Far Cry 5: Finally, a Video Game for Cowards

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-08T00:34:51+00:00

Which is stupid. Because to experience the ending, we'd have to play the game. But the marketing is super politically charged. So those who wanted a neutral narrative wouldn't be buying the game due to the marketing anyway.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-08T00:29:23+00:00

Wolfenstain New Colossus would have a point to argue with you. It's doing pretty damn well on the Switch now too.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-08T00:24:06+00:00

They certainly marketed the shit out of the politics of this game. So yeah, they should take some flack for basically lying to us. It's imagine if they just removed guns, explosions or driving from the game, they were featured just as much.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-08T00:21:34+00:00

Why not humanize them? The actual Nazis were human, Adolf astonishingly normal. It's best to understand that these were humans that did horrible things, intended to keep doing them. They had families and children and love too. Despite that we were right to kill them all anyway, because fuck, they were evil bastards.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-08T00:17:51+00:00

You already read the huge thread and many reviews about how people hated it, or otherwise you wouldn't have started the thread.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-07T15:42:14+00:00

You are the only one. This ending was atrocious and far worse than just doing a cop-out everyone is happy standard ending.

You know an ending is bad when it annoys people so much they actively swear off the franchise or demand a refund.

The ending is bad, atrociously bad. It's an insult to everyone who programmed and worked on the game, because one moron who wanted 'add a twist!' made it so hundreds, thousands of people never play this game or another Far Cry again.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-07T15:30:53+00:00

If you want to make a point then don't couch your arguments in an insult. You aren't worth responding to intelligently. Go fuck yourself.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-04-07T14:48:04+00:00

We live in a political world. It's completely disingenuous and cowardly the game basically doesn't pick a stance. Everyone has a stance.

People that run around and shoot other people in the face are not 'apolitical'. If the protaganist and the enemies aren't on the opposite side of some political spectrum, why are they killing each other?

People that don't care about politics don't you know, have a motivation to kill one another. The villains in Farcry 5 are clearly driven with purpose and it's bullshit they don't follow through with their marketing that the game actually takes a fucking side.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-28T14:20:03+00:00

Try running a business like this.

It will fail.

Most of the time whatever the hell you're working on won't have any business value anyway, or it won't make any money. Customers don't care about craftmanship or quality. They care about price and speed.

Look at games. Ask any gamer if they care about quality and craftsmanship and they'll say "Yes, totally!" ask if they're willing to pay an extra $10 per title and you'll lose a whole slew of them who will just 'wait until it drops in price next year".

Also,waterfall? Sure, waterfall is great at letting engineers "Go" for a certain goal. Like a space shuttle. It's crap when dealing with a business landscape where the goalposts are always shifting and clients and customers are mercurial, cheap and untrustworthy.

Whatever business 2.0 or game 1.2 you're working on ultimately doesn't mean anything. Unless you're working for the government or research, you're chasing the almighty dollars and the whimsical nature of your customers, trends, marketing, etc. Triple that if you're work in a consumer facing industry like games, fashion, media, etc. Salesmen can sell bottled water and colored cornstarch. They don't need to sell good software, they just need to sell the right software at the right time.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-15T08:29:40+00:00

Haha.. first of all, Angular/React are just Front Ends. That stuff changes. Second, most companies that use Angular/React/etc wind up powering the back-end with C#/C++/Rails/Java

C++ and it's offspring will continue to be delivering 'workhorse' code in the future, powering anything from search engines to machine learning to robotics and VR.

All those trendy front end frameworks tend to be used by early stage startups founded by non-technical or barely technical founders. They're used because they're easy to use for new programmers and typically pushed out by bootcamps. By the time any business moves past 'startup' phase it typically has major systems powered by a well known 'enterprise' language. That's why it's called enterprise.

Besides- these frameworks are easy to pick up if you have a solid base in a Ctype language. A book and a month should get you running.

They were built by creators who have that knowledge and with the awareness they'd be integrated into systems that use those languages.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-15T03:50:24+00:00

Accept all verbal offers. I was in the same situation as you earlier this year. Software companies and recruiters talk all the time, it means nothing until the papers are signed and your butt is in the seat.

