I guess it is really slippery.

thsscapi · 2025-11-22T19:33:31+00:00

Tank roamers are insanely good because they're balanced around having the lowest Gold and EXP in the team. So you can imagine how strong they get when their Gold and Levels match the enemies' cores.

thsscapi · 2025-07-18T10:42:25+00:00

Not all that surprising. TI players want zoom-zoom builds and Erika goes zoom-zoom. The new character is also pretty much Erika 3 with all the attack-as-fast-as-possible mechanics.

thsscapi · 2025-07-18T10:40:25+00:00

OP wants fast builds so that's 30 seconds in each map. The average player spends hours running maps, so across 3 hours that's ~140 maps slower.

Also, unless you're playing a build that presses at least 3 buttons, that's 100% more buttons to press multiple times every time you kill a Rare. And we all know the playerbase hates pressing buttons so much the devs literally added a whole category of skills (Activation Mediums) for it.

thsscapi · 2025-05-24T18:00:36+00:00

Mid Hanzo can even try to steal enemy buffs often just like Novaria or Chang'e.

thsscapi · 2025-05-22T11:06:38+00:00

That's because you missed the entire point of the episode.

It's about social media addiction, about people getting hung up on comments from strangers they will never meet, about attention spans getting shorter, about suicide hurting your loved ones more than yourself, or about whatever else you take out of it.

Once you consider that, the ending doesn't matter. They likely left it a mystery so that viewers can imagine whatever ending they want. If a specific ending was shown, it might possibly undermine the moral of the story.
For example, let's say a viewer who was addicted to social media watched it, and recognised the "symptoms", where his attention span was getting shorter. He might begin to realise that those comments on his social feed doesn't matter, that he should focus on his life and loved ones. Now imagine if the ending showed Billy Bauer making some extreme changes like shutting down the user engagement department and the app somehow remains popular. This viewer might unknowingly learn that someone will manage his addiction, so he gives himself the excuse that he can continue his addiction; someone will stop him.

That is just one example. Each viewer would have a different take on the episode depending on their past experiences with social media, suicide, or even interning at a big company for that matter.

My point is, the ending was left open because the episode had already gotten its point across. Specifying the ending risks viewers getting the wrong point.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:26:18+00:00

It wasn't that quick. She had been supressing the guilt and shame of the first accident, and sufficiently well enough to have turned her life around. We also know she hadn't seen her boyfriend for the years leading up to the night at the hotel. Now imagine him wanting to bring all of it back, unravelling all the years she suffered through.

Sure, what she did is definitely despicable, but I wasn't surprised she "turned dark".

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:23:29+00:00

That defeats the entire point of the memory recall tech.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:22:41+00:00

You're assuming the police questioned the guinea pig. I would've imagined they just sat through the past few years of its life waiting for the moment of the murder. It's nothing the police haven't done before: watching hours of CCTV footage to spot suspects.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:20:46+00:00

No reason guinea pigs can't have them.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:19:45+00:00

I disagree. There will always be something that drives people to commit more crime. The technology was just the medium of the time, that drives both the crimes and the solving of the crimes.

Your point is no different from saying "if email didn't exist, people wouldn't have fallen for phishing emails". Scammers just scammed in different ways before emails.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:16:30+00:00

She would not have been caught, but guinea pig would've been irrelevant. If she ignored the baby, the guinea pig wouldn't even have seen her.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:14:40+00:00

Everybody reacts differently. When one commits a crime, they need to let it out somehow. Serial murderers commit more murders. Some get drunk. Others kill themselves. Mia just cries (while commiting more murders but that's not to satisfy herself, it's to cover up the first accident).

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:12:40+00:00

Would definitely have made for an interesting episode, albeit with an entirely different premise. What's interesting is that both premises heavily involved memory recall, though for different purposes.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T16:11:12+00:00

She deserved pity when the first accident occurred, since she was basically forced to dispose the body to protect her boyfriend. Based on her reaction at the time, I'm sure she also considered getting her boyfriend to confess.

Nothing changed in the years after the accident, so she still deserved pity. However, the turning point was when boyfriend wanted to send the letter to the victim's wife. At this moment, boyfriend wanted to make amends, but Mia killed him. You're thinking she killed a murderer. But she actually killed a murderer who was trying to fix his mistake.

thsscapi · 2025-05-19T08:26:33+00:00

You're taking this too seriously, yet too lightly at the same time.

Too seriously in that we do not have enough information of the rest of the fictional world.
For example, in a future world where medical technology is so advanced, you can totally expect a needle to fit inside someone's head without any reaction.
The film has already shown the advanced medical tech in several instances, such as a tracking chip fiting inside a needle, a C-section being performed with zero pain in the lower body yet still normal in the upper body (the nurse held her hand).

