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Hayame Zero posted...

Battle system looks turn-based with some weirdly neat spinning/lining up mechanic. I can see how this can add some strategy to maximize hitting as many enemies as possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ez5EZ1AIVWo

So it looks like the shiny boots shown are an equipable item rather than a sticker, so that's good. I don't mind a change to the battle system so long as there is some benefit to battling. The lack of unique characters seems eh still, but I can call this good middle ground if the dumb resource management is removed.

It looks promising. I just hope the seeming partners are actually partners. I guess I'll probably give it a shot regardless so long as the battle system isn't SS trash.

Can he even get out of his own house?

As a whole, obviously. There is no system without flaws, but this is the only system that could have gotten us to this point. That's not to say people shouldn't seek out to fix some of the massive flaws in the American system, but some people jump to really insane extremes in thinking. Anyone who thinks communism can work just fundamentally does not understand the human brain. Maybe there will be an entirely better system in the future once automation outpaces all of humanity, but that is hundreds of years off.

The question would be how many. While any death is tragic, 130 children in the whole world would be statistically nothing. If we're getting a deluge of sick children worldwide, then that would be something to fear

MrResetti posted...

Does broken steel raise the level cap? Should I get it? I basically went back and played around after leaving Raven rock for about 4 hours. Still never became the Messiah

Yes. All the DLC in 3 and New Vegas, outside of a few stupid design choices, was definitely worth the price from what I remember.

I haven't played any of the newer games. Is the level stuff even fun, or just grindy? It always looked like just annoying padding from the videos I watched.

A. Your companion is rendered unconscious protecting you.
B. Your father set up some kind of thing there somehow so only your DNA/retina scan/finger print/etc can work the system.
C. Your companion is stuck holding off an incoming wave of soldiers behind a door that conveniently locked.
There's those and many more competent reasons to have not had that shitty ending. At least the DLC fixed it and was worth the cost regardless of the fixed ending.

Yeah, seems fair. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where the woman is just slutty, but it definitely has to be classified as rape in such a situation regardless.

For the act of taking pictures, completely fair despite it being morally reprehensible. The act of actively following people around should definitely constitute some form of stalking and harassment, but I have no idea how those laws work.

If I'm paying a million dollars for a house, I better have enough goddamn parking for more than one car.

"But what about X" is completely valid criticism when one side is unnecessarily skewed to push an agenda. The issue is the people defending it and the people against it are arguing from completely different standpoints usually, so it's rare to have an even leveled discussion on the topic.

I don't think I've bought a single movie for myself in my adult life. It was always either rental, or now streaming.

I don't think I'll ever understand the mentality of hardcore modes outside of a little extra thrill for speedrunning. The only thing you get out of longterm games is utter despair if you lose it.

A. The trend of clueless major corporations making soulless social statements is stupid. It was on par with Burger King's depression mood meals and pink fries.
B. The discussion on toxic masculinity in general as a talking point is full of issues.
C. Several of the examples are downright nonsensical, so it's not even attempting to encourage actual dialogue in any regard.

Even ignoring how crappy the ending itself is, the fact that they did absolutely nothing in the first go to reflect the myriad of choices you made was even worse. Even just a Fallout slideshow style ending with 100 different variations would have been more suitable.

Pre-covid 11PM-12AM. Post-covid, 1AM-3AM.

Even if I was of the mind to take it, no way I'd do anything after multiple cameras had likely caught me.

He has the grace, tact, and intelligence of a dead cow, but trying to put anyone trying to put a racial spin on that exchange is about the same level.

I'm surprised Twitter allows accounts like that with how randomly draconian they are in other areas. Pretty funny regardless.

The American school system has many, many problems to work out, but I don't think that would help.

Looks like a Mr. Sparkle-style parody character. These weirdly proportioned, overly simplistic cartoon characters really are a horrible trend.

If you counterclaim, you'll win. Youtube's system is a piece of shit that instantly sides with the claimant, but the claimant actually has no power in cases of fair use.

Those examples are stupid, but I guess I could see the benefit of trying to not separate foods into categories of good and bad. Kids will obviously identify everything as bad as something they want. Though that would only work for kids from like 2-6, and then they'll just figure it out anyway.

I feel like these measures always end up badly, basically furthering the divide between whatever two groups already exist. Rather than trying to figure out the issues, they just separate them out so as to not worry about it.

It feels like a poorly optimized remaster of an incomplete 3DS game.

Most of the questions are way too broad or way to focused to be any good. You need a longer test full of hypothetical without such easy to determine answers.

The first week is going to be like the typical new years rush, then back to normal once people realize they don't actually care that they gained ten pounds.

Most consoles have HDMI adapters you can buy, but your mileage may vary on a lot of them. Another option is just to buy a modded console with it built in, which usually is better quality than just an adapter.

Yes, anything can be irrationally feared and persecuted. Now, if you were to ask if there is any widespread issue of it, obviously not. I'm sure there has been at least one case of a bunch of gay people bullying a straight person, but a 1/XXX,000,000 event is not something anyone needs to care about.

