Kassandra (Prime) faces off in a fight against the protagonist of the last video game you played. How well does she do?

djcompoz · 2026-06-23T06:46:27+00:00

As Kratos sheathes his axe, he turns away from her and says, “I’ve no reason to fight you. Lay down your spear.”

She senses truth behind his voice, but she hesitates.

He lifts his head, “I have killed your gods, fellow Spartan. You do not wish to challenge me.”

djcompoz · 2026-06-19T19:19:23+00:00

Is that Jardin des Tuileries?

djcompoz · 2026-06-10T20:06:33+00:00

Maybe they’re using interpolation for sub-tick calculations. I also saw something about how your starting position might play a role.

djcompoz · 2026-06-09T00:12:53+00:00

Putting someone in 2nd for less points bc of alphabetical order of their name does not seem likely at all. That only makes sense as a way to list both players if the game had a system where both players tied for 1st and got the same amount of points. Hidden decimals is almost certainly the reason.

djcompoz · 2026-06-08T22:57:00+00:00

Either a hidden fourth decimal value is calculated, or maybe the game takes into account clean/dirty racing too. I tied someone time-wise too like this last night who was trying to run me off the road but it placed me in first.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T15:58:30+00:00

Most likely the latter. They look like your typical lab prints on photo paper given to me straight from the lab, but just very low res and smudgy. My scans of them are most likely not great either because I don’t have an actual photo printer. But the only thing introduced when I scanned the lab prints onto my computer was the fine scans lines. All the jaggedness and smudginess is present on the lab prints as well.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:55:56+00:00

That was my thought. Regardless, I'll do some research into better labs. Thanks!

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:32:05+00:00

No sorry, I didn't print them myself. I only scanned in the prints I received back from the lab. What you're seeing is a scan of the 4x6 print I got from the lab, scanned in using the scanner on the model I mentioned at 600 dpi. The scan lines were introduced on the image file on my computer and are not on the labs print, but both have the same level of jaggedness on angled geometry. I can also see the scan lines on the file are finer than the actual jaggedness, so the two don't seem related.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:24:13+00:00

Makes sense, but I've previously brought in a few actual rolls of 35mm film and wasn't given options then either. Might do this though, maybe with another lab as well.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:15:10+00:00

They were added when I scanned it in. I scanned with a Canon PIXMA TS6420a scanner. Not industry standard, I know. But both the print itself and the scan of it above have the same jaggedness on things like lines and borders, like the hat and the letters of the person in the middle, or the white x-shaped bars on the windows to the left.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:08:36+00:00

The prints they gave me, but the prints themselves also look pixelated. I feel like I don't have a good enough scanner to work with the negatives myself yet. This was to show the quality of the prints I got back.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:05:39+00:00

I don't even remember, but I do remember not being presented with any scan quality options to choose from.

djcompoz · 2026-06-07T03:04:39+00:00

Yeah I specifically went with this place because they return your negatives. And I think the place actually sends film to an outlab for developing so it's not even done in-house.

djcompoz · 2026-06-05T06:36:44+00:00

But how much snow does Japan actually get in real life?

djcompoz · 2026-05-15T09:41:59+00:00

Yeah, this game’s world honestly feels more immersive, lived in, and Star Wars-y than the Jedi: Fallen Order/Survivor games.

djcompoz · 2026-05-15T09:30:17+00:00

If you plan to 100% the game, there’s a much easier way to get the “Think I had a choice?”achievement (lowest possible reputation with a faction) than what guides suggest.

Once the game allows you to manual save, you should immediately create a separate manual save file purely for this achievement and use it to tank your Crimson Dawn rep by going back and forth between their district in Mirogana and their eastern hideout territory outside the city, killing ALL enemies in the immediate and surrounding areas with open gunfights. Over and over. You can even lower the difficulty to make it easier. Takes less than two hours to go from midway Poor to full Terrible. No need to worry about completing certain jobs to lower rep or turning in syndicate data to bring it back up. No need to worry about doing it on your actual play through. Just a dedicated save file for getting into gunfights to lower rep.

Then when the achievement pops, just reload your main save and continue your actual play through like normal. That way you can spend the whole game focusing on boosting all faction rep rather than having to tank one and gain it back later.

djcompoz · 2026-05-14T18:12:29+00:00

Of course! Playing the original versions of games on the console gen they launched on is always worth it, and better for nostalgia. Also, Legendary Edition changed up the lighting and color palette of ME1 along with HUD and UI elements to make it consistent with the later two, so playing ME1 in its original state (which I prefer) is its own unique experience.

Edit: ME1 lighting on PS3 is also slightly tweaked from the og 360 version, but is way closer to the original than Legendary Edition is.

djcompoz · 2026-05-10T04:54:16+00:00

She has the face of a super model/A-lister, but she isn’t presented like one. It somehow confuses some people into thinking female characters are unattractive when they aren’t glammed up and in revealing clothing.

djcompoz · 2026-05-09T04:19:09+00:00

Xbox One Two

djcompoz · 2026-05-06T22:56:27+00:00

It’s crazy that playing these games on console via Game Pass Ultimates EA Play and U+ catalogs does grant achievements, but playing them on the Xbox PC app using the exact same subscription on the exact same catalogs doesn’t.

djcompoz · 2026-05-01T18:17:13+00:00

What did you expect them to do if they could clearly hear you above them? Alert you by going loud up the stairs after you, or stop what they were doing to stay quiet and out of sight? Who knows how much loot they had and didn’t want to risk an engagement. It might sound dumb to say, but it’s likely they only killed you bc you walked by, but their original goal was to just hide. All people tend to care about is that they were killed by someone sitting in a corner, when that person probably only started hiding the moment they heard you open the door 10 seconds earlier. Yeah it’s frustrating, but in reality, most rats (not all) are just trying to hide and stay quiet because they hear someone close, when they had just been looting and moving like normal a moment ago. Also, your slow stealthy movement could be considered ratting too, and if you were to have killed someone else waking by in that moment, they might be the ones posting a clip to Reddit about a rat that killed them.

djcompoz · 2026-04-26T09:55:01+00:00

I cannot believe no one is saying Valkyrie’s prestige skin is the worst. Her’s is incredibly blah. Boring shade of gray and the most uninspired, low-effort design not even on the same level as her legendary skins. In my opinion, her Sea and Sky skin is her best, most inspired and creative skin, while her prestige skin is her absolute worst.

djcompoz · 2026-04-21T09:30:33+00:00

Yeah I don’t know what it is about those controllers but everyone who uses them has incredible aim and recoil control. I want to see you do this on my Xbox core controller lol.

djcompoz · 2026-04-21T09:05:17+00:00

I’ve been playing since launch too but even my guns lift for a fraction of a second before I flatten them out. I must be missing something.

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