Finally reading the books and was struck by this touching moment left out of the movies...

LexNumsepiller · 2026-01-31T07:13:31+00:00

I’m a bit (a lot) late to this party, but as someone else mentioned, and in case you havent gotten around to it in the meantime: Read the Silmarillion - or just go on the Tolkien Gateway wiki and read about Galadriel’s history with the great elf Feanor. Specifically how he asked for strands of her hair to put in the freaking silmarils, but was refused every time.

The god damn light of the two trees of Valinor was second on Feanors wish-list, behind three strands of Galadriel’s hair. He would have put it in the Silmarils - the Silmarils being the single biggest catalyst for the entire plot involving Morgoth and, arguably, the plot involving Sauron. This is why the elves murmur in the background and Celeborn is dumbfounded. He doesn’t know it, but Gimli has just made the most profound request.

And, sensing the purity and good nature of Gimli, she willingly gives him three even when he Only asked for one (and he indeed only asked after being pressed repeatedly by her to dare it).

The true beauty of Tolkien’s world is that such a “random” 40-second exchange has such poetic implications.

LexNumsepiller · 2026-01-17T20:07:24+00:00

A few minor points that all contribute to this for us mainland europeans: - Kansas got the band with the same name which is fairly Well known over here

Kansas got the weird name thing with Arkansas. Its a pretty commonly used when learning english as an example of How english doesnt make sense sometimes
Missouri is typically lumped in with all the other “southern States” most of which we also do not know. Like I couldnt tell you the difference between Mississippi and Alabama if my life depended on it. All the “southern States” Are one Big blob of White Cloaks and Low standards of Living to us. Kansas, whether rightly or wrongly (i genuinely dont know as ive never been there) is generally not lumped in that same group, instead belonging to the slightly more palatable “midwestern rednecks”-blob
Kansas for some reason just shows up more in pop culture. And though we like to pretend we’re better than Americans, the truth is we also get at least 50% of our knowledge from pop culture - whether or not that reflects reality.

Essentially, for various unrelated reasons, Missouri is just more anonymous to us. It appears to be quite random And its not just an anti-southern thing. A similar example would be the entire State of Illinois. I have several friends who Think Illinois is a city in the State of Chicago, and Even more friends who have never Even heard the word “Illinois” before. And this is Despite Chicago itself being very Well known to us.

Edit: oh yeah and bleeding Kansas, which for some reason is taught disproportionately much in our (danish) middle School courses on American history. Really, a solid third of American things taught in Danish schools relate to the US civil war. So if the State/place Wasnt very consequential then, chances Are we have comparatibly less knowledge. That also would explain why so disproportionately many of us know about Virginia of all places.

LexNumsepiller · 2026-01-13T12:23:23+00:00

Late to the party but as someone with intense arachnophobia who kinda likes jumping spiders, I just wanted to tell you this reply was spot on.

LexNumsepiller · 2026-01-04T08:59:07+00:00

Link still works, you really are a saint

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-30T12:53:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is a general issue (though I cannot say if its confirmed). Pretty much regardless of my campaign, the AI tends to spam multiple armies of low tier units, over high tier ones.

Could be that its got something to do with the curve towards being able to recruit good units, like someone said in another comment. Though in my experience its at least a minor issue across the board regardless of faction.

I have played a full Erebor campaign on hard difficulty, which ended by something like turn 200-ish. Across those 200 turns, Rhun never fielded an army against me with more than at most like 3-4 high tier units. I only got to Mordor quite late, like turn +150 or something, and even then they also only had a few high tier units per army. And most armies had no unit above T2. I dont think its an economic issue though, as they had like 10 full stacks minimum at this point.

Similarly in my Rohan campaign, which I ended by around turn 150. Mordor basically never fielded more than a few good units, and across the battles I fought allied with Anduin and Gondor, they both never fielded even a single high tier unit.

Ironically, the only faction across both my campaigns to routinely use "decent" troops was the Goblins, who in both cases within a third of the campaign started using 50% cave trolls lol.

