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A lot of people think that Axton is 'the worst character'. He gets a lot of grenade damage bonuses though, which work for all weapons with splash damage too. So he does really good with Plasma Casters, Torgue weapons, and Tediore reloads. He has a fair amount of fire rate bonuses too.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Both the best and the worst was Star Ocean Til the End of Time. I love it now, but at the time... ooo boy

Definitely SO3. It completely invalidated all of the games in the series in one shot.
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The death of the voice actor Mako occurred around that time. I forget if it impacted Iroh's story or not, but the character was conspicuously silent toward the end IIRC.
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On the bright side it basically ended M. Night movies. :P
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So how many times has the average Australian customs agent been forced to watch 2 Girls 1 Cup?
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The beginning of season 3 gets a bit preachy as they cash in on the good will from the first 2, but then it picks up again.
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Ruining the viewing habits of the population?
*Pretentious Meter Maxed*

Lowest common denominator programming has always been a thing, and popular to boot. Sure, you can sit around sipping wine and watching foreign films and decrying pop culture as toxic waste from philistines, but don't expect the rest of the world to even bother to shrug.
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You're complaining about the Pipboy light in FO4? The game isn't even dark, just boost your gamma setting and walk around with perfect vision.
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If Australia did decide to cull Emu populations... I feel like there's a good business opportunity to fly Americans over to Australia to shoot Emus. Just stipulate that it's byob. The Americans will bring entire crates of ammunition with them; it's only like $100 to get an entire crate of bullets.
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Tmk posted...

When they put a shit load of attacks in the game that do such absurd damage there's no way to even not be one-shot by it, that normalises healthgate from being a nice little obscure safety net to make things less frustrating, and instead becomes the norm. They balanced damage output around making excessive use of healthgate. And since you tend to be bombarded with enemies, you need a quick way to get back over the health gate: HP drain effects.

That's not true though in standard UVHM play. E.g. I've plodded through the Bloodshot Stronghold, one of the difficulty spikes in the game, with a blue rarity bolt-action Jakobs sniper rifle before. No need for Moxxi weapons.

Tmk posted...

I'm talking about any enemy who can spawn with a rocket launcher. They can spawn with launchers whose projectiles travel so fast you don't even see them

And I'm telling you that's factually inaccurate. Enemy launchers use the same flight mechanics as player launchers. You can see this any time an enemy spawns with a Torgue-barreled launcher, where you can nearly run literal circles around the rocket in flight. If the rockets are traveling fast it's because they're spawning with the speed accessory, a Maliwan exhaust, or are one of of the generally faster brands like Vladof. So you might want to reflect on your own words, specifically the words "thanks for further exposing yourself as ignorant of the game you arrogantly mouth off about".

Your last paragraph of ad hominems is also 100% baseless. But it is something you've repeated to people on Gamefaqs over and over, even as they try to help you as was the case in the Souls games years and years ago when it still had a core of helpful players that discussed more than 'git gud' memes. That's why the concept of 'projection' applies wholeheartedly in your case.
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You can't wave facts away, and most of your complaints are either overstated or just wrong. E.g. healthgate and hp draining weapons aren't mandatory for normal UVHM play. But the devs did decide to roll HP recovery into the skill trees in TPS, which is a smart move. By having it in trees it normalizes the methods and makes it easier to balance around. And, yeah, if you don't get the concept of a Raid boss then that's 100% on you.

BL2 raid bosses with nova spam are stupid in terms of design though, and are almost universally recognized as such. 'Hitscan' rockets aren't a thing. If you're talking about Master Gee then that only applies when he has a Maliwan exhaust, as that boosts rocket speed. Since he doesn't attack you until you shoot you can do some recon on him.
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A single point in the base Anarchy skill is still used on builds that don't want to focus on Anarchy. It adds 262% damage, from a single skill point. That's 3.62x damage. For perspective, on the base difficulty she can kill early bosses in 2-4 shots. Just, literally 2 shots from a sniper rifle. But you wouldn't call that an Anarchy build.

As for what I think, one only has to go back and look at the old topics to see that you ignored advice and simply railed against 'bad design' simply because you didn't like the advice and thought that you should be able to solo Raid Bosses, which are designed for a team of players. Voracidious in particular was explicitly designed as a middle finger to players. That is NOT a valid benchmark for gauging the difficulty curve of the game.

But since you're falling back on your tired 'everything you see is a delusion' and 'you don't understand simple words' statements I think this conversation has run its course.
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Tmk posted...

