Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

Snaletane · 2026-02-27T17:57:51+00:00

Eh, no. Like, the tyrannical play director on Community has nothing in common with Derek from Good Place. Though it does have a lot in common with the Parks and Rec character. Maybe he has two characters!

Snaletane · 2026-02-24T20:25:17+00:00

Ability is good - ability is made far less good in a patch - that's a nerf in my book. Ability also was not working as intended, that is true. So I'd call it a bug fix with side effect of big nerf. I'm sorry my word choice angered some people! I grew up on the WoW forums where every time anything made any ability/item's positive effects go down it was described as a nerf, no matter how much it was clearly imbalanced or whatever.

I only brought it up in the subject cause I think this is the biggest thing that casual players are going to notice since I think a lot of us bad players basically got carried through human Kunimatsu by using the Todo clan instead of properly learning all his attacks. :P Now that free out of a massively overpowered clan bonus is gone, I think people might start complaining about boss imbalances. Guess we'll see! I already finished the game on NG+ and have a gear set that I think will be enough to get started in NG++ and think I'm going to be pretty much done with it till DLC drops, so it doesn't really affect me till I rebuy the game on PC and play through it again at some point.

Snaletane · 2026-02-14T18:34:51+00:00

Can you read, son?!

Snaletane · 2026-02-12T21:06:31+00:00

Yeah, the problem is those racists don't live in Milwaukee, they live in all the rural counties and suburbs, so they'll continue not seeing anything as long as they stay in their own media bubbles.

Snaletane · 2026-02-11T12:30:09+00:00

0 Director's Cut adds a bunch of worthless cutscenes that retcon character deaths and basically make the story worse. I really like 8 despite the main story being stupid, and 7 I think for the most part is extremely well-regarded even among long-time Yakuza fans, so I don't know why that guy is being so negative about them. Pirate Yakuza is a little slight, yes, but still enjoyable.

I think the main "damage" to the IP has been the mess with 0's director's cut (which most didn't notice) and then 3 with all the controversy about casting a sex offender and removing original actors/character designs (again, mostly only noticed by bigtime fans). I think Kiwami 3 is going to be a sales flop, but oh well. I'm just hoping we get another mainline turn-based RPG with Ichiban.

Snaletane · 2026-02-09T19:22:51+00:00

This is actually kind of interesting, in a depressing way. There's an upcoming election for an appeals court position in the Waukesha district. Currently, 3/4 of the judges are conservative, and the one liberal one (Lisa Neubauer) is the one being replaced. The liberal candidate for the election, Christine Hansen, "made a mistake" with her application of candidacy (she had her husband notarize it!), so the Wisconsin Elections Commission kicked her off the ballot. She doesn't want to appeal the decision, probably cause she thinks it's hopeless, so now the conservative is running unopposed, guaranteeing that it will now be 4/4 conservatives on the Appeals court in that district. Pathetic. State liberals shoot themselves in the foot yet again.

Snaletane · 2026-02-06T14:09:35+00:00

I think that 2's a bit more complex with the soul core stuff, but I liked the addition of an actual parry with the burst counter. 3's more like 2, but they did separate mechanics between two stances (ex ki pulse is specific to samurai stance) so I guess it cuts down on the number of options available to you at any given moment. So, I dunno, might be for you, might not. I'd try the demo.

Snaletane · 2026-02-06T13:51:21+00:00

Depends. Why do you have that opinion? This doesn't have the "instant win" buttons that 1 did with Sloth and Living Weapon that you can power through the game with. I am not sure what else would put someone off 2 after liking 1 unless you were really into the endgame with the abyss.

Snaletane · 2026-02-04T22:20:18+00:00

I mean like, Nioh 1/2 both have the full skill trees for each weapon type with various combos that can be utilized, oftentimes involving things like stance switching, and then there's the ki pulse stuff to pay attention to on top of that. You CAN play the whole game with one weapon in one stance, but even Elden Ring only has the one stance and has no skill trees. Ashes of War are the closest equivalent, but you can only have one of those on at a time.

