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If you want to argue that certain elements of Sonic 2 like the spin dash makes it more iconic or that you personally like the music more or whatever, sure, but you're wrong that the level itself is more iconic.

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Love to see The Lincoln Project having a self-destructive meltdown

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1360085473784332293?s=19

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Update: seems legit?

https://www.ign.com/articles/stolen-cd-projekt-red-files-reportedly-sold-on-dark-web-auction?sf138121068=1

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

...why was the Spotted Mudthing I had to fight for steaks the hardest fight in the game so far?

There was a quest item you were supposed to use on it that weakens it significantly <_<

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Should I start digging into other classes after beating ARR, or wait until Heavensward?

I'm gonna make the buy on the 18th, last day of the sale. About to go up against Titan sometime soon I think, not sure how far in that is. I'm level 40, but the current MSC is just 32.

It really is up to you. If you're curious about other classes then go for it, if you'd rather just focus on the story and your main then do that and swap after you beat the game.

Titan is about 2/3rds of the way through the base plot, but then you have postgame to do before Heavensward. At that rate you are going to hit 50 (the soft cap for ARR) before you beat ARR and the patch story so it's more efficient to start leveling another class now. On my alt character I used this method to get two classes to 50 before I was even through the 2.0 story. But again, up to you.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I think Machinist objectively hits more buttons than Bard, although it has less unique buttons to hit

I edited my post for clarity but this is the key

With bard the stuff driving the APM up is random procs, so during two of your songs you have to be ready to go at all times or miss actions. With MCH you have a burst phase where you mash your keyboard, and you do this more often, but you essentially have complete control over when it occurs.

Also BRD has a faster GCD than MCH outside of its hypercharge window so that also drives it up.

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I'm a bard main and people I know tell me Bard is too complicated (which is funny because I think it (and all ranged) needs to be made more complex).

Here's the thing about Bard: it's based entirely around 30-second timers, and getting used to that will either click with your brain or break it. It's also very high APM compared to most other jobs, and also is random and requires you to react to procs.

And here is the thing about Dancer and Machinist: they are both easier to learn, easier to optimize, and have less buttons to hit than Bard, for about the same amount of damage. So that's why you're getting those takes that Bard is a meme job or a nightmare.

lov 2 main brd

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Umbral Soul pretty much replaces it at max level.

You still need to be able to swap from fire to ice before using Umbral Soul, though (and tbh transpose SHOULD upgrade into Umbral Soul and do this, but it doesn't)

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I noticed on some of these higher abilities it doesn't say "removes fire/ice" anymore, it just says "puts you in fire/ice". Should I take that as being able to ditch transpose?

You'll need to keep that around for downtime when the boss jumps or between mobs in dungeons but you can put it somewhere less accessible because you won't intentionally use it mid-combat. There's not gonna be any getting around using multiple hotbars eventually.

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Well here's one tip for you, now that you have Freeze, Fire 2 is completely useless unless you're synced down, so you can take that off your bar unless you're doing leveling roulette. Above level 35 you will never use that skill again.

Congrats on your new AOE rotation which is (thunder 2) -> Freeze -> Freeze -> Freeze -> Freeze -> etc.

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This is a bit weird because I'm not typically chasing Legendaries for builds as much as I am Duos, so I don't have terribly strong opinions on most of these.

I think I'm gonna go with Artemis. +2 Cast ammo is universally good and it's especially great on Cast builds. Greater Recall is also great with it, and my cast builds tend to try to pick up the Artemis and Hermes legendaries with Exit Wounds which is a very fun time.

Also shoutouts to Ares which is just a completely insane boon for the Blade Rift build and is probably the most powerful boon here if taken in that context. And Demeter's is always nice to have if you've got chill.

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You guys know about Hall of the Novice, right? It's legitimately a good tanking tutorial. The rest you can learn with experience by popping into low-level dungeons, which you are already doing if you're leveling anything except Gunbreaker.

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Nanis23 posted...

Which is only because there is an insane intolerance to """assholes"""
When people realize that everyone can have an opinion and be entitled to it, we will be able to live freely again

By "we" I mean assholes like myself

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today's stupid Texas drama is that Mark Cuban decided to stop the Dallas Mavericks from playing the national anthem before games out of protest and the NBA and the state GOP immediately freaked out

https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1359610836172632069?s=19

People are fucking dying, Dan

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tcaz2 posted...

