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Kamil posted...

The Hawaii trip was worse than I remembered. I usually like these trips/breaks but it was just such a nothing part of the game. The funniest thing is Mishima getting sick I guess? It's so pointless mostly.

The problem is that while p4 made them nice, fun, endearing bonding moments, p5 made every single one of them miserable.

Buffet? Shit talked by the adults, wind taken out of sails.

Fireworks? Rained out.

Hawaii? Nobody wants to be there, Nobody has fun, and you all talk about PT work the whole time.

Destinyland?... yeah, about that...

That leaves... hot pot? that one was nice.

At least Royal fixes things a bit by letting you have an actual Christmas date. Vanilla soured even that one.

Doe posted...

Confidants need a revamp in the next game so it's not about sociopathically choosing the optimal dialogue response to make people like you better.

Unless you literally make every single conversation response identical in terms of how it's received, then min/maxers will always do this

spikethedevil posted...

What happens then?

Hawaii up through Morgana's bitch fit

No.

9/7 through 9/18 is the worst part of Persona 5

It's one of the most worthless, if not outright harmful sentiments to share with somebody.

90% of the time it's used to diminish people's struggles. Oftentimes when people say it to themselves, it helps them handwave real, tangible takeaways from a situation, and hampers learning/growing. And when people say it to somebody else, it's usually a trite attempt at comfort when they can't come up with anything better to say; and more often than not, it's not what somebody absolutely going through it wants/needs to hear.

To say nothing of it's more gross applications, and the utter nonsense it becomes when taken to its logical conclusion. Got raped? "Everything happens for a reason." Children starving to death? "Everything happens for a reason." Extreme examples, sure, but not unfounded ones; people trot the phrase out in circumstances like those all the time. And it shows exactly what I'm saying: worthless, up to harmful.

If someone gets comfort from it, good on them; I certainly won't take that away from them. But on average, I feel like the sentiment is a net negative.

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

GTA 5 is fantastic, and stupid people being tempted by a stupid thing is hardly something that should be a large part of YOUR opinion.

When that large number of people shift the market to the point that all we now get is said stupid stuff to the exclusion of all else, yes, it is perfectly valid for it to shape your opinion.

At least most manga doesn't feel the need to "one more day" reset itself every couple years

We currently have something like 400 million guns out in the wild, for our population of 330 million people.

What, exactly, is the threshold for guns sold supposed to be for the "good guy with a gun" myth to become a reality and stop mass shooters?

Cuz from where I'm sitting we're approaching a 125% saturation level, and there never seems to be this gun-toting hero around to stop the bad guy. Ever.

hoo rah.

Nah, Belgium.

The Swiss miss the mark.

NoxObscuras posted...

True, the end of FMA isn't canon, but the first half of it is. I'd say least recommend the beginning, since Brotherhood kind of speeds through a lot of the material that was already covered by FMA.

But the first half of FMA 2003 is also loaded with filler, changes characterization, and alters the material in questionable ways (scar not killing Nina-Alexander is an example that immediately comes to mind)

VeesMcGees posted...

Japan caters to their crappy nerds too much.

Ive also heard the declining Japanese birthrate is affected by the government being stingy with when people get time off and any support that be given for starting a family. They has nothing to do with the incels propping up the idol industry, but some people were talking about Japans birthrate.

Japan's birthrate issues have a myriad of root causes.

But while birthrates are declining worldwide, we would be remiss to ignore issues intrinsic to Japanese culture that are major contributing factors to their particularly steep decline.

Extremely intensive educational focus during children's most formative years, for a start. From middle school onward, they're basically caught in a death spiral of going to school 6 days a week, prep school multiple nights a week, and studying during the vast majority of their free time. They are constantly bouncing from one life-defining test or entrance exam to the next, first to get into middle schools, then high schools, then universities. So yheor most socially-formative years are spent being extremely discouraged to socialize, as their families want to keep their energies almost exclusively focused on school.

