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I watched a season and change of Yellowstone and the story was getting so ridiculous I looked up the rest. I just noped out.

Very accurate for a simplification, then.

Hello everyone! If you've followed my last thread " A Veteran's Takes", then you'll know what this thread is about...ideas for the game! I have a decent amount that I'll cover with this post, and I'll keep posting with new ideas as they come to me. Feel free to respond to these posts with what you like or don't like about my ideas, or link your own posts in your reply if you want me to read them! Let's get into it. SPOILERS!!!!! Construction and Destruction I am a sucker for being able to completely manipulate the world around you. It's one of the reasons why I love survival games. Taking a couple of random resources and combining them to make something completely new is intriguing on its own, but then adding in the aspect that all of these things you can take from the environments you explore is the icing on the cake! I love how many things you can interact with in Grounded 1 and 2, but I'd love to see more. Many times, I've gone up to different plants, rocks, and other materials thinking, " I should be able to harvest that." I'd love to see Grounded 2 be a game where everything can be whittled down to its essential components so that we can build it back up as something new. Those red and green plants with the five-pronged leaves could easily become another building material using a tier 3 or 4 axe. Ferns or other big-leafed plants could offer not only more building material but upgraded gliders that could traverse across just as fast or faster than it glides downward. Tree Bark can be harvested from the big trees to make tier 4 or 5 shields and armor, or used as another building material Bits of the ropes hanging from the wooden posts in parts of the map can be harvested to make tier 5 binding for tier 5 items and armor ( like crude rope, silk rope, and lint rope before) The melted army men can be harvested to make plastic weapons and armor ( YOU COULD LOOK LIKE A TOY SOLDIER!!!) I've always wondered why the only human food that can be harvested is the Billy Hog, Apples, Cookies, and Donuts. We see bananas and oranges too! Why can't human trash be harvested? Paper products (wads, cups, plates, juice boxes), plastic silverware, and aluminum soda cans, exist everywhere around the yard and could easily be harvested. Compare paper to wasp paper from Grounded, needing a tier 3 tool, plastic needing tier 4, and aluminum needing tier 5. Basically, the more variety and diversity, the more possibilities of what can be made and done, the better. Especially with building, I want more! I care less about the defense ability of the forts I make than the aesthetic. Have you seen the video of the home someone made in the Berry Stash!? It's beautiful! With more building material designs, there are more possibilities for what a fort could look like! Friends playing on the same server could have their own houses with their own styles! Here are some other ideas for buildings that I really want!!!! Bring acorn spiral stairs back please. Make windowed half walls (vertical and horizontal) and quarter walls. Allow windowed walls to combine if placed next to each other ( with a cancel option if people don't want certain ones to). PLEASE make half and quarter railings and stairs. You've made simple beds, now give me a luxury bed Creatures Next on the list, and I'll keep this brief because I know a lot of ideas are for this section of the game, is creatures. I'm primarily focusing on creatures that should be in the game just to keep the realism of the environment alive. By establishing so many baby-->adult growth patterns in the game, the player begins to expect it with everything they stumble upon, so tell me why: Wolf Spiders don't have wolf spider jr.'s? (I have a feeling this is planned already, but...) praying mantis nymphs should have fully grown versions Tadpoles in Grounded never had frogs. Just today, I saw a frog that was the same size as a wolf spider I had seen earlier in the day. It is entirely possible to make frogs of this size and toad colossi. Bring back tadpoles and give us frogs and toads! Mosquito don't have mosquito larvae. ( I need a better way of collecting blood sacks than having to fight mosquitoes which sometimes don't even drop them. Mosquito larvae would exist only in deep water like the pond or rain-filled buckets etc. and could drop only blood sacks upon death without the mosquito beak. They'd be tier 1 creatures) Different kinds of butterflies (the blue ones are so pretty and their armor is gorgeous, I need more like it) Axl Update Now I haven't played it yet, I'm waiting for the full release on the 30th, but I have heard that he's too easy and not intimidating enough, and after seeing some playthrough from other creators, I am surprised about some things myself. Axl is huuuuuge. I honestly believe all of his attacks should be area attacks. He should be able to take on you and your buggy at once without having to target only one of you. Do you see how big his fang is as a "stuffed Axl"? With two fangs, he could easily hit both you and your buggy if you're both in front of him. Summoning bugs in the final phase doesn't make sense to me! From what I understand, tarantulas are solitary bugs that pray on smaller bugs. Why would it be able to summon bugs? I have a feeling his needle fire attack is a bit unrealistic too (I don't know if tarantulas can actually do that but I don't think so) but it's cool so I can let it slide; however, and especially because you get ranger stuff from him, the ranged aspect of the fight should be a lot clearer and could look a lot more epic! Here me out: Axl shows you his bite combo and leg slam in the first phase. You knock him to the second phase and he tunnels underground. You're looking to the ground of the arena to see where he pops up again only for him to come from the ceiling! I don't know if tarantulas can spin webs, but if not, you could easily have him perched on leaves or branches up high. From there, he does a series of those needle fire attacks and ground pounds where he jumps from above and tries to crush you. Every time he lands back on the arena floor, he tunnels shortly after and gets back up top. I'd also consider adding another variant of a ranged attack from him, maybe a web or venom shot? He could also drop lingonberry clusters from above, and since they're involved in so many sizzle recipes, they could be sizzle area attacks like the bombardier beetle. That way you see more of why it makes sense for him to give you ranger gear on drop; the new phase is refreshing with how different it is from the first; it looks totally epic, and gives rangers a chance to shine by allowing them to strike him more often in this phase (while still providing opportunities for melee fighters to hit him when he jumps down). Finally, to make to third phase feel completely different, I think the player should be taken to a new location like up in the hedge branches, or on top of the hedge. Change the environment to make it harder for the little guy but nothing new for something as big as Axl. While the player has to worry about staying on the hedge branches to reach Axl, Axl does his charge move that purposely tries to push the player off the branch they're on. The new stadium would be thinner, but taller with hedge branches that criss cross and spiral upward to the top of the stadium. The player would have to climb to wherever Axl is in the hedge or else get pelted with his needles and lingonberry bombs (rangers might favor this). Once there, melee fighters could fight him like normal, but would have to watch out for his charge which is unblock-able, but is dodge-able (dodging off the branch onto smaller, connected branches). You would see attacks from each phase come back in a more unified way and make Axl feel way more like the king of the jungle that he should be. Boss fights are a place where I really believe the Grounded devs struggle. Boss fights can be done in so many different ways to make each one feel unique, but most Grounded boss fights tend to be "fight the big bug in the big room that never changes". The only times I've seen them go off script is by allowing for some environmental combat with the Assistant manager and Director Shmector and having the trunk of the bush get in the way of the Orchid Mantis. Especially the former examples are ways to make the fight feel cooler and less predictable. Grounded 2 is going to be bigger than Grounded. There should be more bosses. Don't you want each of them to feel like a unique experience that leaves players on their toes? Anyway, that was my TED Talk. Let me know what you think because I'd love to see more of this implemented into the game. I believe in you devs!

