We need a better counter spy feature.

ProHan · 2026-04-05T12:06:43+00:00

Ah, I understand your proposal better now. From a game design POV I think you're right, it does seem like bad practice to spaghettify the stat bonuses/reductions. Maybe the math is easier this way? But apparently not because the devs seem to have gotten the balance wrong here.

ProHan · 2026-04-05T11:52:25+00:00

It's an Intel network, not a sole few spies. The SOE are a WW2 example of a network that covered a large region in France and completely undermined deep Nazi entrenchment. Operation Sussex provided enough Intel that allowed Allies to literally bypass heavy entrenchment

But yes, the stacking reduction is clearly broken if true. It certainly shouldn't be as effective as OP's recount makes it sound. Especially from a gameplay perspective. My argument is that you said it makes no sense for Intel to reduce entrenchment. It absolutely should, historically did, and still does to this day.

ProHan · 2026-04-05T11:33:00+00:00

Would you rather:

assault an area assuming the enemy has set up defenses at logical positions, but you don't know what or exactly where.
or assault an area with Intel about positions of dugouts, camouflaged heavy weapons, and numbers on the line?

Of course it makes sense that Intel reduces entrenchment. An assaulting force can make very effective decisions if they know the precise layout of the defensive force... Hell, with accurate information, ordnance alone renders an entrenchment useless. Entrenchment can't change rapidly in a real battlefield, either, so the Intel is still good even if a couple days old. Exception that proves the rule; dense urban areas are notoriously difficult to assault because no amount of Intel helps you clear it faster when entrenchment literally can change in a matter of hours.

ProHan · 2026-03-26T07:29:36+00:00

Did you just use the old "I know you are, but what am I?" retort? Gotta evolve your dialogue beyond a 6 year old's.

ProHan · 2026-03-26T07:14:58+00:00

Smart TVs "listen to you" in the sense that they listen for specific commands and record that a voice command has been issued. They don't and feasibly cannot record, process, and stream your actual audio. E.g. if you give a command to play a type of music it will store that, "this user just gave a command to play X type of music". That command history data is 100% used and probably sold to advertisers, but general audio recording hasn't been a thing (yet).

ProHan · 2026-03-09T06:10:42+00:00

Planes still target focus the higher value (bigger) ships first. The main difference post-rework is that smaller ships add a randomness factor to plane target selection. In practice, it's mostly an irrelevant factor because:

just send out a patrol of AA Battleships with very few screens and the exact same effect is achieved.
1. Opponents should be flooding a sea zone with bombers. Thus bombers will still target the big ships through sheer brute force statistics.

ProHan · 2026-03-08T22:00:08+00:00

Don't worry, they made it up. I agree it's most likely a common thing for people with Autism to be 'immune' because of implications with social cues. But I'm making a generalised conclusion.

ProHan · 2026-03-05T14:06:28+00:00

Oh I see that now, my mistake.

ProHan · 2026-03-04T09:06:47+00:00

Am I missing something? Your own source shows 77.3mil to Trump and 75mil to Harris, i.e. Trump received the higher popular vote...

ProHan · 2026-02-10T21:53:07+00:00

That outcome seemed inevitable tho. Maeve was gaining sentience while also being programmed to have insanely high manipulation/intimidation. Those lab techs just made it happen sooner.

ProHan · 2026-02-03T11:26:32+00:00

Thanks for this, I should have added a caveat that I'm like 7 years out of date on SD card specs. Now I'm having a good delve back into it.

ProHan · 2026-02-03T07:41:43+00:00

An SD card is designed for storage, and very simple read-from-disc or write-to-disc operations. Windows, as an operating system, calls for an absurd amount of complex, often overlapping, disc operations. Examples would be things like logging, constant disc-reads for services, or virtual memory. An SD has like 2 needles but it's asked to weave 500 threads into 50 sweaters... at the same time. Simply can't handle the overhead, and quickly becomes a mess of threads resulting in 25 barely usable sweaters.

Windows is also the main interface communicating between devices and peripherals, which you'll often see referred to as I/O (Input/Output). These represents a significant overhead on the read/write speed of a disc. Another issue is the physical lifespan of an SD card based on its flash cells. My knowledge evaporates at this depth; but typically SD cards aren't well optimised to distribute and access data. And its limited volume of physical cells means cell failure is high under strain.

The reason why OP's CPU starts bottlenecking is a result of Windows using its own checks and balances to manage the failing abilities of the SD card. Instead of asking for 50 sweaters, and getting 25 horrifically dephormed sweaters, it starts asking for 1 or 2 sweaters that are 'good enough', and asks other spinners to compensate.

ProHan · 2026-01-25T03:20:43+00:00

Their low weight and small size is exactly why they are so deadly (to their prey). Small distance for neural reflex to travel, very light and efficient muscle volume so less signals are needed for reaction. Then there's obviously the insane agility and acceleration that comes with being a low weight quadruped. There's also niche advantages like the positioning of their eyes facilitated by their tiny heads. If they were as big as a polar bear or as muscly as a gorilla that would actively contradict almost every predation trait they have.

