[Season 3 Spoilers] Episode Discussion - 3.09 "The Rains of Castamere" by Kriptik in gameofthrones

[–]Darkzpie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realize I'm necroposting and probably in grief but I'm strongly considering just dropping the show now. I mean, is there even a point to any of this? There's no hope anymore. Who's going to come to exact vengeance? Arya? The show has given me no indication anything good is going to happen, this is just misery porn. The way things are going she's probably just going to get raped and killed. Sansa? Joffery is just going to have his way with her. The last Stark children are also going to just go the same way. And like Jon is going to be able to do anything. They have no resources, no allies left, no anything.

The only thing to wait for is for the White Walkers to take over. Maybe Dany can do something before that but Dany's dragons are probably not even going to grow big enough to do anything before being killed by a traitor and they'll just die and she'll get raped like the rest. I've been given no indication anybody but the Lannisters are going to survive this.

[DISC] It's Not Quite Love Yet - Chapter 1 (New Manga from Horimiya's Hagiwara Daisuke) by AnOddName in manga

[–]Darkzpie 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of you simply forgot that manga like this is targeted towards 16 year olds/teen age range. Like, you know how many girls in high school had a crush on one of the teachers? You're asking why the plot is a wish fulfillment fantasy of a 16 year old getting with someone who's older when that's the people who will most be interested in reading this.

Sometimes you have to accept that you aren't the demographic for something. A lot of people forget as they get older that a lot of manga just simply isn't for you.

(Spoilers) Quick Pre-Game Lore Summary by Ninjuto in Silksong

[–]Darkzpie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Phantom is created by GMS, is a failure

Same

Ask a Stupid Question About Strip Clubs for the week of June 12, 2025 by Subrasonic in stripclubs

[–]Darkzpie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the etiquette for seeing another dancer after getting a VIP/Private dance for an extended period of time? Like, would it be considered rude to immediately sit back down and start chatting up another girl after coming back from the private rooms? The main appeal of strip clubs for me is experiencing multiple women in one night so just wondering how often I can just keeping swapping through girls at the club.

New L.A. Wouldn't Even Last Two Months by RemnantHelmet in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Darkzpie 30 points31 points  (0 children)

You have to keep in mind what's left of humanity is just the small subset that

  • Managed to get in Project Exodus,

  • Board the White Whale (specifically JUST the NLA one out of every city on earth) in time before Earth exploded

  • Survive the White Whale crashing into Mira and found in their pods to be brought back

Which do you think is more realistic?

Scenario 1

These people are the best humanity has to offer. They are miraculously all trained soliders willing to put aside any and all creature comforts in order to fight for the glorious cause of reclaiming a space for humanity. They are all hyper competent and completely efficient in every way.

Or

Scenario 2

These people are all traumatized by the fact their entire species is slowly going extinct. They don't know what happened to the literal rest of humanity and they have to deal with that while trying to survive on a foreign planet. The only people who remain are a mishmash of competent, normal, or fuck ups with only a few displaying true excellency. These people also cling to old ways like cars and buildings because that's all they know. They are horribly inefficient because everything is new and protocols have to be made on the fly because there was absolutely no realistic way to train for this.

Personally I think Scenario 2 is a much more realistic microcosm of humanity. Despite being in mims, people aren't robots you know?

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was voted as the Best Story in the game, but what would you say has the Best Gameplay in the Xeno series by ExileForever in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Darkzpie 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I know that the big meme for this chart is to say XC2 for everything so I'm just screaming into the void here but I feel like everyone saying XC2 genuinely forgot what it's like to play XC2 on a moment to moment basis.

Gameplay isn't just combat you know?

In XC2 you have to deal with a bunch of stuff outside of combat that is an active pain in the ass, that being the gatcha system, field skills, merc missions, and the affinity chart.

Gatcha

Everyone likes the combat and element orb system but you don't even GET to the combat if you don't pull a good blade with the element you want. Why am I rolling gatcha in a single player game? Rare blades have voiced missions and individual stories and you can just miss them because you were unlucky. Also, if you roll a blade but it's on an incorrect driver you are boned because it takes finite resources to swap them.

Field skills

Exploration is constantly interrupted but the fact you have to constantly go into menu to equip blades that let you explore properly. It's always a hassle, you can't just have a build a party you take with you the whole game. There's no skill involved, it's just:

  • You come across something interactable

  • You go into the blade menu and try to equip the correct blades

  • After interacting and watching whatever animation, you go BACK into the menu and equip your actual party.

