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The ending of ARR is what made me go "oh shit, I can have expectations now?" Game rewarded that trust in spades since then.

In one of my posts earlier, I mentioned in a spoiler bar that Alphinaud was one of the VA changes I missed the most. His new guy actually does a great job, but yeah, Sam Riegel nailed him.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/lm28td/they_had_prepared_for_everything_except_for_the/

Recommend reading through this wild ride. Make sure to click the arrow to see all the images.

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https://i.redd.it/7a7nc0lyn4i61.jpg

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Man the topic hasn't smelt blood in the water to this degree in a while. Guess Corrik wasn't an exciting enough target anymore. This is fresh meat.

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Llarian posted...

Started playing this and it's beautiful - the artwork, the music, everything is stunning.

Yup

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Tits

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I'm actually glad I found out today that Pokewars is a Trumper. Like I always disliked him based on shallow reasons but now I can do it wholeheartedly and with a clear conscience.

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Seeing screenshots with Shulk next to Pyra/Mothra makes me appreciate Xeno 1's design direction. Shulk might have a goofy outfit but at least he has a damn nose.

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Xenoblade 1's dub is one of my favorites of all time. I have no idea what happened with 2.

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Forget the Blades - I stand by my claim that Rex has the worst design for a main character I've ever seen. I'd rather play as Luso Clemens.

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I browsed the Fate GO wiki for literally five seconds and immediately found Elizabeth Bthory (Brave) Stage 4

You're not fooling anyone

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Anyway I have 0 connection to Xenoblade 2 but I always enjoy watching the Smash fanbase complain about anime swordsmen, so today is overall a net gain for me

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Can you even buy the porn version of F/SN anymore?

No, but Fate GO also exists and that's got a ton of borderline softcore porn

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RikkuAlmighty posted...

This reddit comment about Pyra/Mythra made me lol:

"I can't believe they gave a rep to SFM"

What Smash considers acceptable for Good Boys and Girls always confuses me

Pyra is a straight-up hentai character but it's Mythra that needs tights?

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The best part of the trailer was the 10 seconds of Shulk at the end

Congrats to those who were sad about Xeno 2 missing the initial cut though

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Impa would be cool but I don't like the logic of including another Zelda character just to fill an imaginary quota

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Ah, there's the Biden I was expecting

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"Anime was a mistake." - Mark Twain

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huh

tag

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But hmm, perhaps it is tasteless to mock the recently dead. For example, it would have been really shitty of me to treat:

• Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
• Scott Beigel, 35
• Martin Duque, 14
• Nicholas Dworet, 17
• Aaron Feis, 37
• Jaime Guttenberg, 14
• Chris Hixon, 49
• Luke Hoyer, 15
• Cara Loughran, 14
• Gina Montalto, 14
• Joaquin Oliver, 17
• Alaina Petty, 14
• Meadow Pollack, 18
• Helena Ramsay, 17
• Alex Schachter, 14
• Carmen Schentrup, 16
• Peter Wang, 15

With anything but the utmost of respect.

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Actually I'll elaborate on my feelings

Rush Limbaugh is on the Top 10 list of people that have harmed this country the most. He doesn't get as much attention these days thanks to lunatics like Alex Jones dominating the news, but Rush Limbaugh was the pioneer of proliferating conservative talking points outside of mainstream news networks. A lot of older people grew up listening to radio talk shows and never stopped, and Limbaugh was their go-to to dose themselves with another hit of conservatism before it was time to sit down and watch Fox News in the evening. Just a constant stream of propaganda and hateful vitriol in a setting they felt comfortable and familiar with.

People here who didn't grow up with a conservative family don't realize how insidious this was. You can listen to the radio while doing basically anything. Driving in the car? Rush Limbaugh. Sitting at your desk? Rush Limbaugh. My grandpa especially had him playing all the time, and it was super weird to watch him go about his day normally as conservative ranting serenaded him in the background. Made me realize that I could have spent years trying to show him alternative points of view and never gotten anywhere with him, because I can't replace the background radiation of his life.

So, as someone who lost a family member to a long battle with cancer: I'm glad Rush Limbaugh is dead, I hope it was as painful as possible, and that he died cold and alone. Fuck him.

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Inviso posted...

https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-dead-at-70-lung-cancer/

Ding dong the witch is dead

Hi mods

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Didn't know the game sold so much in Japan. That raises Crono to a 3% chance instead of a 1% chance!

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Right now at Limsa Lominsa square in Ultros there's a group putting on a legit concert with sound effects. I've been sitting here for 15 minutes listening to it.

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The single-most harmful person to American society in history is either Ronald Reagen or Rupert Murdoch

Take your pick

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Paratroopa1 posted...

Crono. Not my favorite character by any means, but Chrono Trigger is the most important game in Nintendo's history that I can think of that isn't represented in some way, it would bring probably the best OST that's not represented in Smash, and it would complete the Noble Nine. It's also just one of the most generally hype picks I can think of.

