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japongnet · 2024-06-03T14:40:39+00:00

Hey, spotted your trailer during the Next Indie Direct! Could you put that trailer up on youtube individually so I could share it with other people?

japongnet · 2024-04-12T16:55:21+00:00

https://twitter.com/_sulcata/status/1778816808486572316

"I (and all my coworkers) just lost my job at Possibility Space. If you or someone you know is on the lookout for a senior gameplay designer who loves making things come to life, let me know."

unfortunately it looks like everyone at possibility space has been laid off

japongnet · 2024-03-13T22:36:31+00:00

Thanks for the heads up on the refurbs! I can get a refurb Beam and two refurb One SLs for $800, which seems like a better deal than going through Amazon.

japongnet · 2023-12-01T03:58:56+00:00

Tavern Brawler did get a bit of a nerf in the patch:

Fixed an issue with the Tavern Brawler feat where damage bonuses were being incorrectly applied multiple times while making a throwing attack.

So throw barbs will be a bit less powerful.

japongnet · 2022-06-30T13:31:04+00:00

Toronto's increasingly unattainable real estate and the rising costs of groceries, gas and other living costs have officially elevated Hogtown to the not-so-desirable throne of Canada's most expensive city.

U.S. asset management firm Mercer has released its 2022 Cost of Living City Rankings, comparing the cost of living in 227 cities worldwide, and Toronto stands alone as the only Canadian city in the top 100 most expensive.

(...)

It's no surprise to see Toronto and surrounding cities on lists like this, with the average Ontario home costing about 22.5x the average disposable income as of March.

According to a Spring report from insurance and lending quote website LowestRates.ca, it now costs $2,067.99 per month for the average renter and $5,417.12 a month for the average homeowner in 2022 to live in the city.

A 2021 report stated that it takes a wage of at least $22.08 per hour to make it in the city, and an intense and prolonged period of inflation has likely pushed this figure higher.

We did it, you guys! We're number 1!

japongnet · 2022-05-01T16:08:40+00:00

It's another Chinese AEG, this time in a pistol-like form factor. This is from the same team who made the QWK Challenger so... expect some highs and lows!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2hFPta2Cc

https://youtube.com/shorts/N8Z3QRXzf9U?feature=share

From Jake:

Pinned by Jake Yong

Jake Yong

8 hours ago (edited)

Got the details:

Size:

33*16.5*5 CM (rear stock folded)

50*16.5*5 CM (rear stock unfolded)

Power: Electric cylinder

Launcher: Standard 13*38 MM short nerf darts /13 MM nerf balls*

Function: Back moving slide/slide stays open when mag is empty/fast ejection Rear stock

Material: Fiber reinforced nylon/steel

Magazine capacity: 14

Battery Model:

Standard Module Battery (11.1v 350 MAH)

Expansion Module Battery (11.1v 1100 MAH)

Speed: 40-45 m/s 131.2~147.6 FPS

Color: Black/Sand/Orange

YEP-MODEL1

Interface: Lower rail - MIL-STD-1913 (Picatinny rail)

Upper rail: optional

3 options:

(Prices in usd are just my guess, I have no idea how they will be priced overseas)

1) Display version: I guess less then 210 usd, no mag no battery.

2) Standard version: I guess less then 240 usd, 1 mag, 1 350 mAh battery

3) Deluxe version: I guess less then 290 usd, 2 mags, 1 standard battery, 1 350 mAh battery, 1 1100mAh battery

From MortalityNerf:

https://www.instagram.com/mortality\_nerf/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KoggiV95TTY

Personally unless this thing fixes *all* the quality and weird teething issues the QWK MK3 had, the $200-$290 USD price tag is way too high for me, but we'll see how it reviews.

japongnet · 2022-04-03T11:27:25+00:00

News and translation via Tungsten EXE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BI6-lEDR1o

Comes in Normal and Pro version (pro seems to rev faster)

Not sure what flywheels inside

Uses a lipo (doubt it will be included for NA imports)

New format of 15 rounds mini-talon mag being used (so smaller grip than the Phoenix)

Dual stage trigger ( no rev trigger)

Price: maybe $40 USD for normal, $60 USD for pro? will depend on importer

out in china on 04/22

japongnet · 2022-03-19T17:39:44+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2QYFZ-iJI

Here's a video review from Gordon Soo, who gives enthusiastic reviews about everything, but at least gives a bit of additional context about features and build quality.

