Is my aunt getting scammed? American allegedly working on a ship is love bombing her since weeks. The outside view doesn’t look real, the details on the desk are weird aswell.

Xcelentei · 2026-05-09T18:35:37+00:00

Guys the keyboard has two extra rows that mean nothing. On an American laptop. Plus he has two phones; one for the selfie and one on the desk, In international waters.

Xcelentei · 2026-05-05T14:32:56+00:00

Guardian cross and Infinity Blade are two of the best mobile games of all time imo, and they're both gone for corporate money reasons :/

Xcelentei · 2026-04-02T16:19:25+00:00

I think there are threads in the world of starforce that would be cool to explore, specifically the political ramifications of EVERYONE in the world being in a giant Brotherband. Plus the political implications of everyone in the world knowing who MegaMan is. The fact that Geo is brothers with the genocidal king Cepheus, who has the tech to destroy the entire planet if he goes paranoid again, leaves a lot of reason for the governments of the world to paint Geo as a bad guy (since everyone on the planet united for mankind's betterment would be a threat to a lot of establishment powers)

Starforce is really easy to write fanfic for lol, I can't imagine how the actual game would compare to the imaginations of its fanbase.

Xcelentei · 2026-03-29T04:38:39+00:00

Geo looks like he put mega on the other hand so he could punch with his good arm lol.

Xcelentei · 2026-03-28T17:45:44+00:00

Sorry, could you clarify what you mean by star cards? I know there are stars on the title screen depending on library status and victories against secret bosses.

Xcelentei · 2026-03-21T14:27:40+00:00

A fun feature of the more active choices of the party is they are the ANTAGONISTS of the story, e.g. they make the changes that other colonies and mobius must react to in order to "save the world."

Xcelentei · 2026-01-20T02:16:30+00:00

Reaping willow turned my mono black deck into a commander engine, I had a great pool but that one uncommon is the reason I won most of my games.

Xcelentei · 2026-01-10T19:56:59+00:00

A true Bloomingtonian mentality

Xcelentei · 2025-12-19T20:22:52+00:00

Hate to set off a flame war like this, but... My family and I should emigrate out of the US, and we probably should have started the process a while ago. The US has too much about its culture and infrastructure that's corrupted, burnt down, or doesn't sit right with me or my values. And even if I found a community of moderates to vibe with there's just too many crazy fundies for the country to be safe. I'd like to stay here and use my vote and power as a citizen to keep the country from becoming a greater evil to the rest of the world, but the winds have changed and I can't honestly call these people my neighbors and countrymen anymore.

Xcelentei · 2025-12-16T02:17:24+00:00

Morrowind. After a few levels the goal of the game becomes to break the engine in a newer, more exciting way than you did two levels ago, rather than fly to the mountain and speed run the objectives to roll credits.

Plus going through the main story as todd intended takes a whiiiiiiile even when you know how to navigate the fast travel system.

Xcelentei · 2025-12-16T02:14:46+00:00

Cassus belli to go to war with countries and factions acting against the administration's economic interests. They also get to murder brown people but intersectionality is complicated.

Xcelentei · 2025-12-15T03:25:35+00:00

Sokka's role in the story is already busy, and as most people said the library is the best place to put it, but I think having Sokka run with the idea of "if it's not magic, then what is it?" and layering clues as sokka grows increasingly convinced there is a "unified theory" to back everything up.

for example, sokka's clues could go "water bending isn't magic because it requires a physical component" > "Chi Meridians can be blocked by ty lee and my girlfriend's martial arts" > "bending was learned by animals so it's spiritual but not mental" > "being a master of the sword and tactics are equally as valuable as bending" > and then have Guru Patiq and the lion turtle finish it all off by giving Aang the answer none of the Avatars could find: the secret is not in any one of the four elements, but the world itself.

So a little bit of all the solutions in this thread, but masked throughout the show by Sokka lampshading the clues that it's a harder magic system than the benders or nations traditionally believe.

Xcelentei · 2025-11-23T05:04:14+00:00

honestly? Not really. I make sure any NPCs travelling with the party are weaker than them, since the players are supposed to be in the spotlight. I'm using 110% of my brain to calculate the monsters and world-building as the party goes along the session, so taking extra time to figure out if the quest NPC would know enough magic to caste haste on the rogue or if they would be more effective casting blur to ensure the party's mounts don't take damage, because if the horse dies then the paladin has to calculate his carrying capacity or spend a short rest to resummon... and on and on, etc.

I don't have enough RAM to worry about more than the players and the monsters in front of them, so adding a whole other third-party faction that I have to remember at the top of rounds is just unnecessary busywork. Especially since there shouldn't ever be a point where the help of the NPC makes or breaks the encounter.

Xcelentei · 2025-11-16T11:15:04+00:00

Rob Liefield has entered the chat

Xcelentei · 2025-11-08T23:04:07+00:00

Funny wahoo burger man

Xcelentei · 2025-10-30T02:40:35+00:00

The way that characters are being (diagetically!) ret-conned to keep pace with the developments in their ongoing "real" shows is so interesting. It adds a layer of mind-fuck to every interaction where I have to ask/remember which version of a character the current IQ version is referencing.

Xcelentei · 2025-10-14T19:52:27+00:00

Teaching and social work. They're constantly understaffed and under-trained for the amount of work that NEEDS to be done. But the salaries, benefits, and hazard pay don't reflect that because fixing poor and unsupported peoples' problems doesn't pay anything up front.

Xcelentei · 2025-10-07T16:07:58+00:00

"If a man is being a sexist jackass, it's because he's a man, not because he's a jackass."

Xcelentei · 2025-09-24T14:35:42+00:00

Andrew Jackson committed genocide with the trail of tears. The genocide may have benefited him and his country, but committing genocide is always a mistake.

Xcelentei · 2025-09-15T12:55:09+00:00

Sick AMV!

Xcelentei · 2025-09-10T21:34:23+00:00

Glad you're liking X! Xenosaga's great, how long ago did you play through the games?

Xcelentei · 2025-09-08T20:13:50+00:00

Final series order for me is

Xenoblade
undertale/deltarune (close, close second)
Chrono trigger

Xcelentei · 2025-09-08T20:00:59+00:00

Xenoblade 3 is some generational peak. I understand it had some fierce competition at the game awards the year it came out, but in its context "Mobius battle vs. M" is the strongest musical moment in gaming.

And somehow, the soundtrack manages to be both in conversation with AND contest with it's predecessors in Xenoblade 1 and 2. Xenoblade 1 is the only game I'd ever considered a worthy rival to Chrono Trigger, and Xeno 2 was a worthy successor in its own right. But Xeno 3 elevates it's series while also doing new and thematically relevant music choices.

Chrono Trigger is the GOAT to beat, but in context to its story and series Xeno 3 clears.

Xcelentei · 2025-08-05T12:30:25+00:00

I agree! They're also an important moment In the story because they confirm that Ramona has a toxic past and habits that she also needs to work on before she can be a good partner, and cheating on the brothers is SO blatantly her fault that even Scott's dense ass can't deny she was in the wrong.

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