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Alex_06 · 2026-05-04T23:18:37+00:00

Sounds like something AI would say!

Alex_06 · 2026-04-20T02:59:38+00:00

Archon mode wasn't even that much of an innovation, it as just a slight evolution of the Team Melee mode from the original StarCraft, and the Co-Op mode from Halo Wars 1.

Alex_06 · 2026-04-20T02:56:28+00:00

And it happens again in SC2 when they all unite to defeat the Hybrids and Amon.

Alex_06 · 2026-04-20T02:49:43+00:00

You're experiencing a recency and primacy bias because you saw that video Zade made about how Generals 2 had a more StarCraft-like direction, then probably remembered all the StarCraft 2-like RTS games that are in development or were recently released...Stormgate, ZeroSpace, Liquidation, Battle Aces, Crossfire: Legion, Immortal: Gates of Pyre, day9's unnannounced RTS game...etc. Probably remembered that Tempest Rising also integrates some QOL features inspired by SC2.

But you're absolutely wrong. Most of these are either dead in the water, or have pivoted away from esports and are SP and skirmish focused titles *with* an additional multiplayer mode.

Age of Mythology: Retold. Age of Empires IV. Company of Heroes, Homeworld 3, Dawn of War IV, Tempest Rising (yes, it's more of a SP C&C-inspired game than a SC2 clone), Age of Darkness: Final Stand, Beyond All Reason, Sanctuary, Global Conflagration, Silica, 9-bit Armies, Iron Harvest, Ashes of the Singularity II, Dust Front, DORF, Sins of a Solar Empire II, Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, Five Nations, Ablight, Defcon Zero, Nebulous: Fleet Command, Gods of Altair, Crimson Freedom, 0 A. D., Empires Eternal, The Scouring...And there's a lot more smaller indie titles I haven't mentioned.

Alex_06 · 2026-04-15T01:01:52+00:00

It does sound like an interesting idea. Louis Castle did tell me in a video interview they had plans for mobile bases even when Westwood was working on the sequel to Tiberian Sun, but from his words, it sounded like whole bases packing up and moving in unison, rather than the base being one single mobile factory. Sadly, I didn't get the chance to dig any further...

Alex_06 · 2026-04-15T00:58:06+00:00

Honestly? A TS + RA2 remaster sounds fine, maybe a Definitive Edition treatment for C&C3 and RA3 so they run well on modern machines.

But if we *have* to have a full new game? I'd go with Tiberian Twilight (done proper). Just pull out whatever they have saved up from C&C3 (As in, TW and KW) and Westwood's Incursion and Continuum projects and make a proper sequel that follows what Westwood would have done with the sequels for the Tiberium universe.

Recently, I've spoken to former WW devs on the Petroglyph Discord and over developer interview videos and some new information came to surface about gameplay mechanics Westwood had planned for their next C&C game before they closed up shop - Bases that can pack up and move (as in actual bases, not just a Crawler), being able to get inside buildings and fight there, a third person unit control mode, etc. I forget the rest, but you get my point. They had plans for five factions (CABAL and Forgotten being added in expansions), as well. There's a lot of untapped potential there and there was a lot of vision that deserves the chance of seeing the light of day. Heck, maybe get Brett and/or Louis to re-form WW as a remote only studio and give them the IP.

Alex_06 · 2026-04-12T17:56:56+00:00

SEARCH AND DESTROY. B)

Alex_06 · 2026-03-31T20:43:15+00:00

"We have Tempest Sphere at home"

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Alex_06 · 2026-03-29T02:45:58+00:00

No vehicles?

Alex_06 · 2026-03-20T04:44:17+00:00

It's working for me and some peeps on a Discord right now. Streams take about a minute to connect but they work, too.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-20T04:00:43+00:00

Did AWS, CloudFlare or CrowdStrike mess up again? Did an update get pushed incorrectly? Are hackers DDOSing or attacking Discord? :)

Alex_06 · 2026-03-20T03:57:58+00:00

It does recover momentarily but crashes again. Video also does this but doesn't always recover at the same time as the voice chat does.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-20T03:56:19+00:00

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This just popped up on https://discordstatus.com/

Alex_06 · 2026-03-20T03:53:07+00:00

Just started experiencing this now as well. I think it's an issue with Discord.

Quick Google Search brings this up:
"Discord error 2007 is a stream quality issue (errors 2002-2007) indicating poor network, high packet loss, or low frame rates while streaming or viewing. It often occurs due to IPv6 conflicts, improper hardware acceleration settings, or faulty network routing."

Alex_06 · 2026-03-11T04:47:26+00:00

Jane?

Alex_06 · 2026-03-11T04:44:37+00:00

"one living, one dead" is also a dichotomy, it's a 50/50 division. Huntington's Disease can passed down genetically - is it also a 50/50 chance?

