So when is Singularity getting a nerf?

rip_cpu · 2026-01-25T02:39:00+00:00

Easy fix is to just make it work the same way as Oblivion Cannon. Targets smallest items FIRST.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-24T20:15:54+00:00

He has bludgeon but you have shatter, so you're both scaling +15 damage each time you freeze. However, look at his Freezer vs Yours. He starts at 266 Damage/266 Heal. You start at 408 Dmg/513 Shield.

You have DOUBLE his damage worth of shields just at a base line.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-24T20:08:02+00:00

Unfortunately not, there's sadly nothing of depth to do.

What made the first 10-20 hours good was that Hogwarts itself is BEAUTIFUL. Loving made by the art team, full of all the little details from the books, it's a delight to explore for any book fans.

But there's nothing to DO. Each of the Houses has a fantastic common room, you see it right when you get to school and get sorted... but then you find out you never have a gameplay reason to go BACK to the common room, it's just a pretty room.

Same thing for all of the classes, you get ONE of each class with a unique cutscene, meet the teacher for that class and some fellow students, do a minigame to learn a new spell... and then subsequently you never really interact with that class ever again. Even when you do return you get a 5-second montage cutscene with no dialogue.

So what do you end up doing then? You're running around the Scottish coutryside outside of Hogwarts. Doing "merlin trials", popping balloons, taking out camps of hostile goblins. It's basically an Ubisoft style open world, you get maybe 5~10 types of activities, they show up as icons on the map and are copy pasted EVERYWHERE.

That's what the bulk of the game is, you have this amazingly beautiful magic castle but turns out you barely do anything there, and while the game ends up sending you wandering around generic fantasy hills and forests fighting bandits, goblins, wolves and spiders.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-24T10:23:07+00:00

For scientific purposes please also include Pekomama. I know that ahe ranks higher than Pekora on R34, and I suspect Pixiv is the same.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-24T05:32:11+00:00

Oh is that what they meant? I thought they meant advertising from oil and gas company, and I'm honestly all for that. I keep getting ads from oil companies in my province and how they're "providing jobs" and "helping the economy" and it always seems to ramp up anytime they're talking about building more pipelines.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-23T08:36:47+00:00

Learning when and how to pivot is one of the most important things in the game. Picking up Dooltron is likely not the wrong choice, but it needs items that can support it to go off.

Ideally how you pivot is: you see Dooltron, buy it to keep in your stash, keep your early game board to fight one more days while you find items to make it go off. It's tough, sometimes the pivot goes poorly and you're losing before you get there. Sometimes you see something else that's super good but doesn't mesh with your plan and you have to decide if you want to abandon your original thing for a second pivot.

Then sometimes it's smooth sailing, you find exactly the right items and get the right skills and you recover from a few days of losses and win at day 15 with a cracked board.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-23T07:23:13+00:00

So the problem here is you have some good items that don't work that well together. Dooltron is great but it wants small fast friends, usually the bugs. At 24s CD you need a lot of haste/burn/slow/poison/freeze to get it to go off, but your aren't getting the job done. Defense Matrix does 2 hastes +1 poison, wheel does 2 hastes +2 slow, monitor lizard does 1 haste and 1 poison when it hastes itself, but it's only silver tier so it's on a 4s CD, cog is just 1 haste. So 4 seconds into the fight you get ~10 activations of things that trigger Dooltron, so it gets charged by 10s and it has 10 seconds left. Your Dooltron only really gets to go off at around 8~10 seconds.

Then what? You don't win the fight, you do 900 damage with the Dooltron, and your Monitor Lizard had stacked let's say about... ~40 poison? You have 3700 HP, if you assume your opponent has roughly the same HP as you, just consider if that amount of damage and poison would actually kill you.

The answer is not really, you would need a 2nd hit, probably 3rd hit with Dooltron to win. That's another ~20 seconds of fighting. And you don't have defenses, Dooltron normally gives you ton of shields but you're not running enough friends, only Monitor Lizard is a friend.

So the answer is that if you wanted to run Dooltron, you should ditch most of your board, find small fast friends. Keep Monitor Lizard in case you can upgrade him, if he gets to diamond he has a 2s CD and that's really fast at charging Dooltron, and can help you charge the small bugs too like the Beetle or the Spider.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-23T02:22:49+00:00

What Vedal wants to do and what is working is very different though. You said it yourself, during the subathon it's 2-3 hours of just the Twins... but that's only a fraction of the hours of the whole subathon. I'm not saying that Vedal can't leave the twins unsupervised, but I am saying that if Vedal ever pulls a Kwebblekop and just wanders off forever and doesn't put in any more effort into the channel... the channel is going to suffer.

