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I wonder how many of the people currently posting here are Helly alts?

DiduXD posted...

Might do Lost Levels.

Lost Levels is genuinely difficult, but, if you're looking for a hardcore platforming challenge, that's definitely a viable choice, especially if you want to get the 'real' ending by finding the extra worlds.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Amazing how a hentai game became a super wholesome iyashikei anime.

Well, it's only a hentai game if you pay $9.99 U.S. for the adult patch. Otherwise, it's wholesome enough.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

The lack of accurate information on the disease is troubling. I sense the authorities in charge of public health do not yet understand how it works.

Related to a point of discussion above: I was not going to play the FFVII remake demo, but I changed my mind after hearing how short it was, so I figured there was no harm in it. Jessie is adorbs.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Well, shit. I'm so sorry.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Paid for a wrestling pay-per-view (AEW Revolution) for the first time since my friends and I pooled cash for one back in the '90s. Ended up being a great time. The missus and I both enjoyed it.

Thought about the FF7 Remake demo, realized that it's probably stupid huge in terms of hard drive space, decided to wait for the full game.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Anime is not for children.

....

Well, let me revise that. Anime is not for American children.

This country is so fucking stupid, I swear.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Got a good deal on a Sega Genesis Mini ($34.99 U.S.). The game selection did not make it worth full price, IMO, but what I paid seems about right. Funniest part of the whole thing was the NES Classic and SNES Classic were retailing at three and four times that price, respectively.

If Nintendo does the N64 Classic, as rumored, I might just pre-order that and save myself trouble.

keyblader1985 posted...

Man, I really can't stand the abstract and nonsensical page layout of shoujo manga. It makes even the most interesting series a chore to get through.

One of several reasons why I prefer the (first) anime version of Sailor Moon. I find the manga hard to read.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

What I take from the Kung Flu is that it might delay the release of the PS5 long enough to kill Game Stop before the end of the year. Which is fine.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Revelation34 posted...

Aren't Haitian "zombies" just drugged out slaves?

It is ... complicated, but it involves the use of pufferfish toxin, combined with a funeral and staged burial, to make a person believe that they have died and that you have complete control over their body after they dig you back up. Scary stuff. The Duvalier dictatorship used to threaten people with it and make the public believe that the regime still had power over your soul after your death.

The disclaimer here is that real-life examples have very scarce documentation. It is almost impossible to sift the facts from centuries of deliberate fiction.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

*back from Episode 4 of Picard*

Hmm. Do I have anything to contribute to this? ... Nothing I can cover that has not already been covered, perhaps, except that I can add that most of what is depicted in The Serpent and the Rainbow comes from a sensationalist travel book called The Magic Island by William Seabrook, back from the time period when the U.S. more or less ruled Haiti as a colony. Seabrook based his account on his experiences in Haiti, but he also made stuff up wholesale that has no basis in reality. Still a very engaging read if you want to learn the basics of vaudou and the zombi myth, but it is only a starting point.

Source: This is something I actually studied back in the day. One of my professors was from Haiti.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

A kanji dictionary is a good investment if you are comfortable with basic Japanese.

Looking up the right kanji is a pain in the ass, though.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Personally, I'm a fan of the idea that the vampire becomes a zombie and the zombie becomes a vampire, so you get two weird zombie/vampire hybrid weirdos.

... who probably used to be a pair of Imperial Stormtroopers named Tag and Bink.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

This time they went to build a bitch workshop and later fucked the essence of light itself.

....

*updates bucket list*


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*starts drumroll as 500 approaches*

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Has anyone been watching Star Trek: Picard?

I have, but I am not up to date on the most recent episode because I have barely been home since it premiered. So far, the show is all right by me.


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Hmm. That looks like a Date A Live crossover version of Nep, but I think I am missing details.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*nods*

That is not the best ending. You need to have all the fusions and all the Dragon equipment to get it. And you will know that you are on the right track if the final boss turns from a little girl into a Lovecraftian cosmic horror-looking thing.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Revelation34 posted...

