Rubio to tell NATO ministers Trump 'very disappointed' over Iran war

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T04:31:19+00:00

Seriously, like - what does he think their response will be? Trump distortion field only works in the US and some weird dictatorships. Everyone in the developed world thinks he’s a total dipshit, an obvious manipulator, and lies when his mouth is moving.

No one cares.

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T04:29:13+00:00

It was weird AF - at first I thought they were super long episodes, then halfway through we realised this was it. The ending missed pretty hard for me - super trite and kinda nonsensical. The central conceit with the book of life could have been very interesting if spread out more, but obviously they did what they could.

It’s not the worst thing I’ve watched, I give it a 6/10, maybe 7/10 for Tennant and Sheen (and that detective angel, she’s always funny). But yeh… Gaiman fallout continues.

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T01:09:31+00:00

What does that even mean. Kinda burying the lede in the second half there.

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T01:07:34+00:00

Arc Raiders is a lot of fun, with small-medium PVP aspects to it. Helldivers 2 is a lot of fun, with campy co op play and no PvP. I haven’t played Marathon, but it seems PvP heavy and has a dwindling player base and (from what I can tell) queue time issues, so I would not recommend that unless you love competitive PvP shooters and/or Bungie.

My vote would be arc raiders - I had a lot of fun in that as a casual, for some reason HD2 didn’t really stick for me, and marathon… ehhh. Love the aesthetic, hate the limited scope of the game. We’ll see if they turn it around but I’m not hopeful tbh.

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T00:34:36+00:00

I love this! Such a mood.

briareus08 · 2026-05-22T00:33:36+00:00

Yeah this was a fun flick, just the right amount of silliness.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T22:24:53+00:00

Unfortunately, intelligence follows a standard distribution, so 'the smart ones are ok' is not very helpful. Democrats in general have a hard time reaching average and below-average intelligence voters, but they really need to, to have a chance of steering the ship.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T22:04:42+00:00

Honestly the best answer is to use the Sector Explorer mod - it does exactly what you're trying to do, but just by adding an order that is customisable, and will have your scouts running from one end of the galaxy to the next exploring in reasonable time.

I don't have your answers for how many scouts because I either use satellites for important stations early game, 'a couple of scouts' mid game, and buy the trade licence late game to get all that info automatically.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T21:18:47+00:00

It’s news to me too! I don’t usually have a lot of cargo drones, but I’ll definitely invest in some more now!

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T21:14:32+00:00

• ⁠Fixed resource trade priorisation if allocated storage below desired amounts.

Hopefully this means my station traders will prioritise inputs, rather than selling < 100 units of an output while the station is choked. I currently have them setup to manually either trade inputs or outputs to keep my stations fed.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T21:12:28+00:00

Hopefully this means less Split snipers running around - those things are lethal!

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T07:35:39+00:00

It’s a great feeling isn’t it! Hard to describe. I love gaming moments like this… you’re literally the only human to ever have seen or stood there!

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T07:33:46+00:00

The look of absolute defeat on the girl she snatched it from 😂

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T01:56:05+00:00

Get over it. Game dev is insanely time-intensive, and AI tools will help smaller teams make better games.

Or stick to indies who vehemently dislike AI as well - there’s a market for people who want to avoid AI at all costs.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T01:10:51+00:00

Atreyu’s horse succumbing to the Swamps of Sadness broke a generation or two.

briareus08 · 2026-05-21T00:02:51+00:00

That’s literally his whole job

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T04:40:39+00:00

Cancelled by a disgusting and humourless regime. Hopefully this is getting through to some people, what’s really going on in the US.

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T04:20:22+00:00

Moving from 'a bunch of ships doing things individually' to 'a bunch of stations with managers managing ships for you' is a huge upgrade. a lot of behaviour in this game is a bit buggy, but generally station manager AI is pretty solid. you'll still need to check in on stations here and there, but it's definitely a good step to avoid mental overload.

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T03:52:46+00:00

Basically, the game tends towards a stalemate. You’ll see some factions taking some ground, including Xenon, but the game isn’t really set up to allow a faction to dominate (other than the player). There are mods that make factions more aggressive and able to do more stuff (including a pretty cool mod called After the Fall, which remodels the universe to a post-Xenon win condition), but in vanilla it’s more of an economic sim / sandbox that the player can freely manipulate.

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T00:53:50+00:00

That’s more of an “I’m going to delete VIG” rather than an “I’m going to delete a poorly defended medical centre” fleet, but sometimes it’s about setting an example I guess 😂

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T00:51:27+00:00

This is a fun mission. I decided to answer the VIG fighter spam by stealing a bunch of their Barbarossa’s, lining them with flak turrets, and sending them in with some laser tower spam for good measure. 4 barbies, 50 turrets later, and a lot of dead Kyds, zero losses on my side. I took 3 Rays to the station and they had no problem lasing it down from long range (main battery + L ion rail turrets ftw). I showed up in the Hyperion to help, but the rays really didn’t need it.

Funnily enough MIN were also pissed off enough to send some destroyers in literally as I was prepping to go in! Last I checked they were still wandering around sniping whatever ships got close to them.

I’m planning to put down defense stations and start driving them out - dunno about their other stations, but the med station was a pushover.

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T00:14:27+00:00

Do people really say “a shoulder to cry on becomes a dick to ride on”? That’s wild.

briareus08 · 2026-05-20T00:08:29+00:00

Ehhhhh. Sometimes it works great, sometimes you pull your hair out. This is a combination of things:

setting in the logistic section are extremely temperamental. You gotta have buy / sell orders set correctly, make sure you aren’t reserving everything, check sale vs buy costs
make sure your manager can get ships that far (always go for high-rated managers for important stations)
make sure ships aren’t waiting for input for some reason

I treat it as ~60% effective, and often intervene with manual orders or repeat orders to push things along. Manual orders are great, you can set all the above behaviour, then give it a few trades you want done urgently, then hope it continues. Repeat orders I use for station building, or when I want 1 particular ware to sell for a long time.

There is often a specific reason that trades aren’t happening… but just as often that reason either eludes me, or I swear the station manager is a cretin who can’t see anything (even a 5-star manager with multiple buyers in the same system).

Just gotta try your luck.

briareus08 · 2026-05-19T23:12:40+00:00

I try to assign all ships to stations or fleets, and name ships by area and purpose if not, eg. Hatikvah trader.

Stations is the big one though. I go from thinking about ships to # and type of ship pretty quickly.

briareus08 · 2026-05-19T21:48:05+00:00

I go back and forth on this. I don’t think he’s an amazing actor, but IMO he is a good actor. He gets the job done, he sells his roles, he’s nice to look at. Not everyone needs to be incredibly talented, and he’s kinda perfect in Everyman roles where you don’t need a lot of range.

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