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Biden will win in November no matter what, if Harris has the courage.

Does anyone remember that time Hojo was forcing Red XIII to breed with Aeris for some reason. And afterward Red was like "Yeah that was weird I didn't want to do that at all. Nice to meet you though. My name? Oh well I have a normal name you'll find out about in a few hours. But how about you just call me by the name the mad scientist liked to call me instead. Actually I would prefer that let me just make that the default name, thank you."

What's with that

People here acting like she was always as everywhere as she is right now.. She was definitely never not popular, but there are days in recent months where I see three separate Taylor Swift articles on front-page news. That wasn't the case a few years ago.

I'm not going to pay more than $60 for a game. And I usually wait for it to be less than that anyway. But the good news if you want games to cost more is that a lot of AAA games started incorporating free-to-play style microtransactions into the game on top of the sticker price, so you have the opportunity to pay more if you like.

Is this example supposed to be one of those things where DBZ fans debate for decades whether someone was SSJ1 or SSJ2, because the visual difference between the two is negligible and SSJ2's lightning is inconsistent.

WalkingLobsters posted...

It's just odd to establish a romance simulator that's pretty grounded for the first 20 hours, and then this gets thrown at you

Well despite how fans on the internet discuss the game, Persona 4 is not a romance simulator. The "dating" is like less than 1% of the game. All of the social links including the girl social links have their own stories and the romantic parts are just a couple minutes of dialogue at the end.

So imo this isn't really a problem.

Moltres has always been by far the worst of the three birds anyway.

Bonds, if you want. Or you could add more international exposure. But realistically if the US Total Stock Market is collapsing then most everything else is also collapsing, for multiple reasons.

specialkid8 posted...

Who says balance is permanent? There was balance presumably for centuries before the prequel series, then it was disrupted by the Rise of Sheev. Balance was once again restored when the Empire was destroyed, but came under threat again by the New Order.

You're right that is true but in which case it sure is a pretty lame prophecy. Imagine being Yoda and being like 900 years old. You watch as shit's all cool in the galaxy for centuries upon centuries. There slowly starts to be a disturbance in the force. But then the prophecy shows up saying some kid is the super special chosen one who will do amazing things to right the wrongs in the force. Then it turns out the amazing thing is that things were just slightly ok for a handful of years. Before they got super super bad again. And someone else REALLY brought balance to the force.

Rey is obviously more the super special chosen one than Anakin by that perspective. And the only thing Anakin has over her is the virgin mary birth thing. Which seems unnecessary in retrospect since obviously non-jesus-birth people can be extraordinarily strong in the force. I don't think anyone ever liked that plot point anyway. Or the chosen one plot point for that matter.

The old rationale was that Anakin brought balance to the force as the prophecy foretold by defeating Sidious at the end of VI. But now that Palpatine somehow returned a little bit later, and had a collection of clones and sith followers secretly building super death star destroyers on the super secret sith planet making him more powerful than ever before, it kinda feels like the prophecy was just bs.

Unless you want to really stretch it and be like "Anakin brought balance to the force by temporarily pacifying the dark side for like a couple decades and being related to people like Kylo, Luke, and Leia who played a significant part in more solidly defeating the dark side later on"

pokedude900 posted...

They vaguely allude to it. NPCs will say things like "two pokemon of the same level can have different stats" and "a trained pokemon is stronger than a newly caught one of the same level".

Ironically this caused even more confusion in my experience. I remember trying to explain to my friends that there's no benefit in deliberately trying to catch a lower level pokemon. But they heard of the the "stronger if you level it up on your own thing" and took it the wrong way. I remember trying to explain EVs when EVs were still a weird internet only nerd thing to know about and they were like "ok so that proves it's true and I should level them up on my own". And I'm like "NO - if you're going to do 100 battles with a level 5 caterpie or 100 battles with a level 4 caterpie they'll have the same EVs, one will just be a higher level at the end. You're still wasting your time!"

There was a similar misconception I'd heard friends say that Rare Candies are worse than leveling normally. And again, it's like, yes kind of. If you're going to not battle at all ever then the Rare Candy pokemon is worse than one that leveled up with battles. But if you battle the same number of times but one had Rare Candies along the way then it's the same exact thing except one will be a higher level in the end.

Karovorak posted...

