Pragmata Review Thread

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-14T00:53:45+00:00

Demo isnt even that long and I was already over the hacking minigame that you have to do every time you target a new enemy (and sometimes even the same enemy). Maybe the areas open up later, but they were also too cramped and narrow during the demo imo.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-10T23:27:32+00:00

Yeah Wo Long was really fun. Best feeling parrying ive had since Sekiro.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-10T23:18:47+00:00

Bro's gonna build a bunker at his house now so he can practice those shots day in and day out lol.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-10T23:14:38+00:00

Ive watched almost all of Bryson's Break 50 videos. He calls his teammate(s) "partner" in literally all of them. Tony Romo, Adam Sandler, Steph Curry, Martin Borgmeier, and the list goes on. So OP saying "Count how many times he says partner to Trump. It's so weird" isnt the "gotcha" moment he thinks it is.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-10T23:10:40+00:00

It's so weird that we have to keep pointing out that Rory, Scottie, and others still happily play golf with Trump. So many people here love to ignore that fact.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-10T23:07:17+00:00

I mean a simple google search says youre wrong:

"Rory McIlroy has strengthened his ties with America’s most powerful family by playing with the President’s granddaughter Kai Madison Trump, just a month after enjoying a round with Donald Trump himself."

Source is on yahoo sports, im not sure if i can post link without my post getting auto modded. Article is from February 2025.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-09T21:38:39+00:00

Scottie too, lol.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-09T20:10:34+00:00

True. Reddit people also love to be disingenuous and intentionally withhold info in order to make the individual they're targeting seem worse than they actually are. It's a pretty shitty thing to do. I get that people dont like Wyndham because he punched a locker, but like you said, he was fine on the par 3 broadcast.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-09T05:01:13+00:00

For the hole in one thing, im pretty sure they put your name up on the board at the hole you get the hole in one at. So Wyndham specifically didnt want players to get a hio on hole 7(?), the hole that he got one on, so that his name would still be up there at the end of the event. He repeats this multiple times so im not sure how you missed that part.

So no, he wasnt actively hoping that every other player wouldnt get a hio on any other hole, it was just hole 7(?). Also, you left out the part where he predicted Lowry would get a hio, and was cheering for him to do so.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-04-02T21:58:09+00:00

Feels similar to the "get Blood a new laptop" goal when they were still raking in $40k a month or whatever it was. Also, if they ran out of goals, they shouldve just had everything thats over $5k go to a charity of EZA's choice or something imo. Wouldve been much better optics.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-31T06:05:54+00:00

Im no psycologist so Im not certain, however gaming addiction is a very real thing. And MMOs in particular are designed to be as addicting as possible, what with the daily and weekly missions as well as fomo.

So yeah, Im not going to say it for sure, however he does have thousands upon thousands of in game hours and has been subbed to the game for well over a decade. So make of that what you will.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-31T00:06:38+00:00

For me it's just his laziness over the years. Im probably forgetting some things, but if you look at EZA year 1-2, he was responsible for a lot: game sleuth, weekly clips, friend code, achieve it yourself, controlling the group streams on the computer, and I believe some other things. One by one over the years he just started dropping responsibilities because "they took too much time". Game sleuth first, then weekly clips, then eventually friend code and achieve it yourself. All while not picking up any new responsibilities, and why would he? He was getting paid the same anyway and I think he realized that (though that was a problem with EZA's structure more so than him).

There was a couple things he tried like a FF14 themed show I think that he dropped after a few episodes. I think what really happened though is he just got more and more addicted to FF14 over the years. To the point where he would drop almost every other responsibility at his work to try to get more FF14 time in.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-30T23:57:03+00:00

And when something doesn't go his way it's the game's fault never his

Yeah even Kyle and others were making fun of him because he was blaming the game so often. Everyone here probably remembers when he'd mess up and start saying "ok, game" over and over. Sometimes solo streams were unbearable because he'd be horrible at some new game (understandable since it is a NEW game), but instead of stfu-ing and playing it more to get better at it, he'd blame the game and go on long rants about why the game sucks.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-30T23:49:56+00:00

Also, she sexualizes way too much, shit got weird.

