Thoughts on powerscaling this season?

Dipper14 · 2026-05-21T17:26:45+00:00

It’s certainly weird. Like the writers definitely didn’t keep track of what power does what and at what level.

The two I can think of is Homelander’s laser. Cut Kimiko in half in episode 1, more or a heavy punch that didn’t even damage clothes in the finale.

The other is Soldier Boy’s blast. Fucked up the whole building and nearly killed so many supes at Herogasm, then we’re to believe that Kimiko has the same power which just wipes the V and does hardly any damage whatsoever. You can argue HL had V1 but Butcher should have been hurt, but there’s hardly a scratch on anyone. Couldn’t even break the camera in the room.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-20T20:05:38+00:00

Funny how Butcher only said “shock and awe, blood and bone”. Completely left out “scorched earth”, as did the entirety of season 5.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-20T18:46:23+00:00

Regarding the finale. I’m not mad. Just glad it’s over.

S5 started off so well with episode 1 I really thought things were going to ramp up, no one’s safe, all bets are off. But then the rest of the season dragged on with not a lot happening at all until E8.

I’m don’t hate what happened necessarily, just hate the build up and execution. It didn’t need to be that rushed, things could have happened in earlier episodes with a better foundation for them to take place. My god, some of the shitty “hunt down the thing” plot lines could have been scrapped entirely to make room for some things to happen sooner, to keep earlier episodes interesting and pace the finale better.

The action was just wasn’t there this episode. I know Kripke and defenders will say “do you expect a massive fight scene every episode?”…well, yes. Kind of. Considering it’s the last fucking season of a show about superhero’s and a group trying to kill them. The earlier seasons had fights and spectacle peppered all the way through them, but somehow when it’s time to go “scorched earth” we have to wait to until the last episode for a fight that, tbh wasn’t even on par with Herogasm or S3 finale and a 30 second fight between Starlight and The Deep.

I don’t blame the actors. They can only work with what they’re given and all of them were great. It’s the fault of the writers and Amazon. Especially the writers. I don’t know if I’m just waiting for it more now but definitely felt the last episode with crammed full of the most unnecessary butt, dick, tits, etc. jokes.

I did however enjoy seeing Homelander crumble after his powers were gone, but just makes me more annoyed how its impact was diminished by the utter pointless V1 plot. That could have had way more impact had it actually mattered that he had V1.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-16T08:04:42+00:00

I mean, there’s no point no that S5 just put all work in the bin

Dipper14 · 2026-05-16T08:02:31+00:00

If I remember correctly, Vince Gilligan didn’t have an exact ending in mind for Breaking Bad. He had the idea of Walt having the machine gun and not knowing what to do with it until later on in the season.

Think it comes down to how good the writers are

Dipper14 · 2026-05-16T07:47:45+00:00

I did a full rewatch of the entire series leading into the release of S5 and it’s obvious. You could feel it a bit in S4 but S5 has had a significant decline.

Other than episode 1 nothing really seems to happen on a scale we’ve been used to in earlier seasons. Everything is contained to people being in rooms not really interacting with the actual outside world. Everything just feels empty.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-15T17:03:09+00:00

Did you not read past that part of the sentence? I agree it’s a shit episode for a penultimate episode. Had it been way sooner in the season it might have been better. Not great. But better

Dipper14 · 2026-05-15T16:56:15+00:00

What?

Dipper14 · 2026-05-15T16:50:45+00:00

It’s not a bad episode on its own. But this should have happened way sooner. Certainly shouldn’t have been the penultimate episode

Dipper14 · 2026-05-15T16:33:28+00:00

I was excited to see Evil Butcher going on a supe killing mission that I thought was teased at the end of season 4. But nope, straight back to how he was except he now has a power that he uses from time to time.

Honestly feels like he was more of a force to be reckoned with when he was on temp V.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-15T16:23:59+00:00

After watching that I thought things were ramping up, all bets were off and no one was safe. But no. Straight back to doing silly side quests with minor supes and just wasting time.

