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| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #127 - 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors |
| kevwaffles 01/30/25 12:35:00 PM #36 | 8 --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 9:22:17 PM #73 | hombad46 posted... I guess they just figured dono is too obscure too keep Probably, but I feel just being introduced to the basics is the biggest culture shock. When they toss a new one in there it's just kinda whatever. People will figure out the context well enough. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 9:13:01 PM #70 | KamikazePotato posted... Well they do for most of them. Shoutout to Rise squealing "Senpai!" every five seconds. I remembered Senpai but I forgot they did use most trailing honorifics. Just not that one for some reason. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 8:44:28 PM #67 | I feel like they should just leave honorifics intact, especially when the story takes place in Japan. That's what LaD does and it's fine. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Mass Effect 5 update |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 4:47:10 PM #28 | LightningStrikes posted... Astro Bot has a 95 critics average that is not pretty good or worse! For some reason I was interpreting that more as huge hype than actual ratings. Not sure why. Also Warhammer fans are always starving for something decent. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Mass Effect 5 update |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 3:57:57 PM #25 | MacArrowny posted... Space Marine 2 is a good recent example of this Astrobot is an even better one --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 3:40:56 PM #291 | Dude Nikki Haley lost a primary to literally "None of these candidates". --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Mass Effect 5 update |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 3:35:09 PM #22 | Murphiroth posted... Pretending that culture war grifters and antiwoke crybabies were not at least a small factor is foolish. I mean it's hard to definitively say they don't also have an opposing effect as well. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 2:31:06 PM #268 | Oh even Cruz would have been better if we're pulling from the 2016 Republican contenders. Plus he's like the one Republican that could have actually lost that general election. Maybe Kasich too. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 2:06:09 PM #264 | Oh it never stopped. People just talked less for a while. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Mass Effect 5 update |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 1:46:11 PM #12 | Murphiroth posted... Very unfortunate. Veilguard was a really solid 7/10 and doesn't deserve the hate it gets. Stupid hate campaigns aside, I really question why they thought it was a good idea to release a sequel to a dormant franchise that has poor and somewhat inconsistent modern day options to play without a damn remaster collection. Especially after how well Mass Effect's did. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Mass Effect 5 update |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 1:36:40 PM #6 | It really seems like Veilguard not making projections that were probably not realistic anyway did them severe psychic damage for some reason. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #126 - Dead Cells |
| kevwaffles 01/29/25 1:04:05 AM #24 | UltimaterializerX posted... I didnt play during the original malaise mechanic. Well, like I was saying it's more that you have to rely on the weapon level of a late drop to an extent that combines to make that bad. If I draw a really good item in Isaac or weapon in FTL at the beginning of the run or the end, it still helps all the same for the most part. Therefore, if the entire back half of those run gives me nothing, it may not matter if the front half gave me everything I need. In Dead Cells, they could give me the consensus best weapon (whatever that is now) right at the start but that will still drop off and need replacing. On top of that, compare it to Enter the Gungeon which is very intentionally filled with mediocre or even joke guns, but you're intended to make use of (most of) them in less dire situations and save ammo for your good weapons. Dead Cells is not built like that at all. You're very limited in what you carry, and no reason to hold back. So what you carry needs to be as good as possible. I don't know how Nightreign will work exactly, but imagine the weapons are like the weapons we know from these games, but the weapon level is based on how far the run is. Then imagine the back half of the run keeps giving you broken swords and ladles. That's what Dead Cells feels like sometimes. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/28/25 10:47:29 PM #196 | Thorn posted... Elon is just running OPM at this point given that it is literally a copy/paste of what he did at Twitter after buying it. https://x.com/alanhe/status/1884402879219257441 --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #126 - Dead Cells |
| kevwaffles 01/28/25 3:26:23 PM #18 | To put it another way, there's a reason most roguelites do not tie item stats to run progression. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #126 - Dead Cells |
