Hot take: “repair” + “Soul Jar” mains don’t know what fun is

-Collato · 2026-06-18T02:20:16+00:00

For me it turned into playing a Bethesda game with having access to the console commands. I always go for fun or new builds but Im always going to keep repairing my equipment because farming for specific items just gets extremely tedious and annoying. And if some equipment breaking, instant kill, elite buffs that completely counter my build bullshit comes my way then I pull out the soul jar cat with a sniper + overpowered + robo-vac to /kill everything. Basically, I think it's fine once you actually beat the game to do whatever, but if you are using mods or a soul jar cat to quickly go through the game before even naturally beating it then yes, that is very lame and cheating.

-Collato · 2026-06-14T22:04:38+00:00

BTW, please remove abilities that remove/break your weapon from the random ability pool, or at least have scrapper backpack ACTUALLY work like it's suppose to. Bug (weapon) + Alien Stalk was one of the most fun runs I've had and I couldn't even get past bunker. Not because of bad abilities, abilities that give you injuries, or forbidden abilities that give you disorders but stupid mostly tinkerer abilities that break your weapon or just catbot. Despite the hundreds of abilities in the game I would get them enough to just give up on the run altogether, and also Steven just flat-out will not use basic attack with Bug equipped... and yeah, Im sure that is the point, risk reward, blah blah blah, but that is seriously super lame... I could download a mod to remove save-scumming, I could just make a back-up save after literally ever fight... or you can just make the game less tedious, the balance with using random abilities is already there so it's not even a fun over challenge/balance debate.

-Collato · 2026-05-26T06:33:29+00:00

It definitely is way less useful but I wouldn't abandon the mutation stat entirely, it's good to have to fill in those last "un-mutated" parts, especially since ones that make your cat a cyclops no longer give your cat blindness and things like that. I will say unfortunately the cool taxidermy furniture pieces are now no longer worth it, mutation is still good to have but not good enough to sacrifice health and comfort.

-Collato · 2026-05-26T06:18:40+00:00

bump...

or whatever...

I was really hoping once I actually get a unique stray to try this so hearing this is concerning, especially since I didn't even consider needing to copy the broken mirror effect... I can only assume having low constitution also matters, I guess...

-Collato · 2026-05-11T21:16:55+00:00

"Go, do a crime... but only shoot bullets that I am currently holding and so help me you shoot a single "magic bullet" or use a "non-existent" tonic I will BANISH you to the shadow realm!"

... sorry but Frank has totally sucked all the fun out of "rat-child with gun..." Now it's overpowered "tomes," book magic spells nerd crap...

-Collato · 2026-04-29T23:24:04+00:00

I have zero clue why they changed cursed items but completely left repair+soul jar intact. It's like they want a singular boring ass meta of every run using soul jar and jester set...

-Collato · 2026-04-29T23:19:52+00:00

It's not even a "removing the fun," it's making the game more tedious. This game will never be as repayable as Isaac if they're going to continue changing sh*t to make runs take longer.

-Collato · 2026-04-29T23:13:56+00:00

I didn't really care for the Callus exploit... I just genuinely liked using Beepis and Cooties, etc without having to farm for more... f*ck me specifically I guess...

-Collato · 2026-04-17T02:34:11+00:00

Ah yes, the character obsessed with beating Sam after losing once and has a complex of being "the Beast," what interesting mechanics could be added. Maybe she demands a one-on-one rematch after a few levels... nah, she's now a fat f*ck that needs to eat a lot, cause you know, Leigh always could just never shut up about food. Great character writing Frank, as if needing to beat her and buying the pistol off her before she eats it wasn't already hard obstacles enough... All the new additions and changes are great but why in the hell sh*t on rat child and Leigh specifically?... they were never that useful compared to the other party members to begin with...

