save_vs_death [they/them]

i dumped so much money into stellaris DLCs after the 3 rework of the base game i just about had it, i paid more than enough and then some for a complete video game, i’m going to get a complete video game

that’s the comedy of it all, until they get abandoned for the next game in the series, paradox games are never done, they’re essentially in early access

i’m sorry paradox can’t scam $1 more out of me, i’m pirating their shit on principle

imagine it calling it the switch 2 and not the dom

i think you’re right on the money and that’s what, i think, all the “why don’t the coomers just watch porno” conceptions miss; it’s not about them not being able to jerk off to a game they’d never play anyway, it’s the realisation that culture can exist without appealing to their sensibilities at all, that game makers can ignore them and do fine after all

that’s why their battlecry is “go woke, go broke” right, “you need us, you can’t ignore us” and that’s why they lose their shit when games do just fine without them and they have to uncover the blackrock soros DEI sweet baby bogeyman

yeah, spire does seem like the wet dream of “the urban campaign”; as time went by i came to value more the games that don’t suddenly pause to play a kinda mid combat miniatures game “in-between all the roleplaying”

as for stress, systems will often have some way of weighing the players down, to kind of ask them what’s important enough to them that they’re willing to take a gutpunch for it

funnily enough, i am interested in “getting back into GMing” which i have done only under duress years and years ago but kind of wanna start doing again

i’ve played a bit of “the heart” made by the same people, using the same system and largely compatible (from what i’ve heard) with “the spire” but that game is naturally a lot shorter (it’s concerned with what your character wants and finding it so after like 10 sessions, pcs started either dying or leaving the adventuring life behind

i heard about the spire but sadly never got around to playing it; what do you like about it? how “deep” are you in the TTRPG rabbit hole?

deeply enjoyed it but the cyberspace sections tried my patience in places, i wish i knew so i could have turned their difficulty down before starting the game

they did my girl so dirty

You’re greedy.

Yeah, I expect the thing I paid $70 for to keep working despite it being marginally inconvenient for the people that sold me that product. How selfish of me.

We’ll see how well you handle being taken to court after burning through all your cash, I’m sure you’d regret signing that petition.

Limited liability corporations are called that because their liability is limited by how much money they have, lmao. The accusation would simply lose their money, the court cannot force blood out of a stone. What are you talking about.

Or you get what you want and all you’ll get is a protocol the game […]

Or you can make server.exe (or god forbid, server.elf) runnable locally, like literally every other multiplayer game under the sun that allows public servers.

You better brush up on […]

I’m sorry overpaid consultants set you up for a scam infrastructure setup. That sounds like a skill issue.

and that game’s name? armored core 7

yeah, fair enough, that’s true

We had one of those minmax guys at a call of Cthulhu table once and the keeper grinned widely every time he tried to shoot at the unspeakable horrors. If anything being the big musclehead with a revolver did save our asses in some hot chases against mermen and when i was busy turning half my body into tentacles. By the end of it he was having fun too, and being a minmaxing asshole actually meant he was roleplaying his character. Just because combat isn’t the be-all and-all and can only solve minor problems when you deal with the eldritch. So when shooting was the answer he would have us covered and when it wasn’t he would just get us into trouble just like any good himbo would.

Having the guy specifically at the table, after some bad experiences with DnD really opened my eyes that you CAN actually make lemonade out of lemons if the rules themselves allow for it.

the “meta” has thoroughly fucked people’s brains, they’re minmaxing single player games now too

i don’t get RPGs where more than half the ruleset is about combat, most the class features are about combat and then people get pissy when some players come up with characters that are very good at combat, seems like all the incentives are fucked; i hate those kinds of games so i never play them, but if 95% of the features are about combat, what are you supposed to do? make a fighter that sucks shit?

well, think of the balkans from now on

out of place, completely, but at least it’s going for a fit, the other two seem like they were put together via the exquisite corpse method

the third one is almost ok if you don’t look at it for too long, the other two however, you could flag from a mile away as preposterous

i always wait until the last days because some stuff isn’t discounted until then

which one is keemstar

one of the reason that cloning happens is because china has very strict laws on what can be depicted in games, no nudity, blood, death, etc. so a lot of these chinese-local games are simply filling in the gaps of western games that will never release there to begin with