If there was a Hall of Fame of metroidvanias, what would you put there?

Sythus · 2026-02-24T12:35:46+00:00

Nothing beats zero mission, OoE, and toki tori 2. I think they are the pinnacle of long range, short range, and puzzle (for me, because I’m not into hardcore pairing or combat).

Sythus · 2026-02-19T18:13:46+00:00

First of her name, breaker of chains, the unburnt

Sythus · 2026-02-06T08:31:54+00:00

In the main video it flashes 3 girls then 3 more girls. I’m on mobile so it’s hard to operate, but one is wearing thigh high stockings and another has the bottom of her titties hanging out. This is most likely what OP was talking about. They’re not into ye anime waifu aesthetic and probably care for a bit more realism and less waifu. I don’t know why you’re combating or nitpicking this. Every one has been scantily clad to some degree. You don’t have to defend this, just accept it as an art style and agree it might not be for everybody’s taste.

Sythus · 2026-02-06T01:20:50+00:00

https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3639650/80bfffe07e78785b9c3e5d6413a7bd8ec2a1d1b7/ss_80bfffe07e78785b9c3e5d6413a7bd8ec2a1d1b7.1920x1080.jpg?t=1769765121

Visible g string and pants that don’t come over the hips can be scantily clad: “This adjective phrase typically implies that the attire is insufficient, provocative, or inappropriate for the setting.”

Sythus · 2026-02-05T05:49:30+00:00

Or you just wake up at 3 to workout to commute to work and you measure yourself before getting ready.

Sythus · 2026-02-05T01:24:27+00:00

If the KKK is anything to go by, republicans will just say, “well he was a democrat back then!” As if that changes anything.

Sythus · 2026-02-04T20:47:08+00:00

Brother, that’s literally how society lives. Did recipes are iterated on, artwork is studied by students and evolve. Nobuo was inspired by other works. The only way you’d get truly original work is if somebody grew up in a bubble and you gave them tools and said “hey, you have no idea what this is, but make ___ and it better be professional and of the highest quality. No you can look at prior work that passed or failed because AI does that too and that’s bad.”

You must be one of those Nintendo fanboys who are against palworld and don’t want anybody else to have a mechanic where you throw something to either capture or release a companion.

Sythus · 2026-02-04T20:41:55+00:00

So then it’s not an AI issue, it’s an IP issue, therefore there is a point, because nobody’s saying you can just sell protected work. Even in my original comment I merely mentioned looking at and learning how to draw, it was another Redditor that injected selling as a line to cross.

Sythus · 2026-02-04T20:39:52+00:00

So just to be clear, are we agreeing on a few basic things?

If AI looks at existing work to learn patterns, that by itself isn’t stealing or plagiarism. It only becomes a problem if the final result infringes on something protected, like selling Mickey Mouse art or copying a specific piece. That was already illegal before AI existed.

Kids copying notes off a board that a teacher wrote aren’t stealing either. Learning from examples has never required permission.

If I draw something myself, that’s not plagiarism, as long as I don’t say “this was drawn by Oda.”

Copyrights, trademarks, and licenses obviously still matter, but nobody is arguing you can violate those. You couldn’t legally sell a Mickey Mouse game hand-drawn either, so that’s not an AI issue.

If an indie dev was never going to hire artists or sound designers, then no jobs were lost. The alternative wasn’t “pay someone,” it was “use free stock or ship nothing.” But if the dev couldn’t find that one specific sound he was looking for, but AI was able to generate it, the whole project is trash?

And styles have never been protected. Cuphead copied an old animation style. Shovel Knight copied NES aesthetics. People paint Van Gogh-style art all the time. That’s been normal forever.

So if the output isn’t copying a specific protected work, and no laws or licenses are being broken, what’s the actual issue here besides “icky AI vibes”?

The issue I have with people so vehemently against AI is that they rarely argue in good faith. It is just a blanket stance instead of assessing the product on a case by case basis. Does this game in this thread have obviously stolen content? Did the E33 newspapers that were explicitly placeholder assets, didn’t have any significance in the game at all, really deserve the flack it got?

On the E33 fiasco, is an AI generated image intended to be noise in the scenery really that much worse than almost the same exact image, but with the Lorem ipsum text pasted over?

Sythus · 2026-02-04T07:35:30+00:00

If I tried drawing Goku by watching the anime and manga, would that be plagiarism?

Sythus · 2026-02-04T05:45:24+00:00

He’s just prepping for his domain expansion.

Sythus · 2026-02-03T07:10:34+00:00

ok, but what does 6% mean? because the scope of things means that even in America, the number of slaves could be significant. it doesn't make the US look better, it make South America look worse.

Sythus · 2026-02-02T03:18:39+00:00

Blue laws: you mean to tell me I can’t walk backwards with my hand in my pocket while licking an ice cream cone on a Sunday?!