I remember reading Chrono Trigger fanfics way back. I wonder if I would still like the same ones since I criticize everything harsher now.

Depends on how far back you go. Chrono Trigger fanfic has a long history, and it goes back to the heyday of video game fanfic as a medium.

keyblader1985 posted...

Most of the fanfics I ever read were lemons (I don't even know if they still use that term), or occasionally comedies.

The term lost its meaning and more or less disappeared after the closure of the Sakura Lemon archive and the banning of explicit stories at FFN.


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The Wave Master posted...

I did finish the original Breath of Fire a few weeks ago, and I'm deep into Breath of Fire 2 now.

I have to ask: Which version of the ending did you get for BOF1? You can put it in spoiler tags if you like.


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

It was Oscar Night.

Which meant I watched XFL football instead.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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keyblader1985 posted...

It's cool that you did it for so long. Did you stick mainly to a few series or a little bit of anything?

I started in Sailor Moon (because the community in the '90s was amazing), moved to Guilty Gear and Soul Calibur, and ended up in Fire Emblem, where I did the bulk of my work, but I have dabbled in all kinds of stuff over the years.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Made a big decision today. I retired from being a fanficcer after twenty years. Not easy to do, but I think it will be better for me in the long run. I mean, I'll keep writing, since I'm not about to stop doing that, but I've got to get out of that space. It's so toxic now that it's impossible to get anything done.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

And just think: Shakira is in her 40s, J. Lo is in her 50s.

Amazing what having money will do for a person.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

They post the reviews at a local pub and people pay them for the info.

Truly the heroes we deserve. Might have to see if I can track that down.

Meanwhile, less than ten days to go until Three Houses gets the Ashen Wolves DLC.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I feel the same way. Would have been okay with either team winning, but I do feel like the Chiefs deserved it a bit more after half a century since their last Super Bowl win. If they can do it, so can my Jets.

Will give the XFL a try. Not expecting anything great from Vince, but, hey, it's football, and I'd rather have an outdoor variant if one is available. Had too much fun watching the AAF last year to give this one a pass.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

And Scott says, in Civil War, "Okay, so I've only done this once before ... in a lab, and I screamed and passed out." (I'm paraphrasing from memory here.)

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

On a light note, Memoria Freese is having a crossover event with Goblin Slayer until the end of February, and the writers of both series collaborated in doing it, so the results are ... interesting. Danmachi can be a dark franchise, but never as dark as Goblin Slayer, and the characters remark on that. The 4th Wall also takes a few hits, since several voice actors are shared between the shows (e.g. Chigusa in Danmachi is also Cow Girl in Goblin Slayer), so the characters occasionally get confused as to who is talking. I might actually play all the way through this one, unlike the Attack On Titan and Date A Live III crossovers.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

agesboy posted...

Some games ran better than PS2 (tales of the abyss), some didn't run at all (srw impact). Last time I tried was 2008 though.

I should make a mental note of that, since I still have SRW Impact here. Fortunately, the JPS2 is still almost as good as new, but ... in case it ever goes, it's good to know that I have alternatives.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I did date a single mother. Still married to her a decade later, and my (step)daughters more or less tolerate my existence, especially now that one of them has a kid of her own. But! Dating a single parent is a big leap that not everybody can do.

The PS2s here still work, thankfully, but the 3DS version of DQ8 does have more content. Highly recommended.

And doctors are ... yeah. Just give me my blood pressure meds and try not to charge me too much for the fifteen minutes you can spare me. :-P

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If you feel like getting back into wrestling again, start with NXT or AEW.

This, though I have decided to go exclusively AEW. Neither option is a bad watch, though.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

LOL.

I guess some players remember DQ5 a little, ah, differently.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

dragon504 posted...

Anyone wanna rec Black Clover?

No. Crunchyroll keeps trying to sell that show as the next big shounen title, but all it does is get on my nerves.


