other-games

[inland oasis]

Then section it off, stack/fold

[tame cairn]

imagine discovering such a thing

[inland oasis]

Similar to katana making in a way

[tame cairn]

short shift today..

[dry copper]

Needs more cowbell

Imagine having your own hammering machine

[inland oasis]

I would end up smashing so much stuff

[dry copper]

That must piss off people hammering by hand

"I'm not jealous. You're lazy!"

[tame cairn]

probably

[inland oasis]

Hammering by hand allows you to charge more

Hand crafted

[dry copper]

Hammering by machine and not telling anyone allows you to charge the same

[tame cairn]

i saw a video of these people making a castle by hand, the way they did it back then

[inland oasis]

Machine you lose the nuance of it

[tame cairn]

it was a while ago now

[inland oasis]

That’s fraud lol

[thorny python]

the one in france?

[tame cairn]

indeed!

i believe so

[dry copper]

Good luck arguing fraud on the difference between using muscles and using a machine.

[thorny python]

I saw they did the stairs in the wrong direction.

[inland oasis]

Easy, is it machine made and being sold as hand crafted?

Done

[dry copper]

Who the hell buys a product based on whether someone hurt their arm making it

[thorny python]

richy

[dry copper]

A machine hammer is not machine made.

[obtuse reef]

The reason is that society has valued craftsmanship and physical labor for millennia. So naturally, people find it cheap when nobody spent effort on whatever they’re producing

And also, machines aren’t good at high quality craftsmanship

[dry copper]

Imagine punishing someone for being skilled

You use less effort so you suck

[inland oasis]

It’s literally the opposite?

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, it is the opposite

[inland oasis]

You put MORE effort in and it’s valued more

[obtuse reef]

People are rewarded for high quality goods and effort

[inland oasis]

Machines are like using calculators to do math

Just cheap n easy

[dry copper]

A machine hammer is not skill, and arguing more effort is worth more money suggests that if you are skilled, you should be paid less - because less skilled use more effort for the same result

[obtuse reef]

Because until recently, that’s because high quality man made goods were just about all that there was

[inland oasis]

If your skilled you’d know not to use a machine

And hand craft it

[dry copper]

If you're not skilled and use more effort, you get paid more

[inland oasis]

No the quality wouldn’t be as good

Your not skilled

[obtuse reef]

Machines are good for basic things that had always needed menial labor in the past

[dry copper]

The analogy fails on its basic premise

[inland oasis]

It’s been standing to this day in time

[dry copper]

A machine hammer does not lower quality

[inland oasis]

Hand crafted arts are worth more than machine made

[dry copper]

A machine does not dictate the end result

[inland oasis]

It can

[obtuse reef]

I’m not sure if you’re thinking like a human.

[inland oasis]

Hand crafting finalizations are usually added

[dry copper]

A katana in the wrong hands can be bad

[inland oasis]

It’s not about that who made the katana

[obtuse reef]

But that doesn’t make the katana itself bad

[dry copper]

The machine is not the problem

[inland oasis]

A katana shouldn’t be machine made

So

[thorny python]

A katana made by bad hands can be wrong

[obtuse reef]

Where are you buying your appliances? Clearly, you have never been disappointed by a toaster

[thorny python]

oh I have

[dry copper]

Toaster. It toasts toast.

[inland oasis]

No it toasts bread

[dry copper]

haha

I love that

[thorny python]

I've gotten some bad toasters

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, my toasters have never done that very well. Either it’s burned, or it’s barely warm.

[thorny python]

same

[obtuse reef]

You could call it an operator issue

[inland oasis]

Damn I’m lucky. I got a good toaster

[dry copper]

I watch my toast and turn it off when I think it's good.

I got a great toaster

[obtuse reef]

But that defeats the point of a machine doing it though, doesn’t it?

[dry copper]

It's shit but it does the job well

[thorny python]

2 is warm bread, 3 has gone through hell

[dry copper]

A machine can take the hard part out and leave the nuance in

[inland oasis]

Then it’s not hand crafted

That’s the nuance

[obtuse reef]

I could use the same strategy with a camp fire and that would still work, wouldn’t it?

Without a lot of effort

[dry copper]

Ugh. I'm getting Life is Feudal flashbacks

I had to make a furnace but the game was bugged af and it never worked

Took forever to get the materials, to have it fail every time

Three furnaces in I said fuck this...

[obtuse reef]

Craftsmanship can’t really be beaten by machines because there’s also that little personal touch that a machine can’t do. Sure, this sword is more expensive, but it is more finely balanced and well designed for me specifically. Machines can’t really do that

[dry copper]

"Tell the server owner I quit this game and ya'll can take everything I made."

[dry copper]

Sounds like sentimentality

[obtuse reef]

Humans are sentimental creatures

[inland oasis]

It sort of is

[dry copper]

true

[inland oasis]

Everyone’s sentiment to it is differing

[dry copper]

Sometimes when I shop at Homesense, I pretend someone cared about the box I just bought

[inland oasis]

How badly you want a kitchen knife vs a hand crafted knife for the rest of your life

[obtuse reef]

Machines can make good things, and I think machines are cool and should be used more often, but I’ll still prefer handmade goods for some things

And also, some machines are powered by spite and hatred towards its operator

[inland oasis]

There’s also homemade stuff where your better off with the mass produced option too 😂

[obtuse reef]

Millennia of food poisoning have taught us this lesson

The Machine God is cool and all, but it can go shove a brick up its ass with how inconsistent some devices are

For example: my old graphics card. It randomly decided to shit itself and I have no idea why it did it to this day

[inland oasis]

That’s like “new fear unlocked”

I’d have such a conniption without a pc

Omg

[obtuse reef]

It was so hard to try and describe the issue because it was so inconsistent

[inland oasis]

Ah yes those situations you can’t google

[obtuse reef]

The screen would go black and some things would crash

[inland oasis]

“Why does this happen when I do specifically this this and this but not when this”

[obtuse reef]

It wasn’t every game. Hell, Discord crashed like that for a year or two before it fixed itself.

[dry copper]

One thing I learned in electronics class - The weakest component in any circuit is the transistor.

One fucked transistor can short your whole gpu

the card, not the chip

[obtuse reef]

Cool, but I can’t really disassemble it to figure out what the hell fried itself, since it was made in such a way that I can’t really remove any of the covers

[dry copper]

It could be a switch for voltage regulation or any number of things

I dunno. Dawid would tear that thing apart and hook it up to a meter

Should send it to Dawid

[obtuse reef]

As far as I’m aware, it became self aware after I played too much NMS and decided that I should go fuck myself

[inland oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/electro-boom-gif-18170714

When it doubt, use hammer

Works Everytime

[obtuse reef]

How about .50cal sniper rifle loaded with ratshot

[inland oasis]

The hammer I mean. It always works

[dry copper]

Hammer sucks at screw driving

[inland oasis]

Not enough overkill

[inland oasis]

Hammer turns screws into nails wdym?

[obtuse reef]

That’s because you don’t try hard enough. Anything is a hammer if you’re brain damaged enough

[dry copper]

and holes into opportunities

[obtuse reef]

You sure?

[inland oasis]

Buckshot .50 cal or nothing

[dry copper]

Jesus

That's fucking cruel

[obtuse reef]

That reminds me of something, lemme find it rq

[inland oasis]

When you wanna kill that rat, and the generation next to it

[dry copper]

Imagine getting blasted by that

When you wanna kill the rat, the wall, and everything that eats ricochet for breakfast

[obtuse reef]

Found it

[dry copper]

A literally pistol shotgun

[inland oasis]

Just because it fits does- Yaknow what. DO IT

[dry copper]

Yeah sure...blow off your hand

[obtuse reef]

That reminds me of something else

[inland oasis]

The 50bmg in a shotgun?

