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PunishedOni posted...

edit edit: oh i remember why i blocked him there was one topic that really grossed me out, i meant to unblock when it purged lol

FYI: If you just want to make a specific topic disappear, there's a "Hide" button on the first post of each topic that will remove it from the topic list for you. You can also just ignore the creator to hide all of their topics, you don't need to block them.

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FinalFantasyVII posted...

Your happy thoughts don't pay rent either.

Do you charge your friends rent when they stay with you?

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First pair of Joycons drift occasionally, generally not catastrophically so. I believe my second pair is fine, but I rarely use those (in part because I don't want them to develop drift, which is kinda silly). Pro controller is fine.

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I believe it's fine if the lungs are left out, since they're the concerning part.

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party_animal07 posted...

There are literally dishes that consist of various diced animal organs and "leftovers", but I'm supposed to believe poutine is the worst food imaginable?

Now I kinda want haggis poutine.

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I don't think it's plumbed in, so no. That would be messy and very rude to the store's employees.

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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Legitimately think he died in a freak car accident on his way to the base.

I'm not sure how them military would count that, but accidents account for more military fatalities than people like to think:

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/report_number_serve.xhtml

From 2000-2010, 7 of those 11 years saw more deaths due to accidents than hostile action. The military doesn't exactly have the best safety record even if you look past the "getting shot at" thing.

That said, if calling him a "hero" helps people mourn, you should just let them do that, at least in the immediate aftermath of his death. There's nothing to be gained by correcting them, meaning you'll be upsetting them for really no reason.

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wwinterj25 posted...

I mean the age to sign up is 13 so I'm sure young teens still use this.

Relatively few. GameFAQs is very much a relic of a much older Internet than the one young teens are using. People don't go looking for FAQs/guides for games anymore, with the advent of wikis and video walkthroughs, and when they do want to discuss specific games, they tend toward Reddit and other, more modern forums over GameFAQs. The site's not completely obsolete, by any means, and the occasional new, younger user will join, but the average results of the annual "how old are you?" poll have been steadily climbing for a long time now. GameFAQs just isn't what the kids are looking for these days, no matter how many times it tries to redesign itself to incorporate features every other forum has had for 20 years.

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Dude, get your ass home. Even if your wife does want to be rid of you, she's going to feel a lot better about you sleeping on the couch and otherwise keeping to yourself until you can sort out more suitable accommodations than she will about you aimlessly wandering the streets. This is not a decision you should be making impulsively, nor one you should be making alone (if it's even one you should be making at all, which I'm not particularly convinced of).

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

and now we have come full circle

Not really. It's a given that any reviewing convention is going to be mis-applied by some reviewers. That doesn't mean nobody should use that reviewing convention, that just means that reviewer is wrong.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8513-got-antibodies

Presumably, those numbers have gone up in the past two months, so we can reasonably estimate somewhere in the realm of 60% fully vaxxed and 70-72% partially.

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Zareth posted...

Danny DeVito would make the perfect Wario

I want Danny DeVito to play a live-action Waluigi where they CG him into the necessary proportions.

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OhhhJa posted...

Everyone I've shown/sent this meme to understood it. They realized it was making fun of Nicki Minaj which it quite clearly is. Nobody thought it was a right wing meme. I think there are just certain people here who obviously don't like me so go out of their way to not like things I post. It's just a meme guys. If you don't like it or don't understand it, just move on. No need to be little trolls about it ffs. Like 50 posts now because you don't understand a meme

I am actually legitimately curious what the punch line is supposed to be. I don't recognize that particular meme template, and I don't see that just making what's-her-name look kind of like Nicki Minaj and directly quoting her carries any more comedic value than quoting Minaj without a picture would. If the author had added a pair of oversized cherries, grapes, or other reddish/engorged spheroid in place of Shinji's balls, then there'd be an actual joke there (I've seen plenty of other memes mocking Minaj that did a similar thing), but as it stands, I'm just not getting it.

I don't really care about judging you for making a joke I'm not getting, I just want to know what the joke is, since I have generally enjoyed this class of jokes and I'm mildly disappointed to be missing this one.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

well thats a dumbass mentality. there are a lot of games that have been described as like dark souls that arent difficult or frustrating at all

That's more a matter of inaccurate reviewing than anything else. Conceptually, "Souls-like" refers to games that - like Dark Souls - have a high skill ceiling and enough challenge that players are likely to fail repeatedly in progressing through the game. 3D action RPG's that do not offer such challenge certainly exist, but comparing them to Souls games when Souls games are known first and foremost for their challenge is a poor comparison.

