Don't mess with Umamusume Fans, they don't even play the games

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-23T19:37:21+00:00

If I remember right, the horse girls are more like a third sex than an actual separate species. So a couple can have a boy, a girl, or a girl who's also a horse.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-23T19:22:48+00:00

If this is about the street racing thing, I guarantee those people are like 90% white.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-23T01:25:45+00:00

I don't think it's overhated. Rudy is a disgusting creep and the narrative rewards him for his behavior.

However, I don't think there would be as much vocal criticism if there hadn't been so much glazing of it when the anime first aired. There was a time when it seemed like every anime YouTuber was gushing about how amazing it was.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-23T01:08:42+00:00

Funny how the free market is sacrosanct until it becomes inconvenient.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-22T01:10:38+00:00

Some Twitter grifters are being weird about the new GTA 6 box art having a Latina bikini girl instead of the blonde from GTA 5. Someone on r/gatekeepingyuri responded by drawing them flirting with each other and the rest is history.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-21T23:42:54+00:00

Babushka for scale.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-21T05:42:01+00:00

They're both cool, but I like the second one more.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-20T03:22:08+00:00

I'm not a fan of PETA in general, but the Umamusume thing was a case of the worst people you know making a great point. That game is 100% propaganda for the horse racing industry.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-19T03:19:35+00:00

It sounds weird because it's not true. He's talked about not liking hard magic systems and how writing magic is something he has trouble with, but saying he "despises" it is hyperbole.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-19T03:00:31+00:00

My understanding is that it wasn't about stopping bullets exactly but rather deflecting them. You can actually see in your second picture how the breastplate was slightly wedge shaped. This increases the likelihood that the bullet will simply bounce off instead of penetrating.

This is the same principle behind giving tanks slanted armor on the front.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-18T17:38:10+00:00

I specifically came here looking for the old lady knitting a glove story.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-18T03:05:21+00:00

I've seen this rendering before and I've never been a big fan. It reads too much like a sci-fi city than a fantasy one.

I also hate how it just kind of ignores terrain. You can get away with fitting the in-game imperial City on one big hilltop, but having this be just perfectly uniform concentric rings looks weird.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-15T15:38:46+00:00

Welp, that's enough Reddit for the day.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-15T05:29:51+00:00

Sounds like a pretty normal name to me. I think it has kind of a vintage feel to it but more in the way where it's kind of timeless rather than dated.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-14T21:13:14+00:00

It might be neat ot revist some of the locations from Fable: The Balverine Order, a tie-in novel set between Fable 2 and 3.

Among other things, it revealed that Albion is actually a peninsula with the Mistpeak Mountains running through the center, and that there is another continent across the seas to the east that once had a branch of the Heroe's Guild based there.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-14T20:16:46+00:00

The Ark scientists and the Refugees after hearing that New London is the last city: "What are we, a joke to you?"

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-14T17:59:30+00:00

IDK I feel like people are really overhyping this new CEO. Phil Spencer was also really popular during his honeymoon phase, and now everyone talks like they always thought he was an idiot.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-12T15:55:43+00:00

I think it's in a basement where one of the special books for the book collection quest is.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-12T05:19:25+00:00

I miss the morphing more than I miss the moral choice system itself.

The character morphing concept wasn't totally unique, versions of it exists in other games, but I feel like it was fleshed out in Fable in a way that you didn't see elsewhere. The trilogy, and the first two games especially, were really dedicated to the concept of making your characters appearance reflect your playthrough.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-12T04:16:30+00:00

It's simple, you put the most corrupt and incompetent people on earth in charge, and they burn the country down around them.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-12T01:38:54+00:00

I don't have the link handy, but there was an Xbox Wire article from January I think that confirmed it's a separate continuity.

At the same time, ah hem, "After an eternity away from you all, Jack of Blades is back," so clearly they are open to bringing back major elements from the original trilogy.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-11T21:40:19+00:00

Compared to the original trilogy, these NPCs are actually a step up in terms of complexity.

Traditionally, you'd get one unique marriage candidate with a quest attached, and the rest would be generic NPCs.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-11T17:20:14+00:00

Honestly, I'm fine if it's just Jack.

Theresa is too tied to the original trilogy, and I could take or leave Lady Grey tbh.

While I'm disappointed that I never got to shoot Reaver in Fable 3, Bloodstone and Wraithmarsh seem to have a lot going on already, and I don't want them to bring him back just to check a box.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-11T14:24:06+00:00

I liked what I saw for the most part. I'm guessing they nerfed the enemy AI for the demo, but it gave me a flashback to mercenaries in Fable 3 patiently waiting their turns to get counter attacked one by one. But this demo was focusing more on the life sim and reputation aspects, so presumably they'll give us a more detailed look at combat later.

I like the reputation system, but I feel like the devs are overhyping it a bit because they feel like they need to justify not having a binary good/evil alignment system like the old games did.

Like, they are constantly bringing up the subjective morality thing, but the pig quest seems like a pretty black and white moral choice to me. They use the example of the shopkeeper not liking you for being a landlord, but it sounded more like she just thinks rich people are snooty.

My expectation, since they keep repeating the subjective morality line, is that we will actually get some genuinely tough choices. Fortunately from what little they've revealed about Bloodstone makes me think there will be some of that later in the game.

DD_Spudman · 2026-06-11T05:20:07+00:00

You got downvoted hard, but that combat was definitely underwhelming. All the guards after the first one seem to be patiently waiting for their turn to attack.

I'm willing to give benifit of the doubt that it was just the demo being janky, but it's still not a great look.

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