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andylt posted...

I was thinking of making a list of unresolved mysteries we need answers to, but there's probs too many to remember.

would love to see if you ever bother trying

i don't suffer from this one. rock is not that good a defensive type. it's the combination of being the first gym before you have a lot of good water moves, the combo with ground for electric resistance, and high defense.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Always really weird when they have a type that super-effects another, but doesn't resist it when being attacked back.

best is gen 1 bug/poison being super-effective against one another, or ghosts/dragons being super vs themselves

Isquen posted...

I'm always more shocked at just how much crap Ice and Grass are weak to despite how good they are at attacking,

surely "grass is a good offensive type" is incredibly biased by the first 2 gyms of RBY?

thematically it totally makes sense that ice is fragile!

time

think to me the jury system feels a little silly, drawn out, and contrived... but it's so well written (and directed, visually/sound-wise) that i love them anyway

Leonhart4 posted...

Guess I'll have to be the one to say it

I like the Beates

you're not alone

isolation is really dangerous. i have to assume this sort of content is also pretty addictive and rots your brain.

no, my least favorite of the six and one of two i dislike

kermit
piccolo
(then i consulted the thread)
yoda
grinch

sinai / doom

love naruhodo so much as a protagonist! favorite part of your writeup

G1-5 has a nice sense of confrontation with gregson but the cat flap stuff is so bad. i don't remember the details but even hearing it described is a huge drag!

onward and upward - sounds like you might have liked GAA1 more than some did. based on your commentary and musing, i'm hoping you love G2-1

Check

beauty and the beast
a whole new world
circle of life
let it go

smoke/fire

parasite > departed > EEAAO > shape of water > no country for old men >> argo > king's speech > million dollar baby

without looking

tupac
eminem
jay-z
kanye

edgeworth

brick in the wall

mario giving serious stalin vibes

i love the social commentary of G1-4

on the waterfront

problems

andylt posted...

I just thought the game would have some kind of commentary to make on the subject. Given how intrinsic the anti-Japanese racism is as a theme, and how they absolutely do not shy away from that, I didn't expect them to then pretty much ignore the misogyny. I'm judging too early, I know, that's just where I am right now.

i don't know much about japan's actually society but based on anime targeted to similar demos as AA, i don't think they're generally too forward-thinking in terms of women's POVs in general

so my instinct was SMB1/3/world/64 and my biggest doubt there was whether to remove 3/world for another entry. fairly surprised to see that mario kart qualifies.

anyway pretty clear decision here

super smash bros melee
chrono trigger
super mario bros
donkey kong 64

i have no actual vote

also congrats on the job @ZenOfThunder!

don't have enough experience to comment but very interested in this thread's discussion

it's definitely disappointing they keep going with "new spunky girl" every time, but susato is probably the best of the lot outside of maya as the original. she develops more uniquely than trucy/kay/rayfa imo.

agreed on your take on naruhodo too. he's my favorite protagonist of the series, though it feels almost unfair to rank him when he inhabits so much realer of a world than the others.

holy

love the world-building in G1-4. there's so much about GAA1 i actually really enjoy, but in so different a way from other AAs

... animal

some of these just don't really belong on b8 lol

i'm not that interested in biggest, but which do people think was a bigger leap - the 7-to-8 jump, or the 8-to-9 jump?

drop mamie eisenhower

add eleanor roosevelt

abigail adams
mamie eisenhower
jackie kennedy
michelle obama

... scroll?

what the FUCK

g1-2 is pretty awful but yeah it's got some really nice moments and world building.

bee (cheerios)

lucky leprachaun (lucky charms)

trix rabbit

tony the tiger (frosted flakes)

switch

waste of some fucking awesome theme music

agree early on that the period drama is fantastic - you'll see more of its greatness soon

and yes the soundtrack is amazing

cases themselves are a little iffier though!

tagggg

i vote for the grammy award-winning 1999 hit smooth by santana feat. rob thomas of matchbox twenty off the multi-platinum album supernatural

commodore

that was unexpected

happy birthday!

zelda

kind of a throwaway one imo

vii, followed by tactics

my apology to better FFs

excellent content

i'm talking "really casual nerd" general public territory and using myself (someone who's never read an issue of a marvel comic front to back) as a proxy, circa around 2000 - just before the x-men and spider-man movies, but long after batman and superman movies had become an institution. iron man was about the very periphery of my awareness at that point, while proximity to spider-man/batman/superman generally meant more recognition to me.

yeah, storm probably could be in the third tier, but my point overall is that there's room for multiple tiers before you hit iron man territory

random point, but papa abed felt extremely out of place and kind of sucked

i think the comparison of iron man to B-list X-men is apt. and FWIW i think it's probably fair to say spiderman, batman, and superman form a tier of their own above wolverine and hulk and joker and venom and storm. even then you might have a third tier with the likes of wonder woman and cyclops, which is arguably above the tier with iron man and say, gambit