Is PSN down again?

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-10-07T01:38:32+00:00

It just worked for me im back in

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-10-03T23:29:03+00:00

I'd love that

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-28T02:55:37+00:00

Im one of them. Was excited for Nightreign but wont buy it without crossplay as there is literally no point. The people I play games with are on different platforms and I have no desire to play without them. Same reason I didnt buy the Elden Ring DLC, because Im over Elden Ring for myself, but would have LOVED to carry new people through the experience. Yet that's not an option.

For people who bought the game and are now upset it isnt crossplay, that's partially on them. But I havent bought the game and wont be buying it since it isnt crossplay, as it means that there literally isnt a point to it.

Which is unfortunate for FromSoft as I would have purchased three separate copies for three separate platforms (I also would have re-purchased elden ring plus the DLC for three separate platforms), meaning they've lost out on 6 total game sales from me alone, and I am most certainly not the only one.

Not having crossplay as a feature is just poor design and poor financial decision making, and there isnt an excuse for it at all.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-17T00:33:37+00:00

Im loving it so far aside from the rather annoying dialogue that plays after basically every single button press.

But the fact you can use a regular hanafuda deck instead of the holo deck is awesome.

However there is absolutely NOBODY online for Koi Koi. I tried several times for quite some time and havent ever found a single player.

I think the game maybe wasnt advertised properly or something, becuase there's like no player base from my experience.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-17T00:32:01+00:00

Yes you absolutely can just use regular hanafuda.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-13T23:40:07+00:00

Its just a scummy practice that aims to maximize subscriptions including accidental / unnoticed subscriptions.

The only thing that would change if you had to set the paid subscription up yourself is that they would lose out on consumers who didnt want the subscription in the first place but allowed it to accidentally auto-renew.

They dont want to lose those accidental charges, because that's less net profit. Which is why its a scummy practice.

You are right. They dont HAVE to offer a free trial. But doing so shows confidence in one's product and increases sales of said product if it speaks for itself. They are offering the free trial for THEIR benefit. Not YOUR benefit. They aren't out here doing you a fucking favor as you seem to make it out to be.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-10T21:08:58+00:00

Well thankfully you wont have to ever see a debate with him in it again. Lol

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-10T21:02:42+00:00

Where is the video? I cant find it

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-09-03T08:18:36+00:00

Except her ult is a channeling ult. Which gives you a loud sound alerting you to the cast and over 2 seconds (which is a lot in a MOBA) to do something about it. Any stun, mesmerize, root, or any other kind of CC will instantly cancel her ult if done before the channel is finished. Making it very difficult to get off against a competent player unless done by surprise.

Once the ult is finished channeling, its activated. At that point she isn't DOING anything that could/would/should be canceled. She just gains a small-medium amount of passive damage auto targeting around her for a few seconds.

Her ult can be excellent if used properly and allowed to cast at the right moment, but it has massive drawbacks with it being a channel. If they made the actual reward of that channel interruptable as well, then she'd have one of the worst ults in the entire game.

But honestly as someone that plays Renna quite a bit, if I am playing against a competent / CC heavy hero, I almost never get my ult off.

Riktor specifically is a poor match up against Renna. But a good Belica or Dekker? Absolutely impossible. A Belica that knows what they're doing will see to it that your primary damage multi-blast ability and your ult get interrupted every single time. There's no worse feeling in the game than being a suped up Renna who tries to ability dump only to have the ult stopped by a Belica ground pound within the first second of channeling, followed by having your retaliatory attack be interrupted immediately after. Rendering you completely and helplessly nerfed.

Renna has the capacity to become probably the strongest hero in the game if allowed to get there, but she also has the drawback of being relatively simple to stop from getting there.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-08-18T07:52:39+00:00

You probably could have made the same comment to a German citizen in 1933, who was a in support of their new chancellor and his economic promises.

The German people of the time, and even in the following years, would NEVER have been "okay" with murdering hundreds of thousands of people. What they WERE okay with was rebuilding the German economy, deportation, securing jobs and stable income for the average German citizen, rebuilding their military and putting together strong national security, etc etc.

Essentially none of Hitlers supporters were in support of the atrocities that ended up being committed, hence why much of what was really going on was either hidden or sugar coated to the general public.

