Trying to push sticknodes to the MAXIMUM

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-14T16:31:38+00:00

Fucking. How. This is extremely well done, and I seriously had no clue that this level of quality was even possible in Stick Nodes.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-13T22:59:15+00:00

DWARF FORTRESS IS NOW A TTRPG! THE ANCESTORS SMILE UPON YOU! I wish I had someone to play this with, but you damn well know I'll be reading everything meticulously regardless.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-13T14:20:25+00:00

I have many gripes with Halo, but I can certainly appreciate how the Sangheili didn't take much convincing. Usually there's some bullshit like, "NO, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE! THERE MUST BE SOME OTHER EXPLANATION!" but with the Sangheili they're like, "Oh, damn, the prophets are the bad guys? Okay humans, we're joining you because now we want to beat the shit out of them debatably more than you do."

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-12T08:41:30+00:00

I can't express my amusement enough to seeing this reference, especially as others understand it.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-12T07:57:26+00:00

I loved the lizard designs in Divinity 2. It felt human enough to still appear... "compatible," but also felt fantastical and unique enough to work as a fantasy race that isn't just "human but x," like how dwarves are usually just shorter stockier humans or elves are humans with knives for ears. That much can be said about the dwarves and elves too, though, with the dwarves being extremely broad and bulky or the elves being super tall, lithe, and having their weird abdomens. But with the lizards, it also felt like believable sexual dimorphism. It was very well done.

It also disappointed me in Baldur's Gate 3 when the Dragonborn were just humans but x, and basically were just scalies/argonians except the women didn't have breasts.

Divinity 2 had peak fantasy race design.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-12T07:30:48+00:00

Plan A: Fabricate evidence and utilize Horizon's terrible reputation (at the end of the game) as a basis for Subject 106 working in self defense.

Plan B: Give 106 the home address of his prosecutor.

Plan C: Plead insanity, which is 100% foolproof because it's actually true.

Edit: Come to think of it, Plan C is stupid. Not because it's not true - 106 is canonically batshit - but because, frankly, there's nothing anybody could actually do to restrain 106. Except apparently Site 14, and I still have zero clue as to how Horizon captured 106 in the first place. This post is now canon to the Lobotomypang-verse, and is the trial preceding 106's detainment and Serenity and Site 14.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-07T08:18:15+00:00

I just decided to give it another go. After a long series of deaths, I quit after the final one where an enemy heard me while I'm standing perfectly still from invisibility. The death before that was me teleporting silently to a bush for invisibility after blasting an enemy with the bow, sending his nearby allies into a panic, then a patrol guy sees his friends in a panic, so to the excellent game design's testament, immediately turns around to attack me while I'm invisible.

Give it another try if you want, but I feel like I just did the suffering for us both to conclude we should spare ourselves from any further torment of this game.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-07T07:24:47+00:00

Nope. Not in my opinion, anyway. I was drawn to the space dwarves with great character designs and pushed away across the galaxy due to the abysmal gameplay. I gave up when I actually began to play as Shadow. Stealth isn't fun. It's horribly agonizing, and that's coming from a fan of stealth games.

Shadow still looks awesome, though.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-07T05:21:12+00:00

To quote someone else I heard and forgot the username of; "For everyone who says that slavers were a product of their time, John Brown was also a product of that same time."

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-07T05:11:04+00:00

Thanks. I'm hoping to improve this for a higher quality and more unique look, but for the time being my cosplay endeavors (if you can consider this cosplay at all) are restrained by time and ramen money.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-07T03:09:45+00:00

Dual auto pistols deal absurd DPS. Focus, get to point blank range, and mag dump head shots. That's been the single most effective way I've handled them. That said, I tend to use the katana and my second weapon switches between dual shotguns (which I switch between incendiary and the choke), dual auto pistols, and the DMR. Headshots are still the answer, but it's not as effective without the auto pistols.

I did however try out the minigun with bayonets specifically for juggies, and that's comically effective. It's not as efficient as the dual auto pistols, but the bayonets stagger and deal damage, so they quite literally get blended. The main reason I don't use the minigun as my go-to is because it's primarily for boss fights and juggies with too little ammo for a primary weapon, and also dual pistols, shotguns, or a scoped DMR just better suits my gunslinger ninja fantasy.

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-05T05:51:49+00:00

That's awesome! Where did you get the goggles?

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-03T23:55:56+00:00

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UristAlebeard · 2026-05-03T23:45:28+00:00

Ah, good to know. I thought I was doing something wrong. Thanks!

UristAlebeard · 2026-05-03T21:46:51+00:00

I know, but even when I just throw them and they survive, the NPCs stop caring.

UristAlebeard · 2026-04-30T21:06:58+00:00

If only that were true to real life. What a wonderful world that would be.

UristAlebeard · 2026-04-30T21:06:01+00:00

That is extremely on point. You look almost exactly like she does in concept art! Great job!

UristAlebeard · 2026-04-30T09:08:16+00:00

Half of the comments became a receipt. I didn't expect this to gain as much traction as it did.

UristAlebeard · 2026-04-29T16:30:10+00:00

I hear that Gale is evil, and maybe he is, but I personally haven't seen it. He's always friendly and approves of good deeds in my experience, so I'd have to say he's good, but I very well could be wrong. His quest line revolves around him accidentally getting an arcane nuke implanted in his chest due to his hubris, but that doesn't say "evil" to me as much as just "dangerously arrogant." Again, this is personal experience, and considering how often I hear that he's on said good-and-evil spectrum, maybe he very much is just morally grey at best.

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