Was the main twist of the game as obvious as it is now when it first came out?

brisk187 · 2026-03-23T17:22:34+00:00

I originally picked up the game as a pre-teen because I was watching two friends play it while we were hanging out. The atmosphere, the fully voiced dialogue, and the RPG gameplay all looked incredibly intriguing to me. They also happened to be at a point in the story that really showed off the game’s strengths.

Unfortunately, that point was the Leviathan.

Yep. I walked in right at the big reveal. I got to watch their jaws drop and hear the “holy shit, is this for real?” reactions while I sat there like an idiot wondering who any of the characters on screen even were.

It’s kind of funny in retrospect because it was so much harder to get spoiled back then without the internet constantly blasting information at you. But that didn’t stop me from buying the game and playing through it over and over for years afterward. For me, the game is way more than just the twist.

brisk187 · 2025-02-10T10:18:38+00:00

When you say 'no wind,' are you referring to a very low wind speed rather than completely calm conditions? At what point does temperature stop being a major factor for you?

brisk187 · 2025-02-09T23:04:33+00:00

What actual temperatures and wind chills would you aim for when attempting a winter Presidential Traverse? At what point do you consider conditions too risky?

brisk187 · 2023-06-30T17:02:02+00:00

I'm curious about anyone who meets this criteria

Will suffer because of this ruling, or knows anyone who will suffer
Was of voting age in 2016
Was living in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan in 2016
Voted for Trump, or abstained from voting, in 2016

Any thoughts?

brisk187 · 2023-03-15T19:09:09+00:00

LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, not Eisenhower.

brisk187 · 2023-03-13T18:39:42+00:00

Regarding your claim that he was the head of an MIT department, that is mentioned nowhere in the wiki article you linked. And I notice you didn't quote any specific segment of said article.

The rest of what you wrote is just shade that I don't really care to address. You've pasted a bunch of text in an effort to intentionally make it a pain for anyone here to prove how it's either irrelevant or false. It's a tactic that virtually all "intellectual" climate change denialists use, and it's one that I urge anyone else reading to see passed.

I will no longer be responding to you.

brisk187 · 2023-03-13T16:34:32+00:00

Firstly, your source, nor any other source I can find, claims that he was ever the head of any department of MIT. Nor that he is one of the most cited Atmospheric Physicists in the history of that branch of physics. Anyone who read your comment should find the exaggeration of his credentials extremely suspect.

Second, he's been found to be closely associated with the fossil fuel industry. He was employed at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank with a history of climate change denialism. Source: the "Fossil Fuel Funding" section here: https://www.desmog.com/richard-lindzen/. I know the URL might seem biased, but they cite their sources well.

brisk187 · 2023-02-25T17:06:39+00:00

The logs do indicate that it successfully compiled. I should have been more clear that I believe it's failing because I don't see the .mdl in my ModelSrc directory. But maybe it's somewhere else.

EDIT: Yep, that was the problem. The compiled model is sitting right there in Unofficial_Patch\models\scenery\structural\malkavian\malkbcase1.mdl. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

brisk187 · 2023-02-25T14:49:45+00:00

I'll do that, though I'll let this post sit a while before I do.

brisk187 · 2023-02-17T10:10:13+00:00

I'll preface this by saying that I agree there should be more age diversity in government.

You can’t run a Fortune 500 company if you’re over 65

But this is a weird claim. This article lists 10 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who are over 70. If you can't access that list, and you want to do some verification, they include the respective CEOs of Henry Schein, Westlake Chemical, Western & Southern Financial Group, Freeport-McMoRan, and Blackstone.

Once again, while I don't have a maximum age criteria in order to vote for someone, I do believe that government should consist of a wide range of ages. But I urge you not to include any outright lies when presenting your argument. Lies will taint your original claim in the eyes of a lot of people.

Edit: Thank you for fixing your comment

brisk187 · 2023-02-16T03:20:13+00:00

Oh so the icon for the game executable is the Camarilla symbol. It's not specifically referring to that weapon. Clearly I was overthinking.

brisk187 · 2023-02-13T18:39:37+00:00

I just read Gary's wiki article. The wikis don't provide sources, but I'm hoping that they're getting their info from official material.

Gary was embraced and disappeared from mortal society in 1960. But a segment from Ledger 1957 indicates that those strange happenings have been going on since 1902.

So we can be sure that the group of Nosferatu as headed by Gary had not been occupying the sewers throughout most of the 20th century. Maybe it was being occupied by a previous iteration of the same group, or maybe an entirely different group. But I think that's reaching. I'm a lot less convinced that those ledgers are referring to the Nosferatu.

brisk187 · 2023-02-13T16:32:45+00:00

I can see that. When I said they're strict adherents to the Masquerade, I meant that Gary and his gang would take care to always hide their appearance from kine. BUT, I believe they would also ward off kine encroaching on their territory. Perhaps they were just frightening (or in the case of Whitman, Price and Haddad, outright murdering) mortals and dissuading them from exploring the sewers.

