Lurker > Kenri

This is a tough one.

2-1 is by far my least favorite case. Utterly irredeemable. But it's short and largely irrelevant to the rest of the game/series so you don't actually gain much from fixing it.

4-4 is the next obvious choice but I feel like the poison runs deeper than just 4-4. You'd have to fix all four of that game's cases to really solve the biggest issues.

After that...

LeonhartFour posted...

4-3 is probably the easiest case to rewrite to be less stupid than it is because its biggest problem is how stupid its logic is

I think I'm leaning this way too. 5-3 isn't on the poll but would be another easy one to fix because all you really have to do is write Robin with 2023 sensibilities instead of 2013 sensibilities.

...honestly 4-2 could also stand to just have the whole panty thief plot line changed into something else so that's a contender too.

I'm sure it feels like a zero sum game to a racist though

Lopen posted...

Listen you can reduce what I'm saying to "me like smaller number" but that just shows you're not reading.

here's how it works: you engage with others in good faith and show an understanding of historical and contemporary politics, I read what you're writing and respond in kind. you don't bother reading and just regurgitate dumb garbage, i match that energy by not reading and by regurgitating dumb garbage

Lopen posted...

Me like smaller number because by the rules of the game smaller number is supposed to win

why do you give a fuck about the rules? who cares?

Lopen posted...

You can disagree but I haven't heard any real reason from your side that your rewriting of the rules is better that isn't "me like my candidate" and "me like bigger number" and "me use big number to pick what movie to watch"

Again and again I've said "explain to me why 50.1% is meaningfully different than 49.9% in terms of how representative it is of what America wants" and you can't.

you've gotten tons of reasons actually, but you keep ignoring them (or reducing them to something dumb-sounding, then ignoring them)

Lopen posted...

I'm not saying EC is objectively better at the moment, just that there is a theory behind it and that I think that if the theory is realized it becomes better than popular vote (which is not an improvement over the current EC).

Like if you want me gun to head pick EC as it stands and guarantee it will never be replaced vs Popular Vote that will never be replaced I'd have to actually think about it, but reformed EC would undoubtedly be a better system than Popular Vote can ever hope to be in terms of representing the interests of the nation accurately and frankly, in terms of ability to reasonably catch voter fraud (imagine doing recounts when literally every Clerk's Office in the nation has to recount their votes)

please engage with objective reality

Anyway I've gotta go to work or pound nails into my dick or something so ttfn

Lopen posted...

I'm saying he's not actually thinking about the situation because he's shown no evidence he has thought about anything involved beyond "bigger number win"

if you want effort from my posts you're going to have to show, at a bare minimum, respect for people who effortpost. preferably you would also engage with objective reality but i'm not holding my breath for that lmfao

until then you get:

Kenri posted...

you keep saying this but why is "me like big number" worse than your position, which is just "me like smaller number"?

Not seeing many games on my wishlist at price points that make me jump on them, unfortunately. Maybe next sale.

Seanchan posted...

Steam Deck is on sale, 10%, 15%, 20% depending upon the model.

absurdly good deal at these prices.

Lopen posted...

In what way?

in the way that that's how practically every vote on the entire fuckin planet works?? like do you understand how voting works, conceptually, outside of the very specific framework of this one vote in this one country?

Lopen posted...

But my main point is that number also doesn't matter in a sense of being notably more representative

But it is more representative.

How much more does it need to be to be notable, in your eyes?

Lopen posted...

B-b-but the loser won the popular vote is just coping by the losers. It's not actually meaningful. People saying raw votes are more fair than the electoral college-- why? Do you really think a candidate having a couple more percentage of the votes really matters?

this is such a bizarre line to take that i'm having trouble believing you're actually confused by it. like yeah of course a few percentage matters when it determines who wins and who loses??

Lopen posted...

The rules are what they are and I've given the theory behind them-- you can say "the theory isn't working because they are focusing on battleground states"

the theory isn't working because it's dumb as shit and produces garbage presidents. i honestly do not give a fuck about battleground states or whatever, you keep bringing that up, not me.

Lopen posted...

Making it pure popular vote is lazy or ape "me like big number" thinking at best

you keep saying this but why is "me like big number" worse than your position, which is just "me like smaller number"?

Lopen posted...

Basically if you want to go all in with the analogy counting registered votes as double is the attempt to replace the electoral college with pure popular vote.

it turns out analogies can just be whatever you want i guess

Lopen posted...

Smooth brained is thinking 52% ruling over 48% is functionally some radical change from 48% ruling over 52% in terms of "fairness." It's not. It's the tyranny of roughly half over roughly half in either case.

You'd think we'd realize this on GameFAQs Contests board most easily. Just looking at the history of Crono vs Mario. It's like did we have people complain when registered votes count double when it flipped matches? I think by and large it was considered a quirk in the format and didn't swing any matches by a huge amount, and the rules were presented at contest start.

