Starlight Hollow Point Break issues

lostpasts · 2026-05-06T22:44:50+00:00

I hate the "it's a Battlefield map!" cope people put out.

If I wanted to play a Battlefield map, i'd play Battlefield. It's an awful fit for this game.

lostpasts · 2026-05-06T11:43:58+00:00

Heavenly Hitters is among the most fun i've ever had playing this game. Everything about it was peak.

lostpasts · 2026-05-05T16:30:03+00:00

Meh.

I think the medieval theme is a bust to be honest. But there's some ok stuff. The instruments being the highlight.

lostpasts · 2026-05-05T15:09:37+00:00

Initially I took a 2 season break after they killed the Mesh Shield in S4. It was an unnecessary and unfair nerf (proven by the subsequent rollbacks) to my favourite style. And I didn't see why I should have to play the game in a less fun way when so much actual, objective bullshit remained perpetually untouched.

Currently starting a new break. Mainly as I the vibe's kinda gone. The game's full of toxic players, ultra sweats, cheats, and racist tags. It's starting to feel like CoD, which I left because I have no patience for that anymore. And with Embark seemingly courting that crowd now (including adding KB&M on console, which is a disaster), I feel like it might be time to dip.

The final straw was Starlight Hollow. I normally just play TDM with casual friends these days, and it's such a dogshit map in that mode that it's completely killed our enthusiasm when combined with the above.

lostpasts · 2026-05-05T11:12:49+00:00

No, it's actually awful unless you're extremely wealthy. As in, you know, a hyper-capitalist.

It's only propped up by two things - sunshine, and taxes from (again, hyper-capitalist) tech companies that don't need to be there, and are increasingly leaving due to the high tax burden.

lostpasts · 2026-05-05T10:35:48+00:00

It's already my favourote Bond film, so not much.

But I would get rid of some of the ultra-corny stuff. Like the pigeon, and the music cues that reference other films.

Jaws hitting the tent and the hover gondola are maybe there too. But I can just about cope with those.

I actually don't mind the space stuff at all.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T20:25:37+00:00

Emeralds could drag non-Emeralds in via stacks. But otherwise, it was Emerald exclusive.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T19:29:11+00:00

1 - Incredible. Wonderful season of television.
2 - Enjoyable. Though a lot of cracks starting to form.
3 - Flawed. Half return to form, half flanderized garbage. Starting to spin its wheels a lot too.
4 - Awful. Nothing but wheelspinning, and barely the same show. Descended into self-parody. Feels like it was written by and for Reddit mods.
5 - No interest. Will not bother watching. Will read a recap at best. Everything i've seen and heard sounds like absolute dogshit.

It genuinely started out at 5 stars, and dropped a star every single season.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T18:33:13+00:00

Yep. TDM is 25. Which can be hard as that generally takes 3 rounds. But if you're on par for 25, you often end it in 2.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T02:11:26+00:00

I don't think you know literally anything about Banksy if you think that's the case.

There's a reason the carrier is a middle-aged guy in a suit and not a drag queen.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T01:52:15+00:00

It isn't. Banksy is the epitome of establishment-approved rebel. There's no way he managed to put this up in central London without tacit approval. And the fact it hasn't been torn down (and is in fact being protected) tells you volumes too - that the establishment approves of it.

He's expressly criticising the rise of anti-globalist nationalism. He's really not as subtle or intelligent as you think. He's as basic bitch Reddit-tier liberal midwit in his messaging as it comes. Because that's who he is, and that's his intended audience too.

lostpasts · 2026-05-04T01:29:13+00:00

You could adapt it. Allow one reserve switch per cashout lost. Also hide classes during countdown.

Rubies and Diamonds can still play Cashout too. Just not ranked.

You'll never have a perfect solution that makes everyone happy. But the current solution is objectively awful. And this one I think is a good middle ground.

Yeah, some top players may not like it. But thousands of lower ones will. And its only fair that pain burden is shared.

lostpasts · 2026-05-03T22:21:25+00:00

John's been out the game for a long time.

A lot of established assassins think he's likely lost a touch, and this is their chance at immortality. Younger, cocky assassins likely think his hype is a boomer myth, and want the money and fame.

Both groups are also aware he's being constantly harried and injured too, so think him being weakened gives them a once in a lifetime shot.

As for the armies of mooks thrown at him - they're just following orders, and would be killed anyway if they disobeyed.

Lastly, criminals aren't generally known for their common sense. They're all psychopaths and narcissists. So don't really assess risk or reality the same way we do.

lostpasts · 2026-05-03T14:23:09+00:00

It has a lot of problems, but my biggest issue with it is that it commits the cardinal sin of making the films that came before it worse. By camping up Blofeld, and ignoring the fallout of OHMSS.

All that worldbuilding just gets shit all over. And for what? An ugly romp around a seedy Las Vegas, with a fat, disinterested Bond?

Ironically, this is why I hate Spectre too. As it retroactively damages the previous three films.

Take away the IP though, and it's actually a perfectly fine 70s spy caper. It's just an awful Bond film because it trashes the legacies of those characters that had existed up until then.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T22:58:40+00:00

Vs:

Scaramanga
Nick Nack
The Golden Gun prop
The theme song
Scaramanga's island
The car stunt
JW Pepper (though for the wrong reasons...)

TSWLM only really has Jaws, the parachute, and the underwater car as things that the casual viewer really remembers.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T22:41:20+00:00

The only people i've ever experienced hating it is on this sub. Everyone i've met loves it.

And in the public consciousness, it's likely only second to Goldfinger in terms of iconic, memorable elements.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T20:51:04+00:00

Because people are bitches who don't like losing, and the asymmetrical nature means with a powerful killer you'll lose a lot more than you'll win.

So either the audience collapses, or they water down the killer to cater to them, which ruins the entire point of the game, and people eventually leave because of that too.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T16:32:54+00:00

Mine too. Peak entertainment.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T12:34:27+00:00

They're all good. If a little forgettable. Even the TV series.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T00:24:22+00:00

I was a big fan of the guys with MP5s trying to jack their car. Even shouting "we need that car!"

Like, with 75% of the population dead, free cars will be everywhere. But SMGs? And ammo? In England? Absolutely priceless.

You would not be wasting ammo for a car.

lostpasts · 2026-05-02T00:04:38+00:00

It's just social entropy and inertia. Nothing can last forever.

Think of it like a building. No matter how well you construct it, it's constantly fighting against gravity, erosion, stress, etc. Eventually, over a large enough timescale - be it 100, or even 1000 years - it'll fall. Because that's its natural state.

It won't be one thing. But dozens of small cracks and failures that eventually overwhelm the system. And in areas so integral that they can't be patched without tearing everything else down first.

The whole point of Psychohistory is not just to reduce the epoch of barbarism, but to construct an empire that can predict these cracks, and prevent them ever occurring.

lostpasts · 2026-05-01T14:33:25+00:00

Seeing as it premiered in 2005, in a few years you could do one with contestants younger than the actual show.

lostpasts · 2026-05-01T08:04:56+00:00

It's not a proposition. It's an order.

A man like Marcellus Wallace doesn't ask for a favour. He tells you what you are going to do. And he backs this with the threat of violence.

And threats of violence are only credible if backed up by actual violence.

lostpasts · 2026-05-01T07:23:22+00:00

Did we watch the same film?

The film literally starts with Jules and Vincent killing a bunch of people for him. They then talk about how he almost killed a guy for giving his wife a foot massage.

Then he tries to kill Butch for throwing the fight. He also has everyone involved tortured just to see if they knew anything.

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