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WhiskeyDisk posted...

And yet the entire space where the Soulsbourne and Cuphead/IWTBTG/Super Meat Boy/Isaac games exist and it damn sure isn't mere "hundreds" that bought them.

Literally none of those are based around nostalgia for a game that came out 30 years ago, though.

Hence the Venn Diagram comment. There are a lot of people who like frustration gaming. There are a fair number of people who have strong nostalgia for the original game. The overlap? Not so much.

Keep in mind, statistically more than 50% of current gamers weren't even born when the original game came out. Another 25% likely age out as either being too young to have really played it then, or too old to have cared about it at the time (or who just never bought/played it - I was 14 at the time and I never gave much of a shit about it, nor did any of my friends). And it's generally accepted that younger gamers tend to be the ones who hew to competition and high difficulty curve games, while older gamers tend to want more casual experiences (hence why the gamer curve tends to skew a lot harder towards mobile games and easier/shorter towards the older end of the graph). Probably not helped by the fact that it's pretty much a medical fact that reflexes and reaction time atrophy as we get older - fast-twitch-reflex gaming is a young person's domain.

Are there exceptions? Sure. But enough to hang the success of a game on? Probably not.

So the obvious goal is to try and pander to younger gamers rather than sell it solely on the nostalgia, and hope most of the stupid old people will just buy it for the name anyway. Catering to an art style that looks more like the crap modern kids/teens/young 20somthings grew up with increases the odds of catching new eyes, and that's more important than actually catering to people who've already invested in the brand identity. This is the sort of shit Hollywood has been pulling for decades now.

I'm not saying it's a good plan. I'm not even saying it will work for them. But I can definitely see why they might think it was a good idea. And honestly, they may be right - they MAY sell more copies trying to pander to a younger demo that grew up on shitty Tumblr art and Flash animation rather than trying to desperately appeal to a demo that has already mostly given up on "hardcore" gaming.
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Because they went a lame ass Cartoon Network route than trying to appeal to the people who would actually appreciate a modern Battletoads.

To be fair to them, the number of people who would actually appreciate a modern Battletoads, complete with the same level of "fuck you" difficulty, probably numbers in the hundreds at best. It's the weird Venn Diagram crossover between older gamers who are still gaming combined with people who still enjoy Nintendo Hard frustration gaming.

It's not a good recipe for actually selling your game.
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Tons of content producers have mentioned that ad revenue is way down during the pandemic (and was dropping even before that), to the point where it's almost becoming borderline untenable to produce professional content for YouTube at all. Multiple channels have mentioned that the only reason they still exist at all is that they're able to support themselves via Patreon. I've heard numbers that imply revenue is down something like 40% from what it was 6 months ago.

YouTube might be pushing premium hard just because they've finally realized how badly they've fucked everything up, and are trying to salvage something out of the mess to keep paying for their own servers.
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Gaawa_chan posted...

People from both parties have targeted the USPS for privatization so that they could jack up prices and profit for decades.

The main logic for at least the last 20 years is that the Post Office is catastrophically inefficient and poorly run. If it WAS a private business, it would have gone bankrupt decades ago. But because it's a government service that can and will be bailed out of every crisis via taxpayer money, they have zero incentive to ever improve. Thus, the whole organization basically becomes a massive rathole down which we keep throwing money that we're never really getting value out of.

It also doesn't help that almost the entirety of outside funding comes from money made by sending junk mail and ad fliers - it's use as a parcel delivery service has been somewhat superseded by other privatized options (like UPS and FedEx), while the slow shift to digital correspondence and digital bill paying means plenty of people no longer see it as anything resembling a necessity, and only see it as a wasteful drain of resources.

The usual proposal has always been to privatize it to some degree, to give it the motivation to begin correcting its own logistical problems, or to do away with it altogether (and/or potentially replace it with something new that works more efficiently). Almost every potential solution has problems of its own, but it's not as if it's current state isn't a problem in and of itself.

But like most things that are infrastructure-based problems in the US, our general response is to ignore everything until it breaks beyond repair, then complain that no one else fixed it before.
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FrozenBananas posted...

)O( pew pew

I was waiting to see if anyone mentioned heel stabbinations.
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wolfy42 posted...

I rewatched that recently, it holds up, but it wouldn't hurt to remake it actually.

