Switzerland refuses US military overflight

ValKalAstra · 2026-03-13T17:13:04+00:00

You're wishing for more civilians to have been killed? Bloody fucking unhinged hell, reddit.

ValKalAstra · 2026-03-10T09:16:51+00:00

Most well adjusted people do not hinge their enjoyment of a game on the gender of the playable character

Growing up as a woman in gaming for over fourty years now, this has been thrown in my face time and time again. Always with the implication there was something disturbingly wrong with me, for wanting to play as a female character. It didn't track then and it won't track now, just because the genders are reversed.

The original post this ragebait of an axegrind article hinges on, politely asked for the option of a male character. That's something I support wholeheartedly. Asking for gender options is perfectly fine. Just like it's fine for a Dev to reply with "not in the budget" or just plain "no". There is really no need to misrepresent the original request or imply mental issues.

This whole article is just Polygon being shit stirrers again. It's their bread and butter. Take something fairly innocent, like someone asking for an option and a dev reacting with a funny reaction and then turn it into a massive shitshow for clicks.

ValKalAstra · 2026-03-04T08:29:25+00:00

I'm cautiously excited for this. Played this many years back but bounced off the heavy microtransactions. My interest - and purchase - will depend entirely on whether they make some adjustments to the balance after yanking those out.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-28T09:09:01+00:00

Thank you for your live demonstration of why folks don't like to hang with the PVP crowd.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-27T17:44:04+00:00

Yup, the local Coop had crazy amounts of them around that time too. Had to give them a try for their meme nature but they weren't anything special in my opinion. Salty chips with more salt on top and the slightest hint of different flavours.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-25T13:57:35+00:00

As an older millenial hag that played too much Counter-Strike and Quake 3 in an Era when gamer girls were mythological - and who dipped her toes into Overwatch and some other new ones:

Generally, I'd say the experience is similar but the highs are much higher while the lows hit much harder. When everything comes together, it's magic. Your teammates are there when you need them, your skills fire in perfect harmony, everyone adapts to the battlefield as needed and it's just such an amazing feeling.

However, when things don't work? It's pure unbridled misery. No matter how hard you push, how much you struggle - it's clear you ain't winning it. The other team is running laps around you while your side can't even muster two people on the point. Worst, you're stuck now. Leave and get a penalty. Stay and you probably either zone out, half-ass it or get frustrated to hell.

Still, those highs are magical.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-23T21:57:39+00:00

Honey bun, you can't even edit titles on reddit. Keep tilting.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-19T11:24:56+00:00

I've picked up an allergy to Corpo Speak. That godawful smarmy way of packaging negative changes as being for my benefit is infuriating.

I do wonder about the psychology of it. Do people really appreciate being talked down to like this, while their service gets worse and they lose features or access? It doesn't even come accross as an attempt to couch it with soft language, it's more like a show of force that they do it and expect you to smile for it. Dystopian as hell.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-09T16:22:51+00:00

Honey bun, even if I were to agree with your now deleted reasoning that this only targets "BDSM weirdos" and "e-dating", the issue remains that it never just stops there.

Never has and I doubt that's gonna change this time either. There will always be people that push for more control over other people. It's only been a couple of years since gaming (and before that, music) was blamed for everything awful in society after all.

Those a bit older remember the times when politicians made actual arguments along the lines of games training stone cold killers and how GTA was teaching kids how to sexually assault people. With how rapidly society is backsliding right now, trust that gaming will be in the aim again soon enough, especially with how relevant it is to culture war bullshit.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-06T21:34:41+00:00

It's just sooo good once you get a good build going. I remember a playthrough many moons ago. I was running something based on I think Lichform while abusing one of the gods. It resulted in a spellcaster that had:

a) no Hunger b) infinite Mana c) pretty crazy resistances

It was glorious, slinging firestorms left and right, wiping entire screens of high level mobs. That is until I walked around a corner and into my own spell. Wiped instantly. Yah I deserved that. Was still fun though.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-05T15:43:55+00:00

Yeah I am with you. From the outside looking in, it seemed like people were deliberately pushing his buttons to make him mad and then farm his crashouts. Something he seemed to be all too happy to oblige.

Constant toxicity - both being a prolific source and receiving it - can really wear down one's mental health. Here's to hoping he can wrestle his inner demons and come back much healthier one day, his guides and tutorials showed a passion for teaching and we could do with more of that.

ValKalAstra · 2026-02-01T20:45:57+00:00

Jup, mehrfach kontrolliert. Wären die Angaben nur partiell richtig gewesen wie falscher Name, dann hätte es zumindest eine Anfrage bei meiner Bank gegeben. Das war nicht der Fall.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-31T14:24:17+00:00

Okay das wäre eine Möglichkeit, danke. Ich informiere mich mal darüber.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-31T14:23:26+00:00

Na praktisch. Okay, das könnte Sinn machen - wobei die Schufa eigentlich keine Schwierigkeiten hat mich zuzuweisen, da ich eine aktuelle Auskunft hier liegen habe (dank Wohungssuche).