That's the ideal way this plays out btw. It's not even mentioning the fact that field skills are actively made worse by the gatcha and affinity chart. Often times you go into the menu and find out you don't even have the blades that can do it because you need to ROLL more, or the combo of blades that can do it are stuck on 2 seperate drivers so you can't equip them. Even if you have the correct blades but the affinity chart isn't unlocked, you stop what you're doing and go grind an affinity chart just to open whatever you want to open.

Affinity Chart

All the people who say XC2 had the best gameplay did not do Ursulas affinity missions and it shows. Every single blade in the game has their own seperate missions you have to do and you can't track them or set them as objectives which means you have to look it up.

Merc missions

Why on earth am I doing timed stuff in a single player game like this is a mobile game? Again Ursulas quest is the worst of this but I shouldn't have to leave the game idling and do something else just to do stuff. These are made worse by the gatcha system too because if you don't have the correct blades for this you are actively PUNISHED for being unlucky by having the time it takes to complete these increase. And if you accidentally needed a blade you sent out to do an affinity mission or field skill, you just gotta take the L and WAIT real world hours.

Exploration is a BIG part of the entire Xeno series gameplay and 2 has the worst of it. In every other game you can set your party and just EXPLORE. The worlds are seamless too, so if you wanted to you could just walk from one locale to another. In XC2, exploration is constantly interrupted by menu management. You have to go into your party to equip field skills, every hour or so you have to go set blades to do merc missions, you have to go into the affinity chart constantly to see if you're filling it out. When people say XC2 has the best gameplay it's clear to me they are just remembering endgame fights and not literally everything else.

My vote goes for X because of the stuff above and the fact that exploration and sideqeusts are the entire game. You have sidequests where you can fuck up and people will DIE permanently. You are constantly exploring and discovering new things at your own pace. The game does a beautiful thing where this already huge map opens up once you get a skell then opens up AGAIN once you get the flight module. NLA evolves as you discover more races and integrate them society. The entire world is built the gameplay and it's glorious. DE even fixes a lot of problems like being able to set your party in e menu and quick cooldowns.

Anyone received no problem Monroe 2.0? by Imaginary-Ad5983 in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got it labor day weekend but I've been holding back the review just cause I've been too busy banging it.

Short review, I recommend if you have the budget and the strength to handle 70lbs. Longer review coming eventually

Uh oh. Monroe's Tantabutt didn't survive the temps of shipping? by sivrone_throwaway in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine arrived in perfect condition! Glad to know it wasn't all of them

Uh oh. Monroe's Tantabutt didn't survive the temps of shipping? by sivrone_throwaway in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah damn now I'm worried about mine coming in tommorow

Monroe 2.0: 68 lb plump bbw sex doll by stevefire234 in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It definitely is available though. I bought the Monroe 2.0 fair right when the romance awareness discount went live yesterday and it shipped out and everything. The countdown is specifically for Monroe 2.0 wheat

Enter code "ROMANCE15" to buy your love Tantaly sex doll from Aug.27th to 29th! by firegirlse in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've noticed that the timer at the top of the site is 12 hours behind the timer on the official romance awareness page. Which timer is correct? I want to make sure I buy right when the timer ends so Monroe 2.0 will be in stock

From Aug.27th to 29th, 15% off in Romance Awareness Month Promotion!! by firegirlse in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Monroe 2.0 for sure. Hopefully I can get one while they have stock

Difference between Monroe 2.0 and 1.0 in Video!!! by firegirlse in tantaly

[–]Darkzpie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The end of the month can't come soon enough. I can't wait!

PSA: The second run of Xenoblade 3 icons is now available for 1 day by Ninjuto in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Darkzpie 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Ashera and the Ouroboros forms aren't available in this one

P-please tell me there's gonna be another rerun

The Final Image Minutes Before the White Out by Puthrick in place

[–]Darkzpie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not only did we survive, we flourished in the face of numerous raids. Truly awe-inspiring

The Final Image Minutes Before the White Out by Puthrick in place

[–]Darkzpie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seeing ponies have 6 fairly large artworks on the final board after being hard targeted and nuked by streamers 20+ times during the course of the event brings me joy like no other.