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helIy posted...

it took gandalf like how long to kill a balrog?

meanwhile i killed one in like 2 minutes in shadow of war

Any video game that demands over a month of continuous to kill one boss isn't a video game that's going to do very well. Especially not when it's a video game that's predicated on fanservice power fantasies.
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It's at 9 now. Huzzah!
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zangulus posted...

Its just a way for psychopathic people to justify their degrading of another human beings life without having any idea of what that person has gone through.

They went through self-control and failed because they're a cancer on humanity.

Addiction is a failing like obesity, the ailments are the punishment for failing to be a human being.

List the last five reasons you went to a doctor, and I'll tell you how every one of them was something you could have prevented.
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RedPixel posted...

No source, but if you're happy and you eat ACTUAL healthy foods (not the ones they tell you are always healthy) you're gonna have a stronger immune system.

While that's not inaccurate (stress depresses the immune system), it doesn't have much to do with cancer. Most cancers aren't something the immune system can prevent.
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In many cases, cancer is self-inflicted too. So are heart attacks. So's diabetes. So are many infections. The cause and effect aren't as immediately linked as is the case with addiction, but if we're going to refuse to treat diseases based on how self-inflicted they are, a whole lot of medicine is just going to stop happening.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Discussion is better when people are allowed to disagree with the consensus without being censored for it. Yes it is the choice of GameFAQs as a private company to allow moderation. But it is a relic of an overly protective Internet past. There are a lot of people who I regard as shitheads on here, who are so disagreeable that it blows my mind. But it is a greater evil to silence and censor them. ESPECIALLY when I can simply ignore them.

You can disagree with the consensus without being modded. You just have to not be an asshole.
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Zeus posted...

AND practical skills? I thought it was just some American appreciation course.

If you need a college course to teach you how to tie knots, I really don't think there's much hope for you.
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Why do you keep making this topic?
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They are indeed. They're also for adults. And adolescents. And seniors that haven't lost too much of their manual dexterity or vision to be able to enjoy using them. All games are for everyone, unless there's some kind of content that would be inappropriate for a certain demographic. You're never too old to have fun.

Superlinkbro posted...

No, most of the terrible mobile games are for kids

And even then, it's less that the games themselves are for kids and more that their monetization strategies are specifically designed to appeal to and prey on children to squeeze money out of their parents.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

Is it really that surprising for a lesbian to embrace misandry?

No, but it's also standard to let misandry slide, which is fairly risky in the current climate.

I think society has come to accept that modern day feminism is little more than militant misandry.

I'd like the foot soldiers to acknowledge this too, words before action and all that.

If anyone's wondering what an MRA circlejerk looks like...
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helIy posted...

cuphead blows a lot of those out of the water

For those that find the genre appealing, sure. It's a fairly niche game, though, and you can't expect something without mainstream appeal to dominate metacritic.
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Lil69Leo posted...

And the Nintendo circle jerk continues.

Or maybe, just maybe, SMO, BotW, and MK8 are all genuinely excellent games.
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rjsilverthorn posted...

it was just one movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630029/

I believe the plan is actually to make five of them.
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Mostly because nobody cared about Mii costumes. The consensus was generally that spending a dollar on them was dumb, whether they're technically microtransactions or just cheap DLC, and nobody really suffered for not having them.
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NightMareBunny posted...

the game can be beaten in 15 hours or less with the minimum amount of moons collected

So... about the same as prior 3D Mario games? Mario games have never been particularly long. I beat Sunshine in two days, and I was 13 at the time. I still had a delightful time, and there were many more hours going after trickier Shines, but merely beating the game was pretty quick and easy. SM64 can similarly be beaten with 120 stars in a few hours if you know what you're doing (let alone the 70 that's the actual minimum), even without seriously trying to speedrun it.

That said, it's still fun to replay SM64, and I'm thinking I should replay Sunshine as well some time soon. That's what replay value actually means: Being fun to play it again after you finish with it. Mario games have always been pretty good for that. I see no reason to expect anything different from Odyssey. I do think it's weird that you claim to place a lot of importance on replay value, but are fixated on how long it'll take to beat the game once with minimal completion, as though you intend to spend as little time as possible playing it and don't plan on ever replaying it.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

I don't even plan to do any sort of mods. But who knows, maybe if I can use them I'll want to use them more often.

I can't even play vanilla Minecraft anymore after modding the crap out of it. It's just too boring by comparison.
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I believe it's usually a matter of gluing a radioactive label to an antibody for the substance you're looking to measure, then mixing it with your sample and seeing how much radiation sticks to determine quantities and/or distribution of the target substance.
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Zeus posted...

