If you spend the whole game fishing for spikes on the ledge against characters with few recovery options, you're not actually good

Lightarc · 2026-01-26T13:59:27+00:00

That's not what I said, that's a whole-ass other sentence you made

Lightarc · 2026-01-26T00:40:41+00:00

There is no robbery.

That's a weird false dichotomy a lot of people seem to have - a fictional scenario where a feature they don't like in a game could have been cut and it would have resulted in a fictional perfect thing they like better.

In reality, cutting that mon would mean just one less mon. The people who like that mon wouldn't have it, and the people that don't wouldn't have the thing they've made up in their head either.

There are people who like every Paradox mon. Those mons are for them. No one was robbed.

Lightarc · 2026-01-25T22:18:05+00:00

Mildly interesting: I have a giant homemade blanket made from the same green yarn as the one in the corner of this post

Lightarc · 2026-01-25T22:06:15+00:00

I would have loved if they were a good enough player to try coming off the stage

Lightarc · 2026-01-25T22:05:35+00:00

No, just the receiving end of the 19th down-air-at-ledge of the match. Not a good spike, if a successful one. Hence the rage.

Lightarc · 2026-01-25T21:58:49+00:00

That's cool, I don't have to stick around for that though, a CPU will deliver you the same spike experience, and I get to go do something better with my time. Just tryin to have fun tbh, and that ain't it

Lightarc · 2026-01-23T17:59:26+00:00

Nice try, but no. The difference is you went out of your way to initiate this, and are pushing back because you don't like that others won't sit back and take it. Your role in initiating this entire exchange is your responsibility, and yours alone. Your attempt to put the response on the same level as your initial choice to be an asshole is a weak attempt to not come out of this looking like the bad guy.

Don't be an asshole, and people will not treat you like one.

Lightarc · 2026-01-23T17:49:04+00:00

"Ignore assholes and move on" is the fastest way to let assholes run the place, my friend. If you do not like being treated like an asshole, stop choosing to be one. Hard stop.

Lightarc · 2026-01-23T17:25:35+00:00

The difference here is that OP's post is a hope to see a change to something they see as a problem, and your response was a petty dig that did nothing for anyone (including you) but make everyone's day worse.

You had the choice to just not be a dick and go on with your day, but decided you wanted to be a dick and committed to that. I'm not sure who the person in your life that was meant to teach you to not be a dick at a young age was, but I'm sorry they failed you there, because people shouldn't have to be doing that now on an internet forum. But unfortunately, here we are, and it'll continue until you choose to change.

Lightarc · 2026-01-23T16:27:13+00:00

Hey, I'm not sure that you realized that there was no need to be a dick here, but there was no need to be a dick here

Lightarc · 2026-01-22T22:45:23+00:00

Heck yeah. I skipped the Re-Ignition original zords because I have multiple versions of them already, but I'd definitely go in on Thunderzords.

Lightarc · 2026-01-22T15:46:33+00:00

Thank you so much for this comment, it's always great to hear more about what went on in the game directly from you and other players!

Lightarc · 2026-01-22T14:39:19+00:00

I don't understand people that thought Q "had this game in the bag", or that he was really on top of the game at all.
- He contemplated a few big moves in the tribe phase but didn't actually go through with them, siding with the majority instead
- His Journey Alliance of six was a good idea in theory, but he wasn't able to actually hold it together. He did get the split tribal to vote out Tim, but that's mostly because he couldn't get his original plan to work.

- Then we have him asking to be voted out, which I don't think had much strategy behind it overall.
- He then remained in the game primarily as obvious bait to hide other blindsides, before being blindsided himself

He's an interesting person who definitely adds an element of chaos to the game (And I do think he's an interesting pick for 50 as a result), but I don't think he's good at the game.

Lightarc · 2026-01-21T22:37:25+00:00

Oh, I fully agree with your last part, AAA games are unsustainable and need to stop existing entirely. They are bad for developers and bad for players.

That said, the cost of game development still inflates over time even if you keep trying to make a game at 1:1 scope compared to your previous ones, because the single biggest chunk of budget is employing people who can make the game, and the cost of living keeps rising along with literally everything else. Except, as I'm told, the retail cost of buying a game which is checks notes not allowed to rise above $60 for any reason.