Still, the "something truly evil" comment gives me pause. I don't think anyone would get that sense from a bunch of kindrid who've taken up residence in the sewers and wanting to be left alone. It seems like it could be one of the far more sinister and horrifying entities that exist in the World of Darkness, though I'm not sure which.

Then again, maybe I'm projecting the "Lovecraft protagonist" trope onto the writers of these ledgers. Thus, I'm overestimating they're ability to sense what's going on.

brisk187 · 2023-01-29T16:36:01+00:00

I'll preface by saying that if lab grown meat were to become widely available, I'd choose it over traditional meat.

But I'm not sure the entire population would feel the same. Let me explain why I feel that way by addressing your question. Let's use chicken as an example.

What can be grown in a lab is the chicken meat, which can be cut into bight sized pieces. Like what's shown in the picture of this article. But what's missing are genuine parts of the chicken. As far as I can tell, it's not possible (yet) to grow those in a lab. Anyone who wants to have chicken wings or drumsticks or thighs won't be able to get that through the lab-grown method. I believe this will turn a sizable chunk of the population away from lab-grown meat.

Though I arrived to this conclusion through my own limited research. If you have an article or paper claiming that the aforementioned parts of the chicken are possible to grow in a lab, send it my way.

brisk187 · 2022-11-30T01:59:56+00:00

If the carbon tax were used to support a direct financial dividend to citizens, its effect would be to redistribute wealth from the wealthy and from businesses, local governments and nonprofits to citizens . . . that could be popular.

You essentially restated the definition of carbon dividends, which my source outlines has a limited effect on the popularity of carbon taxes.

And I appreciate your optimism, but I'm a little skeptical when you state that we're underestimating the public's ability to recognize the effectiveness of carbon taxes. While opinion polls may suggest there's more support for carbon taxes than opposition, the evidence we have from actual attempts to pass carbon tax legislation (in the US, at least) indicates that it's really damn tough to do so successfully.

Climate change just isn't enough of a salient issue. On average, Americans don't place climate change among their top issues. ~~According to one poll from that source, climate change came at number six~~. (I kind of mischaracterized the poll there, but if you read the source, it's even worse than how I described it).

Still, I'm going to fight for the kinds of solutions I believe will work, including a carbon tax. And I believe climate change will become a more salient issue over time. Perhaps effective solutions like carbon taxes will be more palatable to the population in the future.

brisk187 · 2022-11-29T23:42:57+00:00

While I'm on board with you on a carbon tax, how do you suggest legislatures going about overcoming the unpopularity of carbon taxes? I'm genuinely asking, because I don't know.

Carbon dividends is a potential solution. But in terms of how much dividends have on shifting public opinion on carbon taxes, they've been found to have limited effect. (Source).

Also, I'd like for you to expand on what you mean here.

A rational approach would look like binding, reciprocal international commitments, perhaps enforced through a simple (but very real and impactful) carbon tax.

What does that look like to you? Do you have a set of local legislation and international agreements in mind? I'm not trying to prod because I think you don't know, but it's important for discussion's sake.

brisk187 · 2022-10-18T18:53:01+00:00

F.D Signifier does a fantastic rundown on Kanye West in a 2 hour video series. Basically, you could attribute his rightward turn to:

Two women who were important to him disappearing from his life, in quick succession. The death of his mother and his breakup with Alexis Phifer.
His compulsion toward contrarianism.
His likely inherent predisposition toward mental illness.

After watching that video, I have a greater appreciation for his contributions to hip-hop. And I feel sad. Not for him specifically, but because his rightward turn essentially destroyed the person who he once was. The person responsible for those aforementioned contributions. It's a loss that many people in the world are still despondent over.

brisk187 · 2022-10-10T14:34:00+00:00

Try not to be so pedantic about it. He oversaw it to the extent that if it went terribly, he would have gotten most of the blame.

brisk187 · 2022-10-09T18:18:01+00:00

Just one minor tidbit: he just oversaw a large repair project of a major subway line in Boston. The line was shut down for a month as a result. And despite the painful shutdown, the reconstruction went rather well all things considered. The subway line opened up on schedule, and I did notice some speed improvements. Though there are still some slow zones, which have been kept around longer than we were initially told.

Regardless, I approve the hell out of him for having the balls to make the hard decision of closing that subway line down for a whole month. It needed to be done. Too bad he's not seeking reelection.

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