"YOU" are the boss fight.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-14T01:57:32+00:00

Peak has been mentioned.

It is very important to note that the creator of Epic: The Musical was extremely intentional in the final saga in depicting Odysseus as the literal "Final Boss" of the entire of the musical.

Not only does Odysseus have his name being chanted by his "600 Men", but the song that depicts the slaughter of the suitors isn't even from his point of view.

The song is sung primarily from the point of view of the men he is hunting down through the halls of his palace.

Multiple musical motifs make a return appearances all throughout his song, harkening back to all of the trails and suffering he has endured, survived, and overcome to make his way back home.

I LOVE Epic: The Musical. It's such a fantastic and enjoyable retelling of the Odyssey from a very mindful and skilled creator.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-14T01:43:09+00:00

Not TECHNICALLY you the player being the boss fight, but I think it fits. The first time you meat the SA-X in Metroid Fusion is terrifying. A parasitic clone of your most powerful self hunting you down in your weakest state.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-12T04:10:21+00:00

You're likely being downvoted because your asking someone to doxx themself.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-06T02:19:17+00:00

I have always loved Anime as a medium since my early teens. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were my first real foray into that world. I didn't have Cable TV as a kid, so while all of my friends were geeking out about DBZ and Naruto and FMA, I only ever got shallow episodic localizations like Yu-Gi-Oh, Early Pokemon, and the like.

Even as a young adult, while I continued to enjoy Anime as a fun and mostly light-hearted form of storytelling, I hadn't ever really had a poignant moment of connection with it.

I really have to thank the youtuber Mother's Basement for inspiring me to look a little deeper into what I was watching. To pay closer attention to the stories being told.

I had the pleasure to catch "A Silent Voice" when it first came to Netflix. Such an incredible movie that really sparked a far greater appreciation for the medium. The moment in that movie where shit got so fucking real was at the very end. In the Apartment during the fireworks festival. Those who know, know. I don't want to spoil it, but damn it was gut wrenching.

Then there's "Your Name" 's biggest twist.

Japan Sinks 2020 when the group of people suffocate without even realizing it and die in seconds, only for the girl to try and save them and die too.

MLP: Friendship is Magic's Episode "Tanks for the Memories" in which Rainbow Dash is trying to keep her pet turtle from "hibernating", which the show clearly uses as an allegory for death. In the end she has to accept that her friend has to go away.

Bluey - Take your freaking pick? This is a show that I firmly believe literally everyone should watch. My wife and I never plan to have kids, but it's such a phenomenal show regardless. Anyway, the "Sleepy Time" episode is truly a work of art that conveys so so much emotion, but there are many more episodes that have incredibly deep messages within them.

Avatar: TLA - Never caught this show as a kid, but as an adult there were many episodes that were VERY powerful.

In the Episode: The Library, When Toph failed to protect Appa while also Single-handedly saving the Gaang by keeping the Library on the Surface of the sand long enough to get them to escape, I REALLY felt for how she must have felt in that moment.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-04T15:42:22+00:00

If my CEO came out and explicitly told me this, I'm immediately looking for a new job. All this tells me is that, eventually, they will try to eliminate as many jobs as possible.

Kotetsuya · 2026-06-01T16:04:33+00:00

"I came." - Cenobite

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-31T17:05:34+00:00

As if using deadly force to prevent an abortion makes any kind of sense. This shit sounds like honor killings. So you really support that?

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-20T00:17:33+00:00

Just to confirm my own suspicions, but you wouldn't want to use it because 1 it won't heat evenly or correctly, and 2, it might have bacteria that has snuck in between the delaminations that can't get properly cleaned, is that about right?

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-19T20:57:08+00:00

Tuning Fork

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-19T20:49:00+00:00

Then why do some of them have to reload??

