#this is based on what helldivers 2

[halimaidmf]

It is funny that we stick to the same handful of games we've been playing for years and then are like "wait there are so many other video games in the world let's try them out" and then conclude they are bad

[oopsie0503]

this makes me so mad

Ramattra mine controlling omnics has to be the single stupidest plot point I've ever seen in a work of fiction in my entire life. It's giving 'this radical extremist trying to liberate his people and create a better world for them is going to be too based. people are going to say he is so real for that.' but it's also giving 'sci-fi world where we kill evil robots like in helldiver's 2 is more profitable. make him eviler.'

Here's why it makes absolutely no sense for Rammatra to mine control omnics:

Resorting to mind control and manipulation implies that there are no sentient omnics with his same ideas and mindset. It implies that NOBODY is willing to join him and that otherwise he would be alone. This is not true. It's just not there's no chance there are zero omnics who agree with his line of thinking.

Null Sector has control of at least one omnium, and Ram is an engineer. He is able to build non-sentient bots to be canon fodder, he does not need the sentient ones. He would not let more of his people die when the job is better suited for non-thinking robots who can be mass produced. The bots the omnium produced were outdated but if they took control of the omnium they most certainly could update the blue prints to be stronger. He literally built his nemesis form dude. Imagine an army of nemesis bots. That'd be terrifying. Shit load scarier than. a couple of zombie zenyattas without the god powers.

Mind controlling omnics to send them to their deaths is so stupid. It's so against what he believes. I don't think there's ANY good reason for them to have gone this route with him! It is fucking stupid. I hate it. The 'he became too radicalized' thing is dumb . it's dumb.

(also this isn't a 'rammattra is perfect and has never ever done anything wrong in his entire life' post. but I also do not think he deserves to be the story's main villain when Talon is right there.)

a few edits: I reread some of the lore after getting questions and realized that it isn't explicitly stated what the helmets r doing. there are implications that it's a "if they won't join null sector on their own accord we will... convince them" type vibe. I'm hoping they don't go down this route and instead go with like.

the one I think would be interesting is they're uploading Omnic consciousness to a data bank so that their souls are not confined to a single body and even if they're destroyed their sentience will live on to be put into another body or something. I think that'd be cool but honestly unlikely.

[justalittlelilac]

Literally on a new hyper-fixation and, damnit, sometimes we can't choose so here's a lil' Simon Riley x fem!reader who's a gamer fic, because the voices wouldn't let me live 'till I wrote it. Just fluffy fluff.

Reader referred to as: She/her, his girl, his woman. Based on my own character, but took out the names. Word count: 713 She's totally not playing Helldivers 2.

Simon opened the door to his and his partner's Manchester flat to a dark living room. This was odd to him because his woman had stayed behind while he met up with the guys for a drink down at the pub. She preferred to stay in during their leaves, and he honestly couldn't blame her. Hell, he would have as well, if it wasn't for Soap dragging him out. 

Still, though, she hadn't been answering his texts, and THAT was unlike her. Preferring face-to-face communication, Simon rarely sent electronic messages. Still, when he did, he would almost always receive an immediate reply from her. He hadn't thought much about it while out, but concern filled his gut now that he was in the dark flat.

For a moment, dark thoughts filled his mind of her being taken or worse. The memory of finding his own family dead fell over him like a cold sheet of ice. At the exact moment, he heard her yell, and he barreled down the hall to the closed door of their spare room. His hand practically trembled as he threw the door open, and light filled his vision.

"Mother fucker!" Simon heard her yell as his eyes adjusted to his surroundings. Once things came into focus, he let out a sigh of relief. There she was, sitting cross-legged in a computer chair with a headset on. She had already dressed for bed in one of his large black t's and underwear. Simon cocked his head, perplexed, watching as she leaned over her keyboard, fingers clacking and her mouse flicking from side to side. "Fuck, sorry guys, I need a revive." His presence wasn't even noticed by her; she was so focused. 

Simon approached her slowly, but it still didn't help. As soon as she caught him from the corner of her eye, she jumped and threw her headset to the keyboard, rising from her chair and going into fight mode. The sound of gunfire and "Walk" from Pantera blasted from the speakers, and Simon stifled a laugh. Once she realized it was him, she clutched her chest in relief and chuckled shakily. 

"Jesus, you scared me!" She grabbed her headset to speak. "Sorry guys, one sec," she said before putting them back down. He cocked an eyebrow at her.

"What are you doing?" he asked in amusement. Her eyes flicked to the screen and then back to him, and she tucked her tousled hair behind her ears. 

"Just playing some video games," she explained. Simon could hear the voices of others on the headphones, and he tilted his head again.

"With who?" 

"Just some people I know online," she shrugged. Simon wasn't online savvy. He never really had time to delve into that sort of thing, and maybe he was too old for it now.

"What're playing?" Simon was genuinely curious. He knew his woman liked video games, but he hadn't ever seen her play nor knew what she preferred. She was an absolute nerd regarding stuff like that, and you wouldn't know unless she told you. He thought it was fucking adorable. 

"Just a shooter, nothing crazy," she shrugged again, and he again cocked an eyebrow in interest.

"Don't you do enough shooting as it is?" He asked, and she laughed. 

"It's not like that!" She chuckled as she went to sit back down. No, no, she was supposed to be relaxing, not leave war to come home and play at it. 

"Nope, think you need a break," he grunted before scooping her up against his chest and moving to carry her. She laughed out loud, only playfully struggling against him.

