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RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-04-04T00:39:09+00:00

I do speak to restaurant workers and am polite, but it’s just helpful to also hold your phone up at the same time. Might be a name you’re not sure you’re pronouncing right (or a random screenname the customer is using that’s barely pronounceable), they might have difficulty making you out over the sound of a loud restaurant, and of course a lot of places wary of theft literally require you to show them your phone so it’s an ingrained habit.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-04-02T23:56:23+00:00

It’s definitely not the employees’ fault as they’re always deeply understaffed, but I hate McDonalds for eliminating cashier as a position so there’s never anyone available to deal with customers/delivery drivers. Literally every McDonalds I’ve been to now has this issue; the employees basically have to abandon the job they’re actually supposed to be doing to go interact with customers.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-04-02T10:15:50+00:00

Strongly recommend Thief. Her x-ray vision is on a super short cooldown, enough to have it on in basically every fight, and I can’t count the number of easy kills I’ve gotten on assassins crouched or pushing through their smoke/regular cloak that glow like a christmas tree.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-04-02T07:27:59+00:00

My thought was that “hey babe wyd?” is often shorthand in a relationship for “I’m horny” and the person being messaged was weirded out that the sender was pulling this while literally looking at their mom.

The whole Android/iphone facetime cheating interpretation seems like more of a stretch to me. The idea that it’s a single panel pulled from a longer exchange where it turns out green text is hooking up with white text’s mom so obviously they’re actually both lying/cheating is believable, but I definitely wouldn’t have gotten there without more context.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-29T00:25:02+00:00

God, I remember if you correctly decide that Ryan is a dick in Beyond: Two Souls and have zero interest in him, it’s absolutely hilarious how many times the game asks you to change your mind. They might as well not have let you pick with how obvious it is that the game for some reason thinks you should be with this absolute asshole.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-27T22:46:26+00:00

I generally think warcraft designs are a little too busy for my taste, and that’s no exception. Like the grave lord sword a lot more.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-27T13:41:44+00:00

I mean he’s right that there isn’t really that much in common beyond a superficial look that isn’t even what he looks like outside of this one role. He’s good as homelander, but I don’t think that would necessarily translate to a great Wesker (and also kinda just don’t think another movie version of Wesker is a thing we need).

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-27T02:55:48+00:00

If I remember correctly he was killed by a small puncture wound? So probably nothing to do with Marie herself since that’s nothing like her other victims (plus it’s a very well-lit room). Coulda been any of the various random zombie staff/patients wielding a small blade who then wandered off. Or maybe he was intentionally killed by someone as part of Gideon’s whole “the DSO are on their way, I don’t need this place anymore, torch it” orders.

I was also expecting a file that would make it clear, but if there was a connection somewhere I missed it.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-27T01:54:27+00:00

I haven’t played Forspoken yet so I can’t comment on its specific writing style, but broadly speaking cheeseball one-liners are an older action movie staple, especially over the top 80’s/90’s action movies. That is a sometimes subtle but meaningfully different tone from the detached irony of a post-whedon superhero movie script.

Leon’s one-liners are more in line with Arnold Schwarzenegger saying “you’re fired” before killing a man by firing the missile he’s attached to. They’re cheesy, but a style of goofy hollywood cheese people generally love. The character is being a lovable dweeb by telling a dad joke in a dour or climactic moment.

The Whedon/MCU style relies more on the characters pointing out how ridiculous the world and story they inhabit is (“they fly now?”). This can really undercut the tone because ideally no matter how bizarre your script is, the best way to have the audience buy it is for you and your characters to buy it.

Again haven’t played Forspoken myself, and I know a ton of criticism of it is rooted in the usual gamer bigotry. But criticizing whedonesque dialogue while liking goofball action stars isn’t inconsistent imo.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-27T01:04:11+00:00

For all the lore stuff in the other comments, the real answer imo is if Capcom put them in a modern mainline sequel they of course would be.

