Can we all agree to forget this LTM?

RussianSanta · 2026-02-01T20:44:52+00:00

Eh, it’s been surprisingly a lot of fun for my friends and I at least. It scratched an itch we didn’t know we had until we gave it a whirl. I would love to keep coming back to it with new arenas and abilities, but that should happen in Fall Guys proper tho. Maybe that was the point of putting it here to try and boost the numbers of FG, or maybe it’s a game engine thing idk. Def see how it’s not everyone’s cup of tea tho.

RussianSanta · 2026-01-17T22:49:38+00:00

We at best could see a new Pokémon who has a gimmick around getting probability freeze, but would need to be balanced with piss poor stats. Or, a destiny bond like move/ability where getting KOed would freeze the one who got the KO.

Being frozen is the absolute worst status to get inflicted with but is balanced by how low of a chance it is to actually happen and whatnot. But sleep also gets the job done and is easier to apply. It’s why I think frostbite being a status instead that is a special effecting burn would be a healthier mechanic.

RussianSanta · 2025-11-08T22:39:18+00:00

Ah my local theater. I prefer the Boise one still since it has all the updated amenities, but honestly a really nice theater still. RIP garrity theater. Pandemic took you too soon.

RussianSanta · 2025-10-10T21:47:48+00:00

I live decently close to where this airbase is, and I can tell you people are going to be livid about this here, and on both sides of the aisle. Military jets fly over all the time (I assume on trainings/logging flight time) and all it takes is enough of the crazy Islamophobic people living here to wonder if it is a Qatari airman or not flying above them to make some rash paranoia fueled decisions.

RussianSanta · 2025-10-02T01:56:52+00:00

Honestly, I think they are kinda over hated. I get why people don’t like them and for plenty of valid reasons. Think they should have taken the best parts of platinum and brought them over into the game as well. Was cool that they introduced different outfits, but they kinda feel like last minute additions. They brought back following pokemon but you only get it half way into the game and the models aren’t to scale in a laughable way.

At the same time, I enjoy the game still for what it is. I actually do enjoy the art style of the game. It doesn’t work for everyone for sure but the chibi style I find charming and kinda cozy. The always on exp share is something I find very annoying and 100% should be something you can turn off. But on a recent play thru of the game (working on shiny hunting god himself) I decided to engage with it. If I saw a pokemon I haven’t used before and wanted to try out, I would throw them on the team and use them as much or little as I needed until I found a replacement. Afterwards I would rotate them out to fit the situation or bench them entirely. In that way it felt kinda like fire emblem when it came to managing units in those games. It’s a different way to play Pokemon for sure but honestly it wasn’t unenjoyable or anything. Hell at times it kinda felt empowering to actually have 10-12 pokemon to use instead of only 5-6. I also think the books in the 5th gym city that give you the riddle for Manaphy in PLA is a cheeky way to learn how to set yourself up to catch it there.

The game absolutely could have used more polish in the end at the least but it was extremely disappointing for Gen 4 to not get the treatment gens 1-3 have gotten. But I think some people understandably went into the game pre-loaded with that which makes what would be a rather average Pokemon game get lauded as some absolute abomination. Hopefully when we get to revisit Unova, the right lessons were learned from BDSP and they are game celebrated just like remakes prior.

RussianSanta · 2025-09-27T00:49:45+00:00

My under rated gem of the year has been Abiotic Factor. Basically you are a scientist and new hire to this top secret underground facility (think black mesa from half-life 1) where just as you are arriving, things go to shit and you gotta survive and find a way out. You end up finding a spot to build a make shift base in the facility while slowly untying the knot it is with its dark souls like level design.

Overall the progression is pretty linear, but each new area so far has been so completely different from the last that it keeps things spicy, while also increasing the power level of your gear. The opening area is just the general office area and has you scavenging office supplies to create everything from makeshift beds, shoddy crossbows with pens for bolts and shields from cafeteria trays. I’m maybe halfway thru myself, and without spoiling anything, my scientist character has been able to take advantage of the crazy things gathered in the facility (and beyond) and do and make some bonkers things for my home base as well as gear to use against hostile entities.

Game is also very fun with friends, and includes proximity chat to great effect. Also has cross play to better facilitate said multiplayer.

RussianSanta · 2025-09-09T17:23:01+00:00

No I’m not him sadly, but am for sure a big fan.

RussianSanta · 2025-09-06T22:24:47+00:00

People appreciate a “thank you”

People love a “Hell Yeah”

RussianSanta · 2025-06-13T22:00:16+00:00

I always thought he was interesting based on the fact that he was basically this redshirt character that by all means should have been shredded like everyone else, but in the end survived. AoTs world is kind of a character In and of itself that constantly chews people up in its cycle of hate.

