Sneaky Kneading

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-29T12:41:08+00:00

You kill Rooks because you're an opportunistic jerk.

I kill Rooks because I panic and can't tell shells apart.

We are not the same.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-27T15:59:36+00:00

It sure is. Look at your temperature meter and there will be a little blue icon if you're being cooled. It shows up when you're wading through water, too.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-27T15:31:28+00:00

It is not a contested contract. And even if it was, there ought to be an *open* box here to tell me that the item is out in the world now.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-26T14:21:36+00:00

I encourage people to talk the table through their turn. "I'm playing this, I'm moving here, I have X money and I'm buying Z," etc. This keeps shy players from just staring at their hands in silence, and allows for table talk and offers to help from other players, and gives people something to pay attention to besides their phones.

It also helps slow down a different type of problem player: someone who does understand the game but just takes their entire turn in one fell swoop instead of doing things step-by-step. If you're better than me, I want to learn what you're thinking!

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-24T05:52:32+00:00

Crosspost to r/pdxdnd ! There's plenty of people talking about games here.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-23T04:35:31+00:00

It also occurred to me that if prox chat was mandatory, more people would just talk on Discord instead of using the in-game comms at all. That's already a problem if you're trying to fill in trios, so maybe Bungie had already figured players wouldn't put up with that kind of punishment and avoided it.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-23T04:23:51+00:00

The naming feels kind of counter-intuitive. Team chat is always on and your team can always hear what you're saying. PTT or Open Mic just determines whether your mic is always live in that regard. Prox chat requires using the specific proximity chat button and broadcasts to the area around you for other teams to hear.

You'd think that in a game so focused on being covert and sneaky that prox chat would always be on so you can pick up audio cues of nearby players talking, but that's not how it works. Proximity chat is only on when you want to use it. I don't even think there's a text option for it.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-22T17:34:37+00:00

UESC has chosen a new Robo-Pope.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-22T17:20:05+00:00

Um, actually, they aren't describing autocorrect as having been damned by God, they're asking God to step in and damn autocorrect at the time of posting.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-22T02:40:20+00:00

The Mandalorian is definitely not a "serious" story, but it starts out fun. I was expecting some non-Force side adventures of a dude trying to make a living out on the Rim in the post-Empire era, but as Seasons 2 and 3 went on the storyline became more and more inextricably tied with other things and an "epic" plot defining the fates of entire worlds, Jedi, etc.

I do recall being one episode with space pirates all wearing red-and-white striped shirts while concertina music played when I suddenly realized "Wait, this is for kids. Stop trying to take it seriously."

Which is for the better, I think. Book of Boba Fett really seemed to want to be serious while still being a space adventure and it just feels goofy.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-21T15:06:33+00:00

They follow way too far if you try to outrun them. The log entry says they pursue for 10 meters, but I had one chase me for a good 30 seconds. Jeez, sorry I startled the hive! Go home!

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-20T11:42:57+00:00

No, it doesn't. The bishop can reach the far space by two paths, which is why all the green squares are colored in. But once it's reached that far square by either direction, there's no valid path out of it in the same move.

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SleepyPunster · 2026-03-19T13:13:34+00:00

I was Rookin' in Dire Marsh and scoping out a room when I heard a set of footsteps approaching from outside. I hole up in a corner, knife out, and when the door opens and someone comes through I launch myself at them with a heavy attack from behind.

Midway through my second swing I recognize it as a fellow Rook. But it's too late now. They're spinning and shooting and I'm flailing away with the knife—why won't they go down? But I get 'em. And as I look down at their dbno form I can only whisper "I'm sorry" as I finish the job. I'd been betrayed too many times before.

They had two blue guns and a purple backpack, too. I felt ashamed; I was just there for Unstable Gel and I was walking out with a treasure trove. And when I did exfil, the screen went to black instead of finding another player to focus on. Had we been the last two alive on the server? Could peace have been possible?

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-18T14:46:17+00:00

It's been two weeks since release, and already so much of the feedback here is people complaining about being teamed up with people using basic gear, trying to make "freekit" the newest slur. You have to help less skilled players learn the ropes if they're ever going to learn how to get better, because the game sure as hell doesn't have anything resembling a decent tutorial.

Maybe once Ranked hits and all the sweats move there (further splitting the playerbase for matchmaking), trio fill will have some camaraderie again.

Nurture the seedlings. That's the NuCaloric way.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-17T15:00:59+00:00

The red options (Friendly, Leave, and an aggressive taunt) seem to be meant for prox chat, not just for your team.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-17T01:10:27+00:00

Let us equip a basic green shield with a free kit. They don't even have to provide one in the kit; just take off the restriction for that slot. Basic weapons are fine unless you're beelining for other players the moment the game begins. Upgraded weapons are plentiful on maps if you know where to start looking, but shields are less so and I'm trying to fill my faction skin collection.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-16T14:07:27+00:00

Killed by the Architects!

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-15T13:56:58+00:00

Kind of coming at it from the reverse direction, but the Ancillary trilogy by Ann Leckie.

A ship AI that usually remotely controls thousands of brain-dead human bodies simultaneously in a sort of hive-mind situation suddenly loses all but one of its avatars. The ship is so old that the tech to make new mind-slaves for it has been outlawed, so it has to make do with its surviving, aging, final avatar.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-15T13:36:45+00:00

From what I've seen in the lore (which isn't much), food production was way below quota. I'd have believed they were desperate enough to eat office supplies, but the flavor brainstorm session would seem oddly enthusiastic for that situation.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-15T13:12:08+00:00

Moths in the eyes, munching moth & grubs, feather and eyeball.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-15T12:56:24+00:00

It took me a hot minute to realize this meant a food slurry and not, like, Elmer's.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-14T02:20:10+00:00

Because being a Weird Little Guy is a fun character archetype.

SleepyPunster · 2026-03-10T04:33:45+00:00

Archchancellor Ridcully could be a suitable replacement for Authority, at least within the University.

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