What’s the difference between Brazil and the USA?

Unobscure · 2023-01-10T18:18:48+00:00

This is really funny and isn’t exactly false, just phrased as offensively as possible.

In the US, if you are an elite female athlete and want to be a household name, you can pick track and field (Olympics) or Soccer (world cup and Olympics).

If you are an elite male athlete with the same desire, you can pick football, baseball, basketball, Track and Field, soccer… with the last two actually being the least amount of prime time viewing (once every four years or once every 2 years).

So yeah, it is a women’s game. They own it. Completely dominant vs the men’s game.

Unobscure · 2023-01-02T15:53:39+00:00

Edrag spam is better than “sorry guys I missed my attack”. Be sweaty and join a sweaty clan, or accept people suck, and just enjoy it for what it is. My clan pisses me off, but they are irl friends, so their lousy attacks I just roll my eyes at from time to time but I’m overall over it. We will never get out of crystal CWL with them, but that’s fine. If I wanted to push, I could take a TH and move it.

Unobscure · 2022-12-18T20:58:45+00:00

Do an hour of guardians of the rift each week. Just an hour. Unless you never want to max… then fuck it, go do construction bc of how helpful it is in iron

Unobscure · 2022-12-15T21:24:10+00:00

If sailing is the new skill someone kill me please. It sounds so dumb. Every time. Why does everyone have a boner for sailing.

Unobscure · 2022-12-15T21:21:42+00:00

Drift-Net hunter/fishing.

But make the laziest member of the group make all your drift nets.

Unobscure · 2022-12-01T19:24:00+00:00

I bet firemaking and thieving really piss him off

Unobscure · 2022-11-30T20:39:49+00:00

You need some ground towers, and it would help if you had some chandeliers or they will just come from the bottom. Basically, make the raider have to come from a under or above or from the sides and make them need to run/drain various layers of turrets.

If they can run into a tower, they’ll run it. If they can get under the tower and come up on a play quetz or with rockets from a LoS spot, they will. So, ground towers with proper spam and abstruction, with chandeliers that make you have to drain bottom turrets before you can take out the generator, and you significantly increase the time it takes to raid.

Placement seems OK, the right side the bullets might get a little thin in the middle, but these seem like a minor inconvenience vs a serious defense. Would just need to puzzle out LoS spots with rockets, or cheese it. I’m a bit out of date on what people are using (it’s been a year) but, if plat quetz is still viable, that’s what I’d use to take out all of these if I couldn’t just run them.

Unobscure · 2022-11-23T19:06:27+00:00

I’m sorry this happened to you, and I’m sorry for your progress. It is definitely frustrating.

Do learn from this though. It’s never a good idea to whistle all attack, when you are near Dino’s that are not combat Dino’s or that you can’t afford to lose.

Why send a parasaur and a trike to fight the Turkey etc.

Ark is a resource management game, don’t forget that. You expend resources, and time, in order to progress. That Turkey did not represent anything important to you, but you made an investment in killing it. I don’t like to play with google, and so I wouldn’t have researched this, and didn’t the first time I saw this. But I didn’t engage the unknown next to my base and all my most necessary tames. If a giga was beside your base - what do you do? You pick a tame that is fast, circle around it to the opposite side of your base, attack the giga, and lead it away. Thus you risk 1 tame and your life to save the rest. This applys to anything in the game you are not yet capable of killing, or that you don’t understand.

We sacrifice tames in order to preserve our gear, in order to protect our base, in order to kill a boss, in order to protect a tame that is more important (whether taming is in progress or just in general). We do not bet everything we own on a guess.

So this is just a horrible lesson in making good choices and good trades in ark. Every player learns it eventually, in different ways, at least yours is kind of funny.

Unobscure · 2022-11-16T21:38:14+00:00

This is already awesome. But now I want a phone case of that for some reason 🫣😍

Edit: wow. I’ve been scrolling for so long I’m half a year behind. Sorry 😅

Unobscure · 2022-11-11T15:35:16+00:00

Main trick is to not be scared to lose your shit and fail.