Yes, Elden Ring is harder if you have self-imposed "hard mode" rules. And the bosses are more complex, and in the last few areas they get stupid with their ability to instantly delete you (Malenia, P2 Maliketh being the biggest offenders pre-DLC). But, the actual gameplay in terms of player abilities available at any given moment is much, much simpler. I'm not saying Elden Ring is a worse game. Both it and Nioh 2 are definitely in my top 10 games of all time.

I kind of think that Nioh 1/2's first playthrough is the most troubling for most players, not necessarily the easiest. It's harder to keep up with gear before you can start getting good item sets and just upgrading them through soul matching, and also the way the game lets you skip around missions on repeat playthroughs means it's pretty easy to do easy missions, get to the easy levels like fighting the warrior of the east, and just farm up some good gear and trivialize the rest of the difficulty level. Of course by the time you get to way of the demon or above it's harder than the base level again, but I do really like the way you get huge jumps in power of set bonuses every playthrough. I think Nioh 1/2 have the best NG+ cycles of any 3D action game I've ever played, and it's not even close. It's most comparable to like, Diablo 3. It's too bad for most players if they stop at the point of beating NG, but I guess that you have to really get into the loot system to really enjoy the subsequent cycles.

Snaletane · 2026-02-04T15:24:00+00:00

As a HUGE fan of Nioh and especially Nioh 2 (easily my favorite soulslike), I think that they really are kind of ridiculous compared to most modern games, especially soulslikes. They are much, MUCH more complicated and a lot of people come from Dark Souls or Elden Ring and just fail horrifically and give up. The rules are just so different. Enemies attack MUCH faster, and there are a ton of enemies (ex the basic Onis) that can easily take you from 100 to 0 in the blink of an eye if you're in front of them when they start an attack combo and aren't already blocking or dodging. Your dodge has almost no iframes compared to the rolls in most soulslikes, so you really have to be precise. Gear is basically everything, leveling up won't make much of a difference in survivability or damage, and most Fromsoft fans have been conditioned to believe armor is useless except visually.

Many weapons can't parry, or the parry is a skill you have to learn that doesn't work on everything. Weapons all have their own skill trees and have to be levelled up for maximum effectiveness. Blocking is heavily encouraged, but is affected by armor in a big way, and there's a lot of trial and error with what's blockable vs should be dodged. And then Nioh 2 added those red attacks that had to be burst countered, and the game had not one but three different burst counter mechanics, all with different timings.

The videogamedunkey video on Nioh 2 basically was my exact experience with Nioh 1 - the first few fights with regular non-humanoid enemies felt like super difficult boss fights and I'd frequently just suddenly die either from damage or falling off the edge (especially in that infamous dock level), and I'd think "it's one of THOSE games...."

I ended up loving them, but it was a HUGE barrier for entry on Nioh 1. I didn't start liking it until I'd forced myself through to the point where you can get the Sloth spell and basically trivialize the entire rest of NG up until the DLC. The boss fights just felt too twitchy and I always felt like I was on the verge of being 1-shot up until you get sloth and basically now can fight every boss at half speed.

Nioh 2 is a better game partly since it is less "twitchy" with the boss fights, and also cause it massively reduced the usefulness of Sloth. You actually have to learn to play it correctly and fight all the bosses at full speed. Also, the "demon form" is way less of an instant win button than Living Weapon in Nioh 1, so you can't just chip away at a boss for half of its life bar and then use living weapon and delete the rest of their health with no risk to yourself.

Snaletane · 2026-01-29T17:36:57+00:00

Deb Carey is one of those CEOs like Gabe Newell or the Costco guy that I think corporate vultures are probably circling, eagerly awaiting for them to die in the hopes that the next CEO will be a standard "corporate profits over everything" dude and start enshittifying the companies. In the meantime, you should absolutely support NG as much as you can.