Meanwhile the Halloween displays depicted the mock lynching of Obama drew the Secret Service...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-man-hanged-obama-effigy-brings-visit-secret-service-article-1.1191812

Without fail, you see a topic talking about something stupid or bad Trump or his supporters are doing, you bring up something tangentially comparable Obama or his supporters did, as though that somehow mitigates how stupid or bad the first thing is. Have you never heard the saying "two wrongs don't make a right"?
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It would be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2.75 million ounces, so maybe that's what he was going for.
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DistantMemory posted...

Galaxy is better than 64 in every way, though.

Except for exploration, which is to be expected because SM64 was a game about exploration, while SMG was a platformer.
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ernieforss posted...

i just read some where on the interent flu shots and h1n1 shots have 25 gram of mercury.

i doubt that is true.

Flu shots don't even weigh 25 grams.

ernieforss posted...

78,000,000 is 2.75 ounces.

78 million grams is 78,000 kilograms, or about 170,000 lbs. I have absolutely no idea where you got 2.75 ounces.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K
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They're all good in different ways. Comparing them directly ignores how they differ, which I'd say is a mistake.
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I think I saw him a few days ago, but I could be mistaken.
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Rango posted...

What makes this particularly ironic is, in 2007 onwards, many people argued Galaxy was easily the best title in the series.

Eh, not really. The ongoing criticisms of having a limited hub world and much less exploration have been around since Galaxy came out, because people wanted another game like Sunshine. People certainly did call Galaxy the best, but that was far from being a unanimous opinion, and the dissent from that opinion you're seeing now is nothing even remotely new.
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They usually turn out all right.
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Most flu shots don't use thimerosal anymore, so none. For those that do, the mercury in thimerosal is in an ionic form that's far, far safer than the elemental mercury people are concerned about in fish (to illustrate the difference, elemental sodium bursts into flame on contact with water, ionic sodium is part of table salt and is essential for nervous system function).
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k
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I think it's probably a better idea to build a relationship on trust and not doing anything sexual behind your partner's back than to rely on an app to help keep secrets, but there are enough people out there that would disagree that the idea could probably sell.
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Black_Assassin posted...

Parallel
Universes

I don't want to live in a world where that video ever gets old.
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Lireal2401 posted...

adjl posted...

Basically, Galaxy wasn't supposed to be like 64 or Sunshine. It was a different kind of game

This is what some people don't seem to get. It's fine if you prefer open exploration games, but a 3D game having linear level design doesn't automatically make it suck.

I think part of the problem was that it wasn't presented as being clearly a different game. Galaxy 1 in particular still had a hub world, so one could be forgiven for expecting another game like 64/Sunshine, but it was a very limited hub world that would have disappointed that expectation. Looking at it after finishing it, I can see the evolution of the series and the genre shift that started with Galaxy and reached completion with 3DW, but there wasn't really any reason prior to release to expect anything other than a sequel to Sunshine (despite widespread complaints that Sunshine had very little real platforming outside of the FLUDD-less sections, which a more platforming-centric game would have addressed), so I can understand the disappointment.
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Red_Frog posted...

I don't know if I trust that. They give GameSpot an 81 vs GameFAQs 68, and FAQs is way faster than Spot.

I'd wager that the stuff that slows down Gamespot is delivering actual content, whereas the front page of GameFAQs doesn't really have much important non-text content to deliver. It could likely be streamlined a lot, though a fair chunk of the slow bits are probably dedicated to ads (hence I find the site pretty fast with uBlock and NoScript).
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I can only shake my head and laugh at the fact that this game exists.
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Boobsicle posted...

A hub world full of secrets does wonders for increasing the quality of a game. Galaxy shit the bed on that.

It does wonders for increasing the amount of exploration there is to do, but it's far from being necessary to have a good game. Galaxy didn't try to do that. It was a shift from an exploration-heavy collectathon to a purer 3D platforming game, meaning the whole game didn't have as much exploration (a trend which Galaxy 2 further built upon, and then 3DL/W completed the transition). An exploration-heavy hub world (or even a hub world at all) isn't really necessary in that new paradigm, so it was dropped.

Basically, Galaxy wasn't supposed to be like 64 or Sunshine. It was a different kind of game, and it was a shining example of that kind of game, with platforming level designs that were just a joy to play through in lieu of having exploration get in the way of platforming. Galaxy 2 offered even better level designs, while cutting down the exploration even further, and it was similarly a joy to play.
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I'm not entirely sure. I don't think it's all nostalgia (though that's a big element of it), particularly where Sunshine should be nearly as nostalgic (15 years is old enough to warrant nostalgia). I do know that I replayed it and Banjo Kazooie fairly close together a few years ago, and I found that, while BK was objectively the better example of the genre, I walked away from SM64 feeling better about the game than I did with BK. Something about it is just plain fun, in a very subtle, charming way.

Granted, I think part of that is just that SM64 has better credits music than BK, and I often find that has a major impact on my lasting impression of the game (particularly if I don't play much past the credits, since it ends up being one of my last experiences with the game before walking away from it).
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Doctor Foxx posted...