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

DeltaBladeX posted...

And today I was looking at some console tan stuff to find something to use for trolling someone and I found this weird as fuck image

That one is ... oddly specific.


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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Godzilla marathon on the Comet channel (via local and Sling TV). Rewatched Son of Godzilla for the first time in ages, and I thought that it did not sound quite like I remember. (I watched that on VHS many times as a kid, so it stuck with me.) So I looked it up, and I was right: The English dub that I watched back in the day is not the same one that is shown on TV nowadays.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Haha, same background as the AEW Bash At the Beach event ... and, y'know, every synthwave music video on You Tube. Still cool, though.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

keyblader1985 posted...

Sad day. Brice Armstrong, narrator for Dragon Ball, just died.

"On the next episode ... of Dragon. Ball. Z."

R.I.P.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Vert? Needs more Nepgear!

I'm just hoping the Neptunia series isn't dead at this point.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

T0ffee posted...

I really should stop watching reviews for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore.

Picked up my copy today, but it looks like it is going to wait until I get through my third run (Golden Deer this time) of Three Houses. Still unhappy about the censorship, but at least I get to play the game.

keyblader1985 posted...

I knew they changed some cases from dying to going to the Shadow Realm, but I didn't realize the entire concept of the Shadow Realm was totally made up by 4Kids.

*does deep Bryan Drummond Vegeta voice*

"I have sent him to ... the Next Dimension!"

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

This is looking like a good anime season for flipping through shows and browsing the line-up without really watching anything.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Comic Magneto was cartoonish evil for 15 years before there was even a HINT that he was maybe more complex.

*goes to look at Marvel Essentials*

Magneto and Xavier have one conversation (via telepathy) in the '60s run of Uncanny X-Men that states that the two of them could be allies, if only just -- yeah, you know the deal.

Had to wait for Claremont to pick that ball up, I guess.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I didn't know how to feel about a Venom movie, but that turned out all right, IMO.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I still say Wendy's has the better chicken nuggets.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Cindy: "See? There are female characters in FFXV."
Fujoshi Horde: "NO U LIE."

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

helIy posted...

I want more DanMachi.

So do I, but you and I aren't supposed to agree on anything, so you can't have any. :-P

As for why the show has the appeal it does, I think it has a lot to do with the secondary characters (and our main character not being a complete asshat)

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Platinum in any Disgaea game is no mean feat.

I agree about Kajiura, though. I still listen to the SIGN OSTs. Having Kajiura do the SAO OSTs after that feels ... cheap. Like having Sakuraba do both Star Ocean and Tales.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

.hack//SIGN was sufficiently intellectually challenging that I doubt we will see another thing like that.

helIy posted...

Cool guy with 2 swards gets harem of 40 big tittied girls.

All of whom have the same face. :-P

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I feel like your timing is off there...?

It most likely is. I'm starting to think there's a rule of the universe that makes me forget things just enough that you have to correct me. :-P

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

SAO has to be the most consistently inconsistent anime of all time.

Web novel writing quality, akin to taking trash-tier fanfic and throwing a bunch of money at it.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I had a rough time dealing with Yunalesca, too, but there is a gimmick there.

Not as rough as the second fight with Seymour, though. That sucked.

Zeus posted...

Glanced at Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle today. May wind up tracking it down eventually. In general, I need a new manga source.

Tsubasa is the point at which I generally stopped following CLAMP. The switch to that bedamned 'noodle people' art style drove me nuts (see also: Code Geass). Almost as bad as the 'only six faces on paper doll bodies' Gundam Seed art style, IMO. The story is at least semi-interesting, but I found it too hard to get invested when I was too busy thinking, "Good God, if this was the real world, her arms would be six feet long." Still have no idea why CLAMP made that stylistic choice.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

On that, I agree. Ice Age was a great expansion. Certainly good enough to kick the crap out of my Fallen Empires decks, heh. It was also a nice change after Tempest, which was the 'in' thing when I started trying to play.

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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.