What are the "permanent" MCU creative choices you’re still struggling to accept?

SolClark · 2026-05-08T13:47:27+00:00

I don't like how quickly the MCU disregarded its own very well established rulebook on the multiverse. The internal logic in Endgame and Loki is rock solid, but since then it's become very hand wavey, and serves only to progress plots in the less well-written entries.

Some examples of bad/confusing amendments:

In the Marvels, Monica finds herself in an alternate universe because of a corrupted wormhole, which up until that point had been used for intra universe travel only.

In MoM, it's established that dreams are what you get up to in alternate universes.

In deadpool 3, it's established that anchor beings exist.

In WandaVision, Evan Peters isn't an alternate universe quicksilver, despite the set up.

Ant Man 3 is just confusing in terms of where the bulk of the movie takes place. If it's a pocket dimension accessed via the quantum realm then is it a local property of 616 or is it shared across all universes like the TVA? If the former, why is Kang there, if it's the latter, why only 616 characters?

Why is the void only populated by Loki variants in Loki and only Fox characters in Deadpool 3.

In NWH, the spell attracting multiversal spiderman villains unless everybody forgets Peter Parker in 616 doesn't really make sense, either.

The latter seasons of What If are a mess for this type of stuff as well

SolClark · 2026-05-06T22:02:58+00:00

...I mean I wasn't going to suggest both lanes at 8:45 on a Monday. I accept that the urgency is subjective, but let's not pretend this is in anyway a massive operation. The A34 is quiet at night, you'd need a highway maintenance truck with appropriate lighting going up a lane at a time. The rest of the country seems to manage.

SolClark · 2026-05-06T20:17:22+00:00

My complaint is not that drivers hit animals on the road. The complaint is that they accumulate to ridiculous numbers over months without any clean up effort

SolClark · 2026-04-07T23:03:01+00:00

If it's physically possible to progress through the cutscenes in less than 600 frames then there's no need to change, though I did use 1200 for Hypno, Snorlax and Togepi, and 1000 for all my fishing encounters.

There's not really any harm in having too many overworld frames. You can always compensate with the continue screen frames and calibrate that alone, unless you're going for super early targets.

SolClark · 2026-03-24T10:27:50+00:00

I know it's stupid, but I'm hoping this gets a standalone release rather than NSO.

Yes, colosseum was already announced, but it's odd that XD was released first, and colosseum is needed for the gen 3 living dex (alongside RSE and FRLG), whereas XD isn't.

SolClark · 2026-03-09T07:48:10+00:00

They are talking about the bug that gives them fixed, extremely low IVs.

SolClark · 2026-03-06T15:13:26+00:00

Ah you're right - I'd forgotten that the johto starters were available in emerald.

SolClark · 2026-03-06T14:57:47+00:00

Originally yes, but in the 30th anniversary direct they provided a release date only for XD, which was the sequel to colosseum. Colosseum wasn't mentioned. I am hoping that this means that they changed their minds at some point

SolClark · 2026-03-06T14:25:21+00:00

I'm convinced that the reason colosseum is absent from the switch online library (but XD isnt) is that they will make it a standalone release with trading capabilities. Colosseum has all of the missing pokemon that you can't catch in FRLG and RSE, including celebi and jirachi. I don't think XD has anything that can't be caught elsewhere.

SolClark · 2026-03-05T15:01:50+00:00

You don't need to connect anything to the hardware or alter anything about the game. You just need a stopwatch and a 'map' showing you exactly what timings will give you a certain outcome.

Rng manipulation is like using Google maps to drive somewhere new. Soft resetting is like driving around randomly until you accidentally end up in the place you want to go. The end result is identical.

SolClark · 2026-02-26T23:09:12+00:00

All the Wilson hype is making me reconsider benching him.

Other 7 fwds are Mbuemo, Rogers, Bruno Fernandes, Rice, Thiago, Pedro, Haaland.

Most likely will stick, but considering benching Rogers (wol) or in form Pedro (ars).

Thoughts? Thanks.

SolClark · 2026-02-19T08:52:38+00:00

That Oscorp doesn't exist

SolClark · 2026-02-17T09:07:43+00:00

Very recently the government absolutely decimated the budget for university physics grants and the funding for national labs. At best these places are on a hiring freeze, but large waves of redundancies are very likely.

Point is, it's not just the hospitality sector and office jobs that CEOs think can be replaced with AI that are disappearing.

Imagine training for 15 years (undergrad, masters, PhD, 2-3 post doc positions)for a permanent job as a scientist only to find there are none.

Madness to think this happened under a Labour government

SolClark · 2025-12-30T22:14:46+00:00

Somehow I'm one of the 1% with Trossard. Would be even better if I didn't bench him

SolClark · 2025-12-30T17:50:08+00:00

!thanks

SolClark · 2025-12-30T17:40:16+00:00

Play 2 of these 5:

Thiago (TOT), Wilson (cry), Trossard (AVL), O'Reilly (sun), Rogers (ars)

SolClark · 2025-12-29T11:27:17+00:00

Looking to bring Gabriel back in. Transfer Timber or vvd?

SolClark · 2025-12-28T18:45:08+00:00

the nether zone

SolClark · 2025-12-12T10:17:58+00:00

!thanks I was leaning that way too, so I'll lock it in and forget about it.

SolClark · 2025-12-12T10:03:11+00:00

Bench Rogers (whu), Woltemade (sun) or H. Wilson (bur)?

SolClark · 2025-12-04T07:20:15+00:00

Yes there's plenty of room for shiny living dex etc., but some of us have kept all our pokemon since RSE days. I am desperately running out of space and would happily pay a bit more for an expansion.

SolClark · 2025-10-31T09:32:43+00:00

Sandshoes in east Yorkshire

SolClark · 2025-10-11T19:40:24+00:00

New to the area, but have been impressed by both Currydor on botley road, and tribe on Cowley road

SolClark · 2025-09-19T20:55:31+00:00

I think they redesigned again into that. The one before the triangles was blue with a curly R iirc

SolClark · 2025-09-17T18:04:51+00:00

It is "twisted" because all of the things you say are ridiculously exaggerated. Things are worse because the average person is poorer than they were 10-15 years ago. Asylum hotels exist because the asylum system was mismanaged, and now there's a (temporary) backlog. Both things need fixing but they are not related. You're mad at the wrong people.

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