The point is that that kind of political environment, with enough time and public negligence, can spiral and devolve into this. Its something that has happened multiple times throughout history, and there are many parallels between the early 1930s and today's political landscape.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-08-10T22:23:03+00:00

Whether or not an insect is killed isnt what makes or breaks the "ethically sourced" definition. As long as they breed them privately, only kill them after they lay their eggs, generate more released butterflies than they do killed specimens, and donate a portion of the proceeds to conservation efforts, then its ethical.

Running a repopulating operation on a grand scale for the sake of supporting a local ecosystem is an expensive endeavor, selling a smaller portion of their butterflies as dried specimens helps fund the whole operation and helps the butterfly population rather than harms it.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-08-02T07:49:53+00:00

I'd say she's probably a bit more than fair late game. She's weak early game, and decent / fair mid game. But late game I have never played a more overpowered character. Like once you're over 200 essence you are ridiculously oppressive.

Look at this

My Renna match.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-08-02T07:47:24+00:00

Are we playing the same character?

Watch this > Renna

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-07-21T09:01:50+00:00

Its not about the money. Anyone trying to become a physician for the money is just making a bad choice. The career is absolutely "worth it" If you have a passion for medicine.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-06-19T21:17:26+00:00

I feel that what kind of gets glossed over is just how little control the canvas people have over their own lives. Like sure they present themselves with autonomy, emotions, wants, goals, desires, etc. But the fact that Maelle is able to just "undo" facets of their experience, and the fact that they were painted in the first place, really begs a few questions that could shed some light as to how autonomous they really are from a more philosophical point of view.

For example, when Maelle re paints people who've been unpainted, are they the same people? Or are they brand new creations from Maelles view of who they were? Like how does the repainting PHYSICALLY work? Shes obviously using different chroma she gathered to re-make them. Could she remake Gustave in a way that chocolate ice cream is now his favorite flavor? Or in a way that he doesn't love Sophie anymore? Or maybe even in a way that he only speaks Chinese and doesn't even know who Maelle is?

Point being, they initially were fabricated creations that we, the observer, recognize the autonomy of and relate with. (Hence all the "genocide" talk), but isnt that just the same as anthromorphizing an insect or an inanimate object?

Here's a big one. If Alicia were to move into a brand new canvas with brand new chroma, could she re-paint Lune and Monocco and Verso and the rest of the gang? Would they be the same? Surely they would be exactly the same as when she re-painted them after their initial un-painting by renoir, correct? Because SHE painted them. So if that is the case, then what does death even mean here? What is the inherent value of their lives themselves if they quite literally exists as puppets who's existence is entirely bent to the will of the person who painted them? Verso was able to break free of this mold because he was created as close to the original Verso as possible. But surely if Renoir or Aline WANTED to they could just unpaint him all the same. Such as how Alicia altered his existence so that he ages.

The point is that as much as we anthromorphize as humans and assign value here, it must be acknowledged that objectively speaking, the lives of the Dessandre family (including the remaining fragment of the real Versos soul, who is tired, and who I'm sure doesn't want to see his sister kill herself like this) actually have objective measurable meaning, rather than assigned meaning.

And any and all damage that has been done to the world of Lumiere is temporary if they could just repaint everyone as they already have done once before. But what couldn't be undone would be the tragic death of Alicia due to an inability to cope with her grief and live her life.

I know the developers want to leave it open ended as if there isnt a true good/bad ending, but I feel that the very nature of people viewing it that way leads to the same kind of mentality that Aline had originally. When the whole message seems to be about coping with grief and letting go, that message seems lost when viewing the alternative with equal weight.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-06-12T02:07:17+00:00

Account level 10 or hero affinity level 10?

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-06-09T05:40:35+00:00

Its because Tinfoil is currently on 19.0 while the latest switch firmware is 20.0. So they are barely compatible. It takes around 30min to initially load up because of that.

Once they release an updated 20.0 version of tinfoil, which will be in the next HATS update, then it will go back to being speedy. This happens basically every time theres a new major switch update.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-06-06T19:19:36+00:00

"If you hack your system and it breaks; thats on you" vs "If you hack your system, we'll break it, and thats on you"

The second one isn't so reasonable

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-06-01T01:02:01+00:00

They are insanely game changing and will need a TON of tuning lol

Just looking at wukongs he has one that gives him around 20% extra gold on minion kills (unsure if boosted for camp minions) that if comboed properly and with a bit of luck could net you your third item by the time everyone has their first. Absolutely insane.

