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Nade_Duck posted...

that's more tweety's fault than anything.

Or conversely, Bugs being way cooler than pretty much anyone who isn't Daffy.

Yellow posted...

(but what money superman from where)

I mean, you're talking about someone who can fly into space, grab an asteroid, drag it back, punch it, and then wham, instant rare earth resources like iridium. Tons of easy money that way.

Not to mention we've seen him make diamonds out of coal with his bare hands.

And all that's before you take into account the fact that it's probably easy to start taxing people when you can punch anyone who refuses to pay into space.

BurdenedDude

Yellow posted...

I wouldn't trust anything off Amazon that's not name brand to be high quality tbh, every Amazon basic thing I've bought has been a flimsy pos.

The sad thing is, at this point in our history, "name brands" aren't really a guarantee of quality either.

Everything's kind of shit now.

I like tiny robots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbotics

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.

darkknight109 posted...

I called it from Round 1 that Samuel was going to the finals. So far, that's looking like a solid prediction.

Apparently you jinxed it.

The version where you play literally any other game than FFVIII.

It's a very shit game.

https://www.mashed.com/227056/the-real-reason-you-should-avoid-these-1-hot-dogs

pikakaeru posted...

I don't like giant robots.

https://youtu.be/iwTydFBtdBY?t=26

captpackrat posted...

Why would someone design giant robots like this?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

Metalsonic66 posted...

Eventually it would become a big squiggle anyway

I used to have to sign a lot of stuff every day for business reasons, and this is what happened to my signature.

I don't really have a signature anymore, just an autograph.

Have literally never had this issue.

I thought the first game was mediocre, and I kind of hated the ending.

I was hoping this game would fix the problems and be better, but it seemed to basically keep all the things I hated while adding even more things I hate. So it can fuck right off.

BADoglick posted...

No. Another place is basically dead, you could make that your new home. Potd has always been it's own thing for 20 plus years, I don't really want to see it become a refugee camp

Time to start marking them all for board invasion.

josh posted...

Try to imagine

https://youtu.be/YI3NoBeNwfk?t=35

DirtBasedSoap posted...

destroying someone elses mail is a felony

This.

And "illegal activities" has been moddable way longer than politics has.

josh posted...

would you need to pay for the results of the poll? the results are right there publicly

Because the real value is in breaking down and correlating the data. Most marketing companies aren't going to pay an employee to go look at every individual poll to try and pull data, but they'll pay for a report that spells out multiple trends in bite-size chunks, and can link those trends to user ages, locations, and other demographics.

GameFAQs can correlate that data on the back end, thus making it easy to sell.

I can't imagine using an online name from when I was 14, because the World Wide Web didn't actually exist then.

CarefreeDude posted...

I have some many wonderful memories of gamefaqs, though most are like from 20 years ago

Most of my best memories come from either pre-2012, or from the Geek topics before they died.

It's almost entirely inertia keeping me here at this point.

Judgmenl posted...

How long has Fandom been collecting our telemetry?

Probably from day of sale, because the site has been collecting your data for like 20+ years now.

Selling user data has probably been the site's primary revenue stream for a looong time now. It's also the main reason they still bother running polls - because they sell the data as marketing info.

DeltaBladeX posted...

Hey PO. Assuming you have a Discord account, care to send me a private message so I know who you are if you ever join up. Easier to tag you as the real PO that way. :P

Just assume anyone claiming to me isn't me, because...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Poll #9526 - Do you use Discord?

Nope. Never have, never will. Hate the concept of it.

adjl posted...

Close, but not quite.

Alberto Dickweed, obviously.

Own my own house, and I don't have a mortgage. All I pay is property taxes.

Videos still have end cards, though it's possible you don't see them if you're watching on a phone. I wouldn't know because I never watch videos that way.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

nah they're gonna start remaking their old consoles cuz that's all they do with their games anyways

So they're becoming Nintendo then?



adjl posted...

I'll be surprised if console generations are still a thing by the time PS12 would be rolling around, given how harsh the diminishing returns are getting on new generations, but I expect Sony will keep the same naming scheme for as long as they are (possibly changing it up for whatever the final one ends up being).

I'll be surprised if console generations are still a thing by the time PS12 would be rolling around, considering how likely it is that we'll be spending most of our time fighting over oil and water while the sky burns by then.

Though there's no way in hell I'm surviving long enough to see a PS10 regardless, even if I don't get murdered and eaten by my neighbors.

Nade_Duck posted...

sufferin' succotash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPYLhVvKg6Y

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Feel like it's not hard to find out that it was literally the Hershey family (of Hershey's Chocolate) who ran campaigns to push circumcision to the masses barely 100 years ago.

I feel like my statement remains unchanged.

Entity13 posted...

to say nothing of how recent changes to this site will cause a shift in how many people will even consider it.

It probably won't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHh_5zhRLo

FreezinIceKirby posted...

Spear and magic helmet??

SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET.

I think you're underestimating his SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET.

Entity13 posted...

And this is why some of us are taking to Discord.

Yeah, but the problem with that is...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/9526-do-you-use-discord

Nade_Duck posted...

it might not be a bad time for someone to make another off-shoot message board tbh.

SBA Paradiso Reborn v2.0 when?

The irony is, making an offshoot board is harder now than it used to be, because InvisionFree is dead itself now.



Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

Almost no one that's posted in here is a Zoomer.

Zoomers don't even know what GameFAQs is. That's why it's dying.
We haven't had an actual new user (as opposed to old users making new accounts) since 2012.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Wait, did we ever have topicality here?

