Captain Aggravated

I want a game that has the primary gameplay loop of FTL, but with a choose your path role playing game like Fallout behind it instead of a roguelike.

As Yahtzee Croshaw says, it has the most Star Trek “Target their weapons systems! Damage control to the engine room! Transfer power to the shields!” effect, but I kinda wish you were more able to choose where you want to explore, have a little more agency in quests…

Most quests in FTL follow the format of:

A space thing is happening! Do you:

• Send in a crewmate to help (50/50 chance of succeeding and getting a reward, or failing and taking damage/losing a crewmate)
• With them luck and fly away (guaranteed nothing happens)
• (blue text) use special equipment (guaranteed chance of a nice reward, if you have the equipment/resource/type of crew aboard)

So you don’t have a lot of agency in the kinds of quests you want to explore. A lot of beginner quests happen to you a lot (how many times have we all done the giant alien spiders one) and in a lot of cases you don’t have the blue text options available, so you get to choose “do nothing” or flip a coin. And then you have to face the ship at the end, which a lot of the builds that are kicking ass up to that point just can’t face the end boss.

I want a longer term roleplaying game under these primary mechanics.

Known better? Probably.

Cared better? Absolutely not.

Imagine the caliber of person it takes to neglect a golden retriever to death.

I am reminded of a comedian…I believe he was Iranian-American or something like that, muslim background, travels for work as a stand-up comedian. Some three letter agency wanted him to check in every now and again to let them know what he was doing. So he would send them everything he could. Every byte of data he could generate, dinner receipts, pictures of plane tickets, episodes of TV shows he watched, video of himself walking down the street…

One or two versions before they included it by default, I wrote a Nemo Action to launch the monitor settings dialog in the right click menu when you right click the desktop.

I’ll bend my bow to your will, sir!

Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up: This, is my BOOMSTICK!

The one I like is “Document it yourself.”

Hey, this application exposes a Python API to the user, where’s the API reference? How do I learn how to use it?

We didn’t write it.

Well…could you?

If you want it to exist, you write it.

How am I supposed to do that?

Examine the app’s source code.

Which were America’s problem…how exactly? I will 100% grant you, Germany deserved a swift lead pipe to the mouth for how the 1940’s went. The United States of America, an independent nation in a different hemisphere to which none of that happened, was trying to stay out of it because Europe is not our fault.

We had no mutual defense treaties with anyone in Europe in the 1930’s. It wasn’t our fight. In what way was the safety or sovereignty of Poland our problem in 1939? Precisely how many American lives did we owe Poland at the time?

All you little European nations are so big and proud until the goddamn krauts start getting uppity then it’s “Why didn’t you invade a foreign nation that didn’t do anything to you, Uncle Sam?”

This is why we have NATO. Now we do have a mutual defense pact with much of Europe, so if anybody invades a member country, the rest of us come running.

So you want us to instantly invade any country whose leader we don’t like. KAY!

Meanwhile in another thread I saw some Brits bitching about America not entering WWII until the end of 1941.

You’re the bad guy for trying to stay out of international affairs, you’re the bad guy for getting into international affairs. If you find yourself forced to play a game you can’t win, Just start hurting people.

So I think the term “enshittification” has been latched onto and goatse’d by the community at large to the point people are now using it to mean “things getting worse because business.”

I am pretty sure everything is getting worse because business.