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action52 posted...

That could backfire so easily unless the kid is really little. The game is frustrating but it's not THAT hard. A dedicated kid could definitely beat it if they played every day for a few weeks. Faster if they are good at games in general and/or use online guides and YouTube videos to help.

I think the joke is that the NES port of this game is unwinnable. There's a gap in one of the levels that's too far to jump across.

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treewojima posted...

I vaguely remember a CYOA at a theme park. I died a lot in that one lol

That was my first Goosebumps book, lol

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I only tip it when it brings me my well done steak and ketchup

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Jeez, what happened to that guy.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

A first person shooter seems much harder to develop than a "2D" Metroid.

Sure, but Metroid games are notoriously rare. The fact that the one fan-hyping title that Nintendo has announced in the past 9 years, in a subseries that occurs in the interim between mainline Metroid titles, took so long that they released a new title in the mainline series? The first sequel in 19 years, compared to the first sequel in 14/5 years (if you count Federation Force as an installment in the Metroid franchise)? That's pretty wild.

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How funny is it that Metroid Prime 4 is in such a hardcore state of development hell that Metroid 5 came out before it did?

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Captain_Qwark posted...

Teachers can experience extreme stress

I'd agree with you if this sack of shit's primary vocation was teaching. The day this happened, he was basically guest-teaching a class as a politician.

Of course teachers can experience extreme stress. I would argue that this entire situation is made worse by the fact that this guy wasn't a teacher at the time of this incident. He was acting as a representative for the state, and he kneed a kid in the gonads as a part of an ongoing meltdown about his religion.

If he had done the job he was being paid to do, he wouldn't have been exposed to teenagers and he wouldn't have assaulted them. This entire scenario was avoidable, and he went out of his way to make this shit a reality.

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He didn't knee a student in the balls as a teacher, he did it as a politician. That was his primary vocation, and he used his position to harass students and push misinformation.

Of fucking course people should be going after him for this. What a psycho fuckwit.

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The white people who feel offended by this shirt are exactly the white people who should feel offended.

Any reasonable person confronted with this in irl life is probably gonna laugh and brush it off. A bunch of rednecks with their panties in a bunch isn't gonna change that.

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Very_Unreliable posted...

I don't have the energy process the input from people who found this board the same day they did a tik tok duet.

This might actually be the most pathetic comeback I've ever seen.

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Good for her. This place is a dump, and she can do better to meet her temperament and personal requirements on other platforms.

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Even if the thread dies due to lack of response, I'm gonna ask that no-one respond to obvious bait. Mark and move on.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Sex segregation in sports has never served any meaningful purpose.

For real, look at Katie Ladecky. Though I will say - she got beaten by an Aussie at this Olympics, which is a matter of national pride lol.

Saying that, Ladecky has set swimming world records and gone on to break them later on. She's an incredible swimmer who - with any luck - will go down as one of the great swimmers alongside Michael Phelps.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-06/the-olympics-will-have-first-transgender-medalist-canada-quinn/100354140

basically, the mid-fielder of Canada's soccer team is an openly transgender and non-binary person who goes by a single name - Quinn.

Whether Canada wins or loses, they're going to medal along with their team. That makes Quinn the first trans athlete to medal at the Olympic Games.

I'm happy for them! And going forward, I hope more trans people are given the opportunity to represent their countries at events like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games.

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For some context: late last month there was a super-spreader anti-vax protest in Sydney, which is where that viral image of a bogan punching a police horse came from. Sydneysiders have been flauting the lockdown laws for this entire outbreak - a pair of furniture movers took COVID all the way to Orange, which is in NSW's Central West - a good couple of hours from Sydney. Other Sydneysiders have fled the city and come out to the country to escape the pressures of lockdown life, putting small towns at risk of catching the Delta variant when the first and second waves of COVID never got out that far.

And this is after our premier bitched out on full lockdowns multiple times leading up to this event, deflecting to Victoria whose fast action in the face of immediate crisis has helped them weather multiple outbreaks with minimal death tolls.

