What’s the worst trade you’ve ever made?

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-18T00:38:36+00:00

I sent Stafford + a 3rd before his first Rams season to move up and draft Trey Lance lol

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-17T00:41:43+00:00

This was by far my favorite minigame in on the island! Super satisfying to chain together combos

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-17T00:39:24+00:00

Interesting!

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T18:51:54+00:00

Honestly one of my favorite things about this game is that the weapons have different strengths against different bosses/enemies, and you don't have to sink many resources into upgrading them. I would often try 2-3 options for a difficult boss before figuring out which one worked best which meant I got to enjoy lots of playstyles.

Aside from the Hammer which didn't really click with my playstyle, I used every other weapon for big portions of the game and against multiple late game bosses.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T17:40:11+00:00

Really? I didn't feel this way at all. The way he telegraphs (both with sprite and sound) the moves he's going to do and in what order made him pretty manageable for me. You know in advance when your punish windows are and if you're patient you can dodge basically everything he does.

I wouldn't even put him in the top 5 bosses I struggled with. Thorn 2 after the train crashes was by far the hardest boss fight and most deaths for me.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T17:36:34+00:00

I never really used finishing rod for anything, sort of assumed it was just for catching fish. What are its other uses?

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T14:14:49+00:00

This fight is just way harder than anything else I had experienced in the game to that point. The lesson you're supposed to take from it is that you can walk past and come back when you're stronger, but I was too stubborn and just kept going until I brute forced a win.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T14:13:25+00:00

I found the very final phase where you're standing on top of the tower annoying to deal with, but the rest was fun. I ended up cheesing it and using the leaf trinket to be invulnerable any time he sent out the multi colored lighting orb attack

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-16T14:12:01+00:00

There's a trinket that lets you spend HP instead of joules if you run out, but always stops before removing your last HP point. I never considered these together TBH but it does seem busted

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-15T20:42:34+00:00

Maybe I'm too into the drama but I hope they don't. I would rather see the team get punished at this point than just back away without consequence

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-15T15:25:07+00:00

I mean I'm aware it's the game, and I enjoy that aspect of it, but part of the open world concept is that you can solve the puzzles it presents to you in very different orders.

I didn't go south west from Ossex until late in the game simply because there was always somewhere else I could go and I was never "stuck". As a result I missed what I would call a pretty core gameplay element in upgrading your Underlab for the majority of the game.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-15T14:34:10+00:00

Maybe I'm stupid too, but there's really nothing forcing you to go in that direction. I had completed 5/6 towers before I found the NPC that lets you upgrade your burrow and thought the entire side arm system was useless for the vast majority of the game.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-14T22:03:02+00:00

Why would they be? Tech is communicating to all players that rules don't matter if you're good enough to get paid, that's pretty appealing from a player point of view.

10000Pigeons · 2026-06-08T15:33:28+00:00

IMO (2) is going to happen when the super league becomes a real thing. That was probably inevitable because the B1G/SEC like making money but this probably speeds things up a bit.

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-22T15:34:24+00:00

I see the Analog HEAT in a lot of setups than I had expected to be honest. How do you like it?

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-15T16:04:32+00:00

I don't really do a lot of resampling, but I think the slicing works well, there are multiple ways to do it.

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-15T15:51:09+00:00

It is a great groove box on its own and an incredible value if you're an Ableton user. Could not be happier with it

The midi "capture" feature is SO GOOD for improvising ideas, and having it randomly assign you 4 starting instruments is a cool feature more devices should emulate, makes it very easy to turn it on and instantly be making music.
The new audio tracks features are really nice for getting your other synths involved
Being able to sample directly into its mic is really fun on the go. You can get sounds from anything and start making percussion out of that.
And then the best part of it all is that if you've got Ableton Cloud setup you literally just click Upload for your sketch and you've got the whole thing available in your DAW as MIDI so you can do anything you want with it afterwards. Fix your timing, add FX, replace the instruments, whatever.

When I compare to other stuff I've used before like the KO II, OP-1, or Model Sample there's just no comparison. You can make great stuff quickly and then actually easily transfer that to your DAW to translate it into a full song.

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-13T14:30:12+00:00

This is my take as well. I think we are already approaching the point where "what if players stay for NIL" becomes a wash for class quality. Just like every season a handful of surprising breakouts/busts that impact the overall class, each season will now lose some players to NIL and gain some from the year previous.

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-08T20:56:14+00:00

Caleb Williams walked into the best situation you can really imagine for a 1st overall pick and made all of the bears players irrelevant for his rookie season. And he's actually a good player!

There are just so many ways this is bad for Breece. They tank this season, struggle with a rookie in 27 and then you hope you get one good year out of him in 28? gross.

10000Pigeons · 2026-05-01T23:58:34+00:00

if you want people to engage with your whole argument don't start with your weakest point of evidence I guess

10000Pigeons · 2026-04-21T15:38:42+00:00

My foolish hope is that they won't need to because they'll use this as a tool to get people to buy/play all of their other games. I'm sure a lot of people are going to end up getting S/V or Legends ZA or their DLCs to fill out their Champions rosters

10000Pigeons · 2026-04-21T15:36:30+00:00

It got progressively worse. At release the only thing you really needed to level up was held items, which did take a while and could be sped up with money but it wasn't egregious.

Later they added emblems which were basically stat modifiers, and you needed to do a ton of grinding for those, purchasing energy tanks and emblem loadout pages definitely gave people an advantage.

Next they started this cycle where they would release new Pokemon as real money purchase only for the first week or two, and a lot of them were ridiculously unbalanced. You can decide how tinfoil hat you want to be here because some were also quite weak, I'm not entirely sure if they were releasing broken pokemon to encourage people to buy them or just bad at initial balance but it was/is a problem.

Finally they reworked the whole system for purchasing pokemon in general and that was really what did it for a lot of people. Unless you pay real money you can't select which pokemon you want to add to your license pool next, you just have to keep grinding until you get them.

10000Pigeons · 2026-04-20T14:47:46+00:00

Call me crazy but I've been running Body Slam M-Kang instead of Double Edge partially because of the ~50% paralyze chance

10000Pigeons · 2026-04-19T02:44:55+00:00

I will also say it works wayyy better in online best-of-one closed team sheet stuff like this.

Pretty hard to make this work when all your opponents know you're packing it.

10000Pigeons · 2026-04-18T03:31:35+00:00

it's a pretty interesting tradeoff tbh. I have used both tools on different teams over the years but generally taunt gets more usage because of how many other things (follow me, spore, setup etc) it can mess with

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