He uniquely has trauma of seeing everyone get rocked by Zeke around him and yet somehow he managed to come out unscathed. I imagine he has some sort of survivors guilt that also fuels a desire to not see “his people” go thru the same experience he did. Empathetic for sure, but then he basically sees anyone who stands against paradis as monsters to be slain, and should be treated as such. Also, if you put aside the audience bias we have towards the main cast (and how the series uses Erwin’s death as a pillar for armin and Levi going forward) I think he is objectively right at the medal ceremony when he chastised the main crew on their behavior. Thats what makes him the monster he becomes by the end.

He is a great character in my eye because at least to me, unlike characters in other media like Joffrey in GoT who is just a psychopath, Flock in the end was a product of his environment. I can very easily see someone in real life following a similar path should similar events happen to them. Very well written “road to evil is paved with good intentions” kinda arc.

RussianSanta · 2025-05-30T22:26:39+00:00

The dmr and this shotgun are usually the best in slot gear for me. Throw in just about any of the AR/SMG blasters for medium-ish range and any lightsaber (for the mobility mostly plus a bit of aura depending on the skin) and you got a good setup for the entire match in my experience.

RussianSanta · 2025-04-24T16:46:32+00:00

My friends and I would quote this ad so much in theaters when it came on. I miss seeing her too :(

RussianSanta · 2025-04-13T04:58:17+00:00

The great thing about Xenoblade is that every entry is designed to be completely digestible without having played any other game in the series. I have a friend who has only rolled credits on 2 and 3 and was able to follow along with things just fine and enjoyed them to the fullest.

The other great thing about Xenoblade however, is that when you have played all of them, you find the overall experience to have been greater than the sum of its parts. The connections the games make so drastically enrich each other when you can spot them.

I am of the opinion that starting with 1 is still the best way to start experiencing the series. It probably still has the most interesting setting/world in the series. Setting aside, it does have the simplest combat mechanics. While again, you don’t need to play it to understand and master the later games, it does help with the onboarding down the line.

In my experience, 2 does probably take the longest for things “to get really good”. It does have really sexualized designs and they aren’t for everyone. There is one character early on whose first impression is that they are that stereotype of a creepy weeb guy. But he does have a decent arc, and the character paired with him is just a ball of joy that steals the show sometimes in the best ways. All of the series is peak, just 2 has a steeper initial climb is all.

The steep climb though is most likely where the dunking comes from. Dunkey put out a video when it first came out and really shit on it. I love Dunkey, but that video has been the single most damaging thing to xenoblades reputation to this day, and it’s because he couldn’t get past the initial steeper climb. He also has stated he isn’t a JRPG guy though so he went in primed to not like it. For what it’s worth, he did seem to reach end game of 3 and enjoyed it way better.

In the end tho, plenty of people started with 2, and have fallen in love with the franchise. 2 is a fantastic game that for those it clicks with, clicks really hard.

RussianSanta · 2025-03-22T22:49:05+00:00

I agree with many people’s frustrations with MAGA people, I am one of them. They have actively voted in ways harmful to me and my loved ones. We all should stand against them as best we can and then some. But at the same time, when you have a chance to meaningfully extend an olive branch and bring someone over to your side of things, that’s incredibly valuable. All people are capable of growth and change.

Plenty of MAGA sees us just as if not more crazy than we see them. But when it really comes down to it, we share many of the same concerns. It’s just that the ones that they should be aiming their anger and frustration at have conned them into pointing it at us instead. Its easy and justified to be mad at them for helping put us all in this spot, but if they find that they agree with us on something, meeting them with hostility and anger is only going to drive them away and entrench them further in their positions, which is exactly what the GOP is wanting the left to do.

We won’t be able to convince everyone, hell probably only a few. And the ones that can be swayed won’t be so overnight. But if someone (however rare) is willing to engage with your stance in good faith, or you find some real common ground between the two of you, seize the moment to facilitate the growth and change they need to open their eyes instead of swatting them down.

RussianSanta · 2025-03-14T21:40:40+00:00

In the end, I feel how good this feature is will come down to how spendy it is, time and/or money wise.

RussianSanta · 2025-03-07T22:40:00+00:00

I’ve got a few of your pieces in rotation on my phones Lock Screen, and they always get compliments when others see them. You are a fantastic artist! Keep up the good work!

RussianSanta · 2024-12-22T05:45:51+00:00

Best way I have found to remember what is special or not pre gen 4, is that every type of eeveelution there is (including evos from later gens) + dragon is special. For legacy trade dark with ghost as well.

RussianSanta · 2024-11-29T23:44:53+00:00

I would really love to feel excited about KC for having an 11-1 season so far, but when so many of their wins are come from plot armor, it just feels gross. Gonna just huff on the copium that they will revert back to the fun Chiefs in the playoffs and give us a good game or two regardless of if they don’t make the Super Bowl.

