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| Topic | Finally was able to snag a PS5 today on the Walmart sale |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/05/21 11:46:08 AM #12 | Congrats. The loading times are making it look more enticing than it otherwise would be, but a PS5 probably won't even be on my radar until I upgrade to a 4k TV... which likely won't be until my current TV craps out. A PS5 without a 4k is putting a huge cap on the console's potential, right? --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/03/21 10:23:37 PM #137 | Yeah, the size of those areas blew me away back in 2012. The Bionis Leg seemed like an entire game unto itself. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/03/21 7:00:15 PM #133 | Alcamoth is when I became the most acquainted with every party member's jumping grunt sounds. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | I would please like a recommendation for YouTube gaming channels |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/03/21 10:32:48 AM #19 | VaatiVidya - the big prerequisite with him is that you need some experience with (or at least interest in) the Souls series, but he's basically the online lore luminary of that community. His Bloodborne videos are some of my favorite on YouTube. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Stock Topic 23 |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/01/21 12:55:44 PM #96 | |
| Topic | Stock Topic 23 |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/01/21 12:28:41 PM #91 | I'm holding airlines as well, though I've only put in like 2.5k, so I wasn't nearly as brave as SephG. Also, only a chunk of that is nearing the 1-year mark. I bought Delta just a few weeks ago and am already up big! Either way, I don't expect to sell my blue chippers for years. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/01/21 10:03:19 AM #113 | Sorry, "AoE" in my last post should be "Damage Over Time". I doubt you have access to most of Melia's most damaging spells right now, but you should have Bolt and Flare. The general play with her is to summon Bolt (which increases your Ether damage) first, which will strengthen the rest of your summoned elements - be it Flare or some other ones later on - thereafter. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 03/01/21 2:00:26 AM #111 | Yeah, Melia can get stupid broken but needs to be in the 1 slot (kinda like Shulk but even more definitively so). Her AoE damage can work with the same multipliers (Chain Attacks, back attacks) that physical attacks do, which opens up some crazy plays. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/28/21 2:27:51 PM #96 | |
| Topic | Wanted to share an awesome Smash Ultimate moment w you guys [Sans] [Sephiroth] |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/28/21 2:05:10 PM #16 | Little hands in his sweatshirt pockets with an obnoxious grin BITCH --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/27/21 6:40:35 PM #87 | Oh yeah, I wanted to recommend entering the Marsh at midday so you could see the day/night transition organically. It's definitely one of my favorite regions - glad you're enjoying it! Also, you've probably reached a Nopon camp/merchant near the entrance. He sells intermediate level books for many of Dunban's arts - I recommend buying at least Peerless, Gale Slash, and Worldly Slash. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 366: Neeran End to the Tandenic |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 3:31:11 PM #197 | I know this paints me in an ignorant light, but I've never even heard of a Senate Parlaimentarian before the past few days. I swear it almost sounds like some made up bullshit to keep the minimum wage depressed. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 12:27:09 PM #82 | Yeah, I think the only time I swapped Sharla in last year was when I was farming flying mobs. She's not disliked as a character, but she's just the least fun in gameplay and the least useful for Chain Attacks. She might give you a better chance in tough battles through sheer attrition, but she'll also lengthen (what should be) quick battles with her pitiful DPS. Contrast with Dunban, who helps end fights quickly and is a Chain Attack monster. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | The Ringer is holding a Character Battle |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 10:51:15 AM #145 | Huh, guess I just didn't notice. Makes me appreciate ours even more (in a literal sense, as this one will have ended before we've had a chance to appreciate anything). I also think Link is gonna win. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | The Ringer is holding a Character Battle |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 10:41:26 AM #142 | An 8-hour final? While other site's contests can still be fun, they also make me really appreciate our setup. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | The Ringer is holding a Character Battle |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 9:57:57 AM #138 | This contest managed the rarity of getting me to vote for Link's opponent. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 9:11:13 AM #78 | Initially, I kept Sharla in my lineup for a while because I had grown reliant on healing, but a good Shulk/Reyn/Dunban setup can nuke most enemies before healing becomes an issue. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Anyone here a cuck or know one?(literal meaning) |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 9:06:07 AM #43 | I've never known PotD, but CE posts like a universe-sized B8 alpha/beta debate topic from ten years ago. I wish the site's most active board was a *little* less awful. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Anyone here a cuck or know one?(literal meaning) |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/26/21 8:48:20 AM #41 | During grad school, I had a really nerdy-cute coworker, and both she and her husband wanted to explore sexually (since they got married young and had never even kissed other people). She wanted to fool around and the husband okayed it, but only if I could convince another girl to fool around with him. I asked my most sexually adventurous friend, and to my surprise, she excitedly said yes. So we had a situation where this dude was getting a bj from my friend upstairs while his wife dry-humped me (she was too shy to get naked, she even muffled her orgasm lol) downstairs. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a cuck story, but it's the closest one I've personally been involved with. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade & Episode Yuffie for PS5 |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 11:17:36 PM #3 | I wonder if Yuffie (and thus eventually Vincent) will be DLC only. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Anyone seen "I Care A Lot"? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 8:42:59 PM #34 | Ellie95 posted... they could still be rooted for even though they were a scumbag.A lot of people didn't root for them. I sure as hell didn't root for Michael Corleone at the end of Godfather II. But I WAS rooting for him during the first two hours of the original Godfather because he was a sympathetic character - he didn't want anything to do with his family's criminal empire but felt compelled to step in to protect his father. He was also (at that time) battling people who were portrayed as more ruthless and sinister than him, as evidenced by the scene with the crooked police captain reassigning his men so that Michael's dad could get murdered in his hospital bed. Against people like that, you WANTED to root for Michael. And when the story evolved such that Michael's power vilified him beyond sympathy, you stopped rooting for him. And you saw the consequence of his increasingly evil nature, as his family was killed around him and he was left to die old and completely alone. Marla was not given one ounce of goodness or sympathy in her movie. I mean seriously... name one. