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| Topic | Character Battle X contest is open for entry! |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:39:00 PM #46 | NowItsAngeTime posted... FBike1 posted...My biggest problem with this bracket is that the losers are dropped in order. If Mega Man somehow loses to Monika/Pikachu/whoever and then wins his first loser's bracket match, he's "rewarded" with another match against the character that just beat him. No it's not, unless fighting games just do things differently than other eSports. For example: https://smash.gg/tournament/super-smash-con-2018/events/wii-u-1v1-singles/brackets/339305/675057 Note how someone who loses in round 1 is sent to the opposite side of loser's bracket as compared to someone who loses in round 2. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:33:40 PM #481 | My gut reaction was to have Velvet winning and Aya losing, for the record. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:32:23 PM #479 | Ok yeah Isaac is just noticeably stronger than I remembered him being, actually looking at his results. xp1337 posted... god i think he can beat pac-man outright and riku is a jobber Forget Pac-Man I think Sans is only slightly weaker than Auron going by raw strength. Also you mean save us Rosalina. (She's strong I swear guys. ...guys?) --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:24:18 PM #474 | xp1337 posted... Also, I am taking Estelle to win her match. Losing a point will be totally worth it. I think she has a chance! I'm picking her almost for sure If I were betting my life on this I'm probably taking Isaac, but for the stakes we are playing for I wouldn't be able to live it down if I missed a point by picking against Estelle in a remotely debatable match. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:22:29 PM #473 | Ok more reactions: --Really like what Allen did with the finals with seeding most of the NN and also adding the loser's bracket. (Though I do wish the loser's bracket didn't work in a way that generated a ton of rematches) --Lmao I can't believe Neptunia actually made the bracket. Was there a B8 rally I wasn't aware of or was this just off her own popularity? --Oh god Sans also has a solid bracket for building a rally, especially since unlike Monika I expect that Sans has reasonably high raw strength anyways. --Holy crap Estelle might actually win a match --Bowser > Cloud in the quarterfinals is a lock don't @ me --Overall I really like this bracket. Tons of round 1 matches that interest me: Tidus/DK, Noctis/Master Hand(!), Crash/Cecil (lol), Alucard/Peach, Kefka/L-Block, Shadow/Ness, Estelle/Isaac, Metal Sonic/The Boss, Shovel Knight/Captain Toad, Geralt/Rosalina, Bayo/Riku, Magus/Vincent, DDD/Ocelot --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Character Battle X contest is open for entry! |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:04:28 PM #40 | Allen is it still possible to change the way the losers bracket works so that it avoids rematches? Can post an example of what I mean when I get home in like 10 minutes Overall though this looks really great at a glance. Edit: To clarify, the first part of this post is referring to what FBike mentions below --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/02/18 7:48:06 PM #467 | Can't look too closely yet but my first reaction is oh god Monika has a perfect bracket for a rally --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 197: Red Red Whine |
| pyresword 10/02/18 4:49:11 PM #154 | I just want to say that if your defense of a group of people relies on consulting the precise definition of "hate group" in a dictionary than you've already lost the debate in my eyes. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 10/02/18 3:07:52 PM #352 | Who are your favorites? --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 10/02/18 12:17:49 PM #335 | Looks like the most recent KyoAni show I watched and thought was noteworthy was literally Clannad After Story. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired 'Xeno' music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 10/02/18 8:51:28 AM #8 | I'm still waiting for Hepatica #3 and the Xenoblade Main Theme to retire. ...I think I'll be waiting a while. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired 'Xeno' music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 10/01/18 9:49:39 PM #2 | Engage the Enemy is one of my favorite VGM songs. The crescendo in what I guess could be considered the chorus works so well in context. I like the rest also though. Most Xeno- music is pretty great. Engage the Enemy > Small Two of Pieces > Communication Breakdown > Godsibb > Unfinished Battle --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 10/01/18 9:40:45 PM #297 | Currently rewatching A Place Further Than the Universe. I love this show. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/01/18 7:23:07 PM #452 | Honestly the bonding events aren't even good enough that I'd say you're missing out on much. There's only really 2 or 3 characters that I thought had really good ones. (In fairness, I missed the bonding events for half the cast because I didn't savescum or anything like that. Maybe they had all great bonding events? idk.) --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 10/01/18 7:20:56 PM #281 | Bane_Of_Despair posted... pyresword posted...Welp. Spoiled myself on something that happens in My Hero Academia. Again. This is still true but I did intentionally look up a bit more than that, as I often prefer having some context to no context after I've already been spoiled on something like this. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 10/01/18 6:49:08 PM #271 | Welp. Spoiled myself on something that happens in My Hero Academia. Again. I guess this is what I get for browsing wikis for newly introduced characters without a care in the world. Most spoilers I end up not caring about in the first place (including the other times with this series) which is why I'm willing to do this in the first place, but this one was kind of a bummer. (MHA manga spoilers, past where the anime is but not sure beyond that) --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/01/18 1:32:55 PM #422 | LeonhartFour posted... multi-way matches are no good Yeah I agree with this. I liked CBIX despite the format, not because of it. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 10/01/18 1:22:07 PM #420 | I wasn't here for the early contests, but CBIX was honestly my favorite of the ones I was around for. So much good stuff, and I actually really enjoyed even the Draven drama. (For the record, the first contest I was on GameFAQ's for was the Series contest, though I don't think I came to this board until whatever the first 4-way character contest was) --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 09/30/18 10:00:35 PM #215 | Just got back from the My Hero Academia movie Ok so this movie has some silly stuff in it, and it doesn't really offer anything that the TV series didn't already. None of that really matters though because it still managed to put a huge smile on my face from start to finish. Don't really have anything else to say overall, but I do have a few scattered comments about specific things: --One of the most hilarious things about this movie to me was the evident ease with which the characters were able to flawlessly communicate with one another through nothing but subtle eye twitches. By like the 5th time this scene happened I just started laughing out loud and I think I might have been the only one in the theater laughing at that. --I'm really glad that the movie started and ended with shots of two bald eagles flying through the sky. Just in case, you know, we forgot the movie had AMERICA in it. -- -- -- --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fail: Chester/Tanner, Spring Breeze Dancin'/Mr. Driller |
| pyresword 09/30/18 12:47:30 PM #6 | Mr. Driller has that cuteness factor so I'm gonna pick him to win the 4 pack. And uh in the other match I'll vote the dude who's not Chester, I guess. Chester vs. "literally anything that isn't Chester" has got to be a safe vote for the latter, right? --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fun: Metal Man/Metal Sonic, Godot/Estelle Bright |
| pyresword 09/30/18 1:30:15 AM #30 | I don't think you can really make any effective argument for Estelle here other than her intrinsic strength as a character. I cannot see match pic factor or character design ever working in Estelle's favor. The way I see this match is as "side character from a relatively niche but well-loved series" vs. "main character from a slightly more niche but well loved series", and in matches like that I'm inclined to bet on the main character. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 11:57:31 PM #189 | UltimaterializerX posted... You really have to remember that Board 8 leftists (and leftists of their ilk) represent an extremist fringe minority who in no way reflect how the real world thinks Going to push back against this here because this is just not true based on my experience. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 11:04:33 PM #163 | To clarify my position--I do think this specific case might have moved past the "benefit of the doubt" stage (not 100% sure, would have to think on it). I was agreeing with Ulti moreso in the general sense than in this specific instance. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 09/29/18 10:50:31 PM #401 | Trails the 3rd a top tier VG OST. Most of my favorite Trails songs are from FC or SC, but I think 3rd easily has the highest overall song quality of the series. I honestly would say I love like 75% of the soundtrack or something. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 10:18:17 PM #151 | UltimaterializerX posted... We'll never know for sure (part of why raising allegations which can never be disproven because of a complete lack of details/evidence is so insidious), but nothing we've seen indicates that he was guilty. I also thought Christine Ford came across as genuinely traumatized, she just didn't have anything to back up her claims (and had been refuted by all of the people she mentioned as having been there). Ultimately I feel bad for both of them. I can't imagine nearly reaching the pinnacle of your profession only for this sort of thing to happen, just as I can't imagine coming forward with a confidential sexual assault allegation and having it leaked into the press, causing you to receive death threats etc. In short, we should give both of them the benefit of the doubt. I actually somewhat agree with this post for the record. Hard disapprove of labeling these allegations as insidious, but I do also think that the court of public opinion should not be so quick to condemn the accused in situations like this. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fun: Metal Man/Metal Sonic, Godot/Estelle Bright |
