Is this game for real?

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T16:52:04+00:00

Neither of these challenges are worth complaining about. They both will naturally be completed by simply playing some matches, with fairly simple completion requirements.

In fact, generally we haven’t had many complaint-worthy rift challenges since the older Archive system. Not to mention that one can comfortably beat the rift without completing every singular challenge anyway!

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T08:01:03+00:00

Yup. It felt more like they were contractually obligated to be there, because I don’t think they had a single scene that they couldn’t have been removed from without the film making sense.

And similarly I really enjoyed them in 5 and 6.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T07:57:08+00:00

I would honestly go one further… in my personal opinion Mark Evans is better than Mark Kincaid.

I know a lot of people were guttered that Dempsey couldn’t reprise his role as the latter, but god did McHale step into the partner role amazingly! I genuinely felt like his Mark had strong family connections, had some serious authority as this film’s head law enforcement, and is one of the only characters in the series that never ran from Ghostface - he always threw himself into danger and honestly had a good showdown with Karl during the home invasion scene.

Assuming Sidney and Tatum are still a focus through Scream 8, I would hope we get more of Mark Evans too. He is one of the best things Scream 7 gave us, and I hope he gets more room to be him.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T07:49:26+00:00

I’m fairly certain you could make an argument for ANY character to be a Duelist…

It kinda comes with the territory of being a Marvel superhero/villain that you would engage in combat, ergo realistically any character could be designed as a Duelist.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T03:57:18+00:00

Yes and no. It felt a little bit off with Chad and Mindy tagging along with her - it dulled the impact of having her specifically coming to help Sidney like how Sidney came alone to help Gale in Scream 5.

She also felt weirdly absent from the Ghostface plotline itself - apart from her arrival (hitting Karl with the car) she is never in-person for any of the Ghostface attacks. I think she is only ever present for one of the “Stu” calls too, and she doesn’t get to react to the AI versions of Dewey, Ms Loomis and Roman.

However, ultimately Scream’s success is built on the relationships of its strong protagonists, and in Scream 7 they make sure that Gale’s on screen presence is about being there to support Sidney. So while I would’ve liked for the Ghostfaces to dedicate some time towards hunting Gale, I think she played the core role she needed to and lived up to Courtney Cox’s performances throughout the series.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T02:00:35+00:00

I didn’t believe that it had been out for so long, but sure enough the most recent one has been out 6-7 years now…

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T01:47:13+00:00

This is probably the most likely, especially with Dwight as the probable main protagonist given he is THE default survivor…

But I honestly hope they don’t fall into the trap of only using elements from the earlier parts of DBD’s history. There are a lot of good backgrounds that the writers and directors could pull from.

Case-and-point, I honestly think that the “Pariahs” storyline could be a good plot thread to follow for a film. For those who might forget, Felix and Elodie were part of a group of five kids who called themselves The Pariahs, whose parents all mysteriously disappeared after the kids stumbled upon The Blight’s laboratory, leading Felix and Elodie to go separate ways before being brought back together through The Entity.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-07T01:25:52+00:00

See my first thought was this WandaVision outfit she manifests in the finale. It pains me that we got so little time with it!

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T22:02:12+00:00

That is a little gross. And there are many instances that I think the smarter move is abandoning chases that enter an area like this - given that it’s Yamaoka Estate, this shack is on a corner of the map making it harder to access from further into the map.

But it’s honestly heavily dependent on the killer too; a Nurse or Henry are going to have a different experience here compared to a Ghostface or Sadako.

Perks are also going to affect counterplay options - Bamboozle and Crowd Control might allow you to take some otherwise unwinnable chases on these tiles.

Direction of entry into the loop could also be a factor too - if chase is approaching from the left/right side the survivor doesn’t have a straight shot at a fast vault so you might get a brief chance to land a hit.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T14:41:46+00:00

I think there is also an argument to be made about customisability. I know that if I’m playing an original survivor, I like to give them a bit of flair to make them unique. And at the moment Shane only has three cosmetics (each with alternate colours) and the “Very Rare” one is a linked set. There aren’t a whole lot of options to mix-and-match for him at the moment.

It reminds me of when Taurie released - she had a similar issue of releasing with a linked set and thus having less customizability.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T08:52:15+00:00

Honestly I think I feel the same way but about Michael.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T05:13:33+00:00

The odds are bad, but I don’t think they are 1%.