On one hand, I feel a need to defend my country from American ridicule, because your entire COVID response under Trump has made the prospect of travelling to America or interacting with an American as appealing as french-kissing a plague rat. On the other hand, ngl - the NSW state government continues to fail its people, having been the cause of COVID entering the country in the first place. The Liberal-National Party is a fucking mess, and the election has been postponed indefinitely because of this aggressive wave of COVID sweeping the eastern seaboard.

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Shezarr posted...

Now, a quick reminder that Shab insists he has never used reddit and this isn't his account, but:

Dude posts on Tails' subreddit. ofc it's him

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ProfessorKukui posted...

Why did you just post a series of Shitpostbot5k memes?

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4 wasn't the ideal choice, but I dodged a bullet regardless and the guy's probably a good hugger with broad shoulders like that

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tommybel89 posted...

Terminator is a franchise that they want to make but also no kid today gives a damn about it. Those boomer franchises (Predator, Alien, Die Hard, etc.) might as well be black and white movies to the modern teen or 20 year old.

So be it, honestly. They're fine movies, but when you get them shoved down your fucking throat for most of your lifespan, the gloss wears off.

Oh Wow, They Did An Aliens Again! An Aliens Was In Mortal Kombat With Rambo and RoboCop!

It's like - the movies are perfectly fine. They deserve their GOAT status or whatever. But I'm sick of being told to care about the legacy of these franchises for the fifth time in 12 years through reboots, sequels and video game appearances. It's desperate shilling at this point, and it's unappealing. Things happen, and then they end, and they stand on their own - sometimes that's exactly how it should be.

Like even recently, there was an announcement that there's gonna be more Avatar: The Last Airbender stuff. It'll probably be okay, but it's just as valid to let The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra stand on their own - especially after Korra struggled to find its footing and got taken off of TV, airing most of its final season in web premieres, the box office movie sucked and Netflix fucked the creators behind the franchise out of the live-action miniseries. It's okay to let the pre-existing media stand on its own, you don't have to milk it until it feels like ash in the mouth of your audience.

I guess that's my answer to this thread as well. I kinda hope the live-action Avatar series gets cancelled and they leave the franchise alone. It's already good enough with what we've got. There doesn't have to be more. Though I wouldn't mind some prequel stuff, there's plenty of cool stuff to tap there.

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Sounds like a you problem, buddy

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Ayyyyy, for real

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Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you that they are chemicals. All Knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?

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Spoilers on the Zero front, I just started the game and he's A) dead and B) a "nightmare". Like he appears in the other games, sure, but the fact that you can play as him in X6 is a spoiler for a newcomer such as myself.

Saying that, I do appreciate you telling me that it never gets better, because I just played the acid rain stage and I'm partway through the ice stage and both of them are terrible.

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I started X6. We've got an expository opening, followed by undubbed dialogue?

"Bwah ha ha ha!! I'm going mad and it's so... liberating!!"

...Oh no. This is a cheap game.

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Duncanwii posted...

I'm not.

Is there such a thing as an absolute, timeless enemy? There is no such thing, and never has been. And the reason is that our enemies are human beings like us. They can only be our enemies in relative terms. The world must be made whole again.

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foxhound101 posted...

The gimmick of re-fighting every boss at the end of the game needs to go away. Or at the very least there needs to be a save point afterwards

That's why I'm such a fanboy bitch for X. You storm Sigma's castle in a series of action setpiece levels, and the deeper you get into the castle, the more bosses you fight. It's like, Sigma is throwing rebuilt Robot Master bodyguards at you in the hopes of preventing you from getting deeper into the castle, and you're just laying fucking waste to them the further in you go.

In every other game after that, it goes back to "oh hey, you're one room away from the final boss, here's a boss gauntlet".

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I'm MrMallard and I support this message:

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Okay, my Sigma ranking is:

2 > 1 > 5 > 4 > 3

The reason I'm ranking 5 over 4 in this regard is because I don't like the third phase in 4 - the fact that the heads can spawn on your location for an instakill annoyed the hell out of me, and the wall of spikes felt kinda cheap. The second phase was pretty good, and the first phase was okay if not a bit boring, but I didn't like the third phase.

