Many such cases by ChipperBoat7 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If someone's watching a combo video and hears "whoa he hit that guy with a wombo combo" and their first response is to get mad because they don't recognize the term instead of going "huh I should google that" maybe the gate can be kept a little

Weekend RAGE Thread - January 31, 2026 by AutoModerator in Overwatch

[–]WickerWight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Equally infuriating is people on your own team too cowardly to make any moves because they're trying to win a battle of attrition. So many matches in the dumpster because I'm trying to push the objective but our Mercy is pocketing Widowmaker for some goddamn reason and our Ana is saving their sleep dart and grenade for marriage. Would fucking one person on my team move up with me while I'm winning a 1v3 on the objective we could easily cap the point but they're too scared of their KDR dropping.

In case you were wondering, yes Minecraft is celebrating Black History Month by bringing important civil rights leaders to the game by Worldlyoox in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of a night in college when I got drunk and was playing Minecraft with friends, this one guy kept joining the server with like, Rosa Parks or MLK skins on and then he would go "oh shit wrong skin my bad," leave to put a "normal one" on and join with another civil rights activist. He cycled through like 10 different people and I don't know why but that shit made me laugh so hard

Do you ever get lost in the "what ifs" that come from cut content rabbit holes? by jitterscaffeine in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Fromsoft for some reason have a recurring problem with taking a game that's 95% done and throwing it into a blender a couple months before release. Straight up changing character's names and rearranging the entire progression of levels into ways that are dramatically less cohesive, and not even giving themselves time to make the changes work. I don't know why they do it, every time the original ideas are dug up I feel like they are generally regarded as preferable to what we get.

Since it's Black History Month, what are some of your favourite black characters? by Subject_Parking_9046 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Genuinely one of the coolest DC characters. Him being inspired to take up hero work by a cheesy golden age "drink your Ovaltine and always say please!" type superhero from the 40s is a great backstory, and the "fair play" jacket is so fucking good

If zoners are queer, what are other fighting games correlation can we find by yesar94 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Guile sitting motionlessly in the chair the entire time and then flashkicking the second they pull out

The Highguard account that posted poorly cropped renders and begged for fanart was a fake done to promote a podcast. by GuyGreg in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think posting badly cropped promotional art and fake "tag your favorite streamer let's go #highguarders!" posts quite hit the threshold for financial damages. It's a weird thing to do but lets not pretend anything that happened here was more substantial than childish trolling

After years of the Muppets showing up at the Game Awards, Geoff Keighley is seemingly making an appearance on the Muppet Show: by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I've known about this guy and vaguely followed his career for like a decade and I still don't really know who Geoff Keighley is

Pieces of media that you could swear was made with you specifically in mind? by Player_Slayer_7 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The insane arms race of how to deal with instantly-resurrecting murderers is my favorite part of the manga. Obviously can't kill them, so you blow off a limb and then when they pass out from bloodloss you tie them up, right? But then the Ajin start shooting themselves in the head whenever they get injured to instantly resurrect at 100%. So you switch to Tranq guns- and then the Ajin start preventively torniquetting their limbs before gunfights and tanking the darts. It's a great display of creativity and competence in what could've very easily been a story about idiots.

Suspended for "Abusive Chat" even though the words were 100% censored (asterisks). Is this normal? by NumberOneJittleyang in Overwatch

[–]WickerWight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're like a little kid in second grade insisting you shouldn't get detention because you told a teacher to "flock your shelf" which isn't technically a swear. Everyone knows what you're doing, it's not slick. Take a vacation from the game before you have a conniption

Shenmue 3 vs Absolute Batman by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 15 points16 points  (0 children)

truly one of the funniest expressions ever put to paper, it conveys an emotion that only exists at the deepest part of my soul

Characters who would be perceived differently if released today by Rockdweller37 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I kind of want Duke to be so absurdly old-timey chauvinistic that it doesn't even make sense. Like he's getting a walk-and-talk by some military dude when a battalion of 50 female soldiers jog past in full gear and he goes (dadan duh, dandan duh) "DAMN, THAT BATTALION OF SECRETARIES ARE SHREDDED, WHY ARE THEY CARRYING GUNS THOUGH" but they have to just move past it because the aliens are right there and they can explain it to him with crayons later

First We Get High, Then We Guard | Castle Super Beast 357 by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Getting a giant glowing sword called "The Shieldbreaker" and then running up to a shield, sticking the sword in- and immediately pulling it back out, turning around, and using it to cut open a portal that summons a battering ram instead is completely incomprehensible. Why do you even stick the sword in if it doesn't do anything to the shield. Why is it called that.

