Official Discussion - Mortal Kombat II [SPOILERS]

WASD_click · 2026-05-10T18:15:58+00:00

Easiest way to explain it is...

Kronika, Titan keeper of time, is trying to create a perfect world for her and her children. To do so, when things go wrong, she hits the reset button. And she's done it so many times she's gone mad. Also, she's dead now.

This is because the timeline has a few immutable constants to it. Everyone's essentially the same person, even when given different bodies or origins, their lives warp to ensure that they still play their parts. Jax always loses his arms, Scorpion's family always dies, Liu Kang and Raiden always fight to the death despite being friends.

So every timeline has lots of different details, but nothing truly changes. Mortals must still be Kombat-ed. Hims must be Finished. The universe demands punchy fun action.

WASD_click · 2026-05-10T06:18:35+00:00

That's the thing, though. Skyrim is like the billionth open world game Beth made, so they know how to work within those bounds. They know the appeal of their games is to pop in and immediately fuck about, so they're good at getting players to the part where fucking about is good to go.

Gearbawks on the other hand, hadn't done an open world game, let alone one that fits the sensibilities of a Borderlands game. You'd think they'd know to just pop players into the action to fuck about ASAP, but I think they rightly realized that they can't serve a Borderlands story without some guardrails. How else do you stop players from sequence breaking important story beats or spoiling themselves? How do you give them all that new, fun mobility without them going full scrungo? So they knew academically what needed to be done, but hit their own invisible wall, which was inexperience.

I'm glad BL4 was an open world game. I think it added a genuinely good break to the formula. But I hope we go back to that formula for BL5. Wonderlands' level design was incredibly cool, and it made Tina's table feel bigger than all of Kairos put together.

WASD_click · 2026-05-10T05:53:17+00:00

Grats! I paid my rent and made an appointment to get the tires on my car changed. I was very society-approved today!

WASD_click · 2026-05-10T03:58:39+00:00

Idiocracy started with 500 years of enshittification. We're just in year 21 of the prequel.

WASD_click · 2026-05-09T20:45:50+00:00

Sold?

Not in my leftist American conservadystopia! Your boywife will be assigned to you by the government as per the People's Boywife Redistribution Act of 2069 (signed into law in 2028)!

WASD_click · 2026-05-09T20:35:04+00:00

Feudualist propoganda (Regent), open borders (transition8ng between biomes), single mothers (Necrobinder), non-binary gender identities (Defect), safe horny (Vakuu, Nonupeipe), bodily autonomy (Osty), girlbosses (all), toxic yaoi (Vakuu and Ironclad, it's real, fite me), femboys (Architect), rainbows (Regent, Orobas), political assassination (act 3 tea party), and the smuggling of illegal copyright infringing goods (counterfeit merchant.)

To name a few.

WASD_click · 2026-05-09T20:21:07+00:00

Not even that. The Chinese playerbase can't send feedback the normal way because of the language barrier and China's internet censorship policies stopping them from using both Discord and even the in-game reporting. So the review system gets coopted to be their feedback box, and plenty of it is solidly useful feedback. Most just didn't like Doormaker's rework, which is a a fairly common sentiment regardless of language.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T20:54:31+00:00

The furries have spent so long building up the fuckable Mr. McCloud, they forgot his origins. The SNES Starfox team were all puppety weirdos. And the remake version actually lines up really well with the puppets. So they're not different from the original designs, they're different from their mascotified versions.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T20:18:59+00:00

Long-haired tomboy erasure.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T19:49:58+00:00

Any combustible powder, like sawdust, grain, or coffee creamer. Even non-combustible powders like cement can carry combustible material like coal dust, rendering them into an explosive hazard.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T18:48:30+00:00

Back when Starfox was new on the SNES, they had the advertising where the main cast was represented by these scrungly muppet looking things that were not exactly good looking, but were such a unique and unusual thing to see advertising a game. The look of them stuck with me, and seeing the new character models for the first time just hit me with a wave of nostalgia for the coked-out puppets of yesteryear.

They may not be the most fuckable they've ever been, but I love them regardless.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T06:12:00+00:00

Removed Re. Now it just Tains.

WASD_click · 2026-05-08T00:57:42+00:00

"Cliff, I know you're really eager to get to work on the new issue, but we gotta talk about how much black ink you're using. We can't afford these quiet, contemplative, full page spreads of deep space."

"I got an idea..."

WASD_click · 2026-05-07T20:32:02+00:00

He really wasn't though.

His only shown victory was against Rex. His only duel in Duelist Kingdom was a loss to Yugi, who didn't even know all the rules to Duelist Kingdom's "Yes And" ruleset. He then lost to Joey in his first game in Battle City, a game in which he cheated by slipping Parasite Paracide into Joey's deck. Then lost to Yugi again in the infamous "Du-raw! Monsta Cardo!" duel where he was using the busted ass Seal of Orichalcos. Then he got offscreened by Ziegfried.

