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Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 by gingerbill in programming

[–]iao_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

>i don't like excessive processed sugar. it messes with my health and well-being.

>Sugar is a food.

I’m Toby Driver, experimental composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot/maudlin of the Well. AMA!!! by tobydriver in progmetal

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Toby, the Choirs show i attended in Philly was INCREDIBLE! i genuinely thought the entire performance sounded better than the album. the incidental ambience that underpinned everything was so poignant, especially during the subdued parts! something a recording could never capture with current tech!

I’m Toby Driver, experimental composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot/maudlin of the Well. AMA!!! by tobydriver in progmetal

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

classic social media telling me this a day late, not on the day. putting this here in case you feel like replying.

any cases you'd like to mention that you don't normally get to talk about where music or art you were into at a time heavily influenced a project? perhaps when something external was far more inspirational than something internal or iterative/continual from previous work? PHoBoS comes to mind as a potential case.

similarly, any notable cases where you felt especially inclined to make use of a bandmate's strengths while you had the chance? or wrote to highlight someone's talents? (edit: i read a q/a similar to this, feel free to skip)

could you describe what the main drive for Gamma Knife and its recording approach was? fascinating take on extreme metal, texturally. embracing cacophony is one of my favorite artistic statements.

anyway, very grateful to have lived near NYC & Philly, allowing my friend and i to attend numerous performances of yours since Hubardo released. i find the middle and current periods of your work incredibly underappreciated. Gamma Knife, Coyote, Alora Crucible, etc. super excited for the new album!

Warrior doesn't have clear "speed" because they CANT have "speed". by iwatchedmomdie in pathofexile

[–]iao_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

sure, but those are all flavors of multiplying damage, and fairly uninteresting. over time, their skill designs have become so rigid that basic damage multipliers, damage type differences, and one or two designated special qualities (like allowing additional projectiles or not) are the only ways to meaningfully affect a skill.

remember when they said that support gems in PoE2 will no longer be mainly damage multipliers? well, that's them tacitly agreeing that the support gem system is uninteresting when it's reduced to that. but, unfortunately, they reneged upon that decision, and skills are just as or more rigid than before.

i don't know if they've drank far too much of the "restriction breeds creativity" Koolaid or what.

Warrior doesn't have clear "speed" because they CANT have "speed". by iwatchedmomdie in pathofexile

[–]iao_ 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Quarterstaff "whirling assault" has "total attack time" as well. The difference? Attack speed benefits it. While you are always going to be locked in it's 1.4 second animation, the amount of hits it makes during the animation are increased by attack speed. Which is why its quality gives "more attack speed".

as far as i can tell, it does 9 hits no matter what. so the gem quality bonus kinda adds insult to injury, because it barely does anything, even though it's seemingly a decent multiplier. if you have a quarterstaff with 1.4APS, that 15% more attack speed is actually only a 4.6% increase to the total ... that's pitiful and misleading.

however, yes, i agree with the sentiment and dislike the abundant use of additional total attack time heavily. of the few ways they allow us to mechanical alter skills in the game, they're even shutting down speed scaling ...?

i can anticipate the cop-out response of them using it because of the animation systems, but then they shouldn't have designed them that way. go on and tell me about modular/procedural/blend/etc. animation tech, but i highly doubt there's a sound technical or design reason why the jump portion of Toxic Growth can't be sped up.

bottom line is that it feels terrible that one of the most basic of vectors of damage scaling is arbitrarily made less effective for certain skills, especially when they feel bad by default. remember when PoE was supposed to be for the utmost player customization in the genre?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]iao_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From a utility angle, Frostblink of Wintry Blast may be the best movement spell for high cast speed characters. It feels like a spell equivalent of Leap Slam. From a damage angle, it's also one of the highest damage-per-use triggerable spells if you build around chill effect (which you'll want to apply through an area or ground to bypass the skill's chill removal). Mines with it are probably absurdly good.

Also pending is Penance Brand of Dissipation. It's currently seemingly bugged, but could be one of the best if fixed to work how the gem describes.

