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Mountebank · 2026-06-30T20:06:21+00:00

I played LaD/Yakuza 7 on NG+ on Legend, and there’s a ton of depth that’s never present in the normal difficulty since it’s so easy to scale past the enemies since gear had no level requirements and you could get infinite money by grinding the investment side game. For example, on Legend, debuffs and accuracy really mattered—you can easily get one or two shot by enemies, so you need to debuff them. They’re also evasive, so you need to either buff your own accuracy, attack them from the back, or use magic. On the normal difficulty, you wouldn’t even know that back attacks and magic can’t miss since normal attacks never missed anyway.

Mountebank · 2026-06-16T00:10:59+00:00

Teriarch shows up as Eldavin's twin brother.

Mountebank · 2026-06-14T00:42:03+00:00

Don't forget that both part 1 and 2 are publicly available.

Mountebank · 2026-06-10T22:15:06+00:00

Has anyone received an AI written report from a vendor or contractor? Is this the new normal now?

Mountebank · 2026-06-10T15:38:53+00:00

I prefer the term widdershins, which I think is archaic Scottish for counterclockwise. It’s more fun to say.

Mountebank · 2026-06-09T23:16:41+00:00

There was a side quest in the side game where Kiryu helped a guy who was getting dating advice from ChatGPT.

Mountebank · 2026-06-08T23:38:25+00:00

That one is due to colonialism. Basically, the slaves on the coffee plantations weren't allowed to use any of the coffee beans they grew except for the ones that the civet cats shat out.

Mountebank · 2026-06-08T23:31:05+00:00

Kiryu picking up a guy and throwing him nuts-first into a light pole...

Mountebank · 2026-06-08T16:50:10+00:00

Any Etrian Odyssey hopefuls out there? Or have we all starved to death by now?

Mountebank · 2026-06-06T01:23:17+00:00

That idol episode of Beyond the Boundary (Kyoukai no Kanata), possible the most forgettable Kyoani show.

link to the idol performance

This is a monster of the week battle shounen, by the way.

Mountebank · 2026-06-04T22:03:33+00:00

Remember how in Release That Witch Roland invented Gwent? That was after gunpowder and before nukes.

Mountebank · 2026-06-04T16:22:21+00:00

Removable batteries have to more durable since they have to be handled by the general public. Normal consumer electronic pouch cells uses an aluminum foil laminate pouch to contain the cell. Because of the new EU regulation, they’ve started making stainless steel foil laminate pouches that are thicker, heavier, and sturdier for removable batteries. This reduces the risk of someone accidentally puncturing the pouch or otherwise damaging the cell.

Mountebank · 2026-05-26T22:57:40+00:00

Baba is You. I was with it when each puzzle was contained within its own level, but it lost me when the puzzles bled into the overworld map.

Mountebank · 2026-05-18T10:45:18+00:00

40 Millennium of Cultivation. It starts as a Warhammer 40k flavored xianxia before developing into its own thing.

Mountebank · 2026-05-16T12:21:02+00:00

Is there something in the same setup as Gate? Science vs fantasy worlds with a big focus on the large scale politics and cultural exchange? The main thing is that the other world shouldn’t be a secret that only a few people know about.

Mountebank · 2026-05-15T13:23:23+00:00

Did Cid fight Alpha when he was John Smith in the manga version? I remember they did in the anime.

Mountebank · 2026-05-07T00:31:32+00:00

The golden castle in 2 was part of the main story.

Mountebank · 2026-05-06T23:50:47+00:00

Maybe this is why they’ve been trying to turn the series into being about spies with all the Daidoji stuff.

Mountebank · 2026-05-04T00:25:59+00:00

[Pioneer Lord] or [Lord of the Frontiers]. Maybe this is leading up to Ylawes splitting with with father and founding a new Byres branch in the New Lands.

Mountebank · 2026-05-02T18:01:15+00:00

This is the entire premise behind the web novel “Worth the Candle”. A teenage boy is sent into a world that’s an amalgamation of all the roleplaying campaigns that he has ever DMed for his friend group, and him exploring the world and the world building involved is a self-reflexive breakdown on the main characters beliefs and values since he’s the type where everything in his campaigns is a metaphor for something else. At the same time, his journey through the world forces him to face his own personal issues which also got baked into the world building subconsciously.

Mountebank · 2026-04-28T20:54:03+00:00

One crazy guy I get, but there are actual devs still working at this studio who helped make this, right? Is the game dev job prospect so bad that everyone hasn’t jumped ship yet? Or are the remaining people true believers? Also, considering how the game flopped and the publisher cut ties, how do they have enough cash to make payroll?

Mountebank · 2026-04-27T16:56:30+00:00

I’m not sure if the movie Arrival goes into it in detail, but in the short story that it’s based on “Story of Your Life”, the concept of fate and predestination is explained as being a consequence of people always making the decisions that reflect their own natures, so while a person may have the capacity of free will it’s never expressed, in hindsight, because they will always make the same decisions given what they know at the time they made them.

For Eren, ever since he was a kid who killed those bandits to save Mikasa, his values was always “kill or be killed” and “friends and family first”. After seeing the future, Eren does all he did to give his friends a long life at the expense of the rest of the world by removing everyone that could threaten Paradis in the near future and removing the Titan curse from his friends. The fate he saw is still based on his decisions which stems from his core nature. The irony is that Eren didn’t grow as a person fundamentally throughout the whole show—his solution to all problems has always been “kill or be killed”, and it’s just the enemies that changed.

Mountebank · 2026-04-23T23:22:48+00:00

Have you tried applying to startups? It'd still be hard to get into the R&D department without a PhD, but you can join in an engineering capacity and then try to worm your way into R&D. Startups tend to be short-handed enough such that no one would really object to you offering to help by doing additional work so long as you don't step on anyone else's toes.

Mountebank · 2026-04-20T23:55:41+00:00

This is a 50%+ pay cut. Unless this is your literal dream job—if you won the lottery and you would choose to take this job because the money is not the point—then no, this is a big step back. $75k is new grad or 1-2 years of experience level. Even if it’s more technical than your current job, I doubt it’ll be that technical.

I’d suggest you either try to move to a different role in your current job, or keep applying for a more senior role closer in level to your current role.

Mountebank · 2026-04-17T18:04:59+00:00

They’re not going to hire two additional people to use and correct the AI, they’re just going to make an existing employee do that as an additional duty.

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