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Xuxon posted...

man, the last damn map of AA and of course it's full ranged horse cancer with them on the right and me on the left with the breakable walls and a couple forest tiles.

They really need to re-evaluate map design. Honestly the Horse Emblem nonsense wouldn't be a big deal to me if it weren't for the glut of maps with no way for infantry to move around and full of choke points to boot. Even the map with trees that are supposed to hamper cavalry just makes it tougher to get away from them.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

I keep tons of copies of characters. I had 5 Subakis yesterday and now I have 2 after a run of skill inheriting. Hoarding is legit in this game.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Gonna need to see your notable 3*s as well. If you're set on making a 5* then the difference between 20k and 22k feathers isn't much considering they hand them out like candy these days.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

TVontheRadio posted...

i'd like to read about this moment! the game is really good at setting up relationships with people that it feels like you're bound to have a special moment with the cast whatever choice you make, and of course you'll be making major ones with the characters that resonate with you the most.

I generally decided which of my crew to liberate long before I actually did the rite. For the 5th Liberation Rite, I had decided to send up Pamitha. I was very sympathetic situation, and while I'd brought into contact with her sister several times, they weren't able to patch things up. If anything, seeing her sister was making Pamitha feel worse. I felt like it would be good to get her out of the Downside - she had nothing left for her there.

So of course, I get to the rite location and I'm facing Tamitha's team. Went "...huh" and started second-guessing my choice. What would Pamitha feel like if I liberated her at the direct cost of her sister? Maybe I should free someone else first...but no, for all I knew there wouldn't be a next time for her. I stuck to the plan. After the sisters exchanged some words, the rite began. I started winning pretty easily.

Then Pamitha directly asks me to throw the match so that Tamitha could go up instead of her. It was a little heartbreaking and had me doubting my choice all over again. After seriously deliberating whether or not to throw the match, I decided that I simply couldn't do it. I wouldn't let Pamitha's self-loathing cost her the freedom I felt she deserved. Ended up winning the match via Pamitha diving into their pyre.

I was really worried about how Pamitha would feel about that, but when the time came for her to go up, she expressed nothing but gratitude. She had realized that our group genuinely cared for her, and it helped take the edge off of her self-loathing. Left the Nightwings as happily as I could have hoped for.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

CaptainOfCrush posted...

Mac Arrowny posted...

It's horror just like The Sixth Sense and Silence of the Lambs are horror movies.

It's more conventional than those. Again, it features a lot of isolation and jump scares (generated by an actual paranormal monster). Aren't those among the most traditional of horror elements? What would have made this more of a "real" horror film? More deaths?

People generally just don't like admitting that a horror movie can be really good because the genre has a bad rap.
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Dark Young Link posted...

One of you guys uploaded that on Reddit as well, right?

That was me, yeah.
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I used TRE's data - if they they were combined, he would know. I wasn't aware of certain characters being in FE4 and FE5 actually. Just googled the names of anyone I was unfamiliar to find out their game.
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WhiteLens posted...

Isn't Black Knight actually in the game now or will be?

Not obtainable yet (also we wouldn't know about him without dataminers), also wanted to put him in as a comparison point.
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Got bored and made this:



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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/crewcrew/status/908825282873872385

We asked for the Mar-a-Lago visitor records.

We got none.

We sued.

We got 22 names.

Back to court.

Think we're starting to see what happens when people at the top decide to flat-out ignore the systems of checks and balances that can be used against them.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Having digested Pyre after marathoning it last night - aside from being a very good game which I'm sure has been talked about, it gave me one specific moment that felt like it should have been pre-scripted due to how much dramatic irony was involved - but that I know only came about due to my personal choices and complete happenstance. And not just choice in the terms of picking A or B to select your next cutscene - it was a long line of choices that culminated in that! I need more moments like that in games.
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Pyre beaten. Highly recommend ect.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

(Also doctors aren't managers for nurses)
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Professions are really specialized these days! I also think you're not respecting certain professions. Doctors could not do what nurses do without going to nursing school. Operating machinery safely takes time to learn. And being a good teacher is very hard - Most managers would completely suck at it.

With time, managers could learn those trades. But with time, employees could learn to be managers as well.
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Yeah a good manager doesn't necessarily need to be able to perform or even entirely understand the details what their employees do.

Keep in mind I'm not saying that all managers suck, just that they suck more on average (mostly cause you can't get rid of the ones that do).
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They are entirely different skill sets. Most managers aren't going to be able to code, or speak a foreign language, or play professional sports, or any number of things their employees are specialized to do.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I think a manager could step down and learn the staff's job better/more quickly than the other way around. There are exceptions like when a staff is being groomed for a management position. But if hypothetically a manager and staff suddenly switched, I think the former manager would be more successful.

This is extremely untrue for any job that isn't like, retail.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

But in most cases, a manager began as a staff who was seen as competent enough in their duties to warrant a promotion. Of course that does not directly correlate with smarts, but neither does being a staff in the first place.

This may have been true in the past, but the environment has changed. Companies are much less likely to promote from within - they tend to hire people from outside the company that have prior managerial experience. Both because it's more of a sure thing, and because making one of your best employees a manager makes no sense because you want them doing what they're already doing. Why make your best coder a manager? He should be coding.

Additionally, while managers should be people with strong leadership, social, and organizational skills...it often doesn't pan out that way. It's much easier to get higher-ups to notice you if you are social enough to build a rapport with them, even if your actual managerial skills aren't that great. Then they get promoted to manager, and once they do, getting rid of them is hard. Bad managers can make any of their shortcomings seem like the fault of the employees, because higher-ups already trust them more. Without going into details (to protect the people involved), I've seen this firsthand.

Even the very top isn't safe from this. There's a lot of CEOs out there that are grossly incompetent, but since they're CEOs they're extremely safe. Even if they leave the company, they cut themselves a bonus and get hired by a different company because they have prior experience being a CEO. I'm not exaggerating -- this happens quite often.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I think it's more likely that a manager is smarter than their staff versus the other way around. Would anyone really presume the opposite?

I don't think smarter/not smarter plays into it. A manager has skills in managing. An employee has skills in performing the job itself. The roles prioritize different skillsets, and in most cases I think if you switched them they would suffer when trying to accomplish the others' role.

However, I do think managers on average perform worse at their specific job than others do simply because it's harder to get rid of them if they're not qualified enough.
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I would argue that on average, managers are worse at their job than other employees simply because they're tougher to get rid of. A bad or even below-average employee gets cut pretty fast. It takes some major screwups for a manager to get ousted.
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These discussions are always weird to me anyway because Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million. The country wanted her more anyway! But, you know, Electoral College.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

I think another big part of the reason that everyone keeps telling her to shut up (and go shut up about any reason for her loss other than her own mistakes) is that if it's totally Hillary's fault everyone else can avoid their share of the blame.

This. She's a good scapegoat. If you can blame Hillary, then you don't have to entertain the notion that a large portion of the country is stupid/racist/sexist/ect, or that the electoral college is busted, or that POTUS is essentially a compromised Russian agent, or...
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Okami HD sounds great as long as they do it right. That art style deserves the HD treatment.
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Pyre is fun.

I don't think I've scored a single goal (outside of the tutorial) that wasn't from dunking.
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Whiskey_Nick posted...

Good work Allen

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.