There were some aspects of the X5 Sigma fight that probably should have been instakills, but I'm honestly kinda glad they weren't. And while the second phase is literally just a still image of a Sigma CG, I thought that the 3D Sigma looked fucking awesome and I love that the image flickered between CG and wireframe. One thing about the X games I've always enjoyed is the wireframe stuff, and having both the fairly impressive Sigma CG and wireframe image really won me over.

Like I'm not gonna front - I'm a fairly mediocre gamer, and I can be shallow when I want to be. The X5 fight was fairly easy, especially with the Ultimate Armor. I'm ranking X5's Sigma fight higher because I thought it looked cooler - the Motorhead room in X4 was cool too, but I just really dug the giant Sigma head.

Speaking of wireframe stuff - that's why X2's Sigma boss fight wins out over X1's. The first game is a masterpiece in how it's laid out, it really makes you feel like a badass as you get stronger, and that applies even up to the final boss fight. Mega Man X is an incredibly well-paced game, especially for its era.

X2 had the better Sigma boss fight. X as a whole is more cohesive, but as a standalone boss fight, the final boss just isn't as cool as the one in X2.

I loved seeing the SNES pull off wireframe animation alongside the regular 2D sprite animation, and even if it could be a bit predictable, I really fucking loved getting to fight that wireframe Sigma head. X2 was a really good game, frankly - definitely one of the best X games so far.

X3's Sigma boss fight was garbage.

The armor was cool, in a stupid over the top kind of way, but making his weakspot that small? Give me a break. And the wireframe Sigma appearance at the end looked way cheaper than it did in X2.

X3 just wasn't that good of a game, and while I thought it was incredibly stylish at its best, X5 follows in its wake. X1 is excellent, X2 is pretty good too and X4 is decent if you can get past the PS1 jank. Add the content from Zero's route, and X4 is up there with the better X games. But 3 and 5 are fairly noticeable examples of sequelitis - they don't measure up to what came before.

Though I do want to say that frankly, X4 has shades of that too. That's the point where Zero truly begins to outshine X, to the point where his story is much more fleshed out than X's is. And that's where the games got much more text-heavy, which is exacerbated by Aria in X5.

My opinion of the games is already a tangled clusterfuck, and the next game on my list is X6. God help my immortal soul.

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I'm not a big fan of Zero's gameplay, so I don't play as him. But pretty much all of the plot in X4 comes from Zero's storyline.

And his storyline in that game is good! Watching the cutscenes and like the in-game set-up back to back, I really liked it.

I liked how Sigma had X and Zero's pods in X5, and while it's clear what Zero's big deal is in X4 and what X5 is setting up - I mean, they've been setting up the X vs Zero dream match since the end of X2 - I'm still looking forward to the big reveal. But knowing what I do of the franchise, that's probably going to be resolved in X6, which is one of the worst-received games in the series.

I really set myself up to fail by getting invested in this series.

So yeah, my X ranking hasn't changed:

1 > 2 > 4 > 3 > 5

However - my Sigma boss fight ranking is pretty different. I'm watching through them all on YouTube, and I'll make another post with the ranking once I'm done.


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I finished the game.

X5 has a really cool Sigma boss fight imo. I love the CG they did for him at the start and end of the game - it looks fantastic. The cutscene between Zero, X and the melted Sigma was badass, even if Zero has died like three times in the series so far.

I don't get the Dr Light hologram stuff. Like someone said in the previous thread that something was up with him at the end of the game, but this raises more questions than answers. I'm hoping that either any missed plot details are available in a Zero run of the game or in future games.

I'm about to watch all of Zero's cutscenes from X4, and then I'm gonna check out the X5 TV Tropes page for any more info. Then I'll start X6 some other time.

I can't wait until Dr Light runs out of upgrades for X and tells him to plug a toaster into his legs to overclock his boost output.

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Smackems posted...

X2 is the height of the series. I kinda fell off on x5 with the stupid ass vehicle stage and its Ready!? *Death* bs

I disagree. I think X is the best.