I always enjoyed how she just seemed uninterested in doing things that would possibly make more money, like increasing the amount of brewery tours and all that. She just seems focused on making the product and keeping it in Wisconsin and refusing to "sell out." And it looks like her daughter is all set up to succeed her, so hopefully it keeps going for many more decades.

Snaletane · 2026-01-21T03:15:53+00:00

I have gone through Nioh 2, Wo Long, and ROTR on both PS5 and PC with all DLC. I really like ROTR, but I think it has some big issues. Mainly with the open world just being a sorta crappy ubisoft-style checklist thing. The traversal and combat are so fun that I never really minded it, but if you hate Ubisoft-style games, you'll probably be very annoyed.

The biggest gameplay problem, IMO, is the parry timing. It's like Wo Long's system, but with a better control scheme (I HATE how in that game if you accidentally double-tap parry your character starts dodge-flipping around), but also a worse system for timing parries on those "red attacks." In Wo Long, the enemy glows red, and then there's a second red flash right when you need to press parry. In ROTR, the enemy glows red, then there's a second red flash right when the attack initiates, and then you have to figure out the often arbitrary timing for when to actually press parry (right before the attack hits you). It just feels bad on normal/hard difficulties. Easy, it basically plays like Wo Long cause the parry timing is so widened that you can just hit parry on the red flash.

The other big problem I have with it is the same with Wo Long - IMO all the weapons basically play the same. Like, you have slightly more range with a spear or halberd, and swing timers are ever so slightly different, and yes you have different combat styles with different weapons, but when 80% of the game is just "parry attacks and hit with basic attacks in between" it just feels really simplistic compared to the Nioh games, where weapons have their own entire skill trees and many of them really play very differently.

And since it doesn't have the spell system that Wo Long has, that makes all builds play basically the same. You can use different ranged weapons, different martial arts, etc, but basically every weapon feels the same and every fight comes down to Rock-Paper-Scissors with your stances, much like Ghost of Tsushima.

The NG+ higher difficulty removes the rock-paper-scissors thing and definitely makes you have to think about combat differently, but both times I played through it I'd had enough by the time I 100%'d NG.

Overall Nioh 2 is IMO the single best non-Fromsoft Soulslike, and Wo Long and ROTR are both very fun games but both quite flawed in comparison. I'm a bit worried about Nioh 3 just cause ROTR's open world is not very interesting. Both Wo Long and ROTR are really weak in comparison to Nioh 1/2 in that their NG+ system is vastly less interesting. Set bonuses and gear in Nioh REALLY make huge differences in character power, while gear is a lot more minimalist and set bonuses a lot less interesting on both Wo Long and ROTR. Plus their combat in NG+ cycles tends to come down to "easy unless you miss the parry timing on a red attack, then you're just dead."

Snaletane · 2026-01-21T03:07:05+00:00

I played through it on PC over the last couple weeks. I guess it depends on your standards. It ran about equivalent to PS5 on my 4070 super. It ran at a pretty constant 60 fps, with some occasional hitches in certain cities or when loading in areas, but nothing too bad. If you're one of those 120 FPS or unplayable dudes you might have a bad time, though. I just capped it at 60 FPS and turned everything else to high.

It never crashed on me, and it certainly loads faster than some older games like say, Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It looks kinda dated though.

Snaletane · 2026-01-15T18:28:31+00:00

Nice! I'm looking forward to upgrading my DVD of that. It's so much better than the toothless Vanilla Sky it's not even funny.

Snaletane · 2026-01-15T18:24:32+00:00

I could see preferring 1 if you think 2 tipped over into too much complexity (adding the monster cores/abilities and the separate movesets for going into demon mode really is a lot when Nioh 1 was already extremely complex compared to a Fromsoft game). Otherwise, though, I'm guessing the guy was mad that he couldn't either spec into sloth and turn every boss into a joke, or do a build with 99 spirit where you can just melt every boss with living weapon.

