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  1. My gf and I have been on a disney binge during the holidays:

     

    -Hercules: not as good as I remembered, Hades and the Muses are great but otherwise it was kind of dull

    -the Hunchback of the Notre Dame: best songs, I kind of wish this was made with an older audience in mind (holy shit are the gargoyles annoying and out of place)

    -Pocahontas: one of the 'super classics' I never watched; I found it dull and surprisingly ugly for a movie mostly set in lush forests (a lot of rotoscoped animation too)

    -Emperor's New Groove: has to be the funniest Disney movie

    -Moana: we wanted to watch a modern disney movie to compare; very pretty but otherwise boring

    -Princess and the Frog: excellent music and some really funny characters (mostly the crocodile) but it has no plot; half the movie feels like filler

    -Mulan: Very good but we found Mushu to be really obnoxious; Eddie Murphy should've really cooled it a little bit

    -Aladdin: Probably my favourite of what we've watched; gorgeous, well-paced, funny and great music. Robin Williams just gave 200% as the Genie

     

    We still have a week of holidays so I'll probably extend the list


  2. I'm not sure how many SPUF related items I still have (I believe I have some items crafted by Huff), but I do have a few items from my comp TF2 days that have sentimental value

     

    -My Strange Scattergun still references my name from when I played 6s Scout

    -I have a pocket Medic gifted and named by my team's Medic when I played 6s Soldier

    -I coached someone to play 6s Scout and when they quit TF2 they gave me their cosmetics set

     

    And unrelated to that a random person in a Valve server gave me the Heavy bear hat just because I was named 'a bear'


  3. Sometimes I dream of a TF2 balance update, but I also wonder if that wouldn't be a huge monkey paw wish. There's a lot of things I would like to still see changed in tf2, like sniper, vaccinator, sniper, airblast, sniper, sniper and sniper, but there is also so much that could go wrong. I honestly think that even though tf2 is far from perfect right now (mostly because of sniper), it is also in the most balanced state it has ever been. Like what if we would get our balance update, Valve goes "alright that's the last one" and TF2 ends up for the worse? Maybe we're better off just getting some new maps and cosmetics for the rest of time


  4. On 18-1-2023 at 6:24 PM, hugthebed2 said:

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    People also just need to curate where they visit better. I typically stay in higher quality discords and follow not a lot of people on twitter and I can avoid 90% of the boolshit.

     

    But I still see that kind of stuff elsewhere or it can slip through the cracks on some discords I'm obligated to stay in, but I just don't bother most the time with that kinda stuff.

     

    I yearn to be able to slam a pencil hard enough into the back of my eyesocket to forever destroy the neurons that make me aware that Taylor Swift recently broke up with her boyfriend


  5. The AI art drama is so surreal to me, I get introduced to it by talking to some colleagues who are working on it, and like the very next week it is all over the internet and currently both the best and worst new thing. I think it's cute it seems to have some of the same problems with generating new imagery that dreams have too, like creating hands.

     

    I don't directly have an issue with it other than it getting trained on people's artwork without their permission. That needs to be prohibited or regulated in some way, even though the last thing this world needs is more terrible copyright laws written by dinosaurs


  6. After watching max0rs vid on metal gear rising I'm pretty sure it should be in my 3x3 (over pokemon maybe), or is at least a very close tenth. The gameplay is good, not amazing, but the plot and music are so fucking stupid I just love it to bits, infinitely quotable


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    Had to resize it because the post editor kept yelling at me but updated 3x3

     

