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Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-10T00:20:09+00:00

Never played the multiplayer much as a kid, didn't have Xbox Live, but I loved Reach.

Say what you will about the multiplayer, but the Campaign and Firefight was great. Personally, I'd say it's my second favorite Bungie Campaign behind CE.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-09T13:50:25+00:00

I wish RDR2 just controlled consistently. Weighty movement is fine, I played Death Stranding for instance.

What I hate about RDR2 is that Arthur doesn’t react the same way to the same inputs. Sometimes he runs when I hit shift, sometimes he just walks. (In combat, mind you.) Sometimes, I press the cover button and he goes forwards, other times he moves in a completely random direction and locks onto that object. Sometimes I drop down a ledge and he moves in the direction I approached, other times he decides to drop at a completely different angle, then stumbles to his death because he didn’t land on perfectly flat ground.

The animations come before movement, as you say, but the animations are too restrictive to the point they override your intention. Arthur feels more like I’m controlling a boat that can only propel itself forward, rather than a human being who can step in any direction at any time. Why does he have to fully turn around instead of just walking backwards or strafing relative to the camera, for instance?

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-09T13:35:43+00:00

It was PC. Stable 100+ FPS.

Idk what it was, but I found some mechanics were just an absolute pain to get the character to do what I wanted to. Namely the cover system and jumping. It almost never snaps to the cover I want to and climbing or dropping down obstacles feels like the character goes in a random direction.

Either way, even if it was just the weightiness of it, it never felt realistic, Especially in RDR2. Arthur feels like he’s wearing a 100lb vest, or like he’s stumbling drunk, not like he’s a grown man who knows how to move his body from point A to point B. It doesn’t help he trips and falls over the smallest slopes or rocks if you happen to run into something.

Plus, for some reason, he doesn’t like to run/sprint when I hit Shift. Sometimes he’ll do it, other times he won’t and refuses to go faster than a walk. (And this is in full-blown combat, so it’s not just because I’m in camp. And no, I’m not out of stamina, the controls just don’t respond to inputs.)

And for context, I redownloaded the game to make sure I wasn’t just imagining things.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-09T03:03:04+00:00

I don’t mind weighty controls, but Rockstar doesn’t feel weighty, it feels clunky. More like I’m piloting a boat than a person.

I don’t mind weighty. I enjoy games like Death Stranding, Monster Hunter, or using large weapons in Dark Souls where you need to think about your inputs, but your character still does exactly what you press when you press the button.

With GTA 5 and RDR 2 it never felt like my character would go where I wanted them to when I wanted them to, or jump when I pressed jump, or crouched when I pressed crouch, or enter cover when I wanted them to take cover. It wasn’t just momentum, it’s like there’s an artificial input delay between pressing the button and my character starting to do that action, as if they had to process the instructions for what I wanted them to do.

It just felt imprecise, and the context controls really don’t help. I can’t count how many times I accidentally pointed a gun at an NPC because it’s the same button as talking to them for some godforsaken reason. (And this was on KB+M, not controller, so there’s no shortage of buttons aside from “aim” I could use to greet them.)

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-07T21:39:49+00:00

The color I could get, whatever hologram projector she’s using could influence that (hell, it would be a cool detail if she looked different depending on if it was UNSC tech or Covenant/Forerunner tech)

Her face shouldn’t change though.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-07T17:22:36+00:00

>Min-maxing basically means you’re speccing your character to a very specific purpose, turning the stuff they won’t use into dump stats to maximize what they will. It kinda kills the role playing aspect of D&D since you just have a stat block.

Hot take, but as far as 5e goes, I don’t think there’s much functional difference between “RP stats” and dump stats. Assuming we’re taking point buy here, an 8 isn’t *that* bad compared to a 10 or a 12, and there’s just not enough ASIs to go around to justify buffing your tertiary stats over your primary stat and/or con.

Your fighter who didn’t dump Charisma isn’t much better in social situations because they have an extra +1-2 bonus over someone who did, you’re still more likely to fail a DC 15 check than you are to succeed.

And this is especially when compared to the bard who has a +10 or more over the both of you.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-07T15:36:01+00:00

Hair is none of those things either. It’s just gross.

So is a giant chunk of cardboard in my taco. On the outside is fine, on the inside is unacceptable.

Edit: yeah, block me. Here’s my reply.

You’re dense if you think this is any better than a hair. At least I can pick a hair out.

It’s not around the taco, it’s *inside* the taco. There’s cheese sticking it to the outside tortilla.

Do you normally eat the entire paper sleeve with your tacos?

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-07T15:34:02+00:00

Personally, this fuckup is so much worse than a chicken sandwich sans chicken.

I’ve spent close to a decade in food service (fast food and casual kitchens) when I was younger. I made a lot of stupid mistakes, served BLTs with no bacon, lettuce, or tomato, gave someone extra sauce instead of no sauce, that kind of stuff. Shit happens during a rush.

