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Doe posted...

Are you guys sure palace 5 is bad? The theme is space and it has the Daleks from Dr. Who. Plus there's character intrigue. Haru uses the Nav independently and Morgana called her master? The Thieves enter the palace while Akechi is tailing them? Im interested so far

Morgana's 2 week long bitch fit grinding the game to a halt is by farvthe worst part of the game.

Doubly so because the game pretends Ryuji was somehow in the wrong when Morgana's treated him like shit since day one.

It sours everything around the palace.

Hardly exclusive to Monolith games. Happens to tons of niche jrpgs, especially if you're trying to play them on original hardware.

Try playing part 3 or 4 of .hack. Or buying a ps1 copy of Revelations Persona or Suikoden 2. Digital presence be damned, original copies cost an arm and a leg. Even things as recent as the 3DS Atlus games are selling at 2-3 times MSRP.

Or you can take out a second mortgage on your house just to buy the first five gens of Pokemon.

Ik gonna go a step further and say that 90% of people driving dodge Rams need to get their licenses revoked.

Tailgating absolutely everywhere, every lane, every type of road. Weaving in and out of traffic at the last minute like they're some small, slick car. Cutting people off constantly, revving engines as hard as they can, brake checking. Sprawling across three parking spaces to make sure no one scratches their precious baby. Name a street law, and these overcompensating King of the Road asswipes break it.

The original Star Wars Hallway scene:

https://youtu.be/f4CizzE-zZo

Eat your heart out, Vader

She fits the Priestess Tarot archetype marginally better.

Haru fits Empress marginally better.

I'm cheating and listing the entire Coon Trilogy (Coon 2: Hindsight, Mysterion Rises, and Coon vs Coon and Friends).

I dont care. I love em.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/6/AAOdzqAAD3RG.jpg

That would be a massive win for us, and a massive blunder for the Republicans.

Trump backed candidates lost, but it would be foolish to think they'd fall in lockstep behind DeSantis. Not after Trump has started going after the man. And they won't forgive a party that "turned" on God Emperor Trump.

And losing even a fraction of Trump's following absolutely crucifies their chances of winning. Its too large a fraction of the pool.

To say nothing of what happens if (when) Trump throws a temper tantrum and rins as a third party.

Hell, we may well see another Jan 6th the day Trump doesnt get the nomination.

Nu_Jersey_Devil posted...

I think that's more fear, most conservatives that I know just want the government to not have as much influence on their daily lives, which I can agree with. However, there does exist the far-right conservatives that are against lgbt rights, and those people can eat a dick..lol

And yet they are the ones that want the government to dictate what women do with their bodies, what information is taught in schools, what medicines are/aren't made available, who can/can't get married, what content private social media companies do/don't allow, what religions are/aren't allowed to be publicly represented. what scientific facts are to be considered correct, and on and on.

Rather ironic for a party claiming to be opposed to dictatorial communism.

Nu_Jersey_Devil posted...

And here I thought Mods had to be unbiased...lol

Can't speak to the others, but I'll consult with the team or leave a moderation decision to another mod if I feel my personal values are coloring my judgment too strongly. I'm here to uphold the site rules, not enforce my ideology.

That said, it's ridiculous to expect any human being, mod or no, to be "unbiased," or not have strong opinions about anything. We're people, not robots. Beep boop.

Republicans have no ideology. Their "idiology" comes down to "owning libs."

They aren't the party of fiscal responsibility, because electing business moguls the write policies to bail out their business partner friends and firebombing the budget cutting taxes for the wealthy isn't fiscally responsible.

They aren't the party of traditional family values, because imagine the outcry if Hillary Clinton had five children by three different men, and paid off a porn star.

It's not the party of anti-abortion, as evidenced by people like Herachel Walker and Lauren Boebert.

It's not the party of small government, because they want the government controlling everything from school curriculums to marriage licenses.

