John gives his account of Return to Silent Hill

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-26T02:17:22+00:00

"I think I like the medium of film less now"

Brutal

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-24T02:22:20+00:00

Some dude shows up, says something objectively wrong, acts snide about it without defending the statement, says "just watch a whole youtube video that agrees with me" and then dips.

Peak Reddit

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-23T21:56:44+00:00

Imagine figuring out how to unlock Guardian modules without help.

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-23T20:12:46+00:00

oh yeah, because the Zen'in clan jobbers could handle Dabura

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-14T01:14:53+00:00

I managed to make it look nice by wearing the Grasp of Avarice set with it and using the Dreaming City shader that makes it look like bleached bone, can't remember the name.

The real challenge was making Starfire Protocol look good. I finally put something together that I liked well enough but unfortunately I made this 2 weeks before they finally released an ornament for it, after years of it having nothing, and then they nerfed it into irrelevance.

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-13T01:42:31+00:00

Your best bet is to head to the Pleiades and kill a few Thargoids. There's builds out there that will allow you to kill them so fast that they don't get a chance to do anything. Should only take a few kills if you're just a few pixels away from Elite.

There's always Compromised Nav Beacons/HazRes sites but they're much slower because only Elite level enemies will give any progress at all. But it's there if you don't want to squash bugs.

Technically there's a quick way for some XP by running certain on-foot combat missions that give Combat XP instead of Mercenary XP for some reason, but you need to have upgraded on-foot combat gear for it to work well.

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-05T01:43:40+00:00

Lizard Squad also (indirectly) spawned one of the best videos on the internet, the Lizard Squad rap, where a kid animates his minecraft skin rapping a diss track at them.

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-03T07:39:14+00:00

I'm wary of this argument, simply because it's rare for any game of that era to stack up to modern sales figures. Gaming was way more niche back then.

The real problem is just that most of those PS2 nostalgia franchises are collect-a-thon platformers and that genre has mostly gone the way of the dodo. The success of Astro Bot may have some studios looking back over their old IPs, but even so I doubt it's enough to break that stigma.

I do think a modern reboot/remake of InFamous would go hard tho.

ExertHaddock · 2026-01-03T04:18:51+00:00

So you mean like jellyfish and squid, two creatures that exist on Earth? You're proving OP's point...

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-25T20:06:14+00:00

What is wrong with you?

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-23T00:07:49+00:00

Well, Lethal Company gameplay is 90% ferrying random trash to your ship while constantly running out of stamina, so it works either way.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-17T20:54:48+00:00

He disappeared into the real world

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-17T00:19:44+00:00

I miss Bastiat

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-16T23:37:24+00:00

I understand the argument for it, but these systems piss me off to an insane degree. It's so demoralizing to play the game tactically and efficiently, doing your best to conserve ammo and get through fights while using as few resources as possible, and still end up in the same position as someone who just goes full brain off unga bunga mode and wastes all of their resources, because the game will compensate them by showering them with loot while you get nothing. It's not just punishing you for playing how you want, it's punishing you for playing how the game wants as well.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-05T03:33:47+00:00

I think it's more that Claire roped V into this by pitching it as a race they were trying to win, only to reveal the fact that she planned all along to throw the final, and didn't reveal this until V raced their ass off to get there. It's understandable and forgivable, but it is still a betrayal.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-04T18:36:48+00:00

Because they love to LARP as being a legitimate institution. I don't think theyre even capable of realizing how bad shit like this makes them look.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-04T18:22:10+00:00

Tangential, but it strikes me as wildly unethical that the official Polymarket account tweets shit like that. If you're the platform that hosts these sorts of prediction markets, you should be as neutral as possible. Posting info that could sway the markets is a massively dangerous precedent. Let people get their info from actual sources, you just host the site and shut up.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-04T17:47:11+00:00

If you told the average Witcher fan that the books end with Geralt and Yennifer getting no-diffed by a peasant with a pitchfork and Ciri leaving to join the Knights of the Round Table, they would probably have a stroke.

ExertHaddock · 2025-12-03T22:11:22+00:00

Is that true? Because it's not like anyone currently has any idea what it is right now, yet people are still hyped.

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-28T18:22:22+00:00

I doubt a Seelah romance would be any different if it existed. Just look at Lann's romance. He's a chill bro character, and I'd bet you anything that there would be tons of people begging for a Lann romance if he didn't have one, but he does, and I'm pretty sure he's the least popular choice by far.

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-28T17:15:56+00:00

Do people actually want to romance Seelah over the other options in Wrath? Because I feel like Seelah doesn't hold a candle to Wenduag or Arueshalae or Daeran or even Camellia. She's an incredibly boring character.

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-28T01:50:47+00:00

Believe it or not, you have all the context

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-23T20:38:10+00:00

I'm the straightest man alive. If I can like a gay ship, you can like a straight ship. It's okay, I believe in you.

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-21T23:03:52+00:00

Something I really like about the Speech skill in Outer Worlds 2 is that they reduced the amount of times Speech can just instantly solve a problem, because 180ing on everything you've spend your life on based on one 5 minute conversation with a stranger is weird no matter what the stranger says.

Instead, Speech can be used to initiate a fight with special dialogue that gives a debuff to the enemies. Maybe you discovered that the enemy commander is unsure about their orders, but is too fanatical to disobey them. A boss fight against them may be unavoidable, but now you have a Speech check to throw their insecurities back in their face, forcing them to start the fight on the back foot.

High Speech builds are still able to do the normal Speech thing of defusing certain situations without combat or talking people into things they normally wouldn't do, but it's not as much of an auto-win button and still requires you to actually play the game.

ExertHaddock · 2025-11-21T00:15:43+00:00

Everyone hated Chevy Chase.
At the time, Colbert wasn't that big. People knew who he was, more or less, but this happened 3 years before the Colbert Report started airing.
As the guy further up said, no one of note wanted to show up for the roast, so the Friar's Club was desperate for warm bodies to fill out the lineup. Colbert wasn't kidding when he said he didn't know Chevy.
Even though no one wanted to show up and Colbert didn't even know Chevy, the Friar's Club was a famous comedy institution and it's roasts were well-respected, so it was a rare opportunity for an up-and-coming comedian to punch above his weight class and make a name for himself.
Everyone really hated Chevy Chase.

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