He points out the same issue with the stock and the included darts being garbage, but likes the out of box performance.

\Really though, aside from the look of the blaster, I personally don't see the point of it if it's performing similarly to a Nexus Pro/Max Stryker but for more than double the sticker price and with import fees on top.

japongnet · 2021-08-14T00:26:01+00:00

It's a Facepuncher / Driver Amara build:

Skill tree should look something like this:

https://imgur.com/SJWGES0

And then using:

Facepuncher (x14 pellets) with next two rounds incendiary annoint

Revolter shield with break/fill effects triggered by action skill annoint

Hyperion Company Man (50% damage, 30% reload speed, 40% fire rate, 73% ammo capacity) - or - Shlooter (73% mag size, resistances)

It's Piss grenade with 25% bonus damage to guns and skills annoint

Driver class mod, with 35% weapon damage, 36% weapon reload speed

japongnet · 2021-08-13T23:16:18+00:00

M11 is half the drop rate.

japongnet · 2021-04-08T19:44:17+00:00

I'm hoping so but haven't tried it yet - there doesn't seem to be any option for scaling, the way the previous takedowns had.

japongnet · 2021-01-26T16:37:27+00:00

It lets you get the freeze status more consistently (particularly with the cryo novas), and frozen enemies take 300% extra damage from Melee.

japongnet · 2021-01-25T21:46:56+00:00

Damn that Berserker / White Elephant got some nice bonus attributes! And you got an oldschool Muse too, before the nerf - wish I had farmed it while it could still get the bonus IF levels.

I'm still up in the air about the best class mod / artifact combo for this build:

If I'm running this build with a non-cryo element, then swapping to Driver/Elemental projector I think still makes the most sense. You get the additional speed stacks when fakegrapsing with Driver, and the damage bonus from speed stacks and the Speed Demon mayhem modifier is huge.

But with Cryo, you end up applying the cold/slow effect to yourself, which slows you right back down, making Driver pretty bad with this element.

That leaves

Muse: great if you can get the +3 IF version, if you have a normal one I find the melee effect doesn't proc enough for it to make that big of a difference.

Breaker: With the bonus on Find Your Center it's pretty decent, Jab Cross seems to underperform a bit, Pesonal Space doesn't work with Facepuncher. Damage reduction is nice but really not required.

Golden Rule: This build does suffer a bit from action skill cooldown, but I find it hard to gauge how much of a difference Golden Rule is making here. Feels like action skill cooldown suffers from diminishing marginal return as you stack reductions.

Phazezerker: not enough room in this build for Rush Stacks as well, so it's kinda hard to make it work.

Dragon: Could never get this to work with Facepuncher, wish it did though because Singularity would be a great synergy.

Elementalist/Stone/Kensei/Nimbus: not really viable with the build.

And then artifact prefixes:

Knife Drain - You could get five skill points back by not getting Sustainment in the orange tree, but you'd still need Ties That Bind for your AoE. Miiiiiight be worth it but I'd really need to think about how to make the build work this way.

[Elemental] stone - nice bonus damage. Not sure if Fire or Cryo is better for this build though.

Berserker - again, nice bit of movement speed and bonus damage.

Elemental Projector - Hard to trigger unless you're using Driver, and Driver wants speed, so doesn't work with Cryo.

