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Arlosa Mine
Dolphin Shoals
An Azure Sword Slices Through the Twilight

oh no I voted ryunosuke lol

Dels posted...

not true, he uses random kanji in parentheses at the end of his sentences, i don't know japanese online typing style but they seem to be like tone indicators equivalent to ending a sentence with lol to show its funny, or to show he's angry, excited, etc.

Oh my bad, I heard completely wrong then, you know better than I do. That's probably why they went with leetspeak

Bitto posted...

People have only become more and more terminally online since 2005. Seems like an easy update.

AA1 originally came out in 2001. I always wondered what Sal was like in the original Japanese text. IRC chat?

He doesn't have a gimmick in japanese at all aside from being a creepy otaku dude. The leetspeak was completely a localization invention, and it's aged well because it makes sal seem EVEN MORE LAME with time which I think is hilarious

I just wanna give a shoutout to Sal Manella, a character that only I seem to think is comedy gold because of just how awful he is

Stonetoss is a nazi

I desperately hated the first game and mildly liked the second

azuarc posted...

Edible means it can be safely consumed. Soda, water, and beer can be consumed without explicitly poisoning you or adding harmful substances. (Or at least they're FDA-approved.)

If you want to split hairs over semantics, be my guest, but there's no question in my mind that beverages are "edible." Whether or not they are food is less clear, and I would instinctively say no, not unless you're generally referring to items in a person's diet.

Fully agree with this. Whether or not drinks are food is a semantic tossup imo, but drinks are clearly edible because the inverse ("drinks are not edible") is plainly stupid and misleading.

alabaster
training
portugal

POOORNO MAAAAG (caps)

celestial
alone
temple

Why would I ever vote for Redd White when Roger Retinz is right there

For the purpose of this game, I would say yes, soda is edible, but no, it is not food. I personally think these are the most informative/least confusing answers, as most people wouldn't really call drinks food in normal conversation, but saying a drink is inedible is obviously wrong and misleading. If someone said a drink was food though I would understand.

yeah but they're like shitty reactionary antiestablishment-for-aesthetics left wing, not something that I'd take seriously

Pop Windibank is my under the radar pick for worst character in the entire series

aria
specter
zero

I like paul atishon way more than pees'lubn so I'm kinda surprised the latter has more votes

dance
whitecaps
deep

The only way in which Zuck is worse than Musk is that Musk would fire the entire department in charge of harvesting your data

Yeah I'd consider Zuck an upgrade too, Musk would do all the same horrible shit and he'd be worse about it

If I could trade for a competent Musk who's still shitty in the ways he's shitty but actually runs the website well, I.... probably would? I know that sounds bad but Musk ruining his reputation and taking useful internet infrastructure down with him doesn't do anything for me

I came into this expecting to find a reason not to vote Phoenix. I didn't.

Z1 and Z2 forever

Hmmm, maybe you're right, that's a pretty big margin for PS2

I'd make the argument for PS1 over PS2 on gamefaqs just because of HOW foundational the PS1 is to this site, but the PS2's library is just so strong that I don't know how confident I am.

I forgot to mention 3ds when I did my post, brainfart, but yeah it should be up there as well, possibly over ds

But I am hesitant to read into system of the year polls or any other polls that have put systems against each other because the framing of "best console ever" changes the game so much - mark my words, NES gets a boost from this just from respect value alone

I think I might very well be underestimating the PS4 but I stand firm in my belief that the PS3/360 are dead ducks

Having thought about it, my guess for the 9 strongest systems goes:

SNES
PS1
PS2
N64
Switch
GB
NES
GC
DS

With the GBA, Wii, PS3 and PS4 lurking on the periphery. PC is a wildcard.

I would resist the urge to balance this list out with non-Nintendo systems - the Genesis and 360 are not gonna have the juice. Nintendo systems have by far the strongest legacies, especially on GameFAQs, and they're gonna dominate the entire scene - only the PS1 and PS2 are big boys compared to the Nintendo stuff. PS3 onwards lack the lasting brand power to be better than a midcarder imo.

