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| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/15/24 5:48:23 PM #129 | KamikazePotato posted... Looking forward to Ninja's requisite tiny incremental changes i mean, that's where most jobs are at right now. endwalker already, for some of them, just said "AoE version of an old skill, upgrade of an old skill, one new button". or, as the memes often said, yo dawg i heard you like finishers so i put a finisher after your finisher so you can finish after you finish |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/15/24 5:38:30 PM #126 | odds of three more summons for summoner post-phoenix??? |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 284: Epic ___ |
| Dels 05/15/24 3:46:50 PM #51 | Seanchan posted... Mickey |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/14/24 11:22:09 PM #116 | TomNook7 posted... So were there any significant changes to the core game with endwalker? Was this the first time they introduced pvp? Also any cool side quests / raids i need to do like in shadowbringers? PVP has been in from the start! But Endwalker launched the latest PVP mode, Crystalline Conflict, which came with a big PVP rework and I think was intended to revitalize PVP since it previously wasn't considered very relevant, but this mode was a "big deal". I don't play PVP so I don't know much about it. (Oh, but it seems to have been mostly a success in that regard - people do play it and PVP seems relevant nowadays) The trials like Ruby Weapon and etc this time are actually part of the post-patch storyline so you don't need to go find them off in their own blue quest anywhere. The raid series (like Eden) is called Pandaemonium and is in Elpis somewhere, though I think it starts from a blue questline in Sharlayan...? (Or Maybe Labyrinthos) I actually like the story in this, despite being a story-hater generally. It's basically just as important to the plot as Eden was and follows up on some major side-characters. The 24-person raids are beautiful as usual. They start in... maybe Mor Dhona? They're about the mythology of the world and the 12 Gods or whatever, like the one you picked at character creation and always appears on your character select screen. Highly recommended, and the music is amazing. I think there's a huge sidequest series about Tataru or something. I didn't do it. ...Oh and there's the Island Sanctuary. Right. If you like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley I guess, and want a much more watered-down version of that... (I don't think you want this) Oh and there's Criterion Dungeons. These are dungeons that can take anywhere from 1 to 4 people, so you can solo them, and each one has various choices you can make (some hidden) that lead to different paths with different bosses. I think they're all started from the counter down south by the pier in Sharlayan. I don't think these are particularly important, but technically they were a big new feature of the expansion. (They have harder modes too for raiders) |
| Topic | Braid Anniversary Edition releases tomorrow. |
| Dels 05/14/24 3:42:08 PM #11 | People should be warned that of the 40 new levels, 14 are commentary indexes, 12 are alternate design with commentary and finally 13 are actually brand new with 16 puzzle pieces for a new frame. from a reddit post. i'm surprised though, because my first instinct was that all 40 must be just alternate versions (like beta designs or rejected levels or etc), so the fact that there's still actually new levels is impressive. |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/14/24 2:58:17 PM #29 | I can see it making more sense with that progress. I just downloaded it on a whim to check it out and placed myself X number of lessons in already so I had no stakes attached to my "progression" and didn't really intend to achieve anything with the app, so the notifications were just annoying. If I did a gamification app from the beginning it might have more of an effect. Though my completionist nature would make me dislike the idea of skipping anything - I think my ideal app would need to have an appropriate progression baked in, because seeing every level get a checkmark or whatever is my own form of gamification that works for me... |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/14/24 2:20:45 PM #27 | foolm0r0n posted... Also I found the most addictive thing is climbing leaderboard ranks. I really don't get this, but I am aware that plenty of research + the apps being actually succesful show that this gamification works. For me it was like, can I please just see the next exercise instead of getting YOU GOT TEN EXP, YOU LEVELED UP, YOU FOUND A GIFT every 20 seconds. I can't get hooked on a reward system when they are literally meaningless. It's not like in a video game where it actually lets me fight stronger enemies or be more prepared for the boss. |
