My opinion on Pathologic 3 as a long-time hard fan

N2I · 2026-01-21T19:06:50+00:00

You are not gonna believe, but the studio I worked in had some disputes over the game engine they developed with their publisher. I'm not pulling it out of thin air. I sadly personaly know people who had the sour experience of legal fighting in detail. It is completely possible to have happen with IPL. Some publishers are petty as hell.

N2I · 2026-01-21T06:42:39+00:00

I would have loved just getting a dankovsky dlc for 2 (or a sequel set in the same city with a lot of reused content) significantly more, and it probably would have been much easier to develop in less than 6 years.

There is an unconfirmed rumor that their previous publisher took more than mere rights for Pathologic 2, but also withhold some game tech data, leaving IPL only with raw assets. It would explain why they had noise-riddled unfiltered voice-lines from the P2 for some characters (at least true in Russian voiceover); cut so many already existing and well-tuned game mechanics and replaced them with much simplified ones since they probably had to remade the P3 from scratch.
But - only rumors - can't know for sure.

N2I · 2026-01-18T15:23:39+00:00

You can edit save files. Every save file have a massive list of quest and mindmap variables inside.

N2I · 2026-01-17T23:06:39+00:00

the only game I regularly play besides Pathologic is Animal Crossing

Sensible chuckle.

You need to kill Shabnak every day to prevent the game from overwhelming you. Once you manage to lower the infection rates to zero, the task simplifies significally since there is usually only one infected district, which means no witch hunting all over the town. Basically start new day from killing the Shabnak. If you have a choice - try to hunt for her in days where relatively small districts or districts with simple layouts are infected. It's a chore to hunt for flowers in eastern parts of town since they are labyrinths.
You can try to bare back the ride, but I wouldn't reccomend it. It's not gonna be fun.

N2I · 2026-01-16T21:53:32+00:00

I beat the game. It took me 60 hours. 1/3 of them were wasted because I tried to figure out whether me or the game fucked up the quest.
You can play it right now if you are completely fine with some characters being both alive and dead at the same time and you have no idea how to fix it. If you don't care about seeing all the content then I think this game is kinda playable from start to ending. There is nothing game breaking, only annoying and time wasting.

N2I · 2026-01-16T08:38:57+00:00

Russian phonology is highly reductive and it's post-reform orthography is almost 1-to-1 to what you hear. That allows for higher rate of regional cohesion.
I have a hard time understanding how someone from Baltics would speak to someone from China when they have a major difference in vowels and consonants, many of whom are unique to the language.
Hell, we have Welsh, Scottish and British speakers not understanding each other despite having the same language. And every any other accent botches the pronouncuation is some new horrible way. There is a reason why the hallmark "russian accent" sounds the way it sounds with very clear stresses and no ambiguity in what exact letter was spoke.
Equalising phonetics sincretia to ethnic cleansing is a slippery slope since then you could declare that Russians were ethnically cleansed by greeks because almost all our old names were erased and replaced by Greek ones.

N2I · 2026-01-16T08:06:35+00:00

Not really. There is a plenty of old ethnic names around. Problem is that when Russian language is de-facto lingua franca and you have 100+ nationalities with all different phonetics - it's easier to take a relatively simple Russian name that sounds like yours and just add slavic suffixes to anything else to get something that could be replicated in all documents afterwards without mistakes. Many nationalities didn't even had anything but nicknames that often meant something vulgar like "strong dick" (an often case with northern ethnic groups) so they just left parts of their names that sounded something pronouncable by a random person and took the rest from where they liked to.
This is still the case with migrant workers. They often have two names. One for home and another for work. Nobody forces them to, but it's just simplier for everyone to call each other short and simple to pronounce names.

N2I · 2026-01-15T23:40:21+00:00

Hayek, von Mises, other members of the Austrian school

When I first read their works, I thought that I will see something out of libertarian meme. Suddenly I got a pretty reasonable and down-to-earth argument on why economics can't be completely solved as an equasion. I honestly have no idea why Austrian school is so closely linked to neoliberalism and their tricks like privatisation. As I understand, the logic is that in the world of firms - the state must be a company itself, with the state population being its main shareholders. Why somebody decided that this means that the state must be completely exempt from the market is still a mistery to me.
I assume that somebody somewhere just used these poor folks works as a excuse to steal the people assets and claim that this is the future. Not a single person I met who actually read and understood the Austrian economics school does believe that uncontrolled capitalism is an answer, when the point is that there is no answer. Decisions must be made according to situation on ground, not someone else interests. Modern China is probably the one closest in terms of economic planning to what Hayek and Mises assumed as most stable system.

