gaming

[wind vector]

(I lose sphere goods when I go to GP anyways)

[pearl scroll]

[boreal elk]

scam

[hexed scarab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaWbJUwoJS4

[wind vector]

The Belgian machine parts factory

[manic mural]

0 workers time

[wind vector]

There are plenty of workers... In neighbouring countries

Or in Africa...

Time to explore the congo

There will be a Belgian Indochina this game

Probably gonna do a Mittelafrika and then move on to east Asia

Cuz I can do a lil place in the sun on the Dutch

[manic mural]

quinine gaming

[wind vector]

Although Prussia is a problem

[manic mural]

pre ngf they shouldn't touch you at all

[wind vector]

I want to touch the Dutch

But they're allied with Prussia

[manic mural]

oh lol

[wind vector]

I'll probably abuse terrain

And call in France and/or GB

[manic mural]

don't think you have much good terrain

pretty flat only forests

[wind vector]

I can probably hold Wallonia and Luxembourg

And wait for the AI to fight the Prussian stacks

I can steal the Rhineland after too

I do actually have an arms industry

Surprisingly

[wind vector]

It's flourishing as well

The Belgian arms industry is unironically based

[manic mural]

I find that small arms generally always end up needing subsidies to keep going lol

everyone makes small arms

[wind vector]

At least in the early game I can have supply

Without too much GP support

France just removed me from GB sphere

So that's a bit annoying

They better sphere me

Need them goods

Although I'm actually making money now that I'm not in the GB sphere

My european goals are probably

Rhineland and Netherlands

[manic mural]

if you hold rhineland prussia will just keep trying to war you lol

[wind vector]

True

Does that stop them from forming NGF tho

[manic mural]

pretty sure it does

[wind vector]

Hmm

Germany can still form from events right?

Gutter crown and stuff

[manic mural]

not sure about that

[manic mural]

I wonder if there's a better way with austria and brothers war

not sure if austria has different requirements for forming

[wind vector]

I'm playing HPM so

SGF doesn't normally form

[wind vector]

I'm getting dogpiled on for limburg

[wind vector]

Ok so

I finally get a EU4 Angevin game going

And the save keeps crashing

Thanks paradox

[pearl scroll]

Another unnecessarily demanding ac game

[vivid pier]

Any fun sci-fi/fantasy games coming out this year?

Lesser known ones

[glass temple]

Some ex blizzard devs are doing what seems to be like a sea of thieves + extraction game set in space

"wildgate"

There's also "jump ship" which is a PvE space game

[smoky cedar]

I’m so hyped for that

It looks so good

[vivid pier]

Hhhmmmm

I'll look into it

[wind vector]

Angevin round 2

gonna hope my game doesn't crash this time

[wind vector]

actually tempted to go take constantinople before the the turks can expand into the levant

[wind vector]

AHAHAHAHAH

[wind vector]

what a crusade does to a mf

I defended the Christian Albanians from the Ottoman menance and all I got was 2 provinces and a crap load of debt

average crusade

Poland & Co.

🫡 🇵🇱

[wind vector]

suffering from success

I didn't even mean to get Anhalt

I just got a random notification that was like "We are now in personal union with anhalt"

elective monarchy funny like that

Don't mind a Habsburg right now

so I could steal their throne too

Of all the times I've tried to get a PU with Anhalt

every attempt was made as Brandenburg

the one time I don't care is when I get it

[wind vector]

based burgundy

Burgundy psycho strikes again

This chad is just rampaging against the turks

AHAHHAHAH WHAT IS GOING ON THE ALBANIANS ARE WINNING WITH HALF THE ARMY

aww the AI retreated

[wind vector]

The Isle of Mann is independent and their dynasty is on the polish throne

wtf

[wind vector]

POLISH NAVY W

[wind vector]

oh no

[wind vector]

uh oh

actually quite a balance league tbh

now I just gotta hope France doesn't join the other side

[manic mural]

otto + france sweep time

[wind vector]

this is a very stacked catholic league ngl

especially because I have constantinople

[manic mural]

uh

[wind vector]

so I've just been trolling by letting the turks walk across the strait

[manic mural]

where did otto army go

lol

[wind vector]

and then pulling out the navy

[wind vector]

stackwiped in constantinople

multiple times

[manic mural]

ofc lmao

[wind vector]

they were at like 80k at the beginning of the war

[manic mural]

the one thing the AI is terrible at

[wind vector]

I'm just exploiting AI stupidity

no navy ottos = easy wipes

[manic mural]

I mean even when they have a navy they still do that

[wind vector]

they have a larger navy than me but they don't use it

[manic mural]

ai doesn't use navy when they have a land path

[wind vector]

here we go again

I'm barely fighting this war

half of my army is drilling

the only major power with any fighting strength left is England

and uhh

well it's England

they tried to invade Burgundy (Polish PU) last war

and got stackwiped

[manic mural]

its time for the stage in the game where ae is just a number

[wind vector]

I can really just steamroll the HRE at this point

I should go invade France

this is very stacked

I've taken most of the trade hubs from Muscovy so they're practically not a relevant power

I have no threats except for France

I might start building a bunch of forts in Burgundy

[manic mural]

just be careful with HRE

[wind vector]

so that when the french sit on them I can go reinforce

[manic mural]

it looks small but they can make huge coalitions

and everything in HRE adds a ton of AE

[wind vector]

hmm

so what you're saying is that I should destroy France instead

[manic mural]

perhaps

[wind vector]

or Venice tbh

[manic mural]

HRE tiles just give so much AE

constant coalitions when I did my rome run and I barely went into HRE

[wind vector]

what about Italian tiles?

