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Chopper

Wasn't paying very good attention there.
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Legion is fantastic, pleasantly surprised to see it so high with just the one season. Can't wait till it's back.
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Pluto is the best looking Sailor

I will fight you.

Jupiter > all
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I used bitcoin for sports betting for a while but moved away from it because I didn't like the volatility. I had winning days where I ended up losing money because the value of bitcoin went down on the same day.

The other problem with BTC poker is that hardly anybody plays it. You'll pretty much be up against mostly sharks. You'd probably be better off trying to find another site that lets you deposit with a credit card.

If you really want to do it, though, it's pretty simple. You'll use a site called Coinbase that's essentially like Paypal. Create an account, link your bank account, and deposit money. Then you'll want to transfer the money to a middleman wallet like Breadwallet, because for whatever reason Coinbase doesn't really like you to use BTC for gambling.

Here's a more in-depth tutorial if that isn't understandable. Just replace Nitrogen with whatever site you're using.
http://esportsfire.com/bitcoin-betting/
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Yo Eddv, your boy Juice Robinson had a damn good match with Okada yesterday.
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Tales of Hearts R
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Jude
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pyresword posted...

Taliesin best town.

Truth.
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I think I made it about halfway through Trails before I dropped it (plan to go back eventually) and I just found Estelle kind of annoying.

Kloe was great, though.
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gearofages posted...

It's the first time I've ever been approached by any girl except for my sister.

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You're a DG fan, right voltch?

Which unit do you figure is losing this survival league thing?
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Oh, right, I remember that now.

Man, I miss Mio.
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vs Okada on Night 4. If you didn't care for him before, though, I won't be surprised if it doesn't connect with you.

Also, it might help to get my point across about Yano to mention that I didn't care for Nakamura a lot of the time while he was in NJPW either because he had such a habit of dogging it in all but the biggest matches. I skipped a fair amount of his G1 stuff as well. It's not just comedy that doesn't do it for me sometimes, laziness can take away from matches as well. But I would never question someone loving Nakamura or denying that he was huge for the company while he was still there.
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JetJaguar posted...

NBIceman posted...

Lopen posted...

But seriously-- I may not watch as much New Japan as you, but I don't think I could ever get bored of Yano. I find his matches LESS formulaic than a lot of wrestlers. Hell even when he does the same trick a few times (in ROH last year he was overusing hitting dudes with a turnbuckle pad) I can still get into his matches.

Hell, Yano vs AJ Styles was actually one of my favorite matches in the Climax two years ago. And while I didn't see near all of it I saw a decent amount between watching part live and watching matches after the fact.

He's a great man.

Hey, I recognize I'm in the minority here.

But as you pointed out, I watch a LOT of New Japan. When I was just getting into the company, I loved Yano too. But eventually I got to the point where I'm not really looking for comedy out of NJPW except on rare occasion, even if you're as good at it as Yano is. I have PWG and PROGRESS and other companies here and there for comedy. I go to New Japan for workrate.

You can't assume everybody who watches NJPW also watches Progress and PWG though. NJPW fans need their comedy fix too.

I don't assume that. I made like three or four posts in which I mentioned that he's valuable to the company even if he's not personally my taste.

Lopen posted...

Well I mean I don't think he's something I'm going to 'grow out of' even as I watch more New Japan or anything. I don't watch a ton of it (time + effort barrier) but I watch enough to have a reasonable familiarity with the product and the rosters-- hell I think I've been a subscriber to NJPW World for as many months total as I've been a paid subscriber to the WWE Network. Yano, Ishii, and Naito are far and away the top 3 for me.

On that note I'm actually not a huge fan of oversaturation of comedy in wrestling feds. It can become tiresome-- can only watch the truly ridiculous stuff in bursts. I much much prefer a serious fed with very sparing use of comedy elements. That he's a comedy guy in a primarily non-comedy product and is able to be taken as vaguely credible is the appeal to me.

Anyway this has sorta gone off on a tangent due to not liking the connations behind "when I was just getting into the company" but yeah I'm just saying I don't think it's a bad thing to put a bit of variety in the product as long as you don't overdo it. Seen much much more distracting things in NJPW before in the past, like a 70 year old Abdullah the Butcher on one of the Wrestle Kingdom shows in a match.

Elgin being in the G1 is the one to be upset about imhhhho.