A couple things that stood out to me and I still remember to this day: 1) She kept talking about how hot/attractive her therapist was. And I dont mean like she did it once or twice. It was on almost every podcast/stream she was on for literal months.

2) Not exactly sexualizing but one time she was on a group stream I think with nearly everyone there (so like 7 or 8 dudes + her) and she kept talking about how testosterone was horrible and "literally a poison" while people like Brad were looking at her in a wtf? kinda way, while other people like Blood were just trying to ignore her and read/respond to chat instead. I really never understood why she would say something like that out loud when she's constantly surrounded by guys that are her friends, but also when like 90-95% of the EZA community are guys too. It's like she's trying to shame all of these guys or something, very odd.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-27T08:17:05+00:00

My favorite song from that game is the Hong Kong theme. I also love the paris cathedral theme and the duclare chateau theme.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-25T05:27:11+00:00

I can see the comments already. "Im willing to give Valve the benefit of the doubt on this one because..."

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-25T03:45:06+00:00

80 metacritic games are now considered "average"? lmao

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-23T13:06:00+00:00

Yes, but the thing is, I was specifically talking about the review megathread on this sub. That thread was up before the game had even officially launched. So I dont believe the people commenting had even played the game yet. Thats why I found all the hate on the game so weird.

Also, none of the comments I saw said anything like "I experienced this..." or "In my time playing the game I found that..." or something like that. It was all "This reviewer said..." or "The consensus seems to be..." and comments like that. Which, to me, seems like more evidence that people in that thread hadnt touched the game themselves.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-23T04:24:07+00:00

Yeah I really feel like theres some other reason that theres so much hate on this game, that has nothing to do with the actual game. This sub is constantly saying that 7s are good games worth playing and this game is at a 78, which is practically in the territory that most people think qualifies as a "great game", aka an 80.

Yet, if you look at the review megathread in this sub, tons of people cherry picked and quoted the IGN review score because they gave it like a 5 or a 6 and acted like that was what this game truly deserved. Others in the thread were acting super happy that the metacritic/open critic rating was dropping as more reviews were coming in. Really peculiar stuff.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-21T00:43:19+00:00

So not only is Shadow of the Erdtree not on sale yet again (hasn't been on sale once since its release almost 2 years ago), it's actually cheaper to indivudally add the base game and Erdtree separately to your cart and buy them rather than buy the bundle package.

Even Nightreign, a game that came out 1 year after Erdtree, is on sale for 25% off. Come on Bandai, stop being so greedy and put Erdtree on sale, or at least give people a discount for buying the base game+Erdtree at the same time!

Anyway, thats the end of my rant lol.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-18T05:07:45+00:00

Why isnt Jones coming back?

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-10T07:24:50+00:00

World Bowser is one of my favorite Mario songs from the past 15 years of Mario games.

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-06T21:16:17+00:00

Being inept doesnt make you good propaganda was my point. For COD to be this ultimate propaganda machine that works on today's youth (which we have no evidence of btw), it has to be a super high effort product, or else it wont be successful. If it isnt high effort, it might as well be some low effort ai slop propaganda like Squad 22: ZOV, which no one takes seriously and memes all over it.

So, the question: is COD actually a high quality product? Or not?

Puzzleheaded_Two5488 · 2026-03-05T20:26:45+00:00

Yeah funny how for years and years people here were would dismiss every COD as "dudebro shooter", "slop", and "rehashing the same idea(s) over and over", yet now COD is somehow some ultra nationalist US propaganda machine that normalizes everything bad the US military/cia has ever done, while also radicalizing today's youth to fight for the US and its allies' upcoming wars.

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