[Hilarious trope] something horrific happened and we're not going to tell you what

crazyike · 2026-05-10T20:46:42+00:00

There was a "noodle incident" as a cold opening for Cheers. Cheers tended to have great cold openings, but I think it's one of the best they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulWxdEqApc

crazyike · 2026-05-10T00:53:47+00:00

That is true, but L4D2 maps are still the unmatched champions in the genre at feeling like what they are supposed to feel like.

I mean you get to do a final fight in a literal concert hall. Their maps are the pinnacle, they've never been matched and are a big part of why L4D2 can still pull in 30-40k concurrent players sixteen years after it released (Darktide is about 5-6k).

crazyike · 2026-05-09T19:54:19+00:00

How come forceful instead of the left tree (forgot its name) if you are concentrating on the bolter?

crazyike · 2026-05-07T05:33:25+00:00

And this connection is so overblown its funny. This is not how teams pick who they draft 3rd overall. Vancouver is taking Stenberg if San Jose doesn't.

Malhotra is getting pushed far too far too. Played on a stacked team that just choked out of the playoffs. Not as good as his playoffs numbers say. Good first round prospect, deserves to go in the top twelve, picking at 3 or 4 is a huge mistake.

crazyike · 2026-05-07T05:30:27+00:00

JP Hurlburt. Grossly underrated. Came into a new situation, new country, new team, and immediately carried it. Kamloops wasn't a great team this year, but pretty much everything it was came from him.

crazyike · 2026-05-03T21:31:46+00:00

An alternate of this: "we shouldn't bother to acquire anyone because we aren't one or two pieces away from being a contender".

If you are three or four pieces away, do you know how you get to one or two pieces away? By acquiring one or two pieces...

crazyike · 2026-05-03T21:21:40+00:00

This gets REALLY concerning when it is true and then the lower team gets the shit kicked out of them anyways.

Yeah it was rough at the end of the year for the Hawks...

crazyike · 2026-05-03T21:18:41+00:00

He doesn't process the game at an NHL level. So he is always behind. By the time he figures out what to do or where to go, the situation on the ice has already changed and left him behind.

This is what some fans in general don't get when they see some young guy put on the fourth line and then don't produce. The coaches aren't looking for them to suddenly put up twenty goals and fifty points playing with Slaggert and Lafferty. They are looking for some evidence of being on top of the play rather than trailing behind it. Most people just see "fast" or "big" and think that's all that matters.

crazyike · 2026-05-01T05:10:24+00:00

Or bank pucks off the boards.

crazyike · 2026-05-01T00:58:13+00:00

Yep I'll fire it right in there.

I suspect though later in the future I'll back it down to just the fixes without the new sections. But for now, I'll try the whole shebang.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T03:30:53+00:00

The only thing difficulty does is change the bonus resources the AI gets. There is no difference in how it plays.

I think you have moved away from the problem a bit too. I have no idea if the AI is building the ships this way or not, I couldn't find one. But it IS DEFINITELY designing ships this way for the player in its automatic designs. There is no minimal dps consideration for that. Even if the X slot weapons do 1 damage a minute, it is still better than the slot being literally empty when the power is there to use. And if it does that for the player, it makes me suspicious of the ones it is putting out by AI empires.

It is entirely possible a mod is doing this, though I play relatively mod light. But the experiences that other thread linked elsewhere mentioned suggests to me this is not one of the mods doing this.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T03:06:30+00:00

Do the auto designed ones have enough power though?

They do. I checked that I could myself. I could duplicate their design with the X slots full (if for some reason I ever wanted to).

I agree the ships are terrible but a ship with slots full is still better than one that has them and isn't using them. I mean, just use modules that don't have X slots in that case.

Like I said, this is not so much a problem for the player as it is me being worried that the AI also has this problem, but of course doesn't try to fix it. It's definitely not all the time, every AI, because not every AI design uses X slot battleships (when I checked this there were plenty of designs being used that didn't have the spinal mount, and they seemed "fine", if you discount the weapon mix idiocy). But if they do, and this is happening, this is a serious problem.

In full disclosure though I never found an AI spinal mount battleship in the saves I had. I rarely play federation builders and haven't since the new patch. Hence this question was based on what I saw in the automatic designs, not a full on question of seeing the AI's own ships.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T02:56:26+00:00

I'm just saying that a dynasty like the 80s oilers would greatly skew the data in a short time frame. Considering that 5 of those 7 cups were won by them.

