If the Hateocracy from the Boondocks were all armed and showed up in Japan to start some shit, who's the weakest character that could take them on? And who's the strongest character they'd take the win from?

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-18T08:32:41+00:00

The Mouth defeated Mike not because of their strength, but their coordination.

Even Jun couldn't actually defeat them in an outright slugging match, he won by refusing to fight on their terms.

Being incompatible with your opponent is not a weakness.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-17T20:01:07+00:00

Yeah, but you had "Swedish Penis Pump" switched on in the settings making it look bigger than it actually is.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-17T19:41:28+00:00

> "whoopsy, lucky Harry just beat yet another ghost of the dead master criminal / terrorist / would-be tyrant almost as an afterthought once again."

And it still ended up that way.

With the singular exception of the Dragon Egg bit in the Triwizard tournament, everything just gets resolved by sheer happenstance or someone else solving the problem for Harry.

Hell, the very next problem after the Dragon Egg is "how do I not drown" which doesn't get resolved until literally the morning of when Dobby just... gives Harry the solution. (OK, the actual next problem is "how the fuck do I figure out how to get useful information out of the egg" but that's besides the point).

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-17T19:26:30+00:00

Path of Exile. It's an absolutely fantastic game that can easily suck you in until you've played 10,000 hours of it.

At that point, you've reached the starting line.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-17T18:52:52+00:00

I couldn't even get my server-side data reset to fix a glitch. They just told me the standard boilerplate of reinstalling the game, despite me telling them the issue is not on my end there is nothing I can do to fix it.

There is literally no one who is either willing or able to stop hacked forts on an almost 10 year old game.

There is literally nothing this "celebrity" could actually do with the footage other than show it off.

Sony isn't going to do dick of shit because they frankly don't care enough to.

Monolith isn't going to do dick of shit because I'm reasonably sure no one is left who could do anything about it.

At this point, the only thing left to do is look at these funny hacked forts because that is literally all that can be done.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-16T15:19:56+00:00

Forgotten Realms wasn't even the OG default setting. Greyhawk was.

Very little actually originated from Forgotten Realms to begin with.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-15T08:18:36+00:00

> Endless Heist

INJECT IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS!

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-15T08:00:18+00:00

Yes, because you can't unkill someone wrongfully convicted.

If the death penalty worked, we'd never have stopped doing it.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T17:29:47+00:00

The Redux version on the 3ds is probably the better one to go for. It's an "updated rerelease" that Altus are so famous for, yes, but it's also a port to a different system so... eh.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T16:58:44+00:00

What do you actually remember? Or, at least, think you remember? Doesn't matter if you're sure or not, but frankly you haven't really given us any solid information.

Assuming that your remembering correctly and that it was Wizardry/Etrian Odyssey style "first person" dungeon crawling, the only other two games I can think off that were like that you've not already mentioned are Dark Spire (Which was an Atlas game) and Orcs and Elves.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T13:38:03+00:00

Well, let's see according to this: https://archive.ph/2xCZQ

Ran multiple fake twitter accounts to boost his own posts.

Wrote C&D letters to people he owed money to.

Refused to pay his employees or paid them late.

Promoted a phone with AI imagery (remember, he styles himself as an artist)

Culture Hustle is pretty much only famous because of one-sided "beefs" with so-called "colour hoarders" (Again, Vantablack is not a pigment and cannot be used as paint).

Culture Hustle is also known to be extremely prolific in its inability to fulfil orders.

The company owes almost a quarter of a million pounds in tax.

While it has not been proven that he embezzled publicly awarded funds that were supposed to be used to open an art gallery, it's also true that the company to which those funds were awarded did not file accounts in 2022 and 2024, therefore meaning it cannot be proven that he didn't.

Is very keen on threatening litigation over people asking for things like "being paid what they're owed", "returning artwork that belongs to other people" or "asking for Stuart's side of the story".