[manic mural]

north italian tiles are annoying, like milan venice area are all annoying, but anything deep in italy is fine

[wind vector]

hmm

yeah I'm gonna invade venice then

don't wanna open the French can of worms yet

France without Burgundy is still scary as hell

[manic mural]

yea venice alone is prob enough CE to get you a coalition but once you deal with that you can go south without too much AE as long as you don't go far west yet

[wind vector]

oh god damn it

Guess that French war is happening

[manic mural]

are you allied with mamluks? could go do some north africa funny

[wind vector]

yeah

I could ally Castile & Aragon

Aragon is a Republic for some reason

no Spain

that's a good thing but also means no major power to balance France

Aragon is a key one since they can invade French south italy

tfw the AI's too scared to cross now

especially since AI Castile stacked a 30k

[manic mural]

oh hey

been a while

if you can find a way to grab aragon you can really screw up france

mountain tiles on the border that you can just sit on with smaller stacks

[wind vector]

maybe I can grab Castile

through PU

I do think the Commonwealth PU swarm + Iberians can just steamroll the French

[manic mural]

I like the terrain on the east side better

for defense that is

[wind vector]

this is a lot of manpower

vs the enemy alliance

[manic mural]

actually yea you can force france to grind manpower in spain

and come in once their stacks are hurt

[wind vector]

yeah I can just sit in Burgundy

I'll have to set the AI to no attack tho

so they don't try to siege and get wiped by le grand armee

Burgundy was probably my best investment this game

they're actually a powerhouse

I am over gov cap by a lot

so I'll probably take stuff in Italy and then feed land to Burgundy

Now that I think about it

I might just take land off Venice first

That's probably gonna give me a massive economic boost

[wind vector]

Easiest French war wtf

this is just a dogpile

wtf? south carolina?

cursed

Germans are not too happy about me

AE is just a number at this point

Circled in Red is the Polish-Lithuanian-Bohemian-Hungarian-Burgundian Commonwealth

oh and Anhalt too

I should just stop the larping and annex Prussia at this point

[wind vector]

I got the cossack declare independence event

so I've just vassalised them and I'm just gonna let AI dev those provinces for a while before I annex them

It's worked pretty well for the Prussians so

Prussia actually has quite a decent amount of dev

[manic mural]

diplo annex time

[wind vector]

gonna be a nice boost to my economy when they get annexed

Trying to annex Hungary and Prussia at the same time

It's joever for France

76 AE for one province

HRE moment

This is a FAT Burgundy

The greatest army in europe cannot contend with the largest coalition in europe

This entire game I haven't had troubles with France

Except maybe in the first war where they were wiping my allies

But that's an AI skill issue

[manic mural]

yea classic HRE

[wind vector]

Yeah I'm probably just gonna keep dismantling France, Ottos and Muscovy until late game

Burgundy gonna be a pain to integrate but

It's just a massive middle finger to France atm

[wind vector]

it's so over for Muscovy

They have the worst ally possible

[wind vector]

my vassal's developed the area pretty well

very nice

Their reward is "membership into the Commonwealth"

Kinda tempted to release White Ruthenia now

[pearl scroll]

Beautiful

[boreal elk]

Which shader is that?

Looks like Complementary

[pearl scroll]

Yea

Crashes my computer though

[wind vector]

gonna try to kill the Prussians before they can kill me

Is this the Austrian Sedan??

ok I should actually build up instead of doing a day-1 war against the strongest military

Got BTFO'd by Helmuth von Moltke

[wind vector]

would be extremely funny if the #1 great power died without an heir

If I get that inheritance I'm instantly going to dunk on France and the HRE

nooo

[wind vector]

Average late game war

[wind vector]

I hate fortress italy

[manic mural]

Use ship and land 30ks behind smh

[wind vector]

I peaced them out with one fort sieged

I didn't try naval invading because for some reason their entire army was in South Italy instead of actually defending their home country

The Polish Empire after the peace deal

Ignore the border gore in northern europe

It was stupid cheap to give naples all of its cores back too

One province for me, one for Burgundy, and the full restoration of Naples

The French Venetian alliance is going down

honestly running out of things to do

except killing the HRE

Might go invade China or something

This whole map is cursed

Denmark almost destroyed Sweden and then formed Scandinavia

I took stockholm off one of the two

and then Sweden and Verden partitioned Scandinavia

Castile and Aragon are just uncontained juggernauts

HRE is an absolute mess

AQ and Mamluks are just hugboxing in the east

I don't even want to look at India and China

Americas are the usual mix of european powers

Great Britain is the only country on this map that's not cursed

and the Iberians and Savoy too

I tried to set Savoy up as a counter to the French-Venetian alliance

but they ended up allying french instead

traitors

[pale basin]

big funny numbers on mesa

[pearl scroll]

