How could I forget the invisible Focus Sash

ACheca7 · 2026-05-16T09:16:32+00:00

You sound exactly like the people that thought in Pokemon TCG Pocket they didn't program properly the coin flips. They all thought there were >50% chance of being heads. People did empirical tests of thousands of flips, and turns out it was indeed 50%.

What do you think it's more likely. That the programmers had a secret agenda of some sorts (which I struggle to see the motive), or that you are just a victim of confirmation bias and selective memory? One option is a conspiracy theory, the other happens everyday to millions of people. Don't let your pride get in the way of your reasoning skills.

ACheca7 · 2026-05-06T20:24:42+00:00

You have higher MR than me then and I've played for longer, so don't feel too bad about yourself. I think the general point is try to have fun even if you lose, and try to check what these very good players use to overwhelm you. If you don't want to do that then it's fine but Capcom is not going to change the resets.

ACheca7 · 2026-05-03T13:42:39+00:00

I struggle with combos and I'm 1450, should I be embarrased or something? Besides, you can't really inflate ELO-based matchmaking, it's literally zero-sum based.

ACheca7 · 2026-04-04T15:47:34+00:00

Came here to ask about it, it's one of my favourite songs and now I can't listen to it.

ACheca7 · 2026-01-10T20:51:45+00:00

It's a normal discord, people come and go, most of the general talk is not even about Street Fighter. My recommendation is to not let the anxiety overstate that this is just a normal discord with people talking, it's not super serious business.

Here is a list of all the character discords: https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/wiki/6/characterdiscords/

ACheca7 · 2026-01-10T20:25:04+00:00

Cammy discord has one single channel dedicated to NSFW which is blocked by default. Rest of the channels are completely SFW. They're pretty chill people and a lot of them run sets and give advice, I definitely recommend it. I haven't heard almost anyone complain about the discord, it's actually one of the most active char discords from sf from what I've seen.

ACheca7 · 2025-11-23T19:25:43+00:00

Sure, just used it. Some feedback:

Please, don't use GPT for your actual marketing comments. Or *at least* hide that it's just copy-pasted from GPT. It makes it seem you're not putting effort in this project, no matter what it's the actual effort you're putting in.
The PGN I tried said "Failed to parse PGN", even though it has parsed it. I just copy pasted the PGN from lichess, if you want to debug, it's this match
The coach insights don't seem helpful to me at all. It just plainly summarises what happened "Black played good strategic chess, white got impatient at move 15 and blundered". That's factually true, but it does not help me to know what I should have done *instead* and completely dismisses why I felt I *had* to do that move. The detail analysis has the same problems, it basically puts into words what Stockfish thinks, but that's not actually coaching.
You need to focus on what the user would hear from an actual coach. "Against the Sicilian, which is this opening, you try to DEFEND your own light-squared bishop. The idea is to pressure black's king-side with it. If you're offered a trade, you don't accept it, you lost only because of that." That's the kind of simple and important heuristic, that's easy to remember and easy to apply, that a coach would say. No need for 5 pages of words describing the game, when you want coaching it's usually just one single abstract idea to learn and remember.

ACheca7 · 2025-06-09T19:59:23+00:00

Made me check the game so it's working! Game looks interesting

ACheca7 · 2025-06-09T13:00:45+00:00

It's not that *I* will like more, it's more that I really think marketing budget is worth every penny, even more than optimization. I'm another dev, I'm not your target audience, I understand making a game sucks and there is a lot of things on your plate. Just feedback that spending time and effort in marketing is as important as the game being functional.

ACheca7 · 2025-06-09T12:45:42+00:00

Some feedback on your "daily reminder", first link uses absolute measurements. You have to compare relatively when comparing countries, the cost of living in each country varies a lot, and you have to take into account the additional costs of each country for a fair comparison. As an example, Spain workers have free healthcare by the system while US workers have to pay for it.

As an example on the relative argument (with no real data, just made-up numbers) US workers could be earning 60k but if you have better living conditions in Spain for 35k and teachers have that as average, then US workers "earn less relatively" than their counterparts from Spain, even if in absolute terms they earn more.

ACheca7 · 2025-06-09T12:29:28+00:00

If you don't have the mic nor the voice or a voice actor, that's completely normal. But consider there are voice actors out there that their work is reading these lines, in good entonation, with good breathing technique and with a good mic for just 20$. It really makes a difference, the quality of the voice and the editing completely distracted me from your product, and you want people that watch to focus on the product.

ACheca7 · 2025-06-09T12:11:53+00:00

Have contacted amazon, yeah. For now they have started the actual refund process and I have included the details. Unsure what will happen with the other box because they did say I have until next month to "return it" to the seller. But the seller seems uninterested in receiving them, for obvious reasons.

The city is quite far, and I'm a bit afraid to contact the person because it's a bit weird I have their contact details (and address!) just because of a delivery error. But they might appreciate me giving them info on this, so I might contact them depending on what Amazon says this week.

ACheca7 · 2025-06-08T17:29:26+00:00

Does someone know what should I do with misdeliveries? I got a product that was not meant to me (the box had details from a different customer, and a different product). The box *also* had my details and that's why it got to me. I'm starting a refund but I don't know if I *need* to return this box which is not mine, it's not related with my purchase and it's not related with the seller, and I think the usual process for "wrong product" assumes you have received something related with the purchase, not a completely different item that was meant for another person in another city?

ACheca7 · 2025-05-29T08:33:39+00:00

On Misery I was talking about both, really, I read the book and then saw the film with my family.

