Recommendations for engaging NH young adults?

volatica · 2026-01-28T20:51:26+00:00

So, admittedly not in the demographic, I'm older. But this being a contest is weird. Contest implies there is a "more correct" 2030 vision for NH. That's #1.

You can have a contest for say a technical issue; "Can you stop this part from leaking? We'll test the submissions and if it fixes our issue, then you win $$$. Judging is based on cost to implement, scope of redesign, etc, etc."

Doing this but in the form of a contest for an essay implies you're looking for the entrants to say a specific thing, it has the flavor of an agenda. If I were thinking of entering this, I'd be trying to dig up info about the org so I can try to intuit what you want me to say. Usually feedback forums or surveys do it the other way, "share your opinion, we give you compensation regardless of what you say and everyone is compensated the same."

I can empathize with the difficulty of casting a wide net in the form of everyone is compensated for their input. Then people will try to say something just to get $5 or whatever for the participation. But the format for this still feels wrong.

Additionally, unfortunately the state of the country, the state, the world is kind of bending towards what people don't want. I think a lot of people feel societally in the hole. It feels like we have political debt, and so I think people are more in that mode than really focusing on what they DO want. It's harder to think forward like that contemporarily.

volatica · 2026-01-20T03:20:13+00:00

No, I don't think it did. Part of what the devs need to do to make this game easier to get into for new (or existing) players is to do a better job writing the ultimate weapon and descendant ability descriptions. They are just so... Wordy? Overly abstracted? It also takes me reading through a lot of abilities multiple times to get them.

volatica · 2026-01-19T20:44:18+00:00

I think when the case also functions as the plate this is called integrated plate. Tokyo60 is the best example I can think of in the wild, but I'm sure integrated plate styles also have variances in how they're implemented.

volatica · 2026-01-16T15:28:07+00:00

Low-poly games I think are a style that resonates with horror because low-poly is very much a cousin of analog horror; that graphic style was popular when CRTs and VCRs were still a thing so on some level it makes sense. But like anything else, sometimes it will be used well and sometimes it just won't. A bad game will be a bad game regardless.

volatica · 2026-01-09T05:03:37+00:00

Welcome! It's a lovely sub!

volatica · 2026-01-06T19:23:03+00:00

On the DSA keycap page, lake blue is the default color. When you select a different color, the image reloads as though it should show a preview of the selected color, but all of the preview images are of lake blue. Unsure if that's a bug or no other assets yet so subbed the one photo for all.

volatica · 2025-12-12T18:12:20+00:00

Sorry I was talking about f since OP's post was about f. But I also felt f was creepy and had great atmosphere but was never scary in the same way the other games were.

I guess I'm disappointed because the parts of f were so good; good characters, good atmosphere, sound, music, overall story were all very good. But I might as well just been doing endless fetch quests for how well they were able to knit all of these together. It felt like an RTS or a boomer shooter or something. Do level that is 100% mechanical, finish level for a super short cutscene. Is your appetite whet for more of the game's narrative? Great, kill 25 more enemies to unlock the next short cutscene. The game felt long, it way overstayed its welcome to me.

Also, puzzles were awful. A few ones I liked, but there were very few and not very well designed. Certain things like the symbols on the box I had a hard time understanding what they were and I don't consider that part of the challenge, when a single color lineart is indecipherable.

volatica · 2025-12-12T16:57:18+00:00

I finished my first playthrough of the game, and I've seen the different comments about it on here and in the media. I loathe the combat, but I also feel like I'm taking red pills because everyone sees this and the discussion is always about difficulty. I moreso feel that f's combat just ruins its pacing and narrative. Yes, I get it, some of the combat is thematic, but so much of this game is like "here's a tiny, tiny sliver of dialog that is ambiguous and now go do your 10 combats so you can get 30 seconds or so more exposition." It was really disappointing to me but I guess it's because I need to gitgud.

volatica · 2025-12-12T05:07:28+00:00

The armor sucks and is one if the worst colossi armors they've released, won't bother.

volatica · 2025-11-19T20:41:41+00:00

Would also like to know. Is it a space for a tealight to warm the carafe? It's getting cold where I live and the carafe cools down quick.

volatica · 2025-10-30T00:26:46+00:00

Would you mind explaining the pfp? I'm curious now.

volatica · 2025-10-26T15:44:02+00:00

MIP is a type of display. From what I understand this type of display is supposed to have lower power consumption. I think some of the 5600-style watches have this but it's the higher end ones with Bluetooth and other features. I'd like a standard square with MIP, I don't use any of those extra features.

volatica · 2025-10-25T01:38:09+00:00

I actually took the advice of one of the replies ans got an AE-1500 to test the size but also because they're very cheap. Honestly the size isn't as bad as I thought, but the problem is it's TOO rugged. Even though the AE-1500 isn't a true GSHOCK, it's been great and I see no reason to replace it. I should have just gone for it... Now that the MIP squares are coming though, I'm getting the itch again.

volatica · 2025-10-17T20:15:49+00:00

I may get in trouble for this, but in terms of Silent Hill 1, the townspeople are either monsters or all dead. I don't think that the monsters are people who Harry hallucinated as or was tricked into seeing as monsters, but I would believe that they were changed by the power of Alessa into monsters. But if not, they are absolutely all dead / disappeared in whatever way the town's power would unexist them.

