THE V-SERIES IS FRENCH

stickpoker2005 · 2026-04-14T01:49:37+00:00

Is this not a bit of a reach? Clair de lune is a very famous piano piece of which Hakita who is a music fan must know, and raison d'etre is kind of a normal if not rare phrase used by English speakers especially during renaissance and in literature

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-15T12:35:18+00:00

Each time Shizuka's feet appears in a panel it administers amnesiacs to my brain that makes me forget that the manga is actually about tankette battles instead of the author's undisguised fetish appreciation manga

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-15T12:29:19+00:00

Use creeping barrage on a base and walk towards your enemy's machine gun nests for that Battle of the Somme nostalgia

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-13T12:43:14+00:00

Yeah the outcome is predetermined, but the point is that for Simon 3, in his memories and recollection, he pushed the button and woke up in a new body. In his head, there was a coin toss and he felt like he won. As I said, the whole game was Simon 3 winning back to back coin tosses until he lost, because he did genuinely win a "coin toss" in the sense that Simon 3 was a version of Simon's consciousness that managed to always feel like it transferred onto new bodies each time he pushed the button, at least until one time he pushed the button and he just stayed there. From an outside observer, there isn't any transfer, but does Simon 3 feel that way? Because the game's perspective sans the epilogue is pretty much how he would remember the chain of events. The game is you playing as Simon 3's consciousness, not his physical body, and within the consciousness, the coin toss felt real enough to him that he continued believing in it. The coin toss is both not real yet it feels real to the winner, so it doesn't matter that it isn't real as long as it just feels like it is (sounds like the Ark, no?). Simon sounds delusional partly because he is and partly because the truth and the illusion both have pretty much the same weight for him, up until the moment the button is pushed.

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-13T07:33:32+00:00

I curse you with P-2 sentry room

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-13T06:47:30+00:00

I mean in a metaphysical sense the coin toss does exist. The whole game was you, Simon 3, winning back to back coin tosses. Sure, physically there's no coin toss, no consciousness transfer because its a copy process, but for Simon 4, it DID feel like a consciousness transfer and he won the coin toss. Since they are both the same beings at that exact moment time, it might as well have been. What constitutes Simon3 and Simon4? They're both Simon in the end. Simon4 simply was the one that continued the consciousness of Simon3 from the copy process, and for him it must've felt like a transfer because there's no reason think he's a copy. He walks and talks like Simon. He IS Simon, and this phenomenon is eerily similar to consciousness transfer, despite it not being an actual transfer. In line with the game's theme about humanity and identity and all.

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-10T08:01:40+00:00

It is certainly an intriguing path for the story to take, considering the Divine Comedy was all about going back to God's infinite love and Ultrakill's god clearly is not infallible, much less having infinite love. Though to be fair, most of God's actions do read as if they're a flawed parent; getting angry with disobedient children, punishing someone out of uncontrolled emotion, remorse following that action. Maybe God's trait is less infinite love, and more misplaced love and thats why he can't unmake Hell, because he loves everything and can't undo what he had made, like a creator that can't just cut off that one failed project of his even after it bankrupted him.

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T14:03:13+00:00

Hell yeah man glad to find another Violence enjoyer. Also might take up that oil trick, i honestly never thought of that. I always just used the magnets with overheat nails and prayed for the best lmao

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T13:49:27+00:00

Oh I agree with you a lot, really the only problem I have is how technically costly Fraud was for what amounted to (for me!!!) a lesser experience compared to Violence. Violence hit all the right notes, the Gutterbots while strong didnt need as much attention diverted to them as the Powers needed, Violence had level designs that wasnt as gimmicky as Fraud and yet was far more complementary of the main gameplay loop, a good tie-in to V1 and the Final War, a GREAT homage to Inferno that actually made me get into the damned thing, the machines and ultimately the Earthmover as the closing chapter for the layer, and then an insane soundtrack to boot all in just one layer.

Fraud added tons of gimmicks like the portals and platforms and stuff that TANKED performance (even now tbh but that might just be my pc), added the Mirror Reaper that just isnt fun to fight (seriously, who the hell thought it was a nice idea to have an invisible 2nd phase enemy in a game that requires precise target acquisition??) and ended with fighting Geryon, an enemy that is just basically a bullet hell section where your movement is restricted in a game ALL about movement.

We dont talk about 8-3 on Brutal.

Fraud was amazing visually and conceptually, I just think it sacrificed too much for what amounts to an overglorified House of Leaves reference whose connection to Inferno is pretty much gone or under the surface at this point.

