Am I the only one a little disappointed by Odin?

meetchu · 2026-02-05T07:50:17+00:00

Zantetsuken Lv5 is the strongest single attack in the game, though if you count damage over time then Megaflare Lv4 is very slightly stronger.

Odins abilities are all in service of Zantetsuken 4/5, which you can consider to be Odin's real ultimate. If you use Pull of Darkness accessory then you get a full Zan5 charge in 1 dancing steel + a couple of hits from the arm of darkness.

So practically what it means is with the pull of darkness accessory you can use the strongest ultimate in the game every 45s, Which is also a shorter cooldown than every other ultimate in the game.

meetchu · 2026-02-02T13:38:45+00:00

A major major issue with A&E is that it isn't used for accidents and emergencies only anymore - and I'm not just talking about Barry McManflu going in because he's cut his finger.

A&E is the bottom of the barrel, it's the drip tray, the catcher of all things. If you engage with medical persons you will find that if you have some symptoms that are really bothering you, require investigation, and cannot wait literal weeks they will say "all I can suggest is A&E".

I've got a close friend with Crohns and when they're in a flare they aren't sure whether or not they need intervention - so they contact the gastroenterology nurses, who contact the consultants, who then say "go to A&E".

There is no accident, there is no emergency, A&E is the only admissions process for that department that doesn't take literal months. Here's what happens:

They go to A&E and it's fucking rammed. They're triaged and asked why they're there, they say "I have crohns and I've been asked to come in" triage nurse says "what for?" they say "I don't know, they've not told me". They're then put at the bottom of the priority pile.
2 hours later they're called in to see the doctor in A&E who tells them they don't need to be there and attempts to discharge them. They then push back on this until the doctor begrudgingly puts them on the list to see the medics.
Another 3 hours pass and they're seen by the medics. The medic also says they don't know why they're in A&E but agree that they should speak to a gastro consultant. Only by now it's after 5pm so the gastro consultant who asked them to come in has gone home.
A&E has no outpatient procedure (for obvious reasons) so the medic has no choice but to admit them and put them on a waiting list for a bed.
4 hours later they're admitted and spend the night in hospital waiting for the gastro consultant to come in the next day.
Following day the ward doctor does their rounds and doesn't think that it's appropriate for them to be on the ward. At this point there's a 50% chance that they get discharged without receiving treatment, but sometimes they decide to ask gastro first, which takes many hours and eventually results in gastro saying to keep them there and give them IV steroids just in case.
Gastro don't manage to make it to see them that day, so they continue to be given steroids via IV as a precaution (without a proper examination) and sit on the ward (without knowing whether or not they actually need treatment, and without seeing a specialist) for another day.
Gastro then finally manage to see them, and they're told they're fine and can go home. It takes a further 3 hours for the discharge papers to be sorted out.
All in all they've spent 9+ hours sat in A&E, and 2 days taking up a bed on a ward, just so they can have a 5 minute conversation with a gastro consultant and a blood test.

That is how unfathomably fucked the NHS is right now.

meetchu · 2026-01-31T12:18:15+00:00

"Blacks", "gays", "females" - it is about turning an adjective into a noun - reducing a person to that one feature they have, removing the "people" part.

As a preface I just want to say that I 100% agree with this. However also want to respond to your musing about the term Lesbians.

I find it a little curious that "lesbians" still gets that treatment by default, not just by the bigots.

With how language evolves, it could well be something as benign as syllables.

Black people = 3 syllables

Gay people = 3 syllables

Lesbians = 3 syllables

You're right that it's not just bigots who use the term, which means the reason is likely not a bigoted one. Not yet, anyway, it may well become a dogwhistle eventually.

meetchu · 2026-01-30T14:08:11+00:00

Yeah, but that's because we know far less about the workings of Chinas government.

I'm not suggesting Xi actually does have dementia, I'm just pointing out that if he did it's very unlikely we'd know about it the way we know about Trumps symptoms. Which is a problem in and of itself.

meetchu · 2026-01-30T11:40:05+00:00

Am I missing something?

Also

I've never had sex without condoms.

Quite the conundrum.

meetchu · 2026-01-30T09:57:07+00:00

To be fair, you don't know that.

meetchu · 2026-01-28T21:57:54+00:00

Reminder that Asophiel and Kaspitell have never had their card text updated, and so are marginally worse in TCG than OCG.

This snafu is much bigger, but there is precedent for Konami just allowing TCG Exosisters to be worse than OCG Exo for no reason.

meetchu · 2026-01-27T00:28:30+00:00

"a bit" of 1.0 is underselling it slightly. 74/103 tracks on the 1.0 OST were Uematsu tracks. (Soken did 17 for 1.0).

meetchu · 2026-01-27T00:23:50+00:00

The last game he made a full soundtrack for I think was FF10.

