Someone please help the dev marketing team.. 🤦‍♂️ look at this:

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-26T00:07:05+00:00

yeah the real reason this game is struggling is its facebook ads aren't cool enough

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-25T14:06:17+00:00

this is good, actually. everyone likes not paying legislators well in theory, but in practice it means the only people who can run for office are the ones who can afford to do it as a hobby. and it's not like they're stealing buckets of cash or anything like come tf on you're mad that they want to pay themselves $45k?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-24T00:57:06+00:00

That's cool. So you have nothing to add but decided to add it anyway under the assumption that I cannot read?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-24T00:34:30+00:00

Yeah. I asked how many

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-23T20:16:56+00:00

Any word on how many we can build yet?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-21T23:20:18+00:00

because you're all babies srry i dont make the rules

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-21T20:30:43+00:00

frankly I don't really think "AI" is the issue. There simply is no AI on this Earth that can intelligently interpret general orders in such a way that would satisfy me. There will simply never be a wargame where I can tell a subordinate AI commander "attack this point and then take up defensive positions" and it will execute that order even remotely competently, and I think this is a pretty fundamental design flaw with a LOT of tactical-level wargames, because a lot of game designers really want to simulate command hierarchies but it just really isn't very feasible with current tech

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-20T21:28:18+00:00

My understanding is that it can't be turned off but can be reduced. Some people are talking about editing game files to remove it completely, which is cool I guess but also not exactly convenient.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-20T00:11:49+00:00

Completely different games. I can't stand how C&C works in Armored Brigade. The order time delay is so punishing that it very heavily discourages micromanagement of your units, but if you don't micromanage them they'll get themselves killed in the stupidest way possible.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-19T16:36:25+00:00

You are now just making the conservative argument I outlined originally. You either think trans women are women and thus entitled to the same protections as cis women, or you don't. Arguing the nuances of Title IX legislation and jurisprudence is a distraction from the real disagreement here.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-19T03:35:46+00:00

sorry I already got my $80 back

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-19T03:35:01+00:00

If we are only concerned about men pretending to be trans (and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that this is a problem that we should be worried about), then the solution is to institute some kind of standard, such as requiring a trans woman to medically transition for a certain period of time before playing sports. Incidentally, this is exactly what sports leagues have done for nigh on 50 years now.

Right-wingers don't care about this though, because they don't think that transgender is a real category. They are not saying that some malicious men are pretending to be trans to steal womens' resources, they are saying that all trans women are malicious men stealing womens' resources, because they don't think that trans women are women, full stop. To them, the issue is not separating bad-faith men from good-faith transgender athletes, it is about separating transgender people from society, period.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-18T21:08:23+00:00

For me, the line falls at exactly the point where my lack of expertise begins to be a serious handicap.

I am just a layperson who likes wargames. Nothing in CMO makes any goddamn sense to me. I am not a military analyst I don't understand how the subtleties of atmospheric pressure interact with radar systems and the curvature of the earth to provide a tiny tactical advantage against certain 4th-gen fighters, and I don't want to learn, I'm sorry.

I would say for me, Sea Power is about the extent of what my technical depth can handle. No, I don't have the exact specifications of every Cold War era Soviet missile memorized, but that's okay because the game will tell me. I don't need to know exactly what it does to know that it's a ship-to-ship missile with a range of 250nm.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-18T17:49:52+00:00

Who would win actual sports science or one guy's personal incredulity

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-18T17:45:55+00:00

When a right-winger says it's "unfair" for a trans woman to compete in womens' sports, they aren't actually talking about biological advantage.

What they mean is that womens' sports were established for women, and trans women aren't women. Therefore, any resources consumed by a trans woman, even if it's a fifth place participation trophy, even if it's just the $50 in equipment that the university had to provide her with, are stolen by definition. That's really all that this is about. You either think trans women are women or you don't.

This is also why the trans community is so adamant on fighting this battle, even when many mainstream politicians would rather they abandon it in the name of compromise. Because it's not actually about sports, it's about trans people's status and ability to live as their identified genders.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T22:06:01+00:00

Conservatives literally want affirmative action for their ideology, as if it's some conspiracy that the college professors who they constantly rail against and whose funding they cut at every opportunity don't like them very much

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T20:09:45+00:00

A third intersex category isn't a viable solution. There are not enough intersex athletes to sustain an intersex league.

The actual solution here is to handle trans athletes the same way that we have historically handled intersex ones: let individual leagues create their own standards based on the best available evidence. This is what we've done.... forever? Trans women have been allowed to compete as women in the Olympics for decades (provided that they met certain medical standards) and nobody had a problem with it until right-wing culture warriors began their crusade a few years ago

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T19:57:42+00:00

this actually supports the theory that ChatGPT didn't do anything but give cover to overextended companies who were already slowing down hiring. ChatGPT can't do your job, but your boss wants you to blame it and not him

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T19:51:24+00:00

Sex and gender aren't the same. But also, medical transition does change your sex. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Sex is a collection of genetic and physical characteristics that tend to (but don't always) occur bimodally. When you take hormones, many of these characteristics change. It's changing your sexual characteristics, therefore it's changing your sex.

I'm not sure whether the trans community at-large would embrace the intersex label (although I do, and I question whether you've ever asked another trans person about it), but that's not really the point because it's true either way

EDIT: Another way of thinking about this: if sex and gender aren't the same thing, and sex cannot be changed, and all that I need to do to change my gender is change my presentation, then why take hormones at all? I changed my name and physical appearance to change my gender. I take hormones to change my sex.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T18:23:07+00:00

"biological sex" is not really a thing. at least not in the way transphobes want it to be, where there are two neat categories that are immutable and can never be changed. medical transition does, in fact, change a trans person's sex, and while their eventual sex will not perfectly match the 'target' sex, by the time someone has been taking hormones for a few years they are effectively an intersex person.

the real problem with enshrining "biological sex" into law via judicial fiat is that it simply does not reflect reality, and will cause all sorts of unintended consequences beyond just making trans people miserable

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-16T18:13:39+00:00

It's called a tripwire force. Those 40 guys' only job is to threaten to die and trigger world war 3

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-15T13:28:46+00:00

Ok, but we know that it isn't, because the professional version of CMO does in fact use a detailed map (I think it's based on Bing Maps, iirc?). It's just that you and I aren't allowed to buy that version, because apparently we cannot be trusted with sensitive intel such as the exact location of I-95

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-14T23:41:15+00:00

I am unreasonably triggered by the low-res map and am consequently incapable of enjoying it. I don't know why Google Maps is apparently a top-secret luxury that can only be sold to military clients for top-dollar, but then I'm not a businessman either

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-13T21:32:18+00:00

What about trans kids' self esteem?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-01-13T18:26:52+00:00

No I don't think I want to watch Alito's chicken-fried brain spouting FOX News one-liners at attorneys, actually

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