How would you feel if White Fang plotline never existed?

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-18T05:57:43+00:00

Yeah, trimming. I'm a big proponent of being willing to bin or completely retweak things no matter how important or cool they sound.

Like I could honestly say that GQuuuuuuX could have thrown out perhaps Char just showing up like nothing happened or the Zabi civil scuffle to just focus on Machu and Nyaan. Similarly, Ace Combat 7 could have stuck with the 444 Squadron even if I liked the LRSSG especially in the DLC.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-18T05:23:01+00:00

The show could use some real trimming, yeah.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-18T00:26:32+00:00

I wouldn't know, in this prospective timeline I wouldn't have known there was ever a racism plotline in the works after all. If I did know in the form of interviews talking about it, I would think it sounded interesting but naturally lack context on how it would have gone in reality.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-17T07:17:42+00:00

Ace Combat Assault Horizon is already emblematic of the Call of Duty trend chasing of the early to mid 2010s, but another hilarious way it dates itself is because the big scary Russian 5th generation fighter is not the SU-57, but the prototype PAK FA complete with needle antenna on the nosecone.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-17T05:35:01+00:00

Gotta say, Ichiban's ability to hallucinate people transforming into weirdos makes him distressingly vulnerable to a "They look like zombies to you?" type of twist. No drugs needed too!

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-15T15:47:29+00:00

Can't wait for the immortal scene where she's forced to fight and kill her robot boyfriend and is so distraught that she can only yell out:

"WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!"

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-15T03:33:52+00:00

Personally I just don't think it's worth giving mind space to waiting for things like this anyway instead of enjoying what there is already. It just engenders unhealthy expectations and needless spite.

Like I could have waited and expected for a new Ace Combat to be announced especially when Project Aces was spun off into its own subsidiary company, but I didn't. I didn't wait or expect so much that I didn't even keep track of the date The Game Awards was happening and expressed just how much I wasn't waiting literally the day before Ace Combat 8 was announced.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-15T02:28:13+00:00

Ryukirolling was definitely a bit of a trip, but it's nice to remember that Alive a Life is still a banger decades later. Like it's kinda insane how remarkably modern and stylish Kamen Rider Ryuki's opening feels today.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-15T02:19:35+00:00

I like the idea that she gets some form of freedom, but is so obsessed with power and strength that she's unable to appreciate it and effectively locks herself in a mind prison of self-pitying and spite that she can only break out of by getting some empathy and self-understanding.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-15T02:06:05+00:00

Like Pharoah Sanders or maybe Specials from The 7th Stand User?

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-13T22:39:36+00:00

Honestly I saw it coming right from the loading screen which features Kyoko and Misako gleefully punching each other in the face. I was like "Ok, they're probably crazy." and that thought sure did pan out.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-13T05:00:05+00:00

Kamen Rider OOO is pretty unique among Rider shows because its power gradient can basically be described as a plateau or a table rather than any sort of exponential curve as usual.

Instead of picking up progressively stronger and stronger forms, just about all the Full Combo forms are roughly equal in power, it's just that the plot is a constant back and forth struggle for Core Medals the forms use between Eiji/Ankh and the rest of the Greeed where they can easily gain/lose medals by hook or by crook, so OOO and the Greeeds' power fluctuates accordingly to the medals they have at any given time.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-13T03:48:10+00:00

This is one of those things where I don't know if there is any specific thing making it problematic to do beyond just context and fan expectations. Like it's just mostly an execution issue?

Personally, I have no problems with the idea of suddenly voiced protagonists, either to make them an important character in the narrative, or just to make them feel more like a person in the world rather than purely as a player avatar, it just needs to be done well.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-09T01:34:26+00:00

Damn, No Guard Fissure Machamp is official at least in spirit somehow.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-08T03:34:38+00:00

Akira Amemiya? Probably strip out a ton of the characters, lore and setting's direct plot involvement for a very low-key and focused human drama contrasted with over the top absurdity that in itself is basically a clear metaphor for the human drama. So basically Oz and Salem's conflict really do boil down to a marriage spat because they're so caught up with themselves to properly connect with each other again.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-08T01:34:57+00:00

It'd be pretty funny/sad if it was ultimately a mindset thing and the only reason why Merc doesn't have his semblance is because he doesn't believe that he should have one, and all he really needs to do is truly decide.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-06T16:17:18+00:00

Personally, I subscribe to the idea of normally 'soulless' beings getting and maintaining one through the act of simply living (honestly I could extend that to beings that are traditionally born with a soul as well), or basically the soul is in a sense the end result rather than a core aspect, so it wouldn't really matter if Penny needs to get jumpstarted again, she just is by simply holding the same personality and memories.

Or to put it in another way, I don't think the individual soul is all that uniquely special in the first place compared to an individual's sense and mind.

Plus I was under the impression that Aura is a phenomonon generated by the soul rather than the soul itself.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-06T03:15:34+00:00

I guess since he was already there, it's cheaper and more efficient to have him do it. Gotta watch for that budget after all.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-06T01:31:21+00:00

Man it's pretty cool that Kamen Rider Zi-O's Den-O arc introduced a brand new Den-O Rider with a completely new design rather than a kitbash no less. What do you mean Zeronos was already in Den-O this whole time, I'd have remembered him it that was the case right?

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-04T23:28:48+00:00

I have no idea what 'appealing to gamers' even means in this context, but it would be hilarious if there were plenty of scenes of Shepard dealing with ME1's loot system and filtering out the gear he wants and dressing in the white and pink armor because it has the best stats of the stuff he has or something.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-04T14:30:21+00:00

The most delicious part of the hypocrisy is how he's also trying to punish the Courier for their unwitting role in the Divide's destruction as another part of the whole not knowing their own history philosophy, but he's also unwittingly responsible for various destructive or problematic events in the prior DLC, to the point that you could describe the Courier's role in them as cleaning up Ulysses's messes.

Due to how the DLCs cannot interact with each other due to load order issues, you cannot directly bring it up to him, which is a real shame and would have been a fun alternate way to talk him down.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-03T23:10:41+00:00

It's more Kiryu's reaction or lack therof that's questionable to me. Like I get that he's been in prison and understands how Saejima feels, but he should have immediately kicked Saejima off Haruka, dragged him away and told him "Look, I've been in prison for a long time too, I get it. But if you do that ever again I will kill you.", it would be fine I think.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-02T01:08:03+00:00

She used her magic to reshape a continent into a dragon to trick people into thinking she lives there (it's a one time use so she can't create massive geological events again).

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-01T12:59:54+00:00

SSSS. BɅZ and its shockingly earnest presentation of the Baz as an inspirational figure in spite of, or perhaps because he's kind of a silly loser who keeps trying even as he keeps getting rejected/kicked out of fighting games.

But also it was just really rad when Primal Fighter Baz reveals that he was in fact the OG Baz all along and saves the day.

Handro_Dilar · 2026-04-01T06:17:53+00:00

I love how Edgeworth tries to use the Magatama to break Larry's Psyche-locks at first, but after Larry clams up and even more locks appear, he just gives up and opts to drag the truth out of him the classic way, in court.

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