    • Even though I've been dishearthened with the Pokemon franchise for a while now it's still a huge part of my youth and the franchise definitely peaked at HG/SS. I remember playing it with a bunch of friends when we went to Barcelona together and the game just reminds me of being in beautiful sunny weather all day. Very pretty, very fun, very nostalgic
    • Doom Eternal is far from perfect but man do I love the combat. I've replayed this game like ten times now and going ham swapping weapons and mods all the time, keeping all your cooldowns in mind is just so satisfying. The second DLC was excellent too and I really wish the hammer was usable in the main story mode as well
    • Who would've thought Valve's complete negligence of the bot crisis would cause a TF2 renaissance. Community servers are thriving and I haven't had this much fun with TF2 since jungle inferno. Skill level is up, people are on mics again and with mapvote, scramble and nocrit the gameplay hasn't been better
    • Furi is still in my heart. Best OST, best gameplay, really solid story for how short the game is
    • Metroid Prime is still #1 and takes the center square. The immersion, the lore, the nostalgia, I just wanna go sit in the rain on Tallon IV. Spawned two excellent sequels too.
    • I played Slay the Spire a lot, forgot about it for a while, then played it a LOT. This is the best single player cardgame. The art and story are best described as cerviceable, but there is so much depth to the gameplay, it is kind of astounding. The ascension system making runs a little harder and harder also makes it scale very well with your own improvement. Infinite replayability, I feel like I could write a book about this game's strategy.
    • Ocarina of Time is often on all-time best games ever lists for a reason. It's just so influential, so massive, and so good, I'm willing to say that it is still unironically the best 3D zelda game without asterisks.
    • I love both DS1 and DS3 and it was up in the air which one was the better one of the two for a long time, but the Ringed City cemented DS3 in my top 9 basically permanently. I haven't played a game with better lore and worldbuilding than this
    • Nostalgia plays a big factor in this still being top 9 but even without that Golden Sun is such a solid RPG. Beatiful sprites and music, very fun combat mechanics and an interesting world. I still find myself coming back and replaying this a bit ever so often.

     


  8. It's that time of the year again, played any good video games? Doesn't matter whether they actually came out this year or not.

     

    I played a ton of great games this year:

     

    • Factorio: This game absorbed my soul for a good three months, maybe the most addicting game I've ever played. I lost entire weekends to playing this shit all day. The game plays just like an endlessly scrolling to-do list; upgrading your green chip production but now your iron mining is too slow so you update that, but now your gear production could be more efficient, but now you should probably upgrade your green chips so it can keep up with the better flow of gears.. there is no end. There just is something incredibly satisfying to optimising your resource flow. Now I've completed the main objective a few times I think I'm mostly cured of my addiction, but I've seen the insane mega-factories some people made on youtube and truly there is no end to this.
    • Darkest Dungeon: I avoided this game for the longest time because all I saw from it were clips of streamers breaking their keyboard in half out of frustration, but after actually trying it that really isn't the experience. The game honestly reminded me of pokemon a lot, except not being mindnumbingly boring. You train your team and try to figure out synergies and strategies, and the few times the permadeath really screwed me I clearly got greedy. I didn't get that far into it though, so maybe the unlucky rolls hit harder once you're more deeply invested in a team. Also, the narrator is like half the enjoyment of this game.
    • New Pokemon Snap: Speaking of pokemon, this was the first pokemon game I've played in years that felt like there went some passion into making it.  There isn't much else to say other than the levels are just so goddamn cute, and taking turns playing this with my girlfriend was just maximum comfy. It was a bummer they didn't give special responses for the professor for special event pictures like it did in the original though.
    • Super Metroid/Metroid Dread: After restarting Super Metroid like five times over the years but never finishing it, I finally completed it in preparation for Metroid Dread coming out. It's cool to play a game that inspired so many other games I also enjoyed, and a weird realisation a lot of the OST of metroid prime I love are just remixes of Super Metroid. Metroid Dread was also great, especially the movement; once you get a few upgrades you just race through the world in such a satisfying manner. Parry system was also very fun and made for some great bossfights. This would've probably been my GOTY if it wasn't for
    • Sekiro, shadows die twice: Finished this last week with a friend watching me and giving tips. The start is really tough, I think especially if you approach the game with a Dark Souls mentality. But once I got into the flow of the combat the game was a blast to play. I've never had the desire to aimlessly traverse a Dark Souls area just because of how fun the combat is, but in Sekiro I've found myself fast travelling to areas a little away from where I needed to be just so I could fight some more enemies. The somewhat dull story keeps it from surpassing DS3 for me, but just the catharsis of the parry-based combat probably puts this in my top 20 games ever. GOTY 2021 and I can see myself replaying this over and over again.

