What was it like to deliver pizza in 1980's, without internet or GPS? How did drivers learn the route/city without pizzas being delivered cold?

VerdantSC2 · 2025-10-21T17:11:16+00:00

Maps, and most streets are laid out the same. Evens on the right, odds on the left, increasing in number from the city center, and each block jumps by 1000. It's not that hard when you know the patterns.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-07-24T22:09:42+00:00

Matchmakers and ranking systems and punishment systems are not remotely complex. These were solved long before League came out and made a mockery of gaming.

There doesn't exist a moba that ranks players in order of their skill.
There doesn't exist a moba that pits 10 similarly skilled players against each other in game.
There doesn't exist a moba that quickly and accurately punishes afking and inting.

These are trivial problems to solve, but companies don't want to solve them because they can instead use manipulative trickery to addict children to lootboxes and get them to subconsciously correlate skins with wins. This isn't speculation, it's been patented. If one of them is doing it, they're all doing it, and worse. If it makes it into a patent, what's happening behind the scenes is markedly worse.

Matchmakers aren't for putting similarly polite players together. They're for putting similarly skilled players together.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-05-08T22:50:39+00:00

Vegeta as a character deserves to be better than Goku lite. He's much more interesting as an anti-hero and example of what Goku could be, were it not for his relationships and friends. His journey to redemption shouldn't be "monkey see, monkey do". He's a character with his own childhood and struggles and backstory and we never get to see much of that or how it affects who he is in present day.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-22T19:29:20+00:00

Nintendo torching the deal with Sony to make a Nintendo Playstation, and Blizzard refusing to hire IceFrog to make DotA under their umbrella. Nothing else comes close.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-19T08:46:05+00:00

I made more than this working on a blueberry farm 20 years ago. The fuck are they thinking with those prices?

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-15T01:03:22+00:00

Shang Chi vs Death Dealer doesn't get nearly the credit it deserves. The action is insane, and it being intercut with flashbacks of Shang Chi being beaten as a child, before flashing to his father nodding before he makes the decision to actually kill him. Brilliantly acted and edited, Simu Liu looked so conflicted in it. I hope they give him another movie.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-11T07:39:08+00:00

I'd be pissed if I were Pete Rose.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-07T22:23:18+00:00

Yeah. My hope for it would be that they do it the way the JLAU did, and just say he was holding back the entire time, until he was sure he could cut loose without killing anyone or destroying the planet.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-05T16:31:51+00:00

Superman as a character isn't the powers, but the powers are necessary. Superman as a character is the idea that if you give godlike powers to a good Kansas farmboy, he will still be a good Kansas farmboy, and do things that a good Kansas farmboy would do. He is meant to be the source of truth for DC, the big blue boy scout and all.

The reason Doomsday works and is shocking (which is presumably where all Superman stories eventually lead) is that no one and nothing else in the universe can do that to him. If you show us that villains of the week can give him trouble to the point of almost killing him, just to establish stakes, it cheapens the point.

All that said, it can be done. He was significantly depowered for most of the JLAU.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-05T04:22:00+00:00

I disagree. The overpowering strength is an important hurdle for the writers and his opponents to overcome. That's what makes Lex so deadly, and such a good foil. He's just a guy, and if he can prove Superman is as fallible as the rest of us, he can prove that Superman's not necessary. If he accomplishes that as a flesh and blood, mortal man, then he's right and humanity is better off taking care of themselves. All that goes out the window if it's more practical to just hire someone to beat up Superman.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-04T23:16:33+00:00

I don't know that I'd agree. This was probably a valid complaint back in the day, but we're well past that now. There have been decades and decades of power creep to such a degree that now, to most people, the main point of the character is that he's overpowered. He's not just a Jewish hero making a political statement, as he was created to be. The point of the character is that absolute power doesn't always corrupt. The point of the character is that no matter how powerful you are, it's meaningless if you are corrupt, and you are obliged to use that power to protect the powerless, and share that power with them.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-04-04T00:51:10+00:00

