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How's that any different from all the digital post processing that already goes on?

I realistically could not go back to Xbox Ninja gaiden and beat Master Ninja mode.

I hope in like 30 years nobody remembers his name and his books are just another random unfinished fantasy series sitting next to all the other ones on bookstore shelves. The man doesn't deserve a "legacy" at this point. He deserves to be forgotten.

The important thing is for the belt color to match your shoe color.

St0rmFury posted...

I think CE is the only place in the whole website where we can talk about politics.

One of Toast's experiments to boost engagement must be releasing new, confusing, and poorly documented rules that get inconsistently enforced to the point where nobody knows what they can say where. I don't know how this is going to lead to growth, but I'm also not an entry-level community manager in a giant soulless corporation that throws nobodys at websites they're planning on dismantling because all they want is the data and the guides and not the people, so who am I to say if this is the right approach or not.

Starks posted...

I've seen people use an entire Mio Energy at once. Serious heart palpitations.

Mio energy has 60mg of caffeine. A large charged lemonade is like drinking 6 mios back to back.

Edit: that was per serving, not per bottle. So yes, that's a crapton of caffeine

HashtagSEP posted...

The other problem is since it tastes good, unlike a good majority of other larger caffeine sources, it's easier to drink quickly, unlike, say, coffee, where you're more likely to sip it over time.

EDIT: Similarly, with coffee or typical energy drinks, you need to have more than one to hit that much, whereas with the lemonade, it's easier to think "This is just one drink."

This too. That's the issue 4loko had: it had way more alcohol than the taste made obvious so people were pounding them down the way they wouldn't with hard liquor.

pedro45 posted...

How much caffeine is the limit for a day?

400mg.

A cup of coffee has around 50mg for context. IIRC a large charged lemonade is like 395mg
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much

The problem is the large charged lemonade has the maximum amount of daily caffeine considered "safe". So if the teen also had a coffee earlier or a large soda at the movies they're entering dangerous levels of caffeine without even realizing it.

It likely wasn't just the lemonade but it's a problem that people aren't told the lemonade needs to be literally all the caffeine they ingest that day or they risk problems.

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Because the SA-X was meant to be a horror moment and a chase sequence, whereas the EMMI quickly became an annoying and repetitive battle arena fight that railroaded you into playing a very specific way or face a one hit kill.

If there was only one of them in dread it would have been a cool fight. By the end of the game I was sick of them.

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They might have been back then, but after E.M.M.I. I have a newfound respect for SA-X

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b6867bb0.jpg

Looks like you have everything you need for the best candlelight vigil ever after your family starves to death.

The interrogation scene is such a perfect representation of Batman and Joker's dynamic.

DToast is the kind of person to record himself talking over episodes of Community as if he was a cast member just to feel like he's actually a part of one.

Sort of like how if we want to criticize Fandom, DToast would prefer we just insult them directly?

TMOG posted...

I want to like MultiVersus but I hate how hard it is to unlock new characters unless you pay for them. It really kills the idea of a crossover roster fighting game if you can't afford to play as any character that isn't on the free rotation for the week.

That's just the free to play model. League of Legends works the same way. The alternative would be them selling it for $60 and then you spending $20 per season pass to unlock four characters and some outfits each year, whether you like the characters or not.

Even SNL is like "sorry Mindy, but you're not Velma."

He's no Emet-Selch

The problem with the xenomorph is that studios are afraid to let it be what it was designed to be. It's an invasive species that absorbs the DNA of its victims and takes on new forms as part of that. The problem is the original alien design became so iconic that now the very species whose defining trait is morphing is locked into like three forms.

The alien franchise has been a dumpster fire for longer than it's been good and I think at this point people are done giving it second chances. A new alien movie should probably get as much hype and attention as any other never-ending horror franchise.

Is this official mod confirmation that horny posting is back on the menu?

Shadowblade posted...

I haven't done a squat like that in my entire life. I just only do basic squats without any weights.

You could try walking lunges which will also work your hip abductors. Then you can gradually start to carry small weights and kettlebells while you do it to build up strength.

Shadowblade posted...

Arms and squats are my enemies right now.

You could always do bench squats. That's usually what folks do when they are recovering from injury because it's a little bit easier on the joints.

If you haven't worked a muscle group out in a while you probably should derack and have at least one or two sessions where you work your way back up to your old weight. It'll help avoid those days after when you feel like you've been hit by a car and it's a practice you should get into a habit of doing anyway as you get older to prevent injury.

I don't know about best overall, but it definitely has the best four horsemen out of any of the Apocalypse arcs.

"A new despair"
That way it lines up with "a new hope" right after.

If it's in development, I'd think it'll be a Switch 2 launch title.

I'd rather the Homeworld developers do a Total War Star Wars, but I guess if people want gungan ground battles than Creative Assembly would be the right people.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

I do for work travel, but mainly because I find it way more convenient to just iron my shirts in the hotel room as opposed to actually owning and carrying a suit bag to keep things from getting wrinkled.

specialkid8 posted...