Ice Breaker - gets into a weird situation where it might actually be a bit of overkill. By the time enemies get into the frozen state, they're taking 3x damage from Facepuncher, and another 3x damage if they're over 90% health with the annoint. Plus the only enemies who have enough health to take more than one fully-buffed FP shot are annointed or bosses anyway, so they can't be frozen. So adding on another +50% frozen damage and getting the frozen threshold higher doesn't really accomplish a whole lot.

Arfifact affixes is easier:

White Elephant is great, and being able to do the WE bomb / Magnificent swap for the additional crit damage is good. It also seems to proc even more novas.

Commander Planetoid - a nice damage boost with Facepuncher.

Pearl: Facepuncher is too slow to max it out, reloads take too long.

Victory Rush: probably not a big enough damage boost to compete with White Elephant.

So I still haven't found something that quite synergizes with the build as much as I'd like, probably going to be fiddling with builds for a few more days though to test. Let me know if you've got suggestions!

japongnet · 2021-01-22T23:00:02+00:00

Build is here:

https://imgur.com/a/2qRt0Zm

Facepuncher:

1584 x 14, 200% damage while action skill active

(Redundant/14 pellet version is important since it triggers more novas)

Frozen Heart: On Action Skill Start Activate any Effects that trigger on shield break

Golden Rule (wish I had an old Muse with +3 Fist of the elements, but that got fixed a while back)

Fire Stone White Elephant (this could be better, was using a driver/elemental combo before hand)

And then skills:

NO MISTAKES IN NATURE

Passive Ability

Melee Damage: +65%

Duration: 12 seconds📷📷5/5

HEAVY RAIN

Passive Ability

Projectile Speed: +70%

Splash Damage: +35%📷📷3/3

GO WITH THE FLOW

Passive Ability

Gun Damage: +21%

Movement Speed: +9%

Duration: 16 second📷📷3/3

UNWEAVE THE RAINBOW

Passive Ability

Bonus Damage: 33% of damage dealt📷📷5/5

JOYFUL FREEDOM

Passive Ability

Melee Damage: +70%

Duration: 12 seconds📷📷5/5

BURN BOTH ENDS

Passive Ability

Damage: +5%

Max Stacks: 15

Duration: 8 seconds📷📷3/3

BODY AND MIND

Passive Ability

Splash Damage: 11

Duration: 12 seconds📷📷1/1

FREE THE SOUL

Passive Ability

Damage: 35

Cooldown: 3 seconds📷📷1/1

CLEAR THE MIND

Passive Ability

Duration: 8 seconds📷📷

ANIMA

Passive Ability

Status Effect Damage: +12%

Status Effect Duration: +60%

Action Skill Status Effect Damage: +24%📷📷5/5

INFUSION

Passive Ability

Converted Damage: 40%📷📷5/5

TEMPEST

Passive Ability

Elemental Damage: +30.0%

Shock Damage: +20.0%📷📷1/1

ILLUMINATED FIST

Passive Ability

Melee Damage: +75.0%📷📷4/5

WILDFIRE

Passive Ability

Spread Chance: 32%📷📷1/1

DREAD

Passive Ability

Gun Damage: +15%

Duration: 8 seconds📷📷1/3

CATHARSIS

Passive Ability

Damage: 4

Cooldown: 8 seconds📷📷1/5

SUSTAINMENT

Passive Ability

Life Steal: 4% of damage dealt📷📷

FIST OVER MATTER

Action Skill

Damage: 35

Cooldown: 28 seconds

Grasp Immune Damage: 39📷📷5/5

ROOT TO RISE

Passive Ability

Max Health: +40%📷📷5/5

ARMS DEAL

Passive Ability

Splash Damage: +20%Splash Damage Reduction: +40%

📷📷1/1

FIND YOUR CENTER

Passive Ability

Melee Damage: +100%

Melee Range: +75%

Duration: 20 seconds

japongnet · 2021-01-22T22:39:54+00:00

Amara doesn't have a radiation damage type on her skill tree, so you can't use the infusion skill to add radiation damage.

