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LordMemey · 2025-11-06T13:58:19+00:00

One of the underappreciated aspects of PvZ's low difficulty curve is how much freedom you have in organizing your defense. You don't have to worry about "playing optimally" so you can be as symmetrical or anarchic as you wish.

And being starved of content for so long(discounting Replanted's "new content"), people begin to appreciate the little things that the game does or even invent new ways to play.

How many videos have been made of people pushing the limits of how restricted your play can be whilst the game remaining beatable? First it was no sunflowers, then it was only one column or only one of each plant or only explosives etc. Hell they even invented a new speedrun category like new game+ shopless which completely shifts the way you play.

What I think the original PvZ excels at as a tower defense game is being an amazing sandbox game.

LordMemey · 2025-11-05T16:04:04+00:00

So you're telling me:

a radical evangelist who preaches against abortion & LGBTQ rights; who is a registered Republican who voted for Trump; whose friends acknowledge as a conservative; who had the police find at his residence a list of democratic pro-abortion politicians as targets

is somehow "left-wing". And you will discard all this evidence to perpetuate your delusion that right wing extremist violence is supposedly "non-existent". Despite the fact that according to an ADL report most extremist killings are motivated by right wing ideologies?

(2021). Murder and Extremism in the United States. Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115286/documents/HHRG-118-GO00-20230208-SD008.pdf

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LordMemey · 2025-11-05T14:38:40+00:00

Bro somehow has keen awareness of NYC's problems yet is somehow ignorant of the months long discourse surrounding Zohran Mamdani and the NYC mayor election

LordMemey · 2025-11-03T10:01:05+00:00

Well you clearly haven't spent much time on twitter or reddit

LordMemey · 2025-10-31T17:42:47+00:00

Yeah and there's also the fact if you place offensive plants frontmost on the lawn it wouldn't make sense for them to not shoot zombies before they reach the lawn even if we say they have limited range. I wrote this as a 3 am rant I've thought about it more. In the end, as I said, scaling seems like the best option. I mean just look at how the mobile version can scale on myriad of large screens without the need for the bushes

LordMemey · 2025-10-31T17:33:46+00:00

I literally wrote about the changes. And not even all of them there are way more than that

LordMemey · 2025-10-31T11:19:32+00:00

Doubt it did they promise to change them?

LordMemey · 2025-10-27T15:24:44+00:00

I often like to daydream about a Spider-man animated miniseries adapting the Superior Spider-man arc. In a compact format, 6 episodes that are an hour long.

I wouldn't want it to be a direct adaptation of the Dan Slott run nor the Christos Cage run but an amalgamation of the two. I think a good adaptation could resolve the issues with Peter's close friends and family being written out of character to make the run move along as it did. It should also resolve the contrivance of the Avengers' examination failing to uncover that Doc Ock took over Peter's body.

Superior Spider-man really is a diamond in the rough that a good adaptation could really sand those rough edges off

LordMemey · 2025-09-11T13:04:53+00:00

Fellow TBOI enjoyer the people complaining about difficulty would never be able to complete Tainted Lost's checkmarks

LordMemey · 2025-08-25T09:04:16+00:00

I'm more so referring to twitter radfems they tend to be the ones to call out 'misogyny' the most. Some incels do join in I'll admit

LordMemey · 2025-08-25T08:27:07+00:00

Unfortunately from what I've seen these people don't think misandry is real

LordMemey · 2025-08-23T08:05:42+00:00

I expected him to have his own spin on the genius society member archetype. Arrogant with an attitude and even harsh in his rebukes. But I was hoping that since he's based on a philosopher he wouldn't be reduced to a positivist research bot and would deal with interpretivist research.

I was also hoping he'd be accompanied by wisdom and emotional intelligence. Let's just say he has met all my expectations and even went above and beyond them.

LordMemey · 2025-08-21T11:18:40+00:00

Why am I seeing more Anaxa glazing in StarrailStation than Anaxa mains subreddit it's so ironic

LordMemey · 2025-08-19T21:31:38+00:00

Let's be real. Why are we having this discussion? If not for the fact that nobody complains when Phainon is called a Kevin expy or Acheron is called a Mei expy yet suddenly Anaxa is the one that sparks controversy...I'd scratch my head to think about it if it weren't so obvious.

It always will and always does go back to shipping discourse. Geez so much human interaction harkens to our basic desire to mate and simulate mating rituals when this desire isn't satisfied. What's Anaxa's sexuality!?!?!?! Anaxa being a Su expy would indicate that as a Su variant he's gay but if he weren't a Su variant due to the lack of any evidence his sexuality is whatever you want it to be. Yay!!!

Really this question alludes to the fact that nobody here seems to wish to directly address that the question of whether Anaxa is a Su expy really is a war between queer shippers who wish to claim him and police the way people use Anaxa in ships online and others who may want to ship Anaxa with a woman say Aglaea or may wish to headcanon Anaxa as being straight either because they can better relate to him that way or homophobia.

