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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Baton Rouge to AZ? You had to go right through my town.... Did you go through El Paso?

I did. It looked pretty actually. Much cleaner than BR, at least from what I could see on the interstate.

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Or no you probably went the other way since you said flagstaff and hit ABQ

Nah, I had to go to Scottsdale first to drop off my wife's friend's cat and then went to Flagstaff from there

Just got to Flagstaff AZ. Made a stop in Scottsdale first to return the cat.

All in all, 28 hours on the road without sleep only stopping for bathroom breaks. Wife is a pussy when it comes to driving especially on the interstate, doubly so in the mountains so I drove every bit.

I think I'll go to sleep now. Grand Canyon tomorrow then Vegas until Monday!

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Again? Honestly I thought about just closing my account because I got a 30 day purge with a clean mod history for some real stupid shit. Was regarding that 10 year old that had to have an abortion, and this was like the first day we heard about it so we had no real info at the time, I said it may have been a fellow 10 classmate and not rape, was just putting the possibility out there before we all jumped to conclusions while we had no info. And some other guy said 10 year olds can't consent, and I said yeah with adults, but if two 5th graders have sex they're raping each other? Which he replied yes, and then I got a 30 day purg for "going to bat for 10 year olds having sex", not sure if he got anything because well yeah I don't have an alt and I was in purg. No avenue for disputing, because I did NOT advocate or "go to bat for" anything, I just put it put there that some 5th graders do have sex with each other and it's absurd to think that act is rape. Other dude literally said the pregnant 10 year old would be a rapist if she had sex with her classmate, but I get the month purg?

a-c-a-b posted...

I wish I could get beer that cheap.

When I was a teenager I thought it was cheap to get a 40oz of OE for $4.

It's $8.25 for one now.

Tbf that was over a decade ago. I doubt that's the going rate for it now, probably at least $2 if I had to guess. But yeah alcohol in general is expensive in Canada, I'll never forget my grandpa coming home after a long trip where they camped through the northern us/Canada and he nearly had a heart attack trying to buy a case of beer in Canada lol.

I remember we had something called High Gravity Hurricane Malt Liquor, shit came $1.09 per 40 Oz and was like 8% ABV. When I was an economical drinker those were God sends lol

Smackems posted...

I'm going to be a father

fucking called it. welcome to the club bro

Smackems posted...

her just being there for me has knocked her up quite a few points

Is she going to be knocked up in other ways too?

yusiko posted...

ive never heard any of her music and have only seen her in grease

Same. Well, I saw that episode of Glee too. But I've seen Grease many many times since my mom was obsessed with it so it was a big part of my childhood.

RIP

Rick and Morty

PMarth2002 posted...

That counting over time?

With OT It'd be roughly $33k. Until Uncle Sam comes along at least

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At the end of the day are they not both just protruding pieces of flesh with a divide in the middle, meant to be (consensually) fondled?

NeonOctopus posted...

it decreases blood pressure

then why does my heart beat faster when i look at boobs? doesnt compute

spikethedevil posted...

Oh and WTF at having important terms only explained properly in the in game encyclopedia.

what terms weren't explained by dialogue in 13? They adequately discussed fal'cie and l'cie and cie'th outside of the datalog. I'm just saying it was always there in storage so you don't have to go back to get an explanation.

The most important interactions in a JRPG are among the party members. Having a random NPC in a town after an explosion go "Oh, what an explosion, my legs almost gave out!" adds nothing, I already saw the cutscene where the explosion happened, I don't need mindless, pointless descriptions of what I already know. FFXIII just cuts more to the chase regarding stuff like that and honestly I'm kind of thankful for it.