X2 feels like an easier X which reneged on a handful of innovations the first game made for either time constraints or for the sake of adhering to the Mega Man formula. I definitely liked it, but it hammered home just how great X was and why it had garnered such a strong reaction over the years.

X2 is the second best game in the franchise so far though, for sure. At least I think so.

X5 is definitely pitching downwards though. Like I love the graphics and the music, but it feels really off. The hoverbike section that kills you right away is a prime example of that, like you said.

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...as such, people are going to call it a failed sequel and a bad game regardless of its actual quality.

I've been thinking about this recently, because Breath of the Wild is going to be such a tough act to follow. We already know how much criticism it's facing from turbovirgins over reused assets, and while I'm looking forward to the game, I feel like it's going to get something like an 85 metascore and all hell is subsequently gonna break loose because it wasn't equally as good or better than the first game.

Like I think it'll be a fine game in its own right - I don't think it's going to be outright bad. But I feel like no matter what the devs do, it's going to pale in comparison to the first game in some degree, and the response on places like GameFAQs will be outwardly hostile and cause an entitled gamer outrage that will hardly be worth the fuss.

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To paraphrase a quote I can't remember - there's a contradiction that comes with bigotry where the target of that bigotry will be too strong in one breath, and too weak and feeble in the next. That way, they can be attacked as a threat, and ridiculed as a joke.

Laurel Hubbard was targeted by transphobes for years because supposedly, her AGAB gave her a natural advantage over cisgender women bodybuilders. This was despite the fact that even as a transgender woman, she continued to compete in men's events. Now that she's gone to the Tokyo Olympics and failed to medal, this will become a source of ridicule - that she wasn't strong enough to perform on a national stage, and that she's a failed bodybuilder who's past her prime, a national disappointment and someone who should retire.

Mark my words. Despite spending years as a transphobic talking point, her failure to secure a medal will lead to ridicule by the same transphobes who called her transition an unfair biological advantage.

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scorpion41 posted...

X5 wasnt bad at all. The next game is the one that ramps up the bullshit factor.

For real, I hear 6 and 7 are where the series scrapes the bottom of the barrel. That doesn't make 5 any better though.

I actually like the music in X5 a fair bit, and while the level design isn't great, the graphics themselves are gorgeous. I love the rose-themed Robot Master in particular, and the flame dinosaur guy is adorable.

I wasn't the biggest fan of 4, in that there was a lot of early PS1 era jank. The background graphics were this molded 3D sort of style sometimes and I didn't really like it. X's scream upon his death was annoying, and the mid-level loading screens took me out of the game. X5 has improved those aspects. But as a whole product, X5 doesn't feel as cohesive. The balancing is fucked, the levels don't feel so fun to play, the font is barely readable and there are so many of these lame, cheap-ass text boxes to get through. X4 was challenging, but X5 feels like bullshit.

And the worst part is that this isn't even the worst game in the series. I've heard it's X6, and X7 is in its own category of badness, before X8 provides a return to form just before the franchise was put on ice indefinitely. So I know that despite my protests, this will almost certainly not be my least favourite X game.

That doesn't make X5 any better than what it is. Maybe when I do scrape the bottom of the barrel, I can come back to this game with a more favorable lens, but a worse product doesn't make a bad product any less bad.

Current MMX rating is as follows:

1 > 2 > 4 > 3 > 5

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Funcoland posted...

Being a piece of shit rapist, who abuses their own mother, doesn't men they can't be "actually trans", since women (trans or otherwise) are capable of sexual assult. And if the local laws don't account for that, the local laws are fucked up.

The way I've been approaching this is that this line of questioning that TC has brought up is more of a cultural argument, which is happening alongside discussion of the events themselves. There's no question as to the crimes Chris-Chan has committed, and they should get hit with the full force of the law.

Incestual rape of one's dementia-ridden mother is genuinely one of the most revolting crimes you can commit, there are like three wholesale violations of consent in that description alone.

The discussion about Chris-Chan's gender identity isn't intended to play into the legality of the situation. I think it's easy pickings for transphobes to make inappropriate comments at CWC's expense, and I think there are trans people who are in shock and who have a lot to say because CWC's wrongdoing opens up the door to transphobia.

