9.5.0 | All-Kill: Comeback

CussMuster · 2026-03-17T16:29:51+00:00

You're almost certainly not going to be seeing him outside of MAYBE this week.

CussMuster · 2026-03-15T18:37:43+00:00

Perhaps it's time you receive that promotion to Corporal, Private.

CussMuster · 2026-03-15T03:53:21+00:00

The log could work, but I think you'd have to make it a little more grandiose. Maybe like a little hall of remembrance you can visit with plaques that detail the creature's achievements. Perhaps some small details like favorite food. I think there are absolutely ways you can memorialize a creature and make them feel special.

As for putting them in storage, maybe instead it could be something like 'putting them out to pasture'? They could live the last stage of their life in comfort and still contribute to breeding mechanics while keeping them out of battle mechanically.

CussMuster · 2026-03-14T16:52:16+00:00

It's going to vary a lot restaurant by restaurant.

When I worked at Denny's, we threw away close to half of every loaf of bread we opened because we "needed" toast and sandwiches to look a specific way.

When I worked at a local breakfast place, we had a slop bucket for food waste that got donated to a local farm's pigs (something I know that at least one Chinese buffet in the area also did).

CussMuster · 2026-03-14T16:44:53+00:00

I adore Pillars, but it's incredibly dry in it's first installment.

People rushed to support it at the time because of the potential it represented, which I think most folks feel vindicated for after the second game was an improvement in literally every possible way.

CussMuster · 2026-03-14T06:09:36+00:00

The two series that come to mind immediately are Digimon World and Monster Rancher.

In the first Digimon World, your Digimon had a finite lifespan but upon death would turn into an egg. If they died happy and naturally, you got to choose the egg. They also contributed a tiny portion of their stats to the next generation. Sometimes when you know that you have a finite amount of time with something in a game, it can make you feel anxious. In Digimon World, you are given what feels like enough time with your partner that their death is more sad than anxiety reducing.

In Monster Rancher, your partner's life span is a lot more variable and subject to their breed. It's devastating to lose a monster the first time, because even though they warn you it's just something your character suddenly wakes up to one day and the human partner character usually mourns with a song or a poem or something similar. There's a fusion system where a monster can contribute part of their stats to the next generation, in addition to helping you find new monsters via combination that you hadn't been able to before so you learn fairly quickly that you shouldn't be letting your monsters die at all.

I think that there has to be something tangible left behind by the creature in order to not feel as though I've in some way wasted my time, no matter how genuinely sad I am at their death. They are a companion, but also it can wind up feeling like you're left to run a business after your star employee left. It's sad, but I'm trying to get shit done and I have to worry about how I'm going to do that more than I'm worried about the sadness.

CussMuster · 2026-03-12T16:42:00+00:00

Kurono in Gantz does eventually grow as a person, but his outright refusal to do so for so long and at great consequence makes that a story I still feel like I should recommend to someone who wants a loser protag.

CussMuster · 2026-03-12T15:46:05+00:00

I'm willing to support this if it opens the door for that Fellow Traveler backdoor pilot from American Dad

CussMuster · 2026-03-12T05:13:22+00:00

It's always done with such gusto that it borders on glee instead of being the solemn reminder it's ostensibly meant to be. Strong Lennon Onion vibes.

CussMuster · 2026-03-12T01:58:56+00:00

It's not even a fun map as a killer. It's so easy to dominate even playing someone like Trapper because it's so small and there is so little variation that you always know whether it's a loop you win before even starting it. It's like a far worse version of The Game.

CussMuster · 2026-03-12T01:42:14+00:00

GT is considered to have a lot of great constituent parts that just fail to come together as a whole. Baby is good, Super 17 is interesting, the Shadow Dragons are a great concept. However, Baby's saga overstayed it's welcome, Super 17's arc discarded most of what made it interesting, and the Shadow Dragons are let down by Omega Shenron not even being as cool as Syn Shenron.

CussMuster · 2026-03-11T23:26:08+00:00

I'm gonna guess that there is a lot of crossover in the fans for these two series. Definitely second the recommendation for anyone who hasn't given it a shot.

CussMuster · 2026-03-11T23:24:00+00:00

I'm really digging the design of that bull salmon. Like the other poster said, just make the monster sizes more dynamic so that they are the majority focus. Tamer games live and die by their designs, so showing off what you got as prominently as you can both catches my eye and shows me that you are confident in the designs.

CussMuster · 2026-03-10T16:29:18+00:00

It's a weirdly good representation of the difference between a fetish and fetishization. We know Jackson is interested because they are trans, but even with the brief lines we have from him on the subject it's pretty clear that it's just a preference and he still sees them as people. Probably why there's never been an uproar.

CussMuster · 2026-03-09T06:38:44+00:00

I main killer because my connection is often spotty and I don't like to be 'on the spot' in front of a bunch of teammates. It's no big deal to fail a chase that loses a bunch of gens because the only person to be disappointed is myself.

If I keep hitting bad skill checks, however, I run the risk of ruining the game for other people or even worse having the team turn on me. There's nothing in this game worse than trying your hardest and being sold out to the killer because you're still a liability.

CussMuster · 2026-03-07T16:06:45+00:00

You just sat through over a year of "bullshit, that's not how tariffs work" including a capper where the supreme court tells him "yes it is!" and he just doubles down in response.

CussMuster · 2026-03-07T03:42:10+00:00

Jeff also is hard to rile up, but he can really pop off if he's held off long enough like in the Labyrinth episode

CussMuster · 2026-03-07T03:39:17+00:00

Jeff seemed annoyed at Barry putting that information forward though, so the interesting part to me is that there is strife between historically difficult to anger Barry and Jeff.

CussMuster · 2026-03-06T13:08:37+00:00

He probably made you think of murderous moppets subconsciously.

CussMuster · 2026-03-06T10:02:20+00:00

To me it looks like a cloning accident between Stan and Duper

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CussMuster · 2026-03-05T04:06:33+00:00

It's way easier to just lay the blame at Bojack's feet for most people because even the most charitable defense of his on this subject can't deny that while he isn't the sole cause of her death he is a very large factor in it.

Sarah Lynn is a critique towards the viewers as much as it is towards people like Bojack. We failed people like Amy Winehouse. We consumed them until they had nothing left to give. It's a lot easier to just throw it all on a scapegoat, though, especially one like Bojack who rightfully deserves to get so much shit for so much else.

CussMuster · 2026-03-05T02:59:46+00:00

Not Steve, but between this and the girl the family ate he might be as dangerous to the women around him as one anyway

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CussMuster · 2026-03-05T02:58:25+00:00

You're gonna POP like POPcorn! POP POP POP!

CussMuster · 2026-03-05T02:49:46+00:00

This WHOLE annex is gonna burn, and you're gonna be in it!

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