LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]

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  • I’m so upset that 1/2 of RTJ is a land lord. I genuinely dig their music and general outline of their message but it sucks so much Killer Mike tries to toe the line be radical and liberal. It really bums me out he’s the exact type of black liberal I am most hate, one with deep knowledge of real black struggle and radical tradition. Like he understands why shit is fucked but then uses that understanding to just keep in line with liberalism.

    Also EL-P and Mac Miller (RIP) are the only good white rappers. They aren’t even “white rappers” (which I fear we will see a whole evolution of the white rapper in the come decades) they are rappers who are white.

    RTJ3 still my favorite tho.



  • Personally, I don’t like Ava as a character because the narrative gives her zero options/opportunities to grow. She is a victim of a story that doesn’t give her (or anyone else) any depth or complexity. Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand that she is a teenager and teen characters tend to act as teens do which is fine to me. Even a zany world like Borderlands kids are gonna be irksome and immature, that I totally get and actually kinda dig.

    The reason I don’t like her is the same reason I don’t like the majority of BL3, she is full of narrative potential that doesn’t really go anywhere. Ava doesn’t go much beyond teen siren. She remains two dimensional in the same way that the rest of the cast remains two dimensional. Though I suppose it is worth noting that some of the cast is one dimensional when they don’t have to be.

    She is annoying yes, but I don’t think she is in any way a worse character than anyone else in the game. I think she unfortunately, is a girl and gamers hate girls existing or speaking or thinking or being. I think the whole cast (except for maybe Wainwright) has the same issues that she does but because she is a girl people latched onto her.

    Borderlands 3’d base game narratives and characters never really clicked for me. I do think the stories and characters in the DLCs are much better mostly because they are slightly smaller and scale and scope. The game doesn’t need to be super deep or radical, but games stories should have some nuaince even if they are trying to a loony tune.




  • SF6 has some of the best new/original characters in a fighter entry in general if you ask me. I think in general the whole cast of new characters is really damn good. A lot of them are remix/modded versions of existing characters but in general I think they really nailed with creating new interesting characters.

    It’s not often in an established fighter that I want to try the new folks rather than sticking with the arctypes I know and love. Kimberly is a bushinryu ninja so I rock with her, but I find myself really enjoying Jamie, Marisa, and Lily.

    Personally I don’t care about “tiers” I rock characters who appeal to me and feel good to play. Jamie for example, while “low-tier” fuckin’ rules and has swag for days so when you get the win you know you played better. Which is a good feeling for me.

    I genuinely dig the idea that new characters have that sort of “draw”/“appeal” that would break me away from my traditional picks. I think they’re doing something right from a design standpoint.

    I do not however dig the stupid monetization of modern games and it’s a bummer that SF6 has the same issue as just about any other modern game.











  • Not everyone has SSDs, not everyone has 2+ TB of storage, and even if that were true you shouldn’t have to ship your entire studios development server to your customer. A game shouldn’t be bigger than 50 GBs (Yes that even includes Elden Ring). That’s the limit. I can always go online and download more RAM, but I cannot download more storage space. We live in an age where code can be hyper optimized both by humans engineers as well as their thinking machines. Fuckin’ make your games smaller and run better.