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“ok, so this is happening”

Worms Armageddon: it’s your team of worms vs the opponent’s, fighting with grenades, banana bombs, exploding sheep, etc. Recent stream of a league game:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1145566967?t=00h17m09s

It has endless customizability, and the maps you play on can be any 2D image. It’s fun for casuals, but also the gameplay is deep and you can spend years getting really good at specific schemes. There are strategic schemes like Intermediate where you have 8 worms vs your opponents’ 8 worms, Rope Races where you’re just using the ninja rope, and tons more.

def the scene from DNA² that will always stay with me

this is a fucking sting operation isn’t it

ah thanks; I’m tapping space a bunch between missions to skip the mission complete screen

and some missions need to be restarted several times just to make the right crates appear

what helped me get it was splitting the choices into 2 groups:

your door = 1/3 chance of winning total

all the other doors = 2/3 chance of winning total

say somebody gets to pick ‘all the other doors’ as an option; we know they have a 2/3 chance of winning

that chance will stay the same no matter what, since the goats/trains aren’t getting reshuffled

so if doors get revealed as duds in this group, you would now just know that 2/3 can all be placed on whatever door(s) remain

basically this, I mean the gears couldn’t possibly add that much extra force, or your punches would be lethal

so they’re wearing these heavy ass things that maybe could realistically make them punch 1-2 times harder, in which case what’s the point?

the concept would make way more sense if the gears involved armor for your entire upper body/face

love too offer a country the gift of less punishment

if we really believe in well-being for all conscious creatures, there’s no reason to exclude the well-being of animals just because they live in a certain ecosystem, live a certain distance away from cities, aren’t domesticated, etc

that said, we’re powerless to reduce suffering in ‘the wild’ right now, except by not fucking things up for animals. we can avoid killing them ourselves at least, by managing global warming and pollution. we can do certain kinds of population control like neutering feral cats, etc, or taking care of injured wild animals

but if we mean really stopping animal deaths in the wild, e.g. if we could do something like turn carnivores into herbivores using 5G energy beams, we can’t predict the consequences down the food chain, or how many animals that might inadvertently kill. fewer changes to ecosystems are generally better. if we could ever safely stop animals from eating each other in the wild it would be good, but it’s more of an idea for the distant future, if ever