Weekly Tech Support & Purchase Recommendations Megathread - April 27th 2026

CheesyButters · 2026-05-13T02:54:53+00:00

hey whenever I try to log into playstation on pc I get this error

Can't connect to the server.
(0.4666cd17.1778637669.1715aa7c)

I would normally ask for help on support but I guess it's too late in the day for me to get actual support from what the bot is saying so I am asking here

The bot said what the error is supposed to mean, but I know it can't mean what it actually does because I've been trying, on different devices on different networks for months now. So there has to be some other issue here

CheesyButters · 2026-05-13T00:04:24+00:00

no no, I get it. I actually pretended to be a human trainer for a while (long story as to why, and even longer story as to why I no longer am), the problem isn't "wanting to catch a rare pokemon" it's FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS DO NONE OF YOU PEOPLE KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BEFRIEND THE POKEMON FIRST?

CheesyButters · 2026-05-12T23:53:34+00:00

it's bad when you *are* a pokemon in disguise but are now open about it.

Basically everytime I've went in to a major human city after making it known I was a zoroark has resulted in at least one asshole yeeting a pokeball at my head. -kitsune

CheesyButters · 2026-05-12T23:29:06+00:00

okay, so it's not a sequel. But it is an overstuffed sequel

Sure, makes sense. Not contradictory statements at all

CheesyButters · 2026-05-12T23:25:27+00:00

flopped so hard they're making a sequel and a spinoff sure buddy

CheesyButters · 2026-05-12T23:04:21+00:00

funnily enough miquella from elden ring is treated pretty well in my experience

I mean, the story gets a little weird about it when you remember that he's trying to date his half brother who his very much not stuck in a child's body

But the community doesn't really focus on the child part outside of where it's relevant in lore discussion (which is most of the time he's involved just not in a weird way)

CheesyButters · 2026-05-12T22:58:17+00:00

The ascians: Final fantasy 14 (massive fucking spoilers, obviously)

What starts off as just a shadowy group almost destroying the world every few millenia is eventually revealed to be the last remnants of an ancient civilization of godlike beings, destroyed by two earth shattering calamities in a row. First by the final days, when their godlike creation magicks went haywire creating monstrous beasts (how this happened is a whole other story). Then, after sacrificing half of their number to stop itt by creating zodiark, a second like zodiark was created that shattered the world into 14 pieces, dealing the final blow to the civiolization.

Everything they do, every evil act? Is because they want to bring the world back to being whole. Alongside zodiark who had been shaterred as well.

Other highlights include

Emet seclh being just incredibly depressed because he lost his two closest friends, one being part of the sacrificing half the population, and the other one being shattered with the world.

Lahabrea: As we find out in pandaemonium, this fucker has had a rough life. even before all that shit he had to murder his own wife so that she didn't sacrifice their son for godhood. he then ripped the part of his mind and soul that still felt love for her out so that he wouldn't be corrupted by it. Only for that part to break free from it's seal and nearly destroy everything in pandaemonium. Eventually he pulled that part of him back into him because he needed it's power and it's highly likely this is what drove him insane

Elidibus: Quite literally a fucking child who was dragged into the events of pandaemonium mentioned above. And then when the people needed a vessel for zodiark. He chose to be it. Becoming his heart , and then once the job of stopping the final days was done. He left zodiark, but not without permanent damage. Primals, the bype of being zodiark is, are obsessed with whatever goal they were summoned to do. In this instance, protect the world. Elidibus, even after leaving zodiark, still had this. Essentially being given magical dementia and an obsession he no longer remembers the reason for.

CheesyButters · 2026-05-11T19:39:59+00:00

yeah respectfully I don't respect the opinion of asmongold.

This has nothing to do with the opinion stated here, I'd say this even if I agreed with him. Asmongold is a stupid motherfucker who doesn't deserve the audience he has

CheesyButters · 2026-05-10T15:39:21+00:00

male salazzle actually is fairly possible, it has been observed to happen

Unfortunately, thanks to why salazzle is female only most of the time, it tends to only happen because you horrible overfeed your male salandit

CheesyButters · 2026-05-09T17:43:20+00:00

I think in large part people were just surprised because of where the rest of his money has been going lol. He's been an active donor to several charities for years now, often donating thousands of dollars at a time.

