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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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I suppose it should've been obvious people would associate Twilight with Oshi no Ko's main character solely on the star eyes

Hogwarts Legacy reminded me that I find it kinda stupid in general when magic attacks only activate when you shout them. You'd think that would give your opponent some warning of what's about to happen. HL even proves you don't need to shout them, since using a spell while invisible makes you whisper it, and the whispered spells are just as strong as their shouted versions. By the time Harry is born, everyone should have switched over to whispered spells. Less theatric, but far more practical. These whispering wizards could be called wizpers.

I think there was something in universe about silent casted spells, which is why at a certain point in one of the movies, it is all just rapid fire attacks. but that's supposed to be like highly advanced stuff so not everyone gets to that level.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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nice sporty look.

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I like the matching outfits.

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Found out about this real interesting game called Venineth. It's one of those games that's just about controlling a ball and solving environmental puzzles, but this one takes place in some really fascinating alien/space environments and has an appropriately atmospheric soundtrack as well. I'd love to play it, but it's PC only.

Huh, Powerwash Simulator is getting a crossover expansion with Spongebob. That was definitely not expected. Its previous crossovers were with Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy VII Remake, both Square Enix games (before they sold the TR rights, of course), so everyone thought any further ones would also be SE properties. Now that they have a crossover with something entirely unrelated to SE, literally anything is possible.

Someone on Reddit said that Hogwarts would be a good location, since it's absolutely huge and has countless moving structures to expose/cover more dirty spots. Could also be comedy potential in wizards trying to use a smartphone to send you texts, as well as some goofy explanation as to why they can't just use a spell to make their wands spray water. Though the general earthy color scheme could make dirt blend in.

I'd love to see a Mario crossover with an expansion set in Isle Delfino. Sunshine definitely deserves more love and a sequel (which we apparently would have had if they couldn't come up with something original, ultimately resulting in Splatoon). Sunshine even has some pressure washing in it, since that's how it can clean the teeth of the underwater giant eel boss. Perfect opportunity to have a FLUDD skin for your sprayer nozzle, too.

The live-action PPG has officially been cancelled. Good riddance.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

The live-action PPG has officially been cancelled. Good riddance.

hooray!

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Ah, jeez...

So, we've got another mouse, I set up a mousetrap in the gap under our counters, and partially covered up the area with a floor mat so the cat didn't trigger it and get snapped herself. Well, the mouse just got caught, but unlike the last time, there's blood. I can see a spatter through the gap in between the mat and the bottom of the counter, but not the mouse and trap themselves. Now I'm really mentally preparing myself for the gruesome sight I'm gonna see when I pull the mat back.

Fucking thing; why couldn't it just have gotten its neck cleanly snapped like the last one?!

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No no no no...

The freezer is starting to buzz again. This shit was supposed to have been fixed!

I'm losing my fucking mind here. My mom's forcing us to do a bunch of renovations, I'm getting over the mouse incident, and my brother caught covid again. I really don't need to deal with this fucking freezer acting up again.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

No no no no...

The freezer is starting to buzz again. This shit was supposed to have been fixed!

I'm losing my fucking mind here. My mom's forcing us to do a bunch of renovations, I'm getting over the mouse incident, and my brother caught covid again. I really don't need to deal with this fucking freezer acting up again.

sorry to hear that, Mega. how old is the freezer? could it be the wiring getting old? the house I'm in has had work on this and that but it still has problems because of a deeper wiring problem.

If I'm not mistaken most freezers have a defroster. That might be going bad and is allowing ice to build up around the fan.

Cartridge88 posted...

sorry to hear that, Mega. how old is the freezer? could it be the wiring getting old? the house I'm in has had work on this and that but it still has problems because of a deeper wiring problem.

We got this thing last year; approaching a year of having it. A repairman found that there was some curved pipe in there that was useless without pump, so no idea why it was in there. It was just causing ice build-up and messing with some sensor, but he was supposed to have fixed it.

Malcrasternus posted...

