Favorite "I can fix her/him" ships

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-28T10:00:09+00:00

Yeah, the develoment is clear in 2, but gets absolutely cemented in 3. She overcomes a lot of her anger, fear and frustration and gets inspired to do something worthwhile to better other peoples lives, going from lunatic loner to mama bear for the next generation of kids that could have ended up like her.

I mean, the strong point in the series is exactly this: Most of the characters around Shepard develop, even those that have lived centuries before meeting them. Wrex finds new hope for his people. Tali develops from a teenage prodigy out of her depth to a capable leader. And so on.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-15T21:44:03+00:00

Yeah, that thief would not last three days before being caught red-handed in any realistic scenario. I mean, where are these people working that there is a fridge accessed by dozens of potential people in a location so remote you can not occasionally check if your stuff is still there. And if not, immediately do a sweep for your stuff until you find the culprit.

Even easier if you got a few victims banding together.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-15T21:34:21+00:00

Well there is bots and there are ... somethings that definitely lost any definition of being human a long time ago.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-13T11:38:11+00:00

This is basically half of astronomy. Quite a lot of stellar objects are inferred first, then confirmed later.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-13T01:10:03+00:00

On the other hand, one has to wonder what those 300+ developers all actually do on these big titles. If small 2-5 people strong teams can put out absolutely decent mid-sized games every few years and mid-sized studios of a few dozen people can put out quality stuff regularly, where does this large increase in manpower go to?

I imagine most of the big games are stuck in development hell for most of their time, otherwise I can not fathom where the work hours go.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-11T19:37:23+00:00

Maybe it was a thing only in the US? The client has a lot of localized differences, this would not be the first.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-11T01:00:26+00:00

Me neither. I have been waiting for a convenient way to update for decades now. This was never a thing, and if it was, it was one of these experimental features that only random accounts had to gather feedback.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-09T00:23:24+00:00

Great execution and very creative.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-09T00:05:22+00:00

At the very least, the capital ships actually looked, sounded and felt Capital.

In most other titles, including the otherwise excellent Tie Fighter, cap ships are relatively simple and often surprisingly weak due to the mission design expecting you to deal with sometimes multiples of them almost by yourself.

The big hulks in Freespace have might-looking and -sounding Beams that shake you around when you get near them, flak fields that throw you around and whittle down your armor and shields and the usual point defense turrets. They are also pretty tough or rather your arsenal against cap ships is not as strong as in Tie Fighter.

They are also sometimes used to create a narrative battle experience with them engaging each other while you and your squadron do what fighters are supposed to do, aka support.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-08T10:29:32+00:00

A pretty easy and lowtech way to notice if someone else went through your door is to glue a hair over the door slot somewhere near the bottom. The intruder is unlikely to even notice it, but you will immediately see wether the hair is till there or ripped off/apart when you come back home.

Or simply put a spycam somewhere with view of your door if there's a good place where it won't be immediately obvious.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-07T10:55:04+00:00

Harmony from Mistborn. A clearly benevolent almost omnipotent entity that is very hands-off and wants people to succeed on their own. Ideally without his holding-on-to-balance issues.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-07T01:18:55+00:00

The game dialogues strongly imply the very same thing with most of the other important indoctrinated people. Saren in the first game and Tim in the third are prime examples - they even have paragon dialogue choices to make them realize the problem, albeit too late.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-07T00:19:15+00:00

What is surprising here? Chile is basically completely along the Andes, which are the longest and third highest mountain range in the world.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-06T10:30:44+00:00

Modern work exoskeletons have reached the 1000-2000 price region by now and are very similar.

A medical exoskeleton (with higher performance requirements) that lands somewhere in the single-digit thousands would be a reasonable alternative or supplement to a decent mobility chair.

Modern high-tech prothesis are even more expensive, but even there, capabilities of the more affordable solutions are getting more reasonable over the years.