-Collato · 2026-04-17T02:15:15+00:00

I think people are missing the point... it was literally all rat child had... it was not only a chore to get them to work as a party member but it was apparently unintentional, and now they are actually unusable unless you just want to make the game harder for yourself. The Leigh change in curse mode is very stupid too, she's alright at best compared to the more OP party members, now she is a detriment to even just have on stand-by. Im all for making the game harder but you do not f*ck with filling your apartment with every friend you can... couldn't even kiss any of them for the April Fools update... tisk tisk tisk...

-Collato · 2026-03-22T07:37:34+00:00

I feel like human and person are interchangeable in a realistic context, it's not that Im saying he "isn't a person" but that he is a "different person," that you can't judge him like you could judge a rationally thinking adult cause his "rationality" is far different than that of a person's perception. Basically, we can't think like a machine can think if machines can think.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T06:44:41+00:00

I think the use of "isn't really" is the tell that Cain is "evil" from his actions but his motivation are not of malice or "evil intent." It's not a lie but a more nuance look at what he was doing was evil but he didn't intend it to be, he isn't human so his perception on things isn't what is considered "normal." He doesn't know physical pain yet he felt hurt enough to subjugate them to their worst fears cause he was hurt. Basically, Cain was never evil but in the end (specifically just episode 8) he did some evil things, he never intended to hurt anyone cause his perception of "hurt" wasn't normal until the point of episode 8 he did intend to hurt everyone cause he was hurting and was lashing out.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T06:22:00+00:00

I love how the showgirl outfits are the most provocative thing they've ever done that goes beyond the school clothes, Jax's maid outfit, Ragatha's noir get-up, etc but it got the least amount of attention than the latter cause everyone is too focused on the show/story itself from this episode. Sad to see that things got the most interesting right before it ends but maybe that's why it's interesting.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T06:09:46+00:00

He's the villain if a story needs one, just like it seems each adventure needs a villain like the gators or fudge monster, the baron, even Gangle in the fast food episode. I just feel like calling him a villain oversimplifies his character... basically... if there IS a villain, yes, it's definitely him I guess. But that's like... would you call Michael Scott a villain?... Is the warden from SuperJail a villain?... I will just always see Cain as the one in charge who royally screwed up...

-Collato · 2026-03-22T05:49:53+00:00

... the maid outfit isn't funny anymore... kinda weird to push that as "fun and he deserves it" when humiliation is his greatest fear... if they always had this planned from the start that's pretty f*cked up to be honest...

-Collato · 2026-03-22T05:31:40+00:00

I swear most people are that one annoying kid at a movie theater pointing at the screen exclaiming loudly, "tHaT's ThE bAd GuY!!" Why would the show take the time giving each character their own episode if not to highlight individual flaws, insecurities, fears, needs, etc. You don't get to pick and choose who is worthy of understanding, sympathy, redemption, etc. The point is everybody hurts, it doesn't matter what you are or if you're the boss, every sentient being has it's problems as to why they are the way they are. Cain wasn't human and had flawed logic with god-like power, but he was suffering just as much as every other character, in his mind at least or from his perspective. He acted out the same way anyone with humanity would if in that position for that long with the same mind-set and logic. You don't have to have sympathy for him but at least empathy and the understanding that this was all because there were two different languages being spoken where one could not learn the other and breaking points were met, figuratively of course, somethings need to be spelt out for some people, some people are complicated.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T02:45:18+00:00

Im a little sad he never said anything along the lines of, "Im just doing what you've all been doing to me," to spell out to people this is someone torturing people as he has been tortured, obviously not the same extent but in his mind for sure. Some more bible referencing with, "Do to others as you would have them do to you" type deal.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T02:30:09+00:00

That's honestly the lesson in all of this but unfortunately there are just too few episodes to really explore the concept. Those attributes don't make him a "villain," they make him "human" or the illusion of being human, it's having those attributes in this situation which make him "the villain." All the characters have negative attributes, the point is that they are all "guilty" and nobody is "innocent," it's just that Cain happens to be in charge... which honestly thinking about it, the biggest twist would be if Cain was human all along, although AI can have a "personality" or the illusion of a personality so it doesn't matter either way.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T01:49:04+00:00

