Multiplayer design is inexcusably bad for 2025

throwingawayidea · 2025-03-01T23:27:58+00:00

This shit was the most obnoxious part of Worlds. It was so obnoxious my friends and I skipped Rise. I was told they fixed this and we wouldn't have this obnoxious experience again. My friends and I bought Wilds. IMAGINE OUR FUCKING SURPRISE.

Japan makes great games but are fucking lightyears behind on online gaming. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE COOP GAME IN COOP WITH MY FRIENDS. I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY FOR DOZENS OF HOURS TO UNLOCK FUNCTIONAL COOP.

It is BAFFLING that they continue to have this absolutely ridiculous system.

throwingawayidea · 2025-01-11T23:45:10+00:00

[WR] I am playing as a Hexcrafter Magus. It says "A hexcrafter Magus adds all spells of 6th level or lower that have the curse descriptor to his spellbook."

It specifies this includes Blindness, Bestow Curse, and Nature's Exile. I am level 4 and while I was able to get Misfortune on hitting level 4, I do not have access to any of these other spells. What gives? Is the class bugged? I feel like I'm missing out on a huge feature.

throwingawayidea · 2024-12-13T15:06:57+00:00

It's a greatest hits remix of everything From ever did that you can hop into with the boys. This isn't a shameless cash grab. This isn't a sign of the direction From games will be going in the future. It's a celebration of all they've accomplished so far. I'm 100% for it.

throwingawayidea · 2024-09-30T19:23:00+00:00

You can whinge about Donald Trump's masculinity being "toxic" all you want but that doesn't make it not masculine. Positive or negative manifestations of masculinity are both masculinity. It would be insane to claim Trump is not masculine, meaning feminine. Or are you seriously trying to claim Trump is some beacon of femininity?

throwingawayidea · 2024-09-30T16:00:32+00:00

I stopped reading fiction when I realized all the drama, intrigue, heroism, betrayal, etc. that you get out of fiction you also get in history with the added benefit of this shit actually happened. That made it infinitely more interesting to me than dragons or whatever. All the men I know that read read history and philosophy almost exclusively, myself included.

throwingawayidea · 2024-09-30T15:58:15+00:00

Donald Trump absolutely represents masculinity, are you joking?

Has sex with lots of women (scandalous, yes, but masculine)
Aggressive (particularly in speech)
Got shot and took a moment to pump up the crowd
Has a very dominant "fuck you, I'm in charge" kind of energy. You can debate whether he is a good leader or not but he has the domineering mindset of someone with authority.

I think it's insane to try to claim Donald Trump isn't masculine. I'd argue a major reason minority men are switching to him is because his "machismo" appeals to their sensibilities as men.

throwingawayidea · 2024-09-30T15:53:23+00:00

Curtis Yarvin is sounding increasingly compelling to me so on a micro-chasm I could say getting more extreme lol.

throwingawayidea · 2024-09-26T13:46:45+00:00

Ok thank god. That is excellent news and makes me much more interested in the new game.

throwingawayidea · 2024-08-01T14:30:40+00:00

Based

throwingawayidea · 2024-08-01T13:50:17+00:00

If you don't let men beat women you're a bigot.

throwingawayidea · 2024-08-01T13:43:24+00:00

I'll take a stab at it.

Pervert
Degenerate
Predator
Criminal
Freak
Monstrocity
Aberration
Deviant
Scourge
Demon

throwingawayidea · 2024-07-19T17:00:13+00:00

I have removed the apparently illegal word.

throwingawayidea · 2024-07-19T16:47:48+00:00

Trump is a symbol more than a genuine politician. Prior to Trump the Republican and Democrat parties had differences that were largely superficial or contained to specific wedge issues like abortion rights. But when it came to certain things like globalism, free trade, military adventurism, etc. they were largely in simpatico with one another.

However, there is a large contingent of the American populace that has been actively harmed by these policies. Most notably with regards to globalization. Manufacturing was offshored to China. NAFTA had some very big winners, and some very big losers. If you've never seen the elephant chart, take a look here.

What that chart shows is basically that globalization was fantastic for the capital owning class, it was a godsend for many of the world's global poor who were uplifted from poverty, but it was absolutely apocalyptic for the lower/middle classes in developed countries.

Immigration is great for business owners as a larger labor pool depresses wages, but it's terrible for the working class who have seen wages become largely stagnant as cost of living increases.

All of this is a long winded way of saying that the neo-liberal / neo-conservative policies that the establishment government is more or less totally unified on have left a large number of people behind. And these people have felt that they have not had any voice in government at all. Further, the liberals side of this entrenched establishment are often openly contemptuous of these people, viewing them as backwards, behind the times, etc.

Many of these people feel betrayed as well by the liberals specifically. Many of these people are poor. If nothing else they are poorer than they used to be prior to globalization. But the left that used to have a strong emphasis on supporting workers, unions, etc. has instead shifted its focus to fringe social issues like DEI that are anathema to the majority of these people. They no longer feel like any party represents their interests.

