Have been grinding out some stuff in FFXIV (the BST Crucible hairstyles in case anyone cares) so I decided to listen/watch FFXIV w/ the Girls collabs from the very start of the playlist as side monitor content.

That group is such a good vibe holy shit. Perfect perfect thing to listen to as I do other shit. I hope they play other games together omg. It really just is a podcast with Pat and a bunch of vtubers.

Anyway just felt like gushing a bit.

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Every character has their fans but I have (as of yet) never seen anybody have anything good to say about Ranma 1/2’s Happosai. For those who don’t know, imagine if Master Roshi was a tiny ninja goblin / gremlin with ALL of his perverted tendencies turned up to infinity. Do that and you get Happosai. Unlike Roshi and characters like him, he’s difficult to punish for his transgressions because he’s the strongest guy around which makes it harder to give him his just desserts, though karma tends to find a way to serve him right.

Happosai is so hated that most people would note that “oh no, it’s a Happosai episode” in exasperation. The latest episode got that reaction lol. It was fortunately made up for with a lot of other great things. I’m serious when I say that this guy sucks and the earlier episodes that center around him can be tiring.

Any other characters you think are universally hated?

Watching that recent Mandalore Video on Bioshock 2 really reminded me that one of the unique charms of being the Big Daddy is being able to bully your enemies with your size and weight and seeing them splatter against the walls, in addition of throwing fireballs as well, and that's not really a common thing in video games

your never often "The Goliath"

So I was curious if other games give you the option of playing a character with some real weight behind them.

Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, I'm surprised we haven't gotten this yet, this seems like a perfect candidate for a Scooby Doo Monster, that and Hachishakusama (The big and tall lady that preys on children).

I would also suggest any of the obscure cryptids mentioned in Dime Store Adventures videos on the subject.

So i was going through the late part of Galactic Racer and was having a blast with everyones new favorite Skrunko. Obviously I saw the lovable little asshole on some clips but i had no idea how much of a salty john he is. After I beat him in a race i got this message afterward:

(Gonna use spoilertext just in case anyone cares about spoilers on some character stuff and wants to play it themselves.)

Grancha. Uba wata ta wankee. Sa na actuola asaree militaree confeeba. Hoohah busee boska Tah Haku's Junkie Planeeto.

Uba Gorka juba keepuna Thessia. Uba're chuba maya as Jee tinka. wabdah no tinka da do porkman no granee enuff tah stoppa je. ateema weeteebah planeeto sa killya foo uba lacka ta pawa tah winna. Ta storee che Shepard choba tah re scrib doon. Jee boska Jee'm la che ta chapta alay. Da alay foo do killya.

-BB

What a beautiful toggle. It's in the gameplay settings tab, in which you can customize the game even further beyond, either easier or harder for you with different sliders, like damage caused and damage received, higher or lower number of healing potions, higher of lower amount of XP gained, etc.

By using Respawn in front of Boss Doors, the game will now ask you if you want to respawn at the door and fight back immediately, or if you want to go back to a safe room. It's beautiful. God Bless Evil Empire and Motion Twin.

So for some context, in their previous altercation, Magneto and his crew were defeated after being de-aged by the “Ultimate Mutant” known as Alpha. Still seething over it, Magneto wished to get karmic revenge against the X-men by putting them through the same humiliation he felt by attaching special helmets that gave them the approximate body autonomy of an infant while also being careful for by a dotting Android nanny.

You may ask how they got out of this particular jam? Well it’s revealed that Storm was fully ambulatory and conscious from the age of 6 months old and was able to retrieve a lockpick she had hidden in her hair and free herself. Then everyone was able to team up and attack Magneto, forcing him to flee.

You could also be wonder where Professor Xavier is during this debacle? Well this happened after he Irish-Goodbye’d the X-men by faking his death so he could be the consort to an intergalactic queen. So he’s not picking up the phone.

I also wanted to include the cover of X-Men #112, even though this is technically #113, because I think it’s very funny. Wolverine needs to start watching game tape or something, because that him vs Magneto match up is like a 1:9 at best.

Trying to get in the spirit of the season and there's little I love more than a good monster.

Giant worms are sorely underutilized and I love them whenever I see them. Tremors kicks ass. I watched the Dune movies solely to see big worms. I only know of like 3 worm cryptids but like 500 bigfoot ones, and that disappoints me. Love those guys.

So I'm watching YouTube videos about spooky things, as you do this time of year, and learned that Barnabas Collins didn't appear in Dark Shadows until like 200 episodes in. I was told this was a soap opera about vampires and they didn't have a vampire in until a year in. Are their any other characters that were added later that came to dominate the media?

Lately something that I found interesting was that one trope that occasionally shows up in action games where a game can go from being utterly merciless to suddenly being too easy to exploit because I was looking at how some of the older games by Capcom fell into that pattern.

One infamous example is Megaman X3 as I know the game came out so long ago, but while I know Capcom didn't do the development of the game themselves, I was just taking a look back at the programming aspects since I found it really interesting how the game suffers from balancing issues as some of the enemies can do a ridiculously high amount of damage early on, but the thing about the boss fights is that I noticed how several of them are easily exploitable such as Blizzard Buffalo due to a bug in his programming that allows the player to effortlessly mow him down through a specific jump.