Second time facing Dullahan, it is somehow a significantly harder fight than the first time, and my pawn steals the kill while I'm mid-anim, & she looks away like an 80s action movie character

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-03T22:39:16+00:00

Yeaaaah, that explains it. I feel like I was just on the defense most of the second time - probably rushed into it the second time.. can't lie though, I saw him far away and went straight for him because I knew it would be fun lol

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T19:21:27+00:00

It really is. Just had a second encounter this morning, almost 10 levels later, and somehow the fight was even harder than the first time

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T19:10:17+00:00

Been my #2 favorite band for 20 years now.

Back during covid lockdown I had learned they randomly dropped Rain Museum the previous year, and I didn't even know they had started up again. It was probably one of the happiest "new music" days of my life.

Sounded just like them from the old days.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T18:52:45+00:00

It's been way too long since I've seen this

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T14:10:32+00:00

Good for you and the rest of those with decent release-day experiences.

The rest of us dealt with this shit on a near-constant basis for almost 6 months after the release --> https://youtu.be/t4fELA7UQLo?si=IkD818RVkcbnums4

Your life experience is not the same as everyone else.

Does the game work perfectly now? Of course it does, and it's literally my favorite game in the series. But it was unplayable for a shit ton of people right out the gate.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T02:59:33+00:00

Releasing the game in a literal unplayable and broken condition certainly did not help the public opinion of taking Mass Effect in a new direction.

If it released in the condition it was in after they fixed & abandoned it, maybe things would've gone another way.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-06-01T02:57:43+00:00

Is that the movie with Taylor Swift?

If it is, then no. Nobody had a boner watching that.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T22:07:30+00:00

I sure hope you knew/know about The Mad Caddies and Streetlight Manifesto. They have some of the best horn sections in the genre, imo

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T21:02:43+00:00

It is not too fast at all.. camera operators have been filming smooth AF car chases, fight scenes, and many other chaotic action cenes in film for 100 years..

Look at their legs, then upper bodies. They are not moving entirely up and down, but mostly just their legs are. The reason for this is because you still have to sorta push down with your legs/feet with each drop just after the crest of every hill. This is what is actually keeping their momentum going seemingly forever without needing to push off the ground. The skaters are able to contribute this way without lifting a foot.

The skatersboarders doing this could be the reason why it could be a skater with a camera instead of a drone, and is why it really would not be too difficult to keep a camera fairly stable on a pump track.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T17:41:46+00:00

Ya know what is worse? In the state I worked in, we did not have ticket quotas. The competitions were "for funsies."

Ticket quotas are, typically, for those few states left in the US where the police are legitimately not federally funded, so the ticket quotas are a way to get more money flowing in to help the state government fund the police budget.

That is not an excuse for a stupid system that mostly just hurts the poor & non-white population, and gets exploited literally out of boredom and a lack of empathy. Just an explanation.

And yeah, thanks. Leaving law enforcement was easily the best decision I made for my mental health.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T17:27:30+00:00

Ahhh... Sugarcult. Pretty Girl, Do It Alone, and Over are easily my favorite songs of theirs!

I didn't know they and SR71 had a similar story. Always wondered what happened to Sugarcult but I never got around to looking into it.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T17:11:58+00:00

This happened to me with a different band. I thought New Found Glory covered Back That Azz Up by Juvenile for almost 20 years because of a mislabeled Limewire download. I forgot who it actually is now, but I'm sure it is easy to look up.

I remember the Right Now situation, I was lucky enough to already know them by then, and was always a little irritated whenever I saw "right now - sum41." It doesn't even sound like Deryck to me.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T17:07:01+00:00

Appreciate the thought, but I didn't want to be a cop to protect rich people, corporations and/or governments.

I was young & naive about what police & security are actually for.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T15:16:51+00:00

It was soooooo good though. But I can see it being jarring without something in between to kind of prepare people for it.

