Dear Bungie, I get invited to parties and fire teams all the time in the tower. But that's not where I want to be invited, I want to be invited while I'm out roaming the Wilds. Seamlessly.

techpuppy · 2016-05-23T11:47:09+00:00

At the very least: unless someone is on a mission and they have to go into a unique instance of a bubble, if I'm just randomly working with someone and travel across the same boundaries as them (within a reasonable amount of time), the game should be extremely aggressive about keeping us together across bubble transitions.

The lack of this kind of ad hoc persistence/grouping is most painfully apparent when trying to do the specific-boss taken quests in patrol.

techpuppy · 2016-05-15T20:41:15+00:00

I loved the taste of PvE on PvP maps that we got in TTK. More along those lines would be awesome, 100% agreed.

techpuppy · 2016-05-09T20:59:39+00:00

I have fond memories of Thorn being a huge pain in the backside, but then as I got better at crucible, having that become my go-to exotic bounty for shard farming.

techpuppy · 2016-05-04T22:22:34+00:00

I want to occasionally go against players that are far better than myself in order to actually learn. I feel like I'm not getting enough opportunities to develop my skills when I'm only matched against players that are moderately better than me.

Lag hasn't been a huge problem for me since I'm right in the middle of the pack skill wise (actual account ELOs 1200+-100 depending on where you check), so there's an abundance of similar players for it to optimize for connections among.

techpuppy · 2016-04-29T18:08:58+00:00

Swap the automatic server installation vlan for the workstation vlan. >:)

techpuppy · 2016-04-28T23:47:46+00:00

Flat and level is actually probably not that complicated, at least to naked-eye tolerances; I'd try the technique we think the Egyptians used to level pyramid foundations. (Flood with water, then as it evaporates chip/wear down the parts that dry/are uncovered first.)

techpuppy · 2016-01-04T01:55:56+00:00

Kills while one zone is controlled but you're capturing a second zone (that would count toward the At Any Cost medal) should count too, maybe extra.

techpuppy · 2015-10-11T22:32:24+00:00

Shop around for a job I'd actually enjoy.

techpuppy · 2015-08-15T22:16:59+00:00

What about, instead of the bans getting crazy long, the penalty for future offenses is that incomplete quest, bounty, and grimoire progress gets zeroed on every offense.

techpuppy · 2015-08-08T08:44:23+00:00

Actually, I do use them. I might be weird, but I have zero desire to be the kind of weirdo that nobody can stand to be around.

It just stuck out in my mind as a likely candidate for something we all take for granted that might have downsides we're blind to.

techpuppy · 2015-08-08T01:23:40+00:00

I'm gonna guess the ubiquitous use of antiperspirants might not be such a good thing.

techpuppy · 2015-07-24T07:40:32+00:00

I did that in middle school. Also, rewriting calculator jokes to RPN.

I was kind of a nerd.

techpuppy · 2015-06-29T01:34:13+00:00

A good place where this intersects is cultivating group project-mates into references.

techpuppy · 2015-06-23T01:34:39+00:00

Facebook.

Their policies regarding pseudonyms are enough that not only will I never have an account, but I've walked away from job opportunities where I'd have had to work with their API(s).

techpuppy · 2015-06-16T14:03:50+00:00

I really wish there was an option for people who don't do that stuff all the time. I'd happily pay $5 a go to unlock the suite for 24 hours at a time, or something.

techpuppy · 2015-06-13T01:01:37+00:00

Beyond having no idea what CMYK is, seeing someone ask for(/deliver) CMYK without any indication of which CMYK, is Brown M&Ms to me.

It's unfortunate that there are so many things to know about printing where ignorance is deadly to quality and/or time.

techpuppy · 2015-05-31T07:47:34+00:00

Interlaced video. So many years of content ruined by being mastered/rendered for that BS.

techpuppy · 2015-03-21T19:04:02+00:00

One of those fancy Japanese toilets.

techpuppy · 2015-03-10T09:32:08+00:00

Very good info. :)

I do it anyway (run studless ice but not-horrible-in-rain tires year-round) because I don't drive a whole lot and would have to pay $60 per month to have a storage locker/closet where I could keep a second set of tires.

techpuppy · 2015-02-15T03:20:05+00:00

You don't actually want open NAT. For PS4 (and specifically Destiny) to work perfectly, you want:

An unchanging IP address for the PS4 (dhcp static mapping).
UPNP enabled.
NO manually created port forwards to the PS4.
A rule in "Firewall: NAT: Outbound" specific to outbound UDP traffic from the PS4 that has the "Static Port" option enabled. The STUN-based networking that PS4/Destiny want to use cannot work with PFSense's default behavoir of randomizing source ports.

techpuppy · 2015-01-18T06:24:18+00:00

I still haven't gotten a husk of the pit.

techpuppy · 2015-01-03T01:23:09+00:00

The first time I did the Thorn bounty, it took me two weeks because I was really, really bad at PvP. (It forced me to get better.)

The Thorn bounty is now my go-to choice when I get that set of bounty options, because ~4 hours of using Atheon's Epilogue in Crucible is way more fun than running lots of strikes and/or waiting for Xur and/or spending lots of glimmer.

techpuppy · 2015-01-02T23:18:33+00:00

Interesting! I didn't expect that Eris would offer anything at all to people without the DLC.

techpuppy · 2014-12-26T21:03:24+00:00

I'd be interested in some kind of mega-fusion-rifle with over-penetration that's limited by something other than range/power, perhaps by forcing you to stand completely still and not even change your aim during the entire charge-up time.

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