I don't agree with that because emergency healing is part of the job but okay

Raising is, just not single target cures.

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Right, but it's easier to say that's it's bad then throw out all these technically okay with all these qualifications on it because the bottom line is that you should not be approaching Red Mage with the mindset that you are actually supposed to use Vercure for healing. And that's a pretty common misconception!

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Obviously White Mage is gonna be the highest priority healer to level since I know(?) that ties in to abilities Red Mage can use as well, but for tank, physical DPS, and physical ranged DPS I'm completely undetermined so far.

No, all classes only have to level themselves up for their own abilities now. It used to be this way but you might be working on old info. You can level up whatever you're interested in independently.

Also IIRC the exp bonus doesn't care about how high your main job is, just that it's higher, and then applies an even bonus to everything under it. What I would reccomend is to do the story on your main and do your leveling roulette on other classes, and then when your main gets to around 50 or so hopefully you will be able to continue doing the main story quests on a different class. You will approach this somewhat naturally though and I wouldn't worry about it too much.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

And now I'm REALLY getting ahead of myself, but how does Red Mage's role get determined in roll queue?

It's a pure DPS, with two healing abilities: a (bad) cure and a (good) raise. Same as Summoner. This game is super streamlined for balance purposes, it doesn't actually do hybrid roles.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

As a former lower-middle class kid who switched schools to get into advanced classes, uh, I don't think I would have completed school if there was a lottery and I didn't make it.

This sounds hard to understand, but ADHD + not challenging coursework meant my little ass could not bother with assignments and just skated by on crushing tests.

If this sounds like bragging, it's not, lmao I squandered that shit so hard.

I mean, mostly same, but in the long run I would have benefitted more from actually treating my shit? More challenging coursework demanded my attention but didn't fix my core habits - the strategy of coasting through still worked, it was just causing me to expend more mental energy when pressure built up too much. And during college and adult working life this tends to backfire spectacularly.

Anyways uh, my point here is that this isn't really on the education system to solve, but it's the shitty lifehack it uses to get around what is actually a mental health treatment issue. The problem is this solution is results oriented over everything, it's really only focused on the end result of productivity. I internalized so many bad habits just because I was getting good grades and therefore must have been doing well, right? (nope)

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Paratroopa1 posted...

Danganronpa is an extremely weird example to be using since it's (for better or worse) intentionally taking the piss out of anime tropes

I think this is giving it too much credit. It messes around with some tropes and plays other completely straight, and the fanservice is something that falls firmly into the second category.

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The Mikan scenes in Danganronpa are some of the dumbest fanservice I've personally witnessed in a video game and it's wild to me that's the example you went with.

And I have a decent tolerance for fanservice, I'll laugh off Quiet in MGSV because the only thing about that game funnier than a woman who wears a bikini all the time because she has to breathe through her skin were Kojima's attempts to pass off his horniness as deep, but Mikan isn't even a funny joke.

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I like Demeter's a lot for the wide range and Chill debuff. #2 would be Poseidon, you can output some truly insane boss damage with it if you get the boon that makes knockback effects deal extra to bosses.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Just did a dungeon where the boss fight was over before the cutscenes ended <_<

Toto-rak?

Yeah they used to put long-ass cutscenes mid-dungeon for some reason. And as you can see the other players basically ignore them now which leads to that. They stop putting those scenes in once the base game ends

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

the possibility that Trump will be held accountable exists

the possibility "exists"

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HashtagSEP posted...

Eh, this is a little unfair. It didn't seem like their intention. I buy the reasoning they gave that, due to the hit from the pandemic, it's just not really sustainable to keep a third studio open.

I mean, were they losing money or something? I assume they were at least doing okay since they were still able to pump out movies every few years. There's a difference between being sustainable and not being profitable enough.

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Its not horrible or even bad per se, but throughout it is impossible not to compare it negatively to 0 if youve played it. Its actually why I might start recommending people NOT start with 0

I had watched an LP of 0 before playing 1 and let me tell you, the plot of the game is so much worse when you can only half-remember stuff from 0. It would probably be worse with no context.

Going back to play 0 after knowing the events of 1 is pretty funny at least.

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I can't speak for the rest of the series but Kiwami 2 is a major step up over Kiwami 1 due to an engine change. And as you note Kiwami 1 is a step down from Yakuza 0 because of the bad boss design. I'm not all the way through Kiwami 2 but so far it the inventory streamlining and making weapons accessible and good, plus getting rid of the stupid Kiwami Actions shit where you had to interrupt bosses from restoring tons of HP makes it much more quick and fun.

