Don’t be the person on the internet who says they solved their issue without offering up said solution for other people who may have been looking for it.
panel 2: different crit percentages, panel 3: guy’s shirt is different, panel 4: “hell yes” rather than “of course”, panel 5: guy has glasses, panel 6: girl’s hair is a different color….. it really is 6 different comics!!!!!
Yea the decision to not allow preorders or predownloads really bit em in the ass. Pretty sure no dev will be allowed to say no to them in the future as a result.
It’s cool he put spoiler tags, but I feel they are a bit silly. Anyone coming to the comments has probably either solved it already, or is here looking for answers.
I’ll offer you an alternative: they came to the comments looking to read people’s reactions to the comic.
At a narrow interpretation of the ‘looking for answers’ reason they might be looking for the answer to a specific panel while still trying to figure out another. And sight isn’t selective.
I saw the differences right away. Took me 60 seconds to get the actual joke.
Cypher
25 days ago
In all fairness, this is an established rng formula that has existed before Diablo 2. Loot is loot, and there is something glorious about needing a rake to pick it all up, even if 99% is going to make the vendors cry.
If you want to see this formula in full chaos-mode where it would break the most hardened 40k marine, look at old Nox. If I’m remembering the right game, the mechanics were you don’t level. You just put on items with more adjectives. Eventually it gets to the point, with a persistent player, you don’t see item stats anymore, it’s just words filling the screen like a crime scene featuring a thesaurus.
Bah, it’s the same thing as before but with the addition of that one friend who loves calculating everything saying how much the algorithm can spit out. If you can smile and shake your head at that one, what is the fuss with it now? You have always known piles and piles of fillers were there in other times it was used, it’s weird seeing people get fussy over it.
If people are touting it as a feature, then it’s salient to ask what is actually being sold to you. That one awkward friend doesn’t have a monetary interest in your excitement.
Is it being touted as a feature, though? Like, I’m not really keeping track of Borderlands 4 marketing, so it’s quite possible they have been doing so, but they’ve been making wild numbers up for the amount of possible guns there are since the first game. They never really claimed they were all hugely different before, just that there was that many potential ones.
It is Randy though, so I wouldn’t put it past him to suddenly try and convince people the guns are actually that unique.
Yeah its the inflating the numbers that’s the problem. Its like saying Vilkas in Skyrim offers ten thousand quests. Because you rescue one of two hundred NPC’s from fifty different possible locations.
You know, I seem to remember Destiny 2 pulling similar to all this afterwards, and the Borderlands critics seemed noticeably silent. I’ve poked this genre for too long, seen this exact argument replay over and over. I solo farmed Crawmerax, bashing face against numbers is part and parcel. Removing is asking Call of Duty to replace guns with farming. Keep charging the windmill…
They been doing this forever. What is more annoying than loot however, are endings. When they say “Look we have 10,000 different endings, based off your choices!” Then it is like 4 actual endings.
Telltale Games 101 … your choice matters for the whole Story. You decide in the epic The walking Dead – spinoff Clementines fate. Will she have a pink hat or an orange one, does the right or left shoelace gets torn off and will the bandaid be on the right or left cheek ! Amazing dynamic Story !
Prime_pm
25 days ago
I, for one, absolutely HATE the Borderlands franchise. And I tried so hard to play it, starting with game 2 which is supposedly and colloquially the best one out of the series. Didn’t like it. It’s just a lootbox shooter and one of the reasons so many video games have become so diminished gameplay wise.
I liked 1 a lot and played it a ton.
2 got boring and I struggled to finish it.
Pre-Sequel I was so bored I didn’t finish it.
Didn’t bother with 3 and I won’t bother with 4.
People will endlessly agonize which shotgun version is better to equip. The +11% crit, -10% cooldown or the +10% crit, -11% cooldown.
You’ll see endless tables showing the averaged results of hundreds of matches with carefully controlled conditions for each, and the latter has a tiny edge over the former.
And then you get a +12% crit, -10% cooldown version. Or a complete oddball +20% crit, -5% cooldown and you have to redo.
yep, outside raids which as a solo player i never do the type of gun is moot
FITCamaro
25 days ago
I see what you did there
Barry_Bates
25 days ago
I see what he 2 trying to do, but it kinda falls flat to me.