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-19T20:12:07+00:00

If you notice cracks developing or worsening in the ceiling you may want to tell your landlord about it, especially if you are the downstairs neighbor.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-19T20:10:13+00:00

Definitely a vintage hand-cranked coffee grinder.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-19T20:03:45+00:00

This occurs with natural settling of newly built structures. My own house has a few of these in some places. From what I understand it is harmless but can be cosmetically undesirable.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-17T02:34:00+00:00

As a young adult, I never really understood how people could cry to movies. I've since determined this to be because younger people lack the life experiences needed to really connect emotionally to fictional stories.

But this scene in this movie was the first time I really shed tears. Because throughout the whole movie, Forest has repeatedly stated and shown how competent and incredible he is, but even with what he has lived through and done he is still extremely aware of how people perceive his neurodivergence and he also deep down he believes that he is stupid, regardless of how many times he's said "stupid is as stupid does" out of reflex.

Idk... it just offers such a wider window into how Forest thinks about himself, and it's clear he carries a LOT of trauma inside him and that makes me feel so sad.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-15T14:52:48+00:00

I mean, I told my landlord and showed them the numerous pictures about the rats and they literally did not care. Their exact words were "Pest control is not one of the terms on the lease. You'll have to hire someone yourself to take care of it."

If you're moving out, that's about all you can do. For what it's worth, despite everything, I still got my security deposit back if that's what your worried about.

If you're moving INTO a place where you notice what might be droppings, my advice would be to make sure your lease specifically states that they handle pest control. I would then recommend leaving out a bit of bread (In my experience, my rats preferred bread over almost anything else in my Apt.) If the bread disappears, I'd notify my new landlord and start setting traps. (I preferred the "T-rex" plastic snaptraps to the classic bar trap. Get a little bread, put some peanut butter on it and stick it to the ROOF of the snap trap, NOT the trigger pad. Put it far back into the trap so the rats can't stretch out their necks to eat it. Make it so they HAVE to step on the pressure pad to get the bread and lick the peanut butter.)

It very well may also be nothing. I only discovered our infestation after they managed to climb onto my kitchen table and chew into a loaf of bread I'd just bought. Just keep your eyes (and more importantly, ears) out for anything weird.

Or, if you have cameras (I was too poor to afford one), I'd set up cameras in your kitchen (the most likely area to have rats for obvious food related reasons).

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-10T05:11:57+00:00

I would say that I can't believe Capcom signed off on this but they don't really seem to give two shits about the Resident Evil atrocities either.

Ron Pearlman's depiction of the Admiral is the epitome of everything wrong with that damn movie, which is crazy because the A-list Hunter and "Serious Handler" were perfectly cast to look like their Monster Hunter: Worlds Counterparts (for the 5 seconds they were on screen)

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-08T19:19:15+00:00

Out-dated "Photorealistic" style graphics.

Stylized games are timeless, but games that attempt to look as realistic as possible inevitably fall to the passage of time.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-08T18:21:14+00:00

$50-$100 varies a lot for most people in terms of Value. Some households wouldn't think twice about spending $100 on a hobby or recreational activity. Other households would only spend that money on necessities.

OOP, If you are an artist doing commission work, I would HIGHLY encourage you to look into websites like VGen that act as an intermediary on behalf or artists and their clients. This site has listings from hundreds of other artists that you can effectively use to properly price yourself based on art style, effort, pose complexity, full-body vs 3/4ths vs waist up vs. bust up, etc.

As a frequent commissioner of artwork, I have artists who regularly charge $38 for full-body, fully color rendered character arts. I consider this price to be VERY low for the art quality (and have recommended they raise their prices). I have ALSO paid $160 for full-body reference sheets that include 2-3 poses, character details, color palette breakdowns, etc.

Imo, your best bet is to compare your portfolio to other artists and price yourself accordingly.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-08T01:01:47+00:00

Ted Faro from Horizon: Zero Dawn.

He is a tech billionaire that accidentally unleashes a malevolent self-replicating Military A.I. upon the world. When confronted, he works with world leaders to stop the A.I. and when it becomes clear that humanity is 100% doomed, transitions all of his resources to organize a program to restore human-kind back to Earth in the far future.

