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Not Dave posted...

A lot of the QoL changes they made in gen 8 have really positively impacted my experience with the games:
Adding nature mints
Making it easier to farm money / exp candies
Daycare improvements like being able to pass egg moves without breeding
While likely accidental, the raid den exploits are super valuable because they make getting good/rare Pokemon a lot easier
The pokeball tiers and rewards in competitive make online battling easily accessible and rewarding

It's so much easier to build a competitive team than it ever was before.

Making TMs not single-use was pretty great too, same with removing HMs. A bit of a step backwards in g8 with TRs, but at least they're really easy to get.

The most recent DLC also made EV vitamins cost less and added a way to reset EVs completely. There's also a way to use Pokemon from a previous game in competitive, which is really nice. And lastly, you can now give normal 'mons the ability to gmax instead.

In terms of dumb stuff, there are always a bunch of gimmicks that don't work very well \_()_/

This, pretty much. As a shiny breeder Gen 8 has so many QoL details.

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Peace___Frog posted...

You can also make a suicide run for the amygdala arm very early into a NG and use it for almost the entire game.

This is what I did for the Whirligig Saw

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You can suicide run for a lot of weapons in the DLC like the Amygdala Arm in the party cave.

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Jesse_Custer posted...

84. Metalocalypse - Murphiroth
https://youtu.be/5IzEncyqfgw

Unique: 6.5
Story: 1
Music: 4
Animation: 4
Personal: 0.25
Average: 3.15

Suffice it to say, I am not a fan of metal. I like some bands that arguably border on the genre, but I absolutely could not stand this.

But despite how much the music made me think of a dentist drill, I am compelled to assign a respectable score for that factor because the song goes so well with the visuals and does a lot to set the tone. Since this is a TV show, they could have just gone with a safe and watered down metal-ish song, but instead went with something more authentic, and I can respect that.

The intro scores best in the Unique factor for obvious reasons. After all, how many intros look like this? Arguably, I could have scored it even higher in that factor. But the way I figured it this sequence takes its inspiration from imagery commonly associated with metal, without coming up with anything truly original or, for instance, blending metal with something else by taking the characters out of their element.

Animation earns a lower score due to the somewhat amateurish nature of the artwork, which is easy to overlook thanks to all the flashing lights (which should probably warrant an epilepsy warning). The visual effects also strike me as simplistic, aside from the sudden transition of that guys face into a skull near the end.

And as for Story, well, theres not much you can say about any of these characters. We see them one by one scowling at the camera, but theres nothing to distinguish the personality of one character from another. They all play metal and ride motorcycles, and thats about all that comes across. Aside from that, I suppose the story is they inhabit an environment that is the epitome of metal in every way. But theres no subtlety to it, the intro just hits you over the head with it. And I guess thats the point. This is metal and thats all there is to it.

Definitely not the intro or show for you if you don't like metal!

It's an Adult Swim show with 15 minute episodes (except for one season with 30) about a fictional metal band that's so rich they're the 13th largest economy in the world. It's essentially a giant loving parody to metal stereotypes made by the same guy that made Home Movies on AS. Everything from the appearances of the band members (based on real metal band members) to background details are jokes about the industry and stereotypes in the metal scene.

Worth noting that despite being a fake metal band from an animated comedy, Dethklok's three albums have landed quite high on various Billboard charts.

Also I love the motorcycle with 2 sidecars on each side. It's so excessive, dangerous, and stupid and sums up the band quite well.

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

I did not do the pushups.

Zelda just fucking no-sold Ganon to his face. Badass.

Destroy Ganon Complete.

Even more badass when you think about the fact that she's been no selling him for 100+ years waiting for Link despite her previous lack of skill with magic.

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Oh no he's expressing his opinions in a topic discussing the game whatever shall we doooooo


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There's usually a voiceover of what he's doing and why during the MacGuyvering. Even the pilot has it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4f-RDr2B8U

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Jesse_Custer posted...

Now youre intriguing me.

Spy gets stuck in Miami, has to take on random jobs with his friends as backup while traversing the metaplot of why he's been burned from the spy world and abandoned in Miami.

Lots of improvising with makeshift gadgets, scenarios, and cover IDs is the bit that reminded me of MacGuyver. Usually this is all done very quickly for whatever the client of the week needs done. It's fun stuff.

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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

I don't know anything about this show, but I am impressed by how many explosions they crammed into this intro. I almost want to watch just to see if everything around the main character is constantly exploding like this video implied.

There's explosions probably every other episode!

The show was kind of like a modern MacGuyver.