Mead posted...

PO and adij using up all the letters

No letters for you.

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Sahuagin posted...

you're only attacked by angering the enemies; if you don't actually progress, then neither do they (though they do a little)).

And even then, if you find the enemies are providing too much pressure, you can fine-tune that to an incredible degree, or even outright turn them off if you want (which is actually recommended for the really big megabases because those turn into a matter of squeezing every drop of performance you can out of your computer, and enemies and the pollution mechanic interfere with that).

Mostly, I just really love Factorio and will happily shill for it every chance I get.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Uh... there is no evidence he did that. Kid had to go to the bus stop for school, dad was concerned about his kid and waited to see if he was ok. Is he not supposed to go to the bus stop again? It's one thing for the dad to potentially take off work to watch him for a day and see if anything was going on it's another to completely change their schedule.

You guys seem to be victim blaming here, the kid going to his bus is not luring a predator. He's not being used as bait. He's literally just going where he belongs. It's not his or his fathers fault the predator attacked the child.

You two are disgusting.

I could also see it going that way. Duckbear's choice of words just makes it sound like the father set a trap for the guy, not that the kid was going about his regular daily life and the father was keeping an eye on him because he knew the area was dangerous, but that's certainly another plausible interpretation. That said, that's still a matter of the dad saying "I know there's a risk here, but rather than protecting my son by waiting at the bus stop with him and deterring the guy from ever trying anything, I'm going to try to catch him in the act." However he went about it, he chose to put his son in harm's way for the sake of catching a criminal. That's not blaming him or his son for being victimized, that's blaming him for bringing his son into his vigilante fantasy.

Saying that, however, I don't think that should in any way take away from the response to the criminal himself. Much like I don't have any sympathy for people that try to break into bait cars ("I'm only a thief when it looks like I'll get away with it!" isn't much of a basis to claim innocence), dude molested a kid. That's never okay, he deserves everything he got, and I'm glad this sting operation worked out as well as it did. I just hope the father doesn't make a habit of schemes like this, because he or (more likely) his son could get seriously hurt.

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Clench281 posted...

Like you would think someone would have enough self respect to not resort to being with a known anti trans bully internet troll, but I guess it's true some ppl have pretty low standards and need to be codependent with someone

I mean, supposedly he's been with his wife since high school, when she decided to give him a chance after he physically assaulted her for rejecting him, and neither of them have ever dated anyone else. I could believe that the combination of Stockholm syndrome and lack of experience with any better options could reduce somebody's standards that far.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

Well it was explained but TC seems at a loss for words.

That's usually how this goes. TC points out some apparent, surface-level inconsistency that might suggest that Covid precautions are ineffective and/or unnecessary, other people put in the barest minimum of effort that could be considered research and find that he's left out some crucial details that mean everything is actually working exactly according to the expectations of anyone that understands public health. He then proceeds to ignore everybody that acknowledges that in any way and only respond to statements that don't clearly prove him wrong when taken out of context.

It's at the point where I'm genuinely unsure if he's actually this clueless or if it's a clever ruse to trick other people into better substantiating their understanding of the situation. He seems bizarrely persistent for somebody who's genuinely so clueless (one would think being so consistently shut down so many times would discourage somebody from continuing), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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faramir77 posted...

I don't like poutine unless it has ham/bacon or beef on it. Regular poutine always feels lacking.

I like plain poutine well enough (presuming it's good poutine, of course, since it's not uncommon to see restaurants slack on any of the three components), but I would agree that adding other stuff in there really elevates it. There's a place near my work that does a steak poutine with mushrooms and onions, and also a donair poutine (shawarma-style beef with tomatoes, onions, and a creamy honey garlic sauce, very much a local thing), both of which are fantastic.

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On one hand, this seems like a justifiable reaction and I'm glad the scumbag has been charged appropriately and will almost certainly be convicted because of video evidence against him.. On the other, though, buddy literally used his kid as pedo bait and premeditated this assault, which is decidedly less okay.

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PK_Spam posted...

