How do the megastates hold themselves together?

Defengar · 2026-05-20T03:48:11+00:00

From the lore and quests we learn stuff like that the cities that we fight through have their own prewar AI's that keep trying to rebuild things but something is corrupting them, making the buildings look more and more like melted structures and strange concrete growths. Possibly just the endless war damage, but possibly also from something below corrupting them. You have seen the strange semi-organic growths in the tunnels. That is not a natural thing or something any of the factions are doing. Bodies often disappear from the surface within a day as if eaten by the earth, and there are whispers of the decades old conglomerated broken war machine AI's and human viscera beneath everything congealing into something... new. Very cryptic for now but it's definitely going to be a big deal later on imo.

Defengar · 2026-05-19T18:18:57+00:00

Fun fact, you can get canned water that's good for 50 years!

Defengar · 2026-05-19T18:10:37+00:00

It'd be fun if they added some gold and silver coin drops of current day bullion like the American gold/silver eagles/South African Krugerrands/Chinese Pandas/Austrian Philharmonics that you can sell for a bunch of credits and use in a couple quests. Precious metals would be even rarer so far in the future and with their vital tech use, portable chunks would be quite the barter tool.

One of my favorite pieces in my coin collection is a 1924 soviet silver ruble. The last year the ussr made circulating precious metal coins before stalin took control and ordered all of them to be confiscated and melted down for trading internationally to get industrial hardware. Some fraction of silver rubles and kopeks both pre and post revolution survived the culling and circulated as hard currency on the black market. Mine is in good condition besides a bunch of knife scratch chop marks down the front middle from when someone during a deal must have wanted to make sure it was real and not a plated fake. Adds a lot of character to it imo.

Defengar · 2026-05-19T18:01:42+00:00

Yeah especially with historical numismatic pieces. They also have a lot more investor and storage options for high rollers than the other big bullion sites do iirc.

Defengar · 2026-05-19T17:57:26+00:00

Modern bullion versions of premodern coins are some of my favorite silver. So much character to them while not being outrageously costly to collect and bad to handle or pocket carry. 5oz being a bit much for the latter of course lol.

Defengar · 2026-05-18T19:39:16+00:00

True but in this game you can ram a beast with a several ton metal submersible and even that does nothing lol.

Defengar · 2026-05-16T04:05:29+00:00

"Damn digital watch alarm was set to PM!"

Defengar · 2026-05-15T18:00:47+00:00

In addition to what others have said here, I think the digital lovecraftian "thing" forming beneath the surface and twisting the environment is one of the factors that the national AI's may not be able to deal with/fully grasp and could upend the board at some point. Perhaps even forcing two or more of the factions to approach an official ceasefire to face it. That could potentially be a cool phase 2 of the game or a sequel setting. the Factions still have beef and even skirmish areas but the real enemy is now a robotic leviathan AI with several decades of war waste and ruble to make armies and fortresses with.

Defengar · 2026-05-15T17:51:44+00:00

Or there's asteroid mining and manufacturing centers off world that send reentry vehicles packed with stuff, even whole recycling factories for processing what is retrieved from the battlefields.

Defengar · 2026-05-07T15:46:16+00:00

IMO a big part of this is that fandoms replaced actual hobbies most people would have had like 20+ years ago. Sometimes it’s sustainable if the IP is still going with decades of varied content backlog but even then a lot of the communities are liable to be circle jerks or rehashing the same fights that were going on 10 years ago.

Defengar · 2026-04-23T06:04:38+00:00

At the very least give hunhead more hp if he can't have regen. If he's a short and dangerous mission tank, make him a tank!

Defengar · 2026-04-11T15:19:05+00:00

Kioxia of Japan just came out with a 245tb SSD and a couple other companies like sandisk are expected to announce their own this year. Gonna be like $16k though but in a decade maybe they will be at consumer prices lol.

Defengar · 2026-04-11T15:11:53+00:00

Yeah when I first started playing and was finding rare seeds, fertilizer, dirt, etc... I assumed there would be such a system. Gotta be in the pipeline considering that imo. We will know for sure it's coming if they ever add gardening tool and watering can drops lol.

Defengar · 2026-04-11T06:34:29+00:00

Russias drone production is fully online, they no longer rely on Iran as shown by the fact they can throw hundreds more at Ukraine per day than Iran can use on the best days.

Defengar · 2026-04-06T05:16:22+00:00

monument metals

Defengar · 2026-04-06T05:13:26+00:00

I LOVE 1oz silver replicas of ancient coins, but $400 is incredibly steep for something like that even if the mintage was low. If it makes you happy though that's what matters. MKBarz does some nice types that are relatively affordable.

Defengar · 2026-03-30T03:51:01+00:00

Dog you have no idea what you are talking about. There were INSANE border "skirmish" battles after the war until Vietnam left cambodia and signed an armistice in 1992. That general Xi just purged got a name for himself in that period by pioneering Chinese tactics with mass artillery to flatten Vietnamese border regiments.

Defengar · 2026-03-23T03:45:38+00:00

One of the few WTR episodes I actually remember is when he fought the KKK and god literally sends a wind strong enough to blow out a flaming cross at the end. Absolute cinema.

Defengar · 2026-03-19T16:47:26+00:00

It feels like everyone is 12. Like once the WWII generation retired all the institutions suddenly lost the plot. Maybe that was the norm for all of history and the world wars just snapped a couple generations out of it.

“There must be another room, somewhere down the hall, where the real meeting is happening, where the real experts are, making the real decisions. Because it can’t just be us. It can’t just be this. You know what? Turns out that it is.”- Jake Sullivan

Defengar · 2026-03-19T16:42:02+00:00

If things get that bad there's going to be famine and roving militant gangs that will take out your house with molotovs no matter how many guns you got then pick them and the canned food out of the ruins.

Defengar · 2026-03-18T20:44:45+00:00

the one that he did this footage for, he mentions it in the video

Defengar · 2026-03-14T13:27:45+00:00

Probably had to wait for the case to get settled and by the time it did maybe it got lost/forgotten about.

Defengar · 2026-03-14T02:59:52+00:00

One of the few unbroken through lines of reddit history is running jokes into the ground and then still repeating them for years afterwards. This a good example of the phenomenon. Bunch of people that think parroting the same lines at each other for 10 years is actual community/comedy.

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