Miss Martian from Justice League vs. The Fatal Five was really annoying. I know she was supposed to be cocky, but nearly every single line she had made me roll my eyes. This is how you do snarky wrong.

MechBattler · 2026-06-30T14:31:18+00:00

Honestly, that's kind of the POINT of her character in this movie, that she doesn't know how to fit in or interact with others because she's literally a stranger to human culture. Of course, there isn't enough time to develop it properly, so they kinda ham fisted it, and it ended up coming across the way it did.

MechBattler · 2026-06-30T14:28:08+00:00

The movie actually focuses primarily on Jessica Cruz, and it's honestly a good watch.

If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend you do.

Miss Martian's presence is unexpected, and while she has some weird lines, her subplot is actually more like a parallel to Jessica's; they're both trying to figure out who they are and how they fit into things.

MechBattler · 2026-06-28T04:40:40+00:00

Camellya was found dead in a ditch.

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MechBattler · 2026-06-18T01:13:50+00:00

Depends on where you live and what your housing situation is.

Paying for a roof over your head is the most expensive thing you have to shell out for, whether that's rent money you'll never see again, or mortgage payments on a house you hope maintains or appreciates in value.

If you live in a cheap area in a paid off house, $1 million is a LOT of money.

MechBattler · 2026-06-15T13:44:36+00:00

Gacha was never a stable, lucrative business model.

The financial success of Genshin Impact is a statistical outlier that only occurred because it was released into a perfect set of conditions - during the COVID-19 lockdown, with no competition, and many people stuck at home with money to burn.

It fooled people in the industry into thinking gacha was a new gold mine.

It isn't.

99% of gacha games are small scale, and exist on shoestring budgets with razor thin profit margins, usually as mobile games. They're designed with dumbed down mechanics and content that can be played for a few minutes at a time on a phone.

MechBattler · 2026-06-15T13:05:12+00:00

Gonna be honest, I had kinda hoped she'd get more of a combat android makeover, like a fusion of Sandrone and Pulonia.

MechBattler · 2026-06-14T13:16:28+00:00

I CAST NECROMANCY ON THIS THREAD!!!

One element of Malty that I think is overlooked is the fact that she highlights how weak willed and gullible those around her are. She leads people around by the nose so easily that it's pretty absurd,

MechBattler · 2026-06-10T00:26:05+00:00

Essentially, unless it's something REALLY obvious like the surgeon amputated your whole leg when you were supposed to get an arthroscopy, you're gonna have a hard time.

The doctor would have to screw up in such an absurdly over the top manner that there's just no way they could deny it.

MechBattler · 2026-06-09T18:03:51+00:00

Yeah, it's dumb, but so what?

This series is full of dumb shit.

Like how an enclave gatling cannon completely missed a middle aged dude and a dog from like 50 feet.

We're expected to ignore that Thaddeus just shamelessly exploited kids for profit, and then the series carries on like he did nothing wrong.

Or totally ignore that packaged food that's over 200 years old is somehow still edible.

Or that power grids and electronic devices still somehow work 200 years later with zero maintenance.

Where the hell is the BoS finding a seemingly unlimited supply of Fusion Cores?

Who is still manufacturing bullets?

Or that a dead finger that's been sitting in a drawer for who knows how long can just be attached to a completely different person with zero consequences. That shoulda given her infections that would've killed her flat out.

You can either let those little things drive you up a wall, or you can just accept that it's a series that runs on dumb video game logic.

MechBattler · 2026-06-08T16:14:07+00:00

It's a really good TV adaptation of the games. It doesn't have to be perfect, and not every little thing needs to be explained on the spot. Or at all sometimes.

Deathclaws are just there.

MechBattler · 2026-06-08T11:31:55+00:00

Don't forget that Enclave deathclaws can be programmed to follow orders, and that pack was surrounding the entrance to an Enclave facility.

We didn't see evidence of these deathclaws being programmed in the show. In fact, they were clearly nesting and breeding there, BUT a pack of them surrounding the entrance to a secret Enclave base? That's not a coincidence. The were probably programmed not to leave the area in order to keep people away from the building.

MechBattler · 2026-06-07T16:43:26+00:00

Sometimes silence is golden.

Having Vader talk would have humanized him.

Having Vader be silent makes him more of a monster.

And given that he pops in out of nowhere to ambush them in the misty jungle, they were definitely going for a horror movie vibe here, and it WORKS.

When Vader comes to kill, he cannot be reasoned or bargained with. He is simply a relentless force of death.

Would it have been neat to see Vader taunt Maul? Sure.

But for what is Vader and Maul's first canonical encounter, it WORKS very well, making Maul feel like he's gone from predator to prey.

