TacticsConsort
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- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
Holy fuck. I knew that AI did use above average amounts of power, but THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT added to the total emissions of a data giant like Microsoft??? That’s absurd! How the hell did they create something so inefficient??
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 week ago:
Well… that’s probably the most expected thing to ever be expected. It was never a matter of ‘if’, it was a matter of when.
- Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 1 week ago:
Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch!
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 2 weeks ago:
Requiring all players make a PSN account to keep playing.
PSN is notorious for two things:
A) Leaking your data
B) SELLING your data
It’s an account that has absolutely no benefits to own (apart from making a company line go up), is about as anti-privacy as it gets, and also makes the game straight up unplayable if you’re from a region of the world that doesn’t have PSN.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 3 weeks ago:
Adblock is a godsend.
Although I actually use Invidious for most videos these days. The only things Youtube has going for it are a decent autoplay function and a professional maintenance team. Invidious has things like ‘not aggressively selling my preferences to every algorithm under the fucking sun’ and ‘a functioning search bar’ and ‘not actively fighting against adblockers’
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 3 weeks ago:
Tbh as far as I know, the universe being a mystery IS one of the bigger problems for physics lads
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
They’re £1 a piece over where I am, me and my brother literally always joke that they’re the number one indicator that the economy is in shambles
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the immigrants are to blame. They make a really easy target for politicians to blame, but… I mean, we both saw Boris Johnson campaigning for his fucking life on ‘SAVE THE NHS SAVE THE NHS, JUST LET ME BAN ALL IMMIGRANTS AND RESTRICT HEALTHCARE SO I CAN SAVE THE NHS’ and then he didn’t give the NHS any money or support or investment, he just slipped a an absolutely fat bonus to all his tory friends and big businesses.
We should have invested in ourselves, yes. Just, please don’t be fooled into thinking we invested into immigrants. ‘We’ (the Tories) invested into the offshore bank accounts of the 0.1%.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but good god even I can see how we’ve been obliterated by inflation. There’s a specific chocolate here in the UK, a tiny little one for children called Freddo the Frog. Just a little cartoon chocolate frog, nothing fancy.
Their price has multiplied by a factor of TWENTY in the past 20 years. And I know pretty damn well that the amount everyone is getting paid has not increased by a factor of 20. Sure this is just a small irrelevant little chocolate bar and other things have inflated less, but like. It’s probably the easiest thing to notice.
But yeah also playing in the street or taking a bike ride around town with your friends was a thing when I was a kid. Sure we were all probably a nuisance, but these days… I don’t think I’ve seen anyone playing outside in ten years. The places we’d ride bikes got bought up and removed. And even the idea of allowing children to play outside feels… socially unacceptable.
Also early Youtube and Facebook were COMPLETELY different beasts that just didn’t have the millions of hours of design work put into them to suck people in and keep them there. Oh, and flash games were a really big thing too if you wanted to play on the computer. They were amazing. And big-name games were in a really good spot, paid DLC and the pay-to-win blight hadn’t really started, and stuff like World of Warcraft, LAN Halo, and other games you could play over at a friend’s house were at their peaks from a social point of view.
…I know nostalgia is a trap, but god, it really isn’t hard to think of things to be nostalgic for from that time, and I was only born in the very late 90s. At least I’ve got plenty of friends online these days though.
- Comment on Disturbingly accurate 2 months ago:
MASSIVE Dwarven energy. This image is the closest you’re going to get to seeing a bunch of children of the mountain sitting in their tavern, discussing their metalworking (hobby cars and bikes) and drinking brews that could atomize a human liver with a single sip.
Anyways I think these guys are cool
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Yeah, he was one of the last heroes to get added. The devs knew the writing was on the wall so they focused on adding fan-favourites before the game went into ‘maintenance mode’ and wouldn’t get new content, so we have Deathwing and Hogger (and they’re both great)
Also yeah there’s no level cap on heroes anymore, I have Brightwing over level 200, she’s absolutely great
Ironically I found the game had the opposite balance issues before going Maintenance Mode- too much focus on high level competitive play which was getting super ultra hard stomped by Genji and Tracer plus a support. The day our competitive leagues were officially canned, then we got what I vividly recall was the best balance patch ever that made QM and draft league games so much more open-ended and fun to play.
