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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
lol found it

StarDrive - 4X and Glorious Nippon Space Bears

Dipes is the developer, the meltdown doesn't start until the last few pages.

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Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

The Deleter posted:

Endless Legend whips

Stars in Shadow is also good and you can play as seahorse people what can only live in the ocean

Apart from that I've just started writing my own mods for civ 6 to dick around and try and make the boring Civs more fun to play

gently caress, right, stars in shadow. That's another one I own but didn't actually fire up, I gotta get on these 4xs man


pentyne posted:

lol found it

StarDrive - 4X and Glorious Nippon Space Bears

Dipes is the developer, the meltdown doesn't start until the last few pages.

Gotta find the StarDrive 2 thread he opened here too for the complete painting. Dipes was a loving moron lmao

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

pentyne posted:

lol found it

StarDrive - 4X and Glorious Nippon Space Bears

Dipes is the developer, the meltdown doesn't start until the last few pages.

It's also weird to see various goons try to jump in front of the bullet for this guy in his defense.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

It's like the Elon Defender phenomenon but the stakes are somehow even lower and dumber

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!

pentyne posted:

lol found it

StarDrive - 4X and Glorious Nippon Space Bears

Dipes is the developer, the meltdown doesn't start until the last few pages.

I feel like if I was a game dev I'd simply just stop posting on SA rather than having a meltdown.

It feels like there's been a few devs to just lose it here over the years.

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
Oh god I actually bought that game :shepface: I don't remember anything about it except the vague feeling of wanting to play GalCiv2 instead

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.




lol phil

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

DaysBefore posted:

Did any of the vile Nazi CHUD goons get banned in the aftermath of Operation Moron
one guy got banned, but it was a guy who posted specifically to mock party plane jones and say that everyone in the nazi discord server knew he was trying to find info on them but they thought it was hilarious.

the most underrated part of this whole saga is that if you dig back through the source thread for the discord everyone is talking about the opening post is literally 'hey looks like Our Views are a bit much for the forums, come to my discord where we can say the Truth about Certain Matters...' just sitting out in the open forever. this was not some dark secret we needed an inside guy on to figure out.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
That was always my take on it, “why the gently caress would Nazis try and infiltrate somethingawful.com in 2019” or whenever that was. Not exactly a bastion of conservative thought or a place full of impressionable kids to convert

Autisanal Cheese
Nov 29, 2010

Frank Frank posted:

Another pedo down. It’s wild how many of them we accumulate here.

loving awful - this particular guy has parallels with that one youtuber Onision, who Chris Hansen himself came out of retirement to try and get

Autisanal Cheese fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Apr 27, 2023

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

Psycho Landlord posted:

gently caress, right, stars in shadow. That's another one I own but didn't actually fire up, I gotta get on these 4xs man

Gotta find the StarDrive 2 thread he opened here too for the complete painting. Dipes was a loving moron lmao

According to Steam, he released three games and none of them were finished. Now he's a lawyer.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Frank Frank posted:

That was always my take on it, “why the gently caress would Nazis try and infiltrate somethingawful.com in 2019” or whenever that was. Not exactly a bastion of conservative thought or a place full of impressionable kids to convert
some nazis get a thrill out of existing places they 'shouldnt' but, like

idk how to put this, obviously if a user is found to be doing nazi poo poo elsewhere they should be banned, but if they arent posting it here then i dont think we need a secret discord spy feeding the admins info on them.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Endorph posted:

some nazis get a thrill out of existing places they 'shouldnt' but, like

idk how to put this, obviously if a user is found to be doing nazi poo poo elsewhere they should be banned, but if they arent posting it here then i dont think we need a secret discord spy feeding the admins info on them.

Oook to a point but SA is full of 40 year-old nerds. No one here is going to be sympathetic. If Nazis want to exist here and pretend hard not to be Nazis, I say let them. Maybe they’ll realize being a Nazi is loving lame and go watch IZWF matches or something.

Also most Nazis these days seem to be proud of being bigots and fascists.

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

pentyne posted:

also seems to have posted exclusively in GBS

I was trying to recollect the posting history of recent pedophiles and happily realized I barely remember any of them.

