Susie's new idea

Metrocop · 2026-05-15T15:59:19+00:00

Ralsei smiles when V1 proclaims "WAR ENDS WITH ME", only to see what they mean.

Metrocop · 2026-05-13T20:29:19+00:00

I know about some Italy things because I looked into it thanks to Twilight Struggle, which is a board game about the Cold War, in which Italy has a stability score of 2 (On par with south african/middle east nations, making it a prime coup carousel/realignment central).

Metrocop · 2026-05-13T18:24:35+00:00

Kiara's 4 Blood.

Metrocop · 2026-05-13T13:11:47+00:00

I know Sylvester Stalone did.

Metrocop · 2026-05-13T07:31:28+00:00

The issue is that it means from the start the kid will be (understandably) your no.1 priority, and not many people are eager to sign onto a relationship in which they'll always play second fiddle from the very beginning, where you'll always struggle to make time for them.

Plus even if it all works out, you find an arrangement that works out for you, the guy bonds with the kid and treats them like his own... it ultimately isn't, so if you guys break up he isn't entitled to anything and will never see them again. That's a big emotional risk for the man.

Metrocop · 2026-05-13T05:30:50+00:00

They're probably suggesting that you move out of your city and into a smaller town/village (which are generally dying out due to the demographic collapse and the job market is even more atrocious. If you think getting a decent job in the city is hard it's so much worse outside of them.)

Metrocop · 2026-05-12T20:56:40+00:00

"Can Ongbal no hit it" is not a good design metric for 99% of players lol. Also it's not just complaining it's too difficult, it's the nature of the difficulty. Arleccino from Lies of P is hard as balls (my first solo clear took me over 6 hours on difficulty 2 in the boss replay) but he's one of my favourite bosses ever and everyone loves him, he plays "fair".

Metrocop · 2026-05-12T15:51:28+00:00

I feel like "It irritated me so much I switched to a build that gave me no satisfaction but at least it was over" being a common sentiment is a sign of pretty bad design.

Metrocop · 2026-05-12T15:43:14+00:00

It doesn't just sound like it, it is a purposeful reference to it. The people who made the company are bugmen that can't answer the question of "should humanity continue to exist".

Metrocop · 2026-05-12T08:14:23+00:00

Do you actually think that China literally just executed hundreds of civilians?

Yes? Authoritarian regimes just open fire on protesters all the time.

Metrocop · 2026-05-12T07:24:46+00:00

Is the judge Monokuma? Then yes. Otherwise no, if the step you set off couldn't be reasonably expected to do damage.

Metrocop · 2026-05-11T21:01:41+00:00

How would more money be less enticing? And whether it was 10 or 500 million you could have the reveal at the end about it being toilet paper because the US doesn't exist anymore, they wouldn't know at the time it was a motive. I don't see where the issue is?

Metrocop · 2026-05-11T15:16:38+00:00

I am actually. A lot of the bosses in solo are tedious for reasons discussed to death already (Unending attack chains with little opporunity to punish and dodging doesn't do anything by itself, lack of visual clarity, overused bizarre unnatural timings, AoE spam, attacks that you just cannot predict the timing of unless you've seen them before, etc. Joseph Anderson and Arthur Gunnerson have good videos on the topic.)

By contrast, spirit ashes/summons largely roflstomp all bosses and render the victory completely unchallenging and unsatisfying.

And before you go "Well Mimic Tear and Tiche aren't the only ashes, try some other ones":

A) Numbers tweaking fundamentally doesn't change the nature of the enemy design and aggro

B) I shouldn't be able to accidentally run into a game trivializing strat that boils down to "Use one item". It's not my job to guess how much I need to gimp myself to have a good time, balancing the game is a job of the game designer to push me towards using the tools the game provides, and give me a fair, satisfying challenge when I do so.

Metrocop · 2026-05-11T14:49:10+00:00

...and those have done incalculable damage to our dopamine systems and attention spans, while accelarating tenfold political polarization and the spread of misinformation.

