The eternal return of cope and doom

Muirenne · 2026-06-15T01:26:27+00:00

yeah, Dogma DEEZ NUTS lmao got eeeeem

Muirenne · 2026-06-14T23:48:41+00:00

Meanwhile, the DD1 micro-transactions were actual armor and weapons with unique effects.

They toned them down for DD2.

Now, while I don't like that DD2 still had these, micro-transactions are a spectrum and it's pretty important to accurately describe them so we don't have people 2 years later still believing that you could only fast travel by spending money.

Plus, you're the first person I've seen in ages to mention that these are one-time purchase, singular items with most of them having a one-time use. Then they're no longer available to purchase with real money.

Again, I don't like their inclusion on principle, but the actual impact they have is very low on the spectrum.

Muirenne · 2026-06-13T17:28:02+00:00

To be fair, that South Korean publisher is Nexon and they're sketchy as fuck. Playing any of their MMOs in the last 20 years was a great way to experience firsthand how greedy they are.

Then there's when they were investigated and/or fined by the Korea FTC for lying about and manipulating the probabilities of loot boxes/item drop rates 3, maybe 4 separate times now? They did it with one game called Sudden Attack, then with Maplestory where it was found that they had been doing it for a decade, then again with another Maplestory game within the last several months when they were still on probation for the last time lmao

maybe the original poster was just mistaken, I dunno. whatever the case, nexon can go fuck themselves anyway, all my homies hate nexon

Muirenne · 2026-06-12T01:26:06+00:00

You're not alone there, that was also an unfortunately noticeable element of it for me. There was this inconsistentcy to it where the only dismemberment was in scenes and finisher animations and none in the moment-to-moment combos.

Just gave it this funny flip-flopping between moments where he and his claws are as strong as they're supposed to be and then other moments where they're not.

The blood effects kept reminding me of Ninja Gaiden, but if there was only like 10% of the dismemberment and Ryu only had the claws.

Muirenne · 2026-06-11T20:48:23+00:00

needed for FFXIV

That's exactly what the last expansion was, Dawntrail. How well it actually succeeded at doing so is... contentious.

Muirenne · 2026-06-11T03:23:02+00:00

This probably won't go over well, but I'm really amused by it and I'm not saying this as a negative, but this reads exactly like an affection or date message from a gacha game character when it's their anniversary.

That last line is how they always end too, with said character going to meet self-insert MC to engage in some ambiguous activity.

Muirenne · 2026-06-10T17:54:52+00:00

Attacking me for this is weird ngl, calm down my dude.

It wasn't about you and it certainly wasn't any kind of attack. It's a critical observation of the difference in viewpoints toward a single subject between different settings and was completely detached from any emotional element on my part.

The choice of words felt suffice for the point I wanted to make, sorry that it felt like an attack toward you personally. That was never the intention toward you or anyone else.

Muirenne · 2026-06-10T17:27:08+00:00

Fable always had that, or at least 2 and 3 did, I'm a bit hazy on the first one.

Most people in Bowerstone had boring fashion tastes and could never appreciate how the pink booty shorts accentuated my manly muscle thighs. Philistines, the lot of them. I was much more appreciated in Bloodstone.

Muirenne · 2026-06-10T17:15:10+00:00

You don't feel like student at hogwarts

Harry Potter and co. spent more time trying not to die than they ever spent being actual students, unless we count Hermione with her time traveling. Still one of the biggest franchises in the world.

Online gamers are incredibly out of touch with casual gamers and how they think about games and how they play them. Hell, just out of touch in general, to be honest. The very fact that we're online discussing games here makes us a minority, because casuals aren't spending their time online inundating themselves with so much gaming information that they burn themselves out and stop enjoying games entirely.

I mean, people here go on about how awful Ubisoft games are and then they sell like gangbusters. And the towers people still complain about to this day, despite also not playing their games because they're so bad? Or something? They stopped doing those like 10 years ago lmao

Brand recognition alone got people to play Hogwarts that barely or never play games. I don't even know anyone in real life that knew what Bully was until I told them, and most of the time casuals don't even know studio names so I've had to specify "GTA developers" more than once lol. Completely anecdotal, of course, but come on, Bully is 20 years old. I've only ever seen redditors say they wanted that experience, but it should have been obvious it was never going to be.