That doesn't mean it doesn't suck dick. Do you even remember the zone Voracidious is in. Do you realise what it means to try that fight as Gaige, and die, and then want to try again, and need to build anarchy again? Do you understand the problem?

First, LOL!

Second, Voracidious is a troll enemy. The developers explicitly stated that they designed that fight as a huge troll to players. It's not meant to be solo'ed. It's the single crappiest thing in the game, and the devs openly admit it.

So, again, you're using the lowest damage character in the game, i.e. non-Anarchy Gaige, and complaining that you "[c]ould barely kill Bullymongs and the first boss I forget the name of, on that ship" which then undermines your own claim that "I played enough to get the loot necessary to solo everything in UVHM as Gaige as well as get everything I wanted. I don't need advice on how to play as her". You got plenty of advice on how to do things back when you played.

IIRC around the time the devs tripled the drop rates they also boosted the elemental tree for Gaige. So they understood that her damage output was lagging without at least some investment into Anarchy.
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1 point in Anarchy gives her 262% gun damage. Also, remember that she gets stacks from kills. Instead of shooting at a target dummy try running to a spot with Varkids. Tundra Express can get you to 150 stacks with just a few minutes of walking around in the Varkid spawns.

Raid bosses are a separate issue because they're terrible by design. But make them beatable without requiring all the bullet sponginess and you get the response from that other user, claiming that the game is suddenly laughably easy because you don't need to spend 20 minutes shooting one enemy as they fill the arena with nova spam. I was glad to see that style of boss left behind and absent from TPS.\

Now if you want to discuss the normal weapons for UVHM, you don't need any Legendaries at all to beat UVHM if you go into at level 50 when it is meant to start. In fact, farming for Legendaries actually makes UVHM harder in BL2 because the exponential scaling on the enemies runs away from the player with each level you gain. So instead you stick to the 'good' manufacturers and proceed through the main game, those being: Maliwan, Torgue, Hyperion, Tediore, and Jakobs. Bandit and Dahl tend to be peashooters, while Vladof runs dry on most characters after 3 enemies killed.

On the topic of drop rates, IIRC you quit before all Legendary drops were permanently tripled late in the game's lifespan. So the developers got the message on that one as well. 3x drop rates forevermore.

As for TPS online, I can't comment on playing with randoms. They're universally terrible in all games. I will say though that Wilhelm, Timothy, Aurelia, and Nisha all had builds that stomped the game silly without needing a lot of loot. The Badass Digijacks basically roflstomped everything when specced correctly. Wilhelm would compete with Wolf to see who could kill faster, as Laser Guided was an amazing skill all around. Aurelia was a CC master that kept everything frozen while she popped heads with sniper rifles; anything that so much as sneezed on her was getting frozen. Nisha started off squishy, but give her a good Maliwan Beam and her snowballing damage wrecks.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Shadowtp was easily one of the worst bosses in both games, mainly due to his initial cyborg form in the final fight. He was badassasaurus rex, except you couldn't hide behind a door. His other forms were much better though.

That form was pretty easy as you could stand behind the pillar arms in the arena. It only sucked for people who tried to hide at the spawning platform, as he'd rain endless volleys of missiles upon the players there.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

TPS was too easy and incredibly boring.

I'm going to have to strongly disagree on that. The EOS fight in particular is how you SHOULD do a raid style boss: lots of mechanics in play. As for the base game, perhaps butt slams and cryo were too good at their CC abilities... but that's a minor tweak for the games going forward. I don't ever want to see the bullet sponginess of BL2's UVHM with Slag return, absolutely never.
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WalkingLobsters posted...

Cpt_Pineapple posted...

we're never going to merge with Gamespot we don't want to strip the soul of the site

On the flipsite, posting through the Gamespot mirror allowed you to display Japanese text even on Gamefaqs, which was quite a boon for importers wanting to discuss games that didn't have an English release yet.
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Nah, it wasn't most long-time players. It was mostly just a few prominent Youtubers who hacked in all of their gear, and waves of short-term players who followed then got bored and moved on.

As for Gaige, just a base point in her Anarchy skill granted a nice boost to damage without her accuracy totally vaporizing. Her elementalist build is among the weakest in the game though, since Shock isn't nearly as good when enemies in BL2 are largely meat shields; it ends up taking vying for the top spot in TPS though with the beefed up shields. She's essentially the harshest example in the entire game.

