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    Helldivers II

    I haven't seen it but there seems to be growing chatter about shitheads kicking people right before evac. Why you would do that in a 100% PvE co-op game I don't know. Probably the same dumb asses who last week were killing teammates before evac for their samples.
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    Helldivers II

    As it stands, 12500 requisition is not enough motivation for most people to worry about the overall war progress. The actual useful list of stratagems is small enough that requisition is probably the first resource you'll effectively cap and even if you want everything it's still easier than...
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    Helldivers II

    From hearing people talk about Helldivers 1 (I never played it so idk) it sounds like the galaxy map is controlled entirely by the devs. They can fall back or counter attack at their whim. I suppose the higher tier sectors/planets might have more extreme modifiers but I don't think there's any...
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    Helldivers II

    I could be wrong but from what I've seen each planet has a limited set of missions that appear on it. Probably the most consequential thing from liberating (or losing) a planet then is the change in missions. If the community likes or doesn't like a mission set I suppose there might be some...
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    Helldivers II

    The devs confirmed that only doing one out of three (or whatever) missions adversely impacts the liberated percentages. That's why Erata is going backwards. They really need to balance evacuate civilians a bit. You can blame eradicate farmers for failed campaigns but I'd bet there's an equal...
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    Helldivers II

    Yes, the defense missions are probably too easy especially with mortars but it seems like every sector has some type of mission that's either quick or soloable or both. I personally like having missions available like that where you know you can get something done in under 15 minutes but they...
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    Helldivers II

    Speaking of that, and maybe I just haven't seen or found it yet, but it seems like a pretty easy way to expand content would be to allow you to select modifiers/buffs/debuffs and maybe even mission types. Nerf xp and loot in that mode if needed to keep people from farming the easiest combos...
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    Helldivers II

    Is the difficulty scale up like 4 people = 4x solo or do you need close coordination and complimentary skills to make 4 people = >4x solo power. I don't mind playing with randoms but how much "teamwork" is required? Are there split objectives that require actual brain cells or can 4 people...
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    Helldivers II

    I know it's early and connection and matchmaking issues are abundant but how's this game for pugs? My friends list is small and don't play these kinds of games so I'd be reliant on random in-game and/or discord pick up groups.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    I've tried to not remember it, but didn't Jackass fart, shart, and more into a plastic body suit?
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    What are you doing that you don't have room at some base for 3+ pals in a cake ranch? If you're willing to buy eggs/milk/honey from a merchant I would assume you're also buying ammo and other more complex items from the merchant so you wouldn't need a sulfur base and quartz isn't a recurring...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I agree, it shouldn't be, but despite the early access banner every time you log on the playability of this game really does feel like a 1.0 version. And lets be honest, how many current players are going to come back at real 1.0 release vs just playing the next pokeman/ark/rust early access...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    It will be interesting to see where things end up, but for the first weeks of early access you have to remember that pal spheres were performing below expectation while breeding was/is especially useful without any significant downsides. If the game evolves where pal xp is tougher and pal...
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    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Call me a boomer and PC master race but I'm not at all sad I only use my phone for texts, calendar, maps, spotify, and the occasional phone call. Sounds fucking exhausting to have to swipe through hundreds of videos to find something interesting. That's like going to the store and walking up and...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Cake is pretty easy once you get it set up. It's 100% self sustaining once you cap the right pals. A couple berry and wheat farms which you should probably have anyway. A couple cows, chickens, and beegard things in a ranch give everything else. Make flour a couple hundred at a time when you...
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    Satisfactory

    Part of the problem is much of the fun, for me at least, is discovering the tech tree, exploring the "world," and learning the shortcuts/tricks to optimize production. Once I've done that it's really hard to go back and replay even if they've made major improvements over time. I've already...
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    Satisfactory

