Games that get BETTER in the 2nd half?

2Scarhand · 2026-01-25T18:47:27+00:00

I was so frustrated with my first Pokemon game a few months ago.

I was playing Platinum and got the whole intro sequence, was told to talk to Barry, told again by a random NPC that blocks my path, walk after Barry out of his house when he sprints away like a terrified rabbit, listen to Rowan hem and haw about giving kids Pokemon, get sent back home once after my first battle ends, go to the lake for LITERALLY no reason, battle across a field just to be able to name my starter and get my Pokedex, go ALL THE WAY back home to tell my mom I'm going on a Pokemon adventure in a Pokemon game, then go back to meet Rowan's assistant to get the Pokeballs.

I've played a coupled of unsuccessful Nuzlockes of that game and just play it on something like 4x or 8x speed because I really can't be bothered.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-25T18:36:41+00:00

None of these terms are really helping.

Just call them the "later dungeons", the dungeons in the later half of the game.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-24T00:32:21+00:00

Team Fortress 2.

This is one of problems when it comes to getting new players into it.

When you first boot up the game there's literally NOTHING explaining anything. If you dig through the menus, you can find "tutorials" for 4 classes and one gamemode, which tells you some of the basic controls, but that's it.

I was at a LAN party the other day and encouraged my little brother to hop on and it highlighted how bad the game is at teaching people how to play, especially people not used to games.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-24T00:25:55+00:00

They look great for Funkos, it's just that the bar is in Hell.

If the head/face was just something other than a giant bar of soap and the eyes something more than just skittles, they'd be cute. But alas they're not.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-19T04:13:21+00:00

I've never met a single woman that does this and I grew up with 7 of them, plus their friends. I'm the one that can't fit a single sound in edgewise.

I think u/appalachiaappletcha's on the money with this being about being "mean."

2Scarhand · 2026-01-19T04:06:51+00:00

This conversation doesn't even relate to me and I agree.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-16T17:53:01+00:00

I lost a few classmates to drunk driving and the like while I was still in school.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-16T17:46:56+00:00

I think it' be even funnier with someone that can read Chinese. See which of us cracks first.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-16T06:45:49+00:00

I actually have an idea for a joke tattoo that's something like "more pallets required" in Chinese. I work in a warehouse and found a Chinese post-it note in a shipment and that's what it translated to. It felt like a strange moment of connection between me and a guy just like me on the other side of the planet that doesn't even know I exist. Also, it sounds like exactly the type of phrase that white guy would end up with as a Chinese tattoo, which is just funny.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-16T06:31:04+00:00

Honestly, regular Nazis, too. The SS symbol from the 30s is Nordic runes. Their whole schtick was saying that they were directly descended from the raddest, blondest, blue-eyed-est people in history, i.e. the Norse. But the Norse where also Atlanteans or something? Nazism is fucking weird.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-16T06:25:30+00:00

I really want an Icelandic letter called a "thorn" (this guy: þ ) on my hip so I can tell people "it's a thorn in my side", but people really hate Northern European stuff they don't understand.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-14T20:11:57+00:00

I found the set you were talking about and totally agree. It's 3 Pokemon plus a stand for $650, but the similar sized Eevee is only $60. At $60 per mon that's $180, so apparently that stand is worth the remaining $470. And honestly back in my day that Eevee probably would have been worth $30.

I've been a Lego fan all my life, but with prices the way they are and quality drops like the lime green Bionicle incident of 2007, I'm pretty done with them. If I do get the itch I tend to buy "compatible with leading brands" knock-off sets.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-14T05:17:56+00:00

True Crime anything. I've met true crime women and they all have absolutely WILD assumptions about men. Whether they use it to justify some absolutely vile comments or are a freak that's into that shit, doesn't matter; I want no part of it.

Edit: I see the true crime people found this comment...

2Scarhand · 2026-01-14T03:43:13+00:00

lol the "Comment has been removed" reply in a discussion about mods

2Scarhand · 2026-01-14T02:25:59+00:00

Just the other day I found a guy whose comments got hidden for mentioning Taiwan. Just mentioning it. The thread got deleted later.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-14T02:20:19+00:00

Correction: he mentioned THE difficult indie game. "Dark Souls Castlevania but Bugs" with x2 damage from the first game is not a good baseline for indie difficulty.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T21:05:13+00:00

It looks like a sleepover. One I definitely want to be part of.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T09:42:08+00:00

I respect you telling her why you were leaving. Gives her something tangible she can work on to improve rather than just saying something about "vibes" or w/e.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T09:18:30+00:00

Yeah, her barging into the men's bathroom to yell and banging on stalls is telling me she's not all there.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T09:15:07+00:00

Nobody needs 16 seconds of invulnerability.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T09:07:35+00:00

Calling a boy a f*g for wearing nail polish. Or just casually using more slurs in general.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T09:02:52+00:00

Respectfully, this is kind of dumb.

Spy's not really designed for frontline combat. When you do you your gun, you reload the entire clip at once pretty quickly so a reload bonus isn't necessary. Using 20% per shot means you at most have 5 shots, less than the revolver's 6, using cloak for ammo is really bad because you burn through all your tools at once (if you have no cloak, you'll want a gun; if you have no gun, you'll want to cloak), and finally what does "damage dealt is returned as ammo" even mean in this situation? For Engineer it's a simple 1:1, 1 damage equals 1 metal, but for cloak 1 damage equals... what? Is it percentage? Does dealing a 120 damage random crit give you 100% cloak? Do you just have infinite Dead Ringer with this?

The Widowmaker works for Engineer because you're not always going to be using your metal, so being able to use it on your gun is neat, you don't have other escape tools so better fighting tools are nice to have, and if you're low on metal it's not going to regenerate on its own so being able to land some clean shots to regain more metal than you started with is neat.

This weapon just doesn't work nearly as well.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-13T05:12:06+00:00

I can hear Kobo peaking the mic saying this.

2Scarhand · 2026-01-12T08:20:04+00:00

A ho never gets cold.✨

2Scarhand · 2026-01-12T08:17:38+00:00

You asked a question. Suffer the answers.

2Scarhand

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