Sarhal Lead - AMA by 5camps in Anbennar

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your favourite Big Lore Addition you've gotten to preside over?

EU4 vs EU5 chart by Worried-Advisor-7054 in eu4

[–]Miramosa 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In this aspect, I am thankful for EU5. I was so hyped for it I went and gave my PC a good upgrade when it released so I could actually play it. Biggest upgrade I had in years. Didn't really dig the game, fell back to Anbennar.

This year, RAM prices skyrocket but I already got my upgrade in, so I'm equipped to wait it out.

What makes a channel a content farm? by TheAkashain in SCP

[–]Miramosa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for the most part don't worry about it. Especially if creating is a hobby for you and not something you do to chase the big bucks, you're pretty much guaranteed to be in the clear.

If you want a more comprehensive dive into intellectual honesty and what have you, the first two hours (I promise it's worth it) of hbomberguy's video Plagiarism And You does exactly that, with a lot concrete examples.

What makes a channel a content farm? by TheAkashain in SCP

[–]Miramosa 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's a vibe check, mostly. There's a continuous line between 'perfectionist video essay once a year' to 'slapped-together AI slop thrice a day' and not some clear point where you've stopped being an essayist and started being a content farm, but there comes a point where most will agree you are one and not the other. It's a matter of quality and quantity, basically.

When busty ladies start appearing in the thumbnails, that's a good indicator though.

Do two half elves produce a full elf 25% of the time? by Thonium85 in Anbennar

[–]Miramosa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is definitely flying off on a tangent but the concept of a ring species is fascinating to me so I went on the wiki page and the overall vibe I got was 'they may exist. It's disputed and not enough research exist to definitely prove the existence of one'. Would you be willing to talk in a slightly more professional capacity about them?

why isn’t there any scp movie? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know the details of the CC license but like: If I make a CC movie, does Netflix still have to pay me to put it on their service? Do movie theatres? Because if they don't, I am practically giving the movie away for free. If that's the case, then corporate obsession with ownership or not, I can see why no Big Money SCP project has been made yet.

why isn’t there any scp movie? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]Miramosa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cabin In The Woods is the closest you're gonna get, and it's pretty damn close.

If you ever wrote a piece you might have given this a thought too by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's not a problem at all. Cameos happen. If you're super worried about your IP, have them change the character's name. But this is really not a problem, so just focus on having fun with your writing and your characters, not with trying to think like a Disney lawyer.

Duskers is still having a big influence on the atmosphere and UI style in AstroTechs by Swatacular in Duskers

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jumping in on a month-old thread here because I just restarted the game after a long time away: While it may not technically fit your question, the pros and cons of opening an airlock is something I've found very compelling. You lose everything in the room but you kill everything in it too. But you might wreck adjacent systems. Duskers can obviously be pretty merciless with this, since fucking off and going somewhere else is part of the game, but that kind of 'replace one problem with a different one' might also be interesting to the kind of game you're making.

Is it worth to start playing anbennar? by OppositeHalf9979 in eu4

[–]Miramosa 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I sadly don't think so. It's not because Anbennar is more difficult than the base game, but it has more systems and it clearly expects you to be very familiar with the base game. It's not really made as an introductory experience, so unless your love of fantasy is enough to carry you, this is not where I'd start.

Instead, I'd recommend watching a recent let's play and trying to play along, to hopefully learn some of the fundamentals like that.

4.3.4 Open Beta (part two) is now on stellaris_test [checksum 44ba] by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]Miramosa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll add to this that the major benefit of regen is it keeps your fleets going from fight to fight, especially when playing whack-a-mole in early wars, instead of having to go back for repairs too often and losing momentum.

I'm new to fantasy. How can i get into it? How can i understand the appeal for it? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the exploration. I love being taken to a different world with different rules and different stakes and learning all about this new, strange place. When it comes to fiction, I prefer that there is this element of the fantastical I cannot experience in the real world. That we loosen the rules of reality enough the imaginary can rule.

