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It's a terrible idea. The game has a significant child demographic, and I'm gonna bet there's enough users who've lied about their age on their profiles to the point that they'd be able to gain access to the dating site of things.

Even if this was handled with the utmost security and ethicality, the high population of children on Roblox makes this proposition just really fucking weird and inherently tainted. You don't shit where you eat, you don't mix business with pleasure, you don't set up a childcare centre next to a garbage dump. You don't integrate the functionality of a dating website with a platform that ostensibly exists for kids to play video games with each other.

I think people overcompensate for Makoto's popularity. Comments like #2 just come off as strangely defensive?

It's been too long since I played P5, but I romanced Takemi and Makoto in my playthroughs. Ohya is kind of my type as far as women go, but I did think her social link was a slog. The fortune teller lady kinda bugged me too. I see Futaba as more of a little sister analogue so I choose not to romance her, though I really like her Dorito gremlin characterisation, Haru is kind of a victim of the game's pacing so I'm not super interested in her character, and Ann is a fine character as one of your pals but I'm not really interested in her route either.

Everyone else is just kinda ehh.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/2/AAbh80AAE1sg.jpg

Tyranthraxus posted...

TBH there was a really long stretch of games, between 4 and Armageddon where the games were very stiff and clunky. While some games had good enough qualities to make them playable like the Deception Konquest mode, overall they were kind of crap compared to other competitors. Things started to change after the first injustice game and now they're great and honestly the art and animation in MK1 is some of the best shit I've ever seen in a video game.

Oh absolutely. I actually had a bias against MK before 9 got unbanned in Australia and a friend bought it.

There have been some dogshit Mortal Kombat games, but imo the Netherrealm Studios games from 9 to 11 are very well developed games - sans the stupid triple-A microtransaction shit they started putting in.

You guys don't know what you're talking about with "kusoge". NetherRealm games are very particular, but they're functional and fairly well developed for what they are.

Look at games like Brief Karate Foolish for something approaching the realm of kusoge.

Read title as One Piece Los Angeles

the One Piece is on Alcatraz

Temu comes across as Wish with an even more aggressive advertising budget. It came out of nowhere and blasted all my shit with ads, and I'm explicitly avoiding it because it feels extremely off and I don't trust it.

I remember back when NFTs were getting big, they were basically announced just before the Oscars gave attendees a Chadwick Boseman NFT in their goodie bags. From there, you saw dozens of publications going "NFTs, why are they so cool?" and a fuckton of press for stupid dogshit like the Bored Ape NFTs and whatever the recent flavour of the month was. But the backlash was always there, and people complained all throughout the first couple months of every hack publication making NFTs out as some tech revolution.

I see Temu the same way. I see an out-of-touch news story about a business model that's not only been done before, but has gotten popular and competed with Amazon insofar as it was exclusively offering consumer goods directly from Chinese warehouses that also use Amazon as an additional middleman. I'm seeing AliExpress and Wish all over again, and the "hype" I'm seeing stems from their blanket ads on every mobile app I own. I don't see a "rise", I see an aggressive marketing push backed by fuck-off amounts of money. It's fake.

WingsOfGood posted...

Just make a cheap fairly ok graphic turn based final fantasy

I'll take another World of Final Fantasy

I hate to break it to you TC, but you might have just outgrown Mortal Kombat. idk what an eligible replacement would be, at least out of any recent fighters, but if you're a fan of NetherRealm you might want to reinstall Injustice 2 for a while.

Ratchetrockon posted...

Are they gonna show the switch 2

The Switch was first revealed by Nintendo in October 2016 for a March 2017 release date, giving them a leeway of five months.

Current rumors and leaks are saying the console launch is currently looking to be around Winter 2024. That would place an annoucement around January or February - or shit, maybe they'll go for a Switch 2 announcement on the 7 year anniversary of the Switch's launch.

I think announcing it after the 2023 Holiday season is probably what they're aiming for, so that the Switch gets one last big holiday season to itself before they transition to the new hardware.

Tyranthraxus posted...

MP4 or GTFO

I, too, would like a port of Mario Party 4.

Did the poster delete that security cam footage of Boebert flipping off security on the way out, or did it get moderated?

Probably when I was six.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/4/AAbh80AAE1i2.jpg

Dude spoke too soon

BloodMoon7 posted...

Never heard of them.

You can get the gist of Abzu by checking out its page on any storefront. Check the screenshots out.

For the King is like a tabletop RPG. You control up to three characters who you name and design yourself, give them classes and then put them in a basic little DnD-style adventure. You move across a hexagonal grid, fighting monsters and encountering random events, until you either run out of lives in the ramping difficulty of the game or until you beat the final boss.