TPS definitely displayed a better understanding of balance. The exponential leveling was flattened, enemy health bonuses were restricted to Badass enemies(making them minibosses like they were supposed to be in the first place), and "when in doubt Butt Slam" could give you breathing room in the middle of a fight. The EOS fight at the end of the Claptrap DLC also gives hope for better Raid Boss designs in the future: going from arena-filling spam in BL2 to stacked mechanics upon mechanics in the EOS fight.
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Tmk posted...

Regarding Bee + Conference Call, that in particular was just utterly absurd. In fact the way Bee worked initially, which was definitely an oversight (one Bethesda made as well in Fallout 4 with certain legendary weapon modifiers, whoops) pushed the meta so far towards the Bee it was just really dumb. Even with that change the Bee still is obnoxiously vital in many cases for endgame, which comes into another issue with things not being nerfed: when additional content is added there's the risk it is balanced more around people using broken stuff.

The first part, yes, an oversight. The Bee still being crucial to end game builds after the patch, nope. In fact the overwhelming majority of long time BL2 players will(and I believe in your case explicitly did) tell you that the Bee is a crutch that actually harms the player. Most people get slaughtered in seconds on UVHM when using the Bee because it's absolute trash as a shield. The Bee isn't meta, it's a trap.

Fallout 4 definitely brings to mind the same shenanigans though. Shotguns with Advanced Receivers, for the extra 2 pellets per trigger pull, ramp up Explosive and Bleeding legendary effects to insane levels. The fact that a Bleeding Sawed Off Shotgun can drop at a low level, something in the 10-15 range IIRC, can essentially eclipse all normal weapon progression. Personally I do find the Explosive Minigun fun to use for a bit(as a Heavy Weapon its explosive effect damage is increased by both Demolition Expert and Heavy Gunner- similar to how the Missile Launcher and Fat Man work). It goes back into a box though, just because it's better to give enemies some chance to fight back.

There is a lot to be said though for balancing around the lower end of the spectrum instead of nerfing the top stuff. If you go back to the Borderlands 2 example, Dahl weapons without red text were trash. The damage was pitiful and you'd have to drill a dozen headshots into an enemy to kill them. It also didn't help that they had long reloads, but having a matching Dahl grip to speed up the reload resulted in the damage being lowered again. If it weren't for red text weapons, like the Lascaux or the Pitchfork, then Dahl might as well not even exist in Borderlands 2. They could do with some buffs to become competitive.
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Is the laptop running Windows 10? There's an option under Settings->Update and Security called Recovery. It lets you Reset your laptop as if you were turning it on for the first time, with the option to keep personal files.
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synth_real posted...

Depends on if it's from a place that actually makes a good crust, if it's cheap-o pizza then once the crust isn't hot anymore it's basically cardboard

Cheap-o pizza... at that point you're better off just buying some Red Baron from the freezer aisle in a store and baking it off yourself.
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Pizza... you make pizza to eat it, not rub your genitals on it. :P
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NeoShadowhen posted...

That article is referring to a very specific painting. You can see it in the article. It's a bit disturbing. Creepy, even. Not surprised the artist is French, if you catch my drift.

Fun fact: France doesn't have an age of consent law; due to an oversight they claim. But, they're in the process of setting one up after a few high profile cases with creepy French men having sex with girls as young as 11. Right now so long as the creepers can suggest that the girls didn't object in the moment there isn't a criminal case under French law.

Still, one has to be quite careful about where they draw the line on art, because nude female form makes up a lot of classical art and it wouldn't be the least bit surprising for some SJW types to call for wider censorship and removal of 'symbols of the toxic patriarchy'.
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meestermj posted...

Literally just got ticketed for the same thing.
Drove my mom's van to work, turns out she never put the new tags on. So it's not expired, but I had no way to prove that.

That' sucks. Around here you're able to take the vehicle to a judicial building and have a peace officer inspect and sign off that the sticker is now in place and that's that. Well, you also pay a $10 fee; which beats the hundreds of dollars that get tacked onto traffic tickets.
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Those cooking times usually assume a particular wattage for the microwave. Depending on the model you have you might cook it for a longer or lesser time. Some microwaves vary depending on whether an item has a lot of liquid sauce or breading, in which cases it's usually better to reduce the power and cook the item on the longer side of the recommendation on the box.
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Chicken posted...

. . . nerd much?