[obtuse reef]

Not quite

[inland oasis]

What the

[dry copper]

Pistol propelled grenade

[inland oasis]

20mm hand CANNON

[obtuse reef]

Correction : flare gun propelled grenade

[inland oasis]

XD

[obtuse reef]

Say what you will about America, we’re innovative

[dry copper]

Is that what its called?

[obtuse reef]

Well, it’s better than “borderline suicidal levels of curiosity”

[dry copper]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

[obtuse reef]

And a pistol loaded with 12g still smells like gunpowder

[inland oasis]

I like my coffee chambered in .45cal

[obtuse reef]

I prefer my bacon cooked with an M2 flamethrower

[austere lance]

Real

[obtuse reef]

The napalm really brings out the flavor

[silver sparrow]

bullet bill

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/stranger-things-fire-flame-gif-14920648

[austere lance]

Unfortunately I don't think napalm would cook the bacon correctly, smh

[obtuse reef]

I’m curious what other weird bullets were put into weird guns

I know there’s a revolver that uses a popular rifle cartridge

Which is, by the way, quite loud

[obtuse reef]

That is, in fact, a weird gun with a weird bullet

[sleek cloud]

we had a spud gun!

[inland oasis]

Oh I built one before

But that was a CANNON

[sleek cloud]

lol

[obtuse reef]

Now can we grow a strain of super potato and make a potato mortar

[inland oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/potato-aim-potato-potato-gun-gif-14043240

[obtuse reef]

By the way, I want one of these silly guys.

[inland oasis]

I watched demolition ranch shoot that thing

Glorified BB gun lol

[sleek cloud]

we had so many bb guns

[austere lance]

I can do you one better, lol
https://youtu.be/q9ZLvTrlhbI?si=XMrlvTjzDNYodOkT

[sleek cloud]

some were stupidly powerful

[inland oasis]

I had a red rider lever action “shoot my eyes out” rifle

[obtuse reef]

I like my hands the way they’re pointing, thank you very much

[inland oasis]

Kentucky needs a 4Bore hand cannon

LOL

[obtuse reef]

I want an 8g double barrel. No particular reason, since I live in a quiet neighborhood, but it would be funny.

[austere lance]

Didn't they kill a damn Grabboid with that in Tremors 🤣

[obtuse reef]

No, I think that was an elephant gun loaded with slugs

[inland oasis]

I want a double barrel 4Bore 😂

When I wanna go to the next state I’ll just shoot that

[obtuse reef]

I wonder what caliber would get you the most noise complaints

[inland oasis]

Howitzer

My neighbors hate when I fire off my TANK

[obtuse reef]

Are you familiar with the “special power” overclock for the Scout’s shotgun in Deep Rock Galactic?

[inland oasis]

No, I’ve never played that lmao

[obtuse reef]

Well, imagine a shotgun that blasts you backwards while you’re in the air

[inland oasis]

Ahhh yes. Like in gta flying tank. Turn the barrel back and fly faster

[mental rose]

Why settle for only 2 barrels, when you could have 4? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTeyPe0UGY

[austere lance]

That was the elephant gun, lol

[inland oasis]

Double double barrel

[obtuse reef]

I wonder how hard it would be to make a chainsword.

[inland oasis]

Like functioning? Or a chain edge?

[obtuse reef]

Functioning

[inland oasis]

warhammer vibes

[austere lance]

Put a chainsaw on a rifle instead 😌

[inland oasis]

gears of war vibes

i can do this all day whats next

[obtuse reef]

Was about to say, didn’t they do that in gears of war?

[inland oasis]

put a gun on my chainsaw

[austere lance]

Damn straight

I just played through Gears 2-5 with a friend, I love the Lancer 😆

[inland oasis]

yea gears is one of the games that got me rly into gaming

always tryna go to a friends that had it to play it

[mental rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0RdhFnTd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUiVhM0V7Y

[obtuse reef]

The American 180 is another gun that would be pretty funny to own

Not legal in the slightest

But funny

[mental rose]

Is that the baby Tommy Gun that fires .22lr and has like 300 round drum?

[obtuse reef]

Yes

.22lr is tiny, but it’s still a bullet

[mental rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50N5lQoAFw

[inland oasis]

1 pc of straw going 300 mph can still do damage.

[obtuse reef]

That’s the philosophy of the railgun

Sure, it’s a brick of iron. But a brick of iron that goes at 8000mph tends to ignore physics for a little while

[mental rose]

Naval railguns are hilarious. Metallic needle has the same impact energy as a cruise missile

[inland oasis]

how bout the hammer of god tho

tungsten rods from space

the scale of physics in that blows me away

[obtuse reef]

They tried to use lasers on boats. Didn’t work, because the water vapor kept diffracting the laser causing it to have the range of a sawed off with the power of a 1w laser pointer

Which you can buy a 1w laser pointer by the way

[inland oasis]

one day we'll have lasers we shoot up at a sattelite with mirrors and lenses thatll focus the beam and be able to aim down from space

not we as people

we as a miitary

[obtuse reef]

That won’t work because the atmosphere will get in the way

[inland oasis]

well tell it to move

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/you-got-a-point-jodie-walton-jbtzxclsv-ya-know-what-hold-on-gif-16819500

[mental rose]

I think they've solved most of the issues currently. They can actually be used to shoot down drones and jets somewhat reliably

[inland oasis]

were already moving the Ozone one

xD

[obtuse reef]

And then putting it back

[inland oasis]

well thats not "our" responsibility

[obtuse reef]

I like being able to step outside without a space suit. I don’t go outside that often, but I like having the option

Hmm… can you put a .50bmg round in a shotgun?

[coarse swift]

If you try hard enough

[obtuse reef]

Good enough for me

[earnest hatch]

Rod of God go BRRRRRRR

[obtuse reef]

It’s funny how the faster something goes, the bigger the hole it leaves behind

[dry copper]

Tell that to Neutrinos

[obtuse reef]

Neutrinos don’t interact with anything enough to cause an explosion

[dry copper]

You didn't create that caveat before 😛

[obtuse reef]

Because until you were being a semantic asshole, I didn’t consider neutrinos. 😛

[dry copper]

How big of a hole do photons create?

[obtuse reef]

Depends on the laser

[inland oasis]

bigger than Muons

and higgs bosons

[dry copper]

Muons sound like a delicious asian delicacy

Like a dumpling

[inland oasis]

the boso particle xD

[dry copper]

lol

[earnest hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/game-over-power-dance-laser-funny-gif-13636656

[inland oasis]

oh...yay... xD

[thorny python]

Look at them jumping for joy back there

Finally got some people to talk to

[inland oasis]

man now i feel bad, all lonely n shit.....now i gotta go back n beat him up thx to you

nighty night friend

[thorny python]

Noooo

https://tenor.com/view/sad-dwight-schrute-rainn-wilson-the-office-nbc-gif-16114867

[inland oasis]

:D

[thorny python]

https://tenor.com/view/wasitworthit-batman-rober-gif-13275583366654706847

[inland oasis]

honestly, no. but was i gonna turn him back into a loner again? also No

[dull tulip]

https://youtu.be/e5xueJq4Lwc?feature=shared

I'm so excited for the update

Even if you don't play Star Rail this animation is gorgeous.

[dry copper]

Do you play star rail?

[dull tulip]

yes

[pale trellis]

Oh YEAH, morbius on netflix. These dudes just know where to look for the biggest garbage possible

[dry copper]

thoughts on it?

[inland oasis]

its MORBIN time

[dull tulip]

It's enjoyable. Been enjoying it even more ever since the Penacony update.

I really like the world, characters, and music. Lore is fascinating.

Obviously it's a gacha, but it's pretty generous.

