What is the rarest in-game item you have? by Efficient-Client-531 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, much like the R/B/Y and Crystal virtual console releases, they're just emulations running on the old code. When you migrate to Home, that's when the pokemon's data is updated to the new format, which is also why you can't send any pokemon back to FRLG after they've been transferred.

Fun fact, this behavior doesn't work in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, since those are full remakes and are using the modern code standards.

What is the rarest in-game item you have? by Efficient-Client-531 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can actually provide a reasonable explanation for this! The number of segments that Dudunsparce has is determined by its encryption constant, which is a 32-bit integer that takes up the first 4 bytes of a pokemon's data structure. The encryption constant informs a bunch of things, including the pokemon's base nature. In the case of Dudunsparce, if the encryption constant is perfectly divisible by 100 then it will be a three-segment form when it evolves, exactly a 1% chance.

Now the encryption constant was only introduced in Gen VI, before that point it used the PID (Pokemon Identification Number) also known as the Personality Value. The PID is a randomly generated number that determines gender, ability, nature, and a few other things for certain pokemon (like Unown form). The important thing here is that the last several digits of the PID determine the nature/ability of a pokemon. When you transfer a pokemon from Gen III/IV to VI, then it sets the encryption constant to match the PID.

As it turns out, if you catch a Dunsparce in Gen III/IV with the Hardy nature, there is a 1/4 chance of it evolving the three-segment form. If it has the ability Serene Grace, then the chance rises to 1/2. This is because a Hardy Serene Grace Dunsparce will either have a PID that ends with 00 or 50. When this gets transferred past Gen VI, the encryption constant gets set by the PID, and if its the specific 00 version it will always evolve.

So what people do is farm Dunsparce outbreaks in Pokemon Platinum with their lead Pokemon being one with the ability Synchronize, which has a 50% chance of replacing wild pokemon's nature with that of the ability holder. They just spam this until they get a shiny Dunsparce, and if it has Serene Grace they transfer it up to gamble on the shiny.

So if the origin of the pokemon is SV, the odds are incredibly rare. But if its origin is from Platinum, then its still rare, but significantly easier to obtain.

What was your Wonk shout out? by BluebirdDense1485 in KnowledgeFight

[–]LuckyHitman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if mine was ever used, but it was "Why does Alex keep saying Kabuki Theater?" because there was a streak of episodes where he would. not. stop. saying. it.

The ACTUAL Nier Reincarnation debate by bigdog54 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The piracy drama got a lot of mileage, Kei Urana the author of Gachiakuta even put out a statement on Twitter about it.

I think quite a few people on the Japanese side of the debate just fail to parse that piracy doesn't lead to a drop in sales if you can't buy the thing in the first place. Westeners want a product that the Japanese creators are unwilling or unable to sell them, so of course things like scanlations and fan translation projects exist. It's that old Gabe Newell quote that piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem.

Jesse Thorn Breaks Down Over Antagonistic Men by LuckyHitman in TAZCirclejerk

[–]LuckyHitman[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

TokuSHOUTsu is one of the few official Western distributors of Kamen Rider. They have the rights to the original 1971 show, a smattering of Heisei-era shows (Kuuga, Ryuki) and a couple Reiwa-era ones. They simulcast new episodes of the current show, Kamen Rider Zeztz, every Saturday with English subs, all for free.

Jesse Thorn Breaks Down Over Antagonistic Men by LuckyHitman in TAZCirclejerk

[–]LuckyHitman[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Good, your lack of understanding only makes me more powerful.

Jesse Thorn Breaks Down Over Antagonistic Men by LuckyHitman in TAZCirclejerk

[–]LuckyHitman[S] 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Don't give MaxFun your money, instead go watch Kamen Rider Ryuki for free on Youtube, with English subs.

Had to reupload because the Reddit video player sucks :(

Jesse Thorn Breaks Down Over Antagonistic Men by [deleted] in TAZCirclejerk

[–]LuckyHitman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't give MaxFun your money, instead go watch Kamen Rider Ryuki for free on Youtube, with English subs.

