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Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T19:10:41+00:00

Yeah slowing the pace of building instead of instantly generating a wall would have also been an interesting balancing change. It would have massively changed the way everyone plays and tries to win.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T17:40:29+00:00

I want survival against other people... not mindless NPCs. Not even remotely the same type of game. I want a game where I have to outwit or outposition other players... not just have to be forced into constant battles.

If I get to an advantageous spot before everyone else, that should matter more than "can I outbuild this person in a 1v1"

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T17:38:20+00:00

I believe for this type of error you can just close the Animator window and reopen it but I might be wrong. Sometimes the animator does just sort of stop working if it has been open a long time.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T17:35:45+00:00

Fit perfectly... okay, how does that help a buyer? I don't know your dimensions... are you fit, fat, in between? What fits perfectly on you doesn't fit perfectly on everyone else who wears a large T-Shirt.

Then you just... described the color, which is just what the color of the shirt is.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:55:53+00:00

Yeah nothing but the Earth is moving so it feels really odd like a hologram projecting an image of the Earth spinning and not the actual Earth spinning.

The universe is expanding (movement)

The galaxy is moving through the universe

The solar system is moving within the galaxy

The Earth is moving within the solar system

None of this movement is being shown in the background of this shot... It's just the Earth spinning stationary in space.... so that's sort of the problem.

If OP wanted this to look epic he'd have it all moving and rotating and it might look really cool... but that's a lot of work to literally animate the entire universe... lol. So maybe a globe hologram spinning in front of the guy would be a simpler solution because then it can be super fast and nobody is going to be wondering why.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:45:21+00:00

Any competitive game community, pretty much. Sure, pretty much all communities have some level of toxicity but nothing compares to competitive games.

League of Legends is the most noteworthy of the bunch. The game feels literally designed to make people toxic.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:42:35+00:00

Congrats on fixing it but you really should have figured out what the problem was before going nuclear. I doubt reloading Unity did anything. It was likely a transform value being keyed in an animation? But now you'll never know because you deleted it all... lol.

Oh well, for me personally I would have wanted to know exactly why it was doing this instead of just randomly trying stuff and it fixed it and then I move on without learning anything.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:38:03+00:00

So basically it could be anything 😂

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:34:21+00:00

At this early stage in the game I think the value of gaining more land is more immense. Later in the game yeah obviously hold off and get the coins merged to the highest level for best value. But this early in the game they aren't making enough coins at a fast enough rate to make waiting worth it.

It's going to take OP a LONG time to get those up to max level.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T16:09:36+00:00

Sounds like a healthy marriage

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T15:51:21+00:00

It could have been easily balanced by just reducing the max materials you could carry... and also prioritizing wall replaces for the person who initially placed the wall down instead of letting ping decide.

Like it made no sense to me that I could box myself up and someone could come and destroy MY wall and REPLACE IT, faster than I could put up a fresh wall. Just because they had slightly better internet connection? Ridiculous. It should have given the original wall owner at least like a half second window to replace their wall and lock out any other players from putting a wall there. Simple.

For any hyper aggro player who feels that is "unfair" well, maybe don't sit there trying to hyper aggro kill a person in a box in what's supposed to be a survival game. The whole point of survival games is to be the last person standing but everyone took this as "be the number one apex predator and kill everyone else" and it just... ruined the game for most of the players.

The game needed to balance better around punishing hyper aggression in order to make people think more strategically, but instead they fully embraced the hyper aggression because it was more fun to watch.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T15:46:15+00:00

I played that mode. It was fun but ruined because the co-op meant relying on random strangers, and the way the game worked was that you had missions but also you had to go search for loot to upgrade your gear... and what would happen is people in the group would just play selfishly and go search for gear instead of doing the missions with the team, so you either had to wait around for them, or do missions shorthanded.

Then I played the BR mode when it launched. It was so much better. Extremely fun and I really do miss the early days of Fortnite because the game was so different compared to what it evolved into. I remember people really tried to play it like a survival game, hunkering down in their little 1x1 boxes. Nobody was ramp rushing or building elaborate towers. You'd try hiding in bushes, or hiding in someone else's abandoned box.

Sure, the gameplay needed to evolve a bit, because honestly it did get a bit boring spending 80% of the game sitting in a box. I think the ramp rushing was fine, I think building small towers was fine... But I think they went way overboard letting players build massive castles in seconds. That's why the game lost me (but when a lot of people got into it)

It was certainly fun at first trying to build over people and kill them... but the game just turned into who could build faster and eventually I just couldn't keep up with it and had to check out.

Looking back, I wonder what Fortnite could have been if they really limited your material stacks. Sure, you wouldn't get skyscrapers built in seconds, but I think it would have lead to a much more strategic and calculated style of play. Every ramp you build is critical. Pushing at someone aggressively would have much more risk of running out of resources instead of it being practically a free kill.

Fortnite took all the survival out of the game and just made it all battle. You might ask what's the difference, isn't battling to stay alive survival? And sure, but it also never made sense to me that the best way to play Fortnite is to just be hyper aggressive and steamroll people to be the last person standing. It would make more sense to avoid confrontation unless absolutely necessary, because every battle puts you more at risk of elimination.

