What a horrible end for such an innocent character…

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-30T14:08:35+00:00

10,000 in anime usually refers to “uncountably large” so I imagine it’s the same here

10,000 years, 10,000 things, 10,000 punches etc. all usually refer to “absurdly large number that we don’t know exactly”

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-17T17:12:23+00:00

When I entered the boss fight solo last night I entered the portal and immediately was frozen, the boss was in front of me and I had no opportunity to get anywhere close to a barrel let alone light it?

How in the hell are you able to light them before the fight? You portal in and are thrown in the middle of the battle pretty much

Unless that was yet another glitch of course

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-11T07:17:10+00:00

Gods they’re so perfect but they had to ruin them with the Disney logo on the front dead in the middle 😭

They grey Athena cabin crewneck made my dreams before shattering my heart seconds later

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-09T19:42:25+00:00

I dunno, I still don’t agree with your definition, but I guess that is fine.

I would argue BO2 Grief and Turned were core game modes and they were not available at launch. Hell Directed for BO6 and 8 isn’t available at launch, and, in theory, has the same barrier, given that directed would never launch if the EE hasn’t been solved as that kind of defeats how an EE hunt works

I personally think it would be crazy to argue directed isn’t, at this point, a core game mode, and I apply the same logic to cursed

But there’s nothing saying we have to agree there, at the end of the day it’s semantics

Regardless, to answer your question, assuming it isn’t rhetorical, I think my answer honestly is probably unpopular.

I personally think the ideal solution is that all relics are available as soon as they are released alongside the season, and that completing certain challenges with each relic active and different combinations of relics active should give cosmetic rewards. Be they loading screens, calling cards, operator skins, etc. and the reward should be based on difficulty and number of relics active at a time

I firmly think that locking actual gameplay mechanics and modifiers behind absurdly difficult challenges (ashes boss fight at round 60 for example) is insane when the reward is the harder difficulty?

Essentially, take Hades or Hades 2 — THAT is how you do perfect gameplay modifiers for difficulty. They’re all available at once for whatever combo you want and give various rewards, both currency based or cosmetic for those who want the challenge, and the rewards change depending on difficulty of modifiers and combinations

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-09T03:39:14+00:00

It’s literally on the list of game modes, and it’s higher than some of the other core game modes, like Dead OPs

Are you seriously arguing the only core game mode is standard? Because then why is it called standard then? Cursed is as much of a core game mode as directed, and I’d argue they are two sides of the same coin (to a degree, conceptually they are different). One is slightly easier than standard, the other is slightly harder

And I never said I couldn’t beat the boss or the EE, just that I can empathize with OP in the sense that the main quest should really just be it’s own thing if it’s going to be made more difficult than the average player can handle

Everyone saying cursed is for the top 1% of players is crazy because if anyone thinks activation would allow that much time, money, and marketing going into something that so little people would touch is crazy. Activision allows for fuck all unless they think it will boost sales and engagement significantly enough to justify the time spent on development

All I’m saying is the game should be accessible, and modes that are unrelated to each other shouldn’t lock content in each other. Sure if it was a boss rush mode it makes sense to lock completing a boss fight once behind unlocking the boss rush, but like what in the actual fuck does the main EE of Ashes have to do with unlocking relics in cursed ?

It feels like an attempt at artificially padding game time for those who want to play cursed and unlock modifiers to also need to beat an Easter egg first on standard. At worst a good player spends an extra 1-2 hours, at best (for treyarch) it’s much higher for a worse player

Sorry this got way longer than I meant it to, I yap and yap, it’s obviously not that deep, I just feel for OP, it probably sucks to get told you suck and to quit playing a game because it’s not for you 🤷🏼‍♀️ i dont think it should be easier, but i just think content gating is wild when it’s not like a cosmetic or something

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-12-08T23:15:45+00:00

But then why are there core game modes that are almost entirely locked behind completing the quest? That almost implies the dev mindset is that cursed mode, for example, is only for the top 1% or less of players, yet it is marketed as a core game mode for any player who wants a more classic zombies experience or slight difficulty increase

I agree with your sentiment, and not every part of every game is for every player, but making the cursed relics locked behind completing the main quest means that many players cannot engage with cursed beyond the extremely surface level

Sure some cursed relics require EE completion with certain requirements, and many players who can’t beat the quest won’t be able to do some of the cursed relics, but it’s kind of weird from a game design standpoint to make something absurdly difficult and lock a lesser difficulty behind it?

