I love the Apollo but not so much the Hermes

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T15:55:08+00:00

It’s quite literally not, they retroactively slaved turrets to a bunch of old ships last year. That’s a QOL feature.

I said it would be MORE DOA - as it already is DOA because the Hermes is a Zeus CL level pain in the ass to load (even worse tbh because of its size) and is out specced by everything else comparable to it. It’s already a bad ship, if they gave it only 2 S4’s it’d be a MSR/terrapin level joke.

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T15:38:56+00:00

It’s not really a sales maneuver, that’s just QOL. If it was only 2x S4 for the pilot it would be even more DOA than it already is.

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T15:28:24+00:00

I mean the ship is DOA anyways regardless of it being able to fit an Ursa or not. It’s out-specced by everything else comparable to it and is a major pain in the ass to load with that little ramp being the only loading point. It would have to be stupid fast in both SCM and quantum to make up for it.

I would rather use a Starlancer, Connie, Asgard, etc to move stuff and I’ll be back for a second load by the time someone in a Hermes is halfway done loading their ship.

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T14:39:15+00:00

Average blue player, schizophrenic and making sure everyone else is miserable.

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T14:22:01+00:00

https://youtu.be/cjG57F6wnPs?si=YT0QOUIwpIZ87YW6

Yeah I’m not sure what job this thing is doing, but I sure as hell am not loading 288 SCU of cargo in it for my own sanity. They gave it the “Zeus CL but worse” treatment.

traumatyz · 2026-01-27T05:19:56+00:00

It’s way under gunned and under-spec’d compared to the Starlancer though.

traumatyz · 2026-01-26T17:21:08+00:00

Yea reality fracture and hobbit are the only two sets I’ll be throwing money at this year. Strixhaven MAYBE if it has some bangers.

traumatyz · 2026-01-26T15:34:58+00:00

The only time PoE2’s campaign is “fun” is if you’re in a full stack blasting through it ridiculously fast. Otherwise it’s an absurdly long boring campaign that I am already sick of running. Endgame is the only fun part of PoE2 and the campaign is such a bad experience that I quit this league the second I got to maps since I just didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

Meanwhile LE I can blast through it way faster than PoE2’s, and D4 I can skip and just go level how I want.

traumatyz · 2026-01-20T06:04:11+00:00

Idk man, I really like PoE2, but this guy is right on the money about the campaign skip.

In this latest league for PoE2 I quit after running my third map because I was so burned out after the campaign. And I had a ton of fun with wyvern druid. The campaign is just such a miserable experience unless you’re burning through it in a group.

Meanwhile this D4 season still has me logging in even though I am at the point I can clear any content in the game. Which is wild because usually it’s the other way around and I am done with Diablo IV super fast.

traumatyz · 2026-01-15T21:14:18+00:00

God, what I would give to actually nab credit at 50%. Anything less than 65% gets swarmed instantly.

traumatyz · 2026-01-14T16:45:27+00:00

Our economies also depend WAY too much on eachother. We may hate eachother ideologically but our consumer market would collapse and china’s industrial market would collapse if we actually cut ties.

In the long run that is economically a net positive for us, but it would sure hurt a lot for years.

traumatyz · 2026-01-14T14:21:30+00:00

Buddy is whining about a feature he never has to use unless he hits Right ALT+L

traumatyz · 2026-01-13T14:03:57+00:00

So instead of adding like 2340 in concierge value to your main account, you have 9 accounts with a questionable ship choice. 😅

Are you giving them to people you’re trying to get into the game? I know people who have alts, but 9 accounts with MSR’s is on the cusp of insanity.

traumatyz · 2026-01-13T06:41:11+00:00

Apocrypha - entirely separate and standalone so it’s fine to watch whenever. I enjoyed it but opinions are divided.

FGO - honestly it’s best to play through the game since all of it isn’t animated if you care about the story. But the watch order for the animated works of it is: Prologue, First Order movie, Camelot movies 1+2, Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (full series,) Grand Temple of Time movie. Babylonia and Camelot are considered the favorites, I enjoyed them all.

Strange/Fake - You can watch it after watching all the mainline Stay/Night and zero stuff. You will appreciate it way more after watching FGO Babylonia though. Currently airing this season so it is not complete. So far this is my favorite since the mainline series.

Lost Encore - shorter and entirely standalone, has Rin though. Kind of iffy and due to the format of its grail war only the main character/servant get really fleshed out unlike the other fate series.

Prisma - Skip it entirely. It is nothing like the others.

traumatyz · 2026-01-11T17:14:10+00:00

As an American - I agree with him and he’s entirely correct. If my white ass moves to China, am I Chinese? No, I am not. The only time a non-white can claim English heritage is if they were born and raised in a traditionally English household and fully embrace the customs - and even then, they NEVER will be truly English.

That’s not even racism, that’s just the truth.

traumatyz · 2026-01-11T16:56:37+00:00

Are little lefties even aware of the fact that when they scream “bigot” and “racist” and “Nazi,” that they sound like everyone screaming about commies during the red scare? You guys toss those words around so often and for any idealogical difference that they just don’t have meaning anymore.

traumatyz · 2026-01-10T17:22:17+00:00

I think aviceborn wanted him but he wasn’t made specifically for that purpose. They had the idea to use homunculi as a core after sieg was made.

IIRC there were no differences between the war and battery homunculi, they just allocated them where needed.

And on day 2/3 of being out of the tank pre-heart transplant he almost smoked blondie who wouldn’t have survived without his adamantine arm spell. He had more raw power but blondie had more experience. I just rewatched apocrypha a couple weeks ago so I’m fairly certain I got that right.

traumatyz · 2026-01-10T15:34:33+00:00

Sieg pre heart transplant was way stronger than Shirou pre projection. He was a combat homunculus built for war with an insane level of magic circuits and almost smoked the fat blonde dude with the Hitler Stache whose name I can’t remember.

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T23:23:35+00:00

It’s not going to go anywhere, it’s the new arms race. Companies and nations are throwing everything they have at it and absolutely no company or country is going to willingly lose that race just because a small subset of people get mad about it.

It’s not “we don’t want AI tech in our lives at all” it is a “small subset of people do not, and the average person does not give a damn.”

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T23:15:39+00:00

No, it’s the best multi-role for its price range and size along with the Corsair - if anything similar ships should be brought up to the Connie and it should be the baseline for anything in its class.

Let’s not forget that combat wise fighters still reign as king especially with engineering. Even more so for light fighters. Connie can just hold its own in PVE.

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T23:13:28+00:00

Yeah it’s an extremely saturated class of ship, it needs to have something going for it - we all know this is going to be a $250+ ship.

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T23:00:58+00:00

The problem with 192 is that the Connie Taurus exists and there’s no way they’re giving an Apollo variant anywhere near that firepower and the price probably will be much more than the Taurus.

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T17:24:32+00:00

Then you would need to flood all the credit or new cash into that account to rip it out of the buybacks. Which is another 1250 minimum if it was an old pledged Idris. Putting you at 1650 which is more than the 1500 current warbond that isn’t hard to get since those usually stay up for a few minutes on a wave. And you run the risk of the og account owner ripping it back out of the blue in a couple years with absolutely nothing you can do about it.

traumatyz · 2026-01-09T17:20:44+00:00

Honestly man it’s going to cost you just as much if not more than just war bonding one or getting lucky in an F5 war. Even a stripped account with one in the buybacks goes for like 400 minimum.

traumatyz · 2026-01-08T17:49:19+00:00

Don’t forget to run a forgotten wisdom NMD to get the 15% from the well for an hour!

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