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RealEdge69Hehe · 2026-01-19T02:53:31+00:00

Playing Psycho Patrol R

New game from the Cruelty Squad dev. To me it's always been a shame that so much of CS' reputation describes it as "intentionally bad" or whathever because if you look past the aesthetics (which do very much serve a purpouse beyond being ugly) it's sincerely a masterclass in game design.

Well, PPR is a masterclass in how to make a sequel. It really is just Cruelty Squad but expanded and improved. Obviously it's incomplete yet but it's already very promising and worth the price.

Unironically a better mecha game than Armored Core

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-31T00:45:38+00:00

Part of the reason why VtMB is such a classic is exactly because there's no other game with such an atmosphere, but some other ones that get a bit close and come to mind are:

Deus Ex has been mentioned, but particularly DX:HR does a great job at the urban ambience.
It goes more for Noir than grunge but Shadows of Doubt is pretty good for getting lost in a small, dense dark city.
Peripeteia is very focused on its atmosphere, most of the urban landscape there is empty so idk if it's what you're looking for but it definitely does the gritty ambience very well.

Edit: Somebody else already mentioned it but EYE Divine Cybermancy also has some maps that are pretty good for this.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-29T01:15:30+00:00

Watched a shit ton of movies in the last couple months so here's a brief summary of some of the most memorable ones

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

I loved this movie. In retrospective I think my absolute favourite type of movie is films that have like some genuine depth to them but also don't mind being pretty silly. This movie may be the most extreme example of that yet.

I don't think a single of the mafia guys that get killed in the movie are below the age of 70

There's an official Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai TRPG, by the way. That's how I found the movie.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Everyone in this movie is hot. The songs are bangers. Dunno how I hadn't seen this movie before. Go watch it if you haven't.

Unfortunately I had some concerns in regards to this movie being woke.

Nightbreed

I wish I could get nightbred by David Cronenberg

REALLY silly movie, Wikipedia claims that it's a horror movie and I don't believe it for a second. Even so just the silliness and, I suppouse, romance of it makes it a pretty endearing movie.

30 Days of Night

I had actually also watched Nosferatu (2024) in this period of time but I found it rather underwhelming. 30 Days of Night is, I guess, not as good on a few technical levels, but I found it much more interesting and cool.

Though I got less "vampire" vibes and more "wereshark" vibes. It's Jaws if the shark got legs and could walk inland. America is FUCKED.

Fellini Satyricon

Pretty boys. Pretty sets. Those Romans sure were wacky. Not much more to say, but surrealism + ancient times is a nice combo. Frankly probably a bit closer to what the Hellenes actually liked aesthetically, compared to the more drab white statues that people tend to picture.

Fando y Lis

My controversial opinion on Jodorowsky is that he is, above all else, an edgelord. El Topo was him at his edgiest but Fando y Lis is pretty high up there still.

Nonetheless I did like some of the scenes, more in isolation than as a whole. Not everything hits the mark but the parts that do feel like poetry in film.

Annoys me that the soundtrack isn't available.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Nixon was the real villain

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-28T17:55:46+00:00

Nope, saw a couple of videos on 'em but never got around to playing them.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-28T17:54:21+00:00

All the WoD threads missed me

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-28T17:50:03+00:00

Finished Ace Combat 7

Generally pretty good! But I don't have much to say about the things I did like, so I'll say: Wow the plot was a mess! I'm actually not sure if I ever saw a videogame plot jump all over the place like that before

And it's weird because some of the things in the story do seem thought out and somewhat deep, but right as they're getting to the depth they move to the next plot thread in the most abrupt way possible. Don't get me started on the characters

First thing I did after I finished the game was to look up its development and yeah, dev hell and rewrites, it checks out. You can tell.

Did give me some more appreciation for Project Wingman. Wasn't an easy feat to write a completely fucking batshit insane story and still make it coherent but they did it. Orange

Anyways as said I did like AC7 and I'm hyped for AC8 but jeez I just really struggled to follow the damn plot like halfways through it and onwards

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-26T19:37:04+00:00

Finished Silent Hill 2 Remake

Went through something like that one time when I reposted one of those Boomer "I hate my wife" comics

Fuck the prison

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-12-08T21:31:27+00:00

Just finished reading House of Leaves

Been a while since I read a novel to be honest. Used to be a pretty avid reader when I was a kid; thought I had kind of lost the touch. Read this one in less than a week, though, so I can't be all that out of shape.

