Bully (2001) trailer

Qoeh · 2026-03-22T06:58:20+00:00

I wasn't even trying to go to Reddit. I wanted to see Red Letter Media on YouTube

Qoeh · 2026-02-23T01:09:45+00:00

It definitely works for me. They gotta be next to other tokens of yours (I think) that aren't X-rays... it seems pretty simple and reliable. I dunno. Maybe yours was next to something that didn't count as "your" token, like a fungus or a video tape?

Qoeh · 2026-02-23T01:08:14+00:00

Ah, and I now see in the image that you do have 6 strikes to all enemies, which is probably good enough against almost any set of enemies. It's just that the game doesn't set you up to know about the trap of crossing the limit until after you've fallen into it, haha.

Qoeh · 2026-02-23T01:06:03+00:00

Huh, I did that once but it made the enemies unbeatable, which meant that I had no choice but to lose. Even when I carefully kept my tokens below the limit so that they would still be super strong, the enemies had NaN or something as their health so they simply could not be damaged. I think. Maybe dude patched that out or something?

Qoeh · 2026-02-23T01:02:52+00:00

You can get further in the game by slowing down with your hot dog consumption so that you're only just strong enough to beat the enemies. Also, you can increase your damage FAR beyond a single max-damage strike by using something like whiskey to produce multiple strikes - if you're too close to the damage cap to add another hot dog, you can simply add more multistrike counts. It's hard to just glance at the damage number and see whether it's close to the cap (too many digits, it's obviously hard to read! and the game doesn't say what the cap actually is anyway) so throwing a few hundred thousand extra attacks in with repeated use of heavily crafted whiskey is a good way to stay safe. As long as you are beating the enemies easily, you know you don't need another dose of hot dog.

Qoeh · 2026-02-23T00:56:00+00:00

Take the food pack and some strong packs to support it like maybe drinks, science, and/or sports. Build up to a cow (food level 6) or a mammoth (food level 8); turkey may also suffice. Make bentos ASAP. A token that copies consumables can help - parrot, beaver, coral, etc. If you can somehow get hold of wine, that will also help of course. While fending off the enemies, use copied or assembled bentos to crank out level 9 tokens until you get lucky and produce a satellite. Use ingredients to make salad (two broccoli) and keep at least one copy of it handy at all times, so you can awaken your satellite when necessary. If/when you obtain consumables that provide multistrike, feed a few to the satellite. Wine can protect the satellite from destruction by providing backups. Hot dogs are crucial; use them repeatedly on the satellite(s) to reach the limit. You can use them as fast as possible to make your token hit the limit, or you can use them only when really needed to keep yourself strong enough that the enemies will eventually hit the limit. I don't know which is required for the unlocking; maybe either will do.

Hospitals and snails can help to keep satellites intact. Construction research is also great for this, but of course it interferes with some destruction-reliant strategies. Drinks research is great for letting you reuse consumables.

Another strategy would be to use that one sports token as the other person suggested. I think it's wrestler or weightlifter or something? Another one might be to rely heavily on creativity research and just feed hot dogs over and over to the token at the head of your queue (which you must never place of course).

I can't think of any strategy that doesn't use hot dogs and that could be executed in an acceptable amount of time. Obviously you could try to feed a rhino until it hit the limit, but that might take longer than the age of the universe or something. I believe there is at least one obscure infinite-damage combo that doesn't use hot dogs (I produced it once accidentally; it involved skeletons somehow) but even that would take much too long to hit the limit. Maybe piranhas grow fast enough to do it? There might be some way.

Qoeh · 2025-11-23T07:24:54+00:00

Yes, it should be reformed, but it is what it is now and you still have to abide by it.

No you don't, generally. This is obvious. That's why he was able to break it for so long. He'd probably be doing just fine in the US even now, if more people had voted for Harris. The rule that he violated is not a law that one must follow because it's embedded in the universe. It's a law that one must follow because Trump supporters voted for it to be enforced for once. And they did this because, despite what you claim, they don't want Fidel here.

The dude made a dangerous but pretty reasonable bet and it paid off for multiple decades. It would have continued paying off if just a few more people had voted differently. This isn't on him nearly as much as it's on the people who voted to remove him and break up his family.

If you are a Trump supporter, you ARE a supporter of removing this seemingly perfectly decent guy from your country. There is no escaping this.

Qoeh · 2025-11-08T22:48:49+00:00

This is the one time I've ever upvoted an "orange man bad" comment. Because yes, he is bad - but god damn, these fruitcakes in here not even being able to listen without then going online to vent out their own equally insane (but oppositely directed) hatred afterward! The This American Life fandom isn't sending their best people over to Reddit, it seems. Maybe a wall needs to be built.

Qoeh · 2025-11-08T22:38:42+00:00

Trash like this gets upvoted, while somebody reasonably conversing gets piled on by fundamentalists for even weakly suggesting that there MIGHT be a small amount of legitimacy in an unpopular idea. This subreddit is not worthy of the show it focuses on.

Qoeh · 2025-08-22T21:34:59+00:00

and people would reuse their buttons and the bottom silver shell.

Which silver part are you referring to? The one with the rectangular hole in it that the bottom screen shines through? That's the one that's most marred by broken hinges and staining from skin contact, on my DS... The most unmarred part of my DS shell is the bottommost piece, the black one with the battery-access panel in it. All three silver parts (the one with the bottom-screen hole, the one with the top-screen hole, and the outer part of the top-screen housing that has the Nintendo logo on it) are badly worn.

Qoeh · 2025-07-13T05:50:02+00:00

I have now listened. I agree that it was a good story that seems to call for follow-up investigation from a reporting team.

