Mbourgon

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12229237

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15931203

nothing like pushy maniacs to make my day complete

I am looking at these two, trying to find a deal on the Pro 2022 that makes it close to the price of the 13" 2024 Air. Right now the "deals" are still in the $999 range for it, as opposed to $800 for the Air. Which sucks - seems like the 2022 is still better, but $200 is $200. I have a pro 10.5" now, but the lure of bigger has finally won out, years later. Trying to see if I'm missing anything - on paper the 2022 is still better, even if older.

Advantages of the Pro 2022:

• FaceID, not TouchID
• Promotion display (120hz vs the Air's 60hz)
• can run external display

Advantages of the Air 2024:

• Cheaper
• Newer - supported longer?
• ? Anything else?

Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.

Today’s Bandcamp Friday haul was pretty good! Some math/djent/post, and some retro prog

• Floral - The Second Floral EP
• Strawberry Girls - Prussian Gloom (big chunk of the budget this month)
• Pictures of Wild Life - fell into floating (single)
• Jordsjø- Salighet (folky Finnish retro prog)
• Jordsjø - Nattfiolen Suite (single)

Decided to play around with Exuro tonight. The turret itself seems cool, but what I was REALLY hoping to find was an ungodly Firestarter Chem Launcher build. My current build doesn't t do a ton of damage (260k), in part because I run Creeping death and Eclipse Protocol, which means they're on fire for a while, which means others can kill them while they're running around.

Getting everything together for comparison is tougher than I thought. Skill tiers, specialization, skill damage vs fire damage, etc. I was originally hoping I could use Eclipse + NJB + Exuro, but that only gets me to 249.6 (but will spread for 15 seconds) with 1.3m armor, running firewall. Which is not any better than my current Eclipse + Fire + Vile build which does 260k, so... oh well.

What I've got so far Specialization: Firewall

• St Elmo's Engine (shock)
• Exuro mask (status effects)
• Exuro kneepads (status effects)
• Exuro holster (status effects)
• Empress backpack with Creeping Death (skill dmg; status effects)
• Empress chestpiece (Trauma so it kicks off bleeding, skill dmg/)
• Empress gloves (skill dmg; status effects; Armor) 5 skill tiers, 913k armor.

When it procs (body shot, no trauma), I'm doing 321.6k fire (303 once it eats through armor), 49k bleeding, and the fire lasts a little over 13 seconds (bleeding lasts a touch longer). Obviously Creeping Death only procs every 15 seconds, and trauma is 30 sec refresh for bleeding. But you can also blind them, further keeping the fun times going.

Curious what y'all think. Thanks.

The video for one of the new tracks. But another stellar album. Still instrumental, still some crazy drumming and playing, still some nice atmospherics and quiet bits.

https://nightverses.bandcamp.com/album/every-sound-has-a-color-in-the-valley-of-night-part-one

And that title had me wondering how long until Part 2. Enjoy!

Was lucky enough to see this!

Ice circles were the first kind of BMF that I ever came across. I figure since nobody else has posted here, it’s the perfect type of thing to “start” with.

Enjoy!