I played a lot back in the day, some 850 hours in it.

You’re not bad, probably. Its more like you’re not making the same handful of useful archetypes that “work” and/or you’re falling for the few noob trap perks-weapons-build styles in the game.

Meta spoiler aside I can confortably say that as a basic “get good” principle, BB is not a game that rewards actual difficult fights i.e the risk-reward is far too skewed towards the risk side, its almost never worth to take 2x your size fights vs opponents of equal tier(e.g raiders) before day 30-40, even 1.5x is pushing it for noobs. Also important point early fights even 1-2 raiders are enough to make a fight difficult, don’t underestimate 2h weapons, pikes etc. If you see 3 raiders with 2h weapons on day 10 its no go unless you had a great start already imo

You’re supposed to take just the fights you win comfortably until you pass a threshold e.g your first few lvl 7-8 bros with 2h weapons, your first couple nimble bros. At that point you have to graduate to taking harder fights, you severely outmatch most enemies so you can do multiple camps in a row without issue, but not earlier as there is no reward for losing a bro and getting rng loot.

For new players its always best to stay near the towns, do brigand camps early(camps scale in difficulty based on distance from towns), do the knife meta, then when you get a few 80+ armor frontline then you passed the “tutorial”.

Whatever you do avoid 3* contracts, avoid caravan contracts and beasts, do take deliver cargo to a city you’re going to anyway.

Never touch goblins until late game, Ancient undead are seldom worth it.

The least spoilery way to talk about building is just don’t do the whole everyone gets a shield noob trap. BB rewards a distinction between offensive and defensive roles. No compromises unless you know what you’re doing(spoiler meta builds).

Yeah over the years I come and go at this game but I always inevitably crash out due to RNG. Its a great game, but its also a rogue like where sometimes it feels the “good” run is just the one where you hit all the 50% hits, at that point over the years it got less fun. It still is worth hundreds of hours to get to that point though.

Downfall/Hitler react meme but its him drawing up a plan to take the name back to glory after current news.

Russia and DPRK are allies, this is far from a meme, heck it wouldn’t even be surprising to me at this point.

I care more about what he actualy does than campaign promises or speeches, way too many people are more invested into making the correct call than just seeing the consequences. Specialy the shitty self-defeating arguments against the western left, the same old cliche some people love to use as if it justifies or explains anything.

Miss me with this hypocritical garbage when literaly not a single BRICS country actualy stands up to Israel or worse China and others actively collaborate with them, where exactly is this grandiose global south left that stands up against Israel? In principle they exist and perform very nice gestures, yet have achieved zero actual efficacy or power to do anything. Sounds familiar?

This site is built on top of fucking Xi emotes, the same guy who also literaly shakes hands with Biden and Kissinger but Zohran should be hanged for a speech because he is no longer saying kill all the zionists in one speech because its “the western left” that sucks or is “desperate”. Principled anti-zionists should be burning BRICS flags along with US and EU flags but nah.

I do wish he wouldn’t fumble his PR too but IMO what matters is what people do not what they say, this should be the first lesson anyone should have learned from these almost 2 year genocide. The legitimately worrisome things he already did like hiring that one Dem advisor into his campaign a couple weeks ago, that is the sort of bad action that matters right now not silly speeches.

This guy is a genius, omg thank you so much this is the best slop I’ve read in months.

But, Isn’t The Cost Of Inference Going Down?

You do not have proof for this statement! The cost of tokens going down is not the same thing as the cost of inference goes down! Everyone saying this is saying it because a guy once said it to them! You don’t have proof! I have more proof for what I am saying!

While it theoretically might be, all evidence points to larger models costing more money, especially reasoning-heavy ones like Claude Opus 4. Inference is not the only thing happening, and if this is your one response, you are a big bozo and doofus and should go back to making squeaky noises when you see tech executives or hear my name.

I’m adding this guy to my regular reading list, he is awesome.

This is legitimately one of the most important ones so far.

I mean I wrote unrealistic but realy meant more like impossible honestly.

Taiwan nukes is not something that can be pushed without public support. It would have to start with a complete 180 on their current civilian nuclear power position, see nuclear free homeland. If it goes this route I’m not even sure China would oppose a Taiwan nuclear energy program, not like they have power to stop it without incredible bad look.

I disagree on this threshold, it would need to be much higher, unrealisticaly higher e.g Cuban crisis 2.0 with US nukes on Taiwan. Maybe that would get China to engage on some level, but even then they would try other methods first.

Army bases on Taiwan are irrelevant, I don’t get what would be special about them considering it is still an island, considering the vast distance from US mainland and considering its extremely easy to cut off. Put 10k US soldiers on Taiwan and all they’ll accomplish is to be like that WW2 Japanese soldier still fighting alone 20 years later or something.

