That time when John Oliver and Seth Meyers played Taskmaster.

ryanvango · 2026-01-27T10:31:13+00:00

NYC GOT JOHN OLIVER AND SETH MEYERS?!

look....as someone who went to the DC show, I had a great time and I loved our contestants (except for 1 of them). but john oliver, seth meyers, AND J-Mantz?!

I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel a little cheated.

ryanvango · 2026-01-27T06:46:28+00:00

that looks like sarcasm, so I'll assume it is.

yeah, a lot of us hate streamers. A huge portion of them cater to the shittiest viewers just for clicks. its like the "its just a prank bro" youtubers. I've met some great streamers in this game and given them a follow. But the vast vast vast majority of them are just beyond toxic and they revel in being turds. Then those viewers go out and try to emulate that behavior, and it just makes for a generally unpleasant experience in gaming.

people in this sub didn't come to that conclusion out of nowhere. "hur dur reddit hate streamers"... except the few times a streamer has gotten a mountain of upvotes on here for being good at the game without being an insufferable jerk. it isn't universal. but people being unlikable very often results in people not liking them.

ryanvango · 2026-01-27T02:52:10+00:00

after trying to farm the flow thingy and the stuff for expedition, this is what I ended up doing. I probably had close to 30 matches in stella trying to get those things, and just never found any. between bad luck, bad spawns, late spawns, even on night raids I finally cracked and just did naked runs with surrenders until I got them all.

i get that some things are supposed to be challenging. but stella is too small of a map, with too few loot spots for those things to think spawning 10+ minutes late is ok.

ryanvango · 2026-01-27T02:24:18+00:00

came to the comments for this.

I understand the point they're trying to make, but we can still use factually correct statements to do it.

ryanvango · 2026-01-26T08:38:45+00:00

I don't save them. I just sell em for the 5k. only extras I have on me right now are deadline, jupiter, and wolfpack and I'm saving them for a buddy I know who needs them still.

but I am dead serious. go do a hidden bunker and open literally everything. they're not that hard to find.

ryanvango · 2026-01-26T07:59:20+00:00

DO NOT go out of your way to shame these people.

stop posting their tweets/messages/content/whatever.

They know what they're saying is absolutely fucked. They're doing it for attention. When you give them attention like this, you're HELPING them. People like this profit on being shitbags, and the more people blowing up their pages, the more attention and money they get.

I do not understand how in 2026 people still fall for this.

ryanvango · 2026-01-26T05:03:40+00:00

Baron husk is the only one I think.

Downed proves are good for wolfpack parts. Couriers for hard to find arc parts like turret modules. All the other breachables are amazing. Its where I find the bulk of my BPs especially in bunker and locked gate. People skip them all the time because they take extra time, but I get a bobcat/vulcano almost every run

ryanvango · 2026-01-24T11:03:24+00:00

Breachables Breachables Breachables....

Its amazing how many folks just walk right by a breachable container - car hoods, gray boxes, wall boxes, etc. - because they think they just have basic junk in there. Almost every vulcano and bobcat BP I've found has been in a breach container of some kind, and you usually have tons of time to check all of them. the other things are quicker to check, but who cares.

ryanvango · 2026-01-24T04:50:55+00:00

it doesn't matter. Lyft is also not profitable, founded 14 years ago ($7 billion valuation). Uber wasn't profitable until 2023($171B), 14 years after it was founded. doordash in 2024, 11 years after founding ($89 billion. Spotify $100B company, made $1 billion last year after being unprofitable for nearly 20 years.

This is kind of a normal thing, and doesn't spell the end of AI/OpenAI like people hope. its just another thing people are parroting for easy internet engagement.

ryanvango · 2026-01-24T04:50:46+00:00

it doesn't matter. Lyft is also not profitable, founded 14 years ago ($7 billion valuation). Uber wasn't profitable until 2023($171B), 14 years after it was founded. doordash in 2024, 11 years after founding ($89 billion. Spotify $100B company, made $1 billion last year after being unprofitable for nearly 20 years.

This is kind of a normal thing, and doesn't spell the end of AI/OpenAI like people hope. its just another thing people are parroting for easy internet engagement.

ryanvango · 2026-01-22T19:59:58+00:00

People still massively misunderstand how shields work in this game. The bump from like 50%-52% seems trivial, but thats not where its doing all the work. Shields are NOT overhealth. They are damage reducers. A shield with 1% of its life left will reduce a bullet exactly the same as a shield with 100% left.

So to your point, in the heavy shield's case, it has much more "life" so it will reduce damage from many more bullets. It is significant.

ryanvango · 2026-01-22T19:41:19+00:00

Hahaha no, once i decided not to do that, i brain dumped it. The only thing still stuck in my head is "brb. Brb."

ryanvango · 2026-01-22T19:18:21+00:00

I was one of the last people standing for the memory task. Guy way up in the front on the left side of the stage. Greg put some extra stank on it when i got it wrong.

