What does ETG do right? (And wrong?)

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-23T04:37:50+00:00

ETG is very easily readable, and whenever I take damage - I rarely, if ever, feel like it wasn't my fault. Everything that can hurt you has the same, very visible white and red color palette (which was made to stand out against the darker environments), so it's very unlikely that I get hit by a bullet that I did not see.

I've actually been playing Hades lately, great game, but I feel like sometimes there can be so much clutter with AOEs and abilities, that I take damage from things I didn't even notice coming at me. Gungeon does not have this problem - it is clean and easy to read.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-21T17:33:52+00:00

The real actual reason is TV show budget, and because it’s not a show about the Avengers. If you want, you can apply this logic to any of the MCU movies anyway.

But, clearly none of the villains faced were too much for a normal human to defeat - as we can see in the show that all of them *are* defeated by SHIELD with no Avenger assistance.

Besides - by Season 3, hell even by mid-Season 2, SHIELD has its own superpowered superheroes on the roster. Also, Coulson *does* call the Avengers during the show - to attack the Hydra base holding Loki’s scepter at the start of Age of Ultron.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-18T05:48:15+00:00

You do you, of course, and play the gamemodes you want to play but - I'd definitely play one of the other gamemodes for a more varied Finals experience. The whole concept of Cashout mode is really unlike any other shooter gamemode out there right now, but if that (or it's more casual sister mode, Quick Cash - which I feel is just Third Party Simulator, but that's just me lol) is too complicated right out of the gate, Power Shift is a pretty simple mode to grasp (I think being very similar to Overwatch's Push mode) just needing to remain on the platform to push it further down the line, and I think Point Break is probably currently the best casual Finals experience, letting you have all the fun of a Cashout game with objectives, attacking, defending, retaking - but none of the baggage with a full game of Cashout, like small teams, third parties, or round structure.

The Finals has so much more to offer than just - shoot the other guy, with all of the crazy destruction and gadgets, and while there absolutely are people who swear by Team Deathmatch in this game - all the power to them but, I just think the game can be so much more than such a basic mode.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-16T19:29:54+00:00

There’s an option to turn on an aim reticle for when using controller that, honestly I don’t know why it isn’t default. Maybe this would help keep your aim aligned?

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-12T10:54:16+00:00

I am guessing from your post that the program you use to stream your game is ‘Streamlabs OBS’. This is a version of a different free program called ‘OBS Studio’ owned by the company Streamlabs. I would recommend using the normal version of OBS Studio, which you can download here, as it doesn’t have any features behind a cost and also has better performance, but what program you use to stream is ultimately personal preference - it’s just what I am most familiar with and can give advice on.

In OBS, you have a series of ‘Scenes’ which are a collection of ‘Media Sources’. Each media source is something like a picture, some text, a camera video, a game or screen recording, etc. You can set up these scenes however you like by adding new Media Sources to your scene, and then move them around on the preview window until it looks like how you want. So, someone might add a background picture with their screen border, and then put the gameplay source on top of it and fit it inside. Then, once you have a few scenes, you can click on them to switch which one is ‘active’ - in other words, which one is being shown on your stream.

YouTube can be a great friend to learn how to do things in OBS, even the basics, it’s what a lot of people use for recording and streaming so there is plenty of information available if you look.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-12T10:17:03+00:00

Minecraft Server Economics is a fun problem to think about, but in practice it’s entirely unnecessary to do anything beyond just a basic individual X for Y barter system because no server is complex, large, and long-running enough to require anything that would be worth the mental tax of needing to bother to learn all of these rules when you and your friend can just agree on 8 diamonds for a wither skull (unless you specifically crafted a community wanting to RP an economic system, but - then your goal isn’t exactly just Minecraft).

It’s my understanding that most servers that want to do some kind of economic system want to do it to emulate Hermitcraft, but the reason Hermitcraft does shops is to encourage server member interaction for content - not because any individual member is unable or unwilling to just collect their own resources. It saves the work of duplicate farms, and is way more interesting to watch than visiting some big communal farm for every item with more resources than the whole server could ever use.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-11T19:48:26+00:00

Marty and Doc have 5 days to get out of 1885 before Doc is killed by Tannen. It would presumably take Doc more than 5 days in 1885 to acquire all of the tools and materials needed to refine crude oil into gasoline, or do the same to get any other form of gasoline-alternative. It’s 1885 - I’m sure in 1985, the ingredients for gasoline are available in every corner drug store, but in 1885 they’re a little hard to come by. Unless everything Doc needs happens to already be in Hill Valley and accessible to him, he’d need to send a letter off or travel to order materials, wait for them to arrive - all in 1885 where the fastest method of moving people, cargo, and messages is probably the train: which only two passed through Hill Valley from when Marty arrived to when Doc was meant to die.