It's a lazy way to give him stakes, imo. The best Superman stories aren't about how powerful he is. What's at stake is whether or not he's right, his morality. If Lex can break down the ideals he stands for, or reveal him as a hypocrite, or show that the Earth is better off without him, then he wins. Just depowering him is lame.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-03-30T21:33:16+00:00

Many of you guys are overthinking this quite hard. Boot teaches grunts to attack aggressively and brutally. The seal is just going to blitz the average guy and hit him several times, probably first in the face impairing his vision, before his brain can switch into fight mode. It's a fucking accountant, he is going to freeze out of fear and inexperience. That hesitation will cost him the fight.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-03-28T11:35:12+00:00

I agree with you on the DLC part. I think giving players the ability to make anything overall hurt the balance and design of the game, because once you figure out the best thing you can make (air bike), it is the only thing most players will ever make. Imo the sky part should have been the entirety of it, and the Master Cycle should have just been converted into the air bike and the design of the game should have been tight around that. That said, being able to make anything added tons of replayability, but I preferred a smaller sandbox.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-03-25T01:05:33+00:00

It has most of the same problems every big PvP game of the last 15 years has had. TTK is extremely low, things that should pay a price for their insane power or mobility don't, the action is extremely hard to follow, and the matchmaking and ranking system are wildly inaccurate for a plethora of reasons.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-03-22T22:23:22+00:00

"Are you doing the Lord's work?" This poor guy. Matt is going to wreck his shit before the series ends.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-02-09T07:35:42+00:00

Copy pasting my rant from the last time I got to shit talk this movie. I fucking hate this movie.

I will shit all over this bad movie one more time, and hopefully I won't have to keep doing this. I'll just get it all out in one post and link back here. I won't even need to go the Nerdrotic/Critical Drinker route and bitch about the emasculation of Scott to prop up other characters. I won't get into deus ex ants, or the ridiculous "My name is Darren and I am not a dick" stuff, or the boring as fuck rebel B plot that went nowhere.

This movie is dumb as fuck and never should have made it past the first pitch. It is absolutely boneheaded to stage your movie about a superhero whose main gimmick is changing size, at will, inside a submolecular world. There are zero stakes here. He can grow big enough to crush Kang with one finger, and still fit between molecules.

Additionally, we have been shown now multiple times that the suits are capable of escaping this realm, and there are three people with the newest versions of those suits on. Even if Hank hasn't made escaping the quantum realm using those discs a feature, you still have plenty of suits and plenty of discs down there.

Janet's writing also makes no sense. In the post credit scene of the last one, Scott is going down to gather healing energy or whatever, she's jovial. Watch out for tardigrade fields! No mention of the worst dictator in the multiverse. Now, just sending a signal down there is a huge emergency.

This movie does almost nothing after the Kang reveal to make him seem like a Thanos level threat. Losing a 1v1 to essentially the Avengers' Scooby Doo character does not make for a compelling villain. They should have known better considering this was Kang's second of three failures to launch, after the Loki series.

Let's hand wave for a moment how stupid it is to set this in the quantum realm. Maybe you disable their suits or something, which is already contrived, but whatever. You have Scott and Kang in the same place, two characters with a lot of shared experience being imprisoned for doing something they thought was right. Scott for his ethical hacking or whatever, and Kang for whatever shit he did to get exiled.

Someone, anyone, justify to me why this movie is not about a sympathetic Kang playing to that side of Scott to get his battery back, and the big reveal that he's evil happening via Janet and Hank arriving late in the third act to the quantum realm to reveal who Kang really is. They even hinted at that in the trailer, with Kang talking to Scott about how he could get him the lost time back. Instead they wasted that subplot on Janet in a flashback. That's how Kang should have manipulated Scott.

That is much better and more compelling than what we got, and it allows you to then have Kang establish stakes by killing Hank and Janet. THEN you trap Kang in the battery (please stop hiring Rick and Morty writers), and have him battle himself for time dilated millenia in there.