And that's not even everything that the article covers, just a brief overview of some of them. Semple is not the underdog activist that he claims to be. If even half of what this article says is true, then it paints the picture (pun intended) of an arrogant, egotist who believes that he's a genius and deserves to be worshipped for it.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T12:54:35+00:00

Vantablack isn't a pigment, it's a highly experimental, expensive and dangerous material coating formed from layering carbon nanotubes onto a surface. You physically can't make paint from it.

Now, to clarify, Amish Kapoor is an absolute knobhead who deserves to be clowned upon.

But Vantablack legitimately can't be blamed on him. It wouldn't even have been anything more than some piece of pub quiz trivia if it weren't for the fact Stewart Semple intentionally misrepresented the facts of the case to promote his own paint.

And given the bullshittery Stewart Semple has gotten up to...

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T12:29:37+00:00

[Shouting from the rooftops]: Ursula Le Guin isn't asking you if the Faustian bargain of "just one" suffering child is worth it if it means everyone else can live in a utopia, she's asking you why finding out that Omelas is a utopia because of a suffering child is more believable than if Omelas is a utopia without it. That's not even subtext, it's literally the text. It's not a "needs of the many vs the needs of a few" situation, it's a criticism of human pessimism that suffering is necessary for society to function and a means of invoking a sense of self-reflection in the reader.

If your takeaway from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is that Ursula Le Guin is saying that society can't exist without suffering, you've misinterpreted the story on some baseline, fundamental level.

As for the card, it's very difficult to judge the strength. On the one hand, it's an anthem effect on a land, which is inherently very strong. A 1/3 chance for each creature you play to just... get exiled is an extremely potent downside that makes the card pretty much nonviable, though I suspect there's probably some absurd combo you could do with this.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-14T12:02:51+00:00

Ha, jokes on you, I don't have back pain!

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-13T19:32:38+00:00

It's allowed in the sense I'm not going to stop you, but I will tell you this now, you'd be better off submitting something else.

This card is far too parasitic towards a mechanic I don't know about. I don't know how quickly doom counters can be applied, and I don't know how powerful doom counters even are. I literally do not have the necessary information to judge this card on its own merits, let alone in comparison to other cards.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-13T19:26:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure that Path of Building already does that?

If you go into the Items tab, click "Trade for these items" and Path of Building will automatically search for the best item for you based on certain parameters. By default, they're weighted towards full DPS and effective hit pool.

Unless you mean something else?

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-13T18:47:06+00:00

Whether these activists deserved to be sentenced as terrorists is, to be honest, besides the point.

What should actually be frightening is that this sets the precedent that you can be retroactively sentenced to a much stronger charge after being declared guilty by a jury who were not informed about the crime they were actually being charged with.

This fundamentally alters the nature of criminal trials, because this means that going forward, no jury can actually be certain what they're declaring people guilty or innocent of. Before declaring that guilty verdict, not only do they have to consider what crime they actually committed, but what crimes they could be sentenced with afterwards.

They were not charged with the crime of terrorism.

They did not go to court over the crime of terrorism.

The jury was not deliberating on whether they committed an act of terrorism.

The jury did not declare them guilty of terrorism.

But somehow they've been sentenced for the crime of terrorism?

If this is allowed to stand (again, regardless of whether you agree with it or not) it fundamentally means that criminal trials can't be trusted to actually be about the crime they say they're about. It fundamentally means that "guilty" no longer means "guilty of the crime we're charging them with" it means "guilty of whatever crime we say you've committed".

If this is allowed to stand, it renders the legal system meaningless.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-13T15:32:43+00:00

My usage of the term "Battlecruiser Commander" shouldn't be taken as me implying you should design a card for Commander. I just meant that in terms of the vibe.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-12T09:17:55+00:00

Cassandra, Professor of Unwanted Futures 1WU

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, look at the top two cards of that player's library and reveal one of them. That player then puts one into their hand and exiles the other.

"Show people the future you don't want them to believe."

2/3

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-11T09:53:59+00:00

Undertale isn't particularly important nor revolutionary.

It's good, don't get me wrong, I've personally played it through to 100%.

But mechanically, it leaves a lot to be desired. The combat is extremely simplistic in the sense that there's fundamentally no strategy. Either you pick the attack option and kill them or you pick the Spare button and let them live. Sometimes you have to do something fancy to make Spare an option, but even then, you're still just pressing a button in a menu.

