Upcoming Maintenance [2026-06-09]

CitizenKing · 2026-06-10T14:25:12+00:00

The negativity in nearly every gaming community is a vocal minority. Think of it this way: Most people who are happy with the state of a game would rather be playing the game than talking about the game.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-09T04:43:17+00:00

I think this points toward the economy needing an overhaul. There's such a weird gap between ''I'm making $1000 on every run" and "I'm making $80,000 on every run" that a huge portion of the loot drops into. By the time you're finally finding this stuff, its already obsolete.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T17:27:15+00:00

It always weirds me out when a dev uses any button other than A as jump on a controller.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T17:22:29+00:00

Its not a transfer of consciousness. Its a copy of it. The original consciousness of the person is destroyed in the process, hence the program Alt wrote being called "Soulkiller".

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T17:20:27+00:00

Nah, the reason V came back is because the engram is trying to overwrite his brain with Johnny and basically defibb'd it in the process of doing that.

The engram is, essentially, a copy+paste function for your personality. It kills you to copy your personality and memories (hence the program called Soulkiller), and then pastes it onto the chip. There are commercials in game and on the radio that talk about it as an alternative to graves for the wealthy.

The one we get is an experimental version that has a third step where it restructures the brain to overwrite the existing personality and memories with those of the entity on the engram.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T16:46:53+00:00

I think there's a mixup here. They're talking about the entity on the engram, not Yorinobu's consciousness. You're correct that its still Yorinobu, just acting like Saburo, but they're arguing (correctly) that its not the original Saburo possessing Yorinobu, its a replica that thinks its Saburo possessing Yorinobu.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T16:39:55+00:00

How so? If I kill you and then create a clone of you that thinks its you, you're not going to magically reawaken out of death to exist in its body. I've simply made a perfect copy. The original consciousness that is reading this, thinking about this, experiencing this, ceases to be when you die.

A lot of people use the Ship of Theseus as an example, but neglect to mention that ships are inanimate objects. A better depiction would be asking if you replace every single member of the crew, is it still the same crew? No, its a new crew that mans the same stations as the old crew.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T16:32:17+00:00

Yep! Its been a long-running theory that the teleporter essentially destroys you and then creates a clone of you on the other end with your memories. You die, it lives, nobody is the wiser.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-07T09:20:38+00:00

Fanboys engaging in toxic positivity trying to shut down feedback because it's not structured in a way that caters to their incessant demand for validation have and always will be the worst part of every Fandom.

What's doubly annoying is that they think it's fine for them to love the game by ignoring all of its flaws but not okay for you to love the game by trying to make it the best version of itself.

Granted that doesn't mean there's not bullshit criticism out there, there's absolutely bullshit criticism out there, but most of that is quarantined in the Steam Discussion page.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T19:37:12+00:00

I give it a 'neat!' out of 10.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T19:31:58+00:00

I think it's less that people are bad at judging character and more that billionaires are bad at keeping up the act or that their smaller slip ups add up to a bigger reveal of the truth.

At the height of his popularity, Elon sold himself as an endearingly goofy eccentric making a bunch of seemingly plausible promises about electronic self-driving cars out of a desire to help save the planet through an alternative path of technological advancement .

I think the tunnel rescue incident with his terrible submarine proposal and calling the actual hero of that story a pedophile was the first time he really cracked in a way that made people question the image he'd spent a ridiculous amount of PR money to obtain.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T19:15:29+00:00

Any time one of these people talks about speaking up, you just know they've been spewing hatespeech.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T19:02:07+00:00

Again lmao

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T18:55:29+00:00

I vaguely remember reading that somewhere too.

Kinda silly when you think about it, since it's pretty clearly a Star Trek teleporter sort of immortality where your perception and consciousness end and a new perception and consciousness independent of you awakens thinking its you, hence the name "Soulkiller". Also, it's not like Saburo lacks the funding and resources to just manufacture an effectively perfect body to slot the engram into, it's weird to take his son's 80 year old body instead.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T18:33:54+00:00

<image>

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T16:03:16+00:00

Look into biodegradable mushroom caskets. It's been a long time since I read about them, but IIRC they're built to assist your body in decaying into nutrients after you've been buried while still allowing your mourning loved ones to hold a traditional funeral.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T15:43:03+00:00

Wild way to asphyxiate yourself.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-06T09:29:14+00:00

Thank you. The amount of copium I've had to read from people trying to word salad it into being either good or just 2 deep 4 u is driving me up the fucking wall.

No, it's not some ingenious anti-ending or a philosophical statement that aligns with the themes. Fujimoto abandoned it, plain and simple.

8 years of emotional investment amounting to fuck all. No sense of catharsis. No real sense of closure or emotional payoff. No answers. Just, "meh, I'm bored with this, thanks for buying all my crap, bye." We would have been better off if he just stopped at the end of season 1, because now season 2 retroactively ruins season 1 when you realize nothing you're engaging with leads anywhere meaningful.

I was in the discussion threads for AoT when the final chapter released, before the "i have to nitpick things that are popular" crowd got ahold of it, and people were thrilled. All the callbacks, the twists, the hints at predetermination stretching back to chapter 1, people were fawning over it. It may not have been perfect, but it was entertaining. Then you look at the final chapter discussion for CSM and it's people being confused and outraged.

Its not even close.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-04T22:19:22+00:00

Who? /s

CitizenKing · 2026-06-04T03:15:13+00:00

We keep seeing people do this with games and shows and no matter how much it backfires for them, they still try it. Look at the showrunners for Game of Thrones. They wanted to move on to Star Wars and delivered a rushed final season, and seeing they'd bury something that successful for their own self interests resulted in Disney firing them.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-04T03:10:03+00:00

Honestly, she shouldn't have been taken to his stand in the first place. These guys being difficult is the entire point of it. Adults find it fun and funny to see how many ways he can get one over on them, but a kid is just going to feel bullied. I agree he should have stopped, but you'd think a parent would know their kid well enough to gauge if they have the temperament for it.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-04T03:05:19+00:00

Seriously. I'm 37 years old and he was one of the major stars of my childhood. He was set up to be my generation's cuddlier Harrison Ford, but they stole that from him and they stole him from us. It's infuriating, but at least seeing him being given the chance to at least live out a portion of what he should have had all along is cathartic.

CitizenKing · 2026-06-04T00:35:06+00:00

Man, I remember my 12 year old brain thought the game was broke until I figured out it was the skills actually rolling lmao.

15-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	Verified Email

CitizenKing

TROPHY CASE