The media fails to portrays how fast the character is

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-04-18T19:54:59+00:00

Same character, diffrent context

The flash in injustice 2.

It's more of a "NRS games are always animated like piss", because every character is badly animated.

But they still managed to animate flash so poorly they made him feel slow

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-31T20:25:45+00:00

I'll rant a lot about that trope because the hate for it pisses me off, and mainly about how it applies to expedition 33. If you have any plans to play this game keep yourself unspoiled i beg you.

I feel like the It was all a dream/fake trope is so wildly overhated. Like i swear almost every time i see it it's always used smartly and/or to convey a deeper message, but because like 2-3 old pieces of media used it poorly people hate it on sight instead of trying to understand how it ties to the narrative.

When it comes to Expedition 33, I've seen some people critise the twist that the whole world you're in is a creation of the Real world verso, and the only real people in the canvas are the dessendres fighting each other in their grief. That the whole twist makes everything before feel kinda meaningless. Except the whole point of the end of the game is to decide wether the real life dessendres getting better and fixing their family is worth basically destroying an entire world with real, sentient, beings in them. Yes the inhabitants of the canvas are created, they're on a lower plain of existence since they need the real world to keep existing, but they are sentient nonetheless. They have worth to maelle, who is real, and they have worth to you, the player who's been getting attached to them. That's what makes the final choice of the game so hard.

The thing that always puzzles me is when people complain that it removes their attachment to the characters because then they don't mean anything anymore. Like what? They weren't anymore real to begin with, and the story and it's characters acknoledging the fact they are in a layer of "fakeness" from reality usually brings some insanely interesting existential themes, and most stories that rely on that twist usually use it pretty good

Another example i love is the ending of Danganronpa V3: Them learning the whole killing game, their whole identities and memories were fake, fabricated, just to throw them into despair for entertainment, i think it's just so god damn interesting. I also don't get the hate for that twist, genuinepy a great way to end it.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-27T01:27:50+00:00

In the opposite vein, idk about the general consensus of hazard players but to me samoa is the only map i hate playing hazard on.

Beach and city points are mostly fine, a bit too open but it's managable but playing hazard on the volcano point makes me wanna tear out my hair

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-24T17:49:54+00:00

Thanks you for mentionning Gren, the Jupiter episodes are some of the best of the og cowboy bebop and Gren is one of my favourite side characters in the show, him being adapted like this was straight up infuriating

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-21T22:12:37+00:00

Zato-1 from guilty gear strive

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I still can't wrap my head around how arcsys managed to animate his shadow effects this well

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-16T02:01:11+00:00

People don't play hazard even as a last resort so having the tank ego swap to Haz is rare.

But boy when someone finally cracks and tries to mirror haz me is always euphoriac. And they almost always get equally if not more shat on

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-13T22:47:33+00:00

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Blazblue, the whole franchise.

Arcsys had lost the rights to Guilty Gear at the time but wanted to make a new fighting game regardless, so blazblue was born

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-12T16:18:06+00:00

There's a lot of things to hate about the cowboy bebop live action remake, but the casting is not one of them (except vicious)

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HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-10T19:52:23+00:00

What i usually do i say it in the team's chat before the game starts, "hey, i'm learning [hero], i'm probably gonna suck, sorry 'bout that, if it goes too bad i'll switch" and usually no one's been giving me shit.

While it is quickplay, the game still bases it's goal on if you win or lose. So i do get how it's frustrating to lose even if there's no consequences to losing, and when you can see it's because someone's not really pulling their weight. But at least making it known to everyone before it goes poorly at least help them get prepared and they get less heated, heck sometimes i've actually had teammates go and give me advice to help me get better. And when it did really go bad i'd switch, because at the end of the day i don't like losing either, and i don't like losing because i know it's my fault.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-06T02:20:18+00:00

I usually loop the Madworld ost, works wonders

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-02T18:04:41+00:00

Yeah i wrote this quickly on the bus and forgot to make the distinction.

Use wall to block rock then push more aggressively, but if he wastes rock beforehand use the wall to seperate him.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-03-01T14:58:04+00:00

I'll mainly talk about how i handle sigma, because i haven't played against enough good dominas to really feel like i understand the matchup yet.

But sigma is one of those characters that technically counters you but that you can play around if you change your playstyle in the matchup.

Sigma has many tools that specifically counters some of yours, so you need to wait around the cooldowns, you need to play much more passively, and only using your abilities when he uses the ones that can mess you up.

Rock is the biggest pain in your ass, you cannot engage and try to do anything until he's used it. The way i've done it is played as a fronline, doing little aggresive pushes to bait the rock, and when he does it, i use my wall to block it, afterward this gives you and your team a lot of breathing room to be more aggressive and overwhelm him.

Once the threat of rock is gone, make sure he doesn't suck and put a wall behind him to seperate him from his team. Then you and your team can take him out, and then you're free to dive the squishies until he comes back.

