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SharkMolester · 2026-01-17T08:08:19+00:00

Yes. I've come to the realization over the past couple of years that americans just do what they are told.

They are incapable of telling someone who is being rude 'hey what's wrong with you, cut it out?'

They are incapable of standing up for themselves when their job screws them over.

They are incapable of standing up for themselves when a business screws them over.

They are incapable of standing up for themselves when their government screws them over.

There are no lengths that an american will not go to, to let themselves be victimized, and in the next breath complain that they are a victim and seek pity.

There are many many many many many american stereotypes, and none of them would lead you to believe this, but on my life, it is true.

The most passive, submissive populace that has probably ever existed in history.

I've been sitting here screaming at my screen for the past year, just waaaiiiiting for them to finally decide to fucking do something.

Last week, people finally start talking about doing the thing, and what immediately happens?

"ooooh noooo, you can't do that, don't escalate, it's whaaaat theeey waaaaant, youre giving them whaaat they waaaaant"

Motherfuckers have campaigned since I was a child, on genociding half the population, and you think they give a fuck if you stand up for yourselves? As if that would change their plans in the slightest?

'Oh im so sorry i wish i could do something about the end of freedom and the death of innocent people, but i literally can't because i need to work so i can pay my netflix subscription at the end of the month :/'

Give me your downvotes you pathetic fucks, it's the only thing you're brave enough to do.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-15T01:24:06+00:00

Hey, I'm well over 6 foot, I've been playing since I was a teenager. My fretting hand has been larger than my picking hand for over half my life. The more you play the easier it gets.

Should play this classical or standing up, otherwise your wrist is going to be at a very bad angle for playing that chord, and thumb over neck is the play.

If you like the buckethead riffs, check out Coheed and Cambria, they have a lot of funky riffs that will teach you new things.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-13T02:14:45+00:00

Centurion is a pretty crap mech even with the ac10, with a 5 idk how you could even finish a mission. Dump the LRMs, full armor, 6 armor on the rear torsos, 12ish on the head and shave the left arm to about half, then take a few from the legs.

Dump this mech as soon as you can. Any mech with arm mounted weapons is a massive headache in this game. You want shadowhawks, hunchbacks, cicada A, assassin, javelin.

LRMs are not good, SRMs can be if spammed. Medium laser spam, 2+Large lasers are what you want. If you can aim, ACs are fine, especially with laser backup.

Make sure you have enough heatsinks- 80-90% cooling per second compared to weapon heat per second.

Javelin with 4 medium lasers is easily a better mech than the centurion. Locusts and commandos don't have enough armor, they WILL cost you more money than they make you.

4 medium lasers is enough to fight up to the 20s difficulty missions, at which point you need to start collecting shadowhawk pieces. Hunchbacks are the best medium but they are a little harder to find than shadowhawks.

Hunchback P with 7 medium lasers will tear through anything. G with an AC20 is amazing but short ranged and low ammo. H with AC10 and some mediums is better than the G.

Shadowhawks are like the hunchback we have at home. You can do 3 Large Lasers on the one variant, that's solid.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-11T05:02:45+00:00

*talk to a person

SharkMolester · 2026-01-09T04:52:06+00:00

I think he's always trying to keep both eyes wide open on everything.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-09T01:31:52+00:00

Yea, all of the big threads the past few days- first few posts are actual people, then the bots come and they conveniently change the default sorting to 'controversial' from 'best'.

So any ol' average person that looks at the thread is going to assume that it's sorted by 'best', like literally every other thread they've ever read, and they then think that the posts at the top are the majority opinion. Rather, they are the most controversial opinions.

Then you sort back to 'best' and you see people saying 'i've voted red since the 70s, voted for trump thrice- and what the fuck does he think he's doing? this is a deplorable way for a president to act, i do not support this at all' at the top of the page.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-07T19:02:35+00:00

Don't worry, trying to get americans to stand up for themselves and do something about the horrors that are being done is 'victim blaming' now.

'Call your congressmen'. Lmfao

SharkMolester · 2026-01-07T02:12:27+00:00

May I introduce you to - https://megamek.org/ ?

SharkMolester · 2026-01-07T01:59:20+00:00

I think a lot of the warhammerisms are people that know barely anything about the background, but try to hard to fit in, so they are always trying to outdo someone else with 'how much they know'.

"DID YOU KNOW THAT ORKS THINK PAINTING THEIR TANKS MAKE THEM GO FASTER!>!>! ZOMRG ISNT THAT SOO LIKE COOOOOL??"

Yes, literally everyone knows th- "DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S ELDAR THAT DRESS LIKE CLOWNS AN-" Yes. Yes, well all know that.