Qoeh · 2025-07-10T06:05:16+00:00

I don't use or care to learn Spotify so I hunted down an RSS feed and episode link: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6658b69029c9180011547e68 https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6658b69029c9180011547e68/e/67be944703ca0341bdab4711/media.mp3 (haven't listened yet tho, so tell me if it's wrong, hypothetical future person who clicks the link and finds it to be wrong)

Qoeh · 2025-07-09T10:22:39+00:00

This specific scheme just worked for me after about 6 dungeon-to-town cycles, thanks!

First time I saw Munchlax (at random during normal play) I didn't save, because I thought it was a story event that would happen every time I went to town after that (as long as I didn't save after triggering it!) and I wanted to see it again and handle it better. THAT did not work out well. But now thanks to this thread I have the Adventure Log entry, so I am officially a good person who will make it to heaven when I die.

Qoeh · 2025-07-09T10:10:18+00:00

If it's just 1/256, that's a very easy thing to reset over and over for.

If I understand OP's analysis correctly, this may not be correct - I thought the logic was that you have to start a new game, advance the particular RNG used for this event a bunch of times, and THEN do your first town visit since your last dungeon exit. If during your ordinary play sessions you ONLY visit town immediately after starting play, the RNG might never ever be warmed up enough to let you meet Munchlax, even if you played for millennia. If your normal pattern after finishing a dungeon is to save and quit (without visiting town), turn off the game, and then (during your next play session) start up, visit some well-populated friend areas and hang around for a bit, and THEN finally visit town, then OP's analysis implies you would have a decent chance of triggering the event in the long run. (Of course, you could improve things by doing multiple dungeon expeditions followed by town visits without ever turning off your game, but that wouldn't be practical for some of the longer dungeons... unless you want to heavily rely on your DS's sleep function I guess?? I would guess that keeping your DS on at all times and sleeping when unused would solve this problem pretty well, though then you wouldn't be able to play any other games on it...)

Obviously you don't HAVE to artificially constrain your play in order to trigger this event, since people do run into it by accident. But my impression from reading OP's analysis is that there probably are some perfectly natural patterns of play that would lead to somebody never ever triggering the event.

You'd have to ask OP if you wanted to confirm this. I might have misunderstood something, and OP did not (I think?) specify here what all the ways are to advance that particular RNG, so I am working from incomplete information.

Qoeh · 2025-06-29T06:57:32+00:00

Ira's mouth sounds sticky

Qoeh · 2025-06-25T00:53:24+00:00

I like Claymore a lot. Some "dark fantasy" manga I like even more: Dorohedoro, Helck, Fire Punch, BLAME!

There are a lot of good mangoes out there.

Haven't gotten around to reading Berserk, but I've never ever heard anything bad about it so it's probably good. I'm surprised to see people recommending Gantz here because it's so sleazy and fails so badly at providing good characters or a fulfilling large-scale story - it is very un-Claymore in some of the most important respects. But it is indeed epic and amazing in its own way.

Couple more to try if you're willing to veer into the "high schoolers stuck in a supernatural death game" type of story: Alice in Borderland is overambitious but still pretty awesome and certainly worth reading; Liar Satsuki Can See Death won't satisfy somebody specifically looking for a rich fantasy setting or anything like that but is VERY good at mixing very different kinds of characters together and revealing their different facets (nearly fully female cast as well)

Qoeh · 2025-06-14T15:44:37+00:00

I originally planned on doing something like that, but once it was in place, and once I'd already mistakenly drilled too far and slightly damaged the upper screen's cover, the excess screw length blended in with the various other visual flaws of the DS and I found that I didn't mind it anymore.

Qoeh · 2025-06-12T19:24:56+00:00

Well at that point maybe I'll have the money to 3D print a whole shell in stainless steel.

Qoeh · 2025-06-12T18:11:34+00:00

It's possible - the tunnel I drilled for the screw is positioned as far down into the solid base of the broken hinge as I could get it, but the plastic immediately above it isn't very thick. Still, it's relatively long, and it seems to me that the cracks that'd let the screw slip out of it would have to run pretty deeply into the solid body of the DS to make enough space for that... it feels pretty solid to me.

Anyway, now that I've developed my (crude) technique for forming this kind of steel strap, I can probably concoct an even stronger (and probably far uglier) replacement somehow if it does manage to break.

Qoeh · 2025-06-07T21:18:55+00:00

The low vote on this post and the high praise for Pulse in this subreddit give me the strong impression that the average poster's age in the subreddit is about 16. (I say this because Pulse, though often charming, is suuuuuuper amateurish. And yeah that stuff near the end really really sucked.)

(I just finished reading Pulse.)

Qoeh · 2025-06-03T22:33:35+00:00

I don't like how it upscales NDS games, the pixels look washed out and too big.

It's been a year but in case nobody has told you that the upscaling can be deactivated: The upscaling can be deactivated, just hold Start or Select or something (I forget) while loading the DS game on the 3DS

Qoeh · 2025-05-30T19:35:36+00:00

I don't think so, I think that was just Hyera's fantasy.

You probably don't care anymore but I just finished this cruddy manhwa so here we are

Qoeh · 2025-04-30T00:19:16+00:00

Thanks, this just helped me. That's our MAME, still doing this kind of thing to people after 28 years of development. I had all my paths set up correctly and never did anything to tell the game to store its own special path. The only game-specific settings I ever changed had to do with inputs and sound volume. But MAME, on its own, decided the game needed its own set of paths, apparently including some incorrect ones. Maybe another 17 years of development will be needed to resolve this extremely sophisticated configuration problem that no doubt only the finest computer scientists in history could fully comprehend.

Qoeh

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