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Not only can I not solve that (although it's easy to determine what numbers the foods represent), I also couldn't care less.

Unlike the other similar topic, I have not known anyone with any one of these names.

Nope. You can't spoil 30+ year old pop culture material. By this point, you aren't "spoiled" inasmuch you're simply late to the party.

What do we mean by classic here? Does it basically mean "not actively produced anymore"?

Because when I came in here, I was gonna say The Price is Right. But if that doesn't count, I'd say probably Password.

I can tell it was crafted with care (a few bugs/oversights aside), but it's absolutely not my kind of game. Pretty much figured from the start that it wouldn't be, with how much it reminded me of DA:O. Spouse seemed to like it, though.

It isn't the greatest font, sure, but I never had trouble with this even on an actual puny GB screen.

Haha, that's gotta be an Onion headline.

Wow, that wasn't an Onion headline.

I admittedly always thought it was very odd in RPGs how when your frontline gets wiped out, your reserve party members are seemingly just like "welp, guess we'll die"

Like, did they go on vacation or something? What the hell?

This is something I greatly appreciated about the Golden Sun sequels (not the first game since you didn't have reserve members). If your frontline wipes out, it isn't a game over; the reserve members will immediately jump in to take over. I'm sure this isn't the only example of RPG that does this, but it's the example that sticks out in my memory from what I've played.

Not closely or anything, but at various points throughout my schooling I have come across every one of those names.

It's clearly designed as an introductory level RPG, much like games like Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and Pokemon (especially so modern day Pokemon).

If you're looking to be challenged, you need to either look elsewhere, or toward self-imposed challenge rules or difficulty hacks or something.

Oh no, spoilers for a 25+ year old game. I'm quivering in my boots.

If we're talking physical attraction, then it's unchanged, because I don't experience that and never have.

Otherwise, if anything, it's probably gone up, as I've gotten more free time to communicate with people and potentially form connections.

Fenriswolf posted...

I love it when Americans pretend that video games would cease to exist without Nintendo. The NES wasn't that popular in Europe and Latin America, which simply gravitated towards rival consoles like the Master System and home computers like C64 and Amiga.

I love it when Europe and Latin America pretend like their markets mattered at all to game companies back then.

Bravo was the only one that came to my mind.

Only the Game Boy if you're counting a GBC, the GBA if you're counting a GBA SP, and the 3DS if you're counting a N2DS XL. Never had more than one of any home console.

Hate to break it to you, but video gaming was in a much sorrier state before the NES came out compared to when the PS1 came out.

The way this topic played out pleased me far more than any Zelda movie could ever hope to accomplish

RISEofCHRISTIAN posted...

The only correct way to play Mario Kart 8 is without items anyway.

Ugh, no. That's the precise reason F-Zero 99 feels so boring.

ai123 posted...

I mean, even if you have Premium, you're still using adblockers for other sites.

Aren't you?

[insert prolific Anakin/Padme meme here]

Mentioned this to trans spouse; their immediate response was "... that they know about"

Job: "Sorry, we're gonna need you guys back in the office now or else you can go find another place to work"

I get what you get for free, it was readily available and extremely easy to get and set up, and it works everywhere on the internet and not just one site.

Glad you feel like your money is well spent, though.

Never cared for ZP but props for doing the right thing.

Not much notice given. I would say I wonder what happened, but it doesn't take much to guess with pretty much everything regarding "X" nowadays.

I was always under the impression that Bowser forced Peach to send that letter as a way to goad Mario into showing up.

Sure, it was stupid on Bowser's part, but I kinda feel like his rivalry with the plumber causes him to not always make the smartest decisions.

wackyteen posted...

https://twitter.com/NyxTheShield/status/1720377777633800614?s=20

This reminds me of a time when the game/console was still somewhat new and they had a demo kiosk down at our local Sears. Like many such demos probably are, it was programmed to hard reset every few minutes as a cue to let another person in waiting have a turn.

Already having played through the game before, I took a turn at it and managed to rush my way to getting a star before it reset, which allowed me to save the game and not have to restart it from the very beginning (which has a long unskippable intro sequence). The trick was not to go after the King Bob-omb star because that took up way too much time; the Chain Chomp star is much quicker. Doing that broke open the game a little bit because of the time gained from not having to watch the intro, allowing access to other stars that I otherwise wouldn't have had time to reach (unless maybe if I were some pro speedrunner or something, which I'm definitely not).

I had fun dealing with the forced resets as a sort of challenge mode, picking away at the game a star or two at a time and gaining a small audience until eventually the parents were done shopping and wanted to leave, so I had to leave as well.