"No, my teammates! They need me! I can't abandon them!" She called out, arms comedically outstretched towards the computer.

"Sure they'll be fine," he replied simply.

"'Least let me mute my mic!" She demanded loudly.

"Nope," he replied with his own graveled laugh, still carrying her to the bedroom, predicting if he let her go back into that room, she'd just start playing again, knowing her. She relented and just laughed along with it. Fuck, he loved leave, used to not, but he loved his woman enough that coming home to a dark flat could mean finding laughter and not terror. He couldn't thank her enough for that.

[retphienix]

MAJOR shade towards a game I actually really enjoyed and am currently as of typing waiting with minor optimism for the next update which claims to be a "community focused" update based on the critiques laid at them, and I'm only like, 20% sorry- but:

Sometimes I slow down and realize that the most mundane moments in EDF are the EXACT ""Fantasy"" other games claim to be striving for and claim to be perfectly adequately accomplishing in their games.... while they nerf anything that comes close to the power fantasy and fun they claim to already provide and instead make any tool that players want to shred with near worthless because ????

Anyways to be less vague and more direct: Things in EDF are ridiculous and powerful and you are put in situations where you can use that preposterous power to shred hundreds / thousands in some cases / of enemies.

Here we see me just going "You know what, I'm gonna slap on 2 miniguns and shred explosive robots with them" and what happens?

I throw on 2 miniguns and in seconds I feel like the 300 ton steel wall that these pathetic android waves crash upon and fall to the calm waters of the pavement below.

I strafe my aim from left to right and watch an orchestra of destruction play out before me.

I look to the devs and I see a big thumbs up in my direction 👍

They wanted to provide a game that lets you feel the power fantasy of big gun do big thing and when you play said game you get that experience. We shout "E! D! F!" at each other and then no more words are needed.

Meanwhile, another game I really enjoyed and still think is a fantastic game, just one that lost itself fast as hell for seemingly no reason, Helldivers 2, has the devs regularly saying their weapons and outfits and strategems are all in service of a ""Fantasy"".

They repeat it again and again, they say "X stat was adjusted Y direction in order to improve the ""Fantasy"" of the weapon".

And what do they do?

Nerf everything that does anything, give you a heavy machine gun that bounces off enemies, provide explosives that tickle bugs, buff literal mushrooms to be bulletproof because players weren't complaining enough, give you new weapons that are just downgrades of literal day 1 equipment, nerf a popular weapon because of a crossover bug (seriously, and don't ever revert the change), nerf another popular weapon because it worked (literally just worked- not excelled- just worked- it was an adequate anti armor so it had to be nerfed), nerf popular gear instead of taking a closer look at WHY those things are popular and if perhaps enemy behavior needed nerfed instead, buff the enemies repeatedly, provide the enemies with new AI and spawning behaviors that force the bulk of the community to assimilate into the few builds/tools that still work- nerf those tools.

And then gleefully say "We're buffing stuff!" and change insignificant stats that in no way actually impact the game or allow a single new experience to be felt from having used those tools.

And why?

Why did the game start as a fun horde shooter and then a few nerfs later it's a "GRIZZLED DIE WITH A PEASHOOTER IN YOUR HANDS" thing?

Why are we constantly sold the idea that these changes are to support the ""Fantasy"" of the experience when all that's been accomplished is anything that was fun and effective now sucks eggs and enemies are more aggressive than at launch?

Why?

And how do you justify nerfing us and buffing enemies while stripping the identity from all our equipment to be in service of a ""fantasy""?

Your heavy machine guns don't even feel good.

I hope the update is good and don't regret a second I spent playing that game :)

[askagamedev]

In light of the recent controversy surrounding Sony (and, by extension, Helldivers 2), could you please explain the publisher-developer relationship that many, many people seem to misunderstand?

Despite the common myth that publishers are evil vampires who exist to make things work, publishers really do serve a legitimate purpose that makes them valuable. What publishers do is provide logistical support to the development studio. Beyond the obvious of providing funding to build the game, publishers also generally handle things like:

Providing QA support

Providing technical support/code/back end for console development

Providing tool support

Providing network/back end support

Handling game marketing

Handling the business negotiations

Handling physical media and delivery

All of these things both cost a lot of money to establish and require specialized staffing to handle. Most game studios don't want to do these things because it means the studio leadership has to step away from overseeing the game development and focus on setting up all of those logistical elements. As always, there are negotiations made in the contract between a publisher and a developer - the publisher agrees to do all these things and provide X moneys to the developer over this period of time, and the developer promises to deliver a game based on this schedule with these requirements.

One key thing to remember is that attacking your partners in public is never a good idea from a business perspective. Even if the relationship was strained behind closed doors, being anything but supportive of your partners in public will be remembered - not just by the partner who may choose not to work with you again, but also by other prospective future partners who will want to avoid getting burned in a similar fashion. The temporary internet points from players for being "on their side" just isn't worth it, especially because players are fickle and will turn on you in an instant, but potential business partners have elephant memories.

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[mr-kench]

Online Cooperative Games form such weirdly natural friendships. I’m not even talking like people you’d hang out with or anything but you just interact and get talking as if you’ve known each other your whole life and then leave not even remembering them the next day.