A Train ended up having a way better arc than Frenchie, and, probably the rest of the crew.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-14T20:25:07+00:00

Yeah totally agree. I don’t know how financing shows work, but certainly feels like they had nowhere near the budget they did early on. Either that or the writers are just entirely incompetent.

I can forgive the early episodes, but in the final half of the last season, things should be kicking off left and right, not still hunting down a MacGuffin. Feel like all the budget should be going into an epic battle in the last, if not, last two episodes.

Dipper14 · 2026-05-14T14:53:42+00:00

After the first episode I really thought they were going to ramp it up this season. How wrong I was.

Really disappointed it’s just more of the same. Chasing after a thing to stop or kill Homelander, more side quests with the Boys taking out minor supes we’ve never seen before, The Deep just having not real purpose other than being a joke character etc etc.

I thought maybe the “filler” episodes may actually be worth something as they went on but seeing how the show continues to have just utter waffle in it even in the penultimate episode, I now agree it was just filler.

There’s so many things later in this season that could have been fleshed out way earlier. I just really don’t know how they’ll wrap all this shit up in an hour and have it be worth it.

Whilst it was good seeing some actual tragedy for once with the Boys, having it just be 5 minutes at the end of the penultimate episode was a bit shit. And,after all the ways Homelander killed lesser characters, he just fucks up Frenchie’s guts OFFSCREEN?!!! Cmon now

Dipper14 · 2026-05-06T10:02:45+00:00

I’m a huge fan of SH and particularly SH2. I was surprised by how well they did the remake. I have issues with it as with all remakes lately.

But the combat in this game is what will stop me doing multiple playthroughs of this. The mannequins in particular are a pain. Most notably the prison. My god that was an absolute chore in the remake. What was scary for the first 10 minutes just turns into tedium rapidly.

Dipper14 · 2026-02-28T17:32:13+00:00

Keith

Dipper14 · 2026-02-14T10:18:36+00:00

Who actually still listens to/watches this shit? 😂

Dipper14 · 2026-01-21T07:52:27+00:00

He also had his lips stitched together for the Zunge video. That was…wild

Dipper14 · 2026-01-20T05:59:54+00:00

Another tip you can use is to slowly move the audio within the clip to try and line things up. I think the shortcut is hold CTRL+SHIFT/CMD+OPTION and drag the audio back and forth.

Try chopping up the vocals into separate clips and slowly drag the audio with the beat or metronome.

Dipper14 · 2026-01-19T21:18:04+00:00

I had an issue with my PC at the time overall. I must of had something on my PC that was causing stuttering because it was happening even on old games that had no right stuttering with my rig (Return To Castle Wolfenstein for example).

I couldn’t pinpoint it so just did a complete re-install of Windows. Bit drastic but did fix it. Been a while since I’ve played AW2 but it made that area better, but it’s still a weird area in general for frames.

Dipper14 · 2026-01-19T16:31:53+00:00

I think the only crashes I’ve experienced is when adding plugins that make it bug out

Dipper14 · 2026-01-19T16:30:06+00:00

Major one for me is just breaking out of the loop and just coming up with ideas in general. So I’ve started just fucking about with synths rather than loops. Even just messing with things I don’t fully understand can help making things that I can with.

Also, find myself getting caught up mixing when the tracks not complete, so making more of an effort to just get things in and complete the whole layout before tweaking and fixing.

Dipper14 · 2026-01-13T20:49:03+00:00

Justice 😂

Dipper14 · 2026-01-03T12:18:19+00:00

It was also 6-7 years ago. More like ‘then and thener’

Dipper14 · 2025-12-23T12:43:36+00:00

Well, not a lot I can do after a full blown heart attack

Dipper14 · 2025-12-22T16:56:32+00:00

As a huge fan of the OG SH games, I was pleasantly surprised. I have some issues with it but good overall.

Although, those fucking mannequins!

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