They've been talking about making once since the 1990s. Every few years it comes up, and someone mentions it's still being planned. It's apparently doomed to be stuck in development hell forever.

The real irony is, it's based on a book, and the book was part of a series. So if they did remake it and the remake did well enough, it could jumpstart a new franchise (which is what studios today have wet dreams about). They've got at least four books and a bunch of short stories/comic books they could adapt, so someone could even spin it off into a TV show on something like HBO or Netflix (though the last time they tried to turn it into a TV show, it tanked).
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Revelation34 posted...

The pretend stories are already there.

So what we're saying is, he's too stupid to play pretend, and thus has to pay other people to play pretend for him?
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Mead posted...

even the smartest people are very bad at predicting what will happen in the future

Not really. It's generally pretty easy to predict the future, as long as you're predicting trends based on human behavior rather than technological innovation. A futurist in 1995 might not have been able to predict the invention of the smart phone or what it could eventually do, but given the assumption of the growing influence of the Internet and increasingly easier means of accessing it, they could do a pretty good job of predicting the ultimate effect it would have on human behavior and society.

If anything, the futurists who tend to get things wrong more often than not are the idealistic futurists. The cynical and pessimistic ones tend to be right a hell of a lot more often.
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kind9 posted...

I don't know what that means, but I'm not a memelord. I prefer to use words.

This.



PK_Spam posted...

Ill have you guys know that I didnt comment this long because I was embarrassed of my mistake.

*react

Ah, okay.

I have literally never had a "react" or "reaction" folder, and will likely die before ever making one. Even when I posted on boards that tended to lean heavily into image macros, I didn't really use them.

The VERY rare times I ever post reactions to something with pictures, it was usually only the Citizen Kane slow clap. And that I just posted off-site links to rather than having it saved as a gif.

I'm about 20 years too old to be part of the annoying demographic that actually does stuff like that.
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Judgmenl posted...

(even if I don't like many switch games).

Then by definition, the Switch is a terrible platform.



Bulbasaur posted...

who wouldn't want the strongest console

People who play games, not masturbate over specs?



Mead posted...

within my life I hope we get to a point where you just buy games and they work on wherever machine or service you have

We can't even get a fair number of games to work on the console they're supposed to be on as-is. At least not without multiple patches and constant tinkering.

The main problems in gaming mostly stem from the business model, where there's always incentive to release broken games and keep releasing multiple exclusive consoles/platforms (which is why we're now bordering having a "console war" for PC in spite of PC not even having consoles). As long as that doesn't change (and it almost certainly won't), they'll never be motivation to streamline gaming down into a single distribution model that actually benefits the consumer.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

As far as I know, nobody ever left a D&D campaign with $800 cash and somebody's grandfather's wristwatch IRL.

Just sayin'.

You're clearly not playing in the right D&D games.

But you're also assuming they'd be playing for money. I can honestly say that, in spite of having played poker with friends dozens of times over the course of my life, we've never once played for money. Plenty of people don't.

(Though I HAVE played for clothes once or twice.)

Though you've actually raised another issue I wasn't even thinking about earlier. When you're playing poker for money (or even just for chips to determine who "wins" for the night), you're always going to wind up in a scenario where some of the people at the table get eliminated. Some long before others. At which point they're either forced to leave entirely, or are just going to go sit on the couch and watch TV or something, which can make for a kind of shitty game night where you want all your friends to stick around and participate.

Whereas with D&D, generally everyone gets to keep playing for the entire time (unless their character dies, but that's what rerolls are for). So you don't wind up having your one friend who's kind of bad at poker winding up resenting you because he has to spend 90% of the night not playing.

Granted, you could theoretically adjust for that by letting that friend get extra chips, or just playing casually with no betting, but that isn't necessarily fun for a lot of people, either.
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Spam calls and scams always dramatically increase when the economy starts taking a shit. What with things being the way they are, there's more incentive to scam other people out of their money.
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Even back when I used to drink enough at parties and the like to potentially kill smaller humans, I never really got "blackout drunk". My body's just not built that way. I tend to get wired when I drink more than sluggish. I'm kind of a hyper drunk.

