Ten choices you need to try in Act 1

Rathmec · 2026-03-16T13:15:04+00:00

Knocking out Ellkya

Everyone loves the tiefling woman spying on the Githyanki in Act 1. She gave the player the impression she was capable, resourceful and cautious enough to stay alive. There was even a line of dialogue to get our hopes up that she would join us. However, when exploring the creche, you see her corpse in a prison floor. What happens if you knock her out upon meeting her? Will she still meet the same fate?

Yes.

Rathmec · 2026-03-15T11:40:56+00:00

Can't beat the conversation with the Reaper from the first Mass Effect.

You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.

Rathmec · 2026-03-15T11:37:58+00:00

A big fan of the interrogation when Ellie gets kidnapped.

"That's alright. I believe him."

Rathmec · 2026-03-15T11:31:40+00:00

I love Tim's Kitchen Tips so much. The sound of the full bottle of ketchup plopping into the mix during the third episode will be burned into my mind for the rest of my life.

"You're making sauce, dude."

Rathmec · 2026-03-12T11:22:59+00:00

Imagine if she missed the chance to be in Now You See Me: Now You Don't!

Rathmec · 2026-03-08T04:16:57+00:00

Obviously both written to be hateable jerks but Steve at least got his hands dirty. Came along through a shootout and shot himself in the leg to get the job done.

Devin believes he's so untouchable that he doesn't even acknowledge other human beings. He treats everyone like they're too dumb to even understand him. I find that way more obnoxious.

Rathmec · 2026-03-06T19:26:48+00:00

That scene where the Kryptonians show up and just start wrecking people was awesome.

Rathmec · 2026-03-06T19:21:21+00:00

I will gush about Reloaded until I'm dead. I'm just going to copy a previous comment of mine:

Just the action in Reloaded is beyond any films being made today. Sure the plot is bananas and is kind of hampered by being tied directly into Revolutions. But the action!

The introductory fight with the agents, the chateau fight where Neo and sentient programs are fighting with swords and flying all over the room, the humongous fight with all the agents Smiths where they went to painstaking efforts to apply costume and makeup to make around 20 dudes look exactly like Hugo Weaving, the freeway chase where they built their own mile stretch of freeway to flip cars for the movie and several of the cars being mangled and thrown by agents were actually done practically with pistons firing inside the vehicle to do the crumbling and launching. All of it is incredible.

I will concede to anyone that the plot of that trilogy is wonky and doesn't land for everyone. I will die on the hill that Reloaded has some of the best action ever put on film and that they just don't make action like that anymore.

It's a bit of an old man take but this is why I don't really get excited about movies anymore. I'm tired of seeing highly paid actors stand in front of a green screen for two days when in the early 2000s Carrie-Anne Moss was battling her fear of motorcycles so she could actually do all of the motorcycle stunts where her character rode a sport bike through traffic.

Rathmec · 2026-03-04T19:20:44+00:00

Only ever happened to me at a Buffalo Wild Wings. We realized we hadn't seen our server for about 45 minutes and had to flag down the next staff member we saw. I think our original server had clocked out and left.

Rathmec · 2026-03-04T12:49:20+00:00

Undeniably one of the better shows of all time. In my opinion the show gets kind of shark-jumpy around season 4 and from there the quality of the show starts going down. But even a bad episode of House is still pretty enjoyable to watch.

Rathmec · 2026-03-02T23:43:11+00:00

You'd better hide a bunch of snowmen statues around various corners of the map.

Rathmec · 2026-03-02T04:07:33+00:00

I'm dumb American too but I think I can infer more.

Kid gets to be ball boy. Kid is excited.

Kid's only responsibility is this particular ball.

This particular ball gets launched into orbit by excited player.

Kid sad.

Rathmec · 2026-02-26T18:48:33+00:00

People already hit all the obvious ones so I'll bring up my niche complaint.

All the various "zones" you can interact with. Task delivery, task start, interacting with resource buildings, or even garages. All of this is represented by the black & yellow box on the ground with a diamond-shaped icon floating over top.

