Lurker > Kuuko

The president of the DBZ earth is literally a dog. Raditz would probably be an improvement.

I doubt he'll be VP. Maybe some random cabinet spot. I think the Trump campaign will pick someone who's ostensibly "moderate" to balance the ticket rather than double-down with two people both trying to outrage. Kind of redundant.

Some of the floor bosses are super susceptible to ailments. Which was probably intended, to reward players who figure it out and take advantage of it. But there's not a lot of indication when that's true so it punishes a lot of others players who assume that ailments are useless, as they often are in RPGs.

I remember being on forums 10+ years ago where posting two comments in a row would get you warned (you should simply edit your first post if you have something more to add) and all subsequent posts after the first post on a single page of a thread should have your signature removed to increase readability.

And inevitably some dude who has 40,000 total posts across the forum will post garbage in random threads but will be treated as a local celebrity and there is no tolerance for noobies arguing with someone so respected within the community.

It's pretty good at writing like 90% correct code. So some manual tweaks needed at the end but gets you most of what you want if you're being lazy or need to do something in a syntax you're not great at. If you have no idea what you're doing and try to build something with pure chatgpt code it's probably not going to get you far. It's also pretty good at helping you rubber duck debug something you're working on.

What you're describing is basically what this guy's platform was in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_2016_presidential_campaign

Very short summary is he wanted everyone to elect a president who would promise that they don't really want to be president, briefly use their presidential powers to strip things down, then resign.

Rharyx211 posted...

For what it's worth, I think there's only one way to summon the *real* Kingdom Hearts. The ones we see in KH1 and KH2 (and I think BbS?) are all fake Kingdom Heartses.

The one in BBS that kinda just shows up when you make the X-blade is said to be a super duper real Kingdom Hearts in the game's reports.

Keyblades are said to be man-made counterparts to Kingdom Hearts. The -blade, however, coexists with Kingdom Hearts.
It is only forged when two hearts of equal power intersectone heart of pure darkness, one heart of pure light. At the time of its forging, Kingdom Hearts appears. It must be noted, though, that this Kingdom Hearts is special. Unlike the Kingdoms brought about forcibly and artificially through the collection of hearts, THIS Kingdom Hearts is a perfect and complete union of ALL the worlds' hearts. Surely it was over this that the ancient Keyblade War was fought.

0Renegade posted...

you can tell who didnt play kingdom hearts besides 1 & 2 when they say "besides the spinoffs".

The collections released on PS3 and PS4 had all the games in order and were all important to the plot.

Except coded / re:coded which, in a series where massively important plot developments and exposition frequently happen in sidegames, has a full-length plot that is completely fucking pointless.

Rharyx211 posted...

The thing with KH isn't that it's complicated, it's that it keeps changing its rules for how stuff works every other game.

You're almost de-incentivized to even bother trying to figure out why what just happened even happened cuz you figure whatever explanation you get isn't going to be the explanation they stick with the next game that talks about it.

I mean, look at the main villain and try to figure out how his characterization, motives, and even personal timeline actually make sense between all the games.

Agree with this. Kingdom Hearts 1's plot in a vacuum is the only time in the series where the universe's rules are somewhat straightforward and easy to follow.

It's not even just the side-games mattering thing. If you just look at BBS's plot alone the game's self-contained rules and Xehanort's goals - with Vanitas, the Unversed, manipulating Terra, the X-blade and manipulating Ventus, summoning Kingdom Hearts to do something - it's already near-incomprehensible.

morgan webb carried his career tbh

ponyseizures posted...

ganondorf or ganon?

He's only called Ganon all throughout Wind Waker so if this distinction really means anything then an example from Wind Waker's a weird game to use it in.

a ghost tried to approach me he got married

pegusus123456 posted...

I liked TP

But why was it like this
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/6/AAGadeAADhcY.jpg

this freaky baby side character thing having a weird sidequest where he opens up his own item store and sells the magic armor was the best part of the game though

Israel has fucked up their information campaign on the hospital bombing so badly that even if they didn't bomb it, they've made themselves look more suspicious about every other incident in Gaza right now. In the very immediate aftermath of the hospital bombing, some official Israelis were taking credit and justified it by saying that Hamas uses hospitals as bases. Then they backtracked and said that they looked more and figured out they didn't bomb it though. Then said that they'd publicly release audio recording proving Hamas did it. Then the audio recording they release to the public was found to be faked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosion
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/0/AAZQKKAAE-re.jpg

To be honest I lean toward trusting the US intelligence opinion the most, which is leaning more toward Hamas having accidentally done it, but Israel's lackadaisical attitude about the death toll and their loose attitude about being truthful about it at all makes every single thing they say and do sketchy by default.

