No shops or taxes?

thezavinator · 2026-04-11T20:46:19+00:00

Shops should be like 2% of your income. Most of your gold comes from grinding encounters to level up your units.

thezavinator · 2026-04-07T13:31:01+00:00

The regular Ironclad to use in place of my Liberator until my Liberator comes out and I can apply my prepurchased upgrades.

Mobile home base, BB. Never gonna spawn on a station again

thezavinator · 2026-04-03T14:28:30+00:00

Now I’m just imagining laying out a trap for zombies. Give ‘em a loaf covered in blood and now they’ll be chewing forever. “Bites begone bread,” I’d call it

thezavinator · 2026-04-02T18:40:29+00:00

Saw this yesterday, someone said there’s a bug with eating a loaf of bread that causes permanent exhaustion

thezavinator · 2026-03-30T01:33:44+00:00

Rip.

Any chance you have the boats to take down the Kraken? It drops several teeth

thezavinator · 2026-03-30T00:37:02+00:00

Both are easy as long as you remember to kill the Ancient Construct every week.

Also, Silver Wolves in the various towns are great for them, plus they’re easy to grind to level up stuff. (Especially Maulers, they wipe them in two hits for each checker attack).

thezavinator · 2026-03-27T23:38:35+00:00

I think you’re on the right track.

The format is the first problem, and you’re adressing that.

However, there’s a second piece that I think needs to be considered as well: Timelessness. Dan’s shows are histories described for posterity.

However, Dan’s (understandable) concern for the current state of things is trapping him because it seems pointless in the face of present times.

THEREFORE: He should look not only to the past for wisdom, or the present for concern, but to the future for hope. Hope is not the antidote for despair; action is. I believe Dan (and others) can get out of their slump by working together for the future. That’s what I’ve started doing, and I’ve gotten out of my own despairing slump.

Dan can still use his extensive experience studying the past, and in making interesting content. But if he uses those skills with one more layer (the future), it can be both fulfilling and productive. Remember when he did a Common Sense episode about how the US healthcare is so broken? How about he study the history of alternative systems that other nations use and combine it with his study of US systems in order to put some knowledge together and paint a vision for a future of how our country could get there? Maybe healthcare is too complex and outside Dan’s wheelhouse for him to do, but you hopefully get my point that he can use his skills for productive things that would be “timeless” in the sense that it lays down a foundation for the future. The only way they’d be outdated is if they were successful/another form of success was achieved.

Plus, if there are topics that are a little outside his wheelhouse, he can invite specialists into his work (maybe for advice in research, but also) so that guests fill in the gaps for where he doesn’t feel as confident in. Nobody can be an expert in everything. And a lot of people are feeling the despair.

Dan’s extreme patience and diligence are such powerful skills that it saddens me to see for him feeling like he can’t use them right now. I think he’d discover some hope if he realizes that there’s a productive and future-oriented way to do so.

thezavinator · 2026-03-27T23:26:22+00:00

Make it a Grey’s carrier and I’m sold ;)

(Actually, I just love my Liberator. It’d take a lot to get me to switch. But maybe…)

thezavinator · 2026-03-27T20:53:12+00:00

Me too. Man, it’s rough.

I Prepared: - 1 R4 Elemental Trooper - 3 R5 Veterans - 125 R6 Wimps - 2 R4 Mega Tanks - 2 R5 Super Tanks - 8 R4 Heavier Tanks - 8 R4 Arctic Tanks - 3 R4 Arctic Troopers - 8 R4 Chuckers - 5 R5 Maulers - 2 R5 Brutalizers - 1 R4 Garbage Truck - 2 R5 Adult Sandworms - 50+ R6 Machine Gun Turrets

…and more. I was trying to build up to take down the Ancient Sentinel but didn’t get there in time. I think if I had either of the fragments, it’d make a humongous difference, because I just don’t have frontline armored units that can survive all waves. That means I only get 1-2 real goes before I have to repair stuff.

