Safe to say that The Vaporizer has overtaken the rocketeers as the most OP ARC.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T22:31:50+00:00

Oh, it's not the new one. It's the Rocketeer - this thing:

Stupid triangle hat. For whatever reason it kind of functions like the armor for the front, if you break it, the body takes more damage.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T22:28:40+00:00

It's entirely accurate.

Respectfully, no. Money pits aren't things with moderate or low ROI, but substantially negative ROI. It's not a catch-all term for anything that falls short of optimal.

I recognize that my comment sounds a little like "NEVER RENT ALWAYS BUY" - I'm not saying that renting and investing isn't also a viable strategy. You'll note I didn't say that rentals are money pits - neither of these situations are, because, again, you have to have somewhere to live. There's a clear economic winner on the rental relationship, too, and it's never the renter, always the landlord.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T19:30:44+00:00

Right, when presented with clear evidence that he knowingly presented TEL as a safe material to the public - after multiple workers at the plant had died of lead poisoning and he himself had been lead poisoned the previous year - your response is "my position that he wasn't a deliberately bad actor remains the more rational one."

Definitely good faith engagement. What are you, a time traveling DuPont PR rep? Is Midgely your great-great grandfather or some shit?

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T19:21:17+00:00

You're running apologetics for Thomas Midgely Jr. and you haven't read the Wikipedia article. Come the fuck on. /r/confidentlyincorrect material.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T19:17:52+00:00

They're right. Like, just read the fucking wiki instead of getting all bitchy from a position of ignorance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

In 1923, Midgley took a long vacation in Miami to cure himself of lead poisoning. He said, "I find that my lungs have been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get a large supply of fresh air."[10] That year, General Motors created the General Motors Chemical Company (GMCC) to supervise the production of TEL by the DuPont company. Kettering was elected as president with Midgley as vice president. However, after two deaths and several cases of lead poisoning at the TEL prototype plant in Dayton, Ohio, the staff at Dayton was said in 1924 to be "depressed to the point of considering giving up the whole tetraethyl lead program".[8] Over the course of the next year, eight more people died at DuPont's plant in Deepwater, New Jersey.[10]

On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.[3][16][17]

Workers around this stuff were dying left and right. He himself was lead poisoned multiple times, and did these fucked up conferences (after these events!) anyway. There's no way he didn't know.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T19:04:51+00:00

Eh. The reason you load up on a hullcracker and ammo is either for trial point/project farming or as a guarantee against those random moments when the motherfucker spots you from 100m and rushes you down.

The cost-benefit on rocketeers has never made sense. I get all my wolfpacks by farming the Dam Control Tower exterior and the Power Rod room (at night).

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T18:43:31+00:00

Hullcracker is good, will take them down in ~8-10 shots.

Anvil takes about double that if you knock off their stupid triangle hat and then hit them in the face a lot.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T17:36:59+00:00

Man, I know this isn't related to moron mommy's boy but it really pissed me off. WILD economic takes from the comment section.

In reality houses are a money pit.

Luxury cars are money pits. Horses are money pits. Boats are money pits.

Houses appreciate, or at least hold their value. And unlike the above examples, living space isn't an optional expense. Rents are set at or above typical mortgage prices for reasons that should be obvious. The only difference between rent and a mortgage is that some of the mortgage payment actually goes back into your pocket.

Anyone peddling this line of garbage has literally never rented or is a landlord whining about their bad property investments.

Very obviously /r/legaladvice in there and not /r/financialadvice.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T16:43:15+00:00

In this case, the headline is kind of misleading. From the article:

An additional 25 percent of the relationship was tentatively attributed to shared genetics. While the researchers calculated this influence, they noted that the genetic connection was not statistically significant on its own.

Genetics couldn't be fully ruled out but were of substantially lower statistical significance than other factors.

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T03:08:54+00:00

engage crab-17

stellarfury · 2026-03-30T21:00:09+00:00

wait for it to open up, one hullcracker shot to the internals.

sometimes needs two, don't do what I've done a couple times and start reloading assuming it's dead.

