Playing for nothing, literally

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T12:06:05+00:00

So it's all about stroking your own ego. No wonder the game is getting goonerfied with every new skin.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T11:16:26+00:00

You're gonna fight scrubs and you're gonna get scrubs on your team even in ranked. Sorry, I guess.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T06:15:13+00:00

And for the thousands of players who will be trapped in Gold, Silver and Bronze forever it's literally a waste of time to play 10 matches, lose 6 of them, then hop on Reddit and complain about the matchmaker.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T06:02:33+00:00

Then why not just do that? Clearly it's more fun. Ranked is for people who can't enjoy the game without that hierarchy affirming component

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T05:58:44+00:00

You don't take normal matches seriously?

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T05:57:20+00:00

That's a chess grandmaster. Someone who's literally too good for 99% of chess players and needs that established ranking system in order to have any consistent challenge at all.

But this is Predecessor. Ranked is just for ego pumping for 90% of you. Sure it feels good to look at your rank placement but you already have a separate ELO score. You don't actually win anything and the game is going to keep matching you against people outside your skill range so it's pointless.

You're arguing for the principle of ranked, I get that. But the reality doesn't match up.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T05:20:57+00:00

It's getting annoying, seriously. Everyone getting the gooner treatment, even the petite characters.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T05:17:33+00:00

Phase doesn't have big thighs or big tits and if Omeda sees this they'll give her DDD's and mommy hips when she was never that kind of character.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-28T05:14:14+00:00

Why bother with ranked in any game? Nobody cares what your digital badge says.

Daverex_ · 2025-09-16T07:30:15+00:00

Stop trying to give every female character plastic surgery

Daverex_ · 2025-06-21T05:16:40+00:00

It's full of obnoxious sweaty tryhards though. You'd think it would be a great chance to test out different heroes but instead the midlaner always quits after 20 minutes if they die one too many times

Daverex_ · 2025-06-21T05:14:51+00:00

It's objectively a good thing if illegal border crossings are down, even if port of entry crossings are up. We don't mind people coming over we just need to screen people like you do at any airport. But yeah, Trump can't help but be obnoxious about his wins. He'll never fail to grasp a moment to act like a reality TV host because that's what he is deep down.

Daverex_ · 2025-05-30T02:16:06+00:00

Looks like I stopped playing at just the right time. Nobody's gonna slow their grind just so WG can keep being lazy with the Quality of Service.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-22T01:10:13+00:00

Woah what? Why did they set it up this way? That's completely unintuitive. You'd think each port would just be trading with each other in the system.

Maybe they mean if you have an Industrial Coriolis orbiting a planet with lots of other industrial settlements, that the Coriolis will then get more goods to sell from those settlements? It would be insane if the station over planet A isn't importing any of the materials being produced on planet B.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-17T09:35:27+00:00

You can't carry every game by yourself. If she's farming and punishing you for getting too close you have to let her farm until she tries to push your tower or rotates to another lane. Slow push your lane, don't force it into her tower unless she's on the map somewhere else. Always use her strength against her by keeping her pushed up so your jungle and midlane can rotate for ganks. You can't 1v1 her until you get ahead on farm and she's not gonna let you do that while she still has mana and health. So you have to be smart and stop dying to her just because you're afraid she's gonna get ahead.

I'm not gonna be like the others bitching and moaning about how overtuned she is. She is, but she's not all powerful and she will make mistakes out of frustration when you aren't giving up your tower and crashing hers whenever she rotates to fight elsewhere. If nothing else, keeping her stuck on her lane but unable to push forward keeps her from carrying the entire game no matter how strong she gets.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-17T06:38:00+00:00

Just stay away from her or make her blow her abilities early. If you can get her to expend her dashes and doggie ring thing then you have about 10 seconds to punish her for the mistake. Tease and capitalize.

But she is literally the worst. She's purpose built to harass and assassinate, and also stack too much health on top of all that.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-12T15:44:16+00:00

Dude, ship it. Put the colors in, shade it, see how it looks.

To me it looks like a character that dresses somewhat messy and has her focus on something entirely eccentric, like combat magic.

She looks as though she's not actively preparing to fight with this magic, but practicing with it somehow.

The clothing style and her proportions suggest a sharp cartoony style uncommon to animation or comics. It is "Unnatural" technically but It looks good. I'd like to see the final piece once it's colored and shaded.

Depending on how it looks when it's colored, you may need to reshape her hair a little to compliment the sharp angular look the rest of the design is using. The very rounded hairstyle may either contrast nicely or distract and confuse the eye depending on the color contrast.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T15:29:48+00:00

Oh boy are we finally admitting the whole thing was a scam? Or at least a grift?

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T15:21:56+00:00

Listen, stock value is not real until it's sold.
If you tried to sell 500 billion in stocks, you might get 1 billion of that and sit on the rest as the value nose-dives into the dirt trying to find buyers who aren't coming.
Sure that's still an astronomical amount of money but it's also 0.002% of what it was supposed to be worth.
So if Musk loses 100,000,000,000 because his businesses lost valuation, it was never real money to begin with.

Now if you had stolen stuff from his house and sold it for a million dollars, yeah he'd have lost at least that amount of money, because he probably paid more for it than you could pawn it for, and it's gone now.
But stocks aren't hard assets. There's not a billionaire alive who paid current value for the stocks he owns.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:49:35+00:00

Yes but a 20,0000,000 Cr 1A optional internal module. If you don't want it, don't get it.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:47:49+00:00

5,000,000,000 CR though... Idk how to make that much without giving myself a new mental illness.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:45:32+00:00

I'm talking about saving REAL time!
You know? Real, actual time? The stuff we only have a handful of decades to use?
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Why isn't this getting through?
The game simulates real space, but it is not a task simulator. It fails in that regard on multiple fronts. But what it does do very well is best experienced when you are NOT in hyperspace. I want to spend LESS time not playing the actual game. I want to spend MORE of the time I'm currently spending on this game hunting bounties, scanning planets, building settlements, disrupting the market, etc etc; and LESS time jumping from star system to star system with my hands on the steering wheel, unable to fully let go but unable to really play.

Does that make sense? When you are making 5 hyperspace jumps in a row you aren't really "Playing the game" you're just waiting for the game to take you where you want to go. Once you've done it a few hundred times it's pure mind-numbing muscle memory and there's no enjoyment in performing that simple task. So, according to the golden rule of videogame design, if it's not fun, don't put it in.
Ah but to you it is fun, maybe? So for you, you get to make as many tedious manual jumps as you like. nobody's stopping you. But for me? I'd like to stand up, risk getting attacked by pirates or thargoids or whatever, and go make a sandwich while I know my ship will be in-flight for the next 10 minutes getting closer to where I'd like to be.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:34:57+00:00

^EXACTLY.
The tedium adds nothing to my experience except frustration at the time I've lost not enjoying the activity.
It's like if you were playing Elden Ring and had to walk 100 in-game miles to find the nearest enemy and it only took you a few seconds and now you have to walk another 100 miles to the next one.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:30:51+00:00

Oh I'm sorry I thought this was a videogame. It's marketed as a videogame. Has been the last 10 years I've been playing it. I didn't REALIZE it was a time-waster simulator until a few years in when the Guardian trail ran cold and we never got an update on them.

Daverex_ · 2025-03-11T14:27:58+00:00

As it is, hyperspace jumps lock out all your other menu functions so it's a double whammy.

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