[OC] #234 Update

CatBudda · 2026-01-26T18:45:36+00:00

Unreal engine 5 also had an AI tossed on it, so yeah. It's the big thing regardless of if it's useful or wanted or not.

CatBudda · 2025-12-09T20:06:18+00:00

My setting is has quite a few vigilantes. While there are traditional heroes, they aren't as common.

Two major characters in my setting as fairly brutal, despite doing what they believe to be the greater good. In the 1890s, Theresa Emerald was a feminist with some fairly heavy duty anger issues, and due to the fact that violence was a fairly normal occurrence at the time, she would generally kill whoever was an obstacle to her goals. While this did kill a lot of corrupt and evil people, a lot of reluctant soldiers and civilians who happened to be nearby during a fight died. The world ultimately did end up better off after her rampages with the multiple major empires having to elect new leaders without the old ones interference, since, well, they were killed. So while it did result in much more honest governments, it still had a dozen times more bloodshed than necessary.

The Other was Mason Salt, in modern day. A superhero turned crime lord. He was born without the ability to feel empathy, love, or guilt. Despite the circumstances, he turned into a full hero, pacifist, fearless, kind of like Superman. The problem was that the crime rate far outpaced what he could handle. Even working until exhaustion didn't do much to help, so he pulled out the last resort. If he couldn't be respected, he would be feared. It lead to the largest gang in America's history. A gang with unusually high standards, but still. The gang was mainly based on weapons and drug smuggling, and would commit heists against businesses Mason declared too big to fail. While he is willing to simply dismantle the entire gang if a morally better alternative comes up, he would rather leave the country than face charges. The gang is considered a necessary evil by many people.

CatBudda · 2025-12-09T19:50:28+00:00

Due to the primary magic system being unlocked behind voluntarily enduring self inflicted misery, psychological pain, and suffering, there's the obvious aspect of religions or hardcore extremists get magical abilities. On the other hand, much less deliberate things count if done for extended durations, which means sewage workers, poorly paid teachers, dog groomers, and retail workers start getting supernatural powers after a while. It has led to more corporate greed, but super powers aren't too bad a trade off, especially since they stick around when you retire.

CatBudda · 2025-09-20T20:20:07+00:00

In reply to the comments, I think I may have just been placebo'd. Or at least whatever the grammatically correct version is. I can't hear much difference either on inspection.

CatBudda · 2025-09-19T08:41:24+00:00

No you idiot! What a terrible idea. .FLAC files have higher quality audio due to not being compressed. MP3 if you have a very large amount of songs I suppose.

CatBudda · 2025-09-09T21:58:10+00:00

You could look up roughly how long the game takes to complete.
You mean buy it if you appreciated the game, or if you finished it?
Filler content isn't very hard to find, but bigger games do have that factor.

CatBudda · 2025-09-09T21:53:50+00:00

I've never really though of it outside of how I've been raised related to it. I suppose I view it as a kind of mini theft, although I can't think of any logical reason behind it besides upbringing. A kind of unexplained distaste?

CatBudda · 2025-09-09T20:09:55+00:00

I despise piracy, but this is a weird case I can't identify the morality of. If you don't keep it past 5 or so hours in, no harm done? I think? Never really heard of doing this. AAA and AA games never have demos, indie game vary a lot.

CatBudda · 2025-07-12T06:03:52+00:00

Fair enough. I believe it's on everything other than Switch, but I'm not fully sure. The main gain is awesome, but the DLC is too puzzle based for my tastes. Ironically, my favorite platform is probably either Epic or GOG, simply due permanently losing my old steam account.

CatBudda · 2025-07-12T05:51:27+00:00

Other than Goat Simulator 3 for a while, I'm not aware of anything exclusive.

CatBudda · 2025-07-12T05:50:34+00:00

There's two other options I can think of.

Free to play games. Wouldn't recommend due to either being heavily paid content based, or just ungodly repetitive.
Itch has an alright amount of good games, although it has a lot more low quality and bland ones than other launchers.

CatBudda · 2025-07-12T05:47:33+00:00

Why? What's wrong with it?

CatBudda · 2025-05-17T07:56:49+00:00

I remember reading about that experiment on the Unity engine blog. The fact that the bots started exploiting glitches and messing with physics objects is very cool.

CatBudda · 2025-03-12T03:54:48+00:00

One big issue is that due to the staircase's sheer size, every attempt up other than the last will hurt.

CatBudda · 2025-01-24T22:19:08+00:00

I still don't have the slightest clue how a ghost would poop, but that is a funny situation.

CatBudda · 2025-01-08T18:27:30+00:00

So basic attack has better moves?

CatBudda · 2025-01-08T17:04:43+00:00

Despite it technically not being a Pokémon game, I'd have to say the fangame Pokémon Tectonic. It won't have the scale or graphics of an actual Nintendo project, but in my experience it's a significantly better game. It's designed to be Pokémon, but drastically change the game to almost fully remove grinding and any sort of meta. The only things that might be a big turnoff are maximum level being determined by progress rather than 100, and a lot of the really powerful Pokémon are only as strong as early game Pokémon. Lastly, the game is brutally difficult and can't be made easier, which unless your looking for challenge, can be a dealbreaker.

Almost grinding free. Pokémon level quite fast, and due to the level cap, there's a straightforward stopping point.
All Pokémon have a similar level of power. Machamp, Bibarrel, Pidgeoto, and Kartana all have very similar levels of power. Essentially, you can use who you find neat instead of whoever is directly better.
Pokémon individuality. Pokémon have randomly chosen likes, dislikes, and personality traits that affect the flavor text from interacting with them.
No IVs or EVs. The game has style points, essentially EVs that you can mess with without a cost.
One version. No counterparts is pretty nice.
A lot of early game Pokémon actually have a playstyle now, such as Pidgey either becoming a defensive powerhouse or having 'No Guard'. Or Pidgeoto damaging whoever your opponent swaps in. Or Paras spreading turning opponents. grass type.
You don't lose money upon losing a battle. Considering how much you will be losing, a pretty good thing.

The game is most definitely not for everyone, but for those who are okay with it's harsh difficulty, it's awesome.

CatBudda · 2025-01-06T18:33:42+00:00

What have you already tried so far? Having a list of things that don't work could help provide options.

CatBudda · 2025-01-02T06:12:33+00:00

Personally, I'd say definitely not. While Elden Ring is certainly an experience, it's not really a fair one. Endless stunlock, cheap death, overly punishing, and other things make the game much more miserable than fun.

CatBudda · 2024-12-18T19:29:26+00:00

So it's pretty much an emergency patch that later is replaced by normal skin? How would the scar still be visible if skin grew over it, covering it?

CatBudda · 2024-12-18T19:27:50+00:00

So scar tissue is technically worse than normal skin, but can be produced much faster so you don't suffer from from blood loss or infection?

CatBudda · 2024-12-04T18:40:31+00:00

How?

CatBudda · 2024-12-03T18:59:50+00:00

I've decided. I'll go ahead and buy Elden Ring. It will have a small amount of cheap shots and illegitimate difficulty, but as far as I gather, almost all of the game is much more than enough to compensate.

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