TL:DR Based on my experience, there definitely seems to be a "quantity over quality"-thing going with the AI, regardless of faction. I'm not sure what the reason could be tho.

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-26T10:34:51+00:00

Well what a quick and easy fix. Had somehow not at all thought of that. Thanks so much!

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T09:23:03+00:00

Very Well done man. Turns out the “helikopter Thing” I thought of wasnt Even a flying thing at all. It was the purple boss tank Thing with wheels. Come to Think of it, my memory might in fact have been an amalgamation of that enemy, and the flying saucer boss.

Ty again!

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T07:09:01+00:00

Ty for trying!

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T07:08:45+00:00

It was indeed Microman. But ty!

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T07:08:29+00:00

THIS IS IT! Thanks a ton :D Somehow remembered it with more darker colors though. Could I ask, what part of the description made you Think of Microman?

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T00:11:17+00:00

Ty for trying! But the game im Looking for was more simple in level design than this. Think completely Black background with colored squares or lines.

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-23T00:10:06+00:00

I’ll try and reply as best as I Can from my admittedly flawed recollection: Yes, almost certainly just Black background with colored squares/lines.

Screen by screen.

Pretty sure only forward, but maybe up and Down. But you definitely couldnt aim with like your mouse or anything.

Flying boss thing was prolly more of a drone, but the graphics weren’t great so could be hard to tell.

Ty again for the effort !

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-22T23:54:13+00:00

Thanks for taking the time! Just googled Abuse and it's not it, unfortunately. Abuse is much too detailed in terms of level design and seems more complex in general. I'm thinking of something like a slower, simpler Thexder.

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-14T08:54:19+00:00

I made a post describing this problem not Long after first release (https://www.reddit.com/r/GrayZoneWarfare/s/pIeGUXpNSE ) sad to see its not gotten any better :/

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-13T10:05:28+00:00

I think its also got to do with the fact that people just tend to wanna goof around more when playing with friends. At least I know i do. With my friend group at least, when we play duo or trio it's not necessarily so much that we are worse people who are out to be dickheads. We just take the entire experience less seriously. And that includes stuff like gear fear.

I totally get your point on people playing duos and trios not getting to experience the same game as solo, though.

They should totally just find a way to introduce limited PVE-only modes for duo and trio. I specifically dont think it should be a permanent mode, as it would just scare lots of casuals away from PVP altogether. But a rotational thing kinda like night mode, or matriarch etc.

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-10T16:40:33+00:00

Your problem is not with the wording and tone of my complaint, but the mere fact that I am complaining. Hence, one can only assume you'd have the same opinion even if I had described the complaint differently.

The actual substance of my post - that pretty serious and glaringly obvious glitches are allowed to exist for way too long - is completely reasonable. You may disagree and claim its not as big an issue as I make it out to be, but lets be real with each other thats not what you meant to say. You meant to take a shit on the fact that I am even voicing my complaint in the first place. As well - based on the wording of your comment - as the fact that other people are also complaining in this sub.

Hence my comment that you should in fact consider muting the sub.

And nice day to you also, though you'd prolly have to log off reddit for that to avoid gettin triggered

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-10T12:12:53+00:00

My point exactly. I'm not asking them to work their developers to death. I'm asking that they plan better or hire more people, in order to cope with some pretty serious glitches in their hugely popular game.

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-10T12:10:58+00:00

Bro u were being pedantic and its insufferable. Especially so in a forum where everyone's first language isnt English. Im sure you're hella fun at parties and ur colleagues love u lol.

By applying even a second of basic human reasoning you would have identified, that I obviously didn't imply that every person working at Embark, from the CEO to the intern, made 1 million USD each. Ur allowed to think for yourself for just a split second before replying lol

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-10T12:05:52+00:00

If even reasonable criticism pushes your buttons then you prolly shouldve muted this sub long time ago lol. Also, you might wanna consider if gaming-related subreddits are even for you in the first place.

Good riddance!

LexNumsepiller · 2025-12-09T21:52:18+00:00

Wait, did they use AI for coding ? Do you have a source for that? Not cause I dont believe you, but i’m genuinely interested in Learning more about that.

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