Magneu
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Well, tomorrow is the most likely day, IMO. Three hours behind DE and I have tomorrow free, so fingers crossed Sacrifice is out when I get up. One can hope.
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32 minutes ago, (XB1)OTF SERENiTY said:
The hardest part is developing the thesis. Once you have that down, everything after is a breeze.
As a relatively recent grad, this resonates with me on every level.
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WEAREYOURFLESH just squeezes inside the character limit. Topical, too.
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11 minutes ago, Kaotyke said:
Wont be today. Megan did a tweet saying she is on her way back to help with the launch of the Sacrifice.
Well...S#&$.
I still belieeeeeve...
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Looks amazing, but all I can think of is that big-head mode in one of the older James Bond games. I'd pay good bucks for that suit, though.
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In-game right now just to sell rivens to get plat for dat sweet ninja mask and wait for possible red-text. This wait feels even worse knowing it could be any moment.
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I'm worried about the update being late in the week, due to DE usually doing Twitch drops over the weekend...still hoping today though. I feel like today/Wednesday is more likely than Thursday/Friday.
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Whoa.
"Howl all you want, you won't bring him back."
I think we're gonna lose Ordis 😕
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40 minutes ago, (PS4)Taishin_Ishu said:
Well, that IS kinda the reason for this quest so...yeah, nobody knows yet. Umbra has not yet entered lore at -all- so most all speculation would be moot.
It just seems strange that Excal Umbra, which looks very similar to other Excal variants (and ergo is likely made by the same designer) is going to be a key to possibly defeat Ballas. Why would Ballas design something that could defeat him?
Hopefully we know this time tomorrow.
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4 hours ago, (PS4)LeBlingKing69 said:
EXACTLY. Exactly.
I've always said this: Tenno find a way.
It doesn't MATTER what gets reworked, revamped, or revisited. We will find SOMETHING that works, and we will USE it until it gets nerfed, so that we can find something ELSE, and use that instead.
I mean, the overall goal is to have the strongest option be only a bit better than the rest, not be twenty times stronger. Unfortunately, DE has been known to be rather...heavy-handed with their buffs and nerfs.
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So, people keep talking about how Umbra won't have the weakness that Ballas can possible exploit, referenced by the "But you cannot defy your creator" line (and the following speculation about him possible booting us out of our frames/taking control of our frames). But, we know that Ballas spearheaded the creation of the frames, if not being outright responsible for for making them. So, there's a question yet to be answered; did somebody else make the Umbra frames, or were they modified by someone? And then...who did it? Don't think I've seen any speculation on that yet. Personally, my guess is Helminth, through means that we have no clue about.
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2 minutes ago, -Ringed-Umbra- said:
I think they won't do that, it's a possibility but, last time they released an update when ppl where watching it live, ppl felt it was some kind of a punishment to be there because they were not home to download and play it.
Like I said however Wednesday seems to be the real good date, since seems like every big update were at the Wednesdays.
But we can all be wrong at the end of the day about the release date. Tomorrow we will see it. Let's hope I'm right or you are right (that would be awesome nonetheless).
This approach might work due to (I'm assuming) most people interested in Sacrifice aren't at E3, but will be watching remotely. If an update dropped at Tennocon, I could see people getting annoyed, especially those that travel extensively to get there, but E3 is different, as Warframe isn't the focus. Still, we'll have to wait.
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44 minutes ago, Loza03 said:
I'm still thinking it'll be tomorrow. Not just because of PC game show trailer (Last trailers are often Launch Trailers), but because it'll have been precisely 7 days since Hypesite went live. It'd be a good time to release it IMO.
If the trailer ends with "Available NOW!" on the splash screen (with an accompanying Steve tweet/redtext), that would be such a non-DE thing to do, and I would love every second of it.
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55 minutes ago, AliceLaFay said:
I don't get the link between "this deity did this gender thing" and "let's make a bad meme about how modern trans people trick others".
