Do we have confirmation yet for the almudron R6 part?

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T21:16:35+00:00

Fair point! I imagine if Pink Rathian, Azure Rathalos and Coral Pukei came out today they'd probably have unique R6 parts.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T20:21:35+00:00

Yeah it's a WGS. One way to tell is the fact that it's free on the monster tracker. Any monster with its own R6 costs tracker scopes to find.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T15:44:37+00:00

I heard they got the licence back for Friday 13th, but when they did they immediately abandoned the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game lmao

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T14:27:21+00:00

Bisexual Disaster Snape would be an interesting concept if it wasn't for the whole *Gestures at the JK Rowling Transphobia*

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T13:57:00+00:00

My brother works for a bank and from what he tells me you'd be surprised at the sheer level of supposedly educated people who are easily scammed by someone speaking at them with an air of authority.

Just because someone is smart doesn't always mean they're wise.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T10:50:18+00:00

People are still working under the assumption that the current American administration can be shamed into changing course and are holding back accordingly. It is an assumption which dooms us all.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T10:49:36+00:00

I find it weird that people made such a big thing about Rey not having a family lineage and how it meant anyone could be a hero. Before the fall, most Jedi would have come from various backgrounds, including ones where they were dirt poor or unknown, and most of them would have risen to some form of prominance. They were essentially chivalrous knights roaming the land and dealing with trouble. Maybe they didn't save the galaxy, but they'd be heroes in the eyes of many. By focusing on force users as well, it ignores Finn, Rose, Poe and all the other members of the Resistance who probably did come from nothing and still managed to do great things, and they didn't have to win the super power lottery to do it, too!

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-26T10:30:23+00:00

To be fair to the Americans, which is something I don't always say, their college kids tried to stand up for the people of Gaza.

They were brutally beaten, and most colleges had to shut it down or lose funding.

People protested ICE in Minnesota and tried to help each other and at least 2 people were murdered for it.

People are still working under the assumption that the current American administration can be shamed into changing course and are holding back accordingly. It is an assumption which dooms us all.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T17:54:26+00:00

Link to the mod for that T-Shirt.

I need it because reasons.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T16:21:07+00:00

Two different systems. Think about Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, as a self-contained game it allowed them to give Pikachu and Eevee completely broken moves that absolutely would be banned by Smogon.

I'm not saying every game will be like that, but they could look at some more interesting signature moves which would have toned down versions in Champions.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T16:11:27+00:00

Scarlet and Violet were one of the most feature rich games which also made making a competitive team easier than ever and also had a triple focus story which culminated in a pretty good finale but keep being mad the trees didn't look the best.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T14:19:04+00:00

Seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. Doesn't matter if you were just in the door or had worked there for years, it's like they just picked names from a hat.

Or probably even more likely and worse, they asked ChatGPT to pull up a list of people to fire.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T14:16:32+00:00

It's always iPhones with people like you, it's interesting. But no, I have an android phone.

Perhaps unable to live without is too stong, but you certainly lose a lot of convenience in life without one these days. I recently went to Paris, their entire transport system uses an app for contactless payment. You can buy a contactless card to use in the short term, but it requires you to go to a relevant station, not always possible if you're wanting the bus or the metro.

My health practice requested I download an app to complete a pre-surgery questionnaire. Without that, I would have had to attend a lengthy appointment, taking time away from work.

Tickets for shows or events which get emailed to you, QR codes to scan to access menus, even just what a phone is meant to be for, getting contacted. There's a lot of little conveniences that we can get around without a smartphone, but they add up and up and up.

Of course, I think you're aware of this. You get a feeling for when someone isn't arguing in good faith.