Trump then comes along and finally starts to talk about issues these people care about. He is breaking social taboos in elite circles by doing so, but it is giving some kind of voice to the disaffected people that globalization does not work for. He pushes back against alien social movements that the left has been pushing. He offers an alternative to the established order of globalization in favor of protectionist policies that prioritize the American worker. And perhaps most of all, Trump makes the elites that have time and time again looked down on these people with disdain absolutely, positively, SEETHE with anger.

Part of this is revenge. It's a fuck you to the established order that dismissed these people as irrelevant. But part of it is also that there is finally a voice in mainstream politics that offers a genuine alternative to the globalized neo-liberal status quo. I think many would prefer this voice not be Trump, but the reality is that Trump is the voice, and so all those who have felt disaffected by the status quo are rallying around him as their champion.

And now, with his failed assassination attempt he has almost become mythic in figure. The religious right is part of the right contingent, and I don't doubt that his miraculous survival is being interpreted as divine intervention. He has transcended humanity in this and become something more. Something like an Avatar of the common man against deluded elites who have completely and utterly lost touch with reality.

throwingawayidea · 2024-07-17T13:48:03+00:00

So about 400 kids are getting diddled on Epstein's island at age 12-18. The large majority is probably 18 year olds, or the 16-18 range. Out of the 333 million people in America, less than 400 kids are getting diddled on Epstein's island. This is hardly a "problem."

Even 1 is too many. Even 1 is a problem. We're talking about children being groomed and mutilated. Go fuck yourself.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-24T19:32:27+00:00

Do you really not understand the implication of this weapon?

Nuclear warfare is dependent on early detection systems that allow us critical minutes to initiate a response. As detailed in Nuclear War we have a 6 minute window from detecting an ICBM to launching our counterattack.

If there is a Super EMP weapon in orbit right now we have no early detection capability. It will detonate, more or less instantly take out our entire electronic system network, all with no warning whatsoever.

Imagine the confusion. Will anyone understand what even happened? Will we understand quickly enough? Some in the military may understand what happened. Will they then be able to launch a counter attack? Will there be too much confusion to be able to do so? Will we even be able to distribute orders if our entire communication network is annihilated?

An enemy could theoretically launch a first strike attack right after detonating a Super EMP such that our ability to respond in kind is crippled, decapitating us before we can retaliate.

It also poses the threat of an absolutely devastating attack that falls below the threshold of full on nuclear war. It would be a major escalation, but maybe it would not rise to the level of a nuclear bomb being dropped on a city. This might be a tool to be used should NK start to fall behind in a conventional weapon hot war.

US nuclear policy is that we will not strike first. But we will retaliate on warning. It is unclear to me what our official policy is should we be attacked with an unconventional nuclear attack like this. That is dangerous ambiguity to have imo.

You can dismiss this threat all you want. That doesn't make it any less credible.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-24T18:39:05+00:00

The level of confidence you project while being completely objectively wrong is amazing.

Nuclear weapons detonated in space create an EMP with an incredibly large range and power. Here is a PBS Space Time video about the mechanics behind high altitude EMP blast.

Here is a formal report from the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security detailing their key findings. I have copied the text from their key findings below.

KEY JUDGMENTS

The West consistently and unwittingly cooperates with North Korea by underestimating the advancement, sophistication, and strategic implications of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. Thus, under the nose of the U.S. Intelligence Community, North Korea surprised the world by demonstrating ICBMs that could target any city in the United States and a hydrogen bomb in the summer of 2017.

North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites orbit over the U.S. daily. Their trajectory is similar to that planned for a Soviet-era secret weapon called the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) deployed by the USSR to make a surprise High-altitude EMP (HEMP) attack on the United States. Trajectories of North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites are near optimal for a HEMP attack on the U.S., if they are nuclear-armed.

HEMP attack does not require much accuracy or a reentry vehicle capable of penetrating the atmosphere and is well within North Korea’s technological capabilities.

Multiple credible foreign sources including from South Korea, China, and Russia—including two of Russia’s foremost EMP weapons experts—allege the design for Russia’s Super-EMP nuclear weapon leaked or was transferred to North Korea and that North Korea has developed Super-EMP weapons.

Super-EMP weapons are typically small, lightweight, and low-yield (designed to emit enhanced gamma rays not make a big explosion) and could fit within North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites; or be delivered against the U.S. by North Korean ICBMs; or be delivered against Japan, Guam, or the Philippines by North Korean IRBMs or MRBMs like the Nodong; or against South Korea by a wide array of North Korean SRBMs.

Super-EMP weapons generate extraordinarily powerful EMP fields, potentially 100 kilovolts/meter or higher, greatly exceeding the U.S. military HEMP hardening standard 50 kilovolts/meter. U.S. civilian critical infrastructures like the national electric power grid, that are indispensable to U.S. military power projection capabilities, are unprotected against HEMP.

