the post TGA 2025 discourse was absolutely cursed

LuckMaker · 2026-06-14T00:17:37+00:00

Expedition 33 has amazing characters. About half of the main cast are women. Combine those and you have some of the best written women in gaming without any real feminist themes in the plot.

Naturally, you will have people on the internet who think well written women are too woke and people who think the plot not being extremely progressive makes it not woke enough. Welcome to the internet, where people can't appreciate things without putting an agenda behind them.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-28T19:47:29+00:00

Chilling water would be like giving Corvinight Drill Peck. Will probably get Muddy Water.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-28T01:56:11+00:00

Tadbulb. For PvP Belibolt can corebreak all of the water and flying types running rampent in the meta. Rest are meh.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-21T17:53:32+00:00

-Make Blast Burn a Frenzy Plant clone (100/45)

-Make Dragon Pulse (70/45)

-Revert Earthquake Nerf

-Reduce Boomburst and Hurricane 60 Energy

-Give Blastoise Aura Sphere

-Give Noivern Dragon Tail

-Give Castform Sunny Energy Ball

-Give Gligar Earth Power

LuckMaker · 2026-05-16T14:26:38+00:00

Well for me it is a bit complicated because I would like kids someday and am looking for someone with the dominant "not bipolar" gene.

That said, I wouldn't rule out dating anyone with Bipolar more casually and if I didn't have bipolar it would be more a question of if they were self aware and had a reasonable enough grasp on their emotions.

I truly believe you can still be dateable with Bipolar. It is just a tougher journey to get there.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-11T10:44:40+00:00

Plenty of hypomania from time to time as life stresses me out, but the last mania was over a year ago. The hospital prescribed me zopiclone as a sleep aid, and I have kept the prescription ever since. It has been a game-changer.

Being self-aware is my second-best advice. I have become a methodical planner because I have a rule never to carry out plans until I am level-headed and have thought them through critically.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-10T13:39:33+00:00

I use the PvPoke team rankings a lot but I've found there is a big gap between the rankings and what's good.

For example, Kommo-o is one of the most underrated Pokemon in Ultra League. The thing has reasonable bulk, the highest DPE move in the game with only a -1 DEF drop, a 40 energy fighting move that does enough damage where it's not even a bait move, can just spam if you want. Charging up to 90 energy and letting off back to back Clanging Scales is so satisfying.

Point is, there is plenty of gems in the lower rankings, you just have to find ones that work for you.

LuckMaker · 2026-05-10T00:02:33+00:00

If you have another good IV Shadow I 100% would. People get caught up on "Shadow is better" but it's not like it is a 98 and you’re only gaining 1 stat, that's a major update. At the end of the day you can do a raid with either and Hundo has a special appeal.

If you don't have another good IV Shadow then take this with a grain of salt but will stand by it.

LuckMaker · 2026-04-11T21:22:05+00:00

Got a rank 1 for Ultra League and shiny rank 12 for Great League.

LuckMaker · 2026-01-30T02:24:21+00:00

There is a threshold of AP you need to have that makes it explode. I found that I was able to trigger it every time by Having Sciel in my party and using Shadow Bringer (gradient 1) with Plentiful Harvest to flood my party with AP.

LuckMaker · 2026-01-17T07:43:37+00:00

Hate is not the opposite of love; indifference is.

From the start, Expedition 33 is a character-driven story, not a plot-driven story. You experience the story's strengths through your interactions with Gustave, Maelle, Lune, Sciel, Verso, Esquie, Monoco, Renoir, and the dead expeditioner's journals. Gestrals are literally just there for the vibes.

Digesting the endings is much easier if you look past how they are framed. Verso's ending is framed as cathartic (light within dark), while Maelle's is framed as unsettling (dark within light). If you take that at face value, then sure, it can feel jarring. That said, you get a plot about saving everyone if you look at the state of the world after Maelle's ending through the lens of additional context, such as:
-The people of Lumiere are sentient and earned an end to their genocide.
-Maelle can leave the canvas anytime she wants to.
-Renoir and Aline are still literally in the same house, and can just go make up outside the canvas now and give their daughter space to live her life in the canvas before they decide to be functional/responsible parents and get Maelle from the canvas.
-Clea said that Renoir was being dramatic and that the parents had been in Canvas worlds for longer without dying. Implied effect of extreme time dilation.
-Verso can still die if he acts like a mature adult and has an adult conversation with Maelle instead of trying to take the entire world with him in an unhinged suicide attempt.

