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EightySeven posted...

adjl posted...

Now, graphical fidelity is useful for making well-designed environments. The more power a system and engine has to spare, the more artistic flexibility you have in designing stuff, especially in the realms of draw distance and object counts. Calling art direction and graphical fidelity "independent" is an exaggeration. However, the balance is very heavily in art direction's favour when it comes to what makes games look good.

Yeah I can get behind that. Art direction is probably more important. I guess I thought you were saying graphical fidelity was totally irrelevant not that it was simply, far less important that art direction.

Yeah, I could probably have been a bit less hyperbolic about it.
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Jen0125 posted...

I want one but idk if there are a lot of good games for 3DS

Uhh, yeah. Definitely. The 3DS is a great system.
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Mead posted...

funkyfritter posted...

Didn't this happen years ago?

Looks like 2015 from my market research

Deal with it

I feel like it also happened much earlier than that, or at least a similar case.
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EightySeven posted...

What do you mean?

That Xenoblade visually wowed me on a very regular basis, and it did so with butt-ugly graphics. As one example, at least. It's impossible not to notice that its graphics are pretty bad, but that stopped bothering me pretty quickly after I started playing, just as I stop appreciating 4k textures pretty quickly. What I do keep appreciating in games - regardless of graphical quality - is good art direction. The environments you marveled at in Andromeda were marvelous because they were well-designed, not because they had lots of pixels. The character models that bothered you bothered you not because they lacked pixels, but because they were poorly designed.

Now, graphical fidelity is useful for making well-designed environments. The more power a system and engine has to spare, the more artistic flexibility you have in designing stuff, especially in the realms of draw distance and object counts. Calling art direction and graphical fidelity "independent" is an exaggeration. However, the balance is very heavily in art direction's favour when it comes to what makes games look good.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

Where is the option "esports are not a sport"?

Presumably on a poll that asks a question for which that would be a valid answer. The poll isn't asking your opinion on the concept, it's asking how often you watch them.
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EightySeven posted...

Some of us appreciate pretty things.

Oh sure, but the prettiness you get from graphical fidelity tends to be pretty short-lived. That's why I don't think it's particularly sensible to put much emphasis on it.
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MarioPaint posted...

I really hate the word "Millennials" :/

It's basically lost all meaning at this point.
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darkknight109 posted...

You know, I love To the Moon with a passion, but I never got the buzz around Everything's Alright.

For me, it's less the song itself and more what it represents. I've always fairly strongly associated tracks with their part of the game, and for a credit/epilogue track, that means hearing the track calls to mind how I felt upon finishing the game (which actually goes both ways, in that a good credit song will positively influence my lasting impression of a game, but that's another matter). I was feeling a whole lot of feels upon finishing To the Moon, and hearing Everything's Alright (along with ) calls them all back, even if there are individual songs that are better and/or more inherently emotive.
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Lokarin posted...

*TWIN WATERFALLS OF TEARS*
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LaggnFragnLarry posted...

even though i wasn't sick at all last year and had no medical expenses. grant it that's about what i would've payed to have health insurance but f*** i dont want to pay that s*** when im healthy

That's sort of how insurance works. If people who didn't need insurance in a given time period didn't pay for it in that time period, the whole concept of insurance would collapse.
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Cacciato posted...

Who the fuck gets nervous talking to a bank teller

Introverts and other people who experience social anxiety?
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WastelandCowboy posted...

HellHole_ posted...

no, because puberty has been over for me for a long time

I'm 27 and it's happened to me a few times in the past year.

Just like acne, stuff doesn't just magically "stop" when you progress past puberty.

In particular, voice cracks are common if you've strained your voice recently, especially for people with deeper voices to begin with.
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Weird can be sexy.
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He's also hilariously huge compared to Link.
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That's what happens when something is both well-known and almost universally hated. When you can reliably bet that your audience will have heard of Hitler and also will dislike him, you can safely make analogies that rely on those assumptions.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

And yeah I do get a weird boner when I upgrade armor from the fairies

It gets weirder the further you upgrade.
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Whoa whoa whoa... Did Duckbear just give a source article?
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That's just passing.
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In general, a lot of people are really impatient and angry while driving, and being at all uncertain in your driving tends to result in behaviours that set them off, like going slower than they want to. Just ignore them and do your own thing, unless they actually get dangerous such that you have to protect yourself (which is unlikely). Let them have their heart attack at 45 from being angry all the time; it's not likely to affect you.
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I... don't even understand what this is supposed to be asking.
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Erik_P posted...

I thought you were never coming back again. You sure say that a lot.

Erik_P posted...

#welchingalldayerrday

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That'd be roughly analogous to becoming a pretentious food critic and performing an in-depth analysis of the grilled cheese sandwich some guy just made.
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argonautweakend posted...

It contains 20 tracks and is 12 minutes long.

The tracks average 36 seconds apiece? That's pretty short.
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CS classes get moved to the Faculty of Arts, you get a few niche academic circles studying the poetic implications of popular or noteworthy programs, and not much else. Most of the effect would just be on the emotional state of the coders, which wouldn't really be all that significant on a broader scale.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Axes>Swords

Actually, Swords>Axes. Axes>Lances.
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Zilch.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

adjl posted...

InfestedAdam posted...

Imagine if some passengers purposely wait on accepting the amount until the compensation reaches something they're satisfied with.

That offer would be to entice people to volunteer. If you wait for the compensation to reach a higher value, you risk having somebody else cash in earlier and rob you of your chance entirely.

So you risk... what exactly? Getting to your destination without interruption? The horror!

Well, yeah. Worst case scenario, you've lost nothing. If you're willing to take compensation instead of flying as expected, though, holding out for better compensation presents the risk that somebody else will take a lower price and you'll miss that opportunity. My point is that the nature of that gamble will keep compensation amounts from escalating too high in most cases.
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InfestedAdam posted...