    I agree with Tuco's assessment although I'd be curious what his end-state satisfactory might look like comparable to his dyson science world. He blew right by the "mission accomplished" achievement and started counting his science production in exponents.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Even if you fully embrace firearms it's just so much easier to buy ammo than make it. One black marketer kill drops enough gold for 100 rounds. You could also also argue the cost of pal spheres pushes people into breeding although the capture rate bug and inherited traits are bigger factors.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    There isn't really anything that requires multiple production steps, which is good because I don't think pals can collect finished products. The only exceptions that I run into are pal fragments in the crusher and flour. Those are easy enough to make a thousand at a time and collect to keep...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    The breeding pits of EQ and WoW gave most FoH members Artisan, Swift, and Work Slave. Some also got destructive, masochist, and unstable.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    And their normal locations respawn so you don't accidentally fuck up the world?
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I've seen people talk about capturing vendors and using them as personal vendors. I've accidentally captured humans before but just sold them. How do the vendors work? Do you need them in your party or can you put them at your base and buy from them. I'm assuming they have no work suitability so...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I like Vanwyrms because they're flying lvl 3 transporting and their only other skill is kindling. They don't get distracted by anything else and don't seem to get stuck on geometry too much. I think they're also the smallest food consumer of the lvl3 transporters. A mix of Anubis and Vanwyrm in...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Bushi + cinnamoth = Anubis. Would normally be tougher since bushi are on volcano island except they kindly put a low bushi boss in the intermediate area.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I wonder if the original plan, or maybe future plan, is to have food specific to certain classes of pals. That would make multiple food pouches somewhat useful. Either that or the extra pouches are supposed to be for medicine. I'll admit I've done nothing with the medicine table beyond making...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    So what you're saying is you want a Palworld Rimworld crossover and see how fucked up you can make your pals while still maintaining a functioning base.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Quick visit to the cooking pit and merchant and it looks like salad might be an acceptable cash farm. Sells for 120 and only needs lettuce and tomatoes so easily sustainable. Basically the same price as ammo and half enough for HQ oil. I might plant another plot each and just use that.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I haven't tried it yet but I hear you can double your drops by capturing, which drops loot, then butchering, which also drops loot. With the inconsistent success of capturing it feels like more hassle than it's worth but I guess it's an option.
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Yea, I've been hitting the merchant but I'm not sure that's sustainable. Either I murder for oil or I almost murder for capture/sell/buy so it's basically the same. I guess I could try mass producing something sustainable in my base and sell that. Haven't explored that side of the economy yet...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I'm hopeful pal xp is something tweaked or changed going forward. My guess is the developers didn't anticipate how much breeding players would do and thought most people would use captured open world pals that didn't need as much leveling. Others have mentioned it but some kind of training pit...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    The only "breeding groups" I've seen is you must have one male and one female, otherwise you can breed anything together. You can take a Lamball (the weakest pal) and breed it with a Jetragon (the "strongest") and you'll get a Petallia. It just averages the strength value of the two parents and...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Yeah, if they ever allow more than 3 bases I think I'd put breeding all by itself on an empty beach. At least until they make some method for assigning pals better than trying to pick them up as they're running to some random rock or tree or whatever without accidentally clicking your pal bench...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    The breed will be the same. Every pal has a value and when you breed them it's basically the average of the two parents. What will be different is the passive traits. They like to inherit from their parents which is how you can breed lucky legendary things but even then it's random and you can...
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    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I think part of the problem is you can find huge eggs in newbie areas combined with low risk exploration of egg areas. It didn't happen to me but there's videos of people getting an Anubis on their first hatch off a beginning area huge rock egg. We can wish there was more overland danger to slow...
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    The Boys in the Boat (2023)

    Opening ceremony for the Olympics one of the rowers talks to Jessie Owens, but that's about the only black in the film. It's your typical working class work ethic turns into sports success movie but I enjoyed it. If nothing else they didn't blackwash any of it although I'm sure some micks or...
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    Reacher

    It has all the realism and logical consistency of a good 80s/90s Schwarzenegger or Van Damme movie. I know we've been spoiled by Wick and other recent stuff but if you enjoyed those old action flicks there's no reason you can't enjoy this as well.
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    Reacher

    Don't know how army works but AFOSI had different grooming standards to facilitate undercover work. That's a common Hollywood mistake though. I cringed more at the O club fight. They could have kept the exact scene and just called it random dive bar.
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    Reacher

    Only Neagley and Reacher are back from s1. The love interest this time is a similar arc; questionably good looking when first introduced in uniform but gets better with her hair down. Definitely more violent with Wick level kill counts. I guess he can be more violent when set in NYC vs small...
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    2023-2024 College Football. And then there were 4

    I'm with Tide27 on this; an expanded playoff diminishes not only the regular season but several of the conference championships too. Next year, if the situation is the same, does a Alabama-Georgia conf championship game even matter? They're going to be top 8 seeds no matter so there's no home...
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    2023-2024 College Football. And then there were 4

    You could make a strong case for this if you only look at who your one loss was to. Any logic that has Bama jumping Texas would also have Georgia jumping Bama. I think it's the least likely scenario given their lack of quality wins but it would be hillarious.