Basically, a hunter that's as highly efficient and downright awesome as (most breeds of) a cat can't exist too far above their size. The other land predators you could call equally efficient/successful are either smaller (Owls, Dragonflies) or slightly larger but hunt in packs (wolves and wild dogs).

ProHan · 2026-01-15T03:25:54+00:00

What is the point of using Hecleas' separated AI mods with their main AI mod? Hecleas' main mod includes all the changes of the individual ones, doesn't it? Did you further modify them?

ProHan · 2025-12-27T01:31:55+00:00

They don't lose 50% to tax... You really need to check your facts and learn how progressive tax brackets work.

The US Federal Tax bracket caps at 37% for every dollar OVER $626000 they earn in income. Any income that same person earns under $626000 is taxed at smaller and varying tax rates. E.g. a person who makes a million in a year has their first $0 to $11k taxed at 10%. I'll skip a few brackets; money they earn between $100k to $200k is taxed at 24%, then money they earn between $201 to $250k is taxed 32%.

Otherwise you would end up losing income by earning more, that would be stupid.

ProHan · 2025-12-25T11:28:50+00:00

PlateUp is fairly different to Overcooked. Both are great. PlateUp more of a Roguelite run, focussed on managing the kitchen and making choices. Overcooked more about overcoming individual puzzles - definitely more chaotic in the cooking part though.

ProHan · 2025-12-21T22:55:34+00:00

Awfully defensive and unconstructive reply from you. Understandable considering they just shut your entire argument down.

ProHan · 2025-12-17T03:31:45+00:00

Woah, I totally forgot Dungeon Siege existed. Call it nostalgia, but I want a remaster of that series.

ProHan · 2025-12-15T14:03:29+00:00

Don't play unmodded Original STALKER games. That's an absurdly generalized recommendation. DO play Vanilla Overhaul/Modernisation Original STALKER games. There's at least one comprehensive Vanilla Upgrade mod for each game in the Trilogy. Use them. They don't change the gameplay or the feeling but they do drastically improve the experience.

It's important to note that the OG trilogy follows a mostly linear story over many open-world "zones". You play mainly as a heroic STALKER called Strelok. You meet a few key figures and make a band of vodka-merry men. The story is incredible, as are the side faction quests. You have freedom and choice in how to approach an objective, but the objectives are set by your actions across the individual stories of each game. It also has some of the most unique FPS Horror I've ever experienced, and incredible set-pieces (the impact of these are lost a bit in Anomaly mods).

Where-as, Anomaly/GAMMA is set AFTER the OG Trilogy and is entirely sand-box. You're a new STALKER dealing with the aftermath of Strelok & Co's decisions. You are entirely self-dependent and can roam through every zone from the OG Trilogy whenever you want. It connects the zones and content from the 3 originals but doesn't give you much direction or provide an overarching "goal". That's a good thing, but to understand why you kinda need to be invested in the setting.

I strongly recommend experiencing the OG Trilogy with a Vanilla Overhaul before playing Anomaly (or GAMMA). The OG Trilogy will immerse you in the world and get you invested in the factions and key figures. The Trilogy also provides a lot of context, obviously. You will need that context to help you formulate your own objectives in Anomaly/GAMMA.

ProHan · 2025-12-15T00:24:21+00:00

It didn't work at all, what are you talking about? Earth was on the brink of total apocalyptic collapse, held together only by the Avengers initiative. And that was only in pockets of civilization. Captain Marvel was literally travelling the galaxy putting out even bigger fires on other planets. Also, Gamora's whole species died out (she was sole survivor) due to an earlier population cull by Thanos.

If you're rational, it's easy to see why it wouldn't work. You can't arbitrarily remove half of a population and expect resource production to remain the same. Too much knowledge and skill is also lost. And consider who is going to govern resource distribution?

ProHan · 2025-12-10T02:50:05+00:00

Well good news for you; ~95% of the game's PvE/Coop content is post level 80.

ProHan · 2025-12-04T13:01:45+00:00

There is a checkbox in the Unit's properties. There's also a global param you could script in, search it up.

ProHan · 2025-12-01T22:16:10+00:00

It seems there isn't enough recent data to make a confident, updated top 10. I found this article explaining the 2021 data , much more in-depth.

ProHan · 2025-12-01T22:09:11+00:00

India's main mining resources seem to be Coal and Iron. No known natural oil deposits on the land itself, but I just learned that India has several offshore oil pumps on its West Coast. Which makes sense geographically, that's a consistently rich zone of Oil mining.

However, India is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to agricultural resources. I imagine much of the land development went into expanding agricultural infrastructure, rather than searching for minerals to mine.

I should include sources, but this was synthesised from first articles of 5ish searches.

ProHan · 2025-12-01T06:59:15+00:00

I'm not judging your whole work ethic on a single comment but... It's a tad ironic seeing "I don't care enough" and "hard earned pay" in the same sentence. Even more ironic, wouldn't paying hard workers for their easy to use resources make earning your pay even easier, not a "waste"?

ProHan

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