latenightnoir

Divide Et Impera will never not be an effective control method. Keep the Basics arguing amongst themselves, and they'll never have the time to pay attention to the ones pulling the strings in the background.

Edit: this is not to say that the heinous shit espoused by some people is in any way excusable. We may be pitted against each other in this Left/Right divide, but one side is clearly more monstrous than the other, even when accounting for extremists on both.

Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn't it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!

Here's a crazy idea: how's about we just ensure we can defend ourselves if needed instead of building an industry out of it? Can we just do that, have some limit to it? Do we really want to go down the same roads the U.S. has been treading for years? Do we really like where said roads got them?

100%! Every single developer I've ever met has been adamant about wanting to watch their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!

Edit: speaking seriously now, I don't get what their fucking problem is... Nobody's asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely. I mean, the far, far smarter choice would be to implement LAN play. Hell, not even that, give us the source code and we'll do it on our own! The community has been aces at keeping old multiplayer games alive and kicking, just look at Battlefield 2142, custom WoW servers, custom, like... whatever servers. There are so, so many people willing to keep these games alive without any help from the publisher or anyone else.

I mean... speaking concretely, sure, they're biologically human, but... when delving into the abstracts, this is at least highly debatable...

The increased accessibility of SM1 most definitely helped. To be very honest, the thing which got me into 40k was the excellent Dawn of War series. Not only was it one of the first fully 3D RTS games, but every one up to and including the two Dawn of War II titles are absolutely brilliant strategy games (with II being closer to Kill Team with reinforcements, granted).

Heck, I still play Dark Crusade regularly, one of the tightest and most enjoyable RTS campaign modes I've played to date!

I'm sorry to say, but I disagree. I remember older people having been more respectful ever since I became aware of the world around me, even those only slightly older than myself.

I used to hang out with the "older kids" during high-school, Seniors and beyond, and these groups have been calmer and more polite, even when out drinking and doing stupid things.

On the flipside, the generations immediately after mine started behaving like... well, like animals early on... I still remember entering a 6th grade class while I was in the 8th and witnessing one of the students being hit in the head with a chair. I knew most of my generational peers and can tell you with absolute certainty that no such thing ever happened for as long as I was in school with them.

This extended throughout University as well, as the dorm in which I was staying got a lot (I mean, a LOT) noisier and more chaotic, to the point where the surroinding neighbours started calling the police pretty much regularly, because the freshmen were throwing mattresses and fridges out the window (literally). Edit to add: the worst we ever did during the three years I spent there (I'm talking my generation and those above us) was play the guitar a bit too loudly while hanging around in the hallway, sharing cheap beer.

And it goes for what I've said about neighbourhoods, too, the only people pumping music and constantly yelling at all hours are usually teenagers, students, or people my age. Most 40s and above can barely be heard after 10PM. I've never heard as much noise in the neighbourhoods in which I've lived throughout my life (I moved around a lot) until about 6-7 years ago. Everything got WAY worse starting with the tail end of the Lockdowns, too...

It is such a minor improvement, though. Especially, as you've mentioned, on a 1080p screen. And, sorry to say, but having to fill up 150+ Gigs of space for a 20-30 hour game is a complete waste with, as I've said several times, immensely diminished returns.

Let's take UE5, for instance. Texture streaming has become necessary because we can't afford to have a coherent texture map loaded in all at once, precisely because those textures are stupidly large. This causes so, so many performance issues, that I'd argue it's been a downgrade even coming off UE3.

I'd rather have a smooth and OK-looking game which doesn't require me to get a second SSD just to fit it all, than to face significant stutters every time I do a 180° turn because the engine is struggling to load Gigs of uncached textures, which, again, barely look any better.

Oh, no, with literally hundreds of books' worth of backstory beyond all of the "your headcanon is valid" bits, we are well and truly beyond simple fluff.

Fluff is those 3 paragraphs of contextual flavour text you get on the back of a board game box.

Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!

Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium's portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a "slightly Theo-Fascistic" galactic empire than "we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we'll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing."

It's a pity, because that's exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of "wow, this stuff's beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!"

Honestly, and surprisingly, it's the older people who have the most decency nowadays, from what I've seen ... A lot of people around my age (30-ish) and many, many younger than me seem to be exhibiting something akin to sociopathic tendencies.

I'm not talking about politics or other such grand scale stuff, I'm talking day-to-day interactions. More and more new neighbors are demonstrating a complete lack of respect for others in their neighborhoods, playing loud music at ungodly hours, parading around in their overrevved cars with the bass thumping directly into your brain stem, younger people (30-40 and below) are far more impatient in traffic, far more self-absorbed, self-concerned, and egotistic. Of course, the older people aren't all good, with outdated and regressive mentalities still flourishing among their ranks, but in terms of habitual decency, they're in the lead...

These are all purely personal observations, of course, but I genuinely think an innate sense of respecting other people's existence has been diminishing, if not entirely lost generation to generation.

These can, of course, all be tracked all the way back to the voracious consumerism engendered by Capitalism. The main symptoms are not clustered around older people, though.

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