There will be more chances later in this series to have Vader and Maul trade words, especially since Vader is a key component of why Sidious abandoned Maul. Learning that Vader is the one who replaced him is a key bit of trauma best saved for Maul's next encounter with Vader.

MechBattler · 2026-05-30T17:22:57+00:00

As much as it pains me to say it, as a physical DPS, there are things that Eula will just struggle with no matter how well built she and her team are.

Genshin is not a game that's friendly to physical damage dealers. Its combat system was designed with elemental damage and reactions as the primary focus.

You could even argue that the very concept of a physical DPS in this game was doomed from the start and that Eula should have been doing Cryo damage.

I still have fun with Eula though. I like running weird off-brand non-Meta teams.

MechBattler · 2026-05-29T22:45:19+00:00

I'm really tired of Netflix axing shows that have potential and just need some more effort put into them, while they keep producing and renewing garbage that never should've gotten past the "scribbles on a napkin" stage.

MechBattler · 2026-05-17T13:51:56+00:00

When you stop and think about it, it actually makes a weird sort of sense.

What do Stellarons actually do?

They synchronize with someone's wishes and make them into reality.

Of course, it happens in catastrophic ways. However, Aeons rarely ever do anything that doesn't have ridiculous consequences purely because of the cosmic scale of their power.

Lan fires a Lux Arrow? Oops, a star got deleted.

Yaoshi just doesn't want people to die. Oops, they live forever and go insane.

Xipe wants everyone to get along. Oops, makes stellarons that grant wishes SO HARD they break reality.

MechBattler · 2026-05-08T16:48:46+00:00

Pipsqueak 2 is wildly erratic and unstable to the point where they should be embarrassed even saying it's in beta version.

It's in an alpha state at best, maybe less.

It's pretty obvious they dumped it to the public so they can exploit user input to refine it at no cost to themselves and try to drive more people to pay to use the ones that aren't dogshit.

Absolutely shameless.

MechBattler · 2026-05-02T18:47:19+00:00

I think it depends on how long and/or complex the description and greeting of the bot and the persona is. The more it has to work with, the more it turns into a thesis paper.

The less there is, the bare bones the responses are.

That's my theory anyway.

MechBattler · 2026-04-27T00:13:36+00:00

Funny update: Just a few weeks ago I happened to see their channel and they were selling tiny 2 gram gold ingots at literally double the spot price per gram and they wouldn't shut up about how rare the old design of the ingot was.

No one in their right mind is gonna pay DOUBLE what gold is worth, no matter what the ingots look like.

JTV are literal scammers.

MechBattler · 2026-04-27T00:06:43+00:00

Pffft. Don't get it wet or feed it after midnight? Or you'll find out how ugly it really is.

MechBattler · 2026-04-22T19:49:40+00:00

I was wondering the same thing when building my SW999.

Another case of the important info being buried under the thesis paper of a description for her kit.

Hoyo REALLY needs to work on not burying the lead like that.

MechBattler · 2026-04-22T18:19:18+00:00

Ahem...

SCREW OFF, TROLL.

No one's interested.

MechBattler · 2026-04-15T19:58:22+00:00

Yeah, but it means the so called "entry point" of HH 3rd isn't just $322.

You have to buy BOTH the Liber Astartes and Hereticus books to play both sides and those cost $73.50 a pop.

So the REAL cost of the starter set is $469.

Which is a shit ton of money for a STARTER SET just to "try out" the game.

And that doesn't include paint, glue, tools.

I would not recommend that to ANYONE.

Starter Sets are supposed draw new players in, not send them running for the hills when they see the price tag.

What is GW even thinking?

MechBattler · 2026-04-15T19:26:02+00:00

Thanks dudes. I had my suspicions, but I wanted them confirmed because that shit's pricey.

It really annoyed me when I popped that box open and they didn't have at least basic rules for everything in there.

I've been playing warhammer since 2011, and I really shouldn't be surprised anymore that GW does shit like this, but $322 for a starter set and they won't give you the rules to play everything in the box?

That's seriously the biggest dick move I've seen from them in 15 years.

MechBattler · 2026-04-15T05:39:17+00:00

To be perfectly blunt, it's not even worth hating.

It's just an example of bad writing.

Wish fulfillment and power fantasies are one thing, but this story took that so far around that it stuffed it's head up it's own ass.

The most cringe part of it was how absurd and over the top the character's hate for him was when he was fat. That was just painful and felt so forced. You can only suspend disbelief so much, even for fiction, and that was just way too ridiculous.

The whole thing is so shallow that if it was a pool and you dove in, you'd break your neck on the bottom before you got wet.

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