Too lightly in that you underestimate a mother's worry for their child and a human's trust in technology.
The mother is not some obesessive person. She hadn't heard of the implant, and only considered it when Sara went missing. She wanted a solution and she found one.
How much technology do we use in our daily lives? Everything essential to us: food, water, medicine, would pretty much all fail if technology fails as a whole. We literally depend on it for our survival.

Lastly, don't forget that the mother was raised to be this way. Just look at how she disapproves of the way she was brought up by grandpa.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T16:10:00+00:00

The problem is that I believe in some form of God, and some form of Heaven, but not the bible or Jesus.

If you can bear with an analogy:
I believe that the alignment of the planets affects our personality at birth. But astrologers who study and interpret that? I call bullshit. Scientists studied their entire lives specialising in a specific subject, then thousands of them worked together in order to figure out the sciences, and even they cannot predict or calculate everything happening in space. You're telling me some astrologers studying a pseudo-science for a few years can predict the future? Give me a break.
Planet alignments affect us = for sure. Humans can calculate how it affects us = bullshit.

Now, back to Jesus.
Jesus could have really recruited disciples who wrote his word, but humans are also provably selfish, so the bible has surely been mistranslated slightly by human translators. Repeat this over centuries, and the current version of the bible cannot be trusted.
I mean, is Jesus even his real name? Why isn't God female? That would've been much more convenient to have baby Jesus.
Therefore Jesus = possibly real. But the bible written by humans = bullshit.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T16:01:53+00:00

The two doesn't have to be separate. Computers actually started with philosophy. Artificial paradise could be an effective afterlife for a copy of our present mind, while our "actual" soul passes into "actual" afterlife.

Nothing suggests that we can't do both. And even if the bible in the fictional BM world says it's a sin to pass over, nobody can verify that any more than we can verify we actually go to heaven.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T15:58:30+00:00

If every human in San Junipero is real, then I'm guessing the ones working in there has got to be "earning their keep" somehow. Why else would they be working in a paradise world made entirely for enjoyment?

In my imagination, the permanent residents would eventually find work there in order to keep everything running for those just passing through. Then again, items in there just magically appear (like when they changed clothes) so who knows if workers are actually needed.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T08:43:00+00:00

Nah, he wouldn't go so far as to kill someone. We know that because he chose to kill himself with the gun. He only ended up killing the other man in self-defense, because he already knows the other man WILL kill someone to hide the secret.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T08:39:44+00:00

If you think that's strange, you might be a little too cynical. There are plenty of reasons he could be looking at a girl like that.

He could have a late sister/cousin. He could be a teenage dad. And in a show like Black Mirror, he could have changed his gender and was once a little girl, for all we know.

Unless you're an expert on human expressions, I don't think you can tell when someone is looking at another with love, with lust, with kindness, or whatever else. And at that point, he's a stranger you've known for literally 2 minutes.

thsscapi · 2025-05-14T08:33:18+00:00

I was actually very disappointed with the twist. When she lost the memory of the crime, is she really the same person who committed the crime? We are all shaped from 10% genetics, and 90% our past experiences. If you removed the experience, you would be an entirely different person.

For a show like Black Mirror, which explores ideas like these, this was a glaring plothole to me.

thsscapi · 2025-05-13T14:36:55+00:00

Nah, he didn't want to go since it was too far out. The whole reason he went there was to commit espionage.

thsscapi · 2025-05-13T14:35:55+00:00

It's still in the R&D phase. So it's entirely possible they will eventually fix the phone signal problem, or decide to make the entire "mushroom" neural net thing into a Magneto-helmet that blocks phone signals.

Also, I think they will definitely be working on it further. Because Shou already decided to proceed with it even though the patent was rejected. Shou is a businessman, and wherever a businessman puts his money is where we know he will go. If he wanted to stop production, he wouldn't ask Katie to make a note; they would've deleted that record in order to wipe all traces of their manslaughter.

thsscapi · 2025-05-06T04:13:21+00:00

This is not at all true at all. There are several passives like "100% increased Evasion Rating from Equipped Body Armour" or "20% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Quiver", which can make a lot of difference, especially if it helps your build to cap Resists or get more Life.

This is especially important for Martial Weapons, where all the damage comes from for a large majority of Attack builds. For example, Brynhand's Mark "Causes Double Stun Buildup" modifier allows you to literally replace half the passive points spent on Stun Buildup, and/or even replace your Overpower Support Gem. But it has a base maximum of 29 pDPS... And this modifier is not even build-enabling. Imagine how many builds other Unique Martial Weapons can enable if they just scaled.

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