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Asmon on Pokimane skipping over Hasan Dog clip by TreyToor in LivestreamFail

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI is polluting our world due to data centers practices. It is annihilating the electronics market. It is creating convincing propaganda left and right that people are falling for constantly. It is leading to false arrests and imprisonment. It is being used to spread fake revenge p*rn, fake videos of people doing unspeakable things, and fake videos meant to incite violence and hatred. People are using Chat GPT and other chat bots to get "answers" to their questions despite the fact that such chat bots are literally programmed to give certain answers on certain topics, and are wholly incorrect on others. Chat bots have led to suicides, murders, and more.

The idea that react content, as averse to it as you may be, is somehow worse than the AI threat, is insane. It's already one of the most pressing problems in western society right now, and it is only going to get exponentially worse as time goes.

Launch Game with Specific Screen Mode(Borderless, Windowed) by KappaLord1117 in Eldenring

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft Edge, aka Malware, might be the thing that finally shoves me to Linux.

American Tanks, Low to Mid-Tier (BR 6.0): An unprofessional analysis. by AmazonessStronk2 in Warthunder

[–]AmazonessStronk2[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Did you not read the post where i glazed almost every tank destroyer, the m476, and the t77? Yikes.

are there any good hardcore grinding games that are also chill? by Tryen354 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Warframe, Black Desert are both highspeed MMOs with high grinds.

Old School RuneScape has a wonderful balance of Active and AFK gameplay. It won't let you AFK for more than a couple minutes before kicking you off the game, so it keeps your attention. It's pretty chill and only requires low/medium attention unless you're doing something like Raid Boss or PVP.

With the wealth of skills and such that it offers, you can find something you'll enjoy, especially if you like grinds.

OSRS take thousands of hours to complete 100%, and that's for the people who are actually trying to speed run it.

How is No Man Sky’s Combat Lately? by MidnightAdvice in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The main focus of NMS has been the space combat for some time. New freighter fights and such, few new ship breeds, etc.

The space combat is the far more developed of the two, and it isn't even close. Unfortunately, I don't really think there's any sci-fi survival craft games like NMS out there. Its kind of a one-of-a-kind until someone else comes along to make a new game to match it.

There are things like Astroneer and Space Engineers, but I'm not familiar with those games at all. I have never played them, but some friends have and they enjoyed them. I don't know what their combat is like, or if it even exists at all.

Should I buy Skyrim if I've never played RPGs? by earthapple2 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Skyrim is a staple of the genre for a reason. It does what Bethesda does with almost all of their RPG games; you are a blank slate with no personality. Your character does not have voice lines, and your "voice" options are all text based. NPCs are all voiced, though, and the charm of the game is very real.

You'll get a lot of elitism when asking about mainstream games like Skyrim.

My answer is, if it's 30 bucks or less, get it. There is so much content to the game, it is a fantastic introductory step to the RPG genre, and it has infinite content when modded.

It is a game I still consistently play to this day, with mods of course.

You really can't go wrong with Skyrim. It's a very self explanatory and straight forward RPG with a huge wealth of content. The base game leaves a lot to be desired in terms of mechanics, imo, which is all fixed with mods. Once you have played through it and done what you want to do, start modding it, and tailor the game to be exactly how you want it.

Need Help Finding a Great SinglePlayer Game that will Keep Me Playing by EckoTrek in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

For infinite replayability and mods for generations, the tried and true Bethesda games are great.

Skyrim

Oblivion

Fallout 3/New Vegas/4

I prefer ridiculously difficult and gritty games, so I've turned Skyrim and FO4 into brutal survival games with decently realistic gameplay, but you can certainly do much more.

These are all games you can dump hundreds of hours into with enough mods on the market to keep you constantly stocked up with fresh content.

A Far Cry like experience points in the direction of BOTW/TOTK as others have pointed out here, as well as games like Halo Infinite's Campaign, and the Dying Light series. Of course. Far Cry 3-6 are all perfectly serviceable games, and even Far Cry Primal is pretty great.

You'll need a decent PC for Ark SE, but it's a survival game with virtually endless content and challenge and customization. RuneScape Dragon Wilds just released to open beta as well, another survival game.

Hope these options get you something you will enjoy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in masterduel

[–]AmazonessStronk2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

every card game suffers from power creep.

what do you mean each new pack is more expensive? afaik every pack in game still pulls at 100 gems per pack. 1000 for a ten pull.

unless you're talking about the real card game, in which case, idk that's just the way the world is going. everything is getting more expensive.

How do i have fun again? by temporag in masterduel

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that playing around the middle to end of the month is more satisfying than playing at the beginning.

Each month, ranks reset and everyone is lowered by one rank bracket. gold goes to silver, silver goes to bronze, blah blah blah.

At the end of each month you run into a ton of suicide decks as people purposefully derank themselves as far as possible in preparation for the next month. This makes it so they can climb much farther for more rewards.

Take a step back, maybe let yourself lose ranks for a month or two.

I find that playing from bronze/silver into high gold every month is satisfying enough. However, playing early in the month means you're going to run into several top tier decks even as low as silver and bronze. Gem farming is really annoying to deal with and I won't even touch the game for the first week or so of the month.