"Get tired and slowly fall asleep where you're sitting" drunk, sure (usually only if I was already tired/sleep-deprived even before I started drinking). But never really "snap your fingers, everything's black, and you can't remember anything you did the next day" drunk. My tolerance was always pretty damned high. I never even got hangovers back in the day.

My tolerance has actually dropped a fair bit since I've gotten older, but it doesn't mean I get drunk faster/harder as much as it means I just feel it worse the next day. So I don't really drink as hard as I used to.
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Gaawa_chan posted...

... Both? Also gives the DM more time to prepare the sessions if you alternate, which is a good thing.

Could also occasionally swap out a poker night with the occasional board game night. Larger groups can be fun for games like Dead of Winter or Betrayal at House on the Hill.
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I don't even remotely buy that. Especially considering that site seems pretty clickbaity, and even they explicitly say it's nothing more than online rumors.
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If you're split half-and-half, and you don't have a preference personally, you should suggest a compromise where you alternate weeks. One week play D&D, the next poker, the next D&D, and so on.

Personally, I'd prefer Amber DRPG over D&D, but definitely RP over poker.

Though with my friends, if we ever managed to get a weekly game session of anything, it would wind up being M:tG.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOdfNwD9cEA
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The irony for me is, while I DO tend to get that "shivers up the spine/tingles/etc" sort of physical reaction to things people get from ASMR, ASMR itself generally never does it for me at all. If anything, most ASMR videos are more like "nails on chalkboard" to me, where I'm just irritated (which is even funnier, because actual nails on a chalkboard doesn't give me the "nails on chalkboard" response - I'm fine with it).
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I used to have XM, but I feel like it kind of went to shit after the Sirius merger. Plus, I mostly listened for Opie & Anthony and Ron & Fez, and both shows are gone now.

Now I mainly just listen to CDs full of MP3s that I ripped on my computer like 15-20 years ago, then archived to disc. With occasional dips into one or two local FM stations that tend to play 80s.
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funkyfritter posted...

I was curious and looked up how The Iron Giant did in theaters. Apparently it bombed despite being very highly reviewed by both audiences and critics, ouch. I love animation, but sadly mainstream audiences don't.

That's the usual pattern. The animated movies we tend to assume were successful because we personally remember them fondly are often complete bombs in theaters.

And yet, we also live in a world where The Emoji Movie was successful enough to triple its production costs, which is how I know there is no God.
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Revelation34 posted...

Indie games don't exist?

Depends on what you mean by indie games. Though indie studios aren't immune to shitty business practices either.

Plus there's the added complication that 97% of indie games are mostly shit.
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Oh, and to crib from Wave's new gimmick:

"And in other news, it seems as if there may indeed be a silver lining to the fact that Disney's Star Wars movies have been metaphorical hot liquid feces with no redeeming qualities whatsover. In the wake of the total collapse of an entire franchise, Disney has seemingly panicked and begun work on a new Tron sequel.

After the modest success of Tron: Legacy ten years ago, there was some talk of a planned sequel, bringing the total number of movies to three. It was further suggested that Cillian Murphy's small uncredited cameo in the film was deliberately seeded to help establish the third film's eventual villain. But with the rising success of the MCU and the acquisition of the Star Wars franchise, there were multiple allegations that Disney no longer felt the need for a "male-oriented" sci-fi franchise, as they now had that demographic covered via comic books and space wizards. Tron, as a somewhat niche cult-favorite property, was apparently moved to the back-burner, with no intentions to continue. It was, of course, at this point that long-suffering Tron fans began to joke that it would take another 27 years before they'd see the next sequel.

Now, however, with the MCU peaking and The Rise of Skywalker retroactively murdering several childhoods, it appears Disney may be desperate to find potential alternate means of reaping male audience dollars - or, at the very least, sell more Disney+ memberships. Disney has recently announced that they are indeed moving forward with Tron 3, with Garth Davis - formerly known for directing the critically acclaimed "Lion" - at the helm. It has also been rumored that Jared Leto will be playing a major role, though whether as the protagonist or antagonist is currently unknown.

Barring any future delays, cancellations, or other production-related issues, the film could be in theaters by 2023, making for a gap between Tron 2 and Tron 3 of only thirteen years, only half as long as that between the first two. At this pace of acceleration, it might only require 6-7 years before a hypothetical Tron 4 could be produced. At which point the graph of production over time would start to look like the exact inverse of George RR Martin's work on the Song of Ice and Fire novels.