Shoggothic
25 days ago
Meh. Around the Presequel or Borderlands 3, Gearbox’s humorous guntopia formula kind of turned bland for me. I respect plenty of people will like it, but soft pass from me, at least anywhere near full price.
I got most of the series for just seven dollars. That’s about as much as I’m willing to pay for them right now.
lancer
25 days ago
took me a while
Urainkhali
25 days ago
And here we also learn about the basics of NFT’s, along with basics of gambling.
Reso
25 days ago
As a counterpoint, I enjoyed playing “find the difference” in this strip.
Of course, if BL4 is anything like BL2, it should have a handy “compare items” feature, that reduces comparisons to “Does this new item have more green stat text than my current item? Also, do I care about the improved stat items?”
Dutch
25 days ago
i applaud you sir.
Banjo
25 days ago
Wow! Six comics in one day! That’s, like, half a dozen! You’re spoiling us, Tim!
Verdiekus
25 days ago
Lmao, took me a minute, but that was fun.
Joe
25 days ago
I must admit I had fun discovering the differences among the panels.
Matt
25 days ago
I’m pretty sure I see what you did there 😉
Alacrity
25 days ago
Spoilers!!
Panel 2 the %’s,
#3 The shirt under the jacket
#4 Hell yeah.
#5 The Stache
#6 her hair color
Fred
25 days ago
Ok, ok, Tim, you’ve made your point.
Kav
24 days ago
Is the point disproven because I enjoyed playing spot the difference?
Of course you can claim it. You can claim lots of things. And then you can expect people to call you out on it.
ChibiAcer
24 days ago
I was confused. Then by the 4th panel I got the joke. Well played.
molotovich
24 days ago
Jokes on them… i’ll play the shit out of it anyway
Crestlinger
24 days ago
So if you can find the base permutation amount Per weapon you can use that as the divider. say 100 for a single shotgun. …that still is a lot of a loot pile. But becomes Hilarious when you get that One Weapon that the internet says is the best because it has lasers, pink text, infinite ammo, etc. and all else are into the trash heap.
its a joke. the guns are like the panels. subtle differences at best.
Zequeins
24 days ago
Believers tend to say God creates everyone to be unique.
In my experience, it’s like God just moves the slider a bit and mark the new person as unique. Technically true, but, well… this strip.
Last edited 24 days ago by zequeins
DraftySatyr
23 days ago
And there, in a nutshell, is why I’m not bothering with Borderlands 4
Foxhood
23 days ago
I would make a joke about that logic being identical to that used by NFT Grifters.
But I’m starting to think that lot has largely been forgotten already. Which is a good thing honestly.
will scott
22 days ago
panel 2 took me longest to spot a difference lol.
Mor
22 days ago
Brilliant 😂
Marcus
22 days ago
bro needs no glasses on the second pannel, hes already read the script. from there the glasses should get slightly different each time. sunnys on last pannel.
Twiwot
22 days ago
I love the subtle humor in this one.It made me laugh. It’s kind of refreshing to find comedy that doesn’t feel like it needs to make everything stupidly obvious in case the audience doesn’t get it.
Robert
22 days ago
Oh come on, how evil can you be to make me try to spot differences in six panels right in the morning …
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Okay, Panel 4 was the one that I couldn’t spot the difference.
Ne’er mind. Found it.
Panel 4 he says “hell yes” instead of “of course”
Don’t be the person on the internet who says they solved their issue without offering up said solution for other people who may have been looking for it.
Thank you good person on the internet. 💚
I really struggled with that one as well.
panel 2: different crit percentages, panel 3: guy’s shirt is different, panel 4: “hell yes” rather than “of course”, panel 5: guy has glasses, panel 6: girl’s hair is a different color….. it really is 6 different comics!!!!!
Panel 5 guy has mustache.
He has glasses in every panel.
30 BILLION comics!
Good catch. I was splitting hairs with the e in gearbox being covered up.
Panel 2 is the one I couldn’t figure out, thank you.
Spoiler alert!
Hair
That was the first difference I found.
Panel two?! Can’t see it
She says “12 or 13” instead of “11 or 12”
text
The percentages in her speech bubble!
Didnt even think to look for differences, lol found em.
Hahaha, anyway, still looking forward to next friday, just one more week 😀
look at me, i’m dancing omph omph
the mustache, the hair, the t-shirt… nice touch there sir.