If I'm not mistaken most freezers have a defroster. That might be going bad and is allowing ice to build up around the fan.

No defrost function I can see. Only controls I can find are to adjust the fridge and freezer temperatures (freezer is on six degrees; the highest), and to do a turbo cool, which is the complete opposite of what I want.

Also, some dude out back is drilling something, which is making a kind of clattering noise. With all the other shit going on, I thought our running dishwasher was also starting to malfunction.

The defrost function is usually an automatic function of the fridge, independent of the controls. Freezers usually do it to avoid excessive ice buildup.

Malcrasternus posted...

The defrost function is usually an automatic function of the fridge, independent of the controls. Freezers usually do it to avoid excessive ice buildup.

Guess it's just not doing its job, then.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Guess it's just not doing its job, then.

Possible. They're kinda fragile.

Watching the Playstation showcase. Stuff I think looks interesting:

-Phantom Blade 0: Badass samurai game against some magical opponents of some kind. Don't know if it's part of a series I hadn't heard of. Will look later.

-Sword of the Sea: From the director of Abzu and Journey, it's something that looks like a hybrid of the two. Very gorgeous desert and waterscapes with a sword you surf around on.

-MGS3 remake: Looks fucking gorgeous, but with this being modern-day Konami and Kojima absent, don't get your hopes up.

-Forget the name, but it's some adorable hack-and-slash with a pirate cat. Very nice art style.

-Alan Wake 2: I have a very high opinion of Remedy's track record. This will lean more into horror and have multiple playable characters. Due to the lighting, I couldn't tell if there was more than two. Looks like it'll take after the recent Resident Evil games/remakes. Really hope there's another song from Old Gods of Asgard.

-Assassins Creed: Mirage: Looks good. It'll be interesting to see how they add the characteristics of the old and new games together. I like that it's in a big city again and has a protagonist with a preset gender and personality. Makes for more consistent, fleshed-out writing.

-Ultros: Very colorful Metroidvania with a nice art style.

-RE4make for VR: Nice if you have VR, but I'd rather they make a first-person mode for it.

-Marathon: A revival of an old Bungie property. The trailer and environments have an interesting art style. Like, it's a sciencey testing lab with number labels and guns with colored parts, like they're test models.

-A device that is essentially a Switch, but PS5.

-The finale, Spiderman 2, with Peter and Miles both playable. Never got into the first for some reason. Guess I'm not really a superhero guy.

AW2 and Sword are definitely the two I'm most interested in. I'll also keep an eye on Marathon. This being Bungie, it could easily become another multiplayer-focused thing.

I think the freezer's defroster actually worked. I haven't heard any buzzing all day. Just took a bit to kick in, I guess. Still, might be too early to tell. We'll see how things are tomorrow. Hope we can move things from the backup freezer. It's icing up as well, but thankfully doesn't buzz from it.

Some updates on the games I mentioned:

-The cat game is Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean. Yeah, I groaned, too. Looks like it's the third in a series, and the other two got fairly good reviews.

https://youtu.be/mutaN47LDV0

-Marathon is indeed a PvP game, despite the original being single-player, so there goes my interest in that.

-Alan Wake 2 is going to be digital-only for every platform. Their reasoning is that less people buy physical anymore, and even if you do, you have to download a day one patch anyway.

-The MGS3 remake is called MGS Delta. I don't know why they're playing coy; the RE, Dead Space, and Silent Hill 2 remakes just used their original titles. And one of those is a fellow Konami property.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

-The cat game is Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean.

lmao

Spoke too soon; there's the buzz again. It does love giving a false sense of security, I guess. I wonder if the defrost is just doing the bare minimum to keep it down for a few hours. Either way, we've got another deep defrost in the near future.

I hate this fucking thing.

that seems to be the paradox of technology. it helps us in a lot of ways when it works right, but it also annoys the hell out of us in a lot of ways when it doesn't.

