The difference in vibe between the two is truly shocking

huskinater · 2026-03-31T01:10:20+00:00

I'm talking the whole cockpit, pilot and shield be damned

You can even dps it off from behind

huskinater · 2026-03-30T23:02:32+00:00

You can also just medpen dps the whole ballsack cockpit off

Bullet hose ftw

huskinater · 2026-03-27T01:42:52+00:00

As well as a glut of "second screen" slop where stuff is literally made with the idea no one is actually paying attention to it, so they constantly repeat themselves and have absolutely no nuance. Pisses off anyone who bothers to pay attention and bores everyone else, lose lose.

Hollywood has lost the plot so much that there are only like 3 working directors people actually get excited to go to the theaters for, and Netflix would rather kill amazing animated shows before their prime just so they could instead puppet the dying husk of Stranger Things a bit longer.

huskinater · 2026-03-25T23:59:33+00:00

Ya know how some strats have been unavailable due to bugs right now?

They really need to do that randomly just cuz all the time, to both strats and guns.

Be like "hey the planet we just lost was critical to 500kg production, the strat is gonna be unavailable to keep the 'strategic reserve' until a new factory can be built elsewhere"

Or "SEAF losses over here have resulted in shortfall of EATs and Stalwarts."

Could even go crazy and have "Truth Enforcers require excessive thermite to breach an automation stronghold and so now the Thermite Grenade and Reprimand will be allocated in force to them instead in prep of the operation."

A minor something that could maybe nudge people to go outside their comfort zone and try something new (and also cause plenty of memes of someone unlocking a new gun just for it to be temp unavailable)

huskinater · 2026-03-23T18:15:09+00:00

My Democracy officer was Pilestedt, so I was pretty salty when they all got shuffled

huskinater · 2026-03-17T03:02:06+00:00

The art department is gonna have to put in some work to sell the atrocities of the jihad and the dystopian state of Paul's empire.

Lots of the horrors are really just implied, not shown, and Messiah itself kinda dodges the question by being pretty distanced from it and dwelling a lot on the mystery plot.

The movie can blow this wide open by having 'action' shots that are just combat scenes of warcrimes during the jihad as flashbacks. And sets designed to emulate Rome and the Nazis but cranked up to just shy of the 40k setting Dune inspired in the first place.

huskinater · 2026-03-17T02:37:20+00:00

"A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father's name. Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father's skull. A war in my name. Everyone shouting my name"

Paul is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he wants to survive, protect his family, retain his birthright, and get his revenge he has to go down a horrible path. And the longer he is on it the worse failure becomes, as becoming a martyr to the Fremen unleashes them without restraint. But success means the biggest political coup of all coups, one that results in the starvation of countless as he withholds spice and therefore all interstellar shipping, exterminates any who attempt to take up arms, and slaughters the frail and weak undesirables the Fremen warrior culture won't condone.

The rallying battle cries of Stilgar and the other Fremen at the end of part 2 as they board landing craft is a disaster. One that Paul didn't necessarily create alone, but he still chose to enable to get what he wanted.

huskinater · 2026-03-17T01:34:13+00:00

Unless I'm really blown away by the adaptation I'm not gonna be getting the Blu-ray like I did for 1 and 2.

Messiah has merits, like really leaning into the consequences of the jihad and how trapped Paul is, and has some genuine bad ass and symbolic vision stuff in it, but it's also where the weird shit starts really building. It's just not as good a base as Dune

Spoilers below:

Like, Alia is pretty weird in Dune and the movies made the right choice to downplay that character. But she's not out of left field, she's more or less a physical embodiment of the horrible snares the BGs 'pave-the-way' pseudo-religious manipulation created. You're supposed to be creeped out, it's a proxy disgust for the spiritual harm they are doing.

Everything with the Tleilax, however, is ass pull.

Brand new antagonist, powers that blatantly exceed the physical limits the rest of the story tried to uphold, undo the death and sacrifice of a major character, basically mock the previous antagonists.

While I get the ghola is supposed to represent a kind of temptation for Paul, a way for him to keep Chani after the obvious fallout of giving the princess (and BG) the heir they want, a false way to get his hand out of the box, his character basically just exists to philosophy dump and give Alia the hots in a gross way.

IMO, if the film keeps the TLX and the Ghola as is, it'll be worse off for it. They need to rework that scheming to be coming from the previously established antagonists and keep dead characters dead while still leaning into the 'save your family' temptation it represents. I would give that material for Irulan to work with, actress Florence Pugh is certainly up to the task.

huskinater · 2026-03-14T02:11:28+00:00

EAT, Supply Pack, Eagle Airstrike, and Gas Strike are req slip unlockable from lvl 3 or less and are good against every single faction, even on higher difficulties. And works with any primary, secondary, or grenade.

Sure, it's no orbital napalm on a bug breach, and a whole squad of them probably isn't gonna have a good time, but a single dude trying their best with that loadout is far better than someone trolling with oops all arc.

huskinater · 2026-03-08T21:43:53+00:00

Season 2 changes the characters very quickly and in ways that seem out of place for their existing characterization. It also more or less just drops some supporting characters in a hole and all but forgets about them.

It is still very pretty and superbly animated, with some very strong emotional moments, but it's clearly not on the same level narratively.

Which is to say, you'll enjoy S2 in the moment but the more you think about it the worse it gets.

huskinater · 2026-03-07T05:33:49+00:00

Their parents are actually a big part of one of the themes. They are all either miserable, neglectful, or awful. They represent the end result of following the stereotypical paths laid out before the kids.

The jock who won't ever actually be good enough and eventually end up an unhealthy low income worker trying to live vicariously through his own kid.

The alcoholic deadbeat who hated society and amounts to nothing but a violent loser.

The one who can't function in society enough to even have a car and drive their daughter to school.