The most memorable moment I had like this was in Elder Scrolls Online. I was in the PVP area and I came across a raiding party and joined up we got into a casual conversation with everyone, started talking about work and finances all while tearing down a fortresses walls and slaughtering everyone inside. It was such a tonal dissonance between what was happening and what we were doing.

Another game is a cult classic game that’s been going since the ps3 era of games called PlanetSide 2. If you need to know what it is imagine Helldivers except it’s on a single planet across 3 continents and it’s three player factions fighting each other. You actually travel across the continent taking bases and outposts with the goal to dominate each continent. Really fun, really simple and I’m shocked that sort of gameplay never caught on.

However during while fighting to take the mountain base called The Crown all three factions met one was fighting from the base while my faction and an opposing faction were storming the Beaches of Normandy to climb that mountain. Everyone was getting into it myself included and bonds were formed as rag tag group formed to help each other climb just a few inches further. I heard someone yell “we won’t let those fuckers take this land!” I was an Infiltrator (basically a spy armed with a Sniper Rifle, pistol, radar gun and cloaking tech) I remember saving a group that was surrounded by sniping a few soldiers and distracting them enough for the others to mow them down. I was a squishy class meant to move solo and… Infiltrate but in that moment I became a part of the crew. We legit started taking bullets for each other as I led them to an emergency exit tunnel I scouted out. It was poorly guarded and I like to think we helped turn the tide by sneaking in a squad into the center of the enemy base. Michael Bay wishes he could direct the story that unfolded during that battle.

[helldivers-2]

Would you guys ever consider adding stratagem loadouts that you can make before being deployed to avoid having to pick them individually every time?

It’s not out of the realm of possibility, but choosing your stratagems each time you deploy is a key design element to incentivize mixing things up because:

1. Trying new loadouts is incentivized.

2. Your loadout should be dynamic based on what your fellow Helldivers want to equip / have access to.

Being able to preset your load out would make these two design pillars be somewhat overwritten, but there are definitely occasions (such as retrying a mission with an identical squad) where keeping your load out the same would be a welcome quality of life change.

[jeffgerstmann]

Everybody says they're tired of live service games and they're finished but then Palworld, Helldivers 2 and Last Epoch are all massive breakout games

Yep! I think all of those games work naturally in that format, though. Actually, Palworld is maybe a weird fit since it's technically in Early Access, so it'll be getting updates either way, rather than just getting updates to better serve some kind of monetization track.

When people say they don't like Live Service games, what they're usually actually saying is that they don't like bad games and they don't like it when good games are made to feel more like a store than a game.

When all that stuff is done well and you've got the right game married to the right kind of ongoing update model and interesting (or at least unobtrusive) microtransactions you often end up having one of the biggest games in the world on your hands. This is partially why so many publishers chase after this kind of success, though hopefully they're learning that there's much more to it than just shoving a shop and a battle pass onto whatever half-assed co-op game you've got in development.

Also, as an aside here, is Last Epoch _really_ a massive breakout? I guess they've been having popularity-based server issues, so maybe I shouldn't be shocked, but I played the first couple hours of it and it seems like a totally fine free-to-play ARPG that they're selling for $35. Maybe it's just that Diablo IV players are desperate for something else at this point, but as I started filling out the slots on my character and staring at the mastery trees it didn't seem like... amazing or anything. I don't know, I'll keep poking away at it.

[e17omm]

shooting my shot because I'm not really familiar with what your fav game genres are buuuuuut I remember you posting about what seemed like a card game? so what would you say about Wingspan?

I'll get it out of the way now before I go ranting about my favorite games and their genres because its all over the place.

I havent played Wingspan, so I just quickly googled what it was.

I think I would be interested in it if it was a digital game and probably if it was more complex. Its something I'd be willing to try, but I dont think its something that I would play a lot, even if it was on PC. (This is without ever trying it or seeing how its played, just reading about it)

Balatro is the card game you're talking about. Its a rouge-like deckbuilding poker game.

Now, for my favorite games and their genres:

The games I like and their genres dont match at all.

Factorio: top-down, automation base building game.

Helldivers 2: 3rd-person PvE coop extraction horde shooter.

Subnautica: open world survival 1st-person game.

Outer Wilds: mystery space exploration puzzle knowledge-based-progression game.

Haydee: hardcore metroidvania puzzle game.

Honkai Impact 3rd: stage-based action hack'n'slash game.

NieR Automata: open-world action hack'n'slash game.

Frostpunk 2: morality citybuilder survival game.

Neon White: 1st person parkour shooting speedrunning game.

Slay the Spire: action rougelike deckbuilder game.

Vampire Survivors and HoloCure: reverse-bullet hell games.

Now, if I just pick the games I would consider my favorites, rather than the ones I like and play, we get:

Subnautica, Factorio, Helldivers 2, Outer Wilds, Frostpunk 2, Hollow Knight, and NieR Automata.

Survival open world, automation basebuilder, action horde shooter, exploration puzzle, survival citybuilder, puzzle/action metroidvania, and action open world hack'n'slash.

Its all over the place. I dont have a specific genre that I like: I just like games.

And my favorite games, I've played them A LOT.

I "only" have 835 hours in Factorio (which is going to skyrocket once the Space Age DLC comes out in 14 days.) (800 hours is also considered not that much for this crack addiction of a game)

I have 640 hours in Subnautica. Subnautica. Its a 2km X 2km map! A normal playthrough takes like 10 to 20 hours! I know this game so well that I have to mod it to be extremely grindy just so I can enjoy it for longer!