We like to build in odd places...for example the skateboard...so why for the love of god did the skateboard have to change.its made the base inaccessible. Why is there so many insects now in the game And whilst im in rant mode...why does the game dashboard so much...as in 15 times in 6 hours.

When i am entering a bin my first item enters that bin on occasion which turns the rest of my said item to hot deposit afterwards then i notice or even worst i notice my item gone later on and have to go back searching for it or them. this follows into one of my other threads of locking items to be able from moving into bins or moving around within menus.

Descent into fascism is a process not an end state. Examples: using government regulatory authorities to silence speech the powerful don't like. Plain clothes security forces rounding up people without due process. The Supreme Court using the shadow docket to push through blatantly unconstitutional decisions in favor of the current administration The rule of law being repeatedly ignored with no consequences I'd say that for the midterms to change anything the dems would have to have crushing victories in both the House and the Senate. I'm not sure, but I think in the Senate that's utterly impossible, even with the assumption of entirely free and fair elections. Also that assumption is becoming less and less guaranteed. Additionally, even if the dems win overwhelmingly, if they keep behaving in the same way they did during the Biden mandate, they will, at best, be an hiatus. I don't think Trump is necessary anymore, at this point the GOP seems entirely captured by its far right faction. Still, what happens to the GOP with a dead Trump is a bit of an open question. I sometimes have conversations with a colleague of mine who thinks Vance would be worse than Trump. I think he'd be a lame duck.

Good afternoon! I've progressed a lot more into the story, completing every O.R.C Transmitter quest. With that, I learned a major lesson: don't speak on the story and game progression until you've played the whole story. I was completely wrong about the cooler needing tier 2 equipment to get through. To be honest, I didn't really understand how the new chill mechanic worked and assumed it would freeze you forever...it doesn't. Additionally, I forgot about the Mite Muffs. I was able to get through the cooler with the mite muffs and a torch. I guess I assumed it would be like a mini version of the ice cream cart where there'd be enemies inside to fight and the environment would take longer to get through, but that's not the case. I no longer agree that the lingonberry hedge O.R.C transmitter should come first, because the Picnic bench transmitter takes you in that direction anyway. Grounded devs were way ahead of me on this one. While I still believe that I've made some good points about story progression in the past posts, I was uneducated about the majority of my points. Until I finish the story and side quests, I won't be making any more notes about game progression besides that I am so excited to see what is in store for the game because it's already so fun and has a lot of potential. I will however keep making notes about bugs, updates, and things I'd like to see. O.R.C Bugs I touched on this in my last post with the O.R.C bombardier beetles, but I've found another issue. The bombardier beetles still one shot me for some reason, even with fully upgraded ladybug armor, and even when the normal ones don't. Additionally, after finding the Hot Cha Cha's stash, I had to fight O.R.C weaver jr.'s and they would deal a third of my health with each hit. To me, this is enough proof that a mistake was made to give higher dmg output to some of the O.R.C. bugs in the game. To put it into perspective, I was able to kill multiple tier 3 wolf spiders without dying. Tier 3 creatures should be harder to face than tier 2 and 1... Backpack Bug I don't know what happened, but I was finally able to retrieve both of those backpacks I had lost previously. They spawned in at the onboarding facility and not under the ground like before. THANK YOU DEVS!!! I'd also like to note how appreciative I am that you don't lose backpack contents if you die before picking it up again! A lot of stress eased from that one. Halves Construction I love that we can construct half walls and stairs and whatnot, but I've noticed some issues with construction. First off, and I'm assuming the devs already have plans to fix this, we don't have half and quarter walls for weed stems. Some of my building looks a little wonky with grass planks to replace where weed stems should be. Additionally, I would love to see half and quarter versions of the railings and fences for both acorn and sprig construction. I love using them to line my top floors and staircases, but they don't work well if I use half stairs or any half or quarter flooring in my layout. I am going to officially resign this thread for a bit and start a new one for ideas I have for the game. Thanks for listening!

