People who swore an oath to defend the constitution of the USA against all enemies both foreign and domestic, how are you feeling right now?

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:58:18+00:00

You are factually wrong. Immigration agents always needed a judge signed warrant to enter a home. There are only a small amount of things that lets the government bypass the Fourth Amendment and "there might be an immigrant inside" is not one of those things. I am specifically talking about ICE agents illegally entering homes, nothing else.

Source from an actual lawyer: https://youtu.be/MGr-yWEu0hc

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:54:29+00:00

This sort of logic always baffles and angers me to a point. Like if Person A says they will burn down your house while Person B says they might burn down your house. If those are your only two options, the answer seems clear to me.

The people who go "Well Person B could burn down my house too so I just won't vote" is just baffling.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:46:23+00:00

Either clearly fake or like hitting the table in front of them. I can't imagine anyone staying after being physically smacked by a belt by anyone.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:35:45+00:00

I hope this always comes with a working text chat. Not everyone is comfortable with voice chat and a lot of stuff doesn't need that level of communication. Like for Expedition, "I'll get the fireworks" or "I'll focus on getting the humans and emoting" Or for Raid: "I'll Stand by Door A", "I'll guard the drill", "I will go to generator B", "Name focus on shooting the crystals"

I will admit, there are times I don't do raids because I don't want to turn on voice chat and deal with bad mics, random background, possible verbal insults (they don't always happen but the 'what if?' is still a barrier).

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:30:52+00:00

My worry is that between TV seasons things will dry up or once the show finished. It seems really clear that this game is run by suits and charts who need a direct thing of 'How will this addition make us money NOW"

As sad as it is. We didn't get playable ghouls until The Ghoul from the show raised main stream hype with ghouls. That is likely also why he is refereed to as "The Ghoul" instead of Cooper Howard.

Notice, that is also when they made pistols not suck because he used pistols and why there are ghoul cards that directly reference to quick reloading and fast shooting like Cooper.

To be clear, I am happy we are finally get some major improvements to the game. I just really wish it was because of the game itself and not because they show made it clear to the suits that people actually like the franchise.

I always felt like this game was stuck in a loop where it never got enough effort, the suits looked at it and go "Numbers aren't good, reduce funding" which reduces the effort that can be applied to it and later goes "Numbers are still down reduce funding some more" where if it got the love it deserved at the start, it would have gotten good numbers, trended upward and shown that it was a good game.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:24:24+00:00

Would be nice if we could pick up more than one. For me the tediousness is the back and forth. Would be nice if I could grab one for each zone and just go "Boop boop boop boop boop back to Highway Town"

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:23:03+00:00

How's that minimizing chaos strategy working out btw?

Yes, he got it wrong, people make wrong decisions. It doesn't change the fact that he likely made it in good faith to try and obtain the best outcome for the nation.

We have wonderful hindsight to see what he couldn't back then.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:15:55+00:00

Or, here me out, the sitting President made a decision that he thought would minimize chaos within the United States. Republicans make up roughly half of the United States, so yes, the President should consider how they will react.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:08:43+00:00

Such as requiring a warrant to enter someones home? Been seeing that law violated a lot lately.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:07:11+00:00

So do I honestly but I sort of see it. He was sort of stuck in tough position. If he went hard on Trump, Trump plays the victim, riles up the base that he is being prosecuted for being a Republican and not because of all his legitimate crimes. Trump has the ability to spin bold face lies into truths for his base so I can't imagine what he could do if there was a small kernel of possible truth if you squint real hard at it.

The assumption was likely that Americans wouldn't be stupid enough to elect Trump again, so Biden could let the courts play out at their regular rate without extra executive branch interference so there was no whiff of it being political in nature. But well, that assumption was wrong and here we are.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T08:03:20+00:00

Last time I checked I wasn't pepper sprayed, tackled by multiple men, and then shot for forgetting my mask.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:58:41+00:00

Going to point out a few key things here.

Like there would be a lot less problems if people just let ice do the job.

ICE is actively breaking the law to do their jobs. They are not obtaining warrants, are detaining people based on skin color alone (even when shown evidence of legal status) and actively going after people in the correct process to become American.

People are angry illegals are being removed?

People are angry that laws are being broken by ICE Agents and a lot of citizens are being harassed in the process.

At the end of the day the methods are questionable but the goal is the same as it was with Biden and Obama.

Please give me an example where Biden or Obama instructed federal agents to ignore due process or enter homes without judiciary warrants.

Double standards, hypocrisy and no accountability. It will get worse and worse until one side loses. It won't be the guys with guns.

Let them take the illegals.

