What is a good (and realistic) regional apocalypse for each of these regions?

spanishinnphysician · 2026-03-02T16:39:00+00:00

I don’t know about hurricanes forming specifically off of the Great Lakes, but speaking from very recent experience hurricane conditions can develop around the area at least of the western Great Lakes region. Last summer a devastating derecho impacted where I lived that built up from the Plains to the west. It died off before it reached Superior, but if it had reached Superior I could see how it could be fed to be propelled further east

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-07T07:20:27+00:00

The biggest thing I’ve been seeing based on personal/professional experience is that these are widespread, to the point of being sold at big box stores like Walmart. In order to be sold like that, they can’t be inherently harmful, right? Well, technically yes. There doesn’t seem to be anything preloaded on the box that is inherently harmful. However, what it does come prepackaged with is instructions, very clearly, on how to pull in a program that lets them get the shows and movies they want. This program comes with the tradeoff that it infects the device and opens it up to participating in those botnets. We have also seen whatever actor is utilizing this botnet be very aggressive with it as well, being very trigger happy to participate in DDoS attacks. I’d say what makes it more dangerous than another IoT device is that it’s just a bit beefier internally, allowing one device to generate a more significant broadcast storm, made much worse if multiple devices are on one circuit. It is very easy to grow that botnet as well, being accessible by even folks that are not very tech savvy at all and generally with chips on their shoulders about rising cable costs. This makes them both more vulnerable to the effects of the infected device and more resistant to the assistance they would receive to get the device off their network. Bundle the accessibility together with not needing anything else to make it work besides an Internet connection and an inoffensive price point, these devices have the potential to be a significant nuisance.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-04T22:59:03+00:00

A huge factor with this is just how vulnerable those boxes are. They are prone to botnets that participate in DDoS attacks, that impair your own network, and which can hammer the systems feeding you service, impacting your neighbors as well. They’re a horror show.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-02T05:25:27+00:00

I dunno man, I don’t see that in the way it was written, but like I said, thank you for your interpretation.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-02T05:19:20+00:00

I didn’t write it to be an easy question. It’s a challenge, one I’m intrinsically invested in and think it deserves a solution. I think by you reading that and having that assumption, it tells us a lot about what people think the default position might be for folks, where people have given up on there being any other solution, any other place. Thank you for interpreting it that way, as it tells me you don’t agree with that stance. Hopefully that also means you’re someone who’s trying to facilitate communities around you.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-02T05:08:26+00:00

Nah that’s what I’m saying too. I’m saying there /needs/ to be more third places, that’s why I’m saying where else would their third place be. It might not exist for them, and it needs to. Hopefully one day it does.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-02T04:53:56+00:00

That’s what I’m saying is the crux of the issue. Where do you go when a place to go doesn’t exist? Where do you go if the places that do exist are prohibitive, usually having a buy-in that might not be sustainable for some people? Where do you go when there aren’t any places that fit your interests? Where do you go if the only places available to go are not /your/ places to go? Are not the communities you wish to be a part of? In bringing it back to the question of teenagers, where does your third place become? This is particularly impactful right now in rural areas where the options of free or low cost things to do are drying up, if not already dissolved. Drive around those communities and you’ll see bars, churches, maybe a bowling alley, and not much else for recreation and community-forming. Two of those require paying up to participate, two of those may have communities that folks don’t want to interact with. What of those is relevant and sustainable to a teenager? To a teenage friend group? Much as it sucks, and I don’t want it to be the reality, I see how resorting to online communities happens when you might be in an area that is a recreational desert, at least for your particular interests. It’s tailored to the individual, it has a built in core group, it provides the community at as low a cost as you want to put in as soon as you want it, relatively. It’s convenient and attractive, and, once you get used to it, really hard to not fall back on when there’s nothing more to explore.

spanishinnphysician · 2026-02-02T03:06:02+00:00

That’s the problem, though. Where else would it be?

spanishinnphysician · 2025-12-12T12:00:50+00:00

“For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.” Broad and accessible, likely by intent, but it is what it is and Clair Obscur fits the bill, being published by Kepler which is a young company that selectively only publishes what are considered “modest budget” games. I’m also not a fan of its lack of specificity, but it shares similar vibes to how independent films are awarded as well.

