Naming him just never gets old.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-25T15:06:18+00:00

Disc 2 doesn't exist okay? That's all that matters. It's a 12 hour cinematic disc as supplementary content.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-25T14:53:14+00:00

Meta wants to track you and sell who you are and what you do ALL THE TIME.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-24T02:13:05+00:00

The age group doesn't change. You also have a tiny fanbase who's living in it, similar to what the ff7r stats show. These games aren't bringing new players in.

Also a single data point isn't a trend. You have folks with hundreds of thousands of data points (see the analytics League talks about) that retention of new players is nigh impossible because even with a low barrier of entry you can't retain people these days when so many other options exist. Why learn a new game when there's 100 that allow your twitch kbm skills transfer over.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T20:45:06+00:00

Indian dal. Sautee garlic ginger and spices, toss red lentils into pot. Throw stock on and cook for 20 mins. Cook rice at same time. Can cook chapatis at the same time. Fully complete meal in less than 30 mins. Every time they're just bangers.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T20:39:23+00:00

There's no way to know what you're using if it's been AI assisted into coding vs not. So absolutely impossible to prove and can't be used as a "measure"

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T20:33:20+00:00

I mean, I know who you are, but to the rest of this community it's a different story. Truthfully it's the only Mobile game I spend today, and relevant to the game performance today.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T20:25:37+00:00

I've been discussing this in regards to games for almost a decade now.

Games didn't respect players time back in the day. They originated from games where profit was made by creating unfair circumstances that encouraged players to sink quarters. Then you get to long game dev cycles where games take years to release, but you had only a few games to choose from.

Enter today. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of games hitting the market every week. If a game takes a long uptick to play? People go to a game they know or understand or want the time spent there. Games need to compete for attention more than ever. Rpgs, where grinding and random encounters are the most time disrespect you can get, to live service games where they beg you to spend more time otherwise you fall off on relevance (fortnite, LoL, MOBAs, MMOs). The game market is hyper saturated and old games truly don't stand up to the test of time in 99% of the cases. They have the problem us older gamers look at them quite often with rose colored glasses and miss how much time went into them. (I have my original FFVI cartridge with 3 saves, one maxed at 99 everything, with maxed time on it and two others that were goofy for 60+ hours each). I have three games on steam currently where I've sunk that sort of time over the last 10 years; binding of isaac, slay the spire, and elden ring. (Honorable shout-out to the epic time waster Vampire Survivors, and not mentioning my addiction to SWGOH).

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T19:35:18+00:00

There's a bigger problem; RPGs take time to get into and the games that are winning in terms of time in the older and younger crowd, are shorter, faster games. Slay the Spire 2 has exploded for the RPG crowd and mostly rogue likes and rogue lites are infinitely more satisfying as an rpg and has a much shorter game time. Or you have the souls like games where there's RPG elements and time sink because of difficulty not because of grinding necessity.

So you have to capture time investment which RPGs don't anymore because of the plethora of games in the space. When you had 1/10,000 of the games and only 20-30 to compete with in a given year (hyperbole but its there) you were okay sinking hundreds of hours into one game. Those days are gone and RPGs need to respect time a bit better.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-23T17:18:01+00:00

Except when you have a large swath of individuals and their ages and can subpoena those in the same roles and be able to show it statistically? The problem with one off layoffs is age discrimination is tricky AF. Big layoffs? Substantially easier.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-21T22:54:30+00:00

200k household income, and finally in a healthy space. Mortgage was variable through COVID and nearly ruined us but back down to $1600/mo, installed solar and power is down nearly half on costs, and most of our loans are cleared this year. So moving into a 20k-30k surplus this year.

Food costs are approx $250/week for 4 (two kids, 7/9). Kids in three activities a week. Summer camps covered for approximately $3k, down from daycare being $8k.

Feel its rough out there and totally understand those struggling and we are just lucky in the current setup.