The vast vast majority of games just have cosmetics and the ability to buy, like, ingame money and xp boosts. I really don't know why people have a bug up their ass about them so much.

The problem with selling things like XP boosts is that the game is then designed to make it so that you would need XP boosts. It makes games that are a little too grindy because they want people to be annoyed enough that they would spend money to make it easier, when it was always within their control to just make leveling up easier so you don't need to sell boosts.

Cosmetics may alter the look of a game, but anything that you can buy in a cash shop that impacts the core mechanics of the game are inherently going to be a problem because they are in direct competition against good game design philosophy.

Warframe and League of Legends are probably the best examples. But you'll notice the key similarity between them is that they're both free to play games that let you unlock all of the core gameplay mechanics through gameplay.

I can believe it. There's a guy who beat dark souls with literal bananas, and then someone else beat dark souls with the DK drums and I think somebody's beat dark souls with a guitar hero controller. Kingdom hearts with the DDR pad actually seems kind of simple (and clean) in comparison.

Edit: oh, and I almost forgot the person who beat dark souls using a bunch of toasters.

Outside of just blaming it all on money laundering, I fundamentally do not understand how someone whose art is that bad can get a 21 piece gallery in an actual museum.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

I mean this happens a lot in gaming and speed-running.

It's super rare for the guy who made the route to be the best at executing it.

There are entire speedrunners who can't compete on the leaderboards but are super skilled at breaking games for others

Sure, but most speedrunning WRs don't go viral and let you meet the game's creator and go on a press tour, so the frequency with which it happens doesn't necessarily negate the sting, especially since this WASN'T a guy who could only break the game, but a WR contender actively pushing for a record he was realistically only a few days/weeks away from achieving.

el_cheato posted...

Supposedly Watch Wogs was gonna be the modern day assassin's creed game before ubisoft decided to pivot that franchise and keep it milkable for decades

Which is ironic given Assassin's Creed was gonna be a new Prince of Persia before Ubisoft decided to pivot that franchise and keep it milkable for decades.

I legitimately felt bad when the video got to the part about Fractal losing out on a world's first he realistically deserved to Scooti. After YEARS of theorycrafting and grinding, he gets to watch as someone who wasn't even on anyone's radar a few weeks prior gets to meet the creator of tetris and go on a media tour while Fractal got... nothing. Not to downplay Scooti's skill, but that's still a pretty devastating thing to miss out on.

He flies now?!

There was one perfect place for modern day AC: when Desmond was in Washington DC to find the apple. They had already established that using the Animus was training his body to be able to use assassin techniques and it would have been the absolute best opportunity to showcase what that might look like. If I'm remembering right, all we get is a pseudo stealth segment inside a building.

All those characters already mentioned are cool, but this is cooler:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3ecb923c.jpg

Garioshi posted...

No more Pyramid Head

The problem is that this movie is supposed to be adapting silent Hill 2, so we finally got to the movie where Pyramid Head is supposed to be and everybody's already sick of him.

Also, the guy who made the first movie is back after having been completely uninvolved with the second movie, so I'm actually holding out hope that this will be good. The first movie wasn't a perfect adaptation, but it's definitely one of the best video game movies ever made.

Starks posted...

If someone thought for one minute and actually planned out a trilogy, we would not have faced this disaster.

Lucas winged the originals but at least he had a cohesive story to tell.

Abrams had a three movie treatment, even after they brought on Johnson. Daisy Ridley even said in an interview that Abrams came to the second movie with a whole bunch of notes and things he wanted Johnson to carry forward so that the third movie plot would make sense, and by her own words Johnson chose to use literally none of it. It's even worse than nobody trying to plan out all three movies. It was actively sabotaged.

The actual cinematography is better than the prequels, but overall the prequels at least have one cohesive story. The sequel trilogy is just a box of junk that somebody shook up and started pulling random bits out to use.

Ukraine's endgame is a restoration of their territory including crimea.

Realistically, this probably concludes with Russia keeping some portion of the land they've taken. The question is going to be whether Ukraine can push Russia back enough that they restore access to most of their Coast or whether Russia ends up keeping their land bridge to crimea, which functionally turns Ukraine into an almost landlocked state with a significant chunk of their fertile land and natural resources now in Russian territory. That's how Russia has done it literally every other time they've done this in the last 100 years and I don't see any compelling reason to think it'll end any differently this time.

thronedfire2 posted...

because people used to go to red lobster for...lobster.

these days most people going to a red lobster just want to get the cheapest seafood possible, and obviously all you can eat shrimp is the best deal.

I thought Long John Silver was for the people who wanted seafood as cheap as possible and Red Lobster was for the Olive Garden crowd that's never been to an actual seafood restaurant and thinks that it's fine dining.