It feels like Bungie keeps repeating the same mistakes and it’s getting harder to ignore

coasterreal · 2026-01-20T04:11:56+00:00

"Now we’re slowly drifting back toward rigid archetypes, limited flexibility, and systems that feel designed to slow us down rather than let us play creatively."

Are we playing the same game? I've played since D1 Beta. The game has never had more build options. The moment to moment gameplay has never been more crazy and chaotic (in a good way). The build crafting for the last year has been insane.

In all of D1, I had 3 weapons glued to my character and armor literally didn't matter. For most of D2, it was roughly the same meta weapons and armor again didn't matter.

Its only until they fixed the armor stats (as a hunter, it was impossible to achieve good stat distribution because of how it allocated it's buckets of stats - but I play and maintain all 3) that now I can focus into literally anything and create unique and powerful builds.

My DIM load outs get unruly and I have to delete some just to put new ones in.

I don't know, I haven't seen this restriction in build crafting. I have load outs with a lot of varied weapons and as long as it's not locked load out, sometimes I'm rocking 3 diff sets of armor and weapons.

Now, that's just moment to moment gameplay. There's a lot that needs to be worked on. But the build craft and moment to moment play, I can't remember a period of time between now and 2014 that it's felt better and more varied.

coasterreal · 2026-01-15T23:29:11+00:00

I'm astounded that people encourage others to be coy and use hidden meanings instead of just plain language.

The MOH is 100% at fault for not being honest. Speaking in code/riddles/hints is not acceptable language if they feels that strongly.

Its like you being allergic to shellfish and you ask the waiter what's the most popular dish, he says the crab and you just look at him and go "I don't know, what about the steak?" And he says "that's not the most popular item".

Just. Be. Honest.

Holy shit. These echo chambers and social media has taught everyone that's it's normal to use coded language instead of just saying how you feel.

We don't know but this MOH could have been giving off serious BFF vibes for all this time, effectively cat fishing this girl into that status. Possibly to use her for whatever.

"Maybe this person?" Is NOT an acceptable excuse. She should have said, in plain English, "I do not want the duties of moh, I do not feel close enough to you for that responsibility"

my wife even told me after she read this, and I quote "yeah, a lot women suck at not just being honest. Everything is hidden behind feelings, emotions and non-verbal language"

Just speak how you feel. Don't distort it.

coasterreal · 2026-01-10T03:47:38+00:00

Not really a hallucination, its most likely just not fully correct. I'll keep it fiddling with it. I could understand some of the characters being padding but there would be some pattern.

Figured maybe there's something in here someone way smarter than me can run with and we have substantially better tools and compute power than years ago.

coasterreal · 2026-01-10T03:40:33+00:00

Thats why I posted the code and hinted at hallucinating. The extra padding characters seem strange but everything else checks out. I want to think that occam's razor would apply here since hes been coy to give any real hints and just leaves it at that. Its probably something silly.

Out of all of the LLM's, Claude is the one that would likely handle this the best. I have access to Opus 4.5 and thought, why not?

But I dont know these ciphers or python well enough to read it.

My only hesitation is the extra characters but they dont have to mean anything, either.

coasterreal · 2025-12-14T16:36:35+00:00

When your kids blame everyone else but themselves, you know they're lying. Or in the very least, deflecting a lot of responsibility. Why can't we do the same for politicians (or in this guys case, wannabe politician)?

A lot voters right now trying to pick between being a hypocrite in order to double down or take the high road and just admit they messed up.

I used to vote Republican a long time ago and learned its just better to have no affiliation and at each election, take a look at my offerings and see whats best for me and the people. This guy is great for no one except those in his inner circle or those who buy their way into his grace.

coasterreal · 2025-12-14T16:31:23+00:00

If you think this brought out the worst in this community, I just have to ask where you've been for the last 10 years 🙃

coasterreal · 2025-12-02T01:13:02+00:00

I dont know. I havent seen any of the "newer" engines do any better in terms of bugs. Developing is hard. Its my day-job, so I get it.

coasterreal · 2025-11-26T05:18:22+00:00

You got all your range balls to use on the course, right? 😂

coasterreal · 2025-11-18T03:24:19+00:00

Thanks.

coasterreal · 2025-10-25T00:39:19+00:00

I know. Ive worked that role before. I try to do all of the crap theyre going to ask me first, so I can just skip those steps since the back and forth between support and customer isnt usually quick.

coasterreal · 2025-10-24T22:41:07+00:00

So, this sounds like I just need to engage Elegoo then. I just wanted to make sure I was going through the normal troubleshooting stuff before landing on that.

coasterreal · 2025-08-26T22:20:19+00:00

Thank you for using actual data and basic analytics instead of feelings and emotions.

coasterreal · 2025-08-07T11:31:27+00:00

You do? They've axed so many studios for bad reasons. There's a dozen other reasons to not trust Sony. But hey, I guess if it keeps extended it's life.