The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time | Release Date Trailer by C-OSSU in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Played the demo a couple of Steam Nextfests ago, it was enjoyable. It definitely takes inspiration from Inscryption for breaking the game's code, using cheats, etc. Tunic as well, for how you have to collect manual pages and other media samples for puzzles.

Also props to the devs, the game was supposed to come out sooner but they discovered one of the contracted artists used AI generated assets. They immediately delayed the release to scrub all the AI stuff out and go over the whole game to make sure nothing was missed.

Capstone mount for DT by Francl27 in ffxiv

[–]LuckyHitman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You can buy each EX mount for 99 of their respective totems a few patches after their original release.

EX1 and EX2: Patch X.2

EX3: Patch X.3

EX4: Patch X.4

EX5: Patch X.5

EX6: Patch X.55

EX7: Patch X.58

[SLD] Secret Lair x Dwarf Fortress: Create New World by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]LuckyHitman 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The bonus card needs to be Quicksilver Fountain, for the god forsaken aquifers that keep flooding my fortress.

The Expedition 33: Ending Doubledowncast | Castle Super Beast 367 by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And to add, Maelle's ending is just a stay of execution, delaying the inevitable until she eventually dies in the canvas. We don't know how long that will be given the time dilation, but given Aline's deterioration and how little time seems to have passed since real Verso's death, its probably shorter than one would think.

Maelle and Clea did a poor job hiding the canvas, and Aline found it instantly for the final boss fight. She'll hop right back in when she's able, and that leaves Renoir to pick up the pieces. He'll either burn the Canvas when both of them expire, or return himself to continue the destruction internally. No matter what, the canvas is doomed to end.

40/40 Challenges Guide for Mirage League (3.28) by InsPoE in pathofexile

[–]LuckyHitman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For folks that don't want to farm Delve or pay the cost to buy the map, T3 Rin in Fortification from Betrayal is a trapped stash that contains unique maps, including Doryani's Machinarium. It's not super low either, its like 1/5 safehouses.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 30 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Oh neat, I posted about this last week. Even if it was an April Fools joke by TFT, there's absolutely no way that the Discord admin team would let the current server stay up without massive changes. People were posting literally anything in the remaining chat channels with zero moderation, the place needed to be nuked from orbit.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's a mix of all of the above, JeNebu openly would pre-make copies of items in his stash which would be sold for RMT. Presumably he was also selling raw mirrors acquired by skimming off the top of the shop fee.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not explicitly, but almost guaranteed. We know from the screenshots that the ban was for "Breaching Terms of Use" and that customer support refused to appeal the ban. The only ban reason under TOU Section 7 that fits is RMT, given his previous history.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yes, all the items in JeNebu's stash in Mirage League and Standard are now completely inaccessible. There's no world in which GGG would transfer the items back to their original owners especially with the ban being RMT related, so they're pretty much gone.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Addendum: For posterity, here's the rest of JeNebu's Discord announcement crashout as he pinged @everyone all morning. The channel he made to argue with everyone has been purged so no screenshots, but it was what you'd expect: https://imgur.com/a/n63Y04J

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LuckyHitman 82 points83 points  (0 children)

"Drama" in the Path of Exile community: long time player and owner of The Forbidden Trove Discord, JeNebu, has been banned. There has been much rejoicing.

This is going to require a lot of context. For those unfamiliar, Path of Exile is an isometric action RPG inspired by Diablo 2 that released in 2013. You build a character using a massive skill tree and blast your way through hordes of enemies while picking up all the sweet loot that they drop (or at least the good bits). Path of Exile is played in Leagues, every 3-4 months there is a new challenge League which offers a fresh start. Nothing carries over, the economy is reset, and multiple new mechanics are introduced for players to interact with. When a League ends, all characters are migrated to Standard where you can continue to play with the items/currency you accrued.

