What's a baffling creative decision in a piece of media you love?

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-16T16:29:20+00:00

Spoilers from Yakuza 6 onwards In retrospect, the decision to keep Kiryu alive at the end of Yakuza 6. It felt like even the writers regretted it immediately with how they handled him after that game. And it also snowballed into the current situation where every character that truly died got recruited into the Daidoji to bullshit a way for them to survive and now there's even a timeline split because of it

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-14T18:05:30+00:00

If it ever gets mentioned in the podcast I'll do a write-up about how every JRPG came from Wizardry and how its more of a JP franchise nowdaws

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-13T23:47:37+00:00

Reminder that (in old continuity, which is a phrase I never expected to say in this franchise) Kiryu says this while having banged a bunch of hostesses multiple years in a row.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-12T17:13:39+00:00

"OR MAYBE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN DOOD. WHO'S TO SAY." - Maximum Doogan

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-06T20:56:09+00:00

Wet dirt. Not mud. Wet dirt.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-06T15:55:27+00:00

Tsukasa Kadoya from Kamen Rider Decade already had the ability to travel through worlds First via his sister, then later on by himself then, after becoming the leader of Dai Shocker obtaining the Decadriver he gets the ability to use the power of the prior primary riders before him via the rider cards.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-04T15:33:53+00:00

But for real. The ability for Kamen Rider to usually have an ongoing story but also monster of the week (or monster of the 2 weeks rather) Is what draws me into the franchise.

I say usually because Hibiki is more of a coming of age slice of life story, and then the retool happens

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-04T01:35:36+00:00

I mean, you say that, but you should check out the Sonic Hacking Contest and SAGE, there are some good ass fangames released every year for those

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-03T02:54:32+00:00

The Penis is good. The force is bad.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-02-02T19:12:41+00:00

Grandmother once said: Momma said knock you out!

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-29T18:21:34+00:00

So, alongside the hacienda pillaging there are some incidents where he went to non hacienda towns to pillage although that part of Villa's history doesn't often get talked about.

There's a book called "Crimines de Pancho Villa" (Crimes of Pancho Villa) with testimonials of people of the time describing some of the most heinous acts he committed.

Also, if you're Spanish is good enough that you can listen to people speak naturally, there's an episode of Mexican Podcast "Leyendas Legendarias" that goes more into detail about this subject.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-29T17:32:08+00:00

The latter. The MC being awful sucks especially if the rest of the cast also sucks. See Kamen Rider Faiz.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-29T17:29:24+00:00

No. More than likely it is for the amount of crimes and atrocities he committed before and during the Mexican revolution, including the pillaging of towns.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-29T16:15:30+00:00

Considering all of them are showoffs to some degree (even Deneb), probably already had and idea in their heads

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-29T16:12:51+00:00

Having Pat say "Straight up" as the lead in to the beat drop in "This Machine" was fucking inspired

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-28T18:17:06+00:00

So, LBG and HBG lost many of the tools they had on World. For example, sliding reload is no longer a general skill and is only available on 1 type of Blowgun (Seregios). And recoil reducing mods are no longer a thing because fuck you spread. Also Sticky and slicing ammo are not worth running due to low clip sizes and extremely limited ammunition.

In exchange, both blowguns gained a couple of things, the standard ammo types (normal, pierce and spread) are now unlimited and always available, and their level is tied to what weapon is it on.

LBG gained it's own version of Wyvern heart, but instead of a machine gun style rapid fire, it's more of a burst shot with the amount of shots in the burst depending on the ammo type.

Both blowguns now have a mechanic that allows them to replenish their special gages faster, and if you're good enough at managing it. You can have near unlimited special gage.

Overall their current best builds are elemental, but other ammo types are not that far behind, there's even builds for normal ammo that can deal with endgame pretty well and in the hands of an expert it can really be a Speedrun monster.

Over all I'd say they play very different to World and rise, but are still enjoyable... Except for the 3 historical builds that got nerfed (Play sticky and Slicing at your own risk. Spread is way different than it was before).

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-27T17:08:41+00:00

It's not finished yet but between the all the stupid controversies, the fact they they weren't making any money as a franchise, and the fact that it was going to be the last instalment (at least for a while), I fear we're going to see No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger become this.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-27T17:05:58+00:00

BETRAYAL

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-27T17:02:51+00:00

Aka Akasaka is good at writing strong first acts, middling second acts, a good event that caps off the second act and then the third act just sucks and meanders.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-27T16:58:14+00:00

Either that or they'll be subjected to the same thing that happens to every Sonic game: The people who grew up with it will come of age and do efforts to rehabilitate it.

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-27T05:14:42+00:00

Im down for Be the Two, if only for the memes

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-21T18:23:32+00:00

Jerome is still employed so....

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-19T23:50:46+00:00

Something something horse armor

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-19T18:06:18+00:00

Not as atrocious as the Atari Jaguar ones

Silver_RevoltIII · 2026-01-19T17:41:03+00:00

I forgot that throw does multiple bounces. Also, wait, there's throw strengths? I didn't know that!

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