I have 340 hours in NieR Automata. That's a story-driven game! There's 60 hours of content with the DLC!

I have 536 hours in Helldivers 2. That game came out on February 8 this year and I bought it on the 11th of March!

Oh my god I forgot about Persona 5 Royal. Just add turn-based action dungeon-crawler life-sim to the list of genres I like. Oh yeah I also got 467 hours in P5R.

I already have 290 hours in Slay the Spire and I got that game on the 10th of July!

I love these games so much and I can likely go pretty in-depth about why I like them, but I already feel like Im ranting for way too long on this ask that is more or less just asking if I've tried Wingspan.

Again, No, I haven't played Wingspan - but it looks like a game I'd be willing to try if I stayed the night and you pulled it out.

But if you want to know more about any specific one of my favorite games, please send in asks about it and I'd be happy to explain why I like them.

Edit: I forgot about Signalis.

Hey you wanna know about eldrich space lesbians living in a dystopian regime?

[a-scummy-hybrid]

A slight realization about the armor in HELLDIVERS 2 (+ SOURCE: Crack-pipe theory tangent)

So... i was viewing the armor i owned in my armory and went "Oh! The Dynamo has the same body as the Battle Master like how CE-81 and FS-34 share the same body, i wonder if there are more...", then i proceeded to spend about... 30 minutes or so examining and creating a list of armors that matched one another.

Then I realized something while making said list, that being the B-Series Medium Armors. With the B-Series, there's a LOT of different armors that share its torso and leg armors, like the first two SA-Series Armors in the Steel Veteran Warbond, the one SA-Series Armor in the Standard Warbond and the CE-35 Trench Engineer apart of the same warbond. However... its when i got to the one armor that started to shift my entire thought process.

The B-24 is the only armor in the B-Series that doesn't match its other fellow B-Series Medium Armors. The only thing it has in common with said B-Series is the Legs and Coat Tail Skirt Thing (whatever its called).

The torso is an entirely unique armor piece as it does not match the Torso Armor of the standard B-Series Medium Torsos or any Torso that exists in game (as of typing this). Shoulders not matching is just a staple of most different armor variants so i paid it no mind.

It wasn't until i looked at the forearms while comparing the armors with other sets that I realized it had ONE match, and it wasn't Medium Armor.

It was Heavy Armor, and the match was to the FS-05 Marksman.

So then i went "Wait... why the hell does it have the Marksman forearms? Unless..."

And it clicked, "those forearms WERE the reason why it has additional defense and lesser speed, thats why the stats aren't rounded- wait... its not the only armor with stats that are not rounded up", and thats where i slowly began piecing up a theory, that being:

Armors were initially meant to be FULLY customizable and it affected gameplay.

At some point, this game probably had armor customization that would effect the way said armor behaves, but was scrapped as a whole due to the fear of meta-ization, that and them considering how the armor would look butt-ugly, all being mismatched pieces and clashing colors (unless armor was also color customizable at some point).

Now what could back up this crack-pipe theory? Well, its quite simple.

Helmet Passives.

At one point during development, it was mentioned Helmets were intended to have Passives much like the Armors along with slight stat differences to them when worn, but it wound up getting scrapped as a whole. HOWEVER, there were two helmets that slipped past the devs with the stats still intact, The SA-32 Dynamo & SC-30 Trailblazer.

SA-32 Dynamo provided additional Defense (like +4 points or something?) but slowed the player down a bit (also by a small amount)

SC-30 Trailblazer reduced the Defense you had (by a small amount) but did give a small bit of extra speed and stamina regen.

The devs would eventually patch them to be in-line with all the other helmets in a random patch.

However, while I'm left curious as to whether or not this could be a possibility. I'm honestly sorta glad this game didn't do it, considering that:

It would be so difficult to track armor piece #42 and what the fuck it does just to tweak your overall base armor rating by like... 20 points or so.

Someone i was talking with about said theory put it very well "The meta game would be a nightmare if that was the case"

Things i dont want to even imagine to be honest.

If Helmets had passives, it would be cool but at the same time, there would probably be a lot of mismatching gear, which isnt really a problem... unless you get bothered by it sometimes (although i do feel like Helmet Passives could still exist, but maybe as something akin to Boosters, although as to what they would be able to do would probably be limited, a joke helmet passive i thought of was basically letting your crosshair turn different colors when pointed at either an enemy or ally)

So to conclude, I am very glad the armor is nothing like how i've listed above and the devs have made the way the armor is currently.

REMINDER, THIS IS ALL A THEORY, NOT FACT, ALL OF THE SHIT I CAME UP WITH WAS OUT OF PURE SPECULATION AND BRAINROT FOR THIS GAME.

Also, this has made me curious and i kinda wanna figure out what armor piece could be giving the armor its increased defense. Especially with SC-34 & CE-67 sharing a similar torso piece. It makes me wonder if the extra 8/9 defense on CE-67 is due to those wonky shoulder pads it has on its arms.

Additionally, for B-24, a in-universe theory i have as to why it has 129 Armor is due to the forearms being heavy armor (so its adding +4 Defense) and the reason the torso armor is different in appearance is due to the Extra-Padding being reduced inside said armor.

[sarcastically-dead]

There are many reasons I appreciate the Red Rising series. At first, I enjoyed it because it cured my boredom. Then, I was thankful for it because when some people got too loud, I could elect to read a fantastic book instead of throwing rocks.