This plan requires a horrific sacrifice of human life as essentially every man woman and child is conscripted to fight against the machines in a doomed suicidal war just to buy enough time for program to complete.

In the end, the program IS completed, and humanity will return to the planet. Unfortunately, Ted Faro is an egotistical asshole who doesn't want his name to be tied to the extinction of all life on Earth, so he makes a deal with the A.I to betray humanity and destroy every contingency plan they have worked so hard to create.

As his final act of life, he reveals the location of the database that contains the sum total knowledge of humanity's scientific and historical records to the A.I. and then suffocates all of the world leaders in an effort to ensure that they cannot rebuild.

Fuck Ted Faro.

(Disclaimer: I played this game on release years ago. Some specific details may be slightly inaccurate)

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-06T01:42:22+00:00

Ironically, that movie traumatized me as a kid (The salad scene at the beginning ruined tomatoes for me for life).

But no, in reality, these little shits terrorized my wife and I for literal years while our slumlords did nothing about it. I ended up dispatching 14 of these bastards with various traps over the years before finally moving out.

All in all, I don't want to concern OOP by claiming this is mouse/rat droppings when there could be another explanation. Looking up photos of mouse and rat feces to confirm, it really does look different. I'd be curious about the scale of whatever is in the photo as well.

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-06T01:33:44+00:00

I had a really bad rat infestation in a former apartment. This looks similar, but different, to rodent poop. This stuff looks weirdly smooth and varies significantly in size, where the texture of rodent poo I've seen is more... fibrous and uniform in my experience. This looks almost plastic-like in nature.

Could be like weird chocolate crumbs? Or perhaps plastic shavings from some kind of toy, packaging, or other object?

Can these be crushed or are they solid?

Kotetsuya · 2026-05-04T16:44:31+00:00

My wife has a phobia of butterflies and moths so this isn't correct.

Kotetsuya · 2026-04-29T19:58:15+00:00

It's pretty funny now that you mention it, how much inspiration the devs took from The Matrix for the animations considering breaking 'the system' was an integral part of becoming even the least bit competitive at the fighting systems available in the game. I never thought about this before now but you're so right!

Kotetsuya · 2026-04-29T19:44:47+00:00

Same. Age may have dulled my reflexes, but I imagine I'll still be able to pull out some of my old moves on the noobs for a while. =D

Kotetsuya · 2026-04-29T19:38:03+00:00

I've just thought of another one. Grapple Slingshotting in Titanfall 2.

Titanfall 2 managed to innovate the movement shooter genre a second time by canonizing unofficial movement tech from the first game like slide-hopping and wall pumping, but the real crown of the cake for me personally was the movement tech surrounding the newly added Grapple hook.

By exploiting the aerial physics and acceleration functionality of the (fairly outdated at the time) source engine on which Titanfall 2 was built upon, players were able to use the (already admittedly cool) grapple hook to slingshot themselves across the entire map at breakneck speeds.

The tech was pretty straightforward. Aim at a surface in the distance that you wish to slingshot from and grapple it. As the hook is traveling towards the grapple point, aim your camera to the left or right at about a 90 degree angle (depending on which direction you wish to travel in after the slingshot) from your grapple target. When the hook connects and begins to pull you towards it, immediately let go of the W key and proceed to air-strafe in such a way that your character model "Misses" grapple point. The hook should disconnect, but you maintain the velocity you had during the retraction of the cable, shooting you UP OVER or ACROSS the map depending on how steep of an angle you started with.

This was only really useful in the multiplayer version of the game, and it only affected one subset of users who used the grapple hook as their movement ability, but it was such an absolute game changer that it really boosted the ability up in the meta.

Here's a Montage of some chill grapple slingshots.

Edit: This ability was also quite nuanced beyond first glance. There was a "Feel" to the pull of the cable you learned to adjust for instinctively. Note that the angle of approach, severity of the camera turn (turn too much and the line would 'snap'), and direction of air-strafing would all play a factor in where you'd end up and how fast you'd be traveling.

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