u/KitKatCrane

One more warning, big spoilers for the whole game. Main story, the seasons, the audio logs, all of it.

I want to preface this by saying I actually quite like this game. It's very much flawed, sure, but it super works for me on a lot of levels, and one of those is the story. I really really enjoyed the main story, but for months now (since I first played the post launch stuff) I've been baffled by the post launch story.

Rocksteady said they weren't doing a fakeout. You are really killing the actual Justice League. So...clones? Really? I get that the League was gonna come back, that seems like a no-brainer. But clones? They even set up resurrection in the post launch stuff, but they decided to fo a twist and make them clones. That one stupid decision means that Deadshot was never interacting with the guy who arrested him. Wonder Woman was killed not by Superman in an emotional moment, but essentially a robot that was just created. Harley never killed Batman, that year of feeling heartbroken (in a good way imo) that we had killed Batman, and the crazy consequences we could've had to deal with from Batman having broken his rule, as well as all the other heroes. Basically, everything that happened in the story was made significantly worse because clones.

But the way they presented it was weird too. They revealed it was maybe clones in an audio log after they had said already that they were resurrecting them. And then our confirmation is from Harley recounting the events in the very last cutscene. So...was it clones? It feels like it's just a theory, and a terrible one, narratively. But it's also what they present at the end. But it's presented via a very unreliable narrator. But maybe they wanted to basically negate the story impact of the game since it was so poorly received. But if they wanted that, why did they send everyone to space after? Why did they have Braniac seem like he's being controlled by somebody else, or like he has some other plan?

But yeah, my fundamental question is, do you think they really were just clones? Or maybe the Justice League at the end is the clones and the ones we killed were really them? That would at least make the main story good still, for those who liked it, where if they were clones the whole time, that's the worst of both worlds.

What do you think?

I'm not advocating for this, but I'm curious as to what people think of a darker trilogy coming up for Spider-Man. Brand New Day was definitely heavier than the Home trilogy, and dealt with some somewhat dark stuff. It wasn't really a dark movie, but it was definitely darker than the previous 3 I'd say, and very much heavier than them.

People have recently speculated a lot about a symbiote Spider-Man story, which makes sense for sure given Secret Wars is where he got the black suit in the comics, and I've seen a lot of speculation about Man-Spider, which I think could come after, and act as a way to hand the reigns to a new Spider-Man (though both could still be around). Not much explaining is needed for symbiote Spider-Man happening, but for Man-Spider, perhaps some is necessary.

Peter's DNA is apparently proportionally lower than the spider DNA in BND at a few points. The movie also directly states that spiders have 3 stages of life, and that this is Peter's 2nd (in terms of the spider-esque stages of his life), which definitely leaves the door open for a third stage. So, I think it's entirely possible the third stage will be Man-Spider, or perhaps somebody will screw his DNA up more and he'll end up like that because of that.

This would lend to a movie where Peter's allies help out a lot, and could be the movie where Miles comes into his own as Spider-Man, where the symbiote could he where he's introduced. But, all of the specifics are just guesses.

With some of these broad ideas in mind as potential for a darker Spidey trilogy, do you think you'd like to see a heavier and darker tone for the next couple movies, or would you like them to be more happy and fun again? Existing Spider-Man stories definitely cover both tones, so I'm curious what the rough consensus is.

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So, I feel like I'm losing touch with reality. I walk across the street, and I can tell less and less if I've actually crossed the street or I'm just convincing myself I did, but actually I got hit by a car, or I'm just still in the road. I regularly can't tell if I dreamed things or if they actually happened. I fairly often can't tell if I'm thinking something or saying it out loud. I regularly can't come up with words while I'm speaking, even though I'm a writer and I tend to be very good with my words. My beliefs are shifting and I can't stop thinking about various apocalypse myths and how they might be coming true, because of how dire everything feels right now. I regularly get anxious still that people are watching me, but I worry just as much now that they aren't even real, even though I don't think I have any history of hallucinations. The scary part for me is that while right now I feel worried about this and like I need to do something about it, I know I won't feel like this at all times. I regularly consider all this and I don't want it to change, I want to just keep diving away from what right now I think is reality, because at those other times, I think that considering this to be concerning is stupid and reality is something I can find by continuing to dive deeper and deeper into all this.

