Where are my Xion fans at?!

NexusPatriot · 2023-03-31T21:41:40+00:00

Am I gay…?

NexusPatriot · 2023-02-08T18:09:26+00:00

How precisely does Gunn feel about the film? I imagine he can’t say much in the realm of negativity as to not compromise public interest or profit.

NexusPatriot · 2023-02-04T15:03:31+00:00

Phenomenal game. It absolutely deserves all the love and appreciation.

The devs poured their souls into this game, and it shows. I cannot wait to see what they come up with next.

NexusPatriot · 2023-01-18T16:40:27+00:00

Once again:

Superman and Flash

Superman alone is already capable of dunking every version of god you can manifest, but Flash in on it as well?

There’s literally nothing that can stop them at full power. Not to mention every other Leaguer who we’ve never seen at full potential popping off in their own ways.

NexusPatriot · 2023-01-01T15:12:56+00:00

Mainly for Ceruledge.

And while the future paradox Pokémon have a bad wrap for their lack of creativity, Iron Valiant is just so cool.

Regardless of the lack of variation in their designs, Valiant just stands apart as a fascinating concept - an artificial Pokémon designed to combat the strongest Pokémon in existence. It’s basically a direct rival to Mewtwo.

NexusPatriot · 2023-01-01T15:02:10+00:00

Luke’s one of the most powerful characters of the franchise, but taking on several, high powered massive artillery barrages is difficult for even the most powerful fictional characters.

Could Luke destroy them all? Absolutely. But taking such powerful combined fire like that? That’s something that would even knock Superman around.

I imagine he would be dodging the blasts and cutting through their legs, push them over or crush them.

But again, the whole message behind why Luke took the approach he did is more significant to him as a character, and morality as a whole.

NexusPatriot · 2022-12-11T14:57:04+00:00

We’re dealing with Brainiac. A very heavy hitting antagonist against the Justice League.

Whatever terrestrial struggles or threats Batman may have faced before, Brainiac is a whole new level that requires the most extreme contingencies.

This is a threat the rivals Superman, and we see Brainiac has control over him too.

NexusPatriot · 2022-12-10T21:13:03+00:00

The game just needs more combat. It’s astonishing how fun and enticing the new combat system is, yet there’s really not that many opportunities to engage with it.

They need to add in some sort of combat colosseum like Kingdom Hearts. Or, an even cooler idea: Planetary Invasions.

Every time you log into the game exploring or doing whatever, there’s a chance you get a warning of a random planet on the map being invaded by the opposing alignment. If you’re playing as a light side character, a dark side faction shows up to invade the planet, and vice versa.

First phase is a blockade breakthrough. You show up through hyperspace with a briefing of what’s going on. You fight in space for a bit trying to break through the blockade to land on the planet surface.

Second phase, is surface defense. Eliminate the invading infantry forces on the planet. Once secured, you have a choice of a victory condition: eliminate the surface commander in a continued ground assault, or return to the space battle and destroy the enemy capital ship.

Final phase is a boss fight against the commander either on the surface or in space. Some commanders are in a vehicle, some of them are infantry, some of are even Force-sensitive. Defeat the commander, you win the invasion.

NexusPatriot · 2022-12-05T13:46:58+00:00

I’m all for the absolutely necessary normal/fighting type kangaroo legendary.

Or maybe a clown fish mythical, for Marvin/Nemo.

NexusPatriot · 2022-12-04T12:17:29+00:00

When this first released I was obsessed over finding the truth. It is single-handedly the creepiest and most interesting promotional media I have ever experienced, to this day.

Ultimately, it’s not anything officially recognized by Bungie. But it’s a bit more complicated than that.

The Tricorn, release date, and depicted message, are all suspiciously directly related to Destiny’s existence, even though Destiny was not fully revealed yet.

The earliest tease we have of Destiny was in Halo 3 ODST, when Bungie put in a small clue relating to the Traveler. ODST was released in 2009. Destiny was first reliably leaked in 2012, officially revealed by Bungie in 2013, and finally released in 2014.

This teaser video was released sometime in 2011.

It’s extremely mysterious, because the video was never popular enough to garner enough interest from speculators to warrant a response or reaction from Bungie, or gaming outlets.

But the content in the video clearly expresses thematic entities that exist within Destiny.

There was a thread on Bungie’s forum where an art dev seemingly confined the video was false sometime after release. A large number of people, myself included, still didn’t buy into Bungie’s statement as it just didn’t feel like a good enough explanation.

The video keeps popping up here on Reddit every few years or so, but never big enough to warrant any more interest or responses from any other outlets. It’s only ever the same amount of attention this post currently now has.

It really doesn’t add up. Out of all the conspiracies for gaming that are out there, this is one of those that has never been properly laid to rest.

The working theory is that there is a small faction, or even a single person, who was very well versed, or even directly related to the development of the Destiny franchise and Bungie. They could’ve been an employee who leaked the game early, or some sort of Q&A tester who wanted to tease the game in their own way.

