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TopicWhy is there such conversation about that Bluey cartoon making adults cry?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 6:51:46 PM
#61
It's not the finale. There's a new one in a few days.

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TopicWhy is there such conversation about that Bluey cartoon making adults cry?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 6:38:58 PM
#59
Beveren_Rabbit posted...
the better lesson would be them moving and kids understanding that moving on is a part of life.

Moving isn't a part of life for every kid.

For the long term viability of the show it had to remain in Brisbane. They're not going to start from scratch with all of the side characters and locales. It's also where the creators of the show live.

Also we already know they stay in Brisbane throughout school due to a previous episode lol

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TopicWhy is there such conversation about that Bluey cartoon making adults cry?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 5:58:43 PM
#56
There's a cooling off period for buyers in Australia so when it comes to that they wouldn't have been punished financially.

https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/property/understanding-the-cooling-off-period.html

We didn't know where the Bluey family was driving off to. For all we know they were staying with family during the interim and they weren't immediately moving to the new city. It doesn't really matter. It'll work out. The theme of the episode.

The funny thing about the "they shouldn't get the kids hopes up about not moving!" is that Bluey goes through that exact thing earlier in the episode when she misunderstands the point of the story she was told in daycare.

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TopicWhy is there such conversation about that Bluey cartoon making adults cry?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 8:47:51 AM
#15
RetuenOfDevsman posted...
Yeah ok this is not at all how it was explained to me.

So it's just another show where the parents are always wrong; should've figured.

I'm really not sure how you reached that explanation. The parents themselves make the decision.

But the point overall is that neither decision was wrong. No matter what they chose they have to wait and see how it plays out.

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TopicThat new Bluey special had me in tears
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 3:07:40 AM
#22
Granny Mobile is legit a hilarious episode of television.

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TopicDo you agree with restricting polticial topics to CE strictly?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 2:33:50 AM
#38
myusernameislame posted...
The problem with banning or even discouraging "political" discussion, is that nowadays one side can just take anything they don't want discussed and make it part of their "politics." Human rights, science, basic decency, etc. are all spun as "political" in certain contexts.

I don't think they care. They want all of it banned from here.

If they want the boards to stick around (and that's a big if) they want them to be a place where people will ask a question about a game and get an answer. No arguments. No debates. Nothing. That's likely all they care about and if the message boards die then ah well.

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TopicIf TimmyQuivy makes a post in this topic I will leave CE forever
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 2:09:49 AM
#19
  • Be TimmyQuivy
  • Log into email
  • Get an email from the boss to post an announcement on GameFAQs message board and then make a topic asking for feedback
  • Make topics. Ctrl + C and then Ctrl V statements as per emailed instructions
  • Close tab and continue on with my day

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Topicsequels that were so successful that nobody even remembers the previous one(s)
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 2:02:24 AM
#51
Hitman: Blood Money. It wasn't immediate but for nearly two decades now it's the Hitman that has been recommended to play outside of the recent reboot trilogy. So the others have overall drifted away into irrelevance.

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TopicFirst, they got rid of the Politics board, now they got rid of the Politics tag.
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 1:51:57 AM
#26
UnholyMudcrab posted...
I think not being able to talk about Starship Troopers would be a sacrifice I'd be willing to make in exchange for not having to see the exact same "Are you voting for Trump or Biden?" poll topic five times every week from now until November.

Couldn't you not click into those topics?

Or alternatively ask for a 'mute topic titles with this word in it' feature?

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TopicThat new Bluey special had me in tears
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 1:45:20 AM
#17
TheGoldenEel posted...
it seems like it would speak to adults who have/have had kids

childless adults watching this blatant toddler show is weird af to me. there is stuff in there for adults and it's high quality entertainment for children, but it's not really all that different from sesame street in that respect imo

It's nothing like Sesame Street. Sesame Street is explicitly about kids learning in a kids show. There's nothing real about that world.

Bluey is a kids show with regular adult stuff happening around them that they don't know the context of.

But yes a lot of it is about raising kids today and how that changes our perspectives of things. So perhaps if you don't have kids you won't find it as relatable compared to people that do.

TheGoldenEel posted...
Just giving another perspective for a user that posted about it. They might be expecting like a Pixar-like appropriate for all ages thing. This isnt that. This is very squarely a show with a 2-5 year old intended audience, and their parents

I don't agree honestly. Bluey is very much a family show. The closest comparison is maybe Rugrats but even then I'd say this show deals with a lot more mature stuff most of the time.

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TopicWhy is there such conversation about that Bluey cartoon making adults cry?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 1:21:12 AM
#10
It's not really going to have the same impact when you don't have the emotional investment in the characters and story.

