Lurker > Philip027

No. You move from location to location from a world map screen instead of it being transitionless (this is the reason why Pokemon Legends Arceus wasn't quite open world either despite appearing/coming very close to it, and why Scarlet/Violet is)

You have freedom (mostly) in what order you tackle the clubs in, but that by itself doesn't make the game open world, it just makes it nonlinear. Another example of this sort of nonlinearity would be the Mega Man games (which also aren't open world, at least the classic ones aren't; I have no idea about more modern entries in that series)

HylianFox posted...

Yeah, but Mario wouldn't call him "King"

Why not? Did you always just call them "just" Elizabeth or Charles, even though they may not have necessarily been your queen or king?

Yes, I enjoyed it. Was my introduction to the series.

I tried playing 3/NV afterward (basically the same game, clearly running on the same engine at least) but they felt so slow and clunky in comparison, and weapon degradation systems in general can bite me.

Most recent like: Probably Stardew. Not really my genre of game, but I ended up liking this one somehow.

Most recent regret: Elden Ring. Not really my genre of game, and it showed.

Naysaspace posted...

exploding violently has gotta be one of the more painless ways to go i imagine. you're just out like a light.

I was interpreting this thread as not dying because of exploding violently. You still die however you were going to die, you just inexplicably explode afterward.

LeCh0nk posted...

well good news. If you die near them there won't be any trauma.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or if I'm missing something, but I already know that there would be trauma. That's why I said additional trauma.

No. I'm likely to die near my spouse and I'd rather spare them any additional trauma.

Been kissed more often. I prefer hugs.

Initiating kisses is something I only do because it's something my partner likes.

No. Doesn't seem generally smart to do, non-white or otherwise.

There's such a skill as choosing your battles.

If the person who actually (allegedly) did the Bad Thing isn't there anymore, I don't see what the problem is.

The person with a take like that is the real ugly person to me as far as I'm concerned

Eh, only a matter of time before an AI will do this for free. Money.

(It helps that I also don't particularly care to watch Family Guy, but hey, you know... if I ever did.)

What about if I just don't wear any pants for five years?

KStateKing17 posted...

Like Aaron?

No, Aaron is mainstream enough. This name is trying too hard.

boxoto posted...

what a weird post

That's how I respond to a weird name.

I don't know who Aaliyah is, but it sounds like a desperate attempt by her parents to make their daughter show up first in yearbooks and the like, apparently blissfully unaware of the fact that they usually go by last names in such listings.

I mean, if this was the kind of comment he was going to make, maybe he was better off having no comment.

HylianFox posted...

Pretty sure it's "So long-a Bowser!"

why tf would Mario call him "King Bowser"?

Because Bowser is literally king of the Koopas?

It has a laugh track though, so obviously it is a terrible, irredeemable show.

3-4 mons I actually used to fight, 2-3 HM slaves. Trying to train a full team of 6 was too obnoxious.

Doesn't really matter anymore with modern Pokemon force feeding EXP Share down your throat + no HMs anyway.

Considering the guy fairly recently expressed wanting to voice Mario until either he died or couldn't anymore, I'd like to know what caused this seeming change of heart. Guess we'll have to wait to hear more.

Lukey_Bug posted...

Lol what? This is a ridiculous post.

How is it ridiculous? It is very much an arbitrary/subjective thing because people won't agree on what "counts" as sex.

Personally, I find the whole "only penetration counts" ideology (that the OP seems to share) to be what's ridiculous. Guess that means lesbians can't have sex or otherwise be counted as having lost their virginity? \_()_/

That's your definition of virginity, but that wouldn't quite work out for, say, a gay couple.

No, partially because of the vagueness/ambiguity of the term, partially because I just don't care.

It's only not okay if you're insecure and possessive, in which case that's something worth working on.

The site is nigh unusable and likely unsafe without a blocker, so no regrets there.

Voidgolem posted...

"we have too many people because we're too caught up on making money" is not particularly sound logic

What isn't particularly sound logic is thinking the homeless people even care about why they don't have a home, rather than the mere fact they don't have one.