| Topic | 'I have type 2 diabetes, but I manage it well. It's a little pill with a big...' |
| Dels 05/14/24 2:18:45 PM #2 | well since i feel compelled to close it after like 2 seconds i guess i'll vote "annoying i hate seeing it" but i basically never see ads these days due to not watching live TV and having an adblocker so i'm not especially attuned to them oh whoops just now i see maybe that means i was meant to click "i've never seen it" since the poll is about my reaction to seeing it spontaneously, not via this thread? oh well |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 283: ___ Brothers |
| Dels 05/14/24 1:11:48 AM #7 | Battle (This is... a game. I don't even know what it is, but it seems it was shown at the start of the trailer for the current Steam Fest and it must've left a subconscious impression!) |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 282: Dream ___ |
| Dels 05/13/24 4:20:16 PM #75 | Quest |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/12/24 11:27:36 PM #89 | i mean i'm not really a big fan of ffxiv's story or just ffxiv as a game in general and the abundance of nonstop dialogue boxes and the fact that the "gameplay" is 90% fetch quests is a part of that but that'd apply to most expansions anyway. i thought endwalker's story was fine. i think most people prefer shadowbringers by a bit, maybe just because it's a bit more focused whereas endwalker is trying to do its own thing while also ending a bunch of arcs. |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/12/24 8:31:59 PM #11 | i have no idea how rosetta stone teaches actual alphabets. i also don't really know how it'd work for someone who isn't starting from zero, i feel that's the target audience. depending on how much you know, it might take a really long to make you go through very basic sentences like "this is a boy" "this is a cat" "the cat is walking" for hours. idk if it has skips. |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/12/24 8:10:05 PM #7 | BrohanBlanco posted... Wow conflicting opinions my goodness. well i did say |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/12/24 8:09:14 PM #6 | I don't think Duolingo changes, but I'm not certain. I downloaded it at one point and said I already knew X amount and it threw me in a certain amount of lessons in and it seems to be all the same exercises that I see beginners do. The silliest is when half the exercises are, like, "make this sentence into english" except its with set word options that you just have to put in order so it'll be like Translate: P to english: [dog] [in] [is] [park] [The] [the] and its like, well, great, luckily I know english so I can just, like, not need to read the foreign sentence at all. but at least i'm learning english sentence construction! I do think it starts throwing in more extra words in later chapters but yeah idk, multiple-choice anything is typically very easy mode for language learning and duolingo seems full of it |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| Dels 05/12/24 7:46:03 PM #2 | Duolingo isn't a tool for anyone who is actually serious about learning a language. It's either for people doing it casually for fun, or as a supplementary add-on when you want to do some easy drills. But using it without paying gives you an ad every 2 minutes so it's worthless even for that, and it's certainly not worth spending money on. I loved Rosetta Stone but I've never seen another person ever agree, it is universally panned and most threads about it will be entirely people saying it's completely useless. It doesn't contain any english and is based on you figuring out meanings on your own using images and pattern recognition. (The idea being that it will stick in your head better if you make the connections yourself rather than just being told what something is equivalent to in english) If you think you'll become one of those people getting annoyed that it won't just tell you what the thing is, then I guess you should probably avoid it - though I think it's great. I don't know Babbel. |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 281: ___, Inc. |
| Dels 05/12/24 12:47:32 AM #26 | Invisible |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney (G2-1) |
| Dels 05/11/24 9:05:13 PM #5 | Bitto posted... People generally liked G1-5. Some really liked it due to the strengths of GAA1, in particular the story and characterization. Most people liked Gregson's role and the Skulkins. The cat flap was a bit divisive, with some finding it clever and other finding it silly. Others did not like Didn't like what? Didn't like what?! |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (G1-5) |
