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I tried but it felt like a girdle

keyblader1985 posted...

Someone please tell me this is real

https://i.imgur.com/EIPDgVS.jpeg

A relationship that toxic? I think divorcing the horrible witch is a better choice.

Foppe posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/10-ask-the-mods/80756716/980118700

And no answers

Seems a lot changed.
Also no more talk of emulators again I guess. No more off topic using flairs.

Revelation34 posted...

Wat.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/epic-pro mises-to-fix-game-launcher-after-privacy-concerns/
Remove the space

Bright orange. Fuck boring car colours

After it was learning the epic launcher, scan your system for your steam install and decrypt your steam installs steal something. I never let the thing get installed.
And I'm old, free games don't super entice me anymore because there's still too much effort to go and get and too much effort to maintain them.

Whatever happened to that site UI update?

That's pretty dumb.

I'm not sure what the consequences are though. Can't you just go back to a judge, maybe a smarter one, and get married again? If you didn't actually mean to divorce then no one is arguing over assets or anything.

I haven't been to one since I was a child. They were always full here, with reservation only, and super expensive.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747693/979922936

the shade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90166feb.jpg

Epic

SBAllen posted...

Howdy everyone, how's it going? Been a while since I checked in and just wondered how things are going now that I'm gone. I seem to recall a lot of people thought I was bad for the site and were happy to see me go, so I imagine things are pretty great now!

Epic. But we miss you

If this is the Iran thing then no, that area has been fighting for 1000s of years.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

thank fuck this website is dying

No then I would have no where else to hang out

So they want to kill the current events board. Weird but ok.

I guess when everyone is ad blocking, it's better to remove regular users and hope for random drive by traffic instead.

I still take my morning meds with milk. Makes my stomach feel better in the morning.

Technically owing is better. The government doesn't pay interest for the money they held hostage all year.

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/99063e65.jpg

For people that sat on these chairs?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/37f28604.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2d101024.jpg

I have to keep swatting objects that get stuck in orbit around me.

Sometimes when I take a shit and stand up it follows me back out of the toilet

Sure it happens to all of us.

RJP_X posted...

https://www.amazon.com/Google-30W-USB-C-Charger-Compatible/dp/B09HLDLK54/

does this work?

That looks like the right charger.

RJP_X posted...

@evilresident

i cant link it due to size as mentioned in OP

its the first option when searching 'google wall charger' costs $18.16. hope this helps, on amazon.

Delete everything in the link after and including ref=

https://www.amazon.ca/Google-30W-USB-C%C2%AE-Charger-Cable/dp/B09HLBDJVD/

Basically that. Find it on .com if you need usa site

Populous the Beginning takes this to the extreme. You can freely reshape the land for constructive or destructive purposes. Dropping a volcano in the middle of a settlement not only kills everyone, destroys builds, etc, it destroys the ground and plops a mountain in the middle of your settlement so you can't build there again without flattening it first.
https://youtu.be/izD_OZmyt0o?t=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwEI4GNkBn0

Currently AMD is CPU leader but that may not last. Intel is slow but not stupid.

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a347fa9c.jpg

That's awesome

Smoking_Hamster posted...

Frieza is way stronger. If the objective is to recruit a strong fighter it makes sense.

He'd have magically powered up same as everyone else except Tien.

Yeah it's kind of sad, but also they don't know what to do with the characters they have.
It would be nice to have some low class villains occasionally so the other fighters could have a go. That was some of the best parts of tourny of power.

Considering Trump is actively blocking a bill to lock down the border and fix the issue.
Who knows what he means.

So what you're saying is your attempt to replicate money has failed?

keyblader1985 posted...

^I still have my computer that I upgraded to XP.

If its 32 bit its useless these days, but if its 64 bit you can install Linux on it and keep it useful.

keyblader1985 posted...

Had some annoying crap going on during the weekend, and combined with the fact that I don't splurge on myself very often (other than cars, the most expensive thing I've ever bought for myself would be my Switch), I decided that life's too short to hold back. I've decided on this, but I just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

https://www.newegg.com/obsidian-black-acer-nitro-16-an16-41-r9zh/p/N82E16834360351

It's not bad. If you can add another 16gb to it it might even be good.
16gb is the minimum for windows 11 these days.

At least its glass instead of plastic. So one less hit for the planet

https://youtube.com/shorts/k6smfruHDNs

Little clip

Arcturusisnow posted...

