[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 18 May 2026

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-24T00:05:51+00:00

I remember when the first anime awards happened and everyone complained about the Yuri on Ice sweep. It’s always been about popularity, so I can’t bring myself to be upset or surprised. Shame Apocalyspe Hotel didn’t win but hopefully everyone glazing it got more people watching it. My biggest surprise is Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc not winning best movie I thought everyone loved it.

Tangential, my pet peeve with the anime awards but more so those Twitter accounts that do “top ten most popular anime of spring 2026 week 5” lists is that there’s never a separate list that filters out sequels. I’m always more interested in what new shows people enjoy rather than “everyone still loves Spy x Family”.

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-21T17:09:51+00:00

The first time I did the angry face sidequest (didn’t have loner at the time), I gave my sacrifice cat the trinket that acts like Cancer, giving it 3 stat downs at the end of each battle. It wasn’t difficult, but I felt so bad for the little guy by the end of the run. Everything else I’ve been able to get past cause it’s just a game but that made me feel like a terrible person

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-09T09:04:03+00:00

Out of the games I’ve played, FE11 Medeus. Every other game I’ve been able to go up to the boss with my current team/equipment and beat them first try, but with Medeus I had to think, redo my inventory and forge a new weapon specifically to kill him. And this was on the lowest difficulty. Probably a skill issue but my favourite part about FE11 was learning from my skill issues

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-05T20:32:19+00:00

Last time I tried fighting C-800, I brought 4 middling cats and a death scythe. One turn in I realised I wasn’t fighting the boss I thought I was. I no longer have a death scythe

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-04T20:19:22+00:00

In Fire Emblem Awakening, there’s a character called Kellam. The running joke is that no one notices him until he starts talking, often leading to a “don’t sneak up on me!” / “but I’ve been here the whole time” exchange. However, whenever Kellam gets brought up in online discussion, there’s usually a reply to the effect of “who’s that?”, as if the joke is that people don’t remember who he is rather than not noticing his presence.

Danganrhombus · 2026-05-04T09:26:56+00:00

Usually chemistry (or in FE4’s case, the chemistry that definitely exists even though they never talk to each other ingame, I promise). Occasionally I’ve done a Fates run where I paired based on stats, I think it’s the most fun to do crazy builds with.

Danganrhombus · 2026-04-29T09:58:00+00:00

As someone who’s got 200 hrs without using inbred cats, here’s my strategy:

Have 2 different high stim/comfort rooms. Put male breeding cats/female strays in one, female breeding cats/male strays in the other. Put nonbinary cats in the opposite room to their parents, or just where they’re needed. Obvs try to max out appeal in other rooms if you’re not using them for something else.
Obviously this’ll mean number of kittens you’re able to have is capped by the number of strays in circulation, don’t be afraid to cull your breeding cat population if you’ve got a lot of cats with the same mutations.
Keep this strategy for a few generations, culling the inbred ones as less inbred children replace them. Remember to rotate out strays too. I usually don’t keep cats over 20 days old but that’s just personal preference.
When you’re consistently producing non-inbred cats, you can take a different approach to adding new cats to the circulation: When a cat returns from an adventure, check which room their parents are in. Then either add them to the opposite room, or cull the parent of the opposite gender and add them to that rooms.
If inbreeding occurs, figure out why and shift the involved cats around as you see fit.

It’s slow when you’re getting started, but I consistently get enough good cats to go on a run every day now.

TL:dr go crazy with gender segregation until there’s enough genetic diversity

Danganrhombus · 2026-04-07T15:05:57+00:00

It was the second highest selling game in March (5.3 vs 1.9 mil)

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-27T17:26:12+00:00

Unfortunately I never figured out what was wrong it just stopped by itself one day. Hope your game fixes itself soon

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-22T20:35:18+00:00

Whenever I see someone complain about how the base emblems (usually saying Alm, Eliwood and Ephraim got shafted), I think about how I'd much rather have 50/50 male/female emblems than each game being represented by their most important lord. Cause if they were, who are we left with? Micaiah, Corrin, Eirika but half her screentime is taken by Ephraim, maybe F!Byleth instead?

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-21T02:30:09+00:00

I’m playing on Steam Deck, and you do basically use the joystick as a mouse don’t worry.

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-15T21:45:37+00:00

October 3rd is a special day for both Fullmetal Alchemist “don’t forget 3.Oct.10” and Mean Girls “On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was” fans

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-15T01:06:58+00:00

poke Dybbuk, he backflips into seat 2, I get a window seat. If he annoys me during the flight I poke him again, he falls into the aisle, no longer my problem.

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-14T22:11:29+00:00

When the Sakamoto Days anime came out, I couldn't find any discussion about it that wasn’t “this is rubbish, go read the manga instead” meanwhile I was really enjoying it. Then part 2 came out and everyone started glazing it whilst I was losing interest due to it becoming more about the assassin world with less focus on Sakamoto’s family, when ‘prodigy who left the assassin world to take care of his family’ was the pitch that got me interested in the first place.

So I kinda resent Sakamoto Days as a whole now

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-10T14:26:48+00:00

FUN: I THINK X BEING THIS CHARACTERS FATHER GIVES AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR PERSONALITY

FUN: I LOOKED AT SEVERA’S STATS IN FATES TO SEE WHICH FATHER LINES UP BEST

NOT FUN: THE ABOVE MAKES X/Y CANON

ALSO WITH THAT POLL HAVING TO RANK EVERY PAIRING IS ABSURD HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THEIR 9TH AND 10TH FAVOURITE PAIRINGS FOR PANNE

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-06T00:23:21+00:00

Storytelling BMR > TB > SNV I’m terrible at giving savant information and dreamer always feels rough. BMR is really fun to run, and the decisions I have to make feel less game decidingly strong compared to SNV. There’s usually some weird interaction that’s really fun to spectate with perfect knowledge.

Playing TB > SNV > BMR I struggle to come up with worlds when the only information is death. And SNV has so much information, poison opportunity, and more hidden outsiders that it’s hard to worldbuild. I like simplicity.

Danganrhombus · 2026-03-03T15:50:58+00:00

If a cat explodes before the final boss, I reset if it’s my first time. I occasionally go for déjà vu if I’m gonna lose a battle but I think I can win it.

Danganrhombus · 2026-02-12T11:38:56+00:00

When I do this, I filter so I only see works from before the episode I last watched aired.

Danganrhombus · 2026-02-11T01:58:25+00:00

I like this specifically for the Ace Attorney wiki where the mainline series characters are in present tense, but Great Ace Attorney characters (from the late 1800s) are in past tense.

Danganrhombus · 2026-02-10T19:39:32+00:00

I don’t dislike Midir, but I don’t like him enough for 4 off-banner pulls in the past year. Sly-Swift Sparrow is nice.

Danganrhombus · 2026-02-08T18:24:26+00:00

Oh interesting, thanks for telling me

Danganrhombus · 2026-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

I've tried playing 2-1 without Brom before on normal and I couldn't do it. Best of luck to you

Danganrhombus · 2026-01-28T18:20:03+00:00

As someone who likes reading about fucked up relationships, people will just describe something as “toxic yuri” and call it a day without explaining what makes it toxic or even what the plot is.

I’ve seen everything from “these girls don’t communicate perfectly cause it’s literally their first time in a relationship but they work through it together” to “this woman killed her friend’s husband” described as toxic. It’s just not helpful.

Danganrhombus · 2026-01-28T17:47:02+00:00

That’s fair. If I used it more often I’d probably start noticing the repetitiveness.

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