| kevwaffles 01/28/25 3:10:20 PM #17 | UltimaterializerX posted... What balance issues? Too many weapons are straight up unviable, particularly for bosses. That wouldn't be so bad if you didn't necessarily need to rely on a late good draw to be at an appropriate level AND have it build compatible (unless it's legendary or colorless). Also Malaise was a bit much but I think they toned some of that down really later on? Maybe it was shields not accumulating it? --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #126 - Dead Cells |
| kevwaffles 01/28/25 12:12:51 PM #9 | 8 Love it but it has balance issues. Granted they did updates I haven't played but I beat 5BC so I doubt much is too different besides which weapons are the good ones. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/27/25 1:14:15 PM #116 | foolm0r0n posted... Deepseek is hilariously censored. It will stream out entire paragraphcs of uncensored answers, and then replace it with this "sorry" message at the end. If you tell me something Chinese is censored the Winnie the Pooh thing would literally be my first thought. Not saying it doesn't censor more, and as an aside it's a hell of a Streisand effect, but I'd wanna see other examples. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/27/25 10:22:06 AM #103 | It should be noted wrt Colombia that they regularly accepted "repatriation" flights from us before and that the primary issues here were a complete lack of communication beforehand and using military flights to do it. Supposedly they caved on the latter, but overall this was not some huge policy shift for them and all of this could have been avoided. It seems the Trump administration wanted to pick a fight they could win. Shit is stupid --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/26/25 11:33:14 PM #95 | Colombia already backed down --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/26/25 6:23:20 PM #48 | Yeah, you can even see them in some of the more recent Yakuza/LaD games. One of them even has a conversation about it. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/25/25 8:51:39 PM #41 | Yeah you literally cannot succeed if you send Ann --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/25/25 6:08:41 PM #38 | I think it's actually rng how many times it takes --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/25/25 3:47:29 PM #89 | Yeah there generally are unemployment provisions for becoming massively under-employed (huge cuts in hours) let alone a full unpaid suspension. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/25/25 10:44:48 AM #67 | AriaOfBolo posted... the school and the state are on my side but let's not pretend they're gonna choose me over federal funding :D Well on the plus side they may not have to! End me --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 451: It Was a Pleasure to Burn |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 10:30:09 PM #40 | McConnell is facing death and trying to grow a conscience. Not very well, mind you. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 2:33:05 PM #333 | Maniac64 posted... I wonder if they all get seen less dull to people because their races are interesting rather than the characters being interesting. Admittedly that's part of it. But also in 1 you learn the most about their species from the character, particularly in Tali's case obviously. The most interesting thing about Kaidan is a story that happens before you met him that really doesn't translate to his character in any apparent way at all. At least Ashley's roots are on full display. Same for the aliens, for that matter. (Well, moreso Garrus and Liara than Tali) --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 1:13:01 PM #331 | pjbasis posted... I feel like that aspect of Ashley is just dropped. Ashley and Kaidan suffer from Telltale syndrome before Telltale started doing it. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 12:49:22 PM #329 | That might be the highest ranking I've ever seen for Kaidan. I don't hate him but the man is dull. Garrus and Tali are way better in 2 but Garrus is still my #2 spot for ME1. You got #1 correct though and that's all that matters. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 450: Year of Luigi |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 10:18:16 AM #499 | I don't get you and others are so confused on the apparent strategy change and will also bring up the internals we now know they were seeing. Arguably they didn't give it time, but those 2 things do not exist independently from each other. One caused the other. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | RATE THE GAME - #123 - Baldur's Gate 3 |
| kevwaffles 01/24/25 8:38:18 AM #16 | 10 --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 450: Year of Luigi |
| kevwaffles 01/23/25 8:50:02 PM #460 | Leafeon13N posted... Unfortunately elections are integral to keeping a populace subdued. Yeah pretty much all countries these days have some form of elections no matter how much of a totalitarian sham they are. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/23/25 8:37:42 PM #26 | Anagram posted... Although I suspect Atlus' reasoning for not including it is that it won't cause enough people to buy the game who wouldn't otherwise buy a male-only version. Oh for sure. That's definitely the root of it. But knowing that was their decision in advance may have influenced some of those narrative choices. Because P4, despite having no version with a FemC seems to not have made those same choices. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | So, I've finally gotten around to playing Persona 5 Royal (spoilers) |
