I just had the most American thing happen to me today. I was asked to tip while purchasing fireworks for the 4th of July.

Goddamn Dream Theater fucking rocks. Glad to see some love for them here on Lemmy.

My bot build is way different than yours, except for the primary and Airstrike, which are both godly.

Bots

Scorcher: All the reasons you said. It’s just too good. Killing Striders from the front is a must.

Grenade pistol: Reserved solely for killing bot factories.

Stun grenade: Same reason that I run it on bugs. It wrecks Hulks and makes them sit still to snipe them. Also I can’t count the number of times I’ve been saved on a hairy extract just by spamming stun grenades and diving on the Pelican.

Light armor with servo assist: Throwing stratagems like John Elway is the best. I used to run this on bugs too until I stopped bringing stratagems that needed the range, but I feel like it’s still clutch on bots.

Eagle Airstrike: Same reason as you. God tier.

Quasar Cannon: Kills everything. Sniping drop ships in one shot is the best.

Shield backpack: Too many explosions on bots to run anything else. Also keeps the survivability high when running light armor.

Orbital Precision Strike: I’m still experimenting with this on bots. I also love Orbital Railstrike or Autocannon Sentry depending on how I’m feeling.

My bug build was pretty similar to yours, but with the addition of Behemoths, I’ve started experimenting more with Flamethrowers instead of EATs. Which cascades through the rest of the build.

Bugs

Incendiary Breaker: Same reason you mentioned. The Blitzer is really fun too and can one shot Brood Commanders. Its biggest drawback is not damaging Shriekers and eggs, so I only bring it to mix things up occasionally.

Grenade pistol: Sam reason you mentioned. Allows you to solo a heavy nest.

Stun grenade: Best get out of jail free card in the game. Also allows you to easily deal with Chargers and Behemoths.

Light armor with + grenades: Same reason you mentioned, but mostly due to the two extra stuns.

Orbital precision strike: Low cooldown, low call in time, one shots everything. What’s not to love?

Eagle 500kg OR Autocannon Sentry: The single OPS isn’t quite enough to handle all the Bile Titans on higher difficulties. Especially without bringing EATs. So I’ll choose one of these to bring instead.

Shield pack: Same reasons you listed. Occasionally I’ll bring a Rover instead because I like how it “alerts” me to something sneaking up on me that I didn’t notice.

Flamethrower: Absolutely wrecks Behemoths and Chargers. Holding it down on a bug breach and hearing your character cackle is hands down the most satisfying thing in the game.

Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)

Now I kinda want to read On Bullshit

It’s because Republicans are skewing the numbers. 84% of Democrats and 73% of Independents understand the Supreme Court is a joke.

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Lol at the ending

19/f/cali

We’ve still got a few years until the three seashells take over and Taco Bell wins the franchise wars.

Lol “well what do I know about shifting?”

Pretty sure Chipotle is owned by McDonalds.

It is not. McDonald’s was an early investor but hasn’t been for a long long time (almost 20 years now), but the idea has stuck around.

I have a friend who named his kids Brie and Colby. He never had a 3rd kid, so I always wondered what other cheese names were out there.

Literally never called that down in my life.

Haha I actually do the same thing whenever I bring a flamethrower. Couldn’t decide whether to pick on the 500kg or the Orbital Railcannon.

Ah damn, I should’ve added it to this meme I just made https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/13955070-dc2c-4a76-965e-17f6c988377f.jpeg?thumbnail=1500&format=webp

What headset are you using? I’ve got a big ass nose cancelling headset I use on my personal computer, but it’s a bit much for work - especially since I have to be on camera occasionally.

I’ve been using the OPS since the patch and am pretty impressed by it. The low cooldown and call-in time feels great! Still haven’t figured out how to use it on factory striders yet.

My biggest problem was it seems that the 500kg call in might be blocked by trees or something. Or maybe it was just bugged. But I tried calling in two bombs on the same Bile Titan and neither one went off.

Yeah and if they saw that, they’d immediately think “the gods are pissed, we must have angered them by something we did.”