And then there's everything else, really. There's wayyyy too much to spell out coherently. Jumping between one reason, and then having some god give me a divine boon in the form of yet ANOTHER reason why RR is the most underrated gem I've ever come across.

But right now, after finishing Lightbringer (literally today on the way home from a lecture) the thing I appreciate most about RR is its narrative on strength? And how absolutely soul touching it is?

Like. Pre-Book 1 and during book 1 is just survival mode. You've gone semi-emotionally numb with the strain of just. Getting Through The Bad Times. Darrow has somehow survived the mines, and it took so much out of him that I don't think even he really realised. And then Eo. And then the revelation. So now he lives and pushes through with rage - like a helldiver. It's all he has, along with a goal, so it's gotta be enough. There's no other way.

And then Books 2-3 are, through insurmountable setbacks, even through outgrowing your original goal, which fueled his spite entirely, he rises. He can no longer just be angry, even if its still in grasp, even if it's his oldest friend. He has other things he's discovered - his own abilities, a support network. The mantra 'Stay Strong or Die' continues. And even if it is aided by things other than single-mindedness, it is upheld. Darrow is the strongest he's ever been end of Book 3. He chose option 1. He can take on the world, and then another, and then another, and then all of them at once. It was hard but he stayed strong, so he will be strong.

And then the second part of the series. Um. Well. It does not go well for him exactly. You see, he has been in the mindset of survival for so long- as long as he can remember, really. He believes its natural for him. Its not, its learned, but it hasn't really had a chance to distinguish himself. He severely underestimates exactly how much prolonged service of his mantra takes from him - but at this point, can he even create another one? It's all that's gotten him to this point (not necessarily true), it's his oldest crutch. When in stressful situations, we do not rise to the occasion nor to our ideals, but rather we fall upon our base training. And anger is at his core.

You can see things slowly loosen themselves around him - the Vox, Mercury (Jesus, everything that happened with Mercury). Stay Strong or Die is unravelling at the seams. What do you do when your basic, core tennate, the thing which kept you from falling, the pillar on which you balance to spin various dishes, wobbles?

Darrow comes crashing down, and for once, anger isn't what leaps forward to catch him. In fact, nothing catches him. Instead, he lays, and is blanketed by tiredness. He stays there awhile.

He's not Strong.

He's not strong.

Hesnotstronghesnotstronghesnotstronghesnot

There are two options. If he's not the first, the second one follows, no?

No.

By pure fucking luck, happenstance, or whatever benevolent God saw the absolute shitstorm that was going on with Darrow, clutched their pearls in shock, and with trepidation waved whatever blessing they could Darrow's way, Darrow does not die when he is not strong.

Because that blessing, what used to come second to him whenever his rage bullied itself into the forefront, stays when his rage leaves just as fast as it came.

Eo. Sevro. Virginia. Electra. Orion. Cassius. Ragnar. Alexandar.

Pax.

His strength leaves him, but it is replaced with something else.

Death begets death begets death.

Love begets love begets love.

Begets strength.

[extrapackxofastora]

Haven't played Helldivers 2 but I can tell why people love it. It's war! The human-old patriotic war! The game is so self conscious about it it's hilarious. But what really helps is, from what I've seen, the shooting system. Especially the fact that you can pretty much shoot in any direction while going the opposite way. Unconsciously or not, you'll conclude that "I could run away and shoot... Or I could just face death knowing it's right on my doorstep" and boom! you've created yourself a 'warhero'.

It's my belief that if your player base is horrible and generally evil and unwelcoming, it's because of the game's design. Helldivers praises that "we're fighting for DEMOCRACY" and naturally all players converge under that banner, roleplaying (willingly or not) with the spread of liberty.

[sluggirltoast]

3, 4, 33, 35, 54

i am curious to know the answers,,,

3; Do you like to get 100% achievements? ah it really depends~ in most games i don't care about that, especially if there's hundreds of achievements... but if i notice i have most of them anyway just from playing normally then i might look at what the others are and try to get those on purpose too

4; Game coming out that you’re looking forward to? farming simulator 25 and N1RV Ann-A (VA11 Hall-A sequel) are the biggest ones i think... more so nirvanna than fs25 but that doesn't have a date yet so eh... oh am also interested in how civ 7 turns out and the future of helldivers 2

33; Someone has never played a video game before but is open to trying any genre. What game would you recommend as their first? turn-based stratagy! there's still alotta variety in that genre for them to pick one game they like the look of and they will have plenty of time to think of what they wanna do for this turn and process the information on screen ^w^ (plus it's my- oh that's the next question nevermind)

35; What's your favourite genre of game? turn-based strategy! stuff such as civ 5 (an old fav) phoneix point, humankind... tryna think of more... aaaaaaaa idk if there are more i've played but eh- anyway- ye :3 also a big fan of simulation stuff like with elite dangerous (well, before odyssey...), farming sim as mentioned above (i've played 13, 15, 17, 19, 22 & plan to get 25), euro truck sim 2, uboat, construction sim, car mechanic sim, microsoft flight sim, foxhole, workers & resources soviet republic... um um... i really could go on... oh and i guess i mostly like those last 2 more for the management elements, they aren't the same vein of simulator as the other examples but still ^w^

54; Favourite game developers? aaaaa i don't really pay attention to names alot when it comes to this, plus any which i would've said in the past i no longer agree with... maybe.. maybeee... SCS software? they have a long history of working on euro truck sim 2 and american truck sim, working on both side-by-side now, been updating them for so many years with fairly cheap dlc's too and lots of high sales & they're very in touch with what the community wants n stuff... even if there's other games i like more i really like how they do things and more devs like that would only be a good thing

[lazuli-isnt-dead]

neb, my uncle (he's not my uncle biologically but he is my uncle because chosen family) plays helldivers 2 and spacemarine 2

-🔥

Based af

What chapter does he rep in space marine?

