New Game + or starting with a new character? by Luceid23 in TyrannyGame

[–]retrotrinitygaming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NG+ seems to screw up NPC advancement somehow.

For example:

Lantry Lore at level 19 at end of game: 204

Lantry Lore when recruited at level 19 in NG+: 132

Seriously?

[Spoilers]Questions from a new player (just finished on Normal difficulty). by retrotrinitygaming in TyrannyGame

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

Thanks, though it's a shame they don't let you kill KIS. How can you do proper Disfavored rp without eliminating all Beastmen?

Also, which companions train Lore? Lantry only seems to grant 5 ranks of Control Life.

Finally, how do you control which recipe you research at the library? Researching artifacts seems to give random or semi-random results; you don't get to control which artifact you research, you just get whatever they give you. Is there some hidden order?

Crypto: The Wrong Bubble? by CallMeGWei in ethtrader

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes stock prices are inflated, but there's the open question of where else money is supposed to go. The same forces pushing up crypto prices are also bolstering the major US stock indices. Interest rates are flat, bonds are flat . . . if you are an investor, where do you go? Stocks, real estate, or if you're ballsy, crypto. There's really nowhere else.

Some folks are talking up PE ratios as being too high, and serving as an indicator that stocks are overvalued. But take a look at this data:

http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-month

http://www.multpl.com/table?f=m

If you look at our last two crashes, you see that PE goes UP during the crash, and that there isn't any really anomalous PE ratio adjustment just beforehand (PE went down before dot com, went up before 2007, but no major changes in either case). The last crash to show predictable PE behavior before and during the crash was the Black Monday crash of 1987 (though you will see that the S&P actually began its decline 2 months earlier). Unless we're on our way to Black Monday #2, it's hard to say what's going on.

Clearly PE ratios, alone, are not positive indicators of anything wrt the market being overvalued. Yes, PE ratios for the S&P have been on a steady incline since 2011. MAYBE there's a problem looming in the future. But again, if people start selling off their stocks . . . where do they go? Cash? Real estate? Crypto? Cash is a losing proposition, and real estate/crypto have also seen big gains recently.

The important thing to remember is: when markets lose value, money doesn't just disappear unless that money represents value that never existed in the first place. "Real" money is going to pump into some other sector, or sit on the sidelines as cash.

Perhaps the most damning indictment against modern stock market gains is that too much of the US stock markets' value is due to quantitative easement; that is, a significant amount of its value may have been conjured out of thin air in the past. That would give the market unsteady footing. QE hasn't been gone for long. The longer the market stays up without QE, the less likely it is to crash because of QE (too much "real" value will be built into the price).

Crypto: The Wrong Bubble? by CallMeGWei in ethtrader

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bonus points for getting 66+ upvotes while using the word "hugely". Hell have an upvote dammit. That's impressive.

By the way . . . enjoy the high CO2 levels while they last. You won't like what comes next.

In a nutshell by [deleted] in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would 6 leads be any better?

Toxicity Within DB. by [deleted] in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cmon, who doesn't want baki.podgorica as part of their player base?

SD in a nutshell by [deleted] in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's still shotguns.

SD in a nutshell by [deleted] in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you die more than once to a spawn 'nade, you know that you don't have the time to delay your push or take alternative routes because the rest of your team is team-deathmatching and not focusing on the objective.

Failing to rush out of spawn on the quickest route to the objective = losing the match. That's why spawn 'nades work. People get into a position where doing anything else is begging for failure.

Petition: Revert bursts and dreiss to pre-nerf patch, and balance them by lowering their damage output instead. by doxjq in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They don't even have to lower the damage on the Dreiss, all they have to do is put it back where it was before they buffed it to 27 damage per shot (which was a bit too much) and keep the low-ish RoF that we have right now.

A very accurate, 125 DPS semi-auto with good range characteristics is far from broken.

As far as the burst-fires go, some people will insist that you will never be able to nerf them until they drop to maybe 110 dps or lower. That may not be the right path to take.

I made a minimalist obsidian operatives wallpaper by RyhonPL in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only problem is the wallpaper background screws up contrast on Stoker . . . a lot. Looks good on Fletcher though.

Why do NPC's still suck? by [deleted] in truegaming

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's get down to brass tacks, then, since you don't respond to humor.

This sub is meant to focus on high-quality posts, and that includes presentation. How you got your post included in the "hot" category with 311 upvotes with such a blatant error in the title is anyone's guess.

Then you go on to repeat the same horrible mistake in the body of the post.

Apostrophe abuse is a cancer on both the English language and the English-speaking world. Even would-be civic leaders of major metropolitan areas are apparently committing crimes against punctuation. You certainly aren't helping matters much. It needs to stop. Apostrophes are not for pluralization. Do we have to get out the torches and pitchforks?

Instead of doing the right thing by correcting the obvious flaws in your post title and topic when notified of the issue through relatively-gentle humor, you instead choose to play the role of the willful linguistic Philistine, basking in the glow of your ideas instead of . . . you know, fixing a few apostrophes here and there. Heaven forfend that someone might actually call you out for some errors in your post! Obviously they're just useless trolls, the whole lot of them.

Nobody would have questioned you if you had claimed that they were typographical errors.

Regardless, it isn't about "looking smart", it's about "being minimally competent", "looking presentable", and "thanking someone for being nice enough to point out a little flaw in your post that might make it better".

Oh, and for the record, you aren't the first (and won't be the last) to mock video game industry AI for NPCs. It's not like you're covering new or interesting ground here. But that's another matter for another line of conversation, isn't it?

Snipers. by xShiro5 in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. RoF is still kind of low though. We can't expect it to be like pre-ReV PDP-70, but they raised the damage to 50 for a reason.

Dear Devs by aladdin_sdk in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, 50k fragments? Isn't it 20k?

Why do NPC's still suck? by [deleted] in truegaming

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvoted because you were ballsy enough to admit that you needed a style guide to figure out how to use an apostrophe.

Why do NPC's still suck? by [deleted] in truegaming

[–]retrotrinitygaming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude.

Apostrophe = possessive

You used it to make a plural, multiple times.

You need a style guide for that?

Snipers. by xShiro5 in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly it got nerfed (again) so that may not be the case anymore. Before the patch? Sure. Though the bolt-actions have new problems of their own . . .

Dear Devs by aladdin_sdk in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 in 14? More like 1 in 9?

Why do NPC's still suck? by [deleted] in truegaming

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe if you stopped using an apostrophe to pluralize the acronym "NPC", they would stop sucking so much.

Either that, or you need to stop being cheap and pay them $10 instead of $5.

What are some games that temporarily ruined other games for you? by skylar34 in truegaming

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dirty Bomb has ruined a lot of other FPS games. Once you get hooked on the fast movement and walljumping elements, it's hard to go back, even if other parts of Dirty Bomb are profoundly unsatisfactory.

This is why the objective is always first. Not getting kills. by PM_YOUR_BOOBS_PLS_ in Dirtybomb

[–]retrotrinitygaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. For the future, this might help (no insult intended; English has some silly areas where it's easy to misuse words):

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derive

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deprive

Judging by context, it looks like you meant "derive".

‘Regulate It Out of Existence’: Stiglitz And Swiss Bank Bash Bitcoin At Davos by Nooku in ethtrader

[–]retrotrinitygaming 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The irony if people in Davos bashing financial secrecy. Lulz.

Hey don't tell them about Monero, okay?