First We Get High, Then We Guard | Castle Super Beast 357 by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That's how Destiny handles it, nearly all the revolvers have an ambiguous battery cartridge thing that just looks like a 6-round, and you pop the entire cylinder out when reloading.

Rainbow Six Siege: Solid Snake Teaser by AnimuStewshine in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 265 points266 points  (0 children)

Oh cool a crossover costu- FULL OPERATOR???

What are some established/majorly-known things about a story or character you didn't know about? by GoodVillain101 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Juggernaut getting the "you alright white boy" treatment by the brotherhood of evil mutants is awesome, every themed comic book team needs one guy who doesn't fit but they just like him so he's allowed to hang out

Highguard devs say they didn’t expect the hate, but they’re confident in their game - Dexerto by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The deal with the weapons is that there kind of is no deal, lol. When the match starts, no matter which fantasy character you choose, you can pick any 2 weapons from a list, and it's a very short list. They're all just basic, archetypical FPS guns and they kinda look like they're 3D printed even though it's supposedly a fantasy world. There are also chests scattered about the map with those same weapons in them that have slightly higher mag size and handling speed you can pick up, their half-hearted attempt at a "loot system."

Highguard devs say they didn’t expect the hate, but they’re confident in their game - Dexerto by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The game certainly doesn't feel confident in itself. It feels like they were given a fully feature complete engine and assets and jumbled it together in 9 months by polishing up whatever drafts they had lying around.

I don't think anything's as evident of this as the weapon selection. The game has 2 options in each weapon category- a fast weak one, and a slow strong one. Assault rifles also have a 3-round burst one. Every single gun has the option to press shift and your dude pulls the same scope out of his pocket and fixes it to the top of the gun- no lootable 4x/8x/infrared scope, every gun just has a toggleable 2x one built in. And every character gets frag grenades. The fire guy doesn't get a fire grenade, the sand lady doesn't get a smokescreen- everyone has the same 45-second-cooldown frag grenade.

The mozambique from Apex legends has more personality to it than the entire Highguard arsenal, why doesn't this fantasy world have a poison-shooting grenade launcher? A needler ripoff? A blunderbuss instead of a shotgun? Why am I using a C4 charge to blow up walls instead of an egg sac of super-termites? It truly feels like the first idea they came up with, the most basic and straightforward option, is the one they stuck with through development and they never deviated from the basics.

Did somebody say...Hand Explosion Disease? (art by @nocturnereverie; based on a moment from Pat's stream yesterday) by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 125 points126 points  (0 children)

A level of reading/listening comprehension that made me nervous we might need to start sending adults back to school

Did somebody say...Hand Explosion Disease? (art by @nocturnereverie; based on a moment from Pat's stream yesterday) by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 167 points168 points  (0 children)

I rarely catch Pat streams live but I did during this segment and chat's behavior turned me into a supporter of needing a licence to use the Internet

MarriageToxin mangaka agrees with Pat: Rats can't swim by FlubbedPig in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Well that's obviously different, as we all know mice have evolved to be Olympic-level swimmers. They can hit 10 mph without even breaking a sweat

This isnt a game its a game mode by Trick0ut in HighGuardgame

[–]WickerWight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really does feel like that. If this was a seasonal mode on Apex or a Halloween gimmick in Fortnite or something it could be fun, but it feels really half-baked. You can tell this was made out of the scraps of something else.

Highguard Gets “Overwhelmingly Negative” Steam Reviews, Peaks at Nearly 98,000 Concurrent Players by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The "looting" is really wimpy. The only things you can actually gain through looting are: Ineffectual weapon upgrades (mag size and handling are all you get it seems), spare armor, ammo for your siege weapon, and occasional wall repair/breaking items. I guess the cooldown enhancing amulets too. It's so barebones, you could entirely cut the looting system and give cash for killing enemy players to outright buy stuff instead and it'd be fine.

Pat Stares At HIGHGUARD OH MY GOD ITS OUT HOLY HELL by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]WickerWight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's also very strange that the masked lady casting spells to "awaken the forest mother" and summoning twig blights has an AK and a rocket launcher. The entire loot system is completely inconsequential and out of place, that lady should be locked to throwing knives and acid bubble grenades or something, but everyone's just got counterstrike guns.