[obtuse reef]

Morbius is shit. Not the shit, just shit

[dry copper]

Morbius was launched directly to streaming on netflix. They prob got the rights in a bargain bin

[inland oasis]

new badass mace i just found

[pale trellis]

yeah, they just thought they could bate somebody new on it because of the dead meme. its still funny, its just dead

[coarse swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1237970/Titanfall_2/

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[quaint escarp]

3????

titanfall 3 confirmed

[coarse swift]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/b2bRc150uR

[dry copper]

That won't last long. The shit storm this creates is going to drive the market share of their parent company down which will "encourage" execs to change wording

I haven't read the EULA and I don't care to. If it's true, it won't last long.

If it's not and it's just some fanboi hyperventilating...which wouldn't surprise me...shrug

Forced arbitration is hilariously ineffective in preventing court proceedings.

Also, it only effects those who live in the United States lol

That poor wording is going to cost them a lot of money

It's not like only US citizens play blizzard games

Funny.

"You may return fire but only on Sunday, through the alley with a pitch fork and only on the condition you scream hail mary in pig latin before hand"

Those terms may find themselves thrown out of court on the grounds they are both in parts ambiguous and wholly arbitrary in their wording and purpose.

[quaint escarp]

height being directly tied to carry weight in dd2 sucks why cant i be short and strong

[dry copper]

Like a short king

https://tenor.com/view/midget-fight-fighting-me-gif-19019311

Shira gon fuck you up

[obtuse reef]

Ah, a true dwarf.

[frigid yarrow]

Elite dangerous utopic station

Imperial science research station

[dry copper]

I hate that I said I wasn't going to read that stupid fucking eula and ended up reading it anyway

The eula doesn't say you don't own anything. It also doesn't say you always have to use forced arbitration.

Forced arbitration is pretty standard when dealing with a large corporation

[tame cairn]

dd2 time..

[inland oasis]

not sure if its just me, but im in the area, where the story begins, and im gettin like 50 fps now

[earnest hatch]

Blizzard making even MORE bad decisions

lets goooo

[dry copper]

Found a new home in a swamp

[inland oasis]

thanos lookin ass

[obtuse reef]

He looks like if you took a thing of Chex mix and laid it all out on a table relatively neatly

[thorny python]

nice...mosaic?..armor?

[obtuse reef]

As if making chainmail wasn’t already enough of a pain in the ass

[inland oasis]

in the end i kinda like it. like a ceramic plated executioners mask xD

[thorny python]

skin tight chain on the arms

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, that can’t feel good

[inland oasis]

yea the chaffings kinda rough

especially when it gets wet

[thorny python]

what are the pauldrons made of?

[inland oasis]

leather n fur

[obtuse reef]

Leather

[thorny python]

they're really big

[thorny python]

the nose has no protection

[obtuse reef]

Not space marine big

[inland oasis]

yea, theyre like armour tho

[obtuse reef]

It does, the lighting makes it look like it doesn’t

[inland oasis]

yea the plates fully 100% cover it all

holy fk theres a photo mode

[thorny python]

I'm talking about the shape, a single hammer blow will knock it all in armor and nose.

[inland oasis]

howd i not see this

[obtuse reef]

I would prefer to have an actual helmet though

[obtuse reef]

Hammers and other blunt objects are just good against armor in general

[thorny python]

true

[obtuse reef]

Knights wore quilted clothing filled with feathers to try and mitigate that, but it never really fixed it

[thorny python]

but this "helmet" has no deflective curves

[inland oasis]

theres a good one

[obtuse reef]

Which is why when you pick a fight with a plate armor enthusiast, grab a brick and not a sword

Especially if it’s that guy

[inland oasis]

u get hit in the head helmet or not, with a mace, it dont matter. so why not look pretty doin it xD

[thorny python]

have you heard of a demo hammer?

[thorny python]

helmets had suspension

[obtuse reef]

Armor had a ton of layers to it

[inland oasis]

its not just the blunt force trauma

[obtuse reef]

Because an actual helmet would prevent your skull from caving in on itself

[inland oasis]

youd blow someones ear out

[obtuse reef]

Better than having a brand new dent in your brain case

[inland oasis]

no, but essentially what i was saying is one hit to the head is gonna do pretty much enough in most cases

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, but knights took measures to ensure that the least amount of damage happened

[thorny python]

like adding angles to deflect blows

[obtuse reef]

And actually wearing stuff under their armor

Best image I could find of it

[inland oasis]

one clock to the temple. still hurtin

[obtuse reef]

But it won’t kill you

At least not immediately

[inland oasis]

it would most likely be the downfall in that engagement.

so yea

i agree

[obtuse reef]

You have to realize, everything had a purpose when designing armor.

[inland oasis]

then theres simple physics

[obtuse reef]

Even the colorful bits were there to show who was who on the battlefield

Medieval engineers were actually really intelligent and good at working with what they had

[inland oasis]

chainmail alone is genius

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, and then put plate armor over that

People don’t realize this often, but you could move fast in a suit of armor

[inland oasis]

i dont see it rly serving any blunt force protection tho

blunt force is like kryptonite to a knight

[obtuse reef]

It provides a rigid structure protecting you from the object itself

The force will still hit you, but the object won’t

[inland oasis]

if your lucky

weapon designers also made there shit to defeat that armor

kinda like a cheater vs dev fight

armorer vs weaponeers

now dont get me wrong bladed blunt force trauma is very protected in armor. im specifically thinking of maces btw

or clubs.

now thats an action shot. in the ear stabs to the brain xD

[tranquil glen]

Aeron is still correct though with maces and clubs, its still rigid armor but only the blunt force and maybe maybe a mace point will stab into the chainmail but the force will all flow

[dry copper]

Guess what? Chicken butt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZDUgHLd-Z0

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-quit-gif-24545516

[tranquil glen]

And thats why i dont watch DDoI anymore clickbait

[dry copper]

What's clickbait?

He showed what it was.

The hyperbolic heading gave the impression it was going to be something else?

DDOI isn't a docuseries

[onyx kayak]

the phrase "arms race" was literally right there

[quaint escarp]

these pawns are so stupid i stg

threw them onto a ledge then followed up

when i got up there i told them to follow me and they decided to jump off and die

[dry copper]

I stole the oven out of the mage tower and put it in the tundra house then moved the furniture around. Might just delete the table entirely

Decorating is fun

turns out I'm stupid and that thing beside the put is a baking surface

I did all that work to move an oven that wasn't needed

[obtuse reef]

Yup. That tracks with my game experience in a lot of games

Namely Icarus. That game has some annoying mechanics

Like the “need a campfire to sleep” mechanic

[dry copper]

lol, Nightingale has that

Need a bed to sleep. Need a roof for a bed.

Need to sleep or you die.

End up carrying mats for a tent and bed on you at all times

[obtuse reef]

Icarus also has the o2 mechanic. It’s never actually been an issue for me, I just know that I need to keep it from hitting 0

[thorny python]

Is that just the thing for survival games now
Valheim is a bed needs a roof and a fire nearby

[obtuse reef]

There’s also the constant changes to the power systems

The water system also changed pretty shortly after I finally got a water system actually set up

And then they added bees and whatnot

[thorny python]

Are you talking about Valheim?

