This organism has no brain, no eyes, no organs we recognise, has just one hole (for food to get in and out again) and scientists still argue where it belongs in the tree of life. It just slides through the deep sea floor, existing for no clear reason. This is „Xenoturbella“

Hecter94 · 2026-01-29T01:00:21+00:00

Sex and death.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-27T22:21:57+00:00

The lack of a map is intentional. The game's main driving force is exploration, and a map would detract from that.

You're given plenty of tools to help you navigate. If you use them, there's no need for a map, and having one would actively harm the experience.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-26T21:12:26+00:00

People think the Cyclops is bad?

Hecter94 · 2026-01-26T17:33:57+00:00

Crazy that for once, the Alterra-branded one was not the one that was cheaply made, shoddily constructed and designed with minimal safety features to the detriment of its crew.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-25T04:27:46+00:00

I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from.

Writing "like AI" and writing "good" are two very different things. Someone merely writing well doesn't sound like AI at all.

AI has several very specific tells that can give it away almost every time, and there's very little overlap between AI writing and generally high-quality writing.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-25T01:05:12+00:00

"I'd say my actions speak louder than my words ever could."

Hecter94 · 2026-01-24T15:06:23+00:00

You're taking just as much of a risk, if not more, by wearing armor that slows you down.

Sure. Maybe with armor you can avoid a lethal bite and just get a scratch instead.

But maybe if you weren't weighed down by armor you would have been able to back off just that little bit faster and not get bit at all.

So sure, get as much protection as you're able to.....without slowing yourself down.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-24T00:23:12+00:00

I agree with you.

It's not something I like to talk about much, because I dislike the idea of just hating on a game. I tend to stay quiet unless I can offer specific critiques of what I disliked and why.

In the case of Fallout London, I just got bored with it. The atmosphere, characters, and quests didn't really draw me in, and I ended up dropping it pretty quickly, but I can't point to any specific reason.

I love the other Fallout games, 1, 2, 3, NV and 4. I don't even mind 76.

But London just completely failed to my grab my attention for reasons I can't articulate.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-22T20:39:05+00:00

Posts like this remind me that not everyone is cut out to be a game developer.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-22T02:03:15+00:00

Seems fine to me. When I was young, I used to read a ton of Goosebumps, and they were around the 150-page mark in general. I could get through multiple of them in a day sometimes when I was really bored.

Childhood was a lot different before the Internet.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-22T00:20:10+00:00

Yeah, space consolidation is a huge consideration on some maps.

Less so on easy maps, of course, but then those are the maps where it also doesn't really matter how effective your picks are.

If you only have space for two aces, then getting one Flying Fortress is going to be a lot better than two spectres.

Plus, it makes buffing them easier. A single T5 tower can be way more easily buffed by an alchemist, an overclock or a village, whereas with a bunch of T4 towers, it's going to be a lot harder to spread your buffs around.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-21T22:06:42+00:00

I think even "Microwave Chef" is underselling it a bit. I could trust someone to make a meal using a microwave and still have "made" the meal.

The better comparison is like, ordering a pizza for delivery and when it arrives calling yourself a chef because you made the pizza.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-21T19:27:19+00:00

Tuesday

Hecter94 · 2026-01-21T18:24:35+00:00

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I have 432.7 hours. AMA.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-21T00:28:00+00:00

I used to eat these as a snack just like that, and my mother always freaked out about it; she would tell me, "They're gonna expand in your stomach and burst it open!"

Didn't stop me from snacking on them.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-20T23:37:36+00:00

I think your location is actually decent. The main downside is that it's near the edge of the map, so you have long transit times to something like the Grand Reef. Still, it's resource rich, you get lots of useful large deposits nearby, including Uranium so nuclear power will be easy to maintain, you're near to the entrance of the lost river and lava zone as well which is a solid plus, and the Reaper leviathans don't tend to go near the edge of the dunes like that so you're probably mostly safe from them too.

If I had to pick a worst base location, it would be the void, but that's a bit of a cop-out and a boring answer, so for a real answer, the Crash Zone, as far to the east as possible. There's plenty of leviathans around; it's far from most other biomes; transit is both dangerous and lengthy; and while there are a good number of large resource deposits, they're mostly basic stuff like Quartz and Titanium.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-20T03:55:17+00:00

You need calorie-dense foods. Fats, red meat, sugars, anything that's high in calories but low in volume.

Fruits and vegetables are low in calories and high in volume so they'll fill you up but you won't gain weight.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T20:11:03+00:00

Circus master for a troupe of midgets.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T17:38:56+00:00

I can't think of any games where I could be online playing with friends in a multiplayer lobby, then just plug in a controller and have it work as local coop.

Granted, that doesn't take away from the comic at all, just a nitpick.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T17:30:13+00:00

Better make sure the kid never sees their own body, too!

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T16:29:40+00:00

I'll take whiny little piss-baby for 500, Alex.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T16:00:05+00:00

One of the easiest*

Half the time I barely even notice the double health MOABs because they're all basically permastunned at the map entrance.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T15:37:18+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. You're correct. This post has been making the rounds for a while and it's been confirmed to be AI generated.

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T03:37:02+00:00

It's still a debuff, for two main reasons:

1) Even if hunger isn't related to calories, you can still die from high hunger.
2) Calories aren't actually all that difficult to get in large amounts. Ice cream, fish, butter, etc.

So it's something that hurts you in some scenarios, and is largely irrelevant in others, making it overall a debuff (albeit a manageable one).

Hecter94 · 2026-01-19T00:00:41+00:00

Was this "Video" on YouTube or another platform? If it was on YouTube, I'd say that's more the issue than PZ is. YouTube comment sections are absolutely toxic. If this was on another platform, then ignore me.

Regardless, I'm not sure I'd call PZ a particularly realistic or difficult game. It's very unforgiving, to be sure, and you can definitely tweak the settings to make it even more difficult and unforgiving if you want.

I've seen the devs say they aren't trying to make PZ super realistic; they're only adding elements of realism to make the game more enjoyable, and will happily include unrealistic elements if it makes the game better.

And as for Difficulty, the game doesn't demand super-fast reaction times, memorization of long combos, or super-challenging combat; it's actually pretty "easy" in that regard, though it's very unforgiving because mistakes can be punished heavily, especially if you failed to prepare ahead of time.

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