Lurker > Grimlyn

beated

... okay yeah 90% of the movie is bad

the rest is Pan and Gohan's Special Beam Cannon

*edit* seriously though Cell Max is the worst thing Dragon Ball has ever done. which makes me bad because I lowkey wanted Cell to return but wtf is this shit

i read the words out of context dillos wrong

yeah that's the thing for me, the Fonsa Myma part is what I love of Uraya (well that an the theme itself, stick that in there and I'll eat it up)

A buncha hours into Chapter 3 before I had to stop for the night and

neonreaper posted...

Colony 9 :))))))))

this was huge for me, just complete fan nostalgia-ing my Colony 9 revisit. It also took walking up the stairs of Dunban/Fiora's place that it hit me that Shulk's arm mirrors Dunban (albeit more severe, being literally replaced with robotics). Of course makes me wonder then if it's a Monado-related infliction but probably not. Also though not the Colony itself but revisiting the entire area was such a joy along with the XB1 music playing, like for this section I've really entered a sequel to XB1. Even just the very tiny Tephra Cave as well, and now then climbing up to the next area that's a lot like Bionis Leg which is where I left off.

I really enjoy the more overt remixes of specific past XB regions in this game rather than the base-game that kind mashed themes from the two previous games together. I loved XB3's revisit to the Distant Fingertip but that's honestly the only moment that recaptured previous game locales. Pentelas Region's nods to Uraya and Makna really didn't feel that strong, and Erythia Seas just felt like oh hey we'll make a massive lake again, that's all Eryth really is right? But now in the DLC this Colony 9 area really did evoke a whole lot of feelings for me, absolutely seeing the layout from XB1 post-game, and combining that with swapping around the soundtrack. Of course it is THE introduction to the Xenoblade series which helps out those feelings even more, but I'm hoping this continues for something XB2 at least (though I know there's not much space left in this DLC story for more)

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Story's definitely focusing a lot more on daddy Shulk than I expected, and while it's awkward that A's character still remains such a massive question-mark this far in I really can't complain about all this daddy Shulk stuff that's sending me. Likewise Glimmer is kinda surprisingly shafted so far just feeling like she's here but I'm assuming that she'll get her turn with Rex moments like Shulk has now with Nikol. It's funny you immediately do peg the crystal core as soon as you meet Glimmer but nobody really notes anything of it until Rex comes in so I didn't yet know if they were going this daddy-child thing yet, but then once you do, oh wow she really is just teenage Mythra. Although I did of course say the same with Nikol right away that he's literally baby Shulk.

But yeah definitively more focus right now on Shulk, but hey I mean Rex has already been transformed into the most manliest of badasses and that's enough, what a glow-up. Literal Sean Connery voice keeps throwing me off every time and I just think man Rex you levelled up.

Jesus Christ reading that story and it's just the most horrific shit

two children survived, found bloodied underneath the bodies of two women protecting them

police say all were shot execution-style

hail

Started and just finishing the night at the end of Chapter 2

The plot so far is honestly completely baffling me like I'm just like who what when why how'ing what the heck this world even is and how things connect... I'm not entirely optimistic since I wasn't big on the base game's plot to begin with, but I mean I gotta let it play out and see how things unfold.

Although historically Xenoblade DLCs honestly haven't done much for filling in blanks. As much as I love Torna it was more about expanding the story than filling in holes left by XB2. Then Future Connected was largely just a disconnected side-adventure that didn't really want to shed any light on Shulk's new world or the coming series connections but instead on whatever the Fog Beasts were.

THAT BEING SAID I'm liking the characters a lot here, Matthew & A are such a refreshing pair, I love having an adult cast again, and while their relationship is still mysterious to me, the two really have a great camaraderie going on so far. But then really though hot damn Shulk's character so cool I'm so happy and intrigued by things like his arm. And then I only now just got a preview of Rex at the very end of Chapter 2 but holy shit I already fucking love Daddy Rex and wow he already looks like a real champ showing up with that sword making the Monado look plain.

I think I might have a bit of an idea about what might be coming with A and so that's another thing I'm interested to see maybe.... but I still don't like Consuls though and they're honestly a layer of anti-hype. I hate that some of my reactions are "wait so like are you from XB3? do I know you?" because their dumb masked designs all blend together and I can't even remember the original Consuls anyways. and seeing Z again or even hearing about him is just a big 'ole sigh

A few changes though I've been like "thank god", ie no more Ouroboros Fusion because frankly they were just OP in XB3 that everything else felt like a slog. Neat using it to finish Launch combos instead of Smash but I think I'm still waiting on more mechanics around it.

tho lol when the game put up a Chain Attack tutorial and start of saying it's changed from the base game I got so excited but then it's really not oops

enjoying battles not being stuffed with 7 characters for now, dunno yet if that changes but it absolutely wasn't a good thing in XB3. also frankly being restricted to specific characters rather than the interchangeable class system is very much welcome... although still certainly aren't as unique as XB1's cast gameplay so far

LordoftheMorons posted...

