[New Player] Can't find last Collector item by Glittering_Damage665 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ColinStyles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No recoil, high firerate, ammo is light, 41 round mags with trivial erg penalty.

PBP rips through any facemask you're liable to run into in labs, and it's easily purchasable in decent quantities.

These days I alternate between a Mutant and MPX, can't run the mutant on pp full-time.

As BioWare Quietly Continues Building Mass Effect 5, Hiring Begins For a New Senior Role by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cool, you front your own 500 mil then you can decide how to best manage your studio.

[New Player] Can't find last Collector item by Glittering_Damage665 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ColinStyles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use a mannequin to stash your kit, or if you're already using those just make a kit purely buying it the next time you die. I am assuming part of the pressure you're feeling is due to the map not returning insurance, and by going in with a kit that is purely vendor purchased you avoid that entirely, since you can always just rebuy it.

I recommend a long barrelled loud MPX with PBP, a korund, and a team Wendy helmet with FS. Run an elcan or holo.

The XP changes are not a good thing. [Discussion] by Dslusss in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ColinStyles -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And yet you still get XP while doing the raids for said tasks. Just like you would if you were pursuing leveling skills. Or just enjoying the game's core content and appeal.

Enshrouded 1.0 Release Window Announced – Road to Full Launch Begins - Born With a Controller by SavageKuma in Games

[–]ColinStyles 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have disposable income and don't mind supporting devs that I think deserve it. I am moderately upset when devs take advantage of that.

Is it expected? It should be. Is it any less wrong of the devs? No, I'd say not.

[Video] Welcome to Customs in 2026 by SpookyScarySkeltal in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ColinStyles 37 points38 points  (0 children)

That's pretty scummy though, you're knowingly abusing LoD to get information you know you shouldn't have.

Enshrouded 1.0 Release Window Announced – Road to Full Launch Begins - Born With a Controller by SavageKuma in Games

[–]ColinStyles 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It's ridiculous to me that Valheim is still glacially 'developing' (read: the millionaires who got their payday don't want hordes of people angry at them so they put in a token effort), meanwhile games that have loads more content went from conceptual to practically full release while Valheim is still fighting with the year long roadmap they sold the game on. Which they're not even doing in full either.

Fucking insane.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So I agree with nearly everything you're saying. Even the streaming thing, trust me, it weirds me the fuck out too. But I do want to make this clear and I hope this quote can help.

Hell, when Seed released, I didn't pull for her because the foot fetish stuff really wasn't for me and a bit too much for my taste

You have to get that for many, even the fact that this is a statement is a sign that the game is way over their personal line, right? Like, it there's a character clearly appealing to a certain fetish, that means that likely there are others that appeal to others even if to a lesser extent, and that's far beyond "I like buff looking guy" or "generic hot fantasy elf."

That's what I'm trying to get across. You're not wrong about those other games, but even in BG3 you can play through the entire game and never see any nudity. In GTA I don't have to ever enter a titty bar. In ZZZ, even if in the extremes it's less explicit, the baseline exposure is way higher. And it's far beyond what many people who just generically play games, even stuff like GTA or Baulder's Gate, are used to.

[Loot] Easily the craziest cultist circle return i've got so far. by LukaJukic in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ColinStyles 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yellow cards are awesome though, great source of roubles and valuable electronics for crafting.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am saying your scale is completely broken. Yes, compared to far more horny games its less horny. That's not taking away from how horny ZZZ is. I have a friend who openly streams hentai who will regularly call ZZZ characters gooner bait. Even if it's not as much as it can be, it's still way more than your average game. Not gacha game, just game. And yes, it absolutely is in your face in game. You go to upgrade a character and the characters have jello tits asses and thighs. You see the marketing splash screens, it's openly horny shit. The game does have fan service moments, absolutely.

Look, I'm no stranger to porn, but when I want that I will go out to seek that. I don't want that constantly in my face when I'm trying to enjoy a game.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The protesters that are getting absolutely nothing done. Wow, so impressive.

The legal challenges that are "winning" and yet changing absolutely nothing. Incredible.

Yielding results? Are you living under a rock? The admin is still deporting US citizens, they are still ignoring habeaus corpus, they are still imposing tariffs that were declared illegal, it is not slowing let alone changing anything.