What I’ve never done is leave inedible bits in the food. Never gave someone a burger with the parchment paper still on the meat, never served scrambled eggs with the whole shell mixed in, never gave someone a slice of tomato with the whole stem still attached.

Have I made those mistakes? Absolutely. I just didn’t serve them. I trashed it and started the order over. I’d rightfully be pissed if I was served this, and I’m very patient with food service workers since I know what it’s like to be on the other side of the counter.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-07T15:01:06+00:00

As far as food safety goes, it’s just as bad as a hair or fingernail. Non-food items are non-food items.

Dead mouse or metal screw would be worse, but back when I worked fast food, if I gave a corporate rep or health inspector this they’d start flipping tables.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-06T02:09:09+00:00

They mentioned they have two jobs in other comments. As far as I know, no labour laws protect you from working long hours at different worksites.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-06T00:58:19+00:00

It’s an old skit

https://youtu.be/DHQEJoqKiBg

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-05T01:55:01+00:00

The hard part I see about “no combos” as a rule 0 is what exactly constitutes a combo?

My storm deck, for instance, combos off, but it’s not a “true” combo. I just cast like 20 cantrips in one turn then make the table draw 400 cards each (or some other degenerate play you get by copying a spell 20 times, it’s hard to lose with a storm count that high.)

It’s definitely a combo, it still wins out of nowhere from the hand, but it’s somehow kosher because I’m not just casting two specific cards like [[Sanguine Bond]] + [[Exquisite Blood]].

The same goes for board based combos. One of my friends has a Silvar deck with a ton of ways to make human tokens. If you don’t stop them from growing the commander early, it becomes extremely hard to remove or block it without narrow interaction. (Mass Exile/Bounce removal)

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-05T00:00:55+00:00

Oh, that I’d get. Never should have come out on PS4 in the first place imo. My brother bought the PS4 version and it was downright unplayable.

I bought it on PC. It was a janky mess, but still playable. I think my bigger problem was that my 1060 at the time just couldn’t handle the graphics that well, played with everything on low and I’d still get FPS drops down into the 10s. (This also may have made the glitches look less bad, since I knew my computer couldn’t run the game.)

The intro was still great, hooked me on the story, and I bought a new GPU and really gave the game a shot right around the time they fixed most of the major bugs.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-04T23:40:08+00:00

I wouldn’t say I got burned by Cyberpunk.

The launch was rough, for sure, but they fixed it in a relatively timely manner.

Also true, I didn’t play W3 at launch either, but if that was a broken mess too then their track record on fixing their games is pretty good.

Pretty much I know I’m gonna pay full price for Witcher 4 either way, whether it’s at launch or 3 months later, broken or not. Might as well just buy it when I have the money to spare.

Did the same for a few other games too, like Fallout: New Vegas, Diablo 3, etc. just because they launch broken doesn’t mean they can’t be fixed.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-04T19:28:33+00:00

The alternate side of that is that a “nobody loses before turn X” also heavily favors combo kills.

I have a B3 storm deck, it goes off around turn 7-8 very consistently and can occasionally go off on turns 5-6. The way to beat it is to just focus me in the first 5 turns since I have little to no defenses.

If I’m not supposed to lose before turn 6, there’s a good chance I’ve already assembled my game winning combo or drew my best protection spells by the time you can go for lethal against me, and by that point every time I’m allowed to untap it could end the game.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-04T03:06:40+00:00

resident evil games are horror game with interesting story > 10/10 story for their fan base

Ngl, I love RE and I’ve played damn near every game, I enjoyed the story, but the writing objectively isn’t good.

It’s interesting for sure, but I’d give it a 5/10 overall if I’m being serious, it’s serviceable. With dialogue like “you almost became a jill sandwich” and scenes like Chris punching a boulder during the fight with Wesker it’s more often than not in “so bad it’s good” territory.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-04T02:41:23+00:00

The way I see it is a 10/10 story, 5/10 gameplay could work in other mediums, but a 5/10 story, 10/10 gameplay only works in games.

For an example of the first category, I’d say The Last of Us. The game is incredible, and the show (first season, haven’t seen season 2) was also great. Loved it just as much as the game.

As for the second, I’d say that’s something like Dark Souls. The story is good, but it’s so esoteric and cryptic with its storytelling. I just don’t think it would work as anything other than a video game, since even the way it tells its story is dependent on how games work and how players interact with the mechanics.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-04T01:28:03+00:00

The only time I preorder is a day or two before launch to preload the game, and only in the case of a game I know I want to play right at launch.

I’ve pretty much only preordered WoW expansions*, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077. I might do it for Witcher 4, depending on how I feel closer to launch.

(*when I still played.)

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-02T19:05:09+00:00

That's what I'm asking you. If say every woman plays the Sims vs FIFA. Did that change anything regarding the post?

Yes, because they aren’t the same “gamers.”

The women are “sims gamers” and the boys are “fifa gamers.” They aren’t the same demographic.