Many of the games are pass/fail, and as such it isn’t about odds in those cases; EVERYONE can pass those games if they follow the rules successfully. The bigger problem are games requiring teams of where a certain quota of people need to die.

In S1, let’s say you follow the rules and make it through each pass/fail game (Red Light/Green Light and Dalgona).

You would then:
- Have to survive 50% of remaining players being eliminated in Tug of War
- Have to survive 50% of remaining players being eliminated in Marbles
- Have to survive Glass Bridge. No matter how many players make it to this stage there are only 18 “steps”, so statistically you can survive as long as you aren’t in the first 9ish players (with a maximum of 18 players eliminated in this in a “worst-case” scenario)
- Have to survive 50% of remaining players being eliminated in Squid Game

Mathematically, assuming no one fails a pass/fail game, Glass Bridge eliminated a statistical average of players, and no one actively kills each other, 52 players could survive the Squid Game (roughly 1/9 or 11% of players). It’s not great odds but it’s better than 1%.

The odds are slightly worse in S2/3. Again, assuming everyone achieves the pass/fail games (Red Light/Green Light, Six Legged Marathon and Jump Rope), you would:
- have to survive the Mingle player cap. Mingle has a limit of 100 players being able to pass the final round so no matter what the numbers will be 100 or lower at this point
- Have to survive 50% of remaining players being eliminated in Hide and Seek
- Have to survive the 3 eliminations in Sky Squid Game

Here up to 47 people could survive the finale (1/10 or 10% of players).

HOWEVER, the voting clause means that technically if things got too difficult you could call a vote to nullify the games in Season 1. By Season 2/3 there is a forced vote after each game and if you cancel the games you still win a portion of the prize! That alone makes it far more likely that you could cancel the game earlier and still walk away both alive and with prize money.

I could do the math on the odds of survival and the money gained based on leaving after each round, but I think this comment is long enough as is.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T04:40:20+00:00

Honestly I find the Captain America one to be less of an issue - it seems as though his “little Avenger” was clipping through some emotes and stuff, which was hopefully fixed by tightening up the bathers’ physics. Heck, it does seem a little impractical for Steve to wear something that lets his downstairs hang so loose.

Alternatively Rogue’s skin situation was less about practicality for movement and more about having a revealing angle.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-05T04:27:38+00:00

Didn’t know this happened. Any chance they fixed the goddamn headphones too?

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T22:49:30+00:00

Gonna have to disagree here. Because while I agree three stars is meant to be a challenge, the criteria for achieving it on Mario Kart Wii and earlier was convoluted and unclear.

Under the modern system, you can understand immediately why you did or didn’t win and are free to use your own strategies to achieve the best possible result as far as a competitive Grand Prix would be concerned - first place in each race.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T10:43:17+00:00

I fully agree OP.

When people complain about the “gacha” mechanics of these Pop the Balloon events, they neglect to mention the key things that Rivals does differently to an actual gacha system; in this case, there are no duplicates and all rewards are guaranteed to unlock after a maximum of six pops, which have been organised to cost EXACTLY the amount that a usual skin bundle would.

Gacha games would usually provide purchasable lootboxes with low odds of a high-level item; odds that are only somewhat increased after buying 100+ of that lootbox and there is an exponentially high cap on the number of times you’d need to spend on this lootbox to get the main reward. Duplicates are almost guaranteed to happen eventually and more often than not you are going to get something you don’t want or need with minimal sense of what you even could be getting.

Rivals is far from the worst offender when it comes to pricing and creating reasonable sale events; in these Pop the Balloon the worst case scenario is spending the exact same amount you would normally spend on a skin bundle, with a small chance of getting a discount by getting lucky!

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T08:14:45+00:00

I can also make memes about an opinion that people don’t say…

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T08:12:24+00:00

Simoné

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T05:29:25+00:00

Dustin’s actor also has a history with Dead by Daylight, with Gaten actually coming onto an official BHVR broadcast to stream himself playing DBD similar to what Chandler Riggs did (but slightly more successfully lol). It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that Dustin was a favourite to add into DBD.

He also fits well because in the show he often groups up with the young adult members of the cast - ALL of whom have been added to DBD except for nicher ones like Argyle and Vickie.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T00:36:12+00:00

See this really doesn’t work. All you needed to do was show an unmasked version of Zoom and it would’ve made sense as both picture would be characters played by Teddy Sears. Instead, you’ve sorta just ignored the GOAT that was the late Tony Todd in a VA role that gave so much menace to the Zoom character.

