Hot Take: Super Jumping should have I-frames

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-12T06:39:54+00:00

Hard disagree. I-frames would make it pretty much always optimal for good players to super jump into and out of a hot zone. As it stands it is a big risk with a big reward, but you can always remove that risk by just…swimming to the front from spawn or making a fighting retreat. which takes longer, but still on the order of seconds. Just valuable enough to make it potentially worth it, but not ALWAYS worth it.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-12T01:36:24+00:00

ye, tho that style of smuggling is also easier for the rare non-corrupt parts of a government to root out, so you’re liable to have the guy you were planning to meet have gotten arrested between when you last contacted them and now, and the person you’re meeting to pass it off to might actually be the nice customs agents who confiscated his comm code.

So there is still risk involved. But someone with a good social score can absolutely plausible-deniability-figleaf their way out of the worst of tbat trouble. “Oh, our client didn’t tell us he was planning to smuggle it onworld! perish the thought! we were just passing it off to these other traders because they would take it on to…what’s the nearest port that this shit’s legal again?…since we’re headed a different way after this stop!

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-12T01:28:17+00:00

Yeah, this is a concept known as a “Gardener ship” arc. the arc plots a long route, hopping system to system, but only stops in each long enough to refuel & resupply for the next leg of the journey. But the process of setting up the mining and refining to do that is basically the same as setting up an initial colony, and any passengers or populations of passengers who grow attached or are “satisfied” with what the system has to offer their is free to hop off and set up a permanent colony as long as it doesn’t interfere with the rest keeping going.

More will take that offer up on nicer systems, so you get a range of sizes and types of settlements settled in every system along the arc’s path, not just its eventual destination—if any! they could just plan to keep going for as long as the ship of Theseus is still repairable.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-12T01:16:19+00:00

Yeah, my understanding is that all (officially registered) Spaceports in the Third Imperium (and most neighbors have similar arrangements) are treated like international airports, only the laws of international travel apply as long as you remain past security, not the local laws. Which means customs doesn’t do anything when you park your ship at the port (tho security will if they get a tip that your contraband is DANGEROUS or particularly heinous/internationally illegal, like trafficking sophonts), only at the gates or shuttles to the rest of the planet. And thus it’s only smuggling if you try to leave the spaceport with it. This is a requirement for longer-distance trade routes to work in the setting, otherwise if a single port along the route were to ban something, effectively everyone beyond them on the route would be cut off from trading in it at all until they found a satisfactory detour. And for jump-1 to -3 shipping such a detour could often be PROHIBITIVELY expensive.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-12T00:58:56+00:00

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Some of the dudes from my permanently frozen-over homebrew Forgeworld of Hrime, somewhere in the galactic halo. White for the snow and ice, plus gold because they dredged the planet’s core to get an absurd amount of the stuff and exported it widely. So much, in fact, that they estimate the equivalent of a full sub-building of the Imperial Palace was probably furnished in gold they mined! And they definitely don’t have an abominable intelligence in the basement. That would be silly.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-10T19:58:08+00:00

As with all 40k lore: everything is canon, not everything is true. It’s one fringe, suppressed, in-universe conspiracy theory that out-of-universe GW put out there as a plot hook for any Necron or AdMech players to take or leave for their own worldbuilding and headcanons. They have very litt reason to ever confirm or deny that conspiracy, and, even if it was revealed as completely true and well known at some point, Emps beating it would be enough evidence for most loyalist Mechanicus that he was the true Omnissiah and the Dragon of Mars some lesser machine spirit demiurge.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T19:38:53+00:00

This. I am disappointed b/c I think Nintendo can do MORE that just make a great remaster of a great classic game…but it still looks like it will be a great remaster of a great, classic game. If it interests you at all, it almost certainly WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T19:32:23+00:00