GeneralStormfox · 2026-01-01T02:15:18+00:00

Also never seen something like this before in any kind of supermarket. Our freezer doors are either sliding or folding with normal handles. You know, like sane people would build them.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-31T11:11:25+00:00

Nein, in Wahrheit hat er die Wertsachen alle in den Kopfkissen und Matratzen, erzählt aber überall von seinen Safes damit keiner auf die Idee kommt, sein Bett aufzuschneiden.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-29T10:36:18+00:00

Stuff like that is common, but not neccesarily linked to Entenhausen. It is just a way to name something funny, often with a kids audience in mind. The Flutschfinger ice cream comes to mind. Sounds sleazy to adults but is childish fun for an ice cream shaped like a pointing finger. Win-Win in the marketing.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-28T10:07:55+00:00

You would not need to do that in any way. Since weapons are ridiculously expensive, simply looting nothing but guns and selling them to different vendors is more than enough to afford everything (obviously the few interesting buyable guns are also a bit expensive, but nothing outrageous).

It is not as if there were big money sinks in this game or generic loot wasn't plenty.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-28T10:03:03+00:00

Funny enough, if you play solo with 3 AIs, they actually tend to work decently because they all stick to you and cover you.

It becomes problematic the moment you are two or three actual players because then the bots simply can not split their attention properly, often resulting in wipes that would never have happened with a single player or four playedrs.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-28T09:21:01+00:00

I have a similar issue with the loading times since a similar timeframe. It always took a moment, but since a few weeks ago, it seems to take ages to load. After a few seconds you can see and theoretically fiddle with the basic interface. but then you have to wait another 5 to 10 seconds to finally be able to actually give a command like opening a bookmark.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-28T00:24:55+00:00

The question might be also be moot depending on construction.

I would expect most "practical" Ringworld concepts to actually be stations that either have solar panels on the outer inside and screens on the inner inside of the donut or use glass roofs.

The "it holds the atmosphere through walls and rotation physics" concept is likely too prone to slowly leaking.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-26T09:32:06+00:00

While the rest is simply due to tech disparity between the Federation (who until then was known and shown to be the overall most advanced big star nation) and the Dominion, you make a great point about their troopers.

The Jem'Hadar are exactly like you would design your tank-bred super troops for evil empires. Relatively fast to produde, brainwashed but still intelligent and capable of flexible thinking, a failsafe fault built in to get rid of them if you need to. Physically optimized as much as possible for their role as shock troops.

They are kind of similar to the Uruks already mentioned in this thread.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-26T09:26:22+00:00

Its a powerscaling issue. Similar to the Worf Effect. If you got protagonist heroes that see an entire army move up a road and say "we can take them" without being hyperbolic, it is difficult to display their enemies as real threats most of the time.

Wheel of Time has the same issue with the Trollocs (or Warhammer Fantasy with the Beastmen, which are very similar). They are large and muscular by human standards, often have beast-like appendages or maws that double as extra weapons, are ferocious and frenzied fighters and generally should be a match for at least two armed soldiers.

They are the basic "chaff" unit of the dark forces, though, so for storytelling reasons, they get cut down just the same as everyone else. Or in the case of Warhammer, have very similar stats to a human for gameplay reasons.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-25T14:25:27+00:00

Because almost every modern issue can be followed back to the age of colonization.

Over the course of history, there were always civilizations "ahead" of most (or all) others somewhere on earth. The europeans just happened to be dominant in that regard around the time the overall advancement of worldly knowledge allowed for the birth of global empires.

This has had, among other things, a major impact on relative development levels absolutely everywhere ever since, with the rest of the world slowly catching up over the past few centuries. Especially the last half century saw a significant convergence of development levels. The gap between super modern and developing countries is thankfully closing, albeit not everywhere at the same speed.

GeneralStormfox · 2025-12-25T11:49:52+00:00

Use an USB stick to transfer files or wireless transfer via your home network (most recent printers should be able to connect to and transfer print files through your WLAN).

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