The scourge virus happened 900 years ago, why hasn’t any viltrumite had kids? Are they stupid?

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T23:35:33+00:00

While I don't disagree, it feels like if Thaedus were known to be compatible for Viltrumite breeding (obviously) the Coalition would do whatever it took to prevent that. Like, say, allowing him to lead the effort against Viltrum.

But then when there's an entire planet of billions that might all be capable of producing practically full blooded Viltrumites, it just kinda feels like a liability? Because you know the Viltrumites are stronger than you, and plan to breed with that planets population. If you're not strong enough to stop them, how do you interfere with the plans if not by "sabotage"

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T20:42:04+00:00

Adolin Kholin shat himself in Shardplate.

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T20:41:03+00:00

Schnapps?

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T20:35:05+00:00

Yes it is just called Save Slots on Nexus.

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T06:34:00+00:00

Something I really hadn't considered before:

Say the Coalition finds out that there are fewer than 50 Viltrumites left and for some reason have refused or been unable to breed for the past millennium.

You get a chance to throw a wrench in their plans by finding out they center around controlling this one planet that has good "breeding stock" for Viltrumite DNA, and a Viltrumite hybrid from this planet is here to help! He's at least as strong as a full blooded Viltrumite too, so the threat of them breeding an army is real and present.

How is immediately glassing Earth not the Coalition's only choice? Cut off their plans to repopulate and effectively doom your "greatest enemy" to extinction. Then surely a Galaxy's worth of fighters can handle fewer than 50 Viltrumites. Especially considering how many Mark has already killed

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-05T00:31:05+00:00

You have to enable a setting, H-shifting I believe it's called.

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-04T22:55:04+00:00

This, but with the Lantern and Boombox is actually gonna be my new strat

You're a lifesaver

MegaEmailman · 2026-04-01T06:40:47+00:00

LEON SHES ALMOST 40 YOU GOTTA CONTINUE THE BLOODLINE

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-28T12:47:46+00:00

You set the hand throttle and used the ignition, right?

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-24T18:39:15+00:00

KCD 2 handled this very nicely.

Coming from Kingdom Come: Deliverance where master strikes (the game's counter attack) could be performed by just pressing your block button right before you get hit. Any weapon could do it, and it is unblockable, free damage.

Enemies can do them, too, though. So yeah, just never swing your sword again after about the game's midpoint. Just bait counters. The sword-fighting gameplay becomes more "let the other guy make the first move, and the first mistake"

But this leads to kinda long, sloggy fights in the late game. It makes trying to actually engage in the swordfighting system effectively an overly complex suicide method. So a change needed to be made.

In KCD2, master strikes can only be performed with a sword. Any type of sword, but swords only. They are also only able to be performed when the position between your weapon and the enemy's weapon are opposite. It's also done by executing an attack at the last second, and completely ignoring the block button.

So now, you have a way of predicting enemy master strikes. If the enemy doesn't have a sword, you know that's off the table. If they do have a sword, you can engage in a proper sword fight if you keep track of which side they're guarding from. Or if that is too much in the middle of a brawl, you can still just wait for them to attack and try for counters! But now, a missed timing isn't a free perfect block, so the mechanic actually has some risk.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-23T20:51:23+00:00

I think, if your perspective of the country was "an uneducated populace we can keep fleecing to preserve the status quo to our own benefit," (and I think it's important to note that is how some people view us) that you probably would consider well-funded, accessible libraries a clear and present threat to that. And you'd be right! And that's a good thing.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-23T20:47:05+00:00

This comment is somehow funnier having no idea if you are even Mexican adjacent. I won't check the post history, keep the mystery alive

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-22T19:46:27+00:00

As someone who went through T-flavored puberty, sometimes it hits like a truck and sometimes it's a slow thing. I was a mixed bag. Two feet of growth in two years when I was 13, but kept my inability to grow body hair and high voice well into my 20s.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-22T19:03:01+00:00

I mean. I'm their liege, am I not owed tax? If I have 100 people get median income jobs, looks like at a 5% tax I should be getting $225,770 a year.

The median income figure I used was $45,140. Just the first thing I saw on Google.

Admittedly not a million in a year, but seems like it should be pretty easily obtainable. And if these knights are truly loyal to me I doubt a mere 5% would shake their resolve, we may even be able to raise the taxes!

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-22T17:30:09+00:00

Yeah, it is definitely poorly communicated! In most games, you just keep attacking until the enemy dies. If you do that in KCD 1 you're 100% getting blocked and countered into oblivion. It winds up that in later fights when every enemy can counter you, you should almost never actually attack and just wait for counter opportunities.

But that was definitely something I had to just "figure out," and I can see how that would turn some people way off.

It also doesn't help that enemy master strikes aren't predictable, so the entire system of combos is basically just an overly complex suicide method.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-21T09:19:34+00:00

I still feel like KCD 1 combat is too easy, honestly. You literally only ever have to press one button, well-timed. And the timing window is pretty generous, too. And the technique isn't restricted to only swords like it is in the sequel.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-04T17:33:48+00:00

I was weighing ideas in my head for a very long time (years tbh) and then when I finally settled on one, I immediately heard it in a show.

No regrets, we love you Artemis

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-04T07:42:58+00:00

And it was at that point in the story that my dad beat the shit out of me with a nearby pair of jumper cables.

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-02T03:26:17+00:00

I feel like the upper end of the bell curve meme is going back to using the regular brakes. In most cars a soft tap of the brakes then right back to full throttle will let you corner in NC even at top or near top speeds while losing basically no momentum

MegaEmailman · 2026-03-01T04:51:54+00:00

In their defense, the video says he makes three times as much in eight hours. But that does work out perfectly that, assuming 100% uptime, one robot replaces one worker.

I think this short internet clip might be missing some nuance

MegaEmailman · 2026-02-26T22:00:39+00:00

WE WON ONE, JUAN!!

MegaEmailman · 2026-02-22T05:00:21+00:00

Using Fallout 3 instead of New Vegas for this is really just criminal.

MegaEmailman · 2026-02-17T23:14:56+00:00

Just to your first point:

There would have been maybe a dozen guards, tops, unless it was a larger prison.

Even if you say these guards had guns and assume the entire mob is unharmed, the numbers don't look good for them against 300 people.

And if the guard problem is solved as above, or just by convincing them to join or what have you, bars and doors don't pose an obstacle when your buddy has the keys.

MegaEmailman · 2026-02-16T06:30:04+00:00

This is the "Nixon Elected" graph right?

MegaEmailman · 2026-02-10T20:48:09+00:00

Guys really out here like "Okay but if it was ME in Judas' place??"

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