| pyresword 09/29/18 9:41:31 PM #12 | I don't think Estelle is the type of "cute" that would benefit from that. I think if you're counting on character design than Godot crushes Estelle on that front. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fun: Metal Man/Metal Sonic, Godot/Estelle Bright |
| pyresword 09/29/18 9:39:03 PM #8 | Trails in the Sky is more a PC game than a PSP game at this point. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fun: Metal Man/Metal Sonic, Godot/Estelle Bright |
| pyresword 09/29/18 9:35:19 PM #4 | Voted Metal Sonic > Estelle but I could see Godot taking the win over Estelle at least. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 8:51:27 PM #135 | pxlated posted... Please tell me that isn't real --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 201:Disappointment is like the wind, always by my side |
| pyresword 09/29/18 4:12:53 PM #189 | Finished a few shows this week. Asobi Asobase I don't really have a lot to say about this show. The humor style is probably not everyone's cup of tea but I really enjoyed this. Easily in my top 5 anime comedies, though I generally like comedies less than other types of shows so that only puts it on my top 50 or so anime. Maeda was easily the highlight of the show even though the main trio is all great also. Steins;Gate 0 What a ride this entire series has been. If you forced me to make a decision I'd probably say this wasn't quite as good as the original anime which had slightly better emotional high points, but they're both top tier anime in their own right. One thing that really impressed me about S;G 0 though is how much I loved the sci-fi elements themselves in this story. (minor spoilers for S;G and S;G 0) (Larger spoilers for Steins;Gate 0) My one remaining hope for this series is that My Hero Academia Season 3 Generally speaking this show hasn't changed much since the first two season, but in terms of the actual quality of the story I feel like it keeps getting better. The Training Camp/ --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 3:16:12 PM #91 | xp1337 posted... If you mean when I posted the story before the link was literally the Washington Post. You thought that was satire? >_> Yeah I meant on Twitter or Facebook or something. I must have missed when you posted it here. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/29/18 12:20:50 PM #85 | WiggumFan267 posted... Ummm. This is one of the most diabolical things I've ever seen. Like holy shit. I don't even know what to say. How can this be allowed. Profit over all morals. This is legit Captain Planet supervillanry Wait a second I saw this headline earlier but are you guys telling me it wasn't satire? The fuck? --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 09/29/18 10:33:46 AM #391 | Clover way too low --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed! |
| pyresword 09/28/18 4:53:34 PM #11 | My take is that the investigation will likely be inconclusive and that they will use a lack of damning evidence to justify a yes vote. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired Persona music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 09/28/18 4:28:53 PM #12 | Well Last Surprise is bad for a Persona song, at least --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Contest Edition [SELF] |
| pyresword 09/28/18 4:13:17 PM #383 | If it means anything, I skipped straight from SC into Cold Steel (because 3rd wasn't released officially yet at the time), and I don't think I suffered any adverse consequences. That's the only input I plan on providing on this subject. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired Persona music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 09/28/18 1:32:43 PM #9 | Memories of You > Rivers in the Desert > BFES > Last Surprise Memories of You a top tier VGM song. Heaven is better than all of these though, probably. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/28/18 1:30:59 PM #396 | Corrik posted... LordoftheMorons posted...Corrik posted...and everyone who isn't on my side is evil. This is some straw man here. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/28/18 12:50:40 PM #377 | xp1337 posted... But what you're implying sounds to me an awful lot like absolving them for supporting policies that I just don't think are indefensible. You're not that far off here! I'm fine declaring policies or (in extreme cases) individuals as reprehensible. I certainly have my share of problems with current Republican politicians/policies but I am not okay extending those claims to large aggregates of people just on the basis of where they fall on the political spectrum. Maybe some of them are just voting out of self-interest? Maybe they feel really strongly about one or two particular issues and are only voting on that basis? Maybe they just don't really don't follow politics and don't know about or are misinformed on some of these issues? I don't know and I don't really care. To maybe succinctly state my views on this--the point of political debate as I see it is not to "win the debate" or to establish the infallible correctness of your beliefs and your moral principles. The point is to attempt reach a common ground by presenting and evaluating different points of view and coming to a consensus. While I recognize this ideal isn't always possible, making broad sweeping statements about the moral character of large groups of people is not conducive to that end and will only worsen the social divide that exists today, which means I don't think that behavior has any place in legitimate political discussion. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/28/18 11:38:24 AM #349 | Like politics shouldn't be about survival of the fittest it should be about groups of people with disparate opinions coming together and discussing those differences and reaching compromises. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/28/18 11:37:09 AM #348 | I don't think anybody wants our country to operate in a mode where whichever party has power uses that power to the fullest extent possible. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/28/18 10:59:47 AM #323 | Can we stop making gross hyperbolic generalizations about either party and recognize that adequately addressing any of the issues our country has is going to require adopting a much higher degree of nuance than that? There's good people and bad people on all sides of this debate. That has always been the case and that's always going to be the case. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/27/18 4:44:43 PM #22 | Kenri posted... pyresword posted...Ironic. He could save the president from incriminating allegations, but not himself. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 195: Revenge of the Clintons |
| pyresword 09/27/18 4:31:10 PM #15 | Ironic. He could save the president from incriminating allegations, but not himself. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 194: Dislike a Virgin |
| pyresword 09/27/18 2:30:09 PM #425 | LinkMarioSamus posted... I also don't think this whole sexual predation thing is inherently male. If women had the same number of powerful positions there absolutely would be some around (hi Asia Argento!). It's just that women are rarely in a position to do such and far more often in a position to be sexually abused. Very unfortunate, but I also disagree with people who say women MUST apply for more positions of power to prevent this stuff from happening. In fact, that idea sounds worse the more I think about it. I think it's less a function of who is actually in positions of power and more reflective of the fact that our society is one that generally believes men to be more powerful than women. (ie. I am proposing that men at a subconscious level on average believe they are in a position of power in male-female relationships, which is what leads to this, regardless of the actual social status of anyone involved) Social conditioning is strong and I don't think there's any easy solution to that problem. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Fourpack of Fun: Frog/Protoman, Shadow/Yuna |
| pyresword 09/26/18 10:42:02 PM #2 | Frog > Yuna? Hell if I know how this plays out. Pretty sure Frog beats Proto Man at least though. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired NieR music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 09/26/18 5:26:11 PM #28 | My understanding is that Nier/Drakengard is similar to Persona/SMT. I think you can talk about them as either the same series or as distinct series in ways which make sense. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 194: Dislike a Virgin |
| pyresword 09/26/18 1:54:35 PM #225 | Peace___Frog posted... pxlated posted...Damn the casual rev- But for real I've always thought this to. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | Which of the following VGMC-retired NieR music tracks is your favorite? |
| pyresword 09/26/18 1:26:08 AM #6 | Shadowlord > Amusement Park > Song of the Ancients > Emil Karma All are pretty good songs though. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (Rankings: Part 2) |
| pyresword 09/26/18 12:29:50 AM #13 | FL81 posted... #38 Zero no Kiseki - Formidable Enemy 1:10 the best part of this song imo. Love that pseudo- Whereabouts of Light melody --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! |
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