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Yeah, they let eastasiasoft publish a game called Crawlco Block Knockers with bare naked tits in it.

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We can compromise here.

If guns are a trans girl thing, how about NBs having a monopoly on edged weapons?

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Antifar posted...

They brought a Gamecube. (But also the games they brought are not what I would consider classics)

Hell yeah, X-Men Next Dimension gaming nights

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Error1355 posted...

the actual fuck is this topic

Apparently, one about how only trans girls should have guns

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nice, are they cool?

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Oh boy, do I have the album for your friend

https://youtu.be/Vg9AC5i6T90

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This is genuinely some of the vilest news I've read in recent memory.

Like - I feel bad for Chris-chan to the extent that their life became as chaotic and fucked up as it did with the interference of the internet.

But that can only go so far when you start raping your own mother.

This is genuinely fucking disgusting, and my quality of life has gone down having exposed myself to this awful news story.

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Kaluroth posted...

He could've not played 8 yet or be one of those "8 doesnt count because it's not a true RE game or whatever..."

I just meant 6 is no one's favorite.

What if it was the Resident Evil games but backwards?

I feel like reading it right to left is a valid call.

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CinderLock posted...

You would think the first Tremors movie is the worst?

Truth be told, I've never seen a Tremors movie. I just know there are a fuckton of them

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A bad Rocky rating.

Actual answer: Tremors movies?

Edit: I did a Boolean search of that first sentence on duckduckgo, and I found a blog post about painless ways to kill yourself.

So, uh... the order of suicide methods rated by that blog post?

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Bump

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This has always been, and will always be, a bad take.

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that's awesome, lmao

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SquantoZ posted...

Great! As if covid wasn't enough trouble for these places, now we gotta worry about theatre shootings again.

This is the most American sentence ever.

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Had to abbreviate due to character limits, TL3 standing for Torchlight 3.

I really liked the feeling and aesthetic of Diablo 3, and while Torchlight 2 was okay to start with, its presentation let me down a little bit and I lost interest.

I'm thinking of redownloading Torchlight 2 and giving it another try, and if that goes well I might buy Torchlight 3.

I have to ask though - as someone who wasn't a big fan of the second game, and as someone who's basically just a Diablo 3 convert, do you think I would like Torchlight 3?

As far as dungeon crawlers go, I also really like FATE. I've only played the first game, but I adore FATE and I would buy a remaster on Switch if it ever came out. I was interested in Titan Quest, but apparently the Switch port is dogshit.

What's your take CE?

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Look, if you tear up at Snake and Otacon's awesome handshake, you're A) the exact kind of person who should be playing Kojima games, and B) a flaming homosexual

obv. just being silly, buy saying that - I don't cry often, but when it rains it pours amirite

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dj1200 posted...

true nature?
thats like saying you are a terrible person because of your nations history of the slave trade for example (if you are American).
How does that define the true nature of Canadians today?

True nature was a bad call on my part. I would still define it as a nature that we live with whether we realise it or not, but calling it their "true" nature might have been going a little far.

What I meant by that is as follows:

It varies from person to person, but we're all products of the environment we live in and we're beholden to the biases and nationalist rhetoric we've been internalizing for all of our lives.

I'm not excluding myself from that. This isn't a case of "wow man I've opened my eyes to the nature of my country's evil, I'm such an enlightened individual" - I'm aware to a degree of what I've internalized, but I also have blind spots and it's been a slow path to realising some of my own biases as a product of my country's culture. I'm as beholden to the racism and nationalism instilled in me over the course of my life as you are to yours - it exists in everyone who benefits from the status quo.

Our countries were built on genocide, eugenicist rhetoric survives to this day, and we mistreat our indigenous populations after everything we put them through and come out the other end jaded and bigoted because the rhetoric has been tailored to do to us as we get older. That's the same in Australia, America and Canada - with its own variations, sure - and then we have the gall to think that our nation's so much better than that.