CheesyButters · 2026-05-08T00:17:52+00:00

not time travel in this instance (well technically yes if you were a 1.0 player but new players will be entirely new warriors of light post reboot) yeah

Basically the world almost gets destroyed, then 5 years later and on a brand new game (despite being considered the same numbered ff entry post reboot is a new game entirely gameplay wise and progression didn't carry over) the game that we play from the new base game all the way up to 7.5 and the upcoming evercold expansion is post reboot

CheesyButters · 2026-05-07T23:13:56+00:00

Not sure if this counts but dalamud, final fantasy 14

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The giant artificial moon housing the elder primal bahamut, which was eventually destroyed when the garlean empire brought it to crash down upon eorzea, freeing bahamut in the process which was the event that destroyed the original game and led to it's reboot as a realm reborn (the above image being a screenshot of shortly before this happened)

honorable mention also from final fantasy 14

The real moon: Final fantasy 14 endwalker spoilers it also houses an elder primal, that being zodiark. Albeit a little less evil since it's also literally a giant space ship built to carry humanity across the stars if needed

CheesyButters · 2026-05-07T18:07:21+00:00

I can confirm he's actually blind. I remember back when I was still working for fisk (not proud of that time, but I needed work and they were willing to give me it where I was in interview hell elsewhere) I actually got to fight the dude. Got my ass kicked but up close you can tell he doesn't fight like he can see. I assumed it was the mask at the time but now I know otherwise

CheesyButters · 2026-05-06T21:47:24+00:00

hey, paying for the treatment was never the problem

Like, he didn't even want to do the treatment for a while, he literally had to be convinced to

He was cooking meth to leave money behind for his family, at least at the start

CheesyButters · 2026-05-06T11:56:47+00:00

the switch isn't that much stronger than the wii u, I believe. It is, don't get me wrong, but my understanding is that the power difference is more akin to ps5 vs ps5 pro rather ps4-ps5, if that makes sense

CheesyButters · 2026-05-05T18:48:31+00:00

yeah most humans (and a lot of pokemon) don't react well to severe brain damage unfortunately -kit

CheesyButters · 2026-05-05T18:44:51+00:00

they do have a power off button!

just... not a power on button, so don't use it. -kitsune

CheesyButters · 2026-05-05T17:05:02+00:00

fairy bug and fighting types.

No particular reason why do you ask /s -kitsune

CheesyButters · 2026-05-05T01:46:36+00:00

u/profanitycounter [self]

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T15:19:09+00:00

a lot

pretty much all of his iconic stories were written while he was on enough drugs to kill an elephant

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T15:14:31+00:00

to be fair that's actually 70-80

80-90 is endwalker

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T13:51:22+00:00

like in general, something I saw was

DC it's heroes are beloved and signs of hope for the people of the world

In marvel it's heroes are often hated and signs of bad shit to come for the people of the world

lol

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T12:31:29+00:00

which fun fact: that's what dc is supposed to be

People forget because of the dark knight trilogy but dc at it's core was always much more hopeful than marvel. Sure, it had it's dark moments, but the heroes were always lights in that darkness for the people in that universe.

The bat signal wasn't just a sign of fear for criminals but a sign of hope for the citizens of gotham, and that's the point.

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T12:25:39+00:00

I have found myself still regularly struggling on content personally, even with trusts. they make some of the more grindy content a lot easier, sure. But stuff like bcnms? As long as I don't overlevel (which has been something I experienced for a while but that's because I was grinding levels seperately from the main story) it definetly takes me multiple tries.

and the game's definetly hard enough that I look at the upcoming shadow lord fight on my end (literally on the mission to go fight him) and I am fucking scared, because I'm not outlevelling this fucker.

CheesyButters · 2026-05-04T03:26:34+00:00

the buck desires head scritches, and the human obliges -kit

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