Nezha the deity undertook the exact behavior generally meant by "trap", i.e. deceiving others as to one's gender via physical appearance/mannerisms, although with much different end goals than getting laid.
Note, this behavior can be both malicious and non-malicious. Maliciously, it can be used to lure somebody into a sexual encounter they don't expect, i.e. a "trap". Non-maliciously, somebody thinks somebody is male/female based on appearance, but is wrong; that appearance is misleading, and ergo is a "trap", not in a purposeful context (i.e. luring people), but as a side-effect of what that person chooses to dress/act as. It appears that the NIAT meme refers to the second. People who ascribe the first are also ascribing sexuality to frames, which is way outside the game's lore.
I believe most people use the NIAT phrase to refer to the overall feminine appearance/mannerisms of Nezha, not the possible malicious behaviors entailed. To keep it consistent, should we get offended when it is assumed that a muscular male wearing flannel must be a lumberjack and enjoys scotch? No, but it is understandable why that assumption would be made. Correlation =/= causation, i.e. appearances do not correlate with intent.
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If it's preselected replies, sounds great. Custom replies is too much leeway for trolls, and not really needed.
That aside, wtf is with the self-replies?
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Just now, AliceLaFay said:
Because we're talking about the social context now, with people living here and now, not the far removed place and time of when that myth occured.
People like to play games to escape. It's harder to escape when you feel like you're the butt of a joke, and it makes it harder when you're the minority. You just wanna escape and play the game instead of people injecting toxic jokes and views everywhere.
You're advocating censoring a largely held belief based on the notion that you (royal you) find it offensive. Isn't that desire also offensive? Not defending/advocating for any belief system here, just observing what I think you're saying (correct me if I'm wrong).
I've personally (yes, anecdotal evidence) been the butt of a joke many times, in many games, but that's what it is: a joke. Brush it off, mute the person if need be, and move on. If somebody is truly toxic (threats, direct insults with no context of a joke, etc), report, mute, move on. Given how DE censors chat, those people will most likely be swiftly dealt with.
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27 minutes ago, AliceLaFay said:
It's a story about something, whether or not it happened I haven't said nor do I think it matters. It's still an offensive notion of what people do with gender presentation in today's social context.
There's lots of sexist acts, events, and laws in various religions. I don't think the fact that some people believe hard enough in a story makes something less wrong or harmful.
That's rather intellectually dishonest, claiming you haven't said it happened or not, when the implication is that you refer to myths as "popular old stories"; these "stories" are a relatively ancient belief system/religion for many people in the world. I'm not a huge fan of religion in any form, but recognition and respect (i.e. not being a militant atheist) is conducive to good dialogue. In any case, the founders of said alluded-to religious system are the ones that decided what the deities are; who are we to change that? That's akin to colonial Britain marching into India and saying "Rightio, this is how things are going to be now, and if you don't like it, too bad!". So much for letting other people believe what they want.
Claiming that offense is bad while criticizing an entire belief system stinks of hypocrisy. To play devil's advocate:
30 minutes ago, AliceLaFay said:It's still an offensive notion of what people do with gender presentation in today's social context.
Why does something being newer instantly make it more acceptable? I'm obviously aware of things like sexism and racism even fifty years ago compared to today, but claiming an idea is offensive just because somebody had it "x" amount of time ago is fairly dismissive, as well as being tainted by presentism. Both sides (traditional gender vs progressive gender) make extraordinary claims, but these claims are nothing without peer reviewed evidence. Personally, I could care less what somebody chooses to identify as; why does their choice hurt me at all? But, I have yet to see acceptable evidence for the seventy-odd genders (or however big the list is now) that are claimed as being real. People can identify as whatever they want and I really don't care what they do, but that doesn't mean I have to fully accept it. We can exist in two spheres and not be at each-others throats, it just takes mutual respect.
And yet again, why are we all arguing about this in Warframe? I came here to shoot bad-guys, not get into debates about gender.
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7 minutes ago, AliceLaFay said:
I mean, that doesn't make it any less offensive.