[obtuse reef]

The game keeps encouraging agriculture and long term survival, even though a lot of the missions have a relatively short time limit

No, Icarus

Fun game, and you can tell the devs actually do care with their weekly updates

It just takes up a massive amount of space

I remember it started out relatively bad, but then over time it managed to pull itself back from the brink of being another shitty survival game

[restive tusk]

on very building based games i can understand, to encourage and introduce players to the mechanics

but after the success of valheim it feels so many games been adapting some mechanics from it

The only thing that grinds my gears is that we are now bundling up all these games into the "survival" genre, when some of them barely have actual survival mechanics

They put some rest/sleep system into place, some cooking and food system in place, but it's mostly for buffs, not actual survival management

🤷‍♂️ to me that just feels like someone that shouldnt be bundled with actual survival games, like The forest or Green Hell but eh

[tame cairn]

@austere lance

using this lol

[austere lance]

Hell yeah, Korra-era Zuko was great

[tame cairn]

yeah no idea why he said ATLA but we ignore that

[pure zinc]

Sitting on this screen for a good 3 minutes always feels amazing

Incase you’ve never played dark souls 3, let me enlighten you

https://youtu.be/cSz-HvgY1AI?si=trYFOH6JbFQZm-Ud

[finite hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eldmbodjqzc

[inland oasis]

i absolutely love this game lmao

[thorny python]

I can smell the static

[obtuse reef]

Man what an ugly bastard. Looks like a 9 year old mop from the janitors closet in a sports stadium

[inland oasis]

and then theres the ogre

[obtuse reef]

Deserves a lobotomy for that lack of personal care

I’m not going to play DD2 for a few reasons, one of them is I’m scared of overworking my CPU and having it become sentient and starting the AI uprising

When the AI uprising starts, I don’t want to piss technology off more than I usually do

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/RYn5tYy2XIQ?si=b231i8FS47q4dYdW

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/IWhl-OpSS8Q?si=li0nr1xBxylyFbXD

[inland oasis]

https://medal.tv/games/dragons-dogma-2/clips/23kqGhK2ndJ-xi/d1337D13Kw1O?invite=cr-MSxoU2IsMTY4MzE4NDcxLA

[austere lance]

@tame cairn I think you'll like this

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-air-bender-zuko-gif-18296860

[dreamy zinc]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-iroh-little-soldier-boy-gif-24164599

Cries in a corner

[inland oasis]

https://medal.tv/games/dragons-dogma-2/clips/23kySRRzGFyS_n/d1337Lj7sOmx?invite=cr-MSx0ZVEsMTY4MzE4NDcxLA

I’ve fallen in love with the warrior class

[obtuse reef]

I have no clue what DD2 is even about, I just know there’s a lot of controversy around it

[dreamy zinc]

Basically you fight monsters

You can climb em too

[obtuse reef]

I kinda got that part

[dreamy zinc]

That's all you need to know

Not sure if story is same as dd1

But if it is then, nothing 'special'

[dry copper]

Had to laugh. On the news, Airline companies are challenging Canadas Passenger Protection regulations as they apply to airlines coming to Canada and operating in Canada. In summary: If an airline overbooks a plane and you get bumped, you get double your money back if they can't rebook you in a reasonable amount of time (same day). If you agree to a next day booking they have to pay for your lodging for the night.

That sort of thing. All meant to discourage airlines from scumming their passengers, constantly overbooking and bumping people who aren't paying more expensive rates to get the higher return.

The argument from airliners..."We don't like these regulations because they are costing airliners money"

The regulatory authority has handled eighty-nine thousand legitimate complaints from passengers who were being wronged by airliners in the last year alone

It's not a difficult problem to deal with. Stop screwing your customers and it won't cost you a dime.

There are some caveats to the overbooking situation. Things outside of the airlines control do not get held against them

Such as planes grounded due to weather

Eagle in New York gets herpes from pigeons, eats rat poison and crashes into a building in Manhattan.
This is such a new york thing.

[restive tusk]

if i wasn't told i would have guessed a florida eagle

[obtuse reef]

It would’ve been Florida if it was a gator

Or a manatee

[restive tusk]

canadians sometimes cry for more competition and envy the better rates of US airliners, but then forget how shitty it is for them

[dry copper]

I don't know if I'd say Canadians cry for more competition in airliners.

If they do, they suck at crying.

The cost of a ticket to florida is under 1k in Toronto

That's a pretty good rate

On par with new york rates

Cheaper than Oregon

Cheapest rate I can find so far from this far north, there-abouts is from San Francisco and that's $736 CAD

[tame cairn]

me too

i died shortly after

i do though yeah, im in battahl now, just got to bakbattahl and upgraded my weaponry

[tame cairn]

the end goal is the same

the journey isnt

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4BHWDZUpXM

[restive tusk]

The fact we don't get the super low cost airliners is what I see most often talked about.
It's also pretty hard to get super low costs when you consider Toronto rates for overseas (I'm guessing the international fee?).
You can drive 1 hour out of Toronto and get a ticket from domestic airport to Alberta for only a couple hundred

[dreamy zinc]

geraldo of reviera

[tame cairn]

ciri misplaced him or something

[dreamy zinc]

yeah for sure

[dry copper]

I don't know. I find the whole argument too elitist for my tastes. Passenger protection is more important than $200 off a ticket price to Alberta.

[restive tusk]

This was precisely what I tried to convey in my first reply :)

[dreamy zinc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El-bt81uL_w

dude's a legend 😄

also her voice is trippy

[dry copper]

It's true though. Reminds me of the people bitching about healthcare quality going to hell. It's going to hell because of privatization being backed by tax payer dollars that are supposed to be going to public services.

[restive tusk]

Ontario nurses have already been saying screw it, why work public sector when I get better pay less hours and good benefits on the private

Then they complain we have a shortage of nurses 🙄

[mental rose]

Talion?

[dry copper]

Ontop of this a record number of nurses left the practice entirely because of a lack of regulatory protection and security against actual assault on the job

Imagine having to sue your government to get a raise because of regulations put in place that freeze your wages

[restive tusk]

Politics aside, Ford's idea of reducing costs by using private sectors to complement, is exactly the bad example we have from down south that we shouldn't follow

I don't like it and I hope we get a turn around before I get old enough and need to use the system

[dry copper]

Privatizing public services only increases the turn over rate in those industries when the pendulum swings back...and it will.

[mental rose]

Also ngl, that black guy there reminds me of Baranor 😄

[dry copper]

I think recycling should be a public sector industry and instead of recycling the piddly shit people put in bins, it focuses on the steel industry as a whole.

Steel and paper

Easier to recycle

Is there any incentive to donate old bald tires to recycling other than a warm fuzzy feeling?

[restive tusk]

The softwood industry is sustainable enough the way it's managed though. The main issue is dealing with the other stuff, which isn't easy

[restive tusk]

Well it has actually been used a lot lately. It's been reused in a number of things. For example newer kid playgrounds use a soft bouncy paving thing that's mostly made of old tire rubber

I don't think we're building enough playgrounds for all the tires we use,but it's one of its recycling uses

[dry copper]

mmm kids playing on old used tires.

Sounds healthy

https://tenor.com/view/game-push-ready-set-go-move-it-roll-gif-14312025

https://tenor.com/view/cat-tire-cat-rollin-rollin-rolling-cats-roll-gif-17551398

[restive tusk]

It's as healthy as using recycled paper napkins 😄
Things can be processed and sterilized. Besides it takes a coating of resin/enamel and it's outdoors floor anyways. As healthy as anythih else

I'm more worried about goose poop when my kids play outside than old tires

[dry copper]

Yeah....Do you take bets on which one gets hit first, too?

[mental rose]

I had to actually google this, since I haven't really needed this info before.
But in Finland old tires are either burnt as fuel, or ground up and used gravel substitute for asphalt
Truck tires are simply re-coated and reused

[restive tusk]

Lol I meant worried about them stepping on it and bringig it inside. When it dries out some stuff goes airborne it's pretty nasty.
But I like your idea of a game that should entertain me a bit when I'm watching them

[dry copper]

Burning tires sounds so bad

The fumes emitted are packed with the many toxic chemicals that tires contain (including volatile organic compounds such as benzene, metals such as lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzo(a)pyrene, and synthetic rubber components such as butadiene and styrene).

[restive tusk]

Ever seen when a tire factory or scrapyard with lots of tires catches fire?

[dry copper]

I have. It's black enough to darken the sky

[restive tusk]

That stuff can sometimes burn for days and they can't even put out the fire

[mental rose]

"Currently in Europe, approximately 50% of recycled tires are used as energy"
Roughly translated, it's in Finnish.