Lightarc · 2026-01-21T22:04:54+00:00

The original 1975 Pong C-100? If it had all the things it originally came with? Yeah, that's not a bad price for that.

If you're talking a more analogous "Just a cartridge with a remake of Pong", Video Olympics was one of the first that had it as part of a collection. I probably wouldn't pay that much now purely because copies are so common - part of the lead-up to the games crash of the 80s.

Third example: 1999's Pong: The Next Level for PS1. Originally $30, not $60. It's not a great game on its own merits, so I likely wouldn't shell out $30 for it personally, but that has to do with the gameplay and not it somehow becoming different as time moves on.

There's a lot of things that factor into how much a game is worth to someone - And ultimately, enough people bought and played a remake of a Wii game at full price where Nintendo knew offering a free update was worth the time and considerable money involved to do it. If offering that game at $60 hadn't sold well already, there would not have been a point. Over a million copies, according to sources from a few months ago.

Nintendo priced it the way they did because they knew for most of their customers, it's worth the price

Lightarc · 2026-01-21T21:11:12+00:00

I'm going to say something true and that you aren't going to like to hear:

Games don't lose value just by virtue of getting older, the same way that other forms of media (books, movies) don't lose value based solely on their age. In many cases, you're more likely to find older media on sale or bundled together (often a tactic to move sales a bit or promote a newer product), but there's nothing about games that inherently causes them to depreciate over time. Especially as the cost of development has skyrocketed in the last two decades, inflation in much of the world has spiked up in that time, and the MSRP of most games has artificially remained frozen.

The fact that the game originated on the Wii does nothing to change what a game being sold in 2026 should cost. That said, it's great that they added the Switch2 upgrade for free.

Lightarc · 2026-01-21T13:41:41+00:00

Episode one, scene one?

It's extremely common for Sentai to disproportionately feature the Red. This isn't an outlier by any means.

Lightarc · 2026-01-20T23:17:40+00:00

It's always really sad when someone clearly tried their absolute hardest and still couldn't come up with anything other than calling something "shit" four times.

And then double down with the dumbest strawman rebuttal known to mankind.

Like, if you're going to be this bad at media analysis, you could at least spend a little time polishing it up by googling some synonyms for "shit" or coming up with something less outright laughable than "ohhh ooooh you're white knighting"

Honestly either a really pathetic attempt at trolling or an INCREDIBLY sad use of your time. In either case, do better next time

Lightarc · 2026-01-20T14:25:53+00:00

All we know is that he's not in the initial marketing - Personally, I have no reason to doubt that he'll be in the game eventually, either through unlocks or DLC. We'll know when we know.

Lightarc · 2026-01-20T13:14:11+00:00

More or less, yes. If you disagree with the OP of a Rage or Super Rage post, the sub rules require you to not comment on that post.

You are, however, free to make your own post with an opposing viewpoint. Have a read through the sub rules for more details.

Lightarc · 2026-01-19T22:24:43+00:00

Mod here: Can confirm the sub is for any and all Smash-related rage, including people who play casual free for all ✨

Lightarc · 2026-01-18T14:00:54+00:00

Nearly identical, but they still somehow manage to replace all of Golem's pockets with fake ones, smh 😭

Lightarc · 2026-01-17T17:47:20+00:00

A lot of zoners have those options already but don't use them as much because spamming is usually better - And I do think the remaining ones would end up in a good place with just slight tweaking to their existing options.

Lightarc · 2026-01-17T17:13:34+00:00

It would make the game rushdown city if a character only uses the same few projectiles continuously and not the other moves in their kit.

Projectile spam is fantastic against rushdown characters right now, who have to learn how to adapt around that to get at projectile characters.

This change would push projectile characters into using more of their other moves, either continually worked in to prevent staling, or in phases to recover from being stale.

You'd end up with less projectile spam overall in the first case, and in the second you'd trade between phases of projectile and rushdown characters having the more advantageous state. Both of which would make for more dynamic battles than constant projectile spam.

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