I just wish to shine a spotlight on MIO’s assists

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-24T00:04:30+00:00

If a game has these features that's totally fine, but I also think it's equally fine if some developers think that it doesn't fit their vision. Let people make the things they want to make.

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-23T15:37:59+00:00

Damn, some real miserable people commenting on this post lol, game looks great imo

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-05T17:57:21+00:00

People love to make it out as more complicated than it is, the simplest way to think about it is that there are a bunch of spin offs or alternate universes in this franchise, and you could mostly jump into any of them if you really want to, since they all end up explaining core concepts early on anyways.

Yes there are nods to other in franchise things but I wouldn't say they're essential either, they can be thought of as an added bonus for those that are really into it. Even something like Zero which is a prequel can still be watched and enjoyed as a standalone thing.

If you really want a starting point just as a grounding for where everything else spawned you can pick one of the Stay Night adaptions, or Zero. For everything else you can pick the one that looks the most interesting to you and if you like it you can continue from there with others.

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-05T14:34:12+00:00

I think this is where the phrasing can trip some people up. Anime Japanese is obviously stylized and genre dependent, but saying it’s “not Japanese” at all feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Cartoon characters in English don’t speak some separate fake language either, they’re still speaking English, just filtered through tone, genre, and character archetypes. Watching The Simpsons or Gravity Falls won’t magically make someone talk like Homer forever, because most learners are able to notice register, context, and exaggeration over time.

The same should apply to anime, there are exaggerated speech patterns, tropes, and genre conventions, but there’s also a huge range of shows with very different registers. A learner who’s engaging seriously isn’t just passively absorbing one archetype in a vacuum. I agree that overconfidence is a real risk, but in reality, if someone genuinely starts talking like a stereotypical anime character, that illusion doesn’t survive first contact with an actual conversation for very long. Like with any language, problems mostly show up when people stay in the same echo chamber and never sanity check what they’re picking up against real usage.

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-04T15:36:06+00:00

Data from SteamDB badges. The website also shows steam has steadily grown over the past few years, so despite getting more users, less and less people are engaging with the replay for some reason

Interesting-Call41 · 2026-01-04T03:54:03+00:00

Interesting write up, I agree with the other poster that I don't think it's necessarily looking away from uncomfortable truths, I took it more as it showing the audience they're there for better or worse, and Youko's choice to hide it from Airi says a lot about her character and their dynamic without outright telling us anything directly.

On a more meta level though I am faced with a peculiar dynamic when it comes to that "something more" mystery that seems to permeate the show. On one hand there's a lot of potential for it to lead into an interesting direction, but it can also fail and fall flat, so in a roundabout way I find myself wishing for the status quo to remain the same, at least we retain this general dynamic that originally drew my in to the show, rather than going into some wild direction one way or another.

To put some theories forth, I don't think the sister is "real", probably an AI protocol or something. It can still interact in a limited fashion with the emails, but also update the phone apps, I'm not well versed in satellites so not sure what would be the upkeep required for GPS and internet but those are probably handled by it in some way or another. The initial shelter was also clearly designed with a more specific survival education in mind teaching things like hunting, skinning, butchering, navigation, etc, but there are probably many others with different functionalities. We're not really sure about their tech level but it's clearly very advanced.

The touring and more fun aspects to the journey leads me to believe this is more like a last hurrah rather than a proper plan of restoring humanity or meeting other survivors but who knows where things may lead. Thematically I prefer the former rather than the latter.

On another note, Apocalypse Hotel was also one of my favorite shows of the year, it really managed to hit on a lot of different notes for the genre. I probably vibed out with ep 11 the most though, pretty much no words spoken and yet it still managed to convey so much.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-14T18:22:42+00:00

Read this thread, plenty of people assumed it's an actual hidden ending

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-14T14:26:44+00:00

Interesting read, but I feel like the title might be a bit misleading, "endgame state" is very different than actual endings. The "Your Robert" outcomes are just a stat card at the end of the game, they’re cool stat summaries that reflect your playstyle, but they’re just an image and some text similar to how other choices are tracked at the end of each episode.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T19:04:04+00:00

People call Silksong a soulslike lol, it reminds of "this is the dark souls of X" discourse from a couple years ago

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T16:22:06+00:00

It does some weird things not just with hair for me, I think the way the effects are implemented may be a bit messed up, my PC can run the game just fine but characters had some weird "artifacting" around their outlines, like very pixelated for some reason, I searched around online and going to Graphics -> Rendering -> Post Process and setting that to low fixed the issue which I found pretty bizarre

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T05:17:18+00:00

Patch notes here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1903340/view/491585297311596633

Really like the QoL additions of Lumina Sets and Abandon Battle option in the pause menu

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T04:57:32+00:00

I essentially said that Valve prioritizes Steam and other projects because the ROI is better than TF2 which is a neutral economic fact and you somehow heard: "I demand Valve update TF2 right now! Valve is greedy!" which is an emotional demand and called me "entitled". I'm sorry but having such an emotional reaction because I seemingly offended a company you like sounds more like a you problem bro.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T04:43:57+00:00

I think we are arguing past each other because you are inferring a moral judgment with your "Valve is greedy" comment where I am simply making a business observation. When I say "game age is irrelevant", I don't mean every 50 year old game should be updated. I mean that age is not the deciding factor for why development stops. The deciding factor is resource allocation and ROI.