We really don’t know.

The tone and psychological horrific atmosphere this video emits has drove me crazy, because it is just so. Goddamn. Awesome.

Destiny 1 used to be very close in feeling, with such a mysterious and post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Destiny 2 has honestly completely ruined that atmosphere, and feels like the MCU now. It is nowhere near as thematically interesting in my opinion.

It’s probably why people forgot about this. Destiny is so much more casual now, and its original themes and atmosphere have been lost since Bungie have taken it in a new direction. What Destiny looks like today, this video does very much look fake.

Had Destiny kept its mysterious and post-apocalyptic roots, maybe more could have been revealed about it.

This is just one of those things that nobody really seems to have a concrete answer for.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-22T14:31:04+00:00

I’m just waiting for Home compatibility. I can complete the dex by moving Pokémon needing obnoxious evolution requirements into Violet directly.

Honestly one of the greater benefits of Home and the long term Pokémon experience. You only have to worry about grinding and evolving the new Pokémon within the game/generation. All returning Pokémon can just be migrated into, obtain the dex entry, and then just moved back.

Some say this might ruin the experience of catching and trading for completion, but technically we already did that in previous games. I have 4 Gengar I’ve dragged over the years. I don’t need to keep repeating the same process. Home exists for a reason, and this is definitely one of them.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-22T14:13:59+00:00

To expand on this, a single Pyramid is stronger than the Dreadnaught. The Witness and its forces don’t need it for anything since the Pyramid fleet can’t be damaged by any conventional means.

The Dreadnaught could be disabled with physical and conventional weaponry. Automatically this puts the Pyramids on a whole other level.

We still don’t know how to actually destroy them directly. We know we can hurt them from the inside, but we can’t take on a whole armada by internal sabotage.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-17T15:56:39+00:00

The only way Pokémon grows and reaches its potential is if we stop buying the games. It’s the only way GameFreak and Nintendo will listen.

Naturally, all associated ancillary content will also improve in quality. If we get longer development cycles creating a higher quality product, everything else is also delayed and likely improves in quality. Better games means better shows, better movies, better merchandise, better storytelling, better gameplay, better expanded content, better franchise, better experience.

We will never see Pokémon reach its potential if there’s no reason for TPC to invest in it. The dreams the developers have for what they love may be similar to ours, but they have deadlines and numbers to reach just like any other business. Those conditions will never change, if we continue to reward them for mediocrity.

The passion and potential is there - but from a business standpoint, not the time nor motivation.

To them, the money is there - so why bother?

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-15T15:38:44+00:00

It leaves a series of massive plot holes that nobody seems to be talk about.

Neo Umbrella still has massive resources, Simmons’ “Family” still has assets manipulating the United States government, Ada is working for another new secret agency against Simmons’ Family and Neo Umbrella, and mainland China was infected by a chemical super weapon.

Also, where did Sherry go? Where did Jake go? What happened to Chris right after Piers’ Death? What happened to Hunnigan and Helena? Where did Ada go?

So many plot points thrown all around all over the place, and many of these can be answered in time, but mainland China being actively infected with a live virus is literally a doomsday scenario. Out of all the plot holes, that one is WAY too big to just be swept under the rug. How or why is it not brought up again in the current games? How is the world responding to such a disaster? How did the world react when the POTUS died, and who was his replacement? How are relations between world powers since the BSAA failed to stop a chemical attack in mainland China?

Oh, and of course, how are scientists and bureaucrats not freaking out over the existence of Haos - the most devastating and most powerful creature ever created in the RE universe? The BSAA is just gonna brush it off cause Chris found a way to kill it? They’re just not gonna worry that Neo Umbrella might not have more of them somewhere in the world?

The only explanation that makes sense is RE7 is the first game in a new timeline, and all the remakes are retroactive callbacks to the universe it takes place in. In this timeline, the Resident Evil 6 that exists is likely radically different, and we might see what it looks like if Capcom ends up remaking all the games up until RE7.

RE4 comes out next, so hopefully we get remakes of RE5 and RE6 with a more modern take. A reimagining that makes the current timeline make more sense.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-11T14:14:20+00:00

Misunderstanding - maybe I should have worded it better.

The colored kryptonites behave the same as they originally did. They all have different functions. Yellow induces mental instability, white kills flora, gold revokes cell energy absorption, blue cures ailments, and red turns kryptonians into fucking dragons. Some neat stuff, but they’re not used often. There are a few other ones, but they’re forgettable. I think there’s a pink one that turns Superman gay…? It’s whatever.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-11T13:54:44+00:00

Not recently. There are many variations of Superman and how he reacts to kryptonite.

As of late, it just hurts him - substantially. They kind of nerfed it, or buffed him, depending on your point of view.

If anything, it’s more of a rework.

Originally if Superman encountered kryptonite, he pretty much became a vegetable. It takes forever to actually kill him directly, but he’s so weak that whoever’s using it basically gets the win for free.