Pair that with media and a culture that hypes up the mere act of asking someone on a casual lunch date as a life-shattering, season finale EVENT(tm), societal gender norms drawing a hard line between men and women, and even the cultural conversational style (very passive and indirect - being direct about damn near anything is seen as impatient or rude, unless you have direct hierarchical authority over someone), and is it really any wonder why young adults brought up in this system have neither the skill nor the desire to interact with ANYONE, much less the opposite sex?

To say nothing of the cultural emphasis on deindividualizatoon and conformity; surely I don't need to explain why reflexively trying to not stand out doesn't exactly do anyone any favors, here.

And it doesn't get any better once you join tge workforce. 6-7 day work weeks wherein it's a social stigma to be the "lazy" first person to leave the office, resulting in a stupid vicious-cycle waiting game at the end of the day. And even then, you're expected to go drinking with your boss/coworkers after work, get home at 11pm, and go to work at 6 an the next day. All wearing the same salary man suit at the million other people at your train stop.

You ever notice that anime and Japanese media in general has more absentee fathers than Disney? It's not because they're all dead; that's just how little the average Japanese family sees their father.

Japan is in dire need of severe reform to their social norms; it's almost literally suffocating them.

Do we get pacifist Arnold, or Karate Arnold?

Either way, grandma solos

I'm just impressed it dethroned One Piece in popularity for a little while.

That shouldn't even be possible.

Idol culture is utter insanity in Japan.

And it isn't localized to idols. Any mildly-attractive woman in the public eye is expected to remain a single virgin forever, or else legions of thirsty male simps will straight up riot.

even if it is a "minority," it's completely infected the entertainment business culture. Studios will literally force women into immediate retirement if they so much as get a boyfriend, in order to avoid the backlash. its disgusting.

Yo best buy. It's supposed to be a SALE.

You just marked this one up by $9.50.

My question is, why the hell does Gen X seem to get off the hook so often?

They're literally Boomers-lite, but act like the "lite" moniker means they were screwed just as badly as millennials or gen z, despite them being much closer to boomers in terms of wealth, benefits, and property ownership. They pretend to be these grizzled, dont-give-a-fuck badasses who live outside the issue, while also parroting mostly boomer talking points. And I swear to God, damn near every "Ok boomer" I've ever thought has been directed at a Gen Xer

Blue_Popo posted...

Where was ahsoka during the prequel, original and sequel trilogy?

prequel: I like to think she was that one Togruta youngling we saw training with Yoda in episode 2. We know where she was in episode 3 - dealing with Maul on Mandalore.

original: Malachor, where Ezra left her. What exactly she did there is what we'll find out in the Ahsoka series

sequel: probably dead. Her voice was part of that "all the jedi" force ghost collective talking to Rey in episode 9.

PowerOats posted...

Shame we didn't get a second one

Sonic Team is incapable of developing an idea.

They have an insurmountable compulsion to throw the baby out with the bathwater and start over from scratch every single game.

It's why the series is so fucking inconsistent. They haven't tried to refine an idea since SA2.

Oh, The Shawshank Redemption.

Depending on whether you see Red or Andy as the protagonist, of course

It's also worth noting that literally nobody else here needed to see tweets showing the singer openly promoting Nazi shit in order to call his racist, right wing, conspiratorial dogwhistles exactly what they were.

Just because you refused to see the clear, obvious writing on the wall. and opted to give an obscene amount of benefit-of-the-doubt doesn't mean we were "refusing to have a conversation."

We were calling an obvious spade a spade. There's a difference.

only two of the four of them were funny. Which is a travesty by Ghostbusters standards.

Forrest Gump

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Done.

I won because I grinded long enough, started off with the seed that boosts your attack/sp.atk to max, spammed projectiles and was lucky enough for none of them to miss. Missing happens a lot in this game, it's frustrating.
There's no way I was playing right, it went like this. Run 10 Temporal Spire floors(Not allowed to recruit for some reason), eat/throw the best seed I found at Dialga, start throwing projectiles, one of us gets two-shotted (Or he Ancientpowers, gets the full boost and uses his new turn to get the kill), repeat until I inexplicably win.