I'm not without criticisms of 13. Like I said before, I think they could have opened up the combat system earlier instead of holding your hand with training wheels for so damn long, but I had a blast. Honestly there are few games out there where buffs/debuffs are as important as they are in FFXIII, even outside of boss battles, but this really was one where you needed buffs and debuffs to get through and it was a fun navigation of a game. That's all I can say

And if I may, I like how FFXIII gives the whole party crystarium points to advance whether they participated in battle or not. One thing that's kind of annoying me about FFX so far is when theres an enemy I can easily crush but I have to rotate people in to just defend or something so they can get AP before finally delivering the blow. 13 let you just roll through your fodder without caring if anyone else was involved without consequence.

I'm not hating on X. I'm playing through right now and actually liking it. Don't see how X can't be called a hallway simulator either though, I think I'm pretty far in it now to say (in that temple in Calm Lands after fighting Defender). Every place I've been in has been a "hallway" until I just got to the Calm Lands (which is just like the Steppe).

I will say X has more minigames but idk how much dodging lightning 200x adds to the experience positively. I'm interested to see how the Arena turns out though, I think I like this more than Titan's trials.

spikethedevil posted...

X handles being linear well with various open areas, actual towns and NPCS while XIII is just corridors for 12 of its 13 chapters. @WaterLink

Honestly I liked the way XIII handled that. You get key items which unlocks different shops which sells you items or upgrade materials or weapons and they're available at every save station going forward as you unlock them no matter where you are. Much better than the "certain shops in certain locations are the only ones that sell these items so you have to backtrack all the way there to stock up or grind for money to buy it now while you're here" mechanic.

Most NPC dialogue in JRPGs are throwaway lines anyway so they kept it in the datalog that updated as you go so you can always read up on it. Those are always mindless chores I'm glad they streamlined that if I'm being honest. My only complaint about 13 is how long it took for it to give you full control of your party and fully open up the battle system. The first 9 or 10 chapters were a gradual tutorial, which I've played Trails in the Sky so I'm used to it. But once you got to Pulse and could willy nilly switch your party leader and active team it was game on and I really loved it.

Ivany2008 posted...

Octopath essentially took Final Fantasy 13s combat system, and applied it to the entire party. Enemies have specific weaknesses, which you learn by attacking them, and its displayed under them. For example, a boss could have 3 weaknesses. Initially starting it looks like this: ? ? ?

Then as you attack them it could turn to: Daggers, Fire, Light. All of which deal 2x-3x damage. They also shift mid battle so certain weaknesses can be phased out for other weaknesses. By attacking them with their weaknesses, they sometimes break, like in Final Fantasy 13, forcing a lot of extra damage with those specific weaknesses.

Is Octopath pure turn based or ATB?

Ivany2008 posted...

13 for me had one major weakness, and it wasn't the corridor simulator or even the story, it was the battle system. Love me some turn-based combat, but I really couldn't stand only controlling 1 character in combat. It infuriated me. I like that they essentially took that battle system and put it in Octopath, and fixed it though.

Haven't played Octopath but I actually enjoyed the battle system in 13, it was actually one of my favorite parts with the paradigm shift and AI teammates. Libra the enemies and the AI adapts according to its weaknesses. The only time it kinda sucks is when your Sabs and Syns go out of the order you want (usually poison is lower on the list for AI Sabs so if you want to get poison on something early you kinda have to start off as a Sab yourself, which generally means the AI is attacking which if you've Libra'd they should be doing pretty optimally). I felt like I had my hands full and the system could get pretty hectic as it was only controlling one character, I feel like manually controlling all 3 would have been a headache but that's just me.

Of the FFs I've played a decent amount of (3-9,13) The only ones I've actually hated was 3 and 8. I'm playing through 10 for the first time right now and I'm enjoying it so far. Though I do gotta say for all the shit XIII gets for being linear I don't see why we didn't hear so much of that for X. The Calm Lands is basically the Steppe, the Sphere Grid and Crystarium are pretty similar. The Crystarium was more linear, but at least different characters had access to different abilities in each role other characters couldn't get so each character still feels unique even with fully maxed Crystariums. With X it feels like everyone started out unique but as I'm filling the grid out everyone is converging together to be basically the same character in the end, only Yuna will be able to use Aeons.