Are they [...] asking you for advice?

Clench281 posted...

The only reason this would be reasonable is if you're explaining why and there are things that can be changed to reasonably address your concern.

Pretty much these. Proactively saying "your stuff sucks now bye" is just being a dick. Providing constructive criticism (especially if they've requested it), decidedly less so.

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EclairReturns posted...

I think he did something akin to generalizing an entire genre of popular music to ``soul-less garbage'' or something to that extent.

I think it was less the generalization and more just being really, incessantly obnoxious about it. It was lazy, extremely obvious trolling that just got boring.

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PunishedOni posted...

there's no reason to use a vlookup when you could use an xlookup

You can't use xlookup, however, if your employer doesn't have an M365 subscription. It's kind of a pain.

That said, xlookup functions pretty much identically to vlookup, except more versatile and intuitive in every way. If you know how to use vlookup, there's nothing new you really need to learn to use xlookup.

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There's really not a lot to learn about vlookups. It's a pretty straightforward "search for this term in this list" function. The fanciest thing you're likely to encounter is handling cases where it can't find the search term, and that's just a simple matter of using IF() and ISNA() to define what should be displayed in those cases.

Pivot tables, on the other hand, have a bit more depth to them. I've seen a few video tutorials around that include sample files to play with, so you might want to try that. I don't know of any specific ones off-hand that would be good to focus on, but that's probably the best approach to take.

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SomeUsername529 posted...

I guess "base building" has a couple of interpretations. That sort of free-form settlement making (as well as the kind in RTS games) is less fun for me. I specifically enjoy the slow and steady increase of capacity and the eventual total maximizing of everything. Its why I used to also get super into tower defense and things like Cookie Clicker.

You might actually like Factorio, then. It is definitely more on the RTS side of base building in terms of how free-form it is, but everything boils down to gradually increasing and optimizing your production in a manner not entirely unlike idle games (but with more actual gameplay involved), generally without the kind of time pressure you see in RTS games (unless you deliberately make the enemies more threatening). If you prefer a less sandboxy experience, then it might not be for you, but I personally feel it's one of the best examples of the genre I've ever played (and one of my favourite games ever, full stop), so I try to recommend it whenever it seems like it might be appropriate to do so.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

He's not wrong, though. Any time I hear someone describe a game as being "like Dark Souls", I pretty much stop caring about that game entirely. Because the comparison is usually used to describe what I generally refer to as "frustration gaming", and I f***ing loathe frustration gaming as a genre.

Not gonna lie, I actually specifically had you in mind when I wrote that >.>

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Genres exist for a reason, though.

You can describe a game as a "platformer", and you've just told me with a single word exactly what sort of gameplay a given game has. Call something a "turn-based RPG" or a "bullet hell shooter", and you've just explained more or less exactly how the game controls and plays. If a game isn't a pure example of the genre, you can easily add extra descriptors to elaborate.

Pretty much. Genres are a very high-level description of what something is, and there are many games that don't fit cleanly into any one genre that are hard to describe with genre labels (so they shouldn't be), but the concept exists to give you a vague idea of what to expect. That can be refined further with sub-genres or by comparing to specific games within that genre, and then further from there by discussing traits that are specific to the game in question.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As people have pointed out in the past, before FPS became the preferred term for the genre, most FPSes were referred to as "Doom Clones".

More recently, ARPG's were broadly considered to be Diablo clones pretty much right up until D3 came out and was arguably quite a bit worse than Torchlight II, Path of Exile, and other contemporaries in the genre that showed it was no longer defined by the Diablo series. Metroidvanias, on the other hand, have kept their name despite the fact that Dread is the first Metroid or Castlevania game to actually fit the genre in 8 years, which I guess is a testament to just how thoroughly they dominated it in the past.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But even if they don't, "Rogue-like" still tells you exactly what you need to know so long as you understand what the term means.

Arguably, "Rogue-like" isn't that informative, genre-wise. It tells you how the gameplay loop is structured (shorter runs with random variation and the expectation of failure), but it doesn't actually say anything about what kind of gameplay you can expect. Liking FTL is not in any way a predictor of liking Hades because they're completely different genres that just have similar structures. "Rogue-like" is pretty similar to "RPG" in that regard, since you also see RPG elements show up in pretty much every genre now and that doesn't tell you much about the gameplay experience beyond those elements.

