In lieu of fireworks, attendees are asked to throw thermite grenades into the air

They have been shilling max so hard, the practice tab now is hidden to make room for the Video Call tab (Max only) and a tab to subscribe to Max or upgrade your plan.

Probably won’t renew this year. I have a 1500+ day streak, but a good chunk of that is just doing a single quick practice lesson every day, the gamification got me and I haven’t learned much new stuff in probably a year.

I learned enough Italian to use it when I went on a two week trip in 2023, but the problem with Duo’s lessons is nothing is conversational. I would be able to say/ask something, understand the response, but then not really have the ability to keep the conversation going.

The differences in languages after so many years is also a bit disheartening, I had a friend show me all the tools available in their French course that I didn’t have, it made their Italian lessons look like vocab flash cards in comparison.

I am not a big LLM user, but I did try to use it as a conversation partner, which worked alright. I haven’t looked in a while, but my biggest issue was it would speak too fast and none of the available tools had a way to slow it down outside of telling it to add ellipses after each word.

That makes the most sense

Yeah I didn’t believe that amount, looked it up, and it looks like digital W11 Home keys are $139 USD directly from Microsoft.

I’m surprised manufacturers aren’t getting some sort of license discount.

Med-Kit perk goes feeeeellllsss goooooooooooood

Hmmmm, this implies there are times where the war is not going well, sounds like dissidence to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_25-pounder

If anyone else was interested in what this was used for.

Im bummed its another board game with a small base and a ton of expensive expansions, unfortunately that is the thing board games are all doing right now.

Also, expected delivery in October 2026, ooof.

I can’t tell if it means general eagle strat cooldown or specifically the Eagle Re-Arm stratagem. To be honest, I don’t think I have ever used Eagle Re-Arm in almost 300 hours

Physical copies if they are made outside the US, digital no iirc

I think the $450 USD was just keeping up with inflation.

$300 in March 2017 when the switch originally launched is equivalent to almost $400 today ($392 and some change). S2 is launching at $450, if they were only expecting 15%-ish tariffs then maybe, but it should then be cheaper outside of the US if tariffs were the only reason. Electronic component prices have gone up beyond inflation growth, I think it would be easier to blame it on that.

$80-90 games before tariffs sucks, but games have been $60 for as long as I can remember, and they’re only getting more expensive to make.

Oh man, I just read the only way to reload it is to have a team reload

Classic Arrowhead patch

Fixed shooting and reloading issues with laser weapons

RIP Brasch’s quasar, you will be missed until next patch when it breaks again

Fixed issue on Illuminate Defend Evacuation Site missions where illuminate dropships stopped coming if too many were destroyed before they dropped off the enemies.

I was wondering what was going on, had multiple missions in a row where we basically just stood there a few minutes in until the rockets all launched

Yep out-ranging seems to be the way, it is tough to do if you join in progress and they’re in the middle of a fight already. I had a Helldive mission last night where I JIP’d, tried to get some distance, and no matter which direction I went I either ran into a patrol or fully defended POI, felt like I spent half of the entire mission just sprinting and stimming lol

I’ll have to try the WASP out, I used it to liberate the Voteless when it was available to all, but haven’t brought it into a bug or bot mission.

The temporary access to General Brasch’s specially modified Quasar has been nice, but there’s no way this stays around

Also Video Speed Controller

Sounds unintentional if they’re already working on a fix

Like someone said in the original post, I’m surprised people are trying to play any modern game with a 13 year old or more CPU.

Join other divers! I can maybe think of one or two matches in about a year that had a mean or toxic player, don’t be afraid to use the quickplay button from the galactic map! HD2 shines when you’re with other players. If you want the best chance of finding people, pay attention to the population count of the planet you’re diving on, which pops up when you hover over a planet or sector.

Don’t feel pressured to use a mic, the in game responses (yes, no, thank you, sorry, need supplies, wait, follow me) are great and so is chat

Try everything! New weapons, stratagems, etc.

I’ve also had no issues with Teams and haven’t had coworkers with issues in probably six years. I prefer it significantly over Slack, and my first job was using IBM/Lotus Notes before they switched to teams, that was a clunky nightmare.