Lurker > Shinebolt

It took about 2 seconds for me to go, "Joke post,,,Seriously?...actually, he uses daggers which are severely lacking in Smash Bros. so I'm cool with it."
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It worked great in Japan, but kind of floundered elsewhere. You basically had to go to places with large gatherings like colleges and conventions to really get the most of it in the U.. I know they also made those Hotspots but that didn't come in until like mid-way through the 3DS' lifetime and now its dying out so Streetpass has basically become defunct.
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18 right now. If I manage to find time to push through I could probably bring it to 20 by the end of the year.
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Wait, shouldn't Jesus have a hammer, or is it a hammer-sword hybrid?
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mooreandrew58 posted...

Shinebolt posted...

If you want to save the world just rely on a group of high schoolers.

It's near true. How many 18 year olds served in ww2.

Sorry, I meant untrained, undisciplined teenagers. Everyone knows the actual militaries aren't worth shit in the face of demon lords, dark sorcerers, rogue technology, and ancient evils.
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If you want to save the world just rely on a group of high schoolers.
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I prefer plain, solid-color clothing with the occasional striped shirt. I don't wear anything with pictures, text, logos etc. on it.
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Never had this happen. I can't even bring myself to play for more than 4-5 hours at a time unless the game is really engrossing me. That said, there are a couple of games I've pulled all-nighters with. I did a full 100% run-through of the first Zone of the Enders in a single night, but that game's so short it's not an accomplishment to do that.

Also, I did pull a near 24-hour session with the first Grandia, but that's when I was really young and the only other option was to fall asleep on my friend's floor so I just chose to stay up.
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Thanks for the warning but I don't live near any oceans, or other major bodies of water, so no rotting dead fish for me!
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Xfma100 posted...

Cruddy_horse posted...

3 is my favorite from a story/character standpoint. The only difference is the protagonist dies which would have some weight if they didn't just copy it with the next 2 but they live. Even 5 was about to kill off another character but "SIKE I'm fine because fuck writing". Both 4 and 5 could have easily ended after you take down Adachi/whoever the other one was and it would have been 5x better than rehashing the same ending

I can agree with this.

Same here. Would've cut down a whole lot on the cringiness at the end of 5, too.
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I like how the approval gauge was basically just a manifestation of the "rainbow energy waves of bonds/trust". At least the devs showed some self-awareness this time around.
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-Final Fantasy Tactics: War of The Lions HD remaster on the PS4, or alternatively just another FFT for modern consoles.
- A new Suikoden game.
- A game with Eternal Darkness' insanity system.
- A game in the style of Mercenaries. Not gonna bother even wishing for a new entry in the series itself since that'd just be published by EA anyway.
- Phantasy Star. Just Phantasy Star. Like, in general.
- In fact, just make that any of Sega's forgotten RPGs in general.
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Nope, I'm a disembodied voice.

Mutton! Fresh Mutton!
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What? No, Link isn't David. He's King Arthur obviously. Unless King Arthur is actually David then that would make Link David which means Doomguy is actually David which means Mars is actually Hyrule which is actually Camelot which is actually Jerusalem which is on Earth which means Mars is actually Earth but Earth exists right alongside Mars which means our Earth is in a different dimension which means our Earth is actually Lorule and our David is actually Ravo.
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EnvyFox posted...

Xfma100 posted...

EnvyFox posted...

Shinebolt posted...

OmegaM posted...

Shinebolt posted...

a 10-year-old with jugs that can put many adult women to shame

Who was this?

Okay, May wasn't THAT big, but she was still pretty well-endowed for a ten-year-old.

Edit: Just noticed which Gen I posted this in, lol. Oh well, he did say after the Orange League so it still kinda counts.

Yeah, now that I think about it, the kid characters in Pokmon always seem to look older than they should. That's not just exclusive to the anime characters like Ash and Misty, either. In some of the more recent main line Pokmon games, the main characters now look so old fans thought that they were no longer ten but, instead, around fourteen. I guess GameFreak noticed because, in Sun and Moon, an NPC in the game comes the closest to flat out telling you that your character and one of their friends (can't remember which one) are ten.

The protagonists in B/W, B2/W2, and X/Y were all slightly older iirc. The protagonists in B/W were 16.

Is there a place where I can look up their official ages for myself? I can't seem to find it with a simple Google search and a lot of people who are asked about the protagonists' ages either point out that they look too old to be 10-11 (which, as of Sun and Moon proved, doesn't mean anything in the Pokmon world) or they point to the Pokmon Adventures manga which, if I remember correctly, had a large chunk of the Kanto gym leaders and the Elite 4 working for Team Rocket as well as characters like Yellow who have never stepped a toe in the main line games so I'm positive those aren't canon.

