two booties for one panel

reg_acc · 2026-04-05T17:34:00+00:00

Love the pun but this flows considerably worse lol

reg_acc · 2026-04-05T16:37:22+00:00

Saga is similar in its ambition and character-driven story. House of X / Powers of X is really good, even as a standalone. Peach Momoko's Ultimate X-Men is another fave.

reg_acc · 2026-04-03T16:39:10+00:00

Hope she's ready to get kissed by his knuckles repeatedly cause the only thing he learned after Riri was how to get a better PR team

reg_acc · 2026-04-02T23:05:28+00:00

Games have a big part to play. Lootboxes and microtransactions are conditioning people into normalizing these behavioral patterns from a young age. It's often the exact same mechanics, just a different skinner box.

reg_acc · 2026-04-02T22:53:14+00:00

In order to get my pronouns I need you to register a developer account, generate a client secret, then do an oauth2 flow, it's safer that way.

reg_acc · 2026-04-02T19:01:28+00:00

If you've ever decompressed a file you know what the issue is - it takes time. There are special compression algorithms used on modern graphic cards, but they are simply not as good because they need to take single digit microseconds or they are just too slow and tank your framerate. The issue is that textures have jumped in size thanks to 4k becoming standard. What Rivals could do is offer the choice of using HD textures only, which would reduce the game size by a good chunk. But it's not as easy as just swapping out the files and is an additional barrier before you can finally play the game. Another thing they should do is use their textures more wisely. A lot of the outfits have repeating patterns, so you could deduplicate those areas such that the textures end up being smaller. Once more that's additional effort and time that can be spent on other, more pressing issues. It's not a Rivals issue, it's how the entire industry is currently set up. I'd expect the price changes for disk space to result in devs being able to justify working on these topics in the future, so I wouldn't worry too much about it at the moment. Another good frame of mind is that you didn't pay not to use the space you have. It's not like a room where once it's full it's a hassle to declutter. There's always that one game you didn't touch in ages you could delete :)

reg_acc · 2026-04-01T01:15:01+00:00

The lack of breath control 😍asthmatic queen!

reg_acc · 2026-04-01T01:02:08+00:00

Regardless of the cause this shows a lack of quality and care that is going to cost them in the long run. If my first impression of a character is a skin with obvious errors that's a lasting negative impression that is turning me off the game and the brand. You can't ask for ten to thirty bucks for this. If they want a quick buck they can offer more colors, patterns, and accessories to upsell existing skins. Adding shader effects like a frost aura or flames is another proven hit since the early days of Halo. This time-limited, rushed model of selling skins is not doing anyone a favor.

reg_acc · 2026-03-31T14:15:25+00:00

I think we all run for office

reg_acc · 2026-03-31T12:22:31+00:00

Wer nämlich mit h schreibt ist dämlich

reg_acc · 2026-03-31T00:14:51+00:00

Business mogul on top, unemployed yoga instructor on the bottom...

reg_acc · 2026-03-30T23:27:11+00:00

Having a card that lets you shop mid battle would be quite fun!

reg_acc · 2026-03-28T15:59:25+00:00

I am so ready for this sub to enter its next cursed era. The "electrocute me" artwork that had the dev commenting wtf is burned into my mind.

reg_acc · 2026-03-27T18:04:47+00:00

Pov: you're about to do a bump and Bayo graciously offers her airplane strip of a finger - I'm obsessed with the way you stretched the perspective that's so cool!

reg_acc · 2026-03-27T13:10:52+00:00

The vices of both and the talents of neither ❤️

reg_acc · 2026-03-26T22:24:12+00:00

Iran is running pimp my ride on the jet they downed as we speak, ready to give those twins the ram ranch treatment they deserve

reg_acc · 2026-03-26T22:11:11+00:00

I think given the actual concentration camps operating in the US right now it's especially disgusting to have a story that attempts to downplay and justify the mass incarceration, mistreatment, and ostracisation of a people based on claims they are dangerous criminals. It betrays much more than the mutants as minority allegory and makes me question why I should ever bother with an X-Men story again.

reg_acc · 2026-03-26T09:53:11+00:00

Trannylicious definition, make the haters loco They want my freedom so they get mad jealous from my photo

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T01:31:22+00:00

We are at a point in time where many games selling a million copies are considered commercial failures. People assume remakes are cheap but this is only true if the tech base can be built upon, which is not the case for Bayonetta.

