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Mensis posted...

Id talk to her. Youve posted you miss her too, this could be your shot to save it.

Not saying it wont end terribly, but if you want to try again with her this is probably the best opportunity.

That's usually a terrible idea.

hera posted...

i'm saying that the difference doesn't really mean anything as a whole

It does in the sense of how it's classified, and more importantly, in the psychology behind the person doing the killing, and how you generally have to profile them in order to catch them.

Appropriate, considering the Far Cry trend of the best endings being the ones where you choose not to play at all.

I wouldn't even want it if you gave it to me for free.

captpackrat posted...

There's a badge for voting.

Yeah, but maybe four people tops on the entire site give even the remotest of shits about trophies.

A lot of people care about karma, though. Even if they're both equally meaningless.

hypnox posted...

Rewards that are only done once for an event and if you weren't playing then, theres no way to get them.

I fucking loathe them. They're part of the reason why I avoid playing online multiplayer games at all.



Straughan posted...

My ocd hates it. Makes me feel like I can't complete the set of everything so fuck it all.

Straughan posted...

Nothing contested should be that rare. Everything should be instanced. If you wanna make rare shit, let people earn it via account-wide achievements like swtor. Make people earn shit, not be there at a certain time and be lucky.

This, so very, very much.

It doesn't make a game more fun or fulfilling, it just makes it feel more like a burden. It feels like I'm being forced to play at certain times or for certain amounts of time to "earn" the stuff I want, to the point where the game stops being a game and starts being a job.

If I can't be a completionist, even as a later adopter, I'm far more inclined to drop a game entirely than I am to keep playing. Or avoid it entirely from the very beginning.

Straughan posted...

The site should probably let us set an option to auto prompt us polls if they want people to use them. I'd participate more if they did that.

If they really want people to vote in the polls, they should have it give you extra karma every time you vote.

Karma is worthless, but people are obsessed with it anyway. You'd absolutely see an uptick in people voting if there was a tangible (if useless) reward for it.

It's like how, back in the day, people actually bought GameFAQs merch solely because it gave a karma boost.

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Ogurisama posted...

What do you want to drink?

The blood of whatever asshole is trying to make me drink crab juice.

discordantly posted...

When you review bomb every big name project you don't like for dumbass reasons you turn critics into the only meaningful metric of quality, great job mate

No, because it's possible for both review scores and critics to be wrong and bad.

Read plot summaries or just take advice from people you know personally and whose opinions you trust. If you're trusting the opinions of random strangers or people who are paid to lie to you, you deserve the shit media you're going to be watching.

CedarPointcp posted...

Any of you don't like listening to anything while driving?

I pretty much require the radio to be on. It started back when I was going to college, and I'd often drive there/home at night, so I kind of needed something on to keep me awake while I drove. I found listening (and singing alone) actually helped stave off Highway Hypnosis pretty well.

Now I'm just so used to it I generally turn the radio on in any car the moment I turn the key, before I even bother putting on the seatbelt.



CedarPointcp posted...

yeah i mean you hate listening to music or the radio and don't listen to podcasts either when you're driving. Just complete silence etc.......

I avoid silence in general. Ever since I was a really young kid, I basically needed noise in the background to focus (I used to turn the TV on for background noise just to do my homework, or when I was reading/studying in general). And as I've gotten older I've gotten so used to multitasking I kind of have to engage all of my senses or I get distracted. I put podcasts on when I'm playing video games (except when they're games with lots of dialogue where I have to listen to the game). I put podcasts or music on when I read. I even have trouble watching movies outside of a movie theater because of it - my immediate instinct is to start browsing the Internet while the movie is on.

Even as I type this, I'm playing a video in the background and listening to a podcast.

After about 40 years of living my life that way, silence kind of freaks me the fuck out. I can't even sleep in perfect silence, because I'm so used to the sound of the motor running in my air conditioner (which I run like 11 months out of the year).

hera posted...

oh i'm sorry i forgot that there was rainbows in their games

Unfortunately, what wasn't in their games was good writing.

Or acting.







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTowCuwF-E

hera posted...

i think they understand colors given that their survival is entirely dependent on camoflaguing themselves against the giant sentient killer robot dinosaurs that...you fight with a wooden bow and arrow

That's not even a good argument in and of itself anyway, considering almost no one in any of the games actually camouflages themselves at all.

I mean, everyone wears robot parts for decoration, not because it somehow disguises them. And plenty of them slather blue paint on themselves or wear blue in their clothes (which stands out pretty blatantly in nature). The Oseram are about the only ones who might actually blend in (because they tend to wear earth-tone colors), except they also wear lots of metal so they'd be shiny and clinking around as well.