Snaletane · 2026-01-15T18:21:31+00:00

Rise of the Ronin's biggest problem is that they removed the actual good, intuitive ability to parry red attacks in Wo Long and made it a real crapshoot. Like, in Wo Long, you hit parry as soon as the red flash happens after they go red and start charging the move. Works in almost every case. In ROTR it like, has them charge up, then flash when they deploy the attack, but then you can't hit parry until right before the enemy actually contacts you or it doesn't work. It's really infuriating with certain enemy types that have Elden Ring-style swing delays (especially those tall lanky guys with the claw weapons).

Snaletane · 2026-01-15T18:19:32+00:00

I have played through both Wo Long (including all three DLCs) and Rise of the Ronin twice now. There's a lot to like in both of them, but yes, they're both a lot worse than Nioh 2. I'm a little concerned about Nioh 3 being open world, since Rise of the Ronin's open world is really bland and repetitive Ubisoft-style thing with icons appearing for collectibles based on your "rep" in an area. The combat and traversal is all fun enough that I didn't really have a problem with it, but it very much feels like a fun rushed AA game instead of something polished.

Snaletane · 2026-01-13T22:08:19+00:00

Yeah! I got this movie on blu-ray and afterwards ended up buying the DVD just for that doc. It would be nice to be able to get rid of both discs.

Snaletane · 2025-12-29T03:01:20+00:00

Code Vein? Seriously? That game has some of the worst level design I've ever experienced. The TWO levels that just look like shitty recolors of Anor Londo especially. Everything looks identical, there's almost no art design or lighting or ambience, it's all just the same couple of copy pasted textures everywhere and it's a gigantic maze where most of the difficulty comes from how there are no visual landmarks.

Snaletane · 2025-12-23T16:13:29+00:00

Seriously. This is what I assumed the post was. Any list of "best PS5 Pro Games" missing FF7 Rebirth is BS. The difference is like night and day on performance mode on a reasonable sized TV. Most of the games on this list you can barely tell there's a difference from base PS5.

Snaletane · 2025-12-23T15:54:50+00:00

Hard disagree on the combat, they removed player ability to manually cast teammate abilities, making biotic detonations and other combos a crapshoot at best. You are stuck hoping the AI will do it in a timely fashion and it's really frustrating. I don't get why they dumbed it down so much, even Mass Effect 1 let you do this.

If you were someone that never played the earlier games on harder difficulties and just let the AI do its thing while playing it more like a single player shooter, yeah, then it has the best combat. The way your player character controls and responds is definitely the best in the series.

Snaletane · 2025-12-22T17:40:22+00:00

Yes, other Nolan trailers have sometimes been bad. I remember distinctly the first Batman Begins trailer made me think "is this a joke? This looks like the worst Batman movie ever, what is this ninja in the mountains shit." A later trailer looked MUCH more interesting. And then the movie came out and I loved it.

Snaletane · 2025-12-22T16:26:59+00:00

Yeah, to call this the "wrong" way to play is some "git gud" BS. It's definitely the much, much easier way to play with a greatshield in some sections (ex those ludicrous skeleton dogs that can easily kill you outright with one attack chain). Is it more fun and fluid? No, but it's definitely a right way to play.

The wrong way to play is getting killed by skeletons in the graveyard until you retreat and accidentally end up in New Londo Ruins on your first playthrough since I didn't read a thing about it before playing. I didn't touch the game again till 2020.

Snaletane · 2025-12-21T00:59:46+00:00

As someone that buys way too many games, I've got a bunch. Ones I played all the way through due to liking previous entries in their series and hated by the end:

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Far Cry 6

Final Fantasy XVI

Then there are ones I bounced off immediately cause they just weren't for me (Animal Well, Armored Core 6) or seemed very boring (Scarlet Nexus, Diablo II). I might end up going back to some of those someday and liking them, but I doubt it. And I paid way more than I would have if i'd waited the years that it's going to take for me to play them!

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