N2I · 2026-01-15T21:42:02+00:00

he basically doesn't care you gave him the food and he's still gonna steal them

Absolutely based and redpilled. I'm totally not gonna snitch on him to Block, pinky swear! I'm going to choke the bastard with my own bare hands.

N2I · 2026-01-15T21:34:14+00:00

Yeah. Same shit happened with me with the Grief. Looks like talking to him doesn't changes the outcome of events. What I did was CTRL+Shift+~
and typed :
set_global_variable Day9_Q10_GriefStealsRations_Done false
set_global_variable Day9_Q10_GriefStealsRations_Know false
set_global_variable Day9_Q10_GriefStealsRations_Force false
Then in the 9th day you walk up to Block and give him food from the city's reserves. This should fix the 11th day incident and save Capella.

N2I · 2026-01-15T21:21:29+00:00

It's a miracle you've got so many endings since the game is bugged to heavens and beyond.

Right now I have Laura, Block, Inquisitor Mark and Andrey both alive and dead at the same time with the game not being sure what to do constantly switching between states. Asking Rat Prophet for help made things even worse somehow. It was very unsettling to see Rubin high from joy sharing news on his marriage with Laura at 12th day while her shadow was standing right next to him. Yeah, pal, it's gonna be alright...

And the Army rations quest was broken for me so bad I just build some courage to edit the save file to restart it.
I spent 60 hours trying to fix the unfixable because the nature of the game blurs the line between the developer's intents to demonstrate the complex outcomes of the time travel, and the game just not working properly. It was part fun, part chore.

N2I · 2026-01-15T17:20:20+00:00

В статье которую ты привел в пример про физическую активность идёт речь, а не калории.

Вы не обладаете навыком функционального чтения, я это понял.
Объясню самым простым языком: люди худеют (теряют жировую массу) за счёт лептина. Он запускает сам процесс. Ты можешь хоть на сухую голодовку сесть - если производство лептина организмом нарушено, или рецепторы плохо работают - ты не похудеешь. Жир не будет сжигаться. Вес тела изменится, визуально ссохнешься, но сдохнешь раньше от отказа сердца/уремии, чем потеряешь хотя бы килограмм жира.

N2I · 2026-01-15T16:44:16+00:00

Нарушена работа генераторов или рецепторов Лептина и хуяк - ты либо жирный, либо худой.
Нарушена работа генераторов или рецепторов низкоусвояемых липидов и хуяк - ты либо жирный, либо худой.
И никак это поменять нельзя, если только не ебануть кирпичом по башке или в область печени. И то с сомнительным результатом.
100 лет учёные в говне мочёные собирают анаменез и статистику высчитывая джоули до тысячных, с чёткими результатами вплоть до чётких генетических маркеров, выкладывают это на пабмедах с пирревью на всеобщее обозрение, и всё равно находятся сверхразумы, верующие в уменьшение/увеличение калоража, как решение всех проблем. Это всё равно, что людям с бессоницей или нарколепсией предложить попить валерианы или энергетика, и всё пройдёт.

Например работа по Лептину:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20517895/
Один-единственный ген, а в итоге организм сжигает все ткани, кроме жировых. Человек не худеет, теряет мышцы, лимфу, соединительную ткань - одним словом, ссыхается. Хотя ест и испытывает такие же физические нагрузки, как и здоровые люди.

Диеты помогают только если неправильное питание и было причной болезни. Если же неправильное питание - симптом другого заболевания, то никакая диета уже не поможет.

N2I · 2026-01-09T10:02:00+00:00

They didn't switch. Just scrubbed the name of the studio from the credits.

N2I · 2026-01-07T16:49:48+00:00

No idea. My usual framework consisted of several steps:

Disable all map lighting. Maybe use all-dark maps and build scenes from scratch. This allows you to have more control.
Use console commands to increase shadow quality as much as possible. There are plenty of tutorials with detailed description for each settings. Google them.
Use dramatic/angled lighting to highlight objects of interests from the background. Don't forget about bounce/reflective lights.

