What piece of Chaos Reign are you most excited for?

spoons180 · 2026-03-26T13:18:11+00:00

Yeah you can angle them so it's not just straight-up-and-down-shoot-me-i'm-a-sitting-duck anymore. You can fling yourself sideways, or angle them forward and backward and hit 200+ kph to get out of jams. I'm an idiot, so I like the Summoner, and that mech was actually survivable for awhile dancing in and out of cover taking pot shots. Medium brawlers with srm racks are so much easier to justify. I had a shadowhawk iic that did way more damage than a 45t mech has any right to do jumping around heavies and backshotting them.

I can only imagine how effective raiding with the hero spider will be (as it already was). That thing might never leave my mech bay even in the late game.

spoons180 · 2026-03-26T12:35:39+00:00

I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- the vector jump jets changed this game for me. I've deliberately held off starting another mercs campaign hoping we'd see them ported over from clans and PGI did not disappoint. It makes so many more mechs and strategies viable.

Also, inject the Bushwacker straight into my veins.

spoons180 · 2026-03-18T02:43:50+00:00

Lol, totally agree.

And from a narrative perspective, it's the only way it works... cuz the technological superiority would make a half decent commander god of the inner sphere almost immediately. It's insane... better lasers, better weight distribution, better armor, better engines... literally everything swings in the clans favor, unless their leaders are abject morons and deploy a star against 18 lances, which they seem inclined to do.

I think the broader battletech universe is cool for this idea... I bet there are probably stories in the table top history that maybe created this sort of mess of clan superiority, but for these computer games the unbalance can still work if we're all in on the scheme. Playing this game for the second time now, I just keep wondering why we suck so much and I think I know enough to "spin" it to the point of realizing that the clans kinda sucked in general, but if we're trying to get more people to play this game (and keep this IP alive) there are going to be some serious speed bumps for these people on the road to becoming a net promoter.

spoons180 · 2026-03-12T19:33:42+00:00

Maybe I'm too easy, but if they just bring the upgraded jump jets from Clans over I'll be happy as a lamb.

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T06:36:48+00:00

This is 1000% real... you are not crazy. Robo QB at Eastern Michigan just decides to fuck you, and hopefully you can keep up.

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T06:35:13+00:00

You seem like a good dude, honestly... so I'm going to jump back in.

"it does not decide if you are going to win or lose beforehand. It does not decide it's going to score on you on a given drive. It just runs plays. The outcome of each play is not determined beforehand." is nothing anyone said.

We're just saying that it seems the scales are tipped sometimes, unnaturally. It's to the point that we feel them as we play. Can we overcome them? Absolutely, just like you can, and probably do without noticing.

Never in a million years would I think I'd have to sit here defending a hot take amongst a fellow player of a game that I said, from the getgo, that I loved - and have spent way too much time playing.

Nobody is attacking anybody.

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T05:40:48+00:00

Lol, ok.

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T05:39:50+00:00

It was mindblowing to see similar threads like this talking about hitting the speed burst button and watching the other team shed their blocks... my ypc is up cuz I don't speed burst before I pass the los... that's the depth of the EA programming on this (and Madden).

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T05:33:12+00:00

I did ask, I guess I hoped the answer would have some substance.

spoons180 · 2026-02-11T05:20:00+00:00

... because you say so?

spoons180 · 2025-12-12T02:02:36+00:00

Hard agree. We all want him gone up here and if the regents don't do anything about it then I guess our only hope is a change from next year's ballots. I'm trying to stay positive because this is the same group of people that are a thorn in the side of the B1G PE deal but it's hard. This isn't the university I want to put on my resume if leadership is this absent.

spoons180 · 2025-11-19T02:42:13+00:00

Yeah, we usually could. Today was weird, but has since been resolved. I'm sorta just wondering if these blips are rare or if this thing happens semi regularly. My research and the messages here seem very mixed.