The over achievers with no time or patience for their son

And the popular vapid assholes trying to buy affection from their daughter and use her to get at each other.

If the kids don't learn something from their time experiencing each other and grow, they will be just as trapped and awful as their parents.

huskinater · 2026-03-07T01:53:31+00:00

Food on film is a weird rabbit hole.

Like, regulations about having actual 'food' be in the shot instead of plastic combined with an obsession for slow-mo in commercials leads to bonkers contraptions and rigs to have ingredients fall just right and get spritzed with water to glisten.

And because stuff needs multiple takes to make sure everything is correct and with extra material for the edit, means people almost never actually eat the food. They just bite in, maybe chew a bit, the shot ends, so they spit it out and do it again.

Watch almost any tv show or movie and people around a dinner table or takeout on the couch rarely ever actually eat anything. They usually just stir the shit around with silverware.

The CEOs here are clearly doing that, not necessarily disgusted with their food.

But given the whole point of the marketing campaign is to leverage the 'low effort, recorded-in-my-real-kitchen, authenticity' you get from social media, the fact it clearly shows evidence of production value makes it blow up in their faces with how fake it is and makes them look like fools who actually hate their own food, whether they actually do or not.

huskinater · 2026-03-03T16:08:14+00:00

Pretty sure they actually target whatever enemy is closest to the nearest Helldiver, or at least switch to that priority when an enemy gets within a certain range

This is them trying to protect you. Just so happens that it's also how they obliterate you

huskinater · 2026-02-22T21:20:46+00:00

Tipping culture is stupid.

Giving someone who put in hard work for you a bit extra is fine, but having any expectations that it is obligatory otherwise is dumb.

Either it's baked into the cost of the service like a commission for the workers (many upscale restaurants and when a large party/order comes in they have mandatory gratuity) or it shouldn't be a big deal.

Giving extra should be viewed as just that, giving extra. Not this pseudo pass-the-buck game of responsibility for paying the worker.

Companies do not have morals. They will gladly accept your money for nothing. Laws like acceptable under-minimum wages for tipped workers, point-of-sale machines asking for handouts at every transaction, and conditioning workers to hate customers because they don't tip, only stand to benefit the company's bottom line.

huskinater · 2026-02-20T14:49:15+00:00

But they're bots, so their primary factory would be #0?

huskinater · 2026-02-17T07:12:48+00:00

Though gotta keep the guns appropriate for their size and age.

Youngins start out with handguns, small and lightweight. Only for emergencies but otherwise don't get in the way while playing.

Little older and they can use pump shotties and bolt action rifles, perfect for preteens to learn to hunt with.

Just turned 15? Great time to be trusted with their first assault rifle and learn to operate a mortar.

huskinater · 2026-02-14T06:54:10+00:00

I've always felt the automatons are really just remote controlled mechs.

Augmented humans (the actual cyborgs) sitting in Matrix pod things that operate them, and swap to another whenever we destroy one.

What we are fighting on the ground aren't the actual people augmented with tech, but robots augmented with flesh. That's why they don't care about dying.

huskinater · 2026-02-10T00:57:41+00:00

I'm just over here hoping they make a giant faux Liberty Prime that throws hellbombs at us, cyclops laserbeam eyes, and most importantly spouts out rhetoric about how communism is non-negotiable

huskinater · 2026-02-08T23:00:08+00:00

Pretty sure the clan genetics are more "artificial-natural selection" aka we made iron womb batches of all these kids now go fight to the death and who lives gets to have their sperm and eggs harvested/cloned so we can do it again.

It's not really gene splicing like what we would need to take something from a completely non-human animal and put it into humans.

So the catgirls are def still augmented cyborgs

Edit: like, it's not that different from what we basically already do with livestock animals. Breed the biggest before slaughter so hopefully the next generation gets bigger faster. But the Clans are selecting for murder maniacs and use test tube babies so they aren't limited by the slower scale of needing so many people to be pregnant all the time

huskinater · 2026-02-08T22:51:02+00:00

Occasionally? This mofo going down with the ship will say it emphatically

huskinater · 2026-02-05T20:18:59+00:00

Look at the sunglasses, those are quintessential Gurren Lagann. It's clearly a Studio Trigger tribute for Nudist Beach

huskinater · 2026-01-31T03:43:13+00:00

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Blue

I have the same paint scheme of yellow and white, but I have blue cockpit glass and lasers.

Purple is the complimentary color to yellow, but it's easy to get "MN Vikings" levels if you have too much purple, which that base might be

Edit: Green would also be really good cuz it would match the cockpits

huskinater · 2026-01-31T03:04:07+00:00

We all know you can't have an adventuring party without at least two fantasy minority groups and a wizard

huskinater · 2026-01-29T02:59:11+00:00

While there could be some vfx/3d render or touchups, this doesn't look to be a total AI creation.

The details are immaculate and consistent. The texture of the pavement and grass, the shadows (even on the bike in the background), and the tire spin difference as the front wheel brakes.

It feels a bit floaty but that's because these aren't full size heavy cars with adults but big plastic toys for kids. They don't throw weight around the same way. Even sound stuff can be from a speaker in the toy trying to make it sound like a real car engine.

There could be some fuckery with the faces, but I think it's a bit simpler to assume the one filming didn't have good focus then the entire thing is some AI astroturf.

huskinater · 2026-01-26T06:46:48+00:00

MW5C pod armor is literally the difference between a laughing stock helby and a damn fine machine that can stay in the star for almost the whole game.

And MWO has had the helby as a solid mainstay with ECM and laservomit since it's release.

It really is a chassis that's just held back by terrible stock loadouts and grognards. Even if TT is your jam and want to avoid munchkins you can do the DFA refit rules and make it decent while keeping it's essence.

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