Sonotsugipaa

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Every now and then I do, but way more often than I'd like they just call eagles and orbarrages on your head without prejudice.

The last time I did that, it was on a flag mission with no reinforcements nor time left, I went for a desperate attempt to survive long enough for the flag to rise.
It was working too, thanks to a supply pod and hulk bodies acting as cover, but then someone called a 380 without me noticing and died; the same thing also happened twice before we ran out of reinforcements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it's because I played them all several times (the original ones, not the LE), but the gunfight mechanics are extremely okay enough to me - oddly enough Andromeda was the one I most enjoyed shooting in (though I didn't finish it due to hardware problems).

Exploration as in sightseeing, yes you're right, I forgot about it - though I don't remember there being much actual exploration in 2 and 3? Granted, I either missed some things in 2, or they were included with some DLCs I didn't have at first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Defining the return type that way can be used when dealing with template sorcery - there's no use for it here though, not even for readability in any way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Controversial opinion, but I feel that all games after the first one were only held up by the characters and worldbuilding - hell, ME2's plot IS the characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Solid choice, he is a bit flawed in the first game (obsessed with pointing fingers at Saren (admittedly only being 1.05% wrong about him)); but he and Hackett are the OG superiors that have your back rather than constantly second-guessing you.

The latter even set his foot on a terrorist-owned ship, imagine the favors he had to pull in order to do that discreetly just to talk with you in person...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's it, then? Any argument for him being alive doesn't have a leg to stand on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know about Zuko being less strong, he did betray his father (and temporarily abandon his girlfriend) just to follow his moral compass; his runtime (and his first faux-turnaround at the end of book 2) highlight how difficult it was for him.

Sokka only had do smarten and humble himself a bit, which is no easy feat either, but easier by comparison.

... which is why if I had to pick a favorite from A:TLA, I'd choose Iroh.
Zuko was never really evil, but, where he took his time to look at his moral compass, Iroh had to experience geomagnetic reversal and made it out alive.
WITHOUT a kind uncle nudging him in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the second mention from Discworld, I guess Pratchett really knew how to write his characters

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While I enthusiastically agree with the whole thing, I can somewhat get behind RenderDoc's "making it configurable would take some work".

However, Flatpak's "fucking cry about it" attitude is why I'll avoid using Flatpak for as long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

To be fair, considering how many times he's been killed he has to be dead by now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

pardon my english

If I had a nickel for every time I used bad English grammar I'd have two nickels, which is not a lot because my country has very high income taxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nice pick, personally if that was my answer I would attribute it to how little we know of him.
Without any doubt, they really put a lot of effort into making him look and sound like... whatever he is.

Thanks for the link too, although it feels like that animation is too... expressive? I think the g-man would have less pronounced expressions, like, not going full >:3 when talking to Alyx.

 

literally unplayable

 

Things that happen in game differently from my headcanon:

  • During a dive, destroyers just hang around over player heads
    • Even worse, there's an actual game mechanic that causes orbital stratagems to have an AoA at 90° at the center of the map but lower it at the edges, like the ships were actually hovering over the center (realistically, all orbital stratagems calls would have roughly the same AoA)
      • I say "even worse", because I have to actively ignore a decision the devs made for the sake of realism rather than just tell myself "eh, they didn't think about this too much"
  • Orbital stratagem timings make no sense, and are strictly a gameplay balance issue that cannot be realistic: the loading screen shows the first helldiver drops well outside the atmosphere and take several minutes to reach the ground, but turrets take 3 seconds to deploy? This game sucks, literally unplayable
  • Surely Eagles must be capable of atmosphereless flight, if the cheap ahh shuttle is?
  • At the beginning of the loading screen, the destroyer doesn't have an atmospheric re-entry fire effect which would be countered by shields or whatever

Things that oddly do make sense:

  • Hellpods do have the atmospheric re-entry fire effect immediately after launching, which wouldn't make sense in the absence of (less than extremely thin) atmosphere
  • ... that's it, actually

The reason I made this nerd emoji of a post:
I've played KSP and my suspension of disbelief towards games or shows with spaceships is completely broken.

 
 
 

(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

 

Notice the actual desktop background, ignore my attempt to kill -9 DIscord after the first of 6 crashes

 
 
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Definitely not something I made for r/ProgrammerHumor before it got reposted on r/196

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