And even ignoring all that, the Nora are pretty much the only tribe that even remotely uses stealth as a tactic, so they'd be the only ones who would even benefit from camo regardless (and they're still pretty bad at it).

hera posted...

they added a pride flag face paint in horizon forbidden west and people are goin apeshit over it

Wait, so people are complaining about the game which is a sequel to Zero Dawn, where the main character is pretty much held up as the hero because she's from a matriarchal tribe, and where she's basically the Chosen One because she has two mothers and no father (Rost doesn't count)?

And then in the sequel it turns out she was cloned from a lesbian because men bad?

Horizon's been woke as fuck from day one.

The pride flag might be the least gay thing in the games.

I was going to say Avengers: Endgame, but then I remembered I actually saw Transformers: The Movie in a theater last year for the 35th anniversary.

Probably won't be seeing anything else any time soon. For the last decade or so about the only movies I bothered seeing in theaters was the Marvel movies, and Disney has spent most of Phase 4 successfully murdering any ounce of giving a shit about Marvel I once had.

AND NOTHlNG OF VALUE WAS LOST.

Muscles posted...

I was going to try and argue against this but really the only shows I could think of were South Park, Always Sunny, and maybe That 70's Show

Even South Park has gone through some very rough patches. It's gone from seasons where every episode was awesome, to seasons where most episodes were great but a couple were meh, to seasons where most episodes were meh but there was still one or two a season worth catching (maybe). But honestly, I lost interest in the show overall a looong time ago. Like before the seasons where they were making fun of Game of Thrones.

And even speaking as someone who pretty much hated That 70s Show as a whole, I think most people would agree it ran at least a few seasons longer than it ever should have.

Lokarin posted...

How is it Friday already?

How is it 2022 already?

I feel like I blinked and missed a couple decades.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Have you ever wanted to play an online game

No.

Beat me to it.

SoreChasm posted...

The youngest Golden Girl is still really fucking old.

Yeah, but the Golden Girls didn't have lifespans of thousands of years.

Well, maybe Bea Arthur did. I wouldn't be surprised if she was secretly an eldritch horror.

This is why we should just vote for Cthulhu. He had a really strong campaign platform back in '96.

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

SoreChasm posted...

Honestly, it seems like we dont have all that many users on GameFAQs nowadays.

ftfy

hera posted...

and unban my shit

Mods, please double-ban his shit.

No, it's a ridiculously expensive hobby. There are much better ways to spend your entertainment dollar.

Metalsonic66 posted...

New Simpsons is still better than Family Guy

Yeah, but that's like saying stage 4 cancer is better than full blown AIDS.

And while Internet hipsters will deny this, during its first few seasons Family Guy was absolutely better than the Simpsons that was coming out at the same time. It wasn't until later that Family Guy started getting really terrible (just like the Simpsons did).

As a general rule of thumb, most live-action shows should never run more than 5-6 seasons, and even animated shows shouldn't run more than 10. After that point you've pretty much run out of ideas and are so burned out that you're mostly just going through the motions to cash the check, and your show is going to be more or less creatively bankrupt and soul-numbingly banal.

Ahh, you mean God's Fiery Testicle.

That always used to come up in the sky shortly before I went to bed back in college.

faramir77 posted...

Simpsons and it isn't even close lmao

I love Seinfeld but The Simpsons was an absolute cultural juggernaut. The amount of merchandise sold is astronomical. The very fact it's still airing new episodes after 30 years, where Seinfeld didn't last for 10, speaks for itself.

I'd agree with all of this except for the very last part.

Even aside from the fact that it's waaay easier to keep an animated show chugging along in zombie form than it is to keep live-action going the same way (short of constantly replacing the entire cast the way soap operas do), there's kind of a difference between being kicked off the air because no one is watching your show anymore and deliberately walking away because you've already made a ton of money and are getting tired of doing it (and maybe don't want to get typecast for the entire rest of your career to be able to do literally nothing else - which is another way in which animated shows tend to have an edge over live-acting).

Simpsons probably should have been cancelled before it even hit 10 years, creatively speaking. At this point people watch it more out of nostalgic memory and cultural inertia than they do because it's actually worth watching (ie, the same niche Family Guy has managed to slip itself into, and arguably South Park as well). It's the television equivalent of comfort food. The vast majority of its actual socio-cultural impact happened within the first decade, and after that it's mostly been coasting on fumes.

In a lot of ways, it's not entirely dissimilar from how Seinfeld did extremely well in syndicated reruns for years after it went off the air, in spite of not making new episodes anymore. At a certain point the idea of a show becomes more important than the show itself.



FrozenBananas posted...

hmm Seinfeld never had movie that made 500+ mil worldwide

And even that was 15 years ago.

Which is kind of terrifying when you step back and think about it.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah duh, geniuses don't use a mouse, they just type random letters really aggressively until hax happens

Nah. If I've learned anything from modern movies, it's that all computer geniuses wear a glove or a bracelet or use a camera to register their hand movements, and just gesture in the air until holographic stuff happens.



hera posted...

it showed command prompt

That's more technically accurate than about 90% of Hollywood hacking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4

Hell, video games where you have to connect pipes or shoot down space invaders or succeed at QTEs are more accurate than most Hollywood hacking.