Also, I'm only interested in their ages when their journeys began. I have no problem believing that, by Sun and Moon, Red and Blue are no longer children.

The only thing I've heard that's close to an "official" age is that apparently the creators wanted the B/W MCs to be older than previous gens. Not sure how true that is, and I only heard it about B/W and no further than that. Not even for B/W2
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Torchic. No contest for me. Treecko's fine and all but I'd have to keep it as Grovyle and Mudkip doesn't even register to me.
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Turtwig. Don't care about Torterra's 4x Ice weakness it's still one of my favorite pokemon, and I managed to solo Snowpoint with it anyway. That did take a couple tries though...

Next would be Piplup. Couldn't care less for Chimchar.
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OmegaM posted...

Shinebolt posted...

a 10-year-old with jugs that can put many adult women to shame

Who was this?

Okay, May wasn't THAT big, but she was still pretty well-endowed for a ten-year-old.

Edit: Just noticed which Gen I posted this in, lol. Oh well, he did say after the Orange League so it still kinda counts.
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EnvyFox posted...

Blighboy posted...

SkynyrdRocker posted...

How am I the first vote for Chikorita? She's so cute!

She doesn't look like a real animal until she evolves, and then she looks stupid

I liked how in the cartoon she wanted to fuck Ash though

Wow. That Pokmon anime got weird after the Orange League season.

A "female" of another species wanting to bang the protagonist and a 10-year-old with jugs that can put many adult women to shame...sounds like typical Japan to me.
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So...as the world erupted into a blazing inferno and all of human civilization collapsed yet?

*Checks outside*

Nope...nothing. Guess we have to wait a couple more days?
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Cyndaquil!

I would have voted for Totodile because I already knew Cyndaquil would be in the lead, but I couldn't bring myself to vote against my fave of the bunch. Totodile is a very close second for me though, and although definitely not a first pick I still kind of like Chikorita too.
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Wasn't there a top down game? I might be remembering wrong, but I could've sworn there was.

In any case, I can't believe I'm hearing about freakin' Animorphs in 2018.

I played a game for the Gameboy Color once. Not sure if that's the one you're thinking of though.

Only thing I remember about it was that it had turn-based combat, and you had to defeat animals in battle to gain the ability to morph into them. I only played like the first couple minutes of the game.
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Should've just made a 3-season TV series instead. Then they would have much more time to cover everything rather than shoving it down into a 2-3 hour film.

Novels in general lend themselves better to Television than movies because no one wants to sit in a theater for 10+ hours straight.
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I_Abibde posted...

Well, yeah, I know the real-life reasons why, but I'm talking in dork terms here.

That's kind of all that matters in the context of the movie unless you want them to skip the fight scene which would've been lame as hell. In terms of the book, well as said before not gonna spoil anything.
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demonfang178 posted...

While on the topic of things that don't make sense in the movie, why was everyone making a big deal about IOI getting the third key? The keys are useless (but not worthless) unless you have all three.

Because then they would have had all three. The keys aren't one-of-a-kind items. Only one per player but every player could have a copy of all three keys.

As for why there were multiple copies instead of making them one-of-a-kind, in the book there was a scoreboard that tracked the progress of the players. Basically, a leaderboard because the guy who made it was the biggest gaming nerd in history. Yeah, no real point behind that other than plot device so that the baddies can figure out which players to go after.
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I_Abibde posted...

-1 to me for being enough of a giant robot nut to wonder why the guy picked Gundam and not a heavier hitter like, say, Mazinger Z or Voltron.

For Voltron, it's probably because they'd need the individual Lions which would have been great in the movie as there were five in the main group, but they'd also have to bring up why they were never mentioned or shown before that point. They didn't have that problem with one of the late additions having a trump card because of being a late addition.

As for Mazinger versus Gundam that's matter of recognizably to the western audience really. Licensing may have also played a role too since Gundam is probably easier to license than other mechs from that time period.

The book actually has a few more mechs than the movie, but honestly you may dislike that sequence in the book more. Not gonna spoil why though.
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^It's also important to note a couple other things as well. For instance, the easter egg hunt doesn't begin until well into The Oasis' lifespan. Many of these things were undoubtedly in the game years prior to the hunt starting which means anything done prior to that point wouldn't trigger anything. People could have done the race backwards but did it well before the hunt. Same goes for all the other puzzles.

There's also just the sheer size of the game itself. FF9 had a sidequest go undiscovered for years and it's not even a sliver of a fraction of the size of The Oasis. In fact, FF9 is probably part of a Playstation One FF planet within The Oasis. That's a shit ton of data to comb through for something that got secretly added and later activated without any notification.

