Focal
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- Comment on Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s entirely fair.
I do wonder how much of that money has gone to the developers themselves, and not just some executive
- Comment on Anon plays a farming sim 4 weeks ago:
Stuff like this really dilutes the “literal nazi” thing. I think it’s hard to unify when whom to unify against is a bit difficult to define
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Rambling post incoming:
I love the series, but man am I frustrated by it.
I love when they try to tell a story. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow is simple, but effective.
The others just build on this, but the best team is still Team Rocket to me. Actual gangsters instead of maniacal, delusional gits who want to end the world… It’s too much.
Team Skull are wonderful as well.
Black and white had a great story and I really, really like Bianca’s journey in that game. She’s not very good at what she does, but she’s compassionate. A little sheltered too. Her dad is always asking her to come back home because he doesn’t believe in her, and with failure after failure almost goes along with it and gives up. I love that she doesn’t.
I also like the villain speech here that Pokémon don’t like being used for fighting, but I really believe that it could’ve been better if they didn’t undermine their own point by fighting with pokemon. I mean, I get that the main dude, Ghetsis was just bluffing, but everyone else believed it, so why didn’t they choose non -violence?
After the series went 3D, I’ve disliked it. I liked X and Y, but I felt like it was a little too light on new stuff. Only 60ish new pokemon feels a bit low. There’s a good game there somewhere, but… It’s not where I want it to be.
Sun and moon was the same. Love the new ideas, but it’s getting bogged down a smidge by performance and repetition.
Sword and Shield definitely has great things going for it with vibes, but lacks substance. No caves, no dungeons, just a led-by-the-hand tour.
The DLC was a smidge better, but even then a little lacking.
Scarlet/Violet barely holds together. It’s ugly as sin, its level progression is whack and the open world does it NO FAVORS! All I want is for pokemon to seem like actual animals in the wild. I wanna see them interact with each other, but they NEVER DO.
Legends Arceus was also the same here, though I like the battle mechanics here. It feels unfinished and while pokemon in your party can interact, the world itself feels… Lacking.
My favorite game in the pokemon series (including spinoffs) would be pokemon mystery dungeon for the story, and Pokemon Snap for the interaction.
Core series would be either Black and White or Heart Gold/Soul Silver. Those games really spoiled us
- Comment on These are the text messages that allegedly got a former Bungie executive fired, according to a court document written by Sony 5 weeks ago:
You were completely correct. Gross
- Comment on HoMM3 is still fun! 1 month ago:
Heroes is a great time! I’ve introduced all my friends to it
- Comment on When you see it.... 1 month ago:
Fuck
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
- Comment on Today you like it 5 months ago:
That could absolutely work too. I think grouping it by font style gives the intended meaning, but I really like yours as well.
- Comment on Today you like it 5 months ago:
I have three main ways of solving these.
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Read vertically to see if there are some weird shenanigans going on.
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Try to read the ones that belong to the same font.
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Cry
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- Comment on Today you like it 5 months ago:
Today is the day. You like it, wear it!
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 7 months ago:
Oh my god, I feel that so much!
- Comment on There's rupees in there 8 months ago:
Yep, I get it :)
- Comment on There's rupees in there 8 months ago:
Interesting linguistic difference. I would’ve just said “get bombs” instead of “unlocking” them, yet I completely understand
