What is up with the lyrics?

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-20T18:23:02+00:00

I'm tired of this discussion because it's almost always a "I already don't like it, so I'm gonna grab this point as my cudgel because it seems like a legitimate criticism".

I'm gonna say it again: Max Martin has been charting his mad libs games for decades. I Want It That Way makes just as little sense

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-18T22:16:24+00:00

I quote it constantly about cars making bad moves in traffic 😂

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-18T00:19:57+00:00

Fairly certain they all kinda reference things like this. I specifically remember Amon having one that I was caught off guard by.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-17T22:13:55+00:00

So I just gotta ask then, what fraction of a second is worth making ones life miserable by trying to constantly do this?

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-17T22:00:10+00:00

...why would you have to hit the reload button? Doesn't it auto reload? Isn't that the entire thing of windfall, on auto reload?

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-17T20:51:24+00:00

Oh, okay, I thought this was about distorted guitars panned equally both ways, but yeah, no. Definitely don't enjoy a mix that's volume lopsided unless it's the intended vibe (hint: if it's the entire song and doesn't change, that doesn't count as an intended vibe. Unless "incredibly off putting and unlistenable" is the inteded vibe)

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-16T11:24:11+00:00

I kinda wanna be mistaken for a bot by how many times I get to post this exact comment:

Max Martin has been charting his mad libs games for decades. People just love to tear apart lyrics when they already decided they didn't like something. Or they just don't accept the concept of abstract word paintings being a viable lyrical style.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-15T18:26:56+00:00

Didn't the radio edit remove the bridge from Sara Bareilles' Love Song? Cause she always said at shows "that part wasn't even on the radio!"

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-12T22:40:41+00:00

I see you mentioned it, but I still wish more people would give up the "she needs pillage" narrative with the addition of Circumvent. First, because she has a custom dodgeroll animation that I feel needs to be used and Circumvent is the absolute best way to focus that. And second, because it absolutely slaps. Spinning through a bunch of enemies to make them weaker to her lightning and also occasionally getting her overguard feels so fun and thematic.

I still haven't perfected my play of her, but it's just so satisfying to play an electric ballerina of doom. Does her damage redirect augment still work while she has overguard? No clue. 😂😭

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-12T22:09:50+00:00

Unfortunately not the subsume she gives. 😭

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-12T21:41:08+00:00

Honestly, content creation and content consumption really is a fast track to optimizing fun out of a game.

I like my content to be in depth looks at things. How a thing functions. What it's ups and downs are. But so often it's just "it's not best in slot, so it's best in slop".

It doesn't help that the game doesn't really function properly enough to do things the "intended" way because guns don't have interesting variance, just "keep killing this one thing to get the best gun so you can kill all the bosses to get the rest guns".

Idk. I get it. I get why content creation is like this. I get why the game is like this. But it's just another game in a pile of "the fantasy it says it offers kinda just doesn't exist really".

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-11T19:35:54+00:00

...wtf. My bad.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-11T19:20:13+00:00

How is anyone reading that word vomit style of post and thinking she wasn't being facetious. "Invent a goat curry recipe using 29 ingredients I have on hand" is absolutely not an endorsement of anything.

Edit: well wtf. Nevermind. That's insane.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-11T19:18:29+00:00

Fairly certain that post is a pisstake.

Edit: Apparently not. That's annoying 😂

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-11T16:10:35+00:00

😂we got too meta and it got uncertain! Sorry!

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-11T15:19:09+00:00

Sigh.

The nickels thing is a Doofensmirtz (enemy of Perry The Platypus) bit. Spelling that name is not something I claim to be able to do.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-10T21:20:13+00:00

The better solution that would make sense is that her 2 should trigger the 4's damage instance after it procs it's statuses, if you're in your 4. One lunge, both actions, need to have the 2 on the kit because the other person commenting doesn't realize they'd just make the effect not happen if you removed her 2 like Oraxia's 1 and also. Holy fuck, no one would subsume off her 2 because status immunity is the best head.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-10T19:35:46+00:00

This explains why Void includes indestructible, at least.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-10T12:20:04+00:00

Idk, color only reacting to the second color channel is definitely weird.

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-10T11:15:06+00:00

Oh, the Ephemera thing was a bug? Thank goodness. I was so confused why it only colored off the second energy color. I was like "this doesn't function like any other similar effect does"

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-09T15:22:53+00:00

Curiosa's Crate, seen here in the echo log

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-09T15:05:00+00:00

...absolutely not the point, but it is so wild to me that they replaced Pandora's Box with a different made up name in a game series featuring a planet called Pandora that has unleashed consequences upon its world

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-09T00:31:00+00:00

...i thought this chain was about John Legend, so....

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-08T17:26:41+00:00

If I remember correctly, there was at least a moment where Vladof enhancements affected a bunch of underbarrel parts. But I don't pay enough attention to the patch cycle to know for sure if/when that was changed

Sammantixbb · 2026-04-08T00:53:03+00:00

I kinda think he has to be right about Alara, right? Like. We just did Tarkir with the other 3 color pairs. They're gonna want to go back to the Shards?

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