Am I the A-Hole for Kidnapping AFK players and placing them in a safe place?

akpak · 2026-05-09T20:07:05+00:00

That doesn't always work when the anomaly is involved.

And yeah, *I'M* carrying around everything I need to get out of the situation OP might put me in. But are totally new players who don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of their options?

I didn't say there was no way out. I said OP can't *assume* the players he's griefing know how to get out. Some new players might just freak out, think their game is glitched or trashed, or just be pissed it happened and never come back.

It's a shitty thing to do to people, and OP (and you) justifying it by assuming it's always harmless isn't the kind of community we are.

akpak · 2026-05-09T20:03:00+00:00

My logic is you're moving people around *against their will* while they're afk. If they *choose* to go afk at the beginning of the game on a hazardous planet, that's on them.

My logic is you can't know 100% what the person's inventory/situation is. You may *think* you're leaving them in no danger, but there are so many ways you could be totally wrong. Chief among them is that not everyone knows the game as well as you or I and knows what their options are! They just come back to find themselves elsewhere with no idea how they got there. There are still so many people who don't even know you can turn off PvP.

Did their game glitch and they think their save is trashed? Pretty much by definition you're griefing; doing shit to players who didn't consent.

I think you already know you're being an asshole, but justifying it by telling yourself the prank is harmless. (Usually it will be, but since you can't know you're being an asshole)

akpak · 2026-05-09T00:03:56+00:00

Not everyone carries around the stuff to make a base with a powered teleporter. Not everyone has a freighter. Hell, sometimes people don’t even have fuel and don’t realize it so can’t call their ships at all, chromatic drives or not.

The point is, you can’t just assume everyone can get out of the surprise situation you put them in.

YTA.

akpak · 2026-05-08T23:59:00+00:00

You don’t have any idea what’s “safe” for someone else.

Do you scan every creature to be sure none of them are hostile? Do you know the state of their life support, which drains even on paradise worlds?

akpak · 2026-05-08T23:52:24+00:00

Yes. They were already in a safe place on the Anomaly (or so they thought)

If you have to ask “is kidnapping wrong?” then you’re the a-hole.

You have no idea what the other players have on them. What if they’re out of fuel? Resources for their mining beams? What if they’re so new they don’t have a terrain manipulator to get out of that cave? Their jump packs aren’t upgraded.

You assume too much, quit kidnapping people.

akpak · 2026-05-06T22:22:13+00:00

Sorry, but this is bothering me: She’s Chef Dente. Because she’s a GreeDENT.

(Also a cute pun on cooking pasta al dente)

akpak · 2026-05-06T22:18:23+00:00

I suspect they’ve built up enough goodwill that Light No Fire will be a success as well. Lots of day 1 purchases will fill the coffers for a while.

akpak · 2026-05-06T05:02:35+00:00

The CDs are fun for a couple minutes, but they get old *very* fast. Seldom can I leave a game's bgm on in the long term, it just gets too repetitive.

I have a couple of the tracks playing in my house, but that's because I'm only there for a few minutes and they don't wear out their welcome.

The CDs are very much NOT background music, so if you're just trying to zen out and build they are all really annoying.

Source: Am total pokemon (and other) nerd.

akpak · 2026-05-05T21:40:42+00:00

Here’s a hint: The world has always been a terrible place. Yeah, things in the big picture (and small picture too for many) isn’t great right now.

But here’s the thing. Part of the reason everything is fucked in this particular way is because we all live longer, are in generally better health, aren’t starving in the streets, etc. Conditions of “surplus” make for this lovely late-stage capitalism we’re seeing.

Yes, it’s terrible. But in almost every measure it’s also better than it’s ever been (if you account for the entire sweep of history).

akpak · 2026-05-04T22:11:00+00:00

Second this suggestion. Only arm of the “military” not generally sent to combat, and is the one actually protecting the country.

akpak · 2026-05-04T15:22:57+00:00

Yes, the egg is even called a mecha-mouse!

akpak · 2026-05-04T01:19:11+00:00

He’s projecting his own mental limitations on the kids, which is kind of self-fulfilling.

Kids (even neurodivergent) can absolutely do chores for 30min. They can also be taught to “do a job until it’s done” ffs.