That said, the puzzles in the book were definitely handled better for sure.
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Maybe he's mistaking it for the LotR opic awhile back...pretty big margin of error there, but who knows.
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JoanOfArcade posted...

Shinebolt posted...

JoanOfArcade posted...

It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth

I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.

I take it you don't know the difference between made for tv thing and a live action big budget film

Both still live action, and "big budget" doesn't mean it will be even semi-decent. If that's all it took then EA and Activision would be making the best games over.
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JoanOfArcade posted...

It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth

I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.
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I enjoyed both, but they definitely had problems. I went into the book only expecting a bunch of pop culture references from the 80s which is exactly what I got. The actual stor on its own would've have turned me away in the first couple of pages.

"Meet Wade Watts, his dead-beat father abandoned him and his mother died from drug abuse after struggling to raise him. Now he lives with his bitch of an ant and her asshole boyfriend in a trailer park. Oh, did I mention that it's a dystopian society because it is."

For fuck's sake, talk about stacking as many cliches as possible to try and wring every ounce of sympathy from the audience, goddamn. Tat alone was enough for me to completely dismiss the actual story and just focus on the nostalgia factor.
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i remember Toonami having those tiny story segments that tied directly to games and stuff on cartoonnetwork.com, but not sure that really counts. Closest I can remember though.
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Well in about 11 years Mickey Mouse will be 100 years old, and honestly unless something really terrible happens or really amazing that boots them out of the market there's nothing going to topple Disney in the foreseeable future. That pretty much covers Star Wars and Marvel for another good half century or so.
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It wouldn't help me. Only thing that could do that would be either a retina transplant, retinal regeneration, or cybernetic implants. Basically, technology that's beyond expensive or is currently nonexistant or still in the infancy stage.
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Aculo posted...

omg you can PET YOUR HORSE????

where do i pre-order?

That's cool and all...but does the horse die?
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ShaQ Fu.

Charles Barkley did that in Space Jam.
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59.
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Smarkil posted...

YOU MUST BE SWlFT AS THE COURSING RIVER

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streamofthesky posted...

Lieutenant Zechs Merquise, Gundam Wing

You could make a full-bracketed tournament out of Lieutenants from the Gundam series. Seriously, everyone's a lieutenant.
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Splatoon is just Super Mario Sunshine kicked up to 11 with the serial numbers filed off.

...and SMS is just the aftermath of Mario Paint.
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Do you eat your dinner roll with a knife and fork too, princeling?
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To be fair, they really could have just played the "little sister" card which would have been far more interesting storywise, and give them an opportunity for a new character in later games.

...but yeah, we've hit that point where just having a female protagonist in a game will send idiots into a frenzy.
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"Busts in"

Well that ain't subtle at all, lol.
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GanglyKhan posted...

Shinebolt posted...

The worst part about this is the fact that I know someone who would literally freak the fuck out about this and not realize what he's even freaking the fuck out over.

I cut off all contact with those types long ago.

I cut him out a while back. We were friends for like 20 years so it was hard, but I lost him as a friend a few years back honestly. He wasn't always that bad and I can pinpoint exactly when the shift happened. Unfortunately he is too far gone at this point and I don't give a fuck anymore.
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The worst part about this is the fact that I know someone who would literally freak the fuck out about this and not realize what he's even freaking the fuck out over.
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I hear he's letting dihydrogen monoxide through the state's pipes too, but that's just a rumor.
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Dumb move honestly. Alex Jones is practically a martyr now to his fanbase. This will just strengthen his nutcase platform and make his fans even more diehard than ever.

The worst thing that can happen at this point is for him to stop feeding his bullshit to people. That would just make his fans even more frenzied then they already are. Best to just ignore him and let him destroy himself. Only way to win is to not play.
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Putin.

Goddamn that'd be way too much fun. President of the U.S. as my personal bitch? Yes please and thank you!
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I'm considering re-renting it again. I rented it on release and sent it back in like a day or two, but it may be worth trying again now.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

JixHedgehog posted...

No no, someone guessed Mega Charizard

Oh yeah I disregarded that one too because it had already been established that Ariados does not have a mega (I also didn't establish a rule about megas or alolas so that's my bad)

Generally if they're guesses that are so obviously wrong then I won't dock a question (i.e. someone asked if it was dual-type, I said yes, then someone asked if it was Mienshao, which is not dual-type, so I didn't dock a question).

In that case, you shouldn't have docked a question for Salazzle since it was already established that it wasn't Gen 7 and it wasn't a fire type.
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