Each game of For the King is a standalone adventure from beginning to end. As you play you get Lore points, which is a currency to buy more character classes, more customisation options and more random events for you to run into on the overworld. It's couch co-op, so you can play with up to three friends, and it also has an online mode.

If you like RPGs with a lot of gameplay depth, replayability and intense personal stakes, For the King is fantastic. It looks ugly as sin and runs at 30fps, but it's just outright one of my favorite RPGs of the last ten years.

For the King is one of my favorite "gamey" RPGs of the past ten years, and Abzu is one of those artsy games with minimalist, mostly visual storytelling. For a combined total of fifteen bucks, you can't go wrong.

Usually you scalp Nazis, but with furries you get a whole pelt.

https://youtu.be/RTOri5ytDFA?si=YRMWmgfaUIVrFsiC

Where I live, people have their favourite brands. I like Cooper's, my friends drink Carlton Dry or Carlton Draught, your older fellas who've ruined their livers drink mid-strength beers like XXXX or Great Northern.

Full_Pokedex posted...

Wow now we're bashing characters because of their actors/tresses? The opinions of this board gets worse every day.

Hearing Mel Gibson being an antisemite and tell his girlfriend that she deserves to get raped by black men because of how she dresses makes me want to watch What Women Want significantly less than if he didn't do/say those things.

Considering the heinous abuse perpetuated by the church of Scientology, including an inter-compound prison building and labor camps, it's understandable that someone would see "Scientologist" and nope the fuck out.

Finn: *does doofy kid things and learns a lot of hard lessons about growing up*

TC: wow we got a beta-bitch soyboy cuck over here! Want some syrup for your bacon pancakes? Too bad, all you get is SOOOOY!!!

obv. blowing this out of the water, but you're a grown man calling a kid in a cartoon a beta male. Instead of speculating about what's wrong with Finn, think about what's wrong with you that would lead you to this point.

Razor posted...

Kevin Smith lost a bunch of weight and all his talent went with it.

Gimme fat Silent Bob KS back

Dude had a major heart attack that nearly killed him, and it was traumatic enough for him to make lifestyle adjustments so that he would live longer. God forbid.

People have been criticizing his work ever since he became a huge pothead anyway, I'd argue that's a more critical aspect of his life that affected his work. He made that terrible Yoga Hosers movie before the heart attack, and his work starting from Tusk is where things really seemed to start shifting for him.

Anyway to respond to TC, Kevin Smith had a treatment for Clerks III that was going to be his last movie, but one of the core actors didn't want to be in it and Smith needed everyone to be on the same page. That treatment was originally going to be put out as a comic book instead, but then the heart attack happened and he decided to scrap it in favour of a new one.

Opinions on Clerks III seem to be mixed, with a lot more of his personal life and a sort of reflection on his own legacy going into the movie as opposed to silly catchphrases, nerdy diatribes and stupid over the top humour. But that's just what I've heard.

That one episode of Rick and Morty

and right-wingers wanted the doctor who aborted the pregnancy to go to jail?

Is TC the guy who argued that thirty years in jail for a rapist was too much?

The best part is that since these characters and stories are in the public domain, anyone - you and me included - can do whatever we want to them.

There's absolutely a bunch of cheap cash-in trash being made to capitalise on it, and it's shitty and annoying. But if you have enough of a passion for the property, you could write a book, film a TV show or movie or make a video game about it and monetize it.

The first wave of public domain media - at least in the cheap, commercialised world we live in - tends to be exploitative garbage like this. But the potential to make something new and beloved with the property is limitless, and that's what I like about the public domain.

I remember when a council member in regional NSW took the time out of their day to make a public statement congratulating Kate Middleton and her royal husband for having a healthy baby.

Dude won't sign off on the budget to fix the roads, but he'll make meaningless fluff statements about the royal family that they're never going to see or care about.

It usually takes a nuclear fuckstorm to see anything change or get overturned. One time, enough users @'d Sballen about a user who openly peddled antisemitic conspiracy theories, undercut the Holocaust and I think might have dropped a couple slurs, but who only got a suspension. We're talking multiple threads of users @-ing the dude and saying their piece, initially to a lot of backlash, until the dude caved and banned the user.

That course of action, of course, isn't viable outside of the most extreme of circumstances, where the mods have clearly fucked up and enough people are genuinely incensed by it to push for action. Whatever issue you have probably isn't going to be resolved, and the most you can do is talk about it and hope enough people commiserate with you.