Integer limit

[pearl scroll]

Took flight last night

[pale basin]

funny numbers

[boreal elk]

Why is ur game 32 bit

Dum

[pearl scroll]

The damage numbers are

But I think the damage being dealt is higher

Its just what is being displayed that is like that

[wind vector]

Cursed map

I should probably contest Castile but

Don't really want touch giga Castile

Guess I'll be content with killing wiping France off the map in the next 100 years

Gonna take ages for mega burgundy to get annexed

[pale basin]

true warframe endgame, decorating your living space

some more time and more clipping and soon thisll be a kitchen

[wind vector]

reeee

my EU4 save is crashing again

thanks paradox

[slim blade]

Is warframe fun?

Like its not as bad as those memes people make abt wow players right?

[knotty dawn]

Its just a lot of grinding until the endgame

More than destiny according to a destiny player

[pale basin]

if you like grindy games then ye its pretty fun. very repetitive though as theres only a certain number of mission types and it gets to a point where like destiny, you just keep grinding to min/max your builds

will say warframe is a bit more intimidating to get into and a little more confusing than destiny for a new player but id say the warframe community is better than the destiny community when it comes to trying to help new players

[manic mural]

just have to be prepared for rng and doing something over and over until rng is in your favor

[pearl scroll]

And the company behind it doesnt suck as much

[pearl scroll]

Destiny players pay $100 a year for this

Meanwhile you can spend less or none at all on warframe

And they keep releasing free updates

[manic mural]

oh incredible

[pale basin]

i just wish warframe brought back raids

there needs to be harder content in the game

[pearl scroll]

Yeah like mechanically harder

Not everything has overguard harder

[manic mural]

they could just do something like orphix and just force you to not be able to use necramechs

they need to force you out of warframes to make anything difficult

[south haven]

Play LotRO. Most major content is free up to level 95, there are easyish ways to grind for points to buy more content in game and the 64 bit servers only cause occasional stutters due to packet loss. Minus the cascading failure in packet loss % 10 minutes ago

[manic mural]

warframe is also very good with selling stuff you grind for plat, everything content wise is free (some stuff is just on weekly rotations)

[karmic patio]

Finally beat Alan Wake 2. Only had 3 chapters left when I stopped playing but it runs a lot better on my 7900XTX than it did on my 2080Ti

Also some of the best sound design in a game that I've ever heard

[torpid parcel]

new minecraft server vibes are real

[boreal elk]

Dang

[vivid pier]

I need new games

Sci-fi

💀

[rustic tapir]

get distant horizons or bobby and you'll be chillin

[pearl scroll]

No thanks

Dh doesnt look good and it does not treat my cpu well

Best thing for me would probably be voxy

25 native chunks is far enough for me ngl

[slim blade]

Replay cyberpunk

I need a new game too…

Open world…

With bustling hub areas think towns where u can buy supplies and stuff

[wind vector]

Stellaris

[slim blade]

Great third person combat mechanics

And ofc rewarding exploration

Apparently it dont exist

Other than elden ring

Which doesn’t have the hub area part i’m looking for

But fulfills others

[slim blade]

U really love strategy games huh

Reminds me i should get to playing baldurs gate 3 thats been sitting in my library since last years summer sale

[wind vector]

This is why I don't need a RTX 3070

My games are almost entire cpu bound

There is no bottleneck because it doesn't even use the gpu

[wind vector]

POG they start with state cap

ok I'm losing money

It might just have been me mass buying artillery

oh look the capitalists want to fund the Sweden defense industry

wtf I have a colony

wait why am I at war with the UK

what happened to Splendid Isolation

Average UK AI joining every war to enforce the status quo while owning the entire world

ok I'm gonna hope the Dutch don't ally the Prussians again

[wind vector]

oh no

ok we chill

ok nvm they came back with a 27k and stackwiped me (I couldn't reinforce in time)

[pale basin]

kitchen in da backrooms

only got like the entire room left to try and build

[wind vector]

Brandenburg game where I don't get destroyed in the first 10 years

would be extremely funny if I got a PU with three literal GPs

[wind vector]

I gotta become emperor before France comes and gobbles up the low countries

uhh wtf

well I do want Poznan so

[wind vector]

ok this game is going pretty well

Silesia in 1487

It's only slightly smaller than Friedrich II's Prussia

[manic mural]

Man every time I do Prussia I'm stuck with Teutons under Poland and unwilling to do anything for me

[wind vector]

see

Most of the time I do Prussia I die in the first 10 years

[manic mural]

I usually eat half of the equivalent of NGF before I go in on Poland and get east Prussia lol

[wind vector]

I usually cheese Danzig and Konigsberg

Poland usually dissolves the alliance at that point

this time there's no PLC

and they didn't care for teutonic land

so I'm still allied with the poles... for now

[manic mural]

The only cheese I used to do was the +1 mana from every estate thing where they bail you out

[wind vector]

you know what

I'm gonna dissolve and ally Lithuania

This poland is getting a little bit too big

[manic mural]

