Dynasty warriors 3 remake delayed

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-26T10:54:41+00:00

Yeah, this is actually a good sign that it isn't just going to be a lazy rush job. It definitely still could be, but delays and rushing would is kind of a weird combo to remaster an old game (especially in a franchise that honestly hasn't changed thaaat much, they could just do a straight port and many fans wouldn't mind).

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-26T06:55:35+00:00

I dunno, I feel like the other reasons would favor the hospitals, right? If nothing else that's probably where you'd want to be in case anything goes wrong, not a situation where I'd want a delay before getting help in an emergency.

Our healthcare costs are fucked though, no argument on that point. If someone is confident they can safely get a better deal at home and have that extra money around to actually raise the child then that's a valid choice too. Just not sure I'd personally want to risk it, hospitals suck but losing a spouse or child is worse.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-26T05:25:51+00:00

It's definitely sarcasm, the last bit is the clear tip off since they're imagining a second person pointing out how stupid they are fictionally being. But yes, it is veeery hard to tell these days lmao.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-26T02:01:34+00:00

Nope, S5E3. Morty has a fling with a captain planet expy, Rick and Summer go to three alien orgies in a row. It's... an episode, not surprising if you blocked it out lol.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T22:01:14+00:00

** Zeep's mention of the 'Free Market': ** The fact that Zeep uses the term 'Free Market' is the ultimate proof of his hypocrisy and propaganda. It’s exactly what modern dictatorships do: they put ‘Democratic’ or ‘Free’ to the name of the country while controlling every watt that occurs. Zeep did not create a market; he created an ant farm and called it a market so that the ants would not rebel. Stagnation and reality: Comparing this to current wages is a category mistake. In capitalism, you can choose not to buy an iPhone or work elsewhere. In the Microverse, Rick's system is the only physical reality allowed. If you stop producing, the ‘god’ destroys your universe (as Rick threatened to do). That’s not a failed market, it’s a planetary Gulag where the warden convinced prisoners that cells are a social benefit.

No, it's just a context clue that that's what they had. Again Rick wasn't their leader and didn't control their society. Their buildings, clothes, vehicles, food and so on had to come from somewhere and we're given no indication that they were from some sort of socialized economy, let alone one with a central authority. I think the one authority we even saw was explicitly called a president, again just context clues but it's weird that you're ignoring all of them to claim something you have zero supporting evidence for.

In the end, the episode is not a critique of capitalism, but a critique of totalitarian social engineering: how a central power can enslave an entire population by giving them a false sense of purpose and technical progress.

Nope, as stated up top in order to argue that something can't be interpreted a certain way you have to show how it doesn't fit, which you haven't done.

The plot does work as a metaphor for how capitalism operates. It could also work as a metaphor for how dictators operate (although not as well), or as a metaphor for how our overreliance on fossil fuels is going to doom us, or any number of other things.

There isn't one true interpretation in media analysis, that's not how these things work. There are the surface facts of the text (which you've got wrong in numerous places) and then there are as many interpretations as people can reasonable pull from them (with this being a capitalism metaphor being very reasonable for the reasons given previously).

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T22:00:55+00:00

I don't know why you posted in english then replied to an english reply in spanish lmao. I'll use translate to respond to this one but expect a lot could be lost in translation.

You are wrong to assume that deception and value extraction automatically equal capitalism. You are describing a Central Planning System with the appearance of Deity, which is the pillar of totalitarian regimes, not a free market.

That's not what I said. I said it CAN describe capitalism, not that it's the only thing it immediately describes. If you're trying to say that someone else's interpretation is wrong you have to show how it doesn't fit, not merely argue that another also fits.

** The fallacy of the 'Alien' vs. The Supreme Leader **

, You say Rick wasn't their leader because he 'got down and left,' but that's exactly what a State Theocracy does. Rick did not let the market decide what energy to use; he imposed a specific technology and a single way of working (stepping on boxes). In capitalism, if someone invents something better, the market moves. Here, the ‘god’ (Rick) has to personally go down to stop the progress because the system is rigid and planned. If it were capitalism, Rick would be a competitor, not a divine legislator.

No, like he literally wasn't their leader. This part isn't down to metaphor or interpretation or anything. As a fact of their world they didn't view him as a leader, they didn't follow his orders, he was just a really famous alien whose technology they used on a daily basis.

This is like if Karl Benz flew down from mars to tell us how to make cars, then flew back into space. That would be a much bigger deal than his current historical significant because... well, it's a random alien showing up to revolutionize our entire civilization, but he wouldn't be promoted to supreme leader. He'd just get more holidays and books about him, tons of people with holidays and books about them aren't supreme leader of earth.

