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| Topic | Shut the fuck up and read CHAINSAW MAN |
| Aysander 09/28/23 7:11:29 AM #17 | I'll pass. After 10 chapters I'm pretty convinced it's not for me. lol.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Is a hot dog a sandwich |
| Aysander 09/27/23 11:54:14 AM #45 | A hotdog with no bun is just a hotdog.
A hotdog with fixings and a bun is a taco. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | $1000 but all the world leaders become raging weeaboos >_> |
| Aysander 09/27/23 11:52:52 AM #6 | You may as well have made this topic "$1000 but the world ends".
I don't take the $1000, needless to say. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | If forced to live in Texas or Florida, which state would you choose? |
| Aysander 09/26/23 10:11:09 AM #16 | Texas b/c it's one of the states my WAH job lets us operate out of. If I can't work from the comfort of my own home, it's non-negotiable lol.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Can YOU just be friends with women? |
| Aysander 09/26/23 8:27:03 AM #11 | Why does this question show up all over the place....why is it even a question in the first place?
Short answer to avoid my usual pondering of things...yes, I can "just be friends" with women. lol. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Are you mostly content? |
| Aysander 09/26/23 8:24:02 AM #6 | Definitely mostly.
I have an affordable house, even if I'm renting, with a nice landlord. I have no commute on my job as it's permanent at-home call center work (would have been even without COVID). I can afford most of the games I want now, it just takes a little bit of planning and budgeting. Much better situation than I was in up until 2020, even if took me awhile to realize it to be honest. I don't even have any real complaints about my job outside the usual CC Agent venting lol. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Do you consider yourself a nerd? Would any of you get at least a |
| Aysander 09/25/23 9:09:14 AM #25 | Definitely consider myself a nerd.
History is and always will be of great interest to me. I love art and used to draw often in my spare time. Anime and games are great motivators for me in general. I dabble in vtubers and other things just out of basic curiosity. I also have a healthy social life as a result of my nerdiness, so that's a plus. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | an easy mode has never ruined a game |
| Aysander 09/24/23 12:28:23 PM #22 | Cheater87 posted...
It ruined many games, quite a few didn't even let you finish the game on easy or even medium difficulty. No modern games does this. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] That's what Normal difficulty, or other difficulty toggles are for. It's a choice. Thermador446 posted... Easy mode ruined Shadows of the damned, it was required for platinum and normal difficulty didn't count . That's more a problem with trophies/achievements than it is Easy Mode tbh. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Whelp, Canada's possible next PM is in favour of the 'Parents' Rights' movement |
| Aysander 09/23/23 1:54:42 PM #33 | Zikten posted...
America infected Canada with our conservative virus We're not infecting anyone with anything. All countries have had people like this, the past half a decade has just given them the feeling that their star is on the rise again so they're infinitely bolder than they were pre-2016. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Fandom's Not Going to Be Happy With This, But... |
| Aysander 09/21/23 9:42:09 PM #28 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/0/AAXk9OAAE3Ma.png
Think DToast voted No. Or a member of the Fandom marketing team who has a GameFAQs account. EDIT: Never mind. lol. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Trails through Daybreak releasing Summer 2024 |
| Aysander 09/21/23 1:31:35 PM #3 | Definitely. Was glad when it looked like we were catching up, and we actually might get fully caught up at this rate what with the hiatus that the series has been under. I don't play them when they're unlocalized, and being fresh off Reverie had me literally being like "KURO NOW". Though that's going to be "DAYBREAK NOW!" until summer.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Fallout 3 and Oblivion remasters leaked!! |
| Aysander 09/19/23 12:34:55 PM #43 | masterpug53 posted...
Oh god, don't even get me started on dragon ADHD in Skyrim. "Dovahkiin! I have come to test my might against yours, let us see whose Thu'um is mightier and may the Gods bear witness to OH MY GOD THERE'S A MUDCRAB ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT MOUNTAIN!" Or in some cases "Why is the Dovahkiin flanked by IMPERIALS!?, those bows fucking hurt". I finally caught up to a dragon at one point only for the nearby Imperial camp to have merked it. Looks like they have more spine than those Whiterun guards. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Do you feel like you "belong" to part of a tight knit community? |
| Aysander 09/19/23 9:09:52 AM #9 | I know I am part of a good community online, at least. We have our share of differences but our commonalities make us like each other well enough.
