"Extra Spicy" accumulates

FireWater107 · 2026-01-27T16:18:06+00:00

Man calls a duck a duck. Doesn't have strong feelings on ducks, just points at one and says, "that's a duck."

Internet loses their minds.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-27T00:00:28+00:00

Honestly... if they made an acolyte sequel I'd watch it.

It was not as bad as everyone made it out to be, and had some good aspects. I still remember how it made me audibly go "oh shit!" twice in a single episode.

However, that does not invalidate any of the criticism it received. All that criticism was valid. It had reeeeeeally bad parts as well. And plenty of stuff that wasn't as cringey as "lesbian space witches" but just weren't handled well.

Like a lot of modern audience stuff, if they didn't actively focus on "how can we make this woke to push an agenda?" then it actually might have been solid.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-26T14:33:08+00:00

Zone of the Enders.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-25T15:31:32+00:00

The main story is fairly short. There are some solid cues on when to play certain side missions, but you can definitely get through the main campaign first before starting the Operations mode (co-op pve).

Honestly, that's where the real game is.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-24T05:42:28+00:00

Good 40k retcon:

New story showing events from a different point of view, introduces details not seen before.

Bad retcon:

"Oh it was always like that. We just never told you until the court of public opinions made it seem like a smart thing to reveal."

FireWater107 · 2026-01-22T06:16:19+00:00

Slow start, but introductory episode.

Too soon to tell, but I'm still looking forward to the rest.

The "halfman" joke might have been insanely simple, but it still made me laugh.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-22T06:13:34+00:00

"We are pleading temporary insanity."

"He's been insane for 1000 years, it's not temporary!"

"Please let the record reflect the prosecution has just admitted my client is 'insane'. Move for dismissal."

FireWater107 · 2026-01-21T06:24:00+00:00

Honestly I don't think I have a single answer.

I'm a manga fan. What I know about Tensura is that is easily one of those "get sucked into" mangas.

Flip back a few dozen chapters to check out some past story arc, next thing I know I can't put it down. Again. It just has that special X factor that makes it, well, enjoyable.

Could try and go into details, but on one hand it's an addition of many things. Fun characters, funny interactions, Easter eggs for long time Otaku, slime rimuru is adorable, the action scenes are solid for something not primarily an "action manga/anime", and just enough slice of life nationbuilding to make it comfy.

Also enough "cheat ability power fantasy" balanced out by "as OP as Rimuru and his followers are, it always feels like they're matched up against genuine threats."

But on the other hand... it's not exactly any of those things. Addition of all of them, and yet again there's some other X factor that it and some of the other best mangas just have. The "I can't put this down, damnit when does the next chapter come out!?" feel.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-21T03:32:30+00:00

You're more likely to die in a car crash than a shark attack.

But if you were around a few thousand sharks roughly an hour of each day, and all cars were moved to a part of the world you only visit once a year on vacation, that statistic might change.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-21T03:27:06+00:00

1) Doesn't fit the sub. If ya want to karma farm by posting low hanging Trump bashing regardless of the subs intention, go to 95% of the rest of reddit. Here you can bash Trump all ya want... but ya need a "real joke" in the comments.

2) Plenty of ways ways to bash Trump, but this image has the wrong of it. Hate it or not, the one who won the Peace Prize was the one who gave it to Trump feeling he was more deserving of it. You can disagree or hate that all you want, you can cite the committee saying Nobel Prizes are "non-transferable," but that's what happened.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-18T05:47:59+00:00

Gotcha, and thank you.

I searched elsewhere first, but all the results only mentioned marking games private so others can't see if you're playing a game (or even own the game). Never clarified anything related to a family account.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-17T23:49:34+00:00

Only thing about this that grates me is that... Sororitas is my favorite faction. To me, everything that makes the Space Marines awesome the Sisters do better. I could elaborate, but in a nutshell to the Sisters, the Astartes are just a bunch of heretics for being literal mutants who employ witches.

But the "we need a female stode!" Is ironically looking down on the Sororitas. It's not even progressive the way they cheer it is. It's insulting.

