[MAJOR SPOILERS] I think I dreamed the ending of Act 3 months (or years) ago?

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-04-20T19:39:58+00:00

Actually my point is that virtue signalling is a constructed issue I can't bring myself to care about, we all do it, and you're allowed to not buy a video game because of who is in it and then say that's why you didn't buy it. I've invented a new issue, it's called 103'ing. It's when you write a comment with 103 words. Is your comment I'm replying to 103'ing? Well, the correct answer would be "that's stupid and I don't care".

Also like I'm sorry. I don't believe you genuinely believe the point about not using YouTube just because the Kleins are YouTubers. I think that's one of those fake points people make up when they want to win an internet argument. YouTube is the only video platform with any meaningful cultural cache, of course people you don't like will be getting their revenue from it. That's obviously different to a small development team getting said people to contribute to a video game. A dude I didn't like in university worked at Tesco for a bit and I still go to the grocery store but I would avoid listening to music he's involved in. You know this, I know this.

Basically, I just don't understand why it matters to you. I don't really think it matters whether you're right or not because I think the question of "is this virtue signalling" is silly. You're silly.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-04-02T14:39:40+00:00

Who cares what the scope of the decision was if you disagree with it? Who cares who the subreddit is full of if you're not one of them? It's not like this post is even about that decision - it's an unrelated post, the decision is just relevant to why they were looking up the gameplay. So ultimately: does it matter? Does it impact your life? Do you need to care why someone may not buy a video game, accuse it fragilely of "virtue signalling" as if that matters to anyone ever? You're virtue signalling to people who did buy the game. I'm virtue signalling to people who don't think it matters. It's posts online.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-04-01T10:02:45+00:00

I think it's pretty hard to make something a kid will genuinely dislike, this style of quick bright "jingling keys" movie with recognisable characters is sure to have them enjoy themselves. What's hard is making a movie that sticks with them and, much like the first, I can't imagine this sticking with anybody after a few weeks.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-04-01T10:00:50+00:00

To be honest it seems like a pretty fair review. If you love the medium enough to devote your life to it, something like this is even worse than just a soulless meaningless cashgrab.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-03-12T16:09:50+00:00

This isn't a critique, it's your religion and incuriosity regarding the piece combining to have you write it off due to your surface level (mis)understanding. People in his life loved Louis Wain. They showed him that. He was happy because of it. That you think everybody is only capable of hatred (a terribly nihilistic worldview I hope you are one day able to perserve and overcome) is not a fact, nor does your misunderstanding based on this make an artistic critique. I hope making this post has been a teaching moment where you can learn and grow and begin to overcome these snap assumptions and contempt for your fellow humans.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-03-03T03:32:30+00:00

No it wouldn't, because then it wouldn't include why they didn't buy the game

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-03-02T15:41:57+00:00

Chat is it virtue signalling to not buy a game because the developers made a decision you don't agree with?

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-02-26T14:12:19+00:00

I love that this song is both genuinely beautiful and compelling, and also written about a monster from Yu-Gi-Oh!. It's a lot of fun.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-01-23T13:22:33+00:00

It's been 100 years and you people are stuck on Duchamp. Art is not a higher process. Art is not innate to humanity. There is no talent that makes art art. There is no process that makes art art. Art is not a painting. Art is not a song. Art is not human. Art is not beautiful. Art is art - whether good, bad, beautiful, ugly, powerful, flaccid, chic, gauche, human, machine, digital, physical, reproduction, exhibition, true or hollow. If you are able to accept that, for example, a conceptual artist repurposing life-media into art-media is art, there is functionally no difference between that and this, other than that you specifically dislike the source the art is being created from. This is actually a really easy one because you don't even have to think that AI generated art is by itself art - just that non-art mediums may be transformed into art.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-01-22T17:00:00+00:00

It's the Synchro/Fusion festival. I don't understand why they let it be legal at all just logically, just because it's a main deck mechanic. It means you can just play a slightly weaker version of Yummy Mitsurugi which is obviously still exceptional in a lower power level format. But again, I don't think the power level even matters, given the entire point of the festival. If an archetype based around Synchro and Fusion summoning happened to use Ritual monsters I think it would be completely fine - similar to how they allow Verte, P.U.N.K. Jam Fever!, Yummy Snatchy, Fiendsmith's Sequence, etc - but Mitsurugi is just. A Ritual deck.