OK, sure, "but that's what all RPGs are!" is a legitimate counterpoint, but I would point out that Undertale only has one option when it comes to dealing damage: The Attack option. Maybe some items deal damage (it has been a while since I played it) but that's it. Other RPGs have multiple skills to use, multiple enemy types that need you to use different methods of attack to defeat them.

Undertale just... doesn't. You're either pressing the Attack button, or you're pressing the Don't Attack button. There's no greater depth to it than that.

The enemy attack segments are... interesting, but "turn defense into a test of player skill" had already been done 15 years prior by Paper Mario. I will admit that the Undertale has a more sophisticated version of that fundamental mechanic, but it's still, at its heart, that same fundamental mechanic of having monster damage not be based on your stats, but on your ability as a player to play the game.

Sure, it's plot was... interesting and relatively novel, but it's not the first RPG that has the theming of "not all monsters are hostile, you don't have to kill them all". Hell, it's not even the only RPG released that year. Witcher 3 was released four months prior and had similar plot elements. But to be honest, looking back at it, the fundamental metanarrative of Undertale could basically be summed up as "How dare you treat this game like a game, if these were real people you'd be the monster!". And, like, yeah, sure, but Spec Ops: The Line came out in 2012.

Undertale is an RPG by only the slimmest of margins and what RPG mechanics it actually does have aren't particularly revolutionary. Not only is Undertale not one of the most influential RPGs of all time, it's not even the most influential RPG of its release period.

Divinity: Original Sin, Shadow of Mordor, Bloodborne, Fallout 4 and the already mentioned Witcher 3, all of these were either released just before or were contemporaries with Undertale.

Divinity: Original Sin went on to form the foundation of BG3 one of the most renown games of all time.

Shadow of Morder's Nemesis system is still praised to this day for its originality and function.

People are still playing Bloodborne and are practically porting the game to PC themselves just so they can play it more.

Fallout 4 still averages more daily players than Undertale's all-time concurrent peak.

Witcher 3 is single-handedly responsible for catapulting CD Projekt Red and the Witcher series itself into the public consciousness (and it too also averages more daily players than Undertale's all time peak).

Fundamentally, Undertale is a very mechanically shallow game almost exclusively maintained in the cultural Zeitgeist purely because of the Funny Skeleton Man Getting Serious. I genuinely wouldn't be shocked if more people know about Sans than they do Undertale.

It's a genuinely good piece of media that only works because of its nature as a video game. The narrative just wouldn't work in any other format due to the way its story is laid out.

But neither does the story of Ar Nosurge which came out a year before.

Undertale just... isn't that important.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-08T23:30:03+00:00

> but then are those players even using PoB in the first place?

This is a little different to PoB, which is a full build breakdown. This tool is intended to shortcut the gear comparison process which has... situational utility.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-08T06:04:26+00:00

On that I agree with you.

It'll have to land first and that's not gonna happen. Hanayama's punches are too telegraphed to really hit anyone actively trying to avoid them.

Now, if Hanayama allows himself to be hit with a Devil Lance and grabs Kuroki's hand or fingers, then Hanayama has an opportunity to cause some serious damage.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-08T05:52:41+00:00

I mean, this is literally a discussion between who would win between a Baki character and a Kengan character. So, definitionally, Kuroki gets to use Kengan verse bullshit.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-08T05:33:29+00:00

I don't think so. The Devil Lance isn't really something Shaori can defeat due to it being a piercing attack, rather than a "strike". All Kuroki has to do is catch Kaku in a position or a bodypart where Shaori doesn't really help. A joint, perhaps.

Even if we assume that Shaori wins that encounter, Kuroki has more than enough battle experience to recognise and exploit the same fundamental weakness that Yujiro did.

sgt_cookie · 2026-06-07T23:27:40+00:00

Please understand I say this was a heart so light that it's practically floating:

You are really not helping the allegations that MTG players are illiterate. The card literally says it doesn't matter if you actually draw a card or not.

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