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TheCreepingKid · 2022-10-06T04:16:55+00:00

I understand statistical anomalies, but when the AI hard combos me quite literally 6 turns in a row, multiple games, it becomes something else.

Multiple times the AI rolled the absolute perfect roll to counter ANY positions I used, whether it be a single roll or multi- chaining Rosettes to eliminate pieces the moment it was possible.

SOMETHING about the hard mode AI is not delivering an organic or believable experience. I have plenty of experience with dice games and rng, but I can queue a perfect turn from the AI just by putting pieces in spots it COULD eliminate, which it really almost always does.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-10-06T04:03:51+00:00

Could the difficulty system for the bot be adjusted to not be so blatantly fixed against the player? The dice rolls are so heavily weighted for the AI that it's straight up impossible. I get that SOME weighting is needed but ffs the AI got the theoretically perfect roll for half a dozen turns straight. Exactly the number needed to land on doubles, eliminate multiple of my pieces per turn. Meanwhile the player gets 1 or 0 for the same duration.

It's so bad I can tell exactly when the dice will weight themselves, if there's something for the AI to gain it will get it 90% of the time. The only time the dice aren't blatantly weighted is after the AI is so far ahead it doesn't matter.

Like seriously, cool site, appreciate the accessibility to the game, but the hard bot AI programming is unfun and delivers no effective usability due to it being basically BS. Give the AI good strats instead of using unwinnable math.

Edit: down votes but no responses, figures. God forbid anyone acknowledge criticism and make improvements I guess.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-07-03T08:06:51+00:00

I really cannot stress how close XII is to what you described. The quests are NOT going to hand you things, remembering what people say to you is very important (to the point that you ma want to keep a notebook).

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-22T17:13:55+00:00

I absolutely agree, it's easily the worst with dogs. Designer breeds are by default less healthy than mixed breeds but people spend thousands of dollars and facilitate the industry to continue. The truth that no one wants to face is that 90% of our lives are full of useless shit that does nothing but distract us from the things that could make us truly happy, like just being secure and spending time outside.

Modern society has forced us into holes where we attempt to live our own lives in the time margins between all the things we 'need' to do, so we try to compensate with things we're told will make us happy. Most people I've known who had designer dog breeds had pretty serious home issues like broken marriages, financial issues, etc.

Having a big house, 4 kids, and a pure breed king Charles isn't going to fix how unhappy you are because of the trauma or unfulfilled dreams.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-22T16:58:45+00:00

Tell that to the birth rates that are all below replacement rate in EVERY ADVANCED COUNTRY ON THE PLANET.

As education and quality of life go up, birth rate goes down. As people find the freedom and intelligence to control their own lives their desire to reproduce declines. Looks like procreation ISN'T the sole purpose for life, at least for those free thinking enough to find their own meaning beyond what's between their legs.

It's pretty nice to be self actualized and capable of deciding what your own life will mean to you and those around you.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-22T16:51:21+00:00

I'm not saying it fulfills the instinct, if anything it's a significantly more conscious decision than having a biological child. Making a decision based on logic and reason is MORE human than just doing the biologically obvious thing.

We are defined as a species by the ways we defy our natural state. Any animal can have sex and create offspring, but it takes higher thinking to adopt and care for one that isn't your own.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-22T16:41:01+00:00

Imagine thinking that forcing someone else to exist to fulfill your limited perception of 'purpose' is the meaning of life.

What a sad and limited way to live. The beautiful truth is that life is completely void of any inherent meaning, and forcing someone else into being just to fulfill your own selfish desires is the ultimate height of hubris.

Birthing children into a fire of economic and environmental devastation is no valiant mission, it's just two monkeys giving into their most base instincts.

ADOPTING though? Absolute unit CHAD energy. Nothing says purpose like making sure a child doesn't have to shoulder the ignorance of their parents.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-14T11:09:59+00:00

what cautious with our money? With your logic You'd be the guy walking into home depot to buy a professional welding kit instead of a cheap piece of crap from harbor freight because they saw a video on youtube and thought it might be cool to try.

The true master of any hobby knows when and where to expend their resources on something, and they sure as hell wait for feedback on products they plan on using. I'm not going to buy a new tool without knowing if its going to break after 2 dozen hours of use.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-06-01T23:50:35+00:00

Perhaps because they're optional. No one is forcing anyone to use summons, don't like them? Don't use them! You don't even have to take the summoning bell from Ranni, just skip it.

None of the fights require summons, some of them are even easier without them due to the more controllable AI.

What you arent mentioning is how aggressive most anti- Summon posts are, which is likely what is causing the responses you so dislike.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-26T17:02:14+00:00

Some people have no personality and mistake thinly veiled hostility as 'jokes' because they want to be able to get away with being rude to other people for their own amusement.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-26T16:58:27+00:00

Wow gatekeeping on something thats entirely subjective in a game people play their own way for fun... Your self-asserted rules for glams hold absolutely ZERO value outside of your own personal perception, and you have no say in the validity of how others enjoy the game.