That is perfectly fine, yes its tough sometimes e.g the ukraine war chuds on YT I used to watch included Russians and non-native English speakers too. If the channel was a native English speaker would that solve the issue for you? This got nothing to do with the format-length complaint here.

The issue is they’re not a writer, they’re a YT channel, if you prefer an article why even click a YT link in the first place? As I said, a huge mountain of entitlement here.

Someone takes a lot of effort to research and edit a video and if you don’t care for the format that is fine. But saying “the issue is its a 25 minute video” implies the solution is everything should be a tiktok video. Brainrot entitlement shit.

If you haven’t noticed Luna is pretty much an OG global south channel that exists longer than hexbear. Someone could have said “good but I don’t like essays” and leave it at that.

Entitled and useless complaint, I`m sorry but demanding content creators change their entire format to suit your personal preferences? Are we so devolved that 25 minutes is too much?

Either you care about a topic or you don’t. You can’t summarize Israel-Palestine in 5 minutes, you can’t summarize Ukraine in 5 minutes. Why do you think it can be done here?

In any case like just google it then and you`ll find the social media slop you want. Her style is fine, you can watch 12 minutes twice if you care and if you don’t then its not like she is the only source.

Why would she need to hurry up so much and “be done with it”, so she can move on to another 5 minute slop? So much wrong here.

Apparently LLMs love to use “enigma”

“tapestry” is definitely an AI word

Not realy sure this AI detector shit is that easy and that is why AI sucks so much too IMO.

I can see it in a vacuum, if the argument is a failed attempt leads to a bigger setback than waiting for the perfect opportunity. It is a fallacy though, it assumes there would be a better revolutionary attempt and it assumes you’ll just accurately determine when is the perfect opportunity for the revolution which is a huge flaw in reasoning.

Things like WW2 changed the USSR’s path entirely, and WW2 itself got dozens of small to large scale events that could change history. I can imagine the world would be vastly different if Korea and Japan were unified socialist territories, the cold war without US nuking Japan etc…

I don’t think its wrong to say we are further away from world socialism in 2025 than we were in 1991 but in an alternative universe we would be sitting here waiting those same 100 years since 1917 for the revolution that never came, that is 100 of those 200 years already gone.

They were though, HL3 was a huge meme, its just that millennials are old now lol, the people who begged for HL3 are like 35, even 40+ already, like who cares at this point.

Whatever side you pick I don’t think either of them intersects with “but its the reactionary capitalist western payment processors who get the final say actualy”.

Pretty much, 5-10 years from now once climate change starts getting realy bad we’ll see war and fascism everywhere, the neoliberal order collapsing, all the naive idiotic BRICS-BRI stuff leading to nothing and geopolitical commentators will be like “is this a plot against China?”

Yes the US wants to actively work for this, but China’s stability as you put it is also deeply invested into the monstrosity of the current neoliberal globalized world economy, it depends upon the maintainance of the current status quo and we know for a fact this wont last. People don’t need US influence to fight when climate change starts to get even worse.

I don’t want to defend the guy, but yeah there is a difference PDP is a Gamer, Hasan is definitely not. Apart from sharing some interest in Japan I don’t think there is any overlap between them. Hasan even used to stream games but stopped like 6 months ago or something, he doesn’t even stream games anymore.

I don’t think he means “political” as in “I disagree with him” honestly, I’ve seen him openly shit on his own western-white brit culture numerous times. Maybe its self depracating humor, but that is not what right wing does at all. I just think if that is true(I don’t watch Trash Taste) its probably because Hasan is not realy a weeb or a gamer so its not ideal.

Additionaly if you haven’t noticed, he is someone who very much built a brand around calling himself dumb, “monkey” etc… I don’t think right wingers do that to themselves lol even as a meme.

He is one of those Japan permanent tourists but not nearly as big a weeb as the average one. Except for the JP VA training-tour thing he did once(very interesting btw) he doesn’t particularly cares for anime or weeb culture, except Jojo so based.

Putler, Cats, Anime, Veganism, Mario Brothers, Maoism,

Pick one of these, your fate is the same.

I think you’re asking about Bandera and the nazi stuff that seems like pulling out of his ass move, but no its a long term “project” i.e the US always planned and supported a “reserve” army of (neo)nazis that would be activated in case of a soviet invasion. In Ukraine there was no incentive after the USSR fall to fix or tackle’s Ukrainian far-right nazism. It was the same plan as before. They would be useful eventualy as a anti-Russian force in Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-53-whitewashing-ukraines-nazis