More non-horror games should have horror or horrorish sections. I doubt we'll see any horror games from anyone besides Capcom or the hollow shell of Konami, so other devs should give us a taste of what they're capable of.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

More non-horror games should have horror or horrorish sections. I doubt we'll see any horror games from anyone besides Capcom or the hollow shell of Konami, so other devs should give us a taste of what they're capable of.

hecc yeah, legit horror game from Pokmon and GameFreak. there are certainly plenty of Ghost types with Pokedex lore fitting of that.

Cartridge88 posted...

hecc yeah, legit horror game from Pokmon and GameFreak. there are certainly plenty of Ghost types with Pokedex lore fitting of that.

Reminds me of this little encounter from X/Y in Lumiose City with someone simply dubbed the Ghost Girl.

https://youtu.be/IlHWx5oOCRc

There's another girl with the same model elsewhere who says not to talk to her, or she won't hear the elevator, so the ghost girl could be this one's psychic projection.

Finished playing- I MEAN HAVING VIVID DREAMS OF Hogwarts Legacy. It's pretty alright with a solid foundation to build on for a sequel. It won't win any game of the year awards, even in a world where nominating it wouldn't cause Twitter to have a literal nuclear meltdown. I was kinda wanting it to finish up near the end. Still, it's a gargantuan improvement over the last Harry Potter game, which was just a cover shooter with magic.

I wish there was more to spend money on. Once you get your own room to grow plants, brew potions, and care for animals to get byproducts from, all you can really buy are cosmetics and new gear.

The difficulty breaks in half once you get the ability to add buffs to your gear, so you can put your strongest plant damage booster on, toss out a couple Chinese Chomping Cabbages, and they'll tear through everything around them. Put on the invisibility spell, sneakily toss a couple 'roided-out cabbages, and they'll clear out any threats. Makes me think of those times in the Far Cry games where you can free a caged animal and just enjoy the carnage from a distance.

Some dataminers found references to a more in-depth classroom and house point system. You could earn points for your house by doing various little things and lose them for being mean and using dark magic. It could have essentially been a magical version of Bully. If they make a sequel (with 15m sales, I don't see why they wouldn't), they should definitely bring it back.

I'm gonna do Ghostwire: Tokyo next. It's a first-person action horror game where you face down against various Japanese paranormal creatures; the kind that have all sorts of unique, creative, and creepy designs. It got what looks like a roguelite/roguelike mode last month, along with new free missions, enemies, and abilities for the base game.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Some dataminers found references to a more in-depth classroom and house point system. You could earn points for your house by doing various little things and lose them for being mean and using dark magic. It could have essentially been a magical version of Bully. If they make a sequel (with 15m sales, I don't see why they wouldn't), they should definitely bring it back.

that does sound pretty neat. and would oddly be an incentive to be a jerk as a Slytherin and be nice as literally any of the other houses.

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Wow, Powerwash Simulator is also getting a crossover with freaking Warhammer 40k. Like I said, it truly is anyone's guess as to what they'll do next.

I'm probably about to jinx myself, but there's been no freezer buzzing since my last post about it. We didn't do a defrost; it's been running as normal the whole time.

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Well, I really wanted to love Ghostwire: Tokyo, but it's just too repetitive. You really only have three weapons, plus a crappy backup bow. It doesn't take too long to catch on to how an enemy functions and start winning every fight. The only time it really came alive was during an optional sidequest that locks you in a haunted school, where it becomes a fairly decent horror section. You can change your outfit, but it's kinda pointless since it's first-person. You really only see your whole self in cutscenes and the clothing menu, plus your arms during gameplay. You don't even see your legs when you look down.

There's these optional sections where you have to protect a target from getting its life drained by the enemies, but the enemies ignore you in favor of draining the target, so you can just casually walk up behind them and do an instakill takedown. Even if another enemy is right next to you when you do this, they'll continue ignoring you. The only difficult one was when some poisonous ground spawned around the target that I couldn't walk on.

