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I've been complaining about the removal of slide and charge in MM9 and MM10 as the primary example of the Mega Man 2 bandwagoning since 2008.

It's as close as you can get to the blatant 'because Mega Man 2 did it' mentality and was incredibly obvious pandering to anyone who realized they deliberately moved the needle on his move list back to a specific...point.
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Sexypwnstar posted...

Jesus, did anyone catch ROD's pentapost from post #127-131

what a meltdown and he needs some help

I've had that account on ignore for some time now. You can usually tell who he is within two posts of one of his new accounts showing up. Still fucking annoying to have to continuously add his crap to ignore, but he's accelerating toward driving his life off a cliff O'doyle style and I can't wait to point and laugh when it happens.

I just wish him and the other extreme far left loonies would do their O'doyle driving on a closed looney circuit like Resetera instead of here. Because everyone is tired of their asses.
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The alt right hates him even more than the extreme left does. Vox Day just came out with his own book smearing JBP. They really don't like him because he's a stopper in the flow of people going that way and he's stealing people from the fringes.

But you have certain posters here that are clearly uninformed and on the fringes (it's no secret its the left on this board) spreading the same misinformation about him like they've always done. They have an opinion on him but don't know a damn thing or follow his work at all.

Certain posters who should know better. Some obviously can't know better, but there's a few smart enough in particular to know better than what they're doing when he comes up as a topic. Really makes you wonder about them.
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OoT not being called overrated is ludicrous. Which is why I question so much of the mainstream press it got back in the day now that we know about all the paid stuff and back door networks going on nowadays.

To think with how often it gets called 'the best game ever' it wouldn't be called overrated like every other game that gets limelighted to this degree is just absurd. There is no consensus, or plurality opinion on what the best game is. When people say the game is GOAT, obviously people are going to disagree. If it's not their favorite game, that automatically places it overrated. As in not 1.

The only game that I can think of in this category of being brought up that has a case for avoiding overrated criticism is Tetris. Because it's such a simple concept of game that it's virtually impossible to come at it with some in depth perspective of criticism of mechanics. Because it has no real mechanics. It's just simplistically beautiful.

I've always disliked OoT. And I knew plenty of people who also did in 1998. I think it set a piss poor standard for what a 3D adventure game would be like. And unfortunately it set the template because there was no template. So make way for dungeons being designed around torch lighting, pushing crates, and solving completely boring spatial puzzles instead of having danger, enemy encounters and exploration in them for a good decade until Demon's Souls showed up. Everyone's naivety for just seeing an adventure game from the Zelda series in 3d unfortunately blinded them to all of its poor design issues and they were never addressed because the 3d dimension was so shiny nobody gave a shit to look at the game critically.

It was just never socially acceptable to criticize it in the late 90s (yet everyone had a free pass on shitting on FF7) and I'm beginning to think there were some politics involved in that from legacy and loyalty to Nintendo and the shift in a lot of companies going over to Sony.
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Oh was wondering who the missing post was on the post count. The quote block shows it was antifar. Glad to see JBP is still irritating the radical leftists on CE.
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M_Live posted...

It's weird, like on one hand I completely get these things and where people are coming from, and on the other hand I just want to tell them to stfu

That. Except without the first part.
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Notice CE is the only board on gamefaqs that regressives still have the balls to post trash topics like this on? This topic would have been eviscerated on any other board.

You wonder why CE is the worst board on gamefaqs? Cause this is the only ingress these loons have from resetera. The only board that doesn't push back enough.
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ActRaiser 2
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Satan doesn't have the power to kill anyone. He got wrecked by Michael when he tried that.

Judeo-Christianity isn't polytheistic where there's a battle of deities that compete for power. There's no contest.

You'd have to go into Satan's ability to play within God's set of rules to get his kill count. Working through corrupting actual people and turning them. Because of how free will is set up he can influence, but he can't directly compete within the mythos. He can't rise up with an army out of Hell and start killing these ancient tribes.