On the other hand, though, those are still useful descriptors, especially from the perspective of "genres help you figure out which games to ignore outright." If you don't like the roguelike structure, you're not going to like a roguelike regardless of what genre it's in, or that format may make a genre you otherwise wouldn't enjoy more interesting for you. RPG elements in particular help genres that would otherwise feel too grindy be more enjoyable by adding a sense of meaningful progression to them. They're useful, even if they don't say very much on their own.

I will say that I doubt the term "roguelike" is going anywhere, though. Much like "metroidvania" (and to an even greater extent), the term is generally used now without actually considering the original Rogue. That's just what the games are called, such that many of the people calling them that don't even know what Rogue is (heck, all I could tell you is that it's an old game that was structured like modern roguelikes are, for a nice, circular definition). "Souls-like" may or may not last once From stops dominating the subgenre (much like what happened with Diablo), though the fact that it's become the de facto term despite Monster Hunter offering a similar experience (slow, methodical action RPG with a high skill ceiling that rewards practice and personal skill development more so than character development) tells me it's probably got a fair bit of life left in it yet.

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Wanded posted...

murder had a definition for 3000 years before the legal system of the US or dictionaries existed, which is what i described, it is murder in its non legal sense.

but sure, the nazis didn't murder jews and black people because they killed them legally with the laws they made, the nazis didn't murder anyone, you have fun being on that side, i'll stay on the other side of this claim thank you very much.

An interesting approach. How are we defining "murder," then?

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sabin017 posted...

I'm more worried about remasters/remakes making the next 20 years a repeat of the last 20.

On one hand, that is a risk, since there's such a huge supply of old games available to remake now and that's generally much easier than creating new ones. On the other hand, I certainly have not played every game worth playing from the last 20 years, despite living through them, so I don't know that that's actually as bad as it sounds. Even with an overabundance of remakes, the market is large enough now that I doubt there will ever truly be a dearth of new-to-me games to play, since there will still be plenty of studios producing new stuff.

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Borderline worth it: Croissants

Literally a 3-day process and a pretty significant amount of work (less than an hour each on days 1&2, but lamination is always fiddly), but holy crap they were good. That's one that really benefits from being scaled up further than is feasible to do at home, since the amount of work scales up slower than the yield does.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_of_Hyrule

That's a rhythm Zelda-like (heck, that's just plain a rhythm Zelda, though CotN could be pretty easily likened to 2D Zeldas), not a rhythm RTS.

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Greenfox111 posted...

What does that have to do with video cards?

One of the major driving forces behind the high prices of video cards in recent years has been how profitable crypto mining has been. As it turns out, the same hardware that's good for rendering video is also good for crypto mining (which I'm guessing isn't at all surprising to anyone that understands the hardware requirements for both processes, but I am not such a person), so higher-end video cards have been flying off the shelves as mining operations snap them up.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

One small part of the games mechanics might be sort of like a part of one of the Zelda games mechanics

That's not what reviewers generally mean when they say a game is like Zelda, though. They mean that the overall structure is one of exploring the world, solving puzzles that use abilities and items you find along the way, with relatively simplistic real-time combat. If that's not a style of game somebody enjoys, anything else in the review isn't likely to change that impression, so that's a very useful way to open. A decent reviewer generally will not mean "there's a talking fairy that bugs you with useless hints here and there so it's Zelda-like despite actually being a rhythm RTS."

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Lokarin posted...

What if there was green crypto?

By its nature, it's always going to be significantly more energetically demanding than normal computing. Computers will improve in their energy efficiency, but not matter how efficient you get, it will always be true that you can get more computing power by using more electricity. Because the yield from crypto mining scales linearly with computing power (more or less), miners are limited not by reaching some arbitrary threshold of "enough" mining power, but instead by how much they can profitably sustain.

Basically, if you make computers efficient enough that current mining setups could be considered "green," miners will just add more computers until the power consumption is roughly the same. It's a paradigm that has no inherent upper bound on power consumption.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

Im really not seeing how labeling everything as either Zelda-like or DarkSouls-like is useful to anyone

It's useful to anyone that doesn't like Zelda-like games, since they know there's no point in watching any more of the review because it's a style of game they don't enjoy.