Yeah NES stomps the Genesis easily. Older gamers still remember the Genesis but in terms of enduring legacy it's pretty clear that Nintendo won the console wars by a landslide, and that ain't just NintendoFAQs.

Olivia Aldente is one of my favorite stupid characters that nobody cares about. Amazing breakdown

inari
suna
spiral

I think Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen is a sleeping giant

I think you guys are making a serious strength attribution error ala Red/Blue in the rivalry contest where the component parts might not seem strong, but the conceit of the contest changes the math. I think the NES and Game Boy are stronger than people think merely because a lot of people will feel they're Deserving of the title of Best Console Ever - the Game Boy especially has such a strong factor of being regarded as a historic great among its peers, even if it has a maximum three games on the site with any meaningful strength. That doesn't mean it will beat SNES/PS2, but I would very quickly take it or NES over PS4. No hesitation. The PS4 library obviously beats either of those systems in a round robin but it lacks the cultural cache of truly being remembered as a great, and people tend to consider the question of "which is the greatest of all time?" when voting.

Breaking: Gamer shocked to discover Nintendo has made a lot of good games with broad appeal

Where's poison, psychic, and sun

woods
knight
fire

KamikazePotato posted...

This board is a bit obsessed with Nintendo yeah.

Yeah it's not like only Nintendo games had four extra years of eligibility in this contest or anything.

Smash

Anagram posted...

Its definitely not the episode where George fights the guy about the parking spot, unless the person completely misremembered it.

I am already betting hard on the latter.

Machi is underrated. I like that he snarks at you to Lamiroir in his language if you fuck up.

I went for Rimes though

escape
apex
umbrella

Smash

SHININ' QUEEN
Subterranean Sunrise
Windslash Steps

3-3 is a candidate for rewriting but the only thing I would rewrite is the timeframe - I think the case works much better if Phoenix investigates the DAY after the sham trial, instead of waiting a MONTH to get around to it.

4-4 and 5-5 are my picks for what I would want to rewrite - both games dropped the ball pretty hard imo

TeamRocketElite posted...

Was there a reason he didn't get pulled before finishing the game? I thought that was something that was done in recent years for fatigue/injury reasons.

His pitch count wasn't that high

Ragna Breakers
Crystal Caves
Beat the Diamonds

Yeah I understand the game is supposed to be a troll game but if it instantly trolls me out of playing the game then what's the point lol

Eddv posted...

The electoral college harkens back to a time when the culture found in Boston was dramaticslly different than the one in Florida and produced dramatically different politicians. Thats not really the case anymore. But if you wanna have the indirect election thats fine but lets make it proportional the way it was intended to be.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/435-representatives/

538 made a fun little widget so you could play with it but even if you made the house such that every representative represented the population of Wyoming (which is still well under the number of representatives the constitution calls for) that would move the electoral college to 640 votes and even that would have flipped both elections.

This is important because margin of victory is irrelevent. The outcome is still absolute. Its not like W was less of a president because he didnt win the popular vote. His power was not proportional to the size of his win.

Trump made some decisions which have completely reshaped the way the US interacts with the world and kickstarted a cold war with china which will shape the world for a generation.

W Bush lost the popular vote and went on to dramatically re shape the federal government. Dont you think the person the people voted for shouldve been the one to make those decisions?

Or does it not matter that the only reason for these results is poorly rendered statistics?

"I'm concerned about the 52% majority ruling tyrannically over the 48% minority, and my idea of how to fix this is to give 100% of the executive power to the 48% minority"

it's just the goddamn smoothest brain shit I've ever heard and I'm done taking the idea even remotely seriously

Raka_Putra posted...

Got to the chess notation and I don't know what's happening. I used the Chess Next Move site but when I input it, it just said "invalid notation".

Hint for doing rule 16 correctly:

Your notation MUST include captures and checks. For example, if the correct answer is to move your queen to e4, capturing a pawn and putting the king in check, then you need to write "Qxe4+", not "Qe4". x is for the capture, and + is check.

changmas posted...

I overfed Paul after completing rule 26

Here's a useful youtube link for anyone who wants it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvmhgxfoh8

youtube might say it's 3:15 but can confirm this works

The required time is random