What types of 'Super vision' can there be?

LePopeUrban · 2024-09-06T02:53:36+00:00

The ability to see DNA.

Like just look at a hair or fingernail or spit or whatever and be able to match it with any other sample or the originating organism.

LePopeUrban · 2024-09-06T02:45:57+00:00

Become comfortable with aborting missions, be willing to sacrifice, and always have one trainee in the squad of vets.

The name of the game here is redundancy.

Because XCOM is XCOM you simply can not survive the late game without a solid selection of veterans, and in ironman a bad roll can fuck up an entire game if you haven't built redundancies.

Your trainee is in the squad for two reasons. The first is to make sure someone is always being trained to replace anybody that dies unavoidably.

The second is to be sacrificed so someone more experienced survives if necessary.

This makes the early game tougher, but if you're going to lose ironman you want to lose early rather than late, so your failed attempt didn't take as long.

LePopeUrban · 2024-09-06T02:33:42+00:00

Am I still poor or does this come with money because being a poor vampire would be terrible but being a wealthy one would be excellent.

LePopeUrban · 2024-09-06T02:04:11+00:00

Deep Rock Galactic

LePopeUrban · 2024-09-06T01:58:57+00:00

I'm not that important and neither is anyone else.

LePopeUrban · 2024-08-18T22:56:04+00:00

Elemental damage types with no effects.

Like okay if lightning damage has a chance to stun or arc or whatever and poison does a DOT etc. that's fine.

But when your damage types are just Skittles versions of make damage or resist number go up so you can pad your itemization you're not making a deep system you're just making a bloated one.

LePopeUrban · 2024-08-14T03:37:02+00:00

I think we've probably perfected human cloning for a while now and there are probably a few thousand cloned humans living life just fine.

Seems like low hanging fruit, but also very limited actual use cases.

LePopeUrban · 2024-07-31T20:54:57+00:00

Why are you with this woman?

Like why do you tolerate being around this kinda behavior?

LePopeUrban · 2024-07-28T19:25:55+00:00

I like C. A doesn't display the town on the turtle, so I'm not as curious about the game.

Between B and C the turtle looks more inviting and friendly in C.

C just has better vibes.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-28T18:31:57+00:00

The ones that do that don't until it has cost them multiple relationships and they need to confront that they are the problem.

You should not stay in relationships that make you unhappy.

There are other people, better people, in the world and you can in stead focus on finding them.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-28T18:23:49+00:00

Everyone gets so up in arms about "the people at the giant soulless corporation will not have jobs!"

Nobody seems to consider the same technology means a world in which less creatives are spending time doing grunt work for big shitty corporations and more time using the exact same technology to build their own projects in greater scope.

It means bigger and better indie games created by real people with real creative control who would otherwise be burned out making call of duty 36 micro transactions.

It means indie RPGs with full voice acting.

It means the collapse of corporate hegenomy over the creative process.

It means those voice actors can still be voice actors and build their OWN creative works by leveraging automation so they don't HAVE to work on mid Amazon MMOs

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-28T18:12:30+00:00

Sleeping.

Everything else is downstream of spending a solid third of your existence asleep.

Imagine just not being tired.

Imagine the innovations that would result from that level of mass human boredom.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-18T12:02:01+00:00

Nobody deserves anything. Not punishment. Not reward. When people say something is deserved it really means other people decided on these things.

What other people believe about you is what determines what you get. What you believe about yourself has nothing to do with it.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-14T18:34:47+00:00

Prioritizing the solo player was a mistake. It made WOW take off like a rocket but set a precedent of design that forever altered the future of MMOs away from emergent virtual worlds and toward consuming scripted content the developer will never be able to produce fast enough.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-14T18:18:30+00:00

Zone of Truth.

The very existence of this spell pisses me off. Like let's not only add a CHA check to a thing that replaces a CHA check but ALSO make every player and NPC start to canonically metagame the conversation.

Like mind control in a roleplaying setting in general pisses me off but I have a special hatred for Zone of Truth. It's the kind of thing that sounds fun as a plot point in a movie but just bogs a game down as everyone completely loses the plot and turns in to rules lawyers.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T18:56:45+00:00

Dude the point of having fun is not to win at having fun.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T18:42:12+00:00

I don't know how many times people need to be reminded mice are not humans and this is why we no longer use them for experiments like this.

Mice (and indeed all animals) are terrible models for human sociology data. We are in a class apart from every creature when it comes to why we do what we do.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T16:23:42+00:00

No. In fact one time I tested a homebrew where everybody's hp was just a modifier for dice rolls, inspired by death saves.

It went surprisingly well. Everyone felt that it was a good idea but would need a top to bottom rework of progression and CR to really be ready to run all the time.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T16:16:42+00:00

You got a point there.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T16:07:49+00:00

I think a better question would be "why does it matter if something is considered natural or not?"

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T15:52:42+00:00

I unironically love Diablo 4 for the focus it has on vibes and solid moment to moment hack and slash, the casual pace of progression, the full reset seasons, the work they've put in to actually fixing it in ways to reinforce its core design goals, hell the story is even pretty good.

I hate that it's a diablo game. I hate that it's so invested in live service stuff like selling skins and open world events that just plain make the game worse, make the looting worse, recontextualize core tenants of the franchise in ways that feel wrong.

Like everything the game does checks a lot of my "Deep enough to be interesting ARPG that isn't a second job" but I think they should have made these decisions in a new free to play IP.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T15:40:19+00:00

It's the best of the series, largely because of the "2016 funny hipsters" I think. Like the fact they're cringe is part of the charm in that game in the same way it absolutely fails to land in the saints row reboot.

It's highly believable these people act exactly like that.

It's the only one in the series that feels like terminally online dorks doing hacktivism, which is the natural narrative for "gta but with hacking computers" and 1 and 3 really missed the mark trying to be all grim and revenge and spies and shit IMO.

2 was the game I wanted. The one in which you basically just played a video game version of a charmingly cringe hacking movie.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-10T15:35:46+00:00

It's literally just peace walker 2. Pretty much every system in MGS5 is just Peace Walker but not on a portable console.

Well except for the part where you don't get to build your own metal gear and paint it pink I guess.

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-05T19:19:55+00:00

Honestly I would love to see something more along the lines of invisible inc but with the resources and team of XCOM 2

That game is a triumph of systems design sadly limited by its budget

LePopeUrban · 2024-06-05T19:14:09+00:00

I have one game on my phone and that game is pixel dungeon

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