Pokemon Stadium 2 had all the nerd information available in some classroom thing.

Reading that was enough to make 11 year old me the pvp king of school.

No idea how we were supposed to learn that in gen 1. Probably bit by bit by some NPC dialogs.

Yeah Stadium 2 had some pretty good movesets on a lot of pokemon too. Stadium 1 to a lesser degree. They obviously knew Amnesia Mewtwo was broken enough to be suitable as a final boss all by itself but there's still a lot of jank I'm not sure they were aware of. I don't think there's any explanation of EVs and IVs (or stat exp and DVs, whatever) anywhere in gen 1 / gen 2. And even if there were an explanation that it exists, there's certainly no explanation on how you should optimize for it.

It always kinda surprised me that even back then they were clearly somewhat aware of how the metagame should develop for competitive battling. But there was absolutely nothing in RBY or GSC that encouraged you to think about it even a little bit. Like they spent all this dev time designing minmax properties of pokemon knowing less than 0.1% of players would make anything of it or even know it's there. Even the Battle Tower in Crystal is easily brute-force-able. So it's only until the Battle Tower in RS and to a greater extent the Battle Frontier in Emerald that they really threw a bone to the super nerds to use the system they built.

Yeah. If you just don't think about the plot at all then it's rad. A bunch of the fight scenes are amazing.

Everyone talks about Aeris, but when I played the game I thought the later twist was way more mind-blowing and never got talked about as much - where we learn that Cloud was the generic Shinra grunt in Nibel, the entire cool guy SOLDIER background is plagiarized from Zack, and despite just being a dorky dropout loser he miraculously defeated Sephiroth anyway

The standard estimate for the S&P500 yearly growth is usually around 7-8% including inflation. It's higher, usually estimated between 10-12%, if you don't count inflation. So this is true. Don't discount the power of compound growth.

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GuerrillaSoldier posted...

what's sad is that they don't realize that Venom is a huge name, a huge draw, and a huge character. Venom didn't just draw because he's a spidey badguy, he's been building a solid fanbase ever since the 90s when he had a moment where he basically overtook spidey's fame.

they keep dishing out these spidey villain characters as if we give a shit. we don't give a shit. we give a shit about venom and carnage. that's it. everything else isn't worth throwing money into. but they just don't get it.

They know. But they don't have a choice. They're desperate for a universe but they literally only have obscure Spider-man characters to work with.

They also seem emboldened by the fact that MCU proved obscure characters can lead to successful films. Guardians of the Galaxy were nobodies to the general public before their movies, and even Iron Man was relatively obscure to the general public pre-2008. But unfortunately the movies need to be good movies. And Sony keeps messing that part up.

Cocytus posted...

Not debating. It's just a subject. You guys make like I'm the only one talking about it. A hound of reporters pounced on him for memory loss the other day, which he denied.

I'm not debating either. I'm talking about your subject. I mentioned other people talking about it besides you. Why the heck are you getting defensive

Trump, Bernie, Hillary, and Biden are all the oldest or would have been the oldest presidents ever. Other younger candidates ran. People didn't vote for them though. People voted for the very old people. I would like it if the president was younger too but I'm confused at why everyone is complaining about it now as if we just woke up this morning and realized that all of these people were old. If you voted for like Pete Buttigieg then I guess you can complain, but I keep seeing complaints about age from people who I know would've chosen one of the other similarly old people here.

It is not dumb.

The only thing to consider is that you approach retirement age, you should increasingly allocate some percentage of your holdings toward bonds. Retirement ETFs basically do this for you. But you can do it on your own too.

It is a little funny the Wind Waker world implies that there were ~49 evenly spaced mountains of the same height before the flood

(technically a little less than 49 because Tower of the Gods rises from below the sea, and weird ones like Angular Isles are artificial islands)

Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game; therefore one of the responsibilities of designers is to protect the player from themselves.

At no other point in time in history did every single person carry around a compendium of all knowledge ever known to man in their pockets. But instead of googling "how do credit cards work", we would rather look at cat videos for 30 hours a week.

Well I'm just kidding a little bit and I sympathize with people who fall into any sort of predatory lending schemes. But still, so many of the excuses are so weak. Like bro, you're in your 30s - you can't keep blaming everything on your highschool teachers. At some point it's on you to figure out how taxes or credit cards work.