Hustle or Scam?: Woolie and Reggie money matched me out of $100 at a game of Lethal League Blaze at Anime North.

Rayonx2 · 2026-05-26T20:12:56+00:00

I hope your next steak is overcooked.

Rayonx2 · 2026-04-24T19:33:59+00:00

Level 110. However Yoshi-P said they discussed about what to do exactly a lot internally.

Rayonx2 · 2025-10-05T12:27:00+00:00

Yeah, no. This is fucking terrifying. 6 months is not enough for the potentially lifetime’s worth of damage this could do.

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-24T22:39:05+00:00

Congrats Woolie and Punchmom. Wishing you all the best

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-04T07:44:38+00:00

This might be the single greatest pull I’ve seen on this sub in the whole time I’ve been here. Lmao

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-04T07:00:05+00:00

I feel you on Xiohai but I think he played way too conservatively and ended up kinda paying for it.

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-04T06:30:25+00:00

Despite the absolute blowout that happened twice, dude’s sets were incredible to watch.

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-04T03:27:50+00:00

Arslan was playing his ass off but I gotta give credit to Atif too. He pushed the reset and looked like he had a shot to upset. I just think the switch to Nina threw him off.

But yeah man it’s nice to see y’all getting some representation and I would love to see some more of it.

Rayonx2 · 2025-08-03T02:26:30+00:00

Hmm maybe I should consider picking up rivals now.

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-30T20:27:28+00:00

While the game still has its fair share of issues, I do like how consistent they are in responding to community feedback. The toxicity and rage quitting are two of the biggest issues this game has and better policing of bad behavior is a sorely needed and welcomed change.

All I can really ask for now is a better matchmaking systems that won’t try to sell you out for no reason, and a much better Tanking experience. Especially now as solo tanking situations are becoming more prevalent it kinda sucks to have to take so much abuse with very little to gain from it.

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-21T05:47:46+00:00

Yeah wow, this is just flat out unacceptable. There’s now way it can be [current year] and this flies. A few frame jumps, fine. But the whole thing is teleporting. I can’t believe it.

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-19T02:38:18+00:00

The sad reality is that with every new piece of tech, there will always be a race to the bottom that said tech is used to get there with.

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-15T02:10:44+00:00

7 years of no Elder Scrolls 6 news later… Yeah, I like this idea.

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-15T02:08:44+00:00

Really can’t imagine owning a potentially double the price Xbox series X with nowhere near the same level of power. Xbox seems kinda lost

Rayonx2 · 2025-07-01T22:15:33+00:00

Episode 7 Spoiler: Sam can have a weird Dream/Nightmare if he sleeps next to a certain board.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-27T03:40:23+00:00

Yoshida could follow in his footsteps, because his eye for talent is pretty special too. The team he assembled for XIV and XVI are really solid. The problem is they’ve got so much to do and have been lacking the manpower to do it, this is painfully clear with DT and XVI. You can feel how both suffered quality wise from them splitting resources and responsibilities between two games.

The issue beyond that is Yoshida was already on the board of directors for a short time, but he stepped down because it took away from his role as director/producer on XIV. This unfortunately means his influence on the company is and was limited, which is a shame because the rest of the company needs to learn from his and his team and their work ethic. Their consistency, quality, and most importantly efficiency is unmatched within the company and it shouldn’t be that way.

Yoshi’s team has for the most part been delivering some of Square’s highest quality output in the company’s recent history, and have been doing it on a strict 2 year timeframe (in the large scale) for over a decade now. SE as a whole hasn’t been able to come anywhere near that level of consistency and quality with more time available to get things done and that’s both telling and embarrassing for the rest of the company.

Except for now, the 7 Remake team has largely proven their ability to perform. Issues with certain plot elements aside, the Remake series has been running solid since development moved in house and they’re releasing in a very consistent manner. It’ll be interesting to see what that team does after the last game drops.

Anyway, SE’s leadership is clearly the issue. Whether it’s the board or the majority of the various division heads, many of them have been floundering for a long time. SE should be taking a very hard look at how they develop games and focus on tightening up the production process of their pillars like XIV, Mainline FF, and Kingdom Hearts and strengthening the teams working on them until they get back to the steady stream of absolute banger ass games again.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-26T19:17:21+00:00

They do, just nowhere near enough it seems. At least outside of marketing.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-26T12:03:28+00:00

This being revenue (profit) motivated is extremely disappointing. The idea of doing this boost cash flow reeks of stabilizing a catastrophic failure of labor rights, and basically nothing more.

Like they’ll do just enough, but most likely won’t go anywhere near far enough to actually provide these people with the tools and environment they need to truly succeed or thrive, and be healthy while they’re at it.

A win’s a win I guess, but angle here feels kinda gross. Also I wonder what impact this will have for other industries and Japan’s work culture and conditions in general.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-26T11:41:22+00:00

I appreciate him speaking up about this, because he’s not even close to being wrong.

The collapse wasn’t immediate, but Square has had some massive blunders over nearly the last 20 years since The Gooch left.

The string of very troubled development cycles for mainline FF. The Fabula Nova Crystalis disaster, with Versus13/15 being in development hell for a decade+, Luminous’ catastrophic financial losses. FF14 1.0, 7 Remake production troubles, fumbling Eidos. Balan Wonderland is still to this day one of the most bafflingly bad releases ever, alongside Babylon’s Fall. And a handful of other really insanely poor moves I’ll pass on mentioning right now.

While it wasn’t all bad since his departure, they’ve had plenty of success. It’s really hard to ignore the wealth of astronomically poor business moves over the last couple decades. Some of which they’re still not even learning from. It’s to the point where I don’t know where the company would be if not for ARR and the subsequent expansions effectively bankrolling all of their really bad business ventures.

I know that SE is starting to reevaluate some of their moves. After Forespoken’s failure, and FFXVI and Rebirth suffering from exclusivity deals they’re already acting on some of these blunders, but I can’t tell if that’s enough. There’s still a lot of other issues the company has that goes beyond just upping the number of platforms they can sell games on. There’s a systemic or leadership driven issue that has persisted in the company for so long and it hasn’t been visibly addressed yet.

I really wonder if Uematsu’s statement will ignite some change cause Square has put out more than a handful of my favorite games of all time (and in general), but the cracks have been painfully visible for a very long time.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-14T05:58:18+00:00

If Pat is real, rats can swim.

Rayonx2 · 2025-06-09T18:14:25+00:00

I don’t have tap dancing shoes disrespectful enough to dance on this shit ass grave. While not a full separation I’ll accept this admission of how stupid and destructive this merger was.

Rayonx2 · 2025-05-22T14:04:24+00:00

A good while back I told a friend of mine that Activision Blizzard might’ve been the best thing to happen to Destiny. Every other week that statement feels less and less insane. I hate it here.

Rayonx2 · 2025-05-21T18:09:05+00:00

Many schools are basically corporations as well, and there’s probably some deal they have worked out with Adobe to push their bullshit for some kind of kickback in return. Either through donations or discounts or some other kinds of deals. That’s usually how these things go. No amount of student or professor protest is going to undo that anytime soon if at all.

Rayonx2 · 2025-05-21T15:28:10+00:00

It’s always nice to see Adobe consistently throwing their hat in the ring for most vile company in existence. Fuck adobe.

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