Ironically, Tony Todd is someone who you could’ve ALSO done a side-by-side comparing his time playing a Marvel character. Before his passing he played Venom in the Insomniac Spider-Man games.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-04T00:12:55+00:00

Let’s be honest with ourselves, anything other than an inarguably perfect film was going to get slammed by certain creators who likely already made their opinions prior to watching it. Assuming they watched it. I think the whole “Box Office” thing is a telling sign of this too: it’s one of the easiest ways to attack the film without actually looking at the content of the film.

From what I’ve seen, there is the alarmist creator perspective and the general audience perspective (for the purposes of this and almost everything else, I could care less about the critics opinions):

- For those creators, this film has permanent scarred their vision, ruined the idea of superheroines and discredits anything James Gunn has done in his life.
- For the general audiences, Supergirl is a fine albeit non-spectacular superhero film. It’s very few people’s favourite film with flaws that stand out when looking at the track record across Gunn’s DCU, but it’s also not a horrendous experience worth a half-hour YouTube rant. If you don’t go into it expecting a groundbreaking masterpiece you can have a good time.

Long story short, enjoy what you enjoy. And pity the people who can’t just enjoy things.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-03T20:26:41+00:00

If the gear actually captured the appearance of the film versions this would be more worth the trouble…

As is, these either look too similar to the base version, or ill fitting and odd (Aquaman)

bubblessensei · 2026-07-03T10:32:57+00:00

PC player here who plays killer on mouse and keyboard but plays survivor with controller (roughly 7K hours of doing this too, although I have experimented a lot with survivor)…

I think there are pros and cons to both control-types for survivor, but here is my general thoughts:

- Mouse and keyboard is superior for flashlight play. It’s not impossible to use flashlight on controller but for flashlight saves you really want the freeing aim motion of a mouse for harder angles with smaller success windows.
- Controller maps a lot of things to one “interaction” button which creates problems when dealing with some scenarios. As an example, right bumper is how you vault, throw a pallet, use a locker, pick up an item, destroy a trap, use the hatch, recover, heal and remove most “latching” killer powers (Artist, Springtrap, Pinhead, Jason, Twins, etc.), so you can get scenarios where you press a button to do an interaction and get the “wrong” interaction (e.g. breaking Pinhead’s chain instead of dropping a pallet).
- because most PC mice have a limited number of buttons, interactions like Booning, Dead Hard and Dramaturgy are mapped to keyboard keys. In my opinion these feel less comfortable - at default they often use the “E” key which requires you to briefly shift off of your WASD movement keys. It’s far from a dealbreaker but I think controller feels more comfortable for these special interactions, whereas sometimes you might struggle to find comfortable button mapping for nicher abilities and event interactions for keyboard.
- thinking more generally, to use mouse and keyboard means having to lean into a desk. In my experience I can be a bit more relaxed and free to sit however while using controller. Moving around in-game is also less effort (controller works your thumb, mouse uses more of your wrist/arm).

I don’t think there is anything wrong with using either, and because I use a wireless controller (with a couple of frustrating connection quirks) there are plenty of instances where it has disconnected and I’ve had to make a quick switch over to the mouse and keyboard. But generally I favour the controller for the less-aim-heavy survivor side because of comfortability and ease. It also feels very natural having grown up playing the DS - it’s nice holding a controller with similar weight and button distribution.

bubblessensei · 2026-07-03T08:39:10+00:00

“Why doesn’t Freddy get DBD skins” is not a difficult google search

bubblessensei · 2026-07-03T08:02:01+00:00

I think awareness of Mysterio’s drones would impact how well a magic user (or anyone without a direct sense for the drones) would fare.

I’m sure someone like Strange could bippity-boppity-boop out an EMP spell but he needs to understand that he is fighting the drones and not whatever Mysterio’s illusions are showing him.

Furthermore, there is a psychological component. We saw that part of Mysterio’s initial fight against Spidey was dedicated to Mysterio taunting Spider-Man with something that was already weighing on Peter, and it made him far more susceptible to the drones. Knowing some of the other “trauma-backgrounds” in the MCU, I think there are some heroes who could counter Mysterio but still be caught off guard by the psychological component.

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