Obligatory Ocean Sunfish rant

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I actually loved 13. Guess im in the minority.

I'm playing through FFX for the first time right now. I got through the thunder plains and I plan on going back later to do the lightning dodging. I practiced a bit my first way through and honestly it didn't seem that bad except I always seem to get hit after a random battle so I guess I'm going to come back when I can avoid battles and see how hard it really is, from my limited experience it just seems the difficulty comes from keeping concentration for so long

She felt her first kicks yesterday morning and we heard the heartbeat on Tuesday. Doctor said everything looks great so far so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything stays going smoothly.

So did I miss anything while I was gone?

So now that I'm back from my bullshit purg:

1) It's a boy! We're gonna be naming him Locke
2) Me and the wife finally go on our honeymoon road trip in less than 3 weeks, and along the way we have to drop off her friend's cat (she lives in AZ close to Flagstaff where we're making our first stop)
3) Magnus Carlsen (5x defending world chess champion) said he's not going to be defending his title anymore because it's boring (he worded it more eloquently but that's basically what he said) and he wants to just stick to tournaments because he prefers that format
4) Fuck the Falcons, football is here!

Ayaotd for me. I never saw the Goosebumps show, and I was never really that into the Goosebumps books, Fear St was more my alley

BigB0ss13 posted...

These fictional movies are very dangerous to Asians because white incels will kill Asian men just because they get their "facts" from fictional news, movies and TV shows that portrays Asians in a bad way

Ok Jack Thompson

Because the lines move fast even when it's wrapped around the building and they tend to not fuck up your orders as often

Just like Baloo did in Jungle Book

There used to be a user here named pogo the monkey. Maybe he's still here idk

burns112233 posted...

Geico should still help out, I mean you're paying them, that's what insurance is supposed to do, right?

There are limits per 6 months to how much you can use

I thought this was gonna be one of those threads that has an empty space for every hour of the day and CE got to fill it out.

Gonna try FFXIII again. Still have yet to beat it

I've flown a decent bit in my life and never found myself to be uncomfortable. Maybe I'm just lucky

I've never even seen Despicable Me or any movie involving those things. I basically just know them from ads and memes. Are any of them any good?

Whatever happened to the StinkPrincess account? Was that just someone's gimmick alt or was that legit?

surprised no one's said crackerman

Possibly Emily Haines?

E: Yep, it's literally her wiki pic lol. Lead singer of Metric

Maybe you should have thought of that before you had the hubris to just create a person that didn't exist

Also Velvet Revolver gets too much hate. I unironically loved them. Still listen to Contraband from time to time.

Ryuko_Chan posted...

but hes actually a RIVAL

No, he's a criminal.

Flauros posted...

Ever see a naked woman, on weed?

Was there a dude in the bush?

Sex type thing

mustachedmystic posted...

There was a Mike Hunt at my school freshman year. And for some reason I dont remember, his name would get read during the morning announcements every day. And of course everybody laughed. It only took half the year for them to realize what was going on and start saying Michael Hunt.

Was his name actually Michael?

K181 posted...

Its no surprise. Basically nobody liked it at first glance.

But then when you watched more of it and especially after you started playing it, the look really clicked and then became a major selling point.

The movement and the camera was crisp as well which was a major step up from OoT and MM. You could use the c-stick to look around in 3rd person instead of constantly having to press the L button to lock the camera behind you.

I've personally never seen anyone mess with someone's food. I have seen some cooks get fed up with their job and chuck stuff across the line before storming out forever. One time when I worked at a place with a charcoal grill, we used a shovel to even out the coals and a guy got so mad that he took the shovel and hurled it across the room and damn near hit a coworker with it. And then threatened the manager that he was coming back with a gun to kill him. >_>