Sasho Todorov

Also one of the few games to actually nail the scale of battlefields and the range at which artillery would operate, making counterbattery particularly fun.

YouTube video by DominicDiBagio The Longest Day (1962) - French Assault on Ouistreham (amazing one-shot) HD

The Ouistreham assault scene is absolute perfection.

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War studies invoke Clausewitz the same way that medieval Catholics drug out the bones of dead saints on holy days.

I believe this is Arches national park.

It's gameplay is basically The Cabin in the Woods for obsessives with double digit Fo2 playthroughs.

I would kill for a proper Arcanum remake.

I was around for its development back when it was still called no truce with the furies.

I'm not holding this against the game - it's an explicitly good thing, and, as one of the 25 people it's designed to land with, I really appreciated how clever of a meta commentary on classic crpgs it was.

It even includes stuff like jokes about how everyone immediately turns on auto-run and has a complete lack of combat encounters. All of this is very clever, but really will only land as commentary for a pretty small circle.

That's what I'm talking about, though. The game's meta commentary is designed to comment on people who optimize uber alles, with passing checks often being harmful and failing checks being beneficial.

Which is fascinating for those 25 people, but will generally pass over the head of people who haven't dipped their toes in the human sewage of RPG Codex.

The challenge on this front is that Disco Elysium's meta commentary is really designed around the 25 people who have replayed Fallout 2 so many times that they have an optimized build designed to pass as many skill checks as possible.

Oh, it's definitely designed that way. The issue is more that the game psychologically trains players to avoid burning cards. The other issue being that the randomization of damage means that classes with renewable single big hit attacks tend to be OP.

He's a Clinton - Biden - Trump voter.

Also doctor - the ur small business tyrant class.

In general the lost card system and the punishing card economy also generally results in a lot of classes being psychologically very constrained. Unless a card is an obvious scenario expediting nuke, it's a lot safer to just never burn things.

*Raises hand sheepishly*

The issue is that there is no way to remedy this. It's like trying to unfuck the hiring system or resetting dating to pre-app norms. People hate inefficiency on a moment to moment basis, even as inefficiency in certain quantities has clearly turned out to be load bearing for making things tolerable.

The end result being that there are increasing opportunities for disappointment, whereas in the past you could be valedictorian, go to your state flagship school and be in a major program, and then come back home and feel yourself to be in a high social position.

You still see some legacies of this in the way in which, for example, Missouri is still probably the flagship journalism school in the nation. But, thanks to digitization revolutionizing comms, opportunity is concentrating in specific points rather than being dispersed.

In ye olden days of maybe a generation and a half ago, state flagship universities were reliable social capital printers. Its one of the things that fuels a lot of major football rivalries. Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State is meaningful because Ole Miss genuinely produced MS' elite.

The probably isn't that they are disappearing, the problem is that they are holding steady, even as the decrease in friction allows more and more people to compete for them.

Seras is a Red Wall Labour/Reform voter. Integra is Lib Dem.

Grown in a lab to be a Wagenknecht supporter.

You can win a Super Bowl without a generational QB, but you can only do it either on their first contract, or on a backup contract where they suddenly catch fire (Nick Foles). Otherwise, a 2nd contract QB has to be so good to compensate for the lack of talent around him.

It's not a problem with trading QBs so much as the fact that the QB pay scale is so colossal now that it's extremely difficult to nigh on impossible to afford a team which has a super bowl quality roster with a top level QB on his second contract. The issue is that teams have to trade everyone else.

Fo3 and Fo4 approach Fallout much more like Fo1 did. I don't think this is necessarily for the better, mind you. Fo3 in particular, due to a significant dose of influence from The Road, is very close in tone to Fo1.

Wasteland, by contrast, preserves much more continuity with the world before. The Desert Rangers act like a pre-war institution and generally are a pre-war institution, being much closer to their roots as a U.S. army unit.

Fallout 2 and NV are spiritually much more like Wasteland.

What separates Fallout from Wasteland at the root is their relationship with the pre-apocalypse. In Fallout 1, the world before is very much wiped off the map and what continuity may be left is extremely tenuous and warped. It's why the Brotherhood of Steel is so weird.

Blask Isle vs. Bioware is also a very interesting illustration of the shift in DnD as a game vs. DnD as mostly live theater.