That dick rape pedophile who got permabanned again used to post a lot in PYF, I think. Oh and the Internet Personality thread, because he kept ranting about how those evil "antis" were constantly stomping their jackboots down on the faces of poor hapless perverts. I don't know what it says that his alt swapped to posting in the... [peeks] oh god the Magic the Gathering thread.

qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

Autisanal Cheese posted:

loving awful - this particular guy has parallels with that one youtuber Onision, who Chris Hansen himself came out of retirement to try and get

Sounds like....a saga

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Frank Frank posted:

Oook to a point but SA is full of 40 year-old nerds. No one here is going to be sympathetic. If Nazis want to exist here and pretend hard not to be Nazis, I say let them. Maybe they’ll realize being a Nazi is loving lame and go watch IZWF matches or something.

Also most Nazis these days seem to be proud of being bigots and fascists.

Hmm... Frank Frank... FF... apply the Caesar cipher and that's SS... nice try, Goebbels!

mods?!?!

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

wrong thread

Zero_Grade
Mar 18, 2004

Darktider 🖤🌊

~Neck Angels~

cheetah7071 posted:

there are no win conditions that aren't military

I think technically the galactic senate victory was supposed to be diplomatic, in that you need to get 2/3 of the galaxy's population to support you, but in practice the way you achieve that win is by having 2/3 of the population all by yourself. defeating the antarans is sort of a tech victory, but the way that you actually use that tech is by defeating a powerful enemy fleet

It's a really solid game but it's about as expansive as you'd expect from a game released in 1996. It does a few things really really well instead of trying to appeal to a bunch of different playstyles

That thing that it does really well is the tech system. There's a bunch of separate tech lines, and no mechanic forcing you to balance your research, so you can lunge far up one tree if you want. At each level, there's 1-3 techs, but you have to choose one, and the others are gone forever--unless you take them from your neighbors. So you have to think about what you actually need and respond to your strategic situation in what you think is essential and what you can do without. Then the military techs aren't just new units like in civ, they're ship components, and you design the ships yourself, filling them up with all the goodies you've researched. There's potentially some really interesting counterplay in designing ships that can answer what your opponents have cooked up, as well.
The different wincons map to the early Civ/SMAC ones, which is entirely unsurprising due to the shared Microprose legacy, with Antaran/Spaceship/Transcendence being the 'canon' ending. You're correct about the population thing, but I've also never dodged at least one war even when I was intentionally playing passively. Might be interesting to see how a cultural vic would have worked in MOO2!

Another neat thing is that on higher difficulties the AI civs will customize themselves, so you end up with wild poo poo like Creative Darloks and Subterranean Trilarians. Also my last game I immediately retrofit from my usual midgame SP phasor builds when I realized none of the AIs had researched shields.

Yeah, realizing an Alien Control Center adds 3-15 more pop spots with a little shuffling was a :wow: moment.

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

EasilyConfused posted:

According to Steam, he released three games and none of them were finished. Now he's a lawyer.

lmao what was the third game

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Space 4x games kick rear end but stellaris has been the only one to keep me hooked for more than a dozen hours and I'm not really sure why. Probably a combination of the interface and the aesthetics.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Also what the gently caress is 'eti'

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
I just hit level 84 in path of exile and the weird nerds in the poe thread are getting a kick out of me experiencing all of this bullshit for the first time.

Game is legitimately fun though. Hell, I put down advance wars for it

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

Psycho Landlord posted:

lmao what was the third game

Some weird fantasy turn-based strategy game that is free with a bunch of paid add-ons I don't understand: https://store.steampowered.com/app/428610/Longsword__Tabletop_Tactics/

qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

Frank Frank posted:

I just hit level 84 in path of exile and the weird nerds in the poe thread are getting a kick out of me experiencing all of this bullshit for the first time.

Game is legitimately fun though. Hell, I put down advance wars for it

:twisted:


Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

Also what the gently caress is 'eti'

Some spinoff of a spinoff of GameFAQs forums as far as I know

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Nuns with Guns posted:

That dick rape pedophile who got permabanned again used to post a lot in PYF, I think. Oh and the Internet Personality thread, because he kept ranting about how those evil "antis" were constantly stomping their jackboots down on the faces of poor hapless perverts. I don't know what it says that his alt swapped to posting in the... [peeks] oh god the Magic the Gathering thread.

