Ya, I think the information around arch’s difficulty is still rubber banding slowly. It hasn’t caught up with the times tbh. I run into some issues infrequently but like so did I on Windows. It’s also almost always proportional to how much I mess with the system. My mom could run Arch today if she wanted to.

I just swapped from proton to mailbox.org and I considered tuta heavily.

I chose mailbox over tuta because:

• tuta didn’t allow third party clients like thunderbird. Given I jumped to proton from Gmail and now mailbox from proton, I wanted to decouple as many systems as possible if I had to jump again.
• mailbox, if I’m remembering correctly, had better encryption properties except for their calendar. Tuta has an encrypted calendar, and now I’m looking into a self-hosted calendar system.

I think I would still recommend tuta to like my mother or something because it’s very clean and easy to set up and good enough. I’d recommend mailbox.org as a slightly harder alternative if you care about your calendar being encrypted.

I just want to remind everyone that even the best solutions can do better for the planet and for the workers in that production process.

That does not mean gas or oil or coal or hydrogen is good or better. In fact nearly everything that can be applied to green energy supply chains can be applied to fossil fuels with a multiplier.

I always think it’s better in an online discussion, when a subject doesn’t have overwhelming public support like climate change and green energy, to critique it with a clarifying contextual message like the one above. Just to quell any rational counter arguments or creating irrelevant conversation chains.

Hydrogen was never great, it’s always been an oil lobby play because the majority of hydrogen - as I understand it - is a byproduct of the oil process. It makes very little sense to lose efficiency creating a highly flammable substance, lose efficiency transporting and storing that substance, lose efficiency supplying that substance to the end consumer, and then finally lose efficiency extracting the remaining energy from the substance.

Hydrogen may make sense in some circumstances but it should not, and I’d even go so far as to say it will not, replace gasoline. Electricity is by far the best supplier of power long term.

Elon liking something should be a red flag into a subject because he has shown himself to be both uneducated and against humanities best interests. It’s not that Elon likes a thing therefore it’s bad. It’s that Elon likes bad things because Elon is bad, and therefore when you look into it it has a pattern of being bad.

This is the number one thing I would bring up tk the question “do we need more users”. We need more users if we want more niche communities, and I want more niche communities without having to post.

It’s a profoundly amazing game and amazingly innovative for a moba imo.

I would love to see a redesign of the major map conditions and raid bosses that require teamwork to accomplish but provide no system that requires it leading to a ton of bad behavior.

I’d love to see, sorta as you described, them turn into a PvE mode where the Arc are turned up to 11 and their unique rewards are all you’re really getting out with. This would be a good place to bring out and risk your best gear because instead of worrying about a never ending stream of rats, you can just worry about the large volume of arc while trying to accomplish the goal.

Like imagine if the raid bosses were PvE, the map was empty (because it was after another map’s countdown let’s just pretend), the Arc was omnipresent, and the raid boss guaranteed everyone who extracts 1 boss core (obviously the boss would still have more on it that was salvageable to reward players who actually fight and survive). I think that would be way better than the current implementation where they’re incentivizing players to 1) just break leg armor, get a core, leave 2) rat people who are doing the boss and steal their loot 3) rat the boss after it’s complete so people who did all the work get even less rewards.

I like what they’ve done with making it optional. I will say though I think it missed the mark of giving me the feeling of a real seasonal wipe. I didn’t get that magical feeling of playing with all my best gear, losing it, and then having that early game poor life style with everyone.

This is probably because:

• the 5 million goal had me selling everything and playing free kits for the last like two weeks, essentially soft resetting me before the hard reset. This sucked and I hope they never do this again.
• the season change came with zero new content or patches.Because nothing got added or changed or balanced it didn’t feel like a new season it felt like New Game+. Easily the worst season to season transition of a live service game simply because there was nothing new about this season. They dropped everything before the transition and so they became separated mentally. Even the mini event they had start before the expedition and that was a mistake.
• the flip side of the tight gun and gear balance, with very narrow banding, and a relatively quick jump from common to uncommon (and then rare where applicable) meant games didn’t feel drastically different between average end game kit and dirt poor. There wasn’t a bunch of people running around with ferros and kettles, anymore than there always is because free kits are so prevalent. And I barely feel advantaged with im walking around with a link augment, blue shield, and blue guns compared to someone with a stitcher and a green shield. Especially with how tightly packed some of the maps can feel.

All that to say, I think they should consider some changes on the economy and gun balance to make gear feel more deep and impactful. I think they absolutely need to improve their expedition system and season change over.

For the most part, yes. Not a guarantee but I played like ~50 some hours over winter break, all solo, all peaceful. Ended with like 3 deaths due to players.

It is, however, not smart enough to separate solo and party behavior. So if you play aggressive with your buddies but peaceful solo, there is a very painful transition period.

What a glorious future that will be. I got so close to getting a foldable this generation but I ended up getting a fairphone. It’s fine, but it’s far from my dream of unfolding a 76 inch OLED TV from my pocket 😔

This is a very terrible take. Arc Raiders has aggression based matchmaking. If you want to play PvE you can almost guarantee that. Play 10 games on a free loadout, shoot no one ever, defib a guy or bandage someone if you can, help them kill arc, extract peacefully. Tell the in-game survey you like it when you get out peacefully and tell it you hate it when you don’t get out because of pvp and you’ll super quickly find yourself essentially playing pve.

For the last two weeks I have played hundreds of rounds solo, talking in mic to anyone who walks by, and have been shot three times. In literally hundreds of slow to fast rounds, almost always a major map condition, Stella Montis or otherwise.

Most of your points are equally as bad, but like this alone is easily disproven.

What my country has done is despicable and should be condemned. I didn’t expect a spine from Merz. He’s proven to be a spineless danger to the German population.

I need to work on my German so I can understand the statement with its original intent, but justifying the attack against another nation in anyway is inexcusable.

I lol’ed. Danke.

If I ever win a lottery over $10M I’ll give away everything above $10M…

This is horrible, tragic news for Germany and it’s people. I hope the citizens of this country vote these people out of office before they allow their country to be destroyed.

I am almost always resting my arms when I’m playing on the steam deck. It’s not mandatory but it’s just more comfortable in general.

I think a ceiling would actually be healthy. I don’t love that we’re still pandering to the rich even with this summary. Still, it’s good to push any healthy message. I’m just saying it could be better. No one in the entire world needs more than 20 million dollars. No one. That should be the highest we allow, and even lower would be better.

I think that’s the surface level, rational reading, but I think the realistic reading is it was simply a kickback to fortune 500 companies that got these politicians elected. Haven’t we already funded at least one factory that ended up being smoke and mirrors?

Look man, I’m not gonna be your therapist. Get help, cause you talk crazy.

Bruh, this is a crazy, defensive rant. You’re defending multi-million dollar companies who are bad at their jobs and blaming the consumer who is getting poorer and poorer every year. Using COD as an example for normal, a famously repetitive franchise game whose developer is corpo as hell is not a good look. How many people at that studio are getting paid a good wage even relative to industry standard and not suffering burnout and other bad practices. Helldiver’s just proved that A) you can have something like 6x bloat for no reason which they themselves say will hardly impact HDDs B) this is largely technical incompetence as they vetted their initial assumptions and found them flawed.

This isn’t about them supporting HDD’s, they said they’ll barely be impacted. This is about a developer not knowing what they need to do to make a successful game and slowly figuring out what is unnecessary. If COD cared, they could lower it too.