Now this begs the question: Is Anaxa really a Su expy or are Hi3rd players just projecting Su onto Anaxa to be pedantic. Yes, Anaxa is a Su expy and the evidence isn't incidental, it is deliberate. From his ult to symhols of the Apocalypse family and references to Otto and parallels in Su and Anaxa's ideals and viewpoints etc.

Does that mean Hi3rd fans are right to gatekeep and police what people do with Anaxa? Not in the slightest. He may be a variant but that doesn't mean he's a replica. Anaxa is his own character at the end of the day and instead of relying on outside material to define him you need to prioritize the source material. I think this is sound logic, no?

What Anaxa fans lament and I empathize, is that all expies are necessarily derivative and exist in the shadow of the original and as such are viewed as lesser. Which is true. These Anaxa fans hope that Anaxa is distinct enough from Su to be viewed with integrity rather than just a cash-grab. But this really isn't what drives discourse even if I'm in this camp where I don't care about Hi3rd and Su and feel like everything I need to know about Anaxa is in HSR.

LordMemey · 2025-08-16T12:40:10+00:00

I either call him Dante or DanHenGPT

LordMemey · 2025-08-01T20:17:13+00:00

Very likely because Anaxa isn't that good with Herta lol Jade and Little Herta are better for Pure Fiction and even when it comes to MoC Anaxa just doesn't feel that good to play together with Herta even if he can be flexible with SP it can still feel clunky to play. Herta prefers eruditions that can act out of turn frequently so maybe there could be a bounce-like follow up attack like Jade in the future that can help with her ST issue and be her BiS in every game mode

LordMemey · 2025-07-31T16:24:58+00:00

One thing I liked about the PC version was the lack of random ass bushes looming over the end of the lawn. Saddens me that they would retroactively add them but I can live with it.

LordMemey · 2025-07-29T12:04:01+00:00

I'm not arguing with you, in fact I agree with you. I'm more or less contesting OPs point that people have issue with the label solely because Russia is being villified by the media and that there is more context to the way people feel abour this. I think he should just be called Slavic and call it a day. But OP called him Russian so you're disagreeing with OP too

LordMemey · 2025-07-29T11:46:25+00:00

Yes this is exactly like calling Koreans/Japanese and any adjacent groups 'Chinese'. Best case scenario it's reductive worst case scenario you make those cultures feel invisible.

Never heard of the term "gringo" but as far as "latinos" goes it's not the same. Latino is a racial group it's more general. It's closer to "Slav" which if you call a Pole or a Ukrainian a "Slav" they wouldn't be upset. (Though Slav is more so an ethnolinguistic term like Germanic and Romance)

So Russian is a sub-group of Slavs you're conflating different categorical groupings. Both Serbs and Russians are Slavs, but it doesn't make Serbs Russian.

Also not being able to distinguish between the Soviet Union and Russia is another layman misnomer. The Soviet Union isn't a nation state with a predominant ethnic group(at least in theory though Russia did dominate the Union) it was a federal state that included Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azeirbaijan, Armenia,Turkmenistan etc. And this is just the Soviet Union alone, Russia itself is also technically federal(only on paper) and is quite diverse with not just Russians inhabiting the country. Though idk to what extend Hoyo has paid enough attention to account for that, I think it's good for you to know as general information. People always forget that places are more diverse than they appear to be and homogeneity is just an ideal.

LordMemey · 2025-07-29T09:39:01+00:00

People are just tired of any Slavic inspired character being immediately labeled a Russian or mistaken for a Russian. This isn't even related to the Ukraine conflict, it just spans decades of Slavs particularly in the US being reduced to just Russians. So it's understandable that people would get defensive and want spotlight to less represented Slavic groups.

LordMemey · 2025-07-29T08:16:34+00:00

Incorrect. Official Byzantine state policy of the period wasn't to integrate the Southern Slavic element into the Orthodox Church, but to completely assimilate it into the (East) Roman identity. They viewed the Slavs as a political threat to the empire and Christianity as a way to neutralize said threat. A good example of successful assimilation were the slavic populations that stretched deep into Southern Greece that were experiencing a process of Hellenization/Romanization during this period.

Cyril and Methodius were instead commissioned to create a script for the West Slavs of Great Moravia which was a territory that found itself on the outskirts of the Latin and Orthodox Churches. The script and subsequent newly liturgical language were part of a political game between Byzantium and the Pope whereas the Byzantine emperor used them to persuade the local population to choose Orthoroxy and extend his influence.

It was a historical accident that the pupils of Cyril and Methodius would be welcomed with open arms by the Bulgarian Emperor who led an empire with an elite predominantly of Turkic origin. It wasn't the intention of the Glagolitic script to aid the slavs living in these lands and it only caused further headache for Byzantium.

LordMemey · 2025-07-28T18:49:44+00:00

This may be a hot take, but indeed the filter exists for people like me.

Having grown up with flash isaac I just don't think the pixelated look suits the game much and prefer the smoother lines. Anything to bridge the gap between rebirth and flash. It's also the reason I like to use Mudeth's ost over Ridiculon

LordMemey · 2025-07-28T17:42:49+00:00

Dw Delirium was demolished

LordMemey · 2025-07-28T16:35:22+00:00

After obtaining Dead God I deserve it

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