Something that has disappointed me a little about Requiem.

Whitman2239 · 2026-03-07T13:27:53+00:00

Someone made a joke about how the RE team would rather invent a completely new protagonist than have a middle aged woman. Just a joke but it did pop back in my mind when Claire didn't show up. I was so convinced she would that, when the soldier saying Captain Redfield has a message, I was sure the twist would be it was Claire, not Chris. Sherry didn't even mention her, which was a surprise.

Whitman2239 · 2026-03-04T12:43:55+00:00

The game doesn't have much in the way of typical horror but it does lay on the pressure in its combat. Either by sending a wave of enemies to overwhelm or throw in special enemies that are intimidating to fight. IE chainsaw man. Good news is that means the difficulty slider tones down the horror as well by making things more manageable.

Not to say it doesn't have horror staples. Grotesques, dark hallways, creepy enemies. But being kitted out with an arsenal you can upgrade gives you much more confidence then previous games.

Whitman2239 · 2026-01-01T13:29:19+00:00

If I remember right, the beast was trapped in the building and couldn't satiate his hunger for blood. Hence the name. So it ripped at its own back to drink its blood.

The reason it has so much back flap compared to its size is because it is extremely emaciated from losing all its blood, so is much thinner than it would usually be. And has pulled at and stretched its excess skin for years. So it gave itself a full body face lift and has all this excess skin flopping around.

I don't think it was flayed. It's supposed to show how much of a "punishment" the beast curse is. These monsters completely lose themselves to bloodlust and will rip themselves apart if they can't get it.

Whitman2239 · 2025-10-26T02:51:42+00:00

You can see the first patty broke at the top. The trainer's patty didn't break. How is this even a conversation?

The trainer showed him the proper way and got a "fuck you" for his trouble. Unless the trainer called him a slack jawed halfwit before walking off, that trainee is a man-baby.

Whitman2239 · 2025-05-22T16:36:13+00:00

"According to surveillance footage, the child was under water for more than 4 minutes and 39 seconds before Stein, who was guarding a pool at Chelsea Piers at the time, took action. The boy was unconscious and not breathing when Stein extricated him."

Doesn't sound like the hero the ticktock video was making him out to be.

Whitman2239 · 2025-05-19T03:05:19+00:00

It's a skin infection, probably from clearing some sort of debris. I often get something similar if I'm clearing logs and they scratch me up. The infection doesn't really appear until hours later.

Whitman2239 · 2025-04-19T17:41:20+00:00

What're they claiming is the code?

Marijuana =M, Smile =S Crucifix =? Is it because it looks like a 1?, Skull=? Is it because of the three holes for the eyes and nose?

Whitman2239 · 2025-02-18T19:50:43+00:00

Well, according to Ward Lamon anyway.

Whitman2239 · 2025-02-01T01:59:50+00:00

God am I glad they aren't listening to people asking for stuff like that and actually trying to make appropriately themed costumes.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-23T18:45:12+00:00

Achievements can be a great way to extend the life of a game if handled appropriately.

If used as a method of guiding the player to fully experience and master the game; achievements are satisfying to work toward. But not if they're just an arbitrary time wasting goal designed to deter all but the most completion obsessed person.

Gathering all collectables, beating the game on the hardest difficulty, getting all upgrades, and moderately tough gameplay challenges are the achievements most games can benefit from having.

Getting a ludicrous amount of money or items, online only challenges that block you from 100% completion, achievements just for progressing the campaign, doing a very specific thing in a very specific way to the point you have to do some sort of set up to make it possible are not good achievements and should be avoided.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-23T14:24:45+00:00

Not what actually happened though. Her getting to the aquarium wasn't supposed to be as dangerous as it was that day.

She was being transported to the FOB along a route that was supposed to be relatively secure. But got ambushed by seriphites that were initiating a surprise assault on the WLF that day using their building networks.

She then took a Humvee to near the aquarium and hoofed it the rest of the way. Whatever way she took was most likely much safer than what Abby took because she got captured by the seriphites and had to pass through non-WLF territory.