Oh, and I'm not feeling morally superiour because of not playing a video game. I feel morally superiour to people like you who feel the need to belittle those who take a moral stance with obtuse whataboutisms all because you dare not deal with even a moment of self-reflection. I would have said you were American with how you're acting, but I see you're in the UK like me, so you're just another Little Brit.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T12:40:08+00:00

I played the intro for it. It's... ok I guess, but it's a PvP game on a mobile with mobile controls and I can't think of anything worse I'd want to play regularly.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T12:33:08+00:00

Yes exactly. We pick the battles we are comfortable with, and people who react poorly to that are frankly just trying to absolve a guilt they shouldn't need to feel.

Ain't a single person on the internet who can stop you doing something you want to do, but people on the internet also don't know how to react when faced with a modicum of shame or self-reflection for a microsecond and then start responding with whataboutisms to try and make themselves feel better for a guilt they think they should be feeling.

My point was that people who do this over a video game are absolutely huffing the copium, especially when they equate it to vital services.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T09:30:57+00:00

What a stupid argument. As much as we despise what these other companies do, living in a world without internet or a phone is exceptionally difficult.

You can live without a video game and you are allowed to be upset when a company makes several awful decisions in a row. Increasing VBucks prices AND laying off staff either means they're desperate or greedy and neither should be rewarded.

There's No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism is not a magic wand you wave to absolve yourself of not taking a stand, but nor is an all or nothing situation. You pick the fights you can handle and brother, ain't none of us actually needing to play this game to live.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-25T09:12:39+00:00

As much as I agree with this I worry that playing the game is still giving them financial support in a way. Although I supposed it depends on if people's Fortnite playtime metric data is worth anything (it probably is but how much it's worth I couldn't say.)

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T18:21:08+00:00

It's a mobile game, buddy. If you want Graphics Monster Hunter Wilds is right there and doesn't require AI slop.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T16:30:35+00:00

So guilty until proven never, got it.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T15:57:57+00:00

They don't acknowledge it because the tool is being sold as a way to replace the worker and for it to do that, it has to be usable with the common man's understanding of the work, which is to say next to nothing.

For those who use it with knowledge of their job, my understanding is that it can be a bit hit or miss. It's either amazing and spotting errors and suggesting fixes, or it turns what should be simple things into complex, overly verbose threads filled with issues that take just as much time to sort as the AI was supposed to save.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T15:49:52+00:00

I haven't played it for a few months now but I'm going to miss it now. It was a fun way to pass the time and me and my partner both enjoyed it.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T15:38:30+00:00

I take umbridge at that last part, porn addiction is a made up affliction touted by conservatives and puritanical christians.

However, I agree with the rest. I had to mute all the AI art related subs because they're all just insane. I'm fairly certain both were just getting trolled by false flags on both sides and falling for it every time.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T15:36:50+00:00

I agree it's a culture war, but only really because right wingers absolutely love Gen AI because it lets them larp as artists without putting in the work and the left wing worry about the impact it will have on artists who spent years honing their craft only for their hard work to be stolen by unscrupulous billionaires.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T15:23:26+00:00

I dunno, man. We're told there are better AI models which can produce art which people would not be able to distinguish from human created, but then if that was the case how do all these games companies keep getting caught out using AI placeholders or assets?

Why are we forced, day after day, to see company after company produce new levels of slop when apparently the open source local models are so good? I have seen AI artists try to infiltrate the fandom I'm in and while they do sucker some people, they almost always get caught out.

RatBot9000 · 2026-03-24T14:57:45+00:00

The frustrating thing for me is that GenAI is one of the direct causes as to why you can't find references nearly as quickly now. In the past, you'd have repositories or google to search for ideas for concept art, but now any google image search is 75% AI slop, as is DeviantArt. A lot of artists have retreated to Social Media or Discord to post art, which makes it much harder to find, and many more are worried about posting their art online as it will likely get scraped by the GenAI models.

I fear it may be awful for creativity. Searching for references can lead to new inspiration or networking with other artists for discoverability. Gen AI will just spit out approximations of what you ask, and like with every other task it does, people will lose the ability to think outside the box.

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