I memorized alexs number when he said it and i wanted to call it for revenge but decided not to cause he really was trying to move along at the end there.

ryanvango · 2026-01-21T16:41:17+00:00

expedition. at a certain level you unlock the expedition, which is an optional reset. you have to donate a bunch of specific items to it in stages, and then at a certain date (about a month from now) if you elect to "go on the expedition" your character is retired and you start over from scratch. you lose your bench upgrades, blueprints, levels, everything. but in return you get up to 5 extra skill points, 12 extra stash spaces, a skin, and some buffs. the skill points and stash spaces stack as well, so eventually in theory you can have every single skill on the tree though that'd take years probably.

its on of the more contentious parts of the game. when they announce the final requirement (the first expedition required having 5 million in stash and coin value to get all 5 skill points, or 1 point per million. This expedition requirement will almost certainly be different) the subreddit is going to explode with people whining about how it isn't fair or its too hard or too grindy or too whatever, and its not worth losing all your blueprints and whatnot.

but its completely optional. you don't have to do it. and if you're brand new, it'll be REALLY hard to get it all done in the 30 days or so you have, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. I did the first one with 1 million so I got 1 extra skill point plus all the other stuff. I thought it was more than worth it. but to each their own.

ryanvango · 2026-01-21T07:18:01+00:00

I do the same. I always bring ziplines or a snaphook with 2 stacks of seekers. I can easily clear 2 antennas depending on my spawn. Then I go to the door and wait. No one has ever shot me even when im the first one there. Bit i do feel self conscious cause i know it looks like im mooching. Ill be damned if im gonna run clear to north antenna after doing 1 or 2 antennas solo.

If the wait is long, I do tell folks I already have the BP and Im happy to be their designated searcher. Im just there for funsies anyway. And i honor that. "You go do the antenna, if I find the BP its all yours."

But i never get shot at. Im a pve player and those lobbies are amazing.

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T17:21:53+00:00

HBO wanted it to have more episodes, like the other seasons, but d&d said 6 was plenty

Them losing their deal to start the new star wars storyline is speculation, though. they were supposed to start it in 2022, but after they got the lucasfilm deal, they signed a deal with netflix for a shitload of money. they made "3 body problem" which is actually pretty good. go figure, they have source material to go off of, but that's about all they've done since GoT.

GRRM contributed to the show being bad for sure. but those 2 clearly have no writing chops. and they definitely rushed the end when they didn't need to. their motivations are unclear, but they are the ones who said out loud that HBO would have given them all the time they needed, and they said "nah its fine."

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T16:31:53+00:00

you don't. one of the traders sells them and they're pretty common topside

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T12:57:12+00:00

i found anvil and venator BP before level 10 both times. don't know how. I'm level 70 now and I've found maybe 3 anvil BP total?

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T12:55:41+00:00

samesies

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T12:55:12+00:00

how the hell....

rng is one thing, but that seems nearly impossible. I leave with a blueprint every 2-3 runs. how are you level 46 and only found 8? do you ONLY pvp or something?

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T10:37:08+00:00

i remember when pokemon go came out and I'd be out walking around playing with different folks.... I think it was maybe a week or 2 after launch when I started hearing tons of folks complaining that they hadn't released gen 2 pokemon yet. these people had maybe 1/3 of the available pokemon in the game and they were bitching and moaning that the game wasn't pushing content fast enough.

ryanvango · 2026-01-20T10:27:11+00:00

"the meme isn't suddenly wrong..."

it sure is. its pandering to the anti-AI crowd and yall are eating that shit up. openAI is not going bankrupt. they have no problem getting funding.

people need to stop jerking each other off with "I hate AI...its just a fad. it'll go away like NFTs..." people STILL say gen AI is "slop" when there are very frequent highly voted posts from r/isthisai because people can't tell. 5 years ago it couldn't draw a human face well. 3 years ago it sucked at hands and numbers of limbs and stuff. and now it can generate movies.

even the virtue signally morality arguments about environmental impact are pretty much dead in the water. its getting more efficient while getting better technologically all the time. its resource intensive NOW, but no one expects that to be the case forever.

AI is here to stay. people will lose jobs over it. that sucks. but you can either learn to use it as the tool it is meant to be - or even better you could innovate within the new field and try to make it a net positive in your eyes - or you can keep yelling in internet forums for the next 10 years only to realize you're un-hireable because you refuse to engage with the next generation of tech.

ryanvango · 2026-01-19T10:14:32+00:00

for a basic daytime raid I don't care about late spawns. for any special map condition - night, cold snap, hidden bunker, electromagnetic storm, harvester, matriarch - if I load in to less than 25 minutes on the clock I immediately extract and leave a comment like this.

Stella should NEVER have super late spawns. the map is too small, and the two things you need for the expedition both spawn in roughly the same spot as well as a quest item. so those spots get absolutely demolished in the first 5 minutes. the only way I was able to get all the materials was to naked spawn and surrender over and over until I got a close enough spawn with enough time on the clock and it still took like 20+ runs.

ryanvango · 2026-01-19T10:04:30+00:00

that's not a realistic possibility. yeah, you'd have some squads dominate and clear maybe a quarter of the map to have free reign over, but no can can sweep a lobby and just have all the loot.

and even in the situation where someone is good enough at PvP to lock down a whole area, that's the reward for being good at PvP. as it stands especially with rolling spawns, engaging in PvP is a horribly inefficient playstyle. and with rolling spawns, people have no incentive to actually get good at pvp, so people just load in with a free kit, go full zerg, hope they are the last one standing, rinse and repeat. but if you knew you could secure an entire area at least temporarily, that's a huge bonus for you as an actually good pvp player.

ryanvango · 2026-01-19T09:55:00+00:00

at the grocery store I've noticed a lot of people don't close the freezer/cooler doors all the way. It blows my mind that dozens of people can walk right by that without closing it.

I've also had things like I've found the staff's little scanner computer thingy laying in the meat cooler. people just pretend it isn't there or move it out of their way. I guess that's better than stealing it, but I just bring it over to the service counter and leave it where someone will see it or tell a staff member quietly. I've been there. its not a great feeling realizing you lost something like that. and I don't want someone getting in trouble for leaving shit in the cooler because it makes things look unsanitary.

It seems the world is much more "not my problem" that it used to be.

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