So...yeah. I have a therapist right now for the next few months, but I have not known how to talk to her about any of this or to what degree I can even trust her with all this. While I may just straight up read this to my therapist, I'm NOT looking for therapy, as I have that already.

I just want some support. I just want to feel a little more in touch with reality again, whatever that is. If anyone has any thoughts of any kind, they'd be welcome.

Reposting from a bigger post to make this smaller and more concise, but that means I'm jumping right in.

So, I feel like I'm losing touch with reality. I walk across the street, and I can tell less and less if I've actually crossed the street or I'm just convincing myself I did, but actually I got hit by a car, or I'm just still in the road. I regularly can't tell if I dreamed things or if they actually happened. I fairly often can't tell if I'm thinking something or saying it out loud. I regularly can't come up with words while I'm speaking, even though I'm a writer and I tend to be very good with my words. My beliefs are shifting and I can't stop thinking about various apocalypse myths and how they might be coming true, because of how dire everything feels right now. I regularly get anxious still that people are watching me, but I worry just as much now that they aren't even real, even though I don't think I have any history of hallucinations. The scary part for me is that while right now I feel worried about this and like I need to do something about it, I know I won't feel like this at all times. I regularly consider all this and I don't want it to change, I want to just keep diving away from what right now I think is reality, because at those other times, I think that considering this to be concerning is stupid and reality is something I can find by continuing to dive deeper and deeper into all this.

So...yeah. I have a therapist right now for the next few months, but I have not known how to talk to her about any of this or to what degree I can even trust her with all this. While I may just straight up read this to my therapist, I'm NOT looking for therapy, as I have that already.

I just want some support. I just want to feel a little more in touch with reality again, whatever that is. If anyone has any thoughts of any kind, they'd be welcome.

Reposting from a bigger post to make this smaller and more concise, but that means I'm jumping right in.

So, I feel like I'm losing touch with reality. I walk across the street, and I can tell less and less if I've actually crossed the street or I'm just convincing myself I did, but actually I got hit by a car, or I'm just still in the road. I regularly can't tell if I dreamed things or if they actually happened. I fairly often can't tell if I'm thinking something or saying it out loud. I regularly can't come up with words while I'm speaking, even though I'm a writer and I tend to be very good with my words. My beliefs are shifting and I can't stop thinking about various apocalypse myths and how they might be coming true, because of how dire everything feels right now. I regularly get anxious still that people are watching me, but I worry just as much now that they aren't even real, even though I don't think I have any history of hallucinations. The scary part for me is that while right now I feel worried about this and like I need to do something about it, I know I won't feel like this at all times. I regularly consider all this and I don't want it to change, I want to just keep diving away from what right now I think is reality, because at those other times, I think that considering this to be concerning is stupid and reality is something I can find by continuing to dive deeper and deeper into all this.

So...yeah. I have a therapist right now for the next few months, but I have not known how to talk to her about any of this or to what degree I can even trust her with all this. While I may just straight up read this to my therapist, I'm NOT looking for therapy, as I have that already.

I just want some support. I just want to feel a little more in touch with reality again, whatever that is. If anyone has any thoughts of any kind, they'd be welcome.

I'm a 26 year old trans woman from Canada, for some potentially relevant context. Things haven't felt real for some time. I have lived my whole life worried that people are secretly watching me and talking about things I do when I'm completely out of sight and I don't know what to call that, but while that is something that is presumably not actually happening, it's always been there. But lately, it feels like it's gotten worse. For context, I have OCD and I assumed that was the cause, but it's been harder to tell. Everything feels so far from reality.

