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They're replacing all the ice cream with frozen dairy dessert and that's only going to radicalize the youth further

Xavier Renegade Angel

Nintendo Switch 2? Looks like you need to switch 2 another console, or better yet, switch 2 a better form of government so that your games, and your eggs don't cost 300 smackers. you've got egg on your face, from when the president smacked you, so face the music. Wii Music.

Day early April fools

nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well

Damn this HorizontalScrollView and I have a lot in common

discovered that Little Caesar’s has an Apple Watch app and it’s just this image that you can’t interact with in any way

YouTube video by Leo Vader The Rotten Heart of Warren Buffett’s Kids Cartoon

new video!!!!!! if you like me putting months of earnest commitment into stupid ideas: unhinge that jaw and get ready to EAT!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVRm...

If you're talking a lot of the earlier X-Men stuff then yeah you're absolutely right.

Mod makers rejoice: The Team Fortress 2 SDK has arrived! We've updated the Source SDK with all of TF2's client and server game code. Change, extend, or rewrite TF2, and publish them as mods on Steam. www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

My new least favorite cop-out is people saying "oh, this widely used phrase is actually shorthand for something entirely unrelated"

Like, imagine if I claimed ACAB was slang for how awful firefighters are even tho "cop" is literally in the acronym.

I shit you not when I say that I went like 21-0 with Venom on my second game and haven't replicated that high since.

Jan 26 || 5/??

Team Fortress 2 Classic (2014): Despite being a fan-made mod, it's preferable in many ways to the original. It rolls back a lot of the most questionable weapons and cosmetic changes. Some additions are iffy, but it's still a net positive.

Also custom weapon servers are insane.

Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

nothing annoys me more than the fact that "getting a good night sleep" is the answer to a lot of problems in life. actual horseshit.

Been going through something like this except with books

(also as far as games go, the 'bag of milk' duology is way more of a red flag than any of these games lol)

Jan 14 || 4i/?

Everything from the setting to the ratio of story-to-gameplay to the characters themselves (I need a Heismay plush) are excellent, and there are so many potential avenues making a sequel that I'm looking forward to what they make next.

Jan 14 || 4h/?

Final thoughts: I'm kinda scatterbrained with my thoughts, but while it's more rife with flaws than Persona and mainline SMT, I believe that its borderline-inevitable sequels will fix these issues...

Jan 14 || 4g/?

As far as the bigger picture goes, your mileage may vary. The writing quality between individual arcs is all over the place. The game teases this big metacommentary at the beginning but it also comes out underbaked...

Jan 14 || 4f/?

Will and co. outright see the real world (or at least a sanitized version of it) as aspirational. Between that and the medieval-ish setting, it'd be insane to push for some extremely forward-thinking ideology...

Jan 14 || 4e/?

So let's get to the themes and plot, which are generally way better. Atlus has an iffy reputation for being biased towards the status quo/centrism (see: SMT4, Devil Survivor 2, to a lesser extent Persona 4 + 5).

That's still true here, but it makes way more sense now...

Jan 14 || 4d/?

Of course, thematically it makes sense that characters have archetypes. Where Persona and SMT narratively are broadly about characters discovering themselves and their beliefs, Metaphor is about actualizing inner-most beliefs which were always there...

Jan 14 || 4c/?

I'm less happy about character progression. Follower Bonds alone enforce 15 different progression chokepoints, many of which are non-negotiable. Royal Archetypes exacerbate this further...

Jan 14 || 4b/?

- Synthesis is a very interesting mechanic
- Hard mode is overkill. A 1.50x enemy damage multiplier is already steep, but giving enemies an extra turn for buffs/attacks effectively doubles the game's base damage.
- Regicide tuning is dumb and should not affect MP...

Jan 14 || 4b/?

Global Combat Comments:

- The most dominant strategies in SMT (buff/debuff spam, Taunt + -karn skills, etc.) are harder to set up
- Moves which imbue resistances should be a mainstay mechanic for every Atlus RPG going forwards.
- Passing turns is thankfully not free anymore...

Jan 14 || 4a/?

Metaphor Refantazio (2024)

Oh boy, this is gonna be a long one. Let's lead off with the mechanics, since that's where I know the most. In essence, the global combat changes are good, the player-side changes related to customization are frustrating.

gonna post my metaphor refantazio thoughts on the media thread when i get back from work.

As a huge smt nerd there's a lot of ground to cover.

This will only make sense to my DMC moots but my media thread's gonna hit MartinG-argument-tier word counts.

this "everything on demand" era of media has a lot of drawbacks, but im genuinely quite happy that its put a lot of older media on a more equal playing field for younger generations.

old stuff was so mysterious to me as a kid. being able to just access it the same places as new stuff is cool

Forgot how I was labelling things, stating that the next movie should be

Jan XX || 4/?

Just so my future self won't fuck it up.

Soon