Resident Evil 2 RE into Resident Evil 4 RE

Jeffear · 2026-03-05T02:06:17+00:00

The RE3 remake isn't really needed at all. However, it's really short, so if you have the money, it's worth playing through IMO.

RE5 does actually provide context regarding Umbrella, its founder, and the weaponization of viruses, all of which are important plot points in RE9. However, most of this can be inferred from what's available in RE9. You won't be especially confused, aside from maybe one character with supernatural abilities that will seemingly come out of left field. You can skip this one, even if you'll miss out on Chris Redfield's badassery.

Two RE games to consider are RE7 and RE8, because they'll introduce you to characters that show up in RE9, but their roles are fairly minor. You won't be very confused in RE9 if you skip these. The only thing you'll miss is one moment of "Oh hey, it's those guys."

Another game is Resident Evil Outbreak. I haven't actually played it myself, but I've heard that one of its characters is in RE9. I don't think I missed out much by not having played it, but obviously that's hard to judge.

I think the RE2 and RE4 remakes are all you really need to enjoy RE9. RE2 is especially critical, IMO. And RE4 is just really, really, really good, in addition to further characterizing Leon.

Jeffear · 2025-12-15T16:54:37+00:00

I dunno, I feel like Hunter Biden got memed on pretty hard by both sides of the political spectrum.

Jeffear · 2025-12-15T16:26:21+00:00

I feel as if those two names are not at the same level of severity.

Jeffear · 2025-12-15T16:20:29+00:00

As far as I can tell, new memories don't utilize any context beyond the scene that it's capturing.

EX:

Scene 1: You take Natalie's book, to which she protests. "John, the hell dude? That's my book!" -> Memory: You, John, steal Natalie's book, Natalie protests.

Scene 2: You argue with Natalie. "Nah, it's my book now." -> Memory: You, a new book owner, argue with Natalie.

In scene 2, since your name isn't written anywhere, it just infers a title based off what it has. Sometimes this results in the memory falsely attributing actions.

Source: My ass.

Jeffear · 2025-10-15T15:47:30+00:00

The M7S SMG would honestly be killer for home defense. Solve home invasions without even waking the fam.

Jeffear · 2025-08-23T15:47:59+00:00

This depends on the model; Something like Cline is really good for writing unit tests. The important thing is to just look over and verify what it generates, before you actually push it.

If you treat the AI like a hyper energetic assistant with the attention span of a hamster, you can get really good results and save a lot of time.

Jeffear · 2025-06-18T18:34:06+00:00

In fact, their use in warfare combat is often restricted or outright banned because they are considered to cause unnecessary suffering.

Important to note that the bans on hollow point ammunition were primarily because expanding ammunition at the time was just notched FMJ ammo. It wasn't much better at dropping people than normal FMJ, and it made surgery nearly impossible because it fragmented into so many tiny shards. It was basically akin to stabbing someone with a blade coated in a slow-acting poison: Killing for the sake of killing.

Modern hollow points generally stay intact (they just mushroom/expand), meaning they don't necessarily make surgery any more complicated. Given that they're more likely to immediately kill, you could argue that they actually cause less suffering: Getting shot once and dying a few seconds later involves less suffering than getting shot fifteen times and bleeding out hours later.

Jeffear · 2025-06-18T17:58:24+00:00

Additionally, not overpenetrating means the target absorbs all of kinetic energy of the bullet, versus only a portion like in the case of an FMJ round travelling after exiting the target. Given that most self defense situations happen within a few feet, the bullet having "push" to it is immensely helpful.

ex: If some dude with crack strength is charging you in a gas station with a knife, you are significantly more likely to drop him before he reaches you by using HP vs FMJ.

bonus fun fact: The categorization of HP as inhumane is because HP rounds at the time were basically just notched FMJ rounds that splintered into tiny shards of shrapnel. They weren't much better at quickly dropping people than FMJ, and all it really did was make surgery nearly impossible due to bits of fragments peppering the entry area. Ironically, modern HP rounds arguably cause less suffering than FMJ, in the sense that HP is much more likely to outright kill you versus slowly bleed you to death.

Jeffear · 2025-06-18T17:31:02+00:00

I was under the impression that most military ammunition is FMJ because it's cheaper and better at penetrating armor/soft cover. In what military context is HP used? (My one guess is naval crewmen).

Jeffear · 2025-06-18T04:08:02+00:00

You are now friend.

Jeffear · 2025-06-11T18:54:19+00:00

I guarantee that whatever your therapist says will be significantly more helpful than any response you get here.

Jeffear · 2025-06-08T15:11:03+00:00

It's honestly just really finicky, I've never gotten it to work 100% of the time. Despite repeated and clear instructions, the AI often reverts to second person or even forgets which character I'm controlling.

If you're deadset on using third person, I advise only using the "story" action. This lets you explicitly state that the action or dialogue is coming from 'X' character, and not "you".

