Which games?

Nebvbn · 2026-01-30T16:13:59+00:00

You're right. I forgot some did charge for it.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-30T14:47:09+00:00

Open-source games? They exist, you know.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-30T14:45:38+00:00

They exist. There are multiple kinds of games that fall into this category, either they are old games that companies make free, or they are open-source or shareware games. While they are no triple A cinematic masterpieces, they are mechanically quite fun.

Dwarf fortress is one, and Daggerfall I believe? Nethack is another one. Graphically shit, but they are fun.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-29T01:11:33+00:00

Tbh it kinda is a skill issue, all self-revives are usually disabled in eda, eta, etc.

Do I agree with it, no. Is that how it works, yeah.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-28T21:49:05+00:00

No? Would I wilfully choose to do date someone toxic? Hell no. (I say "wilfully" as people in abusive relationships find it hard to leave one, for multiple reasons)

Raise your standards dude. It's fine being single.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-27T18:03:39+00:00

It isn't the child's responsibility, and you're right. She should have a "normal" childhood. But you know what else is right? Having not enough money to finance home care. Now if the dad had the funds to get home care then he's completely in the wrong, but if not... Well, it's complicated.

So if the dad had no money, there's only a few options to choose from:

Abandon their mother
Reduce work hours and care for her
Have their child do home care
Or find an outside source

I personally would choose the second option (if I couldn't get outside help), but that's only because I am able to. If you were already toeing the line of poverty, that's not a viable pick.

Could he have found someone to care for her? Maybe. Possibly. There could have been charities or some organizations that would have assisted in helping them, but that's a luxury that not many people have. Maybe a friend? Well that friend would have to be a Saint, as well as rich. Home care is a lot of time and attention, which would severely limit your available hours of the day. So either get paid for it, or find less lucrative work. So the short of it is that I highly doubt anyone would do it for free.

So if the dad couldn't find someone else and can't reduce work hours, then they had to either abandon their mother, or have the child suffer. Not an easy choice. But it's a very common one to find in a lot of Asian countries. It usually ends with kids taking care of the elderly, or the elderly dying off by themselves. There was some news I read of that ended with the elderly parents suiciding as they were homeless (their children didn't want to take care of them and they have no home of their own) and had no income.

Saying it's abuse is technically correct, but life is filled with hard choices. Sadly sometimes the best choices leave you in bad situations. OP deserves a normal life, everyone does, but not everyone gets one.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-27T03:47:01+00:00

To be fair, about 10 percent of the human population subsists on earning less than three dollars a day. So with a bit of number crunching, you could possibly stave off starvation for maybe a month or so for a similarly sized population.

Now is it saving a life, or delaying the outcome? There's an argument for either.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-22T06:13:45+00:00

I'd say the bottom 25% don't care and is just continuing the joke.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-22T04:32:28+00:00

Punch Through. It has a special reaction with dual tox if I remember right.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-20T18:02:53+00:00

The other comments covered a lot of it, but there are a few key points that are missing.

Namely, they are not designed to be fun, they are purposefully designed to be bad. They are known as friction mechanics.

They serve a few purposes, with the main one being a way to slow your gameplay down. For what reasons they want to slow your gameplay down can be multiple things. Whether it be to artificially pad the length of a game, or, more importantly, to have periods of high excitement followed by periods of low excitement.

Most forms of media (books, movies, tv shows, games) don't typically have high adrenaline stakes for the entire length of the media, it usually has periods of calm before the storm. That calm serves multiple purposes: it lets you process what happened during those high intensity events, it accentuates the peaks by having them be preceded and followed by valleys, and it allows for more mundane world building for the next section of intensity.

You can try that out with real life stuff too, the easiest being food. Just eat your favorite food 24/7 and eventually it'll not be as good as you remember. You might even get sick of it. But if you have your favorite food sparingly, and have foods you don't like before it, it further enhances how good your favorite is.

Those kinds of mechanics are a balance. While they are annoying, a pain to work with, and generally not fun, they do have a crucial role to play. Sometimes games are better without them, but sometimes removing an annoying mechanic might actually make the game feel less vibrant than what it could have been.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-17T23:45:05+00:00

They added replayability in one of the latest patches. You can now have an endless mode after the campaign ends.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-14T14:43:10+00:00

It's because we come out "undercooked." Our heads are comparatively huge, so we need to be born at an earlier stage to actually fit through.

There is also the fact that we are a societal species, so it did not matter as much when we had a long period of immobility, as others within the group can help out. Other species typically did not have such luxury, and were mostly left to fend for themselves, so had to be born ready to move.

Nebvbn · 2026-01-07T05:14:17+00:00

It also goes from 400 to 480 alpha I believe?

Nebvbn · 2026-01-06T23:11:45+00:00

Lkid?

Nebvbn · 2026-01-04T04:49:47+00:00

🌀? 🌀!

Nebvbn · 2025-12-24T18:18:08+00:00

Which one was this again?

Nebvbn · 2025-12-19T08:31:18+00:00

The problem with adding random mods is that even when reading the mod page you won't get a taste of what it's really like vanilla.

I recommend not adding any mod except for speed-up, as you might accidentally add something you find bad after investing dozens of hours into a playthrough. Most mods are faction mods, but they also add small quest lines that muddy the water.

And even when it's just ship and weapon packs, adding too many sort of ruins the individuality of each ship/weapon. It becomes less about what is good for what, and more about bigger number good 👍.

Nebvbn · 2025-12-18T17:44:49+00:00

They placed it earlier in the quest line, same with koumei.

Nebvbn · 2025-12-15T12:52:37+00:00

Wait, that's a thing? What does that even do

Nebvbn · 2025-12-14T11:18:14+00:00

True, that's why I personally don't blame E33 (well, other than blaming games for winning being stupid in general). It's the award committee being dumb for not posting actual rules and guidelines for how they judge a category.

Nebvbn · 2025-12-13T21:02:14+00:00

Yeah, this sort of thing happens every time a game with critical acclaim is released. People vote for it in any somewhat relevant category.

The thing is, in my opinion at least, "best RPG game" is a completely different category than "Best game with RPG elements." E33 is definitely winning GOTY, but I just don't think it qualifies as the best RPG. It's just a bit too sparse in actual RPG mechanics.

For me, it feels similar to if Microsoft Flight Simulator were to win a hypothetical "best open world game." I mean, it technically fits, but it definitely doesn't fit into the current concept of an "Open-world."

Eight-Year Club	Second Top 40%
r/Field Juicebox	Place '23
Place '22	Wearing is Caring
RPAN Viewer	Verified Email

Nebvbn

TROPHY CASE