But I live in Tennessee currently. I do not wish to be part of my community offline, especially with regards to my immediate neighbors. Back when I lived in Cali, and even Idaho, I think I was a lot more directly active with my community. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | $500,000,000,000 but they never remake Chrono Trigger. |
| Aysander 09/18/23 3:45:46 AM #65 | I mean if you want to give free money out to everyone TC, you just had to ask who needs it :P
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Best RPG of 2023 (Revised)? |
| Aysander 09/17/23 1:14:54 PM #3 | a-c-a-b posted...
Why the fuck did you remove Sea of Stars? I probably could have put it on the list instead of Wo Long or OPO. But it would have upset the balance of styles of RPGs a wee bit. I wish GameFAQs would give us 15 poll options instead but sadly they don't. Chained Echoes and Sea of Stars are both pretty good games, honestly. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Best RPG of 2023 (Revised)? |
| Aysander 09/17/23 1:10:16 PM #1 | Revision of a scuffed poll. Tried to put a good mix of JRPG and Western developed games. Other feels more fitting for Mobiles and Remakes/Ports. As for people who might ask "Why was Reverie Included?" -- It is technically new to the West. I did leave Azure for posting under "Others", in part because I did want to include Ryza.
And yes, it may have stripped away several RPG elements, but XVI is still an Action RPG. If Forespoken and Wo Long would have counted, it does too lol. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Best RPG of 2023 so far |
| Aysander 09/17/23 12:51:32 PM #34 | This poll is scuffed.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Hot take: religious texts should be in school libraries and should be taught in |
| Aysander 09/15/23 10:15:40 AM #50 | I am confused, maybe someone can help me out here.
In middle school and high school, you would at some point have had a World History, Ancient History, and US (Or insert your country here) History course, correct? All of those...would have covered exactly this to some extent. In World History alone, we learned about Charlemagne and how religion was intertwined with the crown, how the Crusades started and what they aimed to accomplish, how Religion helped shaped the monarchies of England and France, and what that meant for the New World and the US as well in the future. And that's without considering that Ancient History tended to cover China, Rome, Greece, and even some older situations and how Religion impacted their cultures... --- Ernie. |
| Topic | never understood how Spinelli made it to the 4th grade |
| Aysander 09/15/23 10:10:24 AM #11 | Beveren_Rabbit posted...
yeah... what about roll call? a teacher would have said her name at some point. Not every elementary school does a verbal roll call. When I was in elementary, at least, the 3rd grade teacher just went by our nametags since we had to take them home/bring them back. There's no single way teachers do roll call. xD --- Ernie. |
| Topic | something i hate about FF7 rebirth (Spoilers) |
| Aysander 09/15/23 7:03:22 AM #36 | Holy_Cloud105 posted...
Considering who is writing the story for this remake, you better not get your hopes up. Kitase is a hack. I just have to point you towards his plot for FFX-3. Kitase also wrote the original. And Nomura, for all his personal wackiness, seems to be managing to reign in Kitase's worst impulses (Which 100% would have been X-3ish lol) for what it's worth. It's not perfect but honestly the ride has been enjoyable enough so far. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | What are some industries you'd love to see ground to dust? |
| Aysander 09/15/23 6:59:39 AM #16 | Insurance, Utility, and Education "industries" right along with Housing.
None of these should have ever been privatized. And the wealthy continue to prove their irresponsibility at being the stewards of any of these four sectors. I would argue the transportation industry too, especially airports, but eh. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Are Americans this fucking stupid? |
| Aysander 09/14/23 2:00:11 PM #71 | COVxy posted...
How many people do you have to poll before you intuitively think you can generalize, and why do you think that? Well, the US is a country of 331.9 million people. 10% of that would be 3,319,000. 2000 people is not even 10% of that number. You are polling less than a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a percent of the nation's population. Such a poll could not be used to generalize. But that is hardly the point. Such stupidity is not even uniquely American. Americans are just the easiest target because it has been fashionable to do so on the internet for as long as it exists. And before you ask, if someone said "God all Chinese people are assholes" or "Russians are fucked up and need to be purged", or "Britts sound like giant pissbabies whenever they talk", I would be equally annoyed because generalizations in general are bad, despite being far too easy to fall into making. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Are Americans this fucking stupid? |
| Aysander 09/14/23 11:13:49 AM #52 | Ricemills posted...
