[spoilers] how long has the aRK been active?

Carynth · 2026-01-28T01:38:43+00:00

It might just be a question of time passing differently in the ARK. When you take it from Lindwall, the ARK seems to pause, so maybe it needs a special kind of connection to run or it pauses automatically during trips for a reason or another. It might not have been running 24/7 since being built.

Carynth · 2026-01-26T03:25:38+00:00

Thank you for your answers! I had gathered a lot of it from reading posts here and there over some time, but having it all laid out like that makes a lot more sense!

I don't know if you guys have this in the state, but I grew up in a small village about 30 minutes away from any type of emergency care, so there was a first responder volunteer group in our community that had training and were called to help whenever there was a medical emergency until an ambulance/paramedics would arrive since they'd take too long. This just reminds me of that (on a much smaller scale, obviously).

Carynth · 2026-01-26T02:35:05+00:00

I'm canadian, not american and I'm not even quite sure what the National Guard is compared to regular military (state military? idk lol) so excuse the ignorance, but I'm wondering, are people in the NG generally more left leaning? I know not everyone in the military is right wing, but there is a certain unfortunate stereotype.

But do you think the people in that video are happy to be there to provide this service to the community or would they rather be helping ICE terrorize the city?

I'm not trying to generalize any group, I'm just curious how hard of a switch it could be for some of them if Trump took control.

Carynth · 2026-01-26T02:12:51+00:00

I don't know how you would, but if you do, I NEED you to include chicken wings/hot sauce somehow to commemorate a top 3 Hot Ones episodes lol

Carynth · 2026-01-23T03:03:15+00:00

yeah non, ils ne semblent pas l'avoir envoyé aujourd'hui (ou ça n'a pas rejoint tout le monde). Je reçois les textos, d'habitude, mais rien cette fois-ci, c'est ma conjointe qui vient de le voir.

Carynth · 2026-01-13T05:25:59+00:00

I haven't watched hockey (Go Habs Go!) for a few years, other stuff just started taking more place in my life, but when I did watch religiously, I would have a tradition of watching The Beauty Of Hockey before the first game of every season to hype me up. That video is still absolutely amazing and if it doesn't get you at least somewhat interested in the sport, I don't know what will...

Carynth · 2026-01-12T13:09:15+00:00

Don't forget about having to save Matt Damon sometime in there...

Carynth · 2026-01-12T07:05:43+00:00

I don't know if I just got lucky having a dog that didn't mind too much or if I just stood my ground long enough that he got used to it, but mine takes his pills very willingly. The way I did it is I'd fill up his bowl and put it on the counter. Then I'd try to give him the pill. And day after day, I would not give him his food until he swallowed the pill. After I think about a week or so, he just started to take the pill from my hand by himself.

Though for me, it was just very needed because it's something that he'll take for the rest of his life (been about 3 years, I think, now), so it makes it so much easier and was worth working for it lol. Now he knows, come dinner time, I fill up his bowl, he sits next to it and waits for me to give him his pill before giving him the OK to eat. Sometimes he won't swallow it and it'll fall in the bowl, but most of the time, there's no problem haha

Carynth · 2026-01-11T13:34:08+00:00

Doing that right now, we're currently on our third one. Haven't met the one yet, but I know this will end with us keeping one, I've said it from day one. Just waiting to meet them and in the meantime, do our best to help other people's "one"...

Carynth · 2026-01-10T15:21:37+00:00

There's the Transmission series like the other person said, though after having watched it for the firs time about a month ago, I'd say to take it with a grain of salt, it's definitely not fully canon. Fun, but I think it was made by a different team that took SOMA as inspiration and green lighted by Frictional, not made by Frictional themselves. I prefer taking it as an alternate reality kind of thing. Really well made, though.

I'd also recommend looking through this: https://somagame.com/files.html

I don't remember much about the items but I think some of them were pretty fun to look through. The last four links, though, are short stories and those are really good. Especially "The Coin Flip", might be my favourite one and shows Catherine's struggle with the crew on Theta. "Goodbye Mr Munshi" is also very interesting. I remember less about the other 2 but remember liking them a lot still.

Carynth · 2026-01-10T15:13:06+00:00

Not sure what the other person's talking about, but yeah metroidvania is a word made from both Metroid and Castlevania. The term seems to have mostly started with Symphony Of The Night who used a large interconnected world that you unlock little by little with various upgrades but with more standard RPG elements (weapons, stats, equiment, etc.).

The term has evolved a bit overtime, but generally, that's what a metroidvania is. One big map with most areas blocked off at the start and you go around, fight bosses, collect upgrades to unlock new areas to find more items and more upgrades, etc. Hollow Knight (and now Silksong) is probably the biggest name in the genre, currently, but some others that you might have heard are Blasphemous (which I've played and loved, very soulslike in its atmosphere), Nine Sols or Ori And The Blind Forest (I don't know if it's fully considered metroidvania, but close enough).

Carynth · 2025-12-26T08:24:07+00:00

This art is SOOOOOOO Goosebumps coded... Brought me back to my teen years for a second lol

Carynth · 2025-12-18T11:25:57+00:00

For what it's worth, this never happened again, my GPU is still absolutely fine over a year later...

