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Setzer
Ramza

1. EarthBound
2. Mother 3
3. Final Fantasy VI
4. Final Fantasy VII
5. Final Fantasy IX
6. Final Fantasy Tactics
7. Xenogears
8. The World Ends With You
9. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
10. Dark Souls
11. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
12. Live a Live
13. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire
14. Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2
15. Final Fantasy XIII

Yeah episode 16 is the major turning point, and there are some earlier points that I would say are quite intense too, but they come in flashes.

Gandalf
Bond

Group 11 Contestants
Double Immune: Sephiroth
Immune: Gandalf
Immune: L
Immune: Joker
Boot: Dug
Boot: Belle
Boot: Jamie
Double Boot: Pikachu

Group 12 Contestants
Double Immune: Aang
Immune: Yoda
Immune: Bane
Immune: Edgar
Boot: Batman
Boot: Jack Bauer
Boot: Phoenix Wright
Double Boot: Voldemort

TIEBREAKER -
Luigi (Mario)

Bond

Group 4 Contestants

+20 Curious George
+10 Mufasa
+5 Doctor Doom
-5 Charizard
-10 Sam Beckett
-20 Vegeta

Group 5 Contestants

+20 Goofy
+10 Eeyore
+5 Groot
-5 Sarah Connor
-10 Voldemort
-20 Doctor Who

Group 6 Contestants

+20 Robin Hood
+10 Frog
+5 Andy Dufresne
-5 Jasmine
-10 Buffy
-20 Mad Max

Group 7 Contestants

+20 Pegasus
+10 Charlie Brown
+5 Cartman
-5 Kirby
-10 Doctor Strange
-20 Mega Man

I can't wait to hear Alan Moore rant about this one.

Just let it die, already, you sick bastards DC

Bond

Okay, but what if the alternatives are significantly less practical, and the situation is life and death?

Sure, but that would have been risky - tranquilizer darts don't take effect instantaneously. I can kind of understand why someone would have a problem with eating animals, but I don't think it makes sense to say we can't defend our young from other animals.

I don't know about Cecil, but I don't think they killed Harambe just because they could to be honest.

Is there any species alive that we aren't capable of killing? Perhaps some in the deep oceans that we simply can't reach, but if we could reach them we could kill them. I would say that makes us the greatest predators on the earth. It's not that rare for two predator species to fight each other.

Humans are better engineers than beavers, at least when we learn the skill, so beavers aren't necessarily what you might call apex engineers. Unlike humans as predators.

Yeah, it's possible for people to get perverted ideas in a number of ways. Those people would be one example of that.

Of course, their reaction to the food isn't a great example of how people react to cannibalism, because it would have been stage-props and not real human meat.

If you kill an animal in self-defense I don't see any sensible reason why you can't eat it. It would be wrong to do so to a human because animals who eat their own kind are low, and we know that because humans have a natural disgust reaction to cannibalism. But to do it to another animal, that's just nature.

If omnivores aren't apex predators, does that not seem to indicate that humans are actually carnivores?

Lamejokealt, would you say it's morally acceptable for me to kill and eat a carnivorous animal? After all, by killing it not only do I sustain myself, but I create a net decrease in the number of animals who are killed and eaten.

eaedwards6400 posted...

TC said he gets his brave up to 95. How? I have never actually done that.

Some of Ramza's Squire skills that boost brave give a smaller permanent boost to it.

Group 1 Contestants

+20 Ganondorf
+10 Marty
+5 Brain
-5 Ryu
-10 Flynn
-20 Baymax

Group 2 Contestants

+20 Light
+10 Fox
+5 The Monster
-5 Moana
-10 Cassidy
-20 Flash

Group 3 Contestants:

+20 Spike
+10 Remy
+5 Aragorn
-5 Atticus
-10 Kenshin
-20 Michael Corleone

metroid composite posted...

(FWIW it's not that hard to measure--it's hard to figure out how much any one individual privilege matters, but we can see how they combine together by looking at how far the average man/woman gets in society).

I think that's a fine suggestion, but I imagine you would still run into the problem of weighting different privileges, unless I misunderstand what you mean by "How far people get in society".

For instance, while men make more money on average and are over-represented in high-ranking positions like CEOs or political office, women have a longer life expectancy and lower rates of untimely death.

metroid composite posted...

But if that's the approach we're taking, we shouldn't complain about solutions. Scholarships for, say, women in science is a solution to the problem that there has historically been a gender imbalance towards men in science fields. Similar approaches to fix gender imbalances have worked in other fields in the past (Law school used to be very male dominated, is now relatively gender balanced). Same idea with stuff like girls-only computer camps for highschoolers--they exist to try and encourage more enrollment at the university level, which has been a recent problem.