I only drink water, like almost any life is really built for, and we're running out of water. I live on Earth, like we all do, and my country is on fire and the air smelled like smoke for a week, and nobody has really even helped. I make a normal amount of money, like most people do, and I can barely afford a place and I can't afford much else. I like eating actual food, but I can mostly just afford microwaved crap. I hate politics, but I have to engage with them because I'm being written out of existence as a trans person. All of this for so many people other than me, and it feels like we're all just letting it happen. I know we're not, but it's hard.

All of that feels so terribly surreal. I find myself thinking about any one or more of those things (and more) and none of it feels like it makes any sense, and my thoughts have been following suit. I can't think clearly unless I'm thinking of something pointless like Batman or Star Wars or whatever stuff I'm into at a given moment.

But...

I wish that was all. I feel like I'm starting to think things that sound like I'm completely losing touch with reality. I walk across the street, and I can tell less and less if I've actually crossed the street or I'm just convincing myself I did, but actually I got hit by a car, or I'm just still in the road. I regularly can't tell if I dreamed things or if they actually happened. I fairly often can't tell if I'm thinking something or saying it out loud. I regularly can't come up with words while I'm speaking, even though I'm a writer and I tend to be very good with my words. My beliefs are shifting and I can't stop thinking about various apocalypse myths and how they might be coming true, because of how dire everything feels right now. I regularly get anxious still that people are watching me, but I worry just as much now that they aren't even real, even though I don't think I have any history of hallucinations. The scary part for me is that while right now I feel worried about this and like I need to do something about it, I know I won't feel like this at all times. I regularly consider all this and I don't want it to change, I want to just keep diving away from what right now I think is reality, because at those other times, I think that considering this to be concerning is stupid and reality is something I can find by continuing to dive deeper and deeper into all this.

So...yeah. I have a therapist right now for the next few months, but I have not known how to talk to her about any of this or to what degree I can even trust her with all this. While I may just straight up read this to my therapist, I'm NOT looking for therapy, as I have that already and that's not allowed in this subreddit anyways (hence why I'm making it clear I'm not at all looking for therapy).

I just want some support. I just want to feel a little more in touch with reality again, whatever that is.

So between Doomsday and Secret Wars, I really want to watch basically everything Marvel. I think that'll be fun because I'm a big huge nerd and I love doing that kind of thing in general with any world I love, and Secret Wars is a good place to end a big thing like that, and I always prefer the end to be in theatres because I love going to the movies.

So, obviously there are loads of shows, movies, and games to watch and play. I'm sure I'll miss stuff or skip stuff, but I wanna get a little bit of everything if I can and I'll worry about cutting stuff when I'm actually doing it, but what order should I do these things?

I've been considering whether to watch the Spider-Man live action movies before the MCU or just before No Way Home, and similar with Deadpool and the X-Men movies (and shows). And then beyond that, what about cartoons that seem likely to not be addressed in Secret Wars or Doomsday? I could watch them before since they're not relevant, but the multiverse is kinda cracked open in Loki, so I could also watch them after Loki at some point, but then of course there are a lot of those shows so it'll slow stuff down a lot, but phases 4-6 haven't been all that connected so maybe that's not a problem?

There's also the question of when to watch Runaways season 3 since it's post snap, and when to watch Agents of SHIELD season 6 and 7 since it doesn't seem to even acknowledge the snap at all (I've already watched seasons 1-5 before and I love them so I'm definitely gonna watch all of that show this time, it's just a matter of where the last seasons go, not whether I watch them at all).

So, yeah. Does anybody have thoughts on this? Is anybody doing something similar? Does it really even matter at all? No, not really, but I'm curious what others think would work best anyways :)

Hiya people. I have not actually become familiar with Restitched until just now, and everything I can find about it is so, so LittleBigPlanet. I'm not complaining, far from it. An almost lbp game that may be playable on Steam Deck and will be playable on PC in general is rather exceptionally exciting, and I'm really looking forward to it now, but I wasn't before.

I have felt a bit funny about how this game really is pretty much another lbp game in all but name, because I'm naturally a little protective of that series I love so much, and I didn't want almost lbp, I wanted lbp. But I didn't realize this isn't some big corporation, this is a game being made as a hobby by a few people who really want to make it, and once I did realize that, it hit me: this was the idea of LittleBigPlanet. It succeeded.

