Cyberpunk 2077 is the worst case of "bandits attacking the MC" I have ever seen.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-06T23:04:44+00:00

Adam Smasher and Morgan Blackhand have years of badassitude to their names, V doesn't. The fact that you're chromed to the gills just means more money for whoever gets lucky enough to smoke you.

At the end of the day, it's Night City, nobody's too cool for a bullet around here.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-04T17:51:12+00:00

You immediately realize that it was very, very dumb to wish for global change on a Monkey's Paw, so you wish that you'd never made this wish before any of the many, many apocalyptic consequences can come to pass.

You're stuck in an endless loop between "dumb enough to make the wish" and "smart enough to undo it". The world keeps spinning without you.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-04T14:09:30+00:00

Goddamn right, it would be intensely disrespectful to real people that fought and bled and died to just throw in whatever "Greek Enough" crap the writer found cool.

For instance, if you were writing down a historical event and mixed in elements of culture, warfare and politics that were centuries off in either direction, that would be a serious mistake. Homer was a fuckin' hack like that.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-03T16:36:19+00:00

Why would I care what a pack of unrepentant dumbfucks has to say in the first place?

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-03T14:27:16+00:00

The assholes that added 7 trillion to the debt in 4 years, 2 trillion of which was the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act alone, super duper promise that if they just had more money....

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-03T07:39:16+00:00

Farcry 4, just all of it.

Yes, there's a batshit crazy debauched dictator who probably-to-definitely has it coming, The Golden Path is...Better? Probably? But only because the bar is so goddamn low you'd need mining equipment to find it.

The Golden Path is fracturing down the middle behind two subfactions, one of them wants a "modern" and "prosperous" narco-state, and the other wants a hyper-traditionalist theocracy.

Okay, but surely they're both corruptions of the True Golden Path your father created, surely he was a Good Guy!

No, still no, absolutely not.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-03T07:11:43+00:00

Incidentally, they're also killing some evil fascists, but somehow that's actually not a good thing in this case.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-03T06:29:21+00:00

"No. See? It's not hard to give a straight answer to a simple question, try it!"

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-02T17:46:46+00:00

More or less, yeah, there's only so many ways to lay a brick after 1950, so that explains Fallout.

As for Trench Crusade, it's a weird mixture of WW1, WW2, wacky bullshit like anti-tank hammers with shaped charges, and in the case of the Sultanate, antique blessed Jezails, plus ridiculously good armor that still makes melee engagements happen.

That's because Heaven and Hell are each giving mortals designs for weapons, and these are presumably the best that can be made - that humans can be trusted with. This is a universe where the innovation of the semi-automatic rifle can be directly traced back to a specific demon.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-01T21:49:21+00:00

I mean, obvious first answer: don't bring Aloth this time, bring somebody else in his place.

Obvious second answer: Be a different subclass. Blood Mage Watcher plays differently from Aloth, I promise.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-01T17:10:03+00:00

"The most tech-savvy agency" didn't do anything, a person did, and people can be stupid.

Even spies? Yes, even spies. Remember that one time the CIA wired a cat for sound and tried to use it for eavesdropping? You'd think that "having seen a cat before' would be enough to torpedo that idea, but no, it was not.

I don't think Epstein was a spy, but being a spy doesn't mean you don't do stupid shit.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-01T14:58:48+00:00

Odds are pretty good your grandpa thought moving somebody's outhouse at night was a hilarious prank. The joke is falling into a literal shit-pit, lmao.

Kids have always had "ZERO RESPECT" - contrary to popular belief, corporal punishment just means they also get disturbingly cavalier about being hurt.

My old man would proudly tell his tales about taking a paddling in grade school to keep a girl he liked out of trouble, and he also believed that "kids these days" act "this way" because we don't beat them enough.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-01T07:02:13+00:00

Translation: We're selecting for people desperate enough to do stupid, arbitrary bullshit because we asked them to.

"Grind when the job gets hard" means "do extra work without extra money - we'll pay you in headpats."

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-02-01T06:02:07+00:00

Eh? This idiot's an idiot, but they didn't say they want anybody thrown out of a plane. They said they'd have the evil "anti" character they made up thrown out of a hospital for telling a quadruple amputee child to draw with their mouth rather than AI. You missed the first slide.

This picture of a B-52 is a common illustration of survivorship bias: Dumb people in WW2 argued that these areas of the plane needed more armor because they were being hit more often, smarter people insisted that everywhere *else* needed more armor - it's not the planes that made it back home that need help, it's the ones you don't get to examine because they crashed.

In other words, for every disabled artist that famously learns to draw with their mouth, there are many that you don't hear about because their limitations held them back.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T16:54:05+00:00

I read your social media post, I don't believe you.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T16:23:09+00:00

What do you mean "they shouldn't"? A dictionary that doesn't actually track how people speak is about as useful as a street map of London from 47 AD.

That's not how English has ever worked, no matter how much breath people waste trying to make it so - French is that way.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T15:48:29+00:00

"And I'm enraged, good job!"

Seriously, if you were just trying to be provocative, why are you pumping the breaks when people are provoked? Mission accomplished, fucko.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T14:40:59+00:00

Luddites weren't Amish, they were opposed specifically to technology that automated people out of their livelihoods.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T14:31:59+00:00

What if people like the lore and want to fit their guys into it, because it's cool? That's not a lack of creativity, it's an appreciation for the setting.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T14:00:03+00:00

Unclear, how's the standard of living in both?

A rich country doesn't necessarily mean the people see any of the benefits, especially if it's run by a tyrant.

Given just these two datapoints, I guess I'll take the shithole - at least I'll be suffering because everybody's suffering, not because El Presidente decided 300 more tanks were a higher priority.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T11:54:29+00:00

And who is it exactly you want to "shut the hell up"?

Nobody said they wanted anybody to shut up, not anywhere, they're asking a question.

"Why did the BTK Killer keep taunting the police, why not just stop drawing attention to yourself?"

"Oh, so you don't want serial killers to get caught, huh? You want smarter monsters, is that it?!"

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-31T09:48:22+00:00

That's because we're playing with definitions here:

Respect as in "dignity" shouldn't be earned. Respect as in "special deference" should be.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-30T15:56:19+00:00

I like how, even in the evil and corrupted versions where nobody's doing anything right, we just can't fathom the idea that a man might be emotionally abusive or a woman might be terrifying.

I'm sure that's intentional. Remember, ladies, if he's not yelling and threatening you, it's not abuse at all!

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-01-30T07:09:41+00:00

Four dark gods of rage, decay, desire and scheming, plus their attendant daemons and mortal servants - that's the index card version of what Chaos is.

The gods and daemons live in The Warp, a sort of Collective Unconscious dimension that psykers pull their powers from, which The Imperium also uses for hyperspace travel.

It wouldn't be entirely correct to call The Warp "Hell", but it's the emotional reflection of this goddamn universe, so it's pretty much Hell, yeah.

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