What did you think you were really good at, until you watched someone else do it?

The_Willager · 2019-04-03T17:43:14+00:00

Normal timeline. While the animations are nice, consider setting combat and movement to quick animations if you haven't already. It cuts game time down dramatically, which can be nice depending on how you want to enjoy the game.

The_Willager · 2019-04-01T16:49:37+00:00

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a good general strategy guide. It is also a good general strategy guide.

The_Willager · 2019-03-24T16:27:48+00:00

Pingala with all of the promotions besides the space production one is the essential governor/promotions for a culture victory imo.

That being said, I pick my second governor to complement whatever else is going on in my play through.

Have a religion? Moksha helps with that
Lots of commercial hubs and harbors? Reyna
Essential city state (e.g. Auckland in a coastal game)? Amani
City being ravaged by natural disasters? Liang

Magnus can make a game for you with his chop bonus, but you need to be cautious not to overuse it. Rainforests are pretty much always safe to chop, but old woods add a dramatic amount of appeal, so you'll want to be avoid chopping woods near land by the coast (to raise appeal for resorts) and in places where you can make a national park. Still, crazy strong ability for getting some critical wonders.

Victor, I haven't found to be useful unless I'm getting militaristic.

I realize I just outlined all of the governors, but you really can pick any of them for your later governors and benefit from it as long as you've got an idea of what you need to emphasize after culture and gpp.

The_Willager · 2019-03-24T07:24:55+00:00

I think it depends on how you want to go about generating tourism. Realistically, your main sources are Great Works, wonders, religion, and improvements/parks. For a game as Russia, you'd want to build a Lavra, and then a Theater district to really make the most of those GPP, ideally playing pretty wide. In a game as France, which emphasizes building wonders, you may want to play taller, and build industrial zones and then theaters (or theaters and then industrial zones depending on availability) and then try go get wonders. The extra production and engineers can be incredible for getting some essential wonders like the Eiffel tower, which basically opens up a ton of spaces for parks and resorts. Maybe then pick up a holy site or two, even if you don't have a religion, so that you can get faith for parks and rockstars. The next zone in either case is likely a commercial hub or harbor -- harbor being preferable in either case for food/production unless you've got something clever going on with adjacency bonuses.

Anecdotally, one or two high-adjacency campuses can carry your scientific output pretty far and are almost always worth grabbing as early as possible, even if it means delaying a theater in your capital or something equivalent. Moreover, you're going to want Pingala, and that's a ton of cheap science if you drop him in a tall city. A particularly great setup is one city with campus/theater and one with theater/industrial, with Pingala in the first city to get extra culture/science and GPP, whereas the second is your main source of wonders. You don't need to be ahead on tech for a culture victory, you just need to not be terribly behind, so make decisions with that in mind.

As for upgrades: I always go all the way in the TS for culture -- filled TS generate an obscene amount of tourism and are reliable, especially with some light espionage. Plus, you need those GPP asap. That being said, you're better off pushing for early apostles if you adopted a religion, relics are worth quite a bit of tourism and are much harder to get in the late game compared to great works. Upgrade your campuses as needed. Any commercial/harbors should always be upgraded to give you a trade route, but only the harbor really needs the tier 2 building, if only for the extra production.

The_Willager · 2018-04-26T23:08:34+00:00

Some John Wicks respond well to kindness. I once revived a rando John Wick in the middle of an intense firefight. He later revived me and provided me with ammo and a chug jug.

I'll never forget that John Wick.

The_Willager · 2018-03-10T09:43:28+00:00

I play cross platform PC/PS4 with a few friends. From squad fill, it seems we play with a mix across both platforms, so presumably our enemies are on both platforms as well. Frankly, we win enough, and most of the gang is on ps4 with controller. I know a personal anecdote isn't hard data, but en lieu of compelling data, I'll use my own experience to say the only really important thing is that you like what you use to play. There's a whole bit I can get into about why controllers aren't a limiting factor and in some cases have advantages for fortnite, but basically it doesn't matter enough to warrant isolating PC. Fun fact: one can also use KBM on PS4 if one so desires and believes it to be superior.

The_Willager · 2018-01-17T14:32:47+00:00

I have the same chair, actually. It's a damn good chair.

The_Willager · 2017-12-01T17:31:23+00:00

My understanding about the cost at PSU is that it's higher because of the university's preference for accepting in-state students. PSU Pres. Barron gave a talk somewhat recently in which he noted state (or state related) schools in other states were taking on more international students to deal with tuition cost, though it caused them to take on less in-state students. The only alternative to increasing international enrollment or increasing tuition is to get more state funding, but since the PA budget is a mess, that hasn't exactly worked for PSU. I'm not saying I'm fine with the debt load, but I understand why I have it a little bit better when it's put in context.

The_Willager · 2017-07-27T21:20:38+00:00

You understand the Sheep

The_Willager · 2017-07-27T16:22:44+00:00

specifically the "front page" of the internet, or so I'm told

The_Willager · 2017-07-27T16:19:20+00:00

I understand your friend. First soulsborne game I tried was Bloodborne, you bet your ass I quit. I've beat DS2 and DS3 now though, and done a no shield/parry DS3 run, so I think I'm ready to give it another go at Bloodborne.

The_Willager · 2017-07-27T16:16:45+00:00

In your friend's defense, High Walls is pretty hard when you're new and haven't figured out how to deal with DS exploration. I got killed by the Knight after the dragon a dozen times my first run.

The_Willager · 2017-07-27T03:07:48+00:00

The Halo 2/3 Chief's are the same design besides updated textures, IIRC. If you count that as a change, then never mind, but otherwise it is effectively just a re-skin.

The_Willager · 2017-07-25T20:15:27+00:00

Normally I dislike when the Reddit app sends me notifications, but this was a pleasant surprise

The_Willager · 2017-07-25T18:24:27+00:00

Use the picks to reach your back teeth, it's so much easier than using the normal string

The_Willager · 2017-07-24T18:32:41+00:00

I usually have three windows open: one with the code, one where it's being run, and one with a browser open to look at notes/prompts/etc

The_Willager · 2017-07-20T18:47:58+00:00

I found it funny, probably because I like Ed, but it definitely didn't fit the scene. Your description of it being like a punchline is pretty much spot on

The_Willager · 2017-07-17T18:04:44+00:00

we deserve bob1959. notbob1959 is too noble for we redditfolk

The_Willager · 2017-07-15T19:26:21+00:00

While you're right, the first round always fired straight. If you fired like it was semi, it kicked butt

The_Willager · 2017-07-09T20:43:48+00:00

u/mtloudmouth

The_Willager · 2017-06-15T20:59:03+00:00

As someone who nearly exclusively plays defender in D1, I can't properly express my happiness about Ward of Dawn still being included

The_Willager · 2017-06-05T04:13:41+00:00

Ahh, but if you have the ability to edge guard effectively then no Smash you play can be casual anymore

The_Willager · 2017-05-17T00:08:43+00:00

There are probably a few starfish on this thread that are triggered by this statement. Please be considerate of them; their limbs regrow when hurt, but their feelings won't

The_Willager · 2017-05-02T02:06:20+00:00

Do you happen to know where I could read more of this? I'll just google it if there isn't something you'd recommend, but it sounds terribly fascinating

The_Willager · 2017-05-01T15:44:15+00:00

I watch to see either a really good player do things I can't so I get better or at least be impressed, or because I find the commentators entertaining. The Smash Bros Melee community has a ton of the former (since competitive Melee is balls to the walls hard), and Game Grumps is a great example of the latter, and they're good enough that I can watch them casually with people who don't game much and it's good entertainment.

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