I could be remembering wrong but my memory of that was that people by and large thought it cheapened the contests. Anti-rally people thought "this is stupid, they should just ban rallies" while pro-rally people thought "this is stupid, they should just do nothing". Did it flip anything? Who knows. Anyway, the analogy there would be if the US used to go by plain popular vote, and even let citizens of other countries vote, until China rallied some random rice farmer to US president, at which point the US went "actually, China can still vote in our elections, but their votes are worth half a US citizen's". Which is, if nothing else, a system that would produce extremely funny results.

Lana wins this but it's close with the Gavins.

Clearly the solution is to make it so they can win by 1 vote or lose by 100,000,000 votes and still be president either way

Leonhart4 posted...

"Why would anyone want a faithful remake?" is the world FFVIIR has created.

Metroid Zero Mission tbh

It's The Judge but shout-out to Juniper too.

Sunshine. The aesthetics are great but actually playing it is awful. It's kind of shocking that such a flawed game even got released under the Mario name tbh.

Sick pulls. I'll try to do Nier and Tomb Raider... if my Ghost Trick import shows up in time maybe that too.

I might have to buy Cassette Beasts even though I'm trying not to spend money right now. I've been coveting it for a while.

Nominate Demon's Souls

Bounced off it pretty hard the first time I tried it but I've been wanting to give it another shot

For lack of any better ideas, nominate Grime

I'm really running out of time to play ZOE2, gotta start soon. Luckily it's short.

Galaxy > Galaxy 2 > 64 > 3D Land > Bowser's Fury > Odyssey > 3D World > Sunshine

... what a weird ranking, I stand by it though

sounds great hope they both kill each other

Franziska isn't a bad character but she's definitely a character they had no idea what to do with and completely wasted the potential of. Not her fault but hard to separate the character writing from the character, even if you want to.

Chaotic good

Never met a Marry-o in real life but I've met several Mar-ee-ohs. Pretty sure the latter is "correct" but obviously it depends on the individual.

Safety bump

Gonna try to start Call of Juarez soon but I am definitely not getting to GAA this month lol

Ema is my favorite assistant so she easily gets my vote even if they made her a lot worse in AA4.

Damn, I wish I had lost the console war too, so I could be getting dominated by a switch right now

I think a lot of these are pretty strong characters, actually. That said, Gumshoe is the easy winner.

NFUN posted...

man the last topic lasted two months

No political news is good political news

skullbone posted...

IDK how people are looking at Mario Wonder and thinking it looks like NSMB. The sound design seems a little similar but this looks completely different.

While it does look a lot better, it's still very clean, almost plastic-y 3D, and that's the part I don't like. For it to count as looking completely different to me, it would have to have an art style that's like, idk, Cuphead, Wario Land: Shake It, Braid, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Fez, Yoshi's Island, Mario 1-3 + World, or Kirby's Epic Yarn. Obviously not all of those fit Mario, they're just examples of how different I'd want the art style to be.

Lazy_Haar posted...

No matter how much I love Star Ocean, no way in hell am I spending $200 on mini acrylic figures, a small artbook, and a soundtrack. I'm so disappointed right now.

Half of that is stuff you used to get for free just for preordering a game lol

Do we know yet if this game is more like Pikmin 1/2 or Pikmin 3? Vastly preferred the open world RTS approach of the first two games to 3's more action-gamey style with screen breaks. Not sure if I'm explaining this right. It looks more like 2 but hard to tell if that's just from the way the trailers have been edited.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

also I get the impression that aside from the visual/audio changes this will be basically a 1:1 remake of the original

they even replicated the specific placement and animation of random enemies hanging out on the waterfall course.

As someone who could never get into SMRPG at all being 1:1 probably kills any interest for me. Happy for fans of the game though!

LightningStrikes posted...

NSMBU has some of the best level design theyve ever done, the issue was a lot of the trappings around it had gotten a bit stale. This more than solves that problem.

Wonder looks good but I'm not sure the trappings are different enough to overcome this problem. They definitely aren't for me personally.

I got a Litwick plush when I was visiting Japan last week. Was hoping to find a Joltik or substitute doll but no such luck

Dahlia vs. Gant definitely makes this the toughest day yet. Gut reaction is Dahlia but man, Gant is really really good too.

foolm0r0n posted...

You're taking the phrase too literally. "Minority rule" is just a play on "majority rule" which means that minorities are able to block actions by the majority and self-govern. They aren't in control, but they can block and challenge and do their own thing locally. That's super valuable and it's the only reason you're not in some gulag right now (for some reason or another).

if that's what it means then the US doesn't have it anyway (or rather, only very specific minorities have it, to the detriment of both the majority and also many other, smaller minorities)

also plenty of people are in de facto gulags in the US so I'm not sure why you'd even bother bringing that up

foolm0r0n posted...

