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He doesn't drink? Interesting

I didn't even like it when I was a kid

Sorry

My ranking of z-moves:

1. what
2. who cares

the blindfolded run was fantastic screw you guys

lanky has no style or grace though

Like Cadence doesn't even have that great a build here or anything, the plate mail is nice - but otherwise she's just a generic sword user without the ability to force the timing of the music, the intro literally says that everyone said she was too young and needed more training - before she accidentally fell into a pit. She's got gumption and she does end up killing some pretty badass monsters but she doesn't even have a normal sort of endgame build that someone might have in order to do so

They fucked up BOTH of their backups

it was really messy and, again, unlike the blindfolded run, there's nothing to really show for it when you fuck it up

Oh Diamond Dust is a weather condition? huh

I'm not really that familiar with HGSS

He needed some item at the end to ensure a safe victory that he didn't have, I think

woodman posted...

I mean, it's Pokemon. It was just normal Pokemon playing for the most part after he fucked up the RNG manipulation until he needed to load a backup save to get Raikou. He couldn't do any tricks, so he was just... playing Pokemon. Like a random normal person.

I mean he's clearly got way more of a plan than this, but it is unfortunate that when you fuck up that trick in HGSS you don't have a lot left afterwards to show for it

Whereas the blindfolded guy is still playing with a blindfold

StealThisSheen posted...

Paratroopa1 posted...

The exploit they were trying to perform in HGSS definitely isn't easy, but the like actual physical thing they are trying to do (beat a Pokemon game) is easy, so you really don't get points for fucking it up compared to having a blindfold on, they should have had better planning than they did

By that logic, couldn't it be said that the blindfold run should have had better planning... Maybe by not doing it if it's that insane to do?

No because blindfolded runs are awesome

The exploit they were trying to perform in HGSS definitely isn't easy, but the like actual physical thing they are trying to do (beat a Pokemon game) is easy, so you really don't get points for fucking it up compared to having a blindfold on, they should have had better planning than they did

Once again, you guys let me know when you're ready to stop having this discussion

Neclord

Hi resident Necrodancer expert speaking up here

"- The fight will occur in real-time (like an FMV sequence). Gameplay mechanics are less important than how the characters would function in a real-time environment."

Cadence is fucked

Mr Lasastryke posted...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884378624660582405

man i love hypotheticals.

literally a scumslip

Mr Lasastryke posted...

FWIW, i didn't see enough pokémon to judge the run but just because a run goes badly doesn't mean it's not enjoyable to watch.

for instance, a lot of people loved the blindfolded SotN run at last year's SGDQ, even though it turned into a trainwreck. i personally didn't like it but hey!

There's a huge difference between the two though - what was trying to be done in SotN was GENUINELY INSANE so it's completely understandable that he would fuck it up somewhere along the way, and he still basically did it. The basic thing that's trying to be done in HGSS is not that difficult, so it's incredibly unimpressive when it goes off the rails.

https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda/images/e/eb/Ra.gif/revision/latest?cb=20090211215456

one of the worst enemies in video gaming history imo

Paratroopa - Today at 1:25 AM
also wow this ff7 run is BORING
and I usually LIKE long rpg runs
like I liked the chrono trigger run
there was a lot of interesting routing
and interesting skips
just interesting tech in general and watching it did not feel boring
because there were noteworthy decisions going into most moments
but this has way too much cutscenes and linear gameplay
this is like, maybe a run that should be done ONCE, EVER
and never again
save this kind of run for rpg limit break. do whatever the fuck you want at rpg limit break.
there is tech here too but this game is too long
and not broken enough

I just felt like copying and pasting my rant from a discord server and not retyping up all the points that I could have made into something nicer

They won't open it until after Super metroid pretty sure - good way to get a surge of donations after save/kill is done. Wouldn't be surprised if the timing coincides

I only just got here but has it really felt that over? This seems quite close

Necrodancer hyyype

All of the Zelda runs were excellent; Z2 was a pb, and LA was also very well done

Also I said the moment I saw the scheduled time that they didn't schedule nearly enough time. I KNEW they didn't. I don't know why THEY didn't know that.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Has the setup for Tetris ever been under estimate? Tetris always takes a very long time to set up due to the hardware requirements but they only scheduled 20 minutes to set up an 8 way race.

Goodness, no.

HaRRicH posted...

https://twitter.com/SeanMcElwee/status/883084674087751683

Holy shit. Republicans are buying stocks to profit from their plan to kill hundreds of thousands of poor Americans. https://t.co/WW7iVkLjAI https://t.co/7SN2t4wvUs

Why isn't this insider trading

I'm glad I'm not the only one with homestuck vibes, it's like homestuck meets the tim tebow cfl chronicles

I know this is two pages ago but I just got here:

FFDragon posted...

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-west-hartford-trump-morely-school-steven-marks-20170705-story.html

why are people so dumb

"Some of the writings said "Kill Trump," "Left is the best," "Bernie Sanders 2020" and "Death to Trump" and were written"

Even if he hadn't been caught I knew this would have been a false flag based on "left is the best" alone, nobody would write that

My problem with this whole thing is that there is a non-scientific meaning to the word "reptile" - saying "birds are reptiles" may be accurate to some degree in an evolutionary context, but there's a good reason why we don't use the word "reptile" to mean "a bird" in everyday context. So the answer to "are birds reptiles" is "who are you asking?" I have linguistic objections to the whole thing.

Holy shit hard mode in Kero Blaster has a completely new last level with new bosses and music and shit

I am so freaked out right now, I never knew about ANY of this shit

No. Reptiles are cute and don't have awful political views.