Those games were always supposed to grow beyond themselves. Their influence was supposed to be in getting people excited not only to play fun stuff, but to make fun stuff, and it certainly appears Restitched wouldn't exist without LittleBigPlanet, but LittleBigPlanet wouldn't have existed if not for the hope of something like Restitched. Those devs were inspired to make something directly from lbp, but so many other kids at the time of the lbp games were inspired to make so many other things, and so the influence of LittleBigPlanet on the whole games industry can perhaps not be understated, because it can be felt very tangibly in a game like Restitched, but also subtly in thousands of other ways.

So, hopefully Restitched may bear this torch for another generation, so that they can understand just what's so special about LittleBigPlanet and the like :)

(Spoilers for both games so far)

Basically the title. I was thinking about how the Path kinda probably has to be destroyed at some point, and Jedi 3 would make sense as a place for that to happen, and so it'd be cool if there were a thing like the attack on Jedha, but there were a bunch of Jedi vs. a bunch of inquisitors and stuff.

But then I thought about how crazy powerful Starkiller was in Legends, and it popped into my head how he could like, show up alone and destroy everything. I know even if he's in the game, *that* isn't likely, but it'd be cool and terrifying.

Regardless I think it could be cool if Starkiller shows up, but who knows. Fun to think about at least :)

Okay to preface, this *is* speculation. I know some people don't like that for some reason, but I'm not saying what I think will happen, I'm just curious if people think this *could* make sense and *could* potentially be something we see in Shadow Lord at some point. No need to get all angry that I'm excited about the future of a show we all like.

So, I wonder if Maul will work with the clones at some point. I feel like it could be a really cool dynamic to show their true enemy is Palpatine, and in many ways it was never truly each other. They have similar goals, wanting to fight against Palps, and the clones and Maul both currently have stories suggesting they're going to try to take action against Palpatine and the Empire soon, and around the same time (the clones had lots in The Bad Batch, Maul in Shadow Lord so far).

I definitely don't want Shadow Lord to turn into The Clone Wars, but it could be cool if Maul at least works a little bit with the clones for their mutual interest, and I always like stories that are full stories, but exist only as side stories in other stories. Like, the clone rebellion could be a full cohesive story that never gets its own show, and takes place through The Bad Batch and maybe Shadow Lord.

There are definitely issues with this. I love that Shadow Lord has been pretty standalone so far, so this would definitely reduce that feeling for some amount of time. But then, a lot of Star Wars shows seem to connect to the wider universe specifically in season 2 of their runs, and then chill out and get a little more focused again afterwards (except the shows that end at season 2). So if Shadow Lord follows that trend, I think this would be much more interesting than how they usually do those wider galaxy things. The darker style of the show could work really well for the clones at this time, and it would provide interesting dynamics for Maul and Devon, and could even play into Devon losing trust in Maul and suspecting he caused Daki's death.

Of course there are countless ways the show may go, and this could easily not be the path it takes, but I think it'd be cool if it did and I just wanted to share because I love Shadow Lord and thinking about the things that may never happen is fun. :)

Given how the planet in LNF is gonna be huge compared to NMS, and we're all gonna be there together, I really wonder how civilization will develop for players. It seems like NPC civs of some sort will exist (no idea the size) but it would be cool if people lived in different biomes on the planet and developed actual distinct cultures around life in those areas.

And if this does happen, I really wonder if the cultures will mirror others. Like, northerners in many fictions are seen as tough and sparse, people towards the centre are often more mercantile and have big cities, and northerners often feel superior to them. I wonder if stuff like that will happen. It'd be so, so interesting to see. Hopefully we don't develop racism again.

People who use AI are skipping ahead in life in their eyes, and not "wasting" time and getting to what is allegedly as good a level as people who actually learn a given skill. Given that much AI crap out there is paid, do you think the paid users basically have the same mentality as like, whales in pay to win games?