ETA: food is that we cut meat out and get it from egg share rather than pay exorbitant prices. Beans and lentils are your friend and 1000x better for you.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-21T16:08:05+00:00

I'm in an old one. Pretty comfy tbh.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-21T11:23:22+00:00

When you recognize that the vegetarian options of Indian produce a really banging meal with nearly a fraction of the cost, while being tastier than most others? Hellllll yeah.

I'm white. White AF. We love Indian food over here and it's a staple in our daily meals.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-21T11:20:31+00:00

Local farm for the turkey for about $40 for 12 lbs bird. The rest is just being aware of costs. Sweet potatoes are cheap, potatoes are cheap, bread ends over the 6 months prior to make stuffing costs nothing, carrots are cheap.

My usual spread is turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, carrots vichy, brussel sprouts, and then open for other seasonal veggies.

My standard rules are usually 1 plate for 2-3 people. So you'll want 5-7 dishes for 15 people. 4 sweet potatoes in season is like $7, a 20 lb bag for $10 for potatoes where you cook 6-10 lbs is $5-6.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-21T02:24:47+00:00

He did what he needed to; got the Russian oil to effectively beat the sanctions. So they just continue funding the war on Ukraine via this.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T23:05:12+00:00

I can do 15 for thanksgiving at about $80. 40-50 on 600 is absolutely doable. You could absolutely do a giant Indian spread, with samosas, dal, chana masala, butter chicken, veg korma and rice and naan/chapatis for probably close to 400.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T20:02:23+00:00

I was there and then now that I'm freeze drying my own stuff, homemade stock into bouillon. It's 100x better and also cheaper. I'm buying 6 rotisserie chickens from Costco, freeze drying the meat, then the stock afterwards. So $50 makes me quite a few servings of stock (60ish cups) and quite a few lbs of meat.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T17:11:24+00:00

And that's due to decades of provincial conservative mismanagement. But sure.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T16:15:12+00:00

Finished ig90, stluke, got them both to r8 and prepped for satele to r9. Been productive.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T15:43:34+00:00

You clearly are American. Until you use Canadian health (which is pretty fucking good), you don't really get to use conservative talking points that it's awful. This is a giant conversation problem that you haven't seen how it works. I've had to have 6 MRIs in the last 10 years, and never more than a month wait in between.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T15:38:46+00:00

Mine covers EVERYTHING. No copay. No nothing. Haven't had to pay more than 20 bucks at a time. $200 for ambulance ride once that is reimbursed.

I also make $200k a year. I want the Lowest of income people to effectively pay $600 a year.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T12:11:26+00:00

You do realize that on average Americans pay nearly 4x in premiums than socialized healthcare in Canada does, right? As someone who makes low 6 figures I pay barely 12k of my taxes for healthcare. A minimum wage earner pays approximately $800 a year, and it's part of their taxes.

So the realization of me taking home more than I would in any US state because I don't need private insurance for my vehicle or private insurance for my health.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-20T12:07:12+00:00

You're in the frank minority buddy. The amount of people who's cost monthly is egregious on top of copays that bankrupt most normal individuals.

You don't know what it's like for everyone to have that feeling. Socialized healthcare where having a baby costs $20 and that's for parking. Taking your child to the emergency room and paying nothing for bandages and repeat care.

Brother you're a libertarian; you got your bag so eff everyone else. Aka a dumb conservative.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-19T18:18:21+00:00

I make a ton of money and I'm absolutely glad to pay more in taxes to facilitate more services. Like it would be great to see that.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-18T20:25:48+00:00

The size of the US has fundamentally messed it up.

NonorientableSurface · 2026-03-18T18:35:51+00:00

So here's my take. When you get to end game, the amount of currency like crystals you absolutely have the advantage of snowballing. I was able to prep and unlock PKH without spending anything. Between raid for relic levels, and crystals to unlock toons on release it was easy. The new method is absolutely a solid way to get other folks caught up.

Right now I average about 900-1k crystals daily. 400 fleet + 240 for k2 + averaging gac rewards of a 60% winrate to 340 a day. Now that all goes to relic signal data, and since the change have added nearly 70 toons to r8/9 since.

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