The #1 question to all electoral detractors is: If the EC was consistently keeping Democrats in charge and blocking Trump from ever having a chance at winning, would you be standing up and decrying it as an unfair policy that needs to go? Is it really such a matter of fairness and principle?

what if the moon was made of cheese

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/2/AACm-yAAElga.jpg

on all levels except physical this is me

Lopen posted...

Knowing history and understanding history aren't always the same.

extremely gutsy to fire off a post like this at someone who clearly has the advantage on you in both areas

you are so deep in an alternate universe right now that you're finding wacky new variants of spider-man

Lopen posted...

Your hypothetical is absurd because in an electoral college system Loving County would have 3 Electoral Votes to Harris's like 500.

this is like the funniest possible answer you could have given, well done.

foolm0r0n posted...

Minority rule is excellent and necessary for freedom. It lets things like anti-racism to bubble up from small progressive areas into the larger society, to eventually challenging the majority.

my brother in christ, if the minority is ruling they don't need to "eventually challenge the majority" they are already in control

anyway yes 2-party system bad

Espeon posted...

I mean, the way things are now, rather than an urban majority imposing their will on a low population region, we have a rural minority imposing their will on high population regions. I guess I dont understand why thats considered okay.

Yeah this is really the crux of the matter. Like obviously majority rule is bad but I'm not sure why minority rule is in any way better (and I can think of several reasons why it's worse).

Not to mention that under the current system you actually have both. Fun game, ask a rural Californian if they feel their vote matters!

The system isn't even working the way it was set up lmao. Like the electoral college exists exactly to keep populists out of power, but now electors aren't allowed in many states to be unfaithful, so we have this system that is not working as intended _or_ working as unintended (because it doesn't work at all).

Lopen posted...

more votes win would dumb down the process so much that you'd have massive sections of the country completely ignored because there just aren't enough people living there even if their resources are valuable to the country as a whole.

got bad news for you about massive sections of country right now (that incidentally have way more people in them than the ones you're worried about)

People complaining about Pokmon S/V's performance need to realize that that game could be native to the fuckin PS8 and would still perform like garbage. Embrace the fact that Gamefreak either doesn't care or isn't capable, probably both.

Lopen posted...

The theory is that the candidates should need to address regional concerns not just the concerns of population centers.

Whether that's fulfilled in practice is another discussion and I don't think the current system is perfect but flat "more votes" isn't either.

Go back to the previous silly hypothetical where Japan is part of Hawaii. Say the candidate runs on a platform of doing some tax incentive to benefit Japan's (Hawaii's) economy or makes Japanese a mandatory national second language or whatever.

So candidate wins Japan/Hawaii 90-10 (up around 100 million votes)
Loses the rest of US 40-60 (down around 60-70 million votes)

Do you think in this hypothetical United States the candidate should win? The margin is actually not super high in terms of Electoral votes (Japan/Hawaii would have the most votes of the US in this hypothetical but would still be worth less than Texas + New York + California) and I believe would be flipped by the modified electoral vote scheme Maine/Nebraska use.

I mean yeah they probably should win in this scenario? Like it's obviously bad but the reverse seems worse to me.

Inviso posted...

Kenri/KP & Foolmo/Lopen, could you clarify what is even being argued over at this point? Because if I'm understanding what's being said, I think you're both right and aren't inherently disagreeing with each other (aside from Lopen's pro-electoral college stance).

We absolutely are but it's very funny to watch people try to ignore objective reality because they hate Hillary Clinton so much (and/or love the electoral college, I guess)

Lopen posted...

If more people turn out to support Clinton in the battlefield states she wins.

And why does it matter which state her votes are coming from, again...?

Lopen posted...

It doesn't because republicans don't care about Orphan murdering and democrats do. So Orphan murdering candidates lose more Democrat votes

Granted. But why does party affiliation matter, again?

Lopen posted...

If Clinton killed 1 Orphan and it lost her the votes of people of people who don't want to vote for an Orphan killer then it's the deciding factor for a bunch of people who abstained or didn't show up as a result. Does that mean it was the number one cause? Not necessarily, but it very well could have been.

Because a lot of people don't care about lesser of two evils they're just not going to show up. "Well that guy is worse" politics doesn't really work. They want an appealing candidate. That's why Hillary lost states she was considered a strong favorite in-- the Democratic base didn't show up because they weren't interested in voting the candidate that murdered one baby vs the candidate that murdered two.

Sure but it's not like they voted for Trump, right? So why does it matter? Walk me through this like I'm stupid, why would more votes for Clinton have made any difference at all when you clearly don't win based on more votes (or she'd have won anyway)?

foolm0r0n posted...

The whole point is that hurting your chances by 1% OBVIOUSLY decides the election when the margin is under 1%. Yes the other 49% also decides the election but why dismiss a critical 1%?

Because if your opponent also does the thing that hurts one's chances by 1%, it evens out?

foolm0r0n posted...

And it's always been about more votes. More votes in Pennsylvania and other places that mattered.

OK yeah, thanks for agreeing with me I guess.