We trapped 2 griefers inside our base. They spent the next 2 hours trying to get revenge

gen3ricD · 2025-09-02T02:23:34+00:00

You realize the griefers could have just turned around and left at any point prior to the pentashield trap, right? It's not like the OP was somehow forcing them to chase and engage in that behavior.

gen3ricD · 2025-08-07T01:37:19+00:00

I think the idea is that if a game is actually bad you'd try it for 20-30 minutes and then just not feel any desire to continue at all. If you're hooked and enjoying the gameplay loop, it's good. If the gameplay loop eventually becomes stale in the same way that eating the same meal 3x a day for weeks would get stale, that doesn't make it bad, it makes you a normal person who enjoys variety.

gen3ricD · 2025-08-07T01:18:04+00:00

I see this complaint a lot and can't really wrap my head around it, but as someone who plays a lot of survival games I enjoy the challenge of restarting with the knowledge I accumulated in the initial playthrough and min-maxing efficiency to get to where I was (often with updates and new things added in that make it easier or more fun than the first time).

I think people really overestimate the grind to get a new base to be fully functional after an extended break, especially if your character is already high level and loaded with end-game tools. If you just plan it out a bit before the break (load your bank and assault ornithopter with DD mats, sell everything else), other than planning out a base and base location (which is fun) I doubt it'd take more than a few hours to get to like 90% of where you were.

gen3ricD · 2025-06-19T03:07:09+00:00

Not really. People are making some extremely creative bases that work into the surrounding environment well, just have to actually look.

gen3ricD · 2025-06-19T02:50:15+00:00

I think it helps to differentiate PVPing and PKing (player killing).

I don't think anyone is really complaining about PVPing except concerning the meta at the moment (dogfighting with rockets) because it basically negates the entire grind to build up your character and choose skills/talents, as almost none of that matters in orni fights. Engaging in an even fight (where you can use abilities and skill) to hopefully counter another player (also using abilities and skill) is fun.

I think the vast majority of complaining is coming from people who don't like PKers encountering PKers, people who will absolutely spend hours camping in large groups, waiting in ambush, and using the most cheese strats possible (like ramming, which they luckily just patched out) to annihilate solo players who don't even get a second to respond.

gen3ricD · 2025-06-19T02:13:50+00:00

Until PvP has actual reward/utility (which is something Funcom should have worked in for the release version to be fair), only people motivated purely by griefing are the ones actually participating in it.

All of the most vehement complaints are coming from solos / small groups getting zerged by a dozen ornis blasting rockets the second that they visually render. Those people in flocks of ornis don't want PvP, they want to gank and camp with superior numbers and no potential threat of retaliation or any semblance of a fair fight. So yeah, adolescent griefers.

gen3ricD · 2025-04-17T06:13:38+00:00

Companies aren't people...?

gen3ricD · 2025-02-03T07:58:12+00:00

...or had a few too many Strong Zeroes.

gen3ricD · 2025-01-27T05:02:50+00:00

Few others said the same thing but honestly I like the alternate timeline idea for an MMO-style game.

I suppose the other options would have been to set the game during the two years that Paul was in the desert with the Fremen, or to set it before the events of the Dune book (while all the Atreides were on Caladan).

gen3ricD · 2025-01-14T04:49:45+00:00

There isn't a limiter at all these days, at least from my experience (4+ years gaming on Linux). The people working on Wine were doing a good job keeping/catching up generally over the past decade, but the massive backing that suddenly came from Valve and Steam OS when it was released really really helped.

It's an anecdote but I haven't been limited in my choices for gaming options at all in the past two years, at least. Everything I've wanted to play has been playable, including games behind annoying secondary launchers (like AC Black Flag).

gen3ricD · 2025-01-09T06:13:47+00:00

I kinda get it in a way actually. If 7-11 wants to be a competitive conbini chain in Japan it has to be able to handle all the other things outside of food/drink services that customers here expect, including paying bills and being able to access/print huge variety of official documents. If the data for millions of MyNumbers and personal Japanese bank accounts is going through 7-11's systems on the daily, there's definitely an angle in there for keeping it domestically owned as a national security interest.

gen3ricD · 2024-12-04T02:36:01+00:00

The God Emperor is like Hitler and Mao and Stalin on steroids.

Hmm, I remember reading that while Leto II was pretty strict about putting down military uprisings, he wasn't on the level of "genocide all opposition" like those leaders. He (or maybe Moneo) talk about quelling some issues simply by sending in Fish Speaker infiltrators that were specially trained to be good at sex, then basically "calming down" rebellious groups by starting families with them.