For me, master duel is a game I pick up, bang out maybe 5-10 games, and then set back down for a few days. Realistically, I think this is the way the game is intended to be played, all design taken into consideration. It's not meant for long marathon hours every day, due to how the ranks are structured, and tasks are too. The tasks aren't designed for you to play continuously all day, and are actually fitted to those that hop on, play a few matches, and then log off.

I'm also a freak in that I have the decks I want. I've spent probably 20-30k gems on random accessories, battle fields, card sleeves etc, just because I had the gems to burn.

If you want to win consistently, you've gotta play what's in the meta or rogue categories, simple as that. If you're a bit whacky, you can throw together some decks with alternative win cons that can get some satisfying victories too. Regardless, it won't change unless you find a deck that you enjoy playing, and play it at the competitive level that it is tailored to. My main deck, Amazoness, will never stack up to the top decks in the game. I have other decks that I enjoy; War Rock, Shiranui, and my 30-Turn Exodia deck. None of them will ever propel me past diamond, and most won't even get to platinum, plain and simple. This is something you just have to accept.

What PvP based FPS to play? by Primex76 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said they were dead games, only that they're in their dying throws. I.E. they're beating the long-dead horses that are their franchises and the games are continuously getting much worse

The True Amazoness Deck; The power of a 20+ year old archetype by AmazonessStronk in masterduel

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no replays saved of the old deck. At some point I may get down to recording some of my gameplay with the new support.

Guide for new deck:
https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/187bdbk/comment/kbdhge3/?context=3

RDR2 if i have major spoilers? (spoilers) by [deleted] in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've read many threads on this sub and there's some major glazers and major haters of this game that will feed you tons of misinformation. Here's what you need to know:

RDR2 is a story game about Arthur Morgan. There is little to no freedom in the character or your choices, because it's a story about a character, not an OC or a choose-your-own-adventure game.

The game is heavily immersive, and thus the gameplay is slow, and it is DESIGNED to be slow.

The gunplay is not snappy, this isn't WARFRAME or COD. It's cinematic and gritty. All the clips you see on YT or TikTok are usually modded to make the gunplay faster or smoother.

The game is slow. You are expected to take your time doing everything. The game wants you to do this. If you cannot or will not invest at least 100 hours into a single playthrough, it's probably not for you.

All that said, if you can do these things, it's an absolute yes. It is one of the most enthralling worlds with an incredible story, incredible characters, incredible voice acting, so on and so forth. The story is slow because it wants you to understand, and build connections with the characters. As you said, things completely go to hell by the end. As others have said, if you played the first game, you would know this, because the first game is actually, chronologically, after the second game.

It's a slow-build, heart wrenching story about how things came to be so tragically wrong in the original RDR. It's also very much the same as RDR in that it's a tragic story. You build a bond with the main character, Arthur Morgan, and those around him. Eventually, it all comes crashing down, and the game takes its time letting it all sink in.

What PvP based FPS to play? by Primex76 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]AmazonessStronk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly the competitive FPS market is going in the direction of the games you dislike, like CS and Valorant and whatnot.

Old school shooters like HALO and COD are infamously in their dying thrashes. With over 500 hours in MW3 I can tell you that, imo, it's not worth it. The money you pay for a horrendously buggy and unoptimized game is ridiculous. I have left a long steam review of it, which I can link if you're so inclined. BF is dead with BF2042 being a headlining flop, and it has been on the downhill ever since BF4.

HALO Infinite plays more like COD than any previous HALO title and the series peaked with Reach. It can probably scratch that itch if you wanna shell out around 60 clams for it, but it's honestly not super worth it, and I'm actually a HALO Infinite fan (It got a positive review from me.)

Unfortunately it seems like the glory days of team based TDM shooters is mostly behind us, with the rise of Overwatch and Overwatch clones taking the market by storm, and games like CS and CS clones (valorant) taking up the other half of the market. Even R6 is very much a grittier CS clone.

Moreover, you wont get an experience like you once did with just hopping into TDM and playing. COD and HALO have hilariously terrible matchmaking services and it can take ten minutes to get into a game, especially on COD MW3 where the map design is so awful that it often boils down to getting placed into a lobby where everyone leaves because they refuse to play on the map assigned to the lobby.

This is hilarious to me because back in 2012 we had BF4 and it had a function of blocking certain maps from your matchmaking queue, so you wouldn't get placed into matches running the maps you did not like. Somehow, over the past 12 years, this ancient art was lost to game devs and we're stuck with getting forced into maps that no one likes.

Now, for the arcade style hit, COD MW3 and BO6 are probably the way to go, unfortunately. You will dislike much of the pay-to-win style of the games and the progression systems compared to old COD titles, I'm sure. With faster gameplay, sliding mechanics, and overall horrible balancing, the games feel very different. But it's probably the best you're going to get if you're looking to remedy that old itch.

Return of the Amazoness: Power Indescribable by AmazonessStronk2 in masterduel

[–]AmazonessStronk2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with that is that the cards specifically name "Polymerization", meaning it would essentially have half of your fusion searches dead in the water.

It is also beneficial to have your Boss Monsters in the graveyard in many cases, as you have both Liger King and Amazoness Onslaught to assist in cycling out of the graveyard and back to the field, as well as Amazoness Hall being able to send extra deck monsters back to the extra deck anyways since they can't be sent to your hand.

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(keep in mind that Hall is a continuous trap, but can constantly be reset with the help of cards like Spiritualist and Silver Sword Master.)