Americans aren't inherently bad and evil because their nation had slavery. But the echoes of slavery still exist in their forefathers, in the works of philosophy by the likes of John Stuart Mill and John Locke that were used to justify slavery, and in the language and rhetoric pushed by people as recently as 60 years ago to justify continued segregation. A very small amount of people explicitly take that and run with it, but a lot of people in America are influenced by the echoes of it, because it became the foundation of the world they live in.

We all have the person we're trying to be, and we have a nature that's been baked into us from a young age that's extremely hard to acknowledge and move past. That nature, when you're a member of a prominent population in a colonized country, is going to be influenced by bigotry that's persisted in our national figures, our admired cultural milestones and even in the language we use.

White Australians have that nature. White Americans have that nature. And white Canadians have that nature. We're all affected by the atrocities committed in our country's pasts, and the justifications used to build our nations are still there, influencing us to this day.

That's what I mean when I say that a Canadian's true nature is as insidious as yours or mine. It's a generalisation I'm making, sure, but this is my reasoning for it. And by Canadian, I'm referring to the predominant demographic who preside in Canada, the same way I'm referring to the predominant population in Australia and the US.

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lmao

You can't tell me this guy doesn't have business acumen. He saw a market, and it appeals to his lifestyle which means he's probably passionate about it. This might just take off if it rings true to any other swingers.

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I mean, the way they treat their indigenous people is fucking disgraceful, like any colonized country. Even before the residential school mass graves, indigenous fishers were having their nets and equipment stolen, disturbed or destroyed, and it's escalated to the point that their boats are being burnt.

Canadians are as nice as any predominant population in a country built on the back of colonialism. Which is to say - they're perfectly pleasant on the front, but their true nature is as insidious as your own country's failings or mine.

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Ever-lovely Elizabeth,

Each day we spend together fills my heart with warmth and joy, and each night we spend apart tears me asunder. The heart of a man beats within me, and the only salve is the healing touch of a woman - only one woman in this entire world.

I ride for Portsmouth the week's eve, and I am not expected to return for quite a time. I ask of you - meet me by the orchid grove by the light of the next full moon before we part.

I shall be waiting intently for your grace, and I pray that you will come.

With much love, your beloved Grant Hufflingworth

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I was waiting for a delivery when I made my initial post. I want to get into a little more detail.

*wall of text ensues*

fr though - my biggest gripe is the material.

The main problem for me was how the show was structured with a main cast of four. One way to do it is pairing off the cast members for an A and a B plot - Doctor Who is no stranger to this concept, there were plenty of RTD-era stories where The Doctor would get separated from his companion/s and they would advance the plot on their own, before meeting back up and putting the puzzle together.

This happened sometimes - I think that's one reason why I'm one of the rare Tsuranga Conundrum defenders. It wasn't perfect, but it reminded me of RTD-era Who with the monster of the week format and with the group splitting up. But most episodes have the gang act as an ensemble for most of the time, and in that ensemble, characters would essentially be sacrificed for the sake of another character's prominence. Where one character would have a lot to do, another character would have absolutely fucking nothing.

Originally, it was Yaz who got the short end of the stick. In the first five episodes, she barely had anything to do. In Arachnids in the UK, her mother appeared as a plot-critical character - so as her family are introduced, you think Yaz is gonna get a bit of a spotlight here, right?

I swear to god, Yaz's mum has more focus and lines than Yaz does. As a one-time plot-critical character and a recurring minor role going forward, she overshadowed a member of the main cast - her own daughter, and by extension her connection into this vast sci-fi world she's become embroiled in. And frankly, it sucked.

