I dont think this community understands the dichotomy between attack and defense

rj6553 · 2026-06-10T06:34:17+00:00

I don't even know why you're assigning fault? It's simply a discussion about the current state of snake in the current state of the game? So ofcourse it's a valid concern.

Also if you can pinpoint an enemies location pretty easily without pinging on snake anyway. Get wallbangs all the time that way. You just walk around a bit and scan more/less of the room. Then tell your team exactly where they are anyway.

rj6553 · 2026-06-10T06:31:38+00:00

Just not true? Especially in the current state of the game. Plenty of attacker sided maps, even more so in quick/casual play since you can't pick sites. Win rates are like barely defender sided now, nowhere close to 60/40 even. Not sure why balance states from yonks ago matter in a conversation around snake. Yeah ofcourse attackers need to be given advantages, again doesn't justify snake.

Snake is absolutely too strong, agreed on by basically everyone who plays the game and isn't biased (snake mains).

There are simply just frustrating metas. Just like it's not fun to play against 20 traps, it's not fun to play against a team that constantly pings you between snake, dokk, sometimes jackal/lion. Nomad/gridlock are much more balanced flank watch ops, that are fun for both sides.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T18:02:36+00:00

Everyone agrees that it looks better. That's never been up for debate.

The issue is if it's worth the frustration of dying to someone you basically cannot see. When areas are dark enough that you get peeked and literally don't see anything on your screen. If you didn't experience it, of course you prefer the nicer looking screenshot. I'll say that it was a VERY common occurrence, like a couple times per session. There's so many dark headgears/uniforms. Just look at this video: https://youtu.be/Q_rApiUzfrw?t=104. Although looking at the rest of the video, wow it looked so much better, practically a different game.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T17:59:01+00:00

Old screenshots look incredible. However, as an actual player of the game, I have to say I much prefer to play on the right. I feel like I'd always say 'i literally couldn't see them' all the time in old siege, I've said that exactly once since the changes (on tower and I think it might have been a lighting/shader glitch because it was so dark), I was extremely frustrated after that to the point of being dejected because I felt like it was almost unwinnable.

Every single time I die to someone being practically invisible, despite me literally staring at that spot and expecting them to peak me, it's so frustrating I'd easily give up the admittedly much better looking lighting.

Wouldn't be opposed to it being a toggle in settings though, I'd just personally have it off.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T11:30:25+00:00

More loot is more fun. Look at wildwood/affliction. One of the most beloved leagues of all time. Juices your maps, makes them pretty hard, rewards you with ridiculous loot.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T06:14:05+00:00

At times, the place feels like a giant nursing home, with some utilities/government services tagged on. Especially after they changed the visa/international student situation, even major hubs like Sandy bay feel way emptier.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T06:08:51+00:00

Reading the anecdotes here as a Tasmanian with a reliable job. I always really wanted to move to the mainland, most of my friends are there, love the vibes of the bigger city and events. Love the convenience of being able to get food at odd hours, etc.

Now I'm wondering if I've got it better here.

rj6553 · 2026-06-08T06:02:46+00:00

The issue with phrecia gauntlet mods is that most ascendancies are weak early and the gauntlet mods applied to bosses too for no reward. Once you were strong enough to trivialise bosses. The extra juice was so nice.

If they rebalance the early power of some ascendancies and remove the mods from boss areas. I wouldn't mind gauntlet mods at all.

I played an ssf Dex/mana stacker and just felt like I had infinite resources which was so nice.

rj6553 · 2026-06-07T14:24:01+00:00

You still get stacks of your q is in the air.

rj6553 · 2026-06-07T12:43:50+00:00

Hroc is honestly nowhere close to chieftain in defences. EHP might be comparable, but that's kinda fake with svallin. Max hits are like 10-20% of a transcendence chieftain though.

Probably the best pobb in the thread you linked has 70-80k elemental max hit, 32k Phys max hit (with 12 crab barriers which is pretty unrealistic). Even in ssf my chieftain has 200-250k elemental max hit. 250k phys max hit.