Eat em up

[wind vector]

unironically that's my best expansion path

It's either this or HRE

or Livonia

[manic mural]

I'd go in on hre for high dev tiles and keep fragmenting the coalitions

Cycle between hre and going east

[wind vector]

I'll probably invade Poland since the HRE is pretty pissed at me for taking Silesia

pretty week coalition

Bohemia used to be the biggest coalition back when I took prussia but uh

when that coalition disbanded I just went in on Silesia

I'll probably conquer Livonia first actually

then Lusatia

so I can complete the "Conquer Silesia" missing to get claims on Poland

ok nvm gonna take too long for the truces to be up

gonna go kill Poland lol

gonna convert Memel before rebels start popping up

[manic mural]

Just do the spawn rebel thing and sit an army on it

Free army tradition ya know

[wind vector]

wait really?

didn't know that

[manic mural]

I don't think it actually gives much

It's like +0.01 or smth

But theoretically

[wind vector]

Prussiamaxxing

meanwhile the Turks are creeping up on Europe

I feel like invading Poland is going to destabilize the entire balkans

since it's gonna lead to a weak Hungary and Poland on the Ottoman border

Hungarians are safe but RIP poland

[manic mural]

Qq looks pretty strong actually

Could probably keep ottoblob in check by allying them

[wind vector]

true

I gotta deal with Poland first

I could probably just call in Lithuania and go take Constantinople

[wind vector]

Beautiful

Might do some larping and take the Magdeburg and Saxony

This is probably the earliest 19th century eastern border I've ever had

hmm am I ready to start a war with France over Cilli

ok not worth it lol

[wind vector]

I'm now big enough that the North Germans are lining up to become my vassals

[wind vector]

THE TURKS TOOK PARIS AHAHHAHAHA

[wind vector]

here we go

This is a beautiful Prussia

[wind vector]

mfw Prussia has a larger standing army than France

uh oh

ok we chill

As long as the AI doesn't skill issue

gonna hope AI Bohemia gives me Saxony

but with my AE they probably won't give me anything

We do a lil larping

[boreal elk]

Anyone here good at Redstone?

[calm reef]

what are you trying to make

[granite temple]

Depends on the project

Whole computer? Yeah just get a degree in computer science at that point

Most things Redstone are googleable too

[boreal elk]

I'm making a minigame for a friend and the score counter drops the total every third cycle

[granite temple]

Uhhh I wouldn't know

Sounds more like a command thing. Not Redstone

[pearl scroll]

Shaders crash my gpu driver

[granite temple]

rip lol

[wind vector]

are you trying to make a redstone clock?

[boreal elk]

nah thats ez

here i send ss

its ok i can figure it out

[pearl scroll]

Something about opengl and the amdgpu driver

Linux stuff

[granite temple]

Linux moment

[pearl scroll]

There are threads going back to at least a year ago about this stuff and I get the same errors these fellas get

I just found one from 9 months ago

You know whats really weird though

I turned up my voltage offset and it took longer to reset

So what Im gonna do is turn it back down to see how it will behave and then run it stock to see if that is true

[wind vector]

are you using nvidia?

[pearl scroll]

Nah amd

[wind vector]

how is your system this broken

are you still using nobara

[pearl scroll]

Its some weird amdgpu opengl interaction

[wind vector]

I'm starting to think it's nobara

[pearl scroll]

Nah its other distros too

[wind vector]

sus

[pearl scroll]

[wind vector]

it's not linux if it just does not work

[south haven]

It just works

[pearl scroll]

Works pretty well in other games

More or less parity with windows

But something going on with minecraft

Well im using zink and have not crashed yet

Lets turn it off and see what happens

[wind vector]

wtf is a zink

average linux jank experience

the whole league is coming towards me

gonna hold the line and wait for France to come save me

[wind vector]

huh

[pearl scroll]

Its a cope

[wind vector]

mfw linux doesn't work

[pearl scroll]

Alr i turned it off lets see how long it takes

I think it took like 5-10 min but really it crashes when it wants to

It can take an hour or even longer

[wind vector]

https://tenor.com/view/downfall-steiner-mein-fuhrer-steiner-gif-24733130

YES FRANCE

SAVE MEEEEE

they butched my Prussia

does anyone here play payday 2?

[pearl scroll]

I got it when it was like 3 bucks and never played it

Didnt even download it

[wind vector]

bruh

[pearl scroll]

When a game is super cheap and you buy it because of that

Steam moment

[wind vector]

I'll play it with you

the game is super fun if you got mates

... and DLCs

[pearl scroll]

I like how nothing happens yet when I put it on blast and try to see when it will do it again

It knows

[pearl scroll]

[slim blade]

Ok maybe i shouldn’t have picked a dlc boss to fight after months of not playing…

[wind vector]

what's dlcs

[slim blade]

Downloadable content

Oh the dlc’s shadow of the erdtree pretty sure its the only for elden ring

[wind vector]

dlcs nuts

[slim blade]

…

This is more miserable than dying several times to souls bosses

[boreal elk]

Bro what🤚 😭

[wind vector]