FellWolf posted...

I just don't understand how this isn't caught right away after the first few victims.

Not every victim reports (the vast majority do not)

Of those that report, not everyone is believed

It's even worse when it's someone like your coach that you are meant to be able to trust. Then kids are scared about being kicked off of the team (kids that may have sports as their favorite outlet or may be relying on getting an athletic scholarship)

Lots of stuff at play. It was only discovered because a parent saw text messages. It wasn't even a child speaking up.

Bonus points because school athletics are often glorified to such a point that allegations against a coach will be actively covered up.
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At least none of the alleged victims were noted as being HIV positive. That's a plus.
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Jen0125 posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Foppe posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

HitmonCHAN and HitmonLEE are named after 4chan and Jamie Lee Curtis

Really makes you think

...nononono...
Hitmonchan is named after Jackie Chan.
And Hitmonlee is named after Bruce Lee.

I think youre mistaken, but nice try junior

Yeah that doesn't even make sense

thatsthejoke.bmp
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DocDelicious posted...

Peterass posted...

Yellow posted...

Russia is an Asian country.

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Zeus posted...

The most surprising part of this story is that the ebgames brand is still operating.

Gamestop owns them, but most of the stores in Canada have kept the EBGames brand.
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There really isn't much room to improve on Tooie. Making a better game than it would be hard. 3D collectathon platformers have generally fallen out of vogue since gen 5/early gen 6, though, particularly with Rare collapsing. Their place has kind of been taken by open-world games, which share a lot of common elements (namely the emphasis on exploration to find arbitrary stuff), but that's still not the same.
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DarkKirby2500 posted...

Meaning the plot doesn't have to be restricted by Nintendo's desire to make it kid friendly. Stories can be good or bad regardless, but without restrictions a story would not have to be edited or designed to specifically suit a rating.

Pretty sure it's not the rating that limits Pokemon's plots so much as the basic premise not exactly lending itself to deep, compelling stories.
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

Obviously Nintendo is a bunch of e rated *******,

They've put out several T-rated games.

PK_Spam posted...

Even if it sold well, it would absolutely probably reek of forced edginess and it would be remembered as Nintendo's Shadow the Hedgehog

Most likely. "I want an M-rated installment in this typically E-rated series" is almost invariably coming from angsty teenagers that want to appear very grown-up.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Rockies posted...

Lol this guy doesn't know the difference between vegetarian and vegan

I know, its pretty cringy. To be fair, he did warn us with 420 in his username.

It's lacto-veggie cheese, not true vegetarian.

Why are you doubling down on being obviously factually incorrect?
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Peterass posted...

Games that boast large quantities of collectables and side missions (which are rarely done correctly) but whose main story can be beaten in a few days of playing, are garbage.

There are very, very few games whose main stories can't be beaten within a few days of playing. A few days is a lot of play time; a game lasting longer than that is almost always a consequence of padding that main story somehow, and I'd much rather see a game be fleshed out with interesting side content than pad the main story like that just so they can say it's longer.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

adjl posted...

What does that have to do with anything?

Just stream of consciousness posting.

So if vegetarians eat dairy, why mass produce a terrible version of cheese?

What makes you think vegetarian cheese is terrible? Again, cheese being vegetarian just means the chymosin used to curdle the milk proteins is derived from a source other than animal stomachs, which in most cases (80-90% of cheesemaking, vegetarian or otherwise, if Wikipedia is to be believed) means it comes from yeast that's been genetically engineered to express the protein (similar to how most insulin is produced these days).

There is vegan cheese out there that doesn't contain any milk, and is instead some sort of tofu cream kind of thing, but that's another beast entirely, and is mostly just masquerading as cheese (can't say I've ever understood the fascination with pretending that vegan dishes are in any way emulations of the real thing, as opposed to just calling them their own thing, but meh).
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helIy posted...

face it tho, the animal is already dead, and it would still be dead even if i didn't eat it

That's true for an individual serving, which is why people turning down meat that they're served is questionable (it either goes into your stomach or into the garbage, and the producers won't know the difference), but on a larger scale, providing less demand for meat means less meat will be produced. It's not a completely futile gesture.

SunWuKung420 posted...

It's an Eagles Monday night football game. We are going to sell at least 160lbs of chicken wings tonight.

What does that have to do with anything?
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Cheese is made using an enzyme that is most easily harvested from calf stomachs, which involves killing the calf to get it. Vegetarian cheese gets that enzyme from other sources, which means the cheese is made without needing to kill an animal.

Edit: Doing some more research (read: wikipedia), it looks like most of the enzyme used in cheesemaking these days comes from genetically modified yeast, because it's far easier and cheaper to get it that way than using calf stomachs. This means most cheeses are vegetarian now.
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Because some people enjoy hunting down collectibles.
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