u/Peekachooed

It was so good! I have always liked Dokibird and am subscribed to her channel but don't have time to tune in often at all. But I tuned into the concert because it featured so many vtubers I'm a fan of!

I really appreciate her cheerfulness, giggles, how she really cares for her friends and especially the sweet relationship her and Shachi have, and the way she says "oh mah gahd".

As a millenial and a fan of rock, the song selection is like it was tailored for me. The nostalgia! And it was amazing seeing her outfits, the white crop top with loose red tie in particular was just perfect.

Happy birthday Dokibird! Yay!!

In CK 2, is it possible and to what extent do infectious diseases spread between characters when there's no province epidemic going on?

I used to think that having a character with consumption (tuberculosis) would spread it throughout the court, STDs like lover's pox and Aztec Plague (syphilis) would spread between lovers, and so on. That makes sense.

But to be honest, I've never noticed it happening. This is especially apparent with the Flu which is common of course but I haven't noticed it breaking out in court-wide episodes.

I know if you're in seclusion and don't kick out a diseased courtier, the disease probably spreads in that case, but that might well be a specially coded case and I'm curious about examples other than that situation.

Is somebody able to shed more light on this?

I've checked in the file 00_diseases.txt and there's nothing in there which clearly points to transmission between characters, I believe the "contagiousness" denotes how much it spreads between provinces. And for example the has_tuberculosis trait doesn't point to anything like that either.

What are your most loved units/structures in BAR? They don't have to be good or even that useful, though of course that helps. It doesn't necessarily have to be that T1 unit you spam heaps of because it's useful, it could be something you build just for fun. What matters is that you like them a lot!

For me a lot of the Core T3s are just amazing. The Catapult's rocket spam and Mad Cat style design is super fun, the Juggernaut is of course really cool and its laser screech sounds amazing, and I also love the flamethrower units Fiend and Demon. Fire is cooler than lightning, sorry Arm.

Arm does have the Liche bomber though which is really fun and devastating, they also have the nicer looking of the T3 rapid fire artillery (Ragnarok) which is always nice when it gets going.

I wish we had voiced unit responses to give units more personality, that would be great

I do love Beyond All Reason and it captures much of the gameplay of Total Annihilation, it's a great game for sure and I play it a lot. I want to talk about a few of the things I still miss from Total Annihilation.

The idea of patterning, with humanity opting to upload everyone's consciousness into machines, and the resistance (Arm) splitting from the Core in rebellion against that idea. OTA's lore is not super fleshed out, but the idea of patterning and the rebellion is still interesting to me.

So is the idea of a truly, truly forever war. Not even 40K's idea of "there is only war" reaches that level, because in 40K some individual relationships might still change between war to truce, maybe rarely alliances/temporary partnerships, or simply to non-interaction for a while, even if there is always war going on in general. OTA had a simple, compelling premise of a war that has just two sides, no complications or third parties, no diplomacy, no quarter, and no current motivation to fight other than to simply win - a combination of complacency, hatred and vindictiveness, the innate human desire (or posthuman) desire for triumph, and the desire to address mortal fear through achieving a permanent and absolute guarantee of security from a threat - through its annihilation.

Tell me if there's stories out there which are comparable! I'm sure they're not that rare, but I just haven't found any personally with the totality and longevity of OTA's war.

Personally, I don't mind moderately bright colours as seen in OTA, Red Alert 2, Age of Empires, and so on. But units and structures being too "shiny" I think I dislike, as seen in Red Alert 3 and to a lesser extent Beyond All Reason. I like worn, battle-scarred stuff and OTA scratched more of that itch for me.

I miss OTA's sound effects. The thunder of a fully powered and fully spun up Vulcan is one of my fondest RTS memories.

And the main menu. It still lives rent-free, the heavy and cold feeling of OTA's menus and how the sound and feel of every menu press felt like slamming a portcullis shut, this deep metallic boom. So good!

I have got the collectors edition music CDs. Will I get alternate versions by extracting the songs from in-game or are they the same?

Back in the 90s, the TD and RA1 soundtrack CDs offered higher quality but sometimes different versions to what was contained in game. Also the track listings were sometimes different too.

Visiting China in the 2010s and I think before that, I noticed a lot of three-wheeled trucks on the roads. I'm not talking scooters or anything where you can call the operator a rider, I mean small trucks with enclosed cab and a rear cargo area that can for example lift up to dump cargo on the ground. They are less common there nowadays.

Here's a photo of what I'm talking about: https://www.alamy.com/three-wheeler-truck-from-waw-on-streets-of-xian-china-image224997120.html

I saw some art recently of a post-apocalyptic three-wheeled truck technical, the artist is Chinese.

Has anyone ever seen a real technical based on this type of truck or any other three-wheeled designs that aren't scooter/motorbike types?

I don't really like to open bots as Core because of the lack of dedicated scouts, or rather, if I am planning bots I will pick Arm instead.

I understand Grunt has a decent sight range, but it's really slow and still expensive compared to the dedicated scouts. They will kill scouts easily if able to fire but trying to catch them with Grunts makes me sad.

am I overreacting?

Could be consciously done or subconscious, either way! I end up picking up habits from people I listen to a lot and I guess Nimi is now one of them.

I've noticed I've started saying "Um" like "Umm^muh", like with a bit of a drawn out "mm" bit then with a little "muh" sound at the end, pretty sure this is cause Nimi does it sometimes.

On a more deliberate note, I wanted to try Doc Martens after Nimi mentioned them so much and cause I do think they look nice, and I like boots in general. So I got some recently, they are pretty sweet and I want to work out a coordinated outfit which includes them. Maybe not quite goth, but goth-adjacent, more like alt with goth elements I think.

Recently I got a new foster who happened to be black with yellow eyes just like Baby Bean, and I'm sure I would have taken her anyway, but Nimi's love for black cats has still rubbed off on me a bit I think. And the other night in my peripheral vision, I did mistake the boots for her sitting there!

(Please note I'm not involved in any way, I just wanted to share because this is really touching and I couldn't find any previous post on here about it)