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  • Valheim. I think the game needs to scale better when playing solo.
    The meadow was a simple and chill starter level.
    The forest was a lot harder, but still reasonable. I struggled with the boss, but I managed.
    There was a plains biome on my way to the swamp, and after checking it out I learned quickly that it’s not somewhere I should set foot again for like a million years. It took me quite a few tries (and boats) to get my stuff back.
    The swamp was really hard, but I pulled through, mostly by simply avoiding those huge lumbering root-looking monsters. I had to cheese the boss by firing a million arrows from my boat where he couldn’t reach me.
    I got insta-pasted while searching for silver in the mountains, and it’s pretty far from my main base, that’s where my body still rests. It’s been well over a year since I last launched the game.

    It’s an incredibly great game, but having to gather all the metal for my gear from scratch is just so demotivating.





  • No.

    First we need a better system for resource allocation. Monetary systems are extremely inefficient, but they’re far better than the “trust me, bro” approach of many of the alternatives.

    A global post-scarcity society could in theory take over, similar to how it works in Star Trek, but there are a lot of other hurdles that need to be overcome first.

    As long as proper distribution of resources requires an effort, it will also need an incentive to do so. Currently this incentive is provided by allowing for a profit margin, and while this does also provide a mechanism for skimming off the top, at least said skimming can be somewhat controlled by a free market ensuring better circumstances for those willing to skim less.



  • Yes, definitely. It’s easier now that I’m part of operational support and can oversimplify it by referring to myself as an IT dude, but back when I was part of the field rotation, when I tried to sum up what “offshore seismic survey technician” is, I was sometimes asked “so, how’s it like working on an oil rig?”.
    I wouldn’t know, I’ve never been on one. I’ve been on ships around them, but never on the rigs themselves.