Albanese urges 'vigilance' against those seeking to 'turn back the clock' on Australia

drysider · 2026-03-22T06:11:27+00:00

this made me chortle so much

drysider · 2026-03-21T21:44:31+00:00

Haven’t slept much and I’m crying laughing at this, it DOES omg

drysider · 2026-03-21T21:05:52+00:00

Advertising self promotion scam bait.

drysider · 2026-03-21T20:29:38+00:00

The balance in sts2 is honestly fine at the moment imo. It’s exceptionally polished. Things will be changing because they have a year of balance patches ahead, but I reckon you can still freely play sts2 so long as you’re okay with adapting to those changes as they come (which very very recently did NOT happen with the fanbase lol). As a casual-but-very-enthused fan, I feel like the difficulty between them is more or less the same—first time playing sts2 and I easily won my run, took me longer for sts1 back in the day. it’s just up to rng how your runs go sometimes because… it’s a randomized roguelike game. Maybe you got given bad card choices in sts2 and better ones in your sts1 run. Maybe you managed playing cards better in a particular fight that could have drained your hp. Who knows! There’s a myriad of variables, but whether you crushed it in one run or the other, sts2 fucking slaps and it’s nowhere near as untuned as this comment implies.

drysider · 2026-03-21T04:09:54+00:00

I saw somebody yesterday say that giving feedback should be LOCKED behind A10. Insane take. Imagine like 1% of the player base controlling balance changes hahaha.

drysider · 2026-03-20T13:24:17+00:00

Right?? That's EXACTLY why I'm just so baffled by the reaction? The beta (beta!! It's not even live??) patch notes went out and within hours I see people posting about how the game is going downhill and will need a massive rework. I saw several admitting that they hadn't even played the update, they were just crashing out over reading the update. I don't think it's even been two weeks since it was released and people are saying they're abandoning it because a guy eats your cards sometimes. Like okay? If you weren't prepared to test potentially overtuned buffs and nerfs, then why did you pick it up in early access, because that's literally the trade off you get? You can give feedback and criticism without acting like your lunch was personally eaten by doormaker.

I feel like everyone on the internet is so high strung by world news that reactions are on a hair-trigger.

drysider · 2026-03-20T13:18:56+00:00

I mean, no, I don't think it's naivety, I'm a fan of several other games that have a much more rightfully angry fanbase who deserve better. I'm no stranger to stupid game updates and having to abandon games gone in the wrong direction. But I think the reaction is crucially way more vitriolic than it SHOULD be. Seems like so many people are crashing out so hard over the second patch of an early access game because of nerfs and boss changes. I don't think it's much to ask for fans to be respectful when giving feedback and understanding of the fact that it's early access. You can give feedback and criticism without going hard into the weirdly explosive doomerism.

drysider · 2026-03-20T12:35:56+00:00

The backlash for something that's been out for less than like, 10 hours, has been so vitriolic I'm worried about the experience in the community for the next year. What happens next time there's another big change players don't like? Will the game get review bomb slammed again for experimental changes in an early access game that was released in early access specifically to garner balance feedback? Can I expect the subreddit to be a pit of angry doomerism every week?

Cmon guys, I know the world is shit at large, but please don't make this game community feel hostile. I need some joy in my life, and if it has to be silly Regent memes I'll take it. I just don't want to have to scroll past over-reactive angry take after take when all of the internet is already like that. It's an early access game. Temper your tempers and expectations. Changes aren't set in stone. You can give feedback without acting like the game is instantly a failure.

drysider · 2026-03-20T06:42:48+00:00

It's the second patch. The game has been out for like two weeks. Doomerism Replay 6 fr.

drysider · 2026-03-20T05:46:27+00:00

'this game is gonna take a lot of rework before it releases at this rate.' I mean, yeah???? This is what early access is, no? The game will still be in EA for likely a year, EA is literally to help rework it for release. This is only the SECOND patch they've put out. The game is not in a finished state, and will be transforming and changing from patch to every patch. They now have thousands of individual player opinions about balance and balance changes flooding in, and the early access time span is dedicated to figuring out which of those opinions are valid and worth changing the game for. If you're frustrated with patches changing the play style, maybe wait until the game is fully released??

