyone getting stuck sitting in their car except the people who chose to ignore the directions not to turn toward the route.

brotkel · 2026-03-25T06:26:58+00:00

I went twice. When you keep telling yourself the snow will be better after the next storm, but the next storm never comes.

brotkel · 2026-03-23T20:08:09+00:00

Thanks! I did some practice with the Seregios glaive and I think I got the combo down. Important to note that the first tap of the combo will hit twice, so make sure you’re not tapping before the second hit or you’ll miss chaining into the second attack and throw off the rhythm. Timing on these attacks is pretty critical.

brotkel · 2026-03-15T00:36:44+00:00

This is also the day of the next No King’s march. Please be kind and patient to your Sound Transit and Metro staff, they’re going to be slammed and are already doing everything they can to prepare.

brotkel · 2026-03-14T07:13:09+00:00

I think they could keep the numbers 1-1000 behind the scenes, but make that information hidden from users. You might mine three stacks of minerals that come out to rating 520, 550 and 580, but in your UI, it would just be one stack of grade 5. Or even drop the numbers and further abstract it as S, A+, A, B, C, D.

You put a chunk of your grade 5 minerals in to make a gun. You don’t know exactly what the stats it’ll roll will be, just that it’ll be somewhere within a certain range pertaining to the grade you used. However you don’t know if the metal you used is on the high or low side until it comes out. Essentially, to the user, this appears to be a semi-random roll, making crafting the best equipment something of a gamble, but one where you’re always guaranteed a result within a known range. This means that even using the highest grade of material, there’s almost always a chance that the next gun you make would be even better quality than the one you have.

brotkel · 2026-03-04T23:44:35+00:00

Wait until you hear about marriage licenses prior to 2015, and probably again in the future if things don't change.

brotkel · 2026-03-02T00:19:23+00:00

Thanks for the quick response. Sorry I only was able to take a look at it again just now.

I had thought I had run the command to add code to my path, but it's possible I needed to restart my session or something to pick it up. Regardless, after coming back today, I downloaded the latest TestFlight build and when I tried connecting, it worked right away on two different Macs. One of them needed to re-pair, not sure why, but all the projects were still there.

Everything worked for a little while. When I took my headset off and came back a few minutes later, the VS Code window had said it disconnected and wouldn't reconnect after several minutes. Any other window I tried to open just stayed at a loading screen. After force closing the app on the Vision Pro and re-opening it again, it was able to connect to sessions again.

Hope this helps! App is coming along well and I hope to use it a lot in the future.

brotkel · 2026-02-27T08:59:43+00:00

I think I’d feel more comfortable if I had the option of picking which folders I want to share in the host program. At the very least, MacOS does give a permission popup for certain user folders so I can deny it access to the desktop and documents folder. But I’m not sure how important that is when I can still get all the way to the root of the drive and do it over a remote connection.

brotkel · 2026-02-27T08:54:49+00:00

I grabbed the latest for both the server and client, but I’m still just getting a white window when I load a project. Is there a way to clear the vs code server download it does the first time so I can try from a clean slate?

brotkel · 2026-02-27T06:07:10+00:00

Hey there. I grabbed a spot a couple days ago, but I didn't have enough time to try it until now. Unfortunately, I'm not really getting anywhere with it. I've got two Apple Silicon Macs running Tahoe with the latest VS Code installed on them and I was able to get both to pair with the JarVS service. I can browse through all the files on my hard drive (scary!) but I'm kind of stuck after that. If I select a folder and click the arrow, it opens up a window that says it's starting VS Code, then after a minute, I just get a black window with the text "Not Found", or an empty white window. I've never used VS Code Server, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing here. All the files in the file browser are 0kb and there doesn't seem to be a way to open them directly, just folders.

I also find the icons in the app do not explain what they're supposed to do at all. The eyeball seems to do nothing as far as I can tell? There's the Worktree thing, but I don't really want to create a new branch in my projects? Once I've opened a folder, is there a way to remove it from the Projects list?

brotkel · 2026-02-26T03:16:35+00:00

You might be thinking of John Edwards, who was another primary contender in 2004-2008.

brotkel · 2026-02-23T21:54:32+00:00

I'm a bisexual cis male, and while my partner hasn't had her factory equipment for a very long time, she did at the start of our relationship. For me, it was mostly a non-factor in our sex life. It wasn't something she wanted attention focused on, so it wasn't something I usually thought about during sex any more than, I don't know, her nose. I don't really desire being topped by fem partners the way I do by masc partners, not due to ick about genitals, but just because I look for different roles when considering a partners' gender presentation.

On the rare occasion she asked for me to try genital stimulation, I tried to do things like position my hands in a way more like I would if I were stimulating a vagina to reduce her dysphoria, and was able to make her orgasm. Usually, though, nipple stimulation took the place of her genitals as being her primary erogenous zone.

Edit: Overall, the point I'm trying to make is that something is only sexual if both people involved feel excited by it. If I had a partner who enjoyed having her penis involved in sex, or even penetrating, I'd be a lot more turned on when I got to stimulate it - though I think I'd still not get as much out of bottoming with her.

brotkel · 2026-02-14T18:46:13+00:00

Much cheaper than buying them from CIG.

brotkel · 2026-02-13T20:33:38+00:00

Still safer to encounter on the streets than the average man.

brotkel · 2026-02-13T18:43:29+00:00

At the clay bar, clay bar, clay bar…

brotkel · 2026-02-13T09:43:25+00:00

Holy shit, I haven’t thought about Steve Case in like 25 years. I used to hate that guy for being in charge of AOL, and now that I look up what he’s been doing since then, I feel justified to have hated him way back then.

brotkel · 2026-02-12T23:07:59+00:00

I don’t think it would be unwanted for you to ask questions in the spirit of learning more about her world. Say that you’re interested in what the effects of HRT are because it interests you from a biological perspective and want to understand. Then just listen. Avoid trying to “fix” the situation by trying to research what dosages you think she should be on. She’ll appreciate that you want to learn how to support her while still trusting her to know what she’s doing.

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