At least it's got some creativity in it. When it rains, the rain drops are actually blue kanji for some reason, and I once saw kanji falling like snow. I liked seeing the various mythological Japanese monsters, like the weasel with scythe blade arms, the things that are the size of a door and trick people into getting trapped behind them, and the intelligent floating two-tailed cats that act as shopkeepers. When your spirit detective buddy talks, his voice comes out through both the TV and controller speaker (which I think only PS5 has). I also just like when there's a "lights are on, but nobody's home" kind of catastrophe.

Something I found odd is that not every sidequest requires you to talk to every spirit involved after completing the main objective, and they won't pass on until you talk to them after. So you talk to spirit A to start, talk to spirit B for more info, then accomplish the objective and talk to spirit A to turn it in. Nothing requires you to talk to spirit B so they can get closure and pass on. You've gotta remember where they were and track them down yourself. You don't get anything from it, but it's just an odd decision to make it optional to help every spirit pass.

There's lots they could improve upon in a sequel, but since this is the last game Bethesda made before getting bought by Microsoft, it probably won't come to PS5.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

I'm probably about to jinx myself,

I jinxed myself.

BZZZZZZZZZZZ

Wait, that mugshot meme originated from the Barbie movie? The G5 movie beat it to the punch.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Wait, that mugshot meme originated from the Barbie movie? The G5 movie beat it to the punch.

lol nice

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something about that is like she's saying, "There. I wore this for you. Happy now?"

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lmao

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Pizza Tower's escape themes are awesome. It's inspired by Wario Land 4, so every level inevitably has a countdown timer start while you frantically dash back to the start. The first one really gives off an anxious "Run for your life" vibe. The second one, where you ignore the exit and go for a second lap, is more like "You think you're hot shit, huh?"

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Its fan game, Sugary Spire, also has excellent escape themes. On top of them being as frantic as PT's songs, SS adds to the tension by having the backgrounds turn warped and creepy when the countdown starts, as well as having the camera subtly tilting, implying the place is already becoming unstable. I like how the first one has the emergency weather alert buzzing in it.

https://youtu.be/eP9oreGjGrw

Even the meme-flavored parody mod, Pizza Tower Online, has a good escape theme. It mashes up Pizza Time with I Got No Time, a FNAF4 fan song by The Living Tombstone.

Um... something... weird just happened.

I was sitting in the dining room and heard a disembodied woman's voice say something like "Kaytlin" with a small gap between the two syllables. Like "Kayt Lun".

My mom is in the living room and had headphones on, but says she heard something as well. There's nothing in the room that could make that noise aside from the TV, which is off, along with the cable. It wasn't my mom's voice, since it sounded noticeably younger.

What... the fuck...

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

O_O

Whatever this thing was, it better just be a passing spirit. I'm anxious enough without having to deal with a fucking ghost.

Mystery solved. The voice was my mom. She was listening to the news and they asked a question, to which she subconsciously answered with "Caitlin".

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Mystery solved. The voice was my mom. She was listening to the news and they asked a question, to which she subconsciously answered with "Caitlin".

wow okay lol

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Found a $20 bill in the parking lot of a bank near our grocery store. Hope that's a good omen.

RE4 remake was just as awesome the second time around. I like how blowing an enemy's limbs off has these little wriggling plaga tendrils poking out. Really goes to show that these aren't people anymore, but bodies being controlled by a parasite.

The Red9 isn't the best handgun anymore, sadly. Since laser sights aren't a default attachment, it's generally got a wider spread, even with the stock. The starting handgun is actually a powerhouse now. Its exclusive upgrade gives it the ability to do critical hits (meaning instant head explosions 25% of the time), and you can attach a laser sight to it so you don't have to wait for the crosshair to stabilize. The Killer7 also has a laser sight by default, so that actually make it the dominant magnum this time around after everyone passed it up in the original.

I hope they make the preorder attache cases available for download at some point. One increases the amount of gunpowder spawns so you can craft more ammo, and the other doubles the money enemies drop. That one sounds great not just because of the extra money, but also because it sounds like it doesn't mess with other item drops.

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