Crono would be slick but I don't think it's as important as you make it out to be. The game is extremely well-regarded among RPG fans but honestly isn't very mainstream and has probably been played by a million people at most. Being on GameFAQs makes the game feel bigger than it is.

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Isaac, if he still counts as plausible

Otherwise Dante

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PerfectChaosZ posted...

Basically everything but hes still a ****head.

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I think Tifa>Zelda is debatable now that FF7 Remake is here and BotW is a little older. Wouldn't take it myself though.

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You haven't lived until you've followed a newbie sprouthead around while you're in the Magitek armor repeatedly firing cannons at them

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

This stupid racist women is never going to hurt anyone again.

Big-ass citation needed for this one

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Advokaiser posted...

I think that hypothesis may solidify depending on how Ellie performs next contest.

I dont think Ellie is a good barometer. The Last Of Us is a poisoned well. She'll be weaker, Joel will be weaker, and the original is probably even weaker than when it got dunked on by Dark Souls.

Ellie did look a bit stronger than Joel in the last character battle, so there's that at least to go off of.

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Pretty sure all mounts have the same speed.

Also, probably shouldn't look at the list, I think there's a spoiler or two there.

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Random hypothesis: female characters boosting on GameFAQs is indicative of a wider gaming culture shift towards female characters being normalized as something other than sex symbols, damsels in distress, or bit side characters. According to TJF, female characters probably should've gotten weaker as GameFAQs' core voterbase grew out of their horny teenage years, but the opposite has happened. It's less WaifuFAQs and more RespectsWomenFAQs...and also WaifuFAQs, but still. Jury is still out on RacistFAQs - need to see Barret in action again.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kir7gyjsIoQ

Works every time (if you're white)

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I've gotten in fairly often in roulettes, so you might just be running into bad queue timing.

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If it's under warranty, send it in for repairs and be prepared not to have your Switch for two months because USPS is fucked.

Maybe try a different charger cable.

Otherwise, new battery time.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Wow this seriously sidetracked me.

And now the next one has Ultros and maintenance starts in 15 ;_;

You two weeks ago: "I will never play FF14, MMOs just don't work for me."

Current: "Damn, I want to do more quests but have to stop playing for the day because maintenance is locking me out."

Oh how the turn tables.

(It's locking me out too. I just want to level Pugilist a bit more...)

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The Hildibrand quests are one long fever dream. Whoever made them was probably on LSD, and I thank them for it.

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Unless I'm forgetting something, you've now cleared/experienced every piece of major content in ARR outside of the main story.

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Cavedweller2000 posted...

No other MGS boss made me feel the way I did after beating Metal Gear Ray(s) on European-Extreme mode in MGS2. So I voted that.

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Not a huge fan of 2-6 but 2-5 is aces

Nagito hard carries DR2

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Yeah DR2's cast felt weirdly disconnected from each other. They're all kind of just doing their own thing.

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I wouldn't follow for updates until you get caught up. They're not going to be shy about spoilers.

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https://twitter.com/olivebrinker/status/1297235907976638464

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Don't watch stuff from later expansions, like, ever, if you want to avoid spoilers.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I must be in the minority but I think the voicework is a massive improvement post-ARR. I'm going though again on an alt right now and part of it is what I'm used to but it's rough.

I attribute this mostly to voice direction though, I know the original talent they had was largely good, but the direction makes a huge difference. Like thank fucking god they dropped the whole "all lalafels must sound like squeaky cartoon children" shit.

I miss certain voices, specifically Alphinaud, Thancred, Raubahn, Yda but their replacements are still good, and I can agree agree that the Lalas are much better now, and some of the old cast had some really questionable performances.

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Quick note so you don't get totally blindsided - all (except for like one dude) the voice actors are changed after ARR. I'm still not sure why, probably something to do with licensing. They've stayed consistent since then. I would say that the voices are generally either a sidegrade or a mild improvement, although it took me some time to get used to them.

There's also Alisaie, who has a pretty good voice performance in subsequent expansions and has maybe the worst modern dub performance I've ever heard in her scenes in ARR. She really brings the ARR average down!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

The stuff in that Bahamut Coil vid was great, but it commited the most dangerous sin of making me want to swap to a Lalafel instead, because God damn is the player character in that compilation adorable.

There's one scene later on where a character gets up in your face to try and intimidate you. If you're a Lalafell, he has to squat down to do it and it looks ridiculous.

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2-2 is definitely the best case in either game up until that point

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Wow, I know you guys already said to expect it, but was the playrate for this Bahamut raid so bad that they straight up broke it up into 5 smaller chunks...and it still has a 30+ minute wait for the first one?

The Bahamut Raids are in 13 chunks, actually, you just haven't unlocked the rest. Each expansions has one set of raids that are 12-13 stages, usually just straight-up boss fights. They're fun content and people still run the ones in other expansions, as they ironed out the ARR jank, but Bahamut's has aforementioned issues that make it undesirable to play more than once.

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Real men play 24-man raids as a melee DPS with all effects on with the camera zoomed in

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