It feels like they think if they spend money and/or use this product, they win easily without having actually learned anything or developed any skill. It feels like their mentality is the same as playing a pay to win mobile game or something, where they just want the end result, regardless of the cost to anything else.

Just a new lense I was thinking of this from. It's not necessarily a perfect analogy for like, all AI sloppers, but I feel like it does work well for at least some of them.

ETA: I think the specific group I'm thinking of is the "stop gatekeeping" kinda people, who think requiring effort and, you know, humanity, is gatekeeping.

Edit #2: Half the people who are here defending AI have made a typo and I think there's a real lesson to learn there 😂

Edit #3: Almost every single AI user who has commented has confirmes that they do agree that they think AI is just pay to win for life, so if even they agree, I guess I was right huh?

Hiya, I'm wondering if there are any racing modes in Star Wars games that I don't know about. Podracing, swoop racing, starship racing, honestly I'd even consider foot racing. 😂

Currently I know:

- Racer

- Racer Revenge

- Super Bombad Racing

- Beyond Victory (the VR game)

- Swoop racing within Kotor

- Outlaws

- Jedi: Survivor on animals maybe? (Confirmation is welcome if you know!)

- Galactic Racer, in October

Editing to include ones I have now been informed of/remembered:

• Shadows of the Empire (apparently a nightmare of a level)

• Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

• Kinda sorta Battlefront 2015 single-player stuff (speeder bikes in particular)

• The Old Republic swoop racing event

• Lego Skywalker Saga and Complete Saga

• Gameboy racer game

-Demolition (it's close enough for me 😌)

• Kinect Star Wars

• Star Wars Galaxies Restoration

• Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (not playable, but there was going to be a racing level and there is footage and pictures)

And that's all. It's a decent variety, but I'm curious if there are other racing things in Star Wars games. I don't just mean full on racing games necessarily, but even modes in other games, or just individual levels. I'm pumped about Galactic Racer and I'm thinking about playing all the other Star Wars racing stuff in the lead up to it. Hell, I'd even include Fortnite Star Wars racing stuff if that exists.

Also, as a side note to the main question: anyone know if there'll be tournaments for racing in Galactic Racer? 👀 I love racing and Star Wars so I'd love to participate if there's stuff brewing already, but I know the game is still months out so that may only come up after launch.

Body armour. Apex Legends got intense back at launch and, well, body hat, as opposed to regular hat.

It could absolutely not be the case, but Maul's training took him to Malachor a few times and when he shows up in Rebels, he says he hasn't spoken to anyone in years and he pretty aggressively tries to recruit Ezra as his new apprentice.

It makes me wonder if maybe Devon left him there upon (presumably) finding out about Daki. Him being stranded implies his way to the planet was cut off, and he kills 2/3 Inquisitors that he encounters there pretty easily so it's hard to believe they were keeping him there in any capacity. Presumably he could've just killed the one who's after him (the Tenth Brother I think?) and taken his ship to go try to recruit somebody to open the temple on Malachor, instead of waiting literal years for anybody to happen upon him and getting lucky that the person who did eventually happen upon him is both willing and able to help him.

So given all that, he presumably can't get off the planet until the Inquisitor(s) show up, which means he was somehow stranded there and has not been there entirely deliberately. It seems like he would trust her a lot, as he already seems to (and seemed to trust his previous apprentice a lot), especially given that he would have longer with Devon than he did with Savage by far. So, if he trusts her a lot, then he would be more vulnerable to being betrayed by her. Plus, he talks a whole lot on Malachor about how there are always 2 Sith, invoking the Rule of Two a whole lot. The Rule of Two also always results in the apprentice beating the master (if the master wins, they find another apprentice until eventually they are in theory killed by the apprentice), but Maul's death is already written, so perhaps she beats him here as a completion of her apprenticeship. Maul isn't a Sith anymore, but he was raised as one and believes much of what they teach, but not all of it, so it's possible he still saw this as a way to teach, but it could just be good writing that he's defeated in what is effectively a Sith ritual. It would also definitely explain why he's alone at a temple he quite possibly knew required 2 to activate and even enter.