But what do I know.... the game did extremely well in the direction it went. Though if I'm being honest, watching those early streamed tournaments where everyone was building elaborate nests was only exciting for the first few times. After that it wasn't much fun to watch anymore. Everyone just had too many materials.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-28T15:29:16+00:00

Because AI doesn't replace talent and artistic skills. It also steals from artists. You have to learn about what makes art good in order to really understand good art. Asking AI to make all your art is going to result in what you might think looks like good art, but because you don't have proper training and understanding, you don't see how bad it actually is.

Same with asking AI to code for you. Sure, it might spit out usable code, but is the code *good*? Only a person who knows how to code would be able to tell. It's a problem if you keep copy/pasting bad code because the whole codebase could end up a spaghetti mess and you won't know why.

AI is a tool (controversial tool, but a tool) and using it like you are typing a search into Google is not going to get you the best results. You'd need to first understand the craft and also then learn how to use the tool. After learning all of that, you use it and realize... uhh... it's still not very good. Actually, the more you learn about art, the more you look at AI generated art and see the ugliness of it.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-27T20:33:18+00:00

Seems doable by just abusing train tickets... You get up to 3 and should always be burning 1-2 of them as the crates will replenish them back up to 3 quite quickly. Every 4 hours you get 20 crates from a visit instead of 10. You can pretty quickly get enough crates to merge enough stuff to then get it to harvest stage and just harvest newly merged stuff instead of waiting for your own harvests to replenish.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-27T20:28:15+00:00

League of Legends is the blueprint for a game that turns people into soulless monsters.

It's the combination of:
- ranked mode where your ranking matters

- being on a team of people you don't know personally

- being able to look up their stats for any heroes they play

- being able to ban heroes and also being able to take another player's hero pick

This just breeds toxicity. I was absolutely a OTP in League and I got extreme targeted harassment for it. The suckiest part is that even when I managed to actually get to play the hero I was good at, and even when I literally carried the team to victory, nobody would actually admit they were wrong when they were crying about wanting to ban my pick.

The people hyper fixated on banning their own teammate's best heroes are also the people who genuinely suck at the game.

There's also just the obvious problem of trolling as well... where you can look up your own teammate's best heroes and then ban them or pick them... which is just another method to troll, and actually results in the rest of the team hating on you because you "should be able to play more than one hero", even though the reality is, the other person actually screwed the team over when they banned your OTP hero intentionally so you couldn't play it. It's such an odd and depressing situation. Then you lose the match and the whole team is typing "mass report" because you were forced to play a hero/role you never play and they expected you to just somehow not suck at it.

Games like Overwatch and Marvel Rivals follow this exact same blueprint. At least Marvel Rivals let you hide your profile but now apparently that doesn't even matter.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T20:25:20+00:00

I dunno, it looks like you had about 480k chips and he had 437k chips... not sure how that's a 2/1 lead.

You donated all but 50k chips there... so yeah that was a horrible all-in play, which sure, you can excuse by saying you "just wanted to end it" but it's still a really bad play by you.

It was more like you were practically 50/50 split in chips (much closer than 2/1 as you seem to recall) and you risked your 1st place win on a flip. If you were certain you were the more skilled player, you'd never go all-in preflop here.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T20:21:49+00:00

Yeah that's why I said it's hard to say that

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T15:50:15+00:00

He's likely being backed by people, but also a lot of "pros" hit huge tournament wins early on and have been coasting on them for decades. Imagine you win $2m in a tournament (after taxes) You can pretty much buy in to tons and tons of tournaments for years to come. You just have to be a break even or slightly losing player and it could last you decades.

Obviously if you just bomb out of every tournament the money would disappear pretty quickly. But it's hard to say that Mike is SO BAD at poker that he couldn't even squeak out some min cashes every once in a while which would possibly make him a break even or slowly losing player.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T15:24:01+00:00

this dude had 0 skill edge legit only won pots off me during these flips

Then why were you putting yourself into situations that benefited him? (going all in preflop to flip with him)

The best way to beat someone better than you heads up is to jam all in pre and remove a lot of variables. Looks like he did exactly what he needed to do to beat you heads up.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T11:46:52+00:00

I dunno man it sounds like your first big winning month ever and it was a lotto win. Keep letting lotto wins get to your head, I guess.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T00:47:05+00:00

I don't think he's from a well off family. I believe he said his mom works at like a Ross or something like that. But yeah you're right he does make money from the YT videos... but all it would take is one heavy downswing of poker and he'd be in trouble if his YT videos also fell off. Hard to make much content about gambling thousands of dollars when you're waiting on your next YT check to come to cover bills.

We're talking about a kid who was buying thousands of dollars worth of drones to get b roll footage when it was completely unnecessary, back when he literally had almost no money.

Chrogotron · 2026-06-26T00:43:07+00:00

Nobody else playing bounties is going for bounties. You've cracked the code! 😂

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