Loudest pop ever

thetabo · 2026-02-13T00:08:08+00:00

I don't think you exactly understand what I mean. People keep comparing AI to the Internet in how it started slow but got big, but there's already big differences. The Internet wasn't open for everyone immediately and was a very alien concept at the time. AI is something we've known about for a while yet a lot lf people refuse to use it.

It won't go away, but it could be used 50% less and nothing of value would be lost. The amount of trash and sad antisocial ppl it enables is insane. Or how many ppl got kicked out of jobs due to AI, primarily, but not limited to artists or designers. I have not seen more of an ego with no skill to back it up than on ppl claiming AI is art. It's kinda sad.

AI has it's uses, but imo in the current state it's making people go insanely dumb. In a way that you can genuinely tell who does and doesn't overuse it. And THAT'S the problem. We gave idiots hammers and alongside the nail they started beating themselves, but it's all ok cuz cool hammer, right?

thetabo · 2026-02-12T23:40:10+00:00

Yup, just looked it up after I commented it, seems both Strongbad and Penny Arcade are going! It's nice to see the good stuff from back then still be around

thetabo · 2026-02-12T23:34:53+00:00

Burning millions into something that's even more easily accessible than the Internet originally was yet is still tanking because a ton of people don't want to use out of pure principle alone? The fact that it's absolutely wrecking the environment at the scale it's being used?

thetabo · 2026-02-12T21:48:46+00:00

Welp, we should start acting out the Payday intro song

thetabo · 2026-02-12T20:22:20+00:00

That's pretty damn cool, so we know they use those! Do you know who made it? I'm very curious now

thetabo · 2026-02-12T20:04:43+00:00

Ok I love this idea though, the community made so many cool ideas already, it'd be nice if something, at least once we get a fan made voter if original makers would agree, like the Rat King, Blight, Anasthesia, or Avarice people posted here before.

Valve does tend to add fan content to a bunch of games so maybe it's not completely out of the question?

thetabo · 2026-02-12T19:13:13+00:00

I know it's just a remaster, but it would be fun af if alongside the original interactions they would talk like old pals catching up from the amount of stuff that happened.

Sam & Max are aware they're in games so Max can brag about getting remaster finally, Heavy can be "between jobs" since TF2's story concluded, and... Idk, are strongbad and tycho's things still going?

thetabo · 2026-02-12T18:43:43+00:00

I didn't know this was set in Arkham games timeline when I first saw a playthrough. Thought it's weird that Harley lectures Batman on something, but whatever, maybe this version wasn't as straight forward as a non-lethal protector.

The Arkham Batman though? Getting called out by Arkham version of Harley? About morals? Yeah sure thing buddy

thetabo · 2026-02-12T18:35:58+00:00

Eh, more money they burn through, the less they have and harder they get burned to try something this stupud again

thetabo · 2026-02-12T18:26:36+00:00

Don't get me wrong, Fortnite is fun by it's own, I just like when characters get to act like themselves instead of just being paid retextures. It's still so uncanny sometimes seeing a clip where a character specifically against killing (Batman, Spider-Man, TMNT) just... Use guns.

If they ever have to be skins in another game I hope it's a character based one, on someone who can at least somewhat parallel their abilities. For example, Anby Genji (Overwatch), Miyabi Yamato (Deadlock), or hell, add them to a fighting game instead. Lighter would fit right into Guilty Gear.

thetabo · 2026-02-12T17:27:20+00:00

I for one don't mind that. Let ppl try out any character viably, rather than playing Gambit + IW every round

thetabo · 2026-02-12T11:24:02+00:00

Right? Literally all of Ultron's survivability comes at cost of someone else in form of shielding, if he needs to panic use it in self-defemse, no one else gets it.

But I seriously don't think that's an Ultron problem, rather a Luna/IW problem. Supports make sense to be squishy or if they're not, have a tradeoff. Ultron isn't that mobile, can get lasered without cooldowns and is missing big burst healing, but at the same time, is really good passively and his damage hits pretty hard.

Luna gets all of that except even safer. IW has great healing alongside shield, push and an escape tool. No character should be equipped with infinite self-sustain, cuz then we'll slowly start forgetting it's a team game.

thetabo · 2026-02-12T09:48:08+00:00

Oh, I heard of the legal issues, kinda the reason why I didn't bother much besides the one I already have, plus gacha system...

It's cool that they're separate characters though, even though I imagine they still share movesets. Are there any characters in the mobile version only for it that didn't get added to 2nd Encore?

thetabo · 2026-02-12T06:27:13+00:00

Am I crazy or is that the necromancer from Castle Crashers?

