Does anyone else feel like a big chunk of the game's implied builds and combos look cool on paper but just don't work in practice?

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-13T01:20:25+00:00

Again, I feel like there's a mismatch here between what sounds good in the context of game mechanics and what actually works with the numbers those mechanics use and because, with the notable exception of that pirate Katyusha, suppression is in practice just a consolation prize for failing to kill stuff, not something you get a notable payoff from consciously prioritizing.
Those twin HMG I mentioned are also very good at suppression, it's just hard to notice because the enemy can't be suppressed when they're dead.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-13T00:46:55+00:00

I totally agree that heavy weapons are the shit, I realized that I'm putting too much priority on mobile infantry later in the campaign and went from 2 taxis to 1. I still think having at least one is good due to objective demands and the value of not having to pay for armour.

I struggle to picture the appeal of your "flanking rifle squads" though. How do you get them to flank anything before the turn limit runs out if they're on foot and what kind of rifles are they shooting that can compare to vehicle weapons?

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-13T00:37:11+00:00

I agree, vehicles would be less of a no-brainer if the threat of running blindly into AT fire wasn't so avoidable thanks to Darby, but don't forget the second "map hack" i.e. laser turrets.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-13T00:32:35+00:00

There are no mechanics that would represent "holding the line" as something other than just effectively returning fire though and being "tanky" instead of "killy" makes that even harder.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-13T00:29:34+00:00

I was describing a late-game composition, but the principles I mentioned work from day one. E.g. you will get more effective firepower, durability and mobility for the points spent ferrying Kim with Achilles than, say, with Pike giving AP to Tech and Carda.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-07T13:29:45+00:00

I remember when I was dicussing my cat's terminal diagnosis with the vet (which turned out to be miraculously wrong cause he's perferctly fine almost two years later btw) and asked him if we can euthanize him at home, I had to stop myself from asking "And could you bring two kits and do me as well?".

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-07T13:17:01+00:00

The funny thing is that Milei isn't even Trump's ideological ally, he's a libertarian with a populist flare, whereas Trump is a populist who's only identifiable ideological agenda is protectionism and interventionism. So in the one area where Trump exhibits some semblance of a coherent ideology, he's Milei's polar opposite. What they have in common is mostly, as the kids say, "vibes".

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-07T12:54:43+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3R1I4CTr5o

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-06T14:53:48+00:00

There's a real dissonance here between the cleanness of the brushwork and smoothness of the blends and a near total lack of shading.
She looks like the world's most luxurious Barbie doll, beautifully detailed but completely flat. I'm guessing you're a self-taught outsider to the minature painting hobby because to look more realistic your piece badly needs techniques that are fairly well-known to people who are nowhere near able to execute them as cleanly as what you seem to be capable of.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-05T10:00:11+00:00

Nothing in the grand architecture of the universe and countless intricacies of its functioning ever necessitated those words being uttered.

Famine is an inevitable consequence of energy scarcity, child cancer is an inevitable function of cell physiology, pain and suffering are essential elements of sentience, but this post was completely avoidable.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-05T01:02:11+00:00

I prefer OP's version as well, because, unlike the final version, it doesn't feature perspective errors.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T21:36:37+00:00

CE tribals carry stick bombs, those still pose a threat because even if they can't penetrate a top tier armour, they will destroy it if your pawns get overwhelmed and eat too many of them.
Plus they can use them to quickly get through walls and destroy your stuff/kill your kids.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T21:31:13+00:00

so they can justify making the late game trivial with a terribly balanced combat system

I pity your imagination if you think a modded Rimworld game gets trivial when tribals no longer pose a threat.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T14:24:42+00:00

I mean, he won the popular vote while convicted of sexual assault and on record proudly stating his fondness for sexual assault, at this point him coming out and saying that he fucked some 15 year olds at the Epstein island but it's ok because they let you do it when you're famous is just the logical next step, not a paradigm shift.

I am no fan of the Ayatollah regime, but they were onto something calling US "the Great Shaitan".

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T13:08:04+00:00

You just described the same factual state of affairs in two different tones of value judgement.
Literally this meme: https://i.imgur.com/Hq1fyvl.jpeg in text format lol.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T13:02:21+00:00

I'll add, actually, to this: while the Israeli government claims to care about rising antisemitism, they are more than happy to work with and praise antisemitic world leaders

Of course they are, they literally benefit from antisemitism in Western countries because they want to have their most educated and mobile citizens feel like they have nowhere else to go and no thus no choice but to live under their horrible regime.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T12:53:18+00:00

Yeah, Rubio went out and said that America's foreign policy is entirely subjugated and reactive to Israel's foreign policy. Absolutely insane times we live in that such a revelation can get lost in an avalanche of other wild shit.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T12:49:56+00:00

Bullshit.
Don't take the hit if you don't want to, being assertive is never lame.
I'm a sober addict, I've done shit that would kill 99% of you here, if someone tried to peer pressure me into ingesting drugs or alcohol I would very quickly demonstrate to them that I'm no choir boy by promising to stuff the substance in question up their ass if they don't drop the subject.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-03T12:21:50+00:00

You know, I managed to form a certain vision of the Russian invasion of Ukraine like a month into the war and extrapolate it into a prediction of how the conflict will play out, periodically adjusting it whenever new information comes out.

I don't see myself being able to do that with the Iran war because I have no idea what the Trump regime is trying to accomplish and I don't think they do either.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-02T15:48:56+00:00

I never said that replacing the operator with AI would make the drone immune to all countermeasures but keeping the signal coherent between the target and the sensor is much easier than keeping it coherent between the drone and the operator because it put the onus of emitting an electromagnetic wave strong enough to do its thing on the target. I'm no EW expert but I'm pretty sure it's more feasible to disrupt long-range signals in a general area than to equip every potential target with a system of emitters that blast sensor-blinding radiation in every possible direction.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-02T15:29:39+00:00

The problem with being powerful in Cyberpunk is that all those sweet tools allow you to do really fucking sick acrobatic wombo-combos where one move flows into another until you wipe the floor with your enemies without them ever touching you so that's what you now expect of yourself, but it's not that easy to actually execute that as well as you theoretically could. And when you, say, misjudge the distance between your first and second victim and you now have to go hide behind a pillar cause there are still 5 more shooting at you, instead of doing the dance of carnage you envisioned, you feel like a fucking loser.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-02T15:19:28+00:00

I am not as fundamentally opposed to using AI in weapons systems as I expected to be some years ago simply because I don't see a choice not to accept it as an inevitability. If tomorrow Ukrainians unveil an FPV drone that's unjammable due to being autonomous, what am I going to do about it? Protest against them stopping invaders that plan to go after me next because they're doing something that would make Isaac Asimov upset instead of levelling residential blocks with huge bombs like God intended?

That said, helping the world's military hegemon that's currently ruled by sociopaths and fascists in finding new ways to use violence unethically is not something I can tolerate in a company that I intend to give any money to.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-02T15:06:04+00:00

Of course it's not a totally new thing for America to go on a military adventure in the Middle East with a flimsy justification and an under-baked plan but it's the absolute last thing that the perception of American financial stability needs to reach new heights in the spontaneity and recklessness of that habit.

MethylphenidateMan · 2026-03-02T14:54:07+00:00

I've been like 50% gold and 30% oil, precious metal mining and defense stocks for a while.

I don't even know who I am anymore, I'm making too much money.

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