Thats a simplification of what impresses me But a lavish event like this at a 1000 year old castle does impress me Its not about Trump, its the effort and outcome of the banquet that I admire The decorum and dress code as well This is what was on the menu, interestingly the menu was in French Hampshire Watercress Panna Cotta with Parmesan shortbread and quail egg salad Organic Norfolk chicken ballotine wrapped in courgettes with a thyme and savoury infused jus Vanilla ice cream bombe with Kentish raspberry sorbet interior with lightly poached Victoria plums And then expensive wine was served for those quests that drink Wiston Estate, Cuvée, 2016 Domaine Bonneau de Martray, Corton-Charlemagne, Grand Cru, 2018 Ridge Vineyards, Monte Bello, 2000 Pol Roger, Extra Cuvée de Réserve, 1998

I've been enjoying a thriller series on Peac*ck called 'The Capture'. It's about London's use of CCTV along with the surreptitious employment of deep fake technology. Perhaps a view of what's to come?

For me, I think the lesson is that the First Amendment doesn't protect us from media conglomerates controlling the message. The irony is that Kimmel's show wasn't suspended for something he said about Kirk, but apparently about the killer being another gun nut like the Trumpies.

CBC is subjecting me to this moron too

I think the thing that strikes me the most about the beatiification of Kirk (apologies to @Malcador for stealing it, but it fits too well) is how little of it outside of the anti-reality bubble of fascists and adjacents (who think Kirk being a propagandist is based and good) actually features Kirk's own words. Kirk is probably one of the most recorded men in history but there many are columns from "respectable" liberals and centrists that somehow manage to not include a single word of his when eulogizing him. It's insane to me how suddenly we have to pretend a guy who had been showing us just who he is for a decade is someone completely different. Obviously I don't think he should have been killed (hello Kash). It's a decent explanation of how most reactionary media works, but the people who need it most extend the benefit of the doubt to people in the orbit Kirk was a part of out of ideological motivations rather than logical. The right generally and Trumpworld specifically have made particular podcasts their go-to media engagements. It'd be a surprise if he wasn't.

Zionist.

Tuesday I gave a whole lesson on the 1st amendment and free speech. I addressed the Charlie Kirk shooting, but my focus was mostly on the freedom of religion, speech, media, and protest that the 1st amendment covers. Now the FCC has pushed a network to remove Jimmy Kimmel from his late-night show. He wasn't removed because of costs or ratings, he was removed immediately after the FCC made threatening statements. I'm not sure how to proceed with my lesson. edit: Also what the hell is happening that the head of the FCC is going on podcasts? Like when did that become a thing?

So you're impressed by shiny things, too.

It's facebook, so bear with me, but I thought the video was interesting and some around here should probably watch it: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1127212979501787

Sounds like a great life, nice one GD I cant imagine not being connected to news but it clearly can be done and it sounds very healthy

What is your definition of fascism and can you give some examples of how the US is currently a fascist state? Or are you saying its becoming a fascist state but examples would still be interesting And do you think this is permanent if the US is a fascist state, so for example if the Dems win the next election will the US continue to be fascist? Or do you mean its only a fascist state if Trump is president? Sorry for the questions but I want to get clarity on what you believe

Dang USA sure is a fascist mess right now. Well, toodles.

For those that didnt watch it here is Trumps speech from the Windsor banquet last night, he was very cordial and complimentary around how he had been received Its only 6 minutes long and worth watching just to see how smart everyone is dressed and how lavish the banquet was. As I mentioned the British are the masters of pomp and pageantry

Update, it is my primary world that is glitched and won't allow me to run. In a 2nd world I started, the running glitch is fixed. I really hope that it isn't permanent as I've farmed and built souch in this world...

That's just going to be another step on the fascist ladder.

I remember reading somewhere years ago that the deflection breakpoints for a melee character were 134, 164, 184, and 204. Is this still true after Beasts of Winter came out (never killed the bosses back in the day)?