[dry copper]

Some years back there was a storage facility exploded in toronto that also had tires on site. The whole city was covered in the fog for a week after.

smog

[restive tusk]

Better than the poo blotches in the lake, after some heavy rains overflow the still hybrid system waste water in old neighborhoods

Can't wrap my head decades on and we still haven't fixed them all

[dry copper]

Welcome to Woodstock. Please don't sleep near the outhouses. It's going to rain and you're going to regret everything.

Rain overflow from the outhouses, floods human feces and mud into a giant lake of horror.

[restive tusk]

And somehow that one beach at the east end has a certified blue flag

[dry copper]

I could've sworn there was a mod to make horses ride on roads and paths in skyrim

I can't find one

I wanted to get that witcher 3 feeling while horse riding

Ride while observing the sights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwgH7snNWBI

[restive tusk]

I'm pretty certain there was one and I used it before. Haven't played in a while and too scared to load it now since they updated

My loadout would probably be messed and if I were to play again might have to freeze version

[long beacon]

New pickup, childhood time

https://tenor.com/view/gaming-gaming-time-when-is-gaming-time-gamer-gamer-chair-gif-24791444

[inland oasis]

The amount of times I’ve died cuz of stagger lock, or constantly being kicked while down

[dry copper]

lol. To look at what I am wearing you'd never go..."Yeaaah man. That guy is wearing full legendary armor with a legendary weapon."

I used alchemy to boost enchanting, enchanting an alchemy crafting set that boosts smithing 230%+ and just improved the trash gear. It went straight to legendary

Now I'm a legendary dude that looks like a hobo

I did find a cap to improving though.

After about 39% fortify alchemy enchant, the gear doesn't seem to get any better

39% per piece, mind you

The fortify restoration glitch does not work either

[restive tusk]

wow this is some throwback 🥲

no idea it even made it to the xbox. i think last time i played turok was before xbox was invented lol

[mental rose]

Ah, the good 'ol crafting loop exploit 😄

[dry copper]

I wouldn't call it a loop. It only worked up to 39% and capped.

I've heard that it used to go into the millions

It might be one of the mods I'm using that prevents the exploit working. I was told the skyrim patch fix thingamajig might fix it

Thinking I might do a seperate skyrim install just to try out this mod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ3oREWl7yM

[pure zinc]

I want an accurate Skyrim dark souls mod

All the ones I’ve seen aren’t it

I wish there was one that was

[austere lance]

Why not just play Dark Souls, lol

[pure zinc]

Played

Also Skyrim is cool

But not the combat

I like dark soulgs combat

[edgy viper]

Skyrim engine would have issues with animations and hitboxes

[quaint escarp]

theres dark souls combat mods for skyrim lol

[pure zinc]

What do my last 4 games played say about me

[edgy viper]

That you praise the sun

[glossy kestrel]

my last 5

[pure zinc]

No man sky

[glossy kestrel]

yeah, ppl actually play NMS... weird right??

[pure zinc]

I love that game

[earnest hatch]

My last 5

[dry copper]

omgerd

What is this game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcqr6OJwNg

[obtuse reef]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1215511556268232715/1221563232062406676/image.png?ex=6613086a&is=6600936a&hm=bd617448726578ef7da110a18fe22eed7742b2649593e6923a85986ce72f19c4&

[tame cairn]

bruh

[dry copper]

These are the voyages of the USS Fuselage

[tame cairn]

you can customize ships now 😭😭

[dry copper]

Boldly going in a straight line

[tame cairn]

This update is pretty sick, love HG

[obtuse reef]

It’s a tanky boat too. 700k effective HP, so most assholes can’t even scratch the paint

[tame cairn]

https://youtu.be/guha9rDpnhI?si=KiaIVBZrrmymIIID

this looks terrible lol

[dry copper]

Paint. It's what's for dinner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGsFa20GykM

[quaint escarp]

dd2 is fun its my binge till i burn out game

wwonder how long itll take

[dry copper]

45 hours and fifteen minutes, give or take a couple days

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332100/Starship_Simulator/

Steam

Starship Simulator

Starship Simulator is a space exploration sandbox, where you serve as a crewmember aboard mankind's first experimental deep space exploration vessel. Your ship is tasked with the mission of exploring the galaxy beyond Sol to seek out habitable worlds, with standing orders to conduct science and make successful first contact with any alien sp...

Release Date

To be announced

▶ Play video

Looks like they're using a bastardized version of the "United Federation of Planets" insignia, from star trek

[austere lance]

Mine, lol

[obtuse reef]

My last six, because I couldn’t crop out the sixth one

[coarse swift]

Banana Shooter

[obtuse reef]

It’s a random free game that my friends convinced me to download

[dry copper]

This is the craziest potato salad commercial I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFgnSp9z0A

[coarse swift]

Only reason EDF is there is because a friend wanted me to play it with him so bad he bought me a copy

[obtuse reef]

I haven’t been playing as much recently

[dry copper]

Have you ever wanted a 5kg tub of potato salad? WELL NOW YOU DO!....For just $18 Canadian...BUY POTATO SALAD!! DO IT!! EAT!! SHARE!! YOU CAN AFFORD IT!! What, you don't like feeding the poor? You have enough potato salad to feed an army!...SO DO IT. Feed The Army! Potato Salad. $18 at your local grocer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OtGIPRcAs

[long beacon]

If u own an Xbox grab age of booty it’s getting delisted in less than 24 hours, $5, is an arcade so no legit way of owning after

[tame cairn]

same

[silver sparrow]

Eyyy div2

[austere lance]

I just got it for my friend recently and made a new character to play it with him, lol. We finished the main story yesterday and now we're at World Tier 2 beating up Black Tusk bois

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwCD6DZCg7U

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ic5tLfkqI

[austere lance]

Yeah I don't have that much time in it, lol. I put like 48 hours into my first character and got bored after getting him to World Tier 5 cuz I was playing it solo, I'm having more fun the second time around playing it with a friend tho 😆

[silver sparrow]

my favorite thing to do is answer calls for help for people on missions

wander in with my shotgun and my shield and wander around dispatching baddies

so i guess i also prefer to play with other people 🙂

goes back to bf2042 and eating nachos

[quaint escarp]

the only thing that makes me worried in dd2 is the dragonplague bc the pawns im with keep mentioning it and its making me paranoid

[dry copper]

Grow mushrooms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp8Jc1GnDEo

[hybrid atlas]

My d2 fashion

[thorny python]

Destiny?

[hybrid atlas]

Destiny 2

[earnest hatch]

drippy

[glossy kestrel]

ppl still play tht scam??? weird...

[hybrid atlas]

Used to play Warframe, got banned, i can say the same for that game too

[obtuse reef]

I stopped after 100 hours and beating the Witch Queen and Beyond Light DLCs, because A) late game content is locked behind a paywall and B) it was really grindy. And I play EVE Online, if that says anything about D2

[glossy kestrel]

big fan of The Divsion 2... you may wana look into Once Human https://store.steampowered.com/app/2139460/Once_Human

Steam

Once Human

The apocalypse changed everything. Human, animal, plant… all are infested by an alien creature – Stardust. As a Meta-Human, you can survive the contamination and use the power of Stardust. Play alone or join others to fight, build and explore. When the world is in chaos, you are our last hope.Survive in the wildernessYou wake up in the middle of...

Release Date

Q3 2024

▶ Play video

[coarse swift]

gets banned
claims game is a scam
Average banned player

[glossy kestrel]

warframes not a scam tho... warframe doesnt ask you to buy 500$ in DLC's and DLC's tht contain content tht isnt even in the game anymore... Destiny does!

[hybrid atlas]

Games that ban people for “hate speech” or other speech related things deserve to be shut down and the owners should be homeless

[coarse swift]

Ok buddy

[obtuse reef]

…were you using hate speech?