It's not anything mind blowing but watching Jeffrey Donovan throw on different accents and take on different cover IDs every episode was great, and occasionally he'd get to ham it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVUU_B0obo

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I love Burn Notice's intro but you're not really wrong with anything you said about it. It's got a strong vibe that it shares with a lot of the shows USA Network was airing at the time, definitely a late 2000s/early 2010s feel.

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Octavian stopped handing out the gong but now Dom in the middle left side house is handing out a honeycomb wall if anyone stops by.

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shane15 posted...

I was thinking this earlier. I'll be surprised if we actually get any more fighting game characters at this point. I dunno if this was something Sakurai said or not but each DLC fighter is meant to have something different from the starting roster and i think all the bases have been covered in regards to fighting games now. I mean what popular fighting game franchise is left that has a gimmick that could work in Smash?

Bloody Roar.

Franchise is dead but you could make an interesting gimmick out of the transformation mechanic.

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NFUN posted...

you're probably half-awake for those

Usually, yeah.

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Thanks for the various tips y'all.

Gonna leave it up while I play PS4 if anyone else needs to sell turnips.

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Don't usually get these but I quite often have dreams that I'm not sleeping and am instead having trouble getting to sleep. These usually last the entire night and make for a terrible night's sleep.

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Yep!

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Go for it, I don't mind

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Turnip prices are 602.

Octavian is currently handing out a gong DIY, left side of plaza, bottom house on the right.

It's also Marina's birthday, middle house on the left of the plaza.

Dodo code C66XX.

Should be open for the next hour or two idling.

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Kenri posted...

So which board was that one from?

Originated on CE I believe, but I've seen it on the FF7R board and even off site as a copypasta.

Xiahou Shake posted...

I legit don't understand the Tifa conversation at all because her tits are still fucking huge

Yep. Doesn't make any sense, she's still stacked and is pretty in line with her in game character model and art from FF7, just not her goofy CG model from back then.

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It's my favorite bit of the FF7R Tifa discourse, it's so over the top.

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Lara got a reduction.
Samus got a reduction.
Tifa got a reduction.

There is a pattern here.

You can say I'm a loser, but you can't deny what is happening. It's not a conspiracy. It's not internet nerds preemptively being outraged. We said it would happen and it did. We knew it would because it's happened already. Because it's a clear and continuous pattern.

I don't care. I'm a fucking nerd. Whatever.

No, I don't need big breasts on a female character to find her interesting as a character. You don't need profanity and gratuitous bloodshed to have a good time at the movies. But if there's a PG-13 sequel or remake to an R-rated movie, people flip a table because they're being denied something they used to have. It's the same thing here.

If you go to favorite place to eat and find one day that they've stopped serving alcohol, you'd be within your rights to go someplace else even if the food is just as good as it always was.

Even if you don't care about fictional breasts (or real breasts on women playing fictional characters). Even if you're not into women period, it's still a bad thing to remove all buxom women from the media. You are saying that there is a certain type of person who you do not want to be featured in the media and it's through no fault of their own. This is like taking every story which had a Jewish character in it and replacing them with non-Jewish characters. You would be selectively removing a group of people from having any media presence or representation.

It's not just censorship. It's discrimination. How are women with large breasts supposed to feel in real life when they're not good enough to make it into movies? What does it say to them that body types and personality types are treated one and the same and that busty types are the "bimbo" types that we don't want? I suppose they can go out and get reductions if they want to be treated fairly.

Cover Tifa up more. Take away her midriff. Make it so that there's no bounce or jiggle -- just fat dead space. But don't flatten her because women with sizable breasts are somehow bad people according to the censors who think themselves progressive.

It's like there's an Anti-Tit League that gets to dictate who has an appropriate enough body type to achieve representation. And, according to them, women with small wastes and large busts are unworthy.

Fuck!

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Skeleton Warriors is indeed not great and more humorously dumb than anything. The only reason I have a fondness for it and it still sticks around in my brain is because it was a running joke with the Super Best Friends YouTube channel, which eventually led to this remix from audio of their Dark Souls 3 LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-ArDJjUDY

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Definitely enjoying the length and detail of your writeups so far. I wouldn't mind seeing more daily but really take it at your own pace.


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Ogre Battle 64

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Snrkiko posted...

Yeah it was a crazy tense moment that stands out as one of MCU's coolest scenes.

my other favorite is paul rudd getting slapped in the face with a nuclear bomb after staring peacefully into nature (btw how the fuck did he survive that)

What nuke? It was just a missile volley and he shrinks right before. Like it's comic book physics for sure but it wasn't a nuke or anywhere close to it.

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Nanis23 posted...

They were super boring, yes, but at least they didn't ruin the main character
Spider Man Homecoming is not a Spider-Man movie. It's a Iron Man movie. That's the main fucking problem

Incorrect. Iron Man is in the movie for less than 10 minutes IIRC. Really sounds like you haven't actually watched it and are just parroting things you've heard on the internet.

