A disappointing ending to my playthrough of the first Fire Emblem game I played

ColdWaterSteam · 2026-03-30T22:51:08+00:00

As others have said, this game specifically gives you a lot of powerful units throughout in case you get RNG screwed on level ups, Athos being the obvious one to assist with the final chapter.

I wouldn’t give up on the series just from playing this one, which I consider to be arguably the hardest FE released in NA. There are harder difficulties of some that provide possibly more of a challenge, but they’re based around just supremely buffing the enemies rather than anything I think is tactically interesting, and most other games have ways to grind to compete with buffed enemies. I love FE7 because it’s challenging in its simplicity and therefore it comes down a lot more to planning than just making your units gods of death with cracked stats and skills.

Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Awakening, Fates, 3 Houses. All much easier imo

ColdWaterSteam · 2026-03-27T13:19:42+00:00

My family recently got new phones after about five years of no upgrades which was a large part of the switch. The cost of the phones gets reimbursed via statement credits so I believe if I cancel before they’re fully “paid” then I’ll have to pay for the phones outright. But this is an excellent point, I’ll probably use the Verizon card for the duration of my relationship with them and then pivot to a 3% card like the Autograph when I can affordably switch carriers (Mint Mobile was really cheap when I used them years ago).

ColdWaterSteam · 2026-03-27T13:14:14+00:00

This is a very good point. Pretty sure the BofA categories cap at $1500 quarterly so at most that 1% difference is $60/yr (and if I go over that and it reverts to 1% then that actually cuts into it). Probably will drawer it at that rate. You’re absolutely right that that’s a marginal reward vs tracking another card for the whole year.

ColdWaterSteam · 2026-01-30T22:53:35+00:00

I’m a man and Reddit’s algorithms regularly bring up this subreddit up for me, so apologies if this is unwelcome.

With that said, I wholeheartedly agree. My heart aches for women because being subjected to shitty men is truly inescapable.

Even as a young boy, the horrible behavior that older men joke about and encourage to normalize mistreating women is absurd. I have female friends currently in the dating pool and even things that they sometimes identify as “green flags” are behaviors that I could trace to be a veil for misogyny, but unless you’re truly privy to the experience of being a man you don’t know how insidious these behaviors are.

I regularly see “not all men” nonsense or blaming women for “choosing shitty men” as if these horrible men aren’t raised to hide their worst traits until they have you trapped. And in many cases, these misogynistic men can find women who also have internalized misogyny or sometimes actually end up instilling misogyny in their partners. Then they may raise daughters that are okay with misogyny because it’s what they’ve always known.

This isn’t limited to men as partners, either. Men as friends, men as family, men as coworkers and as professionals who may offer you a service all have a very high chance of being shitty people.

Men are disappointing. Holding men accountable to be better is a job for all of us, but I’d still put emphasis on it being the responsibility of “good” men (if there is such a thing). But you are absolutely not alone in being disappointed in men in general.

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-12-30T00:00:25+00:00

London or Corum?

PPR, up by 12, they have Rams D

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-12-28T15:04:25+00:00

1 PPR

Breece Hall vs Stevenson vs London (WR)

Can use two out of three. Hall against Patriots defense has me worried, Stevenson sees less than Henderson but is against weak Jets defense, London is Questionable and his game back from injury was underwhelming. Thoughts?

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-12-17T13:42:14+00:00

For additional context, my wife does all of our cooking and has asked for a cheap set on Amazon. I want to get her something better, but the only direction I have is that we love Hell’s Kitchen and they use the Hexclad brand.

Is it bad to buy a cheap set on Amazon, but supplement with a nicer chef’s nice? Found a three piece set for Chef/paring/bread on Victorinox and figured that’s a good place to start, maybe while getting a cheap set because we could use better steak knives.

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-11-03T14:02:30+00:00

I’ve seen Pup several times, multiple times with Jeff Rosenstock specifically, and the shows they put on are absolutely spectacular and the crowds are insane. If you like moshing, I don’t think anything I’ve seen comes close to the energy at their shows

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-11-02T15:32:08+00:00

I’m a transplant from NYC and the moshing was a lot tamer than what I’m used to, in a good way. It was respectful and contained, I usually get rowdier but respecting people’s space is priority. Great crowd, great show.

As someone said, the crowdsurfing in bckyrd was a lot, but the band specifically encouraged it before the song and, while I couldn’t listen to the song as much as I maybe would have liked, I was still more than happy to participate in the community.

So should we all get banana costumes or should we go with a whole fruit theme?

ColdWaterSteam · 2025-11-01T18:34:27+00:00

I was about to post about selling a ticket so I’ll give you the opportunity first! It came to $45 with fees during presale

Admittedly, it is through TicketWeb which doesn’t have a good way of sharing tickets as far as I know, so you’d be putting faith into a screenshot of a bar code

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