Step 1: Learn Spanish

Step 2: Become a medium

Step 3: Move to Argentina

Step 4: Have a seánce with Javier Milei

Step 5: Tell him his dogs think that in order to truly free the markets, the means of production must be nationalized

Step 6: Tell him to stop dating his sister

Step 7: Communism has won

In my subjective opinion, Stellaris' biggest issue is the lack of resource scarcity. The infinite abundance of resources means that there isn't much to fight over for most of the game, it means individual colonies will matter less and less as the game goes on and it often leads to games stagnating until a crisis shows up.

Wars are fought over resources, over material gains, and in Stellaris it rarely feels like that. I rarely feel compelled to go to war with another empire because between megastructures, ecumenopoli, habitats and ring worlds, i can generate infinite resources regardless of how many planets and systems I control. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if Stellaris had victory conditions outside of military victory, if you could win through diplomacy, science, faith or whatever like in Civilization, but with how the crises are designed, it's very apparent that you're supposed to win through combat. But wars don't feel "organically incentivized" to me a lot of the time, if that makes sense. I don't feel like I have much to gain from going to war, I just do it because that's the only way to make the game end.

I think the game would be more exciting, dynamic and strategic if colonies and system resource deposits had a limited amount of minerals, food and energy you could extract from them before their output greatly decreases.

That way, there would be a much bigger incentive to fight over colonies, especially in the lategame. Because when you have 20 colonies in the lategame, one more or less doesn't matter all that much, but when only 3 of these colonies are still running at full capacity, suddenly that one untapped planet becomes much, much more valuable. It would cause conflict much more organically, as eventually the exploitable galaxy gets smaller and smaller until there is only one last empire standing. While the crises are cool (and I don't think they should be removed), I think they are a very clunky way to force conflict, and it would be much nicer if the endgame was instead determined by the friends and enemies we made along the way rather than an outside entity randomly entering the playing field so you have to actually fight someone.

This is, again, subjective, as I'm sure a lot of people specifically enjoy Stellaris for its chill, relaxing pace that allows you to watch youtube on your second monitor while effectively playing stardew valley in space. I enjoy that aspect of it too sometimes, but still, it eventually always falls short for me. Wonder what you folks think about this.

Edit: I realize that this would be way too fundamental of a change to ever realistically make for the devs or a modder, as you would have to basically re-design and re-balance everything from scratch. This is purely theoretical.

I haven't played Dead by Daylight in a long time but I just read up on the new killers that have released since I stopped and I just have to share this.

DbD was never known for its great writing, but their previous OCs were, I'd say, competently written usually. But this one, the "Skull Merchant", has the most amateurishly bad backstory I have ever seen in a decently successful game and I am genuinely baffled as to how this could happen.

Tesla is building a humanoid robot to do manual labor and this is up there with his idiotic hyper loop projects in being a perfect example of his insane obsession with form over function because FuUTuRee.

Proposed tasks for the product are ones that are "dangerous, repetitive and boring", such as providing manufacturing assistance.

This week, Mr Musk told investors the humanoid robot's first application would be at a Tesla plant "moving parts around the factory, or something like that". But in the future, he sees it helping solve labour shortages.

Tesla Bot will measure 5'8" (173 cm) tall and weigh 125lbs (57 kg) [...] and have a carrying capacity of 45 lb (20 kg).

Elon thought to himself "wow wouldn't it be like really futuristic if we had humanoid robots working in our factories" and then decided that was a good idea. We have thousands, thousands of machines that can do repetitive, boring tasks like these better than any human ever could. There is literally no practical reason to confine your machine to human form, which is absolutely not optimal for pretty much anything.

2 legs are stupidly impractical, they make you slow and incredibly easy to push over compared to something with 4 legs, let alone something with wheels. Even just walking is a balancing act. 2 legs are the reason this billion-dollar-punchline can only carry a pathetic 20 kilograms.

The only, and I mean the only reason this is done is because it looks futuristic. In practice, it's a massive step backwards and it will make any work place perform worse than without them. Elon doesn't want "machines", those don't look like the future, he needs "robots". Robots which are, in practice, just humans but worse.

I played 8 hours of the Steins;Gate VN and it started out really interesting but after a while it just became aggravating to no end.

Like holy moly does this VN hate women. It feels like it was written by a fucking pick-up artist.

Mayuri is an immature, borderline infantile 16-year-old girl and Rintaro treats her like shit. He constantly puts her down, dismisses what she says and uses food she buys (which she cares about a lot) for whatever he wants at the moment. There was that one scene where he literally made her cry by eating some of the food she just bought.

And the consequences? Nada. Next scene she's back to "Okarin :D". Throughout my entire playtime there was not a moment of consideration for how Rintaro's treatment of her would affect her in the long-term. No matter what he says and does, she loves him and forgives everything basically immediately.

Kurisu is almost even more infuriating, she's leagues more competent and capable than Rintaro is yet he constantly puts her down, calls her nicknames she doesn't like, literally molests her the very first time they meet and what is her reaction? The most generic tsundere behavior I've ever seen. At one point he literally shouts at her to the point of tears and again, exactly zero consequences. She falls in love with him because I assume this was written by a redpill dude who believes that the more you treat women like shit the more they will want to have sex with you.

It's incredible. Not one, not a single moment of consequences in EIGHT HOURS. If you want a protagonist who's an asshole, fine, but show that you acknowledge that what he's doing is bad. Don't fucking reward him for it. Fucking Rick & Morty manages to do this.

It's just baffling to me that it has so many glowing reviews, especially cause the "mystery" sucks ass. After reading the synopsis there are exactly 0 plot twists, it's all exactly what it seems like on the surface. Yes, there is a secret organization. Yes, it is time travel. Everything is the most obvious explanation you could think of. Who lives and who dies is decided by who the protagonist wants to fuck the most.

I'm super disappointed because I was really intrigued by the first chapter and how the plot shaped up to be. But then the trashy behavior of the protagonist just kept going, and all the other characters just kept putting up with it. And like, if it has not been adressed at all in the first 8 hours I have no reason to believe it ever will be. Fuck this shit.

Edit: Also shoutout to the future dystopia being a communist regime which abolished railroads. :yea:

Edit 2: Oh I forgot to mention how Rintaro and Daru keep Kurisu in line by blatantly sexually harassing her and making her uncomfortable until she folds, and this is framed as a clever tactic.