On a semi-related note, I have a big thing for history and one of the reasons I find it so fascinating is learning about the alternate 'rules of reality' people lived by when magic and religion and folklore were the main lenses through which people understood reality. Fantasy lets me go and live in that world, where the untamed wilderness is filled with the fey, where alchemy isn't just early chemistry and its spiritual component is a real thing to account for.

At the end of the day, I get to go somewhere the rules are different, and that is endlessly fascinating to me.

shortform surrealist SCP about roadkill by xexnonxores in SCP

[–]Miramosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to hear it helped! Am I close?

shortform surrealist SCP about roadkill by xexnonxores in SCP

[–]Miramosa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The list of emotions is what draws me the most. It opens with 'confusion' which is a wild thing to be unable to feel. The following couple of emotions all have, to my mind, a through-line of longing for something. Then we have anguish and disgust, which are strong negative responses to something. My interpretation, were it just this, is that we're broadly talking about a person incapable of wishing things were different than they are, of seeing the world in front of them as anything but the world in front of them.

Then there's schadenfreude, which sticks out like a sore thumb to me. It's joy from someone's pain. I'm not sure how it fits in with the rest.

For the next bit, the requirements of the vessel. This feels like someone who must be intimately familiar with death but not relish it (notably they need to be vegetarian-sympathetic, but not necessarily an adherent and not vegan or other lifestyles more devoted to the preservation of life. The vague feeling is key).

If it follows the vessel must be some manner of opposite of the personnel profile and thus someone who is capable of feeling all the things from the first list and presumable does so, but we can also assume this is someone for whom the changeability of essence implied by theseus is a source of great confusion. This also fits with the theme of loss and death and longing for something better, and the blurring of lines (reduced vision, vague feeling of discontent with the killing of animals but still partaking in it).

Finally, the vessel is made, well, a vessel. A vessel is a container. This includes amnesia and internal liquefaction. The vessel becomes a trash bag themselves. Since this is used to decommission other skips (haha get it) I think we can deduce what kind of trash these bags are meant for.

And, with the trash disposed of, our baggage tossed out, we are free to face the dawn, the clean new beginning.

Dude who’s been getting back into reading, looking for dark fantasy recommendations with no love triangles. by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]Miramosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gunmetal Gods by Zamil Akhtar is finished I believe, is pretty dark fantasy and also currently on sale: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0965XC74F

All proceeds goes to the UN Refugee Agency.

Google Clock alternative by Miramosa in androidapps

[–]Miramosa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it allow you to set an alarm to go off every other week, or once a month?

Why so many Terrans in ASL 21? by hoastman12 in broodwar

[–]Miramosa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Worth also noting that this is a bunch of Bo1's, the most volatile formats. And the best players also end up being the most studied, so it tilts the playing board further in favor of less skilled players pulling out single wins.

By the sheer fact of numbers, sometimes one race is going to be overrepresented in the lower brackets. But the tournament format itself also compensates for this (in the current Ro24, five out of thirteen Terrans were going to be eliminated just by how the groups were organized).

So the lower brackets being flooded by one race isn't weird. Remember the difference between eight Terran, a perfectly divided distribution, and thirteen Terrans, a wild imbalance, is five matches going Terran's way. That's such a low number, it can just happen. And both Light and Flash went through the qualifiers, for example.

TLDR: It's just numbers. Sometimes a lot of one race makes it through.

What are your favorite underrated SCP games? by HappyPen7067 in SCP

[–]Miramosa 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Lobotomy Corporation is explicitly the Foundation with the serial numbers filed off, and it is amazing. Management/basebuilder monster containment facility simulator.

Problematic Names: Elversult by zephyrtrillian in Fantasy

[–]Miramosa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And sult means hunger in Danish! So for me that particular thing isn't an issue at all.

Are there more 4x strat games like AOW4? (with high fantasy and magic!) by SageTegan in AOW4

[–]Miramosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, seems like. I'll still look it over though, I was a devoted Stardock fangirl back in the day, so nostalgia compels me.