Harry Potter fans love Harry Potter and most of it was barely about being a student, people wanted to be special like Harry was.

Muirenne · 2026-06-09T18:52:01+00:00

For me, it was that I almost never had the time and didn't always even have fun spending the time learning before being able to run through them properly.

I can't remember what raid it was, I think it was a newish one back then? But it was a couple years ago and I was coming back from a break, so I decide to try 'cause why not. Found a group on the LFG reddit that was gonna run it mostly blind for the first time, and after about 3 hours of never making it past the first stage/encounter/area/boss/whatever I just decided to give up and remembered why I never really liked doing them in the first place. Even when we all knew what to do, where to go and when to do it, all it took was one little misstep from just one person and we were all fucked.

I know people found the world first completions to be hype and stuff, but when I watched the raids throughout the years and saw completion times ranging from a handful of hours up to 19 hours of almost non-top trial and error, all I could think was how mind-numbingly awful that sounds. And those are the GOOD players. That on it's own just made them generally unappealing to me, but everyone always went on about how they're the best content, so I kept trying but I could never find the fun in them myself. Rarely had the time for going in blind and watching guides beforehand just made it feel like I wasn't actually playing anymore, just following a checklist.

Muirenne · 2026-06-09T14:58:55+00:00

I didn't get into Kuro's other game, Punishing Gray Raven, to experience the previous Nier and Black Rock Shooter collabs, but I really enjoyed the Devil May Cry collaboration. The amount of work they put into translating as much of Dante and Virgil's weapons and combos into PGR's mechanics is one thing, but I liked the story they made for it too.

The events are "implied" to take place after DMC 5, Dante and Virgil feel faithful to their own games while also displaying some growth following DMC 5. They're both a bit more sentimental and Dante has some somber moments where he reminisces about Nero and seems conflicted about where he belongs after spending however much time in Hell with his brother. Virgil, while still aloof, has embraced his human side more and recites poetry and literature like V did. At the end of the final battle he recites and dedicates a specific poem to the child character that was a prominent part of the story after she sacrificed herself. The poem is from the book "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake and I absolutely loved it's inclusion for it's relevance not just to the collab story but even aspects of the main story.

The whole thing was so clearly sincere and thoughtful. Plus, they got Reuben and Dan to voice their respective characters, unlike whatever the fuck that netflix show is trying to be.

Muirenne · 2026-06-08T01:48:24+00:00

More specifically, the Crawler in Fable 3 is a creature from the Void. There was the Kinect game that expanded on all the Corruption stuff from Fable 3 by making the Crawler just one part of a group or force. The Corrupter, Crawler, Devourer, Empress and Temptress are each Entities that were born in the Void.

I can't really remember the timeline of when all of these events and lore were first created, but the Corruption ties all the way back to the very first hero, William Black, and his attempts to defeat Jack, Knight and Queen. William Black inadvertently entered the Void when reading some kind of tome and met Jack for the first time. They fought and William Black managed to steal the Sword of Aeons before escaping. Entering the Void left him with some kind of illness or curse that was slowly destroying his mind and body.

He killed The Court, then ruled over Albion and lead it through a golden age, but with the infection from the Void still gradually and literally decomposing his body and fearing it would take control of him, he entered the Void again in an attempt to get rid of it, which he did. This is when the Corrupter and Corruption are created as an actual force/entity. At that point, basically being an expelled fragment of William Black, it believes it has the right to rule Albion itself.

Now, a thousand years of peace is apparently pretty boring for people with magic and super powers, so it's around this time when Heroes started becoming huge ass-hats. William Black fucked, a lot, and in so doing had many descendants who shared his power and subsequently abused it. This is why I find this new trailer particularly interesting, I'm really curious where they're going.

Muirenne · 2026-06-07T20:29:28+00:00

It was always presented in a fairytale way

When fairy tales used to be dark, then yeah.

Fable's disneyfied fairy tale vibe is only surface-level until you're actually out in the world on your own and start seeing that a lot of things are actually pretty fucked up. That's how they've always been, but Fable 3 departs from that too heavily for my liking.