But then again, Yaz got the best episode of series 11: Demons of the Punjab. I will champion that episode until I die - it was a point where I honestly felt it was on par with a RTD-era episode, it was a historical episode that covered a piece of history I had no idea about which was endlessly fascinating, and it had the most effective ending out of the entire season. Compare the money shot in Rosa, and the money shot in Demons of the Punjab. I don't mean to downplay the historical event of Rosa Parks's defiance itself, but Doctor Who kinda botched it - and Demons of the Punjab pulled off a far more effective gut-punch with characters we didn't know, without a significant influence on history.

What made Yaz weak in series 11 was that she didn't have an arc to speak of. She had fragments of characterisation that bloomed later, but it was piecemeal. Her character, while underutilized, developed in bits and pieces over the season. Ryan and Graham had a season-spanning arc about family and acceptance, and that kept them busy the entire time - Yaz got comparatively less development.

But Ryan and Graham's plot is resolved by the end of series 11. And so, going into series 12, neither of them have that much to do. Ryan tries to pick up chicks, Graham is always quick with a one-liner.

And Yaz gets to step up and develop as a character during that time. But it comes at the cost of Ryan and Graham's characterisation. Ryan suffers especially - he was already a bit stiff, but his time on the show comes down to overcoming his dyspraxia to throw a bomb at some Cybermen, and it's with very little fanfare.

And that brings me to another point - while the human cast do interact together, they don't have much interpersonal connection. Like, Ryan is Yaz's friend and his main connection is to Graham. Graham is the Doctor's friend and his main connection is to Ryan. Yaz is Ryan's friend and her main connection to the Doctor. And the Doctor is the glue who holds the whole group together - but I feel like she spends most of her time with Yaz and Graham.

In that dynamic, one character is always missing. And that affects how the entire team feels.

Almost no-one knew how to write four main characters in a balanced way. Like sure, certain characters get featured in certain episodes, but it just didn't feel balanced in the sort of way that any other show would balance a cast like that.

And also - I say that Yaz and Ryan are friends, because you see in episodes like Rosa that they have bonding moments. Like in that one, they're bonding over being PoC in a heavily racist society. And I felt chemistry between them. They felt like friends. And they interact in the future, sure, but it's never really to the same standard set in that episode.

I feel like Yaz and Ryan could be great confidants. They have a past - they went to school together - and in episodes like Rosa they're shown confiding in each other. The last time I remember them interacting in a significant was was Orphan 53 or whatever, and that episode was a flaming turd.

And it's to the point where when Ryan leaves the TARDIS, she barely bats an eye - but when Graham leaves, she stops in her tracks and wells up with emotion.

That's not to say they never interacted or got along - but it didn't feel like the appropriate order. That's how it had to happen structurally, but it was just so jarring to see it transpire in that way.

And look - the characters had their strengths and weaknesses, and I would argue that none of them had the depth that prior companions have had. Graham was close though - when Grace comes up in Orphan 53, the look he gives is fucking award-worthy. He sells the fuck out of that scene.

But it's those characters who held the show together. They're the main draw of the show. And while I wouldn't dismiss any of them outright, Jodie Whittaker was the glue holding this show together.

I'm just disappointed that the material wasn't up to snuff, because I LOVE her Doctor! I love that she's a tinkerer, I love this spirit of discovery and love of education she has as well as this mechanic/engineer tendency. And when her run on the show ends, she's going to be who I miss the most.

I put the blame squarely on the writing and the showrunning. And even with Chibnall's series 11 foible of writing most of the season himself and having the whole thing be a middling mess, he did pen good episodes. I particularly like Revolution of the Daleks. One thing he could do was poke fun at himself, as seen as when his Daleks are blasted apart by the Time War Daleks. Remember when Moffat made those technicolor bastards and never used them again? Chibnall had the cheek to make his own decent new design and then have the Time War Daleks swoop in and go "you are unworthy" before blowing them to kingdom come.

But it comes down to the material and the showrunning. And neither have been up to snuff.

That is immensely disappointing, as someone who has adored Jodie Whittaker's Doctor.

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Jodie Whittaker was a fantastic Doctor imo. The stories themselves, though, weren't great.