It's not the party of a strong foreign policy, because their strategy is to cost us long standing allies and kiss ass to places like Russia who hate us.

It's not the party of law and order, because it's members are free to break the law every time the government mildly annoys them.

It's not the party of anti-socialism, because it stands for dumping obscene amounts of taxpayer money into socialist programs like the military.

It's not the pro-business party, because it's rapidly ensuring regular people no longer have enough money to support most businesses.

It's not the party of the working class, because it almost exclusively funnels more money to executives and shareholders.

There IS no ideology. The closest they have is "everything the libs do is wrong. And we'll come up with progressively more absurd conspiracies as to why they're wrong if it becomes clear they're not."

Mad-Dogg posted...

I didn't like joker going back home because of reasons I guess. Joker is a complete blank slate so we don't really know if he had a excellent previous life or not, but man after crashing in leblanc's attic, hooking that place up, learning how to make some good ass coffee and curry, having a ton of confidants that loves hangin' with me and enough money at the end of the game to renovate the entire restaurant man I wouldn't even want to go back, lol.

I agree, screw going back. His old school expelled him and his parents disowned him because he tried to save a woman from being raped. The hell is he even going back to? Itll be just like it was at the start of the game, for him, at best. Fuck those guys.

Am I alone in not really liking seeing the group split, at the end? Feels like atvthe 11th hour they just invented reasons for everybody to leave to try to make the end a bit more gut-punchy. Didn't really feel necessary to me; I much prefer the ending scenes in vanilla to Royal

Chrono Trigger 2 just couldn't catch a break

So don't download this song!
You'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it)!
Go and buy the CD
Like
You know that you should!
And don't download this song!

*song available exclusively as a free download*

It depends of which neck of conservatism you're looking at.

There's what I call the Capitalism Conservative, or the Ayn Randian conservative, named for the author of Atlus Shrugged, a book many of them idolize. These people live and die by their belief in the free market. It's a sliding spectrum, but perfectly realized it materializes as a belief that the government has no business regulating anything in the private business sector. Everything from antitrust laws to outlawing segregation can be viewed as "wrong," for forcing the Invisible Hand before it was ready (Ayn Rand notably believed both of these examples, according to her for that reason). These people tend to either be 1) very rich, b) have a very poor grasp of how the market works in real life, or c) a near-deification attitude toward the rich. Strong believers in Trickle Down Economics, and quick to cry "SOCIALISM!" at the government doing literally anything other than starting wars. Near Boogeyman-level of paranoia around socialism, but likely cannot properly define it, and will likely pretend that things like 40 hour workweeks and child labor laws arent socialism. Lots of residual Cold War era red-scare McCarthyism.

2) The Religious conservative. Not necessarily Christian, although they often do skew that way. Extremely old-world social values. The flavors of the day are LGBTQ and Abortion hate, but they've been around forever. Historically have cried "devilry" over rap music, metal, rock music, jazz, video games, violent movies, TV, magazines, books, fairy tales, those gosh darn horseless carriages, and the works of William Shakespeare. Often found pretending that the 50s were some sort of beacon of moral and sexual purity. Sometimes will claim that they "aren't AGAINST these things, they just don't want to see it" as their justification for quashing free speech, expression, etc.

3) The "Modern" conservative, so named because they've gotten a lot more popular lately. The Democrats are forming underground baby canabalism rings with Tom Hanks, and replacing people with clones grown in Nancy Pelosi's basement. They have a Jewish Space Laser they use to assassinate people with Covid, and secretly want to sell us all into Chinese slavery circuits. JFK Jr will return from the dead and declare himself president with Donald Trump as his God Emperor, and he'll be the 18th president because every election since the 1960s has been an illegitimate front run by the corporations. And they're dumping chemicals in the rivers to turn your kids trans and the freaking frogs gay. Lots of overlap with QAnon, but not necessarily 100%.

