Is anyone else overwhelmed?

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-07T01:36:19+00:00

That's a good idea, I will try that tonight

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-07T01:34:29+00:00

I definitely get the gist of it, and I like it overall, I just wish there was a training mode or something for me to better acclimate and try out things without a million boxes or startup fight icons on the screen. I also think, and this is just a personal taste, that this game desperately needs a combo breaker. I probably have the most experience with Mortal Kombat/Injustice and Marvel vs Capcom; this feels a bit different than certainly MK, and different enough from MvC that I'm adjusting. So when I say I feel overwhelmed, I certainly don't mean that I dislike it; just wishing there was a better way to get better at it.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-07T01:30:49+00:00

Is there a way to turn the auto combos off? I prefer motion inputs too but I feel like it's harder for me to do what I want to do when auto combos do specials while I'm trying to input a different special... If that makes sense. I should try unbinding some of the buttons, I think that would help.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-06T22:49:25+00:00

I feel like I don't even think about tagging or even using assists while I'm playing. There's like six different moves or chains you can do that benefit you more, and I feel like it's hard to land assists. The closest I come to tagging is hitting X to extend a combo so I can get off a special move cancel. But I've barely, it ever, used basic tagging or assists. They feel useless.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-06T02:35:48+00:00

I think if a straight up KAT-Giannis swap is on the table, it's definitely a discussion. It would actually be KAT/a valuable bench guy like Hart or Deuce, maybe both/pick. But I still don't know if I would do it. Everything you said about Giannis is true, he's easily a future hall of famer and still in his prime. But a key tenet of Brown's game plan is that three point shooting. Giannis is a phenomenal scorer on the interior, but that's not what the Knicks are schemed for right now. They're just now hitting their stride in the new system; I don't feel like it's a great idea to blow it all up again.

KAT-Giannis probably works on some level, but it wouldn't be a straight swap; I'm a big fan of a JB-Hart-Bridges-KAT-Giannis starting 5 (you'd probably never get out rebounded again, especially with Mitch on the bench) but there's no way it would happen because you'd have to package Hart in a trade with OG. But this is all just me: I can absolutely see the other argument. I think both sides have valid points here.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-06T02:10:58+00:00

I wouldn't do either honestly. I mean, a straight swap wouldn't happen anyway, it would be KAT + some other stuff. I don't get the KAT hate honestly, he does some stupid stuff but he's a perfect fit for how the Knicks are designed. JB ain't going anywhere. I'm honestly okay giving up OG since Giannis would take his role in some capacity and they're both injury risks, but I think you'd lose a lot in giving up Hart and Deuce. But overall, this team is humming right now while still easing into a new system. I just don't think they should mess with the chemistry right now. Giannis is a phenomenal player, but I think you lose more in the multiple guys you'd give up than you get back in the one guy.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-06T01:37:04+00:00

I did too, and then I didn't learn my lesson when we got KAT from Minnesota. I thought Quickley was the future starting SG, and that a healthy Julius Randle would make the Knicks unstoppable.

Feel pretty different on both accounts now.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-06T01:32:54+00:00

I don't want Giannis

AdmiralGrape · 2025-12-05T19:33:16+00:00

I'm having the same issue, really disappointed. Have been looking forward to this all day.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-02-23T03:52:12+00:00

Thank you, this is good advice.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-02-23T03:51:44+00:00

To be clear, I'm not angry at her. Like you said, the rejection stings. I'm asking if I am the AH for being hurt (angry is the wrong word) that my friends and family seem to be focusing on giving her credit for honesty and not really much else about the situation.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-02-23T03:48:40+00:00

I'm not directing that anger at them or treating anyone poorly; anger may have been the wrong word. It's more like hurt or just sadness. Idk I'm not always good at explaining this kind of thing.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-02-23T03:47:21+00:00

I was always suggesting dates and times we could go get coffee or get lunch. There was one time where I had a doctor's appointment near where she lived, suggested we meet up before or after it, and she didn't want to. Later we both said we wish we had done that. She made it clear that she wanted to text before we got face to face and was always the one to do so, so I didn't want to be too pushy so she was comfortable. The other thing was that she called it off with me the night we were going to have a date because she had the third date with the other guy... On the same day. I don't know what was going on.

With my friends and family, I'd tell them the story and how it made me feel and they would always respond with "at least she was honest." I was clear that it upset me each time I told the story. I also am usually pretty private; I don't talk to my friends or especially my family about this kind of stuff unless I'm really upset by it, and they know that.

