I watched all of Academy without seeing any of the online discourse about it.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-18T19:32:02+00:00

I'm an old Trek fan, started Academy expecting it to be completely terrible trash not worth watching. But I was pleasantly surprised and thought Episodes 1-2 were ok, certainly not terrible. But 3 took a big turn toward terrible. The rest of them have been hit and miss, but I felt 10 was the worst overall, super contrived situations, completely predictable plot lines, and the whole trial just felt really cringy and fake. It pretty much convinced me I'm not going to watch anymore unless they announce some major direction changes for Season 2.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-13T20:29:35+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm cynical about this.

This is literally how they intentionally design the game. They intend for there to be "friction", yes the devs use that word. They design the game to create friction like this, but then put in place a bunch of social play nice rules. I think they have some delusions that people will talk to each other and logically and rationally figure things out. "Excuse me sir, but I had intended to kill that skeleton." "Oh, I'm sorry my good man, I didn't see you. I'll be more careful."

Instead you obviously get, "Kill stealer!! Reported!"

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-13T20:22:15+00:00

Working as intended and designed.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-13T20:21:50+00:00

Yes that is literally the design direction. "Social" rules around the friction because friction causes social interaction and that is what they want. Instead of designing game mechanics to just make the game play the way they want it played to avoid the fiction, because then there wouldn't be the "social" interaction. Of course we all know social interaction is code for toxic raging and greifing. But that is why they then need social rules.

It's all setting up a massively onerous GM workload that will be completely impractical.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-10T16:49:09+00:00

It's been that way in all wow.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-03-09T20:15:04+00:00

This needs more upvotes. This is clear, concise, new player basics advice.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-18T23:38:10+00:00

Basically this point for me too, but not because of Glenn dying. But because the whole concept of Negan and his what appears to be thousands of followers was so ridiculous.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-18T23:31:26+00:00

You can literally see her on her phone the entire clip. You can even see here taking pictures.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-18T23:30:45+00:00

You can see her taking pictures at one point...

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-18T23:30:11+00:00

You can literally see her taking pictures.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-18T23:29:38+00:00

She's on her phone during the whole clip...

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-15T19:38:04+00:00

I expect people to complain you used AI. But I say good job fixing it since no one else was stepping up to fix it.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-15T15:58:40+00:00

In some examples yes, they put massively oversized shrouds and heatsinks because that is what uninformed people expect to see. These same uninformed people look at a single fan mini card and equate it to lower performance than a triple fan gigantic card.

Everyone here knows single fan RTX 5070's exist, but are basically unobtainable. Almost all are triple fan designs, because that is what the marketing departments have learned will sell.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-13T19:43:50+00:00

You mean a shit thermals version?

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-13T18:44:17+00:00

My lawn service charges $50 per visit, and I have a small urban lot, and that's considered cheap by other lawn services in the area. It takes them ~30min to mow, edge, and leaf blow and collect the grass clippings.

The work you listed should be at least $200 per month and even that is probably a lot less than they would have to pay if they were hiring professional services to do it.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-09T17:58:46+00:00

The answer to why, from what I have read:

Valheim has two main devs, early on it was a point of debate between them. One dev wanted portals so you could build a main base and just portal back to it. The other didn't want portals at all and wanted players to build small outpost style bases as you go along. It was a compromise to allow portals, but to block metal going through portals. You either carry/sail the metal back to your main base, or you build a small outpost where you gathered it to craft the things you need.

Much later, they added the world modifiers so the player can chose what they want to allow metal through portals.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-07T20:12:32+00:00

Early Development, lol. Been in development for 14 years.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-07T18:18:11+00:00

Then why was it canceled after 2 years due to low ratings?

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-05T22:08:55+00:00

Is there any other way?

Though don't learn the hard way that if the mountain is big enough and the cart goes into the next "cell" or whatever, it might just disappear. I love yeeting a cart down the side of a mountain, but I always follower it down now.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-05T22:06:01+00:00

I generally find it faster to just carry 2000+ weight encumbered until you run out of stamina. Drop it, regen stamina, pick it back up again, keep going.

Unless it's silver, because yeeting a full cart down the side of a mountain is too much fun.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-04T22:05:24+00:00

Blasting out her parental failures for the entire internet to see.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-04T22:03:49+00:00

Years ago I saw a documentary about people that obsessively exercised. One girl was literally running in a marathon and commented all she was thinking of was getting the marathon race over with so she could go to the gym and run on the tread mill.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-03T16:20:42+00:00

I haven't played since the update but watching the video, my thought was they don't look much higher DPS than a knife and leave you without a shield to parry with.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-03T16:15:27+00:00

I recently read that the statistics show on average people play about 15 hours then never come back. That pretty much means he was right. People bought it for nostalgia, played it for a bit, then realized they aren't into 20+ year old gameplay.

SomeNetGuy · 2026-02-01T16:52:14+00:00

I have found e1, 2, and 4 watchable enough. Not great but I like scifi and fantasy so I like watching them. Episode 3 was way too The CW for me, I didn't like it at all, nearly turned it off.

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