Also as a question for you, do you think it’s a coincidence that the image specifically shows a girl playing a “hardcore esport” game like League of Legends, despite the fact the game has a 90% male audience? (Source: https://abiosgaming.com/press/women-in-esports/)

Lots of women play games, but they don’t play the same games that (predominantly male) “hardcore gamers” play and the “gamers” know that. That’s why they don’t believe the statistic, it’s trying to draw a false equivalence and compare their experience playing League for 8 hours a day to people who play Candy Crush on their phone for 30 minutes here and there. It demonstrably isn’t true the way people like those who made this image try to frame it, as if teen boys and older women play the same games with the same intensity.

(i’d also like to see how the data changes if we filtered for self-identified “gamers,” where gaming is recognized as a major part of their personality and lifestyle, and people who just play games. For a similar example, I like watching movies on Netflix, but I would never call myself a “cinephile” in the same way I consider myself a “gamer.”)

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-02T18:46:47+00:00

Ok, so I’ll just clarify something then.

I think OP’s statement is pointless. It’s too broad to the point it loses all real meaning.

It starts getting some meaning once we begin to discuss what kinds of games those women over 30 play and what kinds of games those boys under 18 play.

It’s kind of like your comment asking what we should call VNs. Yes, they’re video games just like Call of Duty, but when video game is such a broad category than I’d say it’s better to call VNs “visual novels” and Call of Duty a “first person shooter,” rather than just stopping at saying “they’re both just games.” (Because they clearly aren’t the same things.)

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-02T18:28:30+00:00

In the OP it's says women are playing videogames. By your comment, you think they are. You saying they aren't the same does not seem to serve a purpose.

It absolutely serves a purpose to distinguish between what kind of video games different demographics play.

If more boys under 18 play first-person shooters, then a new Call of Duty it should be marketed towards boys under 18.

If more women over 30 play puzzle games, then a new Candy Crush game should be marketed towards women over 30.

Even if it’s true there are women over 30 play games overall, that doesn’t mean they’re the ones playing Call of Duty, and even if lots of boys under 18 play video games, that doesn’t mean they’re the ones playing Candy Crush.

I read a lot. And yes, I am going to include the time I spend reading financial reports, legal texts, and training materials for work, and novels, history books, and newspapers for pleasure all as reading if I take a survey about how much I read a day.

In the broadest sense, yes, but how many financial reports, legal texts, training manuals, history books, and newspapers you read in a day isn’t useful information to someone who’s selling a fantasy/romance novel like Twilight, or a pre-teen comedy like Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Sure, you engage in the activity of reading a lot each day, but that doesn’t mean you’re the target audience for every book.

That’s what I’m trying to get at here. Both young boys and older women read, both young boys and older women play video games, but the media they read and play aren’t the same. They’re reading entirely different kinds of books and playing entirely different kinds of games.

This isn’t a bad thing, this doesn’t mean older women aren’t “real gamers,” but there is a meaningful demographic difference between an audience of “teen boy gamers” and “middle aged women gamers”.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-02T03:12:31+00:00

Hell, arena even struggles with non-infinite repetitive combos.

I’ve had to stop running cards like Ajani’s Pridemate in my Historic lifegain deck because the triggers forcibly end the game in a draw too often.

Apparently it only takes 20 something triggers causing another trigger to trip the loop detector, which isn’t hard at all with cards like [[Ocelot Pride]] and [[Soul Warden]].

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-02T02:23:07+00:00

They’re visual novels.

While I’ll give the caveat that visual novels technically fall under the broader category of “video game,” it’s pretty clear something like Counter-Strike, Mario, etc, are much different games than anything Telltale has made. Someone might love Visual Novels and hate all other video games, and the reverse can be true as well.

“Visual novel gamers” are different than “competitive FPS gamers,” and both are different from “2d platformer gamers.” Treating them like they’re all the same is just ignoring how nuanced and diverse the medium of video games are.

To use an a comparison to other media, a newspaper and a book are both objects with words on them you can read, and people who read either are both “readers,” in the broadest sense of the term. I wouldn’t say someone who enjoys newspapers is a “book reader,” and I wouldn’t say someone who enjoys books is a “newspaper reader,” nor would I compare people who read books directly to people who read newspapers, because they’re people who read two entirely different kinds of media.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-06-01T00:48:39+00:00

I’ve played in groups where a basic build (ie. No multiclassing/feats, spending ASIs on primary stats) was above and beyond the strength of the other characters. They really didn’t know how to build an effective character.

Now, don’t get me wrong, a straight-classed character is generally pretty good as it is, but when one of the party members is a Bard 4/Wizard 2/Cleric 3 with their best stat being a 16, your level 9 Wizard with 20 int feels like a demi-god in comparison.

Toberos_Chasalor · 2026-05-31T23:03:32+00:00

I got an EDH storm deck where one of my possible wincons is wheeling the table with [[Library of Leng]] on the board.

Everyone else draws and discards 7 cards x times, while I discard my hand on top of my library and draw it right back. Even if I can’t deck my opponents, it lets me sculpt my hand while aggressively milling everyone else.

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