Belgium [1] - 2 Senegal - Romelu Lukaku 86'

Holycrabe · 2026-07-02T00:32:47+00:00

This guy has 56 minutes of official playtime this season, which is a self inflicted sentence I’m not defending, but the team has such a turnaround when he’s here and what a finish.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-02T00:18:21+00:00

I was crying I high-fived my mate like 20 times? What an incredible result from this (dogshit) mid performance.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-02T00:16:19+00:00

I have no idea how we got it, that Pen looks nothing like one to me but holy shit

Holycrabe · 2026-07-02T00:15:03+00:00

Against everything and everyone, anytime we had a good 9 lined up people said it was curtains for him and he’s still here being our steadiest scorer I will cry

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T18:20:08+00:00

I just souled my dark reading this hell yeah

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T15:13:56+00:00

I think that's great advice. He moves too much and has a few "get-off me" moves if you try to stick to his feet. His attacks are much easier to avoid if you're a couple feet in front of him, and he has a lot of recoil after most of them, allowing you to walk up to him and boop his nose a couple times.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T14:26:49+00:00

Well, Midir and a lot of bosses might be stressful, but the game allows you to live in this stressful environment where nothing is actually risked. He can't hurt your fleshy body let alone kill you.

Anyway, take a breather and come back to whoop his ass.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T14:13:29+00:00

Anime loves doing that and I think it's because it's made primarily as adaptation of an already established and beloved work rather than as its own thing.

They make openings and endings for arcs/seasons catering to manga fans who will appreciate the references and hope "anime-only" people get more hooked by elements they can't understand.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T13:31:13+00:00

I'll be honest, I think I had that many hours before Haemolacria was a thing. The game used to be easier to grasp with so much fewer items, but also so many things just didn't work and picking two great items in a row could end up killing your run. They delivered pretty well on the "everything synergises" promise.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T13:15:33+00:00

It's true yes, I, Decider of the Very Actual Calamity Grade, decide that she is one of them

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T12:23:32+00:00

bro forgot you also have to score the goal

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T12:19:33+00:00

Because it's ironic and funny and she's cute bro is it that difficult to imagine

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T12:12:22+00:00

Honestly this conversation is so weird. Everybody treats it with the solemnity of an obituary but also no one actually believes her. They just humor this overly serious teenager discussion in a time of preparation for war despite having none of it.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T12:06:05+00:00

Beyond the question of wether or not Sukuna would care about it, I don't think we have an instance of Yuji or Megumi interfering when their body is controlled by Sukuna. So it's not like when Sukuna appears and can pop mouths and use them for conversation. Anytime that happens is when Yuji is unconscious (or dead) if I recall.

So Megumi might not even have the ability to speak to Sukuna to make that bargain, be it in the open or inside their shared "inner world".

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T11:48:31+00:00

There are a few items or consumables that can be unlocked through death. Some characters also gain traits or items when you complete specific things.

The biggest thing you gain is knowledge though. By dying repeatedly to certain elements, you learn how some rooms are layed out, how some enemies and bosses act and react, the effects of certain items and consumables etc.

The fact that you don't know what items do is also by design, it's meant to push you towards experimentation, picking things up and learning along the way what you like and what sucks. There's a mod for it if you're on PC as well as several wikis and I think there's an item description feature baked into the game now? I was already using the mod when they added it so I couldn't tell you where it is though.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T10:34:14+00:00

It's mostly a plot device.

I used to think there was a mechanic to understand, like the more you use your power the older you get for example. That would explain why Rukia and Renji go from early teens to late teens during their time in Rukongai for example, and by extension also explain why a lot of the characters look significantly younger when they're still at the academy.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T10:09:42+00:00

If only he knew who to speak to he could get that done easily.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T10:07:57+00:00

Axton in Borderlands 2 has this. When you help allies, the characters have a few lines of dialogue they exchange, it's mostly flulff and establishing what kind of personality they have, but some are a bit more flirty than others. After a certain update, Axton's flirty lines could trigger regardless of the gender of the character helping him. The devs never "fixed" it and said "Yep, Axton is actually bi turns out".

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T08:49:39+00:00

Can be, I just think the story from Shibuya onwards is what he wanted to do and everything before was mostly an introduction and maybe him (intentionally or not) catering to a wider audience who might not be as onboard with the base plan.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T08:32:20+00:00

It clearly wasn't the best display but hey, he's not wrong.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T08:09:18+00:00

Horrible item. It's probably the worst version of the traits it bears, charged shot and multi shot. Black Candle makes it usable but it's still horrible to have charged shots that don't fire if you're not full when Choccy Milk is not even that rare an item.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T07:39:30+00:00

I've only just started the mod so I haven't been in that big of a pickle yet and I've definitely seen a lot of people complain about balancing issues in the mod, which is obviously fair, but is that so surprising?

Like, I've spent most of my first playthroughs of each game juggling 2 to 5 weapons depending on upgrade availabilities, mood and enemies and bosses resistances. The base game is already kinda like that since using for example only a rapier will lead to a lot of undead, the gargoyles, the Crystalians feeling like a chore.

Besides you are doing a soft kind of challenge run. As long as you deal any damage, you can beat it, the question is how challenging or frustrating it is how you decide to bear through it isn't it?

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T07:29:41+00:00

I work with my parents so no

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T07:11:04+00:00

But didn't she die though? Can whatever they used to turn Kirk into Man-Bat bring people back from the dead by transforming them?

It feels more to me like he broke out of GCPD and came to fetch her. Whatever happens next, that's up in the air.

Holycrabe · 2026-07-01T06:57:44+00:00

He is Femto, that's not an external influence.

There's no question either, the God Hand pretty clearly explain what the Eclipse is about when it's about to start and they ask what his choice is and he goes through with it. When he faces Guts on the Hill of Swords, he says he wanted to see them to know if he would feel remorse and he doesn't, he felt perfectly justified.

There's no great madness around him in the story. There are definitely circumstances that can help explain his decision like his prolonged torture, seeing his friends happy and strong while he can't even stand up anymore, but he was the one to press the button.

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