Lurker > DuneMan

Remember, the ideal candidate will have 10 years of experience doing that exact job and be willing to accept half the pay of their last position.
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It's okay, I'm sure a WH intern will trip over his foot and claim assault and battery for injuries sustained from impacting the floor.
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L0Z posted...

A scorch beast destroyed my 3 story house for no fucking reason

Did you have generators or turrets attached? The creatures in 76 hate noisy objects.
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It's something like:
Expert - you deal 75% damage and receive 150% damage
Master - you deal 50% damage and receive 200% damage
Legendary - you deal 25% damage and receive 400% damage

Dealing less damage also makes it harder to raise certain skills, like Destruction, because you're getting less experience due to dealing less damage. At the same time it makes other skills like Illusion and Conjuration that much better, because they aren't affected by difficulty and summons deal full damage.
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mach25687 posted...

So no npc now or in a future update?

They've stated that the other Vaults will open in the future. At least one of them appears intact and should have people inside. It would behoove Bethesda to do a 'rebuilding West Virginia' story arc complete with the introduction of human NPCs over the next year or two while they're still supporting the game.
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Democrats are still playing catch up though, as Republicans moved on from local seats of power to stacking the courts with 'activist judges' that will tow the party line in perpetuity.
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The midterms are over. He doesn't care. I mean, he might still ramble about the caravan at his rallies to throw some bones to his base, but putting forth effort to remember the sacrifices of the troops? Nah, he'd rather be indoors eating a cheeseburger.
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Traditional gamers might see a crash, while developers try to one-up each other for mobile microtransaction dollars. The profit margins for a successful microtransaction platform are too good for publishers to pass up.
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ToPoPO posted...

DuneMan posted...

But I thought people said VR is the future. So, obviously Mobile and VR will have to hash it out Thunderdome style before one or the other can claim to be the future. :P

Mobile and VR aren't exclusive either

So, you're going to give Apple $3,000 for some form of iVR Phone?
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"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

But I thought people said VR is the future. So, obviously Mobile and VR will have to hash it out Thunderdome style before one or the other can claim to be the future. :P
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OverlordHorizon posted...

Life sucks. Why couldn't he be immortal? Dammit...

Born 200 years too early...
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Muffinz0rz posted...

On the while, how the fuck is TMZ always first with this shit

They probably have a room filled with interns whom follow social media feeds all day.
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X-Pac_Heat posted...

I thought he'd make it to 100

With the death of his wife last year the odds of him making it to 100 plummeted.

Still, 95 is a full lifetime.
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GregShmedley posted...

Are we arguing why a 30 round magazine should or shouldn't be banned or are we debating about convincing others?

They're intertwined in a sense. If you want 30 round magazines you're going to have to convince people about why you should have them. But it's also something of a tangent. Guns are so prolific, and many of them sort of float about loosely in private hands will little oversight, that people use it as a fire line to deny any form of gun control.
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Lies nothing, it's who he is. His anger is palpable at times. And yeah, everything about Gamergate is trash. That whole thing was a dumpster fire.
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

There's lots of conservatives in rural CA. Maybe he could help them!

I doubt he knows about that.
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Balrog0 posted...

I like Adam Sessler, what was wrong with him?

He's an angry drunk for one. Second, he has some involvement with the whole Gamergate shenanigans. He also had a short acting career featuring in, possibly among other things, some terrible horror films.
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GregShmedley posted...

(unless we are talking about a bear or something).

Maybe if your shotgun has a slug loaded. Pellets do little else other than stun a bear and piss it off even more. Youtube has some fun videos of that...

GregShmedley posted...

Why are we trying to MAYBE reduce death counts in mass shootings by taking measures thay impact law abiding citizens?

Ideally those measures would be done in conjunction with other methods, like shoring up mental health research and treatment. But you're going to have a hard time convincing some people about why you want a 30-round magazine on your weapon when weapons are featured practically every week in the US as part of a mass shooting. If gun crime drops then I'm sure legislators from conservative states will seek to do away with restrictions.
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Maybe he's afraid Gavin Newsom is gunning for the White House in 2020...
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GregShmedley posted...

You act like there aren't instances of multiple attackers.

An autoload shotgun will serve you well there.

And, just to clarify, the main point in potential bans of stuff is limit the rate at which people are killed in mass shooting events. Sure, a shooter can carry ten 10-round magazines, but they aren't going to be killing a dozen people when they have to reload every 6-12 seconds.
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Dyinglegacy posted...

I'm also skeptical that there might actually be human NPCs at some point.

