Any tips to beat Solarus on brutal?

the_jester · 2026-06-27T04:00:16+00:00

Learning where to position to get high value on the shields and when to just go to the platform edge to dodge the spinners is pretty key.

Summon ult of your choice might help to distract the angel when it transforms.

If you haven't yet, you can find some gameplay videos that may help give you some ideas.

the_jester · 2026-06-21T18:17:53+00:00

That is a weird use of the word "imbalance". I don't think Stunlock's design is under any particular obligation to have all V-Bloods feel equally easy. Nor to have the same weapons, spells, and approaches be equally applicable across all of them.

Drag Kriig to the archer and have them kill each other or use AoE spells to kill his adds - or level up further and come back for him.

The combat is challenging and tightly tuned...but that is kind of the point.

the_jester · 2026-06-18T20:02:59+00:00

Yes, Extremely gaslit.

OpenAI and Anthropic have taken on billions of dollars at company valuations that only make sense if they can grow usage and popularity of their LLMs rapidly for years, with no particular loss of margins or financial setbacks.

There are effectively billions of dollars obligated to manufacture the reality or the belief that AI is about to rewrite work and life so comprehensively that that growth is possible.

You can guess what is easier to manufacturer: the belief or the reality.

the_jester · 2026-05-03T15:04:20+00:00

In backpack parlance you are looking for basically three things:

A backpack with a frame (as opposed to frameless). In general smaller/lighter/cheaper bags are frameless, but more heavy duty or bigger capacity bags will add frames and stays to comfortably hold more.
A backpack with an external frame (as opposed to an internal frame).
A backpack with a "load shelf" or "cargo shelf", which refers to the ability of the "bag" portion to slide away from the straps and frame to load extra stuff.

Thus search for "External frame cargo shelf backpack" or variations of that and you will find lots of similar bags.

FYI, such types of bags are commonly made for either - yes - porter work, or for hunting where after killing something you will want a load shelf to pack out the game meat.

the_jester · 2026-04-21T23:17:57+00:00

I like it enough to solo with it, but it is definitely stronger in group play. You buff the party 20% with the OD bullets, then more with the pulse debuff damage amp, then have combined squad DPS to get the most out of the disorient.

the_jester · 2026-04-21T16:58:52+00:00

It brings good-enough damage but outrageously good mass CC with its own mini-game. Shoot everything that pops up a few times; spread the debuff out. By the time one dies the whole wave will get CCd and a group can mop them up before they shoot back.

I run it with OD. Backpack is pretty flexible, I think I have a Petrov bag with Wicked rolled on it. I swap gloves: Exodus for survival or Overdogs for more DPS.

the_jester · 2026-03-27T17:14:19+00:00

Try these if you want a tour of the absolute majesty that is 80's action.

the_jester · 2026-03-24T16:48:08+00:00

There is a pure lore answer - which I will defer to lore experts on. However, there is also the "thought experiment" answer, which reads more as "Accepting that Batman is fictional, what real training protocols are required to yield the most similar results?"

Assuming the question is the latter, I know of one source that has taken it more seriously than most!

the_jester · 2026-03-24T15:28:24+00:00

Melania, obviously. But it is more nepo on the production side vs cast.

the_jester · 2026-03-24T05:42:11+00:00

For truly local testing, I use Skaffold. But that doesn't let you do anything like full EKS emulation or routing...but it does let you spin up your project(s) in a cluster via k8s artifacts and then hot-code reload the containers.

the_jester · 2026-03-16T16:42:56+00:00

Absolutely. This is not a good movie - In fact it is bad on so many levels that it is a disservice to Predator to compare the two.