| Dels 05/11/24 8:38:06 PM #40 | Yeah, I basically felt while playing it that he had a story he wanted to tell that didn't really "fit" into the ace attorney format but he had to make it fit anyway. |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (G1-5) |
| Dels 05/11/24 6:06:40 PM #38 | I've said this before, but I read somewhere that Shu Takumi's initial plan for the first Phoenix Wright game was for 1-2 to be the finale case of the game, but producers/editors told him to pick up the pace. So GAA1 is what happens when he's established himself enough that no one gets to tell him what to do anymore, apparently. (I actually don't know how I'd speed up GAA1 anyway - cases 1 and 3 are necessary, and 2 is mostly necessary as well, at least for Kazuma and the introduction of Susato and Sherlock), and I think G1-5 needs at least one normal case in Britain before it, but maybe that's not true and it could've worked as a case 4, with a real finale case as a case 5.) |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 280: ___ Break |
| Dels 05/10/24 11:59:30 PM #16 | AbsolutelyNoOne posted... Prison |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (G1-5) |
| Dels 05/10/24 6:42:18 PM #26 | Andy's post is the closest to my feelings. This is the GAA cast (it's strongest suit) in full form finally solving a real case - which makes it a good experience. I'd call this case very underrated based on the posts here, and I wonder how much of that is because people went into it wanting a "finale" case when it's really more of a case 3. |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/10/24 1:28:16 PM #82 | TomNook7 posted... what? i'm guessing wedge's post is a quote from a content creator, who got harassed off the internet because he made a cute little song about how he likes girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y5KVtU810 |
| Topic | Video Game Character of the 2010s - Sans vs. Cuphead |
| Dels 05/09/24 4:18:16 PM #37 | Sans |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/09/24 2:49:38 PM #471 | I actually basically agree with the season ranking above though, except that I'd probably put 41 above 43 since the post-merge drama around the alliance falling apart was pretty juicy. (And Shan was a very compelling character. Sucks to learn the things she's said/done post-show.) Reddit mods do suck though. 42 really had something special going though so it's really impressive it was able to be pretty good even despite being in the pre-longer-episodes new era stretch. I probably put 46 and 45 above it by default but it's not a foregone conclusion. |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/09/24 2:44:55 PM #470 | Are they saying it in confessional, or to each other? Lots of people play up how someone is "a threat to win" as an excuse to paint them as a target. |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 278: Blood ___ |
| Dels 05/09/24 12:42:09 AM #22 | Money |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/08/24 9:32:10 PM #454 | Sad to lose Venus. Amazing, amazing casting choice. (As was Liz, it turns out - and definitely Q as well) I can't overstate how refreshing it is to see people actually hash out arguments at tribal instead of just saying "Well, Jeff, Survivor is hard! It's like driving a car!" over and over again for 15 minutes every episode. Props to the producers for finally making good Survivor again. And man, I like Maria, but wow, the second-hand embarrassment I felt during that reward-picking sequence. |
| Topic | Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ releasing 7/18 on all platforms. |
| Dels 05/08/24 4:06:31 PM #12 | https://raiderking.com/master-detective-archives-rain-code-pc-port-wont-be-playable-in-english-until-almost-3-months-after-launch/ lol According to the titles Steam page and a follow up community post from Spike Chunsoft, the game will only be available to play in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese languages when it releases on July 18, 2024. Support for the English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish versions of the game will not be added until a patch releasing on October 1, 2024. |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Runaway Room (G1-3) |
| Dels 05/08/24 3:51:56 PM #26 | I'm a bit surprised at the high ratings on this one, though I had sort of sensed most people valued this case higher than me, so not too surprised. I totally appreciate all the strong points this case has and McGilded was definitely compelling, I think I was just still too much in a mind-set of "wow this game is simple and easy" (from the lingering effects of G1-2 into another trial-only case) plus there's still all the silly jurors and witnesses that still make this case feel very "GAA1-like" and I think that held me back from getting super invested in the case, even though it had those intriguing hooks in it. I may appreciate it more on a replay when I can view it distinctly from the cases before and after it which kind of sandwich it into a mediocre experience overall. |