There will be. Bethesda tweeted out a picture of a letter confirming that the other Vaults on the map will open, and that there will be faction-level PVP in the future.
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Paragon21XX posted...

now many anti-gun groups are talking about banning semi-automatic weapons next.

That I don't see happening. If they did that there would be a Red Tsunami in Washington where Republicans would get 80% of the popular vote. One fact often overlooked is that a number of liberals enjoy guns as well.

As for the ballistics profiling and record of sales it needs to extend beyond the person who initially purchases a weapon at a shop. So for example, if a person takes a gun from their brother and shoots someone with it the police can go straight to the brother and grill him about his firearm being used in a first degree murder. Right now, looking at things from a top level perspective, the US has millions of guns circulating without oversight. We don't even have electronic records. People have to effectively sift through filing cabinets by hand to look for stuff.

GregShmedley posted...

Not even close. A foregrip has nothing to do with the rate of fire or capacity.

The second part is true, the first part is not. Foregrips are designed to maintain accuracy while firing at a rapid rate. They're not needed for sport shooting or personal defense. Their purpose is in assaulting an interior space; or if you want to spin it a different way in fending off a full scale assault in that same interior space.
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AlephZero posted...

"Obtained from family or a friend" is not a legal private party sale.

Also not the point. If the weapons had their ballistics profiles on record at the time of their initial sale, along with information about the initial buyer, it would help law enforcement quickly zero in on suspects.
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OBCD posted...

My probation officer came into my home like they always do and searched around and confiscated all my weapons. Why is something like this not practical/applicable FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE DANGEROUSLY, MENTALLY ILL?!?!

Usually in those cases they give the guns to family members, who then give them right back. Several mass shooters have had their weapons temporarily given to family members. So even in cases of people being mentally unstable the government does not 'come for your guns', it just hands them off to your parents/aunts or uncles/or siblings.
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Paragon21XX posted...

I know, right? Imagine not recognizing the entire bill as being "political fluff" designed as the first step in progressively curbing the rights of gun owners until all that is left are single-shot guns that take a minute to reload ("but they can still own guns, so we didn't actually infringe on their 2nd amendment rights!").

That slope is slippery AF.

GregShmedley posted...

No, I'm just wondering why you think a ban on "military grade attachments" is necessary and not considered political fluff. Why shouldn't a civilian be able to attach a foregrip?

It's the same argument for why you don't need a 30-round drum magazine on your shotgun. Or why you don't have access to belt-fed automatics and bipods. Those features are targeted because they serve only one purpose in their design, to help rapidly kill human beings.
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AlephZero posted...

DuneMan posted...

and of those 40% being obtained through a legal private party sale, comes from the DoJ.

This is also not true.

Calling BS on that:
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
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AlephZero posted...

Posts like this are why there can never be an honest discussion about gun laws.

In what way? Where's the part about the government coming for your guns? The 'Assault Weapons Ban of 2018', aside from targeting AR/AK and SPAS-12 styled weapons largely deals with high capacity magazines, military grade attachments like foregrips and bipods, or specialized ammo like jacketed rounds or incendiary rounds. So, yes, singling out models is a kneejerk reaction, but that can taken out of the bill.
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GregShmedley posted...

I'm curious and mean no disrespect but how much do you actually know about firearms and firearm-related death statistics?

Usually when people mention the former they're attempting to disqualify statements made by others if they don't include specific vocabulary terms. That's deep into fallacy territory.

As for the latter, the Department of Justice posts those statistics online, and they're viewable by anyone with an Internet connection. The figures I cited above about 80% of weapons in the possession of a criminal at the time of their offense being handguns, and of those 40% being obtained through a legal private party sale, comes from the DoJ.
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So reading that Bill it seems to be targeting high capacity magazines and military-grade attachments. E.g. that private citizens aren't rolling around with MP5's with foregrips in their vehicles, ready to spray down citizens.

The exception being the bit about AR modeled weapons. That part is indeed political fluff. The SPAS-12 stuff comes across as political fluff as well since other autoload shotguns are exempt.

To spin that as the government coming for your guns is disingenuous.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Cept your semi-auto rifles.
And magazine outside the grip pistols.
And guns without micro-printing firing pins.
And guns etc etc etc

ie shut the fuck up if you can't come with honesty and integrity.

Can you give specific cases showing those examples? If not one can only assume this is more along the lines of "OMG scary brown person caravan coming with criminals, think of the women who want security!" That last bit was Trump's rhetoric, suggesting indirectly that the caravan is coming to rape white women.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

"no one is trying to take your guns" you're already being a dishonest actor and there is no discussion to be had with you.