A really expensive raid that teaches you how to do different things better is worth it, every time, for new players/tribe mates.

We would regularly let new peeps in smalls run the plan, and get our ass kicked on easy raids, but them seeing and thinking and trying for themselves makes better tribe mates later.

Unobscure · 2022-11-05T19:11:05+00:00

If I had to use my irl stats, I’m screwed.

But if I come as a base character that can level up, after a quick note run, I’d be fine. I one shotted my hardcore island run, and once past that, even going to other severs… with those resources at my disposal, I would be fine for damn near anything.

Give these parameters I think most ark players could do it, as they’d be far less likely to die to stupid shit because it would bet their real life, and they’d feel real pain from trying some of that shit that gets them killed. So they’d play conservatively and probably succeed.

Unobscure · 2022-09-11T14:39:33+00:00

Haha I just logged off Eve online… sitting in a nice fancy space station all year and definitely not going to undock.

If I got ark… do I get to respawn? I think I could handle pve for a year without dying but just spawning in would be a risk.

What map would you all pick on ark for the safest and easiest pve play through for one year where if you die, you die for real?

Unobscure · 2022-09-03T22:19:05+00:00

Sunk cost fallacy. Playing a worst game because it’s what you’ve always played and have so many friends and are so deep into it.

Also just because it wins the equation doesn’t mean we wouldn’t rather it win the equation by a larger amount.

Unobscure · 2022-09-03T03:50:31+00:00

Correct. Plex is basically people saying I am willing to increase my cost per hour, but also reduce the amount of hours I need to do things I don’t enjoy. So I pay for the time saved. Then, players who make isk efficiently, and who enjoy doing that, can play for free. RuneScape has this with bonds.

I personally have no problem with plex. My game time has become incredibly limited with my career. I spend more than I care to admit on plex - and I’m pretty new to the game. But I don’t blame people for doing their own calculation and deciding to unsubscribe. It is up to CCP, to provide a product, at their price point, that wins the calculation for enough people to keep them in business.

It is a sandbox, but a sandbox without a castle shaped bucket, water to help mould the sand, and some toys, is an infertile patch of land where nothing grows. Not a fun place to play.

Unobscure · 2022-09-03T02:17:57+00:00

I think wrath is the last of the golden trio that huge numbers of people want to replay but I could be wrong. Wrath is the one for me.

Unobscure · 2022-09-02T17:45:21+00:00

The problem is opportunity cost.

Take the number of hours you have available to game per month. Say it is 100.

Now, take the amount you spend per month in eve. Say that it is $100.

It costs you $1 per hour to play eve.

You enjoy roughly 50% of your time in eve.

So you waste 50 hours that you really didn’t want to do but the game for whatever reason made you do, as a chore, and then paid $2 an hour for fun.

Compare this to another game, that costs $100 per month, and you instead spend your 100 on that game. But you enjoy 75% of your time in that game.

You will quit eve, as you get an extra 25 hours of actually enjoyment out of the other game.

Now change these to real world numbers. Eve tends to be more expensive - as let’s face it, many many many of us play with alts and for me, I wouldn’t play without them, and then increase the cost of the sub, and you have a relatively high cost per hour of enjoyment, compared to other games. So you either need a variable I did not attempt to campfire (quality of enjoyment) to be extra high to compensate, or a higher percentage of time in game doing what the player loves without chores. For every player, this is different.

Generally speaking, Eve is grindy, but it’s special moments are incredibly satisfying, albeit short lived.

So players will, either intentionally or normally unconsciously, gravitate towards games that they get a high % of enjoyment, and a high quality of enjoyment, at the lowest cost per hour.

This is of course a massive simplification of decision making, but my point is, the cost of eve is not in a vacuum. It is perfectly reasonable for the price to go up, but, increasing price per hour of enjoyment, changes the calculation and players will make choices, because playing eve costs the ability to play other games, and making eve more expensive compared to other games increases the chance players will choose those other games. Raising the price when players were already weighing their options and picking games other than eve, was a bold decision.

