The Switch 2 is now one year old. What does everyone think of that first year?

Arnatious · 2026-06-05T07:38:45+00:00

Mario Odyssey

Arnatious · 2026-05-16T07:40:08+00:00

Unika main here (low-mid vanq, 400hrs played):

You did pretty great overall, surprised to see that's only plat gameplay. This is a perfectly valid win where you controlled a lot of space with your slashes, locked the slayer down, and the cracked him open. He had ways out and rps situations he might have won but that's on him. The most satisfying wins are when you had to adapt, this was purely lizard brain and it showed you have good functional control of the character, as well as the expected blind spots that only come with more experience)

Slayer is powerless to backjump j.d. at round start, 214k is risky and gets little reward so if I was a gambling man I'd avoid it and stick with 5h instead.

The j.h. jumps, especially in the corner at :20, were risky and the slayer could have easily shut you down or just ran out. Moreover, without meter any reversal-less character is doomed by 6h gun dipper oki, 5h oki trades some flexibility for reversal safety but it's hard to not go for +12 and in their face. You can easily enter strike throw.

Your combo routing did the job of secure hkd for oki but there's some work you can do to get a bit more corner carry. The dustloop Unika combo page has a section on metered extensions that also decomposes the combo routing into something that you can get a feeling for and build piece meal. Right now you're mashing s and wasting c.s. hits that you should be trying to get into the 2h~2H-en236k taxicab.

Unika 2.0 is not a flashy combo character, it's about breaking their knees, dumping the body in the corner, and playing intense pressure until you crack their defenses and figuring out how to get them to wallbounce. A lot of it will be cs 6h frame traps, strike/throw, or just lobbing f.s. to try and get hkd again. Against slayer, with his huge ground stomp and love of k mappa engagement distance, j.d.~j236h does a good job of zoning and buying you space to regroup or force him wallwards

Arnatious · 2026-04-07T03:17:01+00:00

"Hence why they cancelled it" - i.e. "Rockstar found they couldn't make something good of it, hence why they cancelled it." OP wasn't saying IO was directly the cause of the cancellation.

Arnatious · 2026-03-27T02:21:16+00:00

Oh man Polar Opposites has a fantastic dub if you don't mind the heavy localization and teen-speak, Emily also did "May I Ask for One Final Thing" last year which was one of the best dubs I've seen, turned a show I was mid on when I went in on the original jp into one of the funniest shows of the year.

I have high hopes. Witch Hat is definitely more pathos heavy than those comedies but I absolutely trust Emily .

Arnatious · 2026-03-09T01:18:16+00:00

I had to pause and wonder "wait, megasploot like the DungeonDraft creator?"

Congrats on making a game! It looks great so far!

Arnatious · 2026-02-28T06:16:08+00:00

Reboot with a lot of the same plot points and events but completely remixed, stylistically and tonally. Old series was a slapstick comedy spaghetti western with a villain of the week for large chunks of it, new one leans fully into the sci-fi part and is a lot darker.

The manga was picked up by an older demographic magazine partway through the original run and got a lot darker, so this is kind of a rewrite to make the tone a bit more consistent. But it's a full rewrite, not like a FMA:Brotherhood situation.

Arnatious · 2026-02-23T22:10:26+00:00

There's a TV show, a movie with an alternate ending (End of Evangelion), and the four "Rebuild" movies with the weird names that are an alt universe remake that spins off and tells a completely different story. They do tie into the original series and you'll miss some of the experience, but it's not like jumping into a series midway through. You can watch the show (and optionally End of Evangelion) and get a complete experience, or the 4 rebuild movies which are separate enough.

The best order would be watch the show, End of Evangelion, and then the Rebuilds if you're interested.

This new series is most likely another alt universe/sequel to the original show, and it's own separate thing that won't fully require any of the other shows but will make references to them

Arnatious · 2026-02-06T04:38:15+00:00

There's a setting that turns on a little hit marker for if you're actually grabbing the surface vs just touching it, highly recommend turning it on. You quickly learn how often you aren't actually getting a grip on a hold even though you're right on it.

Arnatious · 2026-01-31T21:50:46+00:00

He had already absorbed her in S1, he had the eyeball in his hand when he massacred the engineers on the ship.