For those who don't know: Sore has been banned from using deez nuts jokes

[boreal elk]

Oh

[vivid pier]

Hmm

[bright mural]

for cyberpunk

is it better to use tranformer model with lower res

dlss

[pearl scroll]

Yeah I think so

[glass temple]

Compared to cnn model one res step higher yeah I think transformer is comparable or better

[wind vector]

mfw I find out line artillery in hoi4 isn't really that cost effective

guess it's time for another game where I just trial a new industry strategy

gonna make only support arty and then spam tanks

[south haven]

Only arty

Yes

[manic mural]

it's good if you do superior firepower, not really if you don't

[wind vector]

yeah

with large fronts tanks are just better so

[pale basin]

gara is pretty good 🗿

[pearl scroll]

Oh yeah forgot to try her out after the rework

[pale basin]

been having fun with her first ability. didnt even know she had a rework until i looked up a build for her fourth cause i wanted one for defense missions but instead became sukuna

[boreal elk]

anyone here besides me play mech arena

[vapid jackal]

after playing Turok 1,2,3 the games just got worse and worse

[vapid jackal]

https://limitedrungames.com/products/doom-doom-ii-will-it-run-edition-switch-ps5-xbox-pc

[halcyon venture]

cod mobile trickshots is crazy

[boreal elk]

https://tenor.com/view/seong-gi-hun-gi-hun-player-456-squid-game-smile-gif-10355222153465358931

[pale basin]

so far fastest and the most ive made

double credit weekend goes brrrt

[pearl scroll]

The original technocyte concept looked way better than whats in the game

In the game they look like toys with their vibrant colors and plastic texture

When they first showed them, they were duller in color and didnt have as many overall colors

They looked way more cursed and menacing at first

Its still cursed but not as much as it could have been

[pale basin]

ye wouldve been cooler if they were a bit more dark and scary and had the same or similar ominous appeal like the harrow quest

[pearl scroll]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1148303240677576755/1302715095419326484/Devstream_182_Coda_Teaser.webp?ex=680d32fa&is=680be17a&hm=117b76186fe3ee4f29f04d3d0b092211a611e56ff38419cbd802da83af9bfe17&

[wind vector]

finally finished my house

not my best build but it looks alright

[wind vector]

Haven't even gone to the nether yet

I'm rich as hell and I really should make myself even richer

I should build a village for my serfs

[slim blade]

Bullying doshagumas is kinda fun ngl

[vivid pier]

OH!
OOOH!

OOOO000OOOOOH!!!

[pearl scroll]

[river pewter]

bro that is not tuff

:sobbing:

[brazen geyser]

hop on and lets 1v1 then 🙂

[river pewter]

i used to have my own personal codm peak

back in 2019 tho lmfao

[brazen geyser]

then hop on and lets run it , im a 2 finger player 🙂 i was going against 6 finger ipad players

[river pewter]

i got my acc and game updated but i havent played in like a solid 2 years

no chance i'd do a snipe 1v1

[brazen geyser]

hmm okay then

[river pewter]

this is where actual gaming skills are put to the test

ifykyk

[manic mural]

Nah you gotta be flying f4e smh

[river pewter]

ew i aint a iranian air force pilot

i fly the viggen in my spare time

[manic mural]

Still can't beat peak smh

[river pewter]

u fly the phantom?

cuz if u do you know that you aint never getting the same experience on a cold winter sunrise at 04:00 going mach 1 500 feet altitute

[manic mural]

Lmao

[manic mural]

All I know is that I can't see anything in front of me smh

And that you will never get the same experience of using pave spike to deliver pinpoint accurate munitions at under 4k ft agl

[vivid pier]

Hm

[river pewter]

the phantom aint it

it wasnt a good plane irl nor in dcs

sucked in viet

[manic mural]

Clearly you haven't used flood smh

[river pewter]

i havent

[manic mural]

Only at the start, but also there was barely any a2a in Vietnam relative to how much they were doing a2g

[river pewter]

never even flown the phantom

but comparing anything to a absolutely legendary swedish monster is crazy

the ILS built into that plane during that time for me was the best experience ever

the hornet was such a huge letdown with its ICLS

[river pewter]

Pretty sure the F5 replaced it didnt it?

BVR against a dozen mig21s doesnt make a whole lotta sense in a phantom lol

[manic mural]

Viggen radar and computers are cool but that's about it, no fun stuff to do, the cluster munition is cool for a bit but it really doesn't add much

[manic mural]

I mean it's thousands of a2g sorties versus maybe dozens of a2a lol

[river pewter]

common dude flying over a target to get the stupid qfe you gotta input then rolling up from 500ft to 2000ft and diving back down on a winter day is as much fun as ive had in dcs

its not like the hornet is anymore fun

[manic mural]

Nah man flying low avoiding sa2s and doing pop up strikes at like 2000ft with ins slaved pave spike to deliver pinpoint accurate GBUs in any weather is incredible

Or flying high and doing a pylon turn buddy lasing for another friendly jet

[river pewter]

GBUS bro soo tired of it

[manic mural]

Flying high and lasing for yourself is too boring

[river pewter]