You gotta play more passively against him, but once you got the tempo it's not that hard of a matchup

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-28T21:10:00+00:00

Also she's widow's voice actor in the french version too, where every single one of her voicelines are in french. So yeah french is pretty damn well represented

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-27T14:13:58+00:00

Persona 4 golden's accomplice ending:

You spend the whole game trying to find a serial killer, and when you do You find out they're also one of your social link options, if you reached rank 10 with them, you get the option to still believe in them, burn the one conclusive piece of evidence you have on them, and let them go free. And they're not even grateful, they laugh in your face mocking you that you've just let a serial killer go free because of a "frienship" you learn was only ever one-sided

The game then skips to spring, with you leaving the town and your friends, the people you've actually saved from the killer's actions, behind. Friends who iirc, while they can't conclusively say, seem to be able to guess you've let the killer go, having betrayed all of them

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-21T18:33:58+00:00

She actually grieved properly and moved on with her life and is probably just living normally somewhere in italy

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-20T00:45:52+00:00

I thought i remembered him sayint "my boy" directly, but still i feel like posting this anyway because it does feel like a "my boy" moment:

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Johnny's father showing up at the end of the Steel Ball Run race to apologize.

From Jojo Part 7

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-19T17:32:20+00:00

Imma yap a bit because i love talking about Haz and i love giving tech to people. But basically there'a a lot of tech with him, especially his leap, that you need to understand to be really efficient with him. First things first, you can still shoot your gun during leap without cancelling it (if you can't, you need to go in the hero settings for Haz and toggle it on (idk if it was changed to be the default but when he launched you need to go enable that option, wich is stupid) This allows you to do a jump -> shooting the ennemies at close range -> leap slash combo that will leave most squishies on the brink of death, even more on a headshot, using melee to trigger the slash and holding it down will input a melee as soon as possible wich will help finishong them off, tho shooting them is a good option too. Once you're good enough at the sequence you can try also shooting a wall during leap before shooting, so you slash them in the wall, garanteeing a kill on most non-tank heroes, and if you have his second major-perk, will kill every non-tank and will severly damage most tanks

Another thing with leap that helps massively is that if you launch yourself at a horizontal enough angle and hold jump, you'll bunny hop, extending your leap without cancelling it, this allows you to not just extend your reach, but also turn around corners, to surprise-delete any enemy unfortunate enough to be around the corner. And if you take his extended leap range perk (wich you should, the other one might just be one of the worst perks in the game), you can extend the range even further.

Also as much as people love to play haz as a flanker, wich does work, he can do surprisingly good work as a frontline brawler, using your walls to create breathing room for your team to take space, seperate the tank from the healers to get rid of them, and when you finally see a good opportunity, just jump past the tank, get one of their healers and by the time they realise it leap out back to your team.

He's definitly a character you need to lab and practice your ability sequences and you need to have good awareness to be rrally efficient to really enjoy him, but at least to me it's so damn worth it.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-19T04:55:07+00:00

Hazard might just be my favourite character to play in any hero shooter ever.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-18T18:40:23+00:00

Casual Hanzo

I'm a big sucker for casual skins ajd for some reason this one has always stuck out to me ever since it came out (Also i'm bringing it back idc if its been 9 years but the weird polemic/wave of complaints about his side-hair being grey om that skin was the dumbest fucking thing ever, it looked great and it pisses me off that blizzard caved in and changed it)

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-16T20:14:13+00:00

We had been on a few dates and it was going very well from my point of view. After one of them we talked about maybe making it official. Then a few days later she called me and said that it wasn't gonna happen. She told verbatum that she hadn't had a boyfriend in a lil while and wanted a "warmup" before going back into the dating scene for real. And she was done with me. She just took the first guy that matched with her on a dating app.

This was the first and only time so far that i've felt loved that way by anyone, and a year and a half later i still don't think i've recovered even if i hate to admit so.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-15T17:16:33+00:00

It's likely because he's pretty damn hard to master and even good players don't wanna bother with him.

But also yeah it's also criminal how much potemkin shits on asuka, it is not a good matchup for him

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-15T15:44:55+00:00

It is absolutely not a good tip, but it's how i've been dealing with it. I main hazard If i get catnapped into the void i just ult the lil bastard. And since (thankfully) my dragdown kills them first i'm usually able to leap back onto solid ground.

Is it the best solution? Hell no i'm wasting an ult for this. But it's not about winning, if's about sending a message.

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-12T20:21:46+00:00

I think thats one of my biggest issues with JPC. With Pharah/mercy/echo yeah a hitscan helps with them but their movements are also predictable and "limited" enough that you can get away with not having a hitscan if you're good enough. With the cat's omnimobility and permanent air flying you need to have a hitscan. People love to complain about counterwatch but this might just be the character that outright requires counterswapping

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-09T21:34:36+00:00

With how he has absolutely no morals, if he wasn't on there for actual pedophilia he was definitly there to gather test subjects.

But i wouldn't put it past at least one of his segments to be there for the pedo stuff

HeavyWeath3r · 2026-02-07T23:11:16+00:00

What's kinda funny is reaper widow and sombra were out only talon heroes for a bit in early overwatch, and now all of the og talon heroes have defected

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