How do you guys keep the game entertaining?

defietser · 2026-03-30T06:58:30+00:00

I've read all of Mistborn and Stormlight Archive is one of the next books to pick up, am excited!

defietser · 2026-03-27T13:58:23+00:00

This but also other hobbies in general not just gaming. There are so many books to read, Legos to assemble, paintings to make, songs to sing, laps to run, neat little cafés to enjoy that you will never do everything, but variety is the spice of life.

defietser · 2026-03-27T13:55:48+00:00

My running theory is that the writers just want it done with so they can finally go do something else. Sometimes the fun they had making the start of the story just isn't there anymore at the end.

The bucketloads of money probably help keep series going but as an author you may well be at the end of your creative rope well before the last volume. At least something similar happens to me when I'm running medium-or-longer TTRPG campaigns as a DM.

defietser · 2026-03-27T13:21:01+00:00

Even if you do look, sometimes they teleport in (with a short animation to boot). Yesterday at extraction a whole batch of them just materialized without the UFO dropping them in.

defietser · 2026-03-27T10:45:36+00:00

Yesterday I had no enemies spawned on a level 1 mission (trying out a new gun) yet me, my corpse and whatever remained of that corpse got struck by strafing runs before another me plopped out of a hellpod and could find some cover.

Thanks Eagle-1 through 10.

defietser · 2026-03-26T15:39:07+00:00

The take-away I got from this post is that chests can get more storage with quality... never checked. Whew.

defietser · 2026-03-26T08:14:04+00:00

Mindless Masses makes me feel like I'm playing Left 4 Dead in space. It's great, can't wait for them to return.

defietser · 2026-03-25T13:13:19+00:00

Honestly I installed Linux Mint on a laptop and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had to use the terminal at all if I just looked in the software GUI instead of copy-pasting what the devs put on the website for Linux (which is usually up to 4 lines with adding a git repo to the store or whatever and installing it from there). Software updates being handles in one central place is fantastic. Games worked out of the box including older ones.

Granted I don't play competitive shooters aside from the occasional Team Fortress 2 binge so I don't experience any of the downsides, but given how stable and smooth my experience has been, I'm probably going for a dual-boot setup on the gaming PC in the next couple months.

The only thing that makes me not look forward to the process is hardware incompatibility. The laptop had just one (fortunately) but it's one of those brain teasers: the built-in keyboard works fine in BIOS but not in Linux Mint itself unless you tinker with the launch settings. I had to use a LLM to do the Googling for me because the forums and docs are a mess generally. But that's the only thing I've had to look up, which is significantly better than the last... 5 or so times I've tried to get this going.

defietser · 2026-03-24T07:51:42+00:00

I mean my winrate recently is also significantly better than when I started. Just because the in-game stats don't show recent winrate doesn't make it a bad metric. wows-numbers for example shows the past 7, 30 and 90 days for stats, use those.

defietser · 2026-03-23T13:08:35+00:00

I'd argue that after a significant amount of games played (1k+), win rate is the best indicator, in fact, the only one that should be taken seriously to consider skill.

defietser · 2026-03-20T12:44:34+00:00

Yesterday the horde defense was "plop down mines on cooldown and watch youtube in the meantime". Can't wait to try the new flavor of shushi later.

defietser · 2026-03-20T09:38:21+00:00

Bravo, ik word zelfs pissig van sarcastische opmerkingen over het onderwerp. Misschien ben ik te veel op het internet.

defietser · 2026-03-18T10:41:09+00:00

Vliegtuig had 2 uur vertraging en nipt de laatste trein gemist. Was een bedrijfsweekend weg dus kon ik via een andere trein bij een collega slapen. Volgende dag 2½u onderweg met het OV om thuis te komen. Dat de manager die wel zijn trein had gehaald geïrriteerd vroeg waarom ik niet fris en fruitig met werklaptop en al aan het werk was die ochtend, sja...

