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I've been reading the Game of Thrones books, and Gregor really comes across as better there than he does in the show. Probably just because the show doesn't properly convey the stuff about "This guy is much faster than an 8 foot guy in armor should be"

Granted he has the book stuff in his writeup, but no one in his topics ever seemed to acknowledge them
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Also nice that Lara gets respect for her new weapons. All she had going for her in Mercs 4 was her durability...which wasn't that respected, for whatever reason
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You're pregnant
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I personally take Juliet to beat Doomguy (at least the Mercs 4 version). She can take gunfire well enough and unless you are tankier than a UFO, it's hard to survive her chainsaw. Alucard is trickier as he has more ways to not get hit
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Juliet really should have been a 4 instead of a 3. She just stomps any 3 completely flat in a straight fight
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I'm surprised no one ever made a Buffy build for Tvmercs
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Kool Aid Man, Ash Williams and Amon survive the Hypercube. Paul Serone, The Maxx and Hercules do not

So. It seems for the most part people think it's winnable
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76926784
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I am incredibly enthused for Until Dawn 2: On a Boat
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I kind of feel like making another topic with the Hypercube, just to see if anyone can actually survive that dopey thing. Let's see, randomizer says...

Kool Aid Man, Paul Serone, Ash Williams, The Maxx, Amon, Hercules

....lol
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Maybe they only need to reach half their upkeep (rounded up) to live?

Then the upgrade can be the requirement as it is now, since no one seems to think the Hypercube is surviveable
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Counting Kan's late vote because why not, River and Jackie Chan survive the Cube, everyone else dies. Danny Phantom misses survival by one vote

That thing is fairly brutal to high tiers
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I'd lean closer to a 7, just because aside from being a boom factory, it's really mobile with its jumping around
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I felt like making another Cube battle. So I did

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76905977

Still don't really like that vastly shortened time limit, but we'll see how it goes
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I will not tolerate this Celeste bashing, good sir
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Team Jobe beats Team Dio 2-0. That makes two matches where no one seemed to know what Dio actually does
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76868556#2
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Combat aside, he also has some mean abilities though
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So I was thinking of running a garden variety High Tier match for shits and giggl

JOBE SCREAMS "I AM GOD HERE"

The list of Robots as stands...

R2-D2
Happy Toyz
ED-209
Sonny
Dexter
EVE
Kay Em
T-800
Darth Vader
Genos
Rick Sanchez
Wikus van de Merwe
Gipsy Danger
Mechagodzilla

Random teams of equal upkeep...no abilities because that would be a mess...

Mechagodzilla/Gipsy Danger/Wikus/Rick Sanchez/Darth Vader vs DIO/Loki/Eren Yeager/Blue Eyes White Dragon/Emperor Palpatine

...hm
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lol

Leslie Vernon (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Villainous Male Human
1/Week

Leslie Vernon is as he appears in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. He is armed with a hand scythe and is covered in flame retardant.

Preparation (Peacetime) - Each week in Peacetime, Leslie may preselect one female merc from another team. If that merc is fielded in battle that week versus Leslie, he may force the battle onto his home terrain of the Vernon Estate with no bid required. He will also fight that week convinced that the female in question is a virgin, even if they aren't.

Ahab (Start of Battle) - Every aspiring serial killer should be giddy to find their Ahab. Each week Leslie Vernon may declare this ability on a randomly selected enemy merc. That enemy will want to kill Leslie in battle to exclusion of all else.

Upgrades

Ability Upgrade

Preselect Ahab's target.

Ability Upgrade

Once an enemy is chosen for Ahab, Leslie may additionally force that merc to use a preselected selected ability currently off of recharge. That ability will target Leslie (even if it is ordinarily a random roll) and become unusable thereafter for the week, though no recharge will be incurred on it. Ahab will then go on recharge for an amount equal to the cooldown of the forced ability.

Terrain

The Vernon Estate - Leslie's home as seen in The Rise of Leslie Vernon with all areas accessible. Leslie has pre-rigged the home with his standard setup, weapons rigged to harmlessly break, a car that will not start, etc.
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Rita falls to Wash 4-2, has a headache

Better
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Yeah, I liked it a lot. It felt like something halfway between Phoenix Wright and Corpse Party (the latter just being hideously mean toward its cast. DR was too but not quite that bad)
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I read through the entire manga of Battle Royale once. Only manga I've ever read, really. It was...very, very long
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I rolled a funnier one

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76841994
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Sam Beckett beats Jareth at chess 2-0

Them votals
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Incidentally I rolled Death again and got Samara vs HIM in Boxing. That...I don't think Samara would quite get boxing
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lol have another. Death is on the prowl!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76834245
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Jafar's head goes boom 4-1

I find these side topics more fun than battles
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Zelda is amazing, Shovel Knight is amazing. I'm sure there are other games but I play those two to death
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Her I think I paired up with the fancypants archer, which was terrible from a gameplay standpoint (why would you want two ranged guys with identical range, pick one) but I thought she'd annoy him enough to be funny
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Those are a lot of words, I just threw him at enemies and they died real quick <_<
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I paired her with whatshisname the candy Thief. Their personalities seemed to mesh, an evil wizard and a laid back dude who gives no fucks about anything but his lollipops
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Anyway no, Jafar dies after wasting time snake transforming, wasting time trying to spell his way out of it, and then not being able to go through with last second horrible mutilation
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"I HAVE TRANSFORMED INTO A SNAKE! I HAVE NO ARMS! AHAHAHA...why is this not working"
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Donnel is great from both a minmax standpoint and just from being some goober out there with a bunch of fantasy soldiers
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76832738
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Jafar has been trapped by Jigsaw! Can he escape?