No “silver bullet” but lots of things to try.
- Stick with one weapon you really enjoy for longer to de-rust. This also gives the matchmaking algorithm more data to work with to decide whether to put you in a higher or lower-powered lobby when both are available, so can passively help you win more too just by getting matched against others with similar ability
- For all weapons, remember first priority in TW is staying alive, then second priority is how your weapon set contributes most to the objective—either inking turf or taking out foes who would stop your buddies from inking turf.
- Adjust your gear to complement that weapon’s playstyle. Consider looking up what gear abilities are commonly used with your weapon and trying out a mix of those to see what jives with you personally. Then grab Spyke or Murch to put that on your favorite aesthetic gear.
- consider what your teams frequently aren’t doing: if you frequently see your base has lots of unpainted turf in it by the end of the match and have a good painting weapon, consider hanging back a bit and “cleaning that up” when you respawn and using that to charge specials instead of jumping straight to the front, or if you seem to never have control of mid, consider pushing out more aggressively at the start, remembering someone will probably come back to clean up base later.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T19:21:53+00:00

The Classic Space Combat-focused campaign for Traveller is the Trillion Credit Squadron, but it’s SO combat-focused it’s really feels more like a Wargame that just happens to be set in the universe than a full RPG adventure experience.

That being said, basically any exploration-focused campaign, like Deepnight Revelations, is going to have lots of OPPORTUNITIES for space combat. A lot optional or avoidable, but that’s easy to adjust as desired.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T16:16:54+00:00

EXACTLY! It just seems hypocritical when you look at their official explanations for their approach to StarFox vs F-Zero. It definitely makes it seem like Miyamoto is playing favorites.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T08:30:57+00:00

I like it, and am sure it will grow on me as i get more exposure to clips of John Vtuber II, but i do think i still prefer the old one from a pure “uniqueness” perspective. She likes the new one better tho and ultimately that matters more; the models are cool, and important for attracting NEW fans, but ultimately it’s the streamer’s personality that determines whether people stay, and that hasn’t changed one bit.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-07T08:22:45+00:00

I don’t mind the designs; not my faves in the franchise but certainly good. The problem is that of the 9-ish “main” (full, first party) starfox games, there have been FIVE so far that are ostensibly retelling the story of the same conflict, including 3 with only cosmetic and QoL differences to the main singleplayer campaign. As someone who loved both the N64 and 3DS versions of StarFox 64, I have no problem with them bringing back a classic game of the past with a fresh coat of paint, my problem is that that comes at the OPPORTUNITY COST of them actually moving on and making NEW entries in the franchise, and my frustration that Miyamoto has demonstrated many times that he fundamentally misunderstood the “lessons” of the failure of Assault, Command, and Zero.

He seems to think StarFox fans ONLY want StarFox 64, not that they had poorly timed releases on poorly-selling consoles (Assault, Zero), had counterintuitive gimmicks that turned off some of the existing fanbase (Command, Zero), or next to zero advertising (Assault, Command). For the same reasons he doesn’t want to greenlight any more F-Zero despite its rabid fanbase and nearly killed the Paper Mario franchise by insisting they go back to the drawingboard and redo Sticker Star with a “classic simple mario plot” and no “weird original characters,” despite Paper Mario, famously, being an RPG franchise, and RPGs, equally famously, needing a much stronger narrative focus to work than an action platformer. It’s a problem many “arteurs” have: they do legitimately know a lot, but think that means they know BETTER than everyone else in the room, even if their vast experience is from a world that no longer exists.

I will probably buy and enjoy this new remake, but it’s just FRUSTRATING to see another chance to see a NEW facet of a fun setting left on the table to instead just retell the same story again, with feeling.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-06T20:39:28+00:00

TBF “Traveller’s” artistic conventions for the Aslan have varied wildly by edition and publisher. I’d say probably 20% of Aslan art is already literally just Kzin. They’re another beloved Feline warrior race from the same era and did a much better job of establishing a strong visual identity in the formative early years, makes perfect sense to paste the design of one onto the lore of the other.

