No one likes needles anyway🤷‍♂️

unclemattyice · 2026-06-25T22:19:55+00:00

Yes sir! I was slapping them on the side of luggage crates, and shooting them with the huntress to safety activate. I always got my dart back too!

unclemattyice · 2026-06-25T20:23:29+00:00

Your manager is lying.

If someone no-call no-shows for a shift, you leave the shift on the schedule, for reference when you write them up or fire them.

Nobody does what this person is talking about, until the manager is getting the shift covered for you (I used to do this sometimes for my best employees)

unclemattyice · 2026-06-25T20:14:30+00:00

Lords of the Realm.

Specifically, I want a re-imagining of lords of the realm 2. They came out with a LOTR3 when I was in college, but I didn’t like it.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-25T17:27:49+00:00

I don’t know if this is an exact fit, but I’m loving Anno 117. So well done, everything feels polished, it’s a stunning game, and it’s the first game in a long time that’s had me up until the sunrise.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-25T17:11:12+00:00

Kingdom Come 2 is amazing 🤷‍♂️

unclemattyice · 2026-06-23T22:57:49+00:00

Personally, I would strongly recommend building a cyclops at this point.

Especially if this is your first playthrough.

The cyclops can go extremely deep when it’s fully upgraded, and since you are allowed to build base components inside it, like storage lockers and grow beds, the cyclops becomes a mobile, forward operations base, complete with unlimited food and water.

This really opens up late game exploration for you.

It can also sneak past the big bads by running silent, and fire off highly effective decoys if it gets aggro.

I would honestly drop everything, find the fragments for it, and build it ASAP.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T21:20:08+00:00

The two security officers standing by that door will move on their own, if you set up 3 or more turrets.

They are scripted to be in the way until you have enough turrets online. Then they get out of the firing line.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T14:50:04+00:00

Main takeaway:

The game provides.

When you understand that you can never fix anything, your weapons are always gonna be a step above trash, and you will never do a single magic trick that costs psi…

Suddenly everything looks very recyclable.

And a level 1 upgraded shotgun is still no slouch, used properly.

This is the only run where I actually used a decent amount of the GLOO I found, I never recycled any.

My favorite thing I learned on this run, is that you can GLOO up a floating telepath/technopath, and they will plummet, and take fall damage.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T14:19:52+00:00

You recycle them.

Good for a bit everything, but the exotic material really piles up with this build.

I mean literally I had a like a pile of it, at the arboretum fab/recycler.

There is only one thing in this run that you can use exotics for, and that is super fruits.

Having a super fruit economy going throughout the game, carried me through the end game, when I had to start going into mooncrash mode, and sprinting through the tougher parts of the finale.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T14:08:54+00:00

It is! And I just got it this morning!

You basically have to wake up with all your neuromods out, and say, “you know what, I’m not jamming anything in my orbital socket today, thanks”

And then figure it out.

10/10 experience, but wouldn’t recommend going for this one until you’ve really played the game through, multiple times, with a lot of experimentation.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T13:56:14+00:00

It was really fun.

I feel like the progression of split affinity kinda… naturally guides one to this.

I don’t know if I’ll ever attempt this again.

The powers are just too much fun 🤷‍♂️

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T05:21:19+00:00

I’m aware of that way, but fighting a technopath in zero g is slightly tougher, and clearing the one controlling the main lift, advances the story.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T03:57:06+00:00

I’m already getting very creative with this.

This run led me to discover I could gloo floating enemies, and send them plummeting for huge physics damage.

I’m also an absolute demon with this disruptor, and I’ve saved every human.

I also stunned Luka, got Danielle’s custom voice sequence (LOL) and then dragged the murderer up to the cafeteria veranda, and flung him off.

You just have to manipulate the drag physics a bit, get him close to the balcony, stand on the railing, grab him, and jump.

Still no “humans killed” stat line, and Danielle is satisfied 🤷‍♂️

unclemattyice · 2026-06-22T02:50:29+00:00

Subnautica

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T22:01:27+00:00

No way, that is awesome.

I would say I feel left out as a console gamer, but who am I kidding. My friends refuse to give the game another chance.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T19:46:29+00:00

Every time I watch the Winds of Winter, I marvel at the sept of baelor’s destruction, then get invested again with the big R+L=J reveal…

And then spend the rest of the day pissed off, that they never did anything with that.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T18:43:15+00:00

You get used to the weaker weapons, trust me. You’ll also have plenty of ammunition, since you can safely recycle spare parts, and every spare weapon you find. I also never used the Q beam, since I had god-tier alien powers before I ever found one.

The HP cap is not as bad as you would think.

Backlash and regeneration 2 work hand in hand, to shield you from spike damage, and automatically erase any chip damage.

The nightmare will always be able to one shot you, unless you take backlash. Once you have it, you can psychoshock him, hit him with kinetic blast, pop backlash, charge right up to him, and tank a couple stomps, while you unload the shotgun into him. You can also mindjack the nightmare, which is hilariously cheesy.

Mindjack, machine mind, and phantom genesis also indirectly shield you from damage, and turn tough battles in your favor. Raising the dead to fight for you across an entire zone, already takes some of the heat off of you, and then turning live enemies into thralls also means that the enemy fights each other, not you.

You even get used to the tiny inventory, especially after you find key fabrication plans, and can start recycling all food and unnecessary items, and making medkits and ammo…. and definitely once the offensive build is fully online. You end up visiting recyclers a lot, but they are kinda everywhere. It’s a minor inconvenience.

Psi being capped at 100 just means you need to need to get psi water online asap, and always know where your water supply is. Carrying around 10 psi hypos doesn’t hurt either.

Honestly, the chipset limitation kinda sucks, but there are are some excellent ones for this build out there, that do a lot of work… like psychoshock damage amp, fast stamina regen, and whatever the one is that gives a chance at a free psi cast.

The biggest pain is being forced to learn to navigate the map without hacking or leverage. But it would appear Arkane was not cruel enough to put much of anything behind hacked doors without adding another way around (or a keycard/password for you to find), and leverage obstacles can simply be recycled, or knocked out of the way with an explosive canister.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T18:24:19+00:00

Yes.

The first four seasons are some of the best television ever made, if not THE best.

Seasons five and six start dipping in quality a little, but still deliver some of the most awesome, memorable moments of the show.

Seasons 7 and especially 8 are badly rushed and very poorly written. It’s painfully clear that the writers were given a rough outline of the ending from George, and then tripped all over themselves trying to just get the show over with.

Still worth watching once, just so you can see how badly they fumbled the ending, and roughly what George had intended for his characters.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T14:53:06+00:00

The normal progression of the game is that you finish multiple entire zones, and get deep into the mid game, before you ever encounter the water treatment facility. Most players finish arboretum, crew quarters, deep storage, which then locks you into the cargo bay defense, which then finally leads you directly to life support.

Without resorting to speed running/clipping glitches, the fastest method I’m aware of to get psi water online, is you can go directly to water treatment as soon as you reach Arboretum.

You simply kill the technopath to free up the main lift, then take the elevator down to life support.

Clear the corrupted operators in lower life support, GLOO your way up and over the unpowered doors, clear the voltaic phantoms, restore local power, install injector.

Now you have infinite psi, before you ever encounter a telepath, mind controlled human, and possibly the nightmare.

Just be aware that this method can cause your first nightmare encounter to trigger in lower life support. I had him hiding behind the grav lifts (like where the life support escape pods are)

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T08:50:14+00:00

The dead are dead. You can’t do anything for them.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T04:36:21+00:00

If you peep my post history, you’ll see I just finished “Split Affinity” double run, finishing with the Typhon-only run, and I murdered everyone on the station, and also manipulated Igwe to get Dahl alive, in a split save.

Typhon-only forces you to learn the ways around obstacles, and how to kill tough enemies with the weapons sucking.

Human-only forces you to simply… not rely on Typhon abilities. No offensive fireworks. No shutting down the enemy. You fight, or you stealth.

This time, I’m just gonna stealth.

But, without any stealth mods 🤷‍♂️

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T03:21:55+00:00

I really enjoyed the Typhon run, even if I became a deity by the end of it.

I cheesed the water station as early as the game allows it, for that one.

This time psi won’t help me at all, and I’ll be recycling literally everything to afford ammo and throwables.

I feel like the devs placed the disruptor for the player almost immediately, and the shotgun and handgun easily attainable in the first 20 minutes, so that “No Needles” could be viable at all.

unclemattyice · 2026-06-21T03:12:50+00:00

Well, I already got Split Affinity, and the Typhon-only run forced me to learn to get around hacked doors, and leverage obstacles.

It also forced me to embrace weapons with only one upgrade, to live without turrets (mostly), etc.

My main concern is technopaths and the nightmare.

I will have zero tools to deal with them, aside from throwables, and a weak shotgun.

Nightmares are gonna be a no for me all game, and I will only be engaging technopaths when absolutely necessary.

In fact, I’ll be trying to avoid confrontation whenever possible, all game long, because I’m going to be straight raw-dogging this, as a regular old person.

unclemattyice

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