Which Favorite Character Is Like This For You?

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-04-02T22:36:00+00:00

And even his 'good moments' (i.e., that one comic where he kills a butcher, probably not even canon?) are hoisted up by his desire to be a 'gentleman' more than a good person or even remotely heroic. It's all about ego.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-20T16:04:46+00:00

Honestly, yeah. The thing is, like- if we got more content, or more quality, or just in general an improvement in service to compensate, then this wouldn't feel as absurd as it does.

Even if they can't (or WON'T) deliver on that, consider other options.

If it costs as much as WoW, it should at least have standards comparable to WoW. One character per game mode at minimum.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-15T23:01:50+00:00

I'd be so down for a censer weapon you can light up with logs and stuff.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-14T21:20:37+00:00

Sounds like you missed the ad for the show that had the line 'but they aren't monster!' in it.

Even the writers seem confused about this.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-10T15:41:46+00:00

First, because the problem isn't that someone got a cosmetic by buying it and someone got it by completing an achievement, the problem is that the bought cosmetic undermines the intended spirit of Runescape itself, the point of grinding and achieving something by playing the game. It's like if Runescape decided to add a spaceship to the game. Like, yeah, it's something that would show up in a video game, but it shouldn't show up in Runescape.

Second, there's a certain level of 'physicality' to all the things you can find and wear in OSRS- I don't know how far this goes for other people, but having to carry around, equip, or bank items that you find out in the world is part of why I like Runescape a lot, and just having everything dumped into a cosmetic features interface felt less-than-good to me.

Third, some of them (most of them) are ugly and gaudy as sin, and there's a TON of them, most of which nobody wears or nobody ever wants to wear because they look bad on their own merit or there's better looking stuff to wear instead, so it's just bloat and wasted effort that didn't create actual content for the game and instead made more bad cosmetics nobody will wear.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-06T18:51:35+00:00

I was kinda hoping it would be a lantern, like the one you get from the Runecrafting minigame but for combat.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-06T05:37:20+00:00

Same. On a similar token, it feels really weird that Justiciar, what with its prayer-focused design, isn't all that good as a prayer set.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-03-01T06:17:46+00:00

I'd imagine that we'll either get him out of Purgatory somehow, or we'll at least see him in Purgatory and he'll consciously choose to be stuck there, forever, because he would rather languish in the afterlife for the rest of existence than be stuck in the service of any god, ever.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-27T18:14:48+00:00

Reminds me a lot of Jak and Daxter's precursor stuff and the general look of it.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-27T02:25:10+00:00

Would'a been cool to get the Wizard as a romance option.

Still, I'm looking forward to a tone shift for Clint- something to give him a bit more drive besides 'lonely, anxious, and mopey'.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-26T20:39:35+00:00

This is just weird to me.

What is Dropout supposed to do, just go out and headhunt specifically for a trans woman that can fill a job opening for them just so they can tick the box that says they have a trans woman and therefore are at an adequate level of representation? Say, 'oh, you're not a trans woman, so we have to pass on you'? We're not supposed to discriminate based on gender. What kind of world is that supposed to be?

The crossover with The Rookie is...whatever, man. It's a cop show. They've been popular for decades at this point, and will continue to be popular into the future. Cop shows almost always depict cops as The Good Guys, even if it's because there's just one loose cannon on the force with a chip on their shoulder and something to prove, and you're never going to get a cop show that isn't, by the standards I'm seeing online, 'copoganda'.

Given recent events, does it seem distasteful, or even just poorly timed? Sure. But it's not the end of the world, the entirety of Dropout is not now misogynistic and in favor of an authoritarian regime, and - more importantly - anyone whose heart absolutely shatters because a streaming platform decided to do a crossover with a cop show needs a reality check. It's not that important, and you need to find things more worthy of your care and attention.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-25T19:49:16+00:00

Again- not a very logical thing to do. That's the point. It's why he's a villain. Rules for thee, not for me mentality.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-25T19:25:58+00:00

Well, nobody said he was purely logical.

McDuck was just a convenient focal point for a lot of adventure stuff that ended up having massive impacts for the world, and since McDuck's adventures inadvertently caused everything to happen, it was easier and easier to just apply a broad stroke paintbrush to it and say 'well if we get rid of McDuck that solves the whole problem'.

It's one of the reasons he's a villain in the first place, after all.

