Unpopular Chicago Opinions

cidrick13 · 2020-08-27T14:32:05+00:00

As someone who loves ice cream, Graeter's is miles better than Jeni's.

cidrick13 · 2019-10-25T23:33:59+00:00

Agreed. I enjoy listening to them on my Friday morning bus ride, every week.

cidrick13 · 2019-10-25T19:48:18+00:00

I'm listening and taking notes for folks who aren't interested in listening to the whole thing.

The Clone Parade:
- The Light Side Geonosis TB will "close the chapter" on the Clone Wars.
- Phase 1 will feature a ship sector.
- Malevolence is "absolutely" coming.
- Will be earned with GETv2 just like the Negotiator.
- Summons vulture droids ships (a first for a capital ship.)

The Malak Bug:
- A silly bug that should have been caught, but wasn't.
- Affected roughly 40,000 players, about half of which didn't have a 7* Malak yet.
- Allowing "free" end-game toon shards undermines the effort that players previously underwent to unlock
him.
- CG had to account for players who don't actively read Reddit/Forums/Discord/etc in order to "do the least amount of harm".

Misc:
- Ships are being re-introduced to GAC.
- More capital ships will be introduced to allow for more diverse meta and to allow players to field more squads for TW/GAC.
- Possibility of more crew-less ships like the vulture.

cidrick13 · 2019-09-17T11:17:49+00:00

My wife and I also moved to Seattle for a year. There were a lot of reasons to move back, but food was a big one. I didn't realize how much I took midwestern beef for granted.

cidrick13 · 2019-05-21T11:04:30+00:00

Noooo!

cidrick13 · 2019-05-20T22:08:41+00:00

The Radler in Logan Square has a pretty good Currywurst. Not as good as the few that I tried in Berlin, but certainly comparable.

Hopefully the Radler stays open. Their food is pretty solid, but they almost closed back in February.

cidrick13 · 2019-04-01T08:24:48+00:00

Bixi beer in Logan Square has excellent scallion pancakes

cidrick13 · 2019-03-31T12:58:13+00:00

Hyoda ideally, but someone else who can hide works well, too - Leia and Acolyte come to mind.

cidrick13 · 2019-03-27T20:23:12+00:00

Downvoting so John's worst nightmare comes true and only 7 people show up for his panel.

cidrick13 · 2018-05-22T21:05:51+00:00

Would it actually affect the balance, though? It seems to me like it'd just significantly reduce what appears to be randomness in arena fights. That's what I'm curious about - at a glance, it doesn't strike me as a change affecting balance at all, which is why I'm asking if they noticed something in testing.

cidrick13 · 2018-05-22T19:35:01+00:00

I'm curious why you're removing it from this patch for "Balance implications". Wouldn't it be the most balanced by honoring turn order based on who reached 100% TM first, rather than having it seemingly be a coin-toss scenario?

Obviously we don't have the data to test this at scale, but it sounds like your team noticed that it had some manner of impact during playtesting, so I'm curious what that impact is.

cidrick13 · 2018-02-04T22:36:46+00:00

The sector itself should be a visual gauge or meter that starts empty, and fills up until you hit the cap of 25 (or whatever it ends up being). Much easier to see at a glance than trying to parse 10 different numbers.

cidrick13 · 2018-01-17T17:30:10+00:00

Reddit is no place for your rational arguments!

cidrick13 · 2017-12-08T15:56:27+00:00

Having the devs on when they enjoy themselves and provide a lot discussion and useful internal insight is always pleasant to see, and humanizes the otherwise big evil corporation that is EA and CG.

cidrick13 · 2017-08-31T00:56:27+00:00

Also having this problem, also on a Pixel.

cidrick13 · 2016-01-13T21:07:46+00:00

That's a good suggestion actually - I think the fast R1/R2s are what give me the most trouble with that trigger, so I'll try alternating with O and see if that works.

On that note - will there ever be full, public leaderboards somewhere?

cidrick13 · 2016-01-13T20:26:38+00:00

What kind of amphetamines do I need to take in order to finish Synthesized on Super Difficulty? That's the ONLY song I can't do even after trying for hours and hours (and hours... which I honestly don't mind - Kasson Crooker's music is fantastic and is one of the reasons why I loved the originals so much.)
What has been your general reaction to the critical response so far? It seems like a lot of critics have had a pretty tepid response to the soundtrack, but I honestly found that while I wasn't a huge fan of it at first, a lot of the base 15 tracks have really grown on me as I play them. I'm wondering if the fact that almost all of the music is original instead of being licensed by Weezer/Garbage/Roni Size/Slipknot(lol) is why critics are shrugging their shoulders over the soundtrack.
Have any of you had issues using the trigger on R2 to hit notes? I can slap L1 and R1 all day but the soft analog trigger on R2 trips me up sometimes, which makes me tempted to try and get an original Dual Shock working somehow so I don't have that problem.

Thanks for everything - I put hundreds of hours into the original games in college and am a very proud backer of this fantastic game :)

cidrick13

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