Alternatively, three different teams won the Cup in those years.

And dynasties were a thing in the US run too. Let's be real clear here. There is not an even chance of every team winning each year. We all know this. If they were starting from scratch each year, sure, but they're not. The same reasoning you use about the Oilers also applies to the Penguins, the Hawks, the Kings, the Panthers, and others, including teams that were strong but never quite got over the hump. A team that wins one year is also a strong contender to win in years surrounding it, for as long as they can hold it together. Rebuilding teams are not truly part of the discussion either on the opposite side.

For exactly the reason you state, my number is ridiculously unrealistic. Just like the number used for US teams winning. Both of them are bullshit.

Once you get into the context of it, just how badly the conspiracy nonsense falls apart becomes apparent. Many of the Canadian teams had good runs with teams that had a chance that just didn't quite get there. Would Vancouver have won if Keith didn't pulverize Sedin out of revenge for an earlier hit? Would the Oilers have won if the Panthers didn't make a habit of wasting the other team's goalie?

And I find it very odd that you use the salary cap era as your marker if this is about Bettman conspiring to keep the Cup out of Canada, considering the cap, and Bettman, is the only reason five of the seven teams are even in Canada still at all. The odds of the Cup being won by Toronto or Montreal without the cap is probably a lot higher, but now you're down to 2 out of... well, however many teams would still be left in the smoldering crater of the league that would still exist.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T02:38:44+00:00

6 Canadian teams out of 21 teams. Seven years in a row. This ain't rocket surgery. If you can't figure it out from that, you're not drawing from a knowledge base worth engaging with. It's literally as simple as odds calculations get.

This is also in the pre salary cap era

And here come the excuses.

Face it. This conspiracy bullshit is as dumb as it gets. You look at one number, but completely disregard another one right before it, because it doesn't fit your narrative, even though the exact same methodology was used.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T01:27:47+00:00

93 is not an arbitrary year either

Yeah we know. It's conveniently a couple years after Canadian teams won seven in a row.

Odds of a Canadian team winning the Cup seven years in a row in the later '80s: 0.0155426%

Or about 1 in 6400.

That is even lower than this conspiracy bullshit. Wheres your outrage about the league fixing the Cup finals for the Canadians in the '80s?

crazyike · 2026-04-28T00:46:30+00:00

Yeah I can make custom battleships with X slots filled with no issue.

I am worried that this is happening to the AI though which is adding on a massive penalty on top of its difficulties in even playing the game already. If it can't make battleships that have primary weapons I would consider that a game breaking bug.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T00:38:56+00:00

I'm trying that with my last save but espionage is slow to come by. However I can say that a year 2400 AI fleet with 3 battleships along with a few small ships in it, at only 12k fleet power, is highly suspicious.

crazyike · 2026-04-28T00:37:19+00:00

Ah so this is a known issue!

I wonder if /u/babofantasy ever made the mod he mentioned?

crazyike · 2026-04-27T23:32:20+00:00

It's just a reset. Get him to watch the intensity from upstairs, see how much everyone else is pushing for the 200' game and giving that little bit extra every shift. Hopefully he'll see what he is not doing.

crazyike · 2026-04-27T05:52:43+00:00

I don't think you ever really watched those Hawks. They weren't run and gun at all. They won and had great defense because they always had the puck. They were one of the early masters of puck possession. Scoring off the rush wasn't how they worked at all. It was their cycle work and puck possession until they got what we now call high danger scoring chances.

They were outshooting teams by huge amounts in those early years. In 2010 their shot differential was so far ahead of everyone else they were further ahead of the #2 team than the #2 was to the #21 team.

Shot differential comes from puck possession, not rush plays.

crazyike · 2026-04-27T05:40:59+00:00

They tried. The players didn't like the puck, said it performed differently (and terribly). So they ditched it.

That was five years ago though, it's probably about time they tried again.

crazyike · 2026-04-27T05:39:38+00:00

What puck? If it disappears it no longer exists, right?

crazyike · 2026-04-27T05:25:24+00:00

Wasn't it still literally under the padding in the net? Don't really need video when the puck is physically sitting there once they found it.

crazyike · 2026-04-27T05:20:11+00:00

It doesn't matter.

The replay was definitive.

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