Apparently too much of one for the CE board. XD
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SoundNetwork posted...

whats with the tail thing that comes out of characters

It's one of the 'blood veil' weapons. Basically a transforming overcoat that drinks blood and feeds it to the character, through that mask apparatus that appears on their faces. Besides the scorpion tail there's a claw and two arms with wolves on the end.
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Caution999 posted...

No other president in history has been as ridiculed, mocked, or hated as much as Trump, including Nixon.

That makes me wonder, is there any actual empirical data on stuff like that? I also have to wonder how Obama ranks on there, what with all the far right trolling about having a black president who they claimed was the devil that came to earth as a Kenyan Muslim to destroy the US.
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Turbam posted...

Protagonist is just a male version of Velvet Crowe

The CAC is fairly robust from what was shown on stage at... TGS I think it was. You change not just the physical appearance of the characters, but most of their clothing and visual accessories. The only thing you couldn't do was add options that would interfere with the 'blood veil', the transforming overcoat that controls blood drain attacks(claw, dual wolves, scorpion tail, etc).

The devs also couldn't resist showing a 'bust slider' functionality that was 'hidden' within the normal body size slider for female characters... :P
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Trump's plan for most agencies is to put people who want to eradicate those agencies in charge. It's a purposeful trolling of traditional government.
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Insecure much?
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I imagine it's similar to how lions are treated. Humans aren't a normal prey species to those animals. But if one develops a taste for human flesh as an acceptable prey animal it could put larger numbers of people at risk in the future.
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LethalAffinity posted...

http://imgstore.wdwmagic.com/imgstore/ElementGalleryItems/attractions/Fullsize/Hall-of-Presidents_Full_31870.jpg
It almost looks like they began working on Hillary and then stuck Trump's face on top.

That.... that's 100% accurate, methinks. And now I have a mental image in my head that will be hard to erase... @_@
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Okay, so ketchup chips confirmed as a Canadaian norm. On the US side of things though I haven't seen that around here. But that doesn't preclude a regional release. IIRC Minnesota has some overlap with Canadian foodstuffs. Maybe they'll have them there?
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I know one thing, if your neighbor is missing the plastic guard on the side of his lawnmower that thing has become just as deadly as a weapon of antiquities warfare, the sling.
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I guess a better question to ask would be, "Is this carried as a normal flavor by various manufacturers, or is it just one of the Lays(and subsidiaries) experiments?"
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You might see unedited stuff if you catch it on a cable channel like Encore.

It definitely gets cheesy though, and that's long before the psychic warrior stuff comes into play.
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Well, clarifying your nomenclature might help when asking a question that potentially spans countries.

What's called chips abroad is referred to as french fries in the US, with the lone exception of ordering 'fish and chips'. What's called chips in the US is more commonly known as crisps abroad.

If you're asking about potato crisps, then ketchup certainly isn't a normal flavor in the US. One of the brands, Lays IIRC, does a bunch of weird food flavors that rotate every few months. I've never seen ketchup as a flavor though.

Now if you're talking about toppings for chips/french fries, then ketchup is quite common. Where things differ from Canada is in the case of poutine. That's very much a Canadian thing. In the US a common alternative is chili cheese fries.
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Anime Souls will, in all likelihood, be seen as stiff and relatively empty compared to Dark Souls. The level design will be seen as simplistic as well. Balance may well be an issue too, as the blood drain weapons seem to be a superior option to the standard ones. That said, I'm sure it'll have fans, and make for a decent budget purchase for fans of that type of game.
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That's what happens when you criticize others for drinking water. You invite them to critique your own technique for years. :P
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I'm sure they'll tell you that they named it Logos as that is the Greek term used in the Bible that carries forward today in English translations as the Word.

But, yeah, sexual repression usually doesn't end well...
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Oregon has sodomy laws?
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On a tangent, what's with the Dalek in the photo?
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Ultima Dragon posted...

Like how if you're just being friendly a lot of girls automatically think "Oh great, this guy wants to do me. He is probably going to try asking for my number next."

That should only apply if they're about your age or younger. Due to social norms most older women won't make that sort of assumption. So basic small talk shouldn't cause any issues.
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The truth is that the words were supposed to be avoided in official written reports.
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The last sentence of that article says it all,

"My general rule is: If you wouldn't say it to a man, don't say it to a woman. Your best bet is to leave it alone and just say, 'Good morning.' "

Maybe you add a brief smile, but then you walk away.

Anything else is inviting problems, as you don't know how an individual will interpret what you say. Also, avoid nicknames, completely.
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