Curious if monday’s strip will address Silksong melting all eshops out there from xbox through steam and Nintendos.
Yea the decision to not allow preorders or predownloads really bit em in the ass. Pretty sure no dev will be allowed to say no to them in the future as a result.
Silksong? Did I miss something?
Different reason there
Let’s see, differences relative to panel 1:
Panel 2:
Panel 3:
Panel 4:
Panel 5:
Panel 6:
you must be fun at parties 😀
Look at this guy brooding in the corner at a party thinking “they don’t even know how cool I am”.
A guy offering solutions to those who need it without ruining the experience for those who don’t is welcome at my parties any day.
People who gripe about other people doing the right thing can be doomed to drink Bud Light for all I care.
It’s cool he put spoiler tags, but I feel they are a bit silly. Anyone coming to the comments has probably either solved it already, or is here looking for answers.
I’ll offer you an alternative: they came to the comments looking to read people’s reactions to the comic.
At a narrow interpretation of the ‘looking for answers’ reason they might be looking for the answer to a specific panel while still trying to figure out another. And sight isn’t selective.
Took me a while, lol
I saw the differences right away. Took me a minute to get the actual joke.
I saw the differences right away. Took me thirty billion minutes to get the actual joke.
I saw the differences immediately. Took me thirty billion minutes to get the actual joke.
I saw the differences right away. Took me 60 seconds to get the actual joke.
In all fairness, this is an established rng formula that has existed before Diablo 2. Loot is loot, and there is something glorious about needing a rake to pick it all up, even if 99% is going to make the vendors cry.
If you want to see this formula in full chaos-mode where it would break the most hardened 40k marine, look at old Nox. If I’m remembering the right game, the mechanics were you don’t level. You just put on items with more adjectives. Eventually it gets to the point, with a persistent player, you don’t see item stats anymore, it’s just words filling the screen like a crime scene featuring a thesaurus.
The RNG loot is fine, the questionable part is inflating the numbers by pretending each slight number deviation is a separate weapon.
It’s as if the original pokemon had used its IV numbers to claim to have millions of different pokemon, instead of 150.
Bah, it’s the same thing as before but with the addition of that one friend who loves calculating everything saying how much the algorithm can spit out. If you can smile and shake your head at that one, what is the fuss with it now? You have always known piles and piles of fillers were there in other times it was used, it’s weird seeing people get fussy over it.
If people are touting it as a feature, then it’s salient to ask what is actually being sold to you. That one awkward friend doesn’t have a monetary interest in your excitement.
Is it being touted as a feature, though? Like, I’m not really keeping track of Borderlands 4 marketing, so it’s quite possible they have been doing so, but they’ve been making wild numbers up for the amount of possible guns there are since the first game. They never really claimed they were all hugely different before, just that there was that many potential ones.
It is Randy though, so I wouldn’t put it past him to suddenly try and convince people the guns are actually that unique.
Don’t say the IV thing too loudly, I’m sure they will use it as a foundation to try suing yet another if you repeat it 3 times.
I hear I’d you say “communism” 3 times in a row a Fat Electrician will appear. So I can believe it. 😅
Yeah its the inflating the numbers that’s the problem. Its like saying Vilkas in Skyrim offers ten thousand quests. Because you rescue one of two hundred NPC’s from fifty different possible locations.
You know, I seem to remember Destiny 2 pulling similar to all this afterwards, and the Borderlands critics seemed noticeably silent. I’ve poked this genre for too long, seen this exact argument replay over and over. I solo farmed Crawmerax, bashing face against numbers is part and parcel. Removing is asking Call of Duty to replace guns with farming. Keep charging the windmill…
Gotta catch ‘m all…
Okay, I’ll give you this one. That’s clever.
Just like at my D&D tables.
They been doing this forever. What is more annoying than loot however, are endings. When they say “Look we have 10,000 different endings, based off your choices!” Then it is like 4 actual endings.
Telltale Games 101 … your choice matters for the whole Story. You decide in the epic The walking Dead – spinoff Clementines fate. Will she have a pink hat or an orange one, does the right or left shoelace gets torn off and will the bandaid be on the right or left cheek ! Amazing dynamic Story !
I, for one, absolutely HATE the Borderlands franchise. And I tried so hard to play it, starting with game 2 which is supposedly and colloquially the best one out of the series. Didn’t like it. It’s just a lootbox shooter and one of the reasons so many video games have become so diminished gameplay wise.
