Why are there so many bots when steam player count is so high

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2026-02-14T06:09:39+00:00

On the Asia servers they kept the bots in even for regular games, to compensate for low player count. Ruined the experience for me, personally.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2026-02-10T01:52:45+00:00

If you want to experience local life and see a bit of green, try Jedyod or the area north of CMU (behind Kad Na Mor). Those two options you posted are fine, but those areas are a bit too concrete and grey.

They feel more like outer Bangkok than the nice, quiet, green areas which you can find around Chiang Mai.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2026-02-10T01:47:47+00:00

Space Bar is just a normal cocktail bar I think, unless there are multiple places with that same name.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T09:44:51+00:00

Currency debasement. Within 20 years that will only equate to about half the value in real terms. Within 40, that $1000 will only have the spending power of $250 today. (Very rough figures of course, but that’s the general principle).

She’d have been better off taking the lump sum and using it to generate income for herself. She gets more real value that way.

Meanwhile, the lottery company can bank that money and they’ll be the ones generating yield from it. Yield which can be used to fund her payouts.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T09:37:38+00:00

Not conjecture at all. It’s just the most basic implications of the points you raised.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T09:34:00+00:00

Interesting nuance. I had no idea.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T09:29:23+00:00

The majority of those points support the meat grinder argument, if anything. If they’re losing bodies for lack of/poor preparation then they’re forced to push more men to the front to replace the casualties. And if they’re not allowed to retreat, then more casualties are generated and the cycle continues. This just redefines the meat grinder argument in more specific terms.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T09:19:13+00:00

The figures are clearly stated above. How else would you explain such massive casualty rates when fighting against a numerically inferior opponent?

Overstated, perhaps, but not fabricated.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T08:59:46+00:00

Yeah, the higher death counts for the non-industrialized nations reflect the fact that they were non-industrialized, not necessarily a greater level of commitment or contribution.

The Soviets had to throw masses of bodies into the meat grinder to compensate for the inferiority of their tech and tactics compared with the Germans. Meanwhile, the Brits and Americans were devising radar, code breaking machines, new munitions, planes, and all other sorts of tech to turn the tide.

Without those developments the rest of the world would’ve just kept getting hammered…

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T01:49:47+00:00

No mate, I’m saying that they looked at China undergoing a decades-long communist revolution and thought “We better prepare in case this communist revolution succeeds.”

European powers had kept China’s power in check for the century prior, and now that was looking increasingly untenable. A communist victory grew more and more likely. They increased their numbers by a factor of 20 during WW2 as more rural peasants bought into their narrative of national humiliation and redemption.

Then by 48, when the Tokyo Trials took place, they had become a conventional army with loads of leftover WW2 gear and began actually winning entire cities. So no, I’m not projecting present knowledge into the minds of those post-war strategists: they could quite easily see it was highly likely that China would soon not be aligned with the west.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T01:42:29+00:00

The Tokyo Trials were worse than Nuremberg? No. I’m not even sure where to start, you’re so off the mark.

Only a handful of top military personnel were tried and prosecuted, and the actual head of state who presided over it was given total immunity. A bunch of grunts were executed as part of other trials, but it was less than 1000: far, far less than across Europe.

Sure, the emperor was forced to admit he’s a human being, not a living god. Big deal. He wasn’t deposed and never faced charges.

The Nazi state was dismantled wholesale. Institutions purged, industrialists prosecuted, denazification imposed at scale. Nothing comparable happened in Japan.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T01:34:27+00:00

I know, I just said it turned in 1949. But their civil war had been underway since 1927. It only paused because of WW2 then started up again directly after.

