[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

More than anything the trade embargo with DPRK needs to be lifted, same with Cuba

Forgetting the DPRK for a sec, the Cuba comment is right, right? AFAICT the main reason the US embargoes Cuba is because Florida is a swing state and lifting the embargo would piss off the Cuban-American voters who hate Castro with a burning passion.

In other words, shitty politics.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Adding to OP:

Framework: You are self-employed.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Some places are being hit harder than others. All else being equal, people should move to the places being hit the least.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

I can eat from whichever dumpster I choose, thank you very much.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is bullshit. Roman public fountains and baths didn't require any sort of license, the fountains (which were used for fetching water for personal use) had priority over baths, bathing in fountains was strictly forbidden, and also why the fuck is he getting water directly from a cistern? Those aren't even publicly accessible.

Also, why bring an amphora instead of just a bucket?

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 45 points 6 months ago

No feedback when hitting enemies, besides generic blood splashing and maybe a stumble

Way more health than is necessary or interesting on enemies

Combat system is mindless and boring

Quests are full of "go to this cookie-cutter dungeon, clear it out and bring me the MacGuffin at the end" on loop.

The game has lots of bugs that were in the previous 2 games, and were patched in the fan-patches of both the previous 2 games.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 62 points 6 months ago

Ukraine has had a "no mercenaries" policy IIRC, if NK troops are seen as mercenaries then maybe it'll legitimize Ukraine shopping for manpower.

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[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

If Russia drops a bomb, then NATO immediately deploys conventional bombs with their own air force on all Russian forces in Ukraine, and China/India both sanction Russia (which basically means the whole world is sanctioning Russia, since nobody will want to piss off the USA and EU and China and India - even NK might sanction Russia).

In other words, if Moscow drops a nuke then their military and their economy both disintegrate.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 43 points 8 months ago

Just like groceries don’t include tax in the advertised price.

Nah, that's just in America, because Americans are dumb. Tipping doesn't exist here BTW, because it's idiotic and why would we do that.

(if Americans aren't dumb, why did they vote for Trump twice?)

(I finally found an upside to the Trump presidency!)

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

I think tanks would be their best bet - mounted machine guns and can carry lots of ammo, and if they're surrounded and about to be overrrun then they can just drive away - through the zombies. It's a tank, it has torque up the wazoo.

Actually, no, barbed wire would be their best bet - the blade doesn't have to move if the zombies slice themselves apart on it.

In practice, just use both!

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

Gay: Penetrative sex between a man and a woman, apparently.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

Their engine is not hamstringing them. Plenty of good games have shipped with Gamebryo/Creation engine, without massive numbers of bugs.

The problem is that Bethesda doesn't give a shit about fixing anything - they ship bugs that have been in previous games, that users have outright identified and fixed for said previous games. They apply the exact same we-don't-give-a-shit attitude to their engine.

Also every engine is "20 years old", Source2 has some code from GoldSrc and Quake Engine, because if the code works perfectly then you don't just rewrite it for no reason. You rewrite parts of the engine - the parts that are holding you back in some way. And Bethesda has been modifying and extending their engine.

But, ignoring all of that, suppose the engine really was the issue: it takes 5ish years to write an engine from scratch. Starfield was in development for 8 years. Skyrim released 13 years ago. Skyrim also released 2 years ago, and a couple of times in between those periods too. Bethesda could have rewritten their entire engine from scratch if they wanted to, in that time.

The problem is that Bethesda just doesn't give a shit about quality, they chose their engine development choice by development choice. The problem is that Bethesda.

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