This has been a Geek News update."
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trodi_911 posted...

What do you want? A firecube? A firepyramid? A firedodecahedron?

I want to snap my fingers and make someone's blood boil in their own veins.

If you have the power to generate massive amounts of thermal energy as a fireball, there shouldn't actually be a reason why you couldn't just superheat the fluids in someone else's body, other than arbitrary limits created in fiction to justify flashier magic.

Real magic attacks should look more like the Strangers in Dark City:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAz3SFxHWnE
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Revelation34 posted...

People shouldn't be buying from Epic though.

If gamers actually took moral stances and boycotted companies that engage in anti-consumer business practices, none of us would be playing games at all.
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Revelation34 posted...

Yes. That's why most of this site's polls are shit.

On the other hand, if every poll on the site had an "Other" option, 98% of the people voting in every poll would just vote "Other", and pretty much every poll would be absolutely worthless.
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Bob Barker's probably up there, but my initial thought was Bob Vila.



dragon504 posted...

his name was Robert Paulson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYfTKVfwdjU
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Zeus posted...

tbh, it is weird that in fiction with magic you so rarely see magic guns. Given that projectile magic is practical, you'd think magic guns would be a no-brainer especially since most continuities have individuals with limited or no magic ability.

I had a character in an Amber DRPG game with magic guns, that were basically revolvers with unlimited ammo, that could be charged with elemental effects.

Those were actually based on a pair of of guns I used in an even earlier game, which I honestly can't remember at this point. But they were basically a pair of dueling pistols called the Dioscuri (after the Gemini twins from Greek/Roman myth), and one was named Fulmine and the other was named Trueno (which is basically "lightning" in Italian and "thunder" in Spanish).

Someone I know in a Changeling game around the same time (1999-2000 or so) played a pirate captain who has flintlock pistols that he'd load with "shells" (which were literal seashells, because Changeling's whole deal is that it's like 90% childhood imagination). I can't remember their exact names, but I remember he named one of them Mjlnir, and asked me for ideas for what to call the other one, and I suggested Stormbreaker (Beta Ray Bill's hammer in the old Thor comics, before they used it as Thor's new weapon in the MCU) or Stormbringer (after a version of the hammer Storm got in the comics in the 1980s, unrelated to Elric's cursed sword from the Elric fantasy novels). I think he used one of those, but he translated it into Norse or German or something (I think the gun was named something like Sturmracher, or something similar).

Of course, all that goes back to the very roots of RPG in general - when Gary Gygax first came up with D&D, one of the very first characters made by his friend/business partner Don Kaye was Murlynd, who was basically just Fistful of Dollars Clint Eastwood with guns that worked like magic wands (or magic wands that looked like guns, depending on how you view these things).

Ironically, it's often canon in a lot of fantasy RPGs that gunpowder literally doesn't work (to head off players who want cannons or machine guns in a magical universe), so people who DO want guns usually come up with more magical versions of them to justify having them anyway.
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JixHedgehog posted...

No third "who?" option?

Came in planning to vote for this.

Left disappointed.



Metalsonic66 posted...

I don't know who she is and the first 30 seconds of that video did not really make me want to know more...

This, though I couldn't even be bothered to spend even that much time on her.
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Harry Potter should've just used a gun.

A magic gun.

That fires wands.



Lokarin posted...

This is more what I was getting at, the uncreativity.

You should play Mage: the Ascension. The entire point of the magic system in the game is to be as imaginative as possible (which admittedly makes it harder for the GM to adjudicate).

The limiting factor there is "vulgarity" and "Paradox"- ie, the idea that the reason why we don't have wizards riding dragons and flinging fireballs at each other today is because the universe doesn't like blatant rule breaking. So modern wizards come up with coincidental magical effects that accomplish the same sort of things while seeming almost normal.

Why set someone on fire with a fireball you throw at them when you can just stop their heart from halfway across the room and make it look like natural causes?

In one Mage game I once used magic to kill off all of the beneficial bacteria in someone's colon so they'd suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Now that's creative!
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GameStop still exists?
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Mead posted...

damn that is so nuts

Yeah. Even when factoring production costs and marketing costs, those movies made hundreds of millions more than Spider-Verse did.

