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  1. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    Its a good game if you like what its selling, very good.
  2. Dandain

    Witcher 3

    CDPR has so much street cred with me that I will literally buy 3+ steaming piles of shit from them and probably still buy the 4th with some poor self control. You should feel zero bad about any purchases you make from them so far.
  3. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    Still enjoying this game immensely. Its much easier to pick up and play games in progress than FTL was for me. FTL I'd tend to lose my focus coming back to a saved game. When you jump to a new region, the game creates a save space at the start of an area. Second, because its an action...
  4. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    There is currently a giant knowledge cliff. The blueprint system involves discovering blueprints. These blueprints become craftable upgrades to your ship every single mission as soon as you acquire the necessary resources of the 15 I mentioned. These build up over time and can be for...
  5. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    You should just take it as a game style you personally dislike. Plenty of people love Roguelikes. I like the fact I don't win every time, the fact that progress that is saved is limited are positive things to me. The challenge really matters. My game habits involve Dota 2, Rocket...
  6. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    The game would be terrible in multiplayer, defeats the purpose of the rogue like / FTL zone progression. If you like FTL + Arcade space shooter, this is close to it. I flew too close to a blackhole to collect dark energy/matter and I died, I should I have expected that.
  7. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    The similarities to FTL include, Sector/Zone navigation. I've made it only to sector 3, no idea how many until "the boss". There are currently 3 ships, I have only flown the interceptor, they added a scout and gunship. Weapon, Item, Resource drops are random and the areas have...
  8. Dandain

    Everspace (Space shooter)

    I want to buy it too, but lack of content/early access keep me from going there yet. Faster than Light in ship mode seems just like my style, and that's what a lot of the reviews bill it as. I'm pretty sure if I watch the trailers too often I won't be able to resist. Edit: Fuck it, I'll...
  9. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm little more than 15 miles from full eclipse sites, I'm 100% going. TLDR; you can look directly at the sun during a total, and it can last as long as 2 full minutes of complete eclipse. Some where in Kentucky is the the duration maximum location. One Astronomer said "You might think...
  10. Dandain

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Steam controller is the best PC game interface ever. You can play any game on PC with it, including things like Xcom, Civ (have great configs). If you want to learn to use it, I can help you set it up. Just PM me. The best game to really fall in love with this thing is honest to god...
  11. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    North Poles.
  12. Dandain

    Resident Evil 7

    This seems to be a lot more of a Fatal Frame style vibe than Resident Evil. Although there is no camera and clearly there are guns.
  13. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    Nasa's info video on the super eclipse next year.
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    The Astronomy Thread

  15. Dandain

    Astroneer

    Figured this game deserves this plug at least. I hope this morphs into something great. I think the art direction is fantastic. I found the #1 steam review to be hilarious and I quote "No Man's Sky except the steam videos are the actual game"
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    The Astronomy Thread

    V838 Monocerotis - Wikipedia The wiki article explains what is visualized, I highly recommend a quick read. A very unique star/event with many hypotheses still to explain it. I found the explanation of the light echo, and the point that we are not seeing circular expansion but more of a...
  17. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    It's still dota, but its as new as dota has ever been in 10 years outside of the change from dota to dota 2.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Here is the most recent visualization of Kepler's Orrery. Keep in mind the sample is clearly biased to our current detection methods, but look at the variety. Lifted from the Youtube description for an explanation of some of what is shown. The fact this is a mere 685 systems is quite...
  19. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    The honest to god trick is to never let him get 4 stacks, engage, disengage, etc. Its exactly like Ursa. Instead of complaining that X Y or Z hero can't fight an empowered monkey king, just don't manfight him.
  20. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Check out his winrate on dota buff, his is a shitty impersonation of a purely broken hero. He doesn't even reach 50% winrate in normal/high/vh brackets. Hero Meta Statistics - Pick and Win Rates, This Month, Skill Bracket, Any Faction, All Lanes, Any Region, Any Skill, All Rating Brackets
  21. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    There are no creep camps in the trees, it is a massive opportunity cost for the monkey to sit and jump around not farming. If you pretend he is like riki in these situations, you play in the same way. If he can solo you, you must be near an ally/tower/help. If you get a scout on him...
  22. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Yeah, Monkey has had very limited success in my games, and I think its almost completely because people don't respect his right click stacks much in the same way people tend to not respect Ursa as you descend down in MMR, and his tree skill must be thought of as invis as far as positioning and...
  23. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    If you use Thunder Strike to time it, it pulses every 2 seconds, and is 6 seconds in duration. Thunder Strike's vision also means your glimpse can't be fogged. The person will return after 3 pulses to the original cast point, and the final tick will send them to the second tick (4 ticks...
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    DOTA 2

