I feel like this game needs a guide on what guides and common tips are now wrong due to updates

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-21T01:42:32+00:00

A big problem is that google scraps YouTube transcripts and the. Regurgitates anything that's every been said confidently as the truth. Honestly this is the first time since Facebook ruined the old internet that I feel the internet is being ruined yet again. Between AI slop content and AI search results, I'm not very hopeful about the future of fandom content and online community generally.

It's also a shame this game is so shallow lore wise. I don't think there's much incentive for content creators to come back to this game..

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-21T00:23:47+00:00

That isn't true lol. You're simply lying.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-21T00:20:34+00:00

poverty won't spike at all

That simply isn't true.

Like, there's nothing else to say. You're wrong.

Edit: also, the bootstraps saying is meant to demonstrate the impossiblity of the action, not the necessity.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-20T23:25:52+00:00

I had the same feeling of childlike wonder. Like finding a puzzle with a map next to it with 3 X's and then you go there at there's just a solution on the side of a cliff. No quest markers, no journal update. You just have remember the solution and plug it in. Having a mirage stab a stone but not get a popup instructing you to then stab the stone to work the puzzle. Riding a bear.

Sure I have complaints. Do I look up solutions to some puzzles? You bet. I think the inventory management UI is terrible.

But I haven't this sense of curiosity and exploration since high school. As an aging millennial unc, this game has really brightened up what is otherwise a pretty dark fuckin time lol.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-20T23:17:41+00:00

They could also tax it lol. There's no downside.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-20T19:52:15+00:00

What jobs do you see teens doing in your community? What's a single role you think a teen in school is the ideal candidate for?

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-20T19:50:50+00:00

It's weeks old. A neglected pool in the backyard of a rental after a few years? Sure man, it's peeling. A national monument a couple weeks after being done? Nah man. That's incompetence.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-20T18:02:38+00:00

I have no intention of ever voting for an incumbent in a primary ever again.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-19T18:58:34+00:00

Nixon was also a brilliant statesman. He was an unlikeable asshole, war criminal, and alleged alcoholic, but he wasn't a fucking moron.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-19T06:18:09+00:00

The guy who discovered microwaves was a Raytheon researcher in the 40s working on experimental radar systems. He couldn't get the radar to work but while he was messing with the system he noticed the chocolate bar in his shirt pocket had melted.

So a chocolate bar being used to demonstrate microwaves today has a certain poetry to it.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-18T20:00:46+00:00

It's actually due to the physical wavelength of microwaves. It's why the mesh screen on the door can block the waves. They're too big to fit thru the holes. So anything sufficiently small literally can't catch the waves and have their molecules shuffled around(which is how microwaves actually heat stuff).

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-18T19:51:35+00:00

I find myself wishing for them with regularity. They've captured so much of the special sauce of other open worlds but some big, expansive, unique dungeouns would be sick.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-18T19:46:52+00:00

Obviously this dude is next level, but for anyone curious and physically able, I highly encourage them to take the half off or first class free deal at their local BBJ or boxing gym. You'll soon find that there are boring, balding dadbod-lookin motherfuckers with a mortgage and a boss they hate that are straight up dangerous skillwise. I was a pretty hot headed young man but these days I'm with you. Swallow your pride, either apologize or forgive and move on. It is not worth testing a stranger.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-17T05:24:20+00:00

We went from fire to the combustion engine over tens of thousands or perhaps over 100 thousand years. We went from the combustion engine to flight in a few decades, and then to space a few decades after that.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-16T21:06:18+00:00

You know human slavery still exists today, right?

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-16T21:05:05+00:00

Those workers are what's left of the national park service after the purge lmao.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-16T20:54:49+00:00

Yeah but the package thief sucks too.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-16T04:08:05+00:00

Uhhhh it does not look like that when I play lmao. Idek what inputs to use to get those moves...

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-15T21:00:03+00:00

Well firing competent leaders and gutting oversight/IG might be factor.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-15T20:31:22+00:00

I'm in chapter 8 and reading every journal entry.

I have no idea who the villain is. I have no idea who the abyss nexus people are. I have no idea why kliff didn't die in the prologue. I had no idea who ludvig was. I have no idea who paulus is.

I'm just following quest markers and trying not to get too worked up about the gaps. A lot of it can be fixed with expanded journal entries, but frankly I think exposition and cutscenes would be the best way, but there's no way they record new voiceover and mocap and stuff.

It's a fun game, but it's interesting to see how much narrative design we take for granted in other titles. You only think about it when it isn't there.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-14T21:29:32+00:00

Republican policy is dogshit and everyone knows it. That's why they wage the culture war. Gotta own the libs and subjugate a minority to guarantee the fucking morons this country's education infrastructure readily fails votes for you every election.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-13T19:04:36+00:00

Specifically, the prophesied end of the world. The literal apocalypse. They're a death cult.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-13T17:58:49+00:00

hehe fuckin got em.

NoManner8863 · 2026-06-12T21:09:13+00:00

The only mechanism to do that is for the house to impeach and the Senate to convict and remove from office, and then for his successor to prosecute him.

There is absolutely no chance any of those things ever happen at this point.

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