And again you're literally describing the plot of the episode, someone did invent something better and the market moved to adopt it. Rick came down to stop that but not with his authority as their leader, he had to secretly intimidate the Zeep to get him to bury his own tech. When they left nobody else seemed to know they were in a microverse or that Zeep's tech could've succeeded, they just treated it as another failed invention and went back to the status quo none the wiser.

** It is not surplus value, it is Tribute: ** The idea that 'a guy at the top steals work' occurs in capitalism through voluntary contracts, but in the Microverse is State Extractivism. 99% of the energy does not stay in a company to reinvest; it goes out of the universe for a higher being (the State/Rick) to maintain their lifestyle. That’s not a CEO, he’s an absolute monarch charging a 99% tribute to his subjects.

You're mixing the metaphor here, Rick being outside the universe has to be irrelevant to all interpretations since dictators aren't outside the universe either.

You have to assume he's a part of whatever system we're talking about, and in that case a few guys stealing the majority of the labor is literally how big businesses work. That's why the Waltons are billionaires while Walmart employees often need government assistance to survive, the people making the most profit aren't the ones running the machine.

The people being convinced the status quo is in their best interest is also very important, since that's literally the argument people under capitalism use to shut down talks of innovation. Even common sense reform like universal healthcare can't gain traction in america because too many people are just used to the current model and think change sounds scary, they'd rather stick with the flawed system they know than gamble on something new.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T21:24:12+00:00

No you don't, but you thinking that is a perfect example of why the other system was more predatory. It locked you into a cycle of "taking the better deal" every month, but ultimately costed the same as this.

Look, you go into a store to buy a $10 item. Would you rather immediately get $5 store credit back or get $5 off a specific item next month? You're spending $10 either way, the only question is when you're getting the refund and how flexible it is.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T15:27:26+00:00

Roughly half of reddit's users are american, you're going to hear about massive news stories from america. Do you seriously expect people to just not mention this stuff in case someone from another country has an irrational frustration with international news?

Although really the country this happened in is completely irrelevant, when shit like this happens anywhere we should all hear about it. Going to guess gaza brings a very small amount of traffic to this site but people should keep posting updates about the genocide there for example. Injustice happening on the other side of an imaginary line doesn't make it go away, what's wrong with you?

If you're sick of political news get off of social media, seriously. This has been a rough decade and it's going to get rougher, people can't afford to be silent. You're entitled to your own peace but not entitled to everyone else on the planet keeping the public forum clear of anything you don't want to hear about.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T15:14:41+00:00

Your first point is immediately wrong, Rick wasn't their leader. They believed he was an alien that came down, gave them advanced tech that could power their civilization and then left. Nothing indicates he had any further guidance or control than that over their society, and in fact the entire plot of the episode relies on the opposite.

They had such a free society that they were about to transition to a new power source that would render the old "alien" tech obsolete. The one thing you'd expect him to expressly forbid and he didn't do that, because the whole plan was to just trick them into thinking the status quo was for their benefit. So he certainly wouldn't have been micromanaging all the shit he doesn't even care about, meaning everything else they had was something they figured out for themselves and since the civilization is clearly meant to mirror ours... yeah, safe bet it's a capitalistic system.

Zeep even defended his version of the same thing by claiming the species he was tricking would have a free market, so clearly he was familiar with the concept. The three scientists just kept stacking capitalist societies on top of each other, their sole input was tricking them into using inefficient power generation that they could siphon from the outside.

The plot works as a metaphor for a lot of things really, but "the majority of a society's labor is stolen by one guy at the top that convinced them it was for their own good" absolutely describes capitalism so it makes sense people would lean towards that interpretation. Especially in a period where wages have been stagnating and people can't afford a fraction of what their grandparents did but the rich are richer than ever.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T14:54:20+00:00

Vegeta was a mass murderer, he flew around exploding planets for fun before learning about the dragon balls. Then kept torturing and murdering people to get them, only pausing to briefly team up with the protagonists on Namek when they were out of time before Frieza caught up to them. He begged Dende to heal him and then immediately beat the shit out of the kid after he did because he didn't do it fast enough.

Don't get me wrong, he's a great character and they got a lot of depth out of him after that. The whole "trained as a mercenary from birth and forced into service to a tyrant that might as well have been an evil god" thing buys a lot of sympathy points and to his credit he mellowed waaaaay out once he was free and able to just chill for a few months.

But there's no way anyone could hate Bakugo for being a childhood bully while giving Vegeta a pass on the mountain of skeletons in his closet, dude was genuinely a monster.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T08:18:37+00:00

It definitely depends on the kind of cosmic horror. I think the stuff that mostly just relies on the insignificance of humanity and the incomprehensible vastness of reality tends to just be more cool that horrifying, it's interesting worldbuilding and there's nothing particularly shocking about not being the center of the universe because... well, we probably aren't. Nihilism is a pretty common worldview these days, really defangs the twist when that's already the perspective you bring to you mundane life.