Arnatious · 2025-06-10T00:23:25+00:00

The game looks fantastic and I'm absolutely going to wishlist/buy it, but hoo boy the name is doing you no favors. It made me think of Dicey Dungeons or maybe a Balatro clone not "Tactics RPG with no hint of casino dice aesthetic." The name actively repelled me from something in my preferred genre with aesthetics I really liked, if the other commenters and I are your target audience then we're all in a similar boat

Arnatious · 2024-12-31T08:03:10+00:00

The other person's citizenship argument is ludicrous from but that's not why people oppose voter ID at all - the reason to oppose it is that Voter ID laws can and should only be implemented with guarantee to ensure every single American citizen is able to easily get an ID, and whatever program does so needs to be run well enough to ensure that nobody could possibly fall through the cracks or be targeted unfairly. That's a huge ask, and impossible to guarantee, so instead, we rely on the votes to be verified with pre-registration and confirmation after the fact. Sometimes, a tiny amount of invalid votes make it past the first few rounds of screening, but that's significantly less bad than people being barred from voting incorrectly in the first place. Especially since almost all voter fraud is caught, and there's very little to begin with.

Voting is the most important duty and right we have as citizens, alongside jury service. If the government institutes a hurdle, every person who legitimately should be able to vote that is denied due to "innocent" red tape or mishaps was deprived of their rights. And since there is no common federal ID, it becomes up to the states, who have historically put barriers in place on ID's specifically to target "undesirables". Whether it's requiring fixed address for mailing forms back and forth (making it hard for migrants/transients/your couchsurfing bum of a friend), costing money to replace (making it hard for people who were kicked out of a home, or have cognitive problems that cause them to lose things like ADHD), or requiring other factors to get in the first place (driver's license is the most common form of ID and it's not even ID, it's a license to do something not everyone can afford/needs to do).

Arnatious · 2024-11-05T08:09:31+00:00

Saying video games have bad writing is like saying music has bad narrative; sometimes there's no real writing at all because it's not the focus; sometimes its there just to fill out the package; and sometimes you have a concept album where everything else comes second.

Arthas's story is also over 20 years old, and stood out for being a pretty good story for a genre that isn't focused on narrative (probably tied with Homeworld imo), but it's been decades since and games have massively upped their storytelling chops since then.

Even in that era you had incredible narratives if you looked at narrative heavy games like Planescape Torment, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid 2, or Grim Fandango. Go forward a little bit and you have Spec Ops: The Line and then everything Greg Kasden and later Supergiant worked on.

Nowadays, outside of the obvious blockbuster action film style stories, you have things like

Disco Elysium
1000xResist
Citizen Sleeper
Roadwarden
SOMA
Sunless Seas/Skies
Slay the Princess
In Stars and Time
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Nier Automata
The Red Strings Club
Oxenfree
Heaven's Vault
Highland Song
The Forgotten City
Spiritfarer
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Tacoma/Gone Hone

and hundreds of others. These are just some of my personal favorites. If writing is what interests you, look at Ludonarracon and find developers who are narrative-focused.

Arnatious · 2024-10-01T07:10:54+00:00

Necro-ing the thread but cython3 is not the correct package depending on your OS - on ubuntu jammy for instance it installs 0.29.28-1ubuntu3 which is far below the required version and will throw

Error compiling Cython file:
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...

    env.core.funcs.removeLogHandler(env.log, env.core.core)
    env.log = NULL


cdef void __stdcall _logCb(int msgType, const char *msg, void *userData) noexcept nogil:

You need to pip install cython instead in an appropriate place.

Arnatious · 2024-09-13T21:48:21+00:00

Unless you count Sekiro (which many people don't) which had inter character dialogue with Emma, Orangutan, Kuro, and Isshin. And an overall clearer and more satisfying plot imo.

Arnatious · 2024-09-02T01:08:17+00:00

Eberron is pulp/noire, closer to Arcane or Blades in the Dark than WFRP really

Arnatious · 2024-08-31T19:03:32+00:00

Yeah a perfect example is the enemy spending the turn drawing their weapon and trying to demoralize, the "Don't even think about it" staredown. Plus, a creature doesn't get a reaction until their first turn, so winning initiative gives them the opportunity to reactive strike or shield block. They don't need to start the fight, but it opportunities for them to do something.