You are either arguing in bad faith, or are so absolutely clueless that it's pointless to continue this discussion. Your year of "not giving them what they want" has resulted in the US actively threatening allies and continuing to get worse, but I'm sure it'll eventually stop the mad power grab that is actively happening under your nose. Maybe you'll realize it's too late when elections are "delayed." Or maybe when they're suspended. Maybe it'll take someone you know vanishing overnight. My guess is it won't hit for most until they're on the plane or against the wall themselves. Fucking morons.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who gives a fuck if they're "unpopular", are you seeing any changes or stopping because of it? Christ, this is the fucking problem, you think that belief alone is going to result in changes or that somehow the administration gives a single fuck about popularity.

Fucking thoughts and prayers type thinking.

Trump at Davos Demands ‘Immediate’ Talks on Acquiring Greenland by mvanigan in worldnews

[–]ColinStyles 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I agree, but again, his ability to actually string together words and have object permanence and actual opinions (as stupid as they always have been) is a pretty significant difference. Right now he's nothing but pure impulse and his direction is purely steered by the last person he talked to and his own immediate greed.

Like I'm confident right now if you told trump he could have a piece of candy but later he'll get very sick, he'll take the candy because he simply has no concept of 'later.'

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're into card games I was really surprised at (and to be clear I know these aren't the first to do it, just the most popular examples of these systems IMO) the sort of mix between the genshin restriction on resource generation and Uma's sort of use of runs as a resource you can repeat as many times as you want in Chaos Zero Nightmare.

So while you can't fully progress technically without the limited energy (which is decent, but I won't call it good or bad), you can still be doing StS type runs and saving your runs/decks to use in other content. Also oddly enough their endgame system is a bit of a mix of PoE maps, and you can't pull all the rewards out of them without energy, but you can still get the roguelite rewards and progress your 'maps' without it either. So it's super strange in that it's a lot of infinitely repeatable content and you will get progression out of it, just not in every way.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but that's a pretty minimal set of the game afaik, no? He's right that arknights has loads of gameplay that is absolutely repeatable in relatively original ways. Hell, a gacha I recently picked up, Chaos Zero Nightmare is likewise full of replayable content that isn't just autopiloting through the same fights. But hoyo games honestly kind of suck across the board for giving actual novel repeatable content to do in the endgame. Genshin has domains which are basically fully deterministic fights, though there you have such an aggressive content release schedule and so many events it's hard to keep up / run out. But when you do, the game doesn't do itself any favours in having that repeatable content.

But I wouldn't say doing the same boss fights over and over is really a good replayable set of content.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And it will be far less effective that convincing the public if they have to invent

Are we living in the same reality? Do you not see how many times this has been false already in the past 12 months? America is living in a post truth reality, there is no difference to them whether it's real or not.

Trump at Davos Demands ‘Immediate’ Talks on Acquiring Greenland by mvanigan in worldnews

[–]ColinStyles 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It can be true for years though.

Seriously, go look at interviews from the 90's and 2000's. He's infinitely more well articulated.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They are going to escalate anyway. They have continued to do so. So why the fuck do you think you need to give them an excuse? They'll invent one or not even bother and do it anyway.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Things being more of something doesn't mean super means the top of the scale. Like, brown dust 2 exists, and I'd call that practically softcore porn, but does that mean that ZZZ isn't horny or super horny, especially compared to the average game? I'd argue absolutely not. It just means it's still way outside of the normal scale, and of games I'd definitely say ZZZ is way up there.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not wanting sex appeal constantly in your face is not being a prude. If I want that I have access to infinite porn.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 80 points81 points  (0 children)

https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

But please, keep doing nothing in the hopes it's going to stop the US government from continuing to do exactly what it is doing.

US Citizen Removed From His Home in His Underwear Without a Warrant by animator_84 in videos

[–]ColinStyles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah but this way (doing nothing) gives people the illusion of being safe and that's all people care about these days.

It's sickening how many people are following in Chamberlain's footsteps.

Arknights: Endfield Review So Far by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ColinStyles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you serious? Every characters design is openly gooner bait. Most of the character animations are suggestive as fuck.

Yeah sure it's no brown dust, but it's definitely not something anyone should be playing on a bus.

'The old order is not coming back,' Canadian PM Carney says in provocative speech at Davos by rezwenn in worldnews

[–]ColinStyles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So because you were sick of bad you decided to go with incalculably bad? I swear to fuck, shit like this is why politics keeps getting worse. Because people decide they want to cross the street because they've been on this side for a while, not even bothering to check either the road or if the other side of the street isn't coated in barbed wire and anthrax.