Well damn, that's disappointing. It means 52% of a voting pool of less than 2000 people are that fucking stupid. I have to wonder if the internet is going to ever grow out of it's "All Americans are unequivocally bad people, here's a post telling you why!" The only way it could get even more tiring is if people started @'ing known Americans. But they wouldn't do that anyways because it'd be targeted, non-anonymous harassment. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Do you have a favourite V-Tuber? |
| Aysander 09/14/23 9:41:17 AM #6 | I suppose I do. Zentreya's fun to watch and the community in general is a nice bunch.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Unity U-Turns on new pricing model. |
| Aysander 09/13/23 7:05:58 PM #10 | They need to run it all the way back. Describing exactly how far back they need to run it would be exceptionally crude and possibly moddable.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 5:23:36 PM #185 | PraetorXyn posted...
Pretty recently they were saying they wanted to double down on the tech demo stuff though. Which is unfortunate, because it definitely is not helping them much lol. At least not with where they expect to be. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Do girls sometimes ask YOU out on dates? |
| Aysander 09/13/23 3:40:17 PM #5 | I've had two girls in my lifetime ask me out.
The first one I turned down due to our age gap. The second one I turned down because right around college I was also a bit of a self-deprecating moron and believed I was neither rich enough nor good enough for her. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 3:26:28 PM #151 | voldothegr8 posted...
Not how it works, consumers don't buy directly from SE. $60 is MSRP but bought for less from retailers. True, I definitely don't claim nor haven't claimed to be an economist. I am pulling numbers from other, usually more intelligent sources lol. In terms of raw unit sales though, Square Enix at least manages to push a lot of them. It's just their expectations are so unrealistic. Especially when three of their highest pushing games have a lot of specific factors that make them so high up to begin with. BombermanGold posted... People act like the FF games are to blame, but there's been a slew of mediocre games and bad business decisions that are the main reason why they're struggling that hard. Yeah. As someone else posted a little bit earlier, it really comes down to a few different factors that need to be addressed. Budget is probably one of them, Time is probably another, and their big projects need to stop trend chasing. Not just their FFs but things like Forespoken and Avengers too. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 3:16:28 PM #143 | AceMos posted...
and yet SE them selfs still said they did not make a profit off that 8 million They made a noticeable profit. They did not make as much as they would have liked. They tend to think themselves capable of making Pokemon numbers somehow and it shows. In fact, they actually have come close-ish to pokemon numbers on a few occasions in terms of raw unit sales. Tomb Raider, which you referenced earlier, is also one of their top 5 largest selling games in terms of units pushed. Two of the top slots are taken by games that were sold when games were not only cheaper to producem but cheaper for the consumer to buy as well. The top slot is taken by an MMORPG that has seen massive successes, with a lot of the same people they pulled aside to work on 16. Once 16 is available on the PC, it might even end up on this list, too. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/1/8/AAXk9OAAE1mW.png --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 3:10:57 PM #138 | AceMos posted...
uh no its well know that SE over bloats its budget and then has insane sales requirments Because they weren't the 16.68 million of Pokemon in the same year. You mentioned Tomb Raider 2013 so I'll stay within that example. They spent $100 million to produce, market, and package the game. That is not strictly development. They sold 8 million copies at $60 USD. They made $480,000,000 USD total from that. The gross profit before operations and overhead was almost $380,000,000. That's not awful by any means. They were of course disappointed. After all, Pokemon X&Y only cost around $20 million to produce and Gamefreak has a naturally smaller overhead due to it's actual number of employees. It sold 16.68 million copies at $45 USD each before inflation. Their total gross profit would have been $750,580,000 USD before operations and overhead. Gamefreak spent half as much and put it nearly no effort, and made a ridiculous degree of profit even factoring in overhead and taxes. Would it help SE if they decreased their budget? Maybe. Would that change the quality of the games they produce? Sure, but we have no way of knowing if it would be for the better or for worse. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 2:53:37 PM #136 | AceMos posted...
