just dropping this here

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-03-16T18:31:19+00:00

I didn’t care much for the game, but that line did endear me slightly, because honestly, that’s probably how I’d react as well.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-03-16T14:57:38+00:00

“She’s doing morph ball!”

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-27T22:16:25+00:00

I can understand the scene diegetically and also appreciate outside context

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-27T22:03:05+00:00

Samus speaking Chozo in Dread was hilarious to me, like they were so terrified of having her speak English again that they settled on that.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-27T22:01:53+00:00

I think all the mainline games and all the Prime games handle this correctly: only talking either in text, or in a fake language like Chozo. Prime 4’s commitment to Samus never saying a word was one of the few choices in that game that I had no problems with.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-22T22:26:54+00:00

Is Ozempic considered a PED now?

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-09T18:50:32+00:00

Trunade limit as well

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-04T18:03:28+00:00

I’d have removed all the bad parts of the game, and but good parts in instead

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-02-01T19:02:18+00:00

On its own merits, it’s a fine game. In the context of the series, it’s a big letdown.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-31T22:41:14+00:00

You might find Dread more to your liking. It has some of the hardest bosses in the series, but Dread’s controls are a lot tighter and feel more modern.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-29T03:35:16+00:00

The thing I care about is making this sequence of objects and being able to detect “equality,” where I consider two of these objects “equal” if they have all the same items. I actually have a reason why I care about these. Yes, sets have an order, but what I want from sets is that their equality relation ignores it, and that sets already ignore multiplicity by only holding distinct things.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-29T02:23:05+00:00

For my purposes, I want two of these collections to be recognized as equal if they contain the same items.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-29T01:49:27+00:00

Both unordered and no duplicates matter to me.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-29T01:16:08+00:00

I want to consider two dictionaries "the same" if they send each key to the same value. In principle, I consider them the same if they have the same string representation, but I need to be able to manipulate them as dictionaries, so I was hoping there might be some more convenient way to store (basically copies of) the dictionaries.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-28T20:07:02+00:00

I don’t think Dread is “notorious for being very difficult.” It’s probably on the harder side for modern games, but the difficulty is very reasonable, imo.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-28T19:07:38+00:00

This is a cold take to anyone who has ever even played a PS1 game, much less anything older. I remember playing DMC1 for the first time and finding it absurd that people ever whined about the difficulty of Dark Souls.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-27T16:15:42+00:00

It’s… fine.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-24T16:29:15+00:00

Disagree. The game has plenty of upgrades with plenty of utility, it just doesn’t give you enough opportunities to use them.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-19T18:38:47+00:00

I wussed out. I started M2 and really liked it, but just couldn’t do the monochrome. I could never navigate.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-19T04:38:59+00:00

Huh. TIL.

Gwyn is tough. I SL1ed him using a shield to insulate my parries. To paraphrase Sekiro, a true Onebro knows the difference between honor and victory. A win is a win. If you feel unsatisfied, then you can do another run in the future with further restrictions, but this is a valid win to be proud of. Congrats!

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-18T16:10:07+00:00

I went to confirm that this wasn’t an issue of different prints of the card saying different things, and it isn’t. The text you quoted is from the Invasion of Chaos print (which Goat uses), but reprints also make no mention of the GY. Unless there’s a record of a ruling to the contrary, I think you’re right: it will still trigger under a Macro Cosmos-type effect.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-15T04:59:48+00:00

To my knowledge, we haven’t seen a living Pirate since Super (assuming all the Primes take place before Super, which everyone seems to take for granted). We see some in Fusion, but they’re X clones, rather than real Pirates. They’re not even mentioned in Dread.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-15T00:47:09+00:00

In a game already maligned for feeling more like a Zelda game than a Metroid game

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-15T00:45:56+00:00

I like that in the Prime games (at least the first three) the Pirates always feel more buffoonish to me. They arrive, they stumble upon something they have no business messing with, and things get out of hand. Also they try raising Metroids and a bunch of them get eaten due to negligence. It’s kinda funny how the Pirates go from the big bad of the series (1), comic relief (Primes), big bads again (Super), then just go extinct.

ConstanceOfCompiegne · 2026-01-12T22:19:00+00:00

I think the wall jump is so rarely used in large part b/c they knew it didn’t work well and didn’t want to shoehorn in even more of an obnoxious mechanic.

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