I'm disappointed I didn't really react to the ending. Maybe it only works if it's your first time playing. I knew my guy was going to respawn somehow and I had a few hours of Temporal Spire runs a lot fresher in my mind than whatever the story was trying to get me to feel before.
Might also be because Cyndaquil doesn't have a very expressive face, diminishes his ability to convey sadness.
I wonder if Grovyle got to come back too.

I got that mission where Wigglytuff and the others repeatedly destroy you. I remember this one all right. I know this game has a whole bunch of other story stuff. Might go for it if I can find a nice AoE move.
But since the game up to Dialga's done, now I can finally watch a speedrun and probably learn about basic/obvious gameplay features.

Just saying. you're literally only half done.

The "post game" is literally just straight up half the story

IIRC, Chester did in Fairy Idol, when Norm was his fairy for like 15 minutes. First thing he did was wish for world peace

the biggest problem I see is actually getting the "guilty" verdict.

There are, unfortunately, a shit ton of MAGAts more than willing to fuck up the jury pool

Tyranthraxus posted...

TBH when it comes to Bible belt, Georgia is the least shitty place

Meh.

There's a lot for me to hate, here. Much too hot, and when its nit too hot its drowning under sheets of rain. Cockroaches the size of nectarines, fruit flies if I don't scrub everything in the kitchen twice a day. Traffic is miserable no matter when I go out. Plus I hate crowded urban environments, but if I leave the little blue urban bubble for ten minutes in any direction, I find myself in a QANON wonderland.

Tbh the whole place is a bad fit, for me. Stuck here for a two year stint, but most likely won't be staying a day past that.

Yknow, I really didn't want to move to this state.

But if I get to live in the state where Drumpf is rotting in jail, it may take some of the edge off.

cjsdowg posted...

I saw some reports that the singer blames Jewish people for 911. However I have not been able to double check. Has anyone else heard that ?

It's been confirmed. It's what finally shut down the "debate" here as to whether this flagrant, barely-hidden dogwhistler was actually "both sides-ing" in yhe song or not.

He's not. He's exactly as bad, if not worse, than it initially looked

ejolson posted...

No, you failed all of us, because that is factual to what happened and the group it was perpetrated on. Just like religion...

The "welfare queen" stereotype is not factual. Even the person Reagan referred to as his "damning example" wasn't factual; Linda Taylor, the woman he was referring to, only managed to defraud $8000 total, far less than the hundreds of thousands he claimed (and Republicans latched onto), and was promptly arrested for it.

Again, if welfare queen were an actual thing, why the fuck aren't more people deliberately getting fired and put on welfare? Free houses, steaks, and bags of fudge rounds? Bullshit. Even the people who parrot this nonsense know it's fake, or else they'd do it themselves.

They want an excuse to shit on other poor people. And by that, I mean black people, because everybody knows the stereotypical image of a "welfare queen" is an overweight black woman.

You know, I've always wondered. If all of these people genuinely believe the "welfare queen" myth... why the fuck don't they just try to lose their jobs and get on welfare? Go get your thousands and thousands of dollars for doing nothing, yourself, if it's such a great fuckin deal.

They'll give some BS excuse about "pride" and "work ethic" of course. But from where I'm sitting, it ALMOST looks like they know it's bullshit.

ejolson posted...

the groundswell of support this guy is getting from the left

*citation needed*

I distinctly remember:

1. all the coolest neopets had nearly impossible restrictions to get

2. all the good items, color skins, w/e cost millions of the currency to buy

3. every in game shop was always sold out. so you were forced to get fleeced at player owned shops

4. Games would give a couple thousand of the currency daily. at most.

As charming as the world was, it really did not respect players' time, and was built to frustrate them. It was like a blueprint for modern EA/Actiblizz shit.

He already had one. It sucked.

Even if he got one, I'll spare us the effort. He's immortal, can't be stopped no matter what anyone does, but he opens the dead zone and gets kicked in. Again. For the third time. The end.

Echo chambers are only good if everything said in them is 100% accurate and correct.