And the main reason why we tend to TALK about Spider-Verse as much as we do is because it's one of the most successful animated comic book movies ever. A lot of animated comic movies don't even get theatrical releases at all, and the ones that do rarely do as well (Mask of the Phantasm bombed in theaters, in spite of being tied to one of the most popular animated Batman series of all time, the original Transformers movie was released at the height of Gen 1 popularity and it was technically a bomb in spite of becoming a cultural touchstone for its era). Spider-Verse is actually the anomaly for doing as well as it did.

Disney does very well with animated films, and both Pixar (pre-Disney) and Dreamworks kind of dug out a niche of their own, but for the most part animated films outside of that core don't do well at all.

Even when it comes to TV shows, animated shows usually don't make all that much money. It's why so many shows wind up having to tie themselves into toy lines to justify their existence (and why the slow death of the toy market lately is kind of killing that business model).

It's probably a given that any exec in Hollywood who's actually looked at the numbers is going to assume that live-action always does better than animated. Because there's tons of evidence that suggests that's 100% true.
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FrozenBananas posted...

Depends on what state youre in.

if youre in a red state thats supporting the president, itll be a lot more difficult. The president literally doesnt want you getting a test, because to him more testing means more cases and he doesnt like cases

To be fair, the bluest blue states were also the ones that took the biggest hit from this in the first place, so they were always going to have a much different perspective of things than most of the rest of the country.

Not to mention that a homogeneous response isn't always the best answer for an extremely heterogeneous population - what works/is necessary in extremely population-dense areas isn't necessarily going to be all that helpful in much more rural/dispersed regions. Laypeople ALWAYS seem to ignore this whenever discussing social, political, or economic issues, but like it or not, the US is one of the most diverse nations on Earth across multiple demographic spectra, and that makes it extremely hard to push for any singular blanket solution to any given complex problem. Which is why "Well, Policy X worked in Country Y, so why don't we do it here?" is usually an incredibly naive (if not stupid) question.

My personal view of the virus and the response to it is very much colored by living near the main epicenter of the outbreak in the US for the first few months, but I'd almost certainly have a very different perspective of it if I lived in rural Montana where I had to drive like an hour to see another human being.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Can't say you don't give games a fair shot. I mean playing for a hour is all you need. Like others have said. When you have the attention span of a Goldfish these games with depth just are not for you. Perhaps Call of Duty is more your thing.

wwinterj25 posted...

Amazing. It seems you're growing as a person. Soon you'll be able to play for two hours!

I know I've said this before, but you really are coming across as a grade-A cocknozzle these days.

I get that times have been pretty tough on people in general, but I feel like you definitely need to find somebody to talk to, or even get involved in some sort of therapy. Or if nothing else, take a step back and stop posting on PotD for a while, because apparently all it's doing is turning you into a bitter asshole.

And keep in mind, -I'M- the one saying that. If -I- think you have a negativity problem, you really have a problem.
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Rare for steak, especially if I'm the one cooking it. Medium rare for burgers, or for steak at restaurants where I have no real expectation that the food is going to be good.
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PK_Spam posted...

This is why people need to leave animated shows be lmfao. Its not suddenly going to be good because there are people acting in front of a camera now.

Obligatory observation that plenty of people feel the same way about adapting books into films or shows, because the advantages you gain from having a more visceral experience tend to be offset by all of the facets of the story that wind up getting cut out or changed.

For every LotR that kind of breaks that rule, we get way too many I Robots, The Seekers, or the like that wind up doing very little beyond alienating the original fans.



Mead posted...

Who even are the folks that are asking for live action adaptations of animated things?

Disney, for one. It apparently allows them to maintain copyright on older movies, concepts, and characters without having to bully the US government into changing copyright law every few decades again.

That being said, there's always a (mostly correct) assumption that live-action films will make more money than animated ones. Live-action opens the door to a wider potential audience, pulling in adults who might otherwise feel discouraged from watching animated films, especially if they don't have kids of their own.

No animated Marvel movie has ever made as much money as the average MCU film. No matter how many people praise Into the Spider-Verse, or say it's their favorite Spider-Man movie, it still made way less than Spider-Man 3 or even The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It also made less money than every other MCU film ever other than The Incredible Hulk (which is damning with faint praise, honestly).