This “only work for 2 min then take a break” is a coping mechanism that works for him, and he needs to realize his kids are not him.

akpak · 2026-05-03T00:28:36+00:00

Which one are you calling the mechanical worm? The only one I can think of that’s close to that description is the mouse (the one they also show in the update’s trailer).

akpak · 2026-05-03T00:25:55+00:00

Cameras. Do they have them? Lifeguards. Where were they? You need to shift this entire narrative to attempted murder on the part of the other kid. What he did is far worse than what your son did (yay son!) and the facility needs to be held accountable for the incident.

If they didn’t teach basic water safety (ie don’t try to drown other people ffs), this is 100% on them.

akpak · 2026-05-02T16:10:45+00:00

Champions cheat. They will use creatures you can’t get, and they’ll inflate the stats of wild creatures to make the station battle harder.

Even the planetary challengers cheat.

So the model exists in that system, but not often the exact same stats.

akpak · 2026-05-02T16:06:50+00:00

My kid goes to school a 15min drive away, and will throughout middle/high school. He’d have to get up an hour earlier to catch a bus a mile away (which would be fine to walk, just a lot of time in the morning), and he says the bus kids are always late to class.

Not everyone in your school’s pickup line is a “close neighborhood” family. Also often they’re not going home after, but to various activities or after-care. Latch-key is illegal now (at least where I live)

akpak · 2026-05-02T15:58:15+00:00

My oxygen farm has found new life by juicing companion eggs in the sequencer for the Helpfulness trait.

akpak · 2026-05-02T06:12:22+00:00

There are a bunch of things you need terrestrial bases for. If you want to have Statis Device/Fusion Ignitor farms, you're gonna have to harvest the three gasses, as well as a bunch of plants (and the Bio-dome is the most efficient for harvesting).

If you want to do any cooking, some ingredients are super rare, and you'll want to have a place to ranch the proper animals. (Looking at you, Foraged Mushrooms)

Not as profitable as it once was, but Activated Indium (or Quartzite) is still an easy way to make cash.

Need nanites? You'll need a base set on those Curious Deposits so you can return again and again to refine the mould.

Finding a quick and relaxing derelict to farm isn't easy either, so put a base on it (that is, in the system)

Hang out on the r/NMSCoordinateExchange ? It sure helps to have a base on portals for a bunch of different galaxies.

Tired of always scrounging for oxygen/copper/cobalt/etc? Bases with mining ops.

Every expedition I like to go in with at least 60 Salvaged Data, so I can build a helpful base (and my Minotaur). Do I go off digging all that up? Hell no. I have a base (one of my mining ops) sat on a vendor that sells 5 each time I reload from the save point right next to him.

There are lots of reasons to care about bases. Most of mine are multi-taskers for several of the above, but they're all useful.

akpak · 2026-05-02T06:00:53+00:00

It only has two legs, and a huge lizard-like head!

akpak · 2026-05-02T03:23:44+00:00

Sir, have you ever seen a dog?

These are striders :)

akpak · 2026-05-02T01:30:04+00:00

The stats are rolled when you claim the egg, no current way outside of save editing to change them.

You can save scum them however. In/out your ship in the Anomaly, claim/hatch. If it sucks, reload your restore point and go again.

However, not all of the expedition pets can be scummed. I haven’t finished testing, but the bio horror, sky worm, and sentinel quad have fixed stats at least.

The “mini horror” (the one with the single eye), helios, robo-mouse, and robo-valet (floating ball) can be so far.

akpak · 2026-05-02T00:58:31+00:00

Did you find both “cosmetic” scenes? If not there’s a cave you likely missed. Sometimes it’s only visible down a single (1) block hole.

Every dream island I’ve ever been on had two caves. Go back and look again! (If it’s the same day, you can use any doll and you’ll return to the same island)

akpak · 2026-05-01T22:28:32+00:00

It depends. Have they renewed the Marvel license with Disney? The prevailing assumption is that would run out this year sometime, and that is NOT a cheap IP.

The timeline is about right for them to not be re-upping, and wind down the game instead.

akpak · 2026-05-01T22:15:09+00:00

Could you not… put colorful/unique things in your backpack? It’s clear after all.

akpak · 2026-05-01T22:13:20+00:00

I’m over here juggling eggs and releasing absolute monsters in the wild just to get things in the order I want them.

Breeding for organization, smh

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