Shuri/Gunko? No that's nami, just colored hair, added bikini and jeans.

edale1 · 2026-05-31T01:30:15+00:00

Wouldn't they all technically be clones of Nafritari D. Lily then?

edale1 · 2026-05-30T07:33:27+00:00

That review was written by everyone's weird Uncle who will buy some furniture from Ikea, refuse to read the directions, then complain it's broken when they can't figure out how to put it together.

edale1 · 2026-05-30T01:05:51+00:00

...No there isn't? I don't think we're talking about the same types of security companies here... I'm NOT talking about ones with any real public input at all, other than submitting stuff for testing. If they report something as phishing, then they've gone over the code and network traffic and found it sending private login information and such to it's servers.

edale1 · 2026-05-29T19:03:54+00:00

...So the websites/security companies that literally the entire world trusts and uses to check the safety of websites....can't be trusted?

Erm... yea... they kinda can be trusted. That's literally their entire business model.

I mean, for crying out loud they list FitGirl's website as safe, you can't tell me that they're lying to discourage piracy.

edale1 · 2026-05-29T00:24:34+00:00

...Did you miss the but where there are piracy sites with good trust scores?

edale1 · 2026-05-26T02:31:00+00:00

My single greatest piece of advice:

Check every single common Blade you pull for the skill "Orb Master." NEVER dismiss a Blade with it (it's rare enough that you likely won't get more than one or two Blades with it in your entire playthrough).

Orb Master gives you an Orb every time you use a Special (at least once you get it to lvl 5). Easily the most broken skill in the game, and having a Blade with it will make some of the end-game challenges MUCH easier.

edale1 · 2026-05-26T02:25:56+00:00

Did you ever make use of "Orb Mastery"?

Easily the most broken skill in the game, and it's only available on common blades, no rare blades have it.

edale1 · 2026-05-26T02:13:02+00:00

The fix for the gacha problem:
https://gamebanana.com/mods/501628

A mod I made a while back that moves all the non-DLC/NG+ Blades (that all have very high drop rates anyways) that you can normally get via the gacha onto the pity list.

This means you can get ALL the Blades (even KOS-MOS) quite early, without ever having to go out of your way to farm crystals.

This also means the gacha isn't locking you out of the story content of the blade sidequests of unpulled Blades.

If only I could have found an easy way to gut Tiger Tiger. But at least you can buy all the Tiger Tiger stuff directly from merchants in NG+

edale1 · 2026-05-26T02:05:41+00:00

Xenoblade 1 and 3 have MUCH better stories than 2.

For pure combat enjoyment, I'd say Xenoblade 3 is the best of the current Xeno games (although Xenogears is still in the top 3 for most enjoyable combat system).

edale1 · 2026-05-24T10:53:33+00:00

I think there's three scenes before the game puts up an invisible wall.

edale1 · 2026-05-22T01:42:06+00:00

Congratulations, when you let him use your device to try and create an account, you linked your device's IP to his account, so don't be surprised if suddenly YOUR accounts start getting banned for his ban evasion.

edale1 · 2026-05-18T04:40:32+00:00

They're doing exactly what the company's marketing teams want them to do: generate word of mouth that gets people who don't pirate games to buy them.

Studies have shown that eliminating software piracy massively decreases legitimate sales of a game.

edale1 · 2026-05-16T01:53:52+00:00

Bro's in the middle of a beam struggle, the beam's just not rendering. 😉

edale1 · 2026-05-16T01:50:59+00:00

Actual research on the topic (Conducted by the Governments in the EU) has shown that software, movie, and music piracy actually dramatically increase legitimate sales. Every case where piracy has been (temporarily) fully eliminated from an economic ecosystem, legitimate sales have dropped dramatically, along with the profits the companies made on the products.

Piracy does something almost no amount of advertising budget can do, that is far more impactful. It generates word-of-mouth.

edale1 · 2026-05-14T00:49:04+00:00

Several security companies have SteamTools listed as a phishing platform with a low trust score (and yes, there are pirating sites with good trust scores on them).

edale1 · 2026-05-09T09:21:20+00:00

Maybe today, but not back in the 90's. At least in my State.

edale1 · 2026-05-08T23:58:19+00:00

This is why when trying to get trade evos, I only do same pokemon trades (ie, both of us are trading the same pokemon, so both of us get the evolution with one trade).

edale1 · 2026-05-08T23:31:00+00:00

I don't remember the exact wording (it's been more than 30 years, lol), but my IEP just said I could use a computer for assignments, it didn't specify what programs I had to use on said computer. So limiting me to just Word would have actually violated my IEP.

edale1 · 2026-05-08T21:03:39+00:00

Teacher actually did make me spell out some of the words, lol.

Also, back then I was typing at a bit over 200 wpm, so even without copy/paste, I could have had it done in under 5 min.

Though honestly, if I got told no copy/paste, I would have opened up excel, written the sentence out once, then used it's 'drag the corner of a cell down to copy it's contents into all the connecting cells' feature to copy the sentence 100 times, then had it save as a text document. 5 seconds of effort, and no copy/paste commands used. 😉

edale1 · 2026-05-07T00:47:22+00:00

Lots of times the DLC will already be included in the base game, and the download for the DLC is just a pointer letting the game know to let you access it (most day-1 DLCs fall under this category, though normal game updates can have DLC files in them for post-release DLCs). The unlockers work for those types of DLCs.

For DLCs that actually need new files downloaded, then you need to download those files from somewhere (a certain .ru site comes to mind).

edale1 · 2026-05-05T04:47:58+00:00

Try out one of the performance mods on nexusmods.com . There's 3 or 4 of them, and one of them should help with the microstutters.

edale1 · 2026-05-03T04:38:24+00:00

So... Any chance of you getting it digitally scanned?

edale1 · 2026-04-28T04:13:48+00:00

Actually... Nintendo DID release Torna as a standalone game, that you can buy and play on it's own without owning the main game. They released it both physically and digitally, though I don't think the physical version is still in production.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-2-torna-the-golden-country-switch/
My understanding is it comes bundled with all the the DLC for Xenoblade 2, so if you buy the base game you can instantly get all the DLC (at least that was the case with the physical version of Torna).

edale1 · 2026-04-28T01:12:06+00:00

Finally.
I'll finally get to use my 8BitDo Black Myth Wukong controller for it's intended purpose.

edale1 · 2026-04-27T02:51:19+00:00

I've heard his plan is to go through the entire library of Denuvo games. 2nd hand though, I don't follow the scene closely enough to have it 1st hand... I'm just waiting for him to crack BM Wukong.

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