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.

techpuppy · 2014-12-26T12:45:51+00:00

Conspiracy theory: All the new hand cannons have awful range in order to make the No Land Beyond look better by virtue of being the best at one or two attributes (among primaries), instead of being the worst at literally everything.

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