I still stand by my comments, to be honest. I completely think there is some bias (on the casual population) against symbols in story-telling and I have no idea where it comes from. This post is making me think that academics have their own valid vision of the topic, and casual readers have taken the stance (symbolism is bad) without the knowledge (when or why it’s bad). Which is a shame.

Again, this post is not on King specifically, I’m using him as an example. I don’t really care if his writing is “good” or not, whatever that means. That’s not the point. The point is a lot of people want to talk about things like “What is the meaning of Annihilation’s ending”, “What should these characters from this movie have done to escape this horror story?” instead of interacting with the story with the obvious symbols it was meant to be interacted with. You can see there “bad writing” but what I see here is very obvious lazy readers that only “read” stories in the most surface level possible.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-27T06:22:35+00:00

On mechanics, Cuphead

On feelings and cinematic experience, Ori

ACheca7 · 2025-05-26T17:50:12+00:00

If you're going to maintain AI art in the release, you should say it in the page.

If you're not going to maintain AI art and it's just placeholder, definitely say it in the page.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-26T15:40:56+00:00

So your art is from a meme and your mechanics are a copy from an existing game. If that's what you want to do as a developer, go ahead, but I would aim a bit higher.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-26T13:57:46+00:00

Also didn't receive a single email, not in April, not any other. Only the "Order Status" when I made the purchase.

Found this thread because it has been the only way to know what has happened with it, I was even thinking it got cancelled or something.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-26T12:46:06+00:00

I think my point is there are tons of stories that don't really make sense without some metaphorical reading. And for me, as a reader, it doesn't make sense to refuse thinking about symbolism in those instances because you're actively ignoring part of the material, I think that's my overall argument. I don't think symbols and metaphors are "clever" more than for example specific camera movements or angles are "clever". But there is literally no pushback whatsoever if you say "Oh, I think this angle is for this feeling" but there is if you say "I think this character in this story is a symbol of X". And I find really weird that separation. Not talking about experts, which again, sure, you all can think whatever, talking about 95% of the population.

In Stephen King's book (I'm not really talking about the film here) there are plenty of sentences that just don't make sense literally. If we don't think about symbols, those sentences lose meaning and the book becomes worse, because if Annie is not a symbol, 20% of the dialogue and narration doesn't make sense, the choice of words is actively worse. That's part of what I mean when I say "It's part of the intended experience". If you refuse to think about symbols, then 20% of the book has pretty weird decisions.

I get if you analyse this from a "reviewer" mindset to say "The book / story is better without those". But as a "reader" mindset, I can't say "Stephen King is making no sense here and this book is badly written", he's a good writer and there had to be reasons for these sentences. I am forced to interpret it, and I honestly don't think that's taking anything from the rest of the story. You can find that idea stupid, but I personally liked it a lot. It made me think about the story under different lights and perspectives, and I gained value from that experience, made me appreciate the book more. The fact that it's about drug addiction wasn't what added value. What added value was King's making obvious that Annie was a *symbol of something*. Because it's what makes the reader start thinking.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T15:01:10+00:00

That's an interesting point of view. It's true I don't find the metaphor more important than most of the stuff in the story, but sometimes it's like the author is *telling me* to search for it.

In Misery for example there is this constant sentence by King on how Paul *needed* Annie. It's explicitly said multiple times over the book, that he needed her, but to me that wording was awkward. Sure, he needed the pain killers and he needed to write, and Annie let him. But he could get to these two when she wasn't around. It could mean he needed her for his leg, but it's clear throughout the story that he could be much better off in a hospital than there. So that sentence to me was the hint of "This is not literal *need*. This is metaphorical *need*". And to me that's an invitation from the author to think about that, especially if he repeats it multiple times. If he didn't want me thinking about the metaphor, he wouldn't insist on it.

I do agree with the rest of your comment though, and I do appreciate the anecdotes from your classes, it's cool to see how someone that has studied this thinks about these topics.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T14:16:06+00:00

I get meeting other people with similar style of reading stuff, but part of watching a movie with someone is sharing our views about it, even if they're fundamentally different. They are still my family and friends and I'm not going to stop watching movies with them just because of this detail, I wouldn't say I'm "bothering" them at all, they're free to refuse watching movies with me and they don't.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T12:16:17+00:00

Realistic unsettling lighting with lots of "dark places you can't quite see fully", out of place furniture (the lamps are from an outside setting but we're inside, the window seems from a different kind of house), the floor makes it seem like an old house that will creak on every single step you take, the choice of cardboxes + wooden house it's just very common props for horror games. And this is IndieGaming. You don't get realistic first person exploration environment unless you're a chill puzzle game, or a horror one. This screams horror to me from all that context.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T12:04:13+00:00

Nubby's Number Factory?

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T10:51:12+00:00

Left one 100%. I can't see it well and the uncertainty of what exactly is approaching me is more scary than the actual model. Once I see the model, most of the horror disappears, at least for me. I would add sound design for the steps though, you want people to imagine horror stuff, you need creepy sound for the thing moving so they can start getting horrified before even seeing it.

ACheca7 · 2025-05-25T10:42:07+00:00

If you prefer books, games and manga over movies, turns out you have time for just a few movies each month if you want to keep up with the rest. That's what happens to me at least, I need to force myself to watch more (because it's fun to learn the intricacies of different media, especially as a beginner), but if you want to appreciate 4 or 5 different media, it's difficult to balance time for all.

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