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I don't get why they keep coming back to this after they so royally fucked it up. Was New Blood even any good?

It's pretty up and down, like any long term show.

Yeah, it's complete bullshit 99% of the time. There obviously needs to be protections for renters from being unjustly evicted, but there's no reason the process should take so long if they're not paying. For people who just trespass into a home with no prior agreement, they should have absolutely no rights and be evicted by force.

Has the bad faith admin posted anything since that whole reinstating a bad user debacle?

Baha05 posted...

I mean they kind of do if said people are not allowed to review the materials of the trial via third party sources so again you provided no damn answer.

The point is that it's an irrelevant question. Whether someone sees the details of the trial or not, nearly everyone in the country is going to have some bias for Trump, for or against him, so even one fan of him getting onto the jury could lead to a hung jury. That's what the OP is implying, as far as I can tell. In a perfect world, everyone would be impartial, but I don't think it's possible to guarantee.

Baha05 posted...

Not really an answer there

The details of the trial don't really matter if someone with preconceived notions of the defendant is allowed onto the jury, and, given the defendant, that's a pretty hard ask. Even if the juror states that they can remain impartial, that's not necessarily true. I assume they'd do things like comb social media to check for major biases (assuming that's allowed), but you could still easily get someone who claims they'd be impartial while not actually being impartial. Properly filtering that out is probably a near impossible task.

Baha05 posted...

Arent like jurors restricted from looking up any information on the case they are actively on the bench for?

The ability to find a group of 12 completely impartial people on such a large and prolific trial would probably be like finding 12 specific grains of sand on a beach. The only real thing they need to hope for is that they didn't pick from the greasy, gross red sand.

I love that battles for market share lead to shit like this and the Metaverse. Cant just slowly introduce things. Gotta go all in to be recognized as synonymous with the technology.

Sure. You'd have to be crazy to pass up an easy $1000-ish per hour "job."

While shit will likely be really bad for a lot of people if he does win, I do think people overstate the impact he would have. I don't think they have the intelligence or power to do so without a literal civil war happening.

I'd say a fairly large chunk of it is misery porn. If you're seeing a lot of those, that might be why. There's still a lot of variety out there, though.

Why is the media cycle like this? Why do trivialities like this get made into news stories? This is only a step above making a news story out of a fake AITA reddit post.

Switch 2 would really be the smartest, assuming they're definitely sticking to the easy path of an upgraded Switch. It's a clear indicator of what it is and what it does.

I I imagine once you do it enough times, youll probably relatively get the hang of it, but still sounds like absolute hell either way. If he had randomized attacks, that would make it truly insane.

LordFarquad1312 posted...

You mean the tutorial for the wing cap? LMAO

That one is a little annoying, but I'd assume they're talking about the one on the opposite side of Rainbow Ride. If you lose altitude, it's either super hard or impossible to get back up, and falling means having to spend 90 seconds getting back to the level.

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Yeah. There's a new series coming out this year or next year, but it's seemingly going to do its own thing or be loosely connected to everything else.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

King Kai's original voice actor in Japanese died and they essentially dropped him in Super. They only do recasts in very, very specific situations. Usually the character dies with them or they stop existing in Japan.

They still had him like once per arc. They might have dropped him off as a general utility character relative to what might have been, but it's not like they don't recast characters all the time. Bulma's VA died within a few years of that as well.

Random battles very often are not balanced well in terms of frequency and pacing. Games rarely had any way to mitigate them in the past.
QTEs are just a mindless form of engagement that provide no real player feedback 99% of the time and might as well just be full cutscenes.
Handholding and easy modes often are balanced poorly and end up affecting the experienced users in negative ways, "yellow paint" being a recent example or the Mario games that completely cut out the little 100% bonus if you died in a level 5 times and saved.

I'd say the main problem is that the Japanese broadly don't write trans characters in the same way as the west, so there can be a bit of a disconnect trying to slot characters from one perspective to the other.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

This is pretty false.

The original games were in the late 2000s on the PS3 and 360. They were "crazy detailed" enviroment and landscapes and NPCs for the time. They still hold up today. But 'Crazy Detailed' on the 2009 PS3 is now standard in 2024. Ass Creed 2 was boasting that they had animal NPCs as an advertising feature. Imagine a Triple A game today promoting "We're so advanced we have pig NPCs" as a selling point.

RDR2's pig npcs probably have more programming than Ass Creed 1's human NPCs.

It was never "historically" accruate and never claimed to be. It just referenced a ton of real people and real events in an entertaining way. As I said earlier they acklowedged their own innacuracies in the game's lore.

Which seems to be the same here.

