u/BactaBobomb

I struggled HARD with Hatch on Lumines Arise. I played it probably 30 or 40 times before I finally beat it. When I did, I was elated, even though I got a C rank.

Imagine my utter horror when I unlocked its sequel, Hatch 2.

This is probably how those Great War vets felt when they heard wind of the sequel to that. Just shellshocked, so to speak.

I still haven't dared to try it. I'm not sure I ever will.

I've been playing Tetris Effect a lot, and I feel like I'm okay at the game. But now I've hit a bit of a skill wall where I'm unable to get higher scores. I had scenarios I was wondering about. Here are the things I've been trying, but I have no idea what is getting me the highest possible score opportunity:

1. Back-to-back Tetrises in regular mode

2. Downstacking combos in regular mode

3. Downstacking combos in Focus Mode when it's maxed out and hopefully stacked near the top

4. Building my Focus meter by getting Back-to-Back Tetrises, then doing combo downstacking when I enter Focus Mode

5. Doing enough Back-to-Back Tetrises to get the minimum time of Focus Mode and then doing a quick Tetris or two while in it before it expires

6. Starting whatever modes at the maximum difficulty (save for Master and Classic Score Attack)

Those are the things I've been trying to do, and some of it is obviously giving more points than other stuff, but I don't know which ones are optimal. I'm talking about the standard Tetris modes. I think I have a handle on how to get better scores in stuff like Purify and Combo and stuff.

Journey Mode on Expert I'm having a hard time getting past S ranks on most of the levels, for instance.

And then Classic Score Attack... I need a separate section on this one. I have no idea how to get higher scores on it. Do you go for Back-to-Back Tetrises? Or do you do combo downstacking? And how do you move the pieces faster? Is it just my hands being rusty and ancient because I'm in my mid-30s? Any tips on speeding that up?

This has been going on, from my perception, for over a month now. I thought it was an update to Reddit, but I can't do an Image post on any of the subreddits I've been to. I can post images in a Text post, but it doesn't do a slideshow or anything. It just litters the page with pictures all the way down.

I tried Old Reddit, and that lets me do an image post, but it only lets me put one image.... ?

I'm just really confused. I turned off my adblocker and Brave Shields and stuff, and I tried on Microsoft Edge as well as Firefox. I'm just not getting the options to do Text, Image, or Link posts.

I know the subreddits I'm going to allow for image posts. I thought I remember there being an option somewhere on this page, but I'm not seeing them.

Does anyone know what might be going on? It's really frustrating me at this point.

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I hate saw 3d. I don't even capitalize it. I have capitalized it a handful of times for consistency in papers, but when typing about it casually, I always show it the ultimate disrespect by not capitalizing it or referring to it as SAW VII / saw vii.

It's a misogynistic piece of shit. The acting is the worst the series has to offer. The dialogue is the worst the series has to offer. The set design and lighting make it look like a low-budget porn. The story is paper-thin and rushed. The traps have so little meaning to them and serve mostly the misogyny to kill women in much more brutal ways than the men. It's an abomination, and affront to the legacy of the franchise, and I hate it.

But I sort of love it. There's something alluring to how bad it is. That allure converts into genuine entertainment at how fucking terrible it is. I love it in how much I hate it. It's honestly one of my most-watched movies in the series, even though it goes against every single thing I hold near and dear to the franchise. When I first saw it, I yelled at the screen when Dr. Gordon was revealed as an apprentice, and then yelled even more when they fucking retconned Darren Lynn Bousman's limp during Michael's eye surgery (his words: "I just wanted to add a little flair"; perhaps a paraphrase) into being Dr. Gordon and proving all the fucking Gordon lovers right and putting just the most violently rotten and abundant egg on my face and the face of everyone that fought against it with Darren's quote. I fucking HATED it.

But over time, I guess that hate has cooled down and turned into an admiration of sorts. It's impressive how terrible the movie is. Like it's a cinematic achievement the likes of which I have a hard time finding another analog for. It's like if a newborn baby somehow mopped the floor in a hundred-meter dash against Usain Bolt. Like that's how impressive it is.

But credit where it's due, it actually is my favorite Charlie Clouser work of the entire franchise. And the Bobby storyline, while underbaked, was such a cool concept. And the Dr. Gordon stuff I've cooled down on now (I would hope so, after almost 16 fucking years. But I've been known to hold a grudge). So not everything is bad about it. Just 90% of it.

My favorite quotes:

"I think we're breaking UP with you, D I N A!"

"That lady's crazier than a sack full of cats" (tie: the scene where he keeps calling Jill crazy)

"It's a safe house, Jill! SAFE. HOUSE."
"Gibson, this just arrived, it's from Hoffman" (or whatever

"It's just a bottle, Cale!"

Disclaimer: I might have the quotes slightly wrong. But oh my goodness, how gloriously bad it all is.

So there's my confession.

I just thought of this, but I thought I remembered an episode of Dateline 20/20 that was about erectile dysfunction medication, and at least part of it focused on people that abused the medication.

But I have no idea where to start. I looked at IMDb, but so many of the episodes have no titles or descriptions.

It would have been before October 1999, but probably after 1997.

I was just testing stuff with my games, and I decided to open up Wild Arms 3. But when I tried opening the emulation menu, where you have save states. rewind, and can change various options, it doesn't actually open? I thought I was going crazy, or maybe my Options button wasn't working. So I tried it on other classics, including the first Wild Arms, and it worked just fine!

