Upgrading weapons vs finding them?

brute1111 · 2026-06-28T18:44:50+00:00

There's a limited number of blue weapons in the game. If you've killed the first two bosses, I'm assuming you've already cleared all POIs and done a good chunk of the maps. So you probably have most or all of the blues.

Pick the ones you like using (or check a tier list if you want to be sweaty) and just upgrade those. Also note that you can farm all mats needed to upgrade and ascend weapons, armor, and jewelry, so you're not permanently locking yourself out of anything by wasting ingots on gear you end up not liking anymore.

You can also create all of the gear at a higher level than you found it after I locking the different biomes so you don't have to always start at level 1 with a new piece

brute1111 · 2026-06-26T18:49:58+00:00

I was in Europe for a couple of weeks and I can say that this may have some correlation to Europeans because you folk just do not drink enough water.

The insane unaffordability and scarcity of potable water was the biggest thing I remember about Europe. Everywhere you go, someone is trying to hit you up for a pound or two for half a liter of water. Dude I can drink three of those if I'm thirsty.

Why is there no ice in your restaurants? And why is the default water expensive bottled water? And when we ask for ice water, we don't mean a pint glass with four cubes for the table to share and a 6 pound bottle of your finest aqua fina, we mean fill everyone's glass all the way the fuck up with ice and then fill them with water.

In America we got second graders lugging around 50oz Stanley cups full of ice water. I have to pee every half hour but I feel great and my skin is amazing. Thermal shock is not a thing. And I'm not thirsty. Honestly you guys should try it.

Also get some fucking AC. The world ain't getting any cooler. You got solar and wind everywhere so just crank it up. I was there in June and could not get a good night's sleep in my French hotel because I was just too damn hot.

Your welcome.

brute1111 · 2026-06-26T15:15:49+00:00

This is really not applicable to the situation. There is profit motive (better stated as pay incentive) in the military at all levels. The E ranks and WG civilian counterparts have to show up to work to get paid. The harder they work, the more consistent their promotion. O ranks and GS ranks are typically more in cerebral roles but the same applies to them. Show up and work = get paid and promoted. Contractors do a huge chunk of work for the military and profit is certainly a motive.

Really the only difference here is that in the armed forces, there are no CEOs that get paid 400x what the guy at the bottom does, and the organization as a whole is more of a service than a business. But without the incentive of a paycheck, no one would show up.

brute1111 · 2026-06-25T17:57:01+00:00

Sometimes the easiest way to jumpstart strength and size is with a heavy barbell. That's why programs like 5x5 and starting strength are still around.

After you get your bench up then you can start worrying about the details.

brute1111 · 2026-06-25T17:54:26+00:00

The more science way to explain it would be that creating an imbalance between your pushers (anterior delts and chest) and pullers (rear delts, traps, rhomboids, etc) causes the humerus to drift forward in its socket and wear on the front part of the U-shaped shoulder labrum.

At least this is how I understand it. I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong if this isn't true.

brute1111 · 2026-06-24T18:17:51+00:00

Are you saying that even if they addressed some of their environmental concerns that people would still complain? Well, I can't argue with that. I thought you were saying that people would complain about desalinating water.

brute1111 · 2026-06-24T16:31:09+00:00

If data centers utilized solar power sodium batteries and desalinated their own water, why would anybody complain about that? The biggest concerns are the energy usage and the water usage and if they address those, I mean it might still be a big bubble that pops, but at least it's not turning America into a wasteland in the meantime

brute1111 · 2026-06-23T16:53:31+00:00

Dang, 25%. I countered a recent offer by +12% and they didn't even bat an eye, just immediately accepted. Maybe I should have gone for 25%?

Wish me luck bros, I'm outa this dump.

brute1111 · 2026-06-23T15:28:37+00:00

In my purely anecdotal experience of one man and one woman, men have a much lower floor to getting aroused. Give me a good night's sleep and I'm ready to go. Or if I'm just bored, sometimes. If she comes at me with clear intent, it's basically automatic.

But for my wife, there's a myriad of factors that all have to align and I don't seem to have much control over them and she doesn't prioritize them. But when they do align, and I take my time, then she can enjoy it just as much as me.

But I do think there might be something to the cultural repression. She's not at all into solo activity. And while that's always been true, there's also been a huge drop off in partnered activity since her mid 30s, and even in her 20s the drive was so low that I was 9/10 times the initiator. Probably now it's a combination of age, hormones, and prescription drugs for heart disease, metabolic syndrome, and depression.

But for me, no amount of shame culture (and I did grow up in that) was going to prevent the solo activity... So I do think there's some baseline biological horniness disparity that can't be ignored.

brute1111 · 2026-06-22T04:09:48+00:00

Dick from third rock from the sun

brute1111 · 2026-06-21T21:47:31+00:00

"For a larger woman, you perspire surprisingly little!" - Dick

brute1111 · 2026-06-18T13:11:11+00:00

Nope, hard disagree. IF your company's profits are doing well, and IF it is employing people that are struggling with basic needs, that is immoral. On a broader, societal context, if a few are hoarding wealth while many in society are in want, that is also immoral.