We used to have a moderation appeal system, but after an overhaul that gave us the option to report posts for trolling, the ability to appeal moderations was removed.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

That's fair. It'd suck to make a huge investment into it only for it to fumble the end

For real, How I Met Your Mother already let me down lmao

it's moreso the length, if I'm gonna even attempt to watch this show there has to be an end point. I could knock out InuYasha because it was under 200 episodes. 1000+ episodes? Literally the only solace in watching that is that eventually, the thing fucking ends.

Gonna wait until it finishes before I try, myself.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Did the Fantastic Beast films flop because Twitter is pissed off at Rowling, or because they suck?

First one was fine, best part of it was the guy playing Doctor Who-lite. It had original characters who were likeable enough, and their little personal adventure was fine. It was as enjoyable and innocuous as a new story set in that universe could be - a former friend was really big on it, and I saw it years later before the second one came out because he wanted to re-watch it.

The main issue it had was that on top of this character-focused romp through NYC collecting wayward magical beasts, there's this secondary plot about this criminal and who he is and what he's doing, and that character was - and I'm saying this because the second movie is named after him and the franchise's conflict was centred around him from that point on - Grindelwald. I'm more of a fan of self-contained character-focused movies like the other part of this first movie, so I don't give a fuck about the blatant hook for the Wizarding World cinematic universe y'know.

So then my friend wants to see the sequel at the movies, I think we're taking a daytrip to Canberra. He used to call all the shots, so I was roped into it.

They still have the little squad of likeable characters from the first movie, Doctor Who-lite and his companions. But like 80% of the movie is about Grindelwald, and DWL & co. have next to no relevance to that broader conspiracy. Their scenes feel like padding, and their role in the movie feels completely tacked on.

It's like if they made Iron Man, and then when they made The Incredible Hulk, half of the movie was about Tony Stark having a misadventure in the Amazon rainforest while looking for Bruce Banner until their paths cross at the end. The goofy characters from the first movie feel completely tacked on because instead of making their own Grindelwald movie, they made it a sequel to Fantastic Beasts for the sake of brand recognition and gave them nothing to do except make one of them a Grindelwald follower and fascist almost out of nowhere for the sake of forced conflict.

I found Rowling's transphobe shit abhorrent at the time of the first Fantastic Beasts movie, and when my friend sat me down to watch it years later, I could concede that it was mostly a decent watch. It tried too hard to force the Grindelwald issue when its strength was in Newt Scamander's traipse through NYC with his newfound friends, but the part of the movie that was about Newt Scamander was fine.

The issue was that they went all in on that Grindelwald prequel saga, but they gave ill-fitting roles to the cast of that first, mostly unrelated movie as a cheap way of justifying the second movie's status as a sequel . The second movie isn't even about monsters or Newt Scamander's appreciation of them, he's basically a bumbling secret agent with relationship issues. It sucks.

And even if it was its own standalone thing without the cast of the first one outside of the Grindelwald plot, the plot is sluggish and cryptic until it builds to a handful of heavy-handed twists that just serves to scream "this ain't your daddy's Harry Potter!" and hook in the moviegoing cast who still do the house quizzes on Pottermore to this day. It's a grim, bland slog that panders to the cheap seats in the vain hope of justifying another sequel.

Then either there was a third movie that came out, did absolutely dogshit with critics and at the box office and died a dog's death, or Universal decided to put it out of its misery amidst a media landscape that was already savaging it based on the bland and uninteresting previews. I genuinely don't remember, because by that point I was in a weird place with my friend who liked the movies and I wouldn't have watched the third one even if he bought me the movie ticket and a bottle of gin to drink in the theatre.

But man, that second movie was a slow, plodding, pandering slog of a movie. They even did the "passive-progressive" scene where they hint at Dumbledore being a gay man, but making it such a disjointed non-sequitur so that they could cut it out for conservative markets like China and Russia. What a load of shit.

The first movie was a fine standalone adventure, and if you were open to the whole Harry Potter witches and wizards thing, it's genuinely a fine enough movie when it's about Eddie Redmayne's character and his unlikely new friends. But it had to do the same shit everyone else was doing, so it half-assed a cinematic universe, promised a prequel saga about a well-known franchise villain who'd already died before the original movies came out, burdened that first movie with the Grit and Spies and Intrigue part of the movie as a backdoor for their new franchise, and then burdened the Grit and Spies and Intrigue movie with the Silly Power of Hope and Love and Friendship brigade who spend the movie having the hope and love and friendship getting sucked out of them by a cryptic, plodding and lazy story.

Socially, Vinny from Vinesauce and a trans webcomic creator I like who got attacked by an abusive ex.

In general? Most people who get cancelled, like the really big fish ala Mel Gibson, usually aren't in want of any material good because they made a fuck-off amount of money and can either live off it or supplement it with something else if they can't break back into the business. They might not have "recovered" in the sense that they aren't in the limelight any more, but they're fine.