Studio execs who don't really give a shit about any of these properties beyond whether or not they can squeeze more money out of them aren't really going to care whether or not it still appeals to the original audience. They just assume the original audience is going to see it (and pay for it) regardless, because their own fandom and nostalgia will win out no matter how bad the new film is.
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I liked ME:A a lot more than I expected to. I feel like it's generally better than most people make it out to be, even if it isn't as good as we'd want/expect an ME game to be. It definitely has flaws, but we'd probably be more inclined to overlook them if our expectations weren't so high (something games like Greedfall and Outer Worlds benefited from to some degree).

I've said for a very long time now, I think people would have been much more forgiving of it if If it was a generic sci-fi game in a new franchise published by someone other than BioWare, rather than being the first game launching an entirely new story arc in the aftermath of three games worth of Shepard and the problems involving the ending of ME3.

It also would have helped if it hadn't be so glitchy and fucked up at launch, which permanently poisoned a lot of people's impressions of it, no matter how much it's been patched or modified since (something that Assassin's Creed Unity and No Man's Sky suffer from as well). I played it almost a year after launch (which is something I recommend to most people - you should never play ANY AAA game at launch, and probably not for a few months after, as they'll pretty much inevitably be completely broken these days), and I really didn't have any meaningful problems with it (as opposed to Outer Worlds, which was still buggy as shit months after launch, which left me feeling a lot colder towards it).
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helIy posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

The first one bored me and I barely play it for an hour.

Let's see if this one does a better job.

it will do the same

I'd say this one will be even worse.
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A lot of the problems with Zelda 2 would have been fixed by calling it something other than Zelda 2.

A LOT of the negative reaction to it at the time stemmed from people going in expecting "LoZ again, only more so" and getting something radically different. Ironically, I've always thought it was a much better game than LoZ1 was.

If they'd given it a completely different name, it probably wouldn't have sold as well, but its reputation in retrospect would be much better.

On the plus side, it ate most of that backlash, so that by the time LttP came out, people were more prepared for something different and were more able to accept LttP on its own terms rather than condemning it for not being LoZ.
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I used to have membership at BJs and Costco, and I dropped Costco because BJs was better in pretty much every way.

Sam's Club is mainly just Jumbo-Size Wal-Mart.
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Tron
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Mead posted...

nice try PO but Im not gonna get myself modded today

But if you play your cards right, you might get yourself "filled".
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SpeeDLeemon posted...

I see. Well that's his problem then. But you should have been more clear and had a conversation. I understand the communication thing, but in a relationship, you just don't not communicate about these kinds of things

I used to bring it up casually on the second or third date or so, and just point out that I was strongly against the idea of marriage or having kids, and that my stance on that was never going to change. Usually along with pointing out that people always say things like "Well, you'll feel different when you're older", but I really, really won't.

That way, girls who factored marriage or kids really strongly in their mental image of what they wanted out of their future life would know better than to waste years on someone who was never going to jibe with their plans, or worse, count on the idea that "Oh, I can change him" or "He'll change his mind eventually if I pester him enough" and just wind up making us both miserable in the long run.

I actually knew I'd found the girl for me when her reaction to that discussion was "Oh God yes, just the idea of having babies makes me think of the Xenomorph in Alien just sort of growing inside you like a parasite."

I definitely understand why that sort of discussion can be really awkward or scary for a lot of people to have (especially the sort who are terrified of dying alone and mostly just willing to settle for anyone who shows interest in them), but it definitely helps keep deeper problems from forming down the line. And it's better to alienate someone you're just starting to get to know than wind up fighting over it with someone you've spent years with later.



Judgmenl posted...

That sucks, isn't it super hard to find people in your 30s?

Not really. Not in the Internet Age.
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Judgmenl posted...

PotD is filled with delusional conservatives (and Zeus, who's reasonable) so the answer should be obvious.

You and I have a very different definition of "filled". Either that, or you've gone so far Left that literally everyone looks conservative to you.

PotD is like 90% significantly Left, with a very vocal Right minority. And a handful of trolls who'll jump onto whichever side lets them cause the most chaos in any given argument.
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The Wave Master posted...

We all want more Metroid.

I don't. I'm mostly apathetic about Metroid in general.

I played the original one on the NES and was mostly meh about it. And I've never really given enough of a shit about the franchise to bother playing any of the others.