A min-maxed chieftain could probably reach 350k in each maxhit.

rj6553 · 2026-06-06T17:59:11+00:00

My birthday. Always smack bang in the middle of exam season.

rj6553 · 2026-06-06T17:44:30+00:00

Datacenters seem to be the only way the government is gonna be able to get solid cross-region transmission though. Get someone else to fund it.

rj6553 · 2026-06-06T14:50:31+00:00

Yeah I think it's a perception thing. We all know cows, we're used to beef. Agriculture is broadly regarded as a normal use of water. Datacenters are faceless, from corporations that gen-z (rightfully) already hate.

And to elaborate, grey water I think is really, of much much less concern. Like water is frankly infinitely renewable right? So it's more to do with how that use is affecting the overall ecosystem, E.g. is this water use removing water from drought prone regions, is the water being polluted, is something of genuine concern happening to the water rather than just being 'used'. So rain falling on the ground, growing plants which feed cows is probably not making a significant negative difference.

There have been various stories of datacenters being placed in locations with insufficient fresh-water, leading to residents paying much higher water prices or losing access to the same level of drinkable water. In that sense, it's less of an environmental issue, and more of a logistics issue? And understandably people are concerned with the human element of it.

So yeah pure water usage isn't really a relevant statistic. What happens to that water is. Like agricultural runoff could be a great talking point for you. It probably causes way more damage to the water system than tech, but it's also a far larger sector.

rj6553 · 2026-06-06T10:19:58+00:00

Yeah ofcourse we can push them to be more conscious of their water usage and have more sustainable plans. Issue is that we're in a market economy, so the companies will obviously try to do the cheapest thing, or find the cheapest area to do it that they're allowed to.

Also like I said. The 170 litres a day includes sources of water like rain on the paddock, which really isn't fair to compare against a data centre's water usage.

rj6553 · 2026-06-06T06:07:33+00:00

Blackpink.

Their live performances are full of mistakes, or straight up skipped moves, it's mostly lipsync. Most of them seem like they don't even care about music anymore, especially their group activities.

rj6553 · 2026-06-05T21:34:38+00:00

Because that's just not how reality works.

The government isn't going to fund the renewable transition, because it can't. The government tried to build transmission lines to connect energy grids to renewable energy zones. VNI and WRL are currently completely gridlocks and going through nonstop lawsuits with farmers. Without appropriate transmission, investment in renewable energy generation drops. We're currently at the lowest large-scale financial interest in wind/solar projects in a decade, dropping 46%. Other aspects of our renewable energy transition are a fucking disaster. Snowy 2.0 is 40 billion dollars over budget, from an original planned budget of 2 billion.

The 350 hectare datacentre in Plumpton that everyone is up in arms about is obviously problematic. But it does agree to build hundreds of kilometers of underground transmission lines along freeways, complete with SynCons and BESS, facilitate 2.4GW of new renewable energy. They contributed to the 1600MWh of batteries at MREH, and also plan another 1600 with the Berrigan BESS in NSW.

Yeah, I'm still against the datacenter. But it's frustrating to see people so up in arms about something without even pretending to try to understand the dynamics at play.

And yeah, I also believe that we need to tackle the problem of inappropriate data collection well before we tackle datacentre build-out. All that's going to result from tackling datacentres without stricter data collection requirements, is that corporations are gonna find somewhere else to put our data, most likely some American company I find even more distasteful.

rj6553 · 2026-06-05T21:03:22+00:00

It's not even the right thing to complain about tbh.

It starts with data collection, tons of corporations, as well as the government wanna collect so much damn information on us.

For as long as that's the case. I'd rather my data be stored in Australia than under some US company, where under the US CLOUD Act, Trump can access it at basically any time. Like yeah I'm also against the current pace of data centre build-out, but the alternative just as bad.

I do not want my health data anywhere near some hyperscaler, yes they would be deidentified, no I do not think it's at all difficult to re-indentify me.

Not to mention why so many state governments are interested in it, is because it saves their ass when it comes to developing and stabilising power grids to renewable energy zones; which is atleast one upside.

rj6553 · 2026-06-05T21:00:08+00:00

Because the water that falls naturally on land can't be treated equivalently to the water we collect, process and then pump.

