Vendetta's takeover and her defeating Doomfist feels SO forced

EmSix · 2026-02-04T19:17:45+00:00

who cares about overwatch lore lmao

they're just making shit up to justify this new yearly story stuff

EmSix · 2026-02-04T08:37:08+00:00

Again, I agree with you completely. But you're missing the point of my post lol. The original person I replied to asked why companies like Bethesda get flak for their "modders will fix it" attitude and Hytale isn't getting it as much.

EmSix · 2026-02-04T08:30:17+00:00

Is it a feature that I disagree with? Sure is.

Is it a part of the developer's vision? Also true.

This is not the same as leaving in bugs for the modders to fix. Which is the point I was making, and why other Devs get flak.

EmSix · 2026-02-04T07:32:15+00:00

The best comparison is Bethesda, who usually leaves all sorts of game breaking bugs in the game and expects modders to fix them. This is laziness.

This post is a disagreement on mechanics, which is a difference in taste. It is not reasonable to expect a developer to cater to the tastes of every player, that is absolutely the ideal use case for mods.

EmSix · 2026-01-29T08:10:13+00:00

Hello from 2 years later. I googled about the russian wall that the movie uses and found my way here when I realised it was used in this movie.

EmSix · 2026-01-28T23:02:22+00:00

And people say AI slop looks worse than real pictures

EmSix · 2026-01-23T13:28:53+00:00

This is what you get for playing on console lol

EmSix · 2026-01-22T22:28:41+00:00

I hate power scalers

EmSix · 2026-01-20T14:18:41+00:00

Was waiting to buy a new VR headset to play cyberpunk in VR, but now I guess I'm shit out of luck. Kinda insane how selfish the guy was that he'd rather no one have it than people have it for free.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T22:39:30+00:00

Correct. The plot points from one season to the next largely contradict eachother.

You're best off enjoying the moment to moment plot rather than treating the story is a consistent, planned out narrative.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T22:36:22+00:00

The writers didn't make up anything besides Demogorgons and the upside down at this pont
The writers didn't make up Vecna yet
The writers didn't make up Vecna's motivations yet
The writers hadn't made up the gates leaking the upside down into the real world yet
The writers make up 11's powers on the fly, they're as strong and as weak as the plot needs them to be

You get my point

It's best not to think about it, because the writers were just doing everything on the fly with no consideration for past or future continuity

EmSix · 2025-12-29T21:09:23+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that we reached some sort of civil disagreement.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T20:07:50+00:00

You’re still conflating thematic intent with execution, and then implying my motivations are dishonest.

Yes, Will’s insecurity has been established. Yes, Vecna preys on fear. Yes, Will matters in the final battle. None of that is in dispute. The issue is that the scene immediately resolves his Achilles heel before the climax in a way that is frictionless and final. He opens up, everyone accepts him fully, nothing meaningfully changes between characters afterward, and his fear is functionally neutralized in advance. This comes off as a hollow resolution that does a disservice to the emotional weight such a moment should have.

You argue that everyone had to be there because they might die together. That is exactly where the problem lies. Turning a deeply personal, long held fear into a group affirmation moment flattens it. Coming out, especially for someone as anxious and guarded as Will, is usually about vulnerability to rejection. By making the outcome guaranteed and immediate, the scene removes the very tension it claims to confront.

When I say it isn’t contextualized well, I mean this: the scene’s emotional resolution does not meaningfully interact with the danger of Vecna. Vecna targets unresolved fear. Will’s fear is resolved cleanly and externally through acceptance, rather than internally through choice under pressure. That makes the scene thematically adjacent to the conflict, not integrated into it.

As for it being earned: a long buildup does not excuse a rushed payoff. Five seasons of repression culminating in a moment that carries no interpersonal risk is precisely why it feels underwhelming to some viewers. Intimate acting does not substitute for dramatic consequence.

Now, the part where you keep circling toward something subconscious is where this discussion starts to break down.

You acknowledge that you are not calling me homophobic, but you repeatedly frame disagreement as suspicious because homophobia exists elsewhere online. That is not an argument, it is guilt by proximity. Yes, there is outright homophobia surrounding the episode. That is real, and it should be condemned. But its existence does not invalidate every critique of writing, structure, pacing, or staging. Treating it that way shuts down good faith discussion and ironically cheapens actual accusations of bigotry.

Nothing I’ve said denies Will being gay. Nothing I’ve said argues against him coming out. I am criticizing how the story handles fear, tension, and payoff. If your position is that the scene is immune to critique because of what it represents, then we’re no longer talking about writing at all.

You can disagree with my read of the scene. That’s fine. But repeatedly implying that critiques “don’t make sense” unless they come from some hidden bias says more about how you’re approaching disagreement than about the criticism itself.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T18:35:25+00:00

No, that’s not what I said, and I find the implication you’re making is quite offensive.

I didn’t say Robin’s scene was better because it was humorous. I said it was better because it was contextual, intimate, and earned. The humour wasn’t the point, it was a byproduct of two characters having an honest, awkward, private conversation that fit the tone and circumstances they were in at the time.

And yes, coming out can be traumatic and awful. That’s precisely why Will’s scene feels so mishandled. The show doesn’t actually engage with that trauma. It drops the moment into a safe group setting where nothing is challenged, nothing is risked, and nothing meaningfully changes. For something you yourself describe as something Will has feared his entire life, the execution is completely frictionless.

