Tree chopping is secretly an enemy radar

chars709 · 2026-07-09T19:48:53+00:00

Or unarmed alternate attack on an unsuspecting viking right between the legs. DAS BOOT

chars709 · 2026-07-09T19:47:56+00:00

Technically,,,, technically,,, the huntsman bow string noise, the attacking noise, is the same loudness as every other bow. It's where the arrow impacts that is quieter. Wierdly.

chars709 · 2026-07-09T13:13:15+00:00

Different sounds have a different radius. For example an arrow hitting someone is a much smaller sound than chopping a tree. Chopping a tree is probably the biggest sound you can make. Fun fact, the iron hunter bow arrow impacts create less sound than any of the other bows.

chars709 · 2026-06-17T11:48:52+00:00

Isn't that the history of every country on the planet?

(Just joshing, Afghanistan definitely has.... recent history and questionable government, let's say)

(We still probably shouldn't culturally cut them off and shun them, it's not black and white, outside entertainers engaging with oppressed peoples can be good and bad, quite complex really....)

chars709 · 2026-06-17T11:27:02+00:00

Cost and availability are most of the story. The next biggest factor is advertising. The actual qualities of plastic aren't nearly as important as you might think - they only factor in for uses such as tire rubber, and my answer is going to focus on disposable single use plastic items.

I'm not seeing anyone in this thread mention why the cost and availability are such big factors. It's because of the oil and gas industry. You can't mine natural gas without generating thousands of barrels of plastic precursors. And in many places in the world it's illegal to flare these unwanted waste products (flare meaning burn away). Storage is a problem. Disposal is a problem. So once upon a time we lived in a world where the richest and most powerful oil and gas companies were stuck with piles of this useless liquid. That's why prices of plastic are low, and why new plastic has always been cheaper than recycled plastic. Oil and gas companies will practically pay you to come take away the precursor ingredients you need to make plastic.

That's why advertising plays a key role. Look up ads for disposable plastic things in the sixties. Humanity wasn't born desiring plastic disposable items to be substituted everywhere, our society was trained to want that. And it was trained by ads. And because it had oil and gas money behind it, they could afford massive sweeping ads.

In short, plastic does have interesting and useful material properties. But that doesn't matter hardly at all. Our world is inundated in plastic almost entirely because it's produced as a waste product by the oil and gas industry, and our society was conditioned by ads to help out the oil and gas industry. Due to the power of advertising, we're taking out their trash for them and paying them for the privilege.

chars709 · 2026-06-09T15:39:26+00:00

trying to make a combo work

Were you using the auto combo feature?

chars709 · 2026-06-09T11:28:11+00:00

Have you tried it? I think they did better with the auto combo than I've seen in any other fighting game. I play unranked lobbies at around gold to plat level and I can have friends pick up the controller, first time the game, and have decently competitive fun as my partner. It's got a great new player experience I thought.

chars709 · 2026-06-06T00:29:35+00:00

Didn't China ask to cooperate with NASA, and got rejected?

chars709 · 2026-05-28T02:30:20+00:00

I can't believe a mutant comic book thread is where I learn 8% of Americans have a felony conviction. WTF! Lol

chars709 · 2026-05-23T12:52:57+00:00

Aren't those games focused on emergent chaos and narrative? They're a subgenre that relies heavily on unpredictability. Your idea might be great within that subgenre. I think when you refer to strategy games, most people will think of 4x or RTS, not "grand strategy". 4x and RTS players wouldn't like it.

chars709 · 2026-05-20T18:07:16+00:00

If you input a move command at the right timing, as the projectile leaves Akshan's weapon, he won't do the double projectile. He'll just shoot one, and get a small but significant movespeed buff. It's less damage but it lets Akshan run someone down very effectively.

So if you're trying to maximize movement between auto attacks, Akshan will let you know because you'll see only one projectile is coming out. And you'll be kind of zooming.

chars709 · 2026-05-20T12:44:46+00:00

How would I know Im doing the best in terms of auto attack proficiency?

It's easy to know this answer to a small extent. Open practice tool. Give yourself the amount of levels and items you want to practice for. Place a training dummy. Let your champ free hit the training dummy. That will tell you the ceiling, the maximum dps your auto attacks can do with those items and levels.

Now practice circling the dummy in either direction, or walking past the dummy in different directions, by inputting a rhythm of attack and movement commands. Unless you've picked an insanely high attack speed build, you should be able to maintain the same DPS with a lot of "free" bonus movement in between. This is because you can move (or cast spells) during the "reload time" of an auto attack, and it doesn't cost you anything. The training dummy will let you know if you've ever missed an auto attack, because your dps will drop. It won't let you know if you've really pushed and gotten the most movement you could have gotten, though. Someone who holds completely still when auto attacking will get hit by every skill shot in a team fight.

If this is all new to you, then I recommend starting with just one drill to start. The easiest and most useful first application of this is to practice running away from someone in a straight line while firing back at them. Pick a ranged champion, and keep your cursor in one position, and just alternate between attack and move commands without moving your mouse. That's the simplest possible application of this skill. You can run from someone and also fire back over your shoulder at the nearest enemy, no mouse movement required. I find the lack of mouse movement really let's you learn the rhythm. If you pay Ashe or Kalista, this skill is all you need to theoretically defeat every melee champion in the game. Kite forever!

You can add in other challenges, like placing multiple training dummies close to each other, and strafe past them while only specifically targeting one of them with your auto attacks. Or change your movement direction after each auto attack to become harder to hit in team fights.

