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What constitutes "political" posts? If a trans person posts about being trans or someone talks about using contraception, is that too "political"?

Jen0125 posted...

apparently doing it one single time can rot your brain enough to convince you you're a god and it can rot other peoples' brains into believing it

Oh, "rot" isn't the word to use. "Cook" is the word. It causes hyperthermia in the body, including the brain. You know how a fever can cause brain damage? Yeah.

Israel has over the course of many years, fenced in a population, controlled where they can go, seized control of their water, food, and electricity, and now shut it off because "we have to stop the terrorists" and now tens of thousands of civs are dead and literal MILLIONS are either starving or on the brink of starvation.

Yes, this is genocide. That there are terrorists does not magically make this not genocide.

I've only seen a few around here. We have a decent public pool and pretty dramatic seasonal changes so private pools aren't a huge thing here.

EchoBaz posted...

I LOVE THESE!
The bottle really adds to the flavor, drink it from the bottle!

Yeah I like them from the bottle but it's a lot to drink, so I just make sure to use glass cups.

Why the glass bottles? The company explains that:
https://www.martinellis.com/company/martinellis-iconic-bottles/
It's for product/brand recognition, associating the contents of the bottle with celebration, etc.

It's not a "cheap low-class alternative to wine" and no one treats it that way. The alternative to expensive/high-class alcohol is cheap alcohol, not fizzy juice. That said, sparkling cider was popularized be Prohibition and was a way for companies that produced alcohol to survive Prohibition, but this meant that it was diametrically opposed to alcohol, not a true substitute, and indeed, advertisements for it went out of their way to point out that it was good for celebrations where people did not want alcohol, NOT for occasions where you had no money, lmao.

I'm not a huge fan of the mandatory mini-game sequences (I don't really like mini-games most of the time, though this is a YMMV thing and not an "it's objectively bad" thing, I'm sure a lot of people like it). I think the open world stuff was not great. The pacing is a mess just like the previous installment, a natural consequence of chopping a game up into 3 games.

Some of the changes to the story feel like sanitation: making it so Dyne doesn't threaten to kill Marlene and he doesn't commit suicide and they don't cover the belief that neither Dyne nor Barret deserve to hold Marlene because of the blood on their hands, making Cait Sith's betrayal less of a betrayal and he doesn't threaten Marlene (running theme here, huh), making Cid way less abrasive to the point where he feels like a different character entirely... oh, and while I liked the Gi sequence, it felt like it was awkwardly squashed into the Seto scene, I think that could have been executed better in a way that didn't mess with Nanaki's revelation about Seto. Also, wtf happened to the Tiny Bronco? Did I miss something? That was so weird.

Then in the late-game, the changes to the Temple of the Ancients were weird (why can the Cetra talk to everyone and not just Aerith?!) and then there's that bizarre sequence where Barret chucks the black materia, Cloud gets it back, then Aerith takes it from Cloud, then Cloud takes it from Aerith, then Cloud gives it to Sephiroth, and it's like... why? In the original Cloud loses complete control of himself and starts attacking Aerith, which is why she leaves; she knows he can't be trusted not to be violent with her again.

And then the whole ending sequence, yeesh. They seemed absolutely determined to suck all the weight out of that sequence, and again, they sanitized it, not showing the rather horrifying stabbing and withdrawing of the sword. There's stupid-ass ghosts obscuring everything and the game decides to insert a bunch of rule-of-cool multiverse fights... and we don't even see her being laid to rest.

Most of the above listed changes feel like they add nothing of value and are an active detriment in many respects. It's odd because when they nail things they really do nail them. There were a lot of story tweaks I really liked, some great details added and a lot of awkward parts of the original made better. A couple of examples: I liked how they introduced Yuffie to the party, they made a head-canon of mine regarding Nanaki full-on canon, I liked that they had little sequences with Reeve and made it so that he looked up Vincent as soon as they ran into him because Reeve's presence is sorely lacking during this arc of the story, it was a good idea to put those in. I think they did a good job of implementing Tifa and Cloud's complicated dynamic alongside the changes to the story in general. I liked the Gi sequence even though it was a bit awkwardly inserted. The Junon sequence was really entertaining even if it's really strange that no one recognizes the party as the terrorists prior to nabbing their disguises or after discarding them on the ship, it's a minor gripe that doesn't change the fact that the sequence was improved noticeably. In a way that makes the parts I don't like more disappointing, if that makes any sense. The multiverse stuff... people justify it by saying it's obviously going to pay off in the third installment and, sure, that's a possibility, but these games also do actually have to stand on their own, and in Rebirth, the multiverse content really hurts the late-game in particular. Zack literally contributed nothing worth noting to Rebirth at all.

Edit: Also I don't see the point in wasting time quibbling over whether it's a remake or a sequel. That's a very strange thing to get hung up on. Call it whatever you want. Who cares?

Unless I'm fucking someone, I don't really care what they ID as.

SinisterSlay posted...

I am not sure a current audience could handle the slow pace of chrono trigger.

Slow pace? CT is one of the quicker classic JRPGs to get through.

Anyway, it's okay. I find the cast pretty lackluster which is a shame because the premise is so strong.

Not sure about NES/Genesis, but for SNES? Lord of the Rings Vol. 1

LotR Vol 1 has some killer songs, some of the best on the SNES, but it is... not good. Multiplayer makes it more tolerable but it is still not good.
Edit: Example from the OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOrtNsXV8E

If I have coffee it needs to be loaded with other shit to make it palatable to me. I drink tea without any frills.

I once saw a group of boys that had surrounded and were molesting a girl in a K-6 schoolyard outside my apartment (this was over a decade ago) and tried to smash their heads in with a snow shovel. Turns out that a snow shovel is not very easy to swing so I didn't actually manage to hit any of them, which was probably for the best.
So yes, I am capable of violence depending on the circumstances. Doesn't mean I'm especially good at it, just that I'm willing to do it if I feel it's needed.

As in from NES or earlier? Probably Castlevania.

I'll probably watch someone else play it.

Tbh, when they said that they wanted to make the whole game more like the Gold Saucer, it really tanked my interest.

Noooooo... no. Not for me, at all.

Nabbed it, ty for pointing that out.

If MK8 had a "Double Dash Mode," it would be a near-perfect game.

Did you unlock the giant cucco?

Edit: I think you can do most- all?- of the streetpass content without other players.

Africa because it's the human point of origin. A fairly neutral choice.