u/CheezeCrostata

You know all those mods for Doom that use Duke 3D assets, etc.? I don't know about you, but I just never could get into this stuff. I know it's silly, but I just feel like Doom and Duke 3D have inherently different visual presentations/ styles, hence why I don't feel that using assets between these games (or even others) works very well. I mean, yeah, obviously it works on a technical level (they're just drawings, after all), but the whole visual presentation thing just feels jarring.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know.

Edit: So you're just gonna downvote without saying anything? This sub, man. >.>

I've asked this on the discord, but it's kinda sleepy on there right now, so I'm asking here as well.

We have Butterking Harlaus, super-saviour Jeremus, 1k stat man, peasant of Azgad, Khergit horselayers, Rhagaea simping, something about Zendar, nice head on your shoulders, Turning Point Swadia, Calradian space program...

Know of anything else?

Awhile back facebook had the option to report 'AI generated content', then the feature was removed. Since I binge youtube a lot, I often come across AI channels, and there's no way to report them. When you go to report an issue, 'AI content' isn't listed anywhere, so the closest thing you can choose is either 'impersonation' - which doesn't include the channel being fake - or 'my issue isn't listed' which takes you to a page explaining the importance of free speech. Bloody hilarious!

Yes, there's been some recent pushback on yt against AI-slop channels, but it didn't remove all of them, and you'd think it'd make sense to let the community report such channels, but no.

Edit: Sorry for the multiple posts, the site bugged out. I've deleted the duplicate posts.

So I've seen a lot of people refer to WW1-inspired fictional settings as steampunk, but how does that work? Steampunk is supposed to take its main inspiration from the Victorian era, steam and clockwork technology. WW1 took place after the Victorian era, and didn't even use steam technology all that much (maybe civilians did for heating, but machines such as tanks and planes used diesel). If anything, WW1 fantasy fiction should fall into the dieselpunk category. Yet, when people talk about dieselpunk, they always - ALWAYS - talk about WW2 instead.

I get that there are stories that fit either, or both, and that it depends on the author, but if we were to draw a hard line, which one would it be?

I was freeing up space on my computer and entered Steam to delete a few games I'm not currently playing, but as the launcher starts, it opens the front page and Dogenstein is among the featured ones.

From what I've gathered it's a PS1-graphics boomshoot where you play as an anthropomorphic bulldog, fighting woke fascists.

In Fallout 3 traces of Chinese presence were pretty much everywhere, from Chinese guns being widely used by wastelanders, to ghoulified Chinese soldiers still kicking in certain locations. You had Chinese listening posts, American internment camps for suspected Chinese spies and literal Chinese spies (Point Lookout), and Chinese gear in that one bunker (Operation: Anchorage). But when you look at Fallout 4, there's only Captain Zao and his sub, and the occasional Chinese officer's sword (heck, Zao might as well be the only Chinese thing on the Chinese sub!). Where are the guns? Where are the commando hats? Where are the spies and listening posts and training manuals?

Yes, it makes more sense for Washington D.C. to have all those spies, given how its the capital and all, but Pittsburg also had traces of Chinese presence, and it wasn't a capital pre-war. If anything, I think it would make more sense for Chinese spies to be found in and around Boston, considering its historic and symbolic significance to the USA over Pittsburg, plus the military installations in the Commonwealth.

Yes, you can also argue that the older games didn't have much Chinese presence either (not counting the Shi, who became their own thing), and FNV's Chinese presence was literally two broken Chinese Stealth Suits with some throwaway lore, but there are two things that make this less jarring in my opinion: 1) those games were not developed by Bethesda, so Interplay\ whoever had a different vision anyway; 2) the absence of Chinese presence mostly makes sense for the setting of those games (mostly).

So what's the deal?

A few updates back Battania got buffed in order to make it survive longer, whereas everyone's old holy cow got nerfed for the same reason. So now Battania is one of the stronger factions, coupled with Fians. Does it steamroll through Vlandia and the Empires, or what?

We all have a favourite race. But what's your least favourite, or even most hated of the major races. By 'major' I mean ones that get most screen time and fleshing out, so your Vulcans, Klingons, etc.

Me, I kinda dislike the Ferrengi. Not only are they physically unappealing, but their whole culture is just so unpleasant.

The crazy sons of bitches did it!

Yes, Trek is about the 'what if' humanity abandons selfishness and wants to improve. But we can't ignore that Trek is, first of all, about the crews, and the captains through whose eyes we see this universe.

It's a no-brainer, really: every(?) Trek show follows a particular captain and their actions, but if we look closely, for all their differences, the captains we see across the Trek series are very similar. Kirk (and TOS in general) was very raygun gothic, he was this heroic archetype more so than a proper character: handsome, righteous, smart, responsible. And these traits are found in (almost) every main captain across the series: Picard, Janeway, Sisko, Archer, Pike, etc. Yes, some may be more cunning or unscurulous than others (which is one of the main differences people list between Kirk and Picard), but at their core, the captains embody the base principles of Starfleet/ the Federation. And I think it's brilliant, because while captains might not be diplomats, they are essentially the first face and voice of the Federation that others interact with, they are the utmost Federation authority outside of Federation authority. I love this concept.

I've had a dream just now about a survival sim set in a mansion. It felt very 7dtd, but the scale was smaller and it was a bit more realistic, kinda like the REvil games, but neither REvil nor 7dtd.

I know that dreams are dreams, but they say that dreams are based on things we actually saw while awake, only distorted, so maybe such a game does exist?

So, I was wondering about this. The Federation is supposed to be a collection of several interstelar nations, the four main ones being Humanity, the Vulcans, the Andorians, and the Tellarites, yet throughout most entries in the franchise Federation starships are almost exclusively Human-designed. Why did the other species give up on their own designs? Crew component is another issue. The crews of Federation starships are majority-Human in most instances (even when there are non-Human crewmembers, they're still one per, like, twenty humans, main cast + extras). In fact, some Federation member-nations do keep their own ships, but strangely act as independent entities (i.e. the Vulcans). So what's going on? Is it oversight, or am I missing something? Are these "Earth ships" actually joint designs and no one just said anything about it?