Wow, so brave to say something so stupid. There are American content creators on Tiktok, dumbass.

No one cares about them. Tiktok barely pays anything. It affects so few billionaires that pay politicians that it doesn't matter.

Jen0125 posted...

So ban all social media. Why single out one?

Starting with the worst I guess. The one that has no economic impact for Americans

It's not really about spying though. It's about China using tiktok to influence American voters. Russia and China have been using social media to do this for ages now.

Lokarin posted...

https://www.businessinsider.com/angela-chao-death-tesla-accident-reverse-gearshift-issues-2024-3

Chinese billionaire dies in a Tesla due to not being able to open the doors when it fell into a pond.

> Tesla owners raised concerns for years about design flaws and seeming malfunctions that caused them to accidentally drive in reverse before the death of the shipping magnate Angela Chao, who drowned last month after accidentally backing her Tesla into a pond.

Related Vowch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neC87Cy2PjA

Easier than shoving out a window. The government can just set the car doors to not open.

Does he top or bottom for Putin? Also does it matter for intelligence?
Either way at this point he's responsible for mass murder and war crimes.

adjl posted...

It can be, and I would in fact say that a game where you're forced to grind gold to keep your equipment up to date is forcing more metagaming than is ideal. Ideally, fighting a "typical" number of enemies, finding a "typical" number of chests, or otherwise doing a "typical" amount of whatever method accumulates gold should leave you with enough money that you'll have to make decisions about whose equipment to upgrade, but give you enough upgrades that - provided you're smart about how you use them - the gameplay that follows is a moderate challenge.

That's exceedingly vague and relies on a lot of assumptions about "typical" play, but that's what I mean when I say it should be balanced in a way that doesn't push the player to draw on their knowledge that they're playing a game to exploit the game mechanics. Buying new equipment when you reach a new town makes diegetic sense: If your characters were acting on their own, they would want to take advantage of that upgrade opportunity to better prepare themselves for the next leg of their quest. It also makes diegetic sense that they won't have enough money to buy everything (while also being an interesting gameplay choice, in which you have to choose between spending your limited money now or gambling that your current power level will be enough to tide you over while you save up for something better later). It doesn't make diegetic sense to exploit infinitely-respawning enemies to grind up enough gold to buy everything and not have to decide which upgrades matter most. You should still be *able* to do it, since that kind of control over character progression is fun, but you shouldn't be *forced* to do it by having the game balanced around immersion-breaking levels of grinding.

Now, a ton of games don't manage to get that balance perfectly. You're almost always going to end up doing some non-diegetic grinding in any RPG, and by and large the RPG-playing community accepts that. But games where you fall significantly behind if you just try to play in a way that feels "normal" are still going to rub some people the wrong way, which is understandable.

Just wait until you try Treasure of the Rudras where your expected to make your own spells, and effectively cheat by saving the spells the end boss uses and use them on another campaign.
Some games just expect you to be smarter, be a better player.

adjl posted...

Maxing your level immediately is more what I'm calling unambiguous metagaming. That's not exactly normal gameplay. Beyond that, though, even if the game explains the junctioning mechanics, it can still fall into metagaming territory to put deliberate effort into maximizing what you get from the mechanics. In turn, if you're going to suffer if you don't put at least some deliberate effort into maximizing what you get from those mechanics, that means the game is forcing you to do some metagaming, and that's not everyone's jam.

It can be tricky to strike a balance between having interesting/unique character growth mechanics (generally a good thing) and having those mechanics force players to think about the game as a game they're trying to win instead of being able to immerse themselves in it (generally a bad thing, at least with RPGs and other games where a big part of the appeal is immersing yourself in the world and story). The latter is metagaming, and it's very much a spectrum instead of being a clear binary division. My understanding is that FF8 isn't too bad in that regard (it's no Oblivion, for example), but it leans far enough in the metagaming direction that some people dislike it for that.

Then being forced to buy new equipment in each town is also meta gaming. You even have to know to go grind for money in most games to afford all the upgrades, or know which ones you actually need.

adjl posted...

It tells you to max your level immediately?

It tells you to junction your magic, how to do it, where to get it from, how to train GF skills. This is all explained in the first hour of the game.
I recall later in the game, just before the first mission, it tells you that some skills are more important and to prioritize and it clearly shows the item conversion skills since those aren't obvious to know their importance yet.

adjl posted...