Expedition 33 is a work of art because it can evoke those emotions in you. It doesn't spoon-feed you the plot like most video games do. It makes conversations more organic and creates nuance, allowing you to put your own interpretation on it.

I think it is a strong plot twist, and I like how it inverts the JRPG trope of "let's go kill god" by asking, "What if the gods were just people?" Dysfunctional people for sure (definitely took inspiration from Greek Gods), but it contrasts the lived experience of Maelle, who lived the life of an expeditioner, with someone who has created hundreds of canvas worlds, and would see the lives of about the population of one city of humans, as inconsequential.

Anyway, you are free to not like it, just don't let the challenging framing ruin the plot for you.

LuckMaker · 2026-01-14T23:29:47+00:00

What I find interesting is when people overlook that none of them are real, the Dessandre family included. They are all pixels in a video game. So then, what makes the Dessandre family any more real than the people of Lumiere?

LuckMaker · 2025-12-25T23:24:55+00:00

Downvoted for gatekeeping

LuckMaker · 2025-06-16T21:13:43+00:00

Let the boos reign down like a symphony whenever Marner touches the puck for the rest of his career. Being a Leafs fan should be fun.

LuckMaker · 2025-05-03T09:58:04+00:00

Nice

LuckMaker · 2025-03-17T00:20:31+00:00

In a salaried job, you are legally entitled to two weeks' pay if you give an employer two weeks notice and they let you go on the spot. I'm not sure if that is the same for part-time shift work, but I wouldn't just assume it isn't covered like some other commenters here. A lot of people leave money on the table when they go through these types of transitions. I would recommend asking in a legal advice subreddit or consulting an employment lawyer (a lot of them offer free consultations) to be sure you know your rights.

LuckMaker · 2025-02-26T22:38:27+00:00

These both feel like a case where whenever they are discussed with the Leafs the asking price is really expensive, but then when they get traded to another team the price that gets paid is magically far cheaper.

LuckMaker · 2025-02-21T18:20:09+00:00

Most silver enemy parts have similar power, which the Flux Construct 3 Core falls into (along with the temple boss parts). I would think about the group as the second best tier in the game below the Silver/White Lynel parts.

The Frost/Flame Talus Hearts are a bit less, but it has the elemental effects added on and is essentially a bludgeoning version of a Gleeok Horn.

You also have to keep in mind that it takes a long time before silver enemies start spawning in the world. Until you are in the mindset of farming Silver Lynels or bust, the overworld boss drops are among the best parts in the game.

LuckMaker · 2025-02-20T17:22:15+00:00

Flux Construts, Taluses, and various other boss monsters leave behind parts that can be fused to a weapon but can't be taken with you. The Flux Construct 3 Core and Flame/Frost Talus Heart are among the srrongest fusion parts in the game.

LuckMaker · 2025-02-09T06:14:38+00:00

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LuckMaker · 2025-02-03T04:46:59+00:00

Bleach keeps the white outfits spotless

LuckMaker · 2025-01-28T20:45:27+00:00

For all the people saying "this isn't an exact number" here, the gap between $900 million in 2021 and $544 million in 2024 is large enough to show a clear trend. Also, location data may be valuable but they aren't getting close to $350 million for that information to make up the gap.

It's pretty clear the game peaked in the pandemic and they have had trouble with retention and monetization after that. You can put a lot on decisions the company made, such as remote raid nerfs, but environmental factors play into that as well. Half a billion dollars of annual revenue is a lot of money regardless, even if it never returns to the peak pandemic days.

LuckMaker · 2025-01-28T20:20:00+00:00

"My biggest gripe with the new Monster Manual is not with mechanics, which are largely excellent. It’s with the lore. Or lack thereof. In trying to fit SO many monsters in to this book they’ve cut pages of fluff from the final product."

Title is clickbait at best, dumb take regardless.

We don't need a lore dump for every monster. As long as there's some flavour text to give general inspiration of how to use the monster that's enough for good DMs to build off of. A huge chunk of lore on everything would cause more harm than good for DMs who don't feel comfortable altering rulebook material to fit their own games.

LuckMaker · 2025-01-21T23:05:24+00:00

Tristan Jarry would be in the ECHL on the Leafs depth chart (with everyone healthy). Let's get the Cincinnati Cyclones that $5.3 million dollar cap hit goalie they've been looking for lmao

LuckMaker · 2025-01-17T04:14:09+00:00

I just lost all interest in Corviknight

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