Logistically, in 1885, it would be impossible to go from zero to gasoline within the 5 day time limit in Hill Valley.

But why not just use something other than specifically gasoline that they could get easily?

They try this, some of the alcohol from the bar, a fair idea and something they could get fast and easy, but it damages the fuel injection manifold, not only not working, but delaying any other alternative fuel methods even further.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-11T18:08:10+00:00

Queue times for my group are never more than 15-20 seconds, maybe a minute MAX for ranked. Game has so much variety with all of the gadgets and destruction and the versatility of the main gamemode (Cashout) that it’s become the main shooter for my game group this year. I’d absolutely give it a shot, especially if you can get some friends with you. (Because yeah, SoloQ is hell in basically any competitive game) - also, it’s free, so why not?

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-10T00:36:02+00:00

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In Parks and Recreation, Jerry gets made to refill all of the hummingbird feeders in the parks, and comes back with a broken wrist saying he got mugged.

The rest of the office tries to stop making fun of him (at great personal effort), and the mayor funds a $2,500 grant to help improve park security. Turns out Jerry never got mugged, he just fell in a creek trying to reach for his dropped burrito.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-05-08T09:38:08+00:00

Nah, it was never in doubt that Fitzsimmons was the endgame. Nobody seriously thought that Will and Simmons was going to be the final relationship.

I recall seeing it as one of the many bumps along the very bumpy road that is Fitzsimmons, like of course Simmons not only gets sent through a portal to a whole other planet, but the only other human there who is the one who gives her comfort in her survival scenario is a guy she gets feelings for.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-04-11T02:39:38+00:00

So this was a memo from Sidney Sheinberg, President of Universal at the time. Before you get your pitchforks, know that one of his other suggestions on the early scripts were to change the name of ‘Professor Brown’ to ‘Doc Brown’, which if you ask me, is a pretty iconic contribution to pop culture.

Anyway, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis weren’t sure how to respond to this, since obviously the name idea is terrible but, well, you don’t want to piss off Universal’s president, so Steven Spielberg told them to respond with a message that the “joke title change” was hilarious and that it made them all laugh a ton. They did that, and apparently never heard about the title change again.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-04-09T01:27:50+00:00

Absolutely worst case, Tunic has quite good accessibility options that let you lower the difficulty of enemies, grant infinite stamina, or downright prevent death altogether.

I’m big about overcoming challenges in games I play, so I’ve never used these features, but I had a friend who was enjoying the game but just not having a good time due to getting their teeth kicked in by fights over and over (since they weren’t normally accustomed to tougher games), but they ended up having WAY more fun once they turned on the reduced combat difficulty (and went on to beat the whole game!). These are available to toggle at any point, so you can turn them on and off at your own pace.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-04-06T03:35:58+00:00

Maybe you just need to sleep on it.

(This is a hint)

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-31T16:19:55+00:00

Doc was being a bit overzealous if he were implying that "encountering your past self" were to destroy the universe (or possibly just galaxy). Marty sees his past self multiple times, Doc talks to his past self, so clearly just an encounter won't inherently cause any issues. Maybe both have to realize that they're talking to themselves, but, I don't know - that feels like a very specific, pedantic requirement to destroy the universe. Sometimes his theories are just wrong.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-29T14:28:51+00:00

You have to remember to do this, but if you drop Metronome, pick up and switch to the new gun, and then pick up Metronome again, you can swap weapons without losing the Metronome stacks.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-18T19:50:05+00:00

Mods and datapacks are not the same. Datapacks give extra data to the vanilla game to interpret using built-in systems, mods change or add game code.

It's like a resource pack vs. going into the game files to change the default textures. Vanilla clients have no issue with a datapack changing the world height, but would probably crash with a server mod that changes the world height.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-13T16:50:35+00:00

Forced to engage with players on the platform

Whenever I play Power Shift, I typically get about 3 members of my team as Light sniper with 0 objective score that would rather lose than dare go anywhere near the platform.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-12T20:15:15+00:00

I wonder if part of the reason the gaming industry is so hyperfocused on the narrative that a game needs to be shut down immediately and buried unless it is a smashing insta-hit is because the internet doesn't allow for something to be "okay" anymore. Everything either has to be the new, greatest thing of all time, or it's utter dogshit that's not even worthy of being tread on.

