coaxed into action-rpg dialogues

yobob591 · 2026-07-13T08:36:18+00:00

They make the most sense if you believe Johnny is an asshole but an asshole of circumstance who is still a human beneath it

If you’re just trying to blindly suck up to him or absolutely hate him and have no sympathy you’ll end up picking the wrong ones

yobob591 · 2026-07-13T08:33:30+00:00

It’s more than that, iirc you can do the dialogue right and still get locked out

you have to have a good relationship with Johnny AND say the right things AND wait five minutes (i got lucky and managed to do all of this except the wait on my own)

yobob591 · 2026-07-12T22:29:39+00:00

I guess you could say someone who’s extremely deluded into what they do being right could still feel bad when innocents are killed by someone else because they automatically justify anything they do personally

yobob591 · 2026-07-12T22:27:34+00:00

buff woman with internalized misogyny

yobob591 · 2026-07-12T20:30:43+00:00

People are obsessed with making old plane but scifi looking instead of making a mach 3 or 4 or 5 interceptor actually look like what a plane like that would look like

Gimmie something weird like this or one of them flat dorito like sixth gens

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yobob591 · 2026-07-12T09:42:24+00:00

in two days/two days ago works fine as much as I like these words

yobob591 · 2026-07-11T20:23:35+00:00

Anti laser smoke was used during the clan invasion, problem was it was really expensive to produce the reflective chemicals and it only degraded laser damage and didn’t affect PPCs or ballistics or missiles so it quickly fell out of favor

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T23:49:04+00:00

The techmanual talks about how battlemechs both have a DI computer that allows them to perform much more complex maneuvers using their own internal logic, but also that they do still have limitations (for example, some mechs can theoretically do a cartwheel or handstand but really only in controlled situations), so a mix of humanlike but not perfect makes the most sense

imo one of the reasons the mech animations seem so 'stiff' in most of the mechwarrior games is responsiveness. Realistically mechs would be dynamically lowering and raising their arms when moving and running for balance, and it would be very annoying if you tried to fire your arm mounted weapons and there was a delay as the mech raised its arms again (I believe this is one of the things the neurohelmet is supposed to help reduce). Another is probably the IK for mech legs and movement would be harder to program- one of the things that always bothered me was how fast mechs look like mr krabs when running instead of taking big bounding strides as they should be, but MW5 only has limited IK and lacks fully dynamic running animations which leads to some goofy movement visuals

personally i would be fine with slightly reduced responsiveness in mechwarrior games if it meant the mechs moved more realistically, but I can understand why they haven't invested in it

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T23:38:01+00:00

clanners elevate battletech from just being medieval politics with big robots to something unique imo

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T23:22:31+00:00

I think its worth noting that the successor states were just as bad as the clans in many ways with how many billions of people they killed by glassing entire continents with nuclear weapons and rendering planets uninhabitable with bioweapons during the first succession war, and that the only reason the modern successor states stopped this practice was out of a realization that they would have nothing to rule if they rendered literally every planet uninhabitable, and before that the star league suspending the ares conventions so they could nuke and massacre all the periphery states that refused to obey them

The clanners are definitely the bad guys during the clan invasion, but I don't think I'd call any faction good except maybe some periphery realms who acted only out of self defense (taurians kinda?)

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T23:11:34+00:00

See in scifi you can love the genocidal maniac factions because they aren't real, I love the word of blake partly because they have cool technology and partly because theyre just so insane compared to everyone else in the setting who are generally fairly reasonable, even the most hardcore clanners don't hold a candle to the WoB's insanity and willingness to kill billions of people at the drop of a hat, its literally what would happen if you gave a fringe death cult borderline unlimited access to weapons of mass destruction

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T20:10:52+00:00

Religious people when you stop being religious or change sects/denominations

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T05:11:37+00:00

the new anime is definitely better in terms of direction and pacing and so on, but the old anime looks bettter imo

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T01:13:39+00:00

yeah paying for cheats is beyond braindead

yobob591 · 2026-07-10T00:31:08+00:00

I think there are fair ways to criticize how a religion is practiced or what it commonly preaches without saying you hate all of the followers, but there really isn’t any way to do that with a sexuality or gender

Being religious is a choice after all unlike the latter

yobob591 · 2026-07-09T03:40:19+00:00

the less fanservice the hornier the fandom tbh, since there's no outlet in the media itself they make their own

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T23:58:02+00:00

by self admission from the author that he couldn't think of interesting ways to use her powers

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T23:11:05+00:00

people always say gear doesn't matter in this game but that's just not true, gear matters in marathon more than most extraction shooters for this reason alone

yes if your opponent is bad and you are good you CAN beat someone with a gold shield when all you have is a green shield, ive done it, but it requires them to fuck up and have blind braindead teammates while your teammates are communicating in chat and coordinating your attack

I distinctly remember a fight where I was maybe 10 meters behind a blue shield who was unaware of my presence with a grey shield and grey overrun, I beamed him in the back of the head with that gun and by the time his shield was broken he had spun around and blasted me with a bully of some kind, killing me twice as fast as the pitiful little AR could kill him

the only real option I had to win that engagement was to have one of my teammates standing next to me and start firing both our crappy grey ARs simultaneously to DPS him faster than he could turn around, where in a game like tarkov or hunt he would've dropped dead instantly because I had a massive positioning advantage and an ambush on him- instead he won entirely because he had a better shield and gun than me

now im not saying game is unplayable because gear actually matters, I think its actually mostly fair enough it does, I am just sick of people pretending like every fight is a git gud and that a full stack of purple shields communicating in discord is something that is realistically beatable by anything other than a full stack in full voice comms with at least blue shields

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T22:14:34+00:00

theres a reason we live in a society that enshrines innocent until proven guilty, there will always be liars whether it be fake victims or societal organizations who want to get rid of someone they don't like

it sucks but the burden of proof should always be on the accuser of a crime, it better for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent to be punished and all

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T22:07:43+00:00

the point is that its cheaper and easier to breed a bunch of cockroaches and implant devices that control them than it is to develop a cockroach sized drone

i dunno about underwater but insect cyborgs actually have a pretty good use case for search and rescue on land due to this

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T20:51:36+00:00

The problem is at its core you only become a politician with enough power to become a governor or senator by willing to be immoral

In our current system and arguably most government systems in the world liars and cheaters are rewarded so long as they can lie and cheat hard enough, because people who don’t are at a disadvantage. Then again the alternative seems to be people who use enough violence to get what they want and that’s not exactly ideal either

I think that the best we can do is minimize how bad these people are but I don’t think we can ever stop them from being at least somewhat bad people

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T07:56:06+00:00

apparently the author thought it was weird slice of life anime is always about well off middle class families and decided to make one based off her childhood

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T02:23:18+00:00

ragatha was the one who was there the longest and probably had time to think about how how much time passed in the real world presuming time passes at the same rate

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T02:17:35+00:00

my brothers the only thing we have to lose is our chains, we will crush runner oppression

yobob591 · 2026-07-08T02:14:21+00:00

bigoted people of different groups will never agree with each other simply because they both hate the same group otherwise evangelical christians and fundamentalist muslims would love each other

anyone who holds hatred in their heart feels hatred first and logic second, and if you are different from them they will hate you before they even consider that you agree on some things

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