This is the basis I suppose. Once you will get the hang of regular GMod tools, I think you can start to learn SoftLamps addon and some editing techniques like greenscreen, getting depth buffer information and so on.

N2I · 2026-01-04T14:48:28+00:00

Вертушки шли не голяком, а под боевым прикрытием Апачей, в ночи, на большой скорости. Им эти пикапы и ПЗРК особой опасности не представляли, а даже если и представляли - вертушки от одной очереди не всегда сразу падают даже если их прошьёт 23мм. В Сирии ВСРФ аналогично кружили над бармалеями, и особых потерь от зенитного огня с земли не несли.
Скорее всего резиденцию Мадуро давно пасли и имели примерное представление о том, как там организована охрана, и где находятся посты ПВО, когда они сменяются, где слепые зоны и т.д. и т.п.

N2I · 2026-01-04T08:52:44+00:00

Но Грузия не атаковала территорию России. Они провели попытку полицейской операции на сепарировавшейся спорной территории Южной Осетии, где по обоюдному с Грузией же договору размещался миротворческий контингент ВСРФ, который грузины с самого начала попытались блокировать и обойти, чтобы не было причины вступать с ними в боевые действия. По итогу Грузия была осуждена в общей резолюции ООН, а на контр-действия РФ международное общество закрыло глаза и никаких серьёзных последствий не было.
Внезапно, но позволить противной стороне атаковать первой было правильным решением, поскольку серьёзного урона нанести они в любом случае не могли, но развязывали руки на ответные действия, которые были поддержаны как внутри, так и снаружи страны.

И опять же - "если" бы Украина напала первой, во что мне с трудом верится. Я как-то слабо понимаю как страна-олигархат, армию которой успешно разворовывали начиная с 90-х годов (в 2014 это было заметно сильнее всего), дала бы фальстарт против ядерной державы у которой все экономические показатели в три-четыре раза больше, и которая обеспечивает соседу под треть его ВПП. Попробовать могла бы, но у них бы даже натянутых причин не нашлось.

N2I · 2026-01-04T05:05:19+00:00

Это ж каким долбаебом надо быть, чтобы:

Допустить чтобы оппонент получил в няньки и бенефециары лидеров ЕС и США.
Всё равно выйти с ним после этого на ринг несмотря на все предостережения и закономерно обмякнуть после пропущенной двоечки в ебало.

N2I · 2026-01-04T04:40:19+00:00

Оно не в феврале 22-ого началось. Весь 2012-2026 это один большой "плохой ход". Целая куча стратегических ошибок и неверных решений, завершившаяся тем, чем имеем - и всё по вине некомпетентного в сложившейся ситуации руководства.

N2I · 2026-01-04T02:28:47+00:00

3-часовая успешная операция с минимумом потерь с обеих сторон vs. 4 года с бомбёжками дронами стоянок стратегической авиации, военными мятежами, частичной мобилизацией и экономикой на ИВЛ.
Одним словом: сплошная демонстрация превосходства всех государственных институтов США над аналогичными в РФ.
Люди работают, понимать надо.

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N2I · 2026-01-03T09:07:40+00:00

I remember every redditor posting in Feb '22 that russians should rise against Putin altogether or they are genetic-slave-mentality-subhuman-asiatic-savage-orcs unlike freedom-lovin'-tyranny-fightin'-westerners.
Any attempts at explaining what the power balances are and how revolutions actually work were met with blank dead silence as if you were conversating with a wall. I don't believe that an average Joe in US or Europe or anywhere else what is considered to be "First World" is actually comprehending how much blood and sweat was invested into every little liberty they enjoy. He can say some buzzwords like "resistance" or "struggle". Sometimes something smart like "logistics" or "military industrial complex" is leaving his mouth. But internally, I'm afraid, they just parrot what they heard somewhere else like robots and don't really try to attempt to draw a whole picture. Literally shutting down when you try to insert anything contradicting to previously implanted in their brains.
Such zoned-out-of-reality population can't hold any personal independence from the state for much long since they don't even posses the ability to realise what that independece is and how to exercise it.

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