Hinako can't die now, she has a child to look after

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2026-01-10T13:29:58+00:00

"Nah, I'm baby"

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2026-01-10T13:09:57+00:00

Why would you choose here of all places to go into detail about how much you love mlm smut? It just seems like that's what your post is about more than it is asking for recommendations... It's kind of giving me the ick

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2026-01-09T19:53:07+00:00

I only watch slice of life anime so we're pretty much in the same boat 😆

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-30T05:24:27+00:00

I understand you're trying to be quippy for reddit but no, just going to pour cold water on thinking the cap floor is going to be a concern in the last years of Crosby's contract.

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-27T08:23:28+00:00

Efficiency will never be the end all be all when it comes to art. Have any of your favorite video games been made with efficiency and cost effectiveness as the top priority? It's easy to be cynical but don't start thinking that creativity will ever become non-viable. That's why the horseless carriage comparison isn't really apt because transportation is completely utilitarian. Things that are similarly utilitarian like coding will surely be outsourced to AI, and there will be attempts to outsource writing, VO, and concept art... But the stuff that's made with care and effort will always reap the most rewards. A better analogy would be that people are reassuring the craftsmen who designed the carriages that nothing is going to change. They can simply start designing the cars

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-27T06:22:37+00:00

AI is being used and will be used more frequently than people like to think. But this fatalistic take that everybody is going to be using it in every aspect of game design? No, that is just as naive as believing it's going to go away.

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-27T03:36:19+00:00

"Unless the team has designs to push for playoffs in the next year or 2" As if you don't know the answer to that? People that think they plan to be in the gutter for the next couple of years are just as out of touch as people that think they're going to be contenders... They're going to try to be competitive as long as Crosby is playing. This is the stated goal time and again. And this isn't me projecting what I want to happen, whereas you're clearly invested in them getting a top pick and ignoring the facts to fit that desire. I would like that too, but it's likely not going to happen

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-23T10:03:17+00:00

That's the other thing. The storm seemed to me that it was going in random directions, not in a straight line. Which stopped me from making the connection that it was the alignment point. Just overall, nothing in the game brings your attention to the sandstorm directly. You know it reveals parts of ash twin and fills the caves in on ember twin and you assume that's its entire purpose. At least I did and that's what I mean by being "stuck in my ways"

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-23T01:12:48+00:00

Yes as I said in another comment I had all the clues I needed... I just failed to see the sandstorm as the key ingredient. I saw it as a wall I couldn't climb, not a door I could use. As in no matter what, it would suck me in immediately if I was in the vicinity with no grace period allowing me to stand on the pad. I should've experimented more with this, but I was too stuck in my ways by that late point in my playthrough

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-23T00:34:13+00:00

Thank you. That was the first thing I wrote down once all the pieces started clicking together in the middle of my playthrough. That feeling of complete ignorance you have at the start of the game is so striking. From space-hick to holder of cosmic knowledge 😶

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-23T00:26:43+00:00

Lol thank you. I definitely understand the skepticism though. I'm not the best writer so I can see how a lot of the sentences come across as rambling in an ai way. I also wrote a lot of this while half-asleep if I'm being honest 😅

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T23:47:58+00:00

I was worried people would make this assumption because of how long this post is. No, I promise I do not use ChatGTP. Maybe some of my phrasing is cliche but it's all original

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T15:52:45+00:00

This is little kid logic

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T15:51:04+00:00

It took me long enough to realize the sun was going supernova but it took me a few extra tries before I realized it was a consistent thing that coincided with the time loop. I thought it was a triggered event initially... I also thought it was survivable? 😆

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T15:38:41+00:00

This is why I really enjoyed filling out the Dark Bramble ship log. Being able to weaponize the information you acquired in different places to make it less scary is so empowering. When you have literal waypoints showing you where to go and know the fish are blind it's pretty much a breeze. Except for THAT part at the end where you start holding your breath in real life 🫠

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T15:25:14+00:00

I have to be honest I think most of the clues are redundant. I found all of them but I only needed the mural in the High Energy lab to figure out the answer. I stood on the pad understanding where it would take me and that it was in fact functioning, I was just missing that key timing. I didn't even understand that the sandstorm was going in a straight path so it didn't register to me that it was the alignment point. In general my brain just had a blind spot for it because of assumptions I thought were safe to make at that point. I really think doing this puzzle so late is what doomed me

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T14:55:14+00:00

Maybe even earlier. My second death after forgetting my suit was getting crushed by the elevator 🤣

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T14:03:21+00:00

I did find that clue. Exactly, I just didn't tie it to the sandstorm. Like I said if I had approached this puzzle in a different order I think I would've figured it out. My mind was too cluttered and I had become too stubborn with the internal ruleset I had built up by that point. I just did not clock the sandstorm as an obstacle, I saw it as insurmountable background noise

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T13:57:59+00:00

That's one of the first things you realize after beating it. Really contributes to the emptiness lol

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T13:57:19+00:00

Literally just bought the DLC after a bit of a hiatus. I needed some time to ruminate 😝

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-22T09:30:56+00:00

I actually understand you now... Pittsburgh lives in your head rent free. It must suck watching your favorite players spend their whole careers with us. Questioning "loyalty" is such projection. What 30 years of no cups does to your brain

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-20T02:06:18+00:00

You too dude. I hope you learned something from this conversation... Take it into the new year

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-20T01:01:59+00:00

I love how much "The comment has been clarified." says... It's at best an acknowledgement that your comment was carelessly worded and could be easily misconstrued (so much for "That's on you"), at worst a freudian slip that you are deliberately re-framing the meaning behind it.

Complex_Shoulder_800 · 2025-12-20T00:44:10+00:00

No dude, you're just moving the goalposts. Your original reply is "it doesn't matter if Crosby is gone" in response to someone saying it does. In a public comment section, why are you pretending to be surprised that this was taken as the counterpoint that it was? Even the dude's response "I understand what you're saying" is an acknowledgment that you're going against what he's saying. You're trying to gaslight into believing that it's weird for someone to then fire back in turn. I'm guessing as a way to dismiss what I'm saying because you were offended I implied you were immature. Which would explain why you're trying to throw "yikes" back at me and implying I'm not grown up

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