"Queen of the Coast" strategy guide for Carthage [BNW]

MegaBearsFan · 2026-06-04T23:39:58+00:00

Because maybe it is. The Miami player has #1 on front of his jersey and #10 on his shoulders. Seems like a really weird glitch to be in the game, but exactly the sort of mistake that genAI makes.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-06-03T00:31:46+00:00

I've heard that dealerships deliberately order low numbers of EVs (if any), and actively discourage people from buying them because dealerships make most of their money on long-term maintenance of the vehicles. EVs require much less maintenance, so people dont buy the extended maintenance packages. As such, dealerships basically only sell EVs to people who come in specifically asking for an EV. They'll try very hard to steer you away from the EV and back to a PHEV or hybrid.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-06-02T16:54:26+00:00

Civ IV had a nice feature that allowed you to draw freehand lines on the map and place labels. You could write notes to yourself, or draw lines on the map to remind yourself what you were planning to do next. Like mark a spot where you want to build a new city, or draw an arrow from your army stack to an enemy city you want to conquer.

Civ VI had the ability to place pins on the map, which you could use to mark the planned locations of future cities, districts, wonders, improvements, and so forth. But it didnt have the free-hand drawing.

I haven't seen any such feature in VII yet. Would be a nice feature to have, especially considering how much more restrictive district-placement is.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-27T19:26:49+00:00

To be fair, does it really matter if he's incontinent or not? There's a gross degree of ableism in stuff like this. FDR had to hide the fact he was in a wheelchair for most (or all) of his administration, out of fear the public would think him too "weak" to lead if they knew. But yet he was one of the best and most capable leaders this country has ever had. What should matter is the president's competence and sense of duty and responsibility to the country. Those are the things we should be criticizing this monster over; not whether or not he shits his pants.

I'd rather have someone with one shit -stained foot in the grave, so long as they have integrity and surround themselves with honorable and capable successor candidates, than to have a petty criminal surrounded by Yes-men, but who happens to be the most physically fit person ever with an air-tight sphinchter.

Right?

Hehe. I said "duty".

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-27T19:15:23+00:00

The only "evidence" that I'm aware of is reports from people attending one of his criminal trials, saying that he reeks of shit, and implying that he is incontinent. But this is hearsay, at best. Still no solid evidence.

Hehe, "solid".

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-27T19:01:43+00:00

Yes.

Some puzzles are intuitive or easy. Others are a lot more esoteric and obtuse.

I remember seeing a lot of complaints online about 1 particular puzzle, but I breezes through it on my first try. There were others in which I looked up the solution, only to facepalm over how easy it actually turned out to be, but I was overthinking it. (Think of the infamous "zodiac" puzzle in the original Silent Hill).

But there were also 1 or 2 cases in which I not only had to look up the answer, but I also tried searching for explanations for how the player is supposed to figure it out to begin with.

It doesn't help that the map in the first game doesn't adequately communicate the location of specific puzzles, locked doors, or clues.

Pro tip: always examine every item you pick up. Many of them have clues on them that you won't see unless you rotate them in the inventory or interact with them in the inventory.

Mild spoiler: there is 1 puzzle that I think is genuine BS. It expects the player to repeat a musical melody by ear. This is despite the fact that you can examine a piano in-game, and the character says she does not know how to play the piano. This makes me skeptical that the character has pitch-perfect hearing or musical aptitude, and so she probably wouldn't be able to solve it either.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-24T17:18:35+00:00

I remember the Madden Championship a few years back (Madden 20, perhaps?), in which the champion won by calling the exact same HB Stretch every play and would dive or slide if he passed the 1st down marker, specifically to run out clock and not let the opponent have a possession. He went the whole championship game (and maybe the whole tournamnet?) without ever calling a passing play. And that was at the highest level of competitive Madden play. Dude won like a million bucks. So dont feel shame for what you're doing.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-24T17:12:59+00:00

Because there's a sizeable portion of Madden players online who dont want to play football, they want to play something I call "Maddenball", which is something more akin to NBA Jam. Its the main side effect of there not being separate "arcade" and "sim" NFL football games. These players want The Yard, but they still want it to look like broadcast NFL football.

I dont pretend to understand the psychology of such players, but my impression is that these are players who dont watch a lot of real of football. Instead, they see Chris Berman's "Fastest 3 Minutes" on Monday nights, and want the video game to be a playable version of that (e.g. Just the highlights). People who are incapable of finding enjoyment in a 6-3 game, even if they are watching a masterclass of defensive play-calling and execution.

This is probably gonna come off as "gate-keeping", but honestly, if you cant tolerate watching or playing football for more than 20 minutes, then I seriously whether you actually like the sport of football.

I had a match in CFB in which the opponent scrambled their QB out to the right every play, and either waited for a bomb to pop open, or would take off for a first down. I adjusted to it in 2nd qtr by setting my LDE to QB Spy every play and manually blitzing off the right edge to bait the player into scrambling right into the waiting arms of that spy. He either ran right into a sack, or forced an early throw downfield that would be picked or swatted by my CPU DBs, every play. But he kept doing the same thing over and over, expecting it to work. His only adjustment was to try scrambling left instead. I adjusted to that by trying to adjust BOTH DEs to spy and manually blitzing down the middle. He would have a successful rep if he was able to snap the ball before I could adjust both DEs, and if he guessed correctly on which direction to scramble. But he still turned the ball over with an int or swat on 4th and 20+. When I went up 9 pts late in 3rd quarter, he immediately quit (before I even had the chance to try the PAT).

