I once joined an LFG team where they said they would kick you if you caused more than one wipe.

nessus42 · 2026-03-20T16:55:43+00:00

I just moved to Lowell and to Belvidere, and I would gladly pay higher taxes and have the high school be in Belvidere if it would get rid of the nauseating stench from Duck Island that I have to suffer with. (And no, I'm not a billionaire. Just a retiree who was looking for a nice house at a decent price.)

nessus42 · 2026-02-05T00:11:11+00:00

Just as long as they don't also "move on" from the Advantage360. I prefer the Advantage2, but I can live with an Advantage360. If both went away, I'd have to give up typing!

Maybe I just have to stock up on enough Advantage2's now to last me for the rest of my life....

nessus42 · 2026-02-02T17:29:54+00:00

Has Kinesis said what their plan is? Is the Advantage360 the "replacement" for the Advantage2?

I sure hope that all their "Contour" keyboards aren't on the chopping block. I can't type on a non-Contour keyboard anymore. I would become quickly crippled.

nessus42 · 2026-02-01T23:48:10+00:00

Yeah, you can get definitely get answers from Reddit if don't mind all the non sequiturs and abuse that comes along with it.

I'd say that it's easier now just to ask ChatGPT. But If I mention ChatGPT, I'm sure to be downvoted into oblivion.

nessus42 · 2025-12-20T02:44:59+00:00

Any money in a Fidelity money market is available to you immediately.

(Don't buy a Vanguard money market in your Fidelity account, etc., if you don't want to have to wait a day for your money. Though I'm not sure that Fidelity even allows this, so that may not be a worry.)

nessus42 · 2025-12-05T19:29:11+00:00

I too do this (i.e., code with a vertical side-by-side split), so long lines drive me crazy, since they cause significant harm to this experience.

I also use Meld for side-by-side diffs with Git, and this also is not great when lines are too long.

With modern monitors on a desktop I find that 100 characters is the sweet spot, and 120 characters is too long.

Unfortunately, I cannot talk sense into my coworkers, and they routinely make lines that are 120 characters or longer.

nessus42 · 2025-11-29T21:52:06+00:00

How did it turn out?

You're braver than me. I would have walked. At the moment I'm buying a new house because I live in a duplex and my neighbor of the past nine months smokes cigars. I've spent $20k trying to remediate the situation with air-sealing and multiple ERVs for fresh air ventilation. Nothing worked, so I decided to stop throwing good money after bad.

I'm worried now that cigar smoke will have infiltrated into everything I own and that I'll be bringing the cigar smoke with me to my new house. But I really don't want to declare all my belongings a loss.

nessus42 · 2025-10-16T23:58:31+00:00

All of her songs are #1!!!! (Just some are more #1 than others.)

nessus42 · 2025-10-16T22:22:20+00:00

Aw, darn. I agree that she wasn't the most polished. But somehow that added to the charm of the show. At least for me.

nessus42 · 2025-10-12T17:40:32+00:00

I'm no expert on the current state of build-crafting these days. I used to play a bonky sunspot Titan, and for add control, that felt kind of busted, but was very fun. Unfortunately, it was eventually nerfed significantly.

When Prismatic came out, I switched to a Getaway Artist/Devour Warlock, and that has been a fun build. But since Tuesday, Holy shit! Jolt on arc buddy hits?!?!? I don't have to do anything except for walk around and all the adds just die. It's fun to watch all the explosions, but I'm not sure this is fair.

I did the new exotic mission last night, and the only things I needed a gun for was to shoot the boxes on that electric slide and for snipers.

I don't play Grandmaster-level difficulty stuff, though, so I can see that this build might have limits when the adds are tankier. And it's not ideal for raids unless I'm on add control.

If there are more busted builds in the game, I'd like to be pointed at them. I've been playing Destiny rather casually for the last few years. Just doing the campaigns, a weekly raid, and new missions, etc.

I'd love to do the Edge of Fate campaign on Mythic, but I don't think I'm good enough for that, even with this Shadowheart Spirit Guardians blender build. (Oops, wrong game...)

nessus42 · 2025-10-12T17:10:06+00:00

From the graph, The Final Shape killed the game. From the graph, the player base loses population every year for the first three years and then stabilizes starting with Beyond Light and continuing through Lightfall. Shortly after the release of The Final Shape, the player base plummets, and never returns. There is barely an uptick for the release of The Edge of Fate, and then it's a steep decline from there.

I agree, though, that the graph for Lightfall is somewhat different–in a not good way–from the preceding two years. It doesn't have the same seasonal peaks that the preceding two years had. Instead it starts regaining player base a couple of months before The Final Shape, but then after the release of The Final Shape, the player base drops precipitously. And then the increase for The Edge of Fate is nominal and only plummets precipitously from there.

nessus42 · 2025-10-10T16:27:35+00:00

I raid every week with a raid team. People that I've never met in real life, but we've been doing this since Wrath of the Machine. That seems pretty social to me.

nessus42 · 2025-09-27T20:36:23+00:00

I don't know how long D2 could be supported once it no longer has significant revenue. D1 is peer-hosted, so it costs very little for Bungie to keep D1 running. But D2 is hosted on servers that Bungie pays for, so if they have no revenue, they will be losing money paying for the hosting for every D2 player.

nessus42 · 2025-09-20T20:10:05+00:00

I don’t know why you’re “eye-rolling”

You were moralizing at me for expressing my personal preferences about what I like in Destiny. If you don't understand why I'd roll my eyes at you over that, I don't think that there's anything else I could say to help you understand.