They're coming for your high capacity magazines, not your guns.
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A good start, which means it wouldn't be seriously discussed, would be for all private sales to go through background checks. Or, at bare minimum, for handguns to go through that process. I'd be in favor of a ballistics record being made as well. Plus fingerprints being taken of the buyer.

80% of firearms in the possession of a criminal are handguns. Of those, 40% are purchased legally through private party sellers. So knowing who is purchasing them, having that record, would greatly simplify things for the police if the ballistics profile of that weapon are present at a crime scene. So that one step would account for a third of such weapons.

Of course some people would hoot and holler at the thought of there being a record of the weapon's ballistic profile and of their fingerprints. Yet I bet some of those same people would be the ones calling for stringent Voter ID laws, requiring specific government issued IDs with a valid street address, and yet still claim that 'millions of people are voting illegally'.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

Lmao I hadnt heard anything about the game before watching this

Wtf

Some of the stuff in that video is misleading, or stems from a misunderstanding.

For an example of the misleading stuff, he's using a melee variant of the Moleminer, an enemy that is purposely stubby-legged and slow, to show how easy the game can be. What he doesn't show is that other Moleminers use Shotguns or Missile Launchers to kill players in 1-2 hits. Bethesda even toned down the shotgun damage because people were getting OHKO'd left and right. That's before you get into the aerial enemies that bomb players with AoE blasts and carpet the zone in a poisonous mist.

For an example of a misunderstanding, he saying that the weapon modding menu is empty. That's because the game wants you to Scrap duplicate weapons to unlock mods. And yes, that stems from the MMO style of the game. The same goes for unlocking stuff to build at the Camps. The game wants to drip feed you content over weeks and months. If that isn't your thing, know that going in and perhaps pass on the game.

That said, there are beta issues, and will be issues at launch. There is that feeling of the Scorched being lazily cut and paste into areas when Bethesda is unsure what to do with the zone. They'll toss in a half dozen Scorched and call it a day. That will likely change over time because people will complain about it until that happens. Enemy respawns do need work too. Much like the revenge respawn system operating too close to the player, enemy respawns can occur too close to players. For example, if you kill some Super Mutants and go into a train station to do business with the Vendor Robot inside there's a good chance the Super Mutants respawn outside and bushwhack you while you're trading.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Everything you build disappears when you log out.

This is at least a half truth. Your personal Camp logs out with you, and if something else occupies the space when you log in then everything goes into the Stored menu as a deployable blueprint. Your Camp is similarly packed up into the Stored menu when you move it.

The only thing you lose control of are the public Workshop spaces, because they're meant to generate extra resources, and serve as a possible source of PVP.
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Kitt posted...

I'll just leave this here:

That bit with Sessler telling the intern that he drinks now... That was a bit of real life injected into the skit. Sessler loves the sauce.
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Zygoptera posted...

it lacks gender neutral pronouns

This might be the bait on the hook, but some people just use 'they' in those cases, even if it's singular.
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pres_madagascar posted...

But the multiplayer is apparently pointless. Pvp is 1v1 only and assures the initiator is the loser. Co op is pointless because of how easy the game is, and you give up half your loot by bringing someone else along with you.

Did you pull that out of your backside? Unstructured PVP might be done in an individual basis, but structured PVP will vary. For example, there's a 4 player stalking mode where each player is assigned someone to hunt while a different player attempts to hunt them. If you attempt to take over a Workshop claimed by another player it starts a quest for the player or teams to fight each other. The only problem right now, which is easily corrected, is that they don't have a limit on the revenge spawning and it places players too close to where they died.

Also, on the topic of loot EVERY container and corpse is instanced for each player. So a team of 4 gets 4 times the rewards from those sources, plus rewards for whatever quest or event they just completed. The only thing that isn't shared are loose items laying out in the world. Those will respawn when everyone has left the area.

Last there's difficulty... which is wildly dependent on the area and enemies being fought. Killing the zombie-like Scorched 1-2 at a time isn't an issue. But if you walk into a zone where a bunch are in hiding your gunshots will bring out a dozen or more, which can easily overwhelm one player. That's before you get to zones with higher level enemies like Anglers or Wendigos. It's also important to note that any footage from the event at the Greenbriar had the game difficulty specially smashed down through the floor so people at IGN could play.
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Just record the shows and fast forward. I've seen them put 3 separate commercial breaks over the course of 6 minutes of the program, to where you spend more time in the commercials than the show.
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They're super serious. There's a big push on CW for women creating content to empower women. That's why you see the women's studies teacher with all daughters fighting to keep a predator male professor off campus in the first few minutes of the episode, to go along with the male demon that drains strong women, talk of white cis males complete with a white cis male classmate that exists solely to be despised, and the rest.

