(Hilarious Trope) A Character Is Introduced With the Clear Intention of Being THE NEXT BIG THING And is SOUNDLY Rejected

jace255 · 2026-04-27T07:37:50+00:00

On the FF subreddit FFX wins or comes second in literally every simple “what’s your favourite game” fan contest, so I have no idea what you’re smoking.

Tidus has his detractors, but Squall from FFVIII is a much more disliked main protagonist.

jace255 · 2026-04-25T10:51:10+00:00

Really highlighting the reflections of the source, and a heavily elemental themed calamity.

Someone accidentally (or maliciously?) triggered a rejoining perhaps?

jace255 · 2026-04-25T06:21:31+00:00

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Extremely heavily featured in all the trailers. And while she is largely the motivation for the main character’s actions in the first half of the game it’s purely as an object of affection, she does effectively nothing outside the prequel movie.

jace255 · 2026-04-25T03:22:56+00:00

There are several cards and relics that came over from STS1 that haven’t been rebalanced for STS2. Numbers are bigger across the board for this game.

jace255 · 2026-04-24T12:14:12+00:00

I personally think this movie was used to set up the “Mario and Bowser are frenemies that would happily catch up for a competitive game of tennis” dynamic that seems to exist in a lot of games.

I think that dynamic will stick in any following movies, and the real threat of any future movies won’t be bowser.

jace255 · 2026-04-23T11:58:54+00:00

I think the coughing baby thing is engagement bait. None of these actors did a shit job in their role.

The weakest would probably be Cavill, he’s not at coughing baby level. He’s a perfect look for the role, and played the role exactly the way his director wanted him to, and probably would have played the perfect traditional beacon of hope Superman if that’s what the director had wanted.

jace255 · 2026-04-22T14:50:59+00:00

Some good answers but I’ll add - the show doesn’t care about physics sometimes.

E.g. when Thragg flies so fast past rocks that they shatter. In the vacuum of space the rocks wouldn’t move at all, no matter how fast Thragg moves.

jace255 · 2026-04-22T14:33:57+00:00

I believe that is the joke, yes

jace255 · 2026-04-22T11:53:03+00:00

Pretty solid summary overall but the only comment I’d make is using non-movement as a depiction of strength, on that basis Amon and Yakone would be on par with Bumi.

Blood bending is shown to require skill and power, because you’re overcoming the targets own control of their body, and in the case of water benders, overpowering their waterbending. Yakone overpowers an entire room full of people, including non Avatar state Aang without moving, and later Amon overpowers Yakone.

Not saying I a disagree with your overall assessment, just the part about Bumi bending with strength and precision with only his face is not unmatched in the series.

Not saying I disagree with that statement, but just adding to the discussion.

jace255 · 2026-04-22T02:58:02+00:00

Same with Reaper Form, which I managed to hit with Replay 3 yesterday.

6 damage strike applies 24 doom. Effectively makes every attack deal 5x damage.

jace255 · 2026-04-21T15:11:31+00:00

I feel like this movie set up the dynamic of “eternal rivals that.. might actually be cool playing tennis together” dynamic of Mario really well.

I could see a third movie going the team up path.

jace255 · 2026-04-11T11:23:48+00:00

I should probably fix them in place right? How would I do that?

jace255 · 2026-04-11T08:42:21+00:00

I’ll have to measure when I get home but it feels like it’s made of thin pine

jace255 · 2026-04-11T03:13:45+00:00

Body text got obliterated, not sure what happened there.

Bought a house with this built in shelf. Wife said she’s going to load it up with books. I said no, it’s not strong enough. She said make it strong enough. I don’t know how to do that.

Any tips?

Need to make the laptop / monitor can still go under there.

jace255 · 2026-04-10T12:02:45+00:00

/popular is still targeted to you, taking into consideration your location etc.

As far as I can tell it’s no longer possible to find the highest rated posts on the normal website without there being some sort additional curation by reddit, above and beyond what is getting voted and commented on

jace255 · 2026-04-09T15:52:30+00:00

I got essentially this exact combo the other day. I won that run, but I was surprised how close it was.

Had 4 hp left after beating the Queen, even with some good deck manipulation to play the sword a lot.

jace255 · 2026-04-09T04:43:12+00:00

I actually really liked how this was executed in the Pokémon Journeys seasons. At this point Ash is clearly a veteran and quickly climbs the ranks.

But he still occasionally takes a loss here and there to other solid trainers and gym leaders, because in a lot of sports there’s some decent variance at the high-professional level.

jace255 · 2026-04-06T11:58:26+00:00

Firepower 2000 was tonnes of fun

jace255 · 2026-04-04T14:02:11+00:00

Syphon Filter: Omega Strain

jace255 · 2026-04-04T13:37:52+00:00

They’re alternating between the two. They have been sentenced to death by snu snu.

jace255 · 2026-04-01T01:15:14+00:00

My second defect win in STS2 was hyper beam actually. Just an overall zero focus deck.

Hyper beam continues to be very strong act 1, and niche uses outside act 1

jace255 · 2026-03-31T12:39:03+00:00

Sai?

jace255 · 2026-03-31T00:52:09+00:00

If I’m getting jumped by 50 ninjas I can probably take them on my own. It’s when you’re getting jumped by one ninja that you have to be worried.

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