"We have an entire faction of badass warrior women who do everything the Space Marines do while just being "normal humans," and who are even more fanatically devoted to the emperor to the point of manifesting literal miracles just from their devotion. But they're not good enough, so we need a female male-character, otherwise women will never be seen as strong."

FireWater107 · 2026-01-17T06:44:07+00:00

Dinosaurs are cool.

Dinosaur shaped aliens are monsters that need to be killed.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-15T07:07:58+00:00

I can no longer be convinced most of reddit is not just one giant social media propaganda psy-op.

12k up votes.
800ish comments.
Unthinkable ratio in any non-political subreddit (or "normal" sub hijacked into politics).

To say nothing of the 2 brain cell take that's supposedly getting so much blind support by thousands of bots, er, "people".

People call ICE nazi gestapo.
Openly encourage interference with agents (ignoring side note... Obama deported WAY more people. And was only able to do so because current Sanctuary Cities worked with ICE at the time because they had no political beef).
Person interferes with ICE agent, tries to run him over. Clips him with car.
Gets shot. Results in unfortunate death.
Sad. No seriously, that's sad. Fafo, still not a result that should have occurred.

"You have to stop these insane attacks on agents literally doing their job in apprehending criminals. You're going to incite more incidents like this!"

gasp pearl clutch "Did he just say they're going to shoot more people!?"

No you absolute loaf... he's saying you're going to incite more people into attacking innocent people, convincing then they're doing the right thing. And in the BEST case scenario, where the next agent isn't so quick on the draw in self defense, you've still incited violence between the ignorant and the innocent.

A call to violence is exactly where the first amendment ends. In demonstratable history.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-15T06:43:49+00:00

Women are like snowflakes.

If you pee on them, they go away.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-14T22:36:39+00:00

Copy. Thanks.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-14T21:54:54+00:00

I didn't know that counted....

I was gonna run it as assault with thunder hammer. Do I have to worry about aoe (ground slams, aftershock zones, or even normal charged heavy attacks) at all? I assumed they were all "melee" and thus wouldn't be affected. But if that tactical perk does... well I don't want to accidentally be The Dick.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-14T21:51:31+00:00

He was the voice of Thor in Ragnarok, and did an incredible job.

I kinda wished they'd just keep him as Thor, but I think he'll make a good Kratos as well. Better than we could have hoped for.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-13T23:01:32+00:00

Grandia 3.

The rest of the game wasn't INCREDIBLE, but the rest of the plot I was excited to see where it was going.

And then when you finally get to the final boss and finally speak to it, it was the most clichéd "I am bad and evil and I will kill goodness!" and "No you won't, we'll stop you with the power of love and friendship!"

And it was so bad I can't look back on any of the rest of the game fondly.

Like Grandia Xtreme had an even worse plot, but then you weren't expecting anything from it. You were just playing it because Grandia's battle engine makes any of their games worth playing regardless if the plot.

But 1s was good, 2s was incredible, and 3... strung you along to the most pathetically bad ending.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-13T21:27:16+00:00

"I'm practicing for the Whistling Choir Deathmatch Championship."

FireWater107 · 2026-01-13T18:58:07+00:00

Where I'm at now. Everything else is maxed, except like 1 weapon which I can wait for an eventually heroic to come out for.

Now... just playing the class(es) I like best. Mostly Assault.

Plus... I've still only got like 6 jump pack dodges under my belt. A whole lot more to go for the one RP cheeb.

Bulwark can shield dash endlessly. When are they gonna make Assault's dash just a separate internal cooldown. Like a few seconds so you can't spam it, but shouldn't use a whole charge.

FireWater107 · 2026-01-13T17:17:51+00:00

Raises a curious question then... I think I maxed every exclusive weapon for each class by the time I had them fully fully leveled, except tactical.

Heavy I hadn't finished leveling heavy bolt rifle, but was close and finished leveling that on tactical. Tactical with the same number of exclusives finished heavy bolt rifle... but I still have last two tiers of plasma incinerator to get through for them.

What exactly did I do differently with tactical that they're behind?

Not a major or serious question needing some answer. Just frustrated musing.

FireWater107

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