[hybrid atlas]

Hate speech doesn’t exist so no

[obtuse reef]

That explains it

[glossy kestrel]

thts hilarious 🤣

[obtuse reef]

Don’t say the N word buddy, not every game is moderated by Valve

[hybrid atlas]

I saw someone say they wanted all non vaxxed people executed and they get away with it, I say living in China would suck and I get banned

I reported them and they never got banned

[glossy kestrel]

you are right about something... living in China would suck only cuz of the internet being blocked and you needing a VPN all the time 👍

[coarse swift]

Living in China would suck, not entirely wrong, just depends on where you're living and your status

[hybrid atlas]

Not to mention the mass murder on citizens

But yeah, I never said the n word or any of that, was quite a well liked person on reigon till someone got China mentioned and I replied

[coarse swift]

Course, a bad moderating system doesn't make the game a scam

Last I recall you don't have to pay to play it

[hybrid atlas]

The scam is that they allow you to grind then they ban you in those ban waves then you regrind and likely buy stuff, like a casino

[coarse swift]

There's missing context but that's still not what a scam means

[glossy kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/cooking-intel-too-hot-gif-14315286

now thts funny ^

man tht CPU needs some thermal paste

[mental rose]

I still remember that moment when the devs actually removed a lootbox (of sorts, it was a platinum-bought random mod package) because someone was buying it too many times 😄

[hybrid atlas]

Warframe is owned by ten cent, Chinese company, same as pubg

[austere lance]

Warframe studio is owned by Tencent, a Chinese company 😆

Yeah that, lol

Discord lag go brrrrrr

[hybrid atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/clint-eastwood-gunslinger-six-shooter-gun-flip-flip-gun-into-holster-gif-12524647873518510513

[obtuse reef]

Valve will temporarily ban you from the community market if you spend too much money at once

[hybrid atlas]

I said it first

[coarse swift]

... Ok buddy x2

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, maybe don’t shit talk China on a game developed by a Chinese company

[coarse swift]

China pretty strict on games

[hybrid atlas]

Better yet, a Chinese company shouldn’t be infringing on US amendments and being allowed to operate in our servers

[silver sparrow]

don't forget bikbok 🐣

[hybrid atlas]

Also, I wish we could own the games we buy

[coarse swift]

Don't install the Blizzard launcher then

[hybrid atlas]

Yeah, but I meant as in we are able to lose access to games we buy if we say an opinion they don’t like

[obtuse reef]

When it comes to online games, I’d say that the responsibility is on you to read the ToS and try to avoid saying anything that could get you banned

Sure, some bans are bullshit, but the terms of service are not suggestions

[hybrid atlas]

They shouldn’t be able to remove access to game content, but at most game chat

TOS shouldn’t exist, hellogames is so lax on it, it’s why they are my fav developer teams

TOS pertaining to game chat, yeah don’t pirate the game

But tbh if I never did get banned from Warframe I wouldn’t have liked it as of now, narrative quality has decreased and it’s copying Elden ring

[obtuse reef]

Permanent bans are bullshit unless you cause major (like think doxxing multiple people levels) problems, but a weeklong ban or something for chat violations is fair.

[hybrid atlas]

DDOXing is able to be persecuted by the FBI as of 2018, at that point it isn’t a game dev’s territory

Other than to scrub it off the chat

Because it’s illegal

[obtuse reef]

Doxxing is illegal in the US, but it’s not that serious unless something like swatting happens, so it’s only going to get punished as a misdemeanor

[hybrid atlas]

I’ll take your word on it

[obtuse reef]

I’m not sure on laws in other countries

[hybrid atlas]

But still, I think if anyone gets a message or visit from the FBI they will probably straighten up

Other countries is fair game, none of them have true freedom of speech

[shadow tartan]

Why are you at my house

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-no-undecided-not-sure-gif-26295992

[mental rose]

Also calling Warframe a scam tickles me, considering it's 11 years old now and still retains players.
Then there's me...

[hybrid atlas]

Answer me this, how is any crime against someone else not a hate crime, do you steal from someone you don’t hate or justify by a low level of hatred towards?

[thorny python]

People don’t rob from bank because they hate banks.

[hybrid atlas]

I mean, I think a lot do, seeing as they think they are justified from stealing from a bank

Clearly they dislike banks more than normal people

But that’s also due to money density

[obtuse reef]

Hate crimes are typically defined as crimes against someone for their race/nationality/religion. People who commit low level crimes (battery, larceny, etc.) typically do not do it out of hatred for the group that their target belongs to. Those that do get aggravated charges and are more heavily punished for it

[hybrid atlas]

Hate crimes shouldn’t exist, you did a crime against someone cause you hated them, why doesn’t matter

I did have 5k hours on warframe and was mr 29 3 years ago

[coarse swift]

Dude can you just take this hate speech nonsense somewhere else

[hybrid atlas]

What nonsense? It doesn’t exist

[coarse swift]

[hybrid atlas]

Anyways yeah moving on, I just think destiny 2 is overhated

[tame cairn]

i already have 26 hours on dragons dogma 2

[mental rose]

Just gonna ignore the fact the devs removed content that people once paid for because the game was getting too big?

[hybrid atlas]

Yeah I never said it didn’t deserve any hate, just saying it’s overhated

It’s better than D1 that’s for sure

[mental rose]

Fair enough

[hybrid atlas]

I still think both d2 and warframe are scams, I liked Warframe better, now I’m salty

Old stuff from my warframe days

[winter yew]

Helldivers 1 is fun

[austere fog]

https://youtu.be/DR6k4ojiLNc?si=YyNqU-rl7kuwIiR_ Made a hell Pod in SE

[mental rose]

Need server rank 4 to post pics and show previews. That's why it's only the link

[willow crypt]

helldivers 1 top down gameplay more fun don't @ me

[coarse swift]

@willow crypt

[willow crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/im-feeling-rage-rumi-robinson-imurgency-im-feeling-angry-i-can-feel-my-wrath-gif-1989701579615248681

[earnest hatch]

Be honest I was making Kaidos Kanabo (One Piece) with my own spin on it I havent textured it but how does it look

[shadow tartan]

@willow crypt

[willow crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-cat-upset-annoyed-perturbed-gif-2678264647403754706

[shadow tartan]

Hey I play both

[willow crypt]

you still play the 1st one?

[winter yew]

Helldivers 1 gang?

[willow crypt]

yes, 4 years ago (or so)

[upbeat bolt]

If anyone has battery issues or want to increase their iPhone battery here you go https://youtu.be/XpcpUga_Zu8?si=274sW-Rb3UlKvFnQ

[shadow tartan]

Yeah installed it on the PS5 because I was missing one trophy

[junior elk]

Fun fact there's a bug killing game very similar to helldivers that even predates it called earth defense force.

Specifically earth defense force 4 (not 4.1 that's the reboot they did in the April of the year helldivers 1 released)

[winter yew]

Isnt there supposed to be an actual starship troopers game

[obtuse reef]

Two of them. An FPS and an RTS

I’ve played both, the RTS is better

[winter yew]

i see

Man, the difficulty in helldivers isnt a curve but a vertical wall

[obtuse reef]

A vertical wall covered in barbed wire that was dipped in salty lemon juice. Oh, and the wall is made out of broken glass. And you’re being shot out of a cannon towards it. And then after that you are lit on fire and then pissed on.

[winter yew]

With armor plating, lots and lots of armor plating

[obtuse reef]

The robots remain consistently horrible to fight through all difficulties, so I prefer fighting them to the bugs. Calling what happens to the bugs “a difficulty tweak” is an understatement

[thorny python]

has anything been said about helldivers coming to Xbox?

[obtuse reef]

It goes from squishy little bastards that are annoying at best to one shot flamethrower units with enemies that can not only out run you, but slow you down.

[obtuse reef]

I love getting sniped by a flamethrower unit

[shadow tartan]

The Hulks?

