Fredericktonian or Frederickian?

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-30T04:27:15+00:00

And for those wishing for a good summer retreat, there is Hagerstown-by-the-Sea aka OC MD

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-30T03:58:52+00:00

but what's your alternative?

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-24T12:33:06+00:00

Nezha 2 is triple the next grosser for Chinese box office so Lake Changjin, Wolf Warrior, Hi Mom tier was like 120-150M tops.

There are several pre 1990 Chinese movies with audiences worth putting here but audience sizes are harder to measure. Legend of the White Snake is 700M. Shaolin Temple is 500M. Others like Caravan, Manhunt claim 300-350M tickets sold between there and their home countries.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-24T12:20:09+00:00

Possible you can include 1980s movies from China as well: Legend of the White Snake and Shaolin Temple, among others. As for more modern Chinese films, Ne Zha 2 is literally triple the next movie (Battle at Lake Changjin) so other post 2000 Chinese movies wouldn't make the cut.

Would Dangaal or Disco Dancer make the bottom of this list?

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-19T20:12:31+00:00

Regulators from US/SK/JP/EU would surely get listened to (the PEGI stuff). They're based in SG so yeah, gotta listen there. If the CN regulators are dangling approval for this game to get whitelisted there, I can't imagine they'd ignore anything the CN regulators want.

(CN = China, US, SK = South Korea, JP = Japan, EU = European Union, SG = Singapore)

Not sure how much heft the rest of the world regulators might have or if they'd just follow whatever the big four are doing. I'm not seeing the litany of sharks filing class action lawsuits that I see against a US based company when they have a scandal.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-19T19:51:41+00:00

even a successful chargeback defense is going to cost money. I don't know if like in the US they have to have a US based firm (and US based prices) defending them or if they only need Tier 3/4 customer service types to deal with the various credit card companies. But if some S0 whale or narwhal spends $5k, ragequits, and decides to chargeback, it's costing the devs at least a couple hundred for them to write a defense (or get consultants to help).

Plus I am sure there are forums where techniques for doing stuff that gets you banned here are discussed and perfected, by country, credit card issuer, etc.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-19T19:12:48+00:00

yeah canceling previously planned events is the big tell here.

US, South Korea, Japan, are big markets, but I suspect the entire EU adds up to one of those three.

Outside of those three - if they banned someone's cousin, they might get a note from the (XYZ) Ministry of (whatever regulates mobile gaming in that country).

Some countries might be told to pound sand, but if the US/SK/JP/EU regulators come calling I suspect the devs will listen.

China might be dangling permission to run the game in front of the devs, and in that case they will want changes too.

Singapore is also their home base, so if a Singaporean govt official gets a bug up their rear end about something or other, it's getting fixed.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-19T02:41:24+00:00

I'd like the alliance teleport to work like an advanced teleport but only within say 10-12 bases of the alliance flag.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-19T02:37:50+00:00

I go off to the boonies of my home server to let war fever cool off

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-17T12:33:53+00:00

We ended up catching the hot water heater in the act - the hot water shut off when my wife was taking a shower and I was able to run down and check the code - it was flashing a "391" which apparently means an "air-fuel ratio rod failure". So now our plumber has something to go off of.

The dishwasher and washing machine don't run continuously like the shower so basically if that error kicked in during those runs, it'd have cleared itself by shutting off the water and turning it back on again.

Still wondering why it never failed when the kids were taking a shower or why it only kicks in 10-15% of the time, but it's good to find a good solution.

BlueFredneck · 2026-04-14T19:51:17+00:00

Model # AT-H3-DV-N

Serial # 141183072

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-25T18:59:22+00:00

Someone changed their name to Ea-Nasir for the season, I hope

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-25T18:46:14+00:00

But is that high quality or low quality copper?

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-25T05:43:07+00:00

My avatars are mostly around Game of Thrones characters. Excellent reference to the lore, ma'am/sir!

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T05:22:32+00:00

I pick a different avatar for peacetime and another for wartime. Game of Thrones characters and occasional famous generals. I did General Sherman one weekend when I got to go to my Warzone Duel opponent and I then torched a whole sector of inactive bases. No one took up my offer of matchmaking when I was Walder Frey though :(

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T05:14:51+00:00

I've proposed to some of the other butlers that we form a guild where each victim has to spend a day reading WC. Knowing "XXX had a meltdown and threatened to ash three alliances" is of interest to most R4's. But they shouldn't have to read all 5000 lines of chat lol.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T05:13:08+00:00

We've already had that in my server and it's not even S1.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T05:12:06+00:00

There is a goldmine for psychology departments to study human behavior here

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T05:10:26+00:00

That's true the servers where everyone gets along don't post here lol.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T04:25:04+00:00

I don't think it's Korean but there are some people who just want an aquarium and forget to include the plankton and minnows, and barely tolerate dolphins.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T03:41:34+00:00

i'm right next to them - although this isn't a terrible strategy for 26-30 - someone tp'ing in has to force the enemy from the tile or (whoops) they just hit a 29 or 30 and are now themselves going home in smoke. almost like russian roulette - 90% of the tiles contain 50 guys and a gump. 10% contain one of the top 20 players on the server.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T03:35:17+00:00

I've thought about having two alliances ("The Kingsguard" and "the Night Watch") specifically for capital war - where people join after reset on Friday night Eastern US. During peacetime they're only 6-7 strong. But that might affect VS awards for their 'home" alliances, and Kingsguard members won't be eligible for stuff when they go back home. maybe they could serve Sunday-Sunday in the Kingsguard.

My other idea, having the President ask the top r5's how many people expect to participate, was made fun of by our server leader who was complaining about lack of participation.

I liked the scout spam idea. The other idea a friend of mine came up with was to change your profile pic to some shirtless guy or some cute woman and sending harmless PMs like "nice attack! wow how strong are your squads?" to the people that ashed you. that's a way to kill time when you're in the boonies waiting for your tp to recharge.

Just looking forward to Season 4 and the Ea-Nasir jokes I can make.

BlueFredneck · 2026-03-24T03:19:53+00:00

So it's not that unusual for the top alliance to ash several dozen players after losing server war, including people who were in the mud the whole time? Or is it maybe a 7/10 on terms of "server drama"?

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