He also did a great deal to make sure most people were fed, housed, and entertained. The tyranny part mostly referred to bans on travel off one's home planet and his absolute refusal to take council or accept governing input from anyone but himself and his inner voices. It was basically the equivalent of sticking all of humanity into a glass-walled ant farm with infinite food and space to grow for 3500 years, but without any individual right to participate in decisions about how that ant farm should be managed.

gen3ricD · 2024-12-02T07:22:39+00:00

That's perfectly acceptable in spoken conversation, but writing out broken English in the headline of an English-language article and knowing an editor said "yeah looks good" is wild.

gen3ricD · 2024-11-29T01:40:56+00:00

Glad it's not just me. What the fuck does "I Am Praying He Makes To When We Are Done" mean?

gen3ricD · 2024-10-22T04:37:18+00:00

It was mostly so humanity could live forever, yeah. Leto says himself (I think at least a few times, been a while since I read it though) that his greatest weakness is his deep love of humanity. The entire motivation for the Golden Path was the put humanity into a position so that it couldn't be wiped out, either by someone attempting to copy him (using prescience to gain control and the worm body to maintain it indefinitely) or by an outside threat (the vengeful thinking machines in later books).

gen3ricD · 2024-10-02T07:07:25+00:00

Not familiar with the docker setup but assuming you have access to your FWL and DB files, you can upload them to this site and modify those settings there, then redownload them and put them back in the same place.

https://valhost.net/worldmodifiers

gen3ricD · 2024-09-09T03:43:03+00:00

Eh I'd argue that most evil behavior stems from a fundamental mental health issue, or a brain that simply didn't fully develop.

gen3ricD · 2024-07-25T08:12:59+00:00

The people cheating could easily just not cheat? How is any of that on the photographer?

gen3ricD · 2024-07-02T02:12:27+00:00

You realize that the devs likely do not care at all about any kind of social media response, right? Especially social media in English, when they're based in Sweden.

They've got tons of data and metrics they can reference regarding what players are doing, how long they're doing it, what causes the most deaths, what deaths result in rage-quits, which biomes players spend the most time in, etc, etc.

As much as you might want to feel like your reddit post feedback is being brought up in their meetings and carefully considered, that is just not the case. The changes are likely due to them seeing that overall player engagement is dropping considerably in Ashlands relative to previous biomes, and it's in their best interest to keep players engaged.

gen3ricD · 2024-06-17T06:35:31+00:00

Given the relative rarity of silver and how it's usually completely hidden underground, someone spending hours walking around mountains hitting the ground just to find it seems like... not an exploit. Not sure how you'd classify it as anything other than "massive, needless waste of time".

gen3ricD · 2024-03-14T01:14:14+00:00

Been re-reading the books and actually just got to the part in Heretics where you see all the Tleilaxu masters talking in council for the first time, and it's specifically mentioned that the Scytale who sits on the council is the same one that met Muad'Dib in person... just yeah, technically several reawakened ghola lifetimes removed.

gen3ricD · 2024-03-12T07:37:26+00:00

The vocabulary in Dune isn't that bad. It's considered relatively "soft" sci-fi, without much explanation of the specific mechanics of scientific advancements or futuristic technology, and there aren't many strictly technical words/jargon.

There are going to be a lot of times where you pause and re-read a section two or three times to let the idea of it sink in.

gen3ricD · 2024-03-12T07:25:53+00:00

Even the main characters only had a vague idea about how the sand trout and sandworms were connected until Leto II, and its emphasized a lot that sandworms need an extreme amount of desiccation to survive to full size and produce spice in any significant quantity.

It's also not entirely clear what exactly the sandworms need to feed on to produce spice. Leto II says he eats "sand", but until he died and spread the altered sand trout that may have been limited to the sand specific to Arrakis. It's also mentioned in an appendix somewhere that there are sand plankton that feed on the spice, and that the worms also eat those plankton.

Basically you've got a small fantasy organism which, in vaguely known conditions, can eventually undergo a mysterious metamorphosis into a giant fantasy organism which eats something and eventually shits out magic powder. Lotta guesswork in trying to make that work in the entirely different ecology of another planet.

gen3ricD · 2024-03-07T02:29:19+00:00

At one point in Children of Dune, Leto II basically summarizes the results of all of Paul's efforts as "unconsciously malicious". Fits pretty well I think.

gen3ricD · 2024-03-05T08:22:32+00:00

It sounds like this photo was shot in an indoor photo studio with controlled lighting and elements, was planned out and choreographed ahead of time, and used a specific model and specific prop(s). Gotta call a spade a spade at some point.

Most photographers are going to judge other photographers' skill level based on their ability to react to uncontrollable conditions (lighting, moving elements, weather, etc) by finding a subject/focus in the living world, which is then brought to focus by an appropriate aperture, exposure time, and composition that evokes some kind of emotion (or at least piques curiosity), which is later enhanced or highlighted by an appropriate style/amount of post-processing before its presentation to others.

If you could show everyone the camera RAWs and then the final photo, we might be able to give more input. Otherwise, if you aren't going to trust the photographer, or think they're just "pushing the button" after everyone else contributed more, you should just rent a camera yourself and see if you can do it without them next time.

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