| Topic | Switch 2 officially confirmed |
| Dels 05/07/24 2:50:34 PM #18 | Nintendo Switcheroo |
| Topic | Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ releasing 7/18 on all platforms. |
| Dels 05/07/24 1:01:42 PM #8 | If you ever found yourself thinking: "Look, I liked Danganronpa, but the characters were just a little bit too sane and normal, I'd like them to be a bit wackier? And my favourite part was the minigames so I think there should be more focus on those" then boy, do I have the game for you! Bonus if you like doing fetch quests for random unnamed NPCs. |
| Topic | Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ releasing 7/18 on all platforms. |
| Dels 05/07/24 12:50:29 PM #5 | My opinion on this game is that some parts of it (a lot) are among the absolute worst stuff I've ever seen in the "murder mystery visual novel-ish" genre, but that it did somehow come together in the end to be a worthwhile experience. So I'd tentatively recommend it only to hardcore fans of the genre who have already played every Danganronpa and Zero Escape and etc and can put up with that, but not to anyone else. If you haven't played Ghost Trick yet, go play that instead. |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Adventure of the Great Departure (G1-1) |
| Dels 05/06/24 5:59:51 PM #27 | I think I will like it more on replay since I have even more of a fondness for the characters now (and they were good from the start!) so I won't mind going through something like 1-2 (or 1-3) again. 1-4 will probably still be rough but at least it has Gregson's theme. |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/05/24 10:05:22 PM #38 | yes that was me |
| Topic | It's time. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker playthrough topic |
| Dels 05/05/24 5:06:15 PM #27 | TomNook7 posted... Anyone wanna help me finish up the eden raids? Im trying to make a party for eden 9 normal but theres nobody joining lol i will do this if you still don't have anyone? and i'll go as healer/tank to reduce queue time |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/05/24 4:15:20 PM #435 | Yeah, it makes it really hard since a lot of Edgic has been about throughlines. But then again, the throughlines are still there. Maryanne's was all about showing oddballs can still win, it was mentioned over and over that she was "an outsider" and etc. Dee did consistently mention playing for her family or whatever. (A bit weak but sure). Erika at least reminded us she was going to go from lamb to lion. One of my biggest arguments against Dee last season was that she consistently received no follow-up on plots from the previous episode, even if they were really important to her. For example, she had a huge rivalry with Sifu, but the episode after he was voted out - I was sure if she won there'd be at least one confessional saying "So Sifu got voted out, that's good since he thought I voted for him / since I've been against him from day one" etc but she had nothing. Similarly after she voted out Kaleb, no follow-up, she's just not in the next episode, even though he called her out directly at tribal. I was like, surely you'd take the easy opportunity to give her a recap confessional saying "Last night, we voted out ____" at least one of these times, just to make sure casual viewers remember her? But they didn't. ...tl;dr, edgic is tough. I wish Naomi was still around to just tell me who wins. |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/05/24 4:06:22 PM #432 | Underleveled posted... Honestly, edgic is pretty much out the window in the new era, or at least, it has changed and edgicers are still trying to find the new rhythm. I think a lot of people are trying not to be "sore losers", so they don't wanna just throw their hands up and say "that was bullshit!!!" because it's bad look to say "edgic is dead" just because you failed to get it right. But I do kinda think some of it has been... very divorced from pre-40 editing trends. Like, Gabler for example, the people who called it say, in retrospect, "He got consistent confessionals every episode telling us he was laying low and underestimated but that he was still playing!", but like... I'm pretty sure that's a completely normal thing that tons of losing finalists got. You telling the viewer you're playing well while no one else ever talks about you has generally been a strong sign of losing, an easy way for editors to give a bit of suspense to a losing finalist and make the result not completely obvious, but