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I suppose this hardly helps the argument since I dont know how loans work in great detail over there... But in my country if you do not make enough money to pay back the debt at a steady rate, even though you have been working for 15 years, then the student debt is forgiven.

I was definitely bringing Agate, even if he doesn't get an extended cutscene. I feel like he deserves it after being trolled by Loewe so many times.

Last slot I'm between Kevin, Olivier or Kloe. But I'm picking this one based in gameplay.

Does Kevin get better dialogue than others?

Lol part of my laptop keyboard stopped responding, including some keys I need for my Windows password. I could use my phone but I'd really rather have my laptop for this. I'll get a USB keyboard soon and finish up. Bonus time!

I don't think I've ever used a Scan mechanic in any RPG and not even Trails is changing that.

I gain the Time Gem, an item that gfreatly drops a character's attack, defense and ATS, buit greatly increases their casting time. That's one fancy way to make someone a healbot.

we're 12 games in and i think this is still the most inexplicable thing in the series from a lore standpoint lmfao

I could have sworn it was possible to fire off Grail Sphere before Renne demonstrates she's the smartest Enforcer by just immediately opening with her S-Craft but I believe you're the second person who has stated they couldn't so I must have imagined it.

you literally need three people to get a song in.

you want to get a crush 40 song in, go figure out which one you want to all double and all double it.

I considered that, but then I realized that you're basically banking on a massive natural disaster or surviving armageddon. I'm not going to plan around the apocalypse, and whether or not Mother Nature wrecks your shit is dependent on where you live. I suppose if you live in, say, hurricane alley, it might be worth discussing. Hurricane Isaac blew up this way and devastated the area, leaving us without power for close to a week, but in these parts we call that a hundred-year storm. It's a pretty expensive investment to save yourself the comfort of having power for a few days. (And my street was one of the last to get power restored because our power lines were going to take the most work to put back. Most people were up and running much quicker.)

If you're the kind of person who would like to have a bunker or tons of ready-to-eat rations in case society completely collapses, then sure, it probably fits your mentality such that you would 100% want to do that. Otherwise, not so much. Batteries are mostly for if you live somewhere where you can't use the grid as battery because you don't receive any credit for selling your energy, because then at least you can use your own energy at night.

Or at least this is my minimal understanding of the subject. Please correct me if I'm underinformed.

This isnt true though, my old roommate worked at a pool supply store and the entire place smells like chlorine.

I could be wrong, but I suspect theyre not peeing in their tanks, lol.

That seems incredibly difficult.

* This does mean if you hop in on day 2 (April 20th), you'll be able to nominate 10 new songs!

Mary is pretty boring. (unless its with a second part like MaryAnn)

Is there a win condition or is it just "survive as long as you can"?

I considered posting about it too lol. I don't comprehend how they are able to call this a success, even if I grant them that this is not easy work.

Good to see you! There's another guy here now that's just TomNook and when he first showed up I thought it was you.

You can play games on your phone now so there's no need to sit on your couch to play a card game

I agree, in a nutshell. I think locking nominations should come at a price. That way the music that doesn't lock can get in with fewer noms--a benefit for songs having no security. That way people would hesitate on whether it's actually worth it to lock a song.

If we have, say, 90 nominators (hopefully this is an overestimate) who each have 25 noms, then assuming every available nom gets used and with absolute max efficiency (meaning every nom is used on the 256 qualifiying songs), that's an average of 8.79 noms per qualifying song. Of course, we're not going to be perfectly efficient, and 85.2% is the highest nom usage % we've had. If we assume 90% of noms are used with perfect efficiency considering that (which means 90% efficiency for ALL available), that drops us to about 7.91 noms per qualifying song.

The highest efficiency we've had is 72.7% in VGMC14 (granted, the efficiency % can't explain the rush to get everything locked in VGMC16--and if it weren't for the locks, we would have seen an efficiency much higher than 61.3%). I guess if you took the 8.79 noms and reduced the efficiency to 72.7%, it would suggest....6.39 noms for a song to qualify? (assuming my calculations are correct)

Keeping in mind my suggestion that locking should come at a price, 8 noms to lock sounds good to me! Of course, that may mean it will only take 5 or 6 noms to qualify without locking, but that's how I would like it!

I mean, I wish we could have the ideal setting of being able to lock music fairly easily--it's nice to get something in easily AND secured. This worked in VGMC 14 and 15. But with the large amount of music getting nominated and with nomination efficiency improving every year (plus with people rushing to lock things more and more), it is unfortunately not possible anymore, unless we want a mad rush of noms to lock music like last contest (OR if we had more than 256 songs in the tournament...)