| kevwaffles 01/23/25 12:58:43 PM #22 | Anagram posted... I remember people specifically saying a girl would not be believable as having beaten up Shido in the opening. It's not that a girl couldn't beat up Shido. Joker doesn't really even do that anyway. So anyone who said that is dumb. But it makes less sense for the courts to go along with the narrative, if not Shido responding the same way at all. But I also personally wouldn't give a fuck if they just said screw it. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/22/25 10:17:30 AM #325 | https://youtu.be/4w7HrirdcOI --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 6:41:13 PM #320 | Some of the lines are straight up the same (Would never dream of mockery!) but they all have some unique takes to them, particularly of the sex Ed parts. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 2:31:03 PM #318 | Mordin has different versions of that dialogue for every romantic partner, and one for no romantic partner. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 12:27:15 PM #316 | Maniac64 posted... I also didn't get the friend date with Kelly which I had heard about. Not sure what I did wrong there. You kinda have to be pretty thorough in exhausting her dialogue early on. It's odd. Unfortunately this has a terrible consequence. She can't keep your fish alive. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 10:52:25 AM #62 | skullbone posted... Links Awakening does feel a lot better to play because you can move diagonally You can do that in LttP also. It's only Z1 (and Z2 to be technical) that you can't. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 450: Year of Luigi |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 10:06:32 AM #311 | foolm0r0n posted... This is the only possible interpretation as it's written, which is hilarious. Whoever added "at conception" there definitely knew what they were doing. Nah, these are people who think condoms should be illegal. They're not looking up the science before saying this shit. And even if they did concede on that, they'd still say the sperm already has the X or Y chromosome so it's fine. Ignoring any other problems that arise. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 9:54:06 AM #58 | Seanchan posted... LBW is the same map as LttP, so any criticisms on that front would be the same. Not really. They are not "populated" in the same way, and then the equivalent of the dark world is even more different. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 8:33:44 AM #56 | WazzupGenius00 posted... The 2D games that came before it are also better I can accept Z1 truthers. Z2 is overhated but it's also just batshit insane especially at the last dungeon. Also Z2 is just generally miserable until you get the down stab. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 8:28:40 AM #52 | AllHeDoesIsWin posted... I played Link to the Past for the first time around the same time I played the Oracle games as a kid. I never understood how people ranked Link to the Past above the Oracle games aside from nostalgia. Because the Oracle games are the monkey's paw curling for wanting more overworld content. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/21/25 5:02:15 AM #43 | Sniff posted... LttP was amazing at the time, and is still good. Though Link's Awakening did everything better a year later, and Link's Awakening holds up much better today than LttP does. I mean it's not really LA's fault, but the limitation of the Gameboy's buttons alone makes that not true. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Zelda: A Link to the Past is not that good |
| kevwaffles 01/20/25 11:50:19 PM #24 | MMXcalibur posted... Sorry your opinion sucks. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/20/25 7:04:43 PM #311 | I forget how it works to have Jack not end up like that as MaleShep, but it won't impact anything but the lack of conversation she has left on the ship not being available. It has no other consequences. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/20/25 6:53:53 PM #308 | Maniac64 posted... I've been told that Kaidan becomes a romance option for maleshep in ME3 so unless that isn't true there must be exceptions. I mean there was something specific I said there that makes both things true. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | First time playing Mass Effect |
| kevwaffles 01/20/25 3:47:05 PM #306 | Maniac64 posted... Oh and we are now officially on the romance path with Tali. Not sure we will continue it in ME3. Would that be a problem? There's only one romance that dropping it can be an issue but it's not this one. That said, you may not have as many options as you'd think. To spell it out a little more, --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Wordles All the Way Down (Topic 15) |
| kevwaffles 01/20/25 8:46:09 AM #382 | Wordle 1,311 3/6 Sorry I had to. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 450: Year of Luigi |
| kevwaffles 01/19/25 5:43:04 PM #190 | I'm still a little confused why the unban went into effect before Trump is inaugurated. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 |
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