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i watched the first 1/3 of the season, but trying to get back into it for the second and third batch of episodes has been a slog

i don't know if i'm going to make it

They can be.

I was completely stuck in OoT until I looked up what you were supposed to do- that is, play saria's song to the Goron leader

I was pretty annoyed at the time, but I enjoyed the game overall

Evil

I enjoyed the first game and enjoyed getting hyped for it as well

I don't see a (non $$$) reason for there to be a sequel. Hopefully it's what they want to be working on

I'll see how I feel when it is released!

it's for sure suboptimal. at this point it's equivalent to removing the flu vaccine mandate

but if it can be used as leverage to cause republicans to compromise on something else useful i guess we can shoot ourselves in this particular foot

the republican party just gets more embarrassing every day

yeah, this all depends on what average means

supposedly, 20% of americans admit they can't swim at all, and half admit they can't successfully accomplish the following:

floating or treading for 1 minute, jumping into deep water and coming up for air, spinning around in the water and then finding a way out, getting out of a pool without a ladder and swimming one pool length without stopping.

so, if you can do all of the above, you are at least a median swimmer

Hbthebattle posted...

me when i dont understand how fptp voting works

Pretty much this. Fptp needs to go

I've seen other suggestions, including open primaries, removing party affiliations from ballots, and various things around funding

But moving to any of the better voting methods is easier to get behind

Governments really do go after you for insider trading

Makes you realize how effective law enforcement detectives could be if they really tried with other crimes

the first ep was all right. 57 minutes is a LONG pilot, and i appreciate that they got through a lot

if i could change anything, i'd introduce slightly fewer characters and develop them more. too many samey romantic interests, and so far nobody in the cast provides an adequate foil to the protagonist

presumably they'll get into this, but i'd also want them to close the gap between the characterization of "casual murderer wednesday" and "altruistic nancy drew wednesday"

i think this show is mostly for the vibe, and it is succeeding on that front

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Atmosphere and background lore is not the same as story

But this game does have more story than the souls games

Pretty sure I've always been on gamefats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXf8BSdnTek&t=4s

Why only six years?

The boring answer is that it got you (and now us) talking about it

azuarc posted...

CrossCode was the game that drove me to make this topic. I obviously wouldn't have played 15 hours if I didn't care for it at all, but I think the big problem for me was mostly that they made all these things that were a total PITA to find due to the way the map is set up, and a ton of them aren't very well described. I checked guides several times and just groaned when I saw what I was missing. It's not so much the puzzles as it is the just finding things that require jumping to places you have no idea you can even jump to, or going through downward tunnels you can't see, or...

crosscode is an absolute frankenstein of a game. i love what it's going for. i dropped out after around 20 hours

i love the dungeons, i love the puzzles, i love the bosses, and i love the mechanics of combat

but the pacing is just so bad!

when i'm in the mood to work on a dungeon? oops, actually i'm required to grind monsters/quests/mats for another couple of hours.
when i'm in a puzzle dungeon and decide i'd rather just grind for a bit? oops, actually i am required to spend another 90 minutes in the dungeon before i'm allowed out
when i like fighting a boss and want to do another one, it's for sure going to be a number of hours before i'm able to

if it's any consolation, if you're at the 15 hour mark i'm guessing you're in the desert, which for me was the absolute most boring segment, even though i didn't give up until a few hours later. i think i saved/quit before a challenging but most likely fair fight, then came back to the game a few weeks later and had forgotten how to play

you really have to want to be immersed and let the game take control to fully enjoy crosscode. it evokes that feeling of being 11, playing an old rpg, and the game feeling overwhelming and massive. except in reality, when we were kids, an overwhelming and massive game wasn't that big. but to recreate that feeling, the game has to be something absolutely monstrous

it's disappointing, because the demo/opening is so snappy. i feel like the devs could have made some small tweaks to put control more in the hands of the players

Life is too short to play games that aren't exciting

Genuinely recommend picking up an additional hobby for the time being

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://twitter.com/Patterrz/status/1593322600838533120?s=19

Honestly, this is the kind of glitch I unironically enjoy. Doesn't seem to affect anything negatively and is entertaining to look at

i strongly appreciate having mastery over my primary language, it seems impossible to imagine reaching that level with anything else

and i hate feeling clumsy with words, i'd genuinely rather not even try than fumble around as a 50% fluent speaker or whatever

it sounds like a bad attitude when i type it out, but i live in an english-speaking area so it hasn't affected me noticeably

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I disagree. I recently started playing Spider-Man, for example, and even on the hardest difficulty its a complete breeze.

fair enough! i haven't played that, i guess there must be blindingly easy games out there

There's no reason to pick anything above normal for a first playthrough

Harder difficulties are for games I already love, know how to play, and want something more to apply my knowledge to

I will absolutely pick easy if it's likely the game is grindy or it's likely I won't enjoy it, but I'm still curious about the plot

That's nuts, I remember the ffrk topic being a b8 mainstay for a while.