Yeah, like pre-2003 or so.

It's where "G) Other" comes from.

Everybody ignored and circumvented topicality anyway, so CJayC just gave up and dropped it.

TomNook posted...

That isn't a real board.

It's the realest of boards.

Depends on the intent of the author.

It doesn't bother me when JRPGs have evil Catholic churches and where you eventually fight and kill God because I know they're just looking for cool motifs, and barely understand the religion they're riffing on (in the same way they use Norse mythology in games - it's all just "foreign myth" to them).

I find stuff like the Golden Compass annoying because Philip Pullman comes across like a bitter dick with an axe to grind, who is deliberately aiming at children to influence young minds.

If you're writing as a "Gotcha! Fuck you!", you're probably kind of an asshole. The same applies whether you're basing your main villain on the guy who cut you off in traffic or your ex who left you for a guy named Serge, or if you're taking shots at the church because you're still mad your mom made you go to Sunday school as a kid. It's just petty and sad.

keyblader1985 posted...

This is the only place on GameFAQs I regularly visit. If it's gone, GameFAQs is 100 percent dead to me.

Same.

Though PotD doesn't even have to be "gone" for that, just different enough to not really be the same place. If all the people flooding in because CE is shut starts turning PotD into nothing more than CE-lite, I'll probably move on regardless.

This one hurts me.

On the one hand, Yosemite Sam was the main character in the cartoon that eventually led me to my XBox gamer tag and Kingdom of Loathing account.

On the other hand...

https://youtu.be/weHNnsMY82A?t=9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kH0Bag0akc

Bascially my favorite Looney Tune cartoon ever.

TheSlinja posted...

damn, didnt think this would be the tightest one yet

It now has the most votes as well.

And is tied.

EclairReturns posted...

The second bullet-pointed item of rule nine baffles me. Wouldn't that make it harder for game developers to detect bugs?

I'm more interested in the third bullet point. Because of how it's phrased it means you essentially can't discuss drug use of any kind, other than for medicinal purposes.

And because of the blurry line of what exactly is and isn't a "drug", as phrased we technically can't talk about drinking coffee, alcohol, or smoking tobacco without risking moderation.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

it just started out as a fad in the late 1800s because rich people advertised it like it was an absolute need for you to do for your children.

I feel like history is not actually your strong suit.

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

It's kinda sad to see Fandom strip out the soul of the site for all to see.

You say that as if it wasn't already slowly dying for a decade before they even bought it.

Rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine.

I remember that they existed, but I never really shopped in Toys 'R' Us all that often, so I never really had any and never really knew what their full policy was for them.

Here's a picture of them for people in this topic who've never heard of them:

https://www.aggressivecomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GeoffreyDollars1_5-vgo.jpg



Cruddy_horse posted...

Never heard of this but this sounds like the fastest way to speedrun a lawsuit.

It's not actually illegal for a store to say in advance that they don't offer refunds, and only offer store credit vouchers. Which is basically what the bucks were.

Basically, you can use fake currency as refund vouchers, gift cards, coupons, or a combination of the above. Toys 'R' Us just turned it into something cutesy because it tied into their attempt to look like a happy fun place to shop (even though they engaged in a lot of anti-consumerist practices whenever they could get away with it).

teddy241 posted...

Employees can do it if they're bored

I used to know someone who worked at a bank who would look up customers' personal account info when they were bored. Which is technically illegal, but is also something you're almost never going to be caught doing, so they do it anyway.

teddy241 posted...

I'm pretty sure by now they already know who you are and what fetishes you have on the data thats already out there.

Your ISP has been logging it for years, and most of them happily turn their data over to the FBI.

So yeah.

Entity13 posted...

I mean, Blitzball in FFX is basically underwater US football. If you mean what the rest of the world calls football, then I'm drawing a blank.

Strike that, reverse it.

Blitzball is straight up soccer. US football doesn't have wingers, goalies, and strikers.

Lokarin posted...

Or rather, using MTG as an example, if you could find Legendaries of anything... even lands. They just have unique alt artwork.

Ya, I got 2 rare and a legendary Island, let's a go! MONO BLUE, UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Pretty sure they have "rare" basic lands. I think you can get prismatic lands as promo cards. Though they're mechanically the same as any other land.

I know my one friend used to claim he could tap his one land for two mana because it was a land from the Beta set. But then we would throw things at him.

Beyond that, they definitely used to have alternate artwork for lands (there were like three different versions of each basic land back in 3rd edition), and they occasionally update the land art from time to time, so different editions will have different lands.

Then if you want to be really fancy, you can always track down some of the "Snow-Covered" lands from Ice Age, where it's essentially just a basic land with snow on it.

Aside from all that, I wouldn't say that power and rarity are intrinsically linked in Magic. Most of the time, sure - but there are certain cards that can be used in game-breaking combos that are just commons. Or cards like Lightning Bolt that were common and later seen as being too overpowered for their casting cost (part of why they phased half the "Cantrip" spells out of the game back in the 90s). And certain rare cards that are mostly worthless.



EDIT: I was right...

https://starcitygames.com/mtg-basic-lands-foil
https://draftsim.com/mtg-basic-lands

Do you mean video games or tabletop?

Because I guarantee there's tabletop RPGs for various sports. But the only video game I can think off of the top of my head was Base Wars for the NES, where you could upgrade robot baseball players with different parts, which kind of bordered on being an early RPG-style game.