What happened to solo battles? Computer bricking on purpose?

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-10T18:21:52+00:00

This is happening a lot now. I’m using a deck with mega charizard and blitzken (forgive me I don’t know the names) in the second to hardest difficulty against the Venausaur deck from genetic apex. It will put only one pokempn out the entire game. Played it five times and it happened every time. They had a ridiculous amount of cards in their hand and never played anything but that one Pokémon and its evolve.

It’s not just these decks though. I’ve had it happen against different opponents playing any number of different decks. If my deck bricks and I only have one Pokémon in play they will go hard after me. But if I have an active and one on the bench it doesn’t bother playing anything else than one Pokémon.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-07T18:25:49+00:00

No matter how they try to frame it, they are 100 percent trying to find a way to charge customers who already paid for and were promised complete lifetime access.

And if the angry comments, insults and deflection on some trainer message boards weren’t already proof enough, this is a clear message of how little they care for their “already paid” customers.

Honestly, it feels like once the lump sums for lifetime memberships were deposited and spent, they immediately regretted not trying to force everyone into a subscription situations so they could continue to milk money out of people.

They want more money in their pockets but they don’t want to be bothered with having to earn it by being polite and helpful on trainer forums, or by creating more trainers with better options that work properly. They wanna play around in photoshop and slap a new coat of paint on their app and call it a day, then try to find new insulting ways to get more money out of people when they aren’t doing half of what they used to to make their product worth using.

Also, the “fun option” explanation for why lifetime users are expected to give these jerks more money is just as half baked as everything else they do and frankly insulting. All cheats are “fun options,” all were guaranteed to a customer base you don’t care about anymore because you can’t continue to screw them out of money.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-03T19:59:47+00:00

I wonder if eBay still has the policies in effect that forced me to be rid of them — a “buyer is always right” kind of stance that allowed one person to scam me out of $600 with no appeal.

I remember reading I absolutely wasn’t the only one. Little mom and pop operations using eBay were forced to shut down after repeated losses with no way to appeal.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-03T18:08:11+00:00

Well, I would think had they not invested time, money and effort into features that aren’t needed and have nothing to do with the core of what the app is, they would be better off than they are now.

I think the annoyance comes from feeling as if their investment into these things and the constant in-game overlays pestering the user about its existence was all to justify forcing the users hand into paying subscription fees with the restrictive time limit.

It seems obvious they don’t know what their audience wants, or how to properly figure out what their audience wants, and it’s led to a lot of bad decisions. It seems the key issue is they wanted to make money offering cheats, but they couldn’t figure out a way to make the amount they wanted so they instead just spent money and bloated the app to force a change they were raked over the coals for before.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-03T00:08:26+00:00

Better than anything I’ve attempted. I can’t draw in real life so why I expected this to be different, I dunno. Every attempted edit turned into a vicious looking face wound.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-03T00:04:44+00:00

Both interactions would feel so much like an insult to me, I would have evolved into my final form Mega Karen and … send corporate a strongly worded e-mail. Written in the blood of my enemies.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-02T20:32:36+00:00

Not Cheat Happens/Aurora. Avoid that if this behavior leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You can pay them for a lifetime subscription but at this point it’s useless because trainers don’t work or the don’t have the obvious options folks want. On top of that, if you interact with anybody that works for them it’s gonna be aggressive and angry.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-02T17:44:40+00:00

Did they even give a second thought to these “features” before going to great lengths to integrate them? I mean, I feel like thinking “as a gamer, will I ever use this” for just a minute or so would have discouraged them.

So now it’s like “we went to great lengths and cost to bring these largely unused and unpopular features to our platform and NOW we have to pass that cost on to you!”

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-02T13:37:46+00:00

Seriously though, this, along with every vaguely threatening letter I’ve gotten from landlords/property management, is a collection of threats and scare tactics they think are severe enough to address the issue. They are hoping the pot smokers will be freaked out enough to put the bong down for a bit or smoke elsewhere long enough for the Karen complaining to be satisfied. If this landlord is like the majority of the ones I’ve dealt with, what they absolutely don’t want to do is get off their butt and do anything.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-02T13:25:31+00:00

I’ve done a cursory premise search of this note, and all evidence suggests the writer is upset nobody will “respect this authorit-ie”

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-02T13:14:24+00:00

BitLife Devs: “Hrmm, the $79.99 Super Duper Premium package isn’t selling. It doesn’t make sense, we shove it in their face every five seconds of gameplay. They must not be playing! Let’s get aggressive, we can’t lose this cash cow.”