I think 2, 3, 5, and 10 all have really good ones

If you put a gun to my head, I'll say 3

I didn't know there was already a huge discussion about this

Anyway, yeah, classification is basically some arbitrary shit

I was actually really annoyed because in a marine biology class I took, my teacher told me that I should make a note that birds (was doing a report on seabirds) are reptiles, and I was like "I'm not sure it's actually that simple?" and she was like "no, they are"

but I still think I'm pretty much right about this

The answer is definitely "sort of"

MZero11 posted...

No one voted for "red13n" in Suprak's game that recently ended, all the votes were for just "red"

Town No Contest IMO

This is actually exactly WHY scum should have won in Dels's game. Voting for "red" counts as a vote for red13n because voter intent matters, just like in Dels game, "Yetl" should be a valid vote for "Yeti". It just wasn't, because the bot is pedantic and doesn't recognize anything except a correctly spelled name.

It WAS pointed out that someone could innocently misspell a name and run into a problem, but A) that's clearly not what happened, the player admitted so himself and it's obvious anyway and B) that's why they immediately fixed the bot so it would put a big warning box on invalid votes.

MZero11 posted...

Wow I wouldn't even participate in the wild card game after getting screwed like that lol

You handled it really well Dels. I would have told them straight up that it was a stupid ruling, even if I was town in that game. That's just a pathetic move

There were a lot of people doing it for him, honestly.

It doesn't really matter though - both the players in the game AND the jury recognized him as a top 3 player in the game, despite the fact that he was lynched d4

Yeah, any% and 100% in X2 are... I'm not sure they're actually any different!

I think the same is true in X, but I can't remember for sure. Not getting hadoken might be faster there actually.

So I'm just sitting here thinking, "maybe the president of the United States shouldn't create a situation in which someone COULD conceivably be harassed for a gif on twitter"

just a thought I had

Anyway, from my perspective the players in Dels's game were fairly good - I could tell what he was doing with not nightkilling the good players, taking out some okay-but-not-as-active players, so that helped the game's activity a lot, but there were multiple people in that game who I would be happy to play with. Some of the other games were much worse - I could go on about how awful game 11 was for days. Town got completely swept by scum, 5 mislynches in a row - and town just sleepwalked to a loss. It was a disaster. Dels's game by comparison had a fair bit of good analysis.

Mafia is a game about lying through speech, not through action - that's the best way I can sum up my feelings. Again, the only reason this even worked is because the bot is automated - a manual count would have picked up that vote as if it were a normal vote. Abusing the bot's mechanics to trick someone is not in the spirit of the game.

ScareChan posted...

In that point Para I would say at worst a double no contest, because there is still *some* fault on scum for not letting the thing update and say vote counted, but scum in final 3 isnt really waiting long after a misvote.

Can't put the burden on scum players to do this though, because the votecount bot doesn't actually automatically update all that regularly, and relies on people to request a votecount, which is public information (something they're thinking about changing as well since it's sort of outdated). This may or may not out scum, but it's really too much to ask that they be forced to wait to see if a vote is legitimate, when the vote simply should be legitimate.

Trash (Dels's partner) could have ensured a victory by saying "okay, I'm not going to hammer", and then waiting for a legitimate vote, but she had no reason to suspect the vote was illegitimate so that would have been seen as totally unnecessary (and many consider it rude not to end the game ASAP).

ScareChan posted...

I wonder how we would rule that

my first instinct is thats a scum win

but I dont know

We would have to rule it a scum win because it's so likely that the person counting the votes wouldn't even notice that the name was spelled wrong. And then even if we did we'd go 'well ok but I can tell who you meant to vote for'. It only worked in this case because the system is automated, and since they immediately fixed this loophole afterwards it's pretty clear it wasn't intended. Town was really only allowed to have the win because the rules weren't quite clear enough that this is not allowed (although in my opinion, they were - there's a 'no loopholes' rule).

Delseban posted...

This is the post where the admin explained their ruling:

http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/8685-Season-4-Game-5-So-You-Think-You-Can-Be-Super-The-Mafia-Championship?p=1225505&viewfull=1#post1225505

As a representative, I felt the best thing to do was to say "I understand this must have been a hard decision for the admins, and I respect it." So... that is my stance here as well.

It's ok I'll keep going on about it forever if you won't

100% a scum win. I was going on in the spectator chat about it and there's actually a fair number that agreed with me on this, and it's not even because I was biased in favor of Dels winning, it's just the right thing to do. There's really only two ways to properly adjudicate that in my opinion - the vote counts as if it were a real vote, which is 100% scum win no questions asked, or it's a modkill, which is 100% a scum win no questions asked.

Anyway, that all aside, I read a little over half of the games and Dels's (game 5) was the best by far. They had the most posts, the best discussion, and probably generated the most memes. Dels got kind of screwed by his teammate bussing him and probably could have lived a bit longer but oh well - ultimately town did fall for the scumteam's trap and would have lost if not for a dumb ploy that counted for some reason.

I read the entirety of game 11 and I am a changed man forever for how awful town played in that one.

2012: FTL: Faster Than Light
2013: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
2014: Freedom Planet
2015: Crypt of the NecroDancer
2016: Darkest Dungeon
2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I'm calling 2017 early

It's rough because you NEED Raikou but it could take forever to get it without the rng manip it seems

wow you actually had

hmmmm

can't wait for the sexy pics

yes let's rank all of the unowns

also trump is riding america like a horse