The shockwaves of this vile crime resonate on a variety of levels. There have been a variety of reactions, both physically and culturally, and different circles are going to focus on different aspects of these crimes. One thing that no-one denies, however, is the truly sick nature of this occurrence, Chris-Chan's culpability for the incestual rape of her own dementia-ridden mother, and the desire for her to pay for such a heinous act.

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Okay, so I enter all three stages separately. I can live with that.

God, I hate this stage.

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I've heard at least one take about how Chris-Chan adopted the trans label to prey on cis lesbians.

That rhetoric skirts close to the TERF logic of "trans women are just predatory men", but the take I saw was specifically from a femme-presenting AMAB nonbinary person, arguing that Chris-Chan wasn't transgender - more of a No True Scotsman sort of deal.

I don't want to lean in one direction or the other, as I don't feel qualified to do so as someone who doesn't ID as being in the trans community. All I know is that if this person is correct and Chris-Chan has stated that a reason for her transition was to expand her dating pool to cisgender lesbians - which isn't that out of character for Chris-Chan to do - then perhaps there is an argument to be made for Chris-Chan's transition being illegitimate.

With that being said - there are issues with this rhetoric. It skirts close to TERF rhetoric, in that it argues that a trans woman was just a predatory man the whole time. It skirts close to transmedicalist rhetoric, to the degree that if we open up the floodgates with Chris-Chan not being a "true" trans woman, it invites people within and outside of the trans community to legitimise the argument of someone "not being a real trans person", which is already done to exclude trans and nonbinary people within the queer community for not hitting a checklist of medical diagnoses.

This is a sketchy area, and as someone who doesn't identify as trans, I don't think I can speak to the legitimacy of any position on this matter. But I will state my opinion as such - no community is wholly free of assholes and monsters. People like J.K. Rowling are said to have been radicalised by a transgender criminal in the UK, for example, and Chris-Chan could easily be identified as a criminal and monster without her gender identity coming into it. Rather than defining the trans community by these people, we should take their behavior and crimes into account as a whole person and not as a representative of the trans community.

The discourse is there among some as to whether Chris-Chan is legitimately a transgender woman, or if her transition was to expand her dating pool to cis lesbians. If there is proof of the latter, that's worth taking into account. But as it stands, Chris-Chan calls herself a woman, and that's all we have to go on.

Pre- and post-transition, Chris-Chan has been misogynistic, sexually abusive and incredibly maladjusted due in part to the way she's been egged on and treated during her time on the internet, as well as to her severe autism. And regardless of her gender identity, that reflects on her as a person across her entire life, not just on her gender identity. The conversation around Chris-Chan is a lot more complicated than any one aspect of her identity that's being debated among both cis and trans people.

Basically, this entire thing is a clusterfuck and I can't make heads nor tails of it.

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I will give them props for giving it a weakness to electricity though, in a callback to Mega Man 1.

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They brought back the instadeath lasers? Really? I only got through that shit with the Dark Hold and a weapon tank.

And at the end of the hall, there's a fucking Yellow Devil.

I know that Yellow Devils are like this classic Mega Man boss fight, but at the risk of sounding like a total heretic here - I never liked the Yellow Devil. In fact, I fucking hate the Yellow Devil.

Pattern recognition bosses are already not my cup of tea. I can get patterns down, sure, but the Yellow Devil is so annoying because it's so slow and arduous in how it moves from side to side, and it's completely invincible the entire time. You wait like 30 seconds for it to move across the screen, with you dodging projectiles the whole time, and then you get 6 seconds to do 2 shots worth of damage - and then it melts down again and moves back across the screen.

The Yellow Devil has always been a pointless waste of time, and I'm genuinely disappointed to see it come back in the X series.

I'm playing this final series of levels with regular-ass X so I can get the Ultimate Armor, so this is gonna be a pain in the ass. I can cope with a less OP X after using the Fourth Armor, but the Yellow Devil? Or the Grey Devil or Grey Goo, in this case? This sucks. Fuck the Yellow Devil, and fuck X5 for bringing it back.

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