Eh. I finally planned using an outside tool this time around so I shouldn’t have issues. Previously, I put too much faith in my 2am, inebriated mental math.

Nice! I’m hoping to beat the game as well on this playthrough. I think this is my 5th attempt? 1st game I gave up once I realized mega-plan was not the right approach for this game, pretty early like just after oil. The other 3 died off somewhere in aluminum; one save, I built a huge aluminum processing facility, but after I fired it up found a bunch of critical issues that would basically require a full rebuild. Save dead.

My current save, I’ve finished building my aluminum processing center, I’m going through the arduous process of building the logistics around it… but I’m almost done! It’s enough to process all 6 pure bauxite nodes with OC’ed MKIIs, hoping it carries me through the game but shouldn’t be terribly hard to expand if needed.

Yup. I was the same way. I also wanted to see what the lounge was all about, until the first time I got gold and saw it was just a circle jerk about… Getting gold. Dunno what I expected.

I never got the hate over this. I agree that “pay this company $3 because some guy made a funny joke” doesn’t make a ton of sense, but the 2(?) times someone got me gold, I said thank you… just feels like acknowledging a compliment.

This is why HOAs are allowed to exist in the first place.

They tell the city, “hey, you’ve got this huge plot of land that can be developed for residential housing, but it looks like you can’t afford to develop it (roads, water pipes, power, etc). Instead of developing and selling it bit by bit, you can sell the land to us, and we’ll take care of everything, and just cut you your check!”

HOAs pass the municipal buck from the government to the HOA. Since the HOA (in most cases) owns the infrastructure for the community, there isn’t a good way to allow individuals to opt out.

I don’t think we’re gonna get anywhere with this, but I’ll end with saying that it isn’t common for people to interject themselves into in-groups to complain about what the in-group likes, especially in places designated for them to talk about said thing.

Hope you have a better day.

You listed like 4 things you dislike about the game, and not in a constructive way (“blueprints are a joke”, “ComTroVerSiaLlY I want my game to be about 🤓”, etc).

Imagine barging into a restaurant because someone said their drink had too much ice, and ranting about how there’s a shit ton of ice, the staff are morons, the menu is a joke, and the food is mediocre.

My friend, there are two different breeds of orcs in the series.

The “super invincible” orcs you’re talking about are the Uruk-hai, bred by Saurumon in Isengard. The veggies that Boromir and co chop up are just normal, run of the mill Mordor orcs.

Yup. And nobody but their customers will buy (since it’s $150 for a $100 card) so they don’t have to worry about buying a card to send a real customer to look legit.

So… Why are you in this community if you don’t like the game? Genuine question. You’re allowed to not like a game, of course, but why comment on a post with a list of irrelevant complaints that nobody was asking or talking about? There’s music and TV shows I don’t like, but if I see a group of people talking about it, I’m not going to insert myself into the conversation to rudely criticize what their likes.

receiving a random (wanted) gift

Coworker hands me a Peep

It’s like you didn’t even read my comment! /s

Also, for the sake of clarifying my original point: it isn’t necessarily that the cookies were free, or that there were so many of them. OOP probably would’ve been just about as happy if the flight attendant overheard her and made a point to give her just a single pack- it’s the being acknowledged and having someone make a deliberate effort for you that gives the warm and fuzzies here.

I think he’s saying the cop was “informing” him that his license was already suspended, not that he just suspended it right then and there

This poor guy doesn’t understand the immense joy that is receiving a random (wanted) gift from someone.

What tastes better, the piece of candy from the bag you bought, or one randomly handed to you by a co-worker? 😜

It’s so weird how people on the Internet will see a group talking about how they all like or at least appreciate something, and the one person has to make sure everyone knows just how dumb and ridiculous they think that thing is.

I’m curious what kind of objectively better music an enlightened soul like yourself considers good.

The game celebrates the personalities, quirks, and overall communal impact of these everyday men

Imagine your card having the worst meta

Because when you’re the one who “came up” with it, it’s usually a pretty sweet ride, provided you can weather the revolutions and stuff.

If it makes you feel any better, I made the “without the hard R” joke to myself when I initially saw the sub name, haha

Played the game last year, survival with a few mods, namely a huge modern gun pack, a ghoul mod and some super mutant mods.

EVERYTHING was terrifying. Walking through a city, if a hostile NPC noticed me before me them, a single headshot from a long rifle would drop me with full health.

‘appers’ being ‘rappers’ without the hard r

Pretty sure it’s because it’s a subreddit, so it’s written as r/appers.

Garbage content regardless, though.

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