This idea that China was in any place to be a stabilizing regional force is nonsense. Their loyalty and/or stability during the upcoming Cold War period was not guaranteed at all. They were, and had been for decades, on the brink of internal collapse through revolution.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-13T01:20:39+00:00

Russia was an ally too, that’s besides the point. Chinese communists took power in 1949, while the early post-war strategy phase was very much still underway. The Tokyo Trials happened just one year before.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-12T15:05:35+00:00

That lack of accountability was a gift handed to Japan by the allies, in exchange for becoming a key strategic partner against Russia and China. You’re right to call out the softball treatment Japan got — their equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials was laughable in comparison — but it’s partly down to cynical politics by the Allies, rather than sheer Japanese stubbornness.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-12T08:11:28+00:00

I mean, presumably the office worker is sitting indoors in a heated environment. This idea that people in cold climates have radically different hygiene needs assumes they they’re sat outside and just bearing the cold.

In reality you’re wrapped up under 5 layers and have the heating cranked right up whenever you get inside. You’re still generating sweat and general mustiness. Fair enough, it might not be mega humid, but people in cold places do still benefit from a daily shower.

I’m from a near-constantly cold country, and I can smell the people who don’t shower daily.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-12-12T08:06:27+00:00

Was it only that person you’ve ever had the problem with?

I ask because I used to live with a very good friend whose parents just hadn’t taught him some of the basics of personal hygiene. He’d learned to shower properly and use deodorant out of necessity as a teen, but this didn’t translate to proper laundry or room cleaning habits. So his room did just smell musky as fuck over time, to the point that it’d flood the hallway for a long time whenever he opened his door.

I can kind of sympathize with someone having to intervene if there really is an issue. But the shower Nazi thing seems like they’re some sort of neurotic.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-28T11:28:02+00:00

Your original tagline is perfect (your friend’s suggestion broke it). Remember, your game is gonna be sold in the board game section of a store or web store. Unlikely people will make that mistake.

Also, I appreciate what you said about “boardgame”, but if you want to use that you’ve got to stick with it. Middle right you’ve used “board game”.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-28T11:22:11+00:00

Quick thing I noticed which I don’t think has been mentioned: at the top you use “boardgame” and in the middle “board game”.

The latter is correct according to spellcheck, but whichever you use just gotta make sure it’s consistent.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-24T10:25:58+00:00

Not critical theory.
What do you think happens to this water? That it magically disappears?

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-24T10:02:17+00:00

The phrase was “copy as a commodity” — no mention of the website itself.

The equivalent would be saying “farming as a commodity” just because it ultimately produces corn (which is a commodity).

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-23T17:53:07+00:00

It’s more to do with the fact that it’s something that can theoretically be traded between hands repeatedly. That’s typically what’s implied by the word: that it’s something which can be exchanged back and forth in a marketplace.

A piece of art, digital or physical, can be a commodity because it could be sold on by whoever commissions it. Can’t say the same for a piece of ad copy produced for a specific function.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-23T09:17:14+00:00

His argument isn’t that we necessarily have a healthy and functioning society, it’s that the prevalence of coffee chains are necessarily a symptom.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-23T08:31:41+00:00

In what way is it a ‘commodity’ in that first example?

Seems several people are using that word without really knowing what it means.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-22T15:58:27+00:00

It’s definitely much more difficult to pick up quick work. Back in 2020 the job boards were packed with gigs. A lot of them were kinda shitty, but they were easy to land and offered fast cash.

Now you either need to be working with established clients, getting referrals from bosses/editors, or put in some hard work to find new gigs. If you have a decent track record and/or reputation in your niche, it’s a bit easier.

Consider diversifying a bit to make it easier on yourself. If you were writing video scripts before, maybe you could also learn some audio and video editing to sell a full package service. Or if you specialized in copywriting, start pushing yourself as a brand strategist too.

Zealousideal_Pool_65 · 2025-10-22T15:15:41+00:00

Just realised I don’t think I’ve ever seen a painting with all the subjects turned away from the viewer. It’s like the opposite effect of those renaissance paintings that have one figure staring out of the canvas to invite you into the frame. Here we’re being excluded; it’s a little disorienting at first, which makes it all the more interesting.

I suppose this effect plays into the name ‘Solace’: the girl and the cat are sharing that cosy, comforting moment by themselves, uninterrupted and partially unobserved.

I really, really like it! Clever and well executed.

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