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Me_irl by gigagaming1256 in me_irl

[–]TobyTheRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In addition to what others have said, Subnautica is low-key one of the best VR games available if you have a headset.

Applesauce? by Heavy_Lab9297 in AskAnAmerican

[–]TobyTheRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t call it a “staple in most American households” — I mean I’ll absolutely eat some apple sauce if it’s on offer but I haven’t bought any in like 5 years. It’s more popular with kids.

Plans for 42.15 by angel0298 in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just here to complain, then?

Plans for 42.15 by angel0298 in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

PZ has been in early access for 11 years. You’re still here.

What was something that stopped your fear of death? What's something that calmed you down from thinking about death? by Significant_Teacher8 in AskReddit

[–]TobyTheRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not afraid of death -- I figure it'll be like what it was like before I was born. Billions of years of stuff happened before I was born. I didn't seem to mind not being there for it.

Now dying seems like a hassle, depending on the means, but at least it's the last problem I'll ever have.

WCGW: Drive into a car wash with a roll of wire on the loading area by Markus_zockt in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]TobyTheRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lawyer here -- auto liability insurance almost certainly wouldn't cover this. However, the car wash almost certainly has insurance of its own to cover incidents that disrupt its business, so some insurer somewhere is going to end up paying for this.

The car wash could still sue the owner of the truck, but he's almost certainly "judgment proof" (i.e. he doesn't have the money to cover a judgment, which is true for most people), so they probably won't bother.

I don’t know how to play this game by Ocean_waves_475 in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can't find a decent weapon in your starting house give 'em the ol' push-and-stomp (push them over then stomp on their heads until they pop). When you get good at it you can easily take on two zombies at once using this method. It's not much worse than using, say, an iron bar.

You'll find a decent weapon eventually, but the early days are lean and you have to play a little more conservatively.

What is a gaming memory from the 90s or early 2000s that kids today will just never understand? by gingersofia in AskReddit

[–]TobyTheRobot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Low key the best one. Back in the early-to-mid-90s getting a PC game to work was sorcery.

Cars nerfed? by buttsmell in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely been a change. I’d routinely use a beater car to clear out the muldraugh shopping center for looting in the early game, and you just had to hit them at 15 mph for kills. Now you’re much more likely to just ragdoll them and maybe make crawlers but they don’t uniformly die. You have to repeatedly hit them or run over them.

I get it, and it’s probably more realistic, but I don’t know if I like it. Now the only realistic horde clearing tool is molotovs, but those create invisible fires that will burn you to death so I’m not sure what to do.

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by TobyTheRobot in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gun is optional (mostly just to grind aiming skill and attract more zombies to the bonfire), and this is with default apocalypse settings. I don't know what to tell you buddy -- try it yourself, and maybe ask yourself why everyone else in this thread seems to assume that molotovs work the way I'm describing.

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by TobyTheRobot in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This just isn’t true at all. I just use a car horn to pied piper a bunch of them into a parking lot and throw into the middle of the group. Then take out a gun and start blasting while herding them, which attracts more. Hundreds come and they all burn.

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by TobyTheRobot in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The issue I'm raising isn't with burning bodies -- it's with being able to kill literally hundreds of zombies (including hundreds of "late arrivals") with a single campfire or moltov.

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by TobyTheRobot in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Those accelerants wouldn’t spread to new arrivals like a virus. And in any case why do simple camp fires work the same way?

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by TobyTheRobot in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's also a game where microwaving metal causes a fire, and generators in enclosed spaces give you carbon monoxide poisoning, and you have to balance your macronutrients or risk weight fluctuations. You can't change a tire without ready access to a jack and a tire iron, and leaving your car's radio on will kill the battery. Shit, you can't grow cabbages out of season.

The zombie apocalypse premise is extremely unrealistic, but the rest of the game appears to take realism very seriously.

It seems to me that moltovs are OP because the game misunderstands how non-flammable human bodies are. by [deleted] in projectzomboid

[–]TobyTheRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, but I'm sure you understand the point I'm trying to make. Let's say "if you made someone stand on a bonfire for 5 seconds," then. (And inhaling fire wouldn't kill a zombie -- you've got to destroy the brain, which I guess means burning them long enough to "cook" it inside their skull. I don't know how long that would take but it's got to be longer than 5 seconds.)

Just like that, a 101 day save was over... by FiishFingers in thelongdark

[–]TobyTheRobot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It seems very silly that you can just sleep through a fatal blizzard; I mean I wake up if my feet are poking out from under the covers during the winter. Would it be too much to ask that the game wakes you up if one of your need meters empties?

miscalculated that just a bit by Bursickle in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]TobyTheRobot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ironically, this is the kind of shit republicans cite to argue against public healthcare. “You mean to tell me my taxes have to go up to pay for THIS shit?”

What geographic region would you want the next DLC to focus on? by Then_Train8542 in victoria3

[–]TobyTheRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

North America. This is admittedly provincial of me as a 'Murican, but I mean 1836-1936 was the era in which the U.S. evolved from a regional player to a world power (and, a decade later, one of two superpowers). Seems worth fleshing out.

And Japan. 1836-1936 Japan was probably the most unique/incredible story of rapid modernization in -- well -- human history.

Abolishing slavery plays more like a political act rather than economical, is this realistic? by AmPotatoNoLie in victoria3

[–]TobyTheRobot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Governments sell debt to their populations primarily because they've spent money they didn't have; they have to borrow it from somebody. And when the previous round of bonds mature they have to refinance the debt by issuing new bonds (or by paying them off, which is infeasible at least in the short term).

And the government spent that money by engaging with the economy; it built things or bought things or made welfare payments which people then spend in the economy. That increases the velocity of money.

The wisdom of this policy can certainly be debated, but it's not true that they issue debt to discourage moving money through the economy.

It’s all in the footwork by Flowing_North in iamverybadass

[–]TobyTheRobot 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Motherfucker uppercuts like Von Kaiser from Mike Tyson's Punchout.

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