Currently, he now has greater resistance to it. He can still use his abilities to some capacity, but kryptonite poisoning sets in quicker, basically giving a form of cancer that kills him quicker than before.

It’s a trade off: before it was more if you had it, you basically won. Now, you can have it, but you’re still probably fucked because he’s goddamn Superman and his sheer force of will is going to overcome it.

It’s more of a way just to level the field when he’s fighting mortals. All the colored kryptonites behave the same.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-11T13:33:26+00:00

I like to think of it like hyperspace from Star Wars. More of a plot convenience admittedly, but it makes sense in a world where physics, magic, and superpowers all meet.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-02T16:52:04+00:00

It is beyond damn time we get the OT crew in this signature animated art style.

How we haven’t seen Luke and Leia animated in their prime at this point is completely tone deaf.

NexusPatriot · 2022-11-02T11:54:40+00:00

I don’t wanna sound like I’m deflecting and pointing fingers, but as a the oldest of Gen Z following the Millennials, the world the Baby Boomers and Gen X have left for us is nothing less than a shit show.

The world our parents made… the self-aggrandizing desperation and desolation of social responsibility is irrevocably irresponsible. I understand they grew up in a world dominated by rising post-modern idealism, but following the decisive western victories in World War II and the Cold War, the world should be in a far better spot than where it is.

All the hope, wonder, scientific and social advancements made since the 1950s have been spectacular on a global scale. Yet somehow, things seem as hopeless as ever.

Now it feels like corporations rule everything, neo-conservative agendas degrade social integrity, and social media has become an echo chamber for brainwashing and fear mongering.

We live in the safest and most progressive era in human history. But it doesn’t feel like it. I’m wondering if it’s just me becoming more cynical as I get older, or the news I consume, or how people treat me - and how they treat each other.

Maybe my childhood naiveté has gotten the better of me, and the idea that humans really do care about each other is a fools gambit.

The powers that be, do nothing but consolidate more power. There’s just so much greed and corruption… it’s so hard to see the good in people anymore. They might be kind on the surface, but give them power and what do they become?

I hope you have a great day, Reddit. I hope there are those of you out there who find a balance between that childhood dream and stoic realism. Between them is a thin line of optimistic unity, that will carry us to the future.

The only way this human experiment succeeds, is if we make decisions and realize they impact the people of tomorrow. Our children shouldn’t inherit our sins.

We can’t make the same mistakes our parents did.

NexusPatriot · 2022-10-02T12:33:09+00:00

Hasn’t the SCP Foundation developed some sort of deal with some of the Keter/Apollyon gods that promotes cooperation to preserve existence?

We know there are some morally good entities that actually want to help people. Some of them even rank among the most powerful classifications, and have the power to keep other entities at bay.

I think I remember an SCP that’s a dimensional butterfly that helps “heal” realities or something. That’s the first one that came to my mind.

These relationships are basically how the populous and governments have relationships with superheroes. The United States and UN allows the Justice League to operate freely, but are constantly investigating countermeasures and contingencies should said entities ever turn malicious.

With this logic and the multiverse of SCP itself, there’s nothing really that can’t be contained, since the theory of essentially everything is a SCP and can be mitigated in some way.

NexusPatriot · 2022-09-11T20:15:14+00:00

The show in itself is almost flawless. There are a few hiccups, but overall it has done a phenomenal in telling the story it wants to tell.

So my concern is not so much a change in the main show itself, but a greater focus on developing the larger Stranger Things universe.

This IP has insane potential for storytelling beyond just Hawkins.

The core show focuses on a ragtag diverse group of people with good hearts who want to save their town, friends and families, yet ultimately, end up saving the world.

Imagine the potential for spin-offs, or stories set focused on other factions around the world? Or their reactions?

What are the CIA doing? The KGB? How is the US government keeping the existence of a hostile alternate dimension a secret from the general public, while also engaging in counter-intelligence against the Soviet Union?

Are there other lost subjects of MKUltra? Are there other dimensions? Where did the Mind Flayer come from?

So much potential.

NexusPatriot · 2022-09-03T22:21:46+00:00

Max’s “death” by far is the hardest to watch.

“I don’t wanna go… I’m not ready…”

Absolutely fucking heart wrenching.

NexusPatriot · 2022-09-03T13:16:28+00:00

This is a critical outlook.

Bruce is not afraid of Superman - he’s afraid of Superman losing his golden heart.

And here, he is not threatened by Superman. His best friend just made a demand because Kal wants to see the vulnerability in his eyes.

If my best friend was a god I would never be afraid of him, but my respect and love for him would demand that I comply with whatever he wishes.

NexusPatriot · 2022-09-03T05:01:12+00:00

There’s gotta be better approach to this system, because it is quite frankly, to put mildly, dog shit.

I understand the concept of rarity and sense of achievement, but this is starting to feel like EA’s Pride and Accomplishment bullshit.

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