As far as I'm concerned, she carried this entire run and did the best she could with what she had.

I didn't mind the Timeless Child thing, and I hope the plot isn't junked and retconned away. That, or I hope the specials do the plotline justice.

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The issue of violence in porn is significant and there has been a growing backlash to it. Teens do watch porn and being exposed to violent or otherwise extreme pornography does impact how people view sex.

The way you fix that, however, does not include producing pornography aimed at minors and exposing them to it.

Like how the fuck do you get to that point and post it to Twitter, like "yes this sounds like a good idea :)". We should be trying to expose teenagers to LESS sexualisation, not MORE.

And the worst part is that the point that she's trying to service with this proposal - that there's too much violence in pornography, and that the sex depicted in porn is physically unrealistic and likely to impact how growing teenagers view sex and what to expect when they have sex - is solid. That is a valid concern, both for guys who can't get off unless their sexual encounters hit a certain threshold of extremity and girls who are expected to perform in ways that aren't comfortable or pleasurable for them.

So how could you go and contaminate the ground-water of that discourse by saying "we should produce pornography with the intent of showing it to minors"? What the fuck is wrong with you? How dare you, even?

Fucking hell, this puts me in a shit of a mood.

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Bobby Kotick got a $200 million bonus, then fired 190 employees just before Christmas.

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I mean personally I love golf games. I'm planning to get Mario Golf next week. If it's not your bag, it's not your bag.

I would argue that while the sentiment is understandable - why not create new IPs instead of relying on the same stable of classic franchises - the reason I don't mind when it comes to Nintendo is because the games they do put out for those franchises are almost always excellent.

Zelda has had some rough spots, but we're at a point where even Skyward Sword is getting vindicated with its Switch port. The stand-out "bad games" of the franchise are Zelda II, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, and each one of them has its fans and has been vindicated in some way - there are the third party CDi games but no-one takes them even remotely seriously.

Likewise with Mario - Super Mario Sunshine copped flak, but it was vindicated in later years and it's considered a classic. Bit of an oddball maybe, but a classic all the same. Odyssey got dogpiled for its moon mechanic, at least on here, but that game had incredible visuals, sound and gameplay. The bad games, again, are third party titles released on non-Nintendo hardware.

It's one thing to trot out middling sequel after middling sequel. Look at Sonic the Hedgehog - the good games are really good, sure, but there are just as many misses as there are hits. Look at Mega Man - the ones that everyone remember as all-time classics are 2 and X. Between the classic and X series, there are 19 games - the other ones aren't necessarily terrible, but it's widely agreed that they don't meet the standard of quality set by 2 and X. So it's understandable that people see a stable of consistent franchises and go "why don't they branch out more?" - there's a precedent set by other companies to cram out low-quality sequels to bank on the franchise.

But it's another thing entirely to keep producing quality games in a legacy franchise. And I would argue that this is what Nintendo are doing.

At least in Nintendo's case, you know that there's a level of quality that each of their big franchises meet with each release. When you pick up a Mario or a Zelda game, it's a reasonable assumption that it's going to be good. Maybe you won't like it as much as other games in the series, everyone remembers their first, but can you truly say that the past 5 Mario or Zelda titles have been outright bad? Or even middling?

The sentiment H3 expresses is understandable and if that's how you feel, that's how you feel. Personally, if the games are good, I don't care. Thank god I'm not a Star Fox fan though, lmao

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Always pick 4. Fuck yes.

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DJT is a fascist.

Losing the presidential race doesn't erase what he tried to accomplish. His policies are still trying to be passed. And the ease to which this sort of thing is being accepted is worrying moreso to a direct feed

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Lil Nas X good

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This fanart is real hnnngh material

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If it's not gonna kill them, I don't care.

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One's a vegetable brought to life
The other one's a fruit with a fuckable wife

Tune in for Vegy and Cpt. Pineapple's Wife!

