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does anybody know what's up with Kiara's channel

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my advice is to not do that

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I was under the impression people liked Forces

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As usual I am in, and as usual I am too lazy to pull up my info until later

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NFUN posted...

words

I mean ok but you're really not helping the "we would totally move on to a similar game" narrative

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NFUN posted...

because they play and feel differently?

I would not define any Smash game as playing and feeling all that differently from the others

maybe 64

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Melee

thanks, drama

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NFUN posted...

can anybody here name one melee clone? i'm extremely confused

I'm not understanding why Brawl, Ultimate, Rivals of Aether, Slap City, and some other stuff don't count, but it's also not my fandom even though it's one of my favorite games

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Olivier didn't like my rib on him, and then Reverie injured his face.

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I've only been able to enjoy phone games recently

I miss "real" ones

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Next up is Japan, which is Books/Movies/Other

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https://gyazo.com/cb215d515c13497f6cbe1451c392bff2 darn skippy

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What I am hearing this boil down to is that you like to play devil's advocate to help jerks be less jerky

which...doesn't seem that helpful when we have plenty of jerks to deal with already

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

this all tracks with what Hussie was doing in the end.

I liked the ending of Homestuck proper and I'm not sure what you're talking about

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I don't have an issue with it being elevated fanfic, but it just READS like it. Like Hussie just picked a random fanfic off whatever site those get hosted on these days and said "okay this one gets to be real." Everybody seems out of character, everybody gets to be LGBTQ+ in the most forced and hamfisted way possible, everybody turns emo, every character relationship has gone south since the original, and it just generally feels unfun and preachy and self-absorbed and unconnected to the original beyond the names. I didn't get super far in either the epilogues or 2, but neither seemed likely to change.

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I want like 1% of her energy

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Nanis23 posted...

which is more of a language issue than a trans discussion

there's the sticking point: people for whom it's a mere "language issue" are interacting with people for whom it's a "trans discussion"

Kinda the same general issue you might have discussing any kinda minority issue- for some people it's just an interesting thing to talk about, but if you think of it that way you are (perhaps justifiably) often going to come across kinda heartless when you talk to somebody it actually affects beyond a level of "I don't like this language trend"

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I honestly don't remember putting it there but I am going to guess you and/or ECHO were having a beverage in a B8WL promo around the time you went in

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Anya likes F/GO and Umineko and Autumn (for sleeping)

we stan

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I realized my initial thought on elimination was a product of bad math, so that's not entirely worked out. A lot of the numbers and such aren't carved in stone yet anyway.

-Eight players.
-Pre-game, 24 "1 upkeep" mercs will be sorted into "packs" of 3 for each player. Each player picks a Merc out of the pack, and the others go into the pool for NPC use.
-On a normal "day," you will have a choice of going to an Ability Node or a Loadout Node. (maybe I'll add some options later)
-Either way, you will need to fight a randomized opponent squad. Everybody gets the same nodes, with the same teams guarding them. They'll be roughly scaled to the appropriate level, but since they're randomized, I expect players to beat them more often than not.
-On either Node, if you win, you get your choice of three prizes of the corresponding type. If you lose, you just get a completely random one. They'll scale with how far you are in the game.
-Abilities are....abilities, like Mercs. When you get them, you assign them permanently to one of your Mercs.
-Loadouts are equipment, skills, and other buffs and boosts for your Mercs in battle. You assign them during the roster phase.
-After three Days of this loop, there will be an elimination Day.
-Right now I'm leaning towards formatting that as a mini-tournament, except the losers "advance" in the bracket.
-Whoever loses in the finals is eliminated. Everybody else gets a new Merc from the next power level up (so after the first one, you'd get a "2 upkeep") but the ones who did have a better shot at the Mercs they want. Mercs who don't get picked go into the NPC pool.
-Process repeats as Mercs, Loadouts, and Abilities all slowly scale up, until the last team standing wins.
-A Merc may or may not come with an Innate Ability. (if they do, it'll probably be weak and/or a passive) Beyond that, they may learn up to three more. Both individual Mercs and your team as a whole will be limited on how many Abilities you can use in a match.
-I'm going to try to design Abilities so that cooldown is not a thing. Theoretically, the scaling should help balance, in a sense.
-You can shuffle Loadouts freely during the roster phase, but a Merc can only carry three at a time.
-Still sorting out how individual battles will work for terrains and abilities and all that stuff.
-NPC teams will have Loadouts, but not Abilities. The goal is to minimize their "decision making."