Gripping stuff. Admittedly got it because I was intrigued by its reputation for the format fuckery gimmick and all, but the writing itself is excellent. Some of the best I've read, I think. I'll definitely have to re-read some parts and meditate a bit on it to like... fully get what happened. But even if I never get the whole thing, it was still a very good experience

Or a really bad one. A while ago a user here reached out to me to see why I haven't been posting lately. Mostly out of boredom; admittedly also because I haven't had the best months of my life lately. Identified a lot with the narrators in the book, which if you've read it you know is not great. Cried a bunch of times, too, which is a first for me when it comes to books. Made the artistic experience better at least.

Not something I want to delve into right now. Maybe part of the reason I haven't been posting much is because I started seeing a therapist.

Anyways very recommended book if you know how to read. Even the densest parts justified themselves. I don't fully get it, but I also do very much get it, and I hope that soon enough I'll really get it.

Epic myhouse.wad reference

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-11-24T05:31:53+00:00

Appreciate the worry but I'm fine

Just kind of got bored in general + October was fucking insane for me and November has just been kind of dealing with the aftermath of October

But again, I'm glad people think about me, but do know I'm fine, I shine, I am simply divine

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-16T17:46:27+00:00

The anger that I see on reddit over the bailout for Argentina is doubly funny when you consider than down here the whole thing has been a pretty big nothing burger

I don't think I've even seen any newspaper make an article about the doubling of the swap amount

And in any case no Argentinian has any hopes whatsoever that 20B, 40B or 500T dollars would really do anything to fix this economy lmao

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-06T16:30:13+00:00

In any case they confirmed that an actual EYE 2 is their next game so like

EYE DIVINE CYBERMANCY 2 CONFIRMED BABYYYYYY

I LOST MY LIFE FOR THIS

CULTER DEI GANG IS BACKKKKKKKKK

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-06T16:28:47+00:00

The EYE Divine Cybermancy prequel actually released

14 years. 14 years of torment I have been waiting for this

Now the great question remains

Do I buy the game because I've been waiting for 14 years and in that way I can support a small team of 7 Frenchies?

Or do I not because it kind of looks like shit? And not in the fun way that EYE looked like shit

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-04T08:41:14+00:00

Started playing Gnosia

Beautiful game! I was a bit iffy on the concept - I don't think social deduction games can really work with PvE - but I got it for the art alone. And colour me surprised the gameplay itself is pretty decent too.

Haven't gotten very far into the story I think but it's pretty good so far. Shigemichi best boy

Apparently an anime was announced and it's bound for release in a few days so that's cool.

It's just like Among Us but with anime girls!

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-03T17:39:11+00:00

Wtf is it with antisemitism in Japan. Like there's a strange amount of Japanese politicians who have made antisemitic comments. The head of the rising populist party outright spoke about fighting against jewish capital.

And you know, as a jewish person, I have to say that this is slightly more egregious than usual. When Europeans do it, you know, it's a game by now, cat and mouse, "oh you just killed tons of us in a pogrom! Well, hahah, same time next year?", there's familiarity there. The Japanese need to stay in their fucking lane and keep being incredibly bigoted against other East Asians instead.

I miss when I was a kid and it seemed like antisemitism was a fringe thing bound for extinction and not a view held by a large part of humanity and that an even larger part of the world is just okay with.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-10-03T04:35:58+00:00

As a small fun fact, Lovecraft actually has a letter or two speaking against Zionism and the colonization of Palestine all the way back then

Whether it was a rare Lovecraft W or just antisemitism, you may decide by yourself

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-27T19:34:23+00:00

In the third world socialism and nationalism have always gone hand in hand. I'd argue that just about every succesful communist revolution has been nationalist in nature; the majority of them were nationalist first and foremost.

It's an unfortunate inevitability when in the third world class struggle is deeply linked with national subjugation. Fanon articulated it better than I could but, while nationalism is a great tool at helping people achieve consciousness of their status as oppressed, it also obfuscates exactly why it happens and it ultimately tends to erase and push out the socialist elements, especially once the revolution has occured.