It's weird how some people don't understand that the etymology of some words can produce similar-sounding, but completely unrelated words.

Most of the Far Cry games have hundreds of collectables that ultimately do nothing but take dozens of hours to completely collect. I think Red Dead 2 does as well.

I can see judging it because it's basically just a physical soap opera. It has a trashy, guilty pleasure vibe to it, but it captures the kids early on with its theatrics. Though on the "it's fake" vs "it's scripted" front, I feel like both sides are arguing from completely different perspectives, so it's always just going to be a yelling match kind of debate with no resolution. Though at the end of the day, like what you like. Please just don't dress up as it in public, make it into your core personality trait, or hold weird, themed sex orgies based on your interests.

averagejoel posted...

you're the one who made the claim. defending it is your job

your words:

landlords gain profit by exploiting someone else's need for shelter, so it follows that landlords are inherently exploitative.

~50 words later:

for those following along at home: please note that I never referenced any individual landlords, instead restricting my critique to things that are inherent to the position. I do not care about moralizing it. I do not care if any individual landlords are "scummy" or "evil."

You're ignoring context. The point is that all trade is exploitative on a fundamental level, so the basic function of landlords is no more exploitative than anything else. What's exploitative is the seeking of maximum profit to the point where the product or service is degraded, such as scummy landlords who rent gouge, put no maintenance into the buildings, etc. Good luck living in bizarro communist world. I'm outta this discussion.

averagejoel posted...

not convinced that this is the case

not convinced of this either

you also didn't address the second point

I guess you must live your life in an 1000AD village if you think that's how the world works. The second point is irrelevant until we're on an even field of discussion, which seems to be impossible due to your very strange way of looking at the human condition.

averagejoel posted...

profit is exploitative, yes, but we were talking about trade, not profit. please clarify which one you meant.

didn't we literally just establish that profit, or at least profit based on human needs, is inherently exploitative?

Trade is always motivated by profit. You seek to give up less than you get. The idea of an even trade is a farce, though you may have cases where both parties come away thinking they've profited.

averagejoel posted...

I'm gonna need to see some data to believe that statistic lol

I'm not at all convinced that all trade is inherently exploitative.

besides, exchanges where one person owns a basic human need (e.g. shelter) and the other doesn't is inherently weighted in favour of the one who owns the basic human need.

first: landlords don't provide a service. all they do is own the building and make money from it

second: where are you getting "evil" from? I certainly didn't say anything to that effect.

Gaining profit is inherently exploiting someone else's need tor a good or service. To say it isn't the same is just deflection due to your heavyhanded bias against landlords. Proper landlords assume risk in letting their property be used in exchange for money and must put in money to keep the property at an acceptable level of habitation. That there are scummy landlords that do not do that does not mean landlords are inherently exploitative.

It's high risk people, and the vast majority of high risk people are elderly. Sub-1% of younger people dying doesn't mean anything to the average person. Social distancing is a good thing, but the vast majority of people would get it and be completely fine after. But doing that at the cost of millions of lives would not be a good thing.

averagejoel posted...

the position of a landlord is inherently an exploitative one.

You keep saying that as if 99% of human interaction isn't exploitative. With the exception of charity, any trading of goods or services is inherently exploiting someone's need for something to the benefit of the person offering the good or service. You can point out the shitty mogul landlords as corrupt without thinking that the rest of the people offering a necessary service are somehow evil.

Spider-Man is definitely solid, but the DLC is repetitive garbage.
Automata is definitely a your mileage may vary kind of game. I loved it.

I still don't know if Ms. Monopoly is supposed to be serious or taking the piss at feminist talking points.

This stuff is always hilarious. It's one thing to say people shouldn't be mocked, ridiculed, and shamed for being fat. It's another to celebrate it and become delusional to the mass negative health effects. Sadly, this is always just like fifteen people on twitter, but then dozens of news media outlets pick up on it to amplify something that didn't need coverage.

There are certainly issues with scummy landlords, as there are issues with scummy tenants. This is the same shit these people do with cops. There can be shitty people in positions of "power" over others that do shitty things, and we can work to make them less shitty. But to classify them all as some evil overlords just makes people look like insane conspiracy theorists, which then makes it harder to deal with the actual issues.

Christian God assuming we're going with the view that's it's truly omnipotent. Then you can have all the powers.

I feel like a very high percentage of people with an extreme hatred of landlords are probably nightmare tenants.

You'd probably need to wait 100-200 years for it to be worth anything. Though forging an aged piece of regular printed paper would be super easy, so it would probably still be worth nothing.

The choice of wording may be poor, but it is a legit criticism in today's media. There definitely is an issue with an overzealous representation quota that can negatively affect a production. That doesn't mean the opposite end of the spectrum that cries foul at the mere mention of a gay person is correct. There's obviously a balance to it due to a clear lack of representation over the last few decades due to bias from such people.