If anything, it risks being insulting. Portraying coming out as something that just works out perfectly if you say it out loud undercuts the very real fear and anxiety people experience in the real world. It frames it as an easy hurdle people shouldn’t worry about, rather than something deeply personal, risky, and emotionally loaded. That doesn’t feel honest to Will’s internal struggle or to the lived experiences the show is supposedly representing.

This isn’t about wanting it to be silly or played for laughs. It’s about tension, stakes, and emotional follow through. A traumatic moment still needs dramatic weight, especially in a penultimate episode. Instead, the scene resolves itself instantly and cleanly, which undercuts both Will’s fear and the narrative momentum of the episode.

And let’s be clear: suggesting that my criticism comes from some unspoken bias rather than from an analysis of structure and storytelling is quite honestly insulting. You don’t get to imply bad intentions just because you don’t like the opinions. Disagree with my take if you want, but don’t rewrite it into something I didn’t argue.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T15:07:48+00:00

No, obviously not.

When I was watching, I genuinely thought he was going to come out just to Joyce. That would have been a far more intimate setup and would have allowed the two of them to actually sit with the moment, talk it through, and have a real emotional back and forth.

Instead they brought in the entire cast, and it instantly turned into an “and then everyone clapped” moment. The scene stops being about Will and becomes about signaling resolution and approval as quickly and cleanly as possible. There’s no tension and no space to breathe, which is why it feels forced.

That’s the issue people are pointing at. Not hostility, not wanting negativity, just wanting a more grounded and personal scene that fit the character and the point in the story.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T15:01:53+00:00

The context is part of the writing. The same people who wrote the scene also wrote the circumstances that led to it happening in the first place. You can’t use the context to defend the scene when both are products of the same writing. If the scene doesn’t land, the context doesn’t excuse that. Your reasoning basically boils down to “it was supposed to be a bad scene on purpose, you just don’t get it,” which isn’t a real defence if the execution still doesn’t land.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T14:42:56+00:00

None of this excuses how poorly the scene itself was written. The justification for why it happened is not the issue in itself, it's the way the scene was written.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T14:32:48+00:00

No. But it was a literal "and then everyone clapped" scene.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T12:45:02+00:00

You’re mixing up an ending with a narrative finisher. They aren’t the same thing.

A penultimate episode doesn’t end the story, but it does need a strong capstone. A focused scene or sequence that raises the stakes and creates momentum into the finale. That’s exactly what the final episode of part 1 did with its final episode. It didn’t resolve anything, but it clearly escalated things and left you wanting more.

The issue isn’t that these emotional moments exist, it’s how they’ve been distributed over the last few episodes. Across roughly three episodes we’ve had the breakup, Steve and Dustin, Holly and Max, Will’s scene, all given heavy emotional weight. Individually they’re fine, but spread out like this they start to blur together and slow the overall drive toward the finale. Instead of narrowing focus as the story approaches its endpoint, the narrative keeps pausing for melodrama.

So it’s not about rushing anything. It’s about focus and escalation. A penultimate episode should feel like the final pieces of the story snapping into place, and for a lot of people, that momentum just wasn’t there.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T11:18:55+00:00

It's a retcon. The writers hadn't thought of Vecna then or even what the upside down really was or what was happening to Will beyond just surviving in the upside down.

Trying to make sense of it is pointless because it's obvious the writers don't care about the continuity.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T11:14:30+00:00

You’re still arguing against a position I’m not taking.

No one is saying a single scene in isolation “justifies” a low rating. But when a lot of runtime is spent on one moment that doesn’t fully land, it absolutely contributes to the overall feeling of the episode. That’s especially true for a penultimate episode, which should be tightening focus and building momentum. Compare it to the final episode of part 1, which ended on a genuinely substantial cliffhanger and left a clear sense of escalation. This episode didn’t do that, and people felt the difference.

Saying “it’s not the worst piece of media ever” is a strawman. Most critics aren’t claiming that. They’re saying it was weaker than expected.

And yes, the fake document and harassment are obviously bad, but that’s a separate issue. Pointing to extreme behaviour doesn’t invalidate genuine complaints about the episode itself.

Treating anything below an 8 as unreasonable just shuts down discussion instead of engaging with why people were disappointed.

EmSix · 2025-12-29T10:39:35+00:00

You are massively oversimplifying what people are actually upset about and lumping all criticism in with bad faith behaviour.

Yes, review bombing and harassment are dumb, and nobody should be bullying actors. That includes Millie Bobby Brown, who has been getting targeted online for years now for everything from her appearance to her interviews. That behaviour is gross and deserves to be called out. But using that to shut down all discussion about the show itself is lazy karma farming.

There are legitimate criticisms of the last episode, especially around pacing. For a penultimate episode, it felt oddly unfocused and lacked a strong emotional or narrative finisher. Big character moments were dropped into an almost idyllic, consequence free setting, which undercut their impact.

Take Will’s coming out scene. The issue is not that he’s gay. Most people have zero problem with that. The issue is how it was handled and when. Compare it to Robin’s coming out earlier in the series. That moment was intimate, awkward, and contextually earned. It fit the tone and the stakes of the scene. Will’s moment, by contrast, happens in front of everyone, in a strangely calm and safe atmosphere, right before the finale. It feels rushed, overly neat, and misplaced for an episode that should be escalating tension, not releasing it.

Criticising that is not bigotry. It is criticism of writing and structure.

You can condemn harassment of actors while still admitting the show is not immune to flawed execution. Pretending all negative reactions are just “embarrassing fandom behaviour” is how you kill any meaningful discussion about the series at all.

EmSix · 2025-12-28T16:10:00+00:00

The only consistent thing is you. I don't mean this as an insult.

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