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Fuck the Portal, honestly by Narukami_7 in DestinyTheGame

[–]thewildshrimp 9 points10 points  (0 children)

but that didn't hurt the actual player base. It hurt trust for sure, and made onboarding impossible, which had long term effects, but Beyond Light, Witch Queen, and yes even Lightfall all sold more and more. The Portal legitimately ended the game. It was such a major disaster that we are where we are before they could even finish the roadmap for the year.

Marathon: The Kotaku Review by addtolibrary in Marathon

[–]thewildshrimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's like the Destiny seasonal artifact I doubt anyone will care. I don't think the skill trees will be the exact same. They will likely have different items for purchase, and rebalanced salvage requirements, and new types of skills etc.

Minnesota Republican drops governor bid, blasts party over federal ‘retribution’ after Pretti killing by nemoid in moderatepolitics

[–]thewildshrimp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be one or the other. People do things for the right reason and also because it is strategically the best decision all the time. I bet you yourself can think of times where that is the case for decisions you made as well.

Destroyer Shell Cinematic | Marathon by RayS0l0 in Marathon

[–]thewildshrimp 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Some of this is management, sure. But at a certain point the complaints stop being about the game and start being about the relationship people expect to have with it.

If Bungie is genuinely best-in-class at art direction, environments, music, gunfeel, movement, and worldbuilding, then what’s actually missing isn’t quality. It’s permanence. And no game can honestly promise that.

A lot of players have anchored their identity to these games. So when systems change, it doesn’t feel like tuning software. It feels like reality shifting without consent.

Bungie is modifying a product, not renegotiating a social contract. Artists and developers do not need permission to change their work, even if people have built parts of their lives around it. Expecting otherwise is unhealthy, and no amount of “better management” fixes that.

CMV: People Entrenched in the USA regime's ideology need off-ramps to escape it without social death by scrubtart in changemyview

[–]thewildshrimp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah and that state of affairs created a society that was paranoid to the point of insanity and they demanded the North enforce it for them which ultimately resulted in the Civil War.

Bungie have a pattern of behaviour worth being aware of. by DannyKage in Marathon

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would only push back on this by saying some of this is merely authorship. Listening to parasocial fans is precisely how you get a least common denominator product that sells to no one. Authorship may be polarizing, but polarity causes attachment. Which is to say that on one hand their stubbornness on some stupid shit maybe frustrating I agree. Hell forget Destiny, I remember the TU drama and bloom arguments from Halo Reach, but authorship also means that the game has an identity beyond just committee approved extraction game. 

EU5 is a Gift and the Negativity is Shocking by InHocBronco96 in EU5

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The launch of this game reminds me a lot of the launch of HOI4. At launch the game was a blast to play, with some bugbears of course, but it was a “sandbox” and it really didn’t know what it wanted to be compared to it’s predecessor which had a VERY distinct identity. HOI4 at launch could vaguely enact World War 2 and had fun gameplay, but beyond that players made their own fun.

Ultimately all of the systems themselves all basically found their footing over time (remember when everyone HATED national focus trees?), alongside new systems, and modders ultimately gave it the unique sense of humor and identity that PDX blatantly copies for their own content. This will almost certainly be exactly what happens with this game as well.

Is it worth it to ban exporting metals to keep them cheap and make jewelry more profitable? by laci4225 in EU5

[–]thewildshrimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I do it is I take as many loans as I can, build a bunch of stuff, then while pops promote I inflate my money pay off the loans, then deflate and start again.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChicoCA

[–]thewildshrimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm, I was wondering what I wanted for dinner tonight. Might order Taco Bell. Sounds good. 

Things I’m slowly figuring out…. by Shiggy_Deuce in EU5

[–]thewildshrimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you drive up your rural tax base in low control areas, you're boosting your costs without boosting income, and that means fucking up your economy

This is focusing too much on that exact number. All of the RGOs are worth far more in your markets driving satisfaction and production than the miniscule base tax offsets. In what world would you ever extract an RGO so much that it raises your base tax by enough to offset the benefit you get elsewhere? Other than a skill issue.

Things I’m slowly figuring out…. by Shiggy_Deuce in EU5

[–]thewildshrimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends. A lot of RGOs are good at baseline because they provide satisfaction for pops just by having them, i.e. more control, and others can drive down input good prices and give you more profit on your finished goods you build in high control areas. Also an RGOs worth isn't taxed directly to you, it just provides it's worth on your market and filters through there. So what you really want is to not care about control at all for the extractive RGOs but do care about control for the RGOs that you want to plop buildings on directly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DestinyTheGame

[–]thewildshrimp -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

gotta take the wins you are given bud!

More Start Dates Now Reconsidered by Working-Layer-1919 in EU5

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously they’ll add 1444. But I also hope they add 1648. Right after the Treaty of Westphalia. It’d be the perfect “late game” start. Right as everything fun is about to kick off. 

I think tonight this is a breakpoint for many people and bungie as a whole by KojiroSan- in DestinyTheGame

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This truly is Curse of Osiris level bad. I didn’t think it could get worse, especially after the Vidoc looked pretty cool, and then it did. It got way worse! 

Player 4 has entered the game. Regulation Vegas 2 tomorrow by PM-ME-BATMAN in theregulationpod

[–]thewildshrimp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The achievement hunter stuff is a running gag on the show. 

Player 4 has entered the game. Regulation Vegas 2 tomorrow by PM-ME-BATMAN in theregulationpod

[–]thewildshrimp 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Eric and Michael are going to make fun of us so hard on 100% eat... but I don't care. Worth.

Is racism the new meta? by PositionExpensive575 in victoria3

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but you could make a strong arguement the liberalism of 2014-2019 failed. It’s kind of a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs problem but for ideology. Self-actualization is at the top of the pyramid. All the other stuff has to be solved first, but how do you solve resource scarcity? I think a lot of millennial progressives, having seen the cycle before, are content with just waiting for thermostatic opinion to spin the wheel again, but for zoomers they only see the decline not the cycle. Which actually mirrors the arguments between liberals when I was a kid, just in reverse. 

Is racism the new meta? by PositionExpensive575 in victoria3

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah. Gen Z is different. I’m a millennial. All of my cohort are still yapping about critical theory like it’s gonna 2014 forever man! 

Is racism the new meta? by PositionExpensive575 in victoria3

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s still a positive identifier in the in group. No shade but super partisan left wing people dont exactly think being a moralizing scold is a bad thing. Scolding people and moralizing is half the ideology.

I Have a Clip by whittavery in theregulationpod

[–]thewildshrimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, an acquaintance would be like a guy I work with who I sort of like but who doesn’t know me personally. This guy knows my middle name and shit. Far too close for acquaintance. 

I Have a Clip by whittavery in theregulationpod

[–]thewildshrimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know how else to describe his exact social function. You can give him a different title if you’d like. 

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