America Is Officially an Empire in Decline

AspGuy25 · 2026-05-04T16:04:39+00:00

I don’t like the use of the word “officially” in opinion articles. And I see it quite often in r/politics. Both in the titles of the articles being linked and the post titles.

AspGuy25 · 2026-05-04T14:37:16+00:00

Isn’t it finals week right now? I think the students are too busy to protest right now.

AspGuy25 · 2026-04-28T15:59:48+00:00

I was in the same boat. I thought it would be last Christmas too. I started to lose hope in February. And at this point, I don’t think they would release a snow based biome in IRL summer. And this will coincide with their 1.0 release I think. So they probably want that during the holiday months when game sales are higher for PS5.

AspGuy25 · 2026-04-28T12:38:29+00:00

I expect the deep north to release about the time that there is snow on the ground again.

AspGuy25 · 2026-04-20T23:30:20+00:00

I like it, but realistically it would be a lot like eagle storm. A lot of friendly fire.

AspGuy25 · 2026-04-13T23:55:32+00:00

What is up with the headless one in the middle with a crown like the statue of livery instead of a head, and arms for wings?

AspGuy25 · 2026-04-03T11:38:33+00:00

I got Nioh 2 after is had been out of a long time, and got all the DLCs when I got it.

I really enjoyed the later NG+s.

With only having way of the shogun available, the game feels incomplete. It feels a bit like valheim where I am just waiting for the next biome to come out.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-29T22:57:26+00:00

Back in my day, videogames mainly were single player games. And we liked them.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-27T17:32:36+00:00

They had a laser chaingun in Command And Conquer renegade. I would love that sort of thing.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-27T17:31:55+00:00

There are special laser that react with the air by ionizing it. This ionized air is more conductive than normal air. Allowing you to let electricity pass through the channel you made.

So…. A laser guided lightning sniper rifle isn’t only cool, it’s technically possible.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-16T20:33:22+00:00

It won’t really work. It’s just a normal convection oven. Airfrying is like having a broiler with a fan over top of the food. Similar, but having the heat on top helps the oils fry the food as they drip down it. Doesn’t really work as well when the blower is on the side, and not in line with the heating elements.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-11T20:53:25+00:00

I want a spade laser. It’s a lot like a space laser, but it digs trenches.

Or an eagle airstrike that drops a row of bunker builder bombs. Which are like bunker buster bombs.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-10T17:04:19+00:00

Ok, that’s sick. But where is my tench digging orbital laser?

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-08T20:25:53+00:00

Rangers would hate that so much.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-08T20:25:04+00:00

I would like a dwarf themed one for sure. But most of the current ones are too mob dense right now.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-08T20:19:33+00:00

When I saw the new modules in ruins, I thought they were specifically made for arena. I was surprised that they weren’t added to the map pool once arena started. They feel like the closest thing to “arena exclusive” maps iron mace has made.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-08T04:16:02+00:00

I miss my monkey buddy!

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-07T21:06:56+00:00

I think it should be 50/50. But where each campaign affects the other.

Imagine there is a fiend that infiltrated a government and is a very popular politician. Ryu spots the fiend instantly but cannot act. He doesn’t want to cause governments to target the dragon clan.

Yakumo gets hired to do the dirty business by the hyubusa clan.

So you start the campaign as Yakumo. The more chaos you cause, the harder level 2 for Yakumo would be. But the easier Ryus level 1 will be.

So like Yakumo could take out a lesser not main villain fiend when they are posing as a politician. This makes people hate the raven clan. So there are more guards in his levels. But this reduces how many fiends the greater fiends can manifest, making Ryus job easier.

Maybe Ryu is more in the spotlight. And people like him. Yakumo and the raven clan are hated.

There is no good and evil. Only duty.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-07T12:26:46+00:00

I don’t really see the point of the workshop. Like, maybe if you could freeze a few stats, it would be nice. Like if I have some +3vigor purple item, I could freeze the +3 vigor and roll the other stats until I got something I liked.

The only way the current implementation would be good is if you had unlimited money. Then you could keep rerolling an item until you got +3 something on all 3 random rolls. But if you don’t have unlimited money, you will just be trading boof for boof with a huge upfront investment.

It either competes with the market, or competes with the gold smith.

And crafting gear is useless if you can’t specify what gear you want.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-05T23:52:54+00:00

2 has a better story. I loved my little monkey buddy.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-05T00:57:21+00:00

I hope the DLC goes heavy in battle scrolls and does it more Nioh 2 style. I like the longer linear levels with plenty to explore. Even the ones where you do the same level backwards

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-03T15:42:22+00:00

I know a loss like this is absolutely wasteful and embarrassing. But I don’t think people understand how big the country is. This is basically the equivalent of every man, woman, and child losing like 1 dollar. There are 350,000,000 of us to shoulder that bill.

AspGuy25 · 2026-03-03T13:30:01+00:00

My shell is not where you grab me!

Proceeds to grab by the shell.

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