If they're all on Gamepass I'd give Kiwami 2 a shot. You don't even necessarily have to complete Kiwami 1 if you can't stand it that much - there's a fairly detailed optional recap of 1 at the start of the game if you are so inclined.

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Their movies were pretty mediocre but I hate to see this. It sucks that Disney can just shutter their (former) competitors now that they own them and have no reason to keep them around.

Out of curiosity how was their Peanuts movie? I never got around to seeing it but I was interested in it as a computer animated movie that wasn't just yet another done in the samey art style the major studios all seem to use.

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I actually like how weird a lot of Demon's Souls bosses are. There's only one or two truly awful ones (looking at you Dragon God) and the variety of weird fights makes the normal ones like Flamefucker, Penetrator, and False King all the more noteworthy. Of course, it might just be a "you had to be there" scenario if you've already gone through the entire sequel series of circlestrafing big dudes.

However I WILL say that Demon's Souls has several gimmick fights that still haven't been topped. Old Monk is still the best PvP boss variant in the series, Storm King got a callback in DS3 but the original fight is still legendary, Maneaters is still the best "gargoyles on a roof" fight by virtue of being the hardest and worst. Even in the ones that aren't traditionally "good" boss fights there are a lot of off-the-wall concepts that are really interesting that the series hasn't really played with since. I'm thinking of Astrea, Old Hero, and Fool's Idol.

I guess I'd say Demon's Souls isn't really more about "making your own fun" than Dark Souls, but it's full of all these wacky ideas and concepts that Dark Souls has had three games to tweak and perfect. But in the process they also streamlined a lot of the weirdness out (it took them two games to bring back the HP penalty for dying!), but even doing that the series is left with plenty of weirdness to go around. And I mean, despite my love for Demon's Souls I still think all 3 games in the Souls trilogy are better, so your reaction is understandable.

also if you were disappointed by the difficulty then you for sure would not have liked a magic build because magic in DeS is BUSTED

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xp1337 posted...

'They've abolished ICE without abolishing ICE,'

Damn, might as well finish the job!

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Anagaram posted...

Is this the first Stadia-related drama?

Google already shut down its internal dev studio so no.

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You can still sell it to NPCs for chump change

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UshiromiyaEva posted...
Yeah, speaking of which, I have had ZERO interaction with shops or even my own inventory other than that quest where I had to buy a Hi Potion. I guess I should sell some of this old stuff....but not stuff I may want to make into glamor, I think?

I need to do a deep dive on explanations for these systems. I find it difficult to keep track of this many things going on, but I guess this will help me get better at that in the end.

For stuff you might want to use for glamour, you can put it in the dresser.

First unlock glam at a quest in Vesper Bay. Then obtain some glamour prisms (if you aren't on the trial you can grab some off the market board). Then go to an inn room at any of the adventuring guilds and you can start shoving stuff in the dresser.

I would also suggest holding on to any dungeon drops (green and purple gear) because you will eventually unlock the ability to trade those in for rewards. But it takes a while to work up to so if it's clogging up your inventory just dump em.

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Athena OP

Poseidon has some great builds, but nothing competes with Athena.

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Monica getting the thousand yard stare and quickly changing the subject when Captain Marvel came up was the one part of the exposition banter I loved. They must have a pretty awkward relationship since Carol seems to have fucked off to space for the better part of 20 years!

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Inviso posted...

Because a criminal that breaks into your house and kills you has the deterrent of it being against the law. Sure, anyone still could break the law, but the knowledge that it's against the law IS a deterrent, and you know that if someone DOES break in and kill you, they'll at least receive punishment (assuming they're caught.)

Whereas, if the POLICE break into your house and kill you, unless you're talking about a rogue cop, it's usually going to be a completely legal matter. Hence Breonna Taylor, shot dead in her bed because the police broke into her house and started firing wildly (in response to her boyfriend firing a legal firearm at what he assumed were intruders, which HE is allowed to do due to the castle doctrine). No one punished, Breonna Taylor is still dead.

Don't argue with him on my behalf, Corrik already demonstrated in the last topic that he's incapable of understanding why people would hold cops to a higher standard or the fact that they are naturally protected from consequences just by their station.

