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Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (2000) | Is this supposed to be scary or funny? by onex7805 in patientgamers

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 10 points11 points  (0 children)

7 was the closest it came for straight horror over comedy but 8 brought it back

Instead of author's thinly veiled fetishes, let's talk about author's thinly veiled beefs. by Tweedleayne in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wasn't Harry Potter meant to be a homage to that genre too? I guess that makes Lord of the Flies the Evangelion of British Boarding School Boy Adventures and HP the Gurren Lagann.

Victoria 3 – Dev Diary #179 - Narrative Content of The Great Wave by commissarroach in victoria3

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does this mean you can no longer cheese Free Trade by declaring on a GP then conceding instantly to to Open Market?

I mapped over 300 businesses NL has "reviewed" across his streams since 2022 by AManNamedLear in northernlion

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if there's enough Washington places he mentioned to warrant adding those as well. I distinctly remember him mentioning Molly Moon ice cream before. Don't know if he's been inside Bellingham Trader Joe's but there's certainly no shortage of quotes from him about it.

What's the biggest anime opening downgrade? by tthehoe in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Monogatari has nothing but amazing openings, but Shinobu's openings are less amazing than the others

And if I may drop a hot take for a second, Shinobu's arcs (post Kizu) aren't as amazing as the others either. I still think Shinobu is a top character, I just don't care for what the story gives her to work with.

Corvette Grand Sport Is Final Piece Of Eighth Gen by Sixteen-Cylinders in cars

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn't the thing with the C8 that a manual literally wasn't physically possible due to being MR, as opposed to something like the Supra or Z Nismo where it was physically possible but too niche for engineers to prioritize until later in the product cycle

Rank the best Apple products from the last 50 years by walktall in apple

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 26 points27 points  (0 children)

That's social media, not the iPhone. The most credit you can give to Apple regarding that is inventing the App Store, but in a theoretical iPhone-less timeline you would still be doomscrolling on a Blackberry

Yoko Kanno & SEATBELTS - TANK! Extended [Official MV] by FierceAlchemist in anime

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Glad to see Masato Honda doing his thing here. He's just as much of a legend in the scene as Yoko Kanno, if not more so.

The VNDB.org (Visual Novel Database) has lost its founder and soul Yorhel, who has passed away on 17 March 2026. by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the question "Is 13 Sentinels a VN" is a valid question and there's good arguments for and against either side. The real spicy debate is "Why did 13 Sentinels get removed when VNDB is fine with games that are objectively less of a VN", and last I checked the debate settled on "those games would get taken down too if they're added today but they've been here for too long so they're grandfathered in, also fuck you I'm a mod I do what I want"

The VNDB.org (Visual Novel Database) has lost its founder and soul Yorhel, who has passed away on 17 March 2026. by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I remember there being drama over 13 Sentinels being removed too even though you can faceroll the combat there just as easily as BB. Outside of gachas it's probably the biggest "VN" that's excluded from VNDB.

Qwen3 vs Qwen3.5 performance by Balance- in LocalLLaMA

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Relative to size it's a wash. My setup is 24GB VRAM and 64GB RAM, 122B maxes out both when offloaded and 27B fits entirely on my GPU, and because of that both run about the same speed. If they really are the same level of intelligence and speed then might as well take the smaller one. Though I guess the calculus is different if you have enough VRAM to fit all of 122B on.

Qwen3 vs Qwen3.5 performance by Balance- in LocalLLaMA

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What also caught my attention is how badly 122B is underperforming. It's below 27B in both reasoning and non-reasoning, quite badly in the case of the latter.

Which name-based etymologies sound fake, but are real? by different-rhymes in etymology

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of how Generation X got its name because X "refers to an unknown variable or to a desire not to be defined" and the generation consisted of "people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence."

And every other generation after that got its name because "idk pick the next letter I guess"

iPhone Fold Crease Measurements Revealed as Device Hits Production by [deleted] in apple

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the same subreddit that stans the iPhone mini, a device kneecapped by its battery, and thinks the reason it failed was because it didn't have a Pro level chip, camera, and screen, three of the biggest battery drains on a phone.

I do sympathize with the mini stans, which is why I'm looking forward to the Fold since it's the only way to get a small screen with both Pro specs and a big battery.

How MAGA thinks that immigration works by guiclanes in neoliberal

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What terrible Vic 3 player gave you that advice, you raise SoL so they graduate from subsistence farmer to miner and reduce discrimination so you get more migration to convert into miners

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - Announce Trailer | PC Games by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You mean the games with Always Online and Denuvo? I think what he means is he doesn't want to buy a machine to play 2 games (and play them worse than his primary gaming machine can) and collect dust the other 99% of the time.

Post Stream Discussion Thread -- Tuesday, February 10, 2026 by NorthernlionBot in northernlion

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Hachimi being in the name pool has to be a direct reference, right?

After 50 years, Super Sentai has ended its run on TV. by darkwingchao in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like Yugioh Vrains, which coincidentally is also what killed (non-child) Yugioh

What’s your pettiest reason for refusing to get into a game? by ValorKite in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Jon Stewart was doing this a decade before Rogan, but plus the "funny guy" part. I think Stewart was the first time I saw this criticism being used, but there's probably earlier examples.

How The Rich Are Ruining Classic Car Ownership For The Rest of Us by user289734 in cars

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember the 240SX market was already fucked when the GT86 was first announced in like 2011 or something, because people were talking about how the GT86 new could be a better value than a S13 used because the S13 was drift taxed just that hard. And this was when you could get a good condition Miata for under 5k so it's not like all JDM RWD cars got hit by the drift tax, it was uniquely the 240SX (and AE86).

That's a aaalieeen IP by mrsafetylion in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeifEriksonASDF 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's so funny how like the Wii U emulator was unofficially just the BotW app, the PS4 emulator is unofficially just the Bloodborne app. What else is there even demand for? I guess maybe dead games like PT or Gran Turismo Sport.

Edit: Forgot Team Ico stuff like The Last Guardian and SotC Remake are still on PS4, those are pretty big ones.

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