That's metagaming. You're going outside of normal gameplay to exploit the game's mechanics to your advantage. It may not be particularly hard or obscure metagaming, but it's metagaming nonetheless.

Note that I'm not saying you're wrong to have had fun playing that way. Just that other people also aren't wrong to not have fun playing that way. Not everybody likes thinking about game mechanics beyond face value.

But it tells you to do that. Right when you get Ifrit it tells you to junction strength. In the class room it tells you to train the GF and how to do it.
And unless this is your first RPG ever, you already know to grind levels.
If you missed this, well... Start again, the intro is pretty easy after you get past all the talking. You will probably know something is wrong when you die horribly to diablo gf or can't beat the robot in the first city.

Maximothelad posted...

Want to feel really old? Kids born in 2010 have never owned or used a CD / DVD / Blu ray. Everything is streaming or youtube. THAT'S IT. They don't even know Nintendo beyond a Switch and they only care about Fortnite.

Wow that is kind of crazy, I didn't think of it either.
Also kids born in 2010 had a really shitty school life, especially in America. Between shootings and covid and online bullying including AI image bullying, its been one disaster after another. In 70 years when these kids are finally old enough to be politicians, laws might finally get fixed.

adjl posted...

I can see it go either way. The biggest criticism I see about that sort of levelling system in general (whether it's FF8, Oblivion, or any other example) is that it's just not intuitive: Instead of levelling up and becoming more powerful being something that happens naturally as you play normally, you have to go out of your way to metagame if you don't want to lag behind. I personally like metagaming and min/maxing and turning games into spreadsheet simulators, but even I don't like *having* to do that.

Basically, there's a difference between "this game will be hard if you don't make sensible levelling choices" and "this game will be hard if you don't look up a levelling guide ahead of time or otherwise collect information on how the levelling system works because that's the only way you're going to be able to figure out what levelling choices are sensible." Everyone expects to have a hard time if they pump Int on their Fighter. Fewer people expect to have a hard time if they focus on levelling the skills they picked as the character's "main" ones (to use Oblivion as an example because it's one of the worst offenders). From what I understand about FF8 (I haven't actually played it), it's kind of borderline in that you don't *have* to metagame much just to get by, but if you don't you aren't going to get much of the sense of power growth that people typically like to get from RPGs and will therefore have a lesser experience than you would with a more intuitive levelling system. For people that like metagaming enough to do a bit of it all the time, it's not a problem, but for people who just want to play normally and not try to game the system to get an edge, it'll be bothersome and mess with their ability to immerse themselves in playing the game. I get why it's divisive.

Every time I play FF8 I quickly went to that island with high level monster and maxed my level. It made the game more fun, had more magic to draw, and didn't make anything more difficult.
Shit you mostly just spam limit breaks by raising your max HP to 9999 and leaving yourself at 2500. You get a limit break every turn. Junction enough defense and attack and the game is a cakewalk even at max level. This isn't even meta gaming. If you unlock the GFs item to magic skill, you will very quickly learn on the very first beach there is fish that drop fins 100% of the time, each fin refines to water. Then go get Ifrit and you get junction strength, put water on that and BAM you are a god already, with no guide, because this is super obvious. I had this on my first play through as a small child with no help or internet. Also figured out spamming the character swap button causes limit breaks to refresh, the game even ignores your input during the noise and animation for a limit break, stopping you from skipping past it.
In short the level scaling in FF8 works just fine and is hardly noticeable.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

ff8 is way better than chrono trigger lmfao

that isn't even a debate that can be made

8 and 9 were the squaresoft peak, the pinnacle, the straight up magnum opus.

Really? 8 Where you had to avoid using magic and GFs, and 9 where the battle was so slow you might have 8 attacks queued up?

load times in ps1 emulator were instant. Pretty sure that's objectively the best version. Also runs on pretty much all phones, mobile devices, PCs.

I am not sure a current audience could handle the slow pace of chrono trigger.
A group a long long time ago did try to make a 3d remake of the game, but it was obviously shut down by lawyers. Japanese companies are especially stupid about these things and instead of hiring these people and buying and finishing their game and making it official, they destroyed it and sat on the IP.

They have been obsolete for a very long time. But people keep buying them anyways. So they will continue to be made.

Greenfox111 posted...

Hell no I don't I love eating

Really? Never had projectile vomit flu and end up going all day without eating?