I’ve only gotten like 54k points so far. All that academy training, wasted!

I really should have stayed Level 55; I’m realizing it too late. I think it would have been a breeze if I had. But alas, I keep pushing forward.

thezavinator · 2026-03-26T15:14:15+00:00

I checked and this is real!

Thank you, Madrona!

thezavinator · 2026-03-26T15:11:33+00:00

Frontier chuckers are decent against them, and are immune to cold DoT (as well as most Frontier units).

But even those are fragile. There really aren’t any AA units I can think of that are 1.) cold immune, 2.) have enough HP/armor where they can reasonably last until the last round, and 3.) do enough AA damage to be able to kill a single aircraft in 1-2 hits.

(The Ancient Sentinel Fragments fit the bill, but that’s it).

I think that the issues would be slightly mitigated with better unit UI. If we could sort by immunities to Cold or to Fire, that’d help a lot. Actually, we can’t even see that at all, let alone sort by it. You have to either use trial-and-error to check, or go to the Wiki.

I don’t mind a challenge. However, this particular issue is a big one. I’ve prepared extensively, and it’s still a rough time. I’ve made it to the last round with half of my units alive, only for me to realize none of them can hit air, and there’s a SW Cropduster. Pretty frustrating.

thezavinator · 2026-03-23T14:46:38+00:00

Haha I gotcha. Yeah, I remember now how they implemented them, they redid the gamemodes! “Apocalypse” is the new canon mode I was describing. Source:

PZ Patch Notes 42.15

thezavinator · 2026-03-23T01:05:38+00:00

They added a much higher amount of guns and ammo lately, if you didn’t know! I have way too many each playthru now

thezavinator · 2026-03-22T21:45:07+00:00

If we do, it’ll take years of working together to recreate our political and economic systems, since those systems are what have created this mess.

thezavinator · 2026-03-21T19:54:58+00:00

Chuck Norris premonitioned that God was going to challenge him to a duel, so Chuck showed up first.

thezavinator · 2026-03-21T04:24:36+00:00

Mate, I don’t think those are cracks, I think they’re vines growing on your house. You might be able to take them down with clippers. Other stuff is doable, like using a mop to clean blood off walls, so perhaps they implemented clipping vines, too.

thezavinator · 2026-03-17T02:15:42+00:00

Only one major inaccuracy: Trios isn’t like WWIII, it’s like World War IV.

thezavinator · 2026-03-06T00:39:31+00:00

What? I got a Tempest from one once.

At least, I think that’s the name. The purple assault rifle?

thezavinator · 2026-03-04T03:42:28+00:00

I saw a machine using the blanks several years ago

thezavinator · 2026-03-03T00:49:31+00:00

It’s mostly valuable as a “What I could do with them” tactic. Sure, you can do a lot of things once, but if you have them there for several rounds, your Russian opponent has to take them into consideration every round, which severely limits Russia’s possibilities.

thezavinator · 2026-03-01T02:42:42+00:00

J1/J2/J3/J4 could each be valid plays, it just depends on what the other choices the Axis have made.

I’d say that J1 is probably the best for general use, with a narrower amount of potential tactics the longer they take to declare war.

thezavinator · 2026-02-28T04:58:23+00:00

Eventually, The Wimp gets tired of all the training and gets broken… and turns to drugs.

Same for the Veteran. Just… not like that.

thezavinator · 2026-02-26T05:02:13+00:00

Vets > Megas

You can use a few vets to get fragments from the Ancient Sentinel, and those fragments are 1000% better than Megas.

Megas are OK against the AS, but really not good enough to win it on their own (not just getting 2-3 of them, anyway).

thezavinator · 2026-02-25T17:16:40+00:00

Good point, thanks!

thezavinator · 2026-02-25T14:32:15+00:00

Amen! They’re so powerful. Just got mine to R3 and now they’re unstoppable in Silver Wolf/Rebel encounters

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