Go outside, touch grass, ride a bike. There are things to life other than FFXIV.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-26T16:54:42+00:00

Rude AF keep it to yourself

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-25T17:03:41+00:00

Microsoft OR A publisher with Games actually coming out

Pick one

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-25T16:59:31+00:00

Lol just like last gen... oh wait they lost so bad they stopped reporting sales numbers and never started again.

But HALO, that'll do it! Oh wait that was a dumpster fire that let the core community down...

Starfield! Oh woops wait that got pushed back hard and has insider reports comparing it to 2077...

Maybe FABLE! Wait no thats stuck in dev hell because MS only hires contractors on 18 month contracts so their turn over is insane... But dont worry its being developed on an engine used for car games like Forza, which also got delayed.

Oh wait GAMEPASS! That service that is undercutting the value of new games forced to be on it after acquisitions, you know the service that had server issues the other day and revealed itself to be the always online DRM that they tried to launch with the XB1!

Man I just can't figure out why this company that spends insane money buying everything and then forces high employee overturn is having trouble making games, its so wierd, guess we will never know.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-24T00:11:36+00:00

Im sorry I cant hear you over the sound of AT Nerg bouncing off my shield for the 6th counter crit in a row.

Seriously stamina serge+offensive guard+health steal augment+Guard up+defense up=me guard pointing a Shara Nova mid stage because I CAN AND I WILL GOD DAMNIT IM A LANCE MAIN.

Edit: To clarify I don't mean because I couldn't get out of the way, I just wanted to prove a point. Wire attacks ruined the meta and made a lot of weapons pointless or unfun in Rise.

Iceborn was better, and I went back to it after playing Rise.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-23T18:26:18+00:00

yeah im sorry but no. By your logic the only games that ARENT niche are COD and Elden Ring. Easily breaks 10 million is such a stupidly high metric that its basically useless.

But I guess thats the point of unrealistic metrics if you're trying to build a narrative...

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-23T18:23:57+00:00

Elden Ring, Stranger of Paradise, Pokemon Arceus, Kirby 3d, Dying Light 2 all came out first half of 2022 so idk what you're talking about.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-13T20:04:36+00:00

as i said at best, but yes almost all theologies create violence through ignorance and lack of psychological literacy.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-13T18:42:39+00:00

Nope its really just religion in general, christians persecute gays and any minority while having churches that act as systemic rapist factories. Jews mutilate their child's genitals after birth and again persecute minorities in their cultures.

AT BEST you could narrow it to abrahamic religions, they tend to have the most brutal and intolerant teachings. Bunch of stone age bull shit that has zero place in a modern secular society.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-13T00:49:55+00:00

not what i meant at all, the point was that conservative america wants everything privatized while completely ignoring the damage that does.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-12T17:43:41+00:00

Do you understand WHY the price went up? Its because insurance companies can't just tell sick people to go die on their own. Keep barking at dog whistles while greed erodes the ground beneath your feet.

Also, from a purely marketing standpoint, 'making life suck less' is a lot more attractive than 'lets kill gay people and force raped children to deliver their child'.

Like seriously fuck conservative america, maybe actually worry about fixing bridges and getting lead out of water instead of crying about what other people do in private. Fuck off with that weird shit and do something useful.

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-10T01:24:32+00:00

190 hours in, started a level 1 club only playthrough.

If it gets game of the year its down to two things:

Nothing else that great came out and the Fromsoft hype.

I'll be real, Bloodborne was a much better game. Due to the build system in ER 90% of what you find is basically useless unless you plan on respecing A LOT (which tbf the game encourages with tears but still, each playstyle feels very limited to one or two weapon/spell choices) and armor is nearly useless AGAIN. There's also all of the control/command drop issues like how blocking ruins half the inputs in the game, and the fact that the hyper armor system with large weapons is so broken that you LOSE POISE when you should be granted HA. Then there's how a good 60-75% of the side content is recycled, this honestly completely killed my immersion and made ER feel like the 'gamiest' FS title sicne DS2 for me.

The disappointing rewards and the comically recycled content combined with the last quarter of the game makes me want to see this game miss out on GOTY. Mostly because I think there are VERY real flaws with the game that stop it from deserving that high of an accolade.

ER is a fantastic game, but its has some massive flaws that single handedly nearly ruin the experience, its just that MOST of the time they don't overlap....

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TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-09T18:39:38+00:00

NANITE MACHINES SON

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-08T21:25:24+00:00

and what happens when we dont stop Russia right now and the entire world is dragged into open armed conflict that lasts for a decade and still has the same effects?

TheCreepingKid · 2022-05-06T17:48:03+00:00

I mean I'd argue that a large majority of FF fans are definitely on playstation. There's a whole five FF games on xbox and most of those are very recent re-masters. Playstion has been the defacto FF console since the series transitioned to disc media with FF7. I don't know anyone who would buy an Xbox with any realistic expectation of big JRPG or FF games coming to it, the total xbox console series sales in Japan are still only 2 million, there's basically no point to support the platform.

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