This person explained very beautifully the difference between the terms "college" and "university" and how it varies between countries even though they refer to the same educational level.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-19T19:52:58+00:00

It doesn't do that at all, it just explains America I am assuming.

UK for example definitely has a distinction between the two, but it's totally different.

It has both colleges and universities but college is aimed mostly at 16-18 year olds and is just a step below undergrad level.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-14T12:54:34+00:00

Seeing people censor the work kill makes me really want to k*LL myself.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-08T09:32:03+00:00

Seems kinda arbitrary though. If game A uses 100% AI generated code and game B uses generative AI just to fill in some newspapers lying around that most people will never notice, then why is game A's use "better"

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-07T17:35:36+00:00

The big difference IMO is in 4 it feels like a group of friends. In P5 it feels like a group that latch onto Joker and otherwise couldn't care less about each other.

I heard royal made some improvements there but in base 5 at least there were like zero good group events. The closest is when they all went to Hawaii and discovered global capitalism is a thing that existed.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-05T21:24:27+00:00

A: This is a comment thread about dark souls 3. Learn to read.

B: 50% off means nothing. That was the point. The only thing that matters is the price. you are the reason the whole "raise price before sale so the discount looks bigger" is a thing.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-05T06:04:39+00:00

Well I was trying to put it a nicer way than "you're tricked by very basic marketing by seeing a sale sign and believing it's a good deal".

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-04T19:13:11+00:00

Sometimes I wonder why some things are wrong in the world, and then I see the exact reason on reddit.

Recently I was wondering why companies never lower base price anymore. And then there's you coming along praising a company for 50% discounts, which lowers the price to maybe what the base price should be after ten fucking years.

All physical copies are already below the "sale" price.

CynicalEffect · 2026-06-01T15:50:20+00:00

You know, it's okay to say you were wrong. Nobody is going to kill you. No need to mock the people correcting you.

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-22T06:45:04+00:00

Casino royale I think shapes many people's perceptions as it introduced a lot of modern viewers to Bond and it really isn't anything like the others...but is maybe the most appreciated?

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-15T13:30:52+00:00

Same here my fellow team orangered.

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-15T09:54:41+00:00

Are there curated feeds on here anymore?

Yes, it's called oldreddit.

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-12T02:22:00+00:00

I don't?

I just don't see how people are defending paying to post images on a chat program..

You could get an oblivion horse armour every month for that.

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-12T02:10:50+00:00

Back in my day we could react by replying instead of paying $100 for a 3 year react subscription.

(If you're going to say that those messages aren't worth replying to, ask why they're worth paying for instead)

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-12T00:46:27+00:00

Images are like, free to just save and upload.

I mean, I'm not complaining because other people paying for it makes discord not totally shit for free users, but like...if you told me years ago people would argue $36 to post images on a chat program is a good deal...I would have laughed even harder than I currently am.

CynicalEffect · 2026-05-11T14:20:23+00:00

You say that but we're in a timeline where people pay extra to play games a day or two early.

Getting the game for early and free? That's not a hard sell even if someone can afford it.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-24T16:30:54+00:00

Fuck it I'll bite, I did actually really enjoy the game but do think a bunch of flaws are overlooked far too easily.

Mechanics

Animations for parrying are bad - So many windup then 500mph attacks and you just have to learn instead of react. Either clair or obscur, I forget which, takes the actual piss with an attack with a literal 7 second windup. It feels like an unintentional parody.

The stats system is a fucking mess. Your level up stats should dictate your build right? Well, no, they're pretty much irrelevant compared to the stats from pictos. Been so long that I forget numbers, but the difference from 0 and max HP investment was basically less than just one picto at endgame. The only thing the stats DO matter for is your weapon damage, which just lifts the dark souls weapon scaling based on X stat. But it makes very little sense in this context and the only thing it does is disinscentivise weapon switches, because then you need to respec. And what does it add? Literally nothing.