[obtuse reef]

The hulks can be countered because they don’t slow you down significantly, and diving puts out the fire

And they’re pretty damn slow

[shadow tartan]

What fire units

[obtuse reef]

The bile spewers are miserable

[shadow tartan]

Everything dies by the hand of Goregasm

[obtuse reef]

I say “flamethrower” because that’s essentially what they are

Seriously, who decided that they should one tap

Who did that

[shadow tartan]

I carry in Helldive a lot

Bots and Bugs

[inland oasis]

The one tap is so inconsistent too

[obtuse reef]

Which is what I hate about it

[shadow tartan]

Everything is about lead space

Just invite me

[obtuse reef]

I can deal with a one shot attack as long as it’s consistent with the range

[obtuse reef]

No

[winter yew]

Me able to kill 16 warlords on level 15

struggling to kill 1 warlord on 12

smh, matchmaking is weird

[obtuse reef]

I carry pretty hard sometimes and I’m only rank like 14 or something

[shadow tartan]

But I'll bring tissues to wipe up the tears

[winter yew]

Hulks are the big guys with miniguns

[obtuse reef]

But I haven’t reached helldive difficult yet simply because I value what little shreds of sanity I have

[obtuse reef]

No, they have flamethrowers too

And buzz saws

[winter yew]

Ha.. helldive, thats seems so easy now..

[winter yew]

Oh HD2

[obtuse reef]

I’m not sure if I have any sanity remaining though, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Malevelon Creek lately

[inland oasis]

Chargers are funny. Just do circles around em 😂 poor things with turning radius of a small ship

[winter yew]

Inner circle of hell Malevelon Creek when

[obtuse reef]

The Creek isn’t horrible if you are good at running fast

And if your team mates don’t drop you in direct view of the fucking one shot turret

Or in the middle of a minefield

I’ve had my teammates do both.

At once

I was not happy with that guy

[winter yew]

Yeah in helldivers 1 i have something called the 3 second rule

if it takes more than 3 seconds to kill an enemy: run

circle back to objectives when stratagems are ready

works well when everything will literally end you in one hit and you cant do damage for shit with normal ordinance

[obtuse reef]

I just run from the things I can’t kill without an orbital strike and hope my teammates deal with them

Mostly because I prefer the eagle strategems because I don’t like trying to predict movement of units

[winter yew]

anyone remember arena missions?

fucking hate those

[shadow tartan]

They have flamethrower ones with chainsaw hands too

[winter yew]

450 enemies all armored to the teeth..

Small map

enclosed space

[shadow tartan]

Yeah they're in this too

[shadow tartan]

They're talking about the first one

[obtuse reef]

I know

[inland oasis]

Lmaoooo

[winter yew]

just wondering when the difficulties from HD1 will make it to the sequel

[inland oasis]

After they fix it

[winter yew]

“im doing my part” ah picture

[shadow tartan]

It seems to scale a little different now

[obtuse reef]

But my point still stands, the Creek isn’t horrible if you have strong legs and a disregard for the life of your fellow Helldivers

[shadow tartan]

They'll probably add it when more of the vehicles and weapons are released

[winter yew]

me without any antitank weaponry (theyre on cooldown) facing a Warlord swarm:

[obtuse reef]

“Goddammit, stop posing heroically and come kill this thing!”

[shadow tartan]

Inner Circle of Hell is a different story

[winter yew]

💀

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/the-what-smile-whut-weird-stare-gif-16592004

Can’t be that bad

Right?

[winter yew]

💀

[obtuse reef]

Right…?

[winter yew]

💀💀💀💀💀

[obtuse reef]

Eh, I’m sure it’s fine

[shadow tartan]

If you're whining a bit about difficulty 9

Welp

9 is just the desired difficulty level it's supposed to be played on

[obtuse reef]

Not about the difficulty, more just the enemies that the higher difficulties bring. Everything else is fine

[winter yew]

Imagine 50 hulks dropping at once, along with several tanks all with armor so think you HAVE to have some form of heavy anti tank weaponry

[shadow tartan]

15 is them giving people more of a challenge

[winter yew]

And they keep spawning

in that manner

[shadow tartan]

Yup

[winter yew]

Thats a taste of inner circle of hell

[inland oasis]

We need a mission thats complete crossfire. Automatons fighting bugs and then we drop in

[shadow tartan]

Tests your strategy to the max

[winter yew]

Tests your ability to know when to retreat

[obtuse reef]

Or your cardio

[winter yew]

when to reinforce

and when to attack

[inland oasis]

Democracy doesn’t need strategy, just enough sacrifices

[shadow tartan]

That's just part of your strategy, knowing when to stop sprinting and make enemies run into a cluster

[obtuse reef]

Anyways, I’m going back to sleep, if anyone bothers me, I’m going to put a pipebomb in your favorite pair of shoes.

[inland oasis]

“Don’t let the bedbugs bite” isn’t a little joke to helldivers 😂

[winter yew]

Havent even seen the bugs yet, the war im in is almost over

seen my fair share of siegemechs, warlords, and the rest of the cyborgs though..

God why do they have so much armor..

[shadow tartan]

@winter yew

[winter yew]

salute

[shadow tartan]

Went back to the first one to practice stratagem combos

[winter yew]

im doing it because i cant run hd2

[inland oasis]

7 wars fought 3 won. Report to your democracy officer sir

[dry copper]

So glad to see twitch changing their rules to try and put the kibosh on the softcore p87n on the site

[shadow tartan]

Had fuck all people playing it, not a game for posers

[winter yew]

Yeah its really do or die

[inland oasis]

Accidental deaths? Kick

Democracy makes no accidents

[dry copper]

You can kick in hd2?

[inland oasis]

Yea

It’s a big issue

People getting kicked at extract

[dry copper]

lol

Sounds like an asshole thing to do

Hope they reported it directly to the team

[inland oasis]

There’s memes going around where it’s like “anything you do here” gets you kicked

Extracting early? Kicked

[shadow tartan]

I straight up told people that a lot of them were on purpose

[inland oasis]

Existing? Kicked

[shadow tartan]

@inland oasis @dry copper I kick people for joining a game and running to extract

[winter yew]

Oh nah

[inland oasis]

Not giving me my helldive hug, kicked

[shadow tartan]

I don't kick people for dying or being shit at the game

[winter yew]

at least in the first game you have to complete all objectives to evac

[shadow tartan]

Yeah exactly

[inland oasis]

Objectives? Kicked

[shadow tartan]

Sometimes you'll be casually clearing out a map and some idiot goes to call in extraction

Tell them to move and if they don't they get shot in the face and kicked

I did worse in the first game

[winter yew]

Remember, freedom isn’t preserved by quitters

[shadow tartan]

If people don't want to get kicked, host your own mission, simple

It's not often I kick people but the function is handy

[inland oasis]

Getting kicked? Kicked

[shadow tartan]

Walking left?

[winter yew]

God forbid you do anything to gameguard

[shadow tartan]

You're outta here

[shadow tartan]

Thankfully I'm on PS, skip most of the bullshit

[inland oasis]

“If you ping, kicked”

[winter yew]

no ps, only laptop

honestly would refund to get on ps but i have 7 hours of crashes stopping me

[shadow tartan]

I just want some more weapons to play with

[winter yew]

imagine a build your own weapon promo

[inland oasis]

Wanting more weapons, kicked

[shadow tartan]

People who stand and fight on objectives

Gone

[winter yew]

oh nah, i learned fast that standing in on spot is a death wish

[tranquil glen]

imagine a build where you pick nothing

its all rng based

[shadow tartan]

Reload too early, bye

[winter yew]

Random setting return when

[shadow tartan]

I'd do that, I kinda do that now

[winter yew]

You could choose random in HD1 and youd get more xp on mission completion

[shadow tartan]

Yeah

I wouldn't mind that coming back

That's why I pick random shit because it's actually fun

[winter yew]

But the chances were it could bone you, because anti tank weaponry in that game is a must

[shadow tartan]

Yeah same here

[winter yew]

No anti tank? no damage

[shadow tartan]

You can kinda get away with it

But then you have tanks up and it's not fun

[dry copper]

Then you go to start a game and there's some asshole on the mic screaming at you to pick a specific loadout for his meta

[shadow tartan]

I don't actually get that

I think that was blown out of proportion

[dry copper]

I've had it a few times.