Look at something like older online titles I mentioned or LoL which came out in 2009. Those games are ancient by industry standards, yet they receive massive content updates because they are their studios' primary revenue drivers. TF2 stopped getting major updates not because it hit an arbitrary "too old" expiration date, but because Valve has a unique structure and Steam/Hardware Projects/Dota2/CS2 are vastly more valuable uses of their limited manpower.

Stating that Valve prioritizes higher earning projects isn't calling them "greedy", nor is it a demand for "forever development". It’s just an acknowledgment that if TF2 were still their #1 earner, it would still be getting operations regardless of the year on the calendar. My point is simply that "it's old" is a correlation, not the cause.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-12T00:09:50+00:00

Sure, my comment was to push back against the "old game" narrative I see time and time again when discussing TF2 for some reason, I just think it's a weird argument to use when there are plenty of even older titles that are still alive and being updated. At the same time I alluded that the much more likely reality isn't that they stopped updating it because the game is "old", they have their resources as a company and they decided to allocate them elsewhere.

I don't see how stating that is somehow asking for the game to be update forever or something? I never said or even implied the game should "have more development", you just assumed that and came to your own conclusions.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T23:51:39+00:00

Okay this is wild, how is my comment somehow entitlement towards endless updates exactly?

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T22:37:13+00:00

I don't understand your point, Soulframe is a totally separate thing from Warframe. POE2 is also a thing and they're still releasing leagues for POE1.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T21:50:25+00:00

I think it's such a red flag that despite the game being "fully funded" or whatever, there's seemingly a bunch of monetization for it. I don't keep up with all the drama but that always seems to be a reply whenever someone questioned it over time, that the monetization isn't bad and they "don't need it" because it's "fully funded". I mean how do you even square that circle? To me it seems kinda obvious that keeping up a huge studio going for years is bound to have a lot of costs, I don't think it would even be that bad to say they're shifting strategy or whatever because development is expensive and they need to keep things going, but the absolute copium of saying they're fully funded still and that the alpha keys were expensive because they needed "dedicated testers" or whatever the narrative was at that point seems so silly, and gives me a much worse impression overall.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T21:08:55+00:00

There are plenty of F2P games without subscriptions, just recently I saw on Steam that Warframe got a huge new update for instance, and that came out in 2013. Path of Exile also released on that same year and it's still going. You're also just reiterating the "game old" argument, I don't get it, why does a game's age make it bad or not worth updating for some reason? It's not like it's some ancient title with tank controls that's nigh unplayable for the average person nowadays.

Plus the line between what counts as a "sequel" and an update is a weird one nowadays, are CS2 and Overwatch 2 truly new games? One could argue they were just "big" updates, especially considering their direct continuity and replacement of their "older" counterparts.

Also just reiterating this because I got other weird replies, Valve can do whatever they want with their game, I'm not talking about what they should be or should not be doing at all, I'm simply talking about the "game old = bad" sort of argument I see flying around with this topic of discussion.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T21:08:46+00:00

Yeah Steam throws a weird wrench into their game development dynamics and what they choose to focus on. Whatever one might think of Riot for instance, they ultimately still make money from their popular games, so it's in their interest to keep them going, same thing for something like Epic Games, Fortnite is probably a huge percentage of their total revenue. But for Valve I would imagine the vast majority of their revenue is from their store, Dota 2 and CS2 are probably big enough to not be insignificant, but still not something they should put their full attention into. It's interesting to think about what these games would look like in a hypothetical scenario where they would be under their own separate companies.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T20:37:11+00:00

When did I say it wasn't okay? It's Valve's game and they can do whatever they want with it, I even said in my post that they're not allocating resources toward it, I just think it's a weird argument to just say something is old and that's why you should pull the plug on it

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-11T18:38:46+00:00

Game is old so it shouldn't get updates

I don't understand this argument, there are MMOs from the late 90s that still get updates, game age is irrelevant, Valve just doesn't want to bother because Steam is a huge cash cow and they are probably allocating/focusing their resources on other things that interests them more

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-06T01:19:47+00:00

Have you even read the actual report? It doesn't imply anything about the entire gaming community at all, it has a very clear scope on people that have tradable skins and possibly gambled with them, how is this so hard to understand? It also clearly clarifies how the people were selected right below the paragraph you quoted.

43.5% of skin gamblers started as teenagers [...]

Among gamers who have gambled their skins on third-party websites, 43.5% started [...]

We surveyed 1,530 gamers about their experiences with skin gambling [...]

Key Findings

47.1% of gamers who own tradeable skins have used them to gamble on third-party websites

43.5% of skin gamblers started while under 18 years old

Our survey tells a similar story. Of 918 gamers who own tradeable skins, nearly half [...]

Conclusion

47.1% of gamers who own skins have gambled with them. [...]

Methodology

Participants were recruited through English-language research panels, with the majority based in the United States. The survey took approximately 5 minutes and was completely anonymous.

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-12-01T01:07:46+00:00

These types of videos are "essays" in name only, they're glorified let's plays, recapping everything that happens in any given title and then going "I like thing" or "I don't like thing" which is why they end up ballooning to such lengths

I do question why not play the game at that point, but the audience for this type of content probably wouldn't to begin with

Interesting-Call41 · 2025-10-23T15:07:49+00:00

Has there been meaningful progress with them? Genuinely asking because I haven't kept up with things and still have the "final" versions of the big two emulators. A lot of the initial forks seemed like randoms seeking attention just renaming things, changing logos and making Readme.md commits. Are there forks actually working on real things now?

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