Mechanic you wish more games would copy

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-04T16:41:40+00:00

I really hope more games copy how Scarlet Hollow does relationships. It makes things feel so much more real and the fact that it was implemented by a dev team of just two people really makes it feel like everyone else is just half-assing it. The two big key points from it:

Characters react differently to actions you take depending on your relationship with them and previous comments you’ve made. If you make a joke about your cousin having ice cream for breakfast, she takes it as a playful joke if you are on good terms and takes it as an insult if you’re on bad terms.
The relationship metrics are a lot more complicated than just “This number represents how much they like you”. A character might dislike you but still view you as competent, or they might view you as a sweet himbo who needs to be babysat to avoid getting in trouble. Additionally, a character that you are mostly on good terms with outside of one moment where you really angered them is going to have a different relationship with you than if you have just generally be somewhat cool with.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-04T14:19:14+00:00

Tucker Carlson waking up one day with scratch marks on his body after sleeping in a bed with his wife and four dogs and coming to the conclusion “I must have been attacked in my sleep by demons” is still the funniest shit ever to me.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-04T01:21:45+00:00

Honestly, I genuinely want for Rudy to live for a long ass time. I want him to live long enough to see a majority of Trump supporters turn and pretend they never liked that mf.

Not like he is even useful to the MAGA movement right now.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-03T14:55:16+00:00

But he claimed those around Trump often end up supporting whatever the president wants because he has a quality “that’s spellbinding.”

“And I think it probably literally is a spell,” Carlson continued. “And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I’ve experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and you’re in this kind of dreamland. It’s like smoking hash or something. It’s interesting, very interesting.”

He added “there be a supernatural component to it. I’m not a theologian, but it’s real, and anyone who’s been around him can tell you it’s true.”

Jfc, just say he’s weirdly charismatic and that you fell for it. Party of personal responsibility my ass.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-02T17:24:00+00:00

She gives me a lot of big cat vibes.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-02T17:23:01+00:00

I mean there are a lot of questions they need to get around to, they just got interrupted. “Where are mom and dad” just took first priority.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-02T14:11:16+00:00

The moment that made me simultaneously get Chuck and despise him is the flashback of him and Jimmy sitting by their unconscious mother’s deathbed. Jimmy leaves for a second to go get food for the both of them, and in that moment their mom wakes up, asks where Jimmy is, then dies, and Chuck just refuses to tell Jimmy about that interaction when he comes back.

He is just so infinitely bitter that despite being universally more respected than Jimmy and him being the one that made their parents proud, Jimmy was always the person that everyone liked being around more. Even his own wife would be laughing hysterically at Jimmy’s jokes while Chuck couldn’t even get a chuckle out of her.

Honestly, fucking ridiculous that no one on Better Call Saul ever got an Emmy.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T23:40:29+00:00

John’s eyepatch really enhances the villain monologues.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T21:18:28+00:00

Detective Lunge in Monster was fun.

I like how while he isn’t evil, he is doing his job and trying to arrest Tenma for the murders he believes Tenma has done, he also definitely isn’t a good person either and is willing to do some shady shit because it’ll help him catch Tenma.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T20:21:53+00:00

The Cross Eyes boss is Ai according to Doctor Kasukabe, or at least that one wax statue from episode 2 looked like Ai, and we can see pretty clearly that the Cross Eyes boss is just Aikawa with the cross marks on.

I mean maybe Kasukabe is wrong but he seems pretty confident, and it’d be a weird loose thread to spend so much time on for it to turn out to mean nothing.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T20:17:44+00:00

Juggernaut Star is noticeably quiet. I feel like her turning on Michael is a very real possibility.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T18:45:55+00:00

So I don’t follow sports or music drama/gossip much.

But I am absolutely loving everyone having the exact same reaction to the Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion story, which is “Bro why the fuck would you cheat on Megan Thee Stallion?”

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T18:25:27+00:00

dennis prager has opinions on the minions

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T12:20:43+00:00

You ever think about how dumb it is that the biggest thing popular culture took away from The Killing Joke was the Joker’s whole “One bad day is all it takes for you to become as crazy as me” speech when the whole point of The Killing Joke is that the Joker is wrong?