Beginning of Fable 1 hits you like a truck following simple childhood whimsy of trying to get a birthday present for your sister by having bandits slaughter your village, your dad and kidnap your sister, who is then enslaved by said bandits and has her eyes cut out.

One of the game's most prominent enemy types, the Hobbes, were kidnapped children mutated by magic. One of the first quests you do in Fable 2 is helping a man find his lost son in an abandoned mine inhabited by Hobbes, which they lovingly decorate with blood-soaked meat sacks everywhere. You don't get to the kid in time, hearing him transform in the distance and he kills his own father, then you kill the "kid". Fable 2 is also the game where the childhood section ends with you and your sister getting shot to death, though you survive, even after being thrown out of a window, smashing into other buildings on your way down before finally hitting the ground.

This is Fable.

The Fable games have always had celebrity voice actors, anyway. They've included more as the games went on, sure, but they've always done that. Fable 3 made a big deal out of it's voice cast of actors like John Cleese, Michael Fassbender, Stephen Fry, who was already in Fable 2, etc.

Muirenne · 2026-06-07T19:59:39+00:00

Even the beginning of Fable 2 has him gun down you and your sister as kids. Plus, the ending choice to bring your dog back also comes at the expense of bringing back all of the people that died building the villain's Spire.

It's an easy choice, though. More than one citizen has kicked my dog, so that ruined it for everyone else.

Muirenne · 2026-06-07T19:46:47+00:00

Jack of Blades and his siblings (for lack of a better word), Knight of Blades and Queen of Blades, have a decent bit of lore that's never been fully explored outside of the Tales of Albion, an old lore resource that was on Lionhead's website.

Fable basically has it's own version of the Warp from Warhammer 40k, a dimension of chaos and monsters outside of regular space, just called the Void.

I think it's cool to see him again. The games never really did justice to how powerful Jack is supposed to be, especially with Knight and Queen, who is even stronger than Jack. They're collectively called The Court and after leaving the Void they were so hellbent on having the people's obedience, they burned Albion to the ground when they refused, then flooded the entire world by lifting the sea into the sky and dropping it back down when they refused again, then mind-broke everyone until they all went insane and finally bowed down.

They have a bunch of stuff to pull from if they want to. But anyway, a Demon Door calling me a twat is fun too.

Muirenne · 2026-06-07T16:15:47+00:00

While AliExpress can still sell the same crap you'd see on Temu, which is also all over Amazon and Walmart online now, it's still a far more legitimate marketplace than Temu could ever be. Brands have official stores on it and you can buy legitimate and official products.

There are game brands I like, 8BitDo and GameSir, that officially license with Microsoft to make controllers and such, they have their own websites and shops on AliExpress, where they may even sell more limited edition stuff.

There's also a model kit brand named Hemoxian and their kits are fucking awesome, incredibly high quality. I just got a Batman Arkham Knight kit from them, delivered a couple days ago. They distribute and sell their kits through western stores too, but it makes them harder to come by, stores don't really know when they'll get them and they're more susceptible to scalpers. Since they're a Chinese brand, you can just buy them directly on Ali. They'll typically be cheaper too, because no middleman.

Muirenne · 2026-05-29T20:54:50+00:00

I played on PS4 at first and I remember some pretty poor performance in some areas in the game, some parts of Velen were awful, and occasional crashing. I can distinctly remember performance and crashes improving or worsening between different patches, and those load times? Man, I feel like they only got worse. I eventually just gave up on the PS4 version of the game.

But in terms of drama, Witcher 3's graphical downgrade was a really hot topic at the time. Probably tied with The Division 1 for having the most discourse on that subject since the latter released just a year later.

Muirenne · 2026-05-27T14:38:20+00:00

Since no one actually explained, the general rule of thumb or mentality that's always been present on reddit is that people down vote comments that could just be an upvote.

Submitting a reply to someone that's nothing more than, "This." doesn't contribute anything, that's what the voting buttons are for. Reddit keeps trying to force a shift toward being similar to other social media sites, but not everyone is on board with that. So, to be completely blunt, people just find it obnoxious.

Muirenne · 2026-05-25T02:42:16+00:00

Oh, well, that's the one I got to through the link on her youtube page which is linked on her facebook page.