So executive summary is you collect prizes, but by winning against weird NPC teams, you can raise your odds of getting ones that you want. Playoffs eliminate one person every four days. The fun will (hopefully) come from finding weird synergies with what you have, and seeing what weird random teams get pulled out of a hat to face you. There will also be a bigger power curve than normal Mercs, which I remember some people like more than others. In the beginning, it'll be 1 on 1 fights between (buffed) 1 Upkeep equivalents, but by the very end, it might be even more high level than a High Tier endgame Mercs fight.

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I haven't stayed on top of the drama but I tried to read the epilogues and homestuck 2 and hoo boy

Hiveswap Act 1 was p good though so I have high hopes for act 2 when I get around to it in like 2024

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SantaRPidgey posted...

People give you names, you don't make your own

I'm not sure that's inherently true, SantaRPidgey. Trans stuff and internet handles aside, I have a ton of students that would rather be called by a different name than what's on the roster. Presumably they made that choice themselves to some extent.

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bruh

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sometimes I get The Itch and it won't go away until I put some stuff down in writing and do some light playtesting and decide not to make and run a full game. (because that's not as fun for me as designing one) usually it's Mercs-related because I'm better at remixing things than coming up with new ones.

you can follow along and chime in, or not

This time the idea is stolen from the Golden Voyage rougelike-like event in Langrisser Mobile. tldr:
-Still the Mercs "base" of a forum game where voters decide the matches. One of these days I'll have an idea that can actually work as a physical tabletop game, but this ain't it.
-You'll fight against randomized NPC teams for goodies (think Customizations and Abilities from regular Mercs)
-Mercs will start off extremely stripped down, but you can mix and match said goodies to come up with weird combinations (ex. Mario probably doesn't get a fire flower but you might be able to give him The Plan and a machinegun later)
-There's no economy (for now at least)- everybody gets new Mercs and other upgrades at a steady rate, but generally winning will help you get better options. There will be a steady powercreep for all fights and rewards.
-Every X days, all the players have matches against each other instead. Lose two of those and you're out.

The rules are a bit more fleshed out in my head but that'll have to wait.

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I think a person would identify themselves as genderfluid if they wanted to be thought of as such

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I think Elliot would know

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Paratroopa1 posted...

and if there's anything that trans people know a lot about, it's having an unreasonable amount of difficulty cracking an egg!

thank you, I'll be here all night

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now we're talkin'

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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

lol i figured she would do this since juno

followup, if you had made fun of her for being manish back then is it nullified now because you were correct

pronouns

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<3

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Wifebolo walked by while I was playing that one lady, and asked if I was listening to Parks and Rec

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no video games for me thank you

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I think I am underrating young workers and RAs but I don't really want to go back through everybody and change my approach >_>

the former is going to make life difficult for a lot of RPG and anime feds though lol

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I had Miko as a man but at least she won the NXT title before I figured it out

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It is possible I missed it! But that wouldn't make much sense to me either and I generally take the progressive stance on this kinda thing.

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I don't think I have seen anybody say that. I think the question came up but I think there was a universal consensus that characters are not their actors, and that the category in which he won an award is not him.

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masterplum posted...

I am not retroactively changing an award someone won from best actress to best actor. They did not win that award.

I don't think anybody's been advocating for that

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-Languages evolve over time and it bugs me but that is how life is
-I saw a group of moosemoose the other day with some sheepsheep and some fishfish
-That said, I would absolutely support making "hehe" a plural form of "he"
-Didn't we kinda already settle on "they" as a replacement for all that "he or she" awkwardness?
-if it doesn't affect you why are you going out of your way to misgender them
-English is indeed dumb and should probably just be launched into the sun anyway

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AI team of the day: Koromaru and Terriermon
weird AI fed title lineage of the day: https://gyazo.com/376bc2a736c34ab6242b0a12dff6e705
that's, uh, quite a top 5: https://gyazo.com/019f492ee39d4aa69d674d9e6f69efc2

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you can't spell "radical leftists" without "radical!"
*skateboards out of topic*

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DeepsPraw posted...

they've been doing it their entire life, though

but now he's out

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Leatrice posted...

Hikaru no Go, recommend me others

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Wachowskis count?

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let's go
https://twitter.com/TheElliotPage/status/1333820783655837701?s=20

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que?

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I never got that far in Earthbound and his wiki isn't as informative as Porky's >_>

s p i c y
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wi4j7jwxvmu25bs/TEW2020.mdb/file

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the next step after which would be to get more than a handful of people to care about holostars, which, hey, Aruran is going places with his teaching streams!

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I just hope it boosts ID gen 1 with it! They're finally getting some steam, I feel like, between PekoMoona and NNN/DDD and Iofi....being pretty cool

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MariaTaylor posted...

truly something worth locking an entire topic over, and not just deleting the offending post

to be fair it was the OP so I don't think that was an option

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it is the one from the corrik drama lol

which I am guessing is why somebody marked it like three months later

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