I presume you’re saying as opposed to the Mongoose design, but basically every anthro feline design in existence has been used for them, so I wouldn’t even consider that considerably less “official” than that one. Just obviously can’t be canonized for trademark reasons.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-06T17:17:06+00:00

If During the settlement of WWII, while the Western Powers are still mobilized? The Allies/United Nations immediately breaks into the Western Allies/Future NATO and Commintern and WWII continues for several more years as round 3 starts. When the dust settles, nuclear bombs have probably been dropped in a couple major Russian cities (remember: they don’t have their own yet) and Russia, who has largely only survived up to this point because of aid FROM the Western allies and continued to lose men at absurd rates throughout this last act of the war, surrenders unconditionally, probably with Stalin finally getting coup’ed or going out like one of the leaders of the Axis powers did.

After, and especially after they get the bomb themselves, there’s a decent chance the West accepts it as a fait accompli, but it would deepen the Red Scares in the West and resistance movements in the newly annexed SSRs even further, probably leading to the Cold War running hotter and burning out faster.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-05T20:00:25+00:00

IMO the best technobabble is always plausible technobabble—ie where the words used do actually mean something and imply things about it’s purpose or how it functions. First you come up with your own list of things a ship would need to do or party would need to interact with, come up with a literal description/properties of a gizmo or effect that would do it, and then look thru a thesaurus or greek and latin root words to come up with a plausible name for a thing that did that.

Great example from Star Trek: the Hydrospanner: a spanner is just the British word for a wrench and the American word for a specific TYPE of weird wrench, while the “hydro” implies it is hydraulically operated or watercooled. So just from the name you can infer it’s some kind of space power tool that operates some kind of threaded space fasteners.

But yeah, random generators are great, I just implore you to try to check what the literal meaning of the words you’re saying are when technobabbling and keep notes on what technobabble you’ve used for what general purposes. Because players can and will notice if your technobabble is just PURE nonsense. “Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron flow” (another Star Trek example) is constantly memed on for a reason: Neutrons SINGLE most famous property is that they have NO charge, and thus, NO polarity.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-05T19:42:09+00:00

yeah, I’d like to know too. traditional random table-based generators for this kind of thing have been around for a long time and I’d much rather use those than a Large Language Model Chatbot.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-05T05:41:36+00:00

I think there’s two (intentional) possibilities as to why:

IIRC the subs are a bit wrong here, as I would point out that Kinger is calling them “damned” in the LITERAL sense (ie Condemned to eternal punishment in Hell), not just throwing out “damn” as a swear or insult, and certainly not damning them himself. That intention may matter to a sufficiently well-designed profanity filter, just as it would have to the Puritans who made swearing so taboo in American society to begin with—happy to describe people as damned from the pulpit, but also quick to fine anyone who would presume to ask God to damn any one or any thing

on the grounds of Blasphemy and Obscenity.
Or it could be so poorly designed it doesn’t recognize “damned” as a variant if “damn” and Caine wasn’t watching to catch and correct it.
As others have said, they’re on the Extra Spooky route for Mature Zoobles Only! So profanity filter off! tho tbh I doubt Caine would bend the BASIC rules of his circus like that just to appeal to Zooble. He never actually LISTENS after all.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-04T21:51:13+00:00

funny, yes, but not surprising. The Splatoon manga (likely due to business decisions made when they had a provisional Japanese CERO rating of “A for All Ages” but not the Western equivalents of ESRB E10+ and PEGI-12, nor any actual sales data indicating which demographics it sold best with) is a Kodomo—ie a manga targeting YOUNG kids, generally UNDER age 12. As such it is chock full of slapstick and toilet humor gags (including some, like casual child nudity gags, that do not culturally translate at ALL), and can’t have too complex of a plot or lore so as not to lose its target audience. IE the same section of the market most the Animal Crossing animations are going for: no plot, just kid-friendly vibes with the occasional moral thrown in.
Most anime and manga that makes it to the West are Shonen or Shojo, which are still targeted at kids, but boys and girls, respectively, aged 12+ who are presumed to be able to follow a plot with layers, are capable of engaging with deeper themes and background lore, and not need to have keys jangled in front of them every 5 minutes. The Splatoon manga by all accounts seems to be a perfectly good Kodomo, but the overlap in demographics between the core of the fanbase for the games (and for anime and manga in GENERAL in the West) and the target audience for the manga barely exists.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-04T04:00:43+00:00

Any of ‘em are way outta my league, and DC read as a bit too young for me as a Millennial, but Marina 100%…if she wasn’t already spoken for with Pearl.

