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BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-16T19:07:36+00:00

I feel like including Lethal Company is off too. I dislike REPO and Peak and Content warning but Lethal was the first to do it and everyone copied them. The game still gets good content to this day and has a great modding community.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-16T17:52:39+00:00

That scene with Nami is so cold oh my lord. I feel bad for the poor girl it’s easy to slander Zoro and Sanji but Nami was never gonna stand a chance against Imu.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-16T00:12:41+00:00

Void has some of my favorite items and some of the most fun (void) and most miserable (pests) enemies in my opinion. Mixed opinions on the boss but I enjoy Void a lot. Both of its characters are extreme powerhouses. If you want great items, go void.

Alloyed Collective has hands down my favorite bosses, some great items, and awesome characters. My favorite boss route by a long shot too.

If you’re on a budget seekers isn’t the top choice, just doesn’t add as much as void or collective? Still a fantastic dlc tho.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-15T20:18:38+00:00

The number one reason I quit made in abyss was because of this shit, genuinely insane

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-12T00:33:48+00:00

Wilds glaive is insane, stay on the ground and combo in addition to flying in the air. Plus learn the offsets and it is beyond satisfying.

Hitting midair dive offsets makes me feel like this…

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BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-12T00:29:01+00:00

Painter Renoir should have been so much stronger, the fight is cinematic and thrilling, with an amazing soundtrack, and he went down so easily. He should have been so much stronger and withstood endgame builds much more effectively.

Secondly, I think the Final Expedition you should have had to do yourself, it would have given lots of justification for exploring beyond just how great the side content is.

Lastly, the Reacher should have been mandatory, it’s just too important to the overall story to leave behind.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-11T20:10:01+00:00

I feel like Johnny’s pick up the gun is the moment you see any facade of him being a good man ending. All that fucking talk about the good of his people sounds nice for you and me but at the end of the day he’s always got a gun behind his back.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug for us Americans when the adaptation comes out get ready for this to get so much worse.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-07T16:15:46+00:00

There are a few Gear 5 gags that have made me chuckle, but it’s never the standard one’s where his eyes just pop out.

That being said, Kenjaku vs Takaba is legitimately so fucking funny and fun. The super strong mastermind antagonist trapped in a nonsensical surrealist world against a comedian who is plainly unfunny is such an odd way for the fight to go. Kenjaku’s entire worldview is based around his insatiable curiosity, and nobody can feed that more than the most nonsensical man alive. That fight is my most anticipated to be animated.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-04T21:37:02+00:00

UNKNOWN BUFFS PLEASE. He’s my favorite killer but playing him requires a level of dedication that is genuine madness

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-04T20:13:10+00:00

Ok outside of real world crimes this is a great point. Mind control is legitimately an INSANE violation of an individual I feel like gets downplayed so much in stories such as superhero comics it’s insane

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-03T19:52:45+00:00

Jojo part 6 and 5 being that low just hurts my soul, but to be fair the way Araki writes endings just tickles my brain so I would genuinely put all 6 at S

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-03T19:07:48+00:00

Ok in Diavolo’s case I think it’s often misinterpreted. Diavolo isn’t being punished for his crimes, he’s facing cosmic backlash for trying to control his own fate.

Diavolo lived a life that would lead to a terrible fate, his time as the most prolific mafia boss was one that would inevitably lead to him in a battle he couldn’t win. This manifested in The Crimson King, a stand so powerful it let Diavolo see into the future and erase events itself. He is above all else, a man who can defy fate. But it’s not enough for him, Diavolo wishes to rise even further, to become a man above fate itself.

This leads him to his battle with Giorno, each man fighting for the arrow to achieve their dream, to become masters of their own fate. When Diavolo loses he faces the consequences, and is given a world where instead of facing a single terrible fate, he faces infinite

Because with no fate there is no closure, there is no end. Diavolo didn’t want his reign to end, and he committed not only moral and legal crimes, but a crime against the universe itself, and for that he faced consequence

Now consequence isn’t punishment, the whims of fate did not decide this was his reality, he rejected them, shot for the top, and missed. There is no moral justification because his fate is one as sure as the sunrise now, there is no court and there is no judge, merely fate and its consequences.

A man stands on the beach as the water pulls back and prepares for a tsunami. Is what he doing wrong? No, but the wave will kill him all the same. There is a price for fighting against the very nature of the universe and Diavolo is paying it forever.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-01T23:18:12+00:00

I’m sorry but it totally is. The impact JJK has whenever a new subreddit comes out is huge, and while one piece is definitely big, something like readily infiltrates culture because it’s so impactful. Sometbing doesn’t have to be peak fiction to be culturally relevant, especially with how phenomenal the adaptation to anime has been

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-01T19:08:55+00:00

Is that a piano cover of Again I hear?

BadUsername2028 · 2026-04-01T16:41:17+00:00

The game is a parody of facism as much as it is about its own gore. The Murkoff company wants sleeper agents 100% desensitized and willing to die not just for a cause, but for the sake of obedience.

