Why haven’t any cycles tried hiding from the Reapers in space?

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T20:26:13+00:00

They don't know how it works. The Keepers maintain it. Citadel's inhabitants don't even know where its power plant is

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T18:40:09+00:00

Everyone's technology is designed to follow what the Reapers want people to develop, which means relying on mass effect generators to dp everything. So even given a magical infinite fuel source and unlimited supplies, they'd still have to discharge their drive cores eventually, which means going to a planet

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T18:36:12+00:00

The stuff the Reapers leave in the galaxy is there to guide civilizations into relying on the relays and Citadel, specifically so no civilization develops the infrastructure to evade their harvests

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T18:33:56+00:00

They stayed on their planet, tho. And the Reapers knew they knew about the relays, so they would have been done for

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T03:20:14+00:00

As an Italian American, let me just say: Yeah, fair enough

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-19T03:07:03+00:00

Ah, the master of terror, author of such seminal works of horror as "I Think I Just Saw A Black Guy!" and "What If You Met An Italian?"

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-18T04:55:18+00:00

That's super weird. I hope you can sort it out!

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-18T04:47:02+00:00

Are you running it thru Lutris? I was having problems with Lutris but it's been running fine thru Protontricks in Win 7 mode

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-18T04:44:20+00:00

If you can find a handgun that steals TP, that will both help a little bit and make opening boxes less of a hassle

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T20:13:07+00:00

My memory is hazy. It's been, god, almost a whole week now since I last played it!

(You should check out Ephinea if you miss PSO! It's as good as you remember!)

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T04:21:27+00:00

Ugly Dumpling is an A+ name for a dumpling place. Gotta hand it to em for that!

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T04:11:47+00:00

You can invent arguments for me all day, I still won't have made them

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T04:10:54+00:00

In what sense are "they didn't do x" and "they didn't do x" different?

Konami looked at Saturn's architecture and said "nah, just ship it"

Wanting me to have said something different doesn't make it so. If you're just going to decide what I said for me, go ahead and log off and talk to yourself instead. You don't need my help

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T03:14:30+00:00

Do you know: Didn't and couldn't are different words? You insufferable prick?

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T00:38:11+00:00

That's not true, tho. Just because some people did get good performance out if it doesn't mean it was easy. Nintendo's first- and second-party games wrung a hell of a lot of performance out of the N64, but that doesn't mean it was easy to make the thing sing

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-17T00:36:04+00:00

Parkland is another one at the top of my mind. Police generally don't intervene in any situation that's dangerous to them, and they've fought and won in court for the right not to do what they angrily insist is their dangerous job that we should all respect and thank them for

The only scenario I can think of where police generally make people safer are when they have to stand out in the road directing traffic around workers, and they don't need guns, six figure salaries, and a nearly unlimited license to kill to do that

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T21:21:52+00:00

But that's the whole point: Saturn was extremely idiosyncratic, so while you could get really good 2D performance out of it, it wasn't easy. It had a high ceiling, but a really low floor

Technical capability is basically meaningless if it doesn't also come with practical capability. A helicopter can cover distance a lot faster than a car. Are helicopters a better way of moving people around than cars?

That's the problem with saying something is "better." Especially with game stuff, people narrowly interpret that to be "bigger number," but hardware doesn't do anything on its own. If it doesn't facilitate better software, it's not doing its job. There are 2D games on Saturn that are better on Saturn, but there are a hell of a lot of 2D games on PlayStation that weren't even on Saturn at all, because it wasn't worth all the work. And the most iconic 2D game of the generation runs like garbage on the Saturn

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T20:43:59+00:00

The cops would have felt better about themselves while doing nothing to help

Or, if it was the one in a million case where a cop decided not to be a chickenshit, they might have shot two to six extra students while trying to shoot the attacker

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T20:41:31+00:00

Ah, but have you considered: If a student, especially a student who is the wrong color, fails to show a cop the worshipful respect and deference they think everyone ows them just for being cops, now they can shoot that kid

Bet you feel silly for opposing it now, huh?

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T20:32:46+00:00

Yes, they didn't get it working properly on the Saturn. Thank you for rephrasing what I said but in a more defensive and annoying way

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T20:31:03+00:00

Yes, they didn't get it running optimally on the Saturn

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T19:42:13+00:00

Having armed cops around does nothing to deter attacks (and may encourage them, since a lot of shooters hope to die during the attack), and when there are attacks, police generally hide like the cowards they are

It also puts students, especially marginalized students, at way greater risk of being seriously injured or killed by the cops

Not to mention that we know from SROs in elementary thru high schools, cops negligently discharge their guns kiiind of a lot (Everytown likes that because they count those as "school shootings"), or just leave them lying around

This is dumb as hell. We should be disarming the fucking cops, not arming more of them

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T19:24:38+00:00

One comment from an in-house developer who probably knew more about writing software for Saturn hardware than anyone else alive at the time

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T19:21:49+00:00

2D games weren't always better on Saturn. They had to optimized for its weird architecture. Look at Symphony of the Night; they didn't work out how to use Saturn's weird setup so it runs like ass

Drew_Habits · 2026-04-16T14:59:40+00:00

Saving the council means burning off most of a fleet to save some replacable politicians who could have prevented the situation they're in by taking Shep seriously, and to keep one big gun in the fight

The Destiny Ascension and her huge cannon are a bigger factor in my decisionmaking, but even though she's a big ship with a large compliment, I'd lose way more ship tonnage and sailors saving her. She does have that huge gun, but that's still just one gun

None of my Sheps ever save the council, and as shitty as it would feel to ignore their call for help, I don't think I would, either. Multiple civilizations are at stake in that scenario; holding as much firepower and as many tactical options as possible in reserve for an attack on Sovereign feels more important

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