It would be a good way to tie up Devon and Maul's interconnected story while letting her continue after, and Maul obviously also continued after for some time. It would mean that Maul quite possibly teaches Devon using some methods he was taught with, which would also narratively explain why Devon hasn't shown up in other stories, because Maul was a shadowy agent of Sidious, and so he would quite possibly have her learn by going off and doing her own thing pretty regularly. It would explain why Maul seems to have not gone looking for Devon when he's back off Malachor, because he may quite possibly have just accepted her leaving on some level. He hates Sidious for what he did to Savage (and other reasons), so he may well understand Devon hating him for essentially killing Daki. He already obviously understands that concept enough to keep it a secret from her.

So, what do you all think? I know this is speculation that could totally be wrong, but I think it would be cool! It would be really ominous any time they go to Malachor if you think she's gonna find out about Daki on that planet. It explains lots about each character separately and together. I'm happy to be wrong but I'd be happy to be right too. Honestly I'm pretty confident this show will be done properly regardless, so this is just fun speculation.

I have been really into the classic Battlefront games recently and I've loved them and the new ones since each of them released, and I've spent a while thinking about what another Battlefront game could be.

It's hard to evolve that series further because it's practically gauranteed to have less content to start with than Battlefront 2 (2017) has now and that alone makes it something of a hard sell. Plus, they'd have to come up with new game modes or ways to revamp old ones, some new spin on progression and weapons and upgrades and all that.

But like, what if they didn't? Imagine if the next Battlefront was not a strictly "new" game, but a collection of *all* the Battlefront games, or as many as possible, all wrapped into one. All the EA Battlefront maps wrapped into one game would be wonderful to begin with, but imagine getting updated visuals for the old ones too. Not even new design, just a visual update to the classics, and all the gameplay tied into one game as different Star Cards and potentially different classes or special units. They could have the *best* Star Wars multiplayer game of all time, it would print money for years and years, and while they would have to do visual updates and change some heroes (or just remove them until some time after release or something) and put some minimal design into the game.

And the storyyy, we could have it so good. This would increase the scope, but imagine getting a new version of the originals Battlefront 2 story but with Dee Bradley Baker (or even Temura Morrison again) that fits into the new canon. It doesn't have to be as nuts in production value as the Battlefront 2 2017 story, it could just be done in the same way as it was before with voice over and cool little snippets of stuff. The Battlefront 1 classic story could be the same too.

Plus I'd die of excitement if this happened and they also incorporated Rogue Squadron and Elite Squadron stuff.

I know this is so very unlikely for a lot of reasons but it could be such an efficient way to make another game. It would be using design that people already love, with the newer style of gameplay that exists now in Battlefront, mechanics and assets that already exist now in Battlefront 2015 and its sequel, and would be a super nice way to tie in old Star Wars to new Star Wars.

This isn't speculation about what's next, just my heart wistfully considering what could be, even though it really *really* almost certainly will not happen.

Hi! I think this is the right spot to ask this, I certainly hope so. I am wondering if you can restart levels after starting. So, could I play a bunch of say, an rpg level, and eventually decide I want to reset my progress and play from the beginning again?

I replay games a lot so I've been very curious if that's possible in Fortnite levels.

Hi! I'm thinking about recording audiobooks and releasing them on YouTube and *NOT* monetizing them at all. Perhaps monetizing other videos but right now I just want to create a resource online for anyone to use freely. Of course, I'd credit the author and publisher and all that in the description at the very least, though I'm not sure if I need to otherwise or not (like, in the videos) but I probably still would.

I've seen a few channels do this, such as Fulcrum Entertainment and Holocron of the Galaxy, but I'm not totally sure if there's something they're doing that makes it okay. I mean, they literally title the videos as audiobooks so maybe it's fine. But perhaps reading verbatim isn't allowed but changing a few words is? Perhaps it's allowed if you do a little chat before and/or after reading, so it counts as commentary?

Any insight would be very much welcome, whether you have a full answer or just part of one!