I can't imagine ever spending money on a gacha game knowing it's all going to be deleted sooner rather than later

a friend convinced me to watch trump's speech tonight. my friend's annoyingly optimistic and reveled in the speech- he thinks trump will ruin republican chances of winning the presidency in 2024. probably forgot 2016 already

on the other hand, my main takeaway is that it feels terrible to remember that a significant portion of my country gobbles this shit up

i tuned out after a bit, but damn

your logic is objectively bad

if someone is an unsafe driver, you want them to be away from you rather than directly behind or in front. just move to the right lane for 3 seconds if someone wants to go faster than you, it's not hard

there's no perfect speed to be going, and there are (in your case) only two lanes. if you genuinely believe "everyone slower than me is a ninny and everyone faster than me is a psycho" i don't know what to tell you

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By total deaths it's drunk drivers

By deaths per Capita it has to be "racers"

People that drive slowly in the fast lane affect me the most

Can someone explain Nevada to me?

Is the idea that the remaining votes in LV and Reno are going blue?

I like death note, but it's hard to see it as the best ever

Wasn't there for the match, but was surprised it best avatar

Scammers can spoof caller id, too

I got a couple calls that identified themselves as quinnipiac polling something something, but I didn't risk picking up

it's the same shit he always says. he just sounds older this time

republicans win the house, dems keep senate. i'm okay with that. hopefully will keep people motivated for 2024

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most_games_r_ok posted...

Dunno why it's never been used before!

my best guess is that the song came out 12 years before the first sonic game, so the nostalgia goggles/target demographic didn't align

no! the weed cat stood up

the answer to all this stuff depends on the "why"- your motivation. you can't succeed or fail if you don't have a goal, so if you don't have a goal just do whatever you want

do you want to switch careers? would it simply feel good to have an official degree you skipped out on earlier in life? do you want to prove you're "good enough" to do the next class? do you want to learn something interesting? do you want to network/hang out with college professors and students? etc

your financial situation might also get taken into consideration. there are tutors you can pay to get you caught up on stuff you haven't thought about in a while

red_sox_777 posted...

I was referring to social security specifically. And yes, it is absolutely a ponzi scheme because it relies on new contributions to pay earlier contributors - instead of investing money contributed.

is the military a ponzi scheme, since it relies on yearly contributions instead of being self-sufficient?

Is there a chart of corporate profits over time adjusted for inflation?

My gut instinct tells me it's trended up and up since ww2

Yeah, if you're playing to win instead of for fun, there's no point in exploring all the random things you can do

i bought that other lottery when its jackpot hit a billion earlier this year, and that kinda covered my gambling urges for a while

so probably no

GenesisSaga posted...

^You're too late. This match is over.

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This is like two years late to the party if they wanted to take advantage of bored covid shut-ins

Haven't been to five guys in years, but I'm pretty sure they didn't charge for toppings. Don't remember how much they cost, seems like your prices are way higher

Used to go there for lunch in nyc sometimes. their burgers were humongous

came in here to reference chrono trigger- i suppose i shouldn't be surprised a lot of board 8 had the same experience

came out in 1995, i think i first emulated it in 2007

Sylveon > Umbreon > Leafeon > Flareon > Espeon > Vaporeon > Jolteon > Glaceon

cutoff is probably around vaporeon or jolteon

i dialed past some local radio guy on my way back home today. it was interesting hearing their emphasis on certain words

i'm paraphrasing here as closely as i can, imagine dramatic pauses everywhere

"now i'm going to talk about this thing with paul pelosi. this was a horrible event. a NUDIST ACTIVIST, from BERKELY, attacked him with a hammer. it's a good thing the police showed up right when they did, and the democrats should APOLOGIZE to them IMMEDIATELY. now paul is in his 80s and the guy was in his 40s, so i think one or more hits woulda killed him... "

and that's about when i got tired and moved on. i'm guessing that's gonna be the right-wing deflection- 'the guy is basically a lib and democrats hate police'

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Two thirds of moderate/conservative Dems support legalization.

Three quarters of liberal/left Dems AND self-identified Independents support left

You're most likely on correct with your overall point. Still, I understand the trepidation. Cynically, voters seem more motivated by bad stuff than good stuff

So, written another way, that would alienate 1/3 of "moderates" and 1/4 of "liberals"

Do stuff like that with 3 or 4 issues and you have very few voters left

For the record, they should legalize weed anyway

I really, really did not appreciate mgs2 on release. I appreciate it from a distance

My meme answer is launch mgs3 (aka not subsistence) because the camera, controls, and first aid systems were terrible, and I'm not that big on naked snake's characterization

I actually have to hand it to mgs4, even though I was very appreciative of it tying everything up and it has a ton of memorable moments. It was just unpleasant to slog through

It's so hard to choose. Depending on what you care about you could list any game in the series. picking any particular one also feels bad- I love mgs as a whole

It's a re-release of a remaster of a 6 year old PS3 JRPG

Menji posted...

If we are actively texting back and forth then it's a few words at a time

if not, I'd write it all out

Yep, this is the way to do it

If we're rapid fire texting we usually just transition to a phone call, but sometimes one or the other person can't