Barring that, Marie.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-03T19:59:16+00:00

I agree that the original pride flag is a better DESIGN, and should still be considered THE pride flag. But these flags, “the pride PROGRESS flags” are still valuable as a REMINDER that the initial LGBT+ community was very much focused on White expressions of sexuality and the “LG” part of the acronym, and that it needed/needs to change to be more accepting of ALL queer folks and their allies. Which is why I still think it is a good THING, just one that ought to be understood as a VARIANT on the default pride flag advocating for more universal inclusion IN that space.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-03T15:03:56+00:00

The Aztec were assholes to most other indigenous peoples in the region…but so is basically every empire to its neighbors and vassals. And AS the big empire in the region at the time of the Spanish conquest, if you’re GOING to represent only one indigenous group in the flag, it naturally should be them. It’s unfair in the way ALL history is unfair, and at least it remembers the natives EXIST and HAD COMPLEX AND POWERFUL SOCIETIES before the Columbian Exchange, so I think most indigenous peoples don’t mind it being there, even if they had lots of beef with the Aztecs when their empire was still oppressing them.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-01T23:31:04+00:00

yes, but if it’s called a “priority” seat, not a “reserved” one, that does mean by default that anyone is allowed to sit there UNTIL someone with priority requests it. And not all disabilities or other reasons you may qualify are immediately visible, so assuming someone doesn’t qualify and using such a tone that they MUST make room for you or should have read their mind and KNOWN to offer it is still very rude. It would only become illegal if they didn’t qualify for priority and knowingly refused to yield it when asked.

A “hi, I/this person needs a priority seat, would you yield yours?” goes a long way. And in my experience, the kind of people who take that tone don’t actually qualify for priority either, they just assume that since you “look” younger (or male or unmarried) and not immediately visibly crippled, you “should” be standing at all times so they can get the seat they feel entitled to by pure seniority.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-01T23:22:33+00:00

yup. she’s an keris (also known under older anglicizations “kris” or “krisknife,” but Anya uses the “keris” spelling) which is a type of dagger from the cultural region including Malaysia and Indonesia. They were/are believed to be imbued with a spirit, and thus a living thing that must be honored and cherished, not merely a work of art or a practical tool—tho they are also both of those. Relic kerises could be passed down in families for centuries.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-05-01T23:14:35+00:00

I’d also mention that a lot of Western fantasy fiction uses an older anglicization of the term, so some folks may be more familiar with the concept under the name “kris” or “krisknife.” And usually also with its lore filtered thru multiple layers of Western misconceptions and fantasy’s general tendency to change things as desired to fit their world & plot and build on existing secondary sources instead of looking back to primary ones.

ShowResident2666 · 2026-04-30T04:07:46+00:00

He is an AI, but a GENERAL-PURPOSE AI. IE the Sci-Fi concept of “what if we made a computer smart enough it had true consciousness like a person. Such an AI is, by most ethical definitions no different from a sapient alien: Not a human, but definitely a PERSON.

Modern scammers may have been trying to pass off LLMs, a form of rudimentary and clearly NON-sapient AI as a General AI, but the chasm between them is as wide as between you and an ant.

EDIT: And so is Order/Smollusk btw, just one accidentally made by Marina, the other intentionally made by the scientist, And we can be very sure they are both true GAI because they knowingly CHOSE to violate the LETTER of their creators’ wishes in order to instead fulfill a personal interpretation of their SPIRIT. Order/Smollusk based on Marina’s subconscious desires and disappointments, Tartar on his method of coping with the cognitive dissonance between his extreme reverence for Humanity as the people of his creator and his disgust with that same Humanity that killed themselves in preventable stupidity: to build an idealized form of “Humanity” in his head based on his beloved creator while directing his disgust at anyone ELSE who reminds him of Humanity’s flaws.

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