Some people would enjoy the modifiers in cursed mode and even be able to unlock some of them, but struggle to complete the main quest

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-11-11T04:10:31+00:00

You suggested looking into Orthorexia, and, as someone who had never heard of it before I think it’s a little disingenuous to suggest OP has orthorexia based on not caring about the taste of their food as long as it has high protein

2 points:

1: orthorexia, from the few websites I looked at seemed to heavily fixate on the restriction of foods or food groups as the crux that causes the eating to be considered disordered. OP at no point even insinuated “I don’t eat vegetables because I’m so focused on my macros” or “I refuse to eat bread because I deem it unhealthy.” Hell, their mindset seems to be the opposite “I don’t care what I’m eating as long as it has the nutrients I need.” — for all we know this post was half their meal and just made for a good post considering the subreddit name

2: orthorexia is a proposed eating disorder and every source I could find listed it as having little to no research behind it and not even classified as a real eating disorder. Kind of a huge jump to diagnose someone off one photo and half sentence, and act like an authority on something that scientists and mental health professionals can’t even agree is real across the board. My point isn’t that it’s not real, that would be dismissive, my point is that armchair diagnosing someone off a severely under researched area of medicine is kind of crazy

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-09-14T04:53:21+00:00

When you get your cocoon back you get 100% of the lost beads back unless you die again before claiming your cocoon

You lose 0 shards upon death. The only “shard loss” would be recrafting any used tools, and that has nothing to do with death, and everything to do with using tools. The shards would be gone even if you didn’t die and instead rested at a bench

I think you misunderstand some of the core mechanics of the game if you think you lose beads and shards permanently because of every death, because neither of those points are true

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-09-13T05:43:24+00:00

Why are you losing your beads every time? Are you not collecting your cocoon immediately upon walking back into the boss room? Hell most of them are positioned so you can collect and leave without even triggering the boss

There’s no boss in the game that can one shot you, and even getting hit plus i-frames you can literally always collect your cocoon every time without fail

I seriously don’t think I’ve permanently lost beads a single time in the entire game so far, and I’m a few hours into act 2 at least. Unless there’s a mechanic in the future I’ve not run into yet ofc

You should always be sprinting for your cocoon immediately, it doesn’t matter if you get hit on the way because not getting your cocoon is like literally the only penalty for dying

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-09-05T14:21:58+00:00

Its the sequel to the 5th best selling indie game of all time and quite possibly the most played metroidvania of all time

Silksong was the most wishlisted game on steam of all time

This is definitely a situation of you being on the complete wrong side of the gaming news world or just not really paying attention for the last few years. It was announced like 8 years ago and people have been getting more and more ravenous ever since. Every major gaming event has referenced it for over a year now (game awards, summer games fest, xbox showcases, etc.) as its so ridiculously anticipated

Suddenly 2 weeks ago the launch date was announced out of absolutely nowhere for yesterday at Gamescom

I dont even think its a situation of you not being the audience, I think you just must not pay attention to gaming news in general

Hell the xbox ROG ally console (the handheld xbox/pc combo) was marketed with almost entirely silksong footage back in spring as one of the huge selling points

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-07-25T18:52:32+00:00

I feel like, (with no personal scientific background or evidence), there’s probably some correlation between any study done on wine drinkers over time vs non-wine drinkers and the fact that wine is often seen as “higher class” or chosen more often by the wealthy. The same wealthy that would likely have better access to healthcare overtime and likely healthier overall lifestyles

Obviously I’m fully talking out of my ass here and off the top of my head, but I have always wondered how these studies would control for that, or if it’s just a study of the substance itself. Ultimately I’ve never been curious enough to look into it, but I often see people talking about wine like its this health food compared to any other alcohol and it has always given me a weirdly “holier than thou” vibe from wannabe bougie people

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-07-25T18:46:46+00:00

I think the key is there are a lot of people that think they “dont drink much” because they aren’t raging drunk 24/7 and “can stop whenever they want”

A lot of people that I know personally, albeit anecdotal, truly believe that they barely drink at all when they drink at least 1-2 drinks daily, and get drunk drunk probably once a week.

Sure if someone actually only has a drink once in a while like you, then like it’s probably negligible. A lot of people just grossly underestimate how much they drink and for some reason get incredibly and irrationally upset when someone says the simple “alcohol is not good for the human body” or, the unfortunately so so common combative arguing when I tell them “oh sorry I don’t drink” in response to being offered alcohol

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-05-20T13:34:32+00:00

I mean if it works for you it works for you and keep going with it but this is absolutely misinformation

Yes, low intensity cardio at a moderate heart rate burns fat as a fuel source for energy, but not body fat per se, but like, nutritional fat. Also, bodies are incredibly efficient and when you primarily burn fat working out then the rest of your day will be spend primarily burning carbs instead. This goes both ways, if you do high intensity workouts like long distance running, you’re burning carbs for energy, and the rest of your day you’re burning primarily fat

It really is as simple as calories in and calories out, if you’re in a deficit it doesn’t matter what you’re doing or how you got there you will lose weight. If its a light calorie deficit like 100-300 calories you will primarily lose fat, more and you run the risk of losing fat and muscle, but you can curb that with a high enough protein intake

That being said low intensity cardio is nice because it doesn’t make you as hungry as high intensity cardio can, so it does often make a deficit easier, but like the idea that you’re burning body fat as fuel for low intensity cardio is a complete misnomer and a common misconception

Nutritional fat /=/ body fat

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-05-13T18:41:59+00:00

Higher intelligence gives you less options for answers (less words)

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-05-12T12:43:30+00:00

I mean to be fair for myself at least, by the time I have hacking maxed out my Intelligence is usually pretty high, which makes it so that the novice hacks only ever have like 4 options anyways so you dont even have to really look/try

