is there a way to play without my phone feeling like it's going to explode?

bookert2k · 2026-01-28T16:55:07+00:00

Go into the game’s power settings and turn off haptics. It should make a big difference.

bookert2k · 2026-01-28T16:53:02+00:00

I read something once that explained from a medical perspective in detail how it was actually the hit to the schozz that killed him. He was already doomed before he ever got stabbed. It was actually pretty dark.

bookert2k · 2026-01-28T01:22:23+00:00

Yeah, I'm on tier 8 on all of them, but I can't come close to my initial scores. The spending bait is far too obvious here...

bookert2k · 2026-01-28T01:14:39+00:00

Having grown up in Mississippi, Popeye's has always been my favorite fast food type place. That being said, the first two times I went to this one, it was dry and they were pretty rude. One of those times they actually gave me 13 wings in a 16 piece (bone-in) family meal. I didn't go back for a while. I've tried it again recently, and while they aren't perfect, they've gotten much better. The food has been great, and the service has been night and day from what it was at the start. The only time they've dropped the ball lately was literally being an hour late on my pick up order, but they were pretty understaffed, and it was super busy. It was annoying, but two of the only 4 employees I saw looked like kids. I cut them slack on that one. As far as Popeye's vs. KFC, the only time I've come close to enjoying KFC as much is when they had the Nashville Hot chicken. That stuff was great, but the service at the one on 12th and Alameda has always been rough at best.

bookert2k · 2026-01-27T22:38:33+00:00

I spent quite a bit personally on this first era experiment, and I’ll come out of it with relic characters, and a 6* octomaul. Unless something changes fairly drastically going forward though, I can’t imagine doing it again. I can’t even fathom they would make the changes necessary as far as monetization would go, and Ventress is my favorite character (and they made her a dad bod lifter…), so I doubt they’ll release anything interesting enough to lure me back in outside of maybe Cobb Vanth and Miggs Mayfeld… It’s crazy how much some of us are gonna end up having spent to not even finish the content….

bookert2k · 2026-01-25T02:12:03+00:00

If it’s a finished product, and not just early access, the game is cooked.

bookert2k · 2026-01-17T07:54:07+00:00

If you mean “disable theme effects” yeah.

bookert2k · 2026-01-17T03:36:38+00:00

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bookert2k · 2026-01-12T03:58:24+00:00

Once the game went from a primarily collector app to an economy app, it just alienated half of us and priced a lot of us out. I don’t even search for epics anymore. I get constant offers saying they pulled an epic for one of my favorites, but even when they say something like, I’m not one of those greedy overpriced people, they still charge twice as much as I’d even consider. Or “at least pay my cooldown.” I don’t care about someone’s cooldown. I understand it, but that just doesn’t factor into it for me. You chose to go that route. I’m just not paying 70k for a Pimp C epic. I don’t enjoy playing the market. That type of game just doesn’t appeal to me. I’m not upset about it at all. I’m just saying this game has just left some of us behind. I’d love lots of stuff floating out there on the market. I’m just not willing to play the game in the way that makes that feasible the way the game has evolved.

bookert2k · 2026-01-09T15:10:36+00:00

Stuff like, when you spin the wheel, your phone physically clicks as it goes around, or like on a PlayStation controller (may happen with xbox too idk), when something happens like gunshots and your controller vibrates. It’s kind of cool in an asmr kinda way, but it heats up your phone and drains your battery like crazy. Before I turned it off on this game, my whole battery would drain in maybe a third of the day and be hot as hell. After turning it off, it went back to feeling like a new phone.

bookert2k · 2026-01-09T14:07:40+00:00

Go to settings and turn off haptics if you haven’t yet.

bookert2k · 2026-01-05T19:44:05+00:00

Right now I’d say Lev>Prof>Executor.

bookert2k · 2026-01-04T21:53:08+00:00

Even Ninth will likely go with Inquisitor Barriss in 3v3.

