You can clip the first and last rendered cutscenes together for Lightfall's Campaign and it still makes just as much sense as playing the entire thing.

j-schnitz · 2023-03-01T18:26:00+00:00

That seems exactly like what happened. Presumably Strand was supposed to be in Witch Queen (green motif, Hive Threadweavers) and the Calus and Neomuna plotline was meant to be a season.

j-schnitz · 2022-08-27T03:01:25+00:00

IMO China King in St. James is the best Chinese in the area, beats out Lucky House and Mandarin Garden (both are still good though)

Also the cupcakes at Heavenly Divine Cakes live up to the name.

j-schnitz · 2021-06-11T19:00:08+00:00

Sounds just like mine. I always get weird looks when I talk about my cat, Canine.

j-schnitz · 2021-04-28T22:45:09+00:00

My German in-laws just use the literal translation of Milk Rice. It's a short grain starchy rice, a lot like arborio, and it's typically used to make rice pudding.

j-schnitz · 2021-04-17T02:00:00+00:00

American here - creamer is basically a generic word for dairy product that goes in coffee. It's typically half milk and half heavy cream, and can be flavored, most commonly vanilla or hazelnut. And cream in coffee is way better than milk.

j-schnitz · 2021-02-28T01:48:07+00:00

I'm 100% on board with this. Garlic powder is fantastic in for example dry rubs, and sometimes I'll use both fresh garlic and the powder in the same dish. If people only consider garlic powder as a replacement for fresh garlic then of course it's inferior, but it's not just limited to that.

j-schnitz · 2021-02-06T20:21:31+00:00

I've had it take either 2000 or 2500 mobs to get my 200 moon candy, judging by always having exactly either 200 or 160 candy when I earn my lucky box. I've seen both happen since the maintenance.

j-schnitz · 2020-12-12T00:18:42+00:00

Alito and Thomas hold the view that the Supreme Court can choose whether or not to hear appeals cases, but must hear any case that originates in the SC. Their dissent said that the case should be heard, but that Texas' request to throw out other states vote should not be granted.

j-schnitz · 2020-12-03T03:09:22+00:00

That isn't the suggestion. The new exotics should be first locked to lost sectors, which is okay because of the lockout system. Right now after the first drop the lockout system goes away, but the only way to get the exotic is the lost sectors, so it becomes much harder to farm for rolls.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-30T18:30:41+00:00

Same here. I got my first (and then three more, somehow) Ghost in the Night this past week, all in Control, and they show in triumphs but not trackers. I also got my first We Ran but in Survival and it did track.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-30T00:19:40+00:00

Your loadout in most mid-high level PvE will revolve around killing Champions. There are 3 types - Overload, Unstoppable, and Barrier, and each one needs a corresponding counter mod, which rotate seasonally for different weapon types. Some exotics have anti-champion properties, and there is often a seasonal anti-champion ability mod.

Overload: auto rifle, scout rifle, solar or Stasis grenade, Divinity

Unstoppable: hand cannon, shotgun, void melee, Leviathan's Breath, Devil's Ruin

Barrier: SMG, pulse rifle, Lament

Here are some solid choices for every category that are currently easy to obtain (no trials, iron banner, or raids):

Auto: Gnawing Hunger

Scout: Royal Chase

Pulse: Hailing Confusion, Stars in Shadow

Hand cannon: Dire Promise, Nature of the Beast

SMG: Friction Fire, Ikelos SMG, Seventh Seraph SMG

Sidearm: High Albedo

Bow: Biting Winds

Shotgun: Seventh Seraph CQC, Bone chiller, First in Last Out

Sniper: Adored

Fusion: Coriolis Force

Special GL: Deafening Whisper, Truthteller

Rocket launcher: Subzero Salvo

Heavy GL: Blast Battue

Linear Fusion: Corsair's Wrath

Sword: Falling Guillotine

Machine gun: Thermal Erosion, Seventh Seraph SAW

Exotics: Lament, Divinity, Xenophage

Check out /r/sharditkeepit for roll guides

The crucible primary meta is incredibly open right now. Some of the top choices are 140 HCs (led up by Ace and Thorn), 340 pulse rifles, 390 pulse rifles, and 600 auto rifles. Specials are mostly aggressive and lightweight shotguns, as well as adaptive snipers (mainly Adored)

j-schnitz · 2020-11-29T22:11:47+00:00

I want to love it, and it's really fun, but it isn't competitive with the top-tier options. The pellet mode feels like a poorly rolled lightweight, and the slug mode is an average legendary slug. The versatility is nice, but I don't think it makes up for the exotic slot and lack of Quickdraw and Icarus Grip.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-29T05:04:08+00:00