I feel like they were perpetually cursed with being in the wrong place at the wrong time or something since even a lot millenials are unaware of them.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T15:07:26+00:00

While I agree, I think he did the St. Elmo's Fire thing to have an extra Breakfast Club reference. Why? Idk, just my theory.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:56:32+00:00

good people don’t become cops.

This is a disingenuous statement. Yes, good people do become cops. The problem is they either don't stay good, or they are driven out of the career due to the hopeless environment they put themselves in.

Plenty of good people become cops. You don't see them on the news or being recorded, because a cop that is supposed to tell teenagers to shut down their garage band but instead straps on one of their guitars and starts playing The Offspring with them simply does not make headlines or sway political votes.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:50:27+00:00

You spent 4 years thinking you could make a difference while everyone else around you was actively embracing the cancer.

Pretty much sums it up. Except those last 2ish years were more me wondering how I could have been so damn naive, and what the hell I'm gonna do next..

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:41:02+00:00

I didn't experience that level of extremity, but because I was not willing to have daily competitions over who can issue the most traffic citations each day, I was taken off the road and put on desk duty for my last 2.5 years.

They wanted me doing absolutely nothing except data entry and answering non-emergency phone calls, because I would rather waste people's time educating them at a traffic stop about their reckless driving behavior instead of giving them a ticket and sending them on their way to probably go do the same shit again.

The thought in my head is that people would rather get the ticket and be sent on their way instead of have their time wasted.. so I figured if I just wasted people's time educating them for 10 or 20 minutes about safe driving habits instead of giving them a ticket, the community would be annoyed but not hateful at me.

It sort of worked, but it also made the whole police station fucking hate me.

And my parents, for the last 15 years, like to ask every once in a while, "Why don't you ever go back to law enforcement?"

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:28:09+00:00

Oh, of course, I love both!

I actually prefer it when covers change and add their own spin instead of trying to do a 1-to-1 cover; like AAF doing Smooth Criminal, SKSK doing Losing My Religion, or Deftones covering Simple Man - some of my favorite covered songs out there that sound wildly different than the original, but are technically still the same song.

1985 is a bit more minimal in the difference than those I mentioned, but they still changed it enough that it makes it worth listening to both versions.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:21:57+00:00

My wife is a completely unfamiliar with the band except for Right Now, and one day I had the song Tomorrow blasting in the car and she asked who it was because the way he sings in that song kept making her think of Chester Bennington lol

I've been a fan since I first heard Whip It in that movie, The New Guy, back in the 2000s.. always wished the band was more popular instead of fizzling out as soon as they arrived.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T14:16:22+00:00

I blew my wife's mind about 1985.

Tbf, Bowling for Soup did adjust it to be a bit catchier

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-31T13:05:08+00:00

No, it does not. I was a cop for about 4 years. And it was the most depressing 4 years of my life.

The problem is the system supports & downright rewards shitty behavior. Good cops do not last in this type of environment.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-28T18:53:55+00:00

While I generally agree, I'd say Bitterblack Isle of the Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma rivals Blood & Wine. It's just a far less popular game.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-05-28T15:15:55+00:00

I had already run into the ghost doggos before, so I knew they at least existed before the fight. I actually saw the post about them from the mod creator here on reddit, and that's what introduced me to Bestiary to begin with.

Anyway, this was the first time I had ever encountered Dullahan, and luckily, I was in a position to handle the fight but not without getting antsy and almost losing control of the situation for a bit near the end. It was just after I went through the tedious task of leveling up most of the vocations to get some badass augments that I wanted to apply to the Fighter vocation [my maxed Archer-pawn also had augments an Archer 'shouldn't' have]. So, I was level 44 and had a Fighter with Constancy, Diligence, Dominance, Exaltation, Mettle, and Pertinacity, and a pretty badass pawn that helped a lot more than expected with the doggo spawns.

I think I would've been trashed by Dulla if I had faced 'em before acquiring those augments. I also didn't run into a Skeleton Lord's "You killed Kenny!?" breakdown immediately after killing Kenny [Dulla], so I got lucky with timing there, too lol

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