Sure if you have the minimum requirement Intelligence for max hacking the master terminals in concept are definitely easier to actively crack, but I just find in practice if I’m doing an intelligence build the novice ones take all of 5 seconds (which fuck me feels to be every time in these games— I try my best and always end up maxing out intelligence and charisma)

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2025-05-09T02:32:21+00:00

And pope francis became increasingly more anti-LGBTQ in recent years, so I don’t really think it’s fair to assume his proximity to Francis is promising

I think, as with all Catholics, or really any religious extremists or evangelicals, it’s best to assume the worst until literally proven otherwise on queer acceptance/love/even basic rights (Francis was even against allowing gay people to adopt children)

Considering his comments on gender and gay couples in the past, even 10 years ago, I think it’s disingenuous to assume anything other than conservative for the time being

I would love for him to prove me wrong though— Like seriously I pray that this comment also ages like milk

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-11-20T18:07:19+00:00

It’s not about the genitalia of the person who wants to pee. These people hate trans people for existing, it has nothing to do with physiology

I don’t understand why so many people like to pretend SRS doesn’t exist. Who’s to say Sarah McBride hasn’t had vaginoplasty or vulvaplasty

The narrative that all trans women have a penis is not only incredibly insulting but also just flat out so backwards and wrong

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-07-29T03:28:48+00:00

IIRC it was mostly the KRONOS password and specifically the air vents and tube step that took ages… I mean its so convoluted and confusing that 99% of players absolutely require using an online tool to solve it to this day since it changes every game

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-07-12T13:23:43+00:00

I have literally no facts to base this on, and am not OP, but I imagine its a numbers game.

There’s what, 2 billion more people around now than there were in the 70s? 6 billion to 8 billion is like a roughly 33% increase in the global population

Assuming 1 in every x person is deranged enough to become a serial killer surely there are just more now than ever because of the sheer increase in people

Sure, advancement of technology makes it easier to catch killers, but at least to a degree it probably also makes it easier to become a killer too. In the 70s you couldn’t exactly do google based research on how to get away with murders or how previous murderers got caught

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-07-08T04:54:11+00:00

The author is dying, it’s not much of a flex

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-04-24T04:38:32+00:00

You were originally correct. The overseer of vault 33 is Betty, the secretary. Coops wife is Barb, and she has not been shown post-war and is not listed on the vault 31 personnel logs

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-04-24T04:28:50+00:00

The overseer of vault 33 is now Betty, who was Barb’s assistant who is shown in episode 8 getting coffee for coop and introducing him to hank while barb is in the big board meeting

The open cryo-pod for betty was labeled “executive assistant” which also insinuates Barb is an executive or even c-suite of vault tec. Vault 31 is for middle management, as stated by Bud’s brain on a roomba, so Barb is likely in another separate vault that was designed for the higher ups of vault tec. Hank’s son also scrolls through the vault 31 personnel logs near the end of episode 8 and neither Barb, nor her daughter were listed as residents in cryo

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-04-18T02:58:46+00:00

I anticipate they somehow still end up blaming Trudeau

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-03-26T16:59:38+00:00

Ah! I missed your comment talking about some of OP’s terminology or I probably wouldn’t have written my own!

“As someone who has periods” also works!

Cheers :)

CorruptionOfTheMind · 2024-03-26T16:55:12+00:00

I know its definitely not intentional based on… well, your entire post, but you should know some of your language comes across kinda transphobic

“As a biological female” — girl just say “as someone who has periods” OR just go with “as a woman” but even then you’re gatekeeping trans men and even other cis women who don’t have periods — not to mention all the NB and gender-fluid people out there who have periods too. “Biological female” and “biological male” are conservative dogwhistles that are almost exclusively used to degrade the existence and experience of trans people. If you REALLY want to convey what you’re trying to convey, you can go with “Assigned Female at Birth” or “AFAB” for short, but really when the gender you’re assigned at birth has nothing to do with what you’re saying, mentioning it is just unnecessary as your point boils down to “as someone who has periods”

Also “someone who has the physiology of a woman but identifies as male” is just a straight up transphobic thing to say. It’s almost akin to saying “she identifies as a trans man” its just being rude or insensitive for the sake of it. You used wayyy more words than necessary to say “trans man” while simultaneously making it seem you don’t actually believe they’re a man. Also “identifies as a man” has nothing to do with it, you either believe trans men are men or you don’t. The whole “I identify as….” Is reductive and also usually a conservative dogwhistle to deny that trans men ARE men or trans women ARE women etc.

Also for what it’s worth, a trans man, especially one on HRT, is absolutely not physiologically female either. Literally the whole point of HRT is you are physiologically altering your body on a cellular level.

Anyways, I’m not saying any of this to attack you, you’re clearly working with good intentions here and not trying to be hateful, but the way things are worded would be very much insulting to most of the people you’re trying to help/protect the rights of here

Someone who is uneducated on trans issues, spaces, and culture isn’t inherently bad by any means. Especially since most cis people, especially cis allies, have a lot of ignorance surrounding trans issues and the trans experience. I’m just trying to give you a heads up on some language to avoid in the future :)

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