  9. nickelodeon all star has me super excited about a game I doubt I'll ever touch, what a beautiful punchline

     

    The entire FGC has been on their knees crying, begging Japanese devs to put decent netcode into their games for over a decade, and now the slap city devs make what should have been a grandma-found-it-in-the-bargain-bin game into something that not only looks like a solid smash clone, but also has rollback netcode


  10. I don't know enough Rock Operas to be able to contribute, but the few albums already mentioned here that I know I all love, so I'm gonna try the rest out, thanks!

     

    Taking a quick look at my music library, the only album I'd really want to mention is St. Elswhere by Gnarls Barkley, but that's more a concept album without a real overarching story


  11. IMO the problem is Spy got a much harder "hard counter" than any other class from the get-go, with a single lick of highly spammable fire often meaning death, and since then they've only added more ways to counter him;

     

    -Razorback

    -Jarate

    -Mad Milk

    -Homewrecker (especially offensive IMO)

    -not often used anymore but last week I effectively instantly died to a single Pomson shot

     

    And even beyond all these, there is just so much spam flying around on the average server, invisibility cloak just isn't that powerful. It's no wonder so many spies have started hard maining the dead ringer because even with all its downsides, just getting a speed boost is often much more useful than going invisible

     

    EDIT: I even forgot the tribalman's shiv. Holy cow, sniper has three items designed to counter his "counter"


  12. I wouldn't want TF2 to make many more big balance changes this late in its lifetime. I'd like to see some stuff touched up but honestly, TF2 is probably the most balanced it has ever been right now. There's a lot to complain about but they're all nitpicks, there's no class that I think is truly overpowered or underpowered. Like I complain about the Kunai abuse but Spy is still the weakest class, it's more just obnoxious to see your team get eaten because everyone is apparently deaf to death screams.

     

    That being said, in the fantasy world where we get TF3 I'd like to see sweeping changes:

    -#1 with a point , an alternative to medic as currently even in a 12v12 game one team having a single medic greatly increases the odds of that team winning, like giving engie or heavy some kind of improved healing abilities to offset how powerful Medic is

    -Spy and Sniper should probably be the same class, also Sniper quickscopes oneshotting half the cast gets pretty insane at high levels. I've seen several people argue uncharged headshots should deal 120, and then still charging up to 450 damage max charge in the same time.

    -Demo somehow getting the melee class taped to him is super weird in retrospect and seeing an actual dedicated melee/tank class designed from the ground up would be great

    -related to the above, melee hitreg not being complete yank would be great

    -pyro serves no purpose and the few things he is good at currently are super obnoxious (airblasting ubers, countering spy way too hard with the homewrecker, also somehow countering himself???)

    -In general I'd like to see some classes getting some kind of way to play around their hard counters, like scout becoming utterly useless once sentries get involved and spy getting bullied by half the cast (why the hell did scout get an anti-spy secondary???)

     

    And of course remove random crits and get an anti-cheat that works, but those speak for themselves


  13. I sort of soft-main demo but I kind of play everything nowadays. I often pick what the team has fewest of, that just plays the most satisfying to me. I do chat and type a lot and have a cheap unusual for my demo so I don't really follow tOGE's demo main blueprint

     

    I haven't really experiences Pyro mains to be that obnoxious, I'd say most pyro mains are relatively new to the game. I can definitely see someone think they're hot shit for maining the "weakest" class. On that topic I still can't believe sketchek came back after faking cancer and just kind of got away with it.

     

    10 hours ago, John Caveson said:

    Don't forget the weeb pfp and strange kunai with Japanese gibberish tagged on it.

     

     

    Honestly I really dislike what the spy "meta" in pubs has become. Kunaiing oblivious new players to instantly heal 200 HP is so obnoxious, spy is hardly the stealth class anymore, fighting spies nowadays is more like trying to swat an annoying fly covered in kevlar

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