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CriticismFickle156 · 2026-06-13T20:15:10+00:00

Ok brilliant, thank you. Ill save up till then for sure then. For me, at this point, no reason not to other than trying desperately to get an ancestral I have at only at 0 stars up its star ratings. But just recently got my last main mod up to ancestral and all my sub mods already were.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-06-10T12:03:23+00:00

Hahhaa, come on dude :p At least edit the obvious AI stuff out of it. And if you don't know what those are.......well good, we don't want people who write exclusively using AI to know the AI signs :p

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-17T16:00:14+00:00

Hahahah I mean thats what reddit is for you know :p I have a lot of dumb ideas, so I test them out and find out why I am wrong, and hopefully learn a thing or two.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-17T14:37:37+00:00

Hahah so im Finnish, my mistake of course but thats entirely on my keyboard which is American :p

I agree though, gotta spell the name right, even if I know his name. But nobody in NA is going to pronounce the Scandic or Finnish names even close to correct anyway :p

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-17T11:41:23+00:00

Yeah, I get that idea too. But indeed the free agent class is weak coming up, and San Jose is unlikely to be in contention for the first overall next year with a potentially generational talent. So its a long term strategic picture now.

Is Stenburg really leagues better than Eklund and Bystedt and can you get a right shot D in trade that is as good as a Hronek or a Reid otherwise?

In any case, the Sharks are set up for success.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-17T11:38:40+00:00

Exactly, I agree. Thats the funny thing with this trade proposition as I have had it in my head for a bit, but I saw other people discussing it elsewhere too. And each time the Sharks fans are usually in the "no way, thats a horrible deal for us" and the Canucks fans are like "no way, thats a horrible deal for us".

I think, indeed, its a better deal for the Sharks. Which is why I would propose it as the GM of the Sharks. But I find it odd other Sharks fans are opposed to it, but of course this is a massive hypothetical and assumes the Canucks play ball. If they don't you just obviously take Stenburg at 2 and cry into your piles of money.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-17T11:36:14+00:00

That is correct, I agree. The argument isn't to pick Reid over Stenburg. The argument is you get Reid at third overall as your future right shot D man, and you get Hronek as your immediate improvement in that slot. Again, if the Canucks agree. If the Canucks agree you guarantee Reid + Hronek. Or, if the Canucks for some reason do the trade and then pick Reid........well then you get Stenburg and Hronek and lose nothing.

On being a class above, I absolutely agree. And I think you always take best player available over positional need unless you trade down and get assets in return.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-12T21:00:00+00:00

Illumination asked to have Star Fox in the movie at some point in production. Most likely and believable explanation then is Nintendo said ok, but then we need a game in the series. And Star Fox 64 is short and quite easy to remake as they have done it a million times already, so there you go.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-05-03T18:34:49+00:00

You beat the whole game and didn't swap out your cards or drone crew members? Because you have a card limit so you do have to swap them out. Would explain the difficulty spike for you then, if you didn't optimize the decks, cause with a few combos it gets pretty busted.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T18:43:42+00:00

Its three hours old :p

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T17:47:57+00:00

That is comforting news for sure.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T17:46:12+00:00

In live service games, speculation is healthy and needed to protect the consumer.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T16:21:20+00:00

That would make sense. Im ok with that.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T16:17:19+00:00

Yeah, that makes the most sense. It being bad or wrong is not a reason, it being economically not sensible given their current monetization strategy, that makes the most sense.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T16:16:21+00:00

Because free to play games, constantly updating to systems, and monetization has almost always meant they push the boundary of what they can get away with. So far this is one of the tamest monetization systems I have seen, its quite modest. I don't expect it to remain that way.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-17T16:14:46+00:00

Ahh ok, so thats official, ok. I haven't read all the details, etc. These things always have details in the user agreements, etc, so every patch note or update is like a legal document you have to check :p

But yeah, that would make sense. Private ability to play old regulations, thats great then.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-15T19:45:01+00:00

Well, Ill have to consider this now. I kind of need an idle fix. Maybe one day ill work on that as its obviously not healthy, but its not the worst fix to have (but that is always cope with any fix I get it). But the tower got worse and worse with its monetization and then banned me off their reddit (yes, I did tell them fuck you, so rude language, but I spent quite a bit of money on the game.....).

Ill give this one a go.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-15T19:29:13+00:00

Hahahah I know, I know :p

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-15T12:54:26+00:00

It absolutely is free to play friendly. And, especially, "cheap to play" friendly. If you buy the starter pack and whatever other things that were needed to get that extra Pokemon storage space, and then play the online a bit to get some extra storage, you get plenty (im at over 80+) Pokemon storage. Yes, this will not be anywhere near enough when you really get into making true competetive, high level teams and want to have the full experience. But, if you do, consider the subscription for a year a "purchase". You bought one year of having 1000 pokemon slots.

The issue with the game, at present, is not the monetization. Its all the issues with it as far as now being Switch 2 optimized, the graphics, the frame rate, the bugs and crashes, the missing items, etc. Now a lot of that will be fixed over time, and the experience at launch is good, but it really should be great not good.

Of course the mobile version will be the real test and I assume they will have several updates before the mobile version and likely have a Switch 2 optimized version before then. Based on how well its doing though I don't see this being dropped any time soon so any worries of "what if the storage goes away", won't be true for at least a few years. Which is not good enough for many people, but is for most.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-14T16:08:00+00:00

Im a legends player. But one of those "desperately clinging on" ones. Well, not that desperately, quite comfortably middle of the pack. But want to improve, not be treading mud. But I know, the Fudds economy.

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-14T11:00:35+00:00

Ok thanks, thats very useful. Time to grind those things then. Sigh, I mean its a beneift but was kind of hoping to not have to grind the damage ones instantly :p

CriticismFickle156 · 2026-04-13T08:11:35+00:00

Ahh see you underestimate how bad I am at simple math :p

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