not actually really supporting that player. Or like how my biggest issue with Erika (and I casually binged this season so wasn't following edgic) was how she was totally absent from episodes 2 and 3, then in ep 4 Deshawn is like "So Erika's a huge threat we need to get out." To me, one of the biggest trends in edgic is that if you have no story then randomly get brought up as a threat, that's because you're not important and you're just randomly coming up now to justify a specific plot, but you don't have a throughline. I just ruled her out right then and there. But apparently it was part of a new trend where they like to have their winner randomly seem in danger pre-merge even if they weren't actually in danger. |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 05/05/24 3:53:53 PM #430 | GTM posted... Teach me edgic Not really because she also had a quote like "This could come back to bite me, or it could be a game-winning move" and the former is very often fore-shadowing. There's also been lines over the past two episodes where, at first, Maria said "Kenzie wants to make this move for her resume, and that might put a target on her back", now Kenzie backs out but Maria does the move instead... so is this foreshadowing that it's just going to put a target on Maria? There's various other reasons to rule Maria out, though I would've said there were reasons to rule out Dee and Yam-Yam (and certainly Gabler, and definitely Erika) too so it's hard these days. |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Time Traveler (6-6) |
| Dels 05/05/24 1:33:31 PM #35 | Nanis23 posted... I am not giving a score, damn nanis is stealing my posts |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 274: ___ Men |
| Dels 05/05/24 10:26:27 AM #50 | Mad |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Revolution (6-5) |
| Dels 05/04/24 8:54:00 AM #27 | Yeah, I mean, my issue with the series post-trilogy was that nothing would surprise me anymore. The mechanics of the cases in dual destinies - oh, the room was locked, the body was moved, etc etc, it all just felt like I'd seen it before. For this case to contain possibly the most shocking twist in the series... (Plus just the divination seances throughout the game all allowed for new things) is why it stands out so much. |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 273: Bi___ |
| Dels 05/04/24 12:01:01 AM #2 | Bicolor |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Revolution (6-5) |
| Dels 05/03/24 9:33:44 PM #14 | KamikazePotato posted... Man now I feel like I missed out after bouncing straight off SoJ and not getting far in. Oh well. i bounced off around case 2 but i'm glad i came back! |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 272: ___ Awards |
| Dels 05/03/24 7:57:41 AM #29 | Emmy |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Storyteller (6-4) |
| Dels 05/02/24 8:12:57 PM #2 | i like this case |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 271: Children of ___ |
| Dels 05/02/24 10:39:14 AM #55 | Morta well, I missed yesterday's so my first thought was "Light" lol but we'll say that doesn't count |
| Topic | Rate the Ace Attorney case: The Rite of Turnabout (6-3) |
| Dels 05/01/24 9:59:14 PM #13 | very good/10 |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 269: Little ___ |
| Dels 04/30/24 3:56:33 PM #69 | Nemo I hope wrong answers are allowed because apparently the film is called "Finding Nemo" but "Little Nemo" was just the first thing that popped into my head when reading the topic title! |
| Topic | Playing Tyrion Cuthbert, the best non-ace attorney ace attorney game |
| Dels 04/30/24 12:49:26 PM #139 | Yep, I really thought you would like the case 3 stuff and the romance angle, and also just have an appreciation for the game since you're not as concerned as others about the big overarching mysteries! |
| Topic | Reality Show General Discussion Topic: Fewer Villains, More Inspiration |
| Dels 04/30/24 11:22:18 AM #369 | I think it's probably even harder now to have a returnee season that isn't full of "pre-gaming" too, since I get the sense that recent casts tend to socially interact even more than before thanks to social media and stuff. If the wider pool helps them pick a spread of people who aren't as well-connected outside of the game, that's a good thing. And yeah, even if some of these seasons weren't the most exciting, the idea of seeing Shan and Emily and Carolyn and Jesse and etc all on the same season together is, like, actually really hype. I also think the New Era presents some good opportunities for pre-merge returnees, since the skill level of the casts these days is much higher, even people who went pre-merge didn't always play that badly. |
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