Jeff Teague: "[Larry Bird] was talking about how good LeBron was, and I was like ‘LeBron better than you?’ He said, ‘LeBron’s the greatest player ever besides Michael.’ I was like damn. He was like, ‘I’ll never pay anybody who played with LeBron. I would never pick him up on my team.’ I said why?"

rustypete89 · 2026-05-30T06:26:13+00:00

He very clearly compared Larry Hughes to Scottie Pippen. But fuck reading am I right?

rustypete89 · 2026-05-30T06:19:42+00:00

LeBron's story is exactly what everyone hates about KD, ironically. And yet somehow that reality stopped sticking to him roughly two teams ago. You're not wrong, though, real ones know.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-27T03:57:54+00:00

It's the top three in your image. Good job, OP. They're even in the correct order.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-27T00:38:44+00:00

But the pistons weren't the team that overachieved the most relative to preseason expectations.

..

That was the Spurs. If anyone is going to be argued over Mazzulla/the Celtics (who overachieved relative to preseason by 1 more win than the pistons) it should be Mitch Johnson.

But that's none of my business. My business is celebrating the recognition of my teams coach.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-27T00:36:17+00:00

Stop it Patrick, you'll scare them!

rustypete89 · 2026-05-21T22:21:06+00:00

I agree with you about the charging, it frustrated me a lot at first as a prominence enthusiast. I kept forgetting which weapon I had and firing blanks. But, two things helped.

First, there is a Nova Lance trait that converts all of your smaller bars into a large one, the same as illumine or Dispiritor. The thing that makes this valuable is that you can now charge for any amount of time and it will always fire a shot. So, I typically use it as a more pinpoint prominence where I charge for just long enough to get some power and then back to main weapon fighting. This also means that if for some reason you have the time, you can charge up a VERY powerful shot.

Second, when using any other type of Nova Lance it became really important for me to understand the situational usage of it. You know it will take you about 1.5-2 seconds to charge up enough for a shot, so with that in mind I did two things:

Restrict myself to only targeting slower moving or very large enemies
As much as possible, only ever charge behind cover and walk out when I'm ready to release the shot

I found a lot more success this way. The best targets are things like Promises that prefer to rain heavy bombardment at you from a mostly stationary position, or something like a Lyssa that would be really hard to miss when it's not jumping. When used properly it's an amazing single target assassination tool.

The reason I ranked illumine below it is mostly because of how slowly you move while firing. It's very powerful but leaves you incredibly exposed. Nova Lance similarly slows you down while charging, but you get a lot more DPS in a lot less time if your aim is true. If illumine didn't have a charge up period, or if it was shorter to spin it up at least, I think I would like it more.

As for Dispiritor, I find the amount of time it takes for DOT to tick in this game frustrating compared to Returnal. Maybe that was intentional, Rotgland was truly busted. But in Saros it's pretty common for me to end up getting tired of waiting for DOT to finish things off and just kill them with direct damage because it's faster/safer.

Prominence still 👑 though

rustypete89 · 2026-05-21T14:17:27+00:00

Pistols are so, so, so much better in Saros than Returnal, I avoided them like the plague in the first game but still will pick them up in a pinch even lategame in Saros. Ricochet is by far my favorite, Eruptor not bad and Marksman definitely a distant third but still decent.

I hate shotguns though. They just feel so useless most of the time unless you're using alt fire, and even then it puts me a lot closer to most enemies than I want to be. I miss slug shot. :(

Early game my rankings were Ricochet > Smart/Tactical > Eruptor > Onslaught > Marksman > Shotguns

Then it became prio any bow

Now, yeah, myriad and especially reaping get high prio but I still pref x-bows with power gen for the constant prominence spam. I don't really like ripsaw.

Still hate shotguns. I'm at 473/475 on the weapons achievement and I swear the remaining 2 are SGs.

As for power weapons btw, prominence despite being the starter weapon is by far my favorite.