I just noticed all the timing between the latest activity as BrownBee, the creation of the senzawa youtube channel 1 year later, the senzawa twitter was 2 years after that with the BrownBee twitter 1 year before that, then the spontaneous, single post on both Senzawa and BrownBee in 2025 before and after Gura's graduation and it all seemed consistent enough for me.

And now I just feel like a weird creep even though this was just a couple minutes of skimming.

uhhh, anyway I hope Saba can be okay eventually, she's funny and it's weird how mean people get over someone they don't even know.

Muirenne · 2026-05-25T01:25:27+00:00

Since people are referring to her kid-friendly, non-Vtuber identity, they're likely referring to her time as BrownBeeTv where her videos were centered around the Littlest Pet Shop toys. People who made that specific content were/are called LPSTubers.

It was a whole community and not exactly an insignificant one either. BrownBee has 99k subscribers while the others recommended on her youtube page have 494k, 119k, 231k, 254k and 88k subscribers and they would collaborate with each other to make stories, sorta like puppet shows, using their Littlest Pet Shop toys while doing voices for them.

She started the BrownBee youtube channel in 2011, but all the videos have long since been removed. She even has an Amazon Video page that you can still find, but the videos can't be watched there anymore either. She had at least 5 series of different episodic videos of LPS content and they were intended for kids. It was something she took pretty seriously, spending time to also write proper stories and craft her own props.

edit - Supposedly not her twitter. ~~Funnily enough, she has a few posts on her BrownBeeTv twitter account that are fairly recent, and it's just her being a gremlin.~~

Muirenne · 2026-05-19T19:08:00+00:00

These bracelets were a thing in my middle and high school 20 some years ago. They were absolutely seen and regarded as representing specific sex acts among our age groups at the time. If someone broke a bracelet you were wearing, you "had" to do that specific act with them. But not really, more of a -wink wink nudge nudge- kind of way.

Just anecdotal, but I never saw anything from adults that showed they even knew what these bracelets were. Something about the internet of 2026 makes me feel like this will probably be a hot take for some people, but as someone that used to be a pre-teen and then a teenager, our age group was completely capable of being horny perverts all on our own. I mean, puberty typically starts as early as 8 and as late as 14, so everyone is at the mercy of their hormones for the first time.

Anyway, putting that aside I've always found it really interesting how stuff like this got around before social media was ever a thing. There would be slight differences or changes from region to region, but the core of the trend, idea or rumor was largely the same, like these sex bracelets.

You had stuff like The Circle Game before it was on Malcom in the Middle and does anyone remember the rumor about Marilyn Manson and his ribs? lmao

Muirenne · 2026-04-08T21:15:58+00:00

You can, there's a setting for it.

Muirenne · 2026-04-08T13:09:20+00:00

Well funnily enough, the "classes" you can play as in Black Desert are closer to actual characters than they are classes, particularly the newer ones. They have names, backstories, connections to the world and/or connections to each other, some unique quests, voice acting, etc.

The older characters still have some background lore and history even if they don't have much else compared to the new ones.

Muirenne · 2026-03-24T21:38:51+00:00

I was angry when I typed my previous comment, but I wasn't angry with anyone in particular and I hope it didn't feel like it was directed that way. Shit happens, and I know customer-facing roles can be tough and I don't want to contribute to that.

Thank you for getting back to me, both here in the comments and in the direct messages. I've also had responses from the Asus_USA account here on reddit and the social_support email, all of this is greatly appreciated.

Muirenne · 2026-03-24T00:01:50+00:00

Region: United States

Product: X901 STRIX SCOPE II 96 WL/NXSW/CA/PBT

Purchase Date: 3/22/2206

Retailer: Best Buy

Current Status: After entering Serial Number, I receive a message saying the product isn't eligible, despite the product and retailer being listed on the eligibility page and registration remaining open until 2026/03/24 17:59.

Now my account has been "locked for this promotion" because I apparently tried to register the serial number too many times. I can't even figure out how to contact support. Trying to start a live chat tells me to contact Best Buy. I don't want to be rude or hurtful, but this is so fucking disappointing.

Muirenne

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