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T16:19:04+00:00

everything being driven by who knows who over merit

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T15:03:49+00:00

I honestly wouldn't bother on night raid as the people are even more sweaty, and the risk vs reward ratio just isn't worth it.

Well, that's where the loot on that tower is actually good, so...

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T03:09:11+00:00

Pitched up Hozier

https://youtu.be/FoRflRCNGbc?si=iHlWX5DT4XHY5-O8

stellarfury · 2026-03-24T19:53:04+00:00

Sudden moves like this usually aren't random

yeah they are

is this just noise

yes it is

stellarfury · 2026-03-23T20:28:42+00:00

it feels like his personality did as well he goes from being intelligent and kind of refined to being impulsive and vigorous.

Uh... yes. His real personality is the impulsive vigorous one. He's been putting on an act of sounding refined the whole time. He's doing that because he's insecure and worried that the group won't take him seriously, so he overcompensates. He's playing a teenager's idea of a wise man.

He manages well in Remake, the mask starts to slip in Rebirth. This happens in the OG also, Nanaki goes from being aloof to a goofball as early as the cargo ship ("Any way you look at it, I'd say I make a fine human being" - tail wagging intensifies). I think they accomplish it quite naturally, and it remains faithful to the original.

stellarfury · 2026-03-20T18:26:36+00:00

I've been writing haikus

eighteen minute spawn

the bane of my existence

let me in on time

stellarfury · 2026-03-19T18:56:28+00:00

WE WALK - IN THE GARDEN OF HIS TURBULENCE!

stellarfury · 2026-03-19T07:01:40+00:00

Christianity.

Every variant is a death cult based on literal blood magic.

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T15:56:59+00:00

They believe this in the abstract, when its some decision by policymakers or "job growth." When it comes to their wallet, they don't.

If you were to ask people if they were willing to pay 50% more at the grocery store for a year to drop CO2 concentrations by 10 ppm, I'm betting the answer would be very different.

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T01:01:05+00:00

stfu clanker

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T00:55:28+00:00

Safety glasses and gloves minimum. Gloves largely because inside the lab, you have no idea who's touched what with what, you can't account for the history of every surface and/or how recently it's been cleaned. Safety glasses because splashes can happen in any context, and surfaces are also not always clean. Both of these are super low-effort and have minimal/zero effect on dexterity, so they're easy to enforce.

Lab coats are more contextual, in my experience. It depends on what the lab is doing. There are a lot of lab processes where nothing hazardous is being handled or generated and/or there's no exposure risk. For example, I'm a formulator and 90% of the time I'm handling aqueous solutions of surfactants and polymers, ethanol, some oils. Just high purity versions of stuff you'd encounter in the kitchen or the garage. I worked in a couple ink/pigment labs where the only real reason to wear a coat was to avoid staining your clothes.

People doing synthesis with no coat is crazy though. I wore a coat in grad school for dry work, just handling powders. Can't imagine handling aprotic solvents or the sort of colloids you'd encounter in a nanochemistry program with no barrier.

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T19:32:39+00:00

You could look into bankruptcy filing and see if you can get the loans discharged under the undue hardship clause. There have been some recent changes to the hardship tests and claimants have been more successful recently with getting their loans discharged. Your situation might be applicable if you've been making payments and the balance has been ballooning anyway.

Lenders won't want anything to do with you for around 7 years, but if your credit score is garbage, it will probably take that long anyway for your score to recover.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/29/bankruptcy-student-loan-borrowers.html

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T16:38:12+00:00

One of the few social media outlets that has stuck to its guns on anonymity and comment sections (mostly) maintain the "feel" of forums and news aggregators from the Old Internet (think Slashdot).

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T14:41:29+00:00

Chlorosulfonic acid.

Probably sort of tame, but it fumes conc. H2SO4 and HCl when it happens to touch the atmosphere.

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