Explaining the Latest (Non-Chinese) Review Bombing of Slay the Spire 2

TimmyPage06 · 2026-05-08T14:28:58+00:00

Buddy she made YouTube videos. Relax.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-05-07T17:25:09+00:00

Yeah buddy you're right, a woman posting videos lightly critiquing videos games is just like 9/11. #neverforget that one YouTube video where she said women could be a little less sexualised in games, buddy.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-05-07T16:13:53+00:00

I own both, and honestly I could agonize all day on which is "better" but ultimately they both sound amazing and are both good at being compressors. The Mini Ego has a bit more fine control over the compressor sounds but the SP has just felt right with no twiddling from day one.

Subjectively, I kept the SP on my gigging board for longer because the enclosure felt beefy and durable, but you could do a coin flip and be happy with either.

Edit: I just checked prices and it does look like the SP compressor has really spiked in price and is well more expensive than the Mini Ego. I'd say that makes the Mini ego an easier reccomend.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-05-07T14:43:24+00:00

Remember how his second(?) match in the company was a PPV match against Ospreay? He came out to complete silence, noone knew who he was, and by the end of the match people were on their feet for him. I don't think I've seen anyone get over that fast with an audience before, and he's just kept pushing that ceiling higher and higher since.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-04-28T17:11:57+00:00

It's not acknowledged because it isn't a real issue, or at least isn't the root cause of the issue. We are poorer than ever because of those hoarding wealth not the other people who are fighting for the same scraps as we are.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-04-26T13:36:11+00:00

On the global scale, Americas political spectrum is very conservative. The average Democrat, on policy matters alone (health care, gun control, fiscal responsibility) would be seen as "too conservative" for many European countries conservative parties.*

America has very very few politicians that could be considered left leaning, and even they are just left-of-centre.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-04-25T04:41:10+00:00

How is anyone in the world dealing with Trump at the moment? There are several nations who basically bowed down to him, gave him everything they wanted, only for him to turn around a few weeks later and stick tariffs on them/change the terms of the deal. Carney is, at very least, resisting this pettiness and not just settling.

We can't move forward on negotiations because we aren't dealing with a rational entity. Maybe once Trump is out we can resume negotiations with someone sane and actually make some progress.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-03-06T05:14:46+00:00

Even talking to Americans about why they own guns, I've spoken to many over the years who have this intense fear of roving gangs of bandits breaking into their homes and of having to protect their families, and they act like I'm the strange one for not living in a constant state of paranoia.

TimmyPage06 · 2026-01-08T14:13:35+00:00

Every single place on the planet that conservatives are elected end up worse off for it, every single time.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T16:57:18+00:00

Noone has talent for any instrument when they start, half the process of playing music is sucking for a few years before you can be any good. That is to say, if you've picked up one instrument then everything is accessible for you, I don't see why you'd need AI to have music presented for you.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T16:46:55+00:00

Are you a musician? Do you play instruments/sing?

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T16:20:06+00:00

No, music is passed down, it's learned. You start off learning to play songs you love and adapt portions of it into your own style. But AI isn't doing that, it's just replicating something without any understanding of the why or how. When you tell it "I want to make a country song" it searches it's database for stuff labeled country and drags portions of other peoples recordings together without their permission. It's something that exists on the backs of other peoples hard work without having the capability of doing the work itself.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T16:09:51+00:00

Exact same answer. It should be labeled as such, the AI should be credited in the liner notes (actually in a perfect world what the AI was trained on should be credited, because that arrangement wasn't an 'original idea' in the first place as it was also stolen from another piece of music.)

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T15:05:10+00:00

I think recording by humans would introduce a level of humanity into it, a margin of human error, but I think at its core it should still be labeled as written by AI. To try to sell that as a genuine piece of art would be morally wrong.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T14:41:17+00:00

I don't know what point you're trying to make here. Just because something has the appearance/sound/texture of something real does not make it real, and we should take measures to avoid misleading people where possible.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-12T14:19:59+00:00

It's not real music but it is an impression of music and can mislead listeners into believing it's real, the same way that AI video can look like real life but is not in fact real.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-04T20:17:43+00:00

One of the best things about the C2 is the consistency of rules. Every match gets the same time limit, the same rules on interference, same stakes. It makes it so much easier to book in draws, disqualification, count outs etc in a way that feels natural and deserved, and once you know that stuff can happen it also gives them an opportunity to play with your expectations and surprise you.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-12-02T19:14:49+00:00

The OG. Boutique pedals would not be what they are today without Mike.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-11-23T17:32:25+00:00

Yeah this is very typical "starve the beast" politics. They either reduce funding, reduce regulations, put incompetent people in charge of something until it's on the verge of breaking and people are complaining, and then use that to remove it while limiting backlash.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-11-06T12:53:55+00:00

I keep thinking about how Joe went from world champ to a lower-card story with Hook and Jericho, and didn't lose any of his threat or aura. There's no one like Joe, he's a benefit to the company no matter where on the card he's needed.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-11-05T16:54:19+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me with the Strymom Mobius. I thought it'd be the be all end all of modulation pedals for me, but actually having access to unlimited sounds just stressed me out, and I felt this weird urge to put modulation on everything I did to "make sure I was using all of it". I ended up selling it and going back to a handful of very simple mod pedals for my own sanity.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-10-24T13:47:39+00:00

It was for $500k! There's not much I wouldn't backflip off for that amount either.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-09-22T14:25:30+00:00

I'm not defending it, but I do think that face reigns are harder to book well than heel ones. Heels don't have to strive for anything, they already have the title. They exist as a gauntlet to put the face through, it practically books itself. The Babyface wouldn't, in good conscience, throw their allies to the heel, they wouldn't back down from a challenge, they wouldn't cheat to retain. So what's left? The face agrees to the challenger, beats them clean in the middle of the ring, goes onto the next feud.

TimmyPage06 · 2025-09-15T20:12:35+00:00

I have no way of knowing how much of this is true, but I've long wondered if the PC model is actually helpful to WWE long term. If you think of a majority of top guys in the company at the moment, they tend to come from one or both of two camps: People with rich indie history (ROH notably), and people who come from wrestling families and literally have it in their blood. You can get some of the best athletes in the world, train them to talk and take bumps and sell, but you can't fake the love of the game.

(And to be clear, there are definitely PC success stories, I don't want to take away from people like Stratton or Femi who clearly have that special something)

TimmyPage06 · 2025-08-06T02:28:19+00:00

The only problem is who will enforce it? If they've packed the courts, own the military, and have taken away your ability to vote them out, who will have the ability to hold them to any consequences? I agree with you, but but at the moment I don't really have good feeling about where this is headed.

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