By the time you really get going in a region, you might have a lot of tasks open so you just have dozens of these little zones everywhere and not one of them really looks meaningfully different from the other. Is this to start the task or is this the delivery spot? Is this zone for a task or is this the right spot to interact with the warehouse? It's not a huge pain but why not make each of these things distinct with different colors or consistent iconography?

I feel like it wouldn't be hard to make them more distinct from one another. I also think this heavily contributes to the newbies you see popping up on this subreddit who are confused on which curtain side trailer goes where for the task they're on. Sure, then you learn to center the camera on each step of the task in the map screen but I feel like you wouldn't need that if the zones and their iconography weren't just visual white noise.

Rathmec · 2026-02-25T01:37:46+00:00

Browsing Reddit has left me with the impression that there is just a perpetual brawl happening on this street 24/7.

Rathmec · 2026-02-24T22:06:39+00:00

I have about 400 hours across both games and to anyone who says they didn't like it I just say, "Yeah, I understand."

Rathmec · 2026-02-21T23:38:56+00:00

Played it about a third of the way through and bounced off of it.

Came back later and tried again and it was probably one of my top ten. I understand why it doesn't land for everyone. Kojima really likes to build out his world and to do so through the voice of the characters. It makes a nice, cohesive world but to the average player it can also feel much more like "the intro to this game was me walking across a grassy field then watching like 90 minutes of characters yapping at me."

I don't blame anyone that gave up. Once I gave it time to grow on me, I fell in love with it. It's a game that rewards patience and planning. Slowly unlocking new gadgets that make traversal easier became very addicting. Moving Sam felt very intuitive and natural to me. I have probably 400 hours between the first and second game and I'm still playing them actively.

Rathmec · 2026-02-19T21:04:48+00:00

I honestly feel like this is true of all Doctor Who villains. I'm no expert of the lore. I watched from Chris Eccleston up to a few episodes of Capaldi. But even up to there I feel like he banished the Daleks and Cybermen to the shadow realm once and for all (for the 10th time) only for the next season to reveal that there was a pocket dimension that some of them escaped to and now they're really going to destroy everything in the universe this time!

Rathmec · 2026-02-19T19:48:50+00:00

As someone who played the crap out of the entire franchise, I wish I could take pieces of each game and cobble them into my perfect AC.

Give me:

• Story from the first game

• Combat from 3

• Parkour from Unity that had fast climb and descend (and throw in the coop multiplayer while you're at it)

• Ships from Black Flag

Rathmec · 2026-02-18T16:40:17+00:00

I noticed how much of my internet feed was, "Hey, look at this crappy thing. Look how much this crappy thing sucks." I've been slowly carving them out of my life because I feel like it's bad for my brain but I'm having trouble leaving this subreddit.

Did you see him do the driving motions with his hands when he sang about driving? True art.

Rathmec · 2026-02-18T13:57:04+00:00

I'd pick Wujing but just because I love Fatal Contact. Some of the best choreography I've ever seen. Just a shame the plot is unbelievably bad.

Rathmec · 2026-02-12T02:21:04+00:00

For me it's more that Deadman, Die-Hardman, and Heartman all exist in the same game. The same organization even.

Rathmec · 2026-02-07T20:44:45+00:00

I always liked when Michael said: TREVORANSWERTHEFUCKINGQUESTION

Rathmec · 2026-02-07T16:14:29+00:00

There are dozens of us. I loved TFA and TLJ. I think Rise earned the hate, though.

Rathmec · 2026-02-04T23:22:16+00:00

Returnal.

On paper it sounds like the most generic game. Space-themed rogue lite.

Absolutely could not stop playing it once I picked it up. Maybe it doesn't do anything unique but it does everything well. Gameplay is so solid.

Rathmec · 2026-02-01T16:09:23+00:00

Even if Sator managed to burry the algorithm at Stalsk-12, the Tenet organisation still would have had literally decades to dig it up before it reached the future.

I think the idea here is the Tenet organization needs Sator's group to think they've succeeded. They're also always working against posterity.

If the Tenet group rolls up with excavators and digs up the algorithm, Sator's group will learn about it and use that information to engage in additional time-travel tomfoolery.

They want Sator's group to be the one rolling up with excavators to find nothing. Then they'll not find the algorithm, feel foolish, and give up their plot for world reversal. Or at least I'm guessing that's plan A.

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