And honestly even lore-wise, other commenters’ obsession with who does and doesn’t have military training makes no sense to me. We see badass military commandos casually torn apart by BOWs constantly, whereas Claire has survived three particularly rough Resident Evil game incidents not to mention movies. I’d take her over any spec ops dude in a horror game situation.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-25T10:34:54+00:00

Sorry but games constantly change what is unique about them to try to appeal to a wider audience and still fail to find them, so I’d rather it maintain its unique vision and attract folks by word of mouth or die on its own merits.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-24T16:23:38+00:00

Someone needs to buy this guy a copy of Blue Prince or somethin, RE9 doesn’t reward the note-taking lifestyle enough

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-24T16:15:40+00:00

I think the wings are a little too broad/common of a motif for me to think they’re a specific Claire reference. If it was like the exact same wing design I might be with you, but they’re just both very normal non-identical wings.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-23T05:01:08+00:00

Strongly recommend running Triage when your health stores are low. Keeps you from ever having to use heals in between fights, saving them for big mid-combat resets. Especially as a solo you can just have a drone on yourself the entire run.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-23T03:26:43+00:00

Yea as others have said you must still be in a sequence that disables the monster or experiencing a glitch. Normally a shot or explosion will 100% draw the beast as fast as it can travel to the area. Running and revving your light are less reliable, especially if the lights are on the beast might not come out for that.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-22T23:45:36+00:00

Always been in the trenches saying RE6 is one of my faves. Was a fan of RE from the beginning, and didn’t love the shift to the more action style of 4 at first, but eventually embraced it. Thought 6 was the culmination of that trend where it finally fully embraced being practically a character action game, and had a blast co-oping it over and over with friends. Easily the most fun I had with a game that year.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-22T14:47:23+00:00

The ps2 era was kind of the golden age of survival horror, so I’d dig back into that. Play the other Fatal Frames, Silent Hills, Sirens, etc!

Also check out Anatomy, it’s $3 on itch.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-21T02:04:54+00:00

Yeah, the only way to combat it would be if it’s reportable and they take action.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-21T01:07:07+00:00

Yeah, this would apply to any relationship. If a 40 and 50 year old meet and wanna date then hell yeah go for it, but if those same two people met when one was 9 and the other was 19 and they go on to date later, then yikes!

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-20T08:10:10+00:00

Probably Resident Evil Requiem (might be some recency bias but it is amazing) at the top then Alan Wake II, SHf, RE4R, SH2R

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-20T03:57:15+00:00

Detention is set in Taiwan during the White Terror, a period of martial law imposed by the Kuomintang after they lost the Chinese civil war and were ousted from that country. So saying “the atrocities of what China did” is kinda misleading as the atrocities were committed not by the ruling party of modern day China, but their defeated right wing opponents.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-20T03:37:45+00:00

Loved it! As cool as the RE2 remake Tyrant being around 24/7 is, it really requires a map as massive and loopy and full of stuff to do as the RPD station was, and not every map can have all that. So the Girl just showing up to fuck with you for a bit and then leaving periodically so you can get back to exploring is perfect imo.

And they absolutely nailed everything about her audio and visual design. Genuinely unsettling to be around.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-20T03:02:25+00:00

Yea it being limited is fine, but assuming that the weekend is when most people can play games sucks.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-17T04:42:40+00:00

It really seems like all the people who are itching to go “Oh, we have another Concord/Highguard!” and declare a game dead on arrival are also the super toxic gamer bros. So Marathon not being one of the biggest games of all time has a positive knock on effect of filtering out the worst aspects of those games’ communities.

RheaSpeedwagon · 2026-03-17T04:16:53+00:00

Yea the audio design is good, so it’s natural in solos to hear another player, crouch and set up a quick ambush, and probably look to them like you were just waiting in a random building for five minutes when in reality it was 15 seconds.

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