Something about gen 3 fighters man

They are just way more fun

[manic mural]

Oh and there's durandals to really screw up airfields

And of course dive toss and dive laydown

[river pewter]

ohh yeah thats pretty cool

icl

[manic mural]

Oh and shrikes

Not modeled well in dcs yet but still cool

[river pewter]

i see all these guys with the harrier a 25 clicks out lasing targets and dropping blue bombs its just boring yk

[manic mural]

Yea hell no

The fun part is lasing while really close in

[river pewter]

the fun starts when you go CCIP

chaff flare chaff flare

love it

[manic mural]

Once you get your settings locked in pave spike can actually be pretty stable, even though it has no area track or point track features

[manic mural]

Honestly I just like tpod for everything in f4

You don't need dive toss or dive laydown when you can just pave spike it

Even with dumb munitions

[river pewter]

phantom is a plane i'd fly with tomcats

but like with viggens i love flying them alone

[manic mural]

Yea phantom and tomcats are fun

But F4 is objectively better because it starts up faster smh

[river pewter]

maybe its because it was the first ever plane i learnt or whatever

but idk

[manic mural]

I love cart start

[manic mural]

I never got the viggen module mainly because it doesn't have any systems that are really in depth imo

It's still a good plane and it has some cool stuff

The computer is very modern for such an old jet

[river pewter]

i know one of the devs at heatblur the worked on the viggen, they've done some pretty cool stuff with it

[manic mural]

But the F4 man, they've put so many things into it

[river pewter]

Heatblur in general is such a op company

ive been told they render individual wires in planes and systems fail accordingly

which is very cool

[manic mural]

I regret getting f15e with Razbam leaving lmao

[river pewter]

i regret getting the apachje

its the least fun to learn

[manic mural]

Ever tried the gazelle?

[river pewter]

no a buddy of mine flies it though

i wanted to get it but its mainly a recon heli so i skipped

the blackshark im starting to get into

[manic mural]

Yea gazelle feels very bare bones but it's a fun lil thing to fly, hot 3s still work and mistrals still work

[river pewter]

the turn radius on it sucks though as far as i know

[manic mural]

Turning on the spot kinda sucks but it feels very light flying in any other way

[river pewter]

man i would love to fly the chinook

[manic mural]

Idk seems really slow and clunky and without many munitions you'd want for dcs

[river pewter]

its quite sad that ED is a company that would rather go make a plane with virtually no good understanding of it rather than adding proper damage physics, and their stupid

logistics system

the fact that your missles can miss by 2 meters and do 0 damage is crazy stupid for such a game

[manic mural]

Sounds like wart hunder

[river pewter]

warthunder sucks and so does their stupid fan base

they got zero plane knowledge and just say the stupidest things

[manic mural]

Smh you don't want to leak classified manuals?

[river pewter]

the only cool leak classified maual was the t90

and even that sucked

[manic mural]

T90 leak didn't even come from wart hunder iirc

The chally leak was fun

[river pewter]

hate the chally

[manic mural]

As a wart hunder player, it's just all about how planes are modeled in wt lol

Every plane over performs relative to reality

[river pewter]

There really needs to be a good tank sim

[manic mural]

But unlike dcs f16s can actually outrate everything two circle

[river pewter]

the most fun is by far is squad

[manic mural]

Honestly I feel like wt is about as good as it gets there

[river pewter]

there is another really accurate one but that was soo lame

[manic mural]

Ghpc really didn't catch on

[river pewter]

dude i want to be in a tank with 3 random dudes

goofing around

thats what made squad soo fun

[manic mural]

I mean that's a completely different segment lol

[river pewter]

you had your commander, gunner, driver, and spotter

[manic mural]

Do foxhole lmao

[river pewter]

even though the physics sucked but yeah

[river pewter]

never heard of it

[manic mural]

Third person top down persistent battlefield basically

There is a lot of screwing around with vehicles in that game

[river pewter]

oh i hate top down games

lol

[manic mural]

Graphics kinda suck but it's very fun playing around with tanks and half tracks with people

[river pewter]

imma be honest as soon as war games get fun

i get addicted especially when it has great multiplayer

the good thing with DCS is i dont got that issue

[manic mural]

Yea uh dcs multiplayer isn't that good

[river pewter]

but thats also why i eventually delete all these games cuz i get way too into them

like ARMA would be another good example of this

[manic mural]

Peak is just playing on enigmas

[river pewter]

it really is

[manic mural]

Running logistics on foxhole is basically equivalent to a second job lmao

[river pewter]

lmfao

ever played reforger?

that game also sucks ballz

[manic mural]

Nah haven't

[manic mural]

Outside of when it blames me for someone ramming into me smh

[river pewter]

lmfao

the majority dcs community also sucks

icl

[manic mural]

I mean in that case it was a friend flying in formation with me but uh

They got too close to my afterburner

[glass temple]

really? I've been tempted to get it

[river pewter]

The amount of TKS in reforger is absolutely crazy

[glass temple]

ah

[river pewter]

thank god the playstation players kinda left its been a tad better

driving for a solid 20 minutes in the dark just to be blown to peaces by friendly

i cant tell you how many times ive experienced that

when you get a chad squad leader that knows what hes actually doing the game gets soo fun

other than that it sucks

[glass temple]

tbh I'm really just waiting for BF2026

alpha access plz EA 🙏

[river pewter]

bf is aight

way more fun than arma for sure imo

[glass temple]

I've heard there's a reforger mod that aims to make it a bit more like BF which sounds fun

I like Hell let loose bc it's not quite as hardcore as arma or squad but I want a more modern setting

[river pewter]

squad is not hardcore

imo its the best milsim outthere

[glass temple]

if squad isn't hardcore what is lol

actually joining the army?