I don't think that quotas make things fairer, but it depends on what your goals are. To me it's not necessarily a problem if one sex is over-represented in a specific field. If there are certain policies or barriers that make it harder for the other sex to enter that field, then that I would agree is unfair. But the sensible solution would be to remove the unfair policy itself, rather than to add another unfair policy as a counterweight.

But even if you disagree, it can't be denied that sex-specific camps or scholarships or quotas are a form of privilege based on sex. That just means that sex-specific privileges aren't inherently a bad thing.

I don't think it's only black men who are shot and killed much more often than women by the police, I think this is true for people of all colours. and women also have the privilege of priority seating on lifeboats.

Do you think there's any particular relevance to the question of which sex is broadly more privileged? To answer that question you would have to not only try and find whose list was longer, as you say, but you'd have to weight the different privileges too. That would open you up to a lot of subjectivity, but I would argue the two aforementioned ones are some of the biggest privileges of all. There are women who are alive thanks to those privileges when if they were male they'd be dead.

But I don't see how the question could possibly be productive. If you want to make things fairer, the best method is just to find anything unfair and then try to fix it, as far as I can tell.

metroid composite posted...

For all that yes, men can sometimes get small advantages just for being male. (Like grad school applications--if you have a male sounding name on an identical resume you get a small edge; you have to actually get to the point where you have a strong resume, though).

Yes, but women can also get small advantages just for being female. Sex-specific programs and scholarships are an easy example of that. Privilege is a legitimate concept but the politicized ideas of it that assume it's only one way, like "male privilege at the cost of female oppression" are just wrong.

Bond

27 - Most of the Mario and Pokemon games, a few of the Wii ones, and one or two of the CoD/GTA games, and Sonic, Tetris, and RDR.

Group 25

+10 Dracula
+6 Obi-Wan
+4 Aladdin
+2 Magneto
-2 Professor X
-4 Jasmine
-6 Rapunzel
-10 Scooby-Doo

Group 26

+10 King of all Cosmos
+6 Spiderman
+4 Simba
+2 Eeyore
-2 Batman
-4 WALL-E
-6 Carlton
-10 Jayne Cobb

Group 23

+10 Tigger
+6 Phoenix Wright
+4 Frollo
+2 Ocelot
-2 Thrawn
-4 Jafar
-6 Voldemort
-10 Loki

Group 24

+10 Toph
+6 Santa
+4 Groot
+2 Zoidberg
-2 Django
-4 Jon Snow
-6 Cassidy
-10 Crash

The link doesn't even take me to this story. I think you linked to BBC's broader "Europe" news feed and so it doesn't show up as the first story at this point.

Germany is pretty over-the-top when it comes to policing and censoring Swastikas though so I can believe something like this would happen. What makes it the most unpleasant is that she's this ancient senile old woman and they still arrested her for something so dumb.

Bond

Hunter x Hunter (2)

Hunter x Hunter (1)

Group 21

+10 Pooh Bear
+6 Sephiroth
+4 Cartman
+2 Bender
-2 Dory
-4 George Jetson
-6 Jesse Custer
-10 Black Widow

Group 22

+10 Shrek
+6 Chewbacca
+4 Butters
+2 Jules Winnfield
-2 Bauer
-4 Donkey Kong
-6 Stitch
-10 Doctor Strange

Hunter x Hunter

Group 19

+10 Yoda
+6 Ripley
+4 Vader
+2 Hans
-2 Cammy
-4 Flash
-6 Eren
-10 Bigby

Group 20

+10 L
+6 Kenny
+4 Frodo
+2 Terminator
-2 Professor McGonagall
-4 Tarzan
-6 Mad Max
-10 Deadpool

Group 15

+10 Spike Spiegel
+6 The Monster
+4 John
+2 Arya
-2 Starlord
-4 Cruella
-6 Ralph
-10 Nathan Drake

Group 16

+10 Robin Hood
+6 Red
+4 Sherlock
+2 Tom
-2 Indiana Jones
-4 Mega Man
-6 Jack Skellington
-10 Anna

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Group 13

+10 Cookie Monster
+6 GLaDOS
+4 Scrooge McDuck
+2 Harry Potter
-2 Hannibal
-4 Edward
-6 Gus
-10 Buffy

Group 14

+10 Aang
+6 Snake
+4 Locke
+2 Tyler Durden
-2 Iron Man
-4 Venom
-6 Catwoman
-10 Katniss

I think it's kind of bad, probably my least-favorite Fire Emblem. The mechanics and the map design are really archaic and that turns it into a drag. It's too easy even on the highest difficulty, to the point of being mind-numbing early on.