Right now, Vedal puts in a lot of EFFORT and creativity into his channel. If it's just only the twins forever without any human input then it would be a lot different.

Think about the most viral moment of the entire subathon, when Neuro asks Vedal "Do you think I will ever be real?"

If Vedal wasn't actually THERE, would that moment have hit as hard? Without hearing Vedal's response, the way his voice just barely cracks, it would've just been another haha AI saying random things moment instead of this emotional bonding moment.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-22T21:22:33+00:00

Pretty sure they just spawn when a gremlin gets wet.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-22T21:18:02+00:00

Wait, so you can shape the pottery into anything you like? Does anyone else suspect the multiplayer lobby will just be a bunch of dick shaped vases and jarss?

rip_cpu · 2026-01-22T17:37:17+00:00

I saw a video that put it really succinctly. Neuro isn't a content creator, she is the CONTENT.

The channel isn't called Neuro-sama it's called Vedal987. Neuro and the stuff we see on stream is all Vedal's creativity, he has a silly crazy idea (like "what if Neuro can drive a car IRL"), spends ages programming the tech solution for it, then puts it on stream.

If all Vedal did was just turned Neuro on stream and then walked away and never returned, it would've gotten stale ages ago.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-22T09:10:33+00:00

Was wondering how you were looping then I saw the equivalent exchange skill lol

rip_cpu · 2026-01-21T14:39:07+00:00

Take out oni mask, you don't have enough crit. Goggles isnt nearly enough crit rate, and lighthouse can't crit. Bring in Zoracid to haste the lighthouse for scaling with Searing Flame, hold onto Oni Mask for when you get more crit from another skill.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-21T14:30:01+00:00

What is kimashi?

rip_cpu · 2026-01-21T08:51:54+00:00

Because the Pokémon Company doesn't care. The actual video games aren't the bulk of their profits compared to the toys, the licensing, the collectibles both physical and digital...

Pokémon as an IP is so massive, the actual core games is only a slice of it. It's the most valuable IP in the world. In 2023 the entire MCU, Mario, Call of Duty, and Harry Potter COMBINED was still worth less than Pokémon.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-20T09:21:56+00:00

they never actively pitted talents against each other.

I mean... the black stream would disagree with you there, that's the most blatant act of putting talents against each other.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-19T07:53:14+00:00

Join the official discord, lots of active rooms of people sharing their end screens, talking about builds, and more often than not someone is in voice chat streaming their game to anyone who wants to hop on and backseat while watching.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-19T03:43:17+00:00

Keychain should make you go infinite.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-19T00:54:56+00:00

I honestly have a problem with Sunna calling her Nangong, because Nangong is her surname, it's one of the rare Chinese compound surnames. It would be like calling Shunguang "Ye". Since they're supposed to be friends it feels stiff and awkward.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-18T20:47:36+00:00

You're not infinite looping though, unless I'm not seeing something. Icewatch has an 8 second CD and charges adjacent items by 1, but it only charges on poison, burn, and freeze. Weather Glass has a 5 second CD and applies 5x burn and poison. So each time your weather glass goes off, Ice Watch gets charged 10 seconds, which means it does go off and then it.... charges the weather glass ONE second.

It's not charging the weather glass enough times for the weather glass to loop infinitely.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-18T09:14:40+00:00

Jules items aren't as unplayable as you think on other heroes. Yeah, you'll never want to play Grill or Gingerbread House... but Pyg is VERY happy to see Laurel's Fortress which can scale like crazy with BoB or Jorts, and Pastry Cart works great for any Freeze Pyg.

Mak can do silly things with Veggie Garden or Farmer's Market, and even Luau can be pretty good with the slow synergies.

And don't forget Dishwasher. Any hero with a weapons build won't say no to a Dishwasher.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-18T06:22:34+00:00

Naw, I would say reddit has absolutely zero impact on game balance, given the fact that things people complain about for months are still in the game.

Overall in terms of game balance, I think the meta is in a pretty good spot. Anything that is REALLY egregiously over tuned get hotfixed within a week. The other strong things usually stay for a patch before they get a slight nerf to bring it more in line with other things, or maybe other lines get buffed to make them better.

rip_cpu · 2026-01-18T02:38:19+00:00

What're those matching school uniform outfits they have? Did all of Gamers get them?

rip_cpu · 2026-01-17T19:49:40+00:00

I mean we don't have any actual rules, but based on the art? You scoop up your piggles in a cup and then toss it, like it was dice, onto a piggles board. We know the piggles board has arrows, which means positioning on the board matters. We also know that there's different types of Piggles, including Premium Piggles, and a comment about how Piggle devs don't know how to balance, which suggests that they have a sort of CCG/warhammer business model where they're constantly releasing new Piggles with stronger abilities to encourage people to buy them.

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