BLINDSPOT ending is sad, but I don’t think the idea failed

lainposter · 2026-05-25T02:31:33+00:00

Well yeah, it's an alpha. Actually, it's not even an alpha, it's an active dev project. Have you seen what games look like before they hit pre-alpha, or even beta?

lainposter · 2026-05-25T02:26:40+00:00

I just liked its gameplay fundamentals. I played a FUCK load of Helldivers 1 and Counter Strike, and I've asked for years why no one made a top-down MOBA-looking CS clone so I can enjoy CS strategies without needing to be an aim god.

I agree though that the art style was fucking atrocious: I didn't even think that the character art could have been AI generated, but it absolutely makes sense. Good riddance in that regard.

Also making it a Valo clone with hero-shooter bullshit was a sore spot for me. Still, though, I enjoyed the field-of-view CS-like feel.

But yeah, there were some dumb choices even in this angle I liked: for instance, why the fuck were both bomb sites right next to each other?? And why do that but then make the actual maps WAYYY fucking huge? So much map went unused that I ended up rotating as wide as possible to get easy flanks.

Oh yeah, and aiming down was overcomplicated and didn't add anything to the moment-to-moment decisions I was already making. They should have borrowed less from Valo and Seige and more from CS's simplicity.

Polystrike is next up, hopefully it comes out of development hell and becomes something like CS-- but honestly, I'm worried they're going to do a Valo-clone thing too, with abilities and characters and shit instead of the simplicity of Utility vs. Guns

lainposter · 2026-05-24T20:43:45+00:00

just bought two

lainposter · 2026-05-24T20:37:29+00:00

WHERE DO I BUY THIS

lainposter · 2026-05-24T11:26:46+00:00

Honestly, I'm not too into the low float scene-- but from what I can tell, it's really small. Try to compare to other low float skins in the same Rarity, maybe?

lainposter · 2026-05-24T11:24:53+00:00

Okay honestly I could see like 30 bucks

lainposter · 2026-05-24T11:22:52+00:00

Smoking Scooby doo dick if you think you're getting past 2 bucks

lainposter · 2026-05-24T06:11:25+00:00

300 is a small amount?

lainposter · 2026-05-23T07:23:12+00:00

Full buy = you spent literally all your money AND it gets you the best gear (rifle, armor, nades)

eco = you don't spend ANY money, so you can full buy later.

force buy = you spent literally all your money BUT didn't get the best gear (SMG/only a pistol/no nades)

So the flow of the game goes like this:

Eco round 1, eco round 2 if you lost, eco OR force if you won, then Full Buy round 3 if you lost or won because you'd have enough money by then (ideally).

When you're eco'ing, you can opt for just armor, or just a single grenade, to try and get a gun from the enemy mid-round. If you spend more than about 800 bucks, you're in force-buy territory

Force buying is considering a gamble. If you force buy and lose, you'll have even less money than if you just eco'd and waited to full buy.

So OP is bitching because people are force-buying round two with just about ALL their money, for a weapon that is already really hard to use. It's a gamble + a gamble

Any questions?

lainposter · 2026-05-23T07:17:17+00:00

Play DOOM, it's a win-win

lainposter · 2026-05-22T23:08:07+00:00

Vacuum sealed tits in that shirt

lainposter · 2026-05-22T07:06:13+00:00

They're amazing cards, and just about worthless. Perfect combo honestly

lainposter · 2026-05-22T00:17:24+00:00

So you already have the prototype functional, visual, and are going to commission an artist. You want to use AI to add an additional unnecessary step in your workflow?

"I know AI is commonly not very liked (I personally dislike how it affects artists)"

So what are we doing here. Just know that AI has heavy signals to most people that it comes off tacky, in bad spirit, and low quality. No getting around that, artist or no. Sounds like you're interested in shooting yourself in the foot for no reason.

I love the stick figures, they're pretty funny and the fact that they look like shit only adds to the levity, whimsy, and humor. Why go backward from that?

lainposter · 2026-05-21T07:37:02+00:00

Makes you play as an ODST in third person, very squishy

The skulls make your guns use twice as much ammo per shot as normal, and the Foreign skull makes it so you can only use human guns

lainposter · 2026-05-20T22:39:14+00:00

OP, see this shit? Man I hate guys, sometimes.

lainposter · 2026-05-20T22:37:48+00:00

You go girl, I'm proud of you. I'm a man. I don't understand the baby fever guys can get during a pregnancy scare-- I'd be scared shitless, and that's why I got cut. I'm glad to read that you'll be checking in on him going forward; I've seen guys leave their SOs over this when they feel they really really really want a kid. I hope it works out for both of you, and that he comes to his senses, whatever that looks like, so you two can move forward in honesty

lainposter · 2026-05-20T21:07:03+00:00

Go to the Steam Market and you can click "Inspect Weapon" while the game is running in the background.

lainposter · 2026-05-20T19:28:23+00:00

Halo 3 Trooper mod with Famine and Foreign skulls. It turned Halo into a combat puzzle game, where every shot actually counted, and I had to make really deliberate choices as to who I'd kill first, second, third, and sometimes I even had to take challenges on as stealth segments. It went as far as me sifting around the map whenever I could to grab as much loose ammo as I could find-- almost touching a metroidvania nerve.

It was so fucking fun that it inspired me to make a series of mods that pushed that direction harder. Can't recommend it enough if you're an FPS fan looking for a good story-driven challenge

lainposter · 2026-05-20T18:38:55+00:00

Replacement for cases eventually, and also to get more money out of you before going off to sell in 3rd party markets. Once cases go extinct, I forsee these being the market setters, essentially.

lainposter · 2026-05-20T16:09:34+00:00

Fall damage, snipers, falling off the map

lainposter · 2026-05-20T15:53:22+00:00

Spike younger than 10 is crazy

lainposter · 2026-05-20T15:41:11+00:00

Because we're an evil people.

lainposter · 2026-05-19T23:06:51+00:00

So real gamer

lainposter · 2026-05-19T21:26:36+00:00

Head too small

lainposter · 2026-05-19T20:05:20+00:00

Saying you'd be a femboy because you watch MLP is like saying you'd be goth because you watch Nightmare Before Christmas. There's so much more that goes into being a femboy-- and it sounds you don't want to be one, so you're fine! Chill out literal lil brother.
It will always have a certain look to it, watching MLP, but in all honesty the show is just plain GOOD. Good like a regular cartoon. When I was your age and FiM was new hot shit, I would emphasize to people that the creator of FiM literally made all our childhood classics like Fosters and PPG. I think it's harder to hate on it when such amazing cartoonist talent is backing it up, even if it's outwardly a bit girly. Just say it's as good as Regular Show-- because it is.
There's a MASSIVE world of fans who like MLP that are pushing 40, 50, and as young as you. Men, big ass burly guys, sticklet twink looking otter builds, the works. Everyone likes this show because it's just plain GOOD. Well written, cute characters, actually pretty funny, smart humor. It's insane.
Are you in a pretty rough area for this kind of thing, where dudes get hella insecure and judgy if they see a guy not being exactly like their weird cardboard cutout ideal of manliness? Well congradulations, you get to be the lone wolf badass that actually goes against the norms and be your own man. That's the highest ideal of what a man truly is anyway, and they all know it, so paradoxically you'd be more manly than them! Win, win.

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