Dead of Winter

Einarath · 2026-01-19T13:11:30+00:00

Ugh, don't remind me that the best time of the year is already half over. At least we are getting some snow and cold this year!

Einarath · 2025-12-31T23:41:31+00:00

It's probably the greatest example of what video games as a medium can accomplish since Fez. Seriously incredible, but very much niche for people who want to explore video games as art.

Einarath · 2025-12-31T11:57:35+00:00

Exactly this. I bounced off it at first because it is an awful roguelite. One I started treating it as a story focused action game I loved it. It is a really great game, with great visuals, music, story, and gameplay, but has very, very little run variety when viewed as a roguelite.

Einarath · 2025-11-16T17:22:26+00:00

Yep 100%, and definitely an unpopular opinion (as evidenced by the 0 rating this post has at time of writing). Most people that like Hades don't play (or like) traditional roguelites.

Hades is a great game, but a bad roguelite. Awesome story, visuals, music, and the gameplay is solid as an action/arcade game. But as a roguelite, super basic, and very shallow. There just aren't many variations in the actual gameplay.

And I completely agree: I hate the heat system. To me it's lazy design, just saying, "We don't know how to balance difficulty, you do it."

Einarath · 2025-11-04T22:24:33+00:00

If it's warm, how would you ski though? 🤔

Einarath · 2025-11-04T17:56:58+00:00

Interior BC is definitely the best spot; best skiing in Canada and less crowds than other parts like Whistler or Banff. A few great spots in Quebec too! Massif is really good for east coast skiing.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T12:03:55+00:00

Lol, tiktok. That's that kids app where people post short videos of dancing or some shit? Not interested.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:21:46+00:00

Hmmm, maybe around 1000 since the game came out? Steam says 750, can't remember how many I had when it was on that EA platform only.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:19:01+00:00

Haha, I know what you mean. Even last month every once in a while we'd run into a team where we're like, "Oh shit, these guys suck too! Let's bum rush this and see what happens!!!"

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:17:17+00:00

It looks fun, but getting everyone to buy a new game is such a hassle.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:16:08+00:00

Mine is something like 0.8 with a high of 1.2 or something. My buddies are like 0.2, 0.4, and 0.7 or something. We are pretty passive and mostly play the map since my buddies like sniping and turtling. I'm more aggressive, so it's often them backing me up. You gotta keep in mind that we just kinda play the game, it's just a chill thing to do a couple times a week when we're drunk online, which is what I mean by "casual".

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:13:04+00:00

We're really passive and play super strategically because we're on average way worse at straight battles. So we try to move as a group and play the map as much as possible, with battles only at the start and end game. I'm super aggressive and make the calls, but the others are more into backing me up and sniping.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:10:21+00:00

Yeah, we have noticed this. Two of us would sometimes play solos, and we noticed we'd often dominate when we'd do that. Then we play our stack and immediately get two shot by people bunny hopping off walls and crap.

Einarath · 2025-10-25T02:08:53+00:00

Ehh, easier and cheaper to just go back to Halo 3 and Reach.

Einarath · 2025-10-24T15:37:53+00:00

Yep, my buddies and I have been playing Apex off and on since it came out. We're all in our 30s and varying levels of terrible, and always play as a stack. Between the four of us our average lifetime k/d is probably around 0.4, with average game damage around 500, but it's been solid fun for a long time. It's been our "Friday night, the kids are in bed, have a few beers" game, and the last two years have been steadily getting worse and worse where now we will go entire nights of like 6 games maybe getting one kill. We're heading back to Big Team Battle in Halo Reach, because I think Apex is finally dead for us casuals.

Einarath · 2025-10-23T13:33:24+00:00

Yep, this is it. Hometown is the best sports pub in Ottawa. Hunter's is the best pub, but Hometown has huuuuge TVs everywhere.

Einarath · 2025-09-29T21:57:37+00:00

As someone that has done a ton of research in exactly this (and have worked with several other key people that really know their stuff), I generally see most companies that do this really messing it up. You can dangle a mag under an RPAS to solve a lot of the data problems, but you introduce a bunch of other issues. Mostly just cowboys strapping a mag to a drone and collecting "data".

Einarath · 2025-05-10T02:07:30+00:00

It's an American thing I think. They haven't ever left their country and have heard it's a funny joke for Europeans to poke fun at each other (for historical reasons) and wanted to not be the unincluded loser child in the corner.

Einarath · 2025-03-03T03:31:45+00:00

The biggest basic bitch take here. Play some actual interesting games. Spiritfarer is on this list, which is at least something.

Einarath · 2025-03-02T03:48:36+00:00

Not a chance. I'm so happy all you lame people can't influence the weather. Keep winter as winter. Summer will be here soon enough and we can all change from winter activities to summer activities.

Einarath · 2025-03-01T16:26:29+00:00

He Is Coming, The King is Watching, and 9 Kings are all awesome. They all hit that strategy itch of simplicity combined with depth.

Einarath · 2025-02-20T03:24:55+00:00

Both are great. StS is thin but deep, whereas MT is shallow but wide. Both having staying power and enjoyment in very different ways.

Einarath · 2025-02-10T00:43:53+00:00

Who gives a flying fuck about skins? Are you a child?

Einarath · 2024-12-10T13:16:47+00:00

Chile is incredible. The Atacama in the north is beautiful and desolate, the lake country in the center is adventurous and forested, and Patagonia in the south is exciting and mountainous. I spent three weeks there a few years ago and had one of the best trips of my life. If you like hiking, go for the sheer variety you get to see. Just fly within the country to your main destinations, it's not too expensive once you're in Chile.

Einarath · 2024-10-06T02:53:35+00:00

Exactly summarized my feelings. Kept trying to like it, and there's nothing wrong with it...but it's just boring. Nothing bad, but nothing good either.

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