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The illegal tree farms were fun. I remember we had like 40+ people in the guild gliding over to the mountain top just as the trees were about to hit 100% growth and dropping into the farm like paratroopers, then it turned into a massive shitshow as people started to PVP and you had people...

The western devs introduced a lot of "balance" decisions that ended up just being monetization schemes. Like when they "normalized" the speed of the sports cars. Before, gravity could help you accelerate faster and you maintained momentum. The western devs basically put a hard speed cap on...

Pretty much. I played on the same server as him. His guild was called The White Order (I remember some players troll reported his guild name, claiming he was running a white supremacist guild and the name was evidence of that lol). Archeage was a faction system, although you could still PK...

He also discovered the true warrior's drink

That's usually how upper/executive management is handled in major publicly traded companies - they probably get the option of taking a nice exit package in exchange for resigning behind closed doors, and then they "retire" or "seek opportunities elsewhere/focus on their family". But to...

DS9 at least had the honesty to admit that most people like the programs that involve fighting or fucking (or in the case of Worf and Dax, both)

ALS? Damn, that sucks. I liked him on The Last Ship, even though that show got stupid in the final seasons.

Probably both knowing them

Monkey paw curls: GRRM announces Brian Herbert will finish the remaining books

There are cultural components as well. In Japan, the predominant religion (Shinto) accepts that souls/spirits can inhabit objects, so by extension this can apply to robots. They also have 60+ years of media portraying robots as helpers and heroes. Contrast with the west where you have no...

Outside of items, they could hide cosmetic fragments in maps. You gather enough and unlock a cosmetic. Would be a simple way to add some engagement mechanism without needing to add lots of new items constantly

Don't forget the malaria.

They have to pad this out a lot considering it is 1 game split into 3

Letters from Iwo Jima was a much better movie than Flags of our Fathers, although you watch the whole movie kind of nervous because if you know history, there were very few Japanese survivors of that battle. It does highlight the fact war is hell no matter what side it is

Was pretty dumb, although humans didn’t fuck around and made aquatic turbo AIDs to win the war. The diplomat dude gets his fish lady and they go off to live in the ocean, the end

Ya, Dam during storm is a goldmine for probes. 3 sometimes spawn on the roof of the testing annex as well

The Pacific War was so brutal it was virtually impossible to have a TV show narrative where you could follow a bunch of the same Marines all the way from Guadalcanal through Okinawa. BOB is a better TV show because you can follow most of the same cast of characters from start to finish.

Besides hoarding, "Gear fear" is a natural thing in these types of games. People don't want to risk good gear if they aren't certain they'll walk out of the match with more than they walked into it with

Dreamcast did ok, but PS2 is what really torpedoed them. They sort of launched it in an odd time. The graphics were better than N64, but N64 had a pretty strong market penetration at that point and the price of games cartridges had fallen significantly since the console launched putting them...

I'm skeptical on how well this would work and even if it did work well, this would be a litigation nightmare and get regulated to all hell. Allowing some random people to illuminate random urban areas would cause all sorts of problems

At least he didn't hire a bunch of TV personality yes-men who make Idiocracy look like the Mensa society

I'm starting to see the value in heavy shield. I've had 2 different gankers try to kill me today and even though they got the first shot off, I was still able to down them One little shit tried to gank me at water treatment extract with a shotty (I had gone into water extract and heard someone...

I have to suspect it was the later, at least at first, then he probably started to panic towards the end

I'm not sure what the argument for "space rocks > ICBMs" is. Because the rock isn't nuclear? Well guess what, if you launch a kinetic strike with a rock that is the equivalent of a nuke, the country may still respond with a nuke The only "advantage" of the rock is I guess it is lower tech, if...

Was doing Stella night raid trying to do the shredder trial. 8 min left, I get ready to leave. Notice a body by extract - check it out and it’s a free kit, so not too unusual. Guy runs by from another room and keeps going. Just to be safe, I duck behind a wall because a guy earlier tried to...

It was functionally dead in the western market - the Chinese market from what I recall was the only thing really keeping the game alive. Most of the western servers were ghost towns months after release. I'm sure they probably consolidated/closed down shit to concentrate the remaining...

I think it really depends on the circumstances In a short/mid term survival scenario, cooperation probably rules so long as there is sufficient resources But over decades? Then it becomes more likely because you’re moving past survival to a full blown society

Book was good, although the real life event it may have been based on didnt devolve into violent tribalism. The boys basically all worked together to make a functioning settlement that could provide for their survival needs until they were rescued Book is more metaphorical than anything

Balance in this game swings between op and nerf bat. 1 trailer blazer killing a bastion is a bit much, but taking 5 is overnerf

Current steam charts - pretty rough. A lot of times these games really only have 1 chance to make an impression.

The redneck salvage update lol That's pretty cool, although seems like you have to really commit to a planet to make use of this

Only usage the trailblazers seem to have now is they work kind of ok against shredders. It won't one-shot them, but it gets them damaged enough so you can finish them off with a few shots

You aren't far off - even in game a lot of factions are basically LARPing

Funny you later mentioned DS9, but this is exactly what they did with Gul Dukat in the last seasons. Lots of fans were like “Gul Dukat did nothing wrong” and the writers basically dialed up the evil by 10 in the last season. Ziyal getting killed at least provided a reason for Dukat to have a...

It wouldn’t be that much of a “super weapon” 1) You’d still have to launch your payload off the moon. Even if gravity is lower, the rocks still have mass. To launch anything of size/mass, you’d basically need a lunar trebuchet, otherwise you’re spending a fuckton on mass drivers or a rocket...

The near term risk is AI replacing lower tiers that could have eventually become upper tiers. To use a baseball analogy, it’s like replacing prospects with robots that (at least currently) can’t match the ability of your starters. They’ll do fine down in the minor leagues, but if one of your...

Arrowhead did that for a while with Helldivers. They eventually backtracked and made more things viable/buffed and stopped the major nerfs

Mars has upsides and downsides Pro: Potentially more usable resources. For example, the moon is thought to be iron poor at least at the surface Potentially more accessible water ice and even liquid water at depths Paleontology potential (from a science perspective) Potential cave systems...

I’ve been seeing the bot propaganda stuff they’ve posted as well, like remaking the cgi intro of Helldivers with a bot family getting run over by Helldivers

Moon really depends on how feasible it is to extract water from the southern crater. If that is no go, it sort of kills the prospect of a colony of size. Titan has easily accessible water and methane/hydrocarbons in massive quantities, thick atmosphere means pressure differentials aren’t as...