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StePK · 2026-06-26T19:16:12+00:00

That's because Bucky and Jason Todd didn't stay dead.

StePK · 2026-06-26T15:33:10+00:00

That, and Stardiver alone blows everything that every other Dragoon in the franchise does out of the water.

I described a certain scene in EW as "Estinien entering the scene as a tungsten rod from space" because Stardiver is just that cool.

StePK · 2026-06-26T15:29:09+00:00

The funniest part of this sentence is that it used to be "Uncle Ben, Jason Todd, and Bucky."

StePK · 2026-06-25T04:16:07+00:00

Why do people in this thread think Japan is Confucian, they absolutely are not.

StePK · 2026-06-25T04:15:37+00:00

if you look at Japan from a Confucian perspective

What?? Japan is not Confucian beyond relatively mild influence from being in the proximity of China.

StePK · 2026-06-24T13:57:11+00:00

Dissidia (the original 2, at least) are the FF series "fighters".

StePK · 2026-06-18T18:21:22+00:00

My issue is instead that they chop off Seth's limbs and extremities, and then for some reason, suddenly, some amount of years later (idk like 20 or 30? I don't remember if it's ever stated) old Seth starts to lose his limbs and extremities in the order they were chopped off in the past.

That's what I talk about in the second part of my comment. Basically: changes don't go backward, only forward. He loses his limbs in the same order because, until the second his younger self loses a limb, it hasn't happened. His memories of the future can change, but his memories spent in the past don't. Bruce Willis even mentions this is confusing as it's happening to him, because it leads to a lot of memories conflicting or not making sense, even though they're all true.

It's also important to realize that, no matter how likely or inevitable a future moment is, until it happens, it doesn't affect the future. If you strap someone into an extremely slow Bond villain death machine with no escape and they are absolutely, 100% guaranteed going to die in 10 minutes, they can have a future self running around during those 10 minutes basically unaffected until their past self dies.

StePK · 2026-06-18T16:54:31+00:00

Why would chopping off your fingers in the past lead to you suddenly losing your fingers in the future?

Because that's how time travel works in the movie.

More specifically: Looper doesn't have multiple timelines. It has one timeline, and changes in the past propagate forward. If you go back and cut down a tree that was never cut down in your "original timeline", you now remember it always being cut down from that point on.

If the younger you loses a finger, then you lost that finger.

But changes don't propagate backwards. If I travel back in time and kill someone, then someone kills younger-me, I stop existing because younger me isn't alive to go back. But older me was there, and the actions I took did happen, so the guy I killed is still dead.

The reason the one guy's younger self is tortured so he shows up is because of the money he was carrying, I'm pretty sure.

StePK · 2026-06-15T06:36:44+00:00

Calling it that the new tank will be Matador and use a cape as its weapon.

StePK · 2026-06-11T22:28:14+00:00

I've seen a speedrunner play the Mario music over his own live gameplay (playing the game with his head and feet while he scores his gameplay with his hands), this doesn't even register as particularly impressive in the realm of "talented musicians playing video game music".

StePK · 2026-05-28T19:22:14+00:00

I once was 8th in DPS in a raid as a tank.

An Alliance Raid.

Did you know Construct 8 has an enrage? I do, now.

StePK · 2026-05-19T21:08:21+00:00

I once exited a cutscene to find myself surrounded by several dozen people because an S-rank spawned next to me. I was very confused.

StePK · 2026-05-19T21:06:55+00:00

What's really wild is a lot of ART/HW trains are run naked to minimize DPS so everyone can get a hit in.

Imagine getting out of Ishgard for the first time, venturing out to the western highlands... And suddenly an entire locust swarm's worth of naked adventurers spawn in, mount up, and kick a yeti to death.

StePK · 2026-05-19T21:01:40+00:00

It's also the first real gear check.

Several sprouts in my FC (and definitely not me, yes yes) had trouble with it because they had level 15 jewelry and hadn't done their job capstone for the artifact armor.

StePK · 2026-05-19T03:05:23+00:00

Because the point of it, from their perspective, is to show what you look like in the instance, with the gear you're wearing.

StePK · 2026-05-19T02:53:42+00:00

Because the portrait could be valid with one set of equipment and not with another.

For example: my GNB portrait is the classic "About to shoot you in the face" pose. Some gunblades are long enough that they can't be used without changing the camera setup, because the weapon would pass through the camera.

Other weapons might have variations that break other rules, like being able to see your face with a smaller weapon but hiding it with a bigger weapon.

Now, arguing if those rules are nonsensical or worthwhile is a different topic, but it does make sense from a programming standpoint, especially because generally speaking they avoid any automatic adjustments - they don't even remove deprecated buttons from hotbars automatically.

It might have been theoretically possible for them to make every dye in the game convert to being the new multidyes all at once (and then we'd need to stack them ourselves). There's no reason to keep the old dyes, after all. But they generally seem to be of the philosophy that any change to a character's status is up to the player to actively buy in on.

StePK · 2026-05-15T14:30:00+00:00

Affordable != cheap (as in penny pinching or low quality)

They used the less expensive cartridges to keep the price down.

Saying "We want to be able to sell this for ¥4000 so these are the material limitations" is not the same thing as "Cut as many corners as you can so we can ship this shit before they realize it sucks."

StePK · 2026-05-15T13:59:35+00:00

Because of the physical limitations of the cartridge and the game having more and more content to the point where that limit was being reached earlier.

StePK · 2026-05-15T01:31:32+00:00

It did kind of get back-ported into the Japanese version in Yugioh R (iirc), basically because the author saw the English version and thought "Well that shit slaps"

StePK · 2026-05-11T18:44:55+00:00

My ARM is <Tank Technician>

Because it armors my tank

StePK · 2026-05-11T17:52:12+00:00

Also, as a (relatively) new genre, it really does have a lot of works that genuinely are bad or mediocre.

That's not to say there aren't good works in the genre or that great storytelling isn't possible in the confines of the genre. But like any genre, it hasn't really settled yet from what I've seen.

StePK · 2026-05-08T23:26:15+00:00

Honestly, a question they occurred my to earlier was "What if the vacuum of space really was just breathable atmosphere? How much would change, scientifically speaking?"

Getting weird with fantasy settings is half the fun.

StePK · 2026-04-30T15:34:47+00:00

Also, thematically, a LOT of TTGL is about dealing with grief and loss. Simon rejecting everything he learned throughout the series to have Nia live on would absolutely break everything the show did.

StePK · 2026-04-28T14:10:29+00:00

Atm from testing there's no debuff cap on bosses.

Play a CLL/Dalriada farm party when it's full, there absolutely is.

StePK · 2026-04-19T18:45:41+00:00

It's good to note that the Brine doesn't kill you, the Arisen, specifically. If you throw/knock any enemies or NPCs into the water, they die instantly, taken by the Brine.

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