    Disruptor is a professional monkey catcher, most people don't realize Thunder Strike has a solid vision component that makes it sync with glimpse very well, but more important, it grants flying vision. Even if the monkey goes into the trees your team can beat the shit out of him if you...
  25. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Stolen from reddit, but hilarious. Highly Toxic Warlock, Small, Ryan, The Source of the Disaster all had me rolling.
  26. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    He'll get brought back in line like so many others. Earthspirit more recently. New additions always go through a stupidly op phase.
  27. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    One of the known dota2 workshop artists mocked this up under feedback. It will probably be like this within a few days
  28. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    I think all the sky is falling people should relax. The game is easier to pick up now, because the UI itself actually tells you things it used to hide and not tell you (ex what is or isn't dispellable). Additionally, other things that only higher tier players know well have been...
  29. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Wheeee 14 hours. Nice event. I think I like the single elim for the majors. I think it will make results more volatile
  30. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Game one really wasn't that out of reach for AF, but they seriously didn't think about the magic damage luna build. It really caught them by surprise. I think that loss was really up to the cleverness of that aghs build more than anything. Neutering the SD illusion meta and creating just...
  31. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    The Greek kids are not afraid to lose, they pick to win, they play to win. They've made 500,000 dollars, they are playing with house money. Additionally, they have shown absolutely amazing discipline. The lotus/rage aegis lifestealer high ground takes in game 1 were just exceptionally...
  32. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    So, did you miss all this hype live cyb? I'm gonna laugh at you if you did.
  33. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    live games are real fun, and good games are good games. You should man up, there is only 1 2016 boston major, you could see a mega creep comeback eg style live.
  34. Dandain

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Just for an extension video of this topic, worth a watch if you watched the above. Get smart.
  35. Dandain

    Game recommendations

    Sleeping Dogs and the Saints Row 3/4 games are both two excellent Non-GTA open world exploration games. If you have a steam controller and play on PC, Saints row 4 is a transcendent steam controller game, and breaks heavily from being a GTA clone. They aren't everyone's flavor, but I love...
  36. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    SpaceX filing to launch global internet satellite cabal. SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4,425 satellites — more than orbit Earth today Lifted from the article above. Pretty interesting.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    You really notice a full moon if you go someplace without artificial lighting, not to say this super moon wasn't the brightest for actual reasons. Its honestly a remarkable experience to be far from people lights on both a new moon, and full moon. The darkness is unreal, but the amount...
  38. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    Directly imaged planets in the image below. Princeton Team Directly Observes Planets Around Nearby Stars - Universe Today CHARIS is a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. Its a crazy combination instrument. It separates the planet's light from the star's, and gets a...
  39. Dandain

    Tyranny

    One of the things about Tyranny that I caught day[9] saying on some podcast, was that he was really into Tyranny because his personality is such that he almost can't be an asshole in an RPG if he's given a "good" option. And in the world of Tyranny, it sucks, and asshole is word of the day...
  40. Dandain

    Battlefield 1

    The audio of the battlefield games has always been one of their absolute signature components.