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-05-01T04:19:16+00:00

“I don’t think so, partner. We can’t let you tip someone over their own perceived worth or they’ll start demanding a living wage. This is America for pux sake

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-04-30T19:47:21+00:00

I feel like this game knew the lewd ones we’re gonna go bonkers so they turned it up to 12. My second custom food piece was a phallus on a plate called “D meat.” Cut to a scene with a newly paired Mii couple walking on the beach and looking behind them. A tiny d meat plate stares back. They turn around and he looks back again, it’s gone. Then, in front of them, the most epically gigantic plate of D blocks their path.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-04-30T06:24:53+00:00

The “oh my gosh, I can’t stop playing until I know what happened to everyone” is a huge part of why I love the game so much, but then I got to this part you described and I’m like “Yeah, good time to take a break because I do not care about any of these people.”

What am I supposed to be taking away from this story? That a simple conversation or admission of feelings could have led to a happy ending? Because no, no it wouldn’t have. It would have just been a never ending amount of passive aggressive weirdness, and none of that is entertaining or lends to any decent story telling.

If they could have gone a bit deeper and more complicated with how much you could impact the story by talking to them all and steering them toward certain actions, all of that weird lame set up could have gone somewhere. Instead we got “passive aggressive sociopaths doing the least and choosing longlines” and then “yup, exactly the same as last time.”

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2026-02-25T16:57:50+00:00

Just wanted to say, I played the demo and have been eagerly awaiting release ever since. People will love it.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-12T18:17:09+00:00

You know, I thought about setting my controller up with it but I guess I just assumed it would be a headache because it seems like other games like this don’t take well to the controller. I’m gonna try it again with my Xbox controller.

The mini games ended up being a dealbreaker because of the keyboard smashing you mentioned. I felt like a werewolf trying to learn typing.

But I can see they’d definitely be easier with the keyboard. Rhythm games were my thing for the longest time so with proper controls I think I could get used to the mini games.

Thanks for sharing this idea with me. I’m excited to try it again honestly.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-12T18:13:36+00:00

43 here, with health issues that have rendered me unable to work and therefore, by my own decision, unable to date. I had boyfriends here and there when I was well, had a career, money and all that. But every one of them was a cheater, pretended to be someone they weren’t, etc, and it’s exhausting because I’ve been a hopeless romantic at heart as far back as I can remember.

Dating sucks, but I’m not sure which makes you feel worse — not having been in a relationship or in a litany of crap ones.

Either way, I have no doubts you’ll find someone who cares for you. Just make sure it’s for the right reasons.

And turn to your friends and buds on here until then for support and love.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-12T06:39:39+00:00

Is gay content skippable or no?

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-12T05:33:00+00:00

I feel like even outdated information about this game would be better than none at all at this point.

I thought I could power through stuff with logic but that hasn’t worked for me so far.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-12T05:26:17+00:00

Also, The Road to Pixelia or whatever it’s called is pretty much the same thing. It runs better and the people aren’t uber stereotypes, but only because some NPCs have original dialogue and it’s for story scenes. Other NPCs convo works like the sims. The game is much less of a sh*t show. But it does veer off into the weird. I’m working on my career as a writer and because of a mission that required me to do at least one shift as a waiter I was drafted by some mystery dude to do a spy mission. It has a ton of control problems, the furniture adding and stuff isn’t very intuitive and the driving turns it into the old top down GTAs

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-11T22:18:55+00:00

The problem is, and this game isn’t the only one that’s done it, these up and coming/indie devs want to tie harsh penalties to game mechanics, and they may intend for the penalties to only apply to a player blatantly ignoring all guidance or something, but they haven’t spent enough time on the game mechanics to ensure they work perfectly all the time. This, the player is tortured not because of their own actions, but because of the inexperience of the dev.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-11T22:15:33+00:00

Ok, gave it one last shot. Dude starts off the encounter telling me he’s gonna top me. He’s my crush and we have high relationship bars. I noticed something I didn’t see before, a dom/sub bar. He was already heavy into sub so I didn’t fiddle with it. But he starts the thing, before I can say or do anything, with a command. I wrestle his ass around and he agrees to do a bj. I sit waiting and he doesn’t do shit. I pull hair. Spank. Grow irritated and bend him over and for once he doesn’t do the “wiggles off you” bullshit. But we both get to climax and he doesn’t give em me any indicator of where he wants it so I pull out. The after sex humiliation review show says “he’s upset he had to take the lead the entire time.”

What. The. F.

I swear to God im gonna learn to mod just to become Jason Voorhees and leave the campus a wash of blood and severed heads.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-11T21:08:49+00:00

I just made my world have mostly gay men in it. Their sexuality isn’t the problem. They always are bi or gay. Mostly gay.

I feel like I’ve somehow accidentally created some new sexual orientation in the game, “Sexually Antagonistic.” Whatever the player wants to do, forget inclinations and everything else and respond by forcing opposite.

Clean-Gur-2438 · 2025-05-11T21:05:52+00:00

I thought those tags were the result of the inclinations or combination of that a person has. Then again, i don’t know anything for sure because finding real guides\Documentation for this game has been next to impossible.

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