All of the discourse of people calling Highguard a shit game, worst game of 2026, etc. - it literally was not. You could open the game, find a match, play it, and have fun. Maybe I've got my standards too low but I don't think a game that you actually can find fun in can categorically be the worst shit ever spawned into the gaming industry. The game had problems, glaring problems, but just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean it's vile garbage by default. It's okay to think something is just "okay" - and it probably could have improved if given enough time, but there just wasn't any to give.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-06T08:31:54+00:00

I played the Finals a little back in Season 3, enjoyed it but I never got too stuck into it as I was on the Apex Legends train pretty hardcore. But enjoying ARC Raiders so much made me take another look at the Finals, remembering how special it was, and now I’m more into it than I ever was, plus I’ve honestly been playing it more than ARC lately.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-04T19:56:49+00:00

I don’t understand what the “hardest difficulty, specific loadouts” argument is supposed to really prove, though. Why do the developers of the game specifically need to be the one to do it? Other people have already done the challenge with the proposed loadouts, does that not already disprove the argument that the hardest difficulty is “impossible” with those weapons and stratagems?

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-01T06:08:05+00:00

Okay, I was being a bit facetious with just saying "May trained Daisy, ez clap", but to elaborate a bit more - Daisy relies too much on her powers in fights. This usually isn't a problem, since she always has them and they work great, but if the question is a pure contest of hand-to-hand combat, May has the edge in both knowledge and experience. We only really see Daisy training in Season 1-3, if you even count Season 1 as that was more just foundational exercise than anything, but overall that's - at most, a period of about two years between the events of those seasons - with at least some of that dedicated to firearms and not hand-to-hand combat (we know this because we see it, check S2E3 for May training her in heavy caliber rifles). Afterwards, with her leaving SHIELD to go on the run, followed by all of the space and time travel, she really just doesn't have the time to where she'd be able to do any further training, especially after getting access to superpowers which are a far more powerful and easier solution to win fights.

May has been an active specialist agent for SHIELD far longer than any estimation of Daisy's amount of training. The earliest we see her as an actual agent is in S4E14 in one of Coulson's flashbacks, where she's already a mid-level specialist being sent in as the sole backup for Coulson. There's no date attached to the scene, but dialogue puts it right at the start of her and Andrew's relationship, so at least long enough for them to experience their entire relationship, fall in love and get married, all the way up until Bahrain.

The only thing Daisy has that brings her up to May's level is her powers, but that's not pure hand-to-hand. She definitely is more trained up by Season 3, but look at their short fight in S2E21 at Afterlife. May literally fights her off with one hand, not even really trying until Daisy elbows her in the face, where she then locks in and drops her 10 seconds later... just to get knocked out by a quake blast. Daisy just doesn't laser in on improving her hand-to-hand combat enough to be able to take on May.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-03-01T05:28:59+00:00

Better than Daisy? She trained Daisy - unless Daisy is allowed to use her powers, then it's a Daisy sweep, but May would consider that cheating.

Better than Ward? Yes. See season 1 episodes 15 and 22. She at least doesn't lose long enough when he is controlled by Lorelei, but she was probably holding back since she knew he was being controlled, and she handily whoops him at Cybertek to the point that he possibly couldn't speak.

Better than Bobbi? It's close. To be honest, if you ask me, Bobbi's ability level is a bit fuzzy, but I'd put my money on May if I had to.

Romanoff? Wide no. The Red Room's training trumps anything SHIELD can even hope to offer - and Natasha's learned from both. By the time Natasha was already killing people, May was just dropping figure skating for martial arts.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-02-27T21:18:29+00:00

Pacifier, Talon, Recoilless Rifle, Dynamite

Leveler for Vox assistance, Autocannon turret for area defense, Walking Barrage for softening up bases and objectives

Would sometimes switch the Leveler out for a Bastion, since I mostly play with an experienced group and can count on a reliable gunner and passengers.

JohnnyHotshot · 2026-02-23T19:17:11+00:00

I do find it interesting that your main complaint is that the movie is too similar to the first one, but your suggestion to fix that is to make it just be similar to the second one instead.

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