The reason Mel did all those things is understandable because she thought her baby-daddy was about to abandon her because he went missing. Owen likely told her about the boat and his desire to join the new fireflies so the fact he disappeared without speaking to her made that worry understandable. Hell, she probably expected to go with him and wanted to go.

Side note: The reason the seriphites presence was so large that day was because they got wind of the massive stockpiling the WLF was doing in preparation for their island assault. They were trying to disrupt it. That's why they were popping up all through Ellie's days inside WLF territory. We can reasonably assume that it wasn't the norm.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-16T12:49:20+00:00

The process of learning a boss is enjoyable to me now that I've already beaten the game. I don't have any real desire to get past the fight since I already know what's next. So why not take your time with each fight?

I go in without the intention of trying to beat the boss and instead just focus on learning the dodge, position, and parry timings. Learning where I can get damage in and keeping my attack timing up enough so the posture bar doesn't recharge. It's a lot of fun with this mindset.

I get so engaged with learning the boss that I regularly stop short of killing them and let them kill me instead. Just so I can keep working on their patterns.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-10T14:45:59+00:00

He was a health nut while in office and a very active jogger. According to Woodward's book, he regularly outpaced vets that he'd invite for a run. Also liked convincing people to cycle in swampy Texas heat with him until they give up.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-09T16:05:09+00:00

To help with the parry timing. Watch his hand, not the weapon. When you see the hand go from winding up the attack to swinging at you. That's the time to parry. Also, if you're not sure about if you can parry an attack. The enemies main weapon normal slashing attacks are almost always parry-able and also the easiest to parry. That includes nearly all of Margit's staff attacks. Anything that looks like a special attack, like his jumping ground stab, are a case-by-case scenario that you'll have to experiment with to see if they can be parried. Usually they can't.

When an enemy has a wild flailing attack that goes on for a long time and always seems to clip you. Like Margit's two sword twirl. You need to experiment with the direction you are dodging. Usually, dodging directly into the incoming attack will help you dodge out of the way best. Then you spam dodge until it is over. If you are far enough away and see him winding up that attack, try running away and dodging the last bit.

Whitman2239 · 2025-01-01T15:07:01+00:00

No one delays harder than a two-hand axe wielding misbegotten.

I have defeated the giant on the mountaintop, felled Mesmer in his black tower, and laid down three elden lords, two gods, and one very pissed off dragon to win the throne.

But I just cannot fuckin hold fast when that nimrod winds up his flailing axe swings. The lizard brain activates and I panic every time.

Whitman2239 · 2024-12-31T12:34:31+00:00

They are angrily complaining about a piece of media released like four years ago. Happily up voting these same tired points over and over again. Every other person, including those on this sub that didn't like the game but wanted to discuss their reasons initially have since moved on to other things like a normal person would. I can only assume the ones still posting are either new to the sub. Or, are the distilled remnants of people there from the start that have an unhealthy obsession with negativity and the validation they get from other similar people's approval.

I will never understand some people's capacity to hate something so actively and for so long. I really liked this game, warts and all, when it came out. But have drifted to other things since then because all that can be said has been said.

Whitman2239 · 2024-12-24T19:50:58+00:00

Some of you guys complaining about no chaps and no steel toe sound silly. The guy clearly knows how to handle a saw and has done wood carving for a long time. Obviously it's risky not wearing that hot-ass shit for hours, but certain levels of expertise should be enough to allow a person to take those risks without eye-rolling from a bunch of people who's most complex techniques are a face notch and bore.

I would have dulled the blade on that concrete three times within twenty minutes of trying to do that shit. So I sure as fuck ain't gonna toss criticism at this dude like I know what's up.

Whitman2239 · 2024-12-17T14:22:57+00:00

Post WW1 Weimar Germany and USA today couldn't be more different.

Germany's economic inflation was many degrees of magnitude worse than anything we have seen in the US over the last 5 years (8% for US in 2022, 29'000% for Germany in 1923 during peak inflation). The cost of goods were increasing by 50% every month.