You get that graph with any month (except like May, because it's more than a month)https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/0/AAZQKKAAE-f6.jpg

yeah i remember when he was 16 which is a normal adult age to be and he was not as strong as when he was fighting cell at the age of eleven-teen

dave_is_slick posted...

Didn't he used to be a user here?

Yes. I remember when Halo Reach came out and he posted his video on the boards there, back when he would upload funny dry humor gameplay videos.

VeggetaX posted...

Why did people try to oppress others to play their way so much? Was it just a way to look and feel superior?

I think it's that they're personally proud of their accomplishment doing "thing" and when they see someone else do "thing" in a way that looks easier, it makes them feel like their personal accomplishment isn't as impressive.

This does happen in a lot of games but to be fair, there are games with weird game design decisions where I think it's fair to say that the devs shouldn't have allowed a certain strategy to work. Because that one strategy is way better than any other strategy and there's no point wasting your time trying to beat the game a different strategy.

Like off the top of my head as an example since Dark Souls was already mentioned - I think a lot of people agree that Dark Souls 1 Gwyn shouldn't have been made parry-able. Most other bosses can't be parried, so it's weird to suddenly make it possible on the final boss. And it's way easier to hit a parry on him a couple times than it is to play the fight any other way. I wouldn't disparage someone who beats him that way because it's in the game one way or another and it's not like you're even doing anything buggy or unintended. I think it's just a weird decision on the dev side. So that kind of thing happens sometimes and if it were something more egregious that affects the entire game's gameplay I can see why some fans would at least personally prefer not to play that way for their own enjoyment. But I wouldn't try to tell someone else that they're playing a game wrong.

It is a little funny we have ~60 years of Spider-man comicbook stories where he's not in highschool, but Spider-man adaptations so often prefer him to be a teenager.

They're also both in PQ and PQ2 together.

P4A / P4U's story is worth a quick playthrough. Especially on the P3 characters' side - it's neat to see where their characters go in the years after P3's story. Weirdly the P4 characters don't really add a lot to the story even though it's ostensibly a P4 sequel more than it is a P3 sequel.

I think the execution of his character plot in P3(FES) is pretty bad. He shows up and the game outright tells you that he's now kind of best friends with Junpei off-screen, and by extension he's now very close to you too. But there isn't actually any sort of gradual character development. When the drama kicks in and it's time to decide the end of December things, I'm like "I barely even know you". P3P FeMC route fixes that a lot by giving him a social link.

A lot of P3 game's plot is a slow burn. The main plot meanders in a single direction until 3/4 into the game as the team's just killing off big shadows month by month. Like if you were to describe P3's plot, it feels like 90% of it happens in the last couple months. And so the narrative for the first 3/4 of the game is more character-focused with all the little side-threads like Strega, Aigis and the Mitsuru family's Ergo research, Shinji + Ken + Akihiko dynamics, etc.. Ryoji shows up at a time when the main plot starts really kicking into gear and accelerates toward an ending and so I think that's part of why his character development suffers. And yes, I know obviously he is kind of Pharos and Pharos was kind of there all along in the plot but I don't think any of the short little scene with Pharos really add much in terms of the player connecting with Ryoji.

Plastic recycling is a little bit of a scam yes. TLDR is plastic industry knew plastic products were horrifically polluting the world and so they heavily funded campaigns into plastic recycling so that they could make it seem like the problem is consumers' problems to fix and not theirs. And that it was okay for them to continue churning out tons of plastic.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

Persona fans would sooner include Adachi as a detective before including Katsuya smh

Super_Slash posted...

Big's missions are easy as shit. You can finish all of them in probably less than 5 minutes each.

I mean I could do that now. Because I've done it a few times. The first time I did them, especially Ice Cap, I just wandered around wondering why I'm wasting so much time in a fishing minigame that's more janky than OoT fishing and where the optimal thing to do is swim underwater everywhere to find Froggy before getting out of the water to fish Froggy. Why can't Big just grab Froggy. And why am I doing this instead of a fun Sonic level.