The technical aspect of it isnt the point. It was that they apparently did extensive research to try to replicate, as much as possible, a historically accurate land. There was a large amount of marketing about it back in the day that I recall. Again, I dont know if theyve kept up with that in the recent games, but it was a very major thing for them way back. Its quite possible they completely abandoned that, but its not surprising that people might still have that impression from back then.

Ubisoft used to brag about how crazy detailed they went into the world and landscapes. Even if things got fantastical in terms of plot and character, you still had the notion that the setting was as historically accurate as possible. Not sure if that died down after the original trilogy, but its not surprising some people may still have that impression of them.

I'm surprised anyone still engages with him. I think he's the first person I've ignored on this site because his gimmick is just so annoying.

Curious if he was just given the GameFAQS position without any choice, or if he volunteered for it. He's done a terrible job either way, but the former is slightly more forgivable in terms of the lack of a fuck he gives.

Pretty sure there should be enough mods to make that unnecessary.

Antifar posted...

Homelessness is not a circumstance conducive to addressing mental health concerns. The places with high rates of homelessness aren't unique for their mental health crises; they're the places with the highest housing costs.

I think the main problem is lumping all kinds of homelessness into one box. The guy living out of his car, the teen kicked out of the house with no support, someone who has been living on the streets for twenty years, etc. are all homeless. Each is a problem that needs to be solved, but all are solved in different ways. The average person can see the first two and not inherently even know they're homeless, while the day to day homeless person that is a "problem" for a local community is only generally going to be one type. All of them need help and support, but not the same kind of support.

ScazarMeltex posted...

True, but we also have the resources to help them as well. We chose instead to fund massive police forces that exist solely to be the boot on the neck of the working class.

I'd say it's less of a funds issue and more of a complete infrastructure issue. Not to say we don't have the funds to fix the infrastructure issue, but getting those funds to the right places is the bigger problem.

I'm pretty sure he has the technical skill to do it. I think he got the Pac-Man one live on-site at an arcade. He's just such an egotistical piece of shit who always needs to be on top that he's willing to do whatever it takes, for whatever reason, so he cannot be trusted.

ScazarMeltex posted...

Reasonably give? My dude, we have more than enough money and resources to help all of these people. It's cheaper to house them than it is to police them but since our society is build on cruelty we don't. Not to mention if we can incarcerate them then the private prison sector gets paid.

There are parts of the homeless population where just giving them a house is a perfectly valid way to end their homelessness, but those are generally not the kind of people who live permanently out on the streets. The section of the homeless population that is the most visible are the kind where just offering them a house isn't going to end things for them.

It's hard to say what exactly can even be done. The portion of the homeless population that makes active camps is going to likely be the kind that need more help than we can reasonably give. If we could promise fair care under forced institutionalization, that could help, but it's doubtful we have a system in place where they'd be treated well.

I have to assume that one's a pure shitpost, but all those meme redesign videos are fucking horrid.

Wonder if it's actually unintentionally bad, or if they're just trying to get notoriety, after what happened with the Wonka one.

The entire platform is pretty shitty to navigate. Actual discussion is nonexistent in larger subs. The upvote system is a cancer to incentivize people to pay for their weird, nonsense badges. It's really only good for real answers to niche questions and maybe some of the smaller niche subs where you can have actual discussion.

From seeing some of his other stuff, I don't think he actually believes it and he's just saying shit to stir shit up. He's certainly dumb enough to believe it, but I think he's just purposefully playing all sides, his stupid fans, his "ironic" fans, and his haters.

In terms of the game itself, it certainly doesn't matter because AC gave up on "semi-historical accuracy" a long time ago, so who he was and what he did in life doesn't really matter to his in-game self. As a general trope, I think Yasuke in particular seems to be weirdly overused after he had some kind of cultural emergence in the last few years. I understand why people may want to explore him as a person and as a character, but I guess it can come off as kind of lazy as well because a lot of it is just turning him into an original character.

I certainly don't hold any nostalgia for it. It's like the people who defend the SNES era Woolsey translations. They're not good at all.

It doesn't get any better. Series dropped off hard.

Guide posted...

I have only ever read that he was samurai. Lots of other things in question about him, but not the samurai part.

I think that was mostly mainstream media being dumb, which lead to a cyclical feedback loop of people trying to add it to Wikipedia.

That kind of thing isn't odd for something thrust into the spotlight all of a sudden. Often, it's just pure vandalism, though that seems to be a content dispute.

Id say Yasuke seems to be overly milked for such a minor historical figure, but theres certainly nothing wrong with the game over it.

It's pretty silly. I think I've seen people have trust established and have its managers accept it, so seems to be an option in at least some places.

It's definitely a massive overcorrection. It honestly might have been fine to add some more specific rules to tone it down a little, but nuking it was a bit silly.

I don't think they put any real thought into the whole process.