Nah, sex is boring. Thanks for your concern though, random celebrity(?) who should probably learn to mind their own business.

It is true, specifically for Electric moves. In all likelihood, you were getting paralyzed by Body Slam.

The weird thing is that prior to gen 6, paralysis did work that way -- paralysis as an added effect on Electric moves was unable to affect Electric mons (for instance, the chance for Thunderbolt to paralyze would be negated if the target was Electric type).

Prior to then, Thunder Wave was the only Electric move that could inflict paralysis on an Electric type, because the paralysis there was not an added effect. If anything, that's what should have been changed -- making Electric types immune to Thunder Wave as well. I also don't know why they became immune to paralysis as a whole.

As a bit of trivia, gen 6 also added several other beneficial effects to certain other types. Grass types became immune to powder/spore effects, Ghost types became immune to any sort of trapping effects (being unable to switch out) as well as being able to run away from any wild Pokemon guaranteed regardless of speed comparison, and Poison types gained perfect accuracy when using the move Toxic (ignoring accuracy/evasion changes and also hitting Pokemon using moves like Fly or Dig)

Yes. Pretty overrated, but I guess that's easy to say as an asexual person.

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I believe it, but I've never seen it, nor did it prevent the game from being one of the most well received and remembered in its franchise.

I have never heard of anyone complaining about CJ being black. And sure, that may not have been a new IP, but I really don't see that having changed even if it was.

I would think most of the time games starring black protags don't do well, it's because... the games sucked. What a shocker.

Antiyonder posted...

Additionally I would think some prefer it this way since yeah they wouldn't get away with Homer doing such to Lisa.

It would only seem wrong for him to do it to Lisa because she much more rarely does anything to warrant it. She generally doesn't wander into punkass kid territory as much as Bart does (at least not from the era of the show I'm familiar with; I don't know what it's like now)

I can understand the want to retire such a thing (even though I think it was fine; it's an exaggerated cartoon), but calling attention to it like that is pretty tacky.

boxoto posted...

looks like the smoker forgot he was on a plane, tbh.

Ah, is that the sort of thing cigs make you do? "Forget" that you're on planes?

I mean, to his credit, he isn't wrong.

What's the downside?

I hate having hair & having to deal with it, get it cut, etc. A permanent easy/free solution would be greatly welcomed.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

The last time a site kindly asked me to whitelist them, one of their ads gave me a virus.

Never did anything that foolish again.

Persona. And I've never played one of those games, but have played like every Pokemon game.

As someone else said, I feel like my brain doesn't really interpret Pokemon as an RPG. It kinda inherits some elements of one, but I tend to view the whole "mon collection" genre as something else entirely.

What ads?

I don't know what I would choose, but for me 7 is not a contender in either category.

I already knew I wouldn't be into Souls games, but I initially did want to give this one a shot anyway because it looked neat.

Turns out, no, I'm still not into them, and this game didn't change my mind. Oh well.

hockeybub89 posted...

This also means the average person should be constantly changing their entire worldview based on whoever most recently annoyed them.

Uhh. Yeah. That happens quite a lot.

hockeybub89 posted...

Why would them inconveniencing you affect your views on whatever cause it is?

Because, I don't know if you noticed, but that's how humans tend to work. People tend not to care about things until it starts affecting their lives directly, and whether or not they're on the side of those things greatly depends on whether those things affect them in either a positive or negative way. This is pretty basic stuff.

Glob posted...

What about people who cant afford to keep their children for free indefinitely?

If you can't afford to house a kid you should probably have reconsidered having one in the first place.

But let's face it; you and I both know the majority of these people charging their kids rent aren't doing it because they have to. They're doing it because they feel like they can.

Agreed with OP. Not that they managed to stick around for long, apparently.

It's the "adult" equivalent of a kid trying to throw a public tantrum in order to get his way, and it's unfortunately no more dignified at an adult age than it is at a toddler age.

If you're the sort to charge your kid rent, hope you're ready to have that same kid charge you back for daycare once you're too old to shower and wipe your own ass.

And if that's the sort of transactional relationship you want with your kid, well, knock yourself out. Can't see how that'd feel particularly fulfilling, though.

berlyman101 posted...

How is it good? He won't face trial. Idk if that's better or worse for the survivors and society but it doesn't seem better to me.

It's good in the sense we know he's not still at large.

Have you tried living in fear of further attacks by the same perpetrator before because they have yet to be caught? It's not a pleasant way to live.