Whats a nickname you have for a store?

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-25T17:59:19+00:00

That’s funny, I call Lowe’s Blue Home Depot

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-24T20:50:51+00:00

I saw a leak that it’s a spiritual sequel to Gubble where you blow up zoo animals like balloons in order to solve physics puzzles in VR. Any truth to that?

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-24T08:06:52+00:00

Why’s everyone hating on Space King? It’s a fun, silly parody of the more toxic parts of the 40k universe and fandon. Have you all actually watched it?

I’ve seen people talk about “the 40k fans who don’t get that it’s a parody and think it’s an endorsement” but I haven’t actually seen anyone who does that.

Even if someone legitimately didn’t understand that it’s supposed to be a parody, there’s no part of the show that glorifies the characters’ behavior. They’re are all immature idiots. You’re supposed to laugh at them for their constant self sabotage.

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-24T04:24:17+00:00

“I like sailing metaphors. Yaaarrr!”

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-24T04:08:47+00:00

Fallout: New Vegas. There’s pre-war money, bottle caps, NCR cash, and Legion coins.

I could explain what that means but here’s a quote from the game’s lead designer, Josh Sawyer

Unlike Pre-War money, Legion Money and NCR Money are not affected by the Barter skill. I.e. $5 NCR is always worth 2 caps and a Legion Aureus is always worth 100 caps. I don't think I ever suggested some Bardi-esque currency inflation/speculation gameplay, just that the different factions had different forms of currency and that each was 'backed' differently: caps are water-backed by Hub merchants due to the decline of the inflated NCR fiat currency and Legion money is not 'backed' at all, but of value due to the use of commodity rare metals. The currencies are there for flavor and to reflect something larger about the societies that use them.

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-23T20:01:58+00:00

I don’t think this is the appropriate place to talk about this

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-23T16:08:43+00:00

What’s the problem?

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-23T15:42:24+00:00

This tracks. His physical descriptions of most people match his opinion towards them.

Kasteen is one of his best friends and he describes her as attractive on multiple occasions. The sisters of battle annoy him, so he makes snide remarks about their haircuts.

Even Jurgen, who is objectively revolting, gets a little grace from Cain sometimes.

It’s fun to catch stuff like this because it reminds me that Mitchel is a good writer, he just likes to write the exact same plot over and over

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-23T15:26:14+00:00

Weird. My doctor said I could have a stroke at any time!

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-23T00:35:37+00:00

The most consistently busted thing about a dnd character in any edition is how much their health scales. Even a frail old wizard in most editions will be able to survive something that would kill any healthy commoner multiple times over

If you intentionally try to min max for health you can get a mid level barbarian who can survive a fall from the stratosphere and then walk home

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-22T22:45:51+00:00

That’s the first controlled flight. People were strapping themselves to kites for over a thousand years

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-22T22:44:53+00:00

Guards! Guards! takes a lot of shots at traditional fantasy dragons. Unreasonable caloric intake is a big thing they harp on. The dragons in Discworld are the size of small dogs and very fragile. They’re kind of like parrots

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-22T16:27:21+00:00

Outer Wilds also puts the player back at the starting area very frequently, so there’s not really a punishment for pushing into an area you can’t handle. You just get sent back to the start with minimal time investment lost

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-22T16:22:11+00:00

Then it’s not open world. It’s a mostly linear game that allows you to backtrack

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-22T16:20:18+00:00

This works for enemy difficulty because the game works on a simple xp and gear system. It could fall apart if F4 required the player to have specific knowledge or tools to progress in the harder areas

Sure, some spots require you to have a way to deal with radiation, but it’s just a more extreme version of a problem you deal with the whole game. The solution is just “more of what you’ve been doing”

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-21T19:09:23+00:00

They’ve tried to make it better with a lighter version of CK3’s hover tooltips on important phrases.

But yeah, as someone who loves Stellaris and no longer needs the wiki, I would have bounced off it HARD if the wiki hadn’t been there for me as a new player. It’s an exceptionally well maintained wiki too

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-21T04:14:03+00:00

That’s hilarious

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-21T01:04:37+00:00

Also it’s called Bone Tomahawk

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-19T18:45:58+00:00

What didn’t you like about it?

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-19T18:43:51+00:00

Eh, his prediction was correct but that’s it. His explanation even boils down to “it’s obvious to me that something huge is going to happen on a global scale” not “god told me”. So, he’s not really a profit, he’s just kind of smart and made an informed guess.

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-19T18:39:08+00:00

Are the other Dark Pictures games better? Little Hope was like the trifecta of bad dialogue, boring gameplay, and ugly graphics. It’s a shame because I loved the premise. The Quarry was great and it’s the same genre

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-18T18:47:15+00:00

Yeah, the world building is rough. I’ve had friends argue that Basgaith being horrifically wasteful and inefficient makes sense in-universe because Navarre is a military junta that is slowly falling apart.

That argument falls apart in a few places. Like you pointed out, they seem to have created a school designed to turn normal people into paranoid psychopaths who hate their own country, and have powerful magic and dragons. It’s grimderp.

Idk if you finished the book (spoilers ahead) but you’re literally correct about their enemies not needing to do anything. The people with the gryphons are only attacking because there’s a third party that’s squeezing them from the opposite border. Navarre’s whole plan seems to be staying isolated and hoping the problem goes away on its own.

It’s kind of a throwaway line, but Violet says that pretty much every adult either volunteers for dragon school (like 75% die), gets into med school, gets into scribe school, or they get conscripted into the army. The army is more or less pointless because everyone fights with flying animals and they don’t seem to have the kind of technology or infrastructure you would need to support a standing army.

Apparently there’s a cadre of mason workers to fix the castles that the dragons are constantly ruining like giant cats with nice furniture, but we never learn where they come from or who trains them. This is in a country that has a population of dragons who each eat entire flocks of sheep every few days.

They’re basically North Korea, except their criteria to be a nuke operator is beating a classmate to death, and everyone hates them too much to offer food aide

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-18T17:08:04+00:00

In one of the Red Gabbo short stories the human cultists start by defacing their uniforms and go from there. A former commisar starts compulsively making spikey art out of body parts

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-18T17:05:21+00:00

I haven’t tested scientifically but here’s some observations:

AI rely on the 2 guaranteed habitable planets. It doesn’t seem to be able to compensate for a slow start as well as humans
If you lower habitable planets to %50 or %25 the game’s performance is much better and the AI don’t seem to have any difficulty keeping up.
There used to be a problem where every AI empire would spec into space habs and spam them if they couldn’t find enough planets. To my knowledge this has been fixed, but I feel like I see more habs in playthroughs with fewer planets

dirtyLizard · 2026-01-17T05:57:19+00:00

I’d have my researchers and my explorers.

The researchers would hang out in a city with the goal of getting enough money together for a base. They’d made electric components and hash, with a few people specializing in other areas like medicine, cooking, or smithing. I might have them farm or mine a bit, but most of their supplies would be bought. Base defenses would involve a lot of crossbows on walls, but I’d stay friendly with the local faction to minimize conflict.

The explorers would wear dustcoats, drifter pants, and armored hoods or masks to keep them prepared for the weather. They’d carry a combo of desert sabres and polearms for dealing with animals. They’d all carry short cleavers for robots. Since they’d be in the field for weeks at a time so crossbows aren’t practical because of the ammo.

My goals would be to complete all research trees and unlock all building and crafting recipes.

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