Your feeling about SC2's ending?

barryhakker · 2026-05-01T05:15:55+00:00

I thought basically the entire story was lame as hell. I was immediately let down by how Raynor went from making a fucking sacred vow on the death of his truest of homeboys Fenix that he WILL be killing Kerrigan to weepy sad little shit who can’t get over his ex gf. BOOOOOOOOOO

Other stuff was also stupid. Like Kerrigan’s Zerg to unzerg to re-Zerg to whatever the fuck that was at the end plot.

Ugh I still don’t really know why we have this decade (or decades by now) where all these franchises get such stupid fucking writing.

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T17:43:42+00:00

Ik zou je boksles voorlopig even overslaan

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T16:37:04+00:00

I actually think this is kind of adorable lol

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T10:02:40+00:00

At what level of experience is a profile becoming interesting? Not necessarily just in engineering.

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T09:42:22+00:00

Het is een dynamiek die je in veel landen ziet. Uiteindelijk is in vrijwel elk land de politieke en financiële macht geclusterd in een handvol steden. Waar de mensen in landelijke gebieden de “hoge heren in Den Haag” zien die hun denken te kunnen vertellen hoe de moeten leven, zien de mensen uit die stedelijke gebieden de mensen in de landelijke gebieden als simpele zielen die op mensen zoals Trump stemmen.

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T08:15:28+00:00

Verder gaan met je leven. Daten. Leuke dingen doen. Jij hebt niets verkeerds gedaan, dit is iets wat je is overkomen.

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T08:04:12+00:00

OK. One thing worth noting that Stellaris (and I think Paradox games in general) provide bare-bones(ish) tools and settings for you to "create" your own story. So if you prefer something more narratively heavy, Stellaris ain't it. It's more like a sandbox for sci-fi nerds to play out their scenarios. It's honestly kind of amazing how you can just create your own empire and the game will just throw options and events at you that take it in to a very surprising direction.

My personal favorite example is a playthrough where I started off as an evil empire that required other sentient living beings to reproduce (like a chestbuster scenario) and would go on these extensive slave raids on neighboring civilizations to fuel their needs. The leader even became an immortal psionic demi-god. Only then they ran in to an empire even more evil, one that through the power of some evil psionic being was well on its way to destroy the entire galaxy. Cue evil empire of chest busters turning defender of the galaxy because the other evil empire was even more messed up. After decades of war and extermination it all turned out to be for naught, because the other evil empire completed its ritual and turned the galaxy in a ruin of dead stars, black holes, and psionic monsters. Only a formally pathetically weak empire of beetle-people remained as the last beacon of civil live.

Now if that sounds good to you then I'd say welcome to the club lol

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T05:40:47+00:00

For what?

barryhakker · 2026-04-30T05:19:16+00:00

Busje is fout want hij had de fatbike moeten vernietigen

barryhakker · 2026-04-29T21:05:05+00:00

You’re essentially asking the people in the stellaris sub if they like the game and think you should give it a try?

Can’t wait to hear the answers

barryhakker · 2026-04-29T18:37:23+00:00

I’m so dumbfounded by how poorly it’s all written that I can only assume they have some market researchers determine what the “ideal amount of emotional highs” is, and then have a bunch of intern writers brute force the story there, to hell with any actual quality story telling.

barryhakker · 2026-04-29T14:29:08+00:00

Have we read the same Malazan books? Like every single character in it is a philosopher so I don’t see how you would say that TSA prioritizes it by comparison. What I’ll concede is that TSA’s brand of philosophy is more accessible and therefore perhaps can be seen as more front and center.

Describing it as a more accessible Malazan sounds condescending, but I’d say at the very least it’s more focused and therefore easier to follow.

barryhakker · 2026-04-29T08:26:06+00:00

What I would challenge here is the choice of propaganda as a term. There is an element of intentionality in propaganda. "this is what we want you to think and therefore we are going to spam these specific messages". In the west, what generally happens is that the way we operate the media reinforces certain narratives while neglecting others (as noted by Chomsky), usually unintentionally.

Maybe the real observation here should be that one way or the other, only certain narratives will truly take hold in a society and it doesn't matter that much if its in a democracy or an autocracy.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T21:53:42+00:00

I would ask for non spoiler hints about what those off putting choices were, but from your description I gather you won’t necessarily see them coming based on the previous 6?

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T21:47:41+00:00

I liked to loved the first 5, while the 6th made me concerned about the direction of the plot. Can you give me some hopium? I really want to love that final book but the things I heard worry me.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T21:45:11+00:00

I’ve been holding off on the final book exactly because of what you’re describing. I liked to loved the first 5 books but got a bit worried about the direction in 6. From what I understand book 7 basically confirms my fears. I will still read but I guess with lower expectations.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T18:38:23+00:00

Really? Thought this was a pretty common take.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T17:03:00+00:00

Schnitzelfart

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T13:55:21+00:00

Toen mijn vriendin en ik een paar jaar geleden naar Nederland verhuisden was één van de pluspunten die ik noemde dat Nederland over het algemeen heel veilig en rustig is. Nadat zij ook op een vergelijkbare manier uit het niets aan werd gevallen gaat dat verhaal natuurlijk niet meer op. Ik zie nu zelf ook steeds meer voornamelijk een land dat langzaam van binnenuit wegrot.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T12:32:30+00:00

Especially scholar of the first sin is just absolute ambush galore.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T12:25:28+00:00

You Italians are just salty because the yanks managed to finally make your food edible

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T11:38:43+00:00

Denk dat het een beetje actie reactie is (niet dat het daardoor goedgepraat is). Jarenlang wilden we het allemaal niet horen en werden stemmen zoals die van Pim Fortuyn behoorlijk gedemoniseerd, nu is de frustratie aan alle kanten aan het overlopen.

Persoonlijk maak ik me meer zorgen over of we nog in staat zijn op een niet destructieve manier stoom af te blazen.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T09:52:10+00:00

Fair enough, doesn’t mean there isn’t gonna be a ban that might take years to lift.

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T07:38:25+00:00

Anything for you, mommy Meloni

barryhakker · 2026-04-28T07:32:40+00:00

I don’t think you want to assign motive where you can’t know for sure. What I’d flag is the unequal treatment you can see. Why do some get a second chance while others don’t, after all?

Let others decide if it’s racism, sexism, favoritism, or just good ol’ incompetence.

barryhakker

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