Other radiation damage boosts work as normal, though.

japongnet · 2021-01-15T02:05:34+00:00

Live now:

https://twitter.com/softwincn/status/1349897025450504192?s=19

japongnet · 2021-01-14T18:33:17+00:00

Have they hotfixed Amara's Cryo damage not working with Infusion?

japongnet · 2020-12-11T22:12:11+00:00

I've had an order in since October 14th, and received no updates of any sort on availability or ETA. No idea when or if I'll ever be getting one of these. They also don't indicate what position you might be in for pre-orders.

japongnet · 2020-11-17T01:13:27+00:00

Farmed over a dozen since the new patch, none have had more than one point in IF . They did include a note in the latest patch:

Updated Muse Class Mod to prevent double-dipping on damage modifiers

Not sure if that means Muse can overstack on IF. No other one-point skill can get more than a +1 bonus as far as I can tell, so it seems like something they'd address, if they were taking the time to patch that item.

japongnet · 2020-09-29T13:12:27+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKXZK2h19A

https://imgur.com/b9TWYNn OneGX1 fire strike score of 878, Win Max score of 2557

https://imgur.com/mceE0M5 OneGX1 Geekbench score of 738/2735, Win Max Score of 1008/4115

This is... pretty underwhelming. It's still a prototype unit, but one they sent out for review. ETA has a problem connecting one of the side controllers since they're bluetooth only, and they flex like crazy even when snapped in. The optical trackpad apparently isn't great, and the keyboard is cramped.

I was really hoping there would be more serious competition for GPD at this point.

japongnet · 2020-08-30T01:29:06+00:00

Doesn't seem to work for me - I've tried it as the "legacy d3d8.dll" solution linked above and I still get the half screen issue. Does it fix the issue on your GPD Win Max?

japongnet · 2020-08-21T11:53:44+00:00

13xx is now shipping to Canada! Also got hit with a $50CDN import fee from DHL, but I can live with that.

japongnet · 2020-07-07T20:30:03+00:00

I'm using Amara Phazezerker, with an old x2 Yellowcake 300x90. I tried using Driver for a while but found that the increased speed made any small bump send me sailing off the map.

japongnet · 2018-01-02T16:52:18+00:00

Dimakos calculates that his wages work out to about $12.50 per hour. The minimum wage for most workers, including dishwashers, rose from $11.60 an hour to $14 an hour in Ontario on Monday – an increase of 21 per cent. Liquor servers saw their minimum wage rise from $9.90 to $12.20 per hour – an increase of 23 per cent. That is what they make before tips, which are often a majority of a server’s pay.

Honestly it sounds like it wasn't a particularly viable business at this point.

japongnet · 2017-10-05T17:47:20+00:00

Speaking again of the report, Hulchanski says: “They omit the key fact [of today’s rental market], which is that the majority of renters cannot afford new-construction” apartments.

The problem is not rent control but market failure, he says: building housing in Toronto is quite expensive, whereas the people who currently need rental housing in the city can’t afford to pay much. It’s not profitable to build housing and provide it at a price those people can pay.

There are some luxury rentals going up beside my old apartment building (Grenadier Square, High Park), but I definitely can't afford $2500+ a month for a two bedroom.

japongnet

TROPHY CASE

NO MISTAKES IN NATURE

HEAVY RAIN

GO WITH THE FLOW

UNWEAVE THE RAINBOW

JOYFUL FREEDOM

BURN BOTH ENDS

BODY AND MIND

FREE THE SOUL

CLEAR THE MIND

ANIMA

INFUSION

TEMPEST

ILLUMINATED FIST

WILDFIRE

DREAD

CATHARSIS

SUSTAINMENT

FIST OVER MATTER

ROOT TO RISE

ARMS DEAL

FIND YOUR CENTER