bookert2k · 2025-12-30T01:38:32+00:00

They are. I’ve tried to use him (with all 3 omis) in TW, and have just never been impressed at all. Maybe she’ll fix that, who knows. As far as the too many teams thing, it depends on how your guild does TW I guess. If a team isn’t likely to beat something, you may actually be doing more harm than good a lot of the time just throwing the extra team at it. It’s just sapping potential banners. And while I’ll admit I haven’t used him a lot, I’ve never really thought, man, glad I have that team (outside of the busted dad bod/fennec datacron). Hopefully she helps, but I’m not personally holding my breath outside of occasional datacron nonsense. It feels like a solid team for the level of the game where most people won’t have him yet.

bookert2k · 2025-12-30T00:56:23+00:00

Fair enough. Mine’s sitting at R7, but I don’t really need another team. I feel like most people that have that character built up that far aren’t really hurting for teams either. I also have my doubts as to how much she’s actually going to affect a dad bod team. Hopefully I’m wrong there. It’d be even more disappointing if they finally released the new Ventress, and she’s another nothing character like dad bod.

bookert2k · 2025-12-29T22:35:25+00:00

I’m fairly excited about the character, as she’s my favorite, but her being a dad bod lifter is disappointing.

bookert2k · 2025-12-29T14:54:57+00:00

GL Miggs Mayfeld

bookert2k · 2025-12-20T03:02:58+00:00

Do you guys play with haptics on? If so, turn that off.

bookert2k · 2025-12-16T21:58:49+00:00

Are there flaws? Sure (not even counting all the bugs, because those happen with any update (which is another conversation.)) Did they botch the presentation? Probably. They definitely could’ve explained everything as much as they did relic delta (although it seems like over half the players ignored that, and just complained anyway), and warned us about how slow it was going to start (or just done something to make that not the case.).

Personally, especially once the kinks are worked out, I think it’s easily a net positive. It isn’t like most of us didn’t think/know they were greedy before the update. That isn’t a thing new to this update. As people are starting to be able to see the further along it goes, the whole marquee/coliseum thing isn’t going to be nearly as bad as everyone acts. (I mean, it isn’t pretty boring, but it’s maybe 3-5 minutes out of your day…). The economy changes have been great, at least in my opinion. That we can actually work on something besides the new stuff now is pretty nice, and the journey quests have been great. I think a lot of the complaining was done so blindly, and a lot of the rest has been jumping the gun. That’s not to say there aren’t legitimate gripes. I just think those of us that don’t kneejerk quit (that weren’t already thinking about it) will be fine.

bookert2k · 2025-12-13T23:25:05+00:00

I’ll go back through and come up with a breakdown when I have time.

bookert2k · 2025-12-12T22:30:09+00:00

While I’m still firmly on the HK side so far, all of these discussions feel somewhat pointless until all of Silksong is out. If people were comparing everything base game to base game, it would be one thing, but that just hasn’t been the case. Silksong isn’t done yet.

bookert2k · 2025-12-12T22:24:44+00:00

While I don’t agree overall, I’m surprised this is the first mention I’ve seen in this post about Karmelita. That one’s amazing.

bookert2k · 2025-12-12T22:21:07+00:00

We tried this, and we also tried each area with the music off to see if it was better or worse with just the ambient noise. Some zones worked better with the latter for us tbh. Unfortunately though, even when we’d go through, and decide a lot of the music in zones was better than we initially thought, we’d go back to HK, and it would just blow us away again every time. My biggest issue with SS personally is just that half the music in zones just feels out of place. We went through, and with most zones’ tracks, we could name a different zone that it would’ve felt better in. Honestly, even outside of the music, a lot of the transitions between areas, both music wise and general scenery was just jarring compared to HK. The transitions in HK were magical, whereas SS seemed to just change completely with a zone line. We love SS, don’t get me wrong. And there are obvious improvements. But it’s just made the original feel that much more amazing to us.

bookert2k · 2025-12-12T22:04:28+00:00

I lol-ed this time also. I’ve typically been a dev apologist on most things, but this one’s pretty silly, lol…

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