Phantom_Nook posted...

not required, and you can still use repels.

it takes less than 5 seconds to surf across that strip of water.

I've been trying to say this to people for years but it's fruitless. People's heads would explode if they knew how many RPGs have shitty dungeons that you're stuck in for literal hours and don't have extremely cheap "get no encounters period" items sold at every single store. Compared to Pokemon RSE where the dreaded water segments take less than 20 seconds if you just use a repel. And a couple minutes if you don't.

I think in general SA2 has higher highs and lower lows than SA1. Oh wait, SA1 has Big missions. Nevermind.

I remember when Another was airing. You can probably still look back at topics for it. Even at the time, most of the people commenting were watching it as a part-comedy because it's so over the top. The Ali Project OP is still a bop though.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/2/AAZQKKAAE68c.png

I mean you can definitely build cool shit on your own without needing friends or co-workers if you want. But if you're getting paid to program you're probably going to be on a team with other developers.

VGAddict90 posted...

Shinies are more about bragging rights than anything.

They added so much extra shit to help people get shinies it's iffy to say it's even much to brag about. Even before those things, in gen 2 we also have shiny ditto breeding for relatively easy shinies, and in gen 3 we have very good RNG manip for shinies. Though I suppose those things weren't known contemporaneously.

Maybe I'm a boomer but I can't fathom how so many people flock to a single random youtuber guy to give them their opinions on complex international geopolitics

hereforemnant posted...

Every time I have issues on the road it's a situation like this. Americans are entitled to the left lane even if there's no laws specifying being in a left or right lane. Generally yes you want slower vehicles in the right, but that's for a minimum speed limit or large vehicles. The left lane isn't the "speed limit is 70, the car is going 70 in front of me, but I want to go 90 so fuck this asshole for hogging the lane."

That's not how this shit works & I'll fight anyone on that

You're objectively right but people will refuse to hear it and prefer to believe that they've discovered a secret trick to go 10-15mph over the speed limit at all times because they've never gotten pulled over for doing it. It's like trying to convince someone that you're not supposed to drop your trash on the ground wherever you want in public. You're not supposed to do it, and there are rules for it for a reason, but as long as they never see consequences they can't comprehend why they shouldn't do it.

Some of the Mandela things I get like yeah -stein is a much more common way to spell a name than -stain so Berenstein would make sense and you were a barely-literate child when you saw the books. But this one and some others are just like "no you're just wrong about this"

Baby pokemon are reserved for fan-favorite pokemon, such as Mantine or Sudowoodo or Chimecho

I love NG+ because I'm a completionist, but I also don't like to spend time reading guides and things on my first playthrough. So it's nice to play a game naturally and then speed through it doing every little thing on my second playthrough.

GranTurismo posted...

You use linear algebra in the real world? are you an engineer or something? Have heard others say that the real world applications of that stuff is vastly overrated.

Linear algebra comes up a ton in certain areas of computer science. I never really used calculus outside of school.

geno_16 posted...

I'd say the answer is someone who was a one-term president, who didn't inherit the office from a dead predecessor (as those who did are a common trivia tidbit), and is generally ranked in the middle of the pack in historical rankings of presidents because they were unremarkable enough that they can't be labelled as good or bad. They also shouldn't have any major well-known landmarks named after them (like Herbert Hoover and the Hoover Dam). And also they probably shouldn't be a major plot point in a huge Hollywood blockbuster (so Chester A. Arthur thanks to Die Hard with a Vengeance).

So someone like...say...Rutherford B. Hayes.

Yeah. When he does come up, it's mostly in regards to the shenanigans that got him elected. Not his actual presidency. Also weird fact - Rutherford B Hayes is super super popular in the country Paraguay. It's a weird story.

Everyone said Fillmore. No one said Rutherford B Hayes yet. Probably him.

James K Polk is also often overlooked. But it's Hayes.

I've done the mini hundreds of times so I can usually do under a minute. I've done under 20 seconds on really lucky ones. If you do it a lot you see very similar hints and some word repeats so it gets mostly easy. But every now and then there's extremely stupid words where you can tell the dude making the puzzle cornered himself into a 5-letter "word" that's barely a word. Like the word is really just a phoneticization of some weird sound. Or the weird name of some obscure actor that the puzzle maker himself just googled after the fact to see if it works.