One sister wants to join a sorority and engages in a heterosexual relationship, but she gets shit on for the sorority bit and dumps the guy before long. The 'down with the patriarchy' sister continues her rocky lesbian relationship. The third sister is sort of feeling out a potential heterosexual relationship, but that's a tossup at the moment.
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Touch posted...

I remember when it took actual time and effort to get 1000 kills in a Dynasty warriors game

Look back on DW2 and the contrast is quite stark. Back then everything was so grounded. If you cut through a thousand soldiers you actually had to hack through them 1-3 at a time. The game in that video is more like Dragon Ball-Lite.
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nevershine posted...

Yes, but you still have to have a lot of strength to pull off what they do

And to add to that, they do get physically beat and battered despite doing choreographed moves designed to minimize injury.
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ledbowman posted...

Its worth noting that the reliability of polygraph tests has been heavily scrutinized in recent years.)

This is a tangent, but that is as it should be. Polygraph tests are pseudoscience garbage. Law enforcement, for example, use them as a pressure tactic. They've known the tests are garbage, back as far as at least the 1980's. But you get a suspect in a holding room that is several degrees warmer than is comfortable, fill their head with thoughts about this 'rigorous scientific instrument' and suddenly confessing their crimes in hopes of a lighter sentence looks far more attractive. Conversely, sociopaths can pass lie detector tests with flying colors even as they lie their asses off. The only thing the test does is look at physiological factors, like sweating. If you're comfortable you pass, if you have something as simple as an itch on your butt then the gauges spike like crazy and that is taken as a lie.
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WB put a copyright notice out for that footage.
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There are a few potential problems:
- slapping a vaguely female face on what is otherwise a male character displeases just about everyone as, whether they admit it or not, everyone enjoys characters that are aesthetically pleasing, the concept of sexiness also becomes a problem as one segment thinks anything less than a burka is objectification even as they themselves choose to wear revealing items or use makeup as both items can make them feel confident in public

- if you allow a female character to lose control of a situation at some point in the story certain segments will automatically cry sexism, even if said character is completely dominant of their surroundings for 95%+ of the story, but conversely if you don't allow some vulnerability(even in token amounts) you're left with a completely unrealistic and dreadfully boring Mary Sue

That's why it's generally best to just avoid the most egregious stuff with female characters and let the story play out normally, accepting that voices on the fringe will grumble and make noise.
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Vertania posted...

She's right, but it's not because of the wall.

Notti posted...

Broken clock.

Pretty much this. Crush and replace Republicans. Spineless Democrats can then be molded as needed. A wider problem though is that there are essentially two completely divergent 'realities' in America, depending on whether you watch Fox News and the other spinoffs or not. People have culturally segregated themselves into like-minded enclaves. In nature this would eventually lead to two distinctly different species. Something has to give though, and that something will necessarily be the Republican Party as it stands today. There's no future in what they're doing.
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Well, if you got through Dead Wind Cavern then the rest of the vanilla game won't even begin to challenge you.

Did you get through the Courier's Mile in the Lonesome Road DLC? That's the final challenge of the game. If you can clear that place of all its nonsense then you're officially unstoppable.
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It works the other way too. In Skyrim the Master level Shield Charge perk would simply stop working after a time. This same perk appeared in Fallout 4 1,200 days later in the form of Pain Train and the same glitch is still present.
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PS3 version... oof!

If you're going to continue playing on that system there are a few things you can do: disable auto-saves, save on separate files, delete older files as you go.

Oh, and it's a good idea to loot weapons from slain enemies and put them back on the corpse. Similarly, avoid using energy/plasma weapons. Don't loosely drop items in the world either. The game won't remove those things from the world, which leads to save bloat as you play. This will make the game increasingly unstable the longer you play.
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Mucked about in Fallout 4 and in that game the VATS and Crouch buttons shift quantities by 5% when pressed. So if you had 2,000 rounds of .38 caliber and wanted to sell 1,000 you'd tap the button 10 times in the trade window.
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It's been a while, maybe that was something Bethesda introduced into their engine later. I mostly remember it for quickly selling arrows in Skyrim. When you have 1,000+ arrows you don't want to scroll one item at a time. So holding one of the keys while selecting item increments would jump by 10% or so.
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"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao