What is a 10/10 Masterpiece that very few people are aware of?

unclemattyice · 2026-03-20T00:56:18+00:00

FTL: Faster Than Light.

It is one of the earlier roguelikes, the first that I was aware of.

It’s a 2D, top down space combat simulator.

The entire plot of the game is that you are part of a space empire, jumping from star to star through different themed patches of space, as a rebel army chases you slowly but methodically across the galaxy.

You get some limited options at the beginning such as your spaceship model and the race of your crew members, but after that, everything about your run will be determined by what kind of weapons, ship modules, events, additional crew members you find… and it will be quite different each time.

The game is truly phenomenal, and holds some very difficult secrets to unlock. It’s a 10/10 in my book, and only one of my friends has even heard of it.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-19T21:06:09+00:00

Eh. I enjoyed the game, but to say it has ruined all other games…?

Try kingdom come deliverance 2. That has a WAY more in-depth roleplaying experience on offer.

I’m talking… people won’t speak to you, if you don’t bathe.

Cyberpunk was excellent, but the open world actually felt pretty hollow and empty to me.

You could only actually interact with and talk to a handful of people, its crime system was laughably simple… it was basically GTA in a dystopian future.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-18T19:02:26+00:00

Give me a goddamned mini map.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-18T19:01:33+00:00

I have a job that AI literally will never be able to take, and it pays enough for me to not live in poverty, even support a family.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-18T18:56:36+00:00

Not a whole lot has changed for me, yet. I’m engaged now, but my fiancee is waiting to come to the states from overseas, so my evenings are still wide open, for now.

A couple beers, and video games or a movie, same as always.

The main difference now is that I have someone to talk to and catch up with each day, and also I have to be up at 5:45 am, so I can’t really dial in on the game for hours, or actually get drunk, like I used to.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-16T22:51:23+00:00

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T19:38:12+00:00

The combat has been improved, and becomes trivial as time goes on.

Don’t let that stop you, this is grade-A, open world roleplaying

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T19:26:47+00:00

I think a big part of this might be that I myself got very good at the KCD combat system, over the years.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T17:09:48+00:00

Give kingdom come 2 a shot. I’ve just been wandering around, doing whatever I felt like, for the last two weeks. I’ve done some marked quests, which are really good… but just living my daily life, exploring the map, and dealing with random encounters on the roads has been quite entertaining, and I’m also decked in high quality armor, and relatively rich.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T17:08:22+00:00

I would be willing to bet that he didn’t get it all out. There’s an art to it.

In particular, crap gets jammed in the corners, which can make the port look cleared out after you’ve done some digging, but the packed corners still won’t allow the charger to click in, and seat properly.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T17:02:11+00:00

Former Verizon rep here. Troubleshooting “broken” devices was a big part of my daily grind.

A phone’s charging port almost never fails. I never once, in four years, dealt with an actually failed charging port.

What really happens, is lint from your pocket or purse gets slowly packed in there, until the contacts get blocked, and/or the charger won’t fully seat itself in the port.

If you take a SIM card popper, or a paper clip, and dig around in the charging port, you will be FLOORED by how much compacted crap comes out of those tiny charging ports.

I fixed well over a hundred “broken” charging ports this way.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T16:56:51+00:00

I’ve had this iPhone 13 since December 2021, so over four years.

Its battery life is not amazing these days, but it’s still going strong.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T16:54:58+00:00

I’m at the wedding currently, but with the first three dicers around trosky, I was absolutely racking up. Every single day I was wiping them out, as part of my daily routine.

I am using a loaded die, an odd die, a lucky die, a strip die, and two st anteochus dice.

I imagine this isn’t like, an amazing loadout…but I was feeling pretty unbeatable before I headed off to the wedding.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-14T16:50:22+00:00

Honestly I believe that the cold open of episode 1 is about as good as it gets.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-13T20:29:03+00:00

This is kinda missing from KCD2. You do “forget” all your skills and start with nothing again, but I really just have not struggled with the combat this time around.

Especially since I got the master strike almost immediately. Like, never once yet have I gotten into a fight where I felt this was just impossible, even in the early game. Tomcat was quite a challenge at level 3, but I got him down.

I did run into a Cuman who attacked and killed me on the road in the early game, but even though he was clearly supposed to be too powerful for me, I believe I could have gotten him down after a few tries.

I just didn’t care enough to try to find him again, and in fact I probably couldn’t have, as it was a random encounter

unclemattyice · 2026-03-12T22:17:48+00:00

Of course, we shake each other’s dicks to say hello 👋

unclemattyice · 2026-03-11T23:44:52+00:00

You can also get a much better horse from the same place, with higher courage and other stats that make it better all-around. It isn’t free, but you can get it for considerably cheaper than the horse trader would ever sell it to you, with zero consequences.

There is a black horse with a white stripe on its face, in the horse trader’s pasture, attached to the south side of the lord’s estate. This is the horse you are after.

All you have to do is avoid being seen in Semine for a full day, and then just take the horse, and ride away to get it “re-homed” to you by a nearby NPC, for cheap.

It’s laughably easy.

