July 2023 – Page 3 – The Daily SPUF

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The Dark Flames Event Sucked

July 11, 2023July 3, 2023 Medic 0 Comments dark, dark flames, event, fire, pokemon go

At the end of June, there was a small event called the Dark Flames event. It featured Pokemon that were fire type or dark type (or both) and introduced a new Pokemon, Turtonator. But this event also had a timed research task, and it was genuinely pretty crappy. But why was this event so bad? Let’s start with the spawns. Of course, we had dark types and fire types. But not that many. Houndour, Vulpix and Poochyena were among the most common, and we also saw Numel and Stunky. Stunky had been around in the previous Team Rocket takeover event,… [Continue Reading]

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Squirtle Classic Community Day

July 10, 2023July 9, 2023 Medic 0 Comments community day, pokemon go, squirtle

Classic Community Days are always fun. They bring back a popular Pokemon that has a special move and then pretend it’s a normal community day. But often, the popular Pokemon has been missing for a long time (or at least, its special move has been missing), so it’s a great opportunity to go out and catch some Pokemon. Squirtle Classic Community Day was basically one of those, with a tiny twist. So the catching of these Squirtles was pretty normal. None of them had party hats on, that had been disabled prior to the event. There were enough spawns and… [Continue Reading]

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How I’d Fix Defense Missions in Warframe

July 9, 2023June 29, 2023 Medic 0 Comments defense, warframe

Defense missions are the worst. Well, OK, they’re not the worst, that reward goes to the likes of Defection missions. But Defense missions are all-round not particularly enjoyable. They’re also way more common than missions like Defection and Infested Salvage. Defense is so bad that people will intentionally leave Circuit missions to avoid doing them, especially on the Steel Path. These missions are terrible, so how do we fix them? Well, I’ve got some ideas. No more operatives The first and most basic idea is to not have an operative as a defense target. Their AI is absolutely stupid and… [Continue Reading]

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Dragonball Z Abridged

July 8, 2023June 28, 2023 Medic 0 Comments dragonball, ramble

When I was young, I somehow seemed to watch quite a lot of Dragonball Z. This was back when I lived in the UK and we had things like Sky and Cartoon Network. The show 0n Cartoon Network was dubbed into English, and I recall it never ever seeming to end. There were endless power-ups and new forms to take and things like that. Back then, being a 10-year-old girl, I preferred things like Dexter’s Lab and the Power Puff Girls, but after those, we’d watch a bit of Dragonball Z. We probably watched bits from other series of Dragonball,… [Continue Reading]

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Three Of My Favourite Activities in the Sea of Thieves

July 7, 2023June 27, 2023 Medic 0 Comments sea of thieves

The Sea of Thieves has a huge amount to do. There are islands everywhere, there are world events and there are creatures in the water that want you dead. From finding sunken ships to killing Ashen Lords, there is plenty to do. Here are my favourite things to do on the Sea of Thieves. Sea Forts I have always liked Sea Forts. They’re a nice, simple activity that is normally always available, unless someone has recently completed the fort just before you get there. Generally, the best time to do a sea fort is just before you set off on… [Continue Reading]

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Voices From Chernobyl – A Review

July 6, 2023June 26, 2023 Medic 0 Comments book, chernobyl, disaster, review

Some books can find themselves sitting on shelves for years, waiting to be opened and read. Many books end up sitting on shelves and never moving at all, never picked up or read, only jostled about as other books around them are moved. Some books though do eventually get picked up and read, even if they are not exactly enjoyable books. Sometimes, these books are more harrowing than anything else. Voices from Chernobyl is one such book. Put together by Svetlana Alexievich and translated by Keith Gessen, you can tell from the very start that there is little joy to… [Continue Reading]

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I Had No Idea That You Could Have More than Four Players in Risk of Rain 2

July 5, 2023June 27, 2023 Medic 2 Comments Risk of Rain 2, ror2

I’m not very good at Risk of Rain 2, but it is definitely a game I play sometimes, often with friends. However, I was always of the impression that you could only have 4 players at most in a single run. That was until I sat in on voice chat in Kaiga’s Discord server. A nice fellow by the name of Cheezbeargur explained that, in fact, you can actually play with more than four players. All it took was a handful of console commands, and we’d be able to play with five people. Without using any mods or anything like… [Continue Reading]

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Pokemon GO and Me

July 4, 2023June 24, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon go, ramble

I have a habit about ranting about Pokemon GO. It’s a very simple game that has made a ton of money, but the company behind the game, Niantic, constantly make weird decisions about various game features. As of late, they have been constantly changing the item bundles in the store, and they’ve reduced remote raid usage by limiting remote raids to five per day. Niantic’s relationship with its players and customers is all over the place, and a lot of its Quality of Life changes have been slowly disappearing. Even right now, I could make an argument about how remote… [Continue Reading]

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RIP My Black Pen

July 3, 2023June 23, 2023 Medic 0 Comments drawing, pen, ramble, rant

Whenever I draw something, I often want to outline it in black pen. After all, my pencil line art is very messy, to say the least. I draw lines over lines over lines with my pencils, and it’s very easy for my pencil work to all smudge together into one horrible line of grey. So in order for my drawings to not end up in a giant, massive, grey mess, I use a black pen and go over all the lines with that. Once I’m done with the black lines, I can then erase all the pencil lines, leaving a… [Continue Reading]

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Eternalism And Everyone Being The Main Character

July 2, 2023June 22, 2023 Medic 0 Comments lore, warframe

Most MMOs have the same problem. There’s technically only one protagonist, despite hundreds or thousands of players all being that one single protagonist. This is normally hand-waved away, because MMOs need a protagonist to do their main quests and storylines. It’s the singular hero (or team of heroes) who struggles though the plot of a game, while everyone else might as well be an NPC. It’s always bothered me a little bit, because it basically makes no sense. Either we all do these story quests or no one does. Warframe is no stranger to this problem. After all, it’s only… [Continue Reading]