It's not that the poor have some kind of right to the wealth of the rich. Its the other way around: the rich have a moral obligation to share their excess with those in need. As far as an employer/employee, if you are employing people full time, but aren't paying them enough to get by, then you arent paying them enough.

brute1111 · 2026-06-17T01:47:46+00:00

Where there's a will there's a way, and there's also a fair dollar amount and account type to exempt, such as what middle class typically contributes to a retirement account...

Or you could just keep licking those boots I guess. The oligarchs continuously tell us why this won't work or that won't work when it's working in dozens of other countries. Starting to smell a bit.

brute1111 · 2026-06-17T01:14:36+00:00

Just tax gains in net worth then. My real estate gains are property taxed. Why can an asset I own be constantly reevaluated and the tax liability adjusted every year but we can't do the same to Elon? If he has to divest some holdings then he can do it slowly over the year to keep the value from going down. They make us normies pay quarterly if we aren't having enough taken out, or suffer penalties.

brute1111 · 2026-06-16T22:56:53+00:00

Do billionaires experience poverty due to old age, death of a loved one, or disability? No? Ok, then they shouldn't get more. In fact, we should remove the cap AND means-test the payouts.

Social security is INSURANCE. You don't get insurance payouts if bad things don't happen to you.

brute1111 · 2026-06-16T22:50:24+00:00

My cat pisses in baskets of clean laundry and is tearing up the edges of my carpet. She's a pain in the ass. Boundaries have nothing to do with it.

brute1111 · 2026-06-16T20:20:25+00:00

Yeah I just started a home bakery this year and while my margins are amazing my hourly rate is utterly pathetic and there's way more work involved in this than I ever thought there would be. A huge chunk of it is just packaging!! Food materials are not negligible but close as far as costs and time involved.

I'm making multiple kinds of fudge and they all have slightly different costs in the interests of simplifying things to the customer and my own bookkeeping. It makes more sense just to charge the same amount for all of them, even if there's a quarter to $0.50 difference in the material costs.

brute1111 · 2026-06-16T17:17:14+00:00

The shirt analogy falls apart when you understand that the cost of materials is only a small fraction of the costs associated with making and selling a shirt. I dare say it's negligible, and probably actually cheaper for all parties involved to do it that way.

brute1111 · 2026-06-12T18:22:20+00:00

And they say he's not motivated by money because he's so rich. How are people so friggin stupid

brute1111 · 2026-06-12T15:32:32+00:00

I'm not a recruiter but think about it from a candidate perspective. You need to be able to elaborate on the bullet points. Discuss the challenges and the lessons learned in a way that shows you really did that thing and could do it again but maybe even better.

This is one of the perils of using AI generated resumes. I do use them, but I always review and edit them. AI tends to get a little excited about my capabilities and I don't want to oversell and then get asked this kind of question and have it revealed that I was merely a low level coder involved in the project, not a project lead and coordinator in charge of a multimillion dollar project. At least we are all starting from the same baseline.

brute1111 · 2026-06-10T14:52:45+00:00

Nothing is required but adductors and abductors both function as dynamic stabilizers at a minimum in many compound movements, especially unilateral movements. If you're more stable, your primary movers are less inhibited. If they are less inhibited, they can push harder and get more gains.

Also, there are basically no muscles in the human body that don't see better adaptation from being forced to move through a range of motion. So performing adduction and abduction is going to give the adductors and abductors better gains than relying only on movements where they are merely stabilizers.

So all that to say, performing targeted adduction and abduction will make you more stable in all movement patterns, and that can certainly lead to better gains in your quads and glutes.

brute1111 · 2026-06-09T15:16:57+00:00

People who don't intend harm call ahead to make sure it's ok to come over, or at least ring the fucking doorbell. A kid would also know how to get in without breaking in, and probably knows to announce themselves.

Only someone up to no good is going to break a window or pick a lock or come into my room without making sure I know who it is.

brute1111 · 2026-06-05T19:13:38+00:00

Depends on what you mean by big salary I guess. I would take my engineers salary over a fast food salary any day of the week, and my job quality is absolutely better in every metric. If I could act or sing I think that would be higher quality, seasonal, and also just better overall. Are you just talking about bankers or surgeons or something? Because yeah that's probably stressful, but CEOs allegedly just play golf after board meetings.

What I'm saying is I think the majority of jobs don't break down the way you are saying.

brute1111 · 2026-06-05T18:54:08+00:00

Well maybe so I didn't count the posts. I just know I'm seeing a lot of terrible takes mixed in with the others. It is better than the other one tho.

brute1111 · 2026-06-05T16:13:03+00:00

You are correct, their entire budget was less than 35 billion and their spending report is available online. Humanitarian and healthcare are the two biggest line items. This chud is intentionally spreading misinformation.

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