[river pewter]

squad is the easiest and most fun milsim out there

dude its got a map telling you everything

arma you gotta pinpoint ur own location and then follow a compas to get somewhere and hope you dont make a wrong turn

and better hope you dont forget your handbrake or your dead....

took me a solid 50 hours to get into squad, i got 120 hours on reforger and i still have no clue whats going on

[timid cape]

I might have pink eye

She’s red and itchy for a while

[brazen geyser]

get a towl - like a bath towel, then put water, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. put it on your eye and keep repeating multiple times ... the towel should be super hot but obv dont burn your eye

[timid cape]

1, i forgot i was in gaming, 2 thanks for the advice

[brazen geyser]

it will go away after about 2 days or sooner

[timid cape]

i hope so, i got allergies making my eyes ithcy for a few weeks, then i got "pink eye" as my mom says now making it worst ;/

[brazen geyser]

Yeah this should stop the itching too

[timid cape]

ima grab a towl

[brazen geyser]

But I’ve gotten pink eye before and literally the towel is the only thing that made it shrink

[timid cape]

mama vex just said the same thing, towl

[waxen urchin]

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1917716512347152499

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) on X

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.

Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.

X · Apr 30, 2025, 11:03 PM

they won

[pearl scroll]

I don’t understand it

They literally circumvented apple’s cuts for purchases

Lmao

Whatever ig

[glass temple]

Because Apple's cuts are BS

30% on transactions completed within the app is crazy

[pearl scroll]

Oh right

Within the app

Not just buying it

Wait doesn’t google do the same though

[glass temple]

Idk

But you're not forced to use the Google play store

Youre pretty much forced to use apples app store

[granite temple]

I love that Spotify doesn't let you get their subscription via the App Store. And YouTube Premium gives you the option to go directly through YouTube, rather than however much extra per month from the App Store

[calm reef]

Yup

[digital fractal]

I have become the ultimate spiderman!

[digital fractal]

interesting texture pack

[vivid pier]

Spider-Man main huh?

[pearl scroll]

Called faithful

Been around for a very long time

[wind vector]

Isn't that the vanilla but 32x32 pack

[pearl scroll]

Yeah this is 32

[digital fractal]

nah

"It's time to get sticky"!

[boreal elk]

TFW you trick the mionecraft bedrock RTX demo to let you use your RT-capable iGPU

[pearl scroll]

[wind vector]

Looks like France is going to be a massive pain this game

might invade them just to release a bunch of countries

Burgundy is still under Austrian control that's good

france ate a massive chunk out of it tho

[wind vector]

I got destroyed by giga france

average eu4 game

time to start a new game

this time I'm just gonna go troll the turks

[wind vector]

tfw I have a massive empire but I still make no money

lowered the autonomy in every single province

bit better now

probably gonna get a decent income once I annex byzantium

[manic mural]

can always abuse trading for monie

genoa is a very very good node

[wind vector]

I've taken trading ideas

I do want to take care of France early

now that the turks are less of a problem

the French have a tendency to ally with the italians

really don't want to deal with a blob france

so better to take care of them while Burgundy is still in decent shape

[manic mural]

I feel like france is always a huge early to mid game threat but they get out blobbed by other nations late game

[wind vector]

the french army is still pretty annoying tho

If I get the burgundy succession I could probably kick france down

Nassau is the emperor so I really really do NOT want them to expand past burgundy

the HRE is practically defenseless

what is going on in the isles

[manic mural]

france prob got across somehow

[wind vector]

no france

no scotland

straight up just getting sieged down by munster

oh it's joever

slightly annoyed because I do need the English to go to war with France

[manic mural]

lol

[wind vector]

English AI will do anything but be competent

It's so joever for the turks

might go invade Mamluks

[wind vector]

SWEDEN????

Europe is doomed

[vapid jackal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/an-8-500-hour-countdown-clock-is-ticking-down-to-an-ecco-the-dolphin-remaster-and-sequel-reveal/

[vivid pier]

We should rename this channel to strategy gaming

[vapid jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/age-of-empire-wololo-stuff-speaking-pointing-gif-16881722

[rustic tapir]

AOE!

[boreal elk]

Make dedicated Minecraft channel

[glass temple]

autistic map gaming

[pearl scroll]

[digital fractal]

Looks different from how I remembered it. Last time I used it was roughly 6 years ago give or take and it's the 16x16 version.