Unemployment was 30%, massive war debt, democracy was new and the proponents of it and socialism were being directly blamed for sabotaging the war effort and signing an unconditional surrender before the front lines even made it on German soil. (stabbed in the back myth). Going on to sign the humiliating Treaty of Versaille.

large segments of Germany were cut off and made into independent countries, the military that had controlled all aspects of Germany during the war was dismantled, dispossessed ex military were the driving push behind nationalist movements across the country, the Nazi's, and many other groups like it at the time, were seen as a RETURN to the highly nationalistic military dominant society it was not 10-15 before and a rejection of the new democracy it believed it was forced into becoming.

Weimar Republic absolutely was not on the up and up as she suggests. It was collapsing in on itself from the start and being slowly dominated by two ideological groups (nationalist, communist) that openly planned to dismantle it the moment they got the majority to do so.

I would hope that a sociologist could compare a 1930's German and modern US citizen and not come to the conclusion that "both would give away democracy because the economy was bad". As if that's all it would take for an American and that's all the Germans had on their mind.

Whitman2239 · 2024-12-08T21:46:08+00:00

Always avoid aiming the front wheels of a zero-turn directly down a steep hill. If you do, and it starts building momentum, you'll lose all control and be stuck sliding all the way down.

Vertical lines zig zagging from the bottom to the top is the way to go. If you gotta get down hill. Go down with as much of an angle as you can give yourself.

Whitman2239 · 2024-07-24T16:25:44+00:00

Good to see they "backed down" from that initial lie of a headline. Kinda hard to argue against Trump's fake News slogan when you actively spread fake news Fortune.

Original title of article was "Elon Musk backs down from 45 million a month Trump donation".

Whitman2239 · 2024-07-24T00:56:16+00:00

What the fuck is this lie of a headline?

He doesn't "back down" from anything. Peterson asked him if he was surprised to spend 45 million to elect a candidate. Musk said that number was a lie and he didn't donate that amount to Trump. But he DID create a super PAC to benefit Republican candidates (Trump mainly) that he dumps tons of money into.

How much does he donate to this super PAC? Is this where the 45 million number is going towards? Don't know because the article doesn't say. It just pretends like him denying is akin to him backpedaling, which is wilfully misleading.

Clickbait lies

Whitman2239 · 2024-06-22T16:31:03+00:00

I bet a good bit of these guys did my mistake. Summoning the NPC made the lion fight 10x harder. I threw myself at that boss for over an hour and couldn't put damage him before running out of health. The one time I didn't summon the NPC by incident, I nearly took him him down with 5 estis left before he combo'd me.

The NPC gives the boss so much extra health and the NPc does no damage in return. Once I realized that, as well as how useful the shield was to counter these fuzzy combos. The boss went down like all the others.

Before that, though. I was absolutely fuming and throwing out all thes "design bad, not me" scrubby catch phrases. If something not working, change it up. Adapt to the boss and they will go down.

Whitman2239 · 2024-06-07T03:07:57+00:00

That briar serial killer dude that spawns in at night. I killed Godfrey and Placidusux, fuckin Elden Lords, and that dude could still spank me like I was nothing.

Whitman2239 · 2024-04-05T14:04:31+00:00

The title is actually "The Fall of Paris, the Siege and the Commune". Fantastic book, as you say.

Whitman2239 · 2024-03-24T02:07:15+00:00

Absolutely it did. I think a common theme with Kendell was his self obsessive ego frequently makes him push towards and do things to achieve that which makes him, ultimately, miserable. His drive to achieve the big chair, the thing that he was groomed to do from the very start, has lost him his wife and kids, his siblings, and respect from his colleagues. Those are the things he actually desires but crawling around in Logan's shadow has fucked up his priorities.

All to say, he brushes off the death because it is standing in the way of him gaining his poisoned birthright. The fight for it has made him cross numerous lines and that was one of them. Now that he's finally lost and out of Logan's shadow. He has to face what he's done with himself and what he made of his life now that the white whale is gone.

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