There's a big doubt about the Dad moving away to a different city for a better paying job is the right decision. His wife and Bluey don't really want to but the little sister Bingo seems fine about it. The entire episode is about that doubt but also about how things will work out how they are supposed to. The episode is called The Sign because Bluey and her cousins are convinced if they remove the For Sale sign they won't have to move.

On moving day Bingo finally realizing the gravitas of moving. She misunderstood that someone buying the house means they need to leave and move to a different city. So with tears in her eyes she desperately tries to remove the sign. Immediately after this there's a montage of the family pondering and remembering all the good times they've had in the house which references a lot of the older episodes.

Right at the end it's revealed all the little things happening throughout the episode has had a chaos theory style effect of the house buyers finding a house they would rather move into so they back out of the sale. This leads to the Dad getting the call and deciding to remove the sign leading to the emotional catharsis of not just the episode but the show in general.

It's mundane but that's the point. We all can relate to how the little things lead us on a path and being unsure if we're doing the right things.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 1:08:48 AM
#359
FL81 posted...
Within a month, we won't even be the most popular social board on this website anymore

CE's endless bitterness killed this board, congratulations I hope you are happy with yourselves

Nah this is cause of Fandom.

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TopicWhy dont we all just move to Resetera?
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 12:26:42 AM
#30
Arcanine2009 posted...
90% of people would get banned within the first month..

People complain about getting moderations here is hilarious to me... This site is incredibly lax, and has been so for at least 10 years. I like the quality posts there, but you can't have your own opinion if it's against the grain. If it's controversial you will get banned. If you get banned, you can't contest it (last time I checked), and it's permanent.

From today once you enter purg you're gone from CE for good. It ain't lax here anymore. We're now in battle royale mode.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 12:07:00 AM
#344
LonelyStoner posted...
This very statement has been said for over a decade

CE has been dying for over a decade

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 11:59:14 PM
#339
__aCEr__ posted...
This dude who no one has ever seen before who holds a position that no would has ever heard of before drops in, neuters a community he doesn't understand at all, and then logs off for the rest of the day.

"Send us your feedback." As if you give two shits.

Imagine being Fandom's Director of Trust and Safety and having the GameFAQs file sent to your email. Probably wants it closed down immediately.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 9:53:58 PM
#326
I wonder how it compared to the IMDB message board shut down. I remember that being surprising at the time. But I'm also not familiar with how things were going on the lead up to it.

Difference is I'm sure plenty of people still used that site outside of message boards. Can't imagine GameFAQs is a big resource for anything recent these days.

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TopicWhy dont we all just move to Resetera?
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 8:02:21 PM
#25
Zikten posted...
like 99% of gamefaqs users would get banned there, from what I hear

99% of gamefaqs users will get permanently banned from CE now as well.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 7:47:30 PM
#278
ForsakenHermit posted...
This site won't be making it to the days of gaming reaching its full potential. And that makes me sad.

Man it'll be a bummer now having these boards for whatever meltdowns could happen in the future. Console market is in a weird spot so we could see all sorts of crazy developments in the future. If Nintendo releases a game on Steam I wanna be here dammit.

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TopicWhere can users congregate to talk about general topics if not current events?
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 7:24:38 PM
#2
A different website

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TopicDo you agree with restricting polticial topics to CE strictly?
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 7:20:51 PM
#23
Baphometa posted...
See:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428#33

Is it 'political' if users are complaining about ugly female game characters being woke?

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 6:49:05 PM
#243
kirbymuncher posted...
I think you misunderstood it slightly. The discussion here is not the "healthy discussion" anyone is looking for, and this place is a quarantine zone, not an exclusive super cool club

The irony is CE, as bad as it often is, is still better than the far majority of the other boards here.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 6:32:37 PM
#237
This all started happening after I donated a dollar to Wikipedia. I'm sorry everyone.

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TopicHowdy
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 6:10:07 PM
#440
Harpie posted...
How much is GameFAQs worth, ballpark range?

I need this information for when I become rich and famous

Your respect and soul.

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TopicCurrent Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 6:04:06 PM
#225
I can sit my grandchildren one day and I was there. I was there when the demise of Current Events was posted in Current Events.

Yeah like everyone is saying this is them slowly killing off the boards so there's not much of a reaction when they completely close it down.

Although I do find the politics justification funny when most of the popular game and system boards have been completely taken over by obnoxious gamer chuds.

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TopicHalf Life 2 feels more next gen than a lot of next gen games.
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 6:03:06 AM
#12
Yeah it's a shame how nailed down everything is in many modern games. It's like they're so afraid of risking jank or something unintended to happen.

I was going to say that CPU's being weak on consoles are a factor but then I remembered how absolutely phenomenal the physics and interactivity were in Tears of the Kingdom which was on the Switch.

