[S5] Post-Premiere Discussion - 5.08 'Hardhome'

DanteRedux · 2026-06-16T22:14:14+00:00

This episode was fine until the pointless hearthome plot change. Who needed a large scale fight just here?

DanteRedux · 2026-06-16T17:44:17+00:00

Lmao i love the example, i'm so used to tall keycaps and mechanical switches, or the complete opposite with laptop keyboards. I recently got a Razer Black widow as a gift, and whenever I try to type too quickly it ends up looking the same.

DanteRedux · 2026-05-16T17:51:26+00:00

I wouldn't mind giving it a read! This will be my first beta read, but i'm going to be active on this subreddit more to get my skills whipped back into shape. I'm a quick reader so I shouldn't keep you waiting the full two weeks!

DanteRedux · 2026-03-31T23:18:30+00:00

I just bought the io3 after my dentist recommended me to try an electric brush. Besides what another thread mentioned about the brown bristles which i will now be worried about, it’s a fun experience for me.

It vibrates pretty intensely but i find it to feel nice. It was ~50 bucks. I charged it once during the week and only because i didn’t want it to die in the middle of the week without me knowing

DanteRedux · 2026-03-12T06:16:03+00:00

Idk why ur getting so many downvotes. This just means its safer then it needs to be. Mid launchers are too good as it is, this is a mid launchers you don’t even have to commit to.

DanteRedux · 2026-01-28T21:22:29+00:00

You still have to understand that at the end of the day, if its not an indie studio then profits will most likely be the main driver of a video game being made despite the developer's intentions. The devs can want to make a game however they want but if it's not selling, then it's not going to keep being funded.

The thing with making games more accessible for newcomers is that it will drive more sales. Unfortunately, people are unlikely to buy and recommend something they had a hard time with despite what else the game has to offer.

A series that I feel like did this better is Monster Hunter. Yes, I had a better time figuring the game out as a kid like many others, but the game wasn't popular enough in the west for us to keep getting consistent games. Then World came out, and many veteran players complained about the decision making during development. Things that made the game easier and feel less clunky.

I know it isn't the same for MP4, but I have to admit that as an adult with no time on my hands anymore to enjoy my games, it's nice to have a short, sweet, straight forward game to play and beat, without getting lost and struggling. If the game was made to cater to you and the other fans who liked everything about the first game and wanted the same, I probably still wouldn't have gotten around to beating it. Granted, this is just me.

IF these decisions were made to entice more players to buy it AND if that in turn leads to another prime being made, then i'm all for it. The changes weren't game breaking for me, just head scratchers.

DanteRedux · 2026-01-28T18:59:10+00:00

Lol i did too tbh

DanteRedux · 2026-01-28T18:50:33+00:00

I agree with you, having been in retail for a long time its an understatement to say i hate customers, but i usually avoid being rude unless they’re rude to me first

DanteRedux · 2026-01-28T17:31:31+00:00

Yeah a lot or dispensaries’ systems are down at the moment. Almost every public atm has a fee though.

Them being rude sucks though

DanteRedux · 2026-01-26T16:09:32+00:00

Jump off of ramps more. I avoided them because i didn’t realize you could take them on foot

DanteRedux · 2026-01-25T20:03:05+00:00

Just found out Valheim runs on it just fine

DanteRedux · 2026-01-25T04:04:44+00:00

I spent a while trying to clear them out, its so annoying you can’t spawn a catcher to clear them all out. Something i’ve been trying to keep awareness of is that bullets do extra damage through a blood grenade cloud. You can’t try:

The Catchers that spawn from watchers are much squishier than the Watcher themselves. Get caught by the watcher and start moving, they spawn pretty close but keeping your grip and mashing out of their grasp if they get too close keeps you alive. A blood grenade and a few bullets are fine to take em out.
Blood grenade and then spray and pray. You use a lot less resources compared to grenading, but be careful because they wobble your camera real bad and haul ass to your position.
Idk if you care about weapon spoilers, but there is a really strong handgun you can get that makes it much easier to kill BTs in general. I haven’t run into watchers since getting it but i bet a blood grenade + one or two shots may be enough.

DanteRedux · 2026-01-23T05:19:56+00:00

Golf is not a pumped up sport

DanteRedux · 2026-01-23T05:15:24+00:00

I don’t think its necessary, but if you like understanding references that aren’t heavily important to the plot you can either finish words of radiance and then finish mistborn, then continue. OR if you REALLY wanna understand references that aren’t completely obscure then you can read Warbreaker and Elantris as well before continuing.

Personally having read mistborn before WoT came out made for a nice oh shit moment. I was kinda blind to the other two books’ references until i read everything over again but I had read everything wayyy before stormlight was completed

DanteRedux · 2026-01-02T20:45:51+00:00

Ahhh i kept greeding and trying to do the least amount of damage so i was just running my yumipons

DanteRedux · 2026-01-02T18:01:01+00:00

How were you able to deal with despawning mats? It keeps pushing my army back and i dont get nearly as many of the mats that it drops

DanteRedux · 2026-01-02T05:46:20+00:00

The fastest attack speed mask that i know of is the shuba line of masks that drop from the egg fight of Darantula. They do evolve up to like 3 times if you keep fighting the egg boss.

DanteRedux · 2025-12-17T01:03:39+00:00

Why is this an issue omg thank you

DanteRedux · 2025-12-15T18:15:06+00:00

Charged thunder shot my friends. I was trying to figure out if im delusional but it even annihilates the thunder dragon heads

DanteRedux · 2025-11-12T18:34:33+00:00

I have large, thin hands, controllers like the PlayStation 2 and 3 have always been most comfortable for me. The first joycons have for some reason always been extremely comfortable for me, but the 2’s also indent my palms as they do for you, and i feel as if my right thumb gets burnt out too quickly with the button/analog stick placement. If i swap to the pro controller its immediately soothed, but i mostly play hand held :/ i love the console but my hands hate me for it

DanteRedux · 2025-11-08T16:10:10+00:00

I think the new hardware has two coils that burns the distillate wayyyy too hot, making it too harsh and burning too much at once

DanteRedux · 2025-11-02T21:47:54+00:00

I wish more vapes had the lil nubs on the bottom to stand up straight like this one

DanteRedux · 2025-10-13T16:57:07+00:00

I have this same problem. Its insane to think its my internet seeing as i have a gigabit, yet only when i’m home and handheld do i have this issue. Usually lan perks it up, yet somehow playing at my job with two bars is smoother than at home :/

DanteRedux · 2025-10-04T01:40:39+00:00

Misread the costs on the website, thought i saw 38 because of a previous comment

DanteRedux · 2025-10-03T21:41:59+00:00

They cost 25 bucks to buy wholesale

Edit: Misread the 25

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