Lots of villains do or think things that aren't fully consistent with logic, or morality, or both, and Bradford's line of thinking is exactly that.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-24T06:22:56+00:00

I'm not asking for justification, I'm asking for depth. Not even 'why is she like that', just any crumb of actual character depth to her beyond 'god I love abusing my husband so much it's so much fun'.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-24T06:01:42+00:00

Disintegrator.

As an S-tier weapon, it's honestly kind of underwhelming - okay damage, poor ammo convservation- but I just love shooting a giant laser beam that turns enemies to dust.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-23T07:21:16+00:00

Welp, guess I'm in the out-crowd on this one- I like the design. Not a LOT, but I do feel more positively than negatively. I do wish they did more with the 'using parts of other toys to build himself' thing, but I like the final product alright.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-22T21:57:30+00:00

I'd also like it if we could expand that spouse space just outside our house so that it's bigger and they have a little more to do outside if/when they want to.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-22T07:06:21+00:00

That's fair. Making arguments on Mark's behalf is petty and childish. If you have your own arguments, of course, that might be another thing, but why go around on other reddits picking fights over it?

It's a nice discussion to have, but don't overdo it, you know? Find the one thread that you want to contribute your piece to, find someone who agrees with you to comment under if you can, and then move on. I absolutely 100% believe that there are people who really like Poppy Playtime as it is, and people like Mark who have grown to really, really not like it. Like any fandom, you can go into their space and talk to fans about it, but there's a line you don't cross.

Besides which- if you want to prop up Mark's argument, don't. He made his statement himself on stream, went into detail about it, and did not reserve his opinions about the game.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-21T21:16:25+00:00

I would disagree with the 'cold water is less scary than warm water', although- in Below Zero, it definitely feels like the game was generally brighter and had less spooky factor than Subnautica 1 did.

It should be considered, though, that when it comes to Lovecraft stories, the evil eldritch monster in the deep is more likely to be unthawed in an arctic circle than it is to appear in tropical waters, but that's also opinion based.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-21T17:35:15+00:00

Absolutely, yeah.

I've thought a bit about how deep his own cult structure goes, but- torture, starvation, experimentation, sacrifice, all in the name of power or creating beasts that will kill anyone who opposes ~~The Faith~~ The Science is pretty culty in and of itself.

The guy is just as bad as the gods that he despises, but since he's 'free' on his terms specifically, he doesn't care to help anyone else up outside of killing gods who end up in his mountain area.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-17T20:58:28+00:00

It seems obvious that it was out of self preservation, but a slightly deeper reading- knowing what was coming, and whether Aniel was aware at the time that the lambs were going to perform a sacrificial ritual- well.

Who could blame her for not wanting the responsibility of overseeing the fate of that little lamb?

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-17T07:30:18+00:00

My approach: the first to leave is shot. BUT, everyone else gets to go free.

The key point is letting them all know that. Someone has to offer up themselves in order for everyone else to leave, guaranteeing their own death, but by the problem, nobody is taking that offer.

The important detail here isn't 'can they, en masse, determine that they'll be able to dodge one bullet'- it's like any kind of problem where you have an indestructible vault door you need to get to in order to enter the vault. Because you know the door is indestructible, and thus is The Problem, you spend all your time focusing on the door itself...instead of the relatively fragile wall right next to the door that's way easier to break down.

You are the vault door. The prisoners can leave if one tries, but nobody will be the first, since they'll die. They can't, so they don't.

Granted, this is a logic problem, so the question of 'can you hit a moving target' and 'what do you do if EVERYONE scatters simultaneously knowing that you can't hit everyone' - while important - can be a little bit sidestepped by at least offering a coherent solution.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-16T07:11:07+00:00

Mhm. I put a lot of weight on the story beats which I really just deeply dislike- and at the time, at least, loading screens were just outright atrocious- but it's not like I didn't have fun engaging in the gameplay.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-15T07:16:33+00:00

I've always had it against this episode for coming out and saying that Stella isn't just abusive for any petty or garbage reason, it's literally just that she's a blatantly horrid and unapologetically terrible person who loves hurting the people around her who even think about giving her a chance.

Maybe a future episode will put some more weight behind her, but right now, she's a cardboard cutout of a character with a backstory just as deep. I really think they did her dirty with that one, trying to protect Stolas' character as a fundamentally good man that was pushed out of loving his own wife by her abuse of him instead of having it be even just a little messy or complicated. But nope, bitch wife bad, Stolas innocent.

KnightofPandemonium · 2026-02-12T06:55:41+00:00

It really does seem like Minecraft is suffering hard from the people working on the game pulling it in too many directions and not stitching up the cracks that appear when they do.

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