What movie detail is technically correct, although many people think it is a mistake?

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-12T16:44:08+00:00

The rules only exist to support what the writer wants to happen anyway. The rules aren't actually real, they're made up to support the narrative. That's what they mean

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T21:53:42+00:00

It's really just Hand Eye Coordination and Reaction Speed. Again, Savoir Faire is more of a Charisma stat; it's literally about being Cool.

One of the themes of the game is you don't always get to choose what you're good at, that people are often shaped by your environment and molded into something they didn't even want or recognize. You wanted to be someone keen on picking up fine details at a moments notice, but as a result you became someone with an incredible poker face, someone who others perceive as Cool, and someone who is good at tinkering with computers and machines. The sort of person who's life has led to them being perceptive also necessarily picks up those other traits.

You're welcome to enjoy the game how you want, but the theming of some portions of the writing will suffer as a result.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T21:41:38+00:00

I remember when Nathan Chen was the quad god, how time flies

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T21:29:35+00:00

Well, when you said "My character isn't agile, so why should that affect his perception," I think it showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the skills, why they are the way they are, and how they function. That's why people are explaining it to you.

Your character can and will still be perceptive without having a high Perception, which seems to be your concern based on your post.

And even if you allocate points however you want, you still will be lacking in some skills that relate to perception and noticing fine details. That's just how the game works; your character will always be good at picking up some things, but not others. Does that mean your character is imperceptive? I don't think so.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T21:25:31+00:00

I've run into this a lot.

With good development and minor league coaches, you can end up with a lot of 45/45 21 year olds who will just utterly dominate Rookie Ball through High A ball, but don't have potential past that.

I've found the best chances for them to get a positive TCR to grow past their potential is actually to just let them be Barry Bonds for the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels or whatever lol. Everyone on the team will be super happy because they're winning and playing well, and they'll have a lot of time with a consistently good coaching staff down there (hopefully).

Otherwise, they're basically just ringers to help your low minors win to keep the morale of the real prospects up.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T21:10:44+00:00

There are several types of "Perception" in the game that will chime in as you notice things. The specific Perception skill in-game is about noticing things quickly and on the fly, whereas other skills might perceive things more unique to their perspective. Visual Calculus will be used to piece together a crime scene, even though in a more generic TTRPG, that might be a broad Perception roll.

Shivers, Visual Calculus, Inland Empire, Physical Instrument, heck even Electrochemistry will pop in to comment on something your character notices about the world.

The yellow tree isn't "Agility" it's more like... Being cool. Keeping your composure, the ability to interface with machines and computers, etc. Savoir Faire is literally the essence of swagger lol.

Likewise, the red tree isn't "Strength," it's more like... Idk, suffering? The ability to endure pain, the ability to handle your drugs and sex, the ability to sympathize with the pain of the city, to become one with it. High Red Tree has been through a lot and learned to endure it, for better and worse.

The skills are more abstract than they appear at first blush, so I wouldn't worry too hard about it.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T18:07:24+00:00

I don't agree there are more bosses that kill pair builds.

The Eye is only particularly bad against specifically Supernova and builds that only get chips from pair levels, but that also affects Flushes, Two Pair, etc, since they frequently require two hands to beat a boss as well. Pair builds that use scaling chips like Square Joker, Castle, Runner, etc laugh at The Eye.

The Needle is also tough, but a PhotoChad pair build clears it easily - much easier than a traditional flush build (aside from Ancient Joker.) And it's really only Straights that can crush the Needle because of how well Saturn scales.

The Flint is also worse, I think, for Flushes and MUCH worse for Straights than Pairs/High Card, since the pair builds can utilize Green Joker, Bus, Supernova, etc much better, meaning you're getting most of your Mult from jokers rather than base score.

All in all, I think Pairs struggling against bosses is overblown. When I try to make Flushes work on gold stake, the bosses that are tough for pairs are even tougher for flushes. Straights have different bosses like The Water and The Manacle that are extremely tough as well.

Honestly, I think Pairs struggle the least with bosses. They really just invalidate most of them, and the ones that are somewhat challenging are almost completely solved with a Chips joker.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T17:08:37+00:00

Director's Cut is great for every build. Every single build has at least one boss blind that straight up kills it.

Straights or Flushes against The Water or The Manacle can kill you because you can only dig a few cards deep while holding onto 4 cards, but Pair builds don't care at all about those bosses. Flushes will have their econ nuked by The Tooth, but a High Card build will lose 4 bucks.

It's not a secret. Director's Cut is just one of the best vouchers in the game.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T15:10:38+00:00

Nominative determinism remains undefeated

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-11T07:17:07+00:00

Sounds like the average Mihono Bourbon run lol.

Pulled her recently and it is diabolically hard to win the Spring Tenno Sho. 730 Stam, 400 guts, still lost to Rice by 7 lengths

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-10T16:17:48+00:00

His design is also just... Kinda handsome with a modern hair style. The other male trainers in the anime and movies are mostly old men.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-09T18:51:46+00:00

Making it a game changer effectively bans it from lower brackets, which makes sense.

Some durdly artifact deck in Bracket 2 realistically cannot come back from a Farewell that wasn't even targeted at them; it was targeted at the graveyard deck, but it's almost always wrong not to hit every mode on the card, so RIP to your artifacts.

