KhanCipher

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[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

LAMs themselves are really good units, but they cost so much BV that you can get the same thing by just taking a bunch of fast hovertanks or a bunch of 7/11/7 mechs. The thing is right now CGL doesn't really want to do anything with LAMs until they go and redo the aerospace rules, which the aerospace rules themselves are really bad, sorta...

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

that have long made LAMs themselves just about a forbidden concept.

Right now given that HG doesn't have any real grounds to come after BT ever again, the only thing that is keeping LAMs from being messed with right now per the current BT line developer is the aerospace rules themselves, like he wants to completely redo them as they are uniquely dogshit for a lot of reasons.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I didn't say MWO was dead.

To be fair here, your post was about 95% indistinguishable to the group of people that went around in late 2013 to early 2014 that MWO was a "dead game". I've been playing MWO since closed beta, and was pretty active in the community then (and still am now), so I remember a lot of the major stuff that happened back then and throughout the years. Like there's a lot I can give shit towards PGI, but at the end of the day I can't be too hard on the people that finally told Harmony Gold to legally fuck off.

I misheard, then, if what you say is true.

Everything I said there only came out shortly after PGI bought themselves back from IGP so around 2015 I think it was, and they stopped just short (but still absolutely were) of throwing IGP under the bus.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

(particularly the CEO that pushed that "Star Citizen but worse" grift with MWO's kickstarter funds called "Transverse")

Okay so that's flat out wrong, like not even close to what happened. Now before you make an ass of yourself, Transverse was an absolutely terrible tone deaf idea from Russ, but it wasn't made from the money that was gotten from the Founders packs. That honor goes to Mechwarrior Tactics, something that PGI had really nothing to do with as IGP who was PGI's publisher at the time decided to funnel a lot of the money gotten from the MWO Founders packs into MWT.

peddled gold-plated 'Mechs

Again that was IGP who pushed them to do that.

Also good lord I didn't have seeing actual 2013 MWO dead game nonsense on my bingo card this year.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

The 4Kids dub hard cuts the shot out to the guy recollecting the memory, but the guy who shot her (who also has ptsd from it) says "She was so young, I'll never forget her face".

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In the adaptation of SA2's story in Sonic X, they straight up say that Maria was shot and killed.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Okay all of these are likely going to need you to set up an emulator for them, as that's where most of my co-op game experience lies.

  • Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
  • Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
  • Champions of Norrath
  • Champions Return to Arms
  • Ratchet Deadlocked
  • ~~Crash Bash~~
  • Halo MCC on PC (However doing local coop requires this mod, I have no idea why they stripped out that feature on PC)
[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

i think some of the battletech lore clashes with the high tech clean angular aesthetic of the technology in battletech

Welcome to the mess that is BT's version of grimdark, it so desperately wants to be grimdark like it's more successful brother in 40k, but it falls over and explodes half way through the race because the guys at FASA came up with a setting with the intent on being very grounded first, and had to spend a lot of time trying to justify how the universe ended up the way it did by way of indirectly giving the roman empire a reach around. Which yeah, so much of the universe's premise is pretty much revolves around the fall of the space roman empire (The Star League) causing the universe to go to shit.

like the mechs are ancient and passed down through generations in some cases with the original plans and factories lost forever

A lot of people who write overall setting lore for the Battletech universe don't exactly know how mass production or logistics work, so much that one of the very first retcons was introducing "limited" battlemech production still happening throughout the succession wars. Another fun one that was quickly redacted, was the quoted number of jumpships (the FTL transportation for the universe) being at around 5,000-6,000, except that fell apart as the Invader-class jumpship (most common jumpship) with all it's docking ports filled with Mule-class dropships (most common cargo hauler dropship) had the effective cargo capacity of one normal 21st century blue water container ship. There is no way that only 5-6k jumpships was ferrying all that cargo for all the populated planets that is pushing 7 or 6 digits in total, a lot of those worlds being just as or close enough populated as Terra is.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

(i'm looking at you, mechwarrior series with your 900m max range '''long-range missiles''')

Okay so a lot of the ranges come from Battletech, and the weapon ranges there in BT are mostly just for 'balance' reasons. Though it gets better, the in-universe reason why the weapon ranges are the way they are is because the battlemechs (and tanks, and everything else) have so much EW equipment as standard that it makes combat from out farther than the normal ranges a crapshoot, and pretty much the only people who can shoot out farther than normal ranges are typically named characters who are 0/0 gods amongst men (the typical mech/aero pilot is 4/5, 3/4 if they're a clanner, the lower the numbers, the better.). Though a lot of the novels stretch out what is standard range for the sake of better writing.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

Do teachers who do this really think it discourages the disruptive kid

The key thing here is that this isn't designed to directly discourage the kid, the purpose of doing this is to get the other kids to let's say do some creative persuasion techniques to not do that again. You might recognize this as one of the stereotypical methods that a military would do when dealing with problem soldier, punish the whole unit/squad instead of the single soldier.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Infinity was also when Bamco decided to go all in on f2p games, which resulted in such games as Ridge Racer Unbound, and I don't remember all of them. All I remember is this giving bamco the reputation of being even more money grubbing than either EA or Activision infamously was, which somehow Bamco kept on being incredibly money grubbing which may be the reason a simple ass frame data thing for T7 was a paid dlc.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure it was that he pissed on the moon, and cussed out Obama. It was like really bizarre, then he showed up drunk to his intervention.

 

Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.

Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.

And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."

 

Like I grew up essentially being a homeschooled church kid (who was also abused too) living in a rural rural area, not like a suburb like actual countryside. The homeschooled part is kinda just more that my parents sorta given up on trying after 6th grade. The church kid part was mostly enforced by my parents to try to have a social outlet for me. But at the end of it I just don't know how to talk to people, which has its own set of negative consequences.

It gets worse when any resemblance of community around here is steeped heavily in religion of the evangelical variety. So even if I wanted to I couldn't do anything without being told some nonsense about how everything wrong with me is that I'm a 'lost sheep' that needs to reconnect with god. Including going to get therapy, because I've heard that some of the professionals here is on that BS too.

And the more I'm thinking about it, the more I feel like I'm completely screwed out of having a relatively normal life. Not to mention I found a way to unintentionally self sabotage the first relationship I had.

And this just turned into me rambling about my situation.

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