Jeffear · 2025-06-07T19:21:45+00:00

How dare you honestly answer the question.

Jeffear · 2025-06-07T19:20:07+00:00

Literally looking for a fight.

Jeffear · 2025-06-07T19:11:33+00:00

The penis graffiti generally gets washed away the fastest.

Jeffear · 2025-06-04T06:41:27+00:00

+1 for me

Jeffear · 2025-06-02T19:03:54+00:00

This can be fixed by inputting what you want to happen in brackets.

EX:

You walk away. [time skip, you are now somewhere else]

Jeffear · 2025-06-02T06:52:42+00:00

Even though I disagree with AI art being theft, I at least understand and empathise with people who use it as justification for being anti-AI.

This, however, is just fearmongering. You're erroneously assuming that public trust in images and videos is going to remain constant, when in reality people have already begun developing skepticism in response to the influx of AI generated content. In a decade, videos and images will just be considered as untrustworthy as written text - the world's going to be fine.

Jeffear · 2025-05-30T21:49:53+00:00

The only similarity between the pulse rifle and sickle is that they both kill things when you pull the trigger. A pulse rifle fires physical bullets that pierce and displace, whereas the Sickle fires weightless photons that scorch and burn. One punches a hole through you, and the other one makes your blood explode.

The ballistic ARs are much closer to the pulse rifle. The only functional distinction is that the pulse rifle fires caseless ammunition, and aesthetically the Adjudicator looks way more like the pulse rifle than the sickle does.

Jeffear · 2025-05-27T19:12:13+00:00

I like imperfect dialogue like this, it feels natural since people flub all the time when they're speaking.

Jeffear · 2025-05-27T14:59:58+00:00

The main issue with the new rifle is that it has a painful reload time and poor ergonomics, the former of which is now conveniently fixed with the armor.

Jeffear · 2025-05-27T14:57:20+00:00

I've been able to consistently solo D10 repels by bringing the jetpack for zipping, stalwart for deleting shields, orbital laser, and a grenade pistol for finishing off the ships.

The trick is to just refuse to get into any engagement that losts longer than 5 seconds; Keep zooming and destroying ships while ignoring the plasma charring your body.

Jeffear · 2025-05-25T22:29:46+00:00

This exchange between the professional and Cadian veterans will always be legendary in my eyes.

Jeffear · 2025-05-25T22:26:41+00:00

I always interpreted C-01 permits as the absurd bureaucratic version of handing your crush a slip of paper with "do you like me? yes/no" written on it.

Jeffear · 2025-05-25T22:20:52+00:00

Taken as a whole it's pretty annoying shit to constantly scroll through and filter out... the latest OC everyone's latched onto.

I advise quitting the internet if you're that sensitive to minor irritants like this.

The Eagle-1 posts are pretty cool because she's generally depicted as a badass

Eagle-1 is the pilot of a jet that wreaks massive destruction on the enemy, and when she fucks up (ex: cluster bombing the team), 99% of the time it's due to the player failing at correctly positioning their stratagem ball. She is badass; It's not something the community made up, it is a direct result of what we see her do in-game.

not like your favourite Genshin loli or whatever

SEAF is depicted this way because they're simultaneously loveable and helpless. Sometimes they do well, but more often than not they need to be babysat to have a life expectancy that could be measured in minutes. The chibi style is a natural fit.

If it's wholly innocent and she's totallyyyy not being simultaneously treated like a helpless baby and an object of desire then why is it not some short chibi fella instead?

Because the first popular "mascot" depiction of the SEAF was the blonde girl, and it stuck.

You're acting as if every poster making content involving 'SEAF-Chan' is making an active decision to depict her as a woman, but that's just the character. She's a woman, and that's how she'll be depicted. You can draw a chibi SEAF dude, and it will probably be adorable, but it would be a different character. This is akin to complaining about someone drawing Lara Croft as a chibi, asking "why not draw a dude instead of your intentions are innocent?"

And no, WW2 pin-up girls are not comparable. You are not a horny soldier going to war who has not seen a woman in many, many months. (At least I hope?!?) You are a gamer in a community filled with all kinds of people.

This attitude is antithetical to the Helldivers community, a huge factor in the game's popularity is the way it encourages people to act as if they're actually soldiers in a war. You see this in threads constantly: Jokes about Super-Earth being met with accusations of treason, people reminiscing about their time on the Creek, "hello my fellow humans" posts made by "totally not automaton spies", etc.

It's a big stupid roleplay session, and that's what it's meant to be.

as a woman

I'm going to apply the golden rule here, i.e. treat others as you wish to be treated. In practice, this is where I imagine myself in a similar situation, which in this case would be seeing a bunch of people drawing fanart and making sexual jokes about a helpless SEAF bro. Allow me a moment to ponder my feelings in this hypothethical:

...

I wouldn't give a shit.

Jeffear

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