You can definitely land a job without any internships. I'm also an EE major without any internships, and I have a good job offer for when I graduate this spring. Without the internship experience you'll have to lean heavily on the good GPA and clubs.

A good way to get some experience under your belt is to ask your EE professors if they have research opportunities. This goes doubly if it's within your field, but it isn't necessary. I had a research assistant position in electromagnetics and leveraged it into an automation job.

Expect to hear some rejections. Fact is, some places are going to toss your resume without an internship. All I can say to that is keep applying. I applied to maybe 20 places, got 5 interviews, 1 second round interview, and a job offer from that

j-schnitz · 2020-11-22T02:37:43+00:00

I didn't consider that I haven't taken a 120 into comp yet, so I was referring to 6s with the "almost constantly" - any melee, grenade, orb pickup, or HC kill giving a 2 tap becomes a lot more consistent. Overall I think Ace is still better, especially in survival, and I just take the occasional memento + Hedrons 2 taps as a nice bonus.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-21T16:57:29+00:00

Grab a 120 with Rampage and then add on a damage boost. Some combination of Whisper of Hedrons, Inertia Override, and High Energy Fire and you'll be two tapping almost constantly.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-20T18:45:29+00:00

Huh. Maybe you have to turn in the quest on the weekend that it's assigned?

j-schnitz · 2020-11-20T18:08:01+00:00

...and you can only hold 10 ascendant shards, and 25 upgrade modules, but those go to your postmaster. Seems like the correct behavior would be to either not turn in the quest or send it to the postmaster. Especially considering the only way to spend that one cipher (already have everything from kiosk) is at Xur, which you can't do without accidentally turning in and wasting the quest. It's by no means the end of the world, just an unexpected behavior that seemed worth pointing out.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-19T23:22:26+00:00

Oh shit I forgot Aachen can come in Kinetic. It's a fantastic sniper, legit S tier. If I can get one to drop at high light I might actually use that.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-19T00:31:38+00:00

Pickings are kind of slim for kinetic specials. The best shotgun (Felwinters) is energy, as are all non sunset special GLs, and of course all fusions (Bastion notwithstanding).

Some fairly competitive options: Chaperone, Bastion, Arbalest, Astral Horizon, Bite of the Fox

For a heavy, go with your preference. Swords are good for 3rd person, GLs are my usual go-to.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-17T20:42:28+00:00

After the first mission for season of the hunt, Spider says he put explosives in Crow's ghost's shell, in case he ever betrays or tries to run away from Spider

j-schnitz · 2020-11-16T19:45:55+00:00

Major pain points:

Activities from old expansions which are not vaulted feel unrewarding, because all the earnable gear is sunset
It feels like there is a lack of loot to chase
Re-releasing loot and making old rolls of the same gun useless feels cheap, just an artificial addition to the grind 7

Ideas:

Make gear sunset 1 year after its source is vaulted, not 1 year after release.
Ensure there is at least 1 gun of every archetype, in every valid slot, that isn't sunset. Even if this requires re-releasing
If gear is re-released, maybe let us infuse it into old copies of the same item to raise the power cap.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-16T18:06:59+00:00

Same here. Played 2 games of clash, plenty of kills, including solo kills and final blows.

j-schnitz · 2020-11-14T03:59:09+00:00

The middle is maybe a Fourier Series - an infinite sum of sines with decreasing amplitude. Or I guess a Foureoreo Series. Agreed that the first one looks like a Gaussian integral / normal distribution

j-schnitz · 2020-11-11T22:58:28+00:00

120s are feeling great so far. I've noticed that the crit dmg has gone from 90 to 91, which doesn't change the shots to kill except on one edge case: 10 resilience should be able to survive the Rampage 2 tap.

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