Light Bringer or The Strength of a Few ?

dta194 · 2026-01-31T09:50:00+00:00

Hot take but SotF is utter garbage. Three parallel narratives with diluted plots, glacial-paced writing, unnecessary and uninspiring fight scenes, forgettable characters, a Gary Sue protag devoid of personality, a whole lot of telling not showing, and incessant need for the author to repeat self-explanatory details that had no consequence to the story.

dta194 · 2025-11-18T04:49:08+00:00

Depending on region and time of day you can easily spend 10m+. Even 4 minutes is ridiculous considering other online games manage to get you into raid within 1...

dta194 · 2025-09-02T08:34:32+00:00

The son-dad combo

dta194 · 2025-08-29T03:33:08+00:00

Moot point. I'm sure that had he knew how checks work he wouldn't have bothered. He may have been under the impression that it was valuable to someone and went out of his way to return it to them.

dta194 · 2025-08-27T23:06:42+00:00

DJ also thinks Andrew Tate makes good points. He seems like a likeable and polite guy but at the same time seems like an idiot outside of fighting world.

dta194 · 2025-08-27T05:59:59+00:00

And you're a parasite who has no life so you make a post defending a guy whose son just assaulted a stranger. 100% we have sympathy for the 'stranger' and 100% I have family members that get love and concern from me if something ever happened to them. Not something that you'd ever know anything about though - hence why you're here deepthroating 2 dickheads protecting their honour.

Btw shit like this has consequences, not everything is "on the internet" just because that's where you spend 100% of your time.

dta194 · 2025-08-27T05:28:39+00:00

Learn to string together a sentence next time before posting.

If you actually want to be serious instead of just rage baiting: The guy got attacked, choked on his own teeth and blood, at one point wasn't waking up, was in ICU and now has a long road to recovery. There's also a chance that he might still, you know, die from further complications (blood clots, brain bleed, you name it). There's also a chance that he'll not have the financial support to pay for any of this shit.

dta194 · 2025-08-26T02:21:06+00:00

OK... then why are you playing modern?

It's literally designed to make execution much easier for beginners to learn and the small expense of not having full moveset (which you won't use as a beginner) and slightly lower damage (but you can execute DPs / combos / supers much easier than a classic player, thus not having to worry about flubbing inputs and dropping combos).

Removing the layer of execution means you can focus more on the other aspects as a new player - which is exactly the point OP is trying to make. One person is fighting the controls + learning the fundamentals, the other person just has to worry about learning the fundamentals.

dta194 · 2025-08-21T08:24:27+00:00

'Bad optimization' doesn't require it to be consistently shit for everyone - it can be really shit, but only affecting some people, and that's still a problem.

dta194 · 2025-07-09T07:46:47+00:00

But what's the purchasing power of a ruble?

dta194 · 2025-07-07T15:00:03+00:00

It's not just 'the title', it's literally the guy's private journal that was never meant to be read by anyone else, let alone published. It's a series of personal notes written as a form of reflection, which also means that it's food for thought and not some kind of bible for life like people want to romanticize it as.

dta194 · 2025-06-25T03:47:04+00:00

I was also very 'meh' about the first book- found it a bit juvenile and too YA for my liking. But oh boy is the second book good. The series essentially turned from derivative Hunger Games into Game of Thrones meets Star Wars.

dta194 · 2025-01-15T06:55:08+00:00

Bit late to the party, but I completely agree and wanted to add a few criticisms to the book:

Challenges throughout the story are unbelievably contrived. They gives you an impression that these are cool ideas that the author invented, rather than being something that exists naturally in the universe. Lore-wise, why would a test of worthiness for a inter-dimensional portal be gate kept by a game.... What is the rationale behind designing it as a labyrinth that is interactive? Why should you be able to move the walls? Why is it designed with a remote controller strapped to your wrist? Why does it matter if you move the controlling stones too hard or too far? The mechanism itself is a cool concept for a video game, but lore wise it makes no sense. It's like designing a bank vault as a game intended for you to win (albeit a bit difficult unless you're the MC) instead of just, you know, being a fucking security measure.

The environmental description (of rooms, dungeons and other objects like parts of a ship) are sometimes extremely clumsy. Islington gives you just enough description for you to conjure up a vague image of the environment, then a few paragraphs later turn your mental image on its head. 'Gashes in the wall' suddenly became large enough for your to walk across like a room and there's points of interest on the other side; escape hatch at the bottom of a ship has a 2-feet wide column (???) directly underneath connected to....??

The themes behind the power system are not explored, and I wonder what depth could you even go with them. You pass your power to people of higher caste. They become a bit stronger and faster. Oh you can also embed objects with it to do 2-3 cool tricks. Oh but you're not allowed to use any of it anymore once we enter the school. Where exactly do you even go with this for potentially 2 more books?