Guidelines

- The fight will occur in real-time (like an FMV sequence), focusing on how the characters would function in a real-time environment.

- "Broken" refers to a lot of things, including insta-death, auto-effects, a variety of status effects (e.g., Imp, Silence, Stop, *not* Poison), and revival. Unless stated otherwise, nobody has them, though do use your own discretion.

- There may be SPOILERS from all of the shows/movies the characters are from.

Rules for Voting

- Bold your votes (using bold HTML tags).

- You do not need to require justification for your vote, though the admins reserve the right to disqualify votes in the advent of obvious alt voting and other similar scenarios.

- Leaders cannot vote for their own teams, but they are free to argue their case.

- If you want to switch your votes simply bold the change; there's no need to delete your post, though you may if you wish.

- This match will end in 6 hours or 7 votes.

Jafar is as he appears in Aladdin, after using his second wish. He does not have access to the Genie, and may use all abilities demonstrated in video games in which he appears in his sorcerer form. He may freely transform into and out of a giant snake. He cannot transform others into toys.

Jafar has been locked alone in a room with a rusty saw and given 30 seconds to saw his own arm off or be killed. He has no other method of escape.

Vote for whether or not Jafar lives or dies in this scenario.
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I'm going to throw out a topic with one of Jigsaw's side topics just for giggles. Not the main one, that's too annoying
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You're nodding out, what's this all about
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I'm pretty sure my Robin married Anna, which resulted in a rampaging hellbeast jumping around enemies and not being hit by anything. It was funny
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On the flip side I finally saw the preview for the new Halloween and I'm enthused for that. There's something really cool about crazy old lady Laurie learning Michael is back, and her reaction is to grab a gun and go "About time. I am going to kill his ass"
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Watched the new Unfriended. That was...best way to describe it was a genuinely spooky movie hiding under a bunch of eye rolling dumb
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If you want the IRC logs they're probably still around on this PC actually...
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This is the same guy who literally spent six hours spouting gibberish at me in a Mercs chatroom and yelling at me to respond. I was not there at the time, I came back from doing something else hours later and kind of went "Uhh..."
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Which is where the whole being a history scholar thing becomes downright painful. I have seen so many accounts of people around for the very start of Nazi Germany, when it was nothing more than...well, if you read them, the quotes are similar to what we're looking at now. "It's not all that bad." "Look I think you're overreacting, and if you want to make comparisons to (insert atrocity here) just because homosexuals are mysteriously disappearing, then you're an idiot."

Then you fast forward a few years and the prevailing question becomes "Well why didn't you do something to stop the Nazis *before* they were in a position that you couldn't possibly do so? You knew what was coming, you chose to pretend you didn't."
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Honestly? Yes. Dark Young Link posted...

DeathChicken posted...

You are reading it wrong. You should be reading it literally, that I have no patience debating someone who would compare sports teams to political factions committing atrocities.

Is it more absurd than someone who could compare literal murderers with trump supporters? Someone who thinks someone else is "downplaying fascism" just because they don't want to cross a slippery slope?

Also I could be mistaken again, but I don't believe you actually addressed the whole "Political beliefs doesn't give you a right to mistreat someone(especially a customer)".

Honestly people wearing maga caps is like that dude who wore a pepe pin. Way too low effort for me to give a shit about. If you're going to poke the bear, at least bring a stick with you. Not a feather.

Honestly? Yes. I feel there's a reasonable debate to be had that the amount of children who have disappeared under the current border policy (and being horribly realistic, we're going to find out later that those children disappeared into human trafficking) is animalistic, and if not on the level of latter day Nazi Germany, it's regardless a crime against humanity. Worthy of refusing service to any person wearing a symbol in support of the regime enabling it. Meanwhile there is no debate to be had with the whole sports analogy, it's just an effort to deflect into ridiculous territory. I'll happily dismiss that for the bullshit that it is.
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Dark Young Link posted...

DeathChicken posted...

Instead of addressing the points made towards me, I'm going to dismiss you based on an analogy and fail to actually back up my argument despite being a "history scholar" Even I have limits.

*Shrug*

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong? No one can force you to speak(or type) of course, but the post really seemed like running.

You are reading it wrong. You should be reading it literally, that I have no patience debating someone who would compare sports teams to political factions committing atrocities.
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Yeah, as fun as it is, I'm not going to sit here and argue with a dude trying to compare sports teams with a political faction currently advocating mass child incarceration. Even I have limits.
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Is the sports team most well known for their fear the browns ad campaign, pro police brutality stance, and holding leave your kids in dog kennels events at the ballpark? if not, your analogy is pretty shit.

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Personally? I think you can hold whatever political beliefs you feel, but the moment you feel the need to wear those beliefs on a sandwich board is when you forfeit the right to complain about anyone else judging you for the twit you are.

But hey, this is my belief. You do you.
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