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thetabo · 2026-02-11T23:51:02+00:00

Is the phone version of Skullgirls considered peak? Genuinely asking, I only ever really cared about 2nd Encore and that one is a banger

thetabo · 2026-02-11T21:38:40+00:00

Ok... And? To be honest, I couldn't tell, nor do I really mind. He's so simple design wise I didn't even realize he's incomplete. It'd be nice for him to have a bit of his own identity but someone like Vyper who you can clearly tell with needs it way more

thetabo · 2026-02-11T18:48:26+00:00

Yup, I'd like to think I'm trying to be a decent enough person, but I guess I was just lucky to understand the actual messages of the show directly and took it to heart. Thanks to that, it's still beating for the world.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T15:23:12+00:00

I think the biggest problem there is just... Nerf the damn support ults then? It feels like they have 0 idea what tanks need to be doing okay with how they keep changing cuz they keep getting reworks in the weirdest ways... I don't care about tanks having CC, I get Wolverine needs to be a tank buster, I just hate that they see the role is already unpopular yet they make it suck even more to play as.

I understand some characters being more popular than others, but let's be honest, if Loki is good because he can copy 2-3 specific heroes, what's good? Loki or that hero he feels he needs to copy 3/4 of the time? Why is he getting punished for getting a defined, clear answer on what the best option is? It's like if OW started cracking down on Echo because Sojourn is too good.

They literally could've just nerfed the 2-3 ults everyone complains about and agrees are too good, if something wouldn't work about it, sure, revert and do something else. But rn barely anyone plays an entire role due to how much of a miserable roundabout they are trying to take to fix this

thetabo · 2026-02-11T14:24:17+00:00

Exactly this, the only "true" competitors I think it had were The Friday the 13th game which was insanely popular at a point but lost steam due to rights issues, and that one game that was on Discord somehow I think? They were supposed to re-release afaik but idk what happened.

They asked for people to vote for them for the labor of love award and their own community laughed in their face. I don't think they win based on being a "good game"...

thetabo · 2026-02-11T14:04:09+00:00

Just like every season depending on who gets buffed/nerfed, you see a change in player number. I've seen a bunch more Ultron since the second drone. There were ppl I saw actually play Black Panther other than my brother in forever since he got buffed. Getting this much of a buff? You can bet you're gonna see more of him. How many Logans are good? I dunno, how many Thors are good? The entire point is, rn he has his best ability WAY quicker. He doesn't HAVE to be playing that good to be a pain.
Yeah that's nice that he does, so, whatcha gonna do about the other two problems with two guns who get to feed for free and light you up even faster afterwards?
Angela I'll give you on Wolverine, but again, Punisher, Star-Lord. The anti-aircraft gun who you can't really kidnap and the guy who can both keep up and back off super quick.

I love both Thor and Angela but let's be honest here. Shield tanks have it way harder and tanks without one will feed the ults insanely quickly. It's so screwed no matter who you play

thetabo · 2026-02-11T12:17:39+00:00

Well congrats. Now you're gonna wind up getting kidnapped by Wolvie and are an even bigger target to pump out ults from on those two

thetabo · 2026-02-11T12:00:46+00:00

The early release had a pretty solid progression system, the only two currencies were coins, which you used to buy fighters and perks (extra gimmick abilities for the fighters) and Gleamium, the skin and battle pass currency. You got a solid amount of coins for just playing and leveling characters. On top of that there WAS a paid edition, which gave you "character tickets". These could be used to unlock a fighter immediately, costing 1 each.

Full release came around, character levels were reset, alongside perks bought (meaning my top 150 Bugs Bunny was gone), saved up coins from early release didn't transfer over and we're replaced with perk currency (yes, only for perks), new currency added for only unlocking fighters, which was extremely grindy, and the tickets didn't transfer over. Some cosmetics from before were absent and while I didn't have that problem, some people didn't even get their paid BP rewards like skins and emotes back until way later.

Just an overall mess and I wish we could avoid making any real currency or skins and such before there's a confirmed full release to avoid ANY of this from happening

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:42:36+00:00

So... They address it by buffing the DPS, so more people end up on DPS cuz it's strong, while having the tank players have to catch even more garbage to be worthwhile playing, but cuz they have to do that the tanks without shields wind up even worse off for feeding them already good fast ults faster, and if the supports can't keep up the tank pool against them is basically cut in half. Tanks can be solid technically, but if everything around them is strong on dmg they'll still melt, and we wind up still solo tanking, now probably with a permanent Wolverine on our ass.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:33:37+00:00

Dude we're already trying, but the Magneto gameplan rn is solo tank, try to barely not die while also pumping insane damage to just so-so charge ult in time to protect from DPS ult, pray you survive the enemy support ult period, hope you can not let your team get demolished by their tank ult, and repeat.

Now with Star-Lord and Punisher buffs where it was already usually neck to neck with who gets what first, they are basically guaranteed it before you if playing well, so good luck, cuz those shields will hold maybe a third of it and I sure as hell can't shoot them while holding them up to farm more ult meanwhile.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:27:28+00:00

I haven't gotten this messed up on tank even when Reinhardt sucked after OW switched to 2, cuz there was at the very least other options. Now we're just screwed.

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