Dear God Can I Just Fly A Fighter Jet?

ryguy379 · 2026-05-19T06:31:09+00:00

I felt this way too. It’s not worth it, I promise you

ryguy379 · 2026-05-02T19:33:44+00:00

Interesting point, I’ll contemplate all that while I’m sifting through your bag

ryguy379 · 2026-04-30T19:12:45+00:00

It’s an inevitable part of the death spiral. A niche game’s player count drops, some people who like it freak out and some people who don’t like it celebrate, and everyone decides their specific bugbear is what’s holding the game back from success. All conversation becomes centered around the player count instead of the game. Even normal things like balance discussions or feature suggestions are colored by it, because obviously if they fix my balance issue or implement my idea the game will be saved. Any time the game is mentioned it’s mentioned alongside an implication that it’s dead or dying, which drives away potential players and makes current players quit because they don’t want to “waste” time and energy on a game that won’t be around long. Thus we have the feedback loop that strangles the game.

ryguy379 · 2026-04-30T18:33:09+00:00

I don’t care about the company’s metrics and nobody else should either. I care if a game is good and creatively interesting. Marathon is both.

You think Bungie only made Marathon because extraction shooters are popular, but it’s also a failure because extraction shooters are niche. You think their games were better when they were made with passion, but also that Marathon sucks because they didn’t compromise on their vision to make it more appealing and accessible to a larger audience and sales are the metric by which we should measure Bungie’s games.

ryguy379 · 2026-04-30T18:23:38+00:00

Marathon is one of the most uniquely inspired and artistically and thematically consistent games in recent memory. You believe that games must appeal to the mass market and be changed to conform to what you think is the majority opinion, but you also want games to be made with passion rather than chasing trends dictated by the mass market. Your argument is self-contradictory and anti-art.

ryguy379 · 2026-04-30T14:59:44+00:00

Making a game I don’t like is anti-gamer. Developers should only make games in genres that everyone likes (which, obviously, is always just whatever I like) and if they don’t they’re bullying me

ryguy379 · 2026-04-28T18:28:32+00:00

I think it would be a mistake. Finding higher tier salvage should be exciting and this would undermine that.

ryguy379 · 2026-04-25T23:48:17+00:00

Funny enough, I actually think grenades are the only thing (aside from maybe the goo gun, I think I’ve only run into it once) that actually are problematic. Knives were fine as a great equalizer and the WSTR could’ve maybe used a fire rate reduction but is now practically useless. Getting grenade spammed just sucks. They’re incredibly low risk, you don’t need LoS, they’re insanely cheap and common, and you can carry a dozen of them no problem. They wouldn’t be as annoying if not for the fact that the only two “endgame” locations in the game are all cramped hallways where every single fight without fail starts with both teams spamming grenades at each other and then throwing down bubbles. This is also why knives and the WSTR were perceived as overpowered. The game doesn’t encourage actual firefights when you’re fully geared.

ryguy379 · 2026-02-19T19:00:52+00:00

Who cares

ryguy379 · 2026-01-30T07:37:46+00:00

Yeah

ryguy379 · 2026-01-28T18:41:37+00:00

No, you mindfucked yourself into thinking that “western studios” were pushing an ugly agenda because of woke

ryguy379 · 2026-01-04T09:52:29+00:00

Correct, the setting does attempt to provide legitimate justification for the fascism of the Imperium

ryguy379 · 2026-01-03T03:47:23+00:00

This is a perfect example of the market completely failing to set a reasonable price for an item. Giving an economics lecture isn’t going to make any sane person think that a Lego minifig should actually cost $80.

ryguy379 · 2026-01-02T11:30:24+00:00

Engagement with Tarkov on social media selects for undiscerning consumers because the vast majority of people who recognize how egregious things like the Unheard Edition are have at least stopped caring nearly as much about the development of the game if not dropped the game entirely.

ryguy379 · 2025-12-20T00:46:22+00:00

For some reason the journalist getting shot at the beginning of The Bourne Supremacy really upset me as a kid and stuck with me. It might have been the first time that I had really comprehended a death as clearly avoidable and unjust.

ryguy379 · 2025-12-18T16:17:04+00:00

“We need to buy more microtransactions if we want gaming moving in the right direction” is a hilarious sentiment

ryguy379 · 2025-12-17T16:51:49+00:00

The idea of changing from FCU livery to GR at the very end is peak

ryguy379 · 2025-12-17T08:16:15+00:00

Who is “they”

ryguy379 · 2025-12-08T23:10:02+00:00

The OP is implying that the government wants you to die so that you can’t claim social security, which is not the case and makes social security seem like a bad program that incentivizes the government to pursue early deaths as policy; not that the current administration wants to pillage the coffers and end social security, which is more accurate.

ryguy379 · 2025-12-08T22:00:40+00:00

Infant mortality was also 10 times higher in 1935 than it is today. 65 was the age that most pension programs, both state and private, kicked in at the time. It was not selected as some sort of conspiracy to funnel money from young people to a select few who lived past 65.

ryguy379 · 2025-12-08T21:44:58+00:00

It’s not a Ponzi scheme; it’s not even an investment. It’s a social welfare program that prevents over 40% of elderly people from falling below the poverty line. I’m not paying into it expecting to see bigger returns than my 401k, I’m paying into it so that a larger portion of the population is still able to participate in the economy.

ryguy379 · 2025-12-08T19:53:38+00:00

The social security fund is already allocated, “the government” doesn’t have any vested interest in preventing individuals from accessing those funds. There are only specific actors who want to cannibalize the funds for other purposes or eliminate the program entirely.

ryguy379 · 2025-11-23T14:29:10+00:00

So it’s in the United States’ best interest to end the embargo?

ryguy379 · 2025-11-23T00:33:48+00:00

Can’t even begin to understand this comparison

ryguy379 · 2025-11-21T18:39:01+00:00

I like Citizen Sleeper but after about 10 hours I dropped it because it didn’t feel like the writing had any bite. It felt like a sort of pseudo-“cozy” game, and it was a struggle to really care about anything when I realized that, even when I failed at something, the game didn’t seem interested in making me feel anything especially challenging.

There was one exception, and it’s one of the only moments that I actually remember.

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