I havent looked into any of these Twitter alternatives personally since Im lazy and none of them seemed to hit critical mass, but are any of them just basically a copy of Twitter but without a massive tool running things? Because that seems like kind of the obvious thing to do!

I think the bouzy one is most regular-twitter-like of the lot... so it depends on your limit of the massive tool descriptor, but hey it's not Musk or the guy who described Musk as the chosen one to fix Twitter. Spoutible is an undeniably shit name though, have absolutely no idea how it's fairing personally since I never checked.

Cohost was never intended to be a Twitter, it's getting described more as a micro-blogger but honestly it is the one that I actually vibe with pretty well. Full-length posts, lots of embeds and formatting, and at least from my perspective just a very gay community (non-derogatory), albeit sparse and I don't see comments. No app though.

Hive was one that blew up pretty famously, possibly just as much as Bluesky is now.... but then it quite literally did blow up for like a week or two and that shattered momentum entirely. It was very Twitter-like though, although still reliant on hashtags rather than text search but it pushed a decent Discovery tab to support it. It was pulling pretty big names... but that was before it quickly exploded. I actually hung around it a long ass while to give it a chance but it was pretty clearly abandoned and I couldn't even cut the devs any slack as they clearly weren't prepared for the task of a large-scale social network - literally months pushing out updates to fix blocking that kept not actually fixing it.

Mastodon & Bluesky are fediverse. Mastodon was complained about for being complicated but it did nevertheless pick up joiners, probably as the leading alternative after everything else failed, and it was picking up big names with it. Still though the perception of complexity has remained a barrier, I've never bothered yet myself so I can't say more than that, it's technically not one network on its own but a conglomeration of many networks that can interact and that's probably not the best description but that's all I can give you. Bluesky though is actually intended to do the same, it's making big waves right now as a singular instance but the plan is for there to be countless servers with their own rulesets basically the same as Mastodon.

what else..... oh right Post for news-types... it seemed very stale and payment oriented as a platform again centering journalists hoping to open an avenue to get paid. not friendly to NSFW content so yeah it's very corporate and I don't think it caught on as an actual social platform

that's all i can think of this moment

https://twitter.com/ROCKMAN_UNITY/status/1651738178976636929

The total worldwide sales of "Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection" Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 together have surpassed 1 million units!
Thank you all for your support!
We hope you will enjoy Legacy Collection, that contains 10 titles during Golden Week!

huhhhhhhhhhh

what makes someone get Pokemon's Together Forever stuck in their head out of nowhere in 2023

all week

well Loki already finished filming back in October so uh that appearance's gotta be locked in

post-credits scene he gets murdered by a variant

i'm replaying xi first for a streaming playthrough (it's snagged me my first chat regular aw ya)

then i'll move back to xiv for reals for truly

me just now finding out XVI is in June

not that I think I'll be getting it any time soon (still haven't played even XV)

those who use a gun nothing should happen

y'know the famous lefty talking point everybody's saying

hasn't Zelda always been kinda whatever in Japan or am I just thinking of Metroid

like I know Metroid applies too but

wait actually I want Kirby

the answer that's correct

LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1646936636524052480?s=21

wtf

Just gotta follow this 2 proposals further to understand

https://twitter.com/LeadingReport/status/1646600035465941010
https://twitter.com/WPBF25News/status/1639297028470738944

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1646165583170289664

huhhh well my amazon order updated to Shipped: Carrier picked up the package.

but I also just got an email with download codes?

MoogleKupo141 posted...

you can do a Mario cinematic universe more easily than an entire Nintendo universe

DK movie, Wario movie, Luigis Mansion movie theres plenty of potential for spin-offs without having to dip into Zelda or whatever

Mario Kart movie featuring Link, Inkling, and Villagers aw yiss

I miss when we had F-Zero Anime

Deteled posted...

plz explain this one to me

just imagine it

"hylians have lairs"

I would LIKE a Metroid, but as for next movie it's hard not to go the Zelda route. The fact that Mario worked doesn't mean every property will so Zelda's the next step.

... plus I still expect comedies and Zelda can fit by copy/pasting Shrek.