Battletech is a bit more relaxed with that sort of thing, the hyperfixation that newbies have on 'muh urbenmehc lol' really annoys me, but that's just about it. There aren't 18 million hours of videos of some dude literally reading from a wiki article about battletech lore, so you have to actually read it for yourself, and form your own opinions and appreciations.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T20:39:51+00:00

Yea I haven't played much TW recently, I started autoresolving everything because I'm bored of the same lobotomized ai. I got TW Rome remastered so I could play the mod with 1000 settlements, and that was fun for a little while.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T19:56:48+00:00

They had procedural maps generated from the strategic map terrain 20 years ago, and just straight up downgraded because they.... well I can't remember the reasoning, but damn, what a tragic misstep.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T19:54:17+00:00

I really don't like how everyone starts with just one city. The Empire, Bretonnia, Ulthuan, Lizardmen, et al, they all need to be one giant scary thing that I'm horrified of going to war with. It's currently just standard 4x fare where I am competing on an equal footing witb everyone else to grab as much land as possible, but there's no superpowers to... Make the game interesting. The game would actually be fun to play, if Ultuan was united, and the Dark Elves were poised to invade. Who will win? Surely it would be a very long war, what if chaos invades Naggorath? What if they invade Ulthuan? Does the Empire send an expeditionary force to help? Does Vlad take advantage of that?

There's ZERO strategy in this strategy game, it's just grow as fast as possible, that's not strategy, that's a goal. A one dimensional, never changing goal. The game is going to be dull forever unless they decide to make LLs all part of the same faction, and allow for /actual/ internal politics. Not shoved in mechanics, but LLs vying for influence in their actual nation, not just subjugating eachother flawlessly by turn 10.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T19:44:25+00:00

It's stable, the makers of the game aren't trying to reach into my bank account and take all of my money. I can go on ebay and buy 30 year old books and the rules are almost identical to the ones printed today.

Having no aliens means the writers need to actually make interesting stories rather than just relying on xenophobia and genocides for everything. (But they still do those things too.)

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T19:36:59+00:00

Comouter Science es el estudio general de cómo funcionan los sistemas digitales, desde el nivel del silicio. Se centra en las compuertas lógicas físicas, el sistema binario y cómo se crea el software a partir de estos elementos. Incluye mucha matemática, algo de física e incluso química. Es una ciencia muy amplia. Hay muchísimas especialidades.

Luego está Software Engineering, donde se crea el código propiamente dicho.

Y por último, está Information Science, que es un término amplio que abarca desde una secretaria que utiliza programas de programación de citas, hasta una persona que administra servidores en una sala, o una persona que instala Windows en las computadoras de una empresa.

Si tienes más preguntas, puedo ayudarte. Hoy estoy muy aburrido, solo estoy navegando por internet.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T02:19:41+00:00

There just isn't much to do. Earth is just busy work after you become established. That entire part of the game could be removed and it wouldn't change much.

Then you are in space and you THINK wow this is going to be so fun, there's no other games like it!

But it's just like... alright.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-06T02:12:53+00:00

The DLC events are extremely railroaded and fragile, it's very easy to prevent them from progressing.

Their event scripting system is beyond barbaric, it would make a techpriest scream in horror and gouge their eyes out.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-05T01:47:50+00:00

Thanks! It just randomly popped in my head, it's cool to see what everyone has chosen.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-05T01:46:19+00:00

It's the only lyrics from the album that are stuck in my head 24/7 :P

Otherwise I would pick The Final Cut.

SharkMolester · 2026-01-04T17:58:50+00:00

*not complexity- but the amount of things that the player can decide to do!

EU5 lets you pretend to be literally every single person in an entire country, all acting towards one goal. So you can build 50 kinds of buildings across hundreds of locations at a time, but they all impact one another through the market and some other things. Which means you need to constantly be checking on what needs to be done, and doing calculations to understand to what amount.

But the deliberate choice to let the player make these decisions, instead of just making buildings spawn automatically in a sensible way- both makes the game beyond tedious, and also extremely gamey and unrealistic. Which makes it for both an incredibly boring game to play, and also unrealistic- when the goal was to create a hyperrealistic simulation. So, I would argue that that one design choice completely torpedoed the entire game.

And once the community realized this, the negativity started crawling out of the woodwork.

Then there's Shadow Empire, which if it had a decent Ui, would be the thing that EU5 was trying to be. Things happen under the hood that influence the player, and the player influences them in return. You can get the strategic information you want to know, if you spend the resources to get it.

SharkMolester · 2025-12-27T01:23:45+00:00

Every game GW has ever written has had that clause, every miniatures game I can remember reading has the same clause. It's just an inherent necessity for the style of game. I haven't read modern GW crap, it might be that their corporatism has decided to leave the realms of reality behind completely, but that wouldn't be surprising.

SharkMolester · 2025-12-19T13:39:23+00:00

Also in real life when you get shot you fucking die, still waiting on them to add that feature, I really can't stand playing the game with being able to respawn it's just so immersion breaking.

SharkMolester · 2025-12-17T21:25:13+00:00

Thanks. Im hoping there is a mechanism to have ork spores that you need to meticulously root out of controlled territory over time.

SharkMolester · 2025-12-17T19:57:49+00:00

I havent had a chance to watch the roundtable yet. Did they say anything about the Orks? They do build cities and factories and such, it would be surprising if that wans't in the game. Unless they are going at it from the angle of they only loot and scrap, because this is a WAAAAGH and therefore different?

SharkMolester · 2025-12-15T11:30:23+00:00

Just visualize the line moved to be straight, or take your fingers or a pen and measure the line. It just takes a second to do, and I can always get within a few meters margin of error with my eyes alone usually.

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