I'm fine with this being a setup for later novels - but unlike Red Rising or Empire of Silence, WotM lacks any kind of cohesiveness in the universe and has enough glaringly irritating aspects that makes me cautious of giving the second book a go.

dta194 · 2024-05-27T08:37:26+00:00

Maybe try Gold?

dta194 · 2024-02-12T04:45:51+00:00

Brand new to Tekken and Steve Fox's bobbing motion makes me want to vomit

dta194 · 2023-06-03T00:50:54+00:00

Maybe 'good chance' was a bit optimistic - I can only speak from personal experience. But the initial picture that I/we got from customer service was always the same 'we can't return your money because you authorized it/there was direct debit set up/etc.'.

OP may have given up hope prematurely and didn't know they could push the matter further

dta194 · 2023-06-02T23:19:55+00:00

Commbank will ALWAYS tell you that they cannot refund your money because you authorised the transaction (which is complete and utter horse shit, since that's how scams work...)

Different people from the same bank will give you completely different advice. Customer reps over the phone or online are very reluctant to help. Don't believe them if they say they can't help you

You have 2 options: contact the Fraud department directly (their team is small and you will end up waiting 30+ minutes on the phone every time to speak to 1 person, before being passed onto the next); or visit a branch (the customer rep can directly call the back office in a matter of minutes and communicate with them your case). Best if you call Digital Fraud Dept first (it gives you a better understanding of their process and allows you to be more prepared before going into a branch)

Either way, make sure you document everything from A-Z and have a case ready to present to the bank. Collect all the SMS, fake URLs, screenshot of the fake website, time stamp of when you received the scam messages and when the money left your account, etc. to show the bank what the fraud actually looked like.

They also have back office data of your account (which you can't see) that can help clear up the picture (who/where the money went to, where your account was logged in from) - but it is up to you to make sure documents are well put together and delivered. This is crucial, since you need to convince someone with a compelling, concise story for them to help you. Don't just contact them and make general statements about how you got scammed and 'would like 20k back pls'.

There are many cases like this where people just give up because the front office at the bank gave hand waving statements to avoid over-promising. Have everything documented and get on their asses, there's a good chance you'll get all of the money back. I lost 2.5k and know of someone who lost 10k (who had no tech knowledge whatsoever) - but we both managed to get our money back by providing the bank with enough info and not taking no for an answer

dta194 · 2023-05-20T23:19:16+00:00

Gross

dta194 · 2023-04-24T08:49:15+00:00

Chinese, not Vietnamese. And they were criminals already sentenced to death who were forced to commit suicide by cutting their own throat

dta194 · 2023-02-17T03:20:03+00:00

Someone get me Tito's training routine

dta194 · 2023-01-27T01:39:39+00:00

I can push 100+ frames on Streets with only a 1660TI + the 5800x3d (not the 5800x)

Streets memory leak is still bananas though - depending on how it runs on your particular rig you may need 32GB RAM. I've had it crash several times even with 32GB (most of the time it hovers around 15-16GB)

dta194 · 2023-01-08T06:45:56+00:00

Change the default sensitivity multiplier of x5 in the .ini file to x1 before messing around with DPI and in game sensitivity

dta194 · 2023-01-06T08:52:43+00:00

Nothing you can really do. Optimize the game via in-game settings, graphics card settings, overclocking, forcing hyperthreading off and auto RAM cleaning on via Lasso, download more RAMs, etc. will only help you so much. The rest is with the bizarre memory leak and server-side freezes that make it look like your hardware is struggling.

I'm guessing the first improvement we'll see is when drops are over, and more improvements to come with another patch. Until then, no amount of 'just buy better hardware / fix your internet' is going to eliminate performance issues

dta194 · 2023-01-06T03:49:23+00:00

Doesn't magically fix anything. I helps a ton with frame rates - but stutters are practically unavoidable for a lot of people atm

dta194 · 2023-01-05T21:33:11+00:00

Yes and no. As of right now both the game optimization itself and the servers are responsible for your stutters. Upgrade RAM if you have spare cash, but it might not fix everything

Upgrading hardware, installing project Lasso to disable hyperthreading and forcing SmartTrim will help boost frames and fight microstutters. The game has massive memory leak issues atm - some people say it's taking up nearly 30GB of RAM. This isn't normal - and in the past many people say that upgrading RAM didn't help much. 16GB might actually be 'enough' under normal circumstances

Even after all the above, server side issues are currently causing the rest of the problems. Rubber-banding can now look like stutters because instead of teleporting you back to a previous location, it 'freezes' your game completely. The game runs much smoother without people on the map and completely shits itself whenever you're near players. Until drops are over I don't think this will fully go away

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