[granite temple]

Maybe it's just because of what I want, but after watching this video, I feel that there are a LOT of hints that Forza Horizon 6 will take place in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNAgJlDGY0

Especially given previous hints that took place in FH5

[daring valve]

I want either Japan or Germany for next FH

[wind vector]

speeding on the autobahn

[halcyon venture]

probably the game's best update so far

[halcyon venture]

would be DOPE

[digital fractal]

Psylocke/Spidey are my most played

[wind vector]

trying out a new strategy

feeding land to the AI to let them develop it

and then annex them

[manic mural]

this is what's going to happen
https://youtu.be/VWCmPhVPKNY?t=29

[wind vector]

I think I broke the game

all my rulers are called Vasily now

my biggest problem right now is that there's no major power to contest Poland-Lithuania

so I'm just waiting for the Ottomans to do something

[rapid lava]

hey I was planning on getting a PC soon but I don't want to spend over £800 or £900, any suggestions for a good build? I don't really know anything about PC's

[south haven]

https://tenor.com/view/bokoen1bokoen-bokoen-bokoen1-tommykaylive-tommykay-gif-21830217

Live Bo reaction

[vivid pier]

Oh damn!

Idk but for some reason I can't use psylocke properly anymore.

[elfin prairie]

@wind vector

Classic China

Being ganged up on by multiple countries

the UK, Russia, France, and Sweden

oh, and the USA

[wind vector]

Unciv moment

[wind vector]

this is a good sign

[wind vector]

YES

[digital fractal]

How are you playing it?

[wind vector]

might invade the ottomans

[vivid pier]

badly. what should i do?

you seem like a good player

[wind vector]

the backwater of europe vs the nomads

Wish I knew what was happening in Asia

from this one tile I can tell that Ming still exists

Ottomans is invading QQ

might be a good idea to contain the turks now

really considering taking burgher loans and then merc spamming them

mid game ottos is going to be a pain if they take out QQ and then invade mamluks

[digital fractal]

I will be on later if you want to play and discuss.

[digital fractal]

My team and I are mostly Platinum players. I am Gold II, the others are bouncing between Plat III and Plat II.

[digital fractal]

@vivid pier

[wind vector]

GOD SAVE THE TSAR

[digital fractal]

lost but a decent kill score despite having a team screaming and complaining to each other the whole game

[wind vector]

that was not a good war

bloody war

Ottomans is more or less the same size which is good

also weakened them a bit so they can't just steamroll their neighbours

[wind vector]

It's time

Beautiful

Formed Russia with the right ruler too

Beautiful

[wind vector]

Turks decided to invade Georgia so apparently we have ottomans war round 2

0 manpower no money

defensive wars are boring

great victory from the eastern coalition

turks are getting BTFO'd

and encircled in georgia

The turks decided to surrender after getting encircled and stackwiped

[wind vector]

poverty simulator

Russia is no longer in debt

God save the Tsar

tfw have to go to war just so I can raise have war subs to fund me killing rebel stacks

this is a massive incentive to invade china

[wind vector]

something's going on with the turks

[elfin prairie]

china really likes that paper

[wind vector]

mfw machine parts shortage

[manic mural]

They need so much paper for the tax capacity lol

[digital fractal]

The enemy team surrendered.

[elfin prairie]

yeahhhh china still loves paper

[vivid pier]

Dune beta anyone?

[slim blade]

Lol

He called it

[wind vector]

This is pre globalisation too so it's not like it's cheap for them to import paper all the way from Prussia

In the game it is but realistically no

[wind vector]

takes so long to westernize

not fighting this

6/30 vs 1/30 mil tech will be a slaughter

[vivid pier]

Good amount of assists

[pearl scroll]

Mwahaha

[pale basin]

ive gotten all the coda weapons but havent really leveled any of them up except one but its not even at 50%, think like at 42%

been grinding sanctum for more stella and archon shards. only like 5 warframes have full archon shards and only 2 of them have all tauforged

actually, only 1 has all tauforged

also slowly getting the ducats needed to buy all mods from baro when he comes with everything in july

or june, whenever tenoocon comes

[wind vector]

Anyone play Victoria 3?

How is the game in 2025

[pearl scroll]

I have had over 2k for as long as I can remember

It doesnt cost a lot tho I dont get it

I guess I dont be fusing that much

[pale basin]

fusing is 100 and i never really farmed tauforged shards so i had to keep combining

sanctum i never really farmed much of after doing the bare minimum to get the arcanes i wanted and reaching rank 5

then went back to zariman and other stuff

imma need the tauforged shards for when yareli prime comes out and for valkyr when her heirloom comes out

and hopefully a rework for valkyr

[wind vector]

back in vic 3 after a year

gonna see if the game is any good now

this is the vic 3 equilivant of the sphere stab

how do sphers work in this game

[digital fractal]

I decided to learn how to play mantis so I can provide comms when I am queued with healers that don't make callouts.

[wind vector]

Prussia must grow

[wind vector]

cruiser spam

[wind vector]

Great War space marines

screw it, we going all in on navy

[wind vector]

here we go

[wind vector]

interesting naval battle

would be a shame if uhh

another naval batle

Russians are no match for the German navy

Victory against the royal navy

not much of a victory since I've mostly sunk pre-dreadnoughts but

I'll take what I can get