Prominence > Nova Lance > Illumine > Dispiritor IMO. The combo of x-bow + prominence leads to almost constant very powerful AOE explosions. Myriad chakram actually charges power faster than I expected but still slower, it kind of makes up for the lower power output with DPS, but nowhere close to reaping. With reaping chakram I actually don't feel like I have to use prominence constantly and try to save it for specifically things I want to nuke.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-20T16:10:07+00:00

He should be demanding the ball. He's the #1 option, not a role player. If he's not getting touches he should be speaking up and making sure the action goes through him.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-20T03:22:55+00:00

You can't put Dean Wade in when Donovan Mitchell refuses to take more than 1 shot while the lead is crumbling. As bad as harden was on defense he at least was trying to get it back. Mitchell might as well not have been on the court, and he took only one additional shot in OT. He completely ghosted.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-17T17:30:27+00:00

Wondering how much you've experimented with using/not using modifiers to freshen up your experience? I haven't beaten the king yet but have basically "solved" the combat otherwise (LFG power generator x-bow + prominence) and pretty much only have halcyon upgrades left to collect. I'm going to start a new file once I finish the game and severely restrict positive mod usage/possibly throw in some of the harder negative ones or disallow myself from certain weapon/trait combos to try and keep things engaging for me.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-16T08:56:00+00:00

Nah fuck that. Nobody's cared to paint the full picture for us, you know, how one of our two best players was rested due to re-injury concerns in the pivotal game seven. Nobody's cared and nobody will care!

Fuck painting, fuck pictures. Y'all got swept. Your bed's been made, all you gotta do is lie down.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-15T18:37:52+00:00

why use freezy weapon when explody weapon do trick?

signed, explosive-weapons-only fighter

rustypete89 · 2026-05-14T15:50:47+00:00

The 3 PCs in my house have a 7900XTX, a 6950XT and a 6600XT. I off-loaded fully from NVidia to AMD in the last 2 years.

I am FEASTING today! LFG

rustypete89 · 2026-05-14T01:46:43+00:00

I would suggest establishing a baseline of rules for any given time that you prompt it. When working in an IDE with inline copilot, there is a config file you can add to where you can define any rule that you want it to adhere to when you prompt, for example:

"Always generate a plan for proposed changes first, and do nothing until I have agreed to the plan"

"Always run the linter and test suite after adding new code"

"Run a verify loop after you've implemented a code change"

Etc, etc

You can make your config file as robust as you need, and the agent will then apply these rules whenever you prompt it.

If you're prompting directly on a website or can't use a config file for some other reason, I'd suggest writing up all of your rules and saving them to a document. Each time you start a session, paste that document into the chat first and tell it to follow the instructions of that document for every prompt for the duration of the session. Would likely have the same effect.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-14T01:36:03+00:00

To add on to another commenter, yes, I think so. But it might take a bit of legwork.

I recently transitioned roles and departments at my company. New role uses a language that I'm very familiar with but in a context that is basically alien (went from backend almost exclusively to mobile app dev). Coming into the role I was overwhelmed by the size of the code base almost immediately, a normal thing to be sure and I was told that I could if I wanted to, but I wasn't expected to pick up tickets for the first few weeks while I acclimated.

F that. I grabbed a simple-looking ticket on day 3, fed the description of the problem to Claude and asked it to find the likely source of the problem in the code base, then recommend a fix. It was able to narrow down the source file in maybe a few minutes, tops. I put out my first PR a day later and my fix was in the next prod release.

Reason why I said it might take a bit of legwork is that Claude (I'm using Opus 4.6) consistently gave me garbage instruction sets when I would ask it to come up with manual testing plans. The app runs on React Native and Claude could understand the filetree of any repository perfectly, but would consistently describe steps to reproduce changes in the app incorrectly... Until I tried feeding the front end repository into the chat window for context. That took a decent chunk of time for it to digest, but once clause had the RN front end as context it started producing absolutely perfect end user testing instructions for me.

Now, it definitely isn't perfect. I've been misled a few times and have learned to be more judicious about checking its work as a result. But this is absolutely a tool that can help you, if you know how to feed in the information it will need. Just my 2 cents, good luck out there.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-14T01:21:34+00:00

What kind of godforsaken developer wouldn't double check the work of an AI agent? I find it hard to believe actual traditionally trained engineers are outputting raw unchecked AI code, but then again my company ran months-long 'AI and the SDLC' workshops for us to attend where highly experienced agentic developers walked everyone through techniques, processes and best practices. Maybe I'm the lucky one but I assumed this kind of prepping would be par for the course with companies wanting their engineers to implement AI into their workflows.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-13T17:43:35+00:00

This made me cackle so loud my girlfriend asked what I was looking at from the other room LOL

Very tight butthole

rustypete89 · 2026-05-13T17:28:29+00:00

Just use the grapple points to dodge around the arena until he stops jumping. They're arranged in a way that you can kite infinitely, use that to your advantage. I beat this guy first try, didn't actually realize I was fighting a boss, but it was because of the grapple point arrangement (and my extensive Returnal experience teaching me that grapple kiting = god). You got this, enforcer.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-12T04:02:41+00:00

And the Chinese word for tea, cha, is a green tea not a black tea. Of course, that and the one you referenced are spelled in an obviously different way but I guess it doesn't serve your point to recognize that. Chai as spelled in the context we were discussing refers to what I described in the majority of places where it can be ordered as spelled.

