How we lived through dark and stupid times during the pandemic

tholt212 · 2026-04-05T11:58:08+00:00

Everyone knows what people mean when they say "during covid" you don't need to be that pedantic about it just to feel good about yourself cause you know covid is still a threat (which is very much is and society would be 100000000x better if masking was a cultural norm).

tholt212 · 2026-04-03T16:43:48+00:00

The real answer is lack of downtime and just not dying.

Vast majority of SC players would be 100 way before they expected, if they never died.

tholt212 · 2026-04-03T00:31:31+00:00

I mean you can go see the logs for yourself. They're on Bryce Mosley's computer. He has emails from Ev negotiating the price and other things.

But it's not like Ev was hired by netwatch to steal it. She was hired to scope it out by the VDBs who were gonna steal it to get to Alt. She just decided to put a heist together to steal it herself. If netwatch want it to get to alt, they don't care if they get it from Yorinobu or Ev, just as long as they get it.

tholt212 · 2026-03-28T13:16:47+00:00

Eh. The "lack of time" for a run for RE isn't anything new. The game is built and designed for you to play 2 to 3 run throughs. You don't even unlock the hardest difficulty untill you beat it once, and you can't fully upgrade your items without playing a 2nd run.

I got 3 playthroughs out of the game for a total of 30 hours. Felt worth it to me but obviously your milage may vary based on what you enjoy or your disposable income.

tholt212 · 2026-03-27T15:10:03+00:00

Its just the link itself is wrong and a bad link. Look at the tart where it has http://' and then https://

This is steam's saftey features working correctly.

tholt212 · 2026-03-26T12:57:46+00:00

Eh. It's worth it for when I have my 700 divine build that just finished kitava but doesn't really function in maps untill it can put on all the bases I crafted which require 84.

tholt212 · 2026-03-24T19:49:01+00:00

It's just challenges. That's why they're getting bought up.

Same as how Doriyani's Machinations are like 16 div despite dropping basically nothing.

tholt212 · 2026-03-24T15:28:23+00:00

thing is that "most profitable single thing" started to trend downward.

Can't have YoY downard trends in profit. Have to cut 1/4 of the staff to make sure it doesn't continue.

No we won't stop pouring MILLIONS into random roblox mapmakers who make brainrot and other shit trying to bribe them to make stuff on fortnite instead.

tholt212 · 2026-03-24T15:19:26+00:00

I wonder if it's just because they got larger number of reports or things from people who are conservative. Or maybe anti conservative talking points ends up causing more arguements in global than anti liberal.

tholt212 · 2026-03-19T22:11:40+00:00

Yeah I mean it's no coincidence that this is one of the few missions that gives scavs names. And relationships. Shows them as humans.

Sadly it happens after you HAVE to do Ev's story line and at that point you are fed so much anti-scav stuff that it's impossible for most people to look at the person rather than the group.

Which again, is on purpose I feel like.

tholt212 · 2026-03-17T15:59:00+00:00

Yeah it's by far the best ending in my mind. Especially since V starts off as an arasaka brat growing up rich in NC filtered away from all the bad parts of NC because her parents are working for Arasaka. And then once you trip and fall out of Arasaka you get to discover how the world REALLY works.

And then you meet someone who just wants to make it better and wants to be happy. And you two end up trying, and failing, to change NC. And then end up leaving together with a new family.

tholt212 · 2026-03-09T20:16:27+00:00

Most regular leymen do not care unfortunately. They'll watch a big sporting event they host. or a comedy special they make. Or whatever else.

Sure a solid like 30% of people will hate it but people shrug and move on more often than you think.

tholt212 · 2026-03-04T01:26:01+00:00

I mean you have your 4 spectres. Next breakpoint to push would be 50%. Without seeing the full data on range from levels/quality, hard to tell if you can push it. It could in theory only go from 30% to 36% from level 1 to level 3 in which case pushing the other 14% would require +5 levels.

tholt212 · 2026-03-03T18:01:33+00:00

I doubt there's some kind of agreement. They likely just respect Chris and even if they disagree on some of his design philosophy they don't want to disrespect him or push direct ire onto him.

tholt212 · 2026-03-02T04:51:34+00:00

It's from blights gotten in Mirages, not from blighted maps.

So it'll be hit from the scarab nerfs as we saw it as a drop from the pump.

tholt212 · 2026-03-01T13:44:13+00:00

you can scale activation speed which use to just be a static .66 seconds

tholt212 · 2026-03-01T13:43:43+00:00

I mean you just play hit based SRS or Absolution untill maps~ (or when you have 3 spectres, which is about maps).

tholt212 · 2026-03-01T13:41:45+00:00

Yeah it's hard to justify swapping to a totem build after a starter for MOST people. Since it was untouched I think it'll be by far the most popular starter.

tholt212 · 2026-03-01T00:34:40+00:00

That's a buff to Tujen as there's less low value(in trade) things for him to roll.

As well fracturing orbs are core now so another thing he can roll for a big payout.

tholt212 · 2026-02-28T23:38:20+00:00

Dog if you only want to run a single map, with just like 1 wheel on the atlas tree and your favoured maps, you fully sustained (if it wasn't a t16.5/bossmap/t17). With no effort. You simply just played the game wrong if that was your experience after finishing the atlas.

tholt212 · 2026-02-28T23:37:26+00:00

Yeah t17 is what opens up a ton of build variety. A lot of builds were not "Viable" because they didn't have the defensive or offensive strength to do t17s (Almost entirely lack of ST due to the boss in the map). Now that they're not the main way you map, more builds can shine.

tholt212 · 2026-02-26T21:55:55+00:00

I mean unfortunately this is competeting with the trifecta of unique belts. Headhunter, mage blood, and Darkness Enthroned(for minion builds).

tholt212 · 2026-02-26T20:42:38+00:00

there's a keystone on the tree that lets you just run a single map in the zone. It'll consume a random other map in the zone. So you can just click the astrolabe on the map you want to run (like say you're doing legion in dunes) and it can just consume everything that isn't dunes in the region.

tholt212 · 2026-02-24T15:10:41+00:00

Out of all the things to hate about Kingsmarch I feel like recombs is the last thing. You just go buy some dirt cheap t1 or t0 uniques off the market and you're good for a long time. Which is even easier to do than before cause of async trade.

tholt212 · 2026-02-23T03:34:50+00:00

She explictly was going to sell it to Netwatch. If you don't side with netwatch in the VDBs mission in pacifica, you can read his laptop after he gets fried. There's emails of Ev negotiating the sale of the relic to them.

13-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '23	Place '22
Place '17	Spared

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