Overlaping trends: extreme distrust of power, degerence to hierarchies (ironic, as if the government is somehow less trustworthy than the ultra-wealthy), belief in something "bigger" than themselves that can't be understood (God, conspiracies, whatever), belief that things were better in the past, resistance to change, blaming modern problems on groups that have been "other'd."

CommonStar posted...

Yeah, I'm surprised as well. I have the save backed up. It's funny because the battery in my Pokemon Crystal died before the one in Red.

I had a similar situation. Crystal died a few years ago, but Yellow chugged along fine until about a month ago. Only one of my gen 1 carts to last that long.

They've all since had Open Cart Surgery though, so they're all good now.

Master_Bass posted...

I'd back that up immediately, tbh. Get a device that will copy the save to your PC.

This. It's a miracle the internal battery isn't dead yet

98k on my student loans
10k on my car

Sometimes, you just gotta do that Mod Aboose.

They also won't understand the joy of the "playground rumor."

If you can get to the grass behind the fences/trees of route 1, you can catch all the starters.

Use strength on the truck to find Mew.

Complete the pokedex and fill the pc boxes, and Bill will let you into his "secret cave" behind his house, full of legendary escape, including mew.

Beat the elite four 100 times and you can fight Professor Oak.

There was even this one loser who talked about walking in front of a trainer, hitting start, teleporting/flying away, going back to the route, closing the start menu, and then fighting a level 7 mew. But that was just silly. Next you'll tell me I can get infinite rare candies by fighting some static next to cinnabar island.

Was such a magical time. The internet killed that whole sense of mystery and wonder completely dead, sadly.

detainee: *twitches slightly*

asshat cop: "STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING!" *punch, club, taser, gun, not necessarily in that order*

"I threw a rock at him!

...It was a big rock..."

This was an emotional roller coaster with a satisfying conclusion.

Thank you.

BearlyWilling posted...

Come on, @Mia_K97

pls respond :^)

EDIT: Cant tag so Im guessing they ignored/blocked me. Not surprised the duck doesnt like being called out on its quacking.

Suspended

Damn_Underscore posted...

So a Game Grumps comment section

or a big chunk of pokemon fans

FaultyCircuitry posted...

Toxic positivity isn't just trying to see the bright side of bad situations. It's the complete fucking obsession, the need to always see something good in everything that happens no matter how bad it is.

It's an emotional disconnect from reality. It is a refusal to allow anger and sadness to have their space.

If someone wants to use that as a personal coping mechanism, fine. You're actively harming your emotional health, but fine.

The issue is when people who act this way won't allow others to experience negative emotions without intruding and reminding them that it's actually not all bad that their father died in a car accident with a drunk driver.

This. Toxic positivity is a very real phenomenon. There's a fine line between trying to remain upbeat and positive, and being so relentlessly upbeat that you completely divorce yourself from the reality of situations.

dud posted...

People don't think toxic positivity is real? It's like when people make generic "you are loved" posts on social media so they can stroke their ego as being a loving person without actually having to put in the effort to love someone, which includes putting up with their baggage and flaws. But that's only one example

O wouldn't use this as an example, though. A better one would be "Everything happens for a reason" and "just put on a happy face" people. There's a place for that attitude, sure, but there are people who take it to such an extreme that they end up completely ignoring or denying actual problems exist because they're so hung up on looking to the bright side. It has more to do with denial, than anything else.

Doesn't help that a lot of Toxically Positive people overlap strongly with the "Depression? Just stop being depressed!" crowd.

My aunt and uncle are prime examples of this attitude. My grandparents have been in failing health for years, in and out of the hospital constantly, and desperately need round the clock professional care. My ain't and uncle have been the primary caregivers for years, have medical power of attorney, and absolutely refuse to even consider an assisted living situation, because to them, every time they successfully hold a five minute conversation with them or get them to the bathroom before an accident is proof-positive that they're getting better and everything will be fine. And they will hear nothing to the suggestion that the situation is deteriorating, badly.

tremain07 posted...

no matter what the pendulum always swings back the other way, a republican could win in 2024 but he won't have a republican house coming in.