I feel so bad because I let the L'il Homies down, but I feel really betrayed because the true fans didn't have my back.

Fundies hate Doom, there's a pretty large contingent of queer Persona fans in general and Metal Gear Rising is an antifascist video game.

For every drooler who hypes up Senator Armstrong or sees P4's Inaba setting as a "return to conservative values", there's a leftie who'd see a neo-nazi punched in the back of the head or a P4 fan who'd read fanfic of Chie slonking Yukiko's meat silly-style.

ai123 posted...

People should be free to believe or not; to join a religion, or not.

Sure. There should still be intense scrutiny towards religious organisations that show hallmarks of cult-like behaviour and are shown to violate the human rights of its practitioners.

Everybody has the right to be a Christian, a Muslim or a Pastafarian. Not everyone has the right to start groups like Heaven's Gate, Boko Haram or the Oath Keepers.

Revelation34 posted...

That sounds like Pizzagate.

Just looked it up, Scientology sends members who've been accused of breaking the rules to camps run by a branch of the church called the Rehabilitation Project Force:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_Project_Force

According to the page:

The program includes manual labor tasks and the study of L. Ron Hubbard's works. The rehabilitation program may take more than a year to complete, and the Church has been accused of overworking and mistreating its participants. Critics have characterized the RPF as a forced labor and re-indoctrination program comparable to the Soviet gulag system.

And that's on top of "the Hole", a prison where Scientologists have been held for years at a time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology)

If those Pizzagate/qanon fuckwits gave half a flying fuck about reality, maybe they could have done something about this.

ai123 posted...

There are so many I lose track of them.

Is this the homeschooler who tortured her kids?

No, this is a "family vlogger" who uploaded parenting videos to youtube. It's the recent case where a kid went to a neighbour's house with open wounds and duct tape tied around his ankles and wrists. Police searched a second house and saw another kid bound in duct tape with similar wounds.

There's also precedent going back years, with a kid in one of her videos "losing bedroom privileges" for seven months. Dude had to sleep on a beanbag chair the whole time, and this was filmed and uploaded to the YouTube channel this woman ran for profit.

Please, tell me where the malnourished, wounded child with duct tape around his extremities touched you, lady who made her son sleep on a beanbag for over seven months. It's okay, we believe you over your multiple malnourished children with similar injuries who say that you starved them and bound them with duct tape.

ssk9716757 posted...

there was that one guy who burned down a church iirc, so theres definitely precedent

When the world needed him most, jedimaster12345 took up his trusty jerry can and booked the first Greyhound to LA.

I thought I only had four bullets left in the clip but I had fifteen

Raid Shadow Legends is an exciting action RPG with four and a half stars on the Google Play Store and the Apple store

Mom & Dad is about a sudden pandemic of parents murdering their children. There's a scene at where a bunch of kids are chased down and murdered by their parents, where one kid is stabbed in the neck with his mom's car keys. The entire premise of the movie is child murder.

Also, I think it's Human Centipede 3 - the one they shot in black and white - that had a woman giving birth to a premature baby in the driver's seat of a car, and in order to escape the horrible rape facility she's been locked in she slams her foot into her child's head because it landed on the accelerator.

Freddy Got Fingered

https://youtu.be/EkGU3BkOGf8?si=FOdlgQtBdmIQ2Qbh

Doctor Sleep. Probably one of the most fucked up horror movie scenes ever.

Caracalla posted...

Why? Scientologists are the archenemies of Lord Xenu, attacking them is doing his good work.

Because if enough people don't believe in Xenu, he ceases to exist. Like Santa Claus.

LinkPizza posted...

For what I wouldnt eat, the list is Snails, Raw fish, onions, and avocados. I would try Olives (both), radishes, and beets, but probably wouldnt like them. But who knows I wouldnt mind trying Brussel spouts, but I like other veggies already, so And while I will eat Dark Chocolate, its probably my least favorite when compared to others like milk and white

But theres also the list of what I cant eat, which is Oysters and Shrimp

That said, there are certain foods I usually only eat a certain way. So, theres that, as well

That said, is there some science behind this particular picky eaters test?

Not really, I grabbed it off a search engine. This thread completely changed course like four times in the OP alone, I go into my reasoning there.

Revelation34 posted...

Also that list isn't a good gauge for picky eaters because by that list it would give vegetarians/vegans an automatic 5 points.

Fair point. Honestly I thought a lot of lists I was digging up weren't "extreme" enough, like it was mostly garden variety stuff. I'm not even particularly happy with the chart in the OP, but it was about as spicy as I could find.