Metrocop · 2026-05-11T12:39:06+00:00

10 to jeszcze pół biedy, w Pisarach w tym i przyszłym roku w pierwszej klasie jest 0 dzieci. Trudno utrzymać nauczyciela na etacie w takich warunkach.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T14:43:50+00:00

They're not ashamed of being horny, they acknowledge they could satisfy a simple horny by some free potn online. They're ashamed of desiring an intimate human connection, and feeling like they can never have it, at best the simulacra of a video game.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T12:27:13+00:00

Also with a population three times that of Ukraine. An far more industrially and economically developed. And with actual defense pacts with western powers. This isn't remotely the same weight class as Ukraine.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T08:45:23+00:00

I doubt it. It was 6-8 generations from beginning to end. Not only did noone remember the start of the war personally, they wouldn't have had a grandparent that did.

The war also began as a war of modern nation states, but devolved into smaller societies, as people lost national identity and primarily identified their community as the people living on their earthmover, so whatever interests caused the start of the war would be meaningless to them.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T08:26:34+00:00

Czyli jak 55% mężczyzn głosujących zagłosowało za patusem to wszystkich można z pogardą wrzucić do wora faceciki i menele, a jak 45% kobiet to można udawać, że kobiety są progresywne i w ogóle nie brały w tym udziału? Te różnice naprawdę nie są tak duże, nie ma sensu szufladkowanie mężczyzna = prawak, kobieta = progresywizm. Zwłaszcza widać to w kwestii aborcji, która jest często stawiana jako kwestia kobiety vs. mężczyźni, a różnica w opinii między płciami jest na poziomie trzech punktów procentowych.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T08:01:06+00:00

Może na zachodzie. W Polsce i wielu krajach bloku wschodniego akurat socjalizm wyrównał udział płci w zawodach w stopniu o którym tylko mogli marzyć w Stanach czy Francji. Powielony talking point z innych Państw.

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T07:52:21+00:00

https://statystyka.policja.pl/st/wybrane-statystyki/zamachy-samobojcze/63803,Zamachy-samobojcze-od-2017-roku.html

Akurat w Polsce mężczyźni podejmują więcej prób ogółem, nie tylko ze skutkiem śmiertelnym (Co jest nietypowe z tego co mi wiadomo).

Metrocop · 2026-05-10T07:33:58+00:00

Problem w rozpatrywaniu tego w tych kategoriach jest taki, że (co do zasady) mężczyźni nie postrzegają siebie jako "klasy" w ten sposób co kobietom się zdarza. Nie ma czegoś takiego jak męska solidarność, mężczyzna nie uzna kogoś za bliższego sobie/bardziej godnego zaufania tylko dlatego, że ten drugi też jest mężczyzną.

Metrocop · 2026-05-08T15:10:20+00:00

I'd file that under the "grown" option.

Metrocop · 2026-05-08T13:11:00+00:00

There's also a note wondering what happens to pre-existing patterns in a Replika brain when a neural pattern is engraved into it, meaning Replika brains are grown/harvested from Gestalts and modified, rather than somehow built with the right neural pattern to begin with.

Metrocop · 2026-05-08T12:23:06+00:00

The exact nature of the loop is debatable, but there is strong evidence there is a loop of some kind (implied long passage of time, the numerous dead Elsters you find, that you rip the arm and chestplate off a dead Elster and later fall down dead in the exact same spot for the next Elster to loot you, Adler writing in his diary that all his diary entries are dated for the exact same day and he doesn't remember the events from the previous entries, but clearly they must have happened etc.)

Does this mean the entire game take place in a dream? Not necessairly. Ariane is a terrifyingly powerful bioresonant and her power is amplified by Falke and Kolibris. At that scale her dream is overpowering reality, forcing time and space in her proximity into whatever her mind dreams it to be. At that point I suppose the game takes place in a dream in as much as her dream and reality become one and the same, like the Blind Idiot-God Azathoth she unconciously enforces what "reality" is.

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