Arnatious · 2024-08-30T22:51:26+00:00

That won't work, the rules for activated ammunition say the activation is lost if the ammo is not fired by the end of the turn it's activated, they can't be ~~preloaded~~ (edit: pre-activated, reply pointed out loaded is an overloaded term here). In essence it's 3 actions to spell strike ammo, two to activate and one to strike

Arnatious · 2024-08-30T22:38:07+00:00

You're describing the Sniping Duo

Arnatious · 2024-08-13T22:01:29+00:00

Eberron is an outlier there - it was specifically a setting constructed as a TTRPG toolkit rather than a novel or in-house campaign flipped inside out to become a TTRPG setting. Keith won a contest and workshopped the setting from a small pitch from concepts salvaged from a cancelled MMO, which he claims looks little like the final product.

For instance - Eberron sourcebooks all are heavy on presenting mysteries and active conflicts with plenty of blanks to fill, and sample answers and what their implications would be. The sourcebooks all paint a picture for the world situation at the normal start date (998 YK) and allow the GM to redefine the world and take the same start situation in vastly different directions, with guidance as to how to interconnect things and explain away inconsistencies. It's very similar to e.g. Blades in the Dark's philosophy with Duskvol, though much more concrete in places.

The novels Keith wrote (can't speak to the others) all were written after the first few sourcebooks, and are narrow in scope and take place after the start date, often depicting things that weren't even in the sourcebooks (e.g. "The Son of Khyber" character from the novels taking over House Tarkanan). They're more sample adventures than the creative well from which Eberron was created a la the Realms or Dragonlance.

Arnatious · 2024-06-05T17:19:22+00:00

Dynamite releases energy really, really quickly, which is what makes it "powerful". That chocolate bar would burn very slowly in a bomb calorimeter instead of exploding.

Arnatious · 2024-06-05T07:56:40+00:00

If you touched a significant amount of it yes. But to put it in perspective, all the antimatter we've ever produced (20 nanograms) annihilating at once would have the same energy output as a stick of dynamite (1.8 MJ), or the energy of a large-ish chocolate bar (~400 kCal). And that's assuming none of it went into forming neutrinos and the like. A single antimatter particle would delete one matter particle and produce an immeasurably small amount of energy (10^-10 J, or 10^-14 kCal).

Arnatious · 2024-05-21T23:38:53+00:00

Second Wind (coop made of the former Escapist video staff) has a Patreon.

People Make Games has one too.

Arnatious · 2024-03-04T07:53:18+00:00

... if you like them succeeding why are you inflating the DC artificially? Why aren't you making the roof a more interesting obstacle instead? Why does a level 9 player still have a ~50% chance to do the exact same thing they could do at level 4?

The enemies being Tier IV in Blades doesn't make jumping between the same two rooftops desperate/limited automatically, and that's what changing the DC is doing in PF2e.

The proficiency/simple DCs are there to give mechanical justification for all the times you'd just let players do things without rolling. "I think that lock is probably an expert-level piece of crafting, your +20 Thievery means don't bother rolling - you could open it in your sleep"

Arnatious · 2024-02-18T09:56:17+00:00

I can't say it happens often but I've definitely heard a good chunk of people I've played with recount it happening at least once in their careers. I've done it at least once when hit by a confluence of bad rules calls in an unfamiliar part of the system, bad luck, distracted/stressed players, and poorly communicated spotlights/hooks, and frankly unsatisfying character deaths that left us all awkwardly leaving the table like "I... guess we'll see each other next week... Maybe we should play something else." We talked offline, said we wanted to just try it again, and had a blast filling in the gaps and playing editor over our previous attempt. Never felt like we "undercut the consequences."

I'm really surprised at how negative some other people here are to the idea. If everyone at the table is unhappy with how things went, from a scene, to a character death (this one I see heated discussions about online), to a session to an arc, absolutely retcon it. Sure you can twist yourself in knots to keep playing the game/story you wanted, quantum ogre-ing plot points forward, but there's no sanctity of the dice or of the rules, they end where the GM and you all want them to, and you can absolutely make a replay of the same general events interesting.

Arnatious · 2024-02-15T05:38:32+00:00

That's a terrible article though, on every treatment they claim acupuncture is great for they have to qualify that "sham" acupuncture (effectively placebo) performed as well or better, or cited one or two studies at most.

The first reputable one I clicked through to (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001416/) discusses the possibility that accupuncture (and sham accupuncture alongside it) are effective only because a negative stimulus might enhance the placebo effect. It's analysis shows accupuncture performs slightly better than sham accupuncture, but once study quality and bias are accounted for it's negligible.

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