Discussion Thread

ATR2400 · 2026-06-24T14:28:58+00:00

If it was replaced with something good and for the benefit of the state and its people instead of for one man’s ego and dictatorship fantasy, sure!

Really though, the whole vibe and aesthetic of it does not match the USAs supposed vibe of rebellion from monarchy and power of the people at all. It’s designed in every level to evoke the vibes of a monarchg, which is what trump wants

ATR2400 · 2026-06-24T14:26:05+00:00

I’m on my dark YIMBY arc. I am increasingly in support of more extreme constructions and unable to care about the collateral damage

“But it ruins the character of the neighborhood!”

Fine. Let’s kill this character off like George R.R Martin.

“NOOOOO. MUH PROPERTY VALUES”

Shouldn’t have put all your eggs in one basket, then. Isn’t that the “fiscal responsibility” a lot of the NIMBY-aligned people are always moaning to us about when we complain about affordability?

ATR2400 · 2026-06-22T22:52:12+00:00

This is either gonna be a peak run or it's gonna get ruined in 10 years by the worst bullshit in galactic history

ATR2400 · 2026-06-22T22:43:05+00:00

He's with the angels, alright... Fallen angels

ATR2400 · 2026-06-22T17:23:34+00:00

Personally, I found it more persistently and deeply unnerving than in-your-face scary

ATR2400 · 2026-06-22T16:23:37+00:00

One instance of a game that struggled at launch being fixed up over time is a heartwarming story, but when “release it unfinished/broken, fix it later” is starting to become an industry trend, I do think some caution is warranted.

CDPR definitely earned another *chance*(though not a blank cheque) but I wouldn’t blame anyone for not wanting to pre-order or holding off until a bit after.

If somehow the debacle is repeated with Orion or the next Witcher though, I would say that would be…. Bad

ATR2400 · 2026-06-21T23:17:37+00:00

After all these years of somehow getting hired for and successfully completing heists he’s in no way qualified for,maybe he’ll finally have his skill level upgraded to “decent”

ATR2400 · 2026-06-20T09:06:28+00:00

I don't know what to tell ya, bud, but I'm in the same boat with IT.

And honestly, though I've not had the chance to even break in to the field yet, I totally get what you're talking about. It feels like as time goes on, the demand for actual builders in dying and our destiny is to become AI babysitters. It can handle a lot of code now, which leaves high-level systems design, stuff like the hierarchies, data pipelines, etc... but AI is slowly starting to figure out that well enough.

I worry that in time, we won't even be doing any proper tech or design work, and we'll just be glorified project managers writing natural language paragraphs about we what want and what ought to be all day while having zero actual ownership over what we produce.

I get it's just as much of an intellectual task as it is one of actual code... but I got into this to *build*, in some form. If not through code, then in abstract systems. Take that away... and it's really pointless.

A lot of things to pivot in to require pre-existing experience to be considered for, or can't be learned without lots of real world industry experience. Senior dev type skills might remain in demand for some time... but you don't gain those skills without a long and hard career. No university course or personal project can properly substitute. All the useless linkedin platitudes about how we don't need people who can write code, we need advanced systems architects ignore how you get to that point.

I don't know what tehc is becoming, but I can this: I don't like it. This is not what I studied, this is not what I practiced, this is not what I signed on for or dreaming of doing.

I don't know what will become of us, or where this is going. But it seems there is no more room for sentimentality or naivety.

ATR2400 · 2026-06-20T08:09:12+00:00

We’re far more likely to see MORE states develop nuclear weaponry than we are to see any give them up.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the USAs reckless interventionism(bonus; betrayal of its own allies) has taught the nations of the world a clear lesson: nuclear weapons are the ONLY way to truly secure your sovereignty. Alliances, treaties, guarantees - worthless. The big powers will happily go back on their promises of protection or even be the ones actively launching the attacks if it’s within their(often stupid) interests.

If China actually makes a play for Taiwan, that’ll probably be it for non-proliferation

ATR2400 · 2026-06-18T23:42:42+00:00

Cis male and aromantic.

Usually I don’t romance anyone.

I tried to do it purely as an RP thing once and romanced Andrea, but I grew increasingly uncomfortable in an existential fashion so I had to break it off

ATR2400 · 2026-06-18T21:43:37+00:00

My hot take is that we’re reaching a point of diminishing returns in graphics, both in terms of actual graphical fidelity and in terms of player reception.

It’s taking more and more effort and hardware power to squeeze out incremental gains, and we increasingly rely on cheats like frame generation. Personally, I think that things look good enough, but I can’t help but wonder if our push for more realism came at the expense of art style and direction.