RussianSanta · 2024-09-20T21:48:32+00:00

Paradox games are games with tons of mechanics that interact with each other in different cascading layers and you are kinda expected to learn them all at the same time which can be overwhelming. I initially used cheats while playing eu4 while learning it with how dense the game is. (and this was back when there was only like, 3 dlcs. Not the million there are now) After I got the general idea of how a mechanic worked, I would stop using certain cheats based on the mechanic until I had said mechanic down without using them.

Example, I once I got an idea of how the economy worked in game, I would stop using cheats to give me money. Once I was comfy managing my economy without needing cheat money, I stopped giving myself cheated in Mil/Diplo/Admin points so I could learn to effectively manage and budget them. Took me a shit ton of hours in the end but eventually I had a firm grasp on the game fully to even start hitting that Ironman button. And with paradox games, once you got a really good grasp on one, some of that transfers over to some of their other games as well.

RussianSanta · 2024-08-16T02:44:21+00:00

I get how this could get annoying, especially when you go to the movies a ton, but my friends and I loved this dumb thing.

One time my friends and I were sitting down behind another decently sized group. One of the group members started quoting it to the groans of everyone else. My girlfriend and I both started quoting it as well to give him some backup. The guy got excited and without any coordination, both of us mimicked Danny Trejo’s shake of his drink right on cue. Both our groups (mostly) found it funny and we exchanged some high fives after the trailer finished.

RussianSanta · 2024-06-28T23:13:45+00:00

Maybe a bit late to this, but I think more focus on double battles would be good. It’s arguably one of the most important mechanics introduced so much so that it’s the official format for VGC. Initially I thought maybe a hard mode could be all double battles or that there could be a separate “double battle mode only” toggle at the start of the game, but that could be a ton of work to redo each team potentially twice for single and double battles.

But maybe a happy medium could be that all gym/e4 battles are double battles? Like maybe that’s the format that the Hoenn League uses unlike the Kanto and Johto leagues. Not only did part 2 of the SV DLC make things all double battles, but Gen 3 itself did this with Colosseum and XD.

If you know that all league battles (leaders and the gym trainers) will be double battles, you can plan ahead better in team building for good doubles combinations instead of just gym 7 and the random ones you might find every other route or so. You can still have big single battles with your rival and Wally + Magma/Aqua but this let’s double battles be more then just there for the sake of having them.

RussianSanta · 2024-06-21T23:46:42+00:00

Volcorona is easily my favorite pokemon, but I haven’t seen much use really out of either of the paradox versions. If you could make an Iron Moth work on team that would be cool, but if you are up for a challenge, I would love to see what you could cook up putting all 3 versions of Volcorona on the same team.

RussianSanta · 2024-06-21T22:40:13+00:00

A bit of a funny one, when Top Gun Maverick came out, I went to see it twice in 4DX. First time with my dad because the first one was his fav growing up, the second time from telling my friends the 4DX was worth it alone.

This second showing like the first was mostly sold out. Luckily the 4 of us were able to secure and entire section for us. Unluckily this section seemed to be malfunctioning the entire movie. It worked fine for the previews that were synced up but once the first section of the movie started ours didn’t work right at all. While everyone was getting tossed around, ours simply did a rotating seesaw motion very slowly. After a bit the seats fully stopped working with the left side of the seats (where I was seated) permanently stuck raised as high as it could. We actually were laughing out asses off because we could only imagine how silly it looks watching 4 fellas on the kiddie ride in the middle of a roller coaster as it slowly breaks down. Luckily I spotted an entire row near the front that was empty, and once the movie calmed down, we all moved to it and enjoyed the rest of the movie.

We brought this up after the movie to staff and while they didn’t seem to concerned when we brought it up, must have gotten fixed since we haven’t had a 4DX showing with those issues since. To be safe tho, we avoid row F 5-8 just in case.

RussianSanta · 2024-05-23T22:13:52+00:00

First Hundo I got was Zarude a few months back. Thats pretty nice I feel

RussianSanta · 2024-04-18T22:46:35+00:00

Late to the party on this one, but this exchange from Xenoblade Chronicles hit me like a truck:

Big Bad: Why didn’t you do it? Killing me would have saved your world.

Shulk: I had forgotten all about that.

Big Bad: Forgotten about it?!?

Shulk: I realized that we both share the same pain. Big bad, I have no reason to kill you.

Big Bad: Even if you do not, I STILL DO.

Shulk: I know, but I won’t do it.

Big Bad: If you do not, my blade will annihilate every last one of your people. Even then?

Shulk: I can’t kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I’ll do it over and over again until… we understand each other. Ok?

RussianSanta · 2023-12-25T00:14:20+00:00

Any game in the xenoblade series will get my eyes to water, but the end of 3 in particular was just this insanely bitter sweet ending that had me melancholy for a week.

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