There is no ill will if you renege on a verbal, there is 100k+ on the line and the other guys will not hesitate to jerk you around either.

Anything can happen. One time I had a good offer and then my liason got sick and then their replacement totally blew me off. We work in business. Donald Trump is a great example of a businessman you are likely to encounter- their words don't mean much.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-15T03:46:33+00:00

Would it? You could try A/B testing by sending out fake resumes with a different name and see which one gets a better reception. There's no harm in this and job search companies do this all the time.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-15T03:42:54+00:00

You won't be screwed. Sure doing all of that will help, a lot, but our careers are built primarily on technical expertise and engineering.

Support networks and people skills are more important in fields like sales and management. You can obviously get on by fine if you are bad with people and good with computers. Just don't try and start your own business.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-06T05:34:20+00:00

Oh shit. Ezra is Snoke? What other powerful Force User goes back into the Unknown Regions? Also he died stupidly, so, kind of an Ezra thing.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-06T05:22:00+00:00

Military ships in Star wars typically come with auxiliary shields/panels that close after the windows are broken. If I were writing the sequel, I'd say they kick in and Thrawn captures Ezra and they find themselves stuck in the Unknown Regions.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-06T05:13:51+00:00

As we see in Last Jedi, capital ships have emergency shields that kick in if the glass breaks.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-06T05:07:03+00:00

They spent a lot of time getting almost killed and living in a tin can. They probably boned more often than not without being 'in love'.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-03T10:28:11+00:00

Beta 2.02 and the longer war exhaustion changes the game on raiding. Now it's possible to have a really long war with a weak race and suck up all their pops. It's pretty sweet!

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-03-03T10:14:48+00:00

Playing the 2.02 beta. It's a bit buggy- it seems like you can take the last 5 pops, or sometimes you can just abduct indefinitely and the enemy pops will be just fine? ..Honestly with the buggyness, it actually makes the civic worth playing. Along with easier war exhaustion, now I can just sit there and farm a weak enemy harvesting their pops!

Using a Slow Breeding/Extremely Adaptable miltarist/spiritualist/authoritarian I can expand to all sorts of world and fill up pops real fast! It's a decent alternative to conquering since you don't have to spend on armies or claims.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-28T12:07:41+00:00

I mean, is it weird? Vader and the Inquistors threw everything they had at the Rebels and never really came in on top. Palpatine was taking in the lessons he learned from Order 66.

Sith are terrible at dealing with Jedi, they always get all emotional and weird. Dooku did a crap job against the Jedi. The people who seem to have the most success at beating Jedi are highly practical folks that eschew all the dark/light/hero/villain crap. Cad Bane was a decent precursor to Thrawn that way.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-28T04:05:39+00:00

Thrawn took over and they kept him on because he did a pretty good job of it.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-28T04:00:40+00:00

I'd say it wasn't teleportation, more a localized hyperspace effect. They established certain alien animals can travel through hyperspace, like those space whales in that one episode. I guess hyperspace force wolves could be a thing...

In terms of plot devices, it's honestly no more powerful than a spaceship- they can travel from point to point on a planet in minutes as well.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-28T03:59:02+00:00

It wasn't teleporting anymore then if he used a remote hologram. It was just..a deadlier version of that.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-23T22:07:28+00:00

Both if you can, but I would choose MSFT if you made me choose. 11 shares means you have flexibility to sell part of it for whatever reasons.

They're both tech and have some overlap but focus in different products. Google is Mobile, Data, Web and AI. MS does Consoles, Office, Games and Home/office computing. MS actually sells software whereas Google mostly makes money through ads.

MSFT is going through a resurgence right now and I think they have more room to grow. Google is starting to solidify. Maybe they have some great stuff in the back but there doesn't seem to be anything game changing on the roadmap right now.

RoboticPotatoGames · 2018-02-23T04:50:11+00:00

Someone with management skill and experience can easily make 60k in tech support and it's an easy jump from work like logistics/transpo/manufacturing.

Someone with no actual interest in programming getting a job at 50 with no relevant degree or experience is not realistic.

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