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Flam was a good dude. He used to do these rabb.it watch parties for Baki the Grappler, he was a really nice guy. Stuff like that helped me feel included.

I asked, but I think folks are still asleep at the moment. idk American timezones so well.

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Cia was designed to have sex appeal, but her ass objectively isn't there. You're comparing a pear to a piece of toast here.

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I mean if you want to associate your average Republican with the people who stormed a government building while the President-Elect and Senate were sitting, that's your business led.

That woman was shot because she broke a window of that building - the centre of your democracy - and crawled inside with the intent of locating the President-Elect while armed security told her to stay back. She was shot because she posed a direct threat to those officers, and to the politicians of your country.

How can you support that and claim to love democracy? Isn't that the big Republican platform? Unless you think the election was stolen, in which case you might believe that what this woman did was justified.

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Oh no, a teen character made a comment about another character's mom's tits. In 13 Reasons Why, a kid gets forcibly sodomized in a school bathroom with a broom handle. That shit is aimed at teenagers too, and while it's aimed at older teens, its focus on "starting a conversation" is intended to solidify it as a cultural touchstone for children of the 2010's. Its popularity is intended to cross boundaries and speak truth to power.

13 Reasons Why is an exploitative pile of dogshit, granted, but it shows that the envelope has been pushed further than what we grew up with. Even kid's cartoons like She-Ra, Infinity Train and The Owl House are tackling more complex issues than our beloved childhood media - though I'd say that Avatar: The Last Airbender was a trailblazer in that regard. So this comic is a bit edgy - as if you didn't grow up hearing worse.

From my recollection, teens swear at each other and make inappropriate comments. The harassment and abuse you face in high school is arguably worse than a lot of harassment and abuse you face in the real world, because outside of some extreme circumstances, you can get away with punching another person in the head without that other person being able to press any charges. Some of the nasty shit you hear in high school dies out in high school, because the adult world - to a degree - is less tolerant of it. High school is where a lot of people are probably at their worst as they try to define their boundaries.

Comments like this happen - at least in my experience - as early as fifth or sixth grade sometimes. It doesn't just sprout up in high school where everyone's basically halfway through puberty. If anything, this is safe, comparatively tame teen dialogue that aims to scratch something more controversial by falling back onto a recognised and more sanitized trope - a joke about your mother - as opposed to going somewhere more realistic, like comments about eating out someone's mom's bush.

In short, unless you grew up in a Mormon family or went to a religious school of some kind, I doubt this would actually be that shocking to you compared to what you grew up around. That, or my experience is an outlier. Either/or.

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man, don't even give him the time of day. Taking him even remotely seriously is how threads like this get derailed.

Like it's fun for a while, but you know you're never gonna get a straight answer out of him, right?

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Oh shit nvm, Kiryu can throw people off buildings as well. 1:15 in this video:

https://youtu.be/RZwRe9gFNBA

My favorite heat actions in these compilations are the one where the characters take out their opponent's shins with a bowling ball, and when they get them in an arm lock and rip out one of their fingernails with a pair of pliers. Looks like they're universal heat moves.

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ngl, heat actions in 4 have been my favorite by far. They're so fucking stupid and I love them so much.

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I know this thread is about Kiryu, but it made me remember the one heat move that caught me off guard in Yakuza 4 where Akiyama tosses someone off the top of a building.

It's at 1:30 in this video:
https://youtu.be/ywUA0L7SEco

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I said this recently and I'll say it again.

The only reason she's as remotely influential to the degree that she has been is because of the stupid fucking chuds who made a game of harassing her. They're the people who made her the face of online feminism. They're the people who shone a spotlight on every little thing she did and put her face on thousands of video thumbnails and her name in thousands of video titles.

Their campaign against her was built on the back of lie after outrageous lie for the sake of pandering to an anti-SJW crowd who had come to see her as the face of the movement, and that in turn led to her taking on a visible role on social media - both to defend herself against the unprecedented wave of harassment and attention she received, and to use what infamy and influence she had gotten to spread her ideals.