A myth is just a very old very popular story. It doesn't have any inherent value beyond that.
"A myth is just a very old very popular story" is quite a risky thing to say to (earlier in the thread) people that hold belief in Chinese deities, Nezha specifically. In doing so, you just claimed that their belief isn't real. My thoughts on that aside, you're discrediting the origin of Nezha.
Nezha's origin does have him utilizing "trickster" aspects, including obfuscating his sexual appearance (as said a few posts up). It's a simple jump to the "Nezha is a trap" meme, describing almost identical behaviors, even if the actual intent (purposeful deception vs accidental deception) is different. The way I see it ( which may be totally wrong) is that "Nezha is a trap" refers to Nezha's appearance, i.e. "Be careful about being hetero-attracted to that frame, it's actually a dude". People are attracted to what they are, and most people feel embarrassed/confused when they discover they were being attracted to something that doesn't fall on their sexual preferences.
That being said, this is the internet, and people will turn anything they can into an insult. That being said, it seems like "Nezha is a trap" (petition to shorten to "NIAT" for brevity) is just a meme repeated by people in an attempt to be funny. I've never once seen somebody use the meme as a means to directly insult somebody, but that is anecdotal evidence. "NIAT" does not appear to utilized to demean trans people, but more to allude specifically to Nezha's appearance as a male character that contains some feminine attributes (personally, he looks pretty damn male to me; his front is a washboard all the way down); a straight male (or even a gay female) may have some attraction to these feminine aspects, but via the ol' trap-trickeroo, it's actually a duderino. Oh no, I've been bamboozled; let's all collectively move on with our lives and kill some Grineer.
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Just finished TSD (yet another time), noticed something weird. When you first get to the Reservoir, there's a swell of sound/music, which turns into what sounds like screams/screeches/howls. Anybody think there's significance to Umbra/Man in the Wall? It seemed out of place, in what was supposed to be an (IMO) reverent area for the sleeping Tenno. Not really an Umbra thing, but I figure this thread is good as any for Sacrifice speculation.
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Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow is the last chance for this week release.
Odds are less than like 1%, but fingers crossed.
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Margulis wasn't sentenced to "worse than death", she was killed through unknown means (the Jade Light being a more merciful option that she refused). As far as we know, OG Margulis is dead, Natah has simply taken her form. Sentients became unable to reproduce upon crossing some sort of void-space to the Tau system. Natah basically adopted the Tenno essentially due to wanting children of her own.
I believe StallordD theorizes that Sentients reproduce by breaking off part of themselves to grow into a new Sentient; this seems to be the most prevalent theory.
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Inb4 lock/ban.
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1 hour ago, D34DMetal said:
Doubt you would even need an 8th gen CPU to run this game max settings with above 60fps at 1440p
GTX 1070, 7700k 5ghz, 120-144 fps at a 27 inch 1440p monitor (with a second 27 inch screen). 1060 isn't that much weaker than a 1070 (mine is clocked fairly heavily though), so this really sounds like a CPU issue.
@ OP, PSU isn't the issue; I have a 750W one with two 27 inch screens, heavily overclocked components, and I've never had power issues. Download MSI Afterburner and monitor GPU/CPU temperatures, and compare those to throttle temperatures for those (just do a quick google search for your particular components). It's very possible that you're overheating and the computer is throttling to protect itself.
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2 minutes ago, Loza03 said:
I think it's as simple as the regular version, but without the 'mother' section. There's a single female voice separate from the choir in the regular version, but there's only the choir in that song. So it probably represents the Lotus leaving us.
I noticed that part missing, but there were sudden slides and other "glitches" in the song, i.e. it sounded very off. There's also what appears to be some Tennobet on the sides of the pod Lotus sits in as well, forgot to get a screenshot though.
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I couldn't even fall/stay asleep due to Sacrifice last night. In bed at 10pm, got maybe three or four hours of sleep until 8am.
My dog snoring like a Grineer Galleon's cannons didn't help either, but I was just too damn excited.