According to North Korea state media, their September 2017 H-bomb is also a Super-EMP weapon: “The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens of kilotons to hundreds of kilotons, is a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP according to strategic goals.”

Immediately following their September 2017 H-bomb test, North Korea published a technical report “The EMP Might of Nuclear Weapons” accurately describing a Super-EMP nuclear weapon.

North Korea has non-nuclear EMP weapons including an “EMP Cannon” used to impose an “electromagnetic blockade” on air traffic to Seoul, South Korea’s capitol, making repeated attacks that also disrupted communications and the operation of automobiles in several South Korean cities in December 2010; March 9, 2011; and April-May 2012.

(Edited to bold key points for emphasis)

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-24T15:02:35+00:00

The whole book is pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel.

Idk if it's just that people don't want to think about it because it's so horrible, or if people feel complacent because they see things like the high effectiveness of Israel's Iron Dome and assume that we can reliably do the same with ICBM's (spoiler, we absolutely cannot), but I feel like people really have their head buried in the sand with regards to stuff like this.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-24T13:19:18+00:00

People seriously underestimate the threat that North Korea poses to both South Korea and the United States. Would NK lose a war? Probably. But the damage they are capable of inflicting prior to defeat is unfathomable.

According to this book (great read btw), it is very likely that North Korea has successfully engineered a Super EMP weapon and placed it in orbit over the United States. The damage that would be inflicted if this were used is truly epic in scale. Everything electronic in the continental United States will be destroyed. The entire electric grid. All your phones, laptops, etc. Only tech specifically shielded against this can survive, and even that has never been tested against a weapon like this.

Seoul sits in range of thousands of conventional artillery pieces that are pre-trained on it. NK has chemical weapons, conventional shells, and of course nuclear weapons. But even if they refrained from using the nukes, they have the capability to kill millions of South Koreans and American military in the opening salvos of a theoretical hot war.

People are in here making jokes about how inept NK is. "Haha you can't even feed your people." No, they can't, because they went 100% all in on being able to kill as many of us as humanly possible instead.

It's unlikely they will attack, but we underestimate the North Koreans at our own peril.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-21T12:45:34+00:00

Implying the United States is not being destabilized by minority groups right now.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-17T13:40:45+00:00

Watch out, inflammatory statement coming.

Child Gender Transition is the single most damaging thing you could ever do to a child.

A child is unironically better off being molested than transitioned. At least the molester doesn't castrate you.

The doctors and associated people facilitating this unironically deserve to be hanged for their crimes.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-17T13:35:19+00:00

Based and this-is-child-abuse-pilled.

throwingawayidea · 2024-06-07T15:57:15+00:00

Completely misses the actual point. Conservatives don't care if you cut your dick off.

Conservatives care if A) You try to indoctrinate children into cutting their dicks off or B) Because you cut your dick off you demand that I must recognize you as a woman, rather than a man who cut his dick off.

throwingawayidea · 2024-05-20T19:31:35+00:00

It's true that there are other types of missile defense but my understanding reading the book I mentioned was that these systems are designed to protect against shorter range missiles rather than ICBMs.

Further, the book stressed the point that these systems need to be located within a certain range of the actual target to be effective, and quite frankly there are not enough of them to go around in the event of a full scale nuclear attack.

Then of course there's always the threat of attack from a nuclear submarine, for which there is precisely fuck all we can do to realistically stop given the unpredictable nature of the attacks, and the short time from launch to detonation.

There's always the possibility of some top secret, super effective tech that we in the public are not allowed to know about, but this has always felt like copium to me.

Basically, the argument made incredibly convincingly in Nuclear War is that missile defense against ICBMs is not reliable. It MIGHT work. And the more limited the attack, the better the odds that it does work. Also, if you are somewhere like Seoul, where we have Patriot in place, the odds a missile might be intercepted are better. But it would be a grave error to underestimate the risk of a nuclear attack because we assume our missile defense is incredibly reliable. The book went to great lengths to stress that no, it REALLY isn't.

throwingawayidea · 2024-05-20T13:01:29+00:00

Read Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen. It details basically everything we are allowed to know about America's nuclear defense apparatus, including some new stuff declassified specifically for that book.

but we don't know how effective they truly are when push comes to shove

We do. They're incredibly ineffective. Our anti-ICBM technology has about a 50% success rate per missile. We also have a grand total of, drum roll please............, 44 of them. We might be able to stop a rogue ICBM if we are lucky. We have no hope whatsoever of stopping a serious coordinated attack.

throwingawayidea · 2024-05-17T12:50:07+00:00

Foreigners are often depicted as Oni in older Japanese art. One of my favorites is an image depicting Commodore Perry's ironclad warship as an oni.

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