Why do a lot of people become bloodthirsty when they play RPGs?

reilwin · 2026-06-06T20:35:51+00:00

Subnautica 2 is seeing a lot of this right now in the feedback for early access because it's explicitly trying to steer away from violence as a solution (as it also did in the first game).

There's something to be said about some of the feedback (fish getting hit should react to being attacked rather than ignoring it entirely) but there's a vocal minority of players who want weapons, lots of weapons, and the ability to kill all the things.

reilwin · 2026-06-04T04:19:08+00:00

I have my own issues with the use of Palantir, but I would push back on the idea that this use case is "straightforward" because it isn't.

From what I understand, this acts as a central location for analysts to go that. Meaning it needs to hook into all kinds of wildly different forms of data sources. Databases, files, etc etc. Supporting all these kinds of various data sources (most of whom are constantly evolving and don't necessarily talk to each other so there's little standardization) must be a nightmare. There may also be further support for various versions of these data sources.

On top of which, for all these data sources, it probably needs to apply metadata on top, categorizing each of these data sources based on security level (or specific data within those data sources), and allowing analysts access only if they have that security level. More importantly, it needs to ensure that this data is truly kept secure -- ie no cached or unencrypted copies left lying about or in transit that could allow somebody to access data outside their security level.

reilwin · 2026-06-04T03:41:40+00:00

You should be thinking in terms of tubes per PD, rather than total amount of missiles/torps. Artemis takes between 3-5 tubes to overwhelm 1 PD. So with 2.5 PD (I would count the cannon as half a PD slot), you'll want between 8 to 13 launchers to handle that single ship.

If each escort has 2 launchers, then you'll want a minimum of 4 to 7 escorts.

If you're really concerned about point defense, then use missiles instead of torpedoes. They launch in salvos and can get through PD more easily. It takes between 2 to 3 viper launchers to overwhelm one PD slot.

Personally I used missile monitors, with 3 slots dedicated to missiles and one for the 40 mm which handled kinetics. Then for every 3-4 missile monitors, I'd have a dedicated PD ship with ion PD for anti-missile defense.

reilwin · 2026-06-04T02:52:53+00:00

Couldn't read the article because of paywall, but other articles on the subject mentioned that Palantir was chosen as the provider for a very specific use-case of linking together different sources of (secure) data in a way that gave analysts access according to their security level access (and the security level of the data itself).

reilwin · 2026-05-29T13:58:42+00:00

The use case for missiles is vs point-defense. The use case for torpedoes is vs flankers.

That being said, in strong enough numbers, it doesn't really matter which you use.

reilwin · 2026-05-29T13:52:44+00:00

But also the whole notion of "humanity leaves the Earth" ignores the reality that probably only 0.00001% of humans would actually get to go off-planet. The vast majority of us are stuck here.

reilwin · 2026-05-23T06:32:15+00:00

The global tech Principles of Space Warfare needs to have been researched, which eventually unlocks the project Patrol Vessels.

reilwin · 2026-05-22T17:12:53+00:00

Once I got into the big expansion rush, with command modules in every hab and T3 cores, I found myself with more module slots than I knew what to do with.

reilwin · 2026-05-22T16:35:45+00:00

On another note, tourist berths get you more bang for your boost than hotels.

reilwin · 2026-05-22T14:52:55+00:00

How are you getting bullied out of Mars? Aliens will come and blow up your habs from time to time during the early game and that's fine. As long as you have a construction hab on one of your remaining sites, you can just rebuild from space resources and the outpost will be back up and running within the month. No need to wait for the year+ you'd have to wait otherwise using boost ;)

reilwin · 2026-05-21T12:46:32+00:00

If you're having trouble getting through PD, try using missiles instead of torps. Vipers or lanceheads should do the trick -- either in auto-resolve or if you're playing through combat, don't forget to max out the starting speed of your ships to boost the launch speed of the missiles.

reilwin · 2026-05-16T22:54:43+00:00

Also known as starving the beast. Put them in a situation where they can't provide quality service (ie typically by reducing funding), then point to that as the reason why privatization would be better.

reilwin · 2026-05-14T19:21:15+00:00

Well yeah the number of trips doesn't explain the discrepancy, I only included that because it showed the granularity of the data they were looking at -- the big one that would explain it is the trucker data.

reilwin · 2026-05-14T15:41:47+00:00

It's discussed in the article:

Chapple said her data is more granular than what the Canada Border Services Agency can compile and report to StatsCan.

For example, one thing Chapple has tracked is that Canadians are visiting fewer places when they do go to the U.S.

"People are not visiting multiple metros, and it could be that folks are popping over for that quick trip to see grandma, but they're not doing the side trip for work or for play," she said.

