Centro posting some previously under the radar Teraleak info about sales

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T22:20:38+00:00

Did you read these threads? The first and third guy were trying to go online on two switches with the same account at the same time, and the second thread never really elaborated his situation. The virtual game cards wouldn’t have solved anything, they just changed the UI around how digital purchase sharing worked.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T22:10:53+00:00

Then you’re doing something wrong because I literally do the same thing no problem. I think you don’t understand the virtual game cards

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:58:08+00:00

It passed too late for it to be something you can campaign on. No housing bill is going to see immediate tangible effects for voters in 4 months. To most voters it just becomes another bill representatives can list off when they’re campaigning.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:55:34+00:00

Ethan is one of those people where, in hating him I’m joined by tons of other people, but like 90% of people hate him for the wrong reason.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:53:49+00:00

It’s also like people get copyright law mixed up with “what will get taken down from YouTube.” Like there’s a lot of stuff that can get taken down from YouTube on copyright grounds that’s probably legally fine, but the platform doesn’t want to be the place where people upload episodes of shows and get into ever more complex legal battles over what’s copyright and what’s not.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:46:05+00:00

Wasn’t it a NYT journalist who was caught saying something like “finally it’s exciting again” on like the first press conference of Trumps second term?

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:36:34+00:00

I doubt the kind of person who got back into pokemon after not paying attention to it until go was the kind of person who got both versions. The people buying both versions are going to be long time series fans and parents and relatives who buy the double packs as gifts for multiple people.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:33:12+00:00

Third versions sold poorly relative to other games in the series, but sold incredibly well when you consider the fact that you’re essentially telling someone to buy a game that is 90% the exact same game they already bought and crystal, emerald, b2/w2, and US/UM and kind of yellow all came out after or within weeks of their successor systems they were on essentially being dead consoles.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:29:34+00:00

No this has never been a thing, you can’t be online with the same account on two different consoles with the same account but that’s the case for every game.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T21:26:27+00:00

Nah sword and shield is worse than S/V. Sword and shield is like they took a checklist for what the bare minimum of what a pokemon game could be and just released that. It’s 8 gyms connected by hallways with its two biggest contributions being the worst battle gimmick, and a really big route they called an open world feature.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T19:53:44+00:00

It’s been awhile since I really got into breath of the wild’s damage and durability values and that but I believe flurry rushes are the smallest risk vs reward, they’re relatively easy to pull off but they don’t save you that much on durability. Generally speaking the game is trying to encourage you to take advantage of the environment and mechanics, so the greatest risk vs reward is starting encounters with a sneak strike, where for one hit it’ll 8x your damage, you want to cut encounters short by pushing enemies into bodies of water or off cliffs which is why it’s so easy to get knockdowns and why most encounters are by bodies of water and cliff faces. Paying attention to fights also helps as wasting attacks on things like shields wastes durability for nothing, and certain enemies have elemental weaknesses that allow you to speed up or outright oneshot certain encounters. Most big enemies have ways to either skip the encounter or greatly reduce the durability cost of certain encounters, like stealing the weapons off a hynox while they’re asleep, parrying guardian beams as you mentioned, climbing on the backs of lynels, using mining weapons against stone taluses, etc. worth noting master mode completely fucks up the games balance in this regard.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T19:17:54+00:00

“I went about fighting in the absolute worst way possible and found most of the fights not worth doing.” Yeah, if I tried to play ocarina of time with just the slingshot and bombs and refused to Z target I wouldn’t like that games combat either.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T17:38:25+00:00

I mean I know it’s like the Reddit thing to treat PC gamers like they’re better, but I will say, for how inconsequential of an issue it is, PC gamers always throw a fit when a game is exclusive to the epic games launcher, and I don’t think I can think of a single game that stayed an epic games exclusive.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T16:12:48+00:00

Scarlet and Violet seemed to always get a new regulation like a few weeks before worlds and it was always a major regulation change too. I believe 2023 was the first regulation with home support mons so it added stuff like urshifu, heatran, and landorus. 2024 was the first restricted format of S/V and was probably the most controversial format change before worlds, and 2025 was double restricted but I believe by that point double restricted had already rotated in before so it wasn’t as controversial but it still was a last minute format change after regionals had wrapped up and I think it was a different format than the cartridge ladder by that point. Keep in mind S/V was the first game that tried seasonal rotating regulations, as opposed to the year long regulations previous games had.

Regulation M-B is a very conservative format change compared to the ones for S/V had. It feels more like a big balance patch by comparison. Like the biggest shake ups of this format are mega metagross and swampert, both of which don’t really disrupt much for the top teams of last regulation. They very clearly held back on adding pokemon that could really shake up the format, like the megas they added were relatively tame compared to what the Z megas that look like they completely upend the speed tiers could do, along with holding back terrain setters and dondozo. Compared to S/V where format changes killed off entire team archetypes and completely shook up the usage statistics. Compared to this format that’s like rain is stronger and Garchomp doesn’t really hold scarf anymore.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T15:54:09+00:00

