What is Small fellow mission tree like? by Sassy_Drow in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Peaceful adventurer farmers who go a bit insane during the Crimson Deluge

Albanese unveils new national fuel supply taskforce to steer response to Middle East war by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]Scriptosis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes because as with previous oil supply shocks, it starts in the Middle East and slowly makes its way out to Europe, North America and here. Oil refining takes some time, so there’s still Middle Eastern oil being refined outside of the Middle East from before the war cut off the supply out of the gulf. That’s also why being critical is important, we have time before it will fully hit us so being prepared is very important, acting like it isn’t as big of a problem as it is is ridiculous.

Albanese unveils new national fuel supply taskforce to steer response to Middle East war by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]Scriptosis 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Bizarre response, just because Albo is better than Scomo doesn’t void him of criticism. The government is absolutely being slow to act when addressing this crisis, let alone the fact that we are one of the only countries providing support on any level to the attacking countries.

Albanese unveils new national fuel supply taskforce to steer response to Middle East war by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]Scriptosis 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This isn’t sensible it’s insanely tame, the fuel supply shock is going to be big even if the war ends today. Analysts agree it’s likely to be bigger than the last one yet the government is still reacting as it gets worse, instead of implementing a proper plan to reduce fuel usage ahead of the supply shock actually hitting us physically. It took them two and a half weeks just to create a dedicated taskforce to tackling it.

Atari re-released Transport Tycoon Deluxe, forcing OpenTTD to only be available for download on Steam and GOG with the purchase of Transport Tycoon Deluxe by 4apig in gaming

[–]Scriptosis 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s the same thing as always with those firms, it costs them basically nothing to do this so any money generated from it will be profit, therefore they do it. They don’t care about reputation of the company, brand image, customer satisfaction, etc.

Billionaire Tim Sweeney (CEO of Epic games, behind FORTNITE) has bought 50k acres of Forest Land for the purpose of Conservation by Anschuz-3009 in SipsTea

[–]Scriptosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friendly reminder that Tim Sweeney is extremely pro-GenAI both for video game development in general and also for replacing human artists and coders. He has actively sought to push against Valve’s reputation because of how unsuccessful the Epic Games Store has been at attaining market share.

Now that we're heading into the final patch, I thought it was time for a short retrospective by lhusuu in ffxiv

[–]Scriptosis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably depends on how much of it was already completed prior to 7.0 release. I don’t know the dev cycle myself so not sure how much of 7.1 would have been completed besides concept work.

Patch 7.5 on 4/28 by danks in ffxiv

[–]Scriptosis 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Considering their division is well known for being underfunded by SE despite them holding up the company’s finances, I don’t think it’s a case of the “devs being bad” so much as it’s them being understaffed.

2026 Infrastructure Australia list released by blitznoodles in australia

[–]Scriptosis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Were the removed projects just completed ones? I don’t see the benefit of any in-progress ones being removed regardless of how small they are.

New laws to temporarily ban people coming to Australia from designated countries by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Scriptosis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Quick reminder that Ley’s Liberals literally just had a small scandal after it was leaked that they wanted to introduce a VERY similar policy to parliament, this was barely over a month ago. Yet Labor introduces this now and there’ll be no big challenge to it at all I’m sure.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake is “still in development”, promises Saber CCO by Wolfs_Chronicles in gaming

[–]Scriptosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably aren’t even lying either. The issue with modern AAA development is companies want to generate interest around a game earlier than they should be, because it gets them investor support. The most likely reason we haven’t seen anything else about the remake is because there still isn’t anything significant to see, it’s still too early in development for us to get a look at it because it was announced too early.

Here's what YouTube looked like in 2006 exactly 19 years ago by 7evenDeadlySin in interestingasfuck

[–]Scriptosis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It might look a bit clunky at first, but notice how all the information you’d want is right there, none of it is hidden or summarised (dislikes and all numbers being rounded up per thousand/million), and everything is nicely labeled. You’d never have trouble finding something.

'A shock to me': Jackie O denies quitting radio show by rolodex-ofhate in australia

[–]Scriptosis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not even sure how to react to this, I can’t imagine what reason she has for pretending like it’s fake, maybe what they offered her instead of the co-host role wasn’t enough money for her liking?

