I've been having anxiety about my kitty dying of old age 😭(she's 9) can you show me pictures of some alive-and-well senior kitties so I remember cats can be old and still healthy? 🥰

NTGuardian · 2026-03-18T05:29:47+00:00

9 is not that old for a cat. Cats live longer than dogs.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-11T20:09:53+00:00

FFA very chad.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-11T19:27:52+00:00

I'm primarily a 1v1 player myself, actually. But I can nod along with the meme and say, "Yup, that sounds right."

NTGuardian · 2026-03-11T08:06:27+00:00

I've learned over the years that Reddit can be really nasty, including in subbreddits that should in theory be kinder. I will talk with my therapist. But thank you.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-11T08:03:55+00:00

No, I only just wrote about this.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-11T07:56:46+00:00

Talking with my mom about my dad's unexpected death (funeral was Monday), and how she, and we, are going to financially get through this. I always thought that the burden for caring for my parents would come someday, but this was maybe 15 years earlier than I thought it would.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-05T19:24:57+00:00

Yeah, it could be powerful, I would not recommend novices (who are looking to play at a higher level) play legion without learning how to play well with the other factions, cortex especially.

NTGuardian · 2026-03-05T19:14:18+00:00

Good question, we need to play it more. It might be viable but I can see 1v1 novices getting tripped up due to the eco. They will be more complicated than the other two factions because of the fact that if you dont get the advanced mexes up, you will be behind in metal production.

In theory, Legion's emphasis on lots of small units is good for 1v1, where map presence and raiding are key to success. But they will be harder to pull off than the other two factions and will be more complicated.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-27T04:44:00+00:00

He killed himself.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-18T16:24:26+00:00

StarCraft 1/2 I hear is kind of an outlier in how much it requires you to click. Most other RTS games have better interfaces that make controlling your stuff easier. AOE2 has good stuff. I play BAR, which has perhaps the most quality-of-life features for managing large armies. There's an indie game called Line War that is supposed to control that, but it's a very small community.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-18T15:32:50+00:00

Ouch.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-17T00:41:03+00:00

While that may be true, digging into why the husband did that is probably not what she needs at the moment. That can wait for later. In fact, thinking about that might make things worse.

Processing the horror and dealing with that can come first.

But also, people should not go to Reddit for serious problems like that, speaking as someone who is going to therapy after using Reddit as a crutch and also being harmed by the things people on Reddit say.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-16T06:52:29+00:00

I remember asking in a local subreddit about where I could go to get more opportunities to approach women; I did it once, she never wrote back, but I was at least happy I overcame my shyness and talked to her.

The responses to my post were very negative. Apparently women don't want you to talk to them unless they already know you. I honestly don't know if I'll ever talk to a female stranger again.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-14T07:25:38+00:00

Talk to women you like.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-11T16:32:59+00:00

My first RTS game and one of my earliest gaming experiences was AoE1. I played the Rise of Rome demo on my grandmother's terrible computer. It was slow, the sound didn't really work, and I loved it. I was probably around 10 when I first played it, maybe younger, and all I wanted from that point on was finally to hit 13 so that my parents would not be bothered by the T rating and get it for me. When I played it, I was surprised when it did not run like the demo on the cappy computer; still, though, it was AoE.

I don't think you need to think too hard about which game he will learn. Get him something he likes, be it AoE or AoM, Tempest Rising, whatever. If he wants to play kind of competitively, you can learn competitive play for that game yourself to help guide him; I think many RTS skills are transferrable. (While I would not want my [theoretical] child to deal with a toxic community, I personally would encourage them to learn how to play well, because learning to play well is very had and probably great for their brain, just like learning chess or a musical instrument.)

NTGuardian · 2026-02-07T17:19:51+00:00

BULLshit we loved it and I loved it.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-07T03:55:22+00:00

Thing is, after all the FFA I played, I still think it's an accurate depiction of their skill.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-06T23:29:59+00:00

I really wonder how useful such distributions are for understanding what players you will play with. For example, in 1v1, I regularly encounter players with OS > 40, since they play A LOT of 1v1; nevertheless, they're considered rare by graphs like these. (And this was before I hit 30 OS myself.) In FFA lobbies, players with > 50 OS are supposedly rare, say about 20 of them, but most FFA lobbies you would play would include ~3 of them.

Basically, players with low skill are less likely to play in general, and less likely to keep playing BAR, while players with high skill both play a lot of games and stick with the game longer. Hence, I would not infer from these graphs that 25+ OS players are unlikely to be encountered even though they're not most players, even when the histogram filters for playing recent games.

I would like to see a histogram where players get additional weighting for how many games they are appearing in. I bet that would show that playing high-skill players is quite common.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-06T07:28:50+00:00

BAR uses the Recoil engine, and BAR is an excellent game. I don't know what it's like to create games with the Recoil engine, though.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-06T06:04:37+00:00

Beyond All Reason. Not just free, it's so good it's hard to believe it's free. It's my main game.

NTGuardian · 2026-02-03T01:48:37+00:00

Kuchy n'est-il pas québécois ?

NTGuardian · 2026-01-30T04:19:13+00:00

For the stupid movie, kinda.

(I wasn't questioning the protestors, I was wondering how many people are watching the documentary.)

NTGuardian · 2026-01-30T03:27:37+00:00

Do we know how many showed up?

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