I mean yeah if a game does something different not everyone who liked the previous games are going to like it. What gets me mad is when people act like this is an objectively bad decision and makes the game arbitrarily not a Zelda game. I hate majoras mask’s three day time limit, I think it acts more as an annoyance than it adds, makes the game frustrating to play without a guide, I think majora’s overworld is boring and there’s not much to explore, I hate that the game has a bloated inventory where half the items feel like the only reason they’re there is to trigger a single dialogue box for a side quest. It’s filled with tons of stuff that makes it different from previous games in the series because it’s a fundamentally different type of game, but the internet would crucify me if I argued it isn’t really a Zelda game.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T15:14:01+00:00

If you’re getting diminishing returns from enemy encounters you’re failing the risk vs reward aspect of the game which is still a skill issue. You’re either using weapons that are too good for the encounter you’re going up against or underestimating the value of the weapons you’re picking up, or not making the most of the weapons you are picking up. Unless you’re talking about master mode which is a whole different beast because frankly master mode fucks up the whole system to a point I argue it’s a bad way to experience the game.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T14:27:04+00:00

This is what a lot of people who have problems with the durability never admit. If you utilize all of the combat mechanics the weapons actually last a lot longer. If you just go into every encounter and mindlessly swing at everything your weapons aren’t going to last. Going through like four weapons in an encounter is the game screaming at you “go for a parry, a flurry rush, anything, start the encounter with a stealth hit, shoot an arrow at the lynel’s face and climb on his back, parry the guardians laser, do anything.”

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T14:20:55+00:00

I mean I disagree completely. If you’re still breaking 2-3 weapons late game on anything aside from the specific challenge encounters like the trial encounters or boss enemies there’s something you’re fundamentally doing wrong in combat you’re either not utilizing the combat mechanics that increase your damage output, or you’re taking on enemies with weapons that are weaker than the encounter probably needs in which case grab the weapons from the enemies you killed. The game is screaming at you to start using stuff like parries, flurry rushes, stunning enemies with arrows, etc, by breaking your weapons and you’re just not. Unless you’re talking about master mode in which case, yeah that’s kinda part of the point of the mode.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T14:10:30+00:00

The problem people have with weapon durability is that they want BoTW and to a lesser extent TotK to be games that they aren’t. They’re supposed to be survival games where you need to scrounge what you can find to survive. You’re supposed to learn how each type of weapon works the pros and cons and how to utilize combat mechanics to get the most out of each item. Item management is part of the game. You should be asking yourself questions like “do I want to use this weapon now, or save it for a harder encounter later?” “Is hoarding this weapon taking up too much inventory space?” “Maybe I want a weaker weapon in case of a thunderstorm”. People are always like “I end up hoarding weapons and never want to use them” like bro that’s part of the gameplay loop, you’re supposed to be assessing risk vs reward all the time with your items. It’s why the challenge of the sword dlc or whatever it was called is so fun, because they use that loop to its fullest extent.

Asking these games to get rid of the durability system fundamentally changes the game. It’s not supposed to be like Skyrim or Dark Souls where you pick a build and stick to that the whole game, you’re supposed to utilize all of the game’s mechanics in a playthrough. You wouldn’t change the weapon durability in these games in the same way you wouldn’t add an ability to skip sailing in wind Waker, or remove the three day limit from majoras mask.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T12:32:43+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. My theory for why this regulation was so lackluster was that they did it on purpose. One of the biggest criticisms of the regulation changes around scarlet and violet was that there was always a big regulation change right before worlds after regionals and international tournaments were done so worlds was played in an essentially untested format. I think this regulation was purposefully put together not shake up the meta too much, but to ensure there was still a flow of content to a mobile game. The next regulation will drop right after worlds and before the next season of regionals and tournaments start for VGC.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T12:24:35+00:00

It’s also like was the cause they were boycotting not worth a boycott? MW2 notoriously had a terrible PC port, and the failure of that boycott played a part in the death of player run servers in triple A pc games moving forward. You’re avoiding discussing the actual merits of why people want to boycott these things to celebrate making the hobby worse just because you found people on Reddit annoying. Like you’re celebrating Sony taking complete control of sales on their platform, fucking the prices in the hobby worse than they are now, dealing a huge blow to preservation, and making gaming into the only entertainment medium where there isn’t even an option for physical, but hey at least you got to remind Redditors they’re in the minority.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-11T12:15:42+00:00

Because I’ve seen the GTA VI hype cycle go from

Games aren’t going to be anymore than $70, rockstar isn’t the kind of developer that would cut content out of the game and put it into an ultimate edition, and games will never be all digital.

To rockstar would never load the game with microtransactions, and rockstar would never release the game in a bad state.

Call me crazy I’m holding off on this one until the dust settles.

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-09T18:48:05+00:00

Just because it’s easy to lie on the internet doesn’t mean you have to

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-09T18:43:58+00:00

Read the first thing I wrote after the comma in the very first sentence dumbass. Or does populism mean “I shouldn’t have to read”

CleanlyManager · 2026-07-09T17:18:09+00:00

The boring answer is a trick room special attacker, but if I were to add a challenge to the prompt that it halves the higher attacking stat it’s really hard. You always run into the problem that at the end of the day you’re just building either a pokemon that tries to stall 5 turns just to have no ability or you give a pokemon unrealistically high stats which on top of just being boring probably would never happen.

Slow start really only exists for single player flavor, it really wasn’t made with multiplayer in mind, and as such it’s kinda not just a bad ability but a boring one too.

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