starweasel [it/its, comrade/them]

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Cake day: January 27th, 2022

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  • “The premise, which they didn’t dispute, was ‘We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?'” an exasperated Hedley told The New Yorker.

    Why build such a place? Simple. The Umbrella Corporation derived its primary income from the sale of viral weaponry, something that’s impossible to test in the real world. They re-created the center of New York, simulated an outbreak, showed it to the Russians and sold them the virus. They simulated an outbreak in Moscow, sold it to the Americans. An outbreak in Tokyo, sold it to the Chinese. An outbreak in China, sold it to the Japanese. Exactly. Everyone had to have it. The Umbrella Corporation built a new arms race.

    this is literally the plot of resident evil retribution (2012). idk if its “near comic book villany” this is plagiarized “video-game-adjacent-movie villany”. on brand for the ceo of plagiarism machine i suppose.





  • not the person you asked but ive played a lot of nms so i figured id chime in.

    it’s not combat heavy unless you want it to be. Just dont mine resources in front of or shoot at the space cops and theyll leave you alone (and avoid planets that are labeled “aggressive sentinels”, theyll shoot you on sight on those planets. Also dont pick up gravitino balls.)

    The only time combat is required on foot is if you follow the main storyline (and tbh its mostly just to get you used to how combat works) or if you do an expedition that requires combat. And even for those scenarios, you can usually get around it by just getting the required materials elsewhere.

    as far as space combat goes, you have to do a little bit of combat to get a free freighter, but space combat is way easier than on foot imo, since you can use an auto aim feature. Pirates will occasionally chase you, but you can literally just run away from them and warp to another system, or land in a space station to get them to back off.

    I dislike combat in nms, not because its bad or anything (it’s actually really fun once you get a decently upgraded multitool/ship) i just prefer to be sneaky rather than go in guns blazing for roleplay reasons, so i try to avoid it as much as possible.