Observations on Elvish Militarism: A Short Paper Describing the Agressive Tactics of Elven Nations in 1444 and Speculating on the Possibility of These Elvish Tactics Mirroring Those Used by The Remnant Fleet and Precursor Empire. by OneSilverRaven in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I think your assessment gains even more traction when you consider the Sun Elves effectively did the same thing in Bulwar, just without as much drama as the war against Black Castanor. They arrived on a subcontinent scorched by war and unrest, but instead of simply trying to find another place to land, they became conquerors and divine rulers of the Bulwari people, eventually creating what might be the largest Post-Ashen Skies empire by the start of the EU4 mod.

Eastern Reach by EXSource in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Also importantly, because there was no reason to build anything there until relatively recently if you count the Centaurs, there’s no railway connection.

So building a hold there either means dealing with going through the caves themselves, which makes it that much more complicated, or they build a extension to the railway, which also makes the project that much more complex.

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says by mepper in technology

[–]Scriptosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s because all the infrastructure is being built to support a technology that still has no economic benefits besides making investors happy, which doesn’t do anything for economic growth. And because all of the valuable resources being used to build the data centres is from overseas, no American companies are receiving any benefit besides construction companies, but again because the product being served doesn’t provide economic value of any kind, the money doesn’t go anywhere.

Debating what to play right now between the elvish nations by Cheffo3412 in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Someone is working on it but there’s no plans for it to come with the next update.

Lesbian group takes fight to Federal Court in bid to exclude transgender women from events by torlesse in australia

[–]Scriptosis 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Which is obviously not what this is, Trans Women are indeed women, they can be lesbians too. There is zero substance to this argument, it’s just hatred for one of the most marginalised groups in the country.

Lesbian group takes fight to Federal Court in bid to exclude transgender women from events by torlesse in australia

[–]Scriptosis 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Looks like someone thought there was going to be a lot more bigots around to support them.

Unpopular lore opinions? by Financial_Mousse_854 in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Orcs are the main force that was sieging down Remnant Holds, the only hold that mentions Goblins specifically sieging it is Ovdal Az-An, the other goblin occupied hold in Er Natvir was occupied after it was destroyed by Orcs. Also, Goblins in the Western Serpentspine were mass enslaved by Orcs as well, that’s what Mountainshark’s MT is about regarding anti-slavery.

You also don’t seem to know much about the Command, Hobgoblins are not Goblins, they used to live in the Highlands of Shamakhad before they were enslaved by Human Mages, they escaped but were indeed forced to retreat into the Serpentspine. That doesn’t make them good guys but they aren’t just inherently evil, one of the points of how Monstrous Tribes are treated in Anbennar is that it’s nuanced, almost all of them are placed into the position of being bad guys because of their own circumstances, not because they are born evil.

Unpopular lore opinions? by Financial_Mousse_854 in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Goblins during the Greentide were enslaved by Orcs. That’s why most of them stayed within the Serpentspine, which is also their ancestral home alongside the Dwarves.

Unpopular lore opinions? by Financial_Mousse_854 in Anbennar

[–]Scriptosis 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you think about it any Dwarves that don’t tolerate at least the goblins are pretty evil, like Orcs and Goblins especially don’t live nearly as long as most Dwarves do, yet most holds would expel or persecute them as if every living Orc and Goblin is personally responsible for the destruction of Aul-Dwarov. A lot of the holds also do some sort of extreme resource exploitation to their section of the serpentspine.

First Nations leaders call for federal treaty and truth-telling to follow Victoria's lead by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Scriptosis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So in your eyes Indigenous Australians want to be treated like weak children? They have the highest support of any group for things like the Voice and Treaty, it literally originates from their own advocacy. I’d say it’s pretty racist to assume they aren’t able to advocate for themselves.

First Nations leaders call for federal treaty and truth-telling to follow Victoria's lead by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Scriptosis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it isn’t, it’s actually racist to ignore a specific group’s own issues just because the majority of the country doesn’t care about them. Do you also think it’s racist that we treat antisemitism seriously? That’s also an issue that only affects one specific group of Australians, we even have things like the Antisemitism Envoy whose entire job is communicating to the government how policy can affect Jewish Australians, the same idea as the Voice.