Imagine if some passengers purposely wait on accepting the amount until the compensation reaches something they're satisfied with.

That offer would be to entice people to volunteer. If you wait for the compensation to reach a higher value, you risk having somebody else cash in earlier and rob you of your chance entirely.
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It's been really nice here today. Touch on the cooler side, but quite sunny, and I'm just barely comfortable in a t-shirt. Tuesday's got a high of 4, though. That's still pretty mild, by comparison.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Someone acts like an a****** to a stranger first, and you chastise the person on the receiving end for sticking up for him/herself?

The concept of "sticking up for oneself" is largely pointless. Preventing practical consequences to other people being douches? Sure. But "you said something mean to me so I'm going to say something mean to you!" is as pointless and petty as the douche saying something mean in the first place. Just chill.
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Muscles posted...

Inhaled for sure

Let me guess, you're talking about pot.
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iwantmyoldid posted...

slacker03150 posted...

What about knitting? You can even sell your creations.

Lmao. I picture it. Me knitting on the 6 train with everyone looking at me like i am gay.

And then a few months later they'll be all like "man why are scarves so expensive" and you'll just be smug and warm.
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Jen0125 posted...

If you would do something different that's great. I don't really care how anyone else would react. You do you and I'll do me.

But your approach is objectively inferior. Stress is bad for you. Just relax and let Douchenozzle McGee piss himself off for no reason.
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argonautweakend posted...

no point being nice if the guy is gonna be an ass first.

i can also see how irritated id be if there was an open maching and somebody wanted the one i was on

I generally just default to being nice, unless I actually have something to gain by being angry (which is rare). "Is there something wrong with that other machine?" would have been perfectly adequate for dealing with this guy. He wants to be a tool about it, that's his problem, and it's easy enough to brush that off without getting upset.
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DorkLink posted...

It's hilarious watching people struggle to calculate a tip. Just move the decimal place and multiply by two, idiot. Well, that's for 20% of course, but it's not much harder for 15%, and even easier for 10%

I usually just estimate 15%. I've got a reasonable sense of multiples of 15 because sales tax here is 15%, but while it's easy enough to do 16*1.15 in my head, 18.40*1.15 is notably harder. Typically, what will happen is I'll round up to a whole bill, figure out what percentage that corresponds to by comparing it to 10/20%, and add/subtract from that if it's not a good approximation of 15%.

Granted, I rarely use cash these days, so usually the card machine will just do all the calculation for me.
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If there's limited paid sick leave, it's fine, because that's leave that's already been accounted for and they're making a choice to use it for that at risk of not having it when they need it. If it's unpaid sick leave, then it's also fine, because they're making a choice to lose a day's pay. If they're taking that leave at inconvenient times, that's another problem, but capable workers can typically ensure they aren't disrupting anything too badly.
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Erik_P posted...

TheWorstPoster posted...

Erik_P posted...

There's no reason to write your entire life story in an ad.

You write yours in your sig

Did you think you were actually clever?

That was one pretty good actually.
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helIy posted...

Why should somebody have to walk away from something they're otherwise enjoying just because somebody else decides to interfere with that enjoyment? If you're playing a multiplayer game and somebody starts teamkilling or otherwise trolling, do you quit the game or do you take advantages of the measures that are in game to prevent such abuse to limit the troll's power?
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Golden Road posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Why does "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" not apply anymore

Because it was always a lie. People are realizing it more now.

Eeyup. All that's happened is that people have stopped normalizing emotional abuse. The abuse and its effects have been around forever.
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In which case you're leaving some of Nintendo's best controllers out of the competition, which seems odd.
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LordBowser posted...

The Switch pro controller is the best controller I've ever handled in my life. No idea why anyone would bash it, unless they've never laid hands on one before and just are salty about the console in general.

The problem with Wii onward is that there's no single controller to be voting on. Wiimote alone is very different from Wiichucks, CC, or CCP. The Gamepad is very different from the WiiU Pro controller. The Joycons are very different from the Switch Pro controller. The poll should probably have specified exactly which controllers were being judged for those systems.

It also doesn't help that the Switch Pro controller is rather expensive, so a lot of people probably haven't ever used one.
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Melon_Master posted...

Meh, it isn't as if ICO posts anything of actual substance.. Essentially it's decades old recycled, Robot Bill Gates scenarios in the form of, Girl of your dreams... :/

He doesn't, but that doesn't mean TC's behaviour wasn't unambiguously harassment. Don't like his topics/posts? It's easy enough to ignore them. There's no need for this kind of behaviour; we aren't five years old anymore.

Also, TC? Don't be so quick to assume it was Icoyar that marked you. I've made a point of doing so every time you act out like that, because I feel you need to learn a lesson. Are you going to have the maturity and self-awareness to behave yourself now?
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Zeus posted...

How does something that big go undiscovered that long? Unless it's actually tiny.

Because the world is ****ing huge, with lots of places for these things to hide.
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NightMareBunny posted...

Muscles posted...

no way apple could afford any of the big name oil companies like Shell, ExxonMobil, etc. or other huge companies like PepsiCo, Microsoft, Walmart, etc.

many call them the most powerful company in the world so yeah they could possibly do that with all the money they rake in from their overpriced phones and tablets

You do realize you can look up companies' assets rather than speculating like that, right?
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I don't know how good the port is, and it's not on sale, but Lego City is fantastic and criminally underrated.
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Given that "all the DLC is included" is one of the key selling points of the Deluxe version, this doesn't surprise me.
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It's probably more your obsessive insistence on following him around and posting it in every topic he makes than the actual content.
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