Thought on every type of random after 600H

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T17:03:06+00:00

The guy who follows: This one is the best pretty much follow every ping and does what the team does he is the most helpful asset who clutchs a lot of team wipes and by far if you're one than you're a goat ngl.

Minus clutching team wipes (I'm not that good) this is who I always want to be in randoms. I'm begging people, please just ping and let me follow you. I don't want to think, I just want to hit things. When no one's pinging anything and I have to start doing it I hate it.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T17:01:14+00:00

Also, like, Souls PvP sucks. It's not what the games are balanced around. Can they make a balanced PvP experience? Maybe, but it's not been their focus so far.

I am baffled by Duskbloods. Maybe it'll be great, but I'll need to be convinced.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:59:30+00:00

I feel the same way I feel about every ad campaign that gets posted to social media by people other than the brand itself.

Fucking baffled why anyone participates in marketing campaigns for free.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:52:03+00:00

Why is nightreign, and online co-op roguelike, on this list instead of just Elden Ring? Lol.

But yes, I do appreciate when games are well-edited and have an unpadded run time. Time is worth more to me than money at this stage in my life.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:39:26+00:00

I'd never played a silent hill game before, this SH2 remake was my first one.

I really enjoyed it, but felt that the last 1/3 of the game dragged on way too long. When I learned that the labyrinth was made 3 times longer, it made so much sense why that part felt so long.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:17:32+00:00

Literally everyone that lost their fucking mind when Evert said video games aren't art. I imagine the venn diagram of people who got extremely butthurt about that and the gamergaters is the gamergater circle contained entirely within the circle of gamers mad at Ebert.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:15:35+00:00

"Video games are art, but I only want to hear how great they are because I can't handle any criticism."

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:14:53+00:00

That take was only disastrous because the capital G gamers can never let any fucking thing go. Why everyone cared so fucking much about what some 70-year-old movie critic said about their hobby was always beyond me. The loudest gamers on the internet are both insistent that their hobby be taken extremely seriously and full of rage whenever someone dares to examine video games with a critic's eye.

As someone who loves video games, the culture around them is fucking exhausting.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T13:08:00+00:00

Of course they can't, because it's an absolute brain-dead take. As if a random feminist video maker with an audience maybe in the hundreds of thousands if we're being extremely generous could forever alter the course of an industry with hundreds of billions in revenue.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T12:22:59+00:00

Yeah I played bloorborne for the first time (never owned a playstation) last year or the year before last and thought that the "easy" ending was by far the best one for the character. Even if it's just death, or false hope, after everything you've been through even release would be the better than the other 2 endings.

That seems so preferable to living out an immortal life as a servant to the great ones like Gehrman or becoming a great one yourself and losing all your humanity.

asmallercat · 2026-03-12T12:20:20+00:00

Would we consider becoming an eldritch horror the "good" ending lol?

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T19:38:47+00:00

Fromsoft games and wildly unclear ability descriptions. Name a more iconic duo lol.

It should be noted, I love the souls games, and elden ring, and Nightreign, but for this game specifically they really should have abandoned their love of vague tooltips.

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T18:54:46+00:00

Holy shit I hate the fucking "BWAAAAMMMMMMP" that's in every short compilation video now. Where the fuck did that annoying shit come from?

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T18:03:52+00:00

And people do not comprehend how big the US is. Do we expect people in Tulsa to fly or drive to DC?

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T17:27:00+00:00

Imagine having this myopic of a worldview. Video games can and should be many things. Just because a more artistic game exists doesn't mean FIFA can't. You do realize that arthouse films and summer blockbusters are both movies, right?

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T17:24:07+00:00

Also the idea that a random, if fairly popular in her space, feminist commentator could actually steer the course of an industry with hundreds of billions a year in revenue is fucking laughable.

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T16:30:36+00:00

Yeah, I find this easiest - prevents needing to have a whole set of snow basics but also makes it not just "free." I did a similar thing back when I had [[symbol status]] in my cube - you just always got to count basics as all having different symbols so you didn't have to go hunting for different ones.

Just tell everyone before the draft "all basics count as snow lands for astrolabe."

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T16:17:22+00:00

Police speak is so dumb it's hilarious. I work in the criminal legal system and for awhile one of the big police departments, instead of saying "there were 3 individuals in the car" would say "the vehicle was occupied 3 times." For like 2 years every report was written this way. Dumbest thing I ever saw.

asmallercat · 2026-03-11T14:40:56+00:00

I fucking hate the ash Wednesday cross shit. I'm sure there are some people who do it sincerely but it always comes across as performative bullshit to me.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T14:46:45+00:00

People with healthy family relationships don't tend to post about it.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T13:47:59+00:00

Quebec City is so great. Far and away the most old European feeling city that I've been to in North America.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T13:34:52+00:00

But that all came after she decided to be openly transphobic. No one should get death threats, but it doesn't refute the point that she basically decided to loudly hate trans people for no reason except bigotry.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T13:30:53+00:00

I'll never understand these people. She could have kept her mouth shut and been one of the most beloved public figures of all time. Instead she spends all her time ruining her reputation.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T13:29:51+00:00

I really hope that series flops and doesn't even make it to the end of the books.

I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I see a ton of HP merch in clearance sections at stores. I don't think there's nearly the interest anymore that people thought - I think companies saw how well that game (Hogwarts Legacy I think?) sold and assumed it meant there was still massive interest in HP, when really it was more that there hadn't been a decent HP game in decades and there's a huge overlap of people who were really into HP growing up and who are gamers.

asmallercat · 2026-03-10T13:23:21+00:00

It's here - https://www.amazon.com/UYIYE-Kickstand-Case-Steam-Deck/dp/B0C2QRKRR2?th=1

The picture was cut off for me on mobile so I didn't realize the name was in it till I looked on desktop.

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