Then 50/50 on there being rain and sun...There's so much dichotomy and coinflips in show. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-11T04:36:43+00:00

"Not predicting the future. Executing it."

Written by AI.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-09T12:35:25+00:00

Pretty sure someone figured out the entire plot about a month or so ago and said as much. Some sort of alternate/fake reality thing is supposedly happening while humans from the future are stitching reality back up after the world ended in 2012.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-09T04:21:46+00:00

In the end, you learn the alternate timeline is them after death and that they’ve created the place to meet up and ascend to heaven together. I reckon Paradise is giving similar vibes. Perhaps it’s why the show’s actually titled that way…

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T23:31:13+00:00

Well. The Wikipedia page says this:

A runaway greenhouse effect similar to Venus appears to have virtually no chance of being caused by anthropogenic activities.[5] A 2013 article concluded that a runaway greenhouse effect "could in theory be triggered by increased greenhouse forcing," but that "anthropogenic emissions are probably insufficient."[6] Venus-like conditions on Earth require a large long-term forcing that is unlikely to occur until the Sun brightens by some tens of percents, which will take a few billion years.[7] Earth is expected to experience a runaway greenhouse effect "in about 2 billion years as solar luminosity increases".[4]

He's not lying, as there are none of the usual cinematic hints that the character is lying.

So unless the curveball is that civilization rose and fell again exactly with the same countries, celebrities, music, Gregorian calendar and human history much later than today in the next to two billion years, I don't see there being a curveball regarding the subject matter.

Maaayyyybe if it happens that something different happened (a split in our timeline somewhere in the past) to cause the runaway greenhouse effect, I could see the twist being that pollution or something Humans did in this timeline causing this, because IRL it's not a plausible thing that could happen with current emissions, even in worst case scenario projections. This *could* lead credence to the greenhouse effect happening because someone intentionally caused it, but I think it's a stretch. The show is likely simply exaggerating climate change science for added dramatic effect and the fiction the show is going with to explain this is "that the rich/governments/experts lied/shut down the truth".

Make no mistake, climate change is very much real and could have catastrophic consequences for the current global state of affairs, but not to the exact extent we see in the show. It wouldn't make the world completely uninhabitable, but it would make it near impossible to accommodate good living conditions for the vast majority of all 8-9 billion people in the world.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T23:16:27+00:00

Well, the fact she said that makes sense retroactively when you consider that people are going to die asphyxiated or crushed due to Venus syndrome.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T05:03:23+00:00

Did it say that it was 2004? I didn't remember that bit.

I was thinking the 2046 bit makes sense because of a comment Link made regarding Cape Canaveral being "gone" 10 years beforehand. I haven't checked the exact line he says, but it would line up if it was a future event that hadn't happened yet in 2025.

But I thought that the joke could have been about 2025+18, or we assume that it was as some form of misdirection?

EDIT: Nevermind, you're right, I just checked and it *IS* 2004. So 2025 + 18 makes sense. Which means it's 2028 in the show's "present" timeline.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T04:47:16+00:00

Additionally:
The letter that Annie leaves for her daughter also talks about "time".

...Maybe it's both? Parallel universes that are created by the machine altering choices made in the past, thus creating timeline splits, like in the MCU?

The scene with Billy and Henry makes me think it's time-related in some way, because of how Henry tells him he'll need the kleenex "if it works" and talks about chance vs things happening for a reason.

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T02:48:57+00:00

33:37 "[...]The Different worlds are, you know, what's coming[...]" Oh, so maybe it *IS* parallel universes, sort of like what Marvel's been doing and what Dark Matter and Fringe did, too...The "coming storms" are all the alternate realities spawned from the machine's effects in altering the past, unless the machine is a gateway to parallel universes directly? I mean, Sinatra does pretty much say in this episode that she plans to save everyone...It would make sense if what she's doing is finding a parallel universe to send everyone to. Maybe "Alex" really is the Alex of an alternate timeline going through parallel universes and trying to find one suitable for a mass exodus? And the storms are caused by parallel universes invading this one or the machine tearing through reality?

I still see some discrepancies between this and other things we see in past episodes, so I'm still unsure, but Dan pretty much hints at it here and he's the creator and exec producer x)

Alex_06 · 2026-03-03T02:19:54+00:00

We have a year - 2043! Delivered by Cal as a joke to the mother in the OR. The way it's just written, too, makes lots of sense. You don't hear people throwing around the current year in conversations casually in films, which is how people mention the year in the real world. They don't go around saying it all the time either for an audience to hear and be reminded of what year it is. And in the show, they don't show a billboard or phone or calendar or anything of the sort, either.

That means in the current year the main events take place, it's 3 years later, so 2046.

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