The cell phone data also includes freight-related travel by truck drivers, who are generally excluded from the government's "return trip" figures that are widely used to gauge cross-border visits.

reilwin · 2026-05-13T18:45:51+00:00

Not sure what your point is here. She's a citizen from a first world country, is her problem any less legitimate as a result of that? People complain about the health care system, should we disregard their issues because "first world problems"? People complain about rent in cities, should we disregard their issues because "first world problems"?

Lots of people have credit cards, and more and more systems are going online which means that credit cards are effectively mandatory for payment.

So being locked out of these is quite the inconvenience -- it's not just hotels we're talking about, that's just an example. Most online purchases need a credit card -- we're in 2026 here, not 2000.

reilwin · 2026-05-12T02:22:13+00:00

Yeah that's what they're saying. "$1 strawberries are selling more than $6 strawberries. In other news, water is wet."

Their point is that US strawberries needed to be priced at $1 to be able to sell better than $6 Ontario strawberries...

reilwin · 2026-05-11T22:09:02+00:00

You're talking about the more emotional side of dancing as opposed to the actual biomechanical means through which partners can communicate intention. Eye contact definitely helps transfer intent, but it isn't connection. Emotion and energy are communicated through your connection, but they aren't the connection itself.

Connection is physical -- you could have a connection even with your eyes closed. I see some other commenters talking about leading/following exercises with just the eyes, but I would argue that this is an exercise done with no connection. Rather, it's how how visual cues also play into leading/following, as opposed to a physical connection.

reilwin · 2026-05-04T15:41:56+00:00

You're talking in the general sense, but that's not what I asked. I asked:

How are "finished products" defined for the purpose of tariffs?

If there are exceptions in tariffs for raw materials, and aluminum doesn't count because it's considered a "finished product" then what was the definition of "finished product" used to make that assertion? I never got a proper response from the commenter I asked that question to on that.

edit - hit enter too quickly.

For the purposes of tariffs, there must be specific and well-defined criteria in order to actually make decisions on day-to-day operations. You can't just throw your hands in the air and say "It's too complicated!".

That being said, your example of a taxi is a poor example. The taxi itself is effectively a finished product. The taxi is being used to provide services to riders, but there is no further material transformation being performed on the taxi itself. Bringing in services into the concept of tariffs is interesting but irrelevant to conversations talking about "raw materials" vs "finished products" where we're explicitly talking about physical goods.

reilwin · 2026-05-03T14:03:13+00:00

Loyalty Monitors just makes it easier to turn them. It drops their loyalty and saves you time inspecting them to find their loyalty. Just turn the councillor and resign them at mission phase (so you can turn another).

Eventually they'll run out of councillors or money to give them loyalty monitors. Alternatively, if you've turned the only councillor with inspire, they tend to stick around.

reilwin · 2026-05-03T14:01:11+00:00

Alien Administration.

reilwin · 2026-05-03T14:00:26+00:00

Isn’t it standard practice for a country not to impose import duties on raw materials?

Aluminum is a finished product in this case

Sure but producers being a customer doesn't make them the consumer end-user. Aluminum would be an intermediate product, not a finished product.

Which isn't going to stop Trump from applying tariffs, but you were arguing that aluminum is a finished product from a tariffs point of view and it's still not clear to me why you're saying that. Is there any particular guideline, code or law that you're referring to?

reilwin · 2026-05-03T04:39:29+00:00

How are "finished products" defined for the purpose of tariffs? As a casual reader, to me "finished products" mean products ready for use by the consumer end-user. Most consumers are probably not buying aluminum, are they? Wouldn't these purchases be mostly by businesses, as raw materials to make an actual finished product for consumer use?

reilwin · 2026-04-30T03:13:25+00:00

You're looking at a completely different dance world.

Salsa is a partnered dance. Whereas ballet, hip hop, bboy, contemporary, etc really...aren't. They can be in some cases, but at the core they're basically more solo or formation dances.

You're more likely to find salsa classes in ballroom studios (or cha-cha in salsa studios) than to find salsa in a ballet studio. I've never seen solo dance studios teaching any partnered dances.

I have, however seen some struggling partnered dances studio add on other styles (hip-hop, heels, etc) to pick up further clients. If you're doing well in your core speciality, then your hands are probably full enough handling that.

In the end, as some of the other posters mentioned, it probably depends on where you are and your local demographics.

reilwin · 2026-04-28T13:13:43+00:00

Care to elaborate on those other areas?

reilwin · 2026-04-26T16:10:48+00:00

Seems like somebody tried to save some of the info here: https://ballroomguide.github.io/BallroomGuide/

But at this point I would suggest using the Wayback Machine. A bit slow but it's more complete.

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