[lepartidelamort]

Well, Iran Definitely Hit Israel. So What Now?

This is the greatest thing that has ever happened.

You’re the man now, dog.

Mere hours after I posted a long piece pontificating about the situation in the Middle East, which included a segment bullying the Iranians over their reluctance to act against Israel, word came down that the Iranians were preparing a large strike on The Satan. The attack came shortly after the announcement.

I’m told that the Ayatollah made the decision after reading my piece, telling a government meeting, “Anglin is right, you guys are acting like fags – launch the missiles. Allah wills it.”

The show did not disappoint. In fact, it is the best thing that has ever happened, at least since the Holocaust.

Watching the Jews screaming as missiles lit up the skies over Tel Aviv and rained down on Jew locations, I could not remember feeling this level of childlike glee since… well, since I was a child.

I made a playlist and just kept watching the bombing supercut over and over, while calling in a champagne drop, Helldivers style.

I invited out the neighbors to drink and dance. The corks were popping across the room, mimicking the bombs over Jewland, with the playlist including ABBA, Starship, and Belinda Carlisle.

It was like the third act peak scene in a John Hughes movie.

I was as happy as these guys:

Regardless of what happens after this, the joy that I felt watching those bombs rain down will last forever. It is a moment of triumph seared into the fabric of eternity. No one can ever take that away from us.

Of course, what I would like to see is a lot more of what we all saw last night. I don’t want the party to ever end.

What Happened?

Bringing a printed copy of my article to the president and other government officials, the Ayatollah personally ordered the strikes, with the government stating that the attack was in response to the murder of Nasrallah, Haniyeh, and others. Clearly, dedicating the strikes to fallen heroes was symbolic, and the reality is that Iran was finally following through on the promise they made to defend Lebanon.

Though I’m joking about my bullying article being the impetus for the attack (although no one can prove that isn’t true), it is true that Ayatollah Khamenei himself, who is 85 years old, had to go in and order the strike personally because the political government of Iran is filled with fags and Mossad spies.

Titled “Operation True Promise 2,” which I’m sure sounds cooler in Persian, Iran used hundreds of ballistic missiles, including hypersonic Fattah missiles. Iran announced that this was merely the “first wave,” and did not elaborate. Let’s hope that’s true. I could watch videos of missiles raining down on Israel for the next 40 years and die a happy man.

Perhaps suspiciously, the Israeli defense systems did not appear to do very much. You have maximalist claims from both sides, so it’s difficult to determine the truth, but Iran claims that at least 80% of the missiles were not intercepted. Part of this might be the inability of Israel’s defense systems to stop ballistic missiles. The much-touted “Iron Dome” is actually only to protect from short and medium range missiles launched from Palestine and Lebanon (which it doesn’t do very well), with the US-made “David’s Sling” and Archer systems designed to stop much faster, long-range missiles. Those systems have not been tested, other than partially (but not really) during the April strike by Iran, which used much slower-moving missiles and drones and was telegraphed early and many of the missiles were shot down by US air forces.

This attack was not announced in advance, and Western state media announced it only hours before, presumably based on satellite indicators. It’s also been suggested that Iran may have called Russia to tell them of the coming strike, and that this call was perhaps intercepted. Regardless, the United States and Israel must have been aware that there was a significant chance of an Iranian strike, and you’d think they’d have been prepared for it.

Though I have little idea about the technology at play, it seems likely that the Jews allowed more missiles through than would have otherwise gotten through, as Israel’s entire PR strategy is whining about what victims they are, and the scenes of missiles raining down on them help with that narrative, especially for Fatmerican boomers who are seemingly unaware of the scale of the slaughter Jews have perpetrated in Palestine and Lebanon.

Furthermore, Bibi is using the classic strategy of “bad people are trying to kill you” as his primary mode of governance, domestically. It’s logical that the Israeli government would want as many missiles to hit as possible. It doesn’t actually matter what is destroyed, given that the American taxpayer is footing the bill regardless.

There are wide-ranging claims about what the missile strikes did or did not do. Some Middle Eastern sources are claiming missiles hit – or even destroyed – a Mossad base, destroyed oil fields, destroyed airfields, destroyed billions of dollars’ worth of American fighter jets, and so on. The Jews are of course minimizing the damage. There’s no way to know. Based on the videos we all watched of missiles raining down – not being shot out of the air, but hitting inside of Jewish cities – something was surely destroyed.

The official story right now is that only one person died, a Palestinian. This seems unlikely. The Jews do have extensive bunkers that the Americans paid for throughout Tel Aviv and other cities, but in the videos, you can see people on the streets and cars driving around, so not everyone was in the bunkers.

American Reaction

I made the executive decision as the attacks were happening last night to not write any kind of serious commentary on it, given that I have a right to celebrate on such an evening, instead posting a couple of pornographic throwaway joke articles that included videos of the strikes and mocked American Republicans screaming about the innocence of the Jews.