I didn't intend that to mean anything more than what it looks like on the surface, but I can see how you might construe it that way. It was just meant to be a personal admission that I got tired of him. I totally get why other people don't tire of him the same way.

I don't know what you've got against Elgin, though. He had the best or maybe second-best match of the tournament so far this year.
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When did Mio pole dance and how did I miss that?
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Lopen posted...

But seriously-- I may not watch as much New Japan as you, but I don't think I could ever get bored of Yano. I find his matches LESS formulaic than a lot of wrestlers. Hell even when he does the same trick a few times (in ROH last year he was overusing hitting dudes with a turnbuckle pad) I can still get into his matches.

Hell, Yano vs AJ Styles was actually one of my favorite matches in the Climax two years ago. And while I didn't see near all of it I saw a decent amount between watching part live and watching matches after the fact.

He's a great man.

Hey, I recognize I'm in the minority here.

But as you pointed out, I watch a LOT of New Japan. When I was just getting into the company, I loved Yano too. But eventually I got to the point where I'm not really looking for comedy out of NJPW except on rare occasion, even if you're as good at it as Yano is. I have PWG and PROGRESS and other companies here and there for comedy. I go to New Japan for workrate.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I just wanted to dramatize the situation, get us some good heat going into the main event.

Yeah, I didn't figure you were serious, but I also didn't think I made my point very well in the last topic so I just wanted to clarify.
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I think me going Cornette on Yano would be to say he's actually terrible and/or bad for NJPW/wrestling as a whole.

Yano's very good at what he does and the crowd loves him, and thus he has good value for New Japan. And there certainly are still times I get a kick out of his antics. But I don't really need to see 9 singles matches from him in the space of a month.
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No one. Like I said, he serves his purpose well. Gives guys a night off.

I'm just saying that his tend to be the only matches I ever skip outside of a few opponents because his shtick doesn't really entertain me that much anymore.
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I've gone on record multiple times to say that I'm tired of Yano in the G1 and that, while I understand he serves a very important purpose in the tournament, I as a viewer would not be bothered if he didn't compete.

But Yano/Omega was a ton of fun all the way through and it fit both those guys perfectly.
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McCoy
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I just want Captain Commando.
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Luxray

Sad but not surprised Gallade didn't make it through. :(
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KCF0107 posted...

36. Tales of the Abyss

I guess this is a good place to mention what I look for in a JRPG. All I really ask for from JRPGs is to have quality world-building (or at least an interesting world), a great battle system, and enough side activities that are fun and worth my time. That's it. I have a low opinion of VG narratives relative to film, TV, and literature and thus don't place a high priority on plot and characters. If they are offensively bad though, then it will draw my ire. Everything else (such as audio and visuals) is secondary stuff that I can deal with if they aren't up to snuff.

Now that we got that out of the way, I have a love/hate relationship with Tales of games. I absolutely love combat in them. Mario & Luigi is the only series that I'd say has routinely better battle systems. Abyss was no different, and it hit on the things that I was looking for to some degree. They also hit on some degree, as most of the series does, in having offensively bad plot and/or characters.

While most of the games stumble hard on its supporting characters and lead antagonist(s), Abyss instead shot themselves in the foot with their protagonists. It's telling when the best of the bunch is probably a sociopath.

Never mind, you're dead to me.
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Eddie was always better anyway.

In all seriousness, though, Richards was very good as well. Definitely got a lot of undeserved hate throughout his career.
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Any list that has multiple Tales games on it is alright by me.

Interesting you have them ranked Legendia > Xillia > Xillia 2 > Abyss, though. My ranking would be exactly the opposite. Looking forward to seeing your takes.
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Strife2 posted...

I'm saying hyping things to the extreme like this (justified or not) is a big turnoff. Jakyl's right in saying they should report on it, but acting like its some second coning of wrestling Jesus or, "WWE can't have these types of matches with this frequency" is annoying.

I like LU, but you don't hear me waxing poetic about 5 STAR MATCH EVERY SHOW BETTER THAN WWE LOL.

I'm simply suggesting not everything has to be held to some standard, as if that promotion is better than everything.

There's a legitimate argument to be made that NJPW since 2013 (or like late 2012) has been the greatest era in wrestling history. I'm not altogether convinced that's the case, but it's not an outlandish claim.

I've never listened to a full Observer show, but if they're hyping it up "like the second coming," it's because they're legitimately that good.
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