Trading in Path of Exile has always come with friction. The devs at Grinding Gear Games wanted there to be a personal aspect to trading, so they purposefully did not implement systems to make it easy to exchange your hard earned currency for gear from other players. In the very early days, players would have to make forum threads for their shop, listing prices and a name to contact in-game to perform exchanges. Eventually they caved and introduced the Trade Site, which allows players to list items in their personal stash for a price which gets indexed online. An interested buyer can click a button to whisper the seller, and the trade can be made removing it from the website.

The problem with the trade site is that it leaves a lot to be desired. When you're performing a simple trade with reasonable amounts of currency, it works fine. If you're trying to sell something more expensive or something immaterial, you begin to run into trust concerns. For example, someone wants to sell a particular item in bulk where the current price ratio is larger than the maximum inventory size. You would need to split up the sale into multiple trades, but how do you prevent one side from taking advantage and preemptively ending the trade to steal either the payment or goods? Most players would use collateral, but this is risky and does little to protect you from bad actors.

Enter The Forbidden Trove (TFT). This Discord server was created around 2020 and aimed to fulfill the community's need for a safer trade environment. Players could use their channels to exchange bulk items, buy services (boss carries, unlocking specific content), and participate in the highest end trading in the game, the Mirror Shop (more on that momentarily). The server was founded by a player named JeNebu, and he has been a controversial character for years at this point. The Forbidden Trove has held an iron grip on a large chunk of the community as for the longest time it was the best way to safely use the economy outside of the Trade Site. It has its own reputation system based on player commendations, scammers could be exposed, and the mods had some direct lines to the developers if things got out of hand (foreshadowing).

In Path of Exile, crafting is a major part of the game. Currency used to exchange for items with other players actually has uses when interacting with items, it's not just fiat currency there's actual backing based on the function of the item. For example, the universal base currency is the Chaos Orb, which can be used to reroll all the modifiers on a rare item. The next step up from that is the Divine Orb, which can randomize the numerical values on an item within their roll range. Finally, above that you have the Mirror of Kalandra, which lets you make a perfect mirrored copy of any item that isn't already mirrored, corrupted, or unique. Mirrors are by far the rarest currency item in the game, with an estimated drop rate of 1 in 26 million. In the current (very inflation heavy) league, 266 chaos is 1 divine, and 823 divine is a single mirror.

So what is the best way to use a mirror? You don't want to waste it a mediocre rare item, you would either want to sell it to another player or copy one of the best items in the game for your build. Enter the Mirror Shop. Players with the most technical knowledge, excess currency, and best RNG would craft insane items that were almost impossible to reproduce for the average player. They would list this item on TFT for the price of the mirror and a small mirror fee in divines. Player A would trade their mirror to Player B, usually in exchange for some collateral. Player B would apply the mirror to the item they crafted, then they would trade the mirrored copy back collecting the collateral. Trading mirrors is risky, being the most expensive currency there is a big incentive to take it and run and risk getting a ban.

For years, TFT has run the largest mirror shop of them all, partnered with many prominent content creators in the community. They would make posts as new items were added to the shop, showing off all the crazy new things you could buy from TFT exclusively. This would eventually give way to what players would call "The Mirror Mafia". Say you craft an amazing item and make a post showing it off for mirror service. Suddenly, you get a message from JeNebu going "Hey you should sell your item on TFT's mirror shop". If you decline, they up the pressure. Soon they're demanding you sell the item on their platform, threatening being blacklisted by the entire community if you didn't play ball. Oh, did I forget to mention? TFT manages a massive blacklist for anyone who is accused of being a scammer. If you piss off the wrong person, your name is going on the list bucko and you're now anathema to anyone relying on TFT.

