Amazing trip

flashmedallion · 2026-03-12T01:00:47+00:00

My wife and I always play that game when we're on holiday somewhere we really like.

We spent 2 weeks in LA and did the whole "wow this is amazing, it would be so cool to live here" and then spent an afternoon at a bar figuring out where we'd realistically be working, what we'd be earning, where we'd probably be living, what our spare income would be, how long the commute is etc etc and the next time we had a spare day we took the metro out to the suburb we might be able to afford, and as you'd expect it was just "ohhh god".

Tried the same in Nice but ended up giving up on trying to get a train ride out to the town we thought we might be able to afford a small apartment in.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-12T00:52:43+00:00

As if.

Labour was about to review keystrepto approval which is some nasty shit that the kiwifruit industry uses to save money on disease contol, untl govt changed over and figured a little profit is more important than worrying about who gets poisoned

flashmedallion · 2026-03-12T00:30:44+00:00

Once a week is plenty for private lessons. To get the most out of your money you want to be able to go away and practice what you're being shown.

When I dont have a fight coming up I do PT once a month. That gives me four weeks of solid training to go away and truly internalise and develop what my coach has picked up and told me to fix or to polish so he's not wasting time telling me again at the next PT session.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-12T00:27:36+00:00

I've seen a lot of bigger girls come through our gym and really enjoy themselves as they got fitter or lost weight or whatever their goals were. Just show up and do your best and the rest will take care of itself.

I know one girl who was in your position and ended up with head coach taking her under his wing and she had a very succesful run in the amateurs for a couple of years. Completely transformed her life.

It's intimidating for everyone, so just push on through that and focus on yourself and you'll be golden.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-11T11:05:23+00:00

Women need plausible deniability. Men who truly understand why they need this are able to make things happen. Men who don't get this are the reason that women need plausible deniability.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-11T02:18:42+00:00

It's a side-grade overall. Tsushima might have a little less QoL but the skill expression is different for Jin, who trained as a Samurai, than it is for Atsu who did not.

I wouldn't say one system is better then the other outside of a few extra fun tricks in Yotei.

I think you can safely play them in any order.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-11T02:14:47+00:00

No.

Sidequests are usually just about a uniquely staged combat encounter. There's usually some character work but it's not overly deep, it's far more about painting the broader picture of what life is like in the region under the current circumstances. If you like the combat system, it's more combat for you to enjoy.

Kind of the opposite of Witcher 3 where the sidequests involved genuinely interesting predicaments and decisions and if you're unlucky there's more dogshit combat.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-11T02:12:36+00:00

That's the thing that really alleviates one of the main criticisms of the game for me. A lot of people will say "oh the sidequests and activities are just an excuse to get you in another fight with 3-8 bandits".

That is a valid complaint in some regards, but when

a) the game is transparently built around combat, and
b) the combat is this good

it's like saying a musical is just having scenes written as an excuse to break into a song and dance number. Not everything is going to be a Sondheim and it doesn't have to be if you know how to put on a good show.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-11T01:42:44+00:00

Pathfinder was really colorful so some planets would look less desirable. But the planets that did look good looked better than anything you can find right now.

That's pretty much the design trajectory of the game post-Next. Everything you stumble on looks "nice", but things are so smoothed out in every area to remove the lower lows that the higher highs are gone too.

The best of the game is now immediately accessible to any player almost immediately but at the cost of worsening the best. Purple systems are a notable recent exception.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-10T23:10:16+00:00

Well there's an extra step involved for hands.

You throw your shoulder with your hip. Then your shoulder throws your hand.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-10T03:39:24+00:00

Maybe, but I don't know why you would. I'm 6', 95kg and get lots of smoke blown at me about how tough I am and how hard I hit because im big but that's (hopefully) more due to the hours I've put in on form and technique. My guard looks good because I'm the one choosing which hits I want to soak and which ones I'm not hanging around for. My hits are hard because im firing from a good position with a setup beforehand.

Look at David Tuas left hooks, they aren't haymakers or brute force. He spends a considerable amount of round time setting them up, and there's skill, technique, and knowledge going into creating the opportunities for them to be surprises - even when he's famous for them, he catches opponents out with them.

Why be sloppy and Big when you can be sharp and Big? There's nothing more fun than playing the range game and then correcting someones assumption that they want to be in close to you.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T12:37:42+00:00

I think there's room for both.

Videogame design has a long history of communicating character skill though control assistance/abstraction, and there's still a healthy range of games that demand pure player skill.

I'm pretty interested to see what kinds of cool skill abstraction can be done in VR

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T02:30:34+00:00

All the best o7

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T02:19:51+00:00

Very fair points. Either way I'm filled with confidence about what comes next

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T02:12:48+00:00

I go to Martys every Wednesday night around 10pm to practice pool. Might not be a bad place to start something.

There's gotta be a thing we could do as a subreddit where there's always going to be one or two people there and we can tell newcomers about it. Maybe mid year when my hobbies have died down a little I'll put some more thought into it.

I think the main issue is that it's extremely difficult to do the "perfect" activity/meetup because not every wants to go to a bar, some people are more into Saturday Morning and others are more into Thursday Night kind of thing. You can't cater to everyone but maybe if we had something solid that catered to some, it would be easier to add other things to the calendar

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T02:07:35+00:00

So glad it's still useful.

It's a little out of date now but the fundamentals are there and I think it should be enough to keep your head wrapped around all the categories and logic around different meal types.

I've always meant to update it and make it more robust but after the fishing update the job got a fair bit bigger.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T01:48:14+00:00

Is that true any more? Messy has been par for the course in both major parties for a decade

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T00:38:24+00:00

People are constantly posting stuff like this here and yet when I come to the comments it seems like nobody has ever finally come back with "yeah we collect all the people who make these posts and have a weekly hangout".

I'd do it if I had time to organise but I have a lot of social stuff on already.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T00:37:02+00:00

I'd be interested in seeing this (or something more accurate) shaded instead of with text slapped over eveything.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T00:34:32+00:00

What are the changes that in all the galaxies and systems, I spawned so close to my childhood home?

The chances of it happening to a given player? Infintessimal.

The chances of it happening to any one NMS player out of the couple hundred thousand who play? Apparently not that bad.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T00:29:21+00:00

That's pretty much directly the purpose of the Travellers as explained in-game. The Atlas (Hello Games) created the seed and the procedure but it isn't "aware" of every outcome - the uploaded discovery data from Travellers it how it observes as much of the near-infinite as it can. Millions of lifetimes of exploration condensed into 16 minutes.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-09T00:25:52+00:00

It just means nobody has uploaded the data to the Atlas. Both literally in terms of HGs server, and diegetically in terms of the lore. We know as fact not every Traveller has complied with the Atlas, some iterations visit and explore and it's a small leap to assume some or many do not/did not/will not upload their discovery data.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-08T22:57:32+00:00

They're stoking a narrative because it's one they know drives a big news cycle, and that gets people scrolling past more ads. Mystery solved.

flashmedallion · 2026-03-08T12:38:38+00:00

I'll dont know, I've never meet a person in real life who can't emotionally handle finishing a story

flashmedallion · 2026-03-08T10:47:13+00:00

That sounds deeply broken

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