It is a lot better than any recent Fire Emblem game narratively though, for what little that's worth.

Group 11

+10 Snape
+6 Edgar
+4 Steven Austin
+2 Thor
-2 Kirby
-4 Zelda
-6 Grumpy
-10 Elsa

Group 12

+10 Charlie Brown
+6 Gandalf
+4 Donald
+2 Kefka
-2 Daffy
-4 Beast
-6 Peter
-10 House

In the case of this contest specifically I would've liked to see more literary and mythological characters, although I can't complain too much since I didn't nominate. I was a little bit let down when I saw that Gilgamesh was in the contest only to read (Final Fantasy V) beside his name.

Group 9

+10 Andy Dufresne
+6 Picard
+4 Taz
+2 Genie
-2 Superman
-4 Ryu
-6 Chloe Price
-10 Hawkeye

Group 10

+10 Curious George
+6 Sora
+4 Cloud
+2 Bowser
-2 Link
-4 Bart
-6 Willy Wonka
-10 Sarah Connor

Group 7

+10 Kermit
+6 Atticus
+4 Jerry
+2 Charizard
-2 Lara
-4 Jack Sparrow
-6 Hulk
-10 Thanos

Group 8

+10 Sonic
+6 Light
+4 Walter
+2 Toothless
-2 Pocahontas
-4 The Grinch
-6 Ludwig von Koopa
-10 Hector Barbossa

Group 5

+10 Kaiba
+6 Dug
+4 Luigi
+2 Kyle
-2 Rocky
-4 Captain America
-6 Doctor Doom
-10 Elizabeth

Group 6

+10 Bond
+6 Pegasus
+4 Hercules
+2 Mike Wazowski
-2 Kronk
-4 Sub-Zero
-6 Piccolo
-10 Freiza

Fought through the wildcard round just to immediately go down. Sad for her.

Ulti

Because I'm literally obsessed.

George is probably my favourite character still in this contest so I'll try and give my reasoning.

I think George is a good character because he really does behave like an animal (or a child), in that most of what he does is spur of the moment and for it's own sake. A lot of the conflict in his stories comes from that even though he's essentially well-meaning too, which isn't something a lot of fiction gets right but it is true to life. Between those two things he's a believable character and a lot of his stuff is funny too. A good example of that is in one of the books, where he's in the hospital and he gets high on ether and then knocks himself out. I also like the story from the old show where The Man in the Yellow Hat is gone when he wakes up and he thinks that The Man is angry with him so he decides to leave home. There's a real sense of childish playfulness to that, and I think it helps that his stories move from one thing to the next without too much apparent structure. That's a bit like childhood too.

I bet a lot of the people who voted him up did it out of nostalgia though. To some extent I grew up with him too. I saw the old shorts in school and the new series started when I was still a kid.

RySenkari posted...

Tom Bombadil posted...

why not both?

Because the first one is a distraction.

If you're annoyed at both things then it's not a terribly good distraction.

Group 3 Contestants:

(+20)
L
Curious George
Chigurh

(+10)
Jean Grey
Ellie
V
Optimus
King Kong

(-10)
Sam Beckett
Taz
Red Ranger
Saito
Dedede
Bundy
Ryuk


Group 4 Contestants:

(+20)
HAL
Norman Bates
Ripley


(+10)
Edward Scissorhands
Peter Pan
Wicked Witch of the West
Gohan

(-10)
Max Caulfield
Yuri Lowell
Lelouch
Roger Thornhill
GOB Blouth
Loki
Vash
Tidus

EDIT: I had left the full character lists in above my votes, removed that.
EDIT2: Added Jean Grey

Group 1 Contestants:

(+20)
Winston Smith
Mike Wazowski
Kefka

(+10)
Spongebob
Leon
Ariel

(-10)
Crash
Will
Worf
Android 18
Dr. Horrible
Jack Skellington
Crono
Keyser Soze
Leslie

Group 2 Contestants:

(+20)
Travis
Shrek
Stan

(+10)
Welkin
Tyler Durden
Dumbo
The Dude
Rorschach

(-10)
Catwoman
Fred Flintstone
Tony Soprano
Guybrush
Dexter
Stewie
Stitch

That's a reasonable perspective. I think my hang-up is that I would hate it if someone downvoted a character I really liked but that they didn't know, which probably happened to Danny Phantom and some others. But I can admit that it is just a personal hang-up.