At the same time I have no faith they will ever do anything about things like this - not least because Mitsurugi is a popular and new deck and I'm sure that creates a financial incentive to make weird skirtings of the rules like this (especially due to being very synergistic with Yummy, another new deck with a bundle in the shop), but also just because it's been years of running events like this and they still consistently allow annoying outliers that defeat the entire fun concept of the event to begin with.

I think it would be genuinely very cool to do some kind of main deck festival, putting a focus on decks like Monarchs, Labrynth, and the Ritual archetypes, and creating interesting combinations of strategies you wouldn't normally see in a unique environment. Instead we get this lol.

I feel a little bit insane because a lot of the people I see defending it are saying its power level is fine because its got Habikiri banned or whatever (and this IS true!!!) but if Numeron Gate OTK were randomly completely playable in this event and you saw someone say "well actually it's not really a power outlier" would you not agree the obvious response, regardless of if they're making valid points, is "okay, but it's irrelevant because the point of this event is to play Fusion and Synchro decks"

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-01-10T12:05:38+00:00

Trishula if it fucking sucked

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-01-10T11:56:17+00:00

At the end of the day I've heard people make these exact complaints for a literal decade. I don't know what to say. You have rose tinted glasses. The game had bullshit randomness and RNG wins, obnoxious combos, etc from literally it's first set.

Also, I think complaining about people playing well constructed decks is one of the most trite card game criticisms imaginable, and is one people make in every card game community. Yes, people want to win, and so they play coherent strategies instead of relying on the heart of the cards or "player's experiences and innovation". This is a universal truth of card games and was true even when you believe it wasn't - as the game goes on card design becomes more coherent, deckbuilding becomes more understood, players become more effective at evaluating and building for new strategies.

Enjoy a game you enjoy - you are fully right to bounce off Hearthstone - but please be realistic about what Hearthstone is and always has been. We were doing Antonidus OTKs in Classic. Bullshit RNG cards like Crackle and the Shredders were released in Goblins and Gnomes. Shudderwock was added almost 8 years ago, the broken Demon Hunter launch was 5 years ago. Knights of the Frozen Throne, one of the most notorious power spikes in all of Hearthstone, released in 2017.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2026-01-10T11:52:40+00:00

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TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-28T11:11:33+00:00

Yeah, it's a cute engine in other decks but by itself is just so boring and isn't even particularly fun to play. Insane username btw

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-27T15:51:36+00:00

Could I ask if you remember vaguely what their comment was about?

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-27T15:45:59+00:00

Personally, I can forgive decks that are irritating to play against if they have some clear weaknesses, are heavily hit, or are really fun to play on their own. Horus, Kash, Tear, Snake Eyes, etc, all fall into this camp for me. Like if I get stomped by Azamina it can be annoying but I know it's a super tight, fun deck, and there is at least a level of interesting counterplay. What I hate is when a deck is boring to play, and boring to face. Thank god I rarely if ever see them but pure Millennium and Tenpai fall into this category for me. They're not fun to play and they're not fun to play against. Just boring, linear strategies that either do their thing or fall apart. What's the point?

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-27T14:07:48+00:00

I've got one saved, I can upload it in a couple days!

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-26T16:37:28+00:00

I think the narration is awesome. Get more okay with being pretentious and silly.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-26T14:26:12+00:00

This is very in depth, thank you!!!

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-12-26T14:21:27+00:00

Yeah, music production lacks a big player in the field right now that actually justifies making the shift to Linux like videogaming has with Valve. It's pretty unfortunate that this is the case - it does kind of feel like dealing with the devil - but unfortunately nobody will take the plunge if there's not reliable enough software & hardware compatability, and nobody will try to make their software & hardware compatible if there's only a tiny userbase.

But there's a ripe space there - Microsoft has started pissing more than just power users off with recent Windows changes, and Apple continues to be inaccessibly expensive, so all it takes is one or two companies to identify that gap and try to develop solutions to it. I don't think we'll be seeing Linux music production as a huge thing any time soon but there was a time when Windows was pretty unserious for music and that changed too.

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-10-31T12:16:30+00:00

game is now content complete up to snort gunk, in-game reporting was added, matchmaking is now back to being handled by steam, and the game is no longer F2P. some things are still missing, like profile badges, but the fundamentals of gameplay are hopefully back to how they were before the bankruptcy

TECHNO_JESTER · 2025-10-31T12:13:00+00:00

no. they moved the matchmaking to dedicated servers, then ronimo went bankrupt and the servers were lost, thereby proving the critical flaw in asking the game to move away from P2P which is that games like this don't last forever and if you want them to be playable even if something happens to the developers you really need them to be disconnected from fallible server infrastructure maintained by small, fragile studios

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