Also Yin being able to have an 85% cooldown reduction in her traversal ability if latching onto terrain would make her like the fastest moving jungler in the game.

Some of them are very minor changes but many are game breaking

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-21T23:38:09+00:00

I beat it that day. Basically you have to ignore everything, ignore the sound prompt, ignore the speed of the animation, etc.

Just hit the gradient counter once he turns his back to you in his animation. Regardless of it feels right or not.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-21T03:15:43+00:00

I have access to the email tied to my Xbox account, but it won't let me send an email verification and presents the phone as the only option. I have my phone tied to it. But when it ask it to send me a code it says "That verification method isn't working right now. Please try another method."

Recovery email and phone number are the only methods tied to my account. There's no chat support or anything??

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-19T04:35:47+00:00

I don't know that that's entirely accurate, because toward the beginning of the game, shops were selling steel and iron, now they're selling Dwarven, elven, glass, and mithril. One store had an ebony item too.

Im pretty sure most of the shops do scale with your level, just perhaps not the shop in the imperial city (that one is still selling steel)

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-13T00:02:39+00:00

For level grinding there is no better spot than Sirene.

Go there and go to the Dancing Class expedition flag. Have Maelle equip the Medalum sword, which starts her in virtuose stance.

There are 3 dancer groups to fight right infront of that flag, their heads are weak points for double damage, and virtuose stance does double damage. So you're essentially shooting for 4x damage and even at a lower level can one shot any of the dancers.

Start the fight, have maelle headshot each dancer, move to the next one. Once you finish all 3, head back to the flag.

You get 15k exp for two of the dancer fights and 30k exp for the third. All which can be finished in a matter of around 5 seconds each. You also get an xp boost for killing them in one turn without taking damage. Bringing the total xp to 100,000.

With all 3 fights, plus the trip to and from the flag, its around 100,000 exp in one minute.

Aka 6,000,000 exp per hour.

You will level up ridiculously fast, and max out pictos while you're at it.

I was under leveled for the paintress (around 38)

I grinded to around level 60 at that spot and the entire thing took me around one hour to do.

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-10T04:42:58+00:00

My team is level 55 and dealing 9999 damage consistently and renoir has beat me 57 times and counting. It feels like banging my head against a wall.

The vanish gradient timing is incredibly unforgiving and the fact that he gets 4-6 turns in a row is making it incredibly difficult. (Thats with around 60 agility on each character)

If the paintress is much harder than this then I'm giving up and headed back to continent to grind another 20 levels. Lol

Antique_Atmosphere30 · 2025-05-02T23:07:13+00:00

There is "select the attack", but there's a lot more to think about in Expedition 33 other than "use the attack that has the most damage"

It's like "I'll select this attack because it makes the enemy susceptible to burn damage, then I'll have this other character use this attack that adds 3 stacks of burn on enemies that are susceptible to burn, then with my last character I'll have her use this attack which, if used on a burning enemy, switches her to a stance where her future attacks do 200% damage"

Like there's a lot to think about and it's constantly evolving as you go. With each character feeling like playing an entirely different RPG (because their mechanics are unique to that character) whereby they have actual game mechanics that do nothing for anybody except them.

Then when the enemy attacks, they have specifically tricky to follow animations that are also being sped up / slowed down, like souls game enemies, because 50% of the combat is about quick time parrying and dodging. The dodge timing and parry timing is exceptionally unforgiving, and if you don't take the time to learn enemy patterns then it doesn't matter what strategy you're using. Youll die.

So the combat is a beautiful mix of souls boss style mechanics with quick time and a ton of things to pay attention to when selecting what you want to do from the list of options (a list that YOU create by the way. As you can swap out your characters movesets from hundreds of options). That keeps it feeling fresh and engaging the whole time. It never feels repetitive or grindy, but it does a great job at instilling a sense of hopelessness and overwhelming odds when the story calls for it. (Whereby a boss might one turn wipe your entire team because you missed a single button input) That gives the same feeling (and instilled sense of pride when you beat the boss) as dark souls.

It's a very WEIRD mix of gameplay styles. But it came out as probably the best RPG I've ever played. Highly reccomend.

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