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I'm seeing several people who know Mattis saying that he was saying even as recently as early this month that he wouldn't leave unless Trump fired him. Definitely possible he changed his mind, but I don't think it's entirely clear that he resigned of his own volition.
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Glad I was too lazy to put more money into stocks earlier...!
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Seeing some more coverage it seems like Mattis may have resigned in protest over Trump's policy (presumably Syria being the breaking point), though that's probably just about as bad a reflection on Trump as Trump firing him would be
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Trump is refusing to sign the CR to keep the government open, has now has apparently fired Mattis, and is possibly leaving Afghanistan in addition to Syria

What the fuck is even happening over there
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mnkboy907 posted...

This is actually great to hear since I didn't get the first chest from the Mysterious Zone. At first I figured it made sense to fight all the wrong battles first in case they disappeared or something, but then I learned there were chests for right answers. I was going to be mad if that one chest prevented 100% completion.

Yeah I did the same thing and was pretty annoyed
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Disagreed!

Toriyama pulls another Videl...!
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A senior administration official on Trumps surprise Syria tweet:

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1075543725818961920?s=21
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Good list so far besides the erroneous claim that SMB3 > SMW...!
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ctesjbuvf posted...

Is Akuma really not a spirit?

He is
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tag
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I havent seen any of them, but Im still missing a few hundred spirits.
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transience posted...

my main guys are kirby, olimar and lucario.

I absolutely dread getting Olimar on random
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xp1337 posted...

CT getting stabbed in the back like that would have been among the worst results in contest history if Undertale hadn't already sealed the contest's fate. Like if Undertale had lost R1 and then that came out of nowhere? God it'd be the worst.

As is, it remains a terrible result, but it all came tumbling down (tumbling down, tumbling down~) well beforehand.

I don't think Melee would have gotten the rally without Undertale
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transience posted...

It's funny to think that Brawl won this, because for every category that Brawl was great, Smash 4 and Ultimate have eaten it for lunch

Ultimate yes, but Brawl had a better single player than 4! (I like SSE which I know is far from a universally held opinion, but I don't see how anyone can really argue that 4's was good).
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I usually go into a half-asleep state for 2/3 of the flight, but I can never go totally out
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Ugh 9:30am flight tomorrow

Hoping I can sleep most of the way, but if not I guess Ill get in some Smash
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LeonhartFour posted...

the jp was a huge Aerith fan

perhaps the biggest

Iirc the first topic I clicked on on B8 involved Moogle trolling the jp about Aeris back in summer 04
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I forget what I said was the best P3 link in my post-playthrough topic. Maybe Hanged Man? Either that, Hermit, or Empress.
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Im bad enough at online that Im guessing itll take me longer to get 50 tags than 200 battles
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Bebe is better than Kenji tbqh

I guess I begrudgingly agree that hes only the second worst, though
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Whenever theyre next on air
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20th Century Boys is amazing

Also the Great Teacher Onizuka manga is really good, though it has some parts that are probably holding up worse and worse nowadays.
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One thing to be careful of about dating girls in P3: If you date too many at once you can get into trouble and reverse links. The actual way it works is that there's some timer that starts every time you hang out with somebody (I want to say 60 days? Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong) before you need to hang out with them again to avoid a penalty, but if you're dating multiple people and hang out with one of them it'll reduce the penalty timers of the others by like 15 days (unless they're maxed, in which case you're safe). So if you're dating 3 or 4 at once you'll need to be careful to cycle through them until you start maxing them.
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Yeah, that would have been smart...
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A few of them are good. Kenji definitely sucks, though!
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All challenges done besides online ones and a few adventure ones (though unfortunately they're the ones involving the final boss and I already started NG+ for that challenge... whoops)
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I ended up getting my last giant kills with Yoshi

On an unrelated note, it sucks to do a challenge repeatedly, unable to find out why it won't work only to realize that you needed to be doing time instead of stock
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Which characters' classic modes have giant enemies?

Just need that and Snake no continues to finish off that page.
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https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1074797494448676864
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Hey I won money in 2017. That was good...!
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No, just one for 777 spirits iirc
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Johnbobb posted...

the spirit board is such a waste of time. The spirits can just be acquired through WoL anyway, with multiple retries and without the terrible shooting system at the end

A bunch of them are spirit board exclusive (or maybe they can be summoned or purchased or something, but Ive totally finished WoL and have plenty of spirits to go)
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SMB2 > FF2 > AoL

Haven't played Castlevania II
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Yep
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Fucking finally

I think I wasted about 15 rematches (luckily I didn't fuck up the stupid shield game)

...and then I beat my next legend (Wario-Man) on my first try
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gfjsDGFjkadgfkj

I've had Ness dead and villager down to the single digits twice now on Paula and fucked it up both times
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1074401228224950272

Now he's implying that Rod Blagojevich was the victim of an overzealous criminal justice system?

I guess they both did have things that were fucking golden...
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Yeah I ended up having more time left over in P4, but I either screwed up a few times in following the guide (or the guide was wrong? Kinda suspect it might have been in at least one of those cases) and I was really worried about errors compounding for a while because I was behind on a few S. Links.
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I played P3 pretty recently and used a guide because I wanted to max everything. I min-maxed on stats a lot more than I needed to; I ended up meeting the deadlines for maxing stats pretty early, and iirc had a huge amount of extra nights to burn at the end of the game (definitely over a month, maybe two?)

Days, on the other hand, were pretty tight. I think I only had a week of wiggle room or so (though I did a few unnecessary things that I could have killed to get maybe another week or so).
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Im okay against the computer, but I tried online for a bit last night and I am freaking terrible against other humans (Im really bad about my defense).
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I used MC/Hendrik/Jade/Erik
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Tag
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I was about to smash my controller because Marth blew himself up on a bomb as the 100th kill in my Ken B-move-spam Century Smash run, but I guess it still counted thankfully
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ScareChan posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Wasted about 5 rematches trying to beat Paula and ended up giving up
Ugh

is this the one with donkey kong stage?

literally just chase peach because she is the only one you need to kill and if you chase her enough she cant platform and just dies

No, it's a spirit board fight with Ness/Villager on Onett. I don't think there are any tricks, it's just hard.
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zss;snake
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Wasted about 5 rematches trying to beat Paula and ended up giving up
Ugh
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I would think that the DQ people would want the exposure more than the FF people, but I guess Sugiyama in particular is supposed to be an asshole so yeah that might be a problem
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mnkboy907 posted...

Daily reminder the shield mechanic on spirit board is stupid.

Is there literally anyone who saw that mechanic and was like "oh yay this is fun!"?
Like I can't understand why they added it at all
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zss;snake
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I realllllllly hope that Square will let them put a DQ rep in as one of the DLC characters. It would be very smart for them to do so considering that theyve been trying to grow the series popularity in the west for a long time, but the lack of other Square stuff probably doesnt bode well for my hopes.
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