Anita Sarkeesian would still have her own fanbase and some degree of popularity without the backlash, but the fact is that she wouldn't be a household name among the terminally online circles who know about her without the Gamergate morons who elevated her to the face of a movement through their behavior. She was targeted because her Kickstarter blew up, sure - for better or for worse she was going to have fans and get attention for what she was doing. But she would never be as relevant as she is today - to the point where topics like this are still popping up on message boards like this - without the gamergaters whose collected disdain for her gave her more of a platform than she ever would have otherwise.

My thoughts on Anita Sarkeesian herself? I don't really care. I don't watch her content, she's not in any of my online media circles, I have no judgements on the content of her character or the content she produces. I understand she fell from grace, and that makes me even less likely to seek her out. I'm not that interested in her as a person.

My thoughts on Anita Sarkeesian as a public figure? The people who hated her the most are the people who made her the most relevant, and I truly believe that the gamergaters who elevated her to such a prominent position despite hating her so much are some of the stupidest motherfuckers on the internet. I fully believe that the proponents of her backlash are the same kinds of people who dropped their Gillette products in the toilet in the wake of that ad, or who (used to) express their discontent with a brand by buying up a bunch of their stock and destroying it on camera as a form of protest. Like, they still got your money and exposure, numbnuts. You're still helping them.

I don't care enough about Anita Sarkeesian as a person or content creator to know or talk much about her. But regardless of whatever the hell her deal is to anyone, I find her fascinating as a public figure, and I doubt I could dislike her more than the people who made her the face of a movement against her will and against the interests of online leftists at the time.

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The firefly guy's stage feels like a Castlevania pastiche with the Sigma heads. Like it's just that it's a castle, sure, but I just get a Castlevania vibe in particular.

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Ah, okay. It sounds like while X4 had an easier campaign with X with Zero's campaign being harder because of his melee-based combat, in this game it's more like picking X is babby mode and Zero is balanced for more classic MMX fans.

I'm guessing picking Zero at the start is the more balanced option. That way you get his arm cannon and sword, and you don't get the Fourth Armor.

Also, just went back to Tidal Whale's stage and hit the advancing whale robot with the chargeshot. This thing is godlike, I burnt out both halves of the boss before the halfway point.

I feel rude and petty going "armor this, armor that" because I can just take the armor off if I so choose. I actually like playing with the armor because the game is a cakewalk, whereas I was kinda struggling with base X, and that's on me - but I still feel like there's a balancing issue here. I'm being dumb I guess.

The fuckin Volt Kraken bike section is inexcusable though.

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So on one hand, the boss fights have been pretty easy so far. I beat Volt Kraken and Crescent Bear pretty easily.

On the other hand, I'm using the Fourth Armor. And I'm concerned that it makes the game a cakewalk, but there's no incentive for me not to use it.

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Good news, guys: I just got the part for legs. And Dr. Light's hologram is sentient apparently, because he knows about the Sigma virus and Alia.

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I like the boss theme at least.

Are there any rank bonuses? Because I am not going to get many A or S ranks, lmao

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Okay, fuck Volt Kraken's level too lmao. "Ready?" *flies off a cliff and dies*

I'm gonna get the hang of this, but so far I can see why people see this as a downgrade. I do appreciate that X doesn't have that godawful scream he had in 4 when he dies.

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So what's the deal with the Fourth Armor? Is it like a save bonus for if you've finished X4 with all the upgrades? Why would I pick the base X if the Fourth Armor has better functionality?

I didn't refresh the thread before I posted this, thanks for the info. The fourth armor seems like a bit of a gamebreaker imo.

I'm playing the giant fish autoscroller area. I hope this isn't an omen of things to come, because what's even the point of shooting the fish if it's just gonna whip out that laser and shred me within like a second?

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