It's always such an unforced error when people double-down like this. It could've been very easy to initially respond with "I was just trying to come up with an example on the spot of when our side can be overzealous, but I chose a very poor example and I understand that", and even link to her past argument against Hawley to back that up. Sure some people will still side-eye you but frankly they have a right to and you'll still come out of it with most people accepting your mistake.

... Instead they decided to outwardly burn all their bridges with double/triple/quadruple-downs and they look like liars knowingly redpilling themselves to escape criticism.

A real lesson that's been shown time and time again that the double-down route always leads here.

boy TYT of all places just going full blown centrist complaining about the Radical Left because they can't admit they're wrong

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1646566879518138369

for any cis folks who want to be an ally this is incredibly important to understand because holy hell this is what FAR too many cis "allies" do every single time they step over us - they just go DARVO and scream "trans bullies" to escape criticism because it's an easy trope cis folks love to eat up in defence of their parasocial idols no matter the reality

Which in this case was Kasparian initially throwing a completely out of the blue jab at inclusive language regarding "birthing people", critics rightfully pointing out how this rhetoric is harmful - trans men exist with low rates of health checks due to fear of transphobia, and these terms are only ever actually used in medical contexts to accurately refer to all people affected and exclude those who are not. Kasparian fails to show any truth to the idea that it's replaced the word "woman" altogether, and just recently in the UK a BBC "journalist" hate-mobbed a clinic for daring to make a tweet addressing trans men, which ended up with the organization deleting the tweet due to the pile-on of transphobes.

Fellow left-wing content creators have been calling this out with the absolute patience saints, providing the benefit of the doubt, talking up disclaimers that TYT isn't transphobic they just got this wrong, and articulating what they got wrong - from Serfs, ex-TYT commentators like Emme Vigeland with The Majority Report, and sure okay Vaush doing his typical abrasive loudmouth thing.

Ana & Cenk response is the typical whining freak-out that they've been cancelled by radical leftists with their unpopular (but factually accurate which A&C refuses to address) criticism! Because we all know how historically popular ad populum has always been with TYT, yeah? Cenk is then calling everyone a backstabber for criticism and Ana saying that she will never collab with another leftist again. All this despite evidence clipped of Ana herself making the exact same argument months ago that she's now going scorched earth against, in the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/msolurin/status/1645309666702786562

So she's blatantly lying and there's no good faith given to addressing this clip that's been shared by plenty of people at them. Because they're nothing but hacks that will play dishonest defence to deflect rightful criticism they cannot take, straight in the face of trans people getting legislated out of existence, who A&C are casting as nefarious villains using nebulous terminology of "TRAs" and "far-left extremists" - once again, knowing that they are blatantly lying as they very much DO understand the criticism and have previously argued it themselves but are now simply pretending never happened.

And then you check out Ana's Liked tweets and she's liking blatant bigots calling for the "[growing] revolt against TransThink" and it's patently obvious the defence they're reveling in is entirely coming from the grosses people from Shapiro, GGers, Walsh and all the usual suspects as Cenk puffs his chest that they're quote, "on the right side" and saying NOTHING about them.

Trans people really do have to face the absolute worst pressure and harassment endlessly meanwhile like I said, far too many self-labelled progressive cis folk will weaponize their fellow cis fanbase by playing victim when we so much as point out you're stepping on us. Because they absolutely cannot accept when their biases are pushing reactionary transphobia. Just like with racism, to consider somebody transphobic is treated as a far worse offense than actually being transphobic.

So again, if you want to be a cis ally it is absolutely REQUIRED that you can recognize this shit when previously "progressive" voices you looked up to get criticized and fall back on weaponizing "trans bullies" tropes to flee criticism while simultaneously demonizing trans people to their base for having the audacity to speak up on what harms us. The side advocating for us here has been treating Ana & Cenk with absolute kid gloves over this and yet they still have the gall to go scorched earth, call everybody else a lunatic and claim that they're being unfairly treated victims.

Revali aka Falco who fell through an interdimensional travel portal

ship my copy dammitt

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/6/AAeYFbAAEYXi.png

2 more months for the big 9-0!

FFDragon posted...

hard cap all congressional seats at 70 you cowards

yeah but that would wipe out half senate

...

https://imgur.com/a/82VGoD6

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Theres a pretty famous and important geriatric man many people have suggested should step aside. Nancywhat are you talking about?

Like yeah she specified Senate, but when judicial nominations are literally failing because of this Senator in question, isnt that worse?