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Anyone seen "I Care A Lot"? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 8:28:20 PM #19 | Ellie95 posted... Like Sopranos, Godfather, Nightcrawler, American Psycho, Godfather, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street, Breaking Bad, The Shield, etc. But when it's a woman that'a scumbag in this case, it's now a problem.Generally speaking, I also didn't like the protagonists of those movies (the ones from your list that I've seen), but at least I recall them being given some positive character traits or at LEAST being paired with worse, more morally reprehensible people to make them look comparatively more sympathetic. Marla wasn't. She was the most evil character in her movie because she was written that way for the first hour, and she had no redemption to speak of. She wasn't written like Walter White or Michael Corleone; she was written like the prison warden from The Shawshank Redemption. Pure villain. And if you're gonna make a pure villain your protagonist, you better at least start them off good (so the audience sees why and might sympathize with why she became evil) or give her some kind of humanizing redemption arc. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Anyone seen "I Care A Lot"? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 8:20:18 PM #13 | My gf and I were loving it midway through, but that third act was so awful that we fast-forwarded through the last 15 minutes just to get through it. Marla was portrayed as a sinister sociopath who gleefully preys on the most vulnerable people in society, and that portrayal was never shifted or softened. She was the most evil person in the movie *throughout the whole movie*. She even admitted to the Her character is pretty one-note, and honestly that's an acceptable way to write your villain, but not your protagonist who the audience is (presumably) supposed to get behind. The first half of the movie made me think the old lady who was being preyed upon would outsmart Marla - the manipulative villain would get her comeuppance. Instead, the old lady plotline was unceremoniously dumped an hour into the movie, and Marla became some ninja superhero who Rarely do I feel like ranting against a movie, but this was such messy trash that I couldn't help it. And no, the last 30 seconds of the movie don't redeem anything. She won. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 7:16:49 PM #69 | Ah, you've reached the point where Sharla will never see playtime again. VERY GOOD Oh, and I recommend leveling Shulk's Monado Shield ability to 3 if it isn't already there. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/25/21 4:34:29 PM #65 | |
| Topic | Kotaku Ranks the Legend of Zelda Games |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 12:26:19 PM #86 | andylt posted... TP has high highs and low lows with its dungeons.I think this is an appropriate way to describe Skyward Sword as a whole, which is probably why I'm still partial to it. I'm not super annoyed digging through crap if it means I unearth a gem (Ancient Cistern, Sandship, really the entire desert area) along the way. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Kotaku Ranks the Legend of Zelda Games |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 12:21:30 PM #84 | ninkendo posted... TP has the highest average of quality dungeons (it even had a good water dungeon!) just the best ones I've played were in SS.bruh SS had the greatest water dungeon of all time --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | The Ringer is holding a Character Battle |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 11:44:30 AM #65 | |
| Topic | What made Breath of the Wild stand out vs other open world games? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 11:18:55 AM #23 | Antifar posted... And it doesn't care how you accomplish a task, whether it was the "intended" way or not; if you can find a shortcut or easier way, chances are it'll work.Really good point. I think every single puzzle might have multiple solutions that don't rely on glitches. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | People that liked Breath of the Wild also order cheese pizzas |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 12:23:00 AM #9 | |
| Topic | What made Breath of the Wild stand out vs other open world games? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/24/21 12:14:45 AM #10 | Is Witcher 3 considered open world? If so, those are probably the only two modern open-world games I've played, and BotW was far better in terms of traversal, controls, combat, and variety of locations. It was also far less glitchy, which I imagine is tough to pull off in an open world game. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | How do you eat your steak? |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/23/21 11:56:11 AM #15 | This might be an absurd request, but can anyone find a video where a cook actually demonstrates the "rest your steak" theory by cutting into a steak as soon as it's off the grill? The conventional wisdom is that doing so would ruin the steak, as cutting a steak before it has rested and slightly cooled will result in the juices leaking out. This leaves the steak tough, dry, and undesirable. I subscribe to the theory myself (and so does seemingly everyone who talks about grilling), but I've NEVER seen anyone actually show us the fuck-up on film. And yeah, I know that this is essentially asking a cook to film themselves ruining their own steak... but people spend tons of money creating their YouTube videos. Ruining a $30 for a video experiment that might not even exist online is a worthy investment imo. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | The Ringer is holding a Character Battle |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/23/21 11:36:59 AM #44 | Mario and Link seem destined to meet in the final. The more things change... --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/22/21 6:34:40 PM #35 | The "named NPC" side quests are generally more interesting and assist you in building the Affinity Chart (if you're into that sort of thing). However, these are also the ones that don't auto-complete, meaning you'll need to return to that NPC after satisfying their condition(s) in order to complete the quest. The "unnamed NPC" side quests are more generic and consist of defeating X number of monsters or obtaining X items. These can be ignored, as they do almost nothing to flesh out the game world, but they are also the quests that DO auto-complete, so they won't really be wasting your time (many will naturally complete themselves for you as you explore and battle). IMO, you can probably ignore everything apart from the quest shine mentioned and the ones that require you to battle unique monsters, and you'd still get a great experience. Even if you ignore every single side quest, this is still a content-rich 50+ hour RPG with tons of beautiful locations, a memorable and cohesive party, and a fantastic soundtrack. (it's good) --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
| Topic | Playing Xenoblade for the first time |
| CaptainOfCrush 02/21/21 7:42:20 PM #7 | Expert Mode was so much fun to dink around with. Like others have said, there's really no down side since you can strengthen/nerf your team with your side XP pool at will. --- Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
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