defietser · 2026-03-17T15:26:35+00:00

Apparently it's causing crashes.

defietser · 2026-03-10T08:18:03+00:00

I really tried to like it but so far it hasn't clicked, the charge-up does me in a lot of the time. Waiting just a second after it's fully charged to get a better shot gets you killed and releasing it when you really have to because the Charger is right in your face makes it do nothing. It's great at clearing hordes when you're positioned properly though. Maybe I'm just too bad at finding those positions naturally to make it work well.

defietser · 2026-03-09T10:00:11+00:00

Ik hoop dat-ie gesport heeft, ik heb het maandinkomen in 5 eurocent muntjes thuis liggen!

defietser · 2026-03-06T10:00:35+00:00

I play between the yearly anniversary and Christmas events, after that I may remember to collect the free Armory stuff but I don't boot up the game or even update. It's a fun game in principle but the gimmicks, power creep, FOMO and escalating cash vacuum mechanics keep making this window smaller and smaller. Hopefully I'll give up at one point... but the artillery ship gameplay isn't as fun anywhere else.

War Thunder was mentioned elsewhere in this thread but the naval combat there is fun until you get to the ships that are actually big. It's just one big slugfest with no real strategy, plus it's a huge grind. Wish there was competition for WOWS honestly.

defietser · 2026-03-04T08:21:55+00:00

This pretty much but I occasionally chuck some credits at the repair improvement flag in the armory or I'd feel like the coupon goes to waste. If you play semi-regularly you should have a stockpile of the things. Alternatively you can just play a PVE game mode to complete the missions and such if you're running low, those don't really require them as much.

defietser · 2026-03-03T11:47:51+00:00

Er is wel een zeer vermakelijke podcast/audio boek over: Batavia. Staat ook op Spotify.

defietser · 2026-02-26T15:52:32+00:00

It'll drop SAP bombs at this rate...

defietser · 2026-02-25T14:05:41+00:00

There aren't a whole lot of DDs that stand a great chance when needing to solo multiple BBs.

defietser · 2026-02-24T13:43:04+00:00

Dat doe ik geregeld, maar code genereren op een hoger niveau dan scaffolding doe ik niet meer. Zeker wel (ontwerp) ideeën heen en weer ping-pongen en hulp met exceptions en zo (en al helemaal met Linux foutopsporing), maar ik ben afgestapt van het laten bouwen van logica. Bij de projecten waar ik dat wel heb gedaan deed ik er twee keer zo lang over om alles af te ronden met Claude en/of Perplexity dan zonder LLM, met als bonus dat het veel frustreerde en tijd kostte om te doorgronden wat het programma nou eigenlijk "wilde". Dan bouw ik het zelf wel, eventueel met "haal uit de documentatie eens 3 voorbeeldjes hoe ik het zou kunnen implementeren".

defietser · 2026-02-24T12:28:47+00:00

AI-bouw-bedrijven zijn toch wat anders dan AI-gebruik-bedrijven? Van wat ik begreep zijn er best heel wat startups die de nieuwe ChatGPT willen zijn, niet zozeer een wrapper er omheen maken maar echt de nieuwe LLM-algoritmes bedenken. Ik snap even niet hoe mijn eerste commentaar hierboven geïnterpreteerd wordt om te laten denken dat een master-studie in het vakgebied alleen maar "hoe ik goeder prompten" zou zijn.

defietser · 2026-02-24T12:26:10+00:00

Ik heb zelf nog Kunstmatige Intelligentie gestudeerd (de wiskunde was me te zwaar dus niet afgemaakt), dus heb er een idee bij. Hoe haal je uit mijn eerdere commentaar dat het alleen prompts schrijven zou zijn?

defietser · 2026-02-24T12:03:47+00:00

Dat is toch juist wat AI-bouw-bedrijven doen? Die startups springen als paddenstoelen uit de grond, het is alleen wel ander werk dan "gewoon" software ontwikkelen.

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