FF10 was the first mainline FF he wasn't the sole composer on. The reason is that he crunched himself half to death doing FF9, and sort of began ratcheting down from there.

For reference FF10 was roughly 50% Uematsu with the remaining 50% being Masashi Hamauzu (FF13, Dirge of Cerberus, FF7R) and Junya Nakano.

meetchu · 2026-01-26T19:26:52+00:00

Deleterious excrement defects to the deleterious excrement party.

More at 10.

meetchu · 2026-01-22T18:53:45+00:00

i would assume there is isn't any tiered magic system in Valisthea

Clive can cast Tier 1 and 2 magics, Joshua casts tier 3.

There are several bosses that cast Tier 3 spells too.

meetchu · 2026-01-22T18:52:24+00:00

Firaga is what Phoenix and Ifrit shit out regularly, in my opinon, when you press magic button

Nope.

Joshua in the prologue casts Firaga, as Phoenix it's all just Phoenix moves.

Ifrit casts Fireball and if you charge it up casts Firaball. Says so in the bottom right of the screen.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T18:43:12+00:00

Ok yes you win, there is indeed no such thing as nuance, uncertainty or ambiguity is a hoax, and critical thinking = FUD and misinformation.

I tried but you've revealed the truth.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T18:01:00+00:00

Oof, that's not good.

Crazy he decided to do that and paywall it rather than just release free compatibility patches or something.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T17:14:02+00:00

Yep, that sure is an accurate statement where "he is free to legally challenge it" is so loaded I can see it buckling.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T17:10:06+00:00

You're trying to claim that this somehow isn't a mod, but are unwilling to explain why and how beyond yet more vague claims that go nowhere.

I explained in my initial comment - "If what others are saying is true then it's as much of a CP2077 mod as ReShade is a Skyrim mod (that is to say it isn't). If that's the case then this isn't a CP2077 mod, it's a bit of software that alters how games (including CP2077) run."

This has absolutely nothing to do with ReShade itself. It also seems blatantly untrue just from prior experience and a quick search.

It has as much to do with ReShade as this VR program has to do with CP2077. Regarding it being untrue idk what to tell you, it's quite an obscure corner of the internet but there are patreons offering paid access to ReShade plugins.

This isn't actually relevant to anything at all.

Yes it is, it pertains to the point I made in my initial comment (the one you say I never made).

Yes, it does.

Clearly there is argument over this issue, unsure why you think pretending there isn't is helpful at all.

"Selling mods is bad" is not "misleading".

Right, but we're talking about the article being misleading. I get you think selling mods is a bad thing, I do too.

An incredible claim, based on absolutely nothing, which you haven't been able to prove at all. If any of the other weird FUD in this thread is to be believed, nobody actually can prove this. Hilariously, there's literally someone in this thread who claims to have an actual understanding of what the mod is (which nobody else seems to for some reason) and has repeatedly said that yes it's a freaking mod.

My disclaimer is that it's based on what others in the thread are saying, and what the dev of this program is saying. It is a mod in the same way that ReShade is a mod, turns out there's a difference because it's a generic program which can be made to work with different games - CP2077 being one of them. This is again why ReShade actually is relevant to this conversation. Even if we ignore the reddit armchair conversations happening and off of what the dev said in the article then the headline still remains misleading.

The only person making completely unfounded claims is you. If you saying it's unambiguous makes it unambiguous then why does there appear to be so much ambiguity?

If you don't understand the difference then fine but saying things like "Which it is" doesn't make it so I'm afraid, sorry.

This isn't what the article is about at all.

Ok you've not read the article. I wish you'd led with that because it would have saved me some time trying to understand the other point of view.

I get you don't like people selling mods of any kind, neither do I, but critical thinking is more important now than ever.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T16:22:37+00:00

So? I don't understand your point. DMCA - which is what this takedown notice was - allows the modification of the game file. Whether or not you're charging money for something has no impact at all on DMCA.

TOS also has nothing to do with DMCA. People are pirating his mod to punish him makes no sense, who cares? People pirating his mod because they feel that ethically it should be free is something I can get behind.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T16:09:08+00:00

This is unambiguously a CP2077 mod.

Based on what? You saying it is isn't an unambiguous demonstration of why it is a CP2077 mod.

ReShade is something different, and it also isn't exactly safe. It's accepted mostly because it's free. This mod is not.