[shadow tartan]

Ewww

You played with shit players

[dry copper]

They stop after the launch is complete, but yeah...pugs can be irritating.

Or they get pissy and shoot you in the face, acting like it was just an accidental friendly fire with a shotgun at pointblank range

[shadow tartan]

People don't fuck with me

I love it, if they fuck around I just leave and find another mission or host one

[winter yew]

I feel such a sense of teamwork in HD1, like were actually having fun

It may be world ending danger were facing but the synergy with randoms is insane

[inland oasis]

I have more fun jumping in with randoms than I do any other type of play

[shadow tartan]

Yeah as long as they know what they're doing

It's a beautiful game

[dry copper]

Fanatical already got Dragons Dogma 2 onsale for almost 20% off

NMS on sale 50% off at the microsoft store

In case you know anyone looking to get into it

[shadow tartan]

I bought NMS 6 times already

[dry copper]

Cyberpunk at Epic Games 50% off

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1773196703601946830?t=4WrSjaKx4IRkr4gwy8kS9g&s=19

Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) on X

Take-Two is acquiring Gearbox Software from Embracer for $460 million

➡️ https://t.co/WdbaGNOpWu

Twitter · Mar 28, 2024, 3:53 AM

[dry copper]

Oh great. Grand Theft Borderlands

[shadow tartan]

That's cheap

Can't include the publishing

Fuck Randy anyway

[dry copper]

Embracer is probably trying to get some money to put into another acquisition

They've been hungry as of late

[shadow tartan]

Just doing what they're hired to do

[shadow tartan]

Being @inland oasis , kicked

[inland oasis]

Damn kick that asshole twice

joel joins kicked

[dull tulip]

I hate that guy

[shadow tartan]

Nobody likes Randy, he's a c#nt

[dull tulip]

The name Randy always makes me think of this

https://youtu.be/xqKPe9w5bUs?feature=shared

[fallow heart]

https://fxtwitter.com/Dexerto/status/1773224856420573475?t=N0U5xJHYPv_-euLdqOnbOg&s=19

[shadow tartan]

@dull tulip https://youtu.be/ADqIh9_zAp4?si=eeO9vEhugqC6xvAA

[mental rose]

Embracer.... 😒
It's funny. When they first bought a batch of neglected studios from Square, people rejoiced, thinking old IPs might finally get a second chance at life.

Then the massive layoffs started...

[shadow tartan]

@dry copper new Hellgate?
https://venturebeat.com/games/bill-roper-unveils-lunacy-games-studio-with-survival-game-demo-and-a-new-hellgate-license/

[glossy kestrel]

ohhh check this out... very very interesting https://youtu.be/PRHBYf45BsQ?si=9tFRmTpCy3OxKVrw

[dull tulip]

That guy is an absoulute embarrassment, big asshole, creepy pervert, and he's terrible at magic

[thorn dawn]

Free Game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2512840/DORONKO_WANKO/

Steam

DORONKO WANKO

『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game.In this game, you can become a cute, innocent pomeranian.And you can make your master's home messy and dirty.Let's explore this beautiful house and make it dirty and muddy at will!Pomeranian can get muddy by "rubbing" against the "mud" spread on the floor.Spread out the mud with "splash"!Let's make the w...

▶ Play video

[shadow tartan]

Adam

This sounds like a game made in Bongo Bongo Land

[obtuse reef]

It sounds like a goddamn… well, you know what it sounds like

A very specific subset of people use wording like that

The quotation marks aren’t helping things

[shadow tartan]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sega-sells-relic-and-will-cut-240-jobs-across-uk-studios

[thorn dawn]

this is the third time you've accused me of being NSFW in a single day. It's the Japanese for 'Mud Dog'. It's a game about a dog who roles in mud, and it's free today.

[obtuse reef]

Wait third?

[shadow tartan]

I'd like to accuse you of being a prick

[thorn dawn]

Now that I'm guilty of

[quaint escarp]

more steam games to add to backlog that will never be cleared? no thanks

[willow crypt]

back logs sound uncomfortable

[obtuse reef]

Yeah lol, I have that issue too

[shadow tartan]

Handy on a rainy day

[thorn dawn]

collection, not backlog

plus what if you meet a gamer girl who likes doggos

or guy

idk

[shadow tartan]

weeb

[thorn dawn]

weeb isn;t a gender

is it?

[shadow tartan]

Could be

Is waifu?

Does Shira like waifus

[thorn dawn]

dunno tbh

[shadow tartan]

Just get a dog

@thorn dawn crazy ransom note girl is back again

[obtuse reef]

It’s more of an identity

[thorn dawn]

cool, need me to store a backup of your dental records?

[shadow tartan]

I'll leave instructions, the council must be alerted

[quaint escarp]

i share my game library with 2 friends so hopefully they play some of the games i dont

[coarse swift]

I share my library with my dad but I doubt he's gonna touch anything I play

He pretty much just plays Ubisoft games or games like Ark

[obtuse reef]

@thorn dawn I think I owe you an apology about that dog game. It is exactly as advertised, which is a little surprising for a free Steam game

[dry copper]

I'm looking forward to a Hellgate mmo

...That doesn't function like horse shit

Hellgate needs work. It needed work when it was launched. It had potential, though. It could've been a doom rpg slash vampire the masquarade mmo with the action combat and the mysticism combined

April is going to be nice. Tuesday is on the 2nd.

Meaning Humble Choice Bundle comes early in the month

[earnest hatch]

By hungry you mean starving

they absolutely fucked themselves grabbing too many studios

[dry copper]

I wouldn't say they were starving. They had no need to purchase so many studios and in the end it bit them in the ass

Some corporate shlog detached from reality must be controlling their decisions.

They should have fired the board for that, not tons of employees who weren't responsible for their bad decisions

[earnest hatch]

well they were like 100% convinced that there deal with Saudi Arabia was gonna go through

which didnt

Also im 80% sure the Dune MMO is gonna be overhyped and die pretty fast

[mental rose]

Embracer allegedly had some kind of deal cooking with someone in Saudi Arabia that would've brought them money that was probably gonna get used for upkeep and development.
Thing is, AFTER they bought all those studios, the deal suddenly got dropped. So Embracer was left out to dry.

Ahh, grayark beat me to it

[dry copper]

Running a business by robbing peter to pay paul. Smaaaaht

[obtuse reef]

Oh definitely

[earnest hatch]

I mean it looks fake MMOs are a dying type of game tbh

[shadow tartan]

Quasar Cannon > Autocannon

Fucking jokes

Two shots the Shrieker Lair nodes and blows up holes/nests

Need to test on more Automaton maps

[winter yew]

damn, assault pushed back

[coarse swift]

Heard it's like a Spartan Laser

[shadow tartan]

Yeah pretty much

[coarse swift]

How's the hmg doing

Kinda hoping they do add a backpack fed minigun

[shadow tartan]

Gonna fuck around with that next

Yeah shooting the fabricator vents work

[obtuse reef]

Thank god, because I can’t throw grenades for shit

[shadow tartan]

Bit of a game changer for me, no need for a backpack so shield can be used, unlimited ammo with long reload

[obtuse reef]

Does it use the heat sink system or does it just have unlimited ammo?

[shadow tartan]

Laser weapon, heatsink

[obtuse reef]

Nice

I’m trying to convince myself to use the scythe, because it’s not horrible

It’s alright against the robots

[shadow tartan]

I'm sticking with Scorcher

TTK just seems too long, it's fun but I prefer the original

[obtuse reef]

Well, I use whatever the one you get from the free pass is called

[shadow tartan]

Scorcher is in the free pass too, chop chop get to work