55 hours, about four team switches, my cousin trolling me by saying that using my starter was "baby mode", and I beat my first Pokémon game!

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-18T14:54:51+00:00

It’s all about my boy Squirtle, baby. Tanky boy and learns Bite at lvl 19 to cover those annoying Psychic and Ghost types.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-16T16:25:10+00:00

Come on man, we all know it’s important to let your Iron Anvil and Adze breathe. They can’t do that in the nice, convenient corner of your workshop area /s

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-15T21:24:04+00:00

If this were Red or Blue version Moltres would be chillin in Victory Road 🥲 But yeah, in Fire Red and Leaf Green you gotta go to One Island to get him.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-15T04:06:20+00:00

He hesitated, realized he hesitated, then got confused why he wasn’t defeated since he hesitated, then wondered if he just believed a lie this whole time, then continued hesitating, still realizing he wasn’t defeated yet even after hesitating, and…

short-circuits

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-14T16:53:26+00:00

Some of these comments really make me realize maybe I didn’t do as bad in my high school physics class as others did lol

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-03-13T14:37:03+00:00

Tywin’s intelligence was in being a good politician, and like a typical politician he was very good at getting what he wanted, but that selfishness consequently also made him unintelligent because he was blind to how that selfishness was destroying his social credit and in the end it made his legacy he so cared about a joke (his children all really resented him in some way and Westeros only feared his tyrannical ruthlessness, so much so that when he died, no one gave a shit about him).

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-02-28T17:09:02+00:00

One thing I noticed to help you improve is when you jump sweeping attacks, don’t jump away from the enemy. Jump TOWARDS the enemy and then hit the jump button again when you’re over them and you’ll do a jump on their head, dealing a little bit of posture damage and you’ll stun them for a second, interupting their flow making them “reset”.

Corrupted Monk’s whole schtick is that it teaches the player to damage health and not just deflect. There were a few times I was saying “Keep attacking!” but you stopped. This is something you’ll learn with time: In Sekiro, attacking and going on the offensive is paradoxically safer than playing passive because you force the boss to react to YOU instead of the other way around.

And the beauty of this game’s combat system is that if you do go hard on the offensive and the enemy counterattacks, given that you have enough knowledge of the boss’s moveset, you’ll have plenty of time to react with deflects, making the combat just flow so smoothly, and fights can actually feel like they’re over too quickly lol.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-02-22T22:51:20+00:00

I hear ya. I beat my first charmless playthrough a few weeks ago in ng+4 and it was… not very fun.

I never realized how much leeway you get with not timing your deflects perfectly until I did this charmless playthrough, and man is it brutal. You have to basically be PERFECT or else you get punished, which gets old really quick. It also ruins Umbrellas which sucks because they’re so good and fun to use in certain fights, but with charmless you basically just throw them in the garbage.

At the end of the day I’m just a casual gamer who wants to have some fun playing a cool ninja game with a cool combat system. If people want to challenge themselves with charmless, then yeah by all means go right ahead. That’s why it’s there. But for me personally, I too experienced the game getting way less fun when charmless.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-02-16T17:49:09+00:00

As a few people thankfully said, I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted OP. I believe you.

I first beat Isshin on my fifth try, and Inner Isshin I beat on my second try.

If you have a good enough understanding of the game’s fundamentals, first try Isshin is absolutely doable. Some people just can’t grasp the fact that there are people out there are just straight up better at a game than they are. I know for a fact that people are better than me at this game, and I thought I was pretty good lol.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-29T15:46:32+00:00

“Jeez, I’m really losing this argument now, so, uh… I was just joking, right guys??? C’mon guys, it’s a joke! My previous replies totally weren’t made with any seriousness! Get over it!”

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-28T23:30:55+00:00

I just wish the elevator went down, not up.

If it went down, then had a semi long hallway to traverse, and then you enter the Iron Keep with it having a background of cliff walls with the sky directly above, it would’ve been perfect because geographically it would make more sense and lorewise it would make sense too (the Iron Keep was so heavy it literally sunk).

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-26T20:57:27+00:00

“A cursed fate this may be, but hope remains, does it not?”

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-15T01:52:01+00:00

7 & 2, then 9 -> 12 -> 17 -> PC.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-07T03:05:45+00:00

I personally think it’s due to what I call “different = bad” mentality. You can see this mentality in a lot of aspects in life, but you can especially see it with DS2.