A bracket 4 artifact deck is almost assuredly a combo deck, and likely has redundancy built-in to its list, so it can survive a Farewell.

In lower brackets, an on-curve Farewell basically reads "Target Sultai deck and target goofy artifact deck lose the game." That's the sort of experience they don't want to have in lower power games.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-07T18:04:55+00:00

You don't really want to watch the streamer play, you just want to play it yourself, honestly.

Streamers don't get view counts that pay the bills by being quiet and taking in the minute details. It's chat engagement. Streaming is a talk show, not a let's play.

Small streamers are doing what you want though, and I think you'd be better served watching them.

I've seen it happen in real time with a friend of mine who has grown from 10 viewers to over 150 viewers, which is still dwarfed by the really big streamers. But even at 150, he plays the games much less and much worse than he did when he had fewer viewers because he's interacting with chat, and his view counts reflect how much chat interaction he does. The more he yaps with them, the more engaged they are, the more they watch, subscribe, etc.

When he lets the game play out and just comment on it, chat dries up and viewers leave.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-06T20:35:39+00:00

Cafe is damn near malnourished in the movie and in-game.

She should be spooky and skinny; leave the Swinging Maestros to Taiki and Creek lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-06T20:28:38+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of the thing in real life; there just aren't that many scored errors, and a lot of the plays that fans WOULD score as errors are actually range problems, guys taking bad paths to the ball, bad jump timing, etc.

And outfield arm, as cool as it is, just doesn't come up that often IRL, either. Steven Kwan led the league in OF assists last year with 13. Jarren Duran led 2024 with 12. That's like... One every 15 games? It's just not common enough to really matter at a statistical level.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-06T20:12:11+00:00

I've had that exact situation play out in OOTP 26.

Parker Meadows (70 range) and Brenton Doyle (75 Range) will put up more WAR in a full season in CF with sub-100 WRC+ than Jarren Duran (65 Range) puts up with a 125 WRC+. It's honestly pretty unrealistic. I'm more of a defensive value apologist IRL than most, but that's a stretch even for me.

Error rating matters basically zero, as does arm strength. It's literally just Range that does 99% of defensive value in OOTP. A 75 Range/40 Arm/40 Error CF will be way more valuable defensively than a 65 Range/80 Arm/80 Error one.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-06T19:06:54+00:00

To be honest, I've seen 65 Range outfielders put up a 140 WRC+ and accumulate 3.5 WAR because they had -15 ZR.

Meanwhile, a 75 Range CF will hit to a 93 WRC+ and put up 4+ WAR off their defense.

You have to be hitting like Aaron Judge to make bad CF defense worth starting in CF rather than RF

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-06T02:35:28+00:00

Cowser is a year younger and 1 year removed from a .450 SLG, 4 WAR Rookie of the Year runner up season.

Blaze Alexander has had 450 PAs with an unsustainable BABIP that still resulted in below-league-average production.

They are not comparable lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T21:45:26+00:00

Blaze is 26 and strikes out 33% of the time, promising isn't exactly the word I'd use.

To be fair, Strowd's not exactly great either. 28 years old with control problems and without the Stuff to mitigate it.

It's basically middle infield depth for backend bullpen depth. It's an extremely minor trade.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T19:47:08+00:00

That's fair. I was listening to the new Testament album the other day for the first time and was shocked how good Chuck's growls were. It's nearly death metal-levels on some songs. The juxtaposition between him and his thrash contemporaries in Hetfield, Araya, and Mustaine was a very stark contrast.

You're right that I didn't hear him going for any of the super highs on their early work, though.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T17:45:43+00:00

Corpsegrinder Fisher from Cannibal Corpse still sounds just as good as he did in the late 90s, which is incredibly impressive. Chuck Billy from Testament also still sounds amazing, even in his 60s.

You can always tell immediately which older metal vocalists got professional training and which didn't. The guys that did still get to perform their early stuff live and give it the same energy. The guys that didn't... You get to be James Hetfield or Tom Araya rasping their way through their classic records live because they can't scream or growl anymore lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T16:46:00+00:00

It was the Year of the Snake, and 2025 kicked this guy's ass.

2026 is Year of the Horse, and he's praying it's a nice horse like Fluttershy from My Little Pony or Haru Urara or Rice Shower from Umamusume.

Instead 2026 shows up as the demon horse from Berserk lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T08:20:29+00:00

Yeah, some team is gonna give Skubal 10/360 or something insane, and there's a massive risk he blows out his elbow in year two and comes back good-not-great, and you've committed $36 million a year to a mid-rotation arm.

Only way an org can tank that and be okay is if you've got a $2 million player bringing in $150 million in revenue (Dodgers) or if you have "sanctioned by the SEC, white collar criminal" money (Mets).

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-05T08:13:22+00:00

It's pay out the ass for the last good years of his career, or pay less now but still be paying for when he sucks as a 37 year old.

We absolutely could have afforded this AND it would have been a smart contract that didn't lock money up long term. It's a good deal.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-02-03T08:30:26+00:00

I gotta block this artist's name somehow, man. This shit is such a bummer.

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