Ajiri posted...

I haven't read anywhere anything credible on this story, nothing in our current knowledge of human history did early humans have structures dating 476,000 years ago. Either they dated it improperly are they are incredibly misguided on what this finding is.

That's sort of why it's news. Because it advances our current knowledge. It's also likely not homo sapiens but another species of the genus homo.

Oh yeah some of the faces here are roughhttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/0/AAZQKKAAE3I0.jpg

GeminiDeus posted...

Anyone else here remember the last episode of Justice League, before it became Justice League Unlimited, where Superman was giving a speech and there was a long pan of an audience including superheroes and a lot of the models were really off? Like, some were really gigantic or wide or tiny? Someone posted a picture of it on the Toonami (or whatever it was at the time) board way back then.

It wouldn't be the last episode of JL because that would be Starcrossed, and it's still all the original 7. It would probably be the very beginning of JLU. Is this the shot you're talking about? It doesn't look super bad, but it is low detail (Shining Knight doesn't have a face) and everyone's in copy-pasted generic Bruce-Timm-male pose.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/9/AAZQKKAAE3Ip.jpg

refmon posted...

I literally don't understand how they ever had value in the first place

In the initial hype, prices were simply manipulated. Buying and selling to themselves at ridiculous prices. Then came floods of tweets and news articles like "this ugly monkey picture sold for $250,000!". After reading those things, very-easily-fooled people assumed that ugly monkey pictures were truly worth tons of money. So they bought them with the intention to get in now and sell them to other people who think they're even more valuable later. Unfortunately there are no later people. The only people stupid enough to buy in are the ones who initially bought in.

This also all makes slightly more sense in the context of crypto/blockchain hype still kind of being a thing. And so there was still some ideas in the air that blockchain is a magical technology that solves every problem. And hey, here's a thing that uses blockchain. I don't get it and no one else I know gets it. But apparently it's valuable because I read something saying it's valuable so I'll pretend I get it.

With that being said, one of the quirks of ponzi schemes is that you can make money on ponzi schemes if you get in early and leave before it collapses. So some people did make money still. Especially the people who knew it was all a scam. The easily-fooled people who thought they were investing in something real probably didn't get out in time.

CassandraCroft posted...

Go away Charles is an excellent King and about the only decent member of The Royal Family.

If you want to go looking for nutjobs in the Royal Family look no further than that ginger waste of oxygen in Prince Harry.

@SolidSonic there is no such person as 'The King Of England'. Calling His Royal Majesty King Charles III the 'King Of England' is the equivalent of calling Justin Trudeau the current Prime Minister of Canada 'The Prime Minister Of North America'.

His Majesty King Charles III is The King of The United Kingdom of Great Britain And Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and all the countries of The Commonwealth Of Nations that have him as Head Of State.

What does it mean to be an excellent king in 2023? He just looks particularly good while you pay him to wear fancy clothes doing tea time ceremonies and roleplaying as a Victorian era person? Or is it just that he's a good king simply by not being corrupt or a pedophile like other people in his family?

Vincent is an edgelord character but to be fair, FF7 is aware he's an edgelord character. One of my favorite dialogue moments in the game is when you're asking him to join and Vincent's like "I cannot join you. I have sinned. My life itself is a nightmare. I will stay here laying inside a coffin to atone for my many sins." and Barrett's like "give me a break dude you sinned so you sleep in a box now?"

If you want to take it really seriously, Goombella's Rally Wink is the best partner move in the game because it gives Mario another turn and Mario is by far the best party member. But realistically who plays the game and Rally Winks every turn in every battle. Multibonk is also a really good move and if you're a nerd who Tattles everything then you'll have Goombella out all the time anyway.

You should obviously have Yoshi out in the overworld almost all of the time since it speeds things up so much.

I like Vivian the most if you're just doing basic non-FP moves since I usually have more fun going all-in on BP. Her basic attack is quick and easy and relatively strong. And Fiery Jynx is really cool if you do feel like throwing in an FP move.

At least Lois kind of noticed how obvious it is, in both the original and the Donner cut

Actually, they're all plays that Mario is dreaming about. As seen in SMB2