insurgentrat

I've mostly played EU4 but recently have discovered the dlc is much cheaper than expected^[For legal porpoises I will not specify how much cheaper] and it's been like 3 years since I last played^[this footnote is ornamental].

Viccy 3 and crusader kings 3 weren't out last time.

So which is the best atm to lose time in?

edit: thanks for the recs. Ck3 seems to slap now

So there's this thing people do, it's harmless enough, but it also sort of hints at a completely incoherent style of thinking. It is absolutely unfair to judge people by random shit they write casually, after all I write like 3 geeked out baboons stacked atop one and other and yet I am a noble and refined rat.

Nonetheless I'm a judgy shit so I do. Ok so the thing? It's when people use a quote or situation from fiction as a predictor of what will happen in reality. A concrete example from earlier today paraphrased:

p1: I think blah blah thing will happen

p2: Ah but remember men in black? a person is reasonable, people are dumb panicky animals

me: teakettle noises

The causality is utterly confused, MiB cannot be used as evidence, it is written that way because the writer wanted a character to say that. It's possible a writer wanted a character to say that because the writer believed it to be true, but it's also possible that it was included for many other reasons.

screeeeeeeeeee

Anyway, share your thoughts. Also your own ridiculous rhetoric irritations.

The NPCs (petite bourgeois) inside keep threatening to call the guards when I loot things and they run away like townsfolk if I draw my weapon.

French noises: the game is blowing up and not without good reason. It's beautiful (awful flickering hair TAA artefacts and weird gormless facial expressions aside), the story is more mature than the usual slop gamers settle for, the style is shamelessly traced from persona five's notes but with unique aesthetic flair. I am a known "video game stories are mostly actively a negative addition" hater and I've been moved to tears. Shit slaps.

I just have one question, what is the point of all the hours you are meant to spend holding down sprint running backwards and forwards through a sequence of empty corridors waiting to find the next actually interesting thing? What does it add? The best defense I can think of is that it gives you time to listen to the great music?

The pacing is whack, it's banging fight. 5 minutes twiddling a joystick and occasionally pressing X, banging fight, 5 minutes twiddling, amazing fight, story beat, time to stop having fun because the overworld section is next!

Can someone please explain?

You can harp on about personal and private property or theory this and praxis that property but when revolution breaks out I have a concrete plan of action. Will your precious books save you as I climb through your bathroom window?

The news about the new mh game has me thinking about this silly series I've spent way too much of my life playing (without improving! Impressive!) so I finally got around to setting up emulation to play it with my wife as she needs m&kb and started with mhworld.

Turns out there's a neat emulated network on ryujinx so you can actually play with people all over the world! Kinda like Hamachi if anyone else is old enough to remember that.

Anyway the long and the short of it, if anyone wants to play together you can set passwords either on the hubs/on the emulated lan. So I thought I'd see if anyone on hexbear had interest in revisiting it (or playing for the first time!). If there's enough we could set a password on the lan and hopefully just be able to pop in and out.

Just so there's some discussion here, I had forgotten how sticky combat was in old gen. I'm trying sns and it feels like the moment you hit attack you're basically glued to the floor. I am generally a bit mixed on some of the changes (although I thought rise and sunbreak were amazing fun overall), but the increased fluidity in combat does make it hard to go back in some ways.

I do prefer the slower pace of the older style though, just in terms of increased time wandering around and gathering. I feel like the newer games have been much more action focused for both better and worse.

When did you start playing and what are your favourite and least favourite changes in the post world era?