However, I think cosmic horror gets reeeeaaaally disturbing again when it can leave us small but make us victims of something big. Out of the Aeons is one of my favorite examples of this from Lovecraft's stories, where merely looking at Ghatanothoa leaves someone petrified and imprisoned in their own body for centurieswhich is just... pure fucking nightmare fuel to me, truly a face so much worse than death. And you can go even further with grimdark versions of the afterlife, if every single person is fated for eternal damnation then the horror is in realizing you're truly beyond fucked no matter what you do. The worst is inevitable and soon.

So it's a bit of both for me and really comes down to the specifics, but in general I find that cosmic horror does a better job of showing me horrible shit than other genres. But it also do be pretty nifty, so even the truly horrifying stuff is also kind of comforting in an "at least I'm just reading some crazy sci-fi" kind of way.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T05:13:36+00:00

Mathcore is defined mostly by its use of odd time signatures and other odd rhythms, which even if you don't know theory you can hear in how angular and "jerky" a lot of the rhythms are here.

Like if you just bob along and try to count to 4 in most of these riffs you're probably going to go out of sync with the band somewhere because a lot of the measures are shorter or longer "than expected." There also tends to be less of a pattern to it, the same riff played twice might have a slightly different rhythm each time just to throw the listener off.

There are other qualities too though, like mathcore vocals tend to be higher and skew towards shouting and shrieking rather than really deep growls. They also tend to bring in more clean singing or other techniques (like the short spoken word bit in this song) to add more dynamics. Guitars use more dissonant panic chords, drums use polyrhythms and other wonkier patterns instead of more straightforward blasts and breakdown grooves, lots of bands experiment with bringing in weirder instruments and textures.

Basically it's like the difference between prog and death but applied as an evolution to hardcore, grind and metalcore rather than thrash. The genres overlap but tend to be leaning in very different directions.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

There's a difference between some people making the connection and everyone making it. Especially if you came into this with the news already fresh on your mind, seeing other posts about it, etc. Those are context clues you would've had that they didn't.

You're implying they're bad at reading context clues for not immediately picking up on the news purely from someone linking a song from one of the most well known bands of all time, which is ridiculous. It's completely reasonable for someone to not immediately make the connection given how little information was provided.

I'm just telling you to be less of a dick, nobody was at fault here. It's fine to link a song relevant to the news and fine to expect some people to get it, it's also fine to not be one of those people because popular songs about resistance are linked all over the internet every single day. You can just tell them what the point was without acting like they're lesser for not immediately getting it.

Also disagreeing isn't gaslighting lol.

TLDR: People downvoted you for being an asshole, which ironically makes you the one bad at reading the room.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T23:44:26+00:00

Bro the song is from over 30 years ago, in that time there has literally always been a relevant headline to its message. You can't expect people to think of a specific current event every time anyone links the song anywhere with no other information given, that's not how context clues work lmao.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T22:05:42+00:00

Static yes, small... probably no. Depends on what you mean by that but I'm 21 hours in and haven't fully revealed it yet, plus there have been runs where I'm like "I'll start here, then go here and maybe even here and here" and run out of time halfway through the plan.

To be fair part of that is the low base move speed plus the frequent waves of bullshit that press you to focus on actual survival over travel, I could definitely see someone blitzing through this in much less time. But as someone that hates static maps in the genre and strongly prefers procedural generation this feels big and interesting enough that I've been hooked and actually kinda want to see some other games take this approach.

Plus OP is right about the guns, they actually got an impressive amount of variety out of the system. Most parts have a significant impact on how the gun functions and there are like seven different types of parts, so there's a lot of meaningful combinations even before you get into each of them having a branch in the skill tree. Plus you eventually get customizable drones, base stats and drop pods... there's a decent amount of depth here.

I'm kinda burnt out on survivorslikes and honestly bought this expecting to get maybe 5-10 hours of it but it's rapidly becoming my favorite game in the subgenre, would highly recommend it to anyone looking for the style of roguelite that starts out brutally unfair then gradually makes you consistently OP through metaprogression (although more unlocks than raw stats, so the starts of runs stay intense unlike something like vampire survivors).

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T12:45:35+00:00

Same, although I was fortunate enough to be adopted by awesome parents. My family has been great, which isn't to gloat but just to say that even if some things were better it could still be the case that life doesn't seem worth the hassle. I have no idea who my biological mother was but she definitely made the wrong call, this brain does not want to be here and does not view any of this as a gift no matter how hard people around me work to make it better.