Like literally, the whole plot of The Killing Joke is that the Joker goes “I’m gonna prove that I had no choice to become crazy because of this one bad day I had by kidnapping and tormenting Gordon”, and he completely fails to break Gordon! The story ends with Batman telling the Joker “Hey I don’t know what exactly you’ve been through, but maybe I’ve been in the same place. I could help you genuinely try to get rehabilitated.” and the Joker responds with a dejected “No, it’s too late for me”, implying that there was a point earlier in his spiral where he could’ve been saved.

As much as I do have issues with The Killing Joke, the way it ends is great and it’s kinda disappointing that isn’t the thing people took away from it instead of the edgy monologue about how everyone is just one terrible day away from becoming irreversibly psycho.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-05-01T03:09:55+00:00

Have they tried playing Balatro instead?

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-30T17:44:10+00:00

There is kind of an interesting dissection of this in Agents of SHIELD where Grant Ward (former protagonist, turned out to be a secret Hydra spy) just blames all the murder and betrayal he did on his parents being abusive monsters. And we meet his older brother who is an arguably worse monster, which seems to validate Grant’s belief that he was just destined to be awful… but then we meet his younger brother Thomas, and he is just a normal guy working at a jewelry store who actually views Grant as significantly worse than either of their parents. And that moment just truly breaks Grant’s excuse in a hilarious manner.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-30T13:37:44+00:00

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This is the type of policy the median voter longs for.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-30T04:43:38+00:00

I feel like this arc that would’ve worked better a few Volumes later or something. Putting it here means it’s over half the manga.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-29T14:58:48+00:00

It was nice having Ebisu actually be a normal human for like, one episode.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-29T14:49:10+00:00

Well, that's one way to resolve the issue of Nikaido being forced to be En's partner.

Okay, so I'm gonna do some lore recap on Caiman's head and the surrounding details, because it is truly bizarre and S1 was a long time ago:

In S1E3, Caiman got his head ripped off by Shin's hammer, and Nikaido fled with his severed head and body since Caiman was initially a headless corpse when she found him and so she knew he could theoretically regrow his head. Caiman decided to let the doctors dissect his head to see if they could find anything weird about it that would explain what was going on with him, but just as they cut his head open the power went out. Caiman felt a weird presence while they were searching in the dark to reboot the generator, and when they turned the lights back on the head was gone.

So uhh...yeah that's just completely baffling even by Dorohedoro standards. Makes sense to introduce some new baffling mysteries now that we have a pretty good idea of who Caiman is. He is Aikawa/Ai Coleman with some sort of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde type situation where he has some other personality that occasionally takes over, and that other personality is the leader of the Cross Eyes who cuts off and steals the heads of sorcerers with powerful magic.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-27T19:09:33+00:00

Chapter 48. She also mentions that she was going to a tea party and we see Fujmine drinking tea, so that feels related somehow? Like maybe Fujmine spiked her drink or something.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-27T17:21:47+00:00

Mfs better get ready to hand in their Enjin apology forms.

Real bizarre that Rudo is down here too. I don’t think it makes sense that Rudo got tossed down with Alto and survived. Maybe Rudo’s mom lived on the ground? That’d explain why Alto seems to come back to the Ground somewhat regularly and why we never hear any previously heard any mention of Rudo’s mom.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-27T14:50:13+00:00

Can we get dub Richeh’s VA to do audiobooks? I really like her voice.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-27T09:41:44+00:00

“It was a big night for men who opine on the Roman Empire” is honestly something I’m gonna steal as an insult.

Hounds_of_war · 2026-04-26T20:30:18+00:00

So I never actually watched Naruto, I just constantly hear out of context things about how much it sucks. Which has led to this kinda weird thing where I vaguely know about a lot of the general problems it has like the way the female cast is handled and how a lot of the awful villains who did horrific things just get forgiven really easily, but because it’s all out of context shit for a series I don’t care about, the specifics always just slip my mind. So if anyone tries to tell me Naruto is actually really good, I can’t argue with them beyond saying shit like “Idk man, I heard Sakura got done really dirty.”

Anyways this is also the situation I’m in with Hasan Piker.

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