while this is a very very good point The talent of their individual programmers and set designers are probably more to laud for them keeping a looser schedule moreso than their budget. A game with apathetic programmers and novice designers could have twice the budget and make an inferior product. colliding posted... I agree S/V is terrible but it sold. With the amount of time between series entries, SE has to worry about their fanbase LITERALLY dying off, particularly with Dragon Quest. If this means the games have to be less graphically impressive then so be it. Maybe don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel / create a new bespoke game engine for every new installment. I have an alternative to this. Consumers could actually...be patient? Enjoy what they do have for a little while before they need to move onto the next big thing? Shit, I'm still playing stuff from five years ago or more because they're solid, enjoyable games. Good games need more time in the oven. You're not gonna set the temperature to 500 degrees thinking it will bake your cake faster without some sort of sacrifice (In the case of this example a VERY filthy oven and most likely what is salvageable of an ill-tasting cake). --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 2:50:14 PM #133 | hockeybub89 posted...
If Square Enix needed FF16 to basically be purchased by anyone who owns or ever considered owning a PS5, then it sounds like they were already in very bad shape. There's a difference between needs and want. They always want sales like that, look at how harshly they judged both TWEWY and NEO despite their overall reception. Look at how disappointed they were with Remake's sales, supposedly, but they're still going full steam ahead with Rebirth as well as the other FF7 Compilation content (First Soldier, now Ever Crisis etc). They are always going to be disappointed because there is a massive disconnect between shareholder expectations, and reality. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 2:44:16 PM #129 | colliding posted...
The big issue is that they take too long to make games. On the other hand, I'd rather they take their time than do what Pokemon does. Pokemon has a new game every year, without fail. And look what happened to them recently. Say what you will about FF7R and FF16, but if nothing else it would be very hard to argue that either game released with less polish and fewer glitches than BD/SP and Scarlet/Violet. And I say that as someone who enjoyed Sc/Vi. Error1355 posted... Sounds like the game did well but not as well as they wanted and now share holders are selling off their shares becuase it's not making ENOUGH money? Basically. SQE has this weird thing where they think they are going to pull Pokemon numbers due to the amount of money they put into their projects. But almost NOBODY in existence actually pulls pokemon numbers frequently and within the first three months of release. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16 |
| Aysander 09/13/23 2:23:39 PM #118 | wanderingshade posted...
I think the situation has less to do with about FF16 exactly by itself as a product and rather the fact FF16 didn't have legs that made up for Avengers and the abysmal flop of Forspoken. Close. You are right about it having nothing to do with FF16, and game journalists/the general public AS ALWAYS deliberately using subtle digs to imply that something they don't like somehow was to blame. There wasn't even a reason to mention FF16's launch. Forespoken had mixed reception even worse than 16s and even it's defenders admit there are big flaws that should have been addressed but weren't. Avengers has been a chain around their neck for awhile. The company as a whole has made a slew of ridiculous decisions (Hard mobile pivot for two to three quarters, the announcement regarding NFTs and how absolutely tonedeaf they were to the change in social favor regarding Crypto to name a couple of them) in recent years. Square Enix expects way too much from all of their games, yes. They expect Pokemon numbers which are - for better or worse - impossible for most games to hit. People love to tote Monolith Soft as a "successful developer", most of their titles have barely exceeded 1-2 million sales. FF16 pulls off the same in a short time period while also being a console exclusive like Xenoblade and all of a sudden it's 16's fault alone that Square Enix is in dire straits...XD --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Fast food workers about to make $20/hr in California |
| Aysander 09/11/23 8:26:01 PM #27 | coolcono posted...
But what about mom and pop restaurants? They cannot afford to keep up in that market. Respectfully, the market hasn't been perfect for "mom and pop" stores for a loooong time. I mean before some of us (not all of us) were born "long time". The illusion of a bunch of chain stores in any given state ran by a family of two to five people that carry the economy on their backs is exactly that - an illusion. It's why they use the term "Small Business" instead nowadays. A small business can have anywhere from 100 to 1500 employees. They might be distributed in smaller, local stores across multiple states or a single state. Their revenue is also generally less than $40 million annually, but greater than $1 million. They get away with this because as a consumer, if you enter your local store and see 5 employees, you would definitely immediately consider them a small business. And you'd be right. But they're also propped up by an individual or individuals who have a large amount of capital to maintain and even profit off of an organization which requires minimal overhead. Mom and Pop shops don't have that advantage. They are usually barely keeping their business running, unless they know how to utilize the same Govt. programs for assistance based on their location that small business owners do, as well as itemize every write off they can account for. They are also usually paying their family who works there with them off of the money they actually make. Raising the minimum wage of workers at established businesses - small or large - should not do anything to mom and pop shops. Not in the least. Anything of the sort is the result of small business owners or large corporations trying to put the squeeze on them on purpose to increase their own profits. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | If you created a multiplayer Free2play game |
| Aysander 09/11/23 8:01:09 PM #6 | Wouldn't make it a F2P game.