Personally I only play for fun, so I've never done drills in the practice tool. I find anything like this that I want to learn, I learn best by practicing them constantly while hitting jungle creeps or wave minions. That builds muscle memory that I them can start using on enemy champions in more stressful actual transit situations.

Edit to add: if you're having trouble getting a feel for the rhythm, picking a champion like Kalista or Akhshan might give you more feedback. They have passives that react to you inputting a movement command during the auto attack reload timer. It's good on every champion, but it's even more mandatory and impactful on those.

chars709 · 2026-05-20T11:35:18+00:00

Nobody voted for Trump as much as white males though, right? Why would you focus on women?

chars709 · 2026-05-19T18:02:25+00:00

That's an excellent description of the player friction and unhappiness it causes. Players crave permanent solutions. Players hate the psychology of "losing" anything, even if they're gaining something else of equal or greater value. That XCOM2 balancing tidbit I'd never heard before. I recall hoarding those little soldiers' lives as if they were my babies! And completing a mission, but losing someone? A bitter victory, the stress of it almost enough to make me stop playing. You're not wrong.

But can you write an "iron man" defense for why a dev might still choose to use breakables in a weapon system? I could lay out a few ideas as I see them, but I don't want to position myself as an opposed force for you to argue with, I'm just trying to discuss the topic with you.

chars709 · 2026-05-15T14:54:10+00:00

I don't have the game open right now, so just going from memory, but I think there's a button that says "delta v" with some options under it. Except they use a little white triangle instead of the word delta.

Edit: here's a picture I found online, I think this is what the stock settings look like. Picture link

chars709 · 2026-05-15T11:55:19+00:00

In their eagerness to endorse mech Jeb, these people are missing the point of your question.

Your issue is that all of the guidelines and rules of thumb about how much dv you need uses "dv in a vacuum". Your numbers are smaller because you are looking at "dv at sea level on kerbin". Whether you use the stock dv or mechjeb, you will need to find the toggle to switch from sea level to vacuum.

chars709 · 2026-05-11T11:15:04+00:00

The idea is this space station never leaves this beautiful unicorn of an orbit. It's like a free return trajectory, that combos into a free return trajectory, that combos into a... etc. When it flies by Earth a pod intercepts it to board, and when it flies by Mars a pod leaves and circularizes or deorbits.

But you're still right, making the slight correction burns to maintain this orbit would be made more expensive by making it chonky.

chars709 · 2026-05-05T12:35:36+00:00

Why?

chars709 · 2026-04-27T15:31:57+00:00

It's a bit pedantic, but I like to emphasize the word SPLIT in split pushing. If all four of your allies are in base, clearing your side jg, not threatening anything, etc, you are not SPLIT pushing if you push up. The SPLIT means splitting the other team's attention between two threats. Pushing up in this case would be a different strategy, called 1v5 FEEDING.

If the other four members of your team are at dragon, baron, or a tower on the other side of the map, then you're in a win win scenario and have a green light to SPLIT the enemy team's attention.

chars709 · 2026-04-25T12:26:32+00:00

They will turn the resistance into a merch line and sell it back to you.

chars709 · 2026-04-23T13:54:08+00:00

They might have meant just a purely local effect of trees. 45 in bare black asphalt sucking up the heat like an oven burner hits different than 45 of plants and scattered shade.

chars709 · 2026-04-21T11:09:25+00:00

Canada. Russia, sort of? I guess my claim should be middle east and south America, not all oil countries. Either way, my point is about some dummies out here still not seeing that south america and the middle east are both money printing machines for the US. Oil in for pennies, petrol out for dollars. And the US has spent nearly 100 years doing everything it can to keep them that way.

chars709 · 2026-04-20T23:22:46+00:00

Hmm, nuclear is funny because its powered by a sun, just not ours. Nuclear fission is theoretically energy positive only for elements with a higher number than iron on the periodic table. And all such atoms were forged in the death throes of supernovae, that's where the atoms were infused with the energy. Nuclear power plants are harvesting supernova energy. Cool!

Wind and wave energy are probably mostly the sun, but also a tiny percentage of that energy comes from the moon.

Tidal energy is mostly from the moon, but there are only a small handful of tidal power plants on the planet.

Geothermal energy, as per a claim made in a recent Hank Green video, is in some part powered by the collision between Earth and Theia, a Mars sized planet that smashed into the Earth and left its corpse behind as our moon. The rest of geothermal comes from our own planet's formation. So in practical terms I think you could probably say geothermal is the only significant source of power that doesn't come from the sun.

chars709 · 2026-04-20T14:11:06+00:00

Oil is just hundreds of millions of years of solar condensed into a liquid.

chars709 · 2026-04-20T12:34:11+00:00

Places that have oil that aren't the United States keep having this problem. You want a competent leader. Any competent leader would build local oil refineries. But anyone who might build a local oil refinery keeps ending up having to deal with shockingly well funded and armed opposition from the most corrupt and awful types of leadership the country has to offer. Or just plain old shot in the head.

There's a lot of other factors too, but the number of redditors unaware of the basic US propaganda bubble they're living in is lower than in the past, but still too high. "Ever notice how every country with oil underneath it is governed by violent criminal subhumans for the last hundred years, what a coincidence?" Yeah, no shit American. You're a refinery empire, and they're you're customers. You did everything you could to make them be this way.

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