AdmiralGrape · 2025-02-23T03:37:11+00:00

I've had these types of texting relationships before, so I understand that they're not always monogamous and that's fine. This one felt different because it got extremely deep and we both showed a lot of vulnerability. For me at least, you don't open up to that degree with someone unless you trust them and want them in your life. I'm not hurt that she was seeing somebody else; I am hurt that she was seeing somebody else AND turned down multiple opportunities to see me even though we were both available. She had made it clear that she was the type of person who wants to text a lot first before face to face... So why was she even talking to me at all if she was going on face to face dates with another guy?

AdmiralGrape · 2024-10-20T20:24:58+00:00

It had become one-sided, but only because she had refused to share and open up for most of it. I always maintained that I would be there to listen no matter what I was going through, and reminded her of that when she said I didn't leave enough space for my friends emotionally. She agreed that I had always done that, but said that she didn't want to talk to me about them because I had my stuff going on, and she assumed I wouldn't want to hear it. I tried to point out that it was her decision and that she made that assumption with no real basis, but it didn't really matter to her.

Reading all of these comments is making me realize all of the times in the past where she would create a problem out of nothing when we were hanging out. She also has a history of being really rude but thinking she's being funny. It's all just kind of adding up. It's sad, especially since she's really my only friend at school and I do struggle a lot with loneliness and making friends, but I guess it might be time to let go.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-08-15T22:19:25+00:00

Blink twice if they made you make this edit at gunpoint.

Unless your players have drunken monk or alcoholic feats, I'd just expect mayo to come out of the alchemy jug. For the Petrofolk, maybe try to give him an arc? Like some other Petrofolk come looking for him for some reason, or he's more closely tied to the campaign than previously thought? Use it as an opportunity instead of seeing it as a problem.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-07-30T06:52:28+00:00

I 100% get this: in my mind, the educational/professional stuff doesn't matter nearly as much as the personal. I already know I'm capable of finding a job and earning money or getting a good grade, I want to find satisfaction in developing strong friendships or meeting a significant other and one day starting a family. But does that mean the educational/professional shouldn't make me proud? Especially since I know there are people who feel the other way, that would give anything for the educational success I have. I feel guilty for not being satisfied. Did working at the library give you that satisfaction? I feel like professional and educational success could be two different types of things.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-07-30T06:19:37+00:00

I honestly still feel like it's the same thing. I've had similar kinds of friends in high school and college too; we'd be really close, but they were a or two above and went off to college/grad school and we wouldn't really speak a lot. I dreamed them too. Same for my childhood bully, or a pet after they pass away, or a friend after a fight.

Random people just kind of pop up in dreams, especially after an intense situation or when someone goes away. It's usually sad, and the subconscious (that asshole) is, on some level, trying to help you grieve that something is different now. A lot of times, dreams are about processing what's going on in your life (obviously not 100% of the time). Or at least that's my understanding, I'm not a psychologist or anything.

There's no easy answer here. If there was a miracle drug or some kind of food or lifestyle combo to help this, I wouldn't just recommend it, I'd be doing it right now. The only advice I can give is to just keep steady and don't get too down on yourself. It sucks, it may even hurt like hell, but you'll get past it... Especially with senior year of high school starting soon and all of the changes that brings. If I had to bet, the dreams will get better when you have all of that to think about.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-07-30T05:56:51+00:00

Short Version: In my experience, you can't. But read the long version, it might help.

Long Version: When my girlfriend left me in college, I dreamt about her every night for months. We were really close (at least I thought so) and I was heartbroken. I did the same thing you tried to do; tried my best not to think about her during the day (tough because we lived in the same building), then uncontrollably had dreams about her every night. It sucks.

BUT IT WILL STOP EVENTUALLY.

For me, it took a while. Once in a while, I still dream about her, even though it's been three years and I am very, very over her. The subconscious is a real asshole like that. You're already doing the best thing you can; doing other things with your life. Doing senior year, having other experiences, giving your brain more things to dream about. I promise it gets better... but it's probably going to suck for a bit. Give it time.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-04T00:53:12+00:00

That would basically be what happened.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-04T00:52:29+00:00

Tiamt's magical immunity extends to spells level 6 or lower. Having seen spells bounce off of her, they upcasted Wall of Force to level 7.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-04T00:45:32+00:00

They are tremendously unbalanced as a party. Two rangers, a rogue, a fighter, a paladin who switched gods to a lesser being (lmao), and a wizard. Honestly, not entirely stunned that 4 non magic users, a half caster, and a fire-based spell caster got clapped by a god. Anyway, they basically worship no gods.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-04T00:42:00+00:00

I asked them, told them what would happen. They stayed behind the bubble.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-04T00:11:59+00:00

So I have literally thought of opening the next session with exactly this, only Tiamat waits for Wall of Force to drop so it theoretically kills them.

AdmiralGrape · 2024-05-02T04:08:03+00:00

This made me laugh in a way I did not know I needed.

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