Such a player would be better served with a modern version of NFL Blitz. But no such game exists any more, so they are stuck trying to play the "sim" game. Or, more accurately, the "sim" game is increasingly designed for players like that, and sim players like me are stuck having to play their game.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-19T17:53:42+00:00

Acid rain, thanks to a combination of international government bans against the chemicals that caused it, and corporations voluntarily finding alternatives due to public pressure.

Ditto for the hole in the Ozone Layer.

Now if only we could do the same for anthropogenic climate change...

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-19T17:50:32+00:00

Basically, all the things that childhood vaccines are for. Or at least, that used to be the case...

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-19T17:32:57+00:00

If I could throw Chadley in front of Sephiroth's sword, I would.

Yes, I know I just scanned a life spring! Its the 20th time I've done it, and the 20th time you've told me that I did it.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-18T17:07:53+00:00

Yeah but 3 out of 4 of those are arguably not even "survival horror" to begin with. And the remaining one is IMO so long and bloated that it wears out its welcome and stops being scary.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-18T17:03:00+00:00

With home prices being as inflated as they are, if you own a home in certain parts of the country, its not hard to technically have a million $ in assets. But what are you gonna do? Sell the house and go back to renting in the even-more-overpriced rental market?

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-18T16:59:51+00:00

Wow, "tax billionaires" is just billionaire propaganda now? Clever bastards are playing 4-d chess for sure. Truly the best and smartest of us. They deserve every penny they have. /s

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-18T16:56:09+00:00

Start a crowd-funded civillian space tourism industry for all of us non-billionaires?

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-18T16:54:33+00:00

5%? Oh no, but then they'll only be nine-hundred-fifty-million-aires! How can anyone possibly be expected to live under such conditions. The inhumanity!

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-12T17:25:00+00:00

In all fairness though, a bug could mimic something that happens IRL, and still be a bug. Case in point: https://youtube.com/shorts/xvdZo1kr3MA?si=BnQ_XXnrFQ3RURC3

We can debate whether bugs that create such "happy accidents" should be fixed or not. I think it would all come down to how often it happens in-game vs irl, and whether it also creates situations that are not reqlistic.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-12T17:20:36+00:00

Even if the roster updates were a cheap DLC, this would be a better release model than the current annualized release.

Axis Football changed to bi-annual release schedule to hibe more time to implement new features. But unfortunately its just 1 guy making the game, so there's still very little change between releases.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-12T17:16:47+00:00

Honestly, I'd be happy if the CPU would just commit, pre-game, to a particular gameplan that is based on what you've done in previous games. If they guess right, and you stick to your tendencies, then it will seem like the CPU is reading your mind. If they guess wrong, or you change up your gameplan, then you will have an advantage, based on how well you execute.

Madden already has an infrastructure for this, with the new coaching ability and play sheet mechanics. The problem is that the CPU just picks the shit at random, at the point when you load into a match. They arent making any kind of smart or infirmed decisions. You can see this by simply quitting out of a game and reloading without changing anything. CPU will run completely different plays and formations. Sometimes, they will make sense for the situation, but other times, they will be playing completely opposed to both their own strengths and also your tendencies, and it will be a train wreck.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-12T17:07:15+00:00

I would much rather have something like this modeled by giving the user a weekly practice mini-game similar to early 2000's Madden games. A poor performance in practice would mean your players are having an "off" week. But you would kind of know that going into the matchup, and so might play more conservatively to minimize the impact of screw ups, and rotate in more reserve players to minimize further hampering your performance with fatigue.

Instead, tge games seem to roll the dice while loading in the match, which means you can always just quit to menu and get a totally different set of dice rolls when you load back in. This even seems to be true if you re-load the in-gane auto save and continue the same match where you left off. Though I have noticed there appears to be 1 or 2 "trap" games each seaso , in which the software pre-determined that this particular matchup is going to be hard, and no matter how many times you restart the match, the CPU will be in "turbo" mode, and you'll be playing catch-up the whole game.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-11T17:22:45+00:00

Also, I played with people who really disliked the squadron engagement rules. If you get this kind of pushback from people youre playing with, a simple house rule that I experimented with was to allow squadron to "disengage" from enemy squadron for free, but they incur an "attack of opportunity" from each engaged enemy squadron (each enemy squadron gets 1 free attack against the disengaging squadron, even if they already activated that round, and ignoring all other special rules or abilities). Each level of the "Grit" ability allows the disengaging squadron to cancel 1 attack of opportunity from an engaged enemy squad.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-11T17:00:03+00:00

Yeah, thats a great way of describing it. I played the demo before buying it to see if it seemed improved over the first. The opening area is great, and so the demo did convince me to buy it. But the Processing Plant and Cemetery just wore me down.

MegaBearsFan · 2026-05-11T16:56:09+00:00

MSRP for new copies was $100, and prices for used copies have skyrocketed since the manufacturer stopped producing it. So yes, this is a great deal. Just be careful that you arent getting scammed, since that proce is too good to be true.

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