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TopicImagine if game achievements gave store credit
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 2:01:00 AM
#5
Heh it would get abused because cheapo developers would specifically make games with 'hard' achievements to get easy sales.

Both Xbox and Playstation have reward point programs to encourage people to get specific achievements or play specific games. Microsoft additionally rewards people to use Bing lol

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TopicNew Bluey dropped, my thoughts *warning long read **spoilers*
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 12:24:56 AM
#20
Turbam posted...
Way back in Daddy Dropoff, Bluey and Bandit had a philosophical thought on what would have happened of they didn't play wind up Bingo.
Without wind up Bingo being played:
* Bingo would not have met Lila
* Lila would not have come over to the Heeler home to play in the episode Slide
* Bingo would not have saved the caterpillar in the episode
* The butterfly would not have hatched and distracted Chilli, causing her to pull over and find the spot where Brandy was
* Muffin would not have accidentally put the coin that Bluey found earlier in the day into the binoculars
* The couple that bought the Heeler home would not have looked into the binoculars and find Winton's dads home that he just put up for sale and purchased that instead.
The Heeler family would have had to move away, causing each of them turmoil and hardship, had they not played Wind up Bingo during Daddy Dropoff.

The real estate agent that was selling their house was the kid who told Bandit his drawings sucked in the episode Dragon. Which was the backstory as to why Bandit gave up drawing.

So many little things built up this episode it would have been perfect as the finale. The theme that all of the little things throughout your life put you on the path you should be on is a really beautiful message and something I've certainly thought about before.

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TopicFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did
Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 12:04:43 AM
#84
Yes that is another example of you seemingly to be unable to process the information that is currently available to you.

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TopicFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did
Punished_Blinx
04/14/24 11:56:40 PM
#82
Mad-Dogg posted...
Your reading comprehension is awful if you can't even remember what the dude you are referencing posted himself. When does "about half"=sold half?

Wow what an extreme difference that would make.

Mad-Dogg posted...
All I said is was we have no idea how he is basing whatever numbers he came up with, and this other analyst used trophy data among others to come up with whatever they did.

What other analyst?

I'm not sure you still understand what Ahmad's role is. He isn't an insider or a video game reporter. He is a source of information. That the industry itself uses. He has data that Square-Enix provides him. He provides that data to video game publishers, reporters, investors and people that pay their company to share trends, data and analysis.

This is on their website. Have you looked at it? Do you know that this is literally the foundation of their business? Do you think that people pay them to google and look at trophy data?

Mad-Dogg posted...
How do you know? lol. I'm just taking a guess since he himself was never clear and this other analyst was using data like that. None of us know for sure, but this daniel dude never actually stated what data he was using.

How do I know that he didn't write the article?

Because the article says it was written by Shubhankar Parijat. How are you so bad at this?

Ahmed doesn't state the data he is using because it's his job to analyze data that the rest of us do not have access to. It's safe to say that he can't make guesses and wild speculation on a literal business partner without getting in trouble.

Mad-Dogg posted...
So in short, the source has no concrete numbers. You could have simply said this from the start and saved yourself a whole lot of trouble, lol.

No.

In short the source has concrete numbers. They have provided analysis on those numbers and their statements made on their numbers are considered a source for reporters and publishers. The source is not allowed to disclose those numbers but can make statements on trends, results and comparisons.

Just like Piscatella and Circana.
Just like Christopher Dring and gamesindustry.biz

Which you really seem to be struggling to understand. You literally do not seem to understand the concept that there are sources that exist that aren't just financial reports provided by companies. Do you also not believe box office results until Disney state them?

Mad-Dogg posted...
You are so emotionally invested in this that you are trying to twist what I said about some numbers not being known until later and making a durrr mega man comparison. You are so bad at this, lol.

You literally are trying to compare a flagship Square-Enix game of which they provided numbers within a week to say hey it's okay guys. Capcom took years to give numbers for Mega Man.

If you want to provide decent arguments then provide them.

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TopicFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did
Punished_Blinx
04/14/24 11:23:46 PM
#77
Mad-Dogg posted...
.do I really need to explain why knowing the sales numbers for something would tell you if something sold bad or not?

Nope. All you need to tell me is if a sequel selling half of the previous entry is a good result.

Mad-Dogg posted...
Because its highly possible the game, in fact, did NOT sell half than its predecessors did since we do not know the sales numbers from a lot of regions (after all, he did say "about half", and not actually "sold half").

So you are claiming that Daniel Ahmed is not a reliable source and that he is being misleading?

Mad-Dogg posted...
After all, this is still just a analyst taking a swing at various data like trophy numbers and things like that. (This trophy thing was in one of those other links, one of those 2 million click-bait ones. They were doing guesswork via data like trophies)

Do you understand that Daniel Ahmed did not write any of the articles? He is not basing it on trophy numbers.