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Mead posted...

yep I was really into it last summer, ended up 100%ing everything that had been released up to that point

I remember spending so much time doing some of the challenges like the one with the merc where you cant get hit at all

That doesn't surprise me. I guess it would have been a good recommendation, if I'd made it sooner (though given that I was basing it on your love of Returnal, time doesn't really work that way). I still need to pick it up myself. I really liked the first one, but I just never end up taking the plunge whenever 2 is on sale.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

very poopy take homie

Your butt is a very poopy take.

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mrduckbear posted...

Contrary to what people think, Gorillas are known for performing oral sex in the animal kingdom with sittings of cheetahs, bears, bats and other apes taking part

The way this is written, I'm envisioning a lineup of random other animals lining up to take turns slobbering some gorilla's schlong.

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SomeUsername529 posted...

I've always been fond of base building mechanics. Its the entire reason I finished Ni no Kuni II despite the entire game (even the base building) being mediocre. I also really enjoyed that aspect of Suikoden (although II and V were the only great ones).

Have you played Factorio?

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OhhhJa posted...

Needs more swollen testicles.

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helIy posted...

every single phone made in the last 10 years, even non smartphone phones, can tether

dumb phones switched entirely over to kaios, which does tethering

And then unless you have enough of a data plan to cover your Internet needs, you find yourself hemorrhaging money to pay for it.

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I really need to play Actraiser. I grabbed it off of the Wii eshop before it shut down, but I haven't gotten around to actually playing it yet.

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Full Throttle posted...

the mother REFUSED to say whether her daughter got the vaccine or not as she was not comfortable speaking on it

Translation: "She didn't get it, but I want to ignore how completely preventable this was because it makes me feel bad."

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Gaawa_chan posted...

Income is not what we should be focusing on when it comes to the wealthiest people in the world.

Especially not when the concept of "income" is defined incredibly narrowly by tax codes that totally weren't influenced by the same billionaires that mysteriously manage to amass wealth several orders of magnitude faster than their "income" would suggest.

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Zareth posted...

Is it actually 3D? Or 2.5 D like every Kirby game since the 3DS?

Actual 3D, which I don't think they've ever done before with Kirby (Air Ride and possibly some other spinoffs aside). I'm intrigued.

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They haven't specified yet, which I suspect means they're going to spend the next couple weeks lurking to see what numbers people throw out as being acceptable. I expect it'll be somewhere in the range of $5-10 extra (on top of $20 annually for the base package), which isn't exactly a lot, but that would be a 25-50% increase in the fee for a pretty minor addition.

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Pretty much every N64 game I'm interested in in the opening lineup, I already own on the N64 and can play at any time. Depending on the price, I may go for the extra fee at some point when they've added stuff I don't already have, but for now, I'm not particularly interested.

Now, on the Genesis side of things, there are a few there that I might go for. I'd probably be better off grabbing the individual games on Steam for like $2 each during a sale, though. That'll depend on how the pricing and library pan out.

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Mead posted...

I will buy any Roguelike and put it in my butt

Have you picked up Risk of Rain 2? I keep meaning to ask you that, since it seems like it's similar in concept to Returnal, and I know you loved that one.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

theres a much better way of doing that. saying 90% of video games are like Zelda or dark souls is not informing viewers lol

Sure it is. Yeah, taking it out of context, it gets a bit tiresome to listen to, but comparing new games to established games that readers/listeners/viewers are likely to have played is very useful context to allow them to tell at a glance whether or not a game is going to be something they might like. It's a refinement over simply stating the game's genre, which is a very good thing to preface a review with because it immediately tells people that don't like the games to which it's being compared that there's nothing of interest for them in the rest of the review. If that comparison is enough to pique somebody's interest, then they'll want more detail to help them make a decision, which reviews generally provide if you keep reading/listening/watching past that initial comparison.

Entity13 posted...

Clearly, creativity is the Dark Souls of basic effort.

I'm certainly not going to deny that art in general tends to be pretty derivative of existing works (which is nothing new, you can hear Bach in some of what Handel wrote, and vice versa), and that often gets taken too far (especially in mainstream products), but that's not inherently a bad thing. If artists chose not to create because they couldn't come up with something completely original, there'd be very, very little art in the world. There's ample room for creativity even while relying on established works to provide a basic framework, especially when we're dealing with something as broad as genres/subgenres.

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