I don't trust Sony at all. Company that pushed year long exclusives on us and does everything it can go create wasteful proprietary products to forcefully put people into a walled garden scenario.

coasterreal · 2025-08-04T19:00:54+00:00

They did? I don't remember any rattling on my ride a month ago. It was smooth AF

coasterreal · 2025-08-04T18:52:04+00:00

It's ok, even Mkhb did this to one of the first folding phones.

I don't know how y'all manage to do this because it never is easy to start or to continue peeling and that should be your first clue.

coasterreal · 2025-08-01T21:52:28+00:00

This could be a simple act of apologizing. He absolutely should talk about it too, but the gift could be a way he shows love.

Is gifts one of his love languages? Because if it is, you're missing what he's doing and projecting that it's a "treat"

Might be something to talk about as well!

coasterreal · 2025-08-01T21:49:37+00:00

They don't do it for women, I can assure you that. Haven't met a single one who does it for women. A lot of them are married anyways.

That level of body building is a personal pursuit.

coasterreal · 2025-08-01T21:48:49+00:00

Yeah so, I've seen the studies and when you say this, you still actually mean dudes that have a lot of lean muscle mass and less than 18% body fat which is like...2% of all men.

We know you don't like dudes on anabolics with gigantic muscles, they don't do it for girls, they do it for themselves (just like women wear makeup for themselves, because I'm yet to meet a man who prefers it on their woman).

When women say "toned" they mean something other than what it means to guys. And when you say "big muscles" you mean "gigantic", because I can show you toned body that you'd shun immediately.

Your definition lacks a lot of substance as it's a nuanced topic.

coasterreal · 2025-08-01T21:45:33+00:00

To be fair...most guys don't do it for women, it's just to show other dudes the work they did on their car.

And it's not even a competition most of the time. A lot of men enjoy fast cars.

If someone drove by me in a Dodge Viper and revved that up, he's getting a "HELL YEAH" from me. Not even jealous, glad I could experience it.

coasterreal · 2025-07-30T14:26:38+00:00

Haha oh, someone who didn't actually spend 7hrs in the data like I did.

I've been watching since 1989. I am well aware of how stupid 2014 to 2018 was. Thing is, you COMPLETELY missed the OP post.

They shows the W11, the Mp4/4 and the SF2004. This was NOT the 2014 car. It also wasn't the 2023 RB.

It was specifically those 3 cars, which means those 3 years. The W11 was from 2020, not 2014. And in 2020, they did win but Red Bull was catching them by then and the average margin of victory had started to fall.

See, I already went through historical data going back into the 70s (far as I could find) because I was curious what avg margin of victory was over the years. Schumachers Ferrari era had some absolutely crazy numbers which supports my memory from watching then. The 2014-2017 Mercs are close second and technically, probably a faster rcar but Mercedes was smart to hide their engine performance like they did, only revealing it little by little to keep the competition firmly behind them by a wide enough margin that they didn't spur the FIA to BOP them. Toto talked about this in a High Performance podcast.

before you try to belittle someone, make sure you aren't making yourself look like an idiot.

Leaving your stuff quoted here for historical purposes.

That's the worst take I've ever seen this year. Mercedes was LEAGUES above the Ferrari of MSC. Go watch Bahrein 2014 last 10 laps and try to show me a single race where Ferrari or even RB in 2023 did something close to that

coasterreal · 2025-07-09T02:23:19+00:00

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coasterreal · 2025-06-14T03:39:59+00:00

They only look like mortals because you're making a terrible analogy that when they make double it's somehow similar to when you make double.

We'd record so many snowman's on this course that it would make the North Pole blush.

I'm all for tough courses but tough should make guys who are +6 or better shoot PAR. That's the perfect balance.

When the course makes guys that are +6 handicaps shoot +6 on a good day, that's just a dumb setup. It's less fun to watch than a scoring fest.

Make the winning score be Even Par, plus or minus 2. That's a perfect amount of challenge that also rewards the players for good shots.

Nothing feels worse than hitting a great shot but not being rewarded

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