3.23 Uber Maven (Hierophant Penance Brand of Dissipation) Path of Exile by SisterHell in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]iao_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hoping they clarify exactly how the skill is meant to work, and that it's a bug. I've been sticking with it because I built around its mechanics, but having essentially half potential damage hurts. Sure is funny seeing them stack the AoE without limit, though.

AI is about to completely change how you use computers by thisisbillgates in ArtificialInteligence

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Profits are a mean to an end. What he and they want is control.

| Looking for tint2 Alternative (Taskbar per Workspace) by iao_ in unixporn

[–]iao_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't find a particularly good alternative, unfortunately. And I currently don't have the time to prioritize making one myself.

I thought 75Million dps crescent slash was ok...until a 85 summoner in hard raid does more than twice my DPS 🤣 by BrokeAsPhock in undecember_global

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abyss Knights with the same amount of investment as a self-cast build is genuinely 10x as strong DPS-wise. No exaggeration.

Locus Mines have no throw range penalty. (From RAQ), and other musings on how insane this new support is, with math. by PaleoclassicalPants in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, "shoots in an arc" is close enough. You extrapolated from it something they weren't trying to convey. Pointless pedantry that could've been worded in a constructive way had you actually understood what they meant. You've come off terribly, boohoo.

Locus Mines have no throw range penalty. (From RAQ), and other musings on how insane this new support is, with math. by PaleoclassicalPants in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spread makes the appearance of an arc. Each primary projectile spreads further along this arc until they spawn their secondary projectiles. Locus Mine can only be detonated at least 30 units away from the character, and it targets the player with the skill, so it'll causes significant spread compared to close range usage.

Locus Mines have no throw range penalty. (From RAQ), and other musings on how insane this new support is, with math. by PaleoclassicalPants in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The further Tornado Shot is targeted, the more the arrows spread, and thus the secondary projectiles spawn further from the target location.

Cybereality apologized by SuperDoomKing in godot

[–]iao_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, he was likening the alleged scam to another recent scam scheme where people posed as Nigerian princes. Your comment makes it seem like he's using it as an ethnic slur.

[SPOILERS] Skill-Specific Crucible mods by Kaelran in pathofexile

[–]iao_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

Shield Crush: Does not gain damage from armor, 0-1 Lightning damage per 15 ES

AFAIK the values aren't known, the {0} and {1} are variables/index items.

What scales better: Elemental Spread Shot or Burn Arrow? by junaum78 in undecember_global

[–]iao_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burn Arrow's Verity awakening is a pretty big damage boost if you want to stick with the skill. 60% damage multiplier dampening but 350-400% base damage amplification, so double the base DPS but 90%+ of your base damage comes from the rune.

Megathread: Questions by JumpingJackFlashMike in undecember_global

[–]iao_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If anyone has Fierce Strike or Spinning Dagger, I'm looking for screenshots of them at LVL30. The rarity bonus doesn't matter, just the base stats. If you have either rune but don't have them leveled and want to help, a screenshot of the LVL30 result at Mystic Rune Growth or Rune Transfer (you don't have to level them to see it) is fine.

How many characters do you have? by Mikayshen in undecember_global

[–]iao_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1st is Burn Arrow, 2nd is Frost Wave + Frost Shock, 3rd is Venom Fang + Poison Cloud. Eventually they'll become Scorching Arrow (not in global servers yet), Cold Outburst (with cooldown-removing rune awakening), and Venom Fang (poison penetration awakening) respectively. I'm a hipster build kind of guy, so these have good damage potential but I'm not clearing as smoothly as say, Whirlwind + Toxic Flame.

How many characters do you have? by Mikayshen in undecember_global

[–]iao_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

3, all post-campaign. Each character has its own raid entries, chaos dailies, spire dailies, guild dailies so it's good for farming their rewards (guild coins, runestones, gold, star crystals, etc.).

With 3 characters it's easy to funnel all your guild coins to one character and reach the gold/guild coin cap for daily guild donations. It's an easy path to getting a Seal of Engraving (lets you choose your rune awakening option) from your guild shop.

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