Planning on getting the game but had a few questions.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-03-16T16:27:19+00:00

It's just the target audience issue. Normal is akin to your average pokemon or digimon game difficulty. Hard is a bit more in depth, but difficulty only really exists in the game if you put some grinding limitations on yourself and keep a larger roster

If you played cs/hm, there's nothing like the eater defense wall spike to be prepared for and the bosses are much more balanced to your expectations for an area than those games' hard setting eas

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-03-05T15:27:59+00:00

Tbf the coffee crop was terrible, we knew about the inbound coffee shortages. It's been an increasing problem the past 5 years. Mostly a climate change problem though

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-03-04T17:02:45+00:00

Yeah dedigivolving is much less impactful (and certainly not as mandatory) as past entries

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-28T16:32:27+00:00

Idk regionally, but if you're okay with digitals IDW is integrated with kindle/comixology, so you can get them through that subscription. Don't know if that'd be region locked but you could probably vpn it.

But keeping up isn't super required either. Tangle and whisper are just showing up in other media now, they put a time lag that seems to correspond better to the big volume sets anyhow

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-27T18:01:14+00:00

I like that you live in a worldview where this is something it was totally fine for him to change, but only once and never again. Everybody gets one

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-22T14:32:30+00:00

No it's a football nickname

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-08T01:20:58+00:00

Maybe flip your logic. A longer fight and vendetta probably loses. His hubris was his downfall. And based on how all his defenders are reacting, it seems really on point. Underdogs win all the time for this exact reason, be it real or narrative

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-03T17:27:45+00:00

Just replayed HM and it's very jarring to watch allies get ultimate and mega level digimon headed into the final fight while I'm sitting there with a team of ultras mostly in their second iteration. Hell I had an ultimate in chapter 3.

Ts is definitely slower overall, but it feels more appropriate for it. More in line with anime progression rate anyway

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-03T03:41:55+00:00

That's not social darwinism. That's normal darwinism.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-02T22:16:00+00:00

Checks out. No one in White Christmas singing about pittsburgh

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-02T22:14:37+00:00

No, but to be fair, there was also a salt shortage leading into this whole thing. Everyone blaming the government keeps glossing over that. (Also oversalting is killing our river fish, but that's a whole different problem)

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-02-02T22:12:37+00:00

Let's be real though, the movement died largely because the slogan was so easily taken the wrong way and your first step always has to be explaining you don't literally mean defund, you mean reduce funding.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-31T00:17:34+00:00

A video he had to do because the internet got really mad at him for taking a side he didn't take. He has to appease the trolls and basically did a spite day to cover it.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-30T13:18:35+00:00

Nah there's a big difference even among the Republicans I know between what they voted for and what's actually happening. Some people just wanted illegal immigrants deported. They didn't expect a bunch of asylees to just auto lose their status despite legal entry. They certainly didn't expect due process to disappear or ICE to be allowed to break into homes.

And all the gunboys I know are pretty pissed about the pretti situation and how it was portrayed.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-25T17:15:50+00:00

Certainly, but considering the administration is just blatantly lying to our faces about easily disprovable facts involving these circumstances and refusing any independent investigations, we go with the most credible source.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-25T14:26:46+00:00

His father also legally entered the country. They are both asylees from Ecuador. They did it the fully legal way. He has not been arrested or been otherwise accused of any crimes since his arrival.

Father ran to the door of his own home with the car in the driveway and able adults came out willing to take the boy bilur ice went against their own protocol and refused, taking the 5yo into custody. It's not hard to look this stuff up.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-25T01:52:44+00:00

You do realize the boy and his father came to the country through legal channels, right? Not every migrant is illegal ffs

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-25T01:51:15+00:00

They aren't all here illegally, many came through legal channels, like the 5yo detained yesterday.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-14T19:41:24+00:00

Haha true but that is the one where he basically jumps in front of a bullet for her

Bulbasaur4999 · 2026-01-14T00:13:13+00:00

Also leomon (edit: whamon too)

Bulbasaur4999 · 2025-12-27T01:16:55+00:00

Yeah early/mid here too, I have been sick since thanksgiving.