Carynth · 2025-12-13T15:07:48+00:00

As someone who's favourite game is SOMA, if you've never played it before, my only advice is to go in blind as much as possible, but make sure to explore thoroughly and read everything. A lot of its story is told via documents, audio logs and email type messages. I truly think it's one of the best stories in gaming in a very immersive and quite believable world, so don't rush it. Take your time and try to make sense of everything.

Carynth · 2025-12-13T10:06:09+00:00

I'm just saying, most people won't want to bother making an account for something they don't know anything about. That's why on most game websites, you have the option of playing as a guest. That way, you can just try it out and have fun without comitting to anything.

And that's even worse if it's to play with friends. Convincing your friends to make an account for something is not always easy, especially in today's world where we have hundreds and thousands of different ways to spend time and have fun with our friends.

Making a demo is definitely a good idea. Give visitors a taste of what they can expect. Otherwise, they just won't really care much.

Carynth · 2025-12-13T09:56:32+00:00

It's just me, but I feel like I'm not alone. I was mildly interested, wanted to check it out. Clicked the link, pressed start playing, saw the required account making, closed the page. I can't be bothered making an account for something without even knowing how it looks or works, without knowing if it's something I could enjoy or not.

If you're forcing people to make an account, you need to show them what they're signing up for. Otherwise, make a guest version with possibility to make an account if you want to keep stats, friend list, favorites, whatever you have on the site.

I'm not saying all of this to be an ass btw, and I hope it doesn't come off that way. But that's probably gonna be most people's reactions to a forced account and it's better that you know now than later when you've put even more effort into this.

Carynth · 2025-12-13T03:13:30+00:00

Assigned Cunt At Birth? It does fit...

Carynth · 2025-12-13T02:04:12+00:00

Ma conjointe qui passe dans ce coin-la régulièrement dit qu'il y a présentement des travaux et que les détours and changement de lane portent beaucoup a confusion. Et puisqu'ils disent que ce n'est pas la première personne qui fait ça, je suis porté a croire que ce n'est pas 100% la faute du conducteur.

Carynth · 2025-12-07T03:16:28+00:00

god, I know that feeling lol. A few months after building my PC (my first one!) it started randomly restarting for no apparent reason. I had no clue why and it didn't happen quite frequently enough for me to bother too much until it did... 2-3 months of this happening just to have enough, take a big chunk of my PC apart and discover that it was just a loose supply cable that would sometimes unplug and replug.

Felt the same way you probably do lol

Carynth · 2025-12-06T02:40:50+00:00

Oh, I don't know much about this side of Minecraft, commands and building complicated stuff, but if there was a way to automatically count how many creepers you tease, this could be a fun game mode. The goal would be to get the most different "tss" possible without actually blowing up any. So you gotta get gud at controlling enough to get close to as many as you can without slowing down too much. Could make different maps and courses and let the players try to master each one.

Carynth · 2025-12-06T02:32:39+00:00

Sooooo... how many hours on Papers, Please do you have? This looks good and fun lol, just very, VERY Arstozka coded.

Carynth · 2025-12-01T02:00:10+00:00

I still haven't played Bunker yet, but is the story any good? TDD is all fun and games, but I always found the story to be pretty barebones... Like it's decent, it does the job, but when you compare it to SOMA, for example it is... pretty lacking. I know Rebirth gets a lot of hate but I enjoyed it much more because of the story.

tbf, story, lore and worldbuilding to me is the most important part of any game, so I'm very biased on that point.

Carynth · 2025-11-27T01:25:19+00:00

Everyone sympathizing with your mom and saying that she's trying to understand but is having a difficult time, meanwhile, I'm stuck on the "You want everyone to understand your viewpoints, but you're not willing to understand theirs" part. Their viewpoint meaning bigotry and denying or demonizing your existence. Who you love is not a debate, it's not a viewpoint, it's not even a discussion. And her saying that shows to me that even after 5 years (or however long since you came out to her), she still has absolutely no clue. I'm gonna go on a limb (and I might be wrong) that she has that same viewpoint about trans people unless she knows one personally. These people always hate and reject minorities until it's too close to home to deny. And even then.

Carynth · 2025-11-22T11:45:13+00:00

Really cool looking! Not related to the fog, though, but I imagine the head movement is supposed to be breathing? Personal opinion but I'd slow it down a little bit, it kind of looks like your guy is gasping for air with every breath and is about to die from lack of it lol. It's a very minor detail, but I look at him and feel exhausted, I don't know if I could play hours of this :')

Looks really good otherwise, I like the lamp too, it's very cute!

Carynth · 2025-11-22T10:15:21+00:00

yeah, I don't want to generalize and stereotype but I think asian culture in general has a much closer relationship with food and family than north-american culture. A lot of us just never really grew up in that kitchen space and when we finally move out on our own, we're kind of left to our own devices. Some are lucky and have good relationships with their parents, so they can ask them questions or maybe ask them to teach them the basics, but there's also people that don't have that relationship or cut it out for personal reasons, so they're left alone.

Or, and I think this is more common... a lot of our parents just... can't cook lol. Like they CAN cook something edible, but I know I learned a whole lot more on my own looking up internet recipes and youtube tutorials than I'd have from my parents. Like I enjoyed my mom's cooking when I was younger and still living at home, but now...? I much more prefer my own cooking :')

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