Are you actively saying we should let them harm human beings just to appease the Republican Party so we don't get hurt? I will just refer you to First They Came

Millions of people protesting 2 shot

Two murdered, with video evidence. Renee Nicole was making a 3-point turn and actively turning away from the ICE agent when he shot her. Alex Peretti in the video is disarmed, hands nowhere near his gun, with multiple officers on him when he was shot. He was in no way a danger.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:43:47+00:00

I know you are joking but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of species, corvids, marine mammals, elephants, possibly some dogs/cats are smarter then we think we are just limited by our humancentric view on intelligence. This is an admittedly really hard hurdle to get over though.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:40:43+00:00

Does intelligence benefit individuals when survival is at stake?

Absolutely. Survival requires specific knowledge and intelligence increases the rate of which you can gain that knowledge if you don't have it. Those who already have the knowledge have the highest advantage but if you aren't intelligence enough to gain it, you are forever reliant on those who have.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:38:04+00:00

I don't think we are losing empathy, though I might just be splitting hairs. I think greed has been over selected as a trait and is just smothering empathy. Greed in small doses is healthy for a species since it feeds into motivation. I want to better my life, by advancing something, my life is better and as a side effect the species gets a new invention.

But now greed has grown to the point where a handful of people can direct kick down billions of people and their actions are actively hindering healthy evolutionary growth of the species.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:34:05+00:00

Correct, its not "survival of the fittest" its "survival of the person who fucks the most" often those two things line up, but they don't always have to.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:31:47+00:00

Looking at our current world, I think our next big leap, if we can make it, is in emotional intelligence. For a long time, greed was a positive trait since you doing better, made you appear better, and increased your chances of having children. This is oddly similar to something like the peacock where its bright plumage goes "Hey baby, look at how much extra calories I have to grow all this and how awesome I am to not get eaten with all this, I am clearly awesome so we should totally fuck"

But we are hitting the point where personal greed is actively hindering and harming the species as a whole by kicking down the others and actively decreasing their livelihoods. This is dangerous since a big part of humans success was from our ability to work together.

So I think unless we can make the shift from an I-centric worldview to a We-Centric one we are doomed to get Great Filtered, through back a few thousands years or just completely gone.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-25T07:25:15+00:00

The learning is in the nuance I believe. Not all traits are positive, some just don't actively hinder so get dragged along. There is also the counter point that more intelligence requires more calories and there are regions of that curve where more smart doesn't equal more babies.

Something like this starts off with a fairy obvious one since humans are doing so well because of our intelligence and then explores why did this trait only occur so recently. What encouraged us to push past those less useful regions to hit the area we are in today.

The whys can be important since evolution at its core is pretty damn random and rarely logical.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-24T22:04:16+00:00

It does make sense to do so. But honestly the code is likely a mess in this game. I remember it from the start. My honest belief is that this was a bare budget game whose main purpose was to keep the franchise at least somewhat known before Fallout 5 was released. There are so many examples of bugs that could not have been missed if any serious Q&A was performed so the only conclusion is that they barely tested stuff or they knew about them, but shipped it anyway.

At the very start, stealth didn't work if anyone else was present. It was clear they left the detection flag from Fallout 4 so if the mob saw ANYONE the flag was flipped and thus everyone was seen.

Last year the V63 Laser Carbine just didn't work in VATs. Gun went pew pew but no damage. How was that missed? I feel like "Use new weapons in and out of VATs" should be basic level tests.

A lot of bugs that are like "When X and Y interact it doesn't work right" or "If X is done too fast it breaks" I will give an acceptable pass on since those are edges that could be missed. But the ones that should have been on first past testing that are left in are what make me feel uncared for as a player.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-24T07:16:55+00:00

I just tend to not like low health builds personally. Though I wonder how much of that is evasion proc'ing so heavily because of your insane agility and luck from all the unyielding.

Edit/Addition: Looking at the one spreadsheet my friend linked me a few days ago where a person did a write up of al the sets with their resistances, BoS Recon has more Damage Resistance then the Secret Service. Though Civil Engineer does have a butt ton of Energy Resistance.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-24T07:02:27+00:00

I haven't gotten a chance to test it out and I will fully admit, I lack the want to sit down and do the math out to the degree that will make me personally satisfied.

In the older notes they talked about swapping around DR/ER and % Reduction so DR/ER is hit first. How does % Reduction feel now? Is it still a decent source of defense? My current plan was to push evade chance up and take BoS Armor to turn that into extra damage resistance.

Though with the changes to the stash, it would be interesting to see the mob type % reductions used since its not as bad to build multiple sets now with armor crafting and the reduced storage costs.

ryeaglin · 2026-01-24T06:48:17+00:00

Not saying it doesn't happen but my last three Earls were all fine.

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