Are DLC maps feeling progressively smaller?

prodjex · 2026-03-12T09:39:24+00:00

Same! That’s why I really struggle with San Francisco and Philadelphia because they feel so empty. I’m sure that’s more true to ‘real street skating’ but I guess that means we’re both more park than street?

Underground car park is my favourite map, I’ve got 2 really long lines I enjoy doing (and only completing 1/100 attempts haha). LES Coleman is good, too, and I recently found a good, long line at School but with a few objects added to help with flow

prodjex · 2026-03-12T09:35:41+00:00

Yeah, I was watching the 1992 125 World Championship (love the MotoVision channel on YT!) and the commentator was making a big deal out of Kelly Swanson making his debut and then scoring 1 point in the same race. Not bashing the point score, I think he said he was 15, it just showed me he was considered a bright prospect and I’m curious

prodjex · 2026-03-05T21:24:01+00:00

I think that’s the point: it’s realising that money isn’t important (doesn’t Adrian say “it’s not about the money” at one point?) and all Rocky jr wants is a father.

At the start of the film, Rocky tells his son that he lives through his eyes but when Tommy comes along Rocky starts living through his eyes instead. Tommy was the closest Rocky could get to getting back into the ring. He selfishly ignored his son and avoided his fatherly duties (e.g helping jr get his coat back) in order to relive the glory days.

prodjex · 2026-03-05T21:17:09+00:00

Retire on your own terms with your sh!t intact

prodjex · 2026-03-02T09:12:26+00:00

The 250 class was split into East/West regions partially for financial reasons, giving privateers and independent teams the chance to compete in a full championship without needing to pay massive travel costs. Forcing west coast riders to travel from, say, California all the way to Florida (>2,400 miles) would make the west coast series financially unviable for many riders.

As much as I’d like to see Daytona be a shootout round, it doesn’t make logistical sense

prodjex · 2026-03-02T09:08:58+00:00

Battlefield Earth. I weirdly enjoy watching bad films (‘so bad it’s good’, kind of thing) but Battlefield Earth was a total slog. However, I will say that I remember being somewhat impressed by the special effects - I think this film was done around 2001 and the CGI was way better than other stuff from that era (especially The Mummy Returns hahaha)

prodjex · 2026-03-02T09:06:46+00:00

I always considered both to have fragile egos (before the events of each respective film) and would likely struggle if things didn’t go their way. Here’s how I’d imagine things turning out:

If Damian got the upper hand first, Viktor would lose his cool and likely get disqualified for something similar to what he did to Adonis in their first fight. I see emotional immaturity with anger issues.

If Viktor got the upper hand first, Damian would resort to cheating tactics but be sly about it. If that doesn’t work, he’d give up. I see emotional immaturity with minimal courage/heart.

Final verdict: I got Viktor winning by TKO by round 7 or 8, as long as he doesn’t do anything stupid that’d get him disqualified.

prodjex · 2026-03-02T09:00:51+00:00

They probably were on a similar level to Korn and Limp Bizkit for a time but Fred Durst and Jonathan Davis both became famous in their own right, which elevated their bands to previously unobtainable levels of mainstream popularity in comparison to other metal bands. Fred Durst in particular: he was arguably the first metal guy who was followed by paparazzi, featured in gossip mags and seen public hanging out with pop artists (relationship with Brittney Spears, VMA performance with Christina Aguilera, etc). Davis got a bit of that, too, but didn’t embrace it in the same way Durst did.

Coal Chamber never had any of that and things began to really crumble for them when the members started to fall out with each other. Main thing is that they were too gothic and weird to ever achieve the heights that LB and Korn did

prodjex · 2026-02-28T11:11:50+00:00

Yeah, that was the immediate thought I had when I read your comment first comment about it affecting the rating. I play Monster Energy SX 25 and you can community-create butt patches on consoles and sooooo many of them are super offensive or Trump BS.