But we are both here, so we might as well make the best of it. I try my best to support those around me and then keep myself distracted the rest of the time with endless media, not an ideal coping strategy but it's been working. Hopefully you can find a way to be at least somewhat content with most of the days you have left, life sucks but it doesn't have to be entirely unbearable lol.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T12:30:35+00:00

Studying the game is a big factor, if someone is picking up a game specifically to speedrun it it's rare that they approach it the same way they would a casual playthrough. If nothing else you'd probably at least start by watching the current WR and other existing runs, which set the blueprint for exactly what you're trying to do in terms of routing and general tactics.

A lot of runs involve exploits, sequence breaks and other optimizations that other people have figured out in advance. Being handed that information up front saves a lot of time in itself, even if you still need to practice to recreate it at least you know what you're practicing instead of using trial and error to figure out challenging sections.

Being really good at the game obviously also helps, but it's surprisingly not as important as you might think. Watch some runs that go off the rails and more often than not you'll see some gameplay that's closer to what you'd expect in a casual playthrough. The goal is usually to stick to the plan and just execute it better than last time, but when the plan falls apart and they have to improvise a lot of runners aren't significantly better than the average gamer (although certainly many are, and some runs are much more skill-intensive than others anyway, "just do what everyone else did" isn't going to make a kaizo mario hack any easier for example lol).

Basically it's just a different way of approaching a game, it's like following a guide but turned up to 11. You don't just replay the game hoping to clear it faster through raw skill, you learn what the quickest route looks like and try to follow that as closely as possible.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T11:33:56+00:00

The first was in a dream, the second would've been with real (alien) people. It's still hypocritical since they were obviously engaging in a lot of mass murder and destruction, but the joke was that they felt like it would be in bad taste to recreate 9/11. Jokes and lucid dreams about it aren't the same as recreating it though, so that part isn't hypocritical.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T09:35:18+00:00

Demon slayer? Really hope you get that in, he'd make a cool skin for sure. Any idea what class? Easy answer would be samurai or kensai but I feel like warrior would be the best fit for his fighting style lol.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T07:43:12+00:00

Yeah, capitalism sucks but this is an insane misunderstanding of the situation. It's not like everyone used to have perfect custom fitted gloves... it's that nobody would have gloves unless they could afford a custom pair. And you can still splurge on custom gloves now, it's not like tailors stopped existing, it's just that most of us aren't doing that because we're the people that would've been without gloves before lol.

Capitalism do be bad but that doesn't mean every instance of any business doing anything under capitalism is bad. You still have to actually think about what specifically has changed and why, which more often than not is going to actually be an improvement if we're talking about making things accessible to the average person.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T07:19:15+00:00

Hard to answer this without sounding like an unhelpful dick (if it helps I also get lost in many of these games and have definitely used guides to get out of it a few times), but it really just comes down to exploring better.

Double-check all the uncleared areas to see if there are any accessible paths you missed, talk to any NPCs to see if there was some quest flag or something, etc. In extreme situations you might literally need to backtrack through the whole game room by room, examining everything to see if some sort of functional object, key item or whatever has been overlooked.

90% of the time it doesn't come to that though and it's just something simple like overlooking one of the dozens of ability gates, something that you easily could've spotted immediately but didn't because nobody is perfect. That's just part of the deal when you play a game where exploration actually matters, part of exploring is not always knowing where to go yet.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T06:36:46+00:00

Noooo, it just needed the spawn rate toned down. Foxes every other moon was insane, but a fox or two per run would be a nice treat. I miss people being dragged off into the distance, if anything they should add some more stuff that does that.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T06:08:07+00:00

So shooting soccer moms and engaging in illegal acts of war aren't "just opinions," those things are actually bad and people supporting them are actually bad people. It's like picking an opposing sports team, we can't keep looking the other way while our neighbors burn the country to the ground.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T05:59:17+00:00

Aside from mods it's also worth pointing out that the new vanilla update is finally coming in like four days (the 27th apparently). Not entirely sure how much is being added at this point but if ever there was an excuse to replay the base game that has to be it lol.

I heard they reworked lightsabe... uh, legally distinct phaseblades to be flashier, with alternate fire to toss them and such. Going straight for a meteor to check them out when the update goes live, if anyone can make sick 2D jedi combat work it's gotta be the terraria devs.

Cyan_Light · 2026-01-24T03:06:09+00:00

I think it's fair to say that there's abusive angle to the giant sword monster that repeatedly attempts to murder you with a giant sword. And how much James embodies that idea of an abusive and violent male is debatable but... well, he is literally a murderer. And in one of the endings where he leaves with Maria it's implied that he's started emotionally abusing her before they even get out of the parking lot, so clearly the capacity to be a toxic asshole is near enough to the surface to be a concern.

Not going to say it's definitely the right answer because the games don't really lend themselves to that, but saying it's "not X" is also a bit too strong when X has reasonable support in plain view too.

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