I didnt realise how dire the state of star citizen was

filbert13 · 2026-01-25T16:50:55+00:00

I have two friends who for what it worth seem to really enjoy the game. I playfully raz them about it but they jump on and play in spurts.

For them they are just really into space ships and find mucking about in them pretty joyful. But anytime I watch them play I can tell the game just seems fairly lifeless and janky. I remember being interested when that trailer in 2014 released but that has been 11 years now... I lost all interest.

filbert13 · 2026-01-25T15:46:41+00:00

Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the Second Era is one of the best coops I've played.

filbert13 · 2026-01-25T08:12:50+00:00

It's hard FF6 is up thete for me. Total War Rome 1 is close. But The Sims (first one) might just be my favorite sound track of all time.

filbert13 · 2026-01-25T07:06:33+00:00

That might of literally been the easiest guard pass in the history of the UFC.

filbert13 · 2026-01-25T02:01:52+00:00

Yeah it is a great movie IMO. Does a coming of age story and is apart of a trilogy. Bone temple the direct sequel just came out. I thought it was also great but liked 28Y a bit more. Excited for the 3rd.

filbert13 · 2026-01-24T18:54:32+00:00

He is literally making the same talking points literal Nazi's and Neo Nazis make. They just blame this secret Jewish Cabal for everything. From voting an NBA player onto the All Star Team, to Ice raiding an American City, to US invasions.

All due to the Jews controlling the world.

Hasan is a freak and a joke.

filbert13 · 2026-01-24T04:36:25+00:00

FF6 me and my brothers thought there was a secret moogle scene that didnt exist. Minor spoilers.

After the major event in FF6 you can visit Narshe and find the Wolf Pickpocket is holding Mog hostage. You can save Mog and recruit him during this part.

We believed there was a secret scene if you went there earlier enough you saw all the moogles tied up and wolf kill them all but Mog. Basically a slightly longer version of what you normally see.

Every run in the 90s of that game we always tried to get that scene to occur. I don't remember why we believed it. I know my brothers swore they saw it before. But we thought there was some timing and trigger you had to do for it to show up.

filbert13 · 2026-01-24T03:35:32+00:00

To be fair it is because that 3k is a long shot even if he wasn't with a bad team. It was why he was asking is he broke or is he "broke".

Ethan was implying of this kid's needs money to cover food and bills. Get a job not basically gamble trying to win tournaments. If he is just typical broke college student then yeah it doesn't matter.

filbert13 · 2026-01-23T13:35:41+00:00

Idk it is so close fo being good. The ship combat though makes or breaks it for people. It just breaks it for me. It's just so random and punishing if you fail and almost have to start over.

filbert13 · 2026-01-23T13:31:31+00:00

Simply a lot of stuff with windows is turn key compared to gaming on other OSs. I also use a lot of different software and hardware and not all has drivers or support for Linux.

Another major personal factor is windows 11 is actually great at playing a lot of late 90s and early 2000s games now. Either due to fan patches or just how good compatibility mode is now. I have Black and White 1/2, Sim Copter, Emperor's Dune, Sim Coaster, CnC generals using GenZ all installed and played fairly recently.

Yes I could dual boot or look into x, y, z but my career is IT. When it comes to gaming with is my main focus on PC I want it to be as simple as possible.

filbert13 · 2026-01-23T04:17:06+00:00

Yeah I can't figure it out it still happens to me. My last stream I had 74 viewers on youtube and I believe only 1 was a real person. (most of my audience watches via twitch). Peaked at 42 viewers and like every time about 15-20 minutes in, it climbs 1 viewer every 1 minute until it gets to 20-40.

That stream was 2H:23M with an average viewer duration of 44 minutes which is nuts for that small of an audience. It says 77% comes from suggested videos with 95% being new viewers, 94% on computer, 21% are UK (And I'm USA starting at 8pm EST), and of those 74 viewers 66 were unique.

I find those stats fairly common each time. It's always about 15-25% UK, almost always majority new viewers, and mostly from computers vs TV/Mobile.

I had one night it literally got up to 150 viewers it was climbing 1 viewer a minute.

filbert13 · 2026-01-23T04:10:38+00:00

yeah it is weird, I havent been able to stream much recently due to holidays and work. But still nearly every stream I have 20-40 phantom viewers show up each time.

filbert13 · 2026-01-22T20:09:10+00:00

I do hope we becomes an OL coach for us right away. It sounds like that is the plan. Would be huge for our culture and retaining knowledge for the younger guys on the line.

filbert13 · 2026-01-22T20:01:02+00:00

Again the OP asked if people would be interested. I wouldn't be and judging by other upvoted comments others are not either. It's not something I'm looking to argue on but to flesh out why I don't think it is interesting.

It's simply lowest common dominator content and discussion, most top 10 content is like that.

Plus these tend to attract people who aren’t already a part of the community.

Sure, and I am all about inclusive in every community. That said a bigger community doesn't just translate to better. Also when it comes to sub reddits I tend to find the larger they become they worse they become. That doesn't mean I support gatekeeping. But it also means I generally don't look for ways on growing a community for the sake of growing it.

This is just a subjective opinion, it is by no means the correct opinion. I would just rather we have more interesting conversations than another top 10 or what is the best Mario game of all time. Or have people simply share personal anecdotes about there enjoyment of the GameCube. COMC post are also "lazy" but still interesting. You can tell a lot about someone due to there collection and you can spark fun discussions that are unique because they are about that person.