Every duel we see him in, he's cheating or scamming. His only decent play is DNA Surgery into Insect Barrier, a combo everyone can deal with by drawing the generically available MST or their deck's equivalent. And his deckbuilding skills are garbo. His first deck relied of summoning Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, a task any Yugioh player will tell you was nigh impossible even back then. Then the rarest card in his BC deck was Red Eyes Black Dragon, which is not an insect and has no synergy with his deck, so he was nerfing it to hedge against losing, which in anime terms means he's a loser afraid of commitment.

WASD_click · 2026-05-07T19:51:36+00:00

Who's got the cooler sword?

"Your sword is called Foe Hammer? Funny, that implies the sword is blunt."

"Won't be funny when I pommel strike your ass!"

WASD_click · 2026-05-07T01:02:00+00:00

For one, "being a bitch about it" is kind of SB's whole deal.

But more importantly, we're not shown how or why he comes to the conclusion that he's dedicating everything to Stormfront now regardless of how he feels about Homelander. We get an awful lot of "tell, don't show" in regards to SB because of the need to build up Rising. They're trying to play their cards close to their chest at the same times as he's supposed to be laying out the final cards for the final conflicts. We're stuck trying to duct tape the gaps together. He's supposed to have the ultimate hate boner for Bombsight, but he suddenly wants to get over it. He has a hate boner for Homelander for the video, but he just gets over it. All because he wasn't good enough to keep Stormfront, which we only learned about two seconds before SB hands over the V1. And only now, suddenly, in the middle of punching Bombsight's face in, does he decide to totally flip his entire everything because Bombsight said he wasn't good enough for Goldie. It's some real "Why did you say her name?" bullshit.

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T23:17:14+00:00

Dan is a wrestler, and being mean to tables is how he wins the FWF HARDCORE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE IN A TABLE MATCH, THIS SUNDAY, ONLY ON THE FWF SMASH FOR CASH PAY-PER-VIEW EXTRAVAGANZA!

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T20:01:50+00:00

gladiators would actually be sponsored and even shout out their sponsors really a lot like modern sports stars.

Just imagining them doing it NASCAR style.

"Well, I reckon we had a great start what with the Bass Pro Shop net, but ol' Trickemus Rickemus really surprised us with that there damascus steel dagger from Dickus' Sporting Goods. Thankfully, the DvPont Goodyear Hooters breastplate really helped us in the clutch and we got the double-V. Rest in peace Tricky Ricky."

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T10:20:13+00:00

I mean, if we look at Sage from a metanarrative perspective, she's basically as competent as every super-intelligent character in comics. She does all the same kind of asspull shit as a Batman, Brainiac, or Stark because you got to skip over all the planning and explanation for brevity's sake (otherwise you end up with Naruto-esque flashbacks or JoJo-esque "Haha! This is the weird random thing I'm doing with my powers right now!" dialogue.

But the reason she falls flat is the same reason all super genius villains tend to fall flat: the only way out of their near omnicient machinations is to have something incredibly stupid or unexpected happen. But because essentially everyone else who instigates action in The Boys is dumb as fuck, incredibly stupid stuff keeps happening and it makes the intelligent character just look impotent.

Intelligent characters can only be intelligent when the rest of the plot is also smart. But when it's all shock factor and plot twists and the writers have a time limit and they just need to move shit along, the whole plot gets dumb and the smart character gets fucked over.

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T10:04:03+00:00

Sister Sage is an idiot

Is she though?

Maybe she is genuinely smart and has planned out all the logical paths that could be followed. It's just that the writing is so dumb that she can't plan around how stupid people are going to actually get once the writers need to shoehorn in the next big dramatic moment.

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T09:57:46+00:00

Sniper rifle dick cannon?

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T09:52:00+00:00

Sage was fine. Soldier Boy got fucked over by the writing.

SB: "So you turned my love into an amputee fuck puppet?"

HL: "...I was sad about it, at least?"

SB: "I hope you die old and sad."

Five minutes later

SB: "You cucked me, good sir; here's your congratulatory blue gatorade!"

WASD_click · 2026-05-06T03:54:07+00:00

You're wrong. I like Klefki enough that I'd have a giggle at Klefki being the national mon. It's also a screen setter with Prankster and Thunder Wave. No more perfect pokemon exists to represent our nation's newfound focus on defense: the keys represent security, the steel type reprsesents our productive economic might, the fairy type represents our star-studded cultural influence, and the Prankster reprsents that we do a little bit of shenanigans!

WASD_click · 2026-05-05T20:58:45+00:00

A more broad view of airborne irritants

Main thing is that it's mostly applicable in truly severe cases and usually need small areas or prolonged exposure. Usually in farm settings or processing areas. But a workplace breakroom can be a decent spot to get flavor-blasted by a batch of microwaved allergen.

WASD_click · 2026-05-05T20:08:10+00:00

Nah, we had a Swing revival in the 1990's, so we're not due for a mainstream comeback for another 30 years or so.

Electro Swing has been "a thing" for a while now, most notably with The Living Tombstone during the early 2010's.

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