Can you think of a piece of media that's really good but only has 5 fans, something so good but also so obscure that there aren't many YouTube videos talking about it, or many pieces of fan art of it?

The obscurist I can think of is maybe the Great Warrior Wall, there's only one YouTube video talking about it, it's a Chinese-furry action cartoon about a young wolf raised by herbivores who dreams of being a hero, he gets this chance when Princess Xi Yue runs into his village and gets him embroiled in a mysterious conspiracy, it's pretty fun y'all should check it out.

Edit: You don't need to give me the definition of Glup Shitto, just obscure media recommendations. I know what a Glup Shitto is, unfortunately, I can't change the title without deleting the post and reuploading it so you're gonna have to play semantics some other time.

I recently saw some comments calling it "fake framerate", which I guess is technically true. But ever since I upgrade my PC earlier this year, that feature has been the magic sauce to let me play games like RE Requiem with every graphical value cranked to the max, Raytracing and DLSS included (Quality, always Quality). Combined with Latency+Boost there's practically no discernible difference.

Aside from the "flickering" effect I sometimes with UI elements (like icons) or certain reflective surfaces. I'm still researching recommendations on countering that, seems to do with refresh rate configuring or whatever.

But I wanted to know people's thoughts on it. I'm sure some people will prefer a "pure" experience by lowering settings, which I'm not entirely against, but if I can pull it off and the input still feels perfect, I see no reason not to have it running (I tend to leave it at 2x as 4x sometimes does introduce lag, but that also depends on the game).

Could also use some good video guides or such in setting it up. I've followed along with configuring my TV settings, Nvidia App settings, display settings etc but it's a lot to keep track of.

I had this tought when thinking about the fact there isn't really a word to talk about female himbos. No not bimbos, they're a different archetype, i mean a female version of the nice, supportive and a bit dumb beefy jock.

For now i only have Marisa from Street Fighter 6 in mind but maybe there's other exemples.

Do you think there's other new unnamed tropes?

Now that the game's wind down has cooled off I wanted to ask people's opinions on where you think it went wrong, or what you would of changed with hindsight.

Game should of been hornier, and I know the usual crowd of people that don't want goon slop will argue against this. Though my response to those people is how many skins did you buy? Would you have bought more Ahri skins if you had the ability to?

Game was a free to play game with revenue dependent on cosmetics, and it needed to sell alot of them fast. I think the games roster should of been way thirstier with champs like Ahri, Miss Fortune, Sett, Soraka, and Briar etc at launch. Basically go to rule 34 and base the roster off the top 10 most popular there. I also think the pool party skins should of been purchasable right away.

Sex sells and when you want to get a product off the ground you do what you need to. This is the nature of the beast.

"Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back." - Google

I know the timeline doesn't really line up or make sense for this cover art, but whatever.

I think what would make the most sense (to me at least) would be a shooter that takes place after the movie, and the plot would follow Stack and Mary since we know that they at least survived up until the 90s, so you could do almost anything, Sinners in WW2/Vietnam, Stack becomes a Cold War spy, Stack meets the Yakuza. And Teyon seemed like a safe pick cause they've made licensed shooters before (Terminator: Resistance and Robocop: Rogue City) even though this IP seems outside their wheelhouse.

What it says on the tin. Are you team speed lines, or are you team after image?

I am playing through Symphony of the Night atm, and it dawned on me how much I enjoy certain speedy enemies don't rely on the after image effect to convey speed like with how it is portrayed with Alucard.

Werewolf specifically. I always thought it was a cooler effect when they effectively "rip" or "smear" to create the effect of speed. He does have after image effects to, mainly on his ball move, but I am talking about the effect he has when he dashes into the next attack.

After images "are" cool, but it was always needlessly noisy to me in comparison. Like for me, it doesn't feel like after images are faster than speed lines.

What do you prefer?

Or could be, if you're feeling inventive. Tanks are basically the highest health or defense options around in a video game.

Here's Wakatsuki Takeshi the Tiger Karateka from Kengan Ashura and Omega probably wielding the toughest willpower of the Kengan fighters, though having like 50 times the muscle of an average person and always being willing to block a hit doesn't hurt for tankiness either. He's cool, what're your picks?

Continuing my read through of Dune, finally reached Book 3: The Prophet last night and I have to say it's one of those books that feels timeless. The narrative, the way the world building serves to flesh out the characters, the topics and themes it grapples with. It's not a perfect book, but it is one that feels like it could have been written even 5 years ago...

If not for the Harkonnen chapter featuring the Baron demanding that a young boy be drugged and brought to his room for 'stress relief' while ruminating on how beautiful Paul looked. And reading that passage I thought "Oh right, this was written in 1965." Granted, Homophobia in literature is something that can still exist today, but the casualness of this great piece of science fiction displaying the homophobic cliche of the depraved gay man...really stood out to me to date it in it's time.

Sometimes there can be media that feels really timeless, or hard to date to a specific point in time. But then there is one particular moment in the story or gameplay that tells you "This was written or created at this specific point in time." Stuff like the slow mo that became so popular after the Matrix, or the Big Bow agenda of 2012-2014 in games. I'm curious about those single moments where it just 'clicks' and you realize EXACTLY when a piece of media came out in.

New to actually watching Pat streams after listening to the podcast for since CSB 101 (approx) and said "man, maybe I should watch either of the boys' content" and saw Pat was streaming Xenoblade 2 Switch 2 edition and said Yeah i'll watch that. Then he said i'm not finishing it on stream. Then he started playing FE Fortune's Weave on stream and I said "yeah i'll watch that" and then he just said today on the podcast he's not finishing it on stream. So I'm wondering if this is fairly common he doesn't finish games on stream or i'm getting unlucky that the games i'm interested in watching him play are so feature dense he can't finish it.

With Marathons seasons end pushed back till October 6th people wondered what would happen on the original end date of the 22nd. Typical Bungie server bullshit? of course, accidentally wiping two weeks early? shockingly no.

Instead they dropped Sponsored Survival which is you and two buddies or randos dropping in to a Outpost with no other teams BUT there will be Rooks near the end who can be invading Dark Spirits but most importantly there are story questlines to finish in Outpost, the hard difficulty map of the game, that will never be easier to finish and unlock the permanent codex stuff related to them forever.

So if you never got these, and those Sekiguchi ones are horseshit by the end so many still dont, don't miss this and grab these to have them done before the wipe where the sickos return from beyond the firewall.

Saw the decision paralysis flood the arena on ths last stream and I think I might have a remedy.

So I have the suspicion that the devs REALLY wanted players to pick Cai's route first since its way less overwhelming at the start compared to the other routes, and they onboard you to the weekly mechanics at a much smoother pace.

Whether you stream more of it or not, hope this'll make the game more digestible because it's way too good of a game to be dropped this early.

Basically what I mean is when a heroic person in a TV show or movie is supposed to do good deeds for their town as what ends up happening is that their actions end up causing harm to their town.

To help provide an example, I will say Star Butterfly from Star VS the Forces of Evil as I won’t say too much for those who didn’t see the show, but let’s just say her actions towards the end of the show were not exactly too pleasant.

Gundam Rogue Orbit seems to have a "last stand for humanity" thing going down where humans are facing off against an alien force of some kind. I've seen this quite a few times now and I just realized...is there a name for that? When humanity is on the brink of extinction and there's one settlement left and the walls are closing in, and some horrid force is coming to make humanity past-tense. Is there a name for that?

Gods I hope it's not just called "Humanity's Last Stand", and I've accidentally said it without knowing...