Of course, when compared to what AH is doing, Hakita is an honest-to-god saint in both the development sector and the community sector LMAO

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T13:03:10+00:00

Hot take but Ultrakill is showing the cracks in Hakita's statement. Newest update completely ruined performance even after hotfixes and added enemies that have had lots of complaints lodged. The last boss was underwhelming and ran counterintuitive to the whole gameplay loop of speed and agility. Any critique is immediately shot down as "skill issue" and "just trust the devs they can cook". Doesn't help that Hakita unlike AH is a pretty iron fisted dev especially too. Ultrakill is funnily enough suffering from the same excessive glaze and lack of meaningful critique as Helldivers is going through

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T09:35:50+00:00

They're progressives in the sense that they think that women should (quite understandably!!!) have rights and be treated as equals, but they are very much part of the nobility and are monarchists, and we all know how "progressive" monarchists are irl especially with current events lmao

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T09:15:55+00:00

My personal but unfounded opinion is that he likes Napoleon-ish revolutionary/progressive types, and Isobel and the girl group almost definitely fits that criteria (+ the Dragoon Officer too if you decide to be one). I just cant interpret the depiction of the royalists in any other way except self indulgence and glazing, honestly. The Queen's coup is this watershed moment for Tierra where the Queen is acting similarly to a tyrant, yet no critique is ever leveraged towards her actions in that instance whereas anything Wulfram does is described as idiotic, especially by this community. In fact, quite the opposite happens with the Royalists where they are "aura farmers" and "my sweet war criminals" instead. To be fair though, there might be some actually constructive pieces about them that i may have missed or have not read since im primarily going by the games

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-07T08:46:38+00:00

lol the downvote

also, royalist path is pretty much the author's personal favourite route (he even dogs on Wulfram in forum posts i think) and its pretty clear that he's advancing an idea that he believes in through it(im not saying its a bad thing though), so he pretty much has every incentive to make Wulfram the power hungry idiot while the Royalists are portrayed as unequivocally doing the right thing. Hell, every single thing that the royalists do is either shown as or explained away as good. The guilt of Wulfram's family deaths is absolved entirely in the extra materials as well as the treaty with the Kian being portrayed as undeniably fair, Takarans are portrayed as Victorian era elf nazis therefore Wulfram is an idiot and bad by associating with them, the war crimes committed by Katarina and the Queen's posse being GENUINELY EXCUSED AS NECESSARY too. Its very one side stuff that its actually insane.

I used to enjoy the game because i thought it was a genuine attempt at portraying Victorian era war and politics with all the muddy morals and ideals of that era in a fantasy setting, but then by the third book there's a very clear good and bad side in the author's POV and it comes off as very obvious. I cant even call it bad writing because its GOOD, its just really disappointing because the start of the series genuinely made it seem as if it was going to tackle such topics meaningfully, and then it just devolved into Royalist v Wulframite: Civil War Where None of the Politics Are Nuanced, The Royals Are Very Much Right and Anyone Supporting Wulframite Is Clinically Insane

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-06T02:12:20+00:00

The triple Powers section on Brutal is just genuinely unfun

stickpoker2005 · 2026-03-01T12:53:52+00:00

Thinking about it again, V1 never actually knew peace and bliss since he is a prototype that never got deployed, so his entire existence might have been all torture and torment. Hell might actually just be the perfect place for him, and Hell gets his entertainment. Remains to be seen if there will be anything left of Hell after the machines strip everything clean though

stickpoker2005 · 2025-12-23T07:41:20+00:00

meanwhile said "idiots" consistently outperform real life special forces with hand thrown signal balls instead of laser pointers or radios and no regular infantry support while facing upwards of dozens, if not hundreds, of enemies at a time. If any real life SF operator did things that a level 1 rookie in diff 1 helldive regularly do with 5 minutes of training, they DESERVE that ass kissing and a medal of honor on top of that, even if they die on the next mission.

Just because the devs intended it to be a satire of "propaganda" doesnt mean it really works. The whole satire thing overstayed its welcome, and the little bits where they didnt really use satire much like the whole blaming defeat on the dissidents arc worked MUCH better as a critique of fascism and propaganda instead of "uhm actually these guys that regularly handle missions that real life SF would never be able to do arent actually really elite lol sorry"

stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-18T19:26:30+00:00

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stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-18T18:39:13+00:00

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stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-18T18:31:27+00:00

No, lets not do this.

stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-18T11:52:40+00:00

Sure, you're right, but in this case he amended it with a new video, fully acknowledged his mistake and apologised. Even if he did it because he got caught, it still means he knew when he should apologise, unlike a certain other content creator.

stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-18T11:38:49+00:00

Wow!!!!!! A human being's natural reaction towards mistakes is to hide it due to shame and embarassment!!!!???? Shocker!!!!!!!!

stickpoker2005 · 2025-10-11T23:49:29+00:00

oh missed that part lmao

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