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Nanis23 posted...

If anything it's the second WORST movie behind Black Panther
Yes, even Thor 1 and 2 were better

Nanis23 posted...

You have a shitty taste

I like the Thor movies more than most people but this is a terrible Nanis take.

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This whole thing is hilarious and makes me glad I'm lukewarm on the first game so I'm not invested in any of this on either side. The character movement just felt really bad to me and the only thing that kept me going was the story and characters themselves. From what I've read this one doesn't even have that but I'll probably play it when it's like $10.

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Not even mentioning Phil Lamarr, shame. UBS guy was the best.

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Irwin/Cousteau is one of my faves

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https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1274516975570628608

I'm fucking dying over here. I can't stop laughing, send help.

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Aecioo posted...

Like

read this post again and realize how dumb it sounds

I never said it wasn't dumb!

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ZeroSignal620 posted...

Who was secretly having relations with Palpatine during the prequel trilogy?

No one!

Rey's dad is actually a failed Palps clone per outside sources. Just before his body's death he jumped his spirit into a partially completed clone on Exegol and his men there continued to try to create a body that could contain his power without deteriorating. Rey's dad is one of their attempts that survived, but had no Force potential at all. Palps hated that but allowed him to live for the potential of carrying on the Palpatine line the natural way.


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Whiskey_Nick posted...

Loved it

but I am the easiest to please Star Wars fan ever

as I have said many times, Star Wars could dump on my chest and I would happily scream for more

Pretty much this.

Stuff like Palps coming back doesn't need any more of an explanation than we got for me. Honestly I'd even be ok with absolutely no explanation because my reaction to him coming back is "Yeah of course that asshole is back."

I'm too influenced by outside media, even if it's no longer canon, and it still informs my thoughts on characters and their motivations. So when the movie says Palps is back and drops a "maybe cloning and Sith sorcery?" speculation, I go "Yeah that makes sense" and move on.

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Just give me Dante at some point and I don't care who else they add.

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Tag

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Steiner posted...

who isn't active in the discord at this point?

Yo.


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Wasn't sure if I wanted to use my OG Sword team or the 2nd run all shiny team for this, ended up just grabbing a few from each + Kubfu.

Once the 2nd DLC drops and I run through it once I'll probably do a third playthrough with the last starter I haven't picked and hit these DLC areas at low levels.

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DeepsPraw posted...

Brain: 100
at least he correctly considers himself a villain

That haha crunch lol reference is real bad.

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The funniest thing about this is that a vision of Joel stops Ellie from killing Abby, when in reality the Joel we know would literally be like "Kill them all, Ellie. Kill them all."

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I have issues with ME3 beyond the ending. Too many set pieces, pushed the blend of action/RPG to far to the action when ME2 had nailed it, basically everything in the story is just wrapping up old stories and nothing to stand on it's own, the quest system is completely fake (just find items randomly and hand them off, best thing you can do is just run randomly around the Citadel and just mash A in case someone happens to have a quest to turn in when you walk past them).

But it's not, like, BAD. Just not nearly as good as ME2.

In terms of combat at least ME3 does the shooting/RPG hybrid significantly better than ME1 or ME2 which both leaned too far in opposite directions. ME3 has better skill trees than both with more significant choices when the skill trees split, and the addition of tech bursts on top of biotic explosions does a lot for the combat.

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Snrkiko posted...

This is a feeling I had while playing the main game but has anyone else increasingly got the feeling that all these new moves are essentially just reskins of existing moves from other types, turning types into stale mirrors of each other?

They've always done this with a few moves though.

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That sounds super bizarre.

Great game though!

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It was ok.

Gotta give props to Gabriel Luna though, thought his Rev-9 was great and he's pretty much the main reason I went to see the movie. Loved him as Ghost Rider.

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I feel like Spidey 2 will almost assuredly be at least Peter/Miles, with Peter's on the job training of Miles functioning as tutorials.

And if Peter eventually gets the black suit, he'll be a mid or late game boss fight for Miles as it corrupts him.

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Monet St. Croix
Emma Frost
Selene

A few that haven't been mentioned yet.

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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

I also like the Batmobile. They struck a good balance with the handling and acceleration, though I think the brake button is useless and actually harms people's enjoyment because it doesn't help with turning at all.

Tank sections are just tolerable, probably would be super aggravating if you don't upgrade attack and defense. Really the worst thing about the Batmobile is how much the game utilizes it.

This, pretty much.

And Origins is by far the worst Arkham. The combat feels worse somehow.

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I've generally only seen negative reception to Returnal's name, the game itself people seem pretty intrigued by.

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