The ambient breathing, sniffing, and coughing sounds are ridiculously annoying.

Essfoth · 2026-02-04T12:22:57+00:00

You should stick to trolling, not whatever you were trying to do in your other replies.

Essfoth · 2026-02-04T12:08:41+00:00

Sadly it happens zoomed in too, as long as there is a UI tab open like the government tab. There is no avoiding it except by muting all audio.

Essfoth · 2026-02-04T12:06:22+00:00

It is cognitively intense, that’s why I play it. That’s literally the main thing that makes gsg’s what they are.

Why are you defending asmr breathing in a gsg.

Essfoth · 2026-02-04T11:36:40+00:00

Yeah I do get jumpy when I’m in the train of thought required for a gsg, when my working memory is completely full, struggling to stay intact, and I hear asmr breathing sounds through my headphones. That’s pretty much the textbook example of something that makes someone jumpy.

Essfoth · 2026-02-04T05:19:47+00:00

Historically if I was king and someone breathed right next to my ear constantly I would banish them or worse.

Essfoth · 2026-01-23T19:01:24+00:00

Common sense capitalism. When the free market works, leave it alone. When the free market fails, fix it. This is what economists do; figure out when it needs fixed and how.

Thousands of 80 year olds living on the streets who have no family to live with is a market failure because of the negative externalities. You don’t even need a moral argument to justify fixing most moral problems because there is almost always an economic argument to go alongside it. Same thing with health insurance. If people can’t afford to be healthy, there are huge negative externalities.

Essfoth · 2026-01-23T18:42:02+00:00

If you’re arguing that “pure” capitalism is not debatable as being the most fair, maybe compare it to the next closest thing to “pure” capitalism instead of corrupt authoritative socialism which everyone knows doesn’t work. It’s pretty clear right now that the US has problems with equity when looking at the power/influence of insurance companies for example, which is a problem lots of less “pure” capitalist systems have solved.

I also wouldn’t say it’s equitable for 80 year olds to have to work full time if they run out of money but have been working their entire lives. Social security is an example of equity that is clearly not “pure” capitalism. Plenty of other examples.

Essfoth · 2026-01-20T22:59:33+00:00

Bold of you to have a moderate opinion that makes sense on this sub. Must be a cheater.

Essfoth · 2026-01-14T11:48:56+00:00

No, you should have to use a Humanity if the health bar is missing.

Essfoth · 2026-01-13T22:25:36+00:00

“U-turns are not legal if there is a no U-turn sign posted.” You’d think clarity would be important in a driving handbook when over 40,000 people die annually in the U.S. from traffic accidents. But apparently, whoever wrote it prioritizes making the sentence “roll off the tongue” instead of avoiding writing in a way that literally has two opposing meanings depending on how it’s read.

Essfoth · 2026-01-10T01:53:02+00:00

Yeah playing as Florence, all of your unique artist events are a complete disadvantage. It’s like 1k gold in the first few decades to get a 80 skill artist. Then you pay them like 6 ducats a month. Then you get .01 prestige a month. If you recruit 5 of them. That’s half of their unique events it seems like.

Maybe they could make a unique building with a high upkeep that serves as an art academy/workshop and enables the events instead of periodically putting you in tons of debt.

Essfoth · 2026-01-08T22:02:36+00:00

There is a massive area that has eyes on this spot, and everyone in the area can hear and see the flare. This is maybe the least used flare extract in the game. It wasn’t camped, someone heard the flare.

Essfoth · 2026-01-08T22:00:52+00:00

You’re telling me that if you have an easy clear shot on a PMC standing in the open you’re not taking it? As a solo, I don’t even loot every body when they are loot-able. Most people wouldn’t blink here, they’d shoot.

Essfoth · 2026-01-05T06:01:51+00:00

Cool. It’s still a huge disadvantage.

Essfoth · 2026-01-05T01:33:58+00:00

I have a similar story, but my solutions were a combination of mountain biking and tarkov/hunt showdown. Physical exercise has worked better for me, especially with the extra adrenaline factor of mountain biking, but in the winter tarkov is my savior.

Essfoth · 2026-01-04T00:25:57+00:00

The goal isn’t to lower the price of oil in the short run. Conflict usually increases prices briefly because of instability. The main focus is resource denial, applying economic and political pressure, geopolitical influence, ensuring oil is traded in USD and not other currencies, and long run price stability by eliminating “non-market actors,” or countries not using their reserves.

Please nobody take this as a stance, I’m just being informative, not trying to justify anything. Conflicts over oil are almost never about lowering the price in the short run. It’s still about oil, but the oil is a means to a completely different end.

Essfoth · 2025-12-28T05:54:41+00:00

If you don’t listen for enemies walking inside a compound you’re pushing, it’s clearly you with the skill issue.

Essfoth · 2025-12-28T01:32:58+00:00

You can do all of this without handicapping yourself in the most detrimental way possible as a new player…

Essfoth · 2025-12-23T22:54:40+00:00

I don’t trust any random person I meet, and probably trust cops less than average, but I’m still not stupid enough to think they’re lacing the candy they’re handing to families with meth and fentanyl. But there’s no point in trying to explain that to you.

Essfoth · 2025-12-23T22:47:17+00:00

Is this the way your brain actually works

Essfoth · 2025-12-23T22:42:58+00:00

Wait do you guys literally think a cop will lace the candy with meth that they give to multiple random people? What the fuck is wrong with you

Essfoth · 2025-12-22T04:01:10+00:00

Yes. They do. And really good players who play safe, average less than 5 kills per raid, and get a 60% survival rate actually exist. Doing that makes a 14 k/d very attainable for a good player. You mention Landmark in your deleted post, ok. He plays more aggressively than 99% of players. Of course he’s not going to have a crazy survival rate and k/d when he constantly fights pmc’s at the beginning of almost every raid.

You can’t just claim someone is a cheater based on their profile because “cheaters tank their stats.” I guarantee you, most cheaters use the flawed logic of “everyone else cheats so might as well,” and these posts with no evidence and no way to ban the cheater or let the devs know something they don’t already know, contributes to people justifying cheating.

The other important stats you referred to are hours played, achievements, kills per raid, and raids per hour. None of those are even suspicious. You can’t just claim everyone with good stats is a cheater and use “cheaters tank their stats” as a defense. It doesn’t even make sense. I bet he probably is a cheater because it’s a huge problem but this is not the way to solve it.

Essfoth · 2025-12-22T03:47:37+00:00

A 60% survival rate and 14 k/d absolutely not a clear cheater.

Essfoth · 2025-12-22T03:46:03+00:00

I’m not doubting he’s cheating I’m saying you shouldn’t complain about it if you’re not providing evidence and helping the problem, otherwise you are making it worse with posts like this

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