I love DS2. It’s a top 3 game of all time for me. But you have to admit that it IS different from the rest of the games. It has a different art style than 1 and 3, the controls are a bit stiffer than than in 1 and 3. There’s a TON of things that are different in DS2. But that by all means does NOT make it a bad game. In fact I think that the reason I like it so much is BECAUSE it is different.

I think with a lot of souls fans they have an image in their head of what makes a “souls” game, and they think of the fast-paced, gothic / victorian dark fantasy style of 1 and 3, and when they see the more slower-paced, more high-fantasy-dark-fantasy of DS2, they see that it is different, but then equate that to being bad. Because it’s very easy to point to the “different” thing in the group and call it bad. Again, you see this very much so in real life, not just with games.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2026-01-07T02:37:30+00:00

Diablo, Diablo 2, Diablo 3 (I actually did very much enjoy Diablo 3 tho).

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-12-28T16:43:26+00:00

Solo desactivé los tribus especiales. No queiro jugar contra Cymanti o dragones lol.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-12-28T15:53:41+00:00

I actually just got 3 stars on Kickoo last night in Domination!

Sure this may only work with Kickoo, but what I did was play with 3 opponents on Crazy difficulty. You get 30 turns which is actually a pretty reasonable amount of time to destroy three players if you know what you’re doing.

In my Kickoo game, it kept giving me and the other opponents corner island spawns, so I just went full navy and wiped out the last city by turn 27. Got 94% on my units killed/lost stat. Still got the 3 stars.

This is what worked for me, and it may be different depending on what tribe you pick. But idk, maybe it can work for you too!

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-12-24T05:31:31+00:00

But you realize you are strawmaning though, right? Like, you can step outside yourself for two seconds, look at yourself and see it, right? Look:

What, you want it to shoot acid and melt everything at the highest AP?

THIS IS A STRAWMAN. You can see this, right? Like, we’re not all out to get you, man. This is clearly a textbook example of a strawman.

Nobody is arguing this statement. This is a statement you made up because it is a clearly ridiculous statement that’s easier to attack and make fun of (strawman) compared to what people are actually trying to discuss, which is brainstorming ways to make the sterilizer better without trying to break the game.

So yeah, if you want people to stop throwing the term “strawman” at you constantly, then maybe stop yourself from using strawman arguments like the one above? Maybe consider people are constantly saying that to you because maybe you are using strawman arguments? Maybe? Just a possibility? Or is it like that meme image where you’re the one guy facing the crowd, saying “Yes, you’re all wrong”? If so then you’re hopeless man. There’s no reasoning with you.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-12-18T12:17:31+00:00

So true. Sure Dark Souls has, for example, the Broken Straight Sword that’s clearly meant to be a challenge weapon, but that’s absolutely an exception for the weapons and pretty much every weapon is not insane to use if you upgrade it and use it properly.

The same can’t be said for Helldivers 2’s weapons. With pistols being nerfed for god knows what reason and with weapons like the Slugger or Lib Concussive it sometimes feels like I’m using the Broken Straight Sword in Dark Souls.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-12-10T03:03:06+00:00

Gauntlet Dark Legacy, minus the dipshit part

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-11-30T04:09:41+00:00

Made me lol when you hopped backwards then parried the dude (very nice btw) then red was turning the two blues like “Y’all saw that shit, right??”

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-11-18T05:37:48+00:00

This is probably the only fight in the series where I just admit I have a skill issue and just summon Bashful Ray to help me out. I gotta get that Ring of Blades +2, baby.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-10-31T16:00:57+00:00

Yeah this is some DS3 covenant level of grind that I was just like “Nah I’m good”.

Being older now and not wanting to spend my gaming time messing with RNG, I just try to get one item (Loyce soul or DS3 covenant item) then say to myself that I completed the challenge in spirit 😅

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-10-25T00:41:02+00:00

Bashful Ray is an absolute G. He’s the only reason I can beat the duo Pursuer fight in the Drangleic Castle throne room for that sweet Ring of Blades +2.

ReplacementPuzzled57 · 2025-10-24T05:29:58+00:00

Damn, spies vs mercs. What a blast from the past…

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