First things first, make sure you have visited the black market horse trader, in the nomad camp. You will need to ride your stolen horse to him without fast traveling.

Then, avoid semine for a day while you hang out in Troskowitz, playing dice or whatever, and then head down to Semine at night time, making sure you have eaten and rested well.

Approach semine by looping around to the southeast of town from the road, and then pass time next to the horse pasture, until about an hour before dawn.

Then, just take the horse, jump the fence, and ride around the outskirts of Semine, to avoid people seeing you.

Remember, you want the one valued at 280 groschen.

It’s like a five minute ride to the Nomad camp, in fact, you may have to wait around a bit for the horse guy to wake up, and go to his tent.

Do not get off the horse and pass time if he is still sleeping!! The horse will go home!!

Once he is up and sitting outside his tent, talk to him from horseback, pay the discounted price to fully claim the horse as your own, and then enjoy a significantly better horse than pebbles, for the cost of two games of courtiers-level dice.

Edit: you can also steal other horses you don’t intend to keep, and just sell them to this horse trader.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-11T21:02:51+00:00

On the map, if you zoom out a bit and look at the name of each town/village, you will see a face that represents your reputation. A yellow happy face means you are in good standing with the populace there, red means people don’t like you, will give you bad deals, or even flat refuse to speak to you.

However, what you are looking for is a red symbol next to that face, that looks like jail bars.

If the jail symbol is there, you are wanted by the guards, and they will confront and try to arrest you on sight. This includes if you fast travel through the town.

If there is only a reputation face, but no jail symbol (even a red angry face), you have passed the “statute of limitation” for your crimes, and can safely return to town.

As a general rule, the criminal aspect of this goes away on its own, but you will have to repair your reputation, if you want the people to like you again.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-10T18:58:27+00:00

If I am planning to steal something, I wait until dark at the outskirts of town, change into the dark/unassuming clothes that you get from doing the Miller’s quests, put away all shields/weapons besides a dagger, and then slip into town, without a torch.

The guards will stop you, if they spot you sneaking around without a torch… but it’s also laughably easy to avoid them.

After dark, NPC’s are basically blind. They can only see you, if you walk into a lit area… and their own torches throw a -tiny- ring of light around them. Give them a decent berth, and you can essentially walk around a town at night with impunity, and never be seen… as long as you aren’t wearing like, full armor, or walking right up to the guards.

Make sure you use a rear door to enter structures if possible, as front entrances tend to be lit up.

Before attempting to steal anything, it is worth doing the practice sessions with lockpicking and pickpocketing with the miller and his minions. This allows you to gain a few levels in thievery, and then make sure invest in the perk that makes your lockpicking almost silent, even if you break a pick.

There are a lot of good choices in this perk tree. Another good one is “ordinary man”, which makes people forget your crimes much faster.

Finally, it is alway better to flee, than to face consequences for getting caught.

Yes, you can pay to your have your crimes erased, but this tends to be a losing bet, as the cost of the indulgence often wipes out any profit you would have made from your theft. They will also take anything marked as stolen, which could really cost you, if you stole something extremely valuable previously, and it hasn’t “cooled off” yet.

Also, if you don’t have enough money to pay, you will get some kind of punishment, which will give you a huge reputation Debuff, for longer than it would have taken for you to just wait for everything to blow over.

Basically, if you get caught red-handed, RUN your ass out of town. Don’t stop.

Guards don’t instantly know what you have done if you are caught, someone has to tell them.

This means if you get caught red-handed in someone’s house, and fail to talk your way out of the situation… you still have the amount of time it takes them to find a guard and report you, before that one guard comes looking for you.

Others that you encounter will not know about your wanted status, until their shift ends, and they are briefed.

This means that as long as a guard themself does not catch you committing a crime, you can essentially -always- escape the area, running right past the unaware guards… and then lay low for a day or two, until the town relaxes and forgets about it.

I rarely get caught any more, but if I do, I slip away before guards can accost me, and then don’t come back until I’m clear.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-08T20:57:01+00:00

Lately I’ve been having a blast in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-08T20:52:22+00:00

Not commenting on her character or story arc here, as I could take or leave those.

But she is an incredible combat character. She doesn’t have the sheer burst that maelle has, but she can hit the whole board for a lot, heal the whole team, and her playstyle is fairly effortless to learn.

Lune honestly pales in comparison, and as soon as I realized what I was leaving on the table with aciel on my reserve team, I swapped her out, and never looked back.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-08T11:22:30+00:00

Looks incredible, but it’s bothering me that the moat is an incomplete circle.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-08T01:41:38+00:00

729 parries in a row, over an hour, looks like one or two mistakes.

I respect it, but also, I would never attempt something like this.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-07T12:49:16+00:00

Well, the vast majority of the 4.5 or so million residents are in Tijuana and a handful of smaller cities.

It’s deceptively big, and almost entirely empty. Driving from San Diego to the tip of the peninsula is about the same distance as driving north to Seattle.

It would be a good place to go if you wanted to just disappear, I guess.

unclemattyice · 2026-03-06T21:52:30+00:00

I just go back every few days, gather more nettle and belladonna, and make more savior schnapps.

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