msage
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- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.
Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.
There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.
Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.
Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.
Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.
Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
Dota 2.
I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.
It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.
Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.
I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.
My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.
Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 days ago:
Artifact? Both of them?
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
No, there are DRM games on GOG (or have been anyway).
And Steam also has DRM-free games.
- Comment on If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
Boo freaking hoo.
It’s not like there are so many other ways to cheat, actually used in many games with anticheats.
We should all stop pretending it’s necessary to put malware into your computer just so some company can claim they have no cheaters, which is never even true.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr. Bans Hollywood From Creating Digital Replica: I Will Sue 3 weeks ago:
“Over my dead body”
“Two birds one stone?”
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
I remember a time when all of this happens again
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen Breaking Bad, yes
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 5 weeks ago:
‘AI hate’ is usually connected with insane claims like ‘we have “reasoning” model’.
That shit needs to die in fire.
I’m still waiting for the full-planet weather model. That will be something.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Hey, block me too!
Since the best course of action is not supporting predatory companies, using Linux is THE solution for such problems.
- Comment on when AI tries to get in my way 1 month ago:
- Comment on gentoo 2 months ago:
Finally someone else who uses Gentoo ^^
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
Go climate catastrophy!
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
Just in case - I did not mean you, just the people who spew such shit.
Like my mother. Jesus, I had to explain a lot to her for her to stop saying that stuff near me.
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
If you want to be all natural, get off the internet.
Stop eating modern vegetables and fruits.
Return to monke.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 months ago:
I’ll donate his yearly salary for this cause
- Comment on biodegradable 2 months ago:
I hear ya
- Comment on biodegradable 2 months ago:
Vasectomy
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
No weapons for me or the squirrels?
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
I want all of those things for everyone, not just for ‘someone else to provide’, but for every able person to provide for everyone.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Yes yes yes, that is exactly what I mean the entire time, thank you for understanding it. We ALL should agree to forget losers, psychopaths, and everyone who want to have power over others, and focus on problems of the weakest ones first and foremost.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Did I not answer that question in my first comment? Wait - I did.
I then tried to hint that (as my first comment actually started), we as species should try to build a better world, focusing on providing the minimum for everyone before giving very few everything there is.
Is NATO perfect? No, it sucks, but we currently won’t do any better. Like nothing I keep repeating all over here.
But I wish we stopped everything, and I mean everything apart from housing and basic food, to actually solve the climate crisis.
And, ironic as it is, stopping everything would actually be the best thing right now.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Dignified?
There is a housing crisis in every developed country, millions of people are homeless while there are multiple times more empty units just because ‘investments’.
Where is dignity in that?
And for food, we need to support local produce, ideally something like hydroponics, so we can sustain everyone for as little work as possible, leaving the option to pursue better options at their leisure.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Well there we go!
In ideal world, things like that would not be necessary, but as we know, asking countries to destroy their weapons never leads to their prosperity… so fuck that, too.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
With their bootstraps! And hustle! And so much work that they do 10 days a week!
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Simple - does anything threaten the housing and food? If yes, can NATO stop it? If yes, then yay NATO. Any other case? No thank you.
Demilitarizing the world won’t happen in a night, but we all know NATO won’t agree to it, so it will have to go eventually.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 2 months ago:
Fuck capitalism!
We need housing and food for everyone, then we can all chill out and focus on advancing further.
This hamster wheel of shit is going to kill us all.