Frankly, it is actual insanity to have sat and watched these Jews slaughter innocent people for an entire year and then start screaming about the victimization of the innocent chosenites as soon as they get a single drop of their own medicine. But this is indeed what every American politician is doing, with the Republicans of course being more bellicose in their rhetoric.

All of these people should be in prison forever. It is simply beyond the pale that a foreign country has this kind of stranglehold on our government. There is no other situation ever in history where a more powerful country was dominated by a lesser country. There is no reason for it, other than blackmail, bribery, personal threats, and other fundamentally Jewish methods of influence.

The replies to all of these tweets by government officials were encouraging, however.

The American people, at least younger people, are not buying what these government people are selling. That doesn’t actually mean anything, because America is a democracy, meaning the masses of people have no ability to influence the behavior of the government. However, the illusion is falling, and the people are seeing that America doesn’t even have a “government” in the traditional sense, but is instead a nation under a Jewish military occupation, with the cops as a standing army serving a foreign power, ready to cage or kill anyone who stands up against the Jews.

Lindsey Graham, a chief Trump surrogate, is of course calling for America to declare war on Iran and start a massive bombing campaign. That probably will not happen this afternoon (although it could), but it will eventually.

Trump himself, covered in Jewish semen, issued a statement calling for more Jews to ejaculate on his face (I’m sorry/not really that bukkake metaphors are the only thing I can come up with when addressing these kinds of statements).

Although no one actually understands the American electoral system, which is a black box, it now seems overwhelmingly likely that the Mossad will rig the election for Trump and Americans will head back into the Middle East with even greater fervor than they did after 9/11. Israel wants more than bombings, which wouldn’t actually end the threat any more than the bombing of Gaza stopped Hamas rockets. Jews want some kind of actual physical invasion of Iran, and you need healthy young white men to do something like that. Trump is going to be a whole lot better at marshaling these men than that Indian whore what’s her name.

In the shorter term, Israel will no doubt continue the bombing campaigns across the Middle East, and they may do their own significant bombing of Iran. Though the attacks last night were glorious, they mean little in the greater scheme of things. Iran has a limited number of ballistic missiles, whereas Israel has infinite resources, paid for by fat, gay American retards.

Iran’s only real chance at victory is in being able to sustain a US bombing campaign and physical invasion of their country in the long term, in the way the Taliban did, and drain the empire of its resources and morale while Russia and China act in their own spheres.

This is winner takes all. The US/Jews win or Russia, China, and Iran win. There is also a situation where both lose, maybe, but if the US empire falls, we’d have to call that a win for the other side, regardless of how they come out on the other side.

Both Russia and China should be on the phone with the Ayatollah right now asking him what he needs, because the focal point of this global war by the Jews has been decided. Iran is the first major front, following the proxy war in the Ukraine, in this bid for total global domination by the Jews and their American fuck-hogs. The more bogged down the US is in the Middle East, the more room Russia and China have to act, the fewer resources the US has, the quicker this satanic beast is drained and left a rotting husk on the graveyard of history.

Iran Should Bomb India as Well, Perhaps Even Make It the Focal Point

Reading Twitter last night during the attacks, the overwhelming majority of the tweets were from Indians, who are completely obsessed with the Jews. I don’t know why Indians are obsessed with the Jews, beyond the obvious (they also view themselves as at war with Islam), and I do not care to understand it. It means nothing to me what Indians think, and I’m not convinced that “think” is even a word we should associate with this despicable race of mutant fiends.

I suppose no one should be surprised that a race that specializes in scamming the elderly out of their personal savings also idolizes the Jews. The Jews scam the whole world, and the Indians want to learn those skills.

This is a meme that an Indian made and posted without irony last night:

That sums up thousands of tweets I saw.

It is absolutely absurd that one has to wade through an infinite swamp of Indian Jew-sucking while scanning breaking news on Twitter. They get included in the feed because they post in English, but Twitter needs to add an option to simply block all Indian accounts. There is not one single white person who is going to miss anything by not seeing the opinions of Indians. Although these are apparently real accounts, it is effectively spam. I do want to see what Jews are saying, I want to see what Jew-lover American politicians are saying, so I’m in no way against all pro-Jew content being on the feed, but I would say that 98% of pro-Jewish content on Twitter is from India, and it is all benign and repulsive.

India is unlikely to be a threat to the world at large, as they have no skills, abilities, or intelligence, and the Chinese will likely deal with them at some point. Their colonization forces in white countries will be forced to flee as soon as the Jews who imported them are dislodged from power. They’re not going to go to war on the streets. They are, however, a clear threat to the internet, and they’ve basically already ruined it.

If Elon Musk will not act to protect people from these Indian shit-spammers, Iran should consider a mass-bombing campaign against their country.

In this infographic, you can clearly see that Iran has that capacity:

There must be consequences for all those tweets these Indians posted.

Do I View Moslems in the Way Liberals View Ukrainians?

I stand accused of viewing Moslems as fighting a proxy war against the Jews on my own behalf in the same way that Fatmerican tranny scum views the Ukraine as fighting in the interests of gay sex.

Having considered this allegation, I believe it is more or less accurate. The difference is, I am not callously encouraging hundred of thousands of people to die for no benefit of their own in order to hurt my enemies.

There has been no explanation as to how this war in the Ukraine benefits Ukrainians. It is simply vaguely asserted that in a general sense, fighting an invasion of your country is naturally a good thing, but no specifics are given. When you consider the fact that the country has been decimated, half the population has fled, and virtually the entirety of the country has been auctioned off to American Jews, it is undeniable that the Ukraine would have been much better off to have avoided this war.