Would still use cosmetics in a cash shop and probably offer some minor services. Those services would be mostly unnecessary though if you don't mind a $60 USD box price and a $11.99 monthly subscription with some sort of expansion every 1.5-2.5 years as a guarantee of new content developed using the funding earned from said cash shop, box prices, and subs. Of course if my arm is literally being twisted on this...Make a 40/60 ratio for In-Game unlocks vs Cash Shop unlocks, with only a very small handful of "adventure packs" and a moderate amount of cosmetics being cash shop only. The bulk of the 60% Cash Shop unlocks would naturally be cosmetics. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Pokemon game ranking topic >_> |
| Aysander 08/29/23 8:36:07 PM #15 | I was tempted to troll by putting HG/SS and FR/LG in D just to see the community reaction but HONESTLY, that take would be so hot it'd incinerate the earth.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/8/AAXk9OAAEy5E.jpg --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Netflix co-CEO concerned that caving to WGA terms will set a precedent. |
| Aysander 08/25/23 8:30:39 PM #13 | ClayGuida posted...
How about this CEO lives on a writers salary for a year, then he can talk. A year with a lot of caveats to prevent them from cheating with their currently existing assets, I hope. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | What was your approach to Pokemon games? |
| Aysander 08/21/23 7:47:49 PM #15 | Always just use what I want, regardless of stats. Though I do keep a good type balance and keep six pokemon roughly equally leveled.
My BD hall of fame team had a Skuntank, a Cherrim, and a Wiscash in it. Definitely not the worst pokemon, but certainly not the best either :P. Just think they're neat. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Post a line or two from a cartoon opening lyrics for others to guess |
| Aysander 08/21/23 7:43:15 PM #14 | 1,000 years ago, superstition and the sword ruled.
Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken...AND WE LIVE AGAIN! *thunderclap* --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Imagine being up hella early on a fucking Saturday |
| Aysander 08/12/23 6:47:44 AM #12 | Work. I work from 6:30am to 4pm Tues-Fri, then 6:30am to 10:30am Saturday. Gives me a sufficiently good weekend duration and I am an early sleeper anyways.
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | What class did you choose in Baldur's Gate 3? |
| Aysander 08/09/23 9:07:33 PM #31 | Lightfoot Halfling Dex Ranger with Noble background, went Beast Master.
Just something about using a crossbow, double scimitars, and random tools alongside various animal companions that feels right. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | animes that are better than the manga |
| Aysander 08/02/23 7:32:04 PM #25 | I feel like any manga that needs to sell you on sounds and motion would be better in anime.
For instance, I have no clue what the author of PPPPP was thinking, doing a manga instead of an anime. XD --- Ernie. |
| Topic | CE is overusing "chud" |
| Aysander 07/24/23 10:10:34 PM #34 | This topic reeks of Chud behavior. --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Yep, I'm done with anime. |
| Aysander 07/21/23 8:33:43 PM #137 | NoxObscuras posted... Thankfully, there are a lot of isekai that don't have that "attacking hobbyist" vibe at all. Like Ascendance of a Bookworm. It's about a woman who gets isekai'd into a frail girl's body after she dies in an avalanche of books. The time period she gets sent to is similar to the 14th century. And her obsession with books actually helps her in this new world. This is actually one of the ones I don't mind, yes. XD --- Ernie. |
| Topic | Genie grants you 3 powers with no monkeyshines involved. What do you pick? |
| Aysander 07/21/23 8:29:13 PM #39 |
--- Ernie. |
| Topic | I will submit your post as-is to an AI Image generator - Part VI |
| Aysander 07/19/23 5:44:06 PM #227 | Several Charizard Face Off Against Fifteen Wargreymon riding on Eldoradomon. --- Ernie. |
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