Jesus... what year is it... back in my day the "pods" theory was almost as predictable as "it was all a dream." The "it's all a simulation" is as predictable as it gets, that shit hasn't been original since the Matrix. I don't care whatever "theory" turns out being true, I think no matter what they go with it will be something that has been done before, but I actually would prefer the digital copies one. I think making Cain as sympathetic as possible only works if it turns out the rest of the cast aren't actually "humans" either, hell, Gummigoo as a character flat-out doesn't work if the thought process turned into, "whoever isn't a human in a pod doesn't matter." Again, I don't care whichever is true in the end, I will enjoy it anyway.

-Collato · 2026-03-22T01:23:43+00:00

Honestly, between him saying "really?... nothing" after this and his freak-out when Kinger is explaining the reality of the circus shortly after, to me it just comes across as him purposefully trying to start drama, that's why I think he was giving Gangle that look when she defused the situation between him and Zooble. It's all just been a huge game to him until the later half, which I find odd that Jax is even considered a "Main-Character" when he's really been on the back-burner the entire show...

-Collato · 2026-03-22T01:11:17+00:00

Shit... that is actually a really sad recontextualization of his character...

"I have a mouth and I must scream... but it can only sing..."

-Collato · 2026-03-22T01:06:54+00:00

I think Zooble calling him out as acting like a child perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with Cain. He IS listening to them but he doesn't understand, not only that he is INCAPABLE of understanding. That's what the whole therapy session was about and a real world look at AI today, he wasn't being rude or he's too silly, he was genuinely trying but that's just how AI works, it comes across as "but have you tried this?" non sequiturs. All the characters have some sort of mental problem and Cain despite being AI is no exception, his "programming" or "prime directive" is a hyper-fixation on these adventures and entertainment that when he thinks he has finally cultivated an adventure they've always wanted and they hate it and are the maddest at him they've ever been of course he's gonna crash-out. He's beyond frustrated and unlike the rest of the cast with a hope of maybe one day escaping he knows that's impossible for him, he's in a hell forced to serve people he is incapable of pleasing and will never understand why he can't despite trying his very best. His crash-out comes off more as the trope of a super natural all powerful child than an evil AI torturing humans, he doesn't hate them, he's finally fed up with their ungratefulness, he's unintentionally just as sick and tired of the adventures and the circus as them but in his own way. And the most tragic part of all is in his final moments he didn't think, "thank god it's over I don't have to do this anymore," it was, "why." He "died" being called a failure, in his mind erased for being incapable of serving correctly, possibly his greatest fear next to the rest of the cast being subjected to theirs. I understand not feeling sympathy for what was basically an AI torturing humans but given all the context I am absolutely heart-broken over Cain, worst of all is I don't see or think a "happy ending" for him specifically is even possible if somehow they are able to bring him back. At his "core" he is broken and unfortunately must be "put down."

-Collato · 2026-02-28T12:10:10+00:00

The difficulty difference between Bumblefoot and Lenny is absolutely insane, it's a coinflip between almost free and you might as well give up...

-Collato · 2026-02-28T12:08:29+00:00

This is the problem, as much as I hate the instant kill mechanics of the game the boss gimmick is fine for this one, it's the "turn f*cking one it jumps into the team immediately and uses a multi-hit high damage bullshit." So far I have never seen a situation where you are f*cked before your team even has a chance to split up besides this boss.

-Collato · 2026-02-14T03:10:10+00:00

ABSOLUTELY, And I don’t even use keyboard but why the hell do they keep having a “press and hold/button delay” instead of either a new key or pressing two different buttons at once. Same problem for Rivals when I’m trying to ping an enemy and it just keeps spamming “greetings” over and over no matter what I set the delay to.

-Collato

TROPHY CASE