I've also definitely heard the same said about Grassley and Orrin Hatch

plus y'know, Feinstein is the oldest damn one anyways

can't help scream my lungs out at scenes of Zelda being told "we rely on Link!" and Zelda's "there's something only I can do!"

join the fight dammitttt

that being said though absolutely a great trailer, hard to make judgments entirely on a trailer BUT the plot does look fuller than what BotW brought

it is still though very annoying Zelda's back in damsel mode again. game starts with the characters reunited together, the absolute perfect opportunity.... that's just noped

now that I'm a bit comfortable with streaming I'm finally getting around to games I've been holding off of~

at least starting today with Metroid Prime which oh god ended up going for 5 hours as I completely lost track of time and now it's almost 6am whoop

gsis class period is done for the term so that might free me up to stream during the daytime... but then again my one loyal regular is in an EU timezone lol. maybe the weekend I'll try out a day stream though. next plans are just continuing FFXI, starting MMBN1 if the collection arrives on release day, and return to Prime on Monday

swordz9 posted...

Meanwhile in Missouri the Rs want to defund all public libraries and Senator Mike Moon defended marrying 12 year olds. Totally not grooming though am I right.

"Do you know any kids marriaged at age 12? I do, and guess what? Theyre still married!" - Mike Moon

... bruh you literally just described how grooming works

if you can't see a flag without thinking about sucking dick it's probably a you problem

he gets to exist but he manifests as an adult that doesn't have to worry about aging out of roles

Ms. Marvel started off really well but then the Clandestines came in and the show ran away from all that it was doing well. Clandestines plot even ended abruptly like shit and then they had to return home for a finale to a half-baked New Jersey setting

it's frustrating to end up so down on the show but at the same time very much look forward to its future because I like Kamala and her family... just please god stick to one story and just follow it through

I like that Strange 2 was originally going to kill off Mordo without at all addressing his Strange 1 post-credits plotline

by like i mean it makes me lol

oh yeah I had it on my mind to mention but yeah Skaar

but basically anything Hulk is likely to come into Captain America 4 which is essentially a backdoor Hulk movie

I gotta recap on the Phase 4 endings

WandaVision - Monica Skrull scene for either Marvels/Secret Invasion, then Darkhold, setup for Strange next year
Falcon - Valentina starting Thunderbolts (2024), and Sharon Power Broker (lol) maybe Cap 4 tease for 2024 again
Black Widow - Yelena vs Hawkeye, taken care of that year
Loki - technically everything Kang ties to Quantumania, but the ending specifically to Loki 2 obviously also this year
What If - Captain Carter finds Steve again, so What If s2 which is this year... also variant Captain Carter has appeared in Strange 2
Shang-Chi - Wong/Marvel/Bruce study the rings... no idea where that's going yet but on the side it did preview the human Bruce form we got in She-Hulk. Also Xialing's Ten Rings for Shang-Chi 2 that's still unconfirmed
Eternals - Black Knight, Blade 2024 (to be fair Blade got pushed back for being shit). Eros... who knows beyond maybe one of the Avengers movies touching up on everything.
Hawkeye - Post-credits was uh the musical but it did close on Kingpin setup for DD/Echo
Spider-Man - Venom symbiote crossing over, no idea where that's going yet, maybe Spidey 4? 2024
Strange - Cleo, definitely part of Secret Wars, and I agree possibly Loki... then pizza pops
Moon Knight - Jake Lockley, a season 2 is still unconfirmed, next potential chance to come up would maybe be Blade but would only be an easter-egg for Midnight Sons at most
Thor - Hercules, probably Thor 5 that's still unconfirmed, ditto for Jane Valhalla scene
Ms. Marvel - literally a scene confirmed to be in The Marvels itself
She-Hulk - Wong freeing Blonsky, to obviously return in either Thunderbolts, Cap 4, or both
Black Panther - T'challa II... I can't see how this possibly comes up again for a long while, aside from again Avengers just touching on literally everything

We gotta get Clea within the next 2 years if they're dealing with convergences and we're heading into Secret Wars

oh shit it's time hell yessss

y'all been my regulars for a decade <3

Big issue with Ms. Marvel was them trying to stuff two different series into one that gave you complete whiplash and made both sides of the story completely underwhelming. A proper movie I don't have that concern and one thing the show at least did was making me love the character and her family which I'm happy to see again in the trailer.

Marvels looks like great fun, love that the entanglement isn't just the one time thing to kickstart the movie

oinkologne

waoo back to normal life and I got another stream done, XI, making very minimal progress lol

with a returning visit from last stream's chatter so I've officially got my first regular! next up to finally start Prime Remastered

Leonhart4 posted...

Yeah but then she's committed first degree incest by kissing her brother

It's only second degree incest if he's only her cousin

exactly the actions of a luke-leia force baby