He probably will.

He won't lose it until 2026

PsychoVision posted...

You think every Republican believes in crazy conspiracy theories?

Hey, if he's gonna say "one opinion columnist perfectly represents the Democrats," why not? Game goes both ways.

Mia_K97 posted...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/28/recession-seven-silver-lining-strategies/

Well maybe they shouldn't push **** like this for starts

As opposed to the far more reasonable Republican stances that The Deep State Left is forming satanic baby cannibalism rings with Tom Hanks, harvesting the stem cells from the corpses, loading them into their secret Jewish Space Laser, beaming them into the DNA modifying China Virus Vaccine, sprinkling the formula over the salads of the unwary, and dumping the evidence into rivers where the chemicals turn the freaking frogs gay. All in an attempt to steal your guns.

SodomInsane posted...

I would have thought cancelling student loans and fears after Roe V Wade got overturned would spark a blue wave.

Hence "short term memory."

The left have done miserably since taking office. Biden was probably the worst person they could have selected to oust Trump, Manchin/Sinema ground congress to a halt, they've made extremely little headway into holding literal domestic terrorists to account, and are powerless to stop the Supreme Court from running us into the ground.

Inflation had run rampant and gas prices have exploded; this is 1000% due to war profiteering business moguls exploiting Ukraine for profits (as evidenced in Shell, Exxon, and others' quarterly profit reports) but the repubs have spun it in their favor anyway. People's stock portfolios are down, because Wall Street always dips during early Democrat terms out of fear of being regulated.

All of this ends up very de-motivating to their voter base, which isn't helped by the "stop using these problems to campaign, they're more serious than a campaign slogan" narrative which, while understandable, further disincentivizes voting.

Pair this with Republican lawmakers gerrymandering to absolute hell and back, the Supreme Court ruling in favor of specifically republican gerrymandering, immense and unchecked voter intimidation at the polls, and the fact that the right has kept their voter based inflamed with increasingly-ludicrous conspiracy theories, and it makes for one voter base being significantly more enthusiastic and better equipped.

Basically, the let's "they go low, we go high" approach has led to them being continually kicked in the balls, and is leading to an almost surefire loss.

Prismsblade posted...

Not yet, hell the series didn't become big until P4 honestly. Which even then I don't think was huge upon release, but exploded in popularity at some point. But I'm not sure when or why exactly.

P4G. Got popular because it was basically the only reason to buy a Vita for a substantial chunk of that console's lifespan.

I mean, it's not great, but in no way is it bottom tier.

There's no universe where it deserves to be in the same space as Cavemen and shit like that.

Almost like spending $44 billion on a vanity project to unban Trump was a stupid business move.

Questionmarktarius posted...

So... PS6 is gonna be pretty great, huh?

Probably. Assuming MS don't buy out the entire industry by then.

The Sony Cycle continues.

Put out a great system, rise to the top of the world, get complacent, make greedy and lazy choices that drive consumers away, let tour competition charge ahead, suffer declining returns, regroup, and get it right the next time around.

Happened with the ps2 -> ps3, happening again with ps4 -> ps5.

I swear to god, if there's no Chao garden after a tease like this...

Agent_Stroud posted...

Whats wrong with Morgana? He seems nice, at least to everybody except Ryuji whom he seems to delight in tormenting for some odd reason. Even makes sure my slacker self gets in bed at a decent hour (unlike the real world where I stay up until the crack of dawn playing video games while listening to creepypastas. Gotta love working the night shift by the way.).

He completely hijacks the plot for a solid two weeks of in game time,during which we can't even play or do anything because everyone's too sad over hin storming off on a pointless temper tantrum.

His midgame meltdown is some of the worst 2 hours of video game I have ever had to sit through.