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Surprisingly, yeah. It even gets a once-year balance and bugfix patch. Mostly play Brightwing, Dehaka, Deathwing myself, although Kael’thas is fun too
It may not be the biggest game out there these days, but it’s got a good enough playerbase for matchmaking to work consistently, and it’s still fun to play
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Oh hell. How did I forget the barrel. That might be the biggest moment of this of all time. That barrel tortured me for weeks
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Shoutout to Brutal Critical being the worst feature in the entire game for having minimal mechanical impact (sure it hits hard when you crit, but you have no way to boost crit rate outside Reckless Attack and the chances are still dreadful) and taking up no less than THREE levels on the core barbarian template.
docs.google.com/document/d/…/edit
Anyway, try this on for size! It’s a pretty big homebrew, but so long as you take it one step at a time it should all be balanced and make good sense
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Slight exagguration, true, but I wouldn’t want to overexplain things to random guys without being invited. (Also the lifesteal on her attacks is only if you took both the Inner Fire and Ancient Flame talents at their respective levels)
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Tbh I didn’t truly realize how deeply fucked the class balance was until I started making a really really big homebrew that required me to build and balance eight classes (operating on the personal principle that since it’s a team game, all the classes should have roughly equal impact).
This philosophy right here is the fucking devil when it comes to designing co-op games
tvtropes.org/…/LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
(I can link you my big homebrew if you like to play DnD 5e, by the way)
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 3 months ago:
Heroes of the Storm: Alexstrasza in dragon form actually isn’t any tankier at all (even if she looks it) and wins fights by aggressively backlining no matter what
DnD (yeah the tabletop): The game really gets broken by Spellcasters once you understand that even if their damage is better than martial characters, the most powerful spells are generally AoE crowd control (Entangle, Web and Hypnotic Pattern) or story-warping RP spells. Also of note: the martial builds for Bard and Warlock are full casters that can still do almost everything a regular martial can do. An important part of mastering the game is realising how horrendously imbalanced it is
Dwarf Fortress: This is literally the core gameplay loop for the first 200 hours
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 4 months ago:
Hyper Light Drifter would be my personal recommendation. My playthrough lengths ranged from like six hours on my first run to like, an hour and a half when I decided to try and beat it quickly? But the game is really gorgeous, and a lot of fun to play
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Yes, but I was under the entirely reasonable expectation that I would indeed get my niche thing (that being three or four lines of dialog), given the game’s overall setup, mechanics, advertising and franchise. It wasn’t just not included, it was actively averted as hard as possible.
Would you not be disappointed in the same circumstances?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Boy he literally murdered his closest, oldest, and most well-intentioned friend in cold blood, threw the body in a dungeon, and let their soul find no rest for several centuries.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
But am I wrong? Making an unreasonable complaint?
I know that most people don’t like dragons as much as I do, but… is it really that weird to want them not to get screwed to the Nth degree?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Thank you kindly. But I know that it’s just not a realistic expectation.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
I feel you. I REALLY feel you. I’d say more to commiserate, but everything I’ve got to say on the matter is already up there, and while I’m upset, I don’t want to rant everyone else into being frustrated. Best of luck to you finding someone you can save in your games?
I could, but after getting burned so badly in BG3, I’m very much feeling cautious about touching anything else this studio’s made.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Probably the only thing that could convince me to head back and finish the game tbh.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
I wish, oh I wish.
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- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared For 100,000 Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700,000 9 months ago:
I’m so glad to hear it, honestly! DnD’s been an absolute favourite hobby of mine and it’s really nice to see it going a bit more mainstream while preserving the things that make it special (the ability to do almost anything you can think of).
(Now to get Pathfinder one of these…)