Any error, misinformation, or bad reasoning that gets picked up by three crowd becomes "fact." and it is nearly impossible for any one person to change it, as they will invariably get drowned out.

So sure, echo chambers are great, assuming the hivemind within is literally never wrong.

Considering he wants to raise voting age to 25, Gen Z swarm the polls and kick the shit out of his disingenuous ass

k1zzl3_82 posted...

It is kind of silly to grind that little bit, but that is what separates the people dedicated to winning a tournament.

It really doesn't.

The actual attaining of the pokemon has absolutely nothing to do with the tournament. People can throw out the "emotional bonds" and "meaning of being a trainer" and "team rocket was right" platitudes all they want, but this isn't an anime. None of that factors into who wins the tournament.

Nor will any time spent grinding for bottle caps, hunting for mints, or farming Tera shards, ability capsules, or any of that garbage. Doing that dorsnt teach anything that you need to do to win, it just makes it take longer.

The only difference that matters is who has the better strategy. Matchups, movesets, predicting the opponent. That's it. At the end of the day, so long as it's legal, it shouldn't matter where your Terrakion came from.

This isn't a meaningful restriction; it's busywork. May as well have the players write a 10 page essay on Jane Eyre as an entry requirement.

MorbidFaithless posted...

Yes. Something that might not be terrible would be another term for Biden, then Kamala with AOC as VP for a term, then AOC for two terms.

Why on earth should we have to wait through 8 more years of stagnant establishment slop, when we only need to suffer through four?

Kamala isn't nearly popular enough to deserve a nomination; and the whole "just vote for milquetoast because it's better than the fascists" approach has diminishing returns every time it's used.

Absolutely

By all means, your honor. Feel free to use that form in the Trump case.

Yes, I know that would invalidate the trial and be a net negative. It's a joke, ya buzzkills.

nice sources and examples there, mate.

I agree with you in principle, and I viscerally agree with you emotionally.

But I also recognize that "the onus is on them to change" is nearly equivalent to "fuck it, they're never gonna change."

Because nothing happens in a vacuum. SOMETHING has to happen to change their minds, and it certainly isn't gonna happen in their echo chambers. And people close to them are best equipped to do something.

So unless we wanna go with the "just wait for the racism/bigotry to die out naturally over time" approach (which... hasn't exactly been successful so far), then someone's gotta talk to them. It's nobody's responsibility, but it's necessary for somebody.

And for what its worth, cutting them off is itself a message. and can be compelling in its own right. So by icing them out, you are technically still trying to "sway" them, if incidentally.

Pretty sure if I just walked out of work for six weeks because I disagreed with my coworkers, I'd get fired too.

Sucks to suck. Union busting Republicans don't get to strike.

Hayame_Zero posted...

The reason people think the Monopoly guy had a monocle is because it's associated with the other industrial businessman caricature items he has

Plus I feel like the scene in Ace Ventura 2 helped solidify it, culturally. Had a monocle, there.

What is it they like to chant? "Love it or leave it?"

You heard em; get the fuck out, you steaming orange dump.

Kradek posted...

This may just be what gets Trump to attend the debates. Would he be able to resist a chance to tear into "traitor Mike" on live TV? I doubt it

if anything it'll force him to NOT attend.

Pence is a key witness against him in his current indictments. Having them "debate" on television is probably gonna be a big "no" from the court

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Trump hasn't ruled out attending.

I mean, he's straight up said he's not gonna go and is planning on "watching the debates to look for a VP."

Flaming_Fire619 posted...

I mean is he wrong? Every poll shows that Trump is so far ahead of everyone else that it would at this point probably take him dying to have a different nominee. Even if he was in prison there would be probably enough votes for him with the supporters saying be was wrongfully imprisoned.

Even more than that, Pence'a campaign in general is a categorical waste of time.

The dude has no chance and no support. His reputation among the right was firebombed on January 6th, and has only gotten worse as he has continued to be one of VERY few republican voices to be critical of God Emperor King Super Kami Bigger Longer Uncut Guru Trump.

Can only assume TC was reading my post as some sort of endorsement of Trumpty Dumpty. In which case, lol.