Though that would have been damn cool to see though.
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YukihoHagiwara posted...

you people are off your rockers can't believe the number of votes for 3
yoshi's island is the real garbario when it comes to mario

Some people are just going to pick the one on the oldest system/least modern no matter what. It's unfortunate that it's the way it goes. "It didn't age well" or some other reason that the oldest one, no matter how good it was, is just too archaic.

But yeah, it would be baffling that so many people would pick 3 over SMW2 if you don't keep in mind a lot of people will immediately write off the NES and think the older the game is, automatically the worse entry it is.

I don't think SMW2 is garbage by any means, but it's in no way in the same league as 3 and SMW.
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SageHarpuia posted...

Good topic but posting this on CE is guaranteed to get you crapped on.

Honestly I'm almost convinced everyone here is one person

Yeah, it was like the same six far leftists in a row immediately coming to play insane tribal politics on him. This board is almost unreadable because the looney leftists don't just fucking leave. Everyone else eventually gets sick of this place and goes through a revolving door with how toxic the board is. But there's this same gang of annoying far left radicals that just doesn't flush out of this board no matter what. It's always the same group over and over too.

I'd put them on ignore but a few of them just pop up with like 10 accounts in the next week. It's fucking pathetic.
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The final boss music was god awful.

Sugiyama is terrible at final boss music. 8 and 9 were two in a row with actual good final boss music so I figured he finally gave a shit.

Nope. Same stock ominous pounding sound he almost always uses. Turns out he just got lucky twice with 8 and 9.
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CyricZ posted...

ClunkerSlim posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

Someone mentioned a Metroid leaderboard. That's a good idea.

Well... There is no score in Metroid... So there's that.

Time?

Among other things. You can create some pretty interesting leaderboards based on the criteria you want to map.

Time, # of hits taken, # of missiles used, amount of e-tanks collected.

Every NES/SNES game can do this so long as you are looking at the right part of the code. And most of that has already been mapped out by RA. Official Nintendo leaderboards and unique challenges would be amazing. Since they have the official name and brand behind it.
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If they really want this to work, instead of going after the alternatives, they should put in bonuses. Someone mentioned a Metroid leaderboard. That's a good idea.

I remember Mega Man 9 and 10 having leaderboards upon release. There's no reason not to add in extras like that to incentivize people to want to play these on Nintendo's official network. Retroachievements already has so much of the code for specific leaderboards and achievement feats mapped out. If Nintendo allied with people like this in the open source community they could create some monstrously cool features for their official network that would make people want to play on it. Despite the alternatives, not for lack of alternatives.
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I completely forgot this was even a thing. I haven't done split screen multiplayer in such a long time because of how it's been mostly phased out of gaming due to online.

The way I see it there's really no form of competitive split screen out there. So it's not really an issue because PVP that is competitive doesn't take place in split screen single tv environments. It's more of a party atmosphere thing.

There's also no way to check to see if someone is doing it. So it's one of those things where everyone does it because it's almost impossible to avoid.
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No.

This debate will also go on and on because it falls into one of those areas of proving consciousness.

I think the pro-choice side has been more than lenient with setting up as many safeguards as they can when they advocate for week limits. And yet erring on the side of caution simply isn't enough when this issue comes up on the pro-life side. Nothing short of life begins at conception is ever debatable for them. So it's just a conversation you can't ever have.

Even in the most lenient circumstance where abortion is done begrudgingly after taking a utilitarian best guess at the cost to the mother's situation and unborn child's future situation, there's just no acceptable set of compromises one can give someone who is on the pro-life side.

I find pro-life to be completely irrational because they under no circumstance will move away from the point of conception as their rallying banner so I'll always be pro-choice on this particular topic.
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This poll is eye opening. If only to show the spectacular failure of the education system.

You know what is even sadder? I bet more people would be willing to side with Blackstone's formulation if the crime was murder. The literal, capital crime and punishment of the justice system. That's how completely indoctrinated this newest generation is. Wherever our future is going is not good with people who can't grasp the basic tenet of our legal system.
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What is wrong with you that you are still obsessing over this Nintendo issue a week later? Seriously. I don't even see anyone bringing it up that is for emulation a week later. And at least they would have a positive based motive for it if they enjoyed it.