I'm not a huge fan of backtrack style gameplay in general, and I went off platformers as a genre decades ago. So Metroidvanias as a whole are sort of a turn-off for me now.
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Yellow posted...

Fuck all kinds of weird fad diets and workouts. Just eat vegetables and supplemental vitamins.

Even that's bordering on pointless - what you actually need to do is exercise and burn more calories than you take in.

Building muscle means higher metabolism and a greater capacity to do things in general, which will tend to alleviate or solve the other problems in and of itself. The main cause of most overweight-related issues in modern society is the fact that we've all sort of fallen into sedentary lifestyles.
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FrozenBananas posted...

that being said, exclusives are only like 5% of a consoles library.

Yes, but because the other 95% of games tend to overlap, the exclusives assume a disproportionate amount of value in terms of distinguishing consoles. After all, what you're essentially deciding when you pick a console (assuming you only plan to buy one) is which 5% you can't play, not which 95% you can play.

This was essentially why I skipped the PS3 completely last gen - from my perspective, the choice basically came down to whether or not I was more interested in playing Halo or playing Uncharted, and Halo (and thus the 360) won. Afterwards, the 95% they shared in common discouraged me from ever buying a PS3, because I didn't feel a NEED to. Ironically, the fact that the PS4 seemed to be getting better exclusives (like Horizon: Zero Dawn) while the entire Halo franchise sucks now did the reverse this gen, where I picked up the PS4 and ignored the Xbox One because I already felt like the PS4 was fulfilling all of my needs.

It's also the reason why I shifted from the SNES to the PS1 in that generational shift and have literally never owned another Nintendo console again - the PS1 was packed to the brim with the sort of exclusive games I wanted to play (specifically Final Fantasy at the time), while the N64 had literally nothing I cared about.

In your scenario you're not motivated by the exclusives as much as you are by which consoles your friends are buying, but that essentially means that either they are being swayed by exclusives (when deciding which consoles to buy as a group), or they're just maintaining blind brand loyalty (and just sticking with Microsoft because that's what they've always played on).
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FrozenBananas posted...

what choice do you think we have, PO? I thought you were supposed to be smart

A large part of what put Trump in office in the first place was "Well, anyone is better than Hillary."

Four years from now, are we going to be saying "Well, anyone is better than Biden/Harris", and making this exact same mistake again?

Maybe, just maybe, if people put more than 30 seconds worth of thought into voting and didn't just vote for whatever they consider "the lesser evil", we wouldn't wind up with elections where every choice is the wrong one.

Realistically, what needs to happen is that more focus needs to be put on the primaries, and people need to vote in those with a mind towards candidates that can actually appeal to the larger population and not just the ones who pander to their own constituency best in the short run. But that would actually require an informed voter base willing to turn Netflix off for a few hours to actually research things or act to make their voice heard, and that's way too hard. Certainly harder than occasionally bitching about the President on Twitter.

Sure, it may be too late (again) to do anything other than vote for the "lesser evil" this time around, but failing to understand WHY we keep fucking up means we're never going to STOP fucking up. If people want politics and government to actually improve, they need to stop seeing elections as a team sport where "our team" needs to win and the "other side" are all just mindless, brainless, stupid sheep who are wrong 100% of the time who only exist so we can make fun of them on Internet message boards and score sarcastic "cool" points on Twitter.
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Horse_ebooks posted...

What's your favourite anime?

I'm not a 90s/00s kid who grew up watching nothing but shit anime and not knowing any better, so literally none of the ones you mentioned.



Entity13 posted...

Excel Saga

I was going to say Record of Lodoss War, but Excel Saga is a really good pick.

Of course, the tricksy thing with Excel Saga is that you have to have spent years watching like a dozen different anime films and series that were popular in the 70s and 80s (like Golgo 13, Fist of the North Star, Urusei Yatsura, and Leiji Matsumoto stuff in general) to get half the jokes.



captpackrat posted...

The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Motherfucking YES.
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PMarth2002 posted...

Biden. Not my first pick, but almost anyone's better than trump.

This sort of thinking is exactly what got us into our current situation in the first place.
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Revelation34 posted...

Didn't we have this thread like a week ago?

No, we had this thread like a week ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5rDb7-kLk
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