Wait, the what?

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012


Pharaohman777 was permabanned after it was discovered a user with the same name posted a bunch of underage dick pregnancy porn on some fetish website and he admitted it was him while whining about people attacking him for his sexuality.

This all went down in the pyf thread for nazis to whine about leftists on Twitter btw

Kagaya Homoraisan
Aug 28, 2019

You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder
gamefaqs has a board called life the universe and everything, or lue for short. it was their no rules offtopic zone and it got so bad gamefaqs did something really wild which is accounts registered after x date could not post in lue anymore. and that date was like 2004 or something. so lue became this like bizarre ecosystem cuz only a few thousand people could post there and it became the kind of place youd expect. luelinks is a spinoff forum of lue and eti is i guess a spinoff of that. its insanely dumb

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

Pharaohman777 was permabanned after it was discovered a user with the same name posted a bunch of underage dick pregnancy porn on some fetish website and he admitted it was him while whining about people attacking him for his sexuality.

This all went down in the pyf thread for nazis to whine about leftists on Twitter btw

Are you literally calling posters you don't like Nazis on the same page as a PPJ discussion?

Edit: You're right that Pharaoman777's reaction was bizarre though

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

Nuns with Guns posted:

That dick rape pedophile.

i know the username post combo is played out but i feel like its loose terminology like this that gets me associated with all sorts of seedy characters

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

Pharaohman777 was permabanned after it was discovered a user with the same name posted a bunch of underage dick pregnancy porn on some fetish website and he admitted it was him while whining about people attacking him for his sexuality.

This all went down in the pyf thread for nazis to whine about leftists on Twitter btw

Lmao goons

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

On the subject of inscrutable spinoff boards, can anyone explain the Skullmund thing to me? Like, an off-site started by the GBS 2.0 crew that gradually turned into an alt-right hellhole or something? I have no idea what happened there between "oh the Krusty guys made their own board" to people coming back with alarming stories.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Antivehicular posted:

On the subject of inscrutable spinoff boards, can anyone explain the Skullmund thing to me? Like, an off-site started by the GBS 2.0 crew that gradually turned into an alt-right hellhole or something? I have no idea what happened there between "oh the Krusty guys made their own board" to people coming back with alarming stories.

No I think you got it.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

EasilyConfused posted:

Are you literally calling posters you don't like Nazis on the same page as a PPJ discussion?

Edit: You're right that Pharaoman777's reaction was bizarre though

if you have a better label for people who offhandedly defend a pedophile solely because he hated the correct political enemies and claimed that all of the people accusing him were just mad tankies then go ahead op

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Antivehicular posted:

On the subject of inscrutable spinoff boards, can anyone explain the Skullmund thing to me? Like, an off-site started by the GBS 2.0 crew that gradually turned into an alt-right hellhole or something? I have no idea what happened there between "oh the Krusty guys made their own board" to people coming back with alarming stories.

that sounds more or less correct but you left out the mountain of unfunny banner ads

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
Fart

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

:mad:

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

if you have a better label for people who offhandedly defend a pedophile solely because he hated the correct political enemies and claimed that all of the people accusing him were just mad tankies then go ahead op

That's rather different than what you actually said:

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

the pyf thread for nazis to whine about leftists on Twitter

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

I’m sorry. Excuse me

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Antivehicular posted:

On the subject of inscrutable spinoff boards, can anyone explain the Skullmund thing to me? Like, an off-site started by the GBS 2.0 crew that gradually turned into an alt-right hellhole or something? I have no idea what happened there between "oh the Krusty guys made their own board" to people coming back with alarming stories.

iirc the founder is an otherwise pretty cool lady, and she later expressed regret at how the mid 2010s gbs edgelords ("dad gay so what" types) took over and utterly ruined it.

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qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

EasilyConfused posted:

That's rather different than what you actually said:

The thread in question was the "PYF Tankies" thread, which possibly was about that in the past but by the time it got closed it had been long coopted by Pharaohman to post the latest leftist politics poster on Twitter that he had a beef with. Just pages and pages of posters no one gave a poo poo about nor was it in any way funny or relevant.

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