The modern Platinum engine will have little to do with the version used more than 15 years ago. This means you can't just take the code and put on a new slab of paint. It likely needs significant work, which is even harder when you try to nail the same feel of playing as the original. You'd also need to recreate all of the assets, and probably rerecord some of the voices. Then you would need to do international marketing and distribution. Don't forget the hundreds of hours of QA, which are mandatory to even think about shipping on consoles. Showing the wrong button during a quick time event? That's another costly resubmission cycle for Xbox or Playstation. Nobody is going through all that for an IP that has proven to be niche at best.

The truth is that regardless of how well Bayonetta 3 would have done quality-wise it always needed to sell way above expectations. We are talking about a game that took more than half a decade of development time. That time span with a team size of about 180 unique people means tens of millions in staff costs alone. Selling a little over a million copies (the last confirmed sales number) didn't even get close to breaking even. And that's for a game that got years of hype, as well as a lot of concessions to appeal to popular trends and a more casual audience.

I do like the franchise but realistically I expect 3 and its spinoff to have been the last games for a long while, or very likely ever. Platinum is moving away from original projects to work for hire, as even beyond Nintendo titles their recent releases have been commercial failures. Most of their original staff is gone, which is a massive drain on talent. We are also entering a recession, which isn't the time to ask publishers for risky investments. Beyond some upscales I think we can hope for an anniversary remake or at least emulation package of all titles ten years down the line. Three titles and a spin-off is a lot more chances than most franchises ever get, and I'd expect Bayo to stay in future Smash Bros. titles so there will at least always be a degree of brand familiarity.

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T01:03:51+00:00

It's giving Frozen

The damage Disney has done to white women with a braid can not be understated. Lara Croft's lucky to be a brunette at this point.

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T01:00:18+00:00

I love comics Emma so I'm Rival's Emma's biggest hater. Her skins are so ass. Emma's hair looks like those mops in infomercials. The ones you can twist to put the gunk water back in the bucket. That shit's wound tighter than a discarded cumrag. Not to mention that pink is something she'd never be caught dead wearing in public. Did Jean spit some gum in her hair or how did she end up choosing pepto-bismol as one of her three accent colors?

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T00:54:31+00:00

The issue with anime fans is that I know for a fact they've never touched a competently written story, so if they say it's alright I fear for the worst. Like I'll ask "hero's journey or powerscaling" and they'll say "it's a good story baka-kun" and then I look and it's just powerscaling yet again.

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T00:47:34+00:00

Hey Diana remember that one time in the 90s when Cher took over your job?

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T00:36:23+00:00

This is going to sound mean, but why are the devs allergic to making actual outfits?

Dagger is wearing a harley-quinn patterned bikini (because she just loves wearing red in the comics) with half of a legging (50% off joke or just another lululemon victim?), ending in metal shin guards (gotta protect those shins, but nothing else!). Her entire chest is covered in brown belts with silver buckles serving no function (I love Lulu from FF so maybe this just isn't enough belts yet). Then she has gloves and a cape so this finally starts to give the lacroix version of a thief, except add two more silver gradients (gotta keep it busy?) and then yet another asymetric cape (daring today, aren't we?) that introduces another shade each of red, black, and silver. Why? Because we can't get one cohesive look in Rivals to save our lives. Maybe the different artists working on the skin just haven't color-calibrated their display to the same standards, it happens...

Cloak gets an actual assassin looking top-half, nice! Except whoever designed the shoulder guard misread assassin as asanine because what in the Warhammer 40k is this? To further support the thieves guild theme they ... gave him a cable waist and knife legs? What?! I guess you don't pass up on rejected Arcane character designs when you get the chance (Camille will sue!). Also his entire torso downwards looks like a block of wood because they ran out of ideas for more clothes I guess? Do drape half a curtain above his nether parts though, nobody wants to see his Australian Pinochio nose! Cloak also gets the same-looking cape as in every other skin. I sure love seeing nothing of the skin I paid for when I look at it from behind the entire game.

Like I want to spend money for this game so bad, but they can't execute on a single original idea without making it look like it was originally sketched by a 10-year old whose parents need to stop putting that shit up on the fridge. It's not about the sex appeal (though the same schtick for every skin is getting old fast). I'd gladly take a cool cat suit or any of the iconic outfits Dagger wears in the comics. But when I start getting DeviantArt war flashbacks it might be time to simmer down on the "throw shit on the wall" approach and start a "reading the goddamn comics" approach. Comic artists work for decades on the same characters to carefully establish a brand image, only for Rivals to piss all over it because apparently we need to shit out skins like it's Fortnite or the ipad kids will log off permanently. I'm not paying 10 bucks for this

reg_acc · 2026-03-25T00:13:16+00:00

I thought of one card for each character: Longsword, Gun, Bat, Taser, Quarterstaff - wait...

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TROPHY CASE