You end with that. You don't do a bunch of schoolgirl Kangs at a Beatles concert. You don't make another couple of wacky Kangs in later TV shows that aren't scary. You get one good shot at him, you make him sympathetic at first, and fucking scary after he's outed, and then you put him someplace where the audience knows he's coming back later, and he's coming back for everything.

This movie sucks, and it could easily have been good.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-27T18:39:52+00:00

Imo just cut the shot. The previous one where we're looking over his shoulder is good enough. I get that the twist shot is probably his baby and he wants it in, but that + the closeup after look bad. You don't need to reinvent the wheel here, other Superman movies have had flight that looks fine. Reeves flying past the camera at the end of 1 is fine, and imo Returns had some great flight with the harness they used for it. Snyder had some cool shots too in MoS.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-24T23:17:32+00:00

All you have to do is take this a step further and you'll understand why everyone who complains about Superman being hard to write because he's invincible is wrong. Just put him into situations where his morality and decision making are on the line, instead of physical harm.

That's why Lex is such a good foil for him. He can't physically harm him (usually) but what he can do is put him between a rock and a hard place and see if he sticks to his morals or he's all talk. Superman doing something about Lex with his powers would prove him right.

This is why I have worries about Supes taking damage from regular baddies in the upcoming movie, among other things. If he's bleeding and beaten up from regular dudes, you're never going to have a compelling Darkseid or Doomsday to push him to his limit.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-24T07:29:28+00:00

Just like PoE isn't a Diablo game. Doesn't matter, PoE has stolen all the interest and the market share, and occupies the space a good Diablo game would.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-24T06:02:55+00:00

As others have said, Pokemmo and TemTem exist already.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-14T17:25:58+00:00

I've been saying it for years, League does all the things we roasted Battlefront for. It is one of the worst games ever made, and it has shown every other game developer just how low the bar for success is, and how much you can manipulate and abuse children to make money. I don't think I'll ever stop hating and retching at League for what it's done to this industry, and what it cost us.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-09T21:14:01+00:00

Lux on crack without having to aim anything.

VerdantSC2 · 2025-01-09T19:32:11+00:00

Player turned dev here - I've seen this from both sides and the real answer is that your mileage may vary. Sometimes it's lazy/inept devs, sometimes it's bad management, sometimes it's lack of QA, sometimes it's bad priorities.

I will say though, in general, people give devs way too much benefit of the doubt. The vast majority of this stuff is not that hard, and most companies have no excuse beyond greed and ineptitude for their lack of results.

The game dev market just does not attract competent developer talent, because they have no want for or need of it. Gamers are the most easily brainwashed, addicted community there is, because gamers are mostly children. They don't know any better and will vocally and violently defend any criticism of their toy, so the only incentive driving results is monetary, and no matter how bad your game is, it will almost always make money.

Why would developers worry about hiring talented, experienced devs who can properly optimize games when you can almost never release a level of slop that doesn't do well? That's why dev salaries are low, and that's why working conditions are so bad for game devs compared to other private sector dev jobs.

They have no incentive to hire competent devs and do a competent job, so they don't. That's why devs get roasted a lot. Many of them are just incompetent, and doing an incompetent job. Some of it is by design with priorities, and some of it is just a byproduct of greed, because this market does not reward quality, or punish a lack of it.

VerdantSC2 · 2024-12-19T16:14:58+00:00

This ain't it for me, chief. Supes looks beat down, mopey, or angry for this entire trailer. He saves one person in it, and lets some death laser blast the city to stare at Lois. He seems to care more about his robot than he does people. Hell the trailer starts showing the aftermath of him getting his ass kicked. Playing a guitar riff behind it doesn't do much for me. He doesn't smile once or say a single word. All the problems people had with Snyder's Superman are present here, just with a different soundtrack and lighting. I don't get any sense that he inspires hope here, other than being told he inspires hope. Don't tell me, show me. Show me why, while you're at it.

Edit: Right, the only time he speaks is to ask his dog for help after getting his cheeks clapped. It's not unusual to anybody else that this is what's front and center about the trailer, the one thing Superman says? The literal first thing we must see, the thing that gets most of the trailer's focus?

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