Mad-Dogg posted...
Yeah its his job as a analyst, but again this whole thing is still all still maybes, probables, hopefullys. Etc. since analysts aren't absolutely flawless.

You have absolutely no basis to make this claim.

Again the website literally lists Square-Enix as their partner. They are not speculating.

That does not mean he is allowed to post concrete figures that would be under NDA.

Mad-Dogg posted...
Mega man 11 btw is one of these games. We straight up did not know that mega man 11 officially became the best selling mega man game in the entire series until like, 2 years later or something like that. Finally fantasy 7 obviously is a way more anticipated game, but its barely been over a month since it released. Give it time.

Man if Rebirth is being compared to Mega Man 11 then things are truly fucked. This isn't a digital only game it's one of their biggest releases of this year.

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TopicNew Bluey dropped, my thoughts *warning long read **spoilers*
Punished_Blinx
04/14/24 11:18:18 PM
#17
If this was a test run to see if people would like a Bluey movie I think it's safe to say they nailed it.

Man that empty house at the end nearly had me choked up. Chilli pondering leaving the house where Bluey took her first steps hit the feels.

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TopicFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did
Punished_Blinx
04/14/24 10:44:30 PM
#63
Mad-Dogg posted...
You made it clear already who the guy is. The rest of your post isn't needed. Where it the concrete numbers? Just say "there is none" and leave it at that. Why is this so hard?

Why do we need concrete numbers to know that selling half of Remake isn't great?

Mad-Dogg posted...
Also posting the exact same guy you are using as a example of floundering sales posts saying "yeah nah, its not actually flopping and sales are not awful (confirmed and super verified by him by the way)" is pretty funny I can't lie*

Why do you think it's not possible for a game to sell half of the previous entry but still not be a massive flop?

Mad-Dogg posted...
Neither you nor the TC's ass is accurate information that is easily sourced. The problem is I looked up these sources and came up with a whole heaping pile of absolutely nothing thus me posting in this topic and the other one talking about it.

What do you think is inaccurate about the information presented from Daniel Ahmed?

Why do you feel the need to source further than an analyst whose job it is is to provide sales and performance information to people who work in the industry?

Mad-Dogg posted...
Geeeee, I dunno. What can I possibly do but WAIT ON SQUARE-ENIX's update, lmfao.

Do they provide an update for every single game? What if they don't bother?

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TopicFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did
Punished_Blinx
04/14/24 10:22:13 PM
#60
Mad-Dogg posted...
Says who? This is what I was debating from the beginning. Posters like you keep saying this but there is not a single source that has numbers for this.

Says Daniel Ahmed. An analysist who works for Niko Partners and is partnered with Square-Enix. All verifiable on their website.

We don't need exact numbers. FFVII Rebirth is selling about half as Remake and is underperforming. That's the quote. That's the story. Any interpretations, explanations or opinions come afterwards.

Mad-Dogg posted...
Nah, it just legit annoys me when gamers do this typical thing where because they personally dislike something (Whether that is video games not being ported to the PC day one, more hate-boner towards sony doing things, or because muh FF turn based battle system, etc.) they keep doing this dishonest hate-posting thing and it just gets old. Its one thing if you just aren't into it....completely fine.

Posters doing this whole dishonest song and dance saying its doom and gloom game sold terribly see this is what they get, it shoulda' been on the peecee day one (despite having not a single clue how the game did in north america, the biggest region for video game sales)....it all comes off as pathetic coping.

There is no way the game sold well, because this is something this group of gamers do not want to hear, lol.

You're in here kicking and screaming that the source in the OP isn't true, that nobody knows anything while also telling everyone else they're coping that the game actually sold well somehow.

Can you find one indication from anywhere that Rebirth is selling really well? From anyone? It took only one week for Square-Enix to share sales results for XVI and Remake. Where is it for Rebirth?

Mad-Dogg posted...
Ok, and if he is this reliable then you doing some mental gymnastics and trying to twist his "People have really bad reading comprehension if they think both games flopped and sales are awful." post since you yourself are emotionally invested and refuse to believe it as a "pshh, I don't speak in gamer extremes. Its just code for the game is unperforming" type of thing is completely unneeded. Just believe him in that sales or not awful, the game did not flop, and wait for square-enix to post about the game theirselves =/

There is nothing incorrect about the topic title or the opening post.

If your issue is posters taking this news to an extreme and using it for agendas take it up with them. But the information this topic is based on is accurate and easily sourced.

I don't know what you're taking issue with anyway. FF XVI also sold on the lower end of expectations as specifically stated by Square-Enix. Rebirth by all accounts is selling less.

What are you expecting them to say that will prove any opinion in this topic wrong?

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