u/TaiwaneseThot

Topic.

What's a game that you initially enjoyed, but your opinion eventually did a huge 180?

Like maybe you enjoyed it on your first playthrough, but the more you thought about it the more you disliked it and the flaws became very clear. Or maybe you played it as a kid and when you revisited it years later you were like "...wow this is pretty bad".

This stage is ridiculous. Does anyone else think this stage is really hard? I didn't find ZX Advent that challenging until this level, but it's an insane difficulty spike.

The first section is fine. And the boss rush isn't too bad. But that final section with the regenerating blocks and instant death spikes everywhere is nuts.

Once you finally reach Albert, the boss fight can take a bit to learn with his two forms. Not to mention if you get a game over you have to do the entire stage all over again and it's already pretty long.

At the very least, I would've just put the battle against Albert as a seperate stage so you don't have to re-do the entire boss rush and regenerating block sections again.

Some Zelda dungeons can be pretty long, but what would you say is the longest, or at least one of the longest in the franchise?

For me, it's probably City in the Sky from Twilight Princess. Whenever I replay TP, that dungeon takes me almost twice as long compared to any other dungeon in the game. And it's such a massive dungeon too.

It's easy to mention some scary levels in horror games, but what about non horror games?

Like, what are some levels in non horror video games that you find very creepy and/or they actually scare you?

"We know he used you, humiliated you, brainwashed you. Wound you up like a tin soldier and set you loose upon the Earth"

"Cry me a river"

"On the outside chance this isn't one of Darkseid's schemes, we have to take action. So I suggest you get over it!"

I worked on this a while back and just thought I'd share it. The full video I recreated is 4 minutes long, but I'm just sharing a snippet. It took FOREVER. I was basically a one woman army with no help in adding and replacing all the music, sound effects and reverb.

Anyway, this is the scene in Kung Fu Panda 2 where Po finds out the truth about his past, and we see Po's mom sacrifice herself to save her son.

Unlike the original version of this scene, I leaned heavily into echoing and reverb to make it sound more like a haunting, traumatic memory that's in the darkest recesses of Po's mind.

What's the worst moment where you got softlocked out a game for whatever reason?

Whether it was your fault or not. Stuck on a boss because you were underleveled and you couldn't go back, stuck on a point of no return the game didn't warn you about, maybe a weird glitch, etc. Any moment that stands out to you in the best (or worst) way?

I'm kind of indifferent about whether Waluigi ever gets in Smash or not.

Regardless, this is one thing I've seen Smash fans bring up a lot and that has to be the dumbest reasons. Saying that they'd have a hard time coming up with a moveset for him. It's like people just come up with any excuse to dunk on Waluigi.

Characters like Captain Falcon and Fox had far less moveset potential than Walugi since we never saw them outside of their vehicles before Smash. And yet they still have a versitile moveset even though it's completely made up for Smash. And don't even get me started on Luigi and his moveset, especially in Brawl. That weird final smash that shows he feels like he'll always be in his brother's shadow. When he has ever shown that in the games?

My point is that Sakurai and his team could make up a moveset for pretty much any video game character. Aside from maybe someone like Giygas from Earthbound who doesn't even have a physical form. They'd have zero trouble with Waluigi and its silly to say they couldn't come up with a moveset for him.

HUGE TRIGGER WARNING SINCE IT'S HORRIFIC!!

Ok, with that out of the way...

A few nights ago, I was taking recycling out to the bins near my apartment at around 11:PM, like 6 to 7 feet from my back door.

I didn't see where exactly this man came from, but there was suddenly a gun to my face and a man in a mask told me "don't say a word". He put the gun into my back and told me to walk down the alley and into the backyard.

I offered him my phone but he told me to shut up and keep walking. Once we were in the space between the garbage bins and the garage, he told me to get on the ground and to not say even another word. He was very insistent that I shut up.

The whole time, I stayed the calmest I think I've ever been. I have no idea how, but I think it's one of the things that saved me. I didn't try to fight, and I did what he told me to do. And even if he didn't have a gun with him, I don't think I'd have a physical chance in the slightest since he looked to be about 6 ft.

If it wasn't for the motion sensor lights on the garage, I'm certain he would have raped me. They were triggered by me stumbling, and he ran off. I ran into the building, which was thankfully unlocked, and called 911. A woman came out of the nearest apartment because she heard me knocking and panicking. She was really nice and helpful and kept their door open for me until after the police finally arrived.

I spent almost an hour with officers and sensitive crimes detectives before finally coming back home. I'm still in a lot of shock that it happened at all. I live in a decently sized city that people typically say is sometimes dangerous, but I stupidly thought my neighborhood was safe.

I wonder if he was targeting me specifically, or if he was just an opportunist who would have gone after anyone had they been out there. Either way, be careful out there and stay safe everyone.

HUGE TRIGGER WARNING SINCE IT'S HORRIFIC!!

Ok, with that out of the way...

A few nights ago, I was taking recycling out to the bins near my apartment at around 11:PM, like 6 to 7 feet from my back door.

I didn't see where exactly this man came from, but there was suddenly a gun to my face and a man in a mask told me "don't say a word". He put the gun into my back and told me to walk down the alley and into the backyard.

I offered him my phone but he told me to shut up and keep walking. Once we were in the space between the garbage bins and the garage, he told me to get on the ground and to not say even another word. He was very insistent that I shut up.

The whole time, I stayed the calmest I think I've ever been. I have no idea how, but I think it's one of the things that saved me. I didn't try to fight, and I did what he told me to do. And even if he didn't have a gun with him, I don't think I'd have a physical chance in the slightest since he looked to be about 6 ft.

If it wasn't for the motion sensor lights on the garage, I'm certain he would have raped me. They were triggered by me stumbling, and he ran off. I ran into the building, which was thankfully unlocked, and called 911. A woman came out of the nearest apartment because she heard me knocking and panicking. She was really nice and helpful and kept their door open for me until after the police finally arrived.

I spent almost an hour with officers and sensitive crimes detectives before finally coming back home. I'm still in a lot of shock that it happened at all. I live in a decently sized city that people typically say is sometimes dangerous, but I stupidly thought my neighborhood was safe.

I wonder if he was targeting me specifically, or if he was just an opportunist who would have gone after anyone had they been out there. Either way, be careful out there and stay safe everyone.