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Whisperzzzzzzz, on 21 May 2026 - 07:12 PM, said:

VERY
GROUCHY
KITTEN

Found out my caffeine intake is half killing me (circa eight 800ml cups of about four tablespoons per day). So cold turkey it is.

Daddy is very grouchy kitten

Subnautica 2 early access is surprisingly well fleshed out. UW have learned from 1 and Below Zero.

I am not too far in and won't post anything I think is a spoiler but here's a basic rundown of what my experience has been like so far:

- Feels like Subnautica but refined
- lots of nice QOL features, especially with base building (which is pretty freeform now)
- singleplayer focused, so you can multiplay if you want to but you lose absolutely nothing doing so, and playing solo does not penalise you
- creatures are generally pretty good so far
- early access biomes are quite nicely varied
- story has started already and there is a lot of scope for it to be good
- your character is mute again, so the feeling of isolation is back as there's no bantery conversations with AL-AN
- finally get an answer on what happened to Riley (you get this within like an hour of the game starting, maybe sooner)
- tadpole is a combination of the seamoth and the seatruck and it feels good enough to make me miss neither of those other ones
- looks really good, the developers took a leaf from Below Zero in terms of the starting area, so unlike Safe Shallows in 1, at night time the starting area is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL (not that Shallows weren't pretty but this is kind of next level for an opening area)
- progresse to crabbe
- there is quite a lot of content already, I'm told most people cap the EA content off circa 20 hours
- there is now a tier of manufacturing. the fabricator still makes your basic stuff and your food, but advanced stuff like ingots have to be refined in a dedicated machine (which you can set a queue on and just leave to work for a bit which is nice)
- with food, there are now more recipes like Below Zero had, and there are benefits to making them over just cooking a fish which make them generally better to go for
- you get a tool relatively early on that replaces the prawn suit's drill arm, the resource nodes don't give you as much stuff to balance this out, but it does make getting an assload of titanium much less painful, same with other resources

Overall if you liked Subnautica 1 you will probably like this a whole bunch.

That's just it, ain't it. What is the 'trans agenda'? I can answer this: it's to exist without fear of having violence done on them.

All that rhetoric from the Republicans in the US and the Conservatives et al over here about 'protect our women and girls' comes crashing down when you see how many Republicans are getting arrested lately for being predatory towards children. Hell, we had it over here with that recent white supremacist march, a zealous right winger was caught on his own camera trying to hit on a 15 year old with the child's mum telling him to sod off. The threat is not coming from someone who simply wants a piss, or to go out to the shops, or to exist.

A Reform councillor in Sheffield has been banned for having a massive fucking nazi flag in his lounge.

At this point you have to wonder how people can reconcile supporting that lot.