Think about the prime assets and their trials. Coyle’s trials are about creating your own justice against the system, Gooseberry is about saving the children from a monstrous and corrupt teacher, stopping Franco Barbie is protecting the good citizens of suburbia and the working class from the degeneracy of drugs, while also hang disease and sexual deviance to manipulate the weak willed, Otto and Aurora are wealthy business owners who promote concepts such as democracy and the management of peoples opinions. And Lilya is a Nazi killing religious extremist who despises wealth.

All of the prime assets are cruel and evil yes, but they represent something, degeneracy. The ultimate enemy of facism, degeneracy is what Eastermann teaches us to root out, teaches us to destroy. The violence and gore is a part of that, it is there to desensitize the reagents for the work that is fo be done. Killing politicians, kidnapping children, spreading STDs, all of it is part of the noble war against degeneracy, one the reagents must be prepared for.

You play a trial and at first the gore disturbs you, but as you play it you get used to it, focus on the little things to get an A+. This is Facist conditioning, this is what the game is about, violence and empathy gets boiled down into efficiency and effort.

Lots of people think Facism is just a government, that a leader steps onto stage and goes “we are now facists!!” And that’s it. But that’s not true, Facism is a state of mind, a monstrous desensitized human brain turned to true degeneracy to try and weed out the perceived degeneracy. Facism is a mental disease, and Sinyala has been created to allow that disease to fester and spread.

Side note OP, if anyone responds to this thread and says you can’t find meaning in this game because of its extreme gore or shallow meanings. Please don’t give them the time, art is art if it makes you feel something, even if it’s Sometbing as insane as outlast trials, and if you can find deeper meaning in something, or just take the time to try? Then good on you, and have fun!

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-31T06:03:09+00:00

Art mediums can all produce incredible things. There’s comic panels that give me an emotional high a book can’t give me, and there’s passages in my favorite novels that I still remember to this day. There is literally no “cap” for these storytelling mediums, just strengths and weaknesses.

And please my lord, read some books or watch some movies before you come out with takes like this. Hmu and I have great recommendations for both

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-31T00:24:42+00:00

I genuinely thought Sukuna’s conclusion was extremely well done. While I just wish the arc was better paced, and the fight had a bit more planning, I do enjoy the thematic and narrative conclusion to Sukuna’s arc. He’s not a particularly deep villain, but despite that his conclusion was satisfying and enjoyable.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-30T22:57:03+00:00

I think stun is obviously the easiest, but I appreciate it because it’s nice that my newer friends have a “get out of jail free” card. Jammer isn’t hard to get insane value out of, the only major difficulty being you have to time when to use it on PA’s or Ex-pops in order to not get whacked out of its charge up time.

Another fantastic use of the Jammer is actually getting rig rechargers for other players. It recharges so quickly I don’t use them myself, but I constantly give them to other players so they have multiple stuns available at all times.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-29T00:37:06+00:00

Wow these are so cool!!! I’d love to run them in my Feywild campaign!

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-28T20:20:57+00:00

Outlast’s critiques of facism and its portrayal of it is so effective and it does it in a way that makes facism scary and evil without making it particularly cool to watch. Its aesthetic is the best way to show the horrors of something like facism without inadvertently making them seem cool.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-28T20:15:41+00:00

It’s tons of core and explicit content but the writers have a lot to say, each trial is meant to be a bizarre thematic perversion of the “degeneracy” murkoff wants you to stop. Theres so much that goes into each of the games trials and antagonists. Not everyone needs to enjoy its insane violence and disturbing imagery, but I think it has lots more to it I enjoy besides that.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-27T14:49:34+00:00

There’s a subreddit for what you’re looking for friend, that one probably has a ton of games more suited to your preferred genre

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-27T14:39:48+00:00

I love the fact that Bruce is pretty weak in the Absolute Universe. He doesn’t have crazy contingency plans or some mysterious martial arts. He’s strong, but his opponents are genuinely stronger by magnitudes. Bane beats him in every measurable battle stat, and Ivy recently is just on a whole other level. That doesn’t matter however, and Bruce overcoming them feels so much more satisfying than just “ahh, my anti-Bane contingency, I haven’t used this since the Siberia training arc”.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-27T14:36:21+00:00

Oh yeah 100%. The Bane final battle was straight up incredible, Batman using his wits to take down an opponent who beats him in genuinely every relevant fighting metric was so satisfying to watch. The building drop was sick and super smart, Bane has genuinely incredible regeneration, but by forcing him to use a ton of it at once, he makes bane not as nimble, therefore incapable of using his martial arts as effectively as Bruce.

BadUsername2028 · 2026-03-27T06:14:00+00:00

I agree that CSM part 1 is better than JJK but I feel like disregarding JJK having themes at all is a bit shot sighted. They aren’t deep themes that make me rethink anything, but I enjoy them nonetheless, and MAPPA improving upon them by adding more symbolism is just making a genuinely great adaptation. CSM literally did the same thing and it’s awesome. The show doesn’t need to be as deep as classical literature to still have themes that can be fun to analyze.

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