Conversely, the Arab and Moslem population of the Middle East:

Could not have avoided this war

Can win this war

Will benefit immensely from winning this war

So, although the general idea is similar, as I am not principally concerned with what is best for the people of the Middle East, and do primarily support them because they are fighting the Jews, I am not actively, knowingly harming the population of the Middle East, and in fact, the more support they have in their struggle from people in the West, the more advantageous their position.

Get Ready for Whatever Happens Next

There is no reason not to take a victory lap after seeing those missiles fall on Israel. Everyone should feel great about this.

However, I want to stress again that it doesn’t really mean very much in the scheme of things. Sadly, it means much, much less than the Israeli decapitation of the leadership of Hezbollah. I’m certain that the various cartoonish propagandists of multipolarism and whatever other buzzwords they advocate for will be claiming that these attacks mean that Iran could simply destroy Israel whenever they wanted, but that is obviously not true.

Just as the day before the attack by Iran, Israel remains in a very good position, and it’s arguable that their position is actually better now that they can whine about these missiles. Jews are always in top form while crying out in pain as they strike you.

The missiles were sublime. Better than sex or cocaine or enchiladas. But what has changed? Morale and really nothing else. The situation remains the same.

This is going to be a long slog that is going to last years, and it is going to significantly affect your life. The idea of a military draft in the United States seems extreme, but it’s certainly not out of the question.

In the end, we win. God wins.

But in the medium term, keep your expectations realistic, and don’t get too down if the fighters against the Jews suffer more setbacks in the near future.

Settle in.

This party is just getting started.

Andrew Anglin

[oriarmor39]

The Dawn Family Gamers: Ori and Noah & Their Favorite Games

So about an hour ago (at the time of writing), I had a rant about Ori and Noah’s favorite video games in one of the Redacted fan servers, So I’m gonna copy/paste that rant under the cut. Enjoy!

TW: mentions of SWAT (and cults for that game entry) and Military. I think that’s about it for warnings. ALSO THIS IS A LONG ONE :3

Noah

Helldivers 2

SO LET ME SAY. I HAVENT PLAYED HELLDIVERS, BUT I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF GAMEPLAY FOR IT. And Noah would LOVE Helldivers, considering he wanted to go into the army at one point.

For those who don’t know, Helldivers 2 is a 4 person coop shooter. (Meaning yes, he has gotten Ori and Songbird in on it. (Ori likes it. She keeps saying “DEMOCRACY” every time he comes around.) where you fight for “super Earth” to liberate the galaxy into democracy.

BIG TW! SWATTING

Ready or Not

NOAH LOVES PLAYING RoN.

RoN is a swat sim game. (ITS BAT SHIT TERRIFYING.) where you do… well what SWAT does. You reply to 911 calls in the fictional city of Los Sueños. (Economically based on Los Angeles, but located near San Diego.)

Noah has been playing since BEFORE 1.0 (THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE)

His favorite mission is the Woman’s Cult level, “Carriers of the Vine” (can you see where kiyota came from?)

If you want more info on RoN, I recommend “Shayne, Please Shut Up’s” lore series.

(No picture due to the game itself being graphic. But have the logo! I like it!)

By this point, I think it’s clear what kind of games Noah likes but hold on a second. The next game is gonna throw a wrench in that

A Little To The Left!

I know what you’re gonna say, and Ori got him into this one. She noticed he was having trouble with stress and she recommended some of her calm down games. This was one of those games. (not gonna lie I almost passed out from being so calm playing it)

For those who don’t know a little to the left is, as the name suggests, an organizing game (another example is unpacking. I have that game too.)

And noah likes this one, one for the colors and the Matte style, but he also likes it because of its replayability, and the background of why the developers made the game.

Ori!

SPLATOON.

I THINK THIS ONE SPEAKS FOR ITS SELF.

Ori was originally a splatoon oc. Ofc she would like splatoon. She’s played all three games (200 hours in splatoon 1, 300 in 2, and 150 in 3) her favorite is 2. Largely due to Octo expansion. (She was quite literally showing Songbird all of the campaigns in her confession audio you think she wouldn’t like octo expantion?)

she just really likes octo expansion.

ORIS FAVORITE IS BIG MAN. I WISH I WAS KIDDING HE IS THE ONLY DEEPCUT AMIIBO I HAVE & WANT. I FELL IN (platonic) LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. HES TOO CUTE.

Melatonin

Melatonin is a little more of a calmer rhythm heaven. On stream it almost put me to sleep. As the name implies, you, the player character, is asleep and the different levels you can play are dreams. Ori’s personal favorite is “work” It is the only one she/I have gotten a perfect on.

Project Diva!

Ori likes to yap about vocaloid and you bet your ass I do too. project diva came out 15 years ago and Ori has been playing the most recent one for since it came out. She actually pre-ordered it. it is the only one she has access to and Ori does have a few favorite charts.

Envy Cat Walk (Hard *7)

Kipple Industry Inc. (Hard *7.5)

Nekomimi Archive (can’t remember ;-;)

39 Music (again can’t remember)

Ori has 300 hours in Project diva Megamix. She has also played Project Mirai and loves that one too. She has half the hours in that she does in project diva.

And that includes my talk. Gerold and Donna do not have favorite games/do not play games.