Does Wild Arms 3 have that menu disabled for some reason? Is there something maybe I disabled by accident?

I'm having a really hard time finding this answer. But I learned some stuff about omicron meaning "small o" in Greek, and a person I told was confused why it's omicron and not omicro. She was saying that since you have omega, and mega means big, why wouldn't it be omicro, micro being small?

I started an endless marathon on Tetris Effect for some heck-all reason, and now I'm regretting it immensely. I started it on speed 15, so I thought things would be over relatively quickly, maybe like 20 minutes. But I'm on 3.5 hours now, I think, and I can't stop. I keep praying I'll screw up enough that it will be impossible to escape and it will finally end. But every time an emergency comes up, I handle it just fine.

I don't want to purposely throw it, but I want it to end. I'm at almost 9 million points right now, and I want to go for 10.... but when I was at 4 million, I said I'd go for 5. So I might set my sights on 15 if I make it to 10!

At this point I think I'm going to get a new PS5 just so I can play something else on it, because there's no way this marathon will end.

Why am I getting mad at endless marathon being exactly what is described? Because I'm stupid, okay? Is that what you wanted to hear? 😭

I guess I'm asking for strength to either continue in perpetuity or end the game.

There is one potential silver lining... I'm not doing it all in one sitting, so I'm putting a LOT of faith into the PS5's quick resume feature. So maybe by some miracle of Remy from Ratatouille, the quick resume will fail or the game will crash.

I genuinely think that's the only way this will end. Please pray for my game to crash unexpectedly. Please.

It will never end. 😭😭😭😭😭

P.S. Is the PS5 version worth upgrading to? I don't really care about graphics getting better, but the DualSense capabilities sounded intriguing.

Hey all! I don't have much experience musou games other than playing a ton of Hyrule Warriors like a decade ago.

But I found out Warriors All Stars has a kitty and a handful of Dead or Alive characters, so I bought it immediately now that it's on sale!

I have done a few battles just fine. But I got a mission from Kasumi where I have to play "Ally Stronghold" 3 times. When I go to it, it's "recommended level: 1."

The description is:

"This is an allied Stronghold. You must secure an entry point for your allies and defend it before the enemy's main army arrives."

I've tried it 5 or 6 times now, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I am trying to go to where the exclamation marks are, I'm defeating Ryu, Ayane, and a couple others. I'm conquering the different bases on the way to the exclamation points...

It keeps saying something about "designated base," but I guess I don't know which one is designated? I tried looking at the map in the menu, I did the thing where you can see icons running around on the map, and again I thought I was going to the right exclamation points. But I just keep losing for some reason. I have no idea why?

I'm already on the easiest difficulty, so I can't bring it any lower. My main character is Nobunyaga, and I have Kasumi, Millennia, and Laegrinna on my team. I'm using my musou rush, I'm using my special, I'm focusing on the Base Defenders when they pop up.

What am I doing wrong? :(

I can't imagine this is a thing, but with the recent inclusion of >!another family member of Captain Hook, as well as new family members for Prince Charming, Dr. Facilier and Ursula!< (Wicked Wonderland / Rise of Red spoilers-ish?), it got me wondering... is there some reason they are doing this double-dipping?

Like is there a licensing thing going on where they're not allowed to directly reference certain characters or movies?

It's just a little disappointing on a first pass when they decide to not use a new hero or villain as the parent but stick to one they had already. It's awkward enough that I'm wondering if there's a behind-the-scenes reason for it?

I heard that you can play through the whole story of Razor's Edge as Ayane, but then I was sad because it sounds like you need to fully beat the main game as Ryu before being able to do so.

Someone said that the Wii U version let you do it immediately because she was a DLC character or something?

I was wondering if the Master Collection still requires you to beat the game before playing as Ayane?

And how hard is the game if I did want to push through to unlock that ability?

I apologize if this isn't the right subreddit, but I didn't know where else to post it :(

But I'm playing a game where you can choose different colors for your lighting, but the way it works is that you have to play around with three different sliders, one for Red, one for Blue, one for Green. There isn't an easy menu to choose a specific color.

I have NO idea what I'm doing there. And I was wondering if there are any tips on how to learn how different ratios connect to different colors? Like if I put G and B all the way down, and Red all the way up, I get red. Okay. But how do I turn it into hot pink? How do I turn it orange?

I was talking with someone last night about the SAW series (I think I scared them off, tbh, because hooooooly heck I can talk about it endlessly for hours, as is par for the course for us). He told me one of the things he hated about JigSAW and Spiral is that they both pulled the "Is he dead or isn't he" card.

I had a strong stance that Spiral does not have that angle at all. That the cops were all aware that it was a copycat perverting the already perverted ideology of John Kramer.

I told him that I think he's thinking exclusively of JigSAW, because that was a huge element of that for the audience and the characters in the movie. But I didn't think that was an element at all in Spiral.

He was adamant that he was right, that bother movies were redundant to each other in that way.

I didn't want to argue further, partly because he successfully made me doubt myself, partly because it would be really dumb to keep that argument going for something so minor.

But I wanted to ask, to refresh my memory, if that was an aspect of Spiral? I swear it's not, but it has been a little while since I've watched it, so I thought it was possible I was forgetting.