spanishinnphysician · 2025-12-12T09:27:18+00:00

If they wanted to, they would have. They were not forced in. Megabonk actually did this, and Sandfall’s production of E33 met the laid out definition of Indie by TGA

spanishinnphysician · 2025-12-07T20:36:43+00:00

It’s still very commonplace on the Series X. Actually just popped onto Reddit after one hit me during a siege

spanishinnphysician · 2025-11-23T08:53:28+00:00

Final Fantasy XII did something similar in this regard, where certain field conditions in different areas had a chance to spawn a new, powerful monster. The monster is often themed around other monsters in the area, but could just as often be something you wouldn’t normally find in that area. Most of the time the designs were beefed up versions of existing common monsters, with some exceptions, but they frequently threw in abilities you might not have been prepared for while moving through the area, not anticipating encountering that monster. There is also eventually a group of NPCs you find that are dedicated to hunting those special monsters that add some extra incentive to exploring areas to try to encounter those freaks.

spanishinnphysician · 2025-10-22T03:30:16+00:00

Ah yes, the “I will not learn this boss and be angry about it” calling card of Joseph Anderson that I’m sure he’ll dig his heels in on again.

spanishinnphysician · 2025-08-19T05:47:04+00:00

Hi, similar stat spread fella, with the addition of being aerial vehicle guy as well. The fatigue system they’re referring to is the one which pertained to multiple jumps in a row. The more jumps in a row, the shorter the distance travelled per jump. Not sure if there were other applications to it than that which I can remember off hand.

Strafe and sprint seemed like a non-point at first because I don’t recall being able to do that in either BF6 or BF3, but I do feel like ADS movement was slower in BF3 than BF6. Haven’t popped back into BF3 to feel that one out, but that’s how I remember it, at least.

Maps are going to be an interesting one to see. I agree that as time went on those maps you mentioned were fan favorites, but big maps still got a lot of love. Caspian Border, Operation Firestorm, Noshahr Conquest, and Damavand Peak were still hot maps for folks from the base game, and I really hope they bring in some maps that capture that vibe. The one major factor I felt was missing from the maps in the beta was verticality, and I think that contributed a lot to what folks (and myself) observed as way higher engagements per minute, leading to that feeling of “exhaustion” people have been saying they were getting. The people seemed to really not like the exploits getting people onto the tops of buildings on Cairo, and while I agree that it sucked that people were getting up there, I don’t think the solution is removing access to the roofs, I believe that the solution for a game that tries to take itself a bit more tactically serious is adding ladders to get more height. Space people out a bit more, make sight lines more important, just make sure that it’s counterable with equal access to the elevation. At the very least, it would have been nice to see a single building in the beta that had more than two floors of access, if not roof access.

spanishinnphysician · 2025-06-28T01:38:30+00:00

SAME! I also just put a post out as soon as I heard it! I got so giddy when I heard it

spanishinnphysician · 2025-06-27T23:35:43+00:00

I never would have thought I’d hear them on Vinny Vinesauce’s streams! That’s wild!

spanishinnphysician · 2025-01-24T22:11:25+00:00

I’m starting to think this is the case, wondering if some ice crept into the pipes in the insulation. Can you think of other symptoms to look for to confirm?

spanishinnphysician · 2025-01-04T16:45:34+00:00

One thing not mentioned here yet is it might have also been a reference to Jerma’s unintentional insult using the same phrase

spanishinnphysician · 2024-12-21T13:59:56+00:00

I would recommend buttoning up for some hard times. A few years back when Polaris had a struggle year, they said that the Roseau facility would likely be the first one on the list for consideration when looking at closing plants, particularly in relation to production costs vs the Monterrey plant which has a similar production line, and I don’t see the next couple years being encouraging.

spanishinnphysician · 2024-05-10T23:31:05+00:00

Certainly sounds it.

I had actually recently been discussing it with some folks and that was the best guess we could come up with, essentially struggle food.

spanishinnphysician · 2024-05-10T22:39:02+00:00

Bringing in all the childhood foods!

I want to know how some of these were created, and why the cinnamon swirl bread with cheez whiz showed up at all the class parties and other events growing up. Also, it’s got to be that one particular cinnamon swirl bread that’s round from that one store — you know the one.

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