Voidgolem posted...

these are extremely solvable problems.

That we choose not to solve them because society collectively puts more weight on arbitrary units of wealth than on the wellbeing of the populace doesn't mean we've overpopulated. It means the systems we currently use are not efficient and support the wrong goals (at least, from a perspective of "most common good". They're extremely good at making numbers of no real significance go up)

Like...there's a lot of things we -could- do to meaningfully increase quality of life for wide swathes of the populace. We don't do them because it doesn't make money, or because it would make a select set of industries make -less- money.

The reasoning doesn't matter much if the end result is the same.

People trained in ringing up items and bagging them are better at it than people who aren't? Wow, who woulda thunk it?

I mean, they're not wrong.

I think it's pathetic regardless of age.

Voidgolem posted...

the world is not overpopulated, by raw landmass we've still got ample room for everyone.

The remainder of your post pretty much explained why overpopulation is not something that is determined simply by "is there enough physical space for everyone"

No

Dark_Arbron posted...

This was also the case with Gold until gen 4 made the boneheaded decision to call him Ethan. The rivals name is Silver so Gold made way more sense.

Gen 4 characters aren't even necessarily the same characters. The male PCs might look similar, but the female PC in Crystal is explicitly different from the one in HGSS (and imo, had a cooler design...)

So, based on the fact the problem does exist in the first place, what conclusion can you then draw about whether or not the people with homes care about the plights of the homeless? Clearly, your reasons provided aren't enough to actually fix the problem; they're not making people care enough.

On another matter, how many of the people with homes who are bothered/impacted by homeless people do you think just wish the homeless people would go away, rather than actually help them in any sort of capacity?

Usually main, but if there was a second set of paired games within the same gen, I would usually play the alternate for the second set.

For instance, I played Ruby and Leaf Green (although to be fair, my decision on that one was swayed on the basis that Green was a "new" version for the English players)
also Diamond and Soul Silver
also Sun and Ultra Moon

You get the idea

KajeI posted...

Let's flip the question around. What're the reasons you think the people with homes have that causes them to not care?

Do you think this problem would exist in the first place if they generally did care?

KajeI posted...

Please, by all means, tell me what makes you think what I said indicates that the homeless are the ones who need to fix it?

What reason do the people with homes have to care?

KajeI posted...

TL:DR, there's not a scarcity of resources, just a scarcity of goodwill.

Does the reason really matter if those 600k homeless people have basically no power to change it regardless?

As a result many people, if not the majority, live in a world of artificially induced scarcity, and allow it because it's too inconvenient to fix it.

Please, by all means, tell us what those homeless people should do to fix said scarcity.

Varieties of Listerine vary in intensity, so if the original is too "strong" you can always try out others. There's some that are basically no stronger than typical mouthwash.

Unless you're offering these people a Playstation or Xbox system capable of playing the original/GOTY edition of the game, your argument isn't very compelling.

Yes. It's overrated, but I'm asexual, so that's basically how I expected it would be.

HylianFox posted...

I wouldn't even call it bad writing.

Sarcastically referring to someone as "Einstein" when they do something stupid is so commonplace it likely wasn't even on the radar that "hey, this takes place in a fantasy world with talking animals in some other solar system/galaxy" would be an issue

And yes, the 3DS remake changes the line to "genius"

Yeah, lines like that (the old one) are great imo. The new one loses character.

Sometimes fourth wall breaks are a good thing.

If they're both happy, great.

They say that, but they must have gotten so many remarks about that that they changed the line in the 3DS rerelease. He calls you "genius" instead of Einstein.

Never had an issue using this controller. It only looks like you'd need three/mutant hands to use it at first, but the majority of games primarily used either the pad or the stick, so you simply gripped either the left or the center with your left hand depending on which.

Nor did I ever encounter drift with it. DualShock 4s and Joycons on the other hand...

Surprised we got this far with no mention of Rowling.

Anyway, her.

The only people that I love wouldn't want me in jail for life, even for a million bucks. So, nah. Bad deal for everyone involved, especially me.