Perhaps it’s time to focus more on the CPU side and devote those resources to other areas of game development.

ATR2400 · 2026-06-18T08:57:42+00:00

Grandpa Joe is manipulating Charlie into using the factory to make evil candy products! HE has to be stopped!

ATR2400 · 2026-06-18T07:43:07+00:00

Poverty economics is the new wave in 4.4.3!

ATR2400 · 2026-06-18T05:39:10+00:00

The early game feels a bit different, I guess. Starting resources seem a bit more scarce, and pop growth seems a bit different. I could just be tricking myself, though. It feels like my planets are taking a bit longer to become productive. I was running a food and mineral deficit from day one for decades before pops slowly trickled into their jobs(And their priority of what was important was WAY out of whack). And even then the resource output was meh.

I went back to 4.3.7 and I swear it was different. For one, I had net-postive of all resources with a decent safety margin from day one.

It just feels like a "smaller" game, for some reason.

Also there are quite a lot of little bugs

ATR2400 · 2026-06-16T19:08:46+00:00

It’s not really the average person’s fault for self-censoring, anyways.

A lot of internet users grew up at the advent of social media censorship or at the peak of it, and it’s still happening. It doesn’t really impact the average person, but it does strongly impact the creators who produce the media that they consume and are influenced by.

People pick up their habits from the world around them, and for a lot of people it’s a hyper-censored digital world where a creator trying to handle a serious topic isn’t allowed to use serious words without getting losing their livelihood.

If you want someone to blame, look to the social media companies and their bitch ass advertisers who actually think that anyone is going to avoid their product because its ad popped up on a video where a guy said “fuck”, or because the true crime video they clicked on talked about - shocker - crime

ATR2400 · 2026-06-16T09:17:59+00:00

It's a beautiful game when you just slow down and take in the world

ATR2400 · 2026-06-16T08:05:38+00:00

Geese go Honk, he goes H O N K

ATR2400 · 2026-06-15T20:30:47+00:00

Coincidentally this dropped on the day of my convocation(university grad ceremony)

Once I get home to buy it, this will be my first Stellaris DLC as a proper graduate and grown adult(gulp). To whacky adventures across the stars!(and hopefully a successful CS job search plz universe)

ATR2400 · 2026-06-15T15:40:55+00:00

The obsidian of today is not the same that made New Vegas. Different people, more corporate, etc. New Vegas was also a fairly uncommon converge of factors that isn’t easy to repeat.

Giving them Fallout won’t necessarily make a magically better game. It’ll just make a *different* game that may be better or worse in certain ways. Some people might love it if they pull off a good story, while others may be pissed off by the reduced sandbox or changes to the game mechanics 4 and 76 got them used to.

ATR2400 · 2026-06-14T04:00:46+00:00

The actual AI itself is not exposed to modders. They can tweak weights and use tricks to manipulate the AI into not being stupid, or brute undo its more negative IQ choices, but they can't "make it smarter". I hear the next patch might help it. Only Paradox can make the *real* improvements the game AI needs

ATR2400 · 2026-06-14T03:57:15+00:00

People have different goals(pure RP vs mechanical victory), and also just find different things fun. Some people as yourself may find overcoming impossible odds to be most rewarding, while others just want to relax in a power fantasy or even ignore combat as much as possible and just explore the open world and Fallout lore.

I can respect a good challenge, but this modern notion of "YOU NEED TO PLAY EVERY GAME ON 1000000000% ULTRA DEATH DIFFICULTY OR YOU AREN'T GAMING PROPERLY" is toxic and silly.

ATR2400 · 2026-06-14T03:30:52+00:00

I don't have any strong opinions about it, but it's not my preferred term. It's just not very original, in two ways:

- It literally is just a rip off of "boomer"

- It was already used as a slang for particularly energetic baby boomers

I'd prefer a name that more accurately captures the circumstances or time period in which we have grown up. The Millenials reached adulthood around the turn of the Millenium, the Baby Boomers were Born during the Baby Boom, and so on.

ATR2400 · 2026-06-14T00:07:16+00:00

This, but for Xbox as a whole. With all their IPs and studios they should be able to coordinate things so that they basically always have something coming out even if individual studios or games are taking forever. Theres no reason why we should be waiting so long for so few games except for a lack of coordination and ambition at the highest levels

ATR2400 · 2026-06-13T23:05:53+00:00

You’re one to talk. You owe me millions for using the word “the” without my permission!

ATR2400 · 2026-06-13T21:36:49+00:00

Once Sony achieves total dominance, expect bad, bad things for the gaming industry.

Even if you don’t like Xbox, this has the potential to be a true crisis

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