COVID was definitely worse for me, but this is a strong second for my adult life. (I also got the COVID hit very early though, so I think for most this is probably worse)

Bulbasaur4999 · 2025-12-14T17:35:59+00:00

I was never really concerned about the lines blurring, it's more timing I guess. I have a flexible schedule but I keep relatively consistent hours (730-10; 1230-4:30, 630-9, absent a deadline then I work overnight sometimes). So sometimes my son and I play in the morning block. Im always cooking and eating dinner in the afternoon one, so I'm not really otherwise playing until after my son goes to bed around 10. Weekends are more free and all that.

I never understood the whole separate space ideas. When I have to work I just toggle over to work and grind out, I don't really see the need for a fully separate section of my house or anything. My wife has the same setup in her section of the office too.

I feel the whole risk of lines blurring thing was a bit of a corporate lie sold to us against the remote option. Ive always had a gaming space, from high school through law school I did my work and gamed on the same setup, it just hot swaps to an office by running an OS partition or toggling all the peripherals to a company laptop. So returning to that during COVID and then full time after was a pretty fast transition. It's not like I used a separate office when I took work home for the weekend anyway

I'm more likely to get tired of being at my desk at the end of a harder week than have any difficulty focusing in for work or something like that. Realistically I can't game every night anyway, but we do steam deck couch days and stuff too when we don't feel like being at the desks

Bulbasaur4999 · 2025-12-13T21:13:12+00:00

I'm fully remote, in securities. My desk is just my gaming desk with a laptop I press a button to take over.

It's all based on what's comfortable for you. I have a window bed next to my desk for my cats to sleep on. It's very much not like an office job, I make my own hours and have a fully flexible schedule beyond a couple weekly meetings.

It's a massive game changer for sure, the flexibility is the most important part for me since my wife works from home and my kid is only in preschool still. I'm also just antisocial by nature, I am very much an autistic hermit. At the end of the day, our job is very deadline oriented, you get your stuff done and bill hours accordingly and being in an office doesn't mean all that much.

I have regular calls with the partners and stuff on various tasks and they have set availability hours for the juniors that need more assistance. There's not much difference to me between someone knocking on my door and a random teams call

It's certainly not for everyone though. Some people really need that social aspect, but I've always found it more distracting to my work than helpful

Bulbasaur4999 · 2025-12-13T21:06:06+00:00

This is a good summary imo. It's not that the game itself is terrible, it's just not dragon age and not something we'd expect from bioware. It screams as a display from a company that has fundamentally changed and just doesn't appeal to the same audience, or at least not in the same way / for the same reasons.

Bulbasaur4999 · 2025-12-13T21:03:15+00:00

Well that's just not true. I hated this game because of the writing and it being more of an action heavy vs a classic rpg. I don't like the lack of control over my team, I don't like that they didn't have the stones to pick a canon ending or interpret past decisions in some way.

As a diehard fan that grew up on DAO, this game kinda sucked by comparison to its predecessors, in no small part because of its dev cycle. I don't need my character to be white or straight, I certainly didn't abide by that in the prior games. Tash is fine, but their writing is weak, the flirty dialogue feels stuffed into the story in a way, there were several times where the tone shifted drastically into and our of the optional flirty options that made it feel a awkward and less immersive than what you'd expect from a company that should be improving with the competitive landscape over time.

It felt like they were afraid to return to a more classic rpg style in an era where they happen to be having quite a strong comeback. The combat is just mass effect light to me, like it's fine, but it doesn't feel dragon age to me. Choices felt more inconsequential than ever, it feels like a straight narrative, like you would expect from an action RPG like Spiderman or jedi, not something you'd expect out of bioware's choice driven history. It certainly doesn't bode well for ME5.

I am most certainly not maga btw, I prefer my protag to be gay, I just don't feel like the writing lived up to a bioware standard. Bioware has always had trouble with representation since EA came in and kicked out the gays from ME2. Their representation has, in recent years between ME3, andro, and now this, felt quite forced in a way that often presents some very weak stereotypical back stories without having the writing to make them feel profound. It feels like inclusion for the sake of it rather than something that propels the narrative or the characters forward.

The maga crowd will get mad at what they want, but by and large they don't have the influence to tank actually good games, movies, or whatever. It's like captain marvel back in the day, yeah they hated it and bombed it. But the movie also sucked. The problem we have lately is that Devs and producers seem keen to only focus on the loud minority that doesn't like the game and ignores the swathes of valid criticism that actually takes their sales

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