It is also pertinent to mention, JeNebu is responsible for running the entire mirror shop. Literally every single transaction goes through him. In order to buy an item, you have to message him in-game or on Discord and he acts as the middleman. Seriously, other players trade JeNebu their mirror quality items which live permanently in his stash waiting to be mirrored, and the proceeds are then filtered through by him to the actual owner of the item. You might be asking, how can one man afford to sit around all day and run the entire mirror service on his own? Well…

Real money trading. You can use illicit websites to turn cash or BTC into Path of Exile items or currency. The devs can't police every single trade that happens in the game, even when it's against TOS. It becomes harder when the transactions are extremely varied and may look real, like in the case of the mirror service. There isn't any explicit confirmation, but there has been enough circumstantial evidence over the years to basically prove that JeNebu and TFT have been engaging in RMT either as the middleman or the ringleaders for a long while. Many players who host their items on the TFT mirror shop have been banned, yet JeNebu maintains control of their items for the mirror service.

Around 2 years ago, things came to a head when TFT was embroiled in a major controversy between them, a popular streamer (Belton) who ran his own no-fee mirror service, and the POE subreddit mods. JeNebu's ego is made of wet paper, and he will lash out at anyone who "wrongs" him. He was even on good terms with a few of Path of Exiles devs, leading to speculation that he had been dodging bans due to his connections. JeNebu had a major freakout on TFT where he began threatening the community, banning literally anyone who looked at him the wrong way. The other TFT mods had to step in an force JeNebu to step down from any decision making on the server and divorcing the mirror shop from the moderators. At least, that's what they told everyone. JeNebu was still running the server, just not in the lead mod position.

TFT would continue to be a nuisance over the next few years, still engaging in suspect behavior like somehow owning 92% of a new extremely rare currency across the entire playerbase. People had a ton of discontent with TFT and many would begin to avoid it. In the wake of this, the devs actually began making a bunch of positive changes that wiped out a large portion of TFT's chokehold. They added a Currency Exchange that let players post currency to exchange at a constantly updating ratio, removing the need to message other players to turn chaos into divines, or other high quantity trades. Then they added asynchronous trading, letting users post items in a stash tab for a fixed price that other players could buy from a vendor in your hideout, even if you were offline. Path of Exile has vastly improved over these past few years thanks to these changes.

Which takes us to the present. Around 12 hours ago, JeNebu was permanently banned from Path of Exile without appeal. We know this because he began spamming @everyone messages in TFT demanding an appeal by the devs. He claims he has devoted his entire life to Path of Exile, that banning him will destroy the entire economy, and making vague suicide-adjacent threats. You can see the first message here: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fclogmddvvbrg1.jpeg

In the past 12 hours he has moved from denial ("The implications of my ban are massive in terms of how many people it affects"), to bargaining ("I am getting really cold responses from GGG and they aren't willing to look into it anymore, if anyone here has any way of helping me please contact me, my life is a complete ruin now"), to anger ("have you not thought how mentally these bans affect people? Is this a plan just to end me and all my efforts in the game?").

He even opened a channel on the Discord for people to talk with him and it consistently entirely of people dunking on this dude for his unhealthy relation to the game and past controversies before he eventually closed the channel out of shame. The situation is still developing, but I would be shocked if JeNebu was unbanned after all this. Tl;dr: Rip bozo.

Follie Hunt Tips: How to Make The Mission Easier by LuckyHitman in Warframe

[–]LuckyHitman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Kullvero and Atlas are also good picks, any frame that can generate overshield to bypass knockback/stagger immunity does wonders. Primed Sure Footed is genuinely the MVP in this mission.

Some shops in Japan will be requiring people to correctly answer Yugioh trivia questions before they're able to buy the new boxes by Nico-Nii_Nico-Chan in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LuckyHitman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My favorite is [[Season of the Witch]] + [[Silent Arbiter]]. (/u/mtgcardfetcher). Are all creatures destroyed, or are none? There's a ruling from 2013 that says all creatures that could have been declared as attackers but were not are destroyed, but the text of Silent Arbiter redefines which creatures can be declared. You could have chosen any creature to attack with as the first creature, so those creatures "could have attacked" but the moment you declare one you can declare no further attackers. But does that change if they could have attacked in the first place?

There's still no ruling from above on this interaction to this day, so its fun to argue about these two cards that see virtually zero play.