In the situation I'm referring to (Botham Jean) the cop did face consequences, but there was a lengthy period of time where it didn't seem like it would happen!

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

This game seems to be getting barely any coverage, and I'm not sure if it's the quality of the game or is just representative of how much being a Series X exclusive tanks the interest to the general public.

From what I hear the story is legitimately very divisive, so I think that's part of it too. I've seen both people praising it for being a relatively high-budget and high-profile horror game and people slamming it for being a worse knockoff of other games.

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Corrik7 posted...

People can walk into someone's house and shoot someone at any time. How does that make you feel?

Well this post makes me feel like you're a moron but I knew that already

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Trippy Shot is so fun. I hated using it at first because it was slow and didn't "stick in" but stacking damage boosts and duo boons on it really grew on me. There's better casts for pure cast builds since the puddles do stick around a bit too long but it's still always a good time.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Well, good luck changing the world with an insult. I'll be rooting for you.

Good luck changing the world by being holier-than-thou and out of touch, I guess Joe Biden will be our savior after all

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

I get that they have made you feel small and using this language makes you feel strong, but it just shows you how weak you are tbh

Man, what the fuck is this bullshit. I'm black, I've got black family, and you know what actually made me feel the most powerless? When I learned a cop in the city I live in walked into a man's home and shot him dead for no reason. And you want to act like radical rhetoric and action is really a sign of weakness? Just shut up man.

I'll say it again: ACAB is not a slogan for you if you can't understand this. It's not for the politicians. But if you'd rather use your time and energy talking down to people instead of focusing on the common ground you are actively choosing to side with the police when you could be doing anything else productive.

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People really like to pretend BLM was a slogan with zero pushback

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Right, those people are guilty of aiding murderers.

You really have to tighten up your language if you want to appeal. They aren't bastards, that's just some dumb insult. They are murderers and those that conspired with murderers. Lay out the case plainly. It will get more traction than stupid insults.

Because of course I understand and agree with you.

But I am not the target, not if you care about change.

Your mistake is thinking "ACAB" is supposed to appeal to reformist moderates. It isn't.

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redrocket posted...

There is something about this panel I am just noticing for the first time.

Why is there a comma in that sentence?

This is bothering me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yuL6PcgSgM

it's an edit

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I think this was probably the best episode so far because the stuff in Westview was so well-realized but big agree with your assessment of the rest.

With the exception of a few scenes like Monica and the drone forcing Wanda to appear, too much of the SWORD stuff feels unnecessary. I know people are super into the MCU and here for it but as someone not totally enamored with it anymore it just comes across as talking down to the audience and explaining itself. And I really wish they had a but more courage or respect for the viewers to cut that out.

As an example, I didn't realize it was Foxsilver until I read it in this topic. But that joke and twist works even if you don't know that, and it doesn't require an explainer in the actual show! I think that shit is honestly great. The Mandalorian is also like this where there are tons of references but they don't kill momentum by explaining every single one in universe. I was just hoping for something more like that but that's not the MCU style.

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So my absolute favorite is Dionysus special but only because it synergies with my top 2 favorite aspects - Zeus shield and Rama Bow - but it's such complete trash on almost everything else that I can't vote for that in good faith.

My other go-tos are Poseidon or Aphrodite but since Poseidon accasionally has some anti-synergy with stuff I like I'll go Aphrodite.

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Paratroopa1 posted...

It would make sense if the twist was that it isn't Wanda, since that would make Wanda a lot more sympathetic in the end

I think that'd be a massive cop-out tbqh but I also think you're right

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Not only is this not censorship because the creators are willingly altering their own work, but the ass is still in the game, it's just camera angles changing. But surprise, people are intentionally obtuse as usual.

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

It has been brought to my attention that they teased Monica's powers in episode 5, I'm not familiar with her character so does anyone know what it could be?

If you want to know what it was

Monica's power is energy and light manipulation, so the x-ray or cat scan or whatever that was messing up on her was a big tell. They also mentioned photons a few times outside of her mother's callsign.

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I mean there was literally a necromancer in Heroes Gauntlet that was a Warrior of Light, based on the FF5 job.

But even if it isn't literally a necromancer (I think a pet job is unlikely for example), he seems to be pointing to some kind of death-themed scythe job.

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So Yoshi-P wore a shirt with a skeleton on it and now he's wearing a shirt with a grim reaper with a scythe on it.

Scythe-wielding necromancer job???

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