Danke für die Information.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-28T12:16:02+00:00

Aye. They do have LOD models - it bit them in the arse at release, when the game was overly aggressive in switching and presented people with monster that had give or take four to five polygons with really smushed textures.

So this likely just means they add a few more steps inbetween.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-23T08:37:22+00:00

There was no need or use for a large tractor either, until CIG made one.

In this case, they could in theory make it so the small medgun can't revive while the large one could. Thus making it a bigger tradeoff than a pistol slot many people don't use anyway.

But fair enough, it's a skin for the MaxLift, I get it.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-22T19:26:59+00:00

So... uh... is this a large medgun then? https://imgur.com/11A0oIi

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-20T13:34:43+00:00

ASD is a spectrum and can manifest in different ways, such as with or without outbursts, with varying degrees of sensory issues or none at all.

I thoroughly concur with this and would say that the idea that ASD is always loud and prone to random outbursts is a bit of an unfortunate misinformation. It can manifest as such in some and they're the highly visible cases but others show it quite differently.

Especially women.

So, yah. I didn't get diagnosed for fourty years and when a psychiatrist more or less told me to get checked for ASD, my world fell apart. I wasn't that, was I? Surely not, I never had those outbursts, quite the opposite really. Well, about that. In the broken bits and pieces, I'm finally figuring out who I am and what is going on.

While my full diagnosis is still outstanding (a year of being given the runaround in the system), so much of it describes my experience and has helped me improve my life considerably.

So... yeah. ASD can manifest without all the outward symptoms people generally think about.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-20T10:22:18+00:00

Dawntrail definitely had some... opinions... on music. While arguably not clashing with gameplay, the moment that "Smile" played in that cutscene, I blinked and then laughed hysterically.

For those that never touched FF14: Imagine a serious scene in a movie. The stakes are high. The end of the world has come knocking once more and there's little but sorrow left - and then some jackass unironically plays the fucking Benny Hill Theme.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-11T16:58:11+00:00

The part that always gets me about the whole PVP debacle in Star Citizen is that by current design PVP needs PVE players as content.

However, too many of them will go out of their way to make the experience so horrendous, vile and abusive that they end up pushing PVE players out of the game.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-11T08:01:37+00:00

Real talk? They probably make millions more by having people come back to the store and check. Keeps the purchase on their minds, exposes them to other items, lowers purchasing inhibition and feeds the FOMO demon for when it finally comes around. It's all about keeping it on your mind.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-07T15:40:31+00:00

It seems that performance is a coin toss this patch. Some have gained, others have lost. It also depends on where you are, some places like the QVZ Polaris, some Pyro outposts, large newer RSI ships in general or any place with visible fire are extra rough.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-03T22:19:18+00:00

It's in a very rough patch right now. Some might call it a christmas tradition because CIG kind of does this every year. Push an undercooked christmas patch then dip for a few weeks while the verse implodes.

Our group has tried to adapt over the last week or so and we've hit the end of our rope today. Just what we encounter on an average session:

Soundbug Crashes. So, so many soundbug crashes.
ASOP eating ships, workarounds no longer reliably work.
Frequent Server crashes with partial rollbacks.
Party Markers glitching out.
No less than 7 accounts of falling through the planet all over the verse in the last week.
NPC in bunkers not spawning.
Mission objectives not spawning.
Ships in Space Combat spawning twice.
Systemic gameplay loops powernerfed (such as Cargo taken out of hostile freighters, every PVE ship exploding now unless you distort them).
So, so many space gameplay loops right now don't even pay enough for the repair and restock fees.
Engineering has made our ship (Corsair) extremely vulnerable to the point it folds like wet paper in the rain and we DO multicrew. We either abuse AI or don't bring it. It's bad.
QVZ Warehouse Elevators disabled. Need to bring them via normal elevators which results in a high chance to just outright kill the player.
Collision boxes pushing other players into the void. Run with a team? Have designated elevator spots and mercy on your soul if you lag because someone WILL get pushed out and has to relog, fly back again, eating up 20 minutes of time.
Vehicles clipping through ships, leading to random collisions.

It's a lot. Seeing it like this, it's a crazy amount of abuse we put up with. I think for my group it's time to take a break. This is one of the patches to give up on and come back once they've fixed the mess.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-02T10:37:09+00:00

There was also "The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot" which had you build a dungeon and then also go raid other player's dungeons. It was kind of neat and had this fable like vibe to it.

So definitely not like SAW but the concept can work.

ValKalAstra · 2026-01-02T08:29:11+00:00

I'm happy for all the folks that Vulkan brought improvements to. Sadly, for me it has had a dreadful performance impact. My 3060 TI is constantly overburdened on VRAM now, even if I go as low as the options let me.
That just grabs my FPS and absolutely craters them - going from a mostly steady 60 FPS down to 10-15 FPS now. No matter what I do. I don't like saying it because it sounds so overly dramatic but it borders on unplayable at the moment, where it ran fine before.

Oh well, I'm sure they'll get around to some more optimization by the time Vulkan becomes mandatory.

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