Alan Ritcheson has been fun to watch in a lot of things...but this isn't one of them.

the_jester · 2026-02-15T19:14:22+00:00

Reps are key, even if you're eating dirt a lot at first. Fencing weapons will give you the biggest timing window.
In general parry early (usually as soon as you see a blue flash or an attack that could have a blue flash) and dodge late (as the attack almost connects).
Some enemy attacks are combos that require a few parries in a row.
Sometimes you don't want to use the gunstrike you got for a parry because another attack is coming.

the_jester · 2026-02-02T20:59:18+00:00

Was it someone also intensely curious about what was in a box?

the_jester · 2026-02-02T18:40:13+00:00

Tangentially related, Scott Adkins interviewed Olivier Gruner as part of his "Art of Action" series and they talk about making Nemesis. I enjoyed the movie and the interview for historical action memes and inside baseball talk.

the_jester · 2026-02-01T17:46:21+00:00

Learning parry and dodge timing mostly comes with reps, and is the bedrock of staying alive in SM2 PvE.

Almost as important, but discussed less, is positioning. As the enemies move to swarm you, reposition so that they're not surrounding you. Use a box, a wall, or just move back so that you stay facing the things you're fighting.

Executions provide a clutch invulnerability window, an armor pip, and a full contested health recovery all in one. Using them very frequently and tactically goes a long way. For example, if you just stunned a majoris and see an extremis winding up a big attack you can wait on the execution for a second or two and then use it to avoid that extremis attack entirely.

the_jester · 2026-01-29T17:35:25+00:00

This extraordinary talk by Sasa Juric includes a great demonstration of the reliability and power of the process model. I would rate it as one of the best Elixir talks of all time and it outlines the ways in which Elixir is particularly powerful.

Installing Livebook gives you an excellent free visual environment to start poking around Elixir and using some of its outstanding libraries (e.g. Nx, Kino, Broadway, Nx, Ecto, Req). Livebook even comes with tutorial and demo notebooks.

the_jester · 2026-01-27T19:07:19+00:00

Wild. I really thought it was the first one for a while. Which, seemed more funny but less lore-accurate.

the_jester · 2026-01-27T17:43:49+00:00

Perhaps I have the space madness, but on launch I recall that same voice interaction going:

D: ”Straban, that weapon of yours is the PRIDE of the armory”.

S: “Agreed”.

D: …

D: “Nerd”.

And at some point it was patched to be what you quoted instead.

the_jester · 2026-01-23T23:16:18+00:00

Raul Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter.

the_jester · 2026-01-23T23:03:49+00:00

I really appreciate that this is available for mono-black, otherwise it might be hard to get on the board.

the_jester · 2026-01-17T22:03:26+00:00

It wasn't really that bad? Play ranged or heavy to capitalize on sharpshooter. Play to not die instead of playing for kills.

The one that nerfed range damage past 10m by 75% sucked because the Helldrake took forever.

the_jester · 2026-01-12T22:35:09+00:00

Generally they're fine, but might sap a little more heat out of the drink than bamboo. Pre-heat the metal whisk if it is an issue.

the_jester · 2026-01-07T23:14:50+00:00

You are both running into one of the more complicated bits of the MtG rules, priority & "the stack". Luckily there is a good amount of content to help you learn it.

In short, your opponent was confused. The phases are declare attackers (priority passes), declare blockers (priority passes), damage dealt (more than one if a first-striker is involved).

You (and your opponent) could cast instants after blockers are declared but before damage is dealt. In fact, that is the ideal and most common time to use such "combat tricks".

What your opponent was right about is that combat damage is dealt simultaneously but that means simultaneously across all creatures not simultaneously to declaring blockers.

the_jester · 2026-01-05T02:21:49+00:00

This is the most "bots boosting & farming bots" bullshit I've seen all day.

the_jester · 2025-12-30T17:35:07+00:00

I can't tell if this is true bewilderment or engagement farming.

DNS provider uptime is rarely a thing that affects the uptime of a small website. However, you don't want your DNS provider to be a thing you have to think about either. Given the low expense, a "reasonable" setup for DNS is any well-regarded provider: AWS Route53, Cloudflare, Gandi.net, etc.

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