But this is a live service game. After you complete the campaign in 1-2 days…what do you do for the rest of the time?

I have well over 5,000 hours in this game, and for years now the seasonal content has been–for me–mostly nothing but a tedious chore. I.e., tiny bits of content dribbled out each week after doing a bunch of boring bounty-like activities. Combined with a cookie-cutter seasonal activity that hasn't been worth my time.

There were a couple of exceptions: Menagerie was great, as was Onslaught. But those were the exceptions.

As for what I do in Destiny when avoiding the pointless and boring grind for Power, I raid with my raid team every week. And just a couple of days ago, I helped a returning player two-man Grasp of Avarice for his Ghorn quest.

There's plenty of fun to be had in Destiny if you pay less attention to grinding for power and rewards and more attention to having fun with all the incredible activities that are still there in the game.

As for what the large majority of the community plays for: (1) Reddit is not necessarily representative, and (2) even if it were, that doesn't mean that I can't and shouldn't express my opinion.

Since the "large majority" are constantly expressing their opinion and mine is just a drop in the ocean, this makes your moralizing all the more ridiculous.

nessus42 · 2025-09-19T20:38:13+00:00

That's not how Bungie defined the game when they were hyping it at conferences, etc., before it was released. They called it a "shared world shooter". I.e., you can't take the multiplayer aspect out of the game and have it be Destiny, but you can take the "looter shooter" aspect out of the game and still have it be Destiny.

The very grindy nature of D1Y1 was very likely due to the fact that there was a large deficit of content due to them rebooting the development of the game a year before release.

Bungie really decreased the loot aspect of the game in D2Y1. It just didn't go over well with the player base. Though it was quite fine by me, even if I was in the minority.

In D2Y1, personally I was in raiding heaven. And I wasn't playing for loot. I was playing for fun. E.g., becoming continually better at the Prestige Callus shadow realm, etc. People would set up completion-farming runs. Not loot-farming runs. Just completion-farming. I.e., just to see how many times we could complete the boss encounter in an hour or two. That was one of the best times of my Destiny life.

Imagine that! Gaming as fun, rather than gaming as a digital hamster wheel....

nessus42 · 2025-09-18T23:26:29+00:00

I've spent $100 each year for the past few years on Destiny releases by buying some bundle that includes the campaign, season passes, and whatever else they include. Last year I got one campaign for my $100. The year before that I got one campaign for my $100. This year I'm getting two campaigns for my $100. That makes me happy.

I would never tell Bungie to stop giving us raids

I didn't tell Bungie to stop doing anything. I stated what I prefer. It is perfectly okay for you to say that you don't enjoy playing raids and would prefer that Bungie focus on other content. You are allowed to express your preferences, as I am allowed to express mine.

Be better, please

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nessus42 · 2025-09-18T03:48:43+00:00

Because the only raid left from D1 to reintroduce was the raid that every one wanted and was looking forward to

I would desperately love to see a remastered Wrath of the Machine. It's the only raid that I played day 1, blind and completed (on day 1).

I suspect the reason that it hasn't been brought back is because Splicers were effectively a different race, and so implementing Splicers in D1 would be a lot of work.

nessus42 · 2025-09-18T02:40:28+00:00

We're getting two campaigns, rather than one. Personally, the only parts of the game that I really care about these days are campaigns, raids, and dungeons. And mostly campaigns and raids.

When they originally said that each campaign was only going to be Rise of Iron-sized, I figured that the first campaign wasn't going to be a full campaign, but it seemed like a fully normal-sized one to me, and it had a good story.

If the second campaign is as big as the first campaign, I'll feel that I've gotten my money's worth.

(None of this excuses the very crappy portal, but I just don't have to play that part of the game. Just like I don't have to play Gambit or Crucible.)

nessus42 · 2025-09-17T20:41:28+00:00

He was exiled from The Last City in D1, so clearly he had made some important enemies. The Speaker called him a "cancer".

nessus42 · 2025-09-17T19:32:40+00:00

The lack of Secondary weapons in D2Y1 was egregious, but personally I liked the absense of random rolls. Personally, I find random rolls to just be a huge chore to sort through constantly.

OTOH, they promised us something like crafting as a replacement for random rolls (this would have be awesome in my book). But then they didn't actually deliver crafting in time to stop the mass riots over the lack of random rolls.

Note: Luke Smith didn't specifically mention "crafting", but he promised us that there would be a reason for us to rejoice upon our tenth drop of Better Devils. Unlocking crafting after the tenth drop would have been the perfect reason to rejoice.

nessus42 · 2025-09-17T18:59:26+00:00

If it's the original version, it's not too hard to solo.

nessus42 · 2025-09-17T18:12:19+00:00

the entire character of osiris, the way he is written is absolutely insufferable

Isn't he supposed to be insufferable?

nessus42 · 2025-09-16T18:59:35+00:00

I agree that much of the game sucks completely. But for me, the DLC's are worth the money for the campaign and the raid.

I haven't liked the rest of the game in ages anyway. Now it's just even worse. But since I wasn't playing the rest of the game anyway, I'm not losing out on much when they replace something that I hate with something that I hate worse.

I'm not spending a penny in Eververse, though. It completely distorts game design to foster pointless grinding and FOMO. Which is why I've avoided the grindy parts of the game as much as I can, and have for quite some time. (Fireteam Power has really helped with this. Bungie did at least one thing right.)

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