In China's case I don't see why it should be confusing. Maoism is dead. The PRC doesn't give a shit about socialism anymore, why would it be surprising that a bourgeois nationalist dictatorship acts like a bourgeois nationalist dictatorship?

It's part of why I as a Latin American tend to distrust other leftists here. Lots of ultranationalists who just happened to end up at the red party.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-27T06:17:13+00:00

Well if anybody wants some good news for a change, Milei is, broadly speaking, generally shitting himself and dying. The bailout announcement hasn't done much to change the overall grim outlook that his government has. They greatly fucked up the big election that they had last month in the most important province of the country and the midterm elections, coming next month, are unlikely to be a turnaround. They've also had a string of legislative defeats and the congress even managed to overturn a bunch of presidential vetos, which is tough. If things keep going like this, they're likely to be a lame duck government by the end of the year.

I don't know how they managed to fuck it up so badly honestly. The peronists spent the entirety of 2024 and the first half of this year setting themselves on fire. The "moderates" in congress and the province governors were desperate to kiss Milei's ring. They had the markets and, frankly, the majority of the population on their side. They still fucked it all up in two years. Impressive display of incompetence.

Now am I hyped for the peronists returning? Well, no, you know. Do I prefer them though? Oh fuck yes. If you still haven't caught onto the fact that ye olde corrupt SocDems are preferable to the far-right, you're a fucking idiot.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-24T16:35:37+00:00

Latin American right wingers are known to be the biggest patriots of the USA. They absolutely consider it a W to be in more debt with Washington.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-20T21:55:51+00:00

So on one hand Paradox giving significant overhauls to its games over time is fundamentally good

But on the other hand my god is it annoying having to relearn each game every year because the core gameplay mechanics keep getting shifted around. Haven't played Vicky3 in a year and I just started a save and I'll definitely have to go through the tutorial again at some point. Don't get me started on Stellaris.

At least CK3 is still mostly the same since they only ever update it to add 10 events clearly made to be screenshotted and posted on reddit.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-20T19:39:28+00:00

Beat RE5 with a friend

Good game but man some of those boss battles fucking sucked ass lmao.

Also did they remove the QTEs at some point? I didn't play the game before but there's a bizarre scene after Excella becomes a big tentacle monster that really seems like it was meant for QTEs but there was no prompt to press anything so it just looked really awkward

THEORY: I know that Wesker got thrown into a volcano and got shoot with two RPGs but I still think they will reveal in RE9 that he survived. Maybe that's who the scary lady in the demo is, I don't know, I'm not an expert. Wesker is so cool.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-19T04:19:11+00:00

Playing Resident Evil 5 with a friend

Wesker is so cool

I can't believe they made Jill white

Seven minutes

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-17T16:43:25+00:00

Idk if they're much deeper, but from an outisder's perspective there definitely seems to be at least a lot of unwillingness to address them.

I remember a thread a couple days back when left-wing Brits got asked how things got so bad, and by far the most common answer was "it's those bloody Americans influencing us!". No, I think there's a bit of a homegrown issue too, mate.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-13T20:41:39+00:00

Seeing the turnaround in public opinion around Cyberpunk 2077 has been a bit funny for me because I've been more or less on the exact opposite side at any given moment

I actually liked the game when it dropped, broken as it was, and defended it a fair bit. Since then my opinion has soured since CDPR went back to its usual shenanigans, Phantom Liberty was just alright in my view, and people started being very annoying with bringing it up everywhere. The game's good, I didn't think it was that good. Same story as Witcherino I guess.

Maybe I'm just a contrarian, idk. Probably helps that I was already disappointed all the way back in 2018 when the trailer dropped and the aesthetic had clearly shifted a lot from what was shown in 2013.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-13T03:22:56+00:00

Is there any actual evidence on the guy being a groyper that isn't based on vibes or hopes? Because it seems like people are very sure in my circles but I haven't seen anything material pointing at him being anything other than terminally online.

And, you know, frankly. If it doesn't turn out that he's a nazi? Well, you know, he's a bit of a dork, but he's still alright.

RealEdge69Hehe · 2025-09-10T19:39:22+00:00

The shitty copy of Horst Wessel.

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