Yours is just negative based. Go see a psychiatrist.
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Wow what the hell is wrong with that guy? I really don't get it. Especially with the recent Nintendo topics there's something really deep and irrationally angry going on with some of these users. On the most benign subjects.
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Have you ever made a post on this site that isn't for the sole purpose of shit stirring based on race or attacking the community?

You realize that this kind of thing is what makes people racist? Because they see behavior like yours and to spite it they will actively become the thing you hate to piss you off?

Every time I see one of your posts I feel I slide a little more against what you stand for on principle that nothing you say can be right. So mission accomplished. You couldn't fail harder if you tried.

And don't bother replying. You're now officially on my ignore list.
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warp whistle
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There was a section where he called the game counselors when he was doing training for the event. I doubt they'd have info on SMB3 but that's probably the explanation as to how they knew about the secrets in the game.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Smashingpmkns posted...

Nah. Introduced Yoshi and the Koopalings. I like it more than 3 tbh.

Well, it introduced them in that it formally gave them names. In Super Mario Bros. 3, they were all just "Little Koopa." It did introduce the Big Boo though.

I still have the old official red cover strategy guide for SMB3. They indeed all have their names in SMB3. Ludwig also has blue hair in the guide yet for some reason in the games he got gray hair.
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The moment someone uses the term 'dogwhistle' the conversation is over.

Just flip them off and stop talking to them. Or ridicule them for an audience. At that point there's no point in any conversation. They've just made a claim to your intent so no matter what you say they've decided they control what you mean.
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I'd always thought Powers Boothe would have been the perfect Mr X.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

for everyone ITT shitting on people for not wanting to read a Kotaku article, whatever that article may be, i think you should read and really spend some time ruminating on the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Most of these people have account names I've never seen before. They are either alts or . It's very easy to tell when people who never post here flood a topic centered around games journalism that they're not genuine users. Defending Kotaku. Magically the non-regulars come out of the woodwork to defend these sites and it looks like Kotaku or Polygon has this sudden wave of support. It's quite pathetic, really.

Nice try, but this isn't ResetEra.
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Darmik posted...

But when you challenge anyone who feels like that persecution is part of their identity, it just makes them angrier. Theyre like people who believe in conspiracies.

Persecution Complex

Although originally a psychological term, persecution complex is now often used as media shorthand for broad sections of society who hold the view that they are the oppressed victims in a conspiracy to deprive them of long cherished rights. Often, those suffering from this delusion are unable to distinguish rights from privileges.

They pull out all kinds of facts and figures about why white men are the most persecuted in Western society. They really believe it, and will jump on anything that allows them to embrace that persecuted identity more fully.

Psychologically, I understand that. Its easier than saying, Oh, Im part of a privileged group and still things suck for me. Because that makes you more of a loser. I cant get anything I want and also Ive got it better off than anyone else? Thats not a comfortable thing to have to accept.

This bit of journalistic flatulence is the reason they are losing the narrative. And will continue to lose.

I consider people who write dumb articles like this as a special gift sent to me to show how vulnerable the support beams are propping up the current industry insiders.

Just read that quoted paragraph and think about it for a second. How it's a complete non-starter. There's no circumstance in which any conversation is possible when a moron opens with that in an article and claims to have positive intent. It's not an argument. It's projection to the other side and it can always be served back by just going 'no you'

It's like they want a stalemate when they write that. Because they sure as hell won't win by repeating that. Everyone knows they are gerrymandering their stats and data and calling in biased sources. When they call out gaming culture for rightly being pissed off when they poke at it, the only proper response is 'no you' and calling it projection on them. And that game can be played infinitely with counter serve upon counter serve. You can use gerrymander data sets in any way you want to spin the area under the integrated curve in your favor when using the data as a weapon. And everyone knows it's being used as a weapon and no one cares anymore.

Best part is they don't have the talent. So it would behoove them to not make the situation worse and instead try to mend it. But nope. These are people who don't care about games. So when the sides stop talking to each other...well color me shocked when the people who actually like games and are good at making them win the long game and emerge with the higher quality products and they are left starved out, destitute, and social pariahs.
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