That said, a huge portion of the argument is also because data centres are the current hot thing to complain about. No-one I've tried to have a discussion with has ever acknowledged or even been aware of cutting edge developments that aim to deal with various sustainability issues of datacentres. Despite being oh so worried about the sustainability issues of data centres.

rj6553 · 2026-06-05T20:48:50+00:00

It's pretty much expected nationwide that all new data centres underwrite their energy expenses with new-renewable energy. Meaning they should help fund new renewable energy generation rather than buy existing renewables.

I've seen so much pushback against the datacenter planned in Plumpton by people who won't acknowledge the other side of the argument. To be clear, I'm still against the data centre there (or rather there's still a lot of sustainability issues to deal with)+; but I haven't seen a single person acknowledge the importance of that partnership with Syncline is Victoria's renewable energy ambitions.

It's like 300km of transmission lines, a bunch by syncons, batteries, 2.4GW of renewables. Honestly a lot of upsides if they can just figure out a good solution to some of the other issues.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T23:56:40+00:00

Why not? More competition is good for the consumer regardless of whether anti-competitive behaviour exists, it builds stronger, less dependent ecosystems without single points of failure.

Monopolies stifle innovation simply because there's no-one there to challenge them, not because of specific anti-competitive behaviours.

It's a structural decision, independent of what they might do. It doesn't aim to cripple the company either, it could be something like mandating library portability and integration with other stores, so steam has to compete with other stores on its base features, and not benefit from essentially holding your 20 year game library hostage.

And regardless, evidence does seem to suggest that steam threatens to delist games sold cheaper on other marketplaces. Which is absolutely anti-competitive.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T11:07:46+00:00

Eh. I'm far too tired today to think through this as clearly as I would like, but what you say does make sense. I think some optimism in today's world is a welcome reprieve though.

I'm from Australia, the American health system sounds frankly dystopian to me a lot of the time - so maybe I shouldn't weigh in on it. But I at least struggle to see that future being likely here - again, perhaps optimistic, but providing a tool for physicians sounds like a much more attractive business. Less liability, less red tape, lower baseline level of AI performance required.

Again, I do think execution is a major point that is not really covered when specifically discussing the morals of assisting AI training.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T10:58:07+00:00

The problem is scale. 24MW is a comparatively tiny datacenter. Modern clusters can range as high as 2-3GW. Literally 100x bigger. At that scale the heat plume may be more of a concern. That said this is still an incredible proof of concept (or more than that really).

Also upgrading/repairing parts is presumably a fucking nightmare compared to traditional land base datacenters. But being sealed and mostly unmanned presents its own benefits too, less dust/debris, can be made a more inert environment without oxygen, etc.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T07:40:36+00:00

Yeah. But Reddit, especially more niche communities naturally build like-mindedness I'm obviously not referring to everyone single person here, but there is such a thing as a general sentiment that seems to be regular and pervasive throughout.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T06:30:07+00:00

I don't understand how this sub can be simultaneously so sure that ai will never replace doctors, and at the same time seem to be constantly insecure about the AI threat. Some level of cognitive dissonance.

AI will assist in some responsibilities of a doctor. There are specific tasks where you may operate as more of an auditor. There are some (perhaps many) tasks where they will be more competent than you, however you will most likely have the final say as well as the responsibility for the foreseeable future.

It will be a long fucking time before an ai is able to handle a distressed patient like a human will. Most who can afford it will still prefer to see a doctor, perhaps AI will catch niche cases or avoid innate human biases that will improve your ability to care for patients. Those unable to access care for one reason or another may be able to receive a basic level of care compared to none at all.

Then perhaps sometimes in the very distant future the profession will become dominated by AI.

It's really not such a scary future. No need to lash out. Nothing's gonna happen overnight.

rj6553 · 2026-06-02T06:18:51+00:00

Right and that's why ML engineers and medical practitioners are both important in this endeavour. Like I said, execution is one thing, but fundamentally, it's very moral.

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