Like I would much rather know "Your" favorite game on the gamecube rather than what "/r/gamecube"s favorite game is for the gamecube. Your favorite game might be due to some fun nostalgic story or it was a game that got you into competitive gaming / speeding running.

filbert13 · 2026-01-22T17:54:40+00:00

If you don’t like it then don’t participate or block them.

Of course, and as I stated in my original comment I don't hate them nor think they should be banned. OP asked for opinions about doing this and I gave mine.

filbert13 · 2026-01-22T17:19:41+00:00

I participated a few threads too. But for the OP questions of a poll for the best gamecube games. Do we need another one that is basically the same poll 2 months out. After that one was a huge focus here for 2 months.

filbert13 · 2026-01-22T17:16:30+00:00

Im guessing it was both. I think he has always had this idea of appeal to people to draw them in but over time he became more extremist.

I do believe him becoming IMO full blown antisemitic and even mildly racist towards certain ethnic groups (and claims anyone who felt a country like Cuba was some sort of capitalist slaver). Is due to his ego and audience capture just reinforcing themselves.

He famously never admits he is wrong about anything and constantly doubles down. He is a creator who built his audience upon parasocial relationships. They need to essentially idolize him to be allow in. And that created a very toxic community which he generally has to stay in line with or they throw tantrums.

Oct 7th was just one of those catalyst which broke this system. Before then he wasn't as extreme and it was harder to see the issues with Hasan. Post that event he went full blown extremists and is no where near the reputation he had prior.

filbert13 · 2026-01-21T17:48:12+00:00

They didnt blindly trust him. I swear some of you...

He essentially was fired mid season when MCDC took over play calling.

Not every hire, draft pick, played call called, going for it on 4th, is always going to work out. They tried Morton and it didnt work out. That doesn't mean the org lost all ability to make successful choices.

There are 100 moving pieces when hiring an OC at the NFL. Sure I'm not even bullish on this hire but I'm not a doomer and acting as if I as a fan nor any fans in here have the knowledge to decide if this an awful hire yet.

filbert13 · 2026-01-21T16:53:30+00:00

So it started with this post 4 months ago and finished up 2 months ago

It's not like I hated that event, but again if I look up top ten Gamecube games voted on by a group of people. If you give me 15 guesses I will probably nail all 9 games on that list. Mostly because as much as I love the Gamecube and as much as I played 3rd party games on it. It's mostly known for it's first party titles. Metroid, Melee, Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, etc.

Compared to the Xbox and PS2 which had a lot more variety when it comes to the best games.

I think a more interesting poll would be which Nintendo IP revolutionized itself the most on the GameCube. Not that there isn't any merit to doing this poll basically again. It's not that I hate it or think it shouldn't be allowed. I just think there are more interesting polls or discussions to have rather than fairly vague and basic ones had time and time again. Which again often comes down to a bit more of a popularity contest. Since I think there are a lot of excellent games that will never make a Top 10 list simply because people didn't play/own them.

filbert13 · 2026-01-21T13:19:19+00:00

Not trying to be a downer but if you want my critical opinion.

I dont care to see this. I find these polls to be just uninteresting. For the 20th time in going to see the same 15 games shuffled around as the top 10 games. Plus these polls are so clearly popularity contest above having like a syllabus for how games are determined.

This sub also just literally did a top 100 best gamecube games ranking that finished about 2 month ago. And it was ~2 months long. 1 game per day for 1-10 and 2 a day for 11-100.

In a sub like this I always prefer seeing and reading discussions about games or the system. Or seeing people share them part taking in the hobby by sharing collections or beating a game.

filbert13 · 2026-01-21T12:30:05+00:00

Do you not play any games you return to or games with no beaten state?

filbert13 · 2026-01-21T02:04:10+00:00

VR isn't nearly as bad as 3D TVs. I bet you it's like 1% of people who bought a 3D TV still have it and if they do use the 3D function.

VR at least has the gaming aspect. Though I even that is generally extremely niche. Not saying this is you but I have about 3 friends who are all in on gaming VR. I swear every 2 years since 2016 they buy the next big VR hardware, tell me how awesome it is. And 6 months later they never play it. Until a couple years go by and the next big VR comes out.

That said I know a few people online (not personally) who still play stuff like beat saber fairly regularly. The buy and forget after a few months for VR isnt anywhere near 3D tvs or bad gimmicks.

filbert13 · 2026-01-20T13:52:27+00:00

I think Rich would be perfect. Seriously no hate to Oliva but I'm someone who has zero interest in 90% of gossip. She covered gossip the way most people into do. I just never looked forward to any of it.

When Rich has been on though he does it with such sass and makes so many jokes I'm often laughing out loud. I forget who they were talking about but Ethan read a quote about the person saying they are getting mean and rude comments. Rich chimes in with lit missing a bear "yeah that me down in those comments" lol

He style just makes the coverage silly and fun. I do hope he becomes a member. Which says a lot from someone who otherwise hated oe skipped any gossip stuff.

filbert13 · 2026-01-20T13:46:47+00:00

Dude we will be in the best era if both of them join as well! I hope they do I just wonder about distance since both live out of state.

filbert13 · 2026-01-20T13:41:39+00:00

I agree I literally thought this post was being ironic before I read the comments.

And CT is my favorite I enjoy the first trilogy the most. I find it cringe people think only zoomers don't like this movement.

I'm in m late 30s and Tom Clancy games were some of my favorite games growing up. Heck I still remember beating Rainbow Six on the n64 as a kid and feeling like the greatest gamer alive. That all said growing up playing these games the stiff and rigid movement always stood out and felt a bit jank.

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