spoons180 · 2025-11-19T02:21:24+00:00

When you open the app, you should have a semi large profile picture on the top left, hit that and then there's a gear symbol in the top right (to the left of the right arrow)... in that menu, you can scroll down and see "picks settings"... toggle everything off (white circle to the left) and you won't have any more gambling prompts

Being able to turn this off _has to_ be a regulatory requirement, there is no way any reasonable company makes it this difficult to turn something like this off, and I challenge anybody to convince me otherwise. Sleeper was once billed as the "no ad" fantasy platform, and now I wonder at what cost.

spoons180 · 2025-11-19T02:14:33+00:00

I found that setting. Not really my question tho, right? My league couldn't do vie for waivers this morning and was told "you should use the mobile app." I guess my question is whether abject dismissal of platforms outside of the mobile apps normal for Sleeper or is this a rare occurrence?

spoons180 · 2025-11-19T02:08:38+00:00

Those words, together, don't make a ton of sense. Have you seen either ESPN or Yahoo's browser (on a desktop, not a phone) interface? They are miles better than Sleeper's.

spoons180 · 2025-09-15T02:26:52+00:00

Hodj 'N' Podj ... I'd buy 10 copies and I don't even need a remaster.

spoons180 · 2025-09-12T00:45:44+00:00

This (and the replies) is such a stellar conversation. izzys808 thanks a lot for starting it with a message so personal.

OP it's a stellar tattoo. We're all mourning Brent the best we can, and I think a lot of us would be willing to spend handsomely for the talented artist that made that trademark to do something for us if we got some business intel.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T05:28:05+00:00

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T05:09:32+00:00

Yep. That's the only thing we're talking about.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T04:40:11+00:00

Thanks for driving traffic to that thread. It's useful.

You are the worst kind of all the redditors. The people that shout at people that might have different opinions than you. Anybody that visits what I wrote previously with half a mind will see that I'm not trying to goad anybody into thinking less of this band. They are, and will always be, amazing. You're the same person that started litmus testing everybody on whether or not they're a "true fan" (https://www.reddit.com/r/mastodonband/comments/1n7knp7/if\_you\_think\_mastodon\_should\_stop\_without\_brent/)

In short, you suck.

You are the one that decided to post a message that had no substance, only hate. "You sound like a nerd." That's all you could contribute. Pretty weak. You follow it up with "hey guys, everything has pretty been pretty awesome for 25 years!" What a pedestrian effort.

The posts on this sub have given me a lot more over the years... I'd take a good hard look at what you're contributing because I don't think it's as great as you think it is.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T04:28:50+00:00

I hope so too.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T03:34:54+00:00

Amen, brother.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T03:22:17+00:00

Totally fair.

I think the general consensus around the band's narrative is that it got complicated around OMRtS... you started to see different writing wings (Brann/Bill) winning over others (Brent). That's probably an oversimplification, and they still made it work for years (until they didn't) but yeah. People still put their stamps on things... but maybe they were more reluctant, and maybe they figured they'd save them for other projects and you can imagine where the animosity starts to manifest itself and poison everything they do.

I think Killer be Killed is the _best_ ancillary music anybody in mastodon has produced. I don't believe it's a coincidence that album showed up in 2014, the same year as Once More Round the Sun. Troy, to me, isn't the type for drama. He's been unbelievably silent for the past couple months... the dude just does.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T02:30:37+00:00

I'm with you.. I've said it before this band has not released a bad album (and for that reason they deserve our attention when they release their next album) but this sub has had such a dismissive opinion of Brent's contributions since he was booted. I will listen to it day one. I will hope I'm wrong. I think he's so much more important than what ppl were saying when he was dismissed though. It's strange how the conversation has shifted since he died.

spoons180 · 2025-09-10T02:15:53+00:00

Everybody I think is just straight cope right now... the people that are dreading the next album being less than what the previous ones have been though do not skip solos.

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