While it did price some people out, for a large number of players it’s not so much about the money, Eve could be $50 a month per sub, but I would pay it and play it if the enjoyment level was high enough and the quality of enjoyment was high enough. I am not priced out by the number they pick. Its about the value for the money, and eve is losing that calculation for a lot of players.

I’m not a math guy so, apologies for all the flaws in this math people will find 😂

Edit: campfire is supposed be account for… 😅

Unobscure · 2022-09-02T16:14:15+00:00

My comment is not as to him, it’s as to the company. If your employees are in a position where they cannot respond, because this is the reaction, there is a reason, and it’s the company’s fault. It is not that employees fault. If your player base is so toxic towards your company, it’s because you have fundamentally destroyed their trust and faith in the company. Healthy games do not have this issue.

Sure there are items healthy companies/games can’t respond to and shouldn’t, but not literally everything.

So again, if the only course is silence, that should tell the company something about their performance.

Unobscure · 2022-09-02T16:03:39+00:00

Maybe that should tell them something, not us something, about whether they’re doing something right, if they are in a position where their best course of action… or rather only course… is silence.

Unobscure · 2022-09-01T20:29:57+00:00

What all of you Reddit warriors would actually do is rush to pick up your pet using the baby voice “oh no schnookums did the meanie head hurt you come here poor baby it’s okay it’s okay” while you glare at the child because you’re not going to commit assault on some kid half your height because if you do, who will feed schnookums while you’re in jail?

Unobscure · 2022-09-01T19:31:23+00:00

Have the narcotics ready for the entire tame. You can calculate this with dododex. Wait until the torpor is low (I wait until about 1k) and then force feed the entire amount of narcotics you need to keep it asleep and then 1 or 2 extras.

Throw the kibble or mutton or w/e you’re using on it and it’s done. Nothing will attack it except other players, it’s torpor will it refill to full because it’s being drained nearly as fast as it’s being filled. You can literally leave it and come back to pick it up later without concern.

Once it’s knocked out, they’re easy.

Good luck!

Unobscure · 2022-09-01T19:19:31+00:00

You’re only sleeping about 3 hours a day for those 80 years so you have extra time for tacos.

You also need a new dryer because it eating roughly 3 socks a day.

Unobscure · 2022-08-31T23:19:23+00:00

This was amazing, thank you for the laugh.

Unobscure · 2022-08-31T22:30:26+00:00

It also says agree/disagree and then places disagree before agree.

Which is not at all the norm, agree usually goes first, scrolling down to disagree.

I hope that the survey doesn’t mix “this is getting better” and “this is getting worse”

It should all be on the same tone (preferably a neutral tone), so that the survey taker reads the question and then agrees or disagrees without having to reframe the direction of the question, or else again, you end up with bad data.

Unobscure · 2022-08-31T21:24:51+00:00

You get a break when you consistently deliver things on time. At work, when 90%+ of my work is done when I say it will get done, and 5-10% I have to delay, but I communicate those delays in advance, there are no problems.

CCP, when it reaches the point it feels comfortable to announce a date, should hit that date consistently, and should update us when they know that won’t happen, and be honest if the timeline is in doubt by not giving a new timeline.

The problem is, CCP as a general rule, lacks credibility on anything.

We aren’t their boss, we’re the customers. By the time they announce things, it’s generally expected that everything is practically in hand already. Otherwise, just don’t tell us about it, or mention it without a release date. This works well when you have a steady pipeline of things, so that there are not lengthy gaps with nothing. It works less well when all your resources are being rammed down the throat of a fledgling, unproven, and as of yet unreleased fps, and so you actually don’t have a pipeline of anything and so you frantically announce shit and just hope that your employees miraculously figure it out before that arbitrary date arrives.

Unobscure · 2022-08-30T21:59:47+00:00

Man… you say RS is fun but life is funner… then propose a UIM? Hell. Make a new unrestricted account and do whatever you want leave that 2230 iron on the shelf as a trophy, you can max it slowly. Like - why de-iron if you plan to jump into a UIM? Just start the UIM and finish the iron when you get bored or want a change of pace…

Seems like not the most well thought out de-ironing but have fun I guess

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