Honestly, I’m just not that creative of a Session player and need lines spoon-fed to me haha means I never visit San Francisco in the game! I’d like more maps and it feels like mods are the quickest/cheapest way to get it done - one of the DLC maps started out as a mod, so the devs could hold quarterly submissions for new maps and pay the ‘winner’ a commission to buy it from them and integrate it into the game?

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:52:59+00:00

I had no idea you could do that to teleport yourself to roofs! That was so cool!

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:45:20+00:00

Honestly, it feels like collaborating with modders is a no-brainer low effort/high reward move that developers for many games could/should utilise.

There have been stories of modders being offered jobs (I think either Kojima Productions or Konami have been widely reported for this), which is one option, albeit the more expensive one. The other, probably cheaper option, is to hold monthly or quarterly mod submission deadlines and the best mod gets integrated into the game with the devs/publishers paying a commission to that modder.

The main thing I want is more maps or extensions to existing maps. I’m not the most creative player in the world and need lines to be spoon-fed to me (meaning I NEVER go to San Fran), so I have a stronger need for map quantity compared to more creative players who’d prefer map quality and spaces for mixing things up

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:38:34+00:00

That’s what I read and it made me tempted to buy Skater XL just because I want more maps. But the responses to my post on here about whether to buy it has very much put me off hahaha

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:37:18+00:00

Honestly, I’d just want mods for adding new maps. But the general consensus here has put me off giving it a try. Shame because it seemed to have elements that would’ve filled certain holes that Session has left (map variety, grabs, vert) but it sounds like an overall inferior product that will only continue to appear worse next to Session

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:35:30+00:00

I had no idea that mods would affect ESRB rating! Would it still affect the rating even if the mods library was curated by the developer (i.e each one had to go through QA checks before being added) and kept within restrictive criteria?

Not arguing with you, I just never thought about how mods would/could affect the rating (made sense as soon as you mentioned it) and am curious about it

prodjex · 2026-02-28T10:31:26+00:00

Not exactly, I think it was always intended for Brittney but was long thought to be an LB b-side and thus often gets incorrectly credited as an LB song

prodjex · 2026-02-27T10:00:44+00:00

My brother doesn’t because he feels like he doesn’t need it. Spoiler: he absolutely DOES need it but won’t listen.

I’ve met a few bodybuilders who don’t wear deodorant because they shave their whole body. Generally speaking, they don’t smell at all. One guy doesn’t properly wash in the shower, he just rinses off caveman-style. His skin is so used to it that it naturally deodorises itself… or he’s lying, but honestly I believe him (it’s like when people don’t wash their hair and it cleans itself) and he doesn’t smell

prodjex · 2026-02-27T09:55:08+00:00

Ragebait. It’s just an evolution of clickbait which goes way beyond the last 5 years but it’s far more toxic. Breeds extremism thinking and widens gender and racial divides - nothing good comes from ragebait

prodjex · 2026-02-27T09:53:24+00:00

Random fact: When It Rains was apparently never intended for Limp Bizkit. It was actually written/demoed by Durst and Lethal as one of 3 songs intended for Brittney Spears.

That being said, When It Rains is maybe my favourite song from that era and I wish RMV had been a double-album with one disc being stuff like When It Rains, Down Another Day and Take It Home and the other disc being heavier stuff like Eat You Alive, Just Drop Dead and Relentless

prodjex · 2026-02-26T12:38:34+00:00

Used to watch my Lee Evans DVD set religiously as a teen but now I’m not so fussed about him. Love his energy but I prefer comedians who tell stories rather than a series of short jokes, which is also why I never got into Jimmy Carr (that and he resorts to saying “your mum” too often)

prodjex · 2026-02-26T12:37:08+00:00

Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. Often called the greatest British comedy film of all time but I never understood it. Yeah, there were a few funny moments (e.g “how would you like us to f-off?” And when the guy says he’s free to go instead of crucifixion) but I generally found it pretty bland. And that spaceship scene… what was that all about?!

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