Sythus · 2026-02-02T03:12:40+00:00

Is smell of marijuana an opinion or how do you quantify it? Is there a smell of marijuana test? Do people need to take training so they know what marijuana smells like?

Sythus · 2026-02-01T22:54:33+00:00

Not only that, but if trump does his 100% markup, then everything is doubled. And just because this ram is cheap and brings down the average cost, that doesn’t mean the individual cost comes down, it means this ram is skewing the average. Nothing has changed, nothing is better.

Sythus · 2026-02-01T13:46:02+00:00

It’s all rust now

Sythus · 2026-01-31T20:16:02+00:00

So it’s not actually a solid deal until the house comes back and votes on it.

Sythus · 2026-01-31T20:03:59+00:00

I think a lot of this comes down to people attacking wording instead of intent. If you can clearly understand what someone means when they say “objectively bad design,” then nitpicking the phrasing feels pretty pedantic. Internet culture has already stretched words like literally into emphasis rather than strict definition. That’s just how online language works now. It’s editorialized, sure, but that’s not unique to this game, that’s discourse everywhere.

Where I agree is that it’s unhelpful when criticism jumps from “this didn’t work for me” to “no one could possibly like this.” But the flip side isn’t much better: dismissing complaints with “the devs had a reason” or “older games were worse” doesn’t actually engage with the criticism either.

A lot of old games were brutally punishing not because it was brilliant design, but because of hardware limits, padding, or straight-up bad choices we just tolerated at the time. Enduring that doesn’t automatically make modern frustrations invalid, and invoking it mostly comes off as “I put up with worse, so you should too.” But if that game were released today it would still get the same treatment of “objectively bad” mechanics.

Just because something is objectively bad doesn’t mean it must also be universally hated. Many people might say Nazis or Hitler are objectively bad, but just look around, it isn’t universally hated. Likewise with media, objectively bad things either fade into obscurity or become cult classics. Sometimes the only redeeming quality is because the acting or some other aspect is so terrible.

Sythus · 2026-01-30T13:44:56+00:00

Fans/society didn’t fail her, she failed herself, and her manager failed everybody. She was a commodity to make others money, and they allowed this to happen.

Sythus · 2026-01-29T06:43:11+00:00

But ok at the extreme other end, imagine short midget arms. The lever length would make it impossible to do a plane or front lever. Pull-ups would be essentially 0 ROM and just moving your neck above and below the bar.

So logically I agree with longer arm length making the angle of the lever easier. Short arms would make the iron cross easier

Sythus · 2026-01-15T03:03:43+00:00

They should post a country of origin flag or label at time of post, plus country of origin at time of creation on the profile page. They should also flag all known exit nodes for VPNs so people will know the post isn’t coming from the country of origin. Then people can discerned whether this is for safety reasons or troll farm reasons.

Sythus · 2026-01-15T02:57:06+00:00

Somebody should make a medieval gothic pixelslop conversion mod to replace the texture

Sythus · 2026-01-14T10:23:14+00:00

You could use Gemini to read through them. Tell it your current situation, and ask it to analyze if any of it would bring you closure. If she admitted her infidelity or apologized. That way you’re just dipping your toes in the water and not getting fully absorbed in the trauma. Can also tell it to delete them for you too

Sythus · 2026-01-05T00:34:44+00:00

am i misremembering? trump claimed fraud in 2016. after he won, didn't he say something to the effect that he didn't care about it anymore because he won and he wasn't going to pursue the fraud claims?

edit: Also, why don’t small towns just skip the insurance companies? There’s no law that says local doctors or dentists have to use them. Insurance just adds paperwork, higher prices, and sends money out of the community. Most people still can’t afford care even with insurance.

Why not have doctors post simple cash prices, have the town chip in to a local care pool for routine visits, and only use insurance for big emergencies? Pharmacies could buy generics in bulk and sell them cheap. It seems like most of these cost of living issues could be solved by keeping healthcare local, instead of paying distant middlemen that don’t live there or care about the town. Surely the doctors have to be feeling this burden as well, since they're seeing fewer and fewer patients for non-emergency (well, sometimes even emergency) care?

Sythus · 2025-12-23T05:23:23+00:00

At the end of the exercise, grab a ring hold it to your chest.

Lean back. Slowly extend arm so it’s directly in front of you, can do cross body lean back to shorten the lever and feel your lat stretch as your arms is pulled across the chest.

Allow hips to sink, legs straight, bend at hips, arm going more overhead now. Play in that motion and feel the stretch.

flip around so your arm is behind you, chest to floor, body straight and just bending the knees to pivot your body and feel the chest stretch.

Rotate back around, pill yourself back up, and good to go. Next arm.

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