But here, this is for you:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/brains-with-urgent-appointments

GGuirao13 posted...

Take a deep breath and try to relax.

https://youtu.be/SVi3-PrQ0pY?t=23

Lack of ambition and being so bad at social interaction that you can't really hold down a meaningful job are both things that exist, you know.

The smartest man who ever lived is still utterly worthless if they never do anything with that genius. At that point they're functionally no different from the crazy homeless man who thinks gophers live in his brain.

It was pretty meh even then. It hasn't aged poorly as much as it's always been kind of mediocre.

KodyKeir posted...

Yes, but only in the early years of the licensed racing games; Daytona 96 had some of the most realist damage physics in a racing game that I have ever played, and for good reason: Car manufacturers did not like seeing their cars damaged in what was essentially used as demolition derby simulators.

We had it on the computer at school and would load up Talladega, then as the race started, we would start at the back and turn around and try to create the largest chain reaction crash to knock out as many other racers in a single crash. If you hit the handbrake and drifted sideways at the right point you could take out both lanes and potentially the entire field in a single crash.

I once figured out you could rack up huge points in Hard Drivin' by taking a hard right-hand turn shortly after the first race started, drive down a side road to a barn, and plow directly into the cow (which would cause the game to let out a loud digitized "Mooooo" sound). Then you could just keep backing up and hitting the cow over and over again until time ran out. It'd put you on the High Score list by a wide margin.

After that, there was literally no reason to do anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Drivin%27

Depends entirely on context.

If I'm just getting mildly irritated or nervous or upset and someone is like "All right, calm down, we'll sort this out" then I'm fine.

But if I've been getting riled up and am kind of yelling a bit because of how annoyed I am, and the person I'm mad at says something like "Calm down, the neighbors/bystanders will hear", then my brain is going to interpret that as "I care more about what other people think than I give a shit about your problems," at which point I'm probably going to deliberately get louder as a sort of fuck you to the person I'm arguing with. Same goes for situations where I have genuine concerns or issues and the person I'm talking to says something like "I don't want to fight about this" as a means of shutting down the conversation (leaving everything unaddressed and ignored). Divisiveness is annoying because it implies the other person doesn't really care about you as a person.

My reaction to what people say almost always depends more on how I'm interpreting their intent than on the literal meaning of their words. If you say something nice or polite but there's a bit of venom behind it, I'm going to react poorly. It's one of the reasons why I don't like how two-faced Southerners can be - I'd rather have someone from New York call me an asshole to my face than have someone from Georgia say "Bless your heart!" and then stab me in the back as soon as I turn around. I prefer people who are honest about their opinions and intentions over people who are passive-aggressive or "deceitfully polite".

Probably because it was flamebait. I'm kind of surprised they didn't just delete it outright.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I like Longshot. Especially if the character doesn't exactly have the best track record. Like maybe they are a Crack shot but they are bad at identifying the right target

Or conversely, they have a reputation for making shots no one else can.

"You think you can hit that guy?"

"Well, the odds are against it, it'd be a real long shot."

That's literally why Marvel has a character with luck manipulation powers called Longshot. His entire gimmick is pretty much that he can do crazy shit no one thinks is even remotely possible because he's too stupid to realize how impossible it is.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Longshot_(Mojoverse)

ColdHeritage posted...

CE is just PotD but worse.

ftfy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7D1qYesa7k

Nebraskansas.

Lokarin posted...

That be the Zelda 2 vs. the Star Wars games

In that case, Zelda. I thought the Star Wars games were absolute ass back then.

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

Metalsonic66 posted...

Level 69

Level 42?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7LFpB9epI

HornedLion posted...

Before the 1980s, folks would be able to provide for all a familys basic needs with just one income. Now, even with both husband and wife working they can barely make it by.

That's also at least partly because previous generations were much better at telling the difference between "necessity" and "stuff I want".

iwasapoetonce posted...

as cool as CE

Is this like when people call tall people Shorty or bald guys Curly?

https://youtu.be/UCqZb6X2BJs?t=210

Sarcasthma posted...

Yeah, I don't post on CE at all.

As it should be.

Sarcasthma posted...

I'm more of a 7-Eleven man.

As it should be.







https://youtu.be/xMBV0M0xYTY?t=310

The afterlife is a Japanese RPG that I've never paid attention to?

Hmm, checks out.

HornedLion posted...

have to say Im disappointed about having to see Dr Whos ass.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Cannot believe I got to watch the eleventh Doctor fuck, 10/10 show

How many people were disappointed because it wasn't the 10th Doctor?

Probably so, so many.

Ciri is a lesbian, so no.

Wow, Nintendo's been playing artificial scarcity games even longer than I realized.

Sarcasthma posted...

Yeah, shes a nice lady.

She's a wonderful woman, we play bridge on Tuesdays.