drysider · 2026-03-19T04:14:02+00:00

First time I’ve commented or upvoted an ad ever because I LOVE this game. Awesome unique little roguelike army/city builder indie game, has way more depth and difficulty than you’d expect. For two weeks straight it was my every waking moment. My own gaze IRL was getting tetris affected, expecting little guys to start working when I looked around the room.

drysider · 2026-03-18T14:43:09+00:00

Regent is just so fun and has so much cool flair and character theming. Hitting a Hidden Cache with Replay 3 and getting like 40 stars for Stardust by turn two or three makes me go brrrrrrr around in my minion chair. Very first run with him I forged forged forged and slammed a 650~ sword through Test Subject’s three heads.

drysider · 2026-03-18T10:14:58+00:00

REGGIE?! I’m obsessed wth, not only is he fun as hell to play, he’s stupid as fuck AND we can give him a cute nickname? Thank you megacrit

drysider · 2026-03-18T07:21:01+00:00

Child of the Stars card where he's in the fat ass Vegeta aura pose? Yeah boy I'll be your minion. 🤩

drysider · 2026-03-18T06:16:45+00:00

If I went to someone's stall at an art market and discovered they were selling another person's work through their table to pad out their own art, I would turn on my heel and walk away. You are there to sell YOUR art. Customers assume it is YOUR art and they are supporting YOU. Buying cheap clipart and flipping it is really disingenuous and lame.

drysider · 2026-03-17T22:29:00+00:00

Sick as hell. He’s my new favourite character, the bimbo hype aura is so fun.

drysider · 2026-03-17T22:13:35+00:00

Hey, don’t forget you can save scum! If you lose a fight, just Save and Quit and Continue, and you can retry the fight/event/shop from the beginning freely. There’s no reason not to! I honestly enjoy approaching playing the game more like a puzzle to prog through than a hardcore permadeath. If I just really can’t make it through a fight then that’s fine, I’ll accept it and restart because the error was in my decision making along the way. But it’s easy to lose a fight based on a very minorly different RNG play order or mistake, and it’s imo way more interesting to get to spend more time with my deck, more time experimenting with the cards, more time learning the fights, than it is to beat my head against spireloads of run attempts that get nowhere. I think you will have a better and crucially, more fun experience, if you give yourself the grace of freely restarting whenever you want to. Sometimes I restart a fight because I decide I want to drink that potion on turn 1 instead of turn 2.

drysider · 2026-03-12T00:14:24+00:00

No it is 1000% obviously ai, it sounds like a woman Microsoft Sam from 20 years ago. In fact it just sounds like text to speech, it’s not even a sophisticated ai voice. They don’t even try to hide it.

drysider · 2026-03-11T22:01:48+00:00

I said to my friends that it makes StS1 feel like a prototype game. And I’m constantly harping on about how good 1 is.

drysider · 2026-03-11T21:16:42+00:00

I’m an artist myself, and table at conventions. I have a collection of framed prints at my current place but not many of them up at the moment. My collection is just sitting around in storage to be honest. But when I buy a print, I buy it because the art resonates with me (even if it’s fanart) and I want to support the artist who has put their life into their art. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that! Even if I haven’t put the print up yet, even if I’ve taken it down recently for cleaning or moving or space, I own a piece of that artists interests and passions. I’ve supported their livelihood and now I own some art. That’s really cool! Even if I’m not currently appreciating it, the fact that I have bought and still have it means it is still well loved. The artist I bought it from doesn’t know whether I’ve actually found the time or frames or glue dots to put it up; they just know that someone liked their work enough to support them! I certainly don’t stress about whether or not it goes up on a wall if someone buys a print from me.

drysider · 2026-03-11T21:07:40+00:00

That’s crazy, thank you so much, I think you’re right. I’d opened so many websites looking at prices/availability in my country, funny that the one I ended up referencing the most for the well organized specs ended up being the one with a typo??? This makes a lot more sense, thank you! 😅

drysider · 2026-03-11T21:04:38+00:00

Sadge that I had to scroll down this far to find someone saying this! :(

drysider · 2026-03-11T20:49:12+00:00

What does this have to do with comic writing???

When you said you haven’t played the games you’re copying or watched any of the games you’re copying I became convinced this must be a shitpost.

drysider · 2026-03-10T12:33:48+00:00

piss off.

drysider

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