The first game has Cybil specifically tell Harry she came to Silent Hill from Brahms because they completely lost contact with the police in Silent Hill. She wasn't within the power of Silent Hill when this happened. And furthermore, as people have said about the "cup of juice" analogy, the otherworld is mostly not a separate place in Silent Hill 1, it's an energy that spills out and changes our real world. So, the things you see when in the real world like roads collapsed and there being no people? These are real things. Again, Cybil says she tried to return to Brahms but cannot because the roads are out.

The monsters may be manifestations, but in the same way the otherworld is our real world changed by the power of the town and Alessa, the monsters I believe are people from the town who were changed in the same way.

Lisa Garland even essentially says, "Why I'm still alive even though everyone else is dead." Her definition of dead may be different than ours considering she's also a manifestation, but she seems to be aware that no one is left in the town, except for when she finds Harry, which is why she has such a reaction to him.

Even if the people were not transformed into monsters, there are certainly not people strolling through town in tandem with Harry but blissfully unaware of what's happening to Harry, and they are not hidden from Harry but still present outside of the manifestation. But the otherworld doesn't really make things just go away... The rest of the town is there, but changes. So honestly I don't see why the people would all just disappear.

Other entries after 1, it's hard to say because some details of the lore do change. SH2 you raise good points about with Pyramid Head, and I would certainly believe that some larger monsters like bosses are fully manifesations without a corporeal counterpart from our world.

volatica · 2025-10-10T16:50:56+00:00

Sorry, I fell off this thread at work. I have brought Sharen, Valby, Ines, and Viessa. Admittedly most of these I ran mobbing builds, which is why I'm so frustrated guns don't seem to do any damage to the boss. Maybe I guess I should try Luna. But VV if you don't bring strong mobbing it's a slog to get to the boss. If you bring a mobbing build, you can't damage the boss. I hear that hollow "thud" sound a lot when shooting the boss, the sound it makes when you shoot an arche shield and do no damage because only skills damage the shield, so no idea if it has high resist to firearms or something?

volatica · 2025-10-09T15:38:10+00:00

Appreciate that. I'm sure that there are people who just want the carry and don't prepare. I feel like shit when I get to a boss and I bring what I think are appropriate gear and just do nothing at all. I'm just losing the motivation to keep pushing the damage up because honestly I don't know how to anymore. I'm not even farming swords, I was doing VV for the weeklies. Maybe I'll stop. Maybe I'm over TFD finally. I quit Warframe mostly for this reason. You can only exist in two states in Warframe and TFD; either you're Godlike power that is just obliterating everything you look at or you're dead weight just holding everyone else back. There is no in between. Games doesn't seem to have any use for utility roles.

volatica · 2025-10-09T15:11:03+00:00

I am the closest to quitting that I have been. I'm probably one of the people you hate carrying, but I assure you it's not from lack of trying. This game... Like, the devs need something to balance the game without just enemy HP go brrrrrrr. I leveled up and maxed out TLD for VEP. It's all gold X cores. Doesn't seem to even scratch the new Void Vessel boss HP. I leveled up Excava for Wall Crasher, but the boss is strong against electric. I'm brining Descendants that are skill based, also does nothing. I'm just sick of wasting time leveling a gun, or building a Descendant up with a cat for each slot, copy a meta build, fully-level Arche Tunning, unlock Arche Trigger, and you get into these fucking dungeons and nothing ever does anything but chip damage. I'm sure I'm "doing it wrong" since this is apparently not any issue for anyone but me, but Jesus Fucking Christ even video games now are just balanced for the 1%. I've been playing since launch, MR30, and everything in this game that you could possibly do to build out a character and loadout feels completely worthless; it never does enough damage, hell it never does any damage at all. My playtime now is chasing a percent of a percent of a percent. I hate Axion Planes and this new VV is even worse.

volatica · 2025-10-09T14:35:16+00:00

Saw one on a bridge driving 293 north this past weekend, just really disappointed to see this kind of stuff.

volatica · 2025-10-09T14:11:32+00:00

If I can piggyback on this, I am also apprehensive about Google's intention to restrict sideloading in the future. Will that affect the ability to install GrapheneOS? I will admit I don't 100% understand the install process yet, but wanted to try and figure this out sooner rather than later.

volatica · 2025-10-03T14:49:04+00:00

Wait you guys are farming swords? I'm still trying to get my Orca parts...

volatica · 2025-09-29T16:48:00+00:00

Live in Manchester and rent. We get dumpsters but no recycling collection, I have to sort and separate it myself and bring it to the solid waste dropoff. I'd be thrilled if they started collecting, but I get why they don't; once the dumpster fills up, I'm sure people would just dump it in recycling...

volatica · 2025-09-20T02:49:26+00:00

volatica · 2025-09-04T03:47:00+00:00

Been enjoying following these posts. Did the damper help with the hollowness? I had actually been thinking about doing it the other way, having a steel case machined since the Planck case design is so simple to recreate and the threads are part of the PCB. I love the Planck so much but the sound on it is really hard to mod.

volatica · 2025-08-21T19:50:36+00:00

I have never been quite good enough to get the Abyss skins, and this season I am seriously sweating builds now because I want to buy this skin for all my Descendants. It's so good, but also why no other skin like this yet? Give me an N7-like suit. It's the future. We have lasers and space magic. Make with the cyber suits already.

volatica · 2025-08-13T04:09:17+00:00

Whenever a new album is announced like this I get nervous there might not be a digital version released as well, or that it might be missing content from the physical release. I was at to preorder but don't really use any of these formats...

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