But, hey, YMMV.
I liked 1 a lot and played it a ton.
2 got boring and I struggled to finish it.
Pre-Sequel I was so bored I didn’t finish it.
Didn’t bother with 3 and I won’t bother with 4.
Same, but I only played 2 with a group of friends who played one session and never gathered to play another. Didn’t even look into the pre-sequel.
Ok, this turned into one of those “spot the difference in the picture.” I hate you.
I think that’s the point. 😅 And appropriate considering the subject matter of Borderlands 4.
Can’t ‘turn into’ if that was kinda the point from the beginning. >_< (or half of it at least)
30 billion guns. 5 of which will be useful
People will endlessly agonize which shotgun version is better to equip. The +11% crit, -10% cooldown or the +10% crit, -11% cooldown.
You’ll see endless tables showing the averaged results of hundreds of matches with carefully controlled conditions for each, and the latter has a tiny edge over the former.
And then you get a +12% crit, -10% cooldown version. Or a complete oddball +20% crit, -5% cooldown and you have to redo.
People will love it.
Not me, I just pick whichever one looks coolest. Stats and spreadsheets are for those fucking Eve players…
yep, outside raids which as a solo player i never do the type of gun is moot
I see what you did there
I see what he 2 trying to do, but it kinda falls flat to me.
Meh. Around the Presequel or Borderlands 3, Gearbox’s humorous guntopia formula kind of turned bland for me. I respect plenty of people will like it, but soft pass from me, at least anywhere near full price.
I got most of the series for just seven dollars. That’s about as much as I’m willing to pay for them right now.
took me a while
And here we also learn about the basics of NFT’s, along with basics of gambling.
As a counterpoint, I enjoyed playing “find the difference” in this strip.
Of course, if BL4 is anything like BL2, it should have a handy “compare items” feature, that reduces comparisons to “Does this new item have more green stat text than my current item? Also, do I care about the improved stat items?”
i applaud you sir.
Wow! Six comics in one day! That’s, like, half a dozen! You’re spoiling us, Tim!
Lmao, took me a minute, but that was fun.
I must admit I had fun discovering the differences among the panels.
I’m pretty sure I see what you did there 😉
Spoilers!!
Panel 2 the %’s,
#3 The shirt under the jacket
#4 Hell yeah.
#5 The Stache
#6 her hair color
Ok, ok, Tim, you’ve made your point.
Is the point disproven because I enjoyed playing spot the difference?
Asking for a friend.
No, because that has nothing to do with the point.
Brilliant work-around, rushing this out to fill your quota and now you have that much more time with your family.
Now I want to see an xkcd-like use of Javascript to mix and match various permutations of the panel.
THIRTY BILLION TIMES 🙂
Wow… SIX WHOLE COMIC PANELS
Of course you can claim it. You can claim lots of things. And then you can expect people to call you out on it.
I was confused. Then by the 4th panel I got the joke. Well played.
Jokes on them… i’ll play the shit out of it anyway
So if you can find the base permutation amount Per weapon you can use that as the divider. say 100 for a single shotgun. …that still is a lot of a loot pile. But becomes Hilarious when you get that One Weapon that the internet says is the best because it has lasers, pink text, infinite ammo, etc. and all else are into the trash heap.
This is geniusly to the point.
When you feel ripped off, but that’s the joke
Why is it the same frame over and over anyway?
its a joke. the guns are like the panels. subtle differences at best.
Believers tend to say God creates everyone to be unique.
In my experience, it’s like God just moves the slider a bit and mark the new person as unique. Technically true, but, well… this strip.
And there, in a nutshell, is why I’m not bothering with Borderlands 4
I would make a joke about that logic being identical to that used by NFT Grifters.
But I’m starting to think that lot has largely been forgotten already. Which is a good thing honestly.
panel 2 took me longest to spot a difference lol.
Brilliant 😂
bro needs no glasses on the second pannel, hes already read the script. from there the glasses should get slightly different each time. sunnys on last pannel.
I love the subtle humor in this one.It made me laugh. It’s kind of refreshing to find comedy that doesn’t feel like it needs to make everything stupidly obvious in case the audience doesn’t get it.
Oh come on, how evil can you be to make me try to spot differences in six panels right in the morning …