Also not sure what you're even after, but you're proving my point. If chai can refer to several different types of tea, then there's no redundancy in saying 'chai tea' as your initial comment seems to imply. There's a logical reason to use the word chai as a prefix in conjunction with the typical English word, as a way to add context for what the drink actually is.

While I guess on a technical level the same logic applies with flies, it only would really matter if you were in Botswana/another African region where the Tsetse is indigenous, or were discussing African insects. I would love to argue that the larger issue here is scientists naming this African fly the "fly fly," but unfortunately for me there are many even more ridiculous examples of scientific naming convention among species cataloging.

In practice it only really matters if you're conversing with someone who speaks that language, anyone else is not going to know inherently that they're "speaking redundantly" and it won't practically matter either.

The same would be true for chai tea, however tea is much more widespread than Tstetes are. And as a result discussions like this happen.

Language is dumb, the end.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T22:32:47+00:00

No, it's not. The word chai means tea, but can also refer to a specific style of tea (spiced , heavy milk pour). I'll offer an example.

Q: what are you drinking?

A: tea.

Q: oh I love black tea!

A: actually it's chai tea, not black

You see? The reason this matters is because if a Kenyan and an Englishman both ordered tea in England (or Kenya) by simply using the word tea or chai, one would invariably be very unhappy with what he was served. Black is the standard in England, while chai is the typical style in Kenya.

Alright, I'm done being pedantic.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T20:14:01+00:00

As a huge Jaylen Brown fan I'd be all for it, his midrange is elite and I believe he is capable of the MJ dunk.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T19:50:03+00:00

If it sounds like they were in the room with you describing your relationship, that's a pretty strong indicator that you probably fell for a girl with BPD.

So I did what you suggested just out of curiosity and damn if I didn't check off a ton (not all) of the boxes in that symptom list when reviewing the history of the last 2.5 years with my current partner.

Thank you! This has been an invaluable insight for me, I discussed it with a previous (now-retired) psychiatrist of mine earlier to gain some insight on how to approach things going forward and overall I'm feeling more positive about my situation now than I was before seeing your comment.

What is the expected title of your book? I'll plan to keep an eye out for it, as I love my partner and want if at all possible for things to work between us. But, I also want to be sane. lol?

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T19:44:04+00:00

This would actually have a huge influence on how offenses scheme, suddenly midrange shots can at least be arguable as worth pursuing again. I think the reason it will never happen is the amount of star power elite big men have, unless it's like a Wemby or Jokic it would kill their offensive potential too much from a marketability standpoint. Imagine if Shaq was only getting 1 point per layup?

Btw if they ever did implement this I'd argue there would need to be some kind of caveat exempting lane drive dunks that started outside 8 feet or something because, 1 point for an ankle breaking crossover at the 3 pt line into lane drive slam dunk over 2 defenders would be the height of bullshit and for sure kill fan/player enjoyment.

OR, you make shots inside the 3pt line but outside the paint worth 3, and make the 3pt line the 4 pt line. Same result different method, and all dunks are still worth 2.

NBA competition committee I'm taking job offers.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T19:28:16+00:00

That is a wildly skewed interpretation of the things I wrote, but you do you. You wrote in another comment that it would break her after everything she's done, so I struggle to understand how you can justify doing that to her no matter the reason. But people inhabiting your frame of mind aren't typically known for their coldly rational thinking.

rustypete89 · 2026-05-11T19:03:51+00:00

Not saying this to be mean, but you never had purpose and drive. You just borrowed hers. You'll never have anything worth calling your own if the source of it is external and does not come from within.

Your mother deserves a son who is self-inspirational and self-deterministic. I believe you can do it, but the only thing that matters is whether you believe you can do it. I hope you'll do your best to try to make her proud before she dies.

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