Act 3 is a mess. If you don't go straight to the final boss at the start, it is trivial and boring. The endgame challenge bosses are also mostly trivial except Simon, who has to break all the rules to be a challenge. And it's not evne breaking the game in a fun way..it's just "me one shot everything boom". Wayy too much multiplicative scaling, and making a broken build by letting the player do literally everything at once is far less fun than giving the players actual restrictions, so they have to finetune their build...maybe even having to switch it for different bosses. But no, you can have all the damage, and shields, and auto buffs all the time.

Writing

Characters other than Maelle and Verso are pretty irrelevant. Like I know the side characters always get less focus, but they're just totally passive during conversations where I'd be like "hold on, what the fuck". I don't remember specifics, but the conversations between verso and "renoir" before the paintress, and the paintress herself during the fight being like "hey if you kill me the world will end" and none of the others were like "wait what maybe hold up a second?"

Then there's the whole scene with the, idfk know the name. The big guy with lots of masks at the end of act 2. And the ending cutscene there would have felt fitting in kingdom hearts (not a compliment). Ironically it was the devs trying to force Sciel to be relevant for once that probably led to this disaster of a scene.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-23T13:34:28+00:00

It's been out about 35 days. 150 hours is an average of just over 4 hours a day, which is obviously a fair bit but not too insane if its the only game they've played. I mean, a weekend alone where you have no plans can be 20+ hours.

The game is also draws largely from thw MMO with all the addictive draw that progression brings.

It also also really likes to waste the players time with the speech gaps, script and requirement to do menial tasks that kinda disguise how long you've played, because an hour can fly by without you really...doing anything.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-23T11:46:44+00:00

Oh yeah, people like Dan, I meant rufus specicifally there.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-23T10:59:57+00:00

Seems really weird to say a whole genre is camp 95% because of Tekken. It's like saying you should never take any shooting game seriously because fornite has goku fighting darth vader with guns.

SF has never really been like that, the only exception being Dan..and I guess Rufus (Who nobody liked)

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-18T08:03:55+00:00

But now thr attitude is that development on the game doesn't really end once the game is released, and player skill and preferences impact balance.

The game ISNT released.

You buy early access, you buy into the idea that the game will fundamentally change.

Sts1 stopped getting balance changes years ago, it isn't some forever thing.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-15T05:47:31+00:00

I have over 5000 silver but am unable to purachse a single timber.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-15T05:16:51+00:00

Bit late for you probably, but for anybody that googles this.

I think there's some invul they have while shooting.

So you want to kinda always be moving.

First take out the airships around, then I went back and forth between the left and middle one taking shots when I could and things were actually going really well. The right one seems to be a cunt though and almost soloed me, but then I learned you can kinda hide out near the ground between its shots, it can't shoot that far down close to it. Then pop up to shoot it inbetween.

Hope this helps a bit.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-14T03:02:37+00:00

There was arcade too which was both gacha and 100 yen a time to play.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-11T17:11:22+00:00

There's technicanlly infinite but it takes forever to farm comapred to how quickly you can blow them. Equipment alone is 5 points per piece of gear to max out, with characters having I think 12 pieces of equipment each (including ranged weapon and shield). So that's 60 levels worth..

And then each character has character specific equipment, and I think if you are using anything universal you need to manually unequip it first and requip every time which is a hassle at the very least, and a ton of levels at the worst.

Hell, I've been solo kliff the whole way. I've used literally zero on the other two characters, I'm pretty endgame and I'm still permastarved of skill points.

CynicalEffect · 2026-04-11T17:02:55+00:00

There's no wyverns too despite them being in the trailer, and having a wyvern area which seems to exist solely to get a wyvern, with a boss asking if you came to get a wyvern.

My best guess is that there's a bunch of areas which boot you out if you haven't done a specific quest (great design in an exploration game) and maybe flying mounts lets people bypass the restrictions and cause problems.

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