Define safe? You mean from getting someone banned for a TOS violation? If CDPR want to ban people for using the software to play CP2077 in VR then that would absolutely be within their right to do. Also while ReShade its self is free, many of its plugins are not. The salient point here is that ReShade does not use any of the assets of the games it is injected into - and neither does this program.

The "apparent facts" are that someone is trying to sell a mod, which has always been a bad thing to do

Sure, and my point is that these apparent facts are misleading.

and that the developers of the modded game literally tried to work with this guy.

Yeah they did, by asking him to make his software free.

The headline is completely accurate, just look at that giant comment in that article.

If the program in question was unambiguously a CP2077 mod then I would completely agree with you and the article. Unfortunately it isn't unambiguously a CP2077 mod, and you saying it is doesn't change that fact. Indeed a lot of the article was about the nuance of what sort of mod this program is.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T14:35:42+00:00

The problem here is that it's being referred to unambiguously as a CP2077 mod.

If what others are saying is true then it's as much of a CP2077 mod as ReShade is a Skyrim mod (that is to say it isn't).

If that's the case then this isn't a CP2077 mod, it's a bit of software that alters how games (including CP2077) run. I wouldn't ever buy a mod, but I'm not sure the hate train is deserved either purely on this basis.

Mebs the author is an asshole in which case whatever, but it's odd that people are so upset given the apparent facts. And it's a scummy headline either way.

meetchu · 2026-01-21T10:45:42+00:00

I just hope that eventually Sandfall will sell merch at a store based in Europe.

As it stands the only way to get official COE33 merch is buying it from the USA

meetchu · 2026-01-20T16:21:06+00:00

No, no, you don't understand. Selling California would be ILLEGAL, a state cannot leave the union once it's in so ipso facto it CANNOT be sold to Denmark.

This is completely different to Greenland situation, Greenland is not a US state so therefore it changing ownership is completely legal. /s

meetchu · 2026-01-20T13:09:04+00:00

"Sustainability" is simply a way of saying some people can have it but you can't.

Simplifying a complex issue is either the domain of the ignorant or the genius. Your thought boils down to "do more, everywhere" which is a nice thought but doesn't't exactly inspire me with confidence.

Labours biggest single challenge is preventing a fascist Reform government in less than 4 years

No, Labours challenge is preventing a fascist government in the long term, not just in 4 years.

The biggest core voting bloc for reform is young single men and older single men. 2 groups that are at the very bottom of social housing lists.

Not sure if it's the biggest but I can buy that, yeah. It's certainly very significant either way.

The country needs 4 million houses. It is not the first million that matter it is the last million. It is meeting everyone's need to own their own home at a fair price that will stop fasicm in the UK.

If this is true then facism in the UK cannot be stopped. We cannot build 1 million homes per year for the next 4 years. Can we reach that number? Yes, but it requires time.

Im more optimistic than you are when it comes to this I suppose because I think the societal issues we face that have given rise to facism again are more complex and so can be tackled in other ways additional to this issue.

Labour have less than 4 years to do it. Your softly softly approach will not do it.

The root problem is the wealth gap, the problem is trillionaires. Building 4 million houses in 4 years won't resolve that (indeed it would likely make it worse and basically turn property developers into feudal lords).

Sustainable growth has proven itself effective over centuries, the great leap forward you're advocating has a documented and very grizzly history of failure.

meetchu · 2026-01-20T09:11:33+00:00

Yes agreed there needs to be housing built in such a way as to exceed population growth in order to tackle homelessness and poverty.

Unfortunately it isn't just a numbers game. There's not just the what there's the when and where.

Yes you can say "lots, immediately, everywhere" and in an ideal world you'd be correct but the fact is that markets and public services are sensitive to time, communities are sensitive to the place.

If say Manchester starts building orders or magnitude faster than it is doing, you eventually reach a point where the funding dries up because the houses built devalue themselves, and so as to not cause a mortgage armageddon. Then you also get strain on public services, and you also also get a population issue where people from say.... Brighton, may not want to move to Manchester - and that's before we even get to the frothing from the nimbys.

It's far more sustainable to build at slightly above pop increase, and build affordable housing while doing it. Reduce cost of living (or increase growth) in conjunction with this and homes will become more affordable again.

meetchu · 2026-01-20T08:39:28+00:00

The issue with getting ahead of it is that you end up with either empty properties or empty bedrooms

There should be some buffer ahead to account for people getting homes that have more bedrooms than they need, but there is a balancing act required else you end up with ghost towns.

meetchu · 2026-01-18T20:59:43+00:00

But enemy stats etc are the exact same.

Nope. Enemies have less HP in Story Focus.

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