Yeah he's a huge loser. He's somehow even dumber than most right wing influencers.
Chulk
joined 9 months ago
It's honestly been a while since I've logged on, because my friends don't play anymore. But some of the changes (which may be different than when I played last) that seemed like a departure in my eyes were:
- Faster burn speed -- this, in my eyes, was the turning point
- Necromancer solo trait (though I've heard that's been reworked since I last played)
- Adding silencers to tons of guns (on one hand I like this, but on the other hand part of Hunt Showdown was always balancing clear speed with loudness, at least in lower ranked lobbies). I understand that they have subsonic ammo now, which I imagine balances it out.
- Multiple ways to restore health chunks -- it used to be that you could only restore them by killing the boss, which made it easier to make mid-match decisions on whether to push people or not
- Fast Fingers trait, while cool in its own right, homogenizes guns like the Martini Henry, Springfield, and Sparks. It used to be that when someone missed me with a sparks, I knew I had 4 seconds to push.
- Surefoot trait allows you to sprint while healing and crouchwalk faster, thus speeding up gameplay and reducing the punishment of poor positioning
- Firebeetles allow people to not only scout from a higher position, but also force enemies to go loud with guns or have one of their healthchunks torched
- Levering was made faster and more accurate for some reason
Also Bounty Clash mode, while fun, seemed like an odd decision. It sped up the gameplay quite a bit and shook up the meta in ways that made it feel like an afterthought or an experiment. Though I didn't give it too much of a chance.
All of that being said, I still had a ton of fun with the game the last time I played it. I know others have a propensity to shit on all of the decisions that the devs make, and that's dumb. I'm glad it's still around and people still play it, but it's becoming less of my cup of tea. I also put like 1200 hours into it, so maybe I'm just a little burned out.
Yeah, Hunt Showdown was peak multiplayer for my friends and I about 2 years ago, but it's continually gone in a direction that has erased its identity. It used to be about map knowledge and patiently waiting for opportunities to punish opponent's mistakes. Now they're trying to make everything more fast paced. On one hand, I get it, because it was never going to break out of its core audience of veteran players. On the other hand, that core audience was what was keeping the game alive.
From the linked article
But VRT NWS said that 153 of the 1,000 recordings it listened to "were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command 'OK Google' was clearly not given."
15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were "inadvertant." I'd say that's pretty high.
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You seem to be operating under the assumption that Trump isn't an over confident idiot with terrible ideas. Unfortunately for your narrative, he's straight-up said that he wants to annex these places. So, Trump seriously believes that the USA can colonize Canada.
This is a feature; not a bug. We're entering a new dark age, and generative AI is the tool that will usher it in. The only "problem" generative AI is efficiently solving is a populace with too much access to direct and accurate information. We're watching as perfectly functional tools and services are being rapidly replaced by a something with inherent issues with reliability, ethics and accountability.