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There will never be enough games to not play.

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Places clothes are made are not known for good hygiene, as they are not a foodstuff so nobody cares if there are some residual chemicals. That plus the combined hygiene of anyone else who had previously tried that article of clothing on makes washing an easy choice.

It'd have to be an emergency situation for me to consider otherwise.

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Both YYH and HxH will be well worth your time. I'd personally have started with YYH, but that will still be there when you're done with HxH and want more.

Law of Ueki's not too bad either, but definitely a distant third. It had some really cool moments that still make me grin when I think about them, but also suffers from some pretty meh plot points.

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Ursa meaning bear is a telling clue that perhaps they are not, in fact, dongs.

Connecting the dots to make dicks almost certainly happened though, as TV hadn't been invented and humanity loves nothing if not dicking around.

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They are in season this year.

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Never played Makai Kingdom, but I never got too far in Phantom Brave. I remember at the time not liking the circles approach to movement vs standard squares, or the time limit a unit could be out.

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I could never get into FFT back in the day, despite liking the genre quite a bit. Disgaea 1 and 2, however, I racked up a solid playtime on. I've most recently bought Disgaea 5 on PC and my experience with it so far suggests it will be a good timesink too.

If you have never played any Disgaea game before, the first one is almost certainly the best starting point, and it recently had a remake for ps4/switch too.

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"Do non-Western works ever try to appeal to the West by including King Arthur? Because if so, I want to see that."
"The first is that King Arthur is a girl...Im sorry, this series is everything I dislike."

From dipping my toe into the Fate series, I understand that the first game is good the series/movies of the game are good, but everything else is a pile of excessive fanwankery. But if it isn't your cup of tea, you're not really missing much either. It's kinda up there with Jojo, you either dig it, or it's whatever. You also probably wouldn't believe me if I told you just how many versions of Saber there are, because it is unreal. Kingdom Hearts makes more sense than there being so many versions of a female king arthur.

As far as deliberately appealing to western mythology goes, nothing really comes to mind except maybe that one sonic game.

Speaking of sonic...

Mobius (Sonic series)


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misread that as 'rattlesnake joke' and entered the topic expecting to be amused. the amusement has not happened, and that makes me sad.

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Final Fantasy 1, but it's Thundercats.

"I Mumm-Ra, shall knock you all down!"

Yeah, it's got potential, though might be hard to get black and white magic to work.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

This is not an argument.

and yet, it makes more sense than yours.

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So greed, lust, gluttony, or the painful realization that you are single and will probably remain so until invisible little microbes decide to chill.

Tough choice. 1 is kinda nice until it stops being nice...the ever-present fear of being murdered tarnishes what could otherwise be a nice meditative experience. 2 is about the same with a huge negative offset some by the upside, but then how much of an upside is it realistically? Could even the most desirable being imaginable remain such in constant cramped companionship? It wouldn't be hard to start believing the event was an extreme form of isolation based trauma too. 3 is a big nope. meesa not gonna explain why. 4 is the most tame of the options but just phrasing it like everyone has a significant other is a big punch to the gut :'(

So let's hack this. To start we pick option 2. Knowing the downsides of this option, the most sexually desirable person would naturally be someone who can grant me access to parallel realities via a portal gun or some other method. Legally we may not be able to leave, but nothing in the rules said we couldn't illegally leave! We then portal over to a universe much like this one except the bit about the person stopping existing after the 30 days are up and also option 2 offers a free mansion (sans movie) and a billion dollars after the time is up.

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enjoy this year whereby you can enter your age on websites with but one finger going tap-a-tap. It will be another 11 years before this opportunity presents itself again!

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Now that you have found the final puzzle piece, the true puzzle can begin. Align your puzzle to the cardinal directions and then rotate the completed puzzle until it is facing true magnetic north. Wait until sunrise and just as the first rays of the sun are striking the puzzle, light the sweater the final piece was hiding under on fire and toss it onto the completed puzzle. Collect the smoke and ashes into an appropriate vessel and mix them with some water. Take this potion into a dark room with a mirror (the taller and wider the better) and splash the contents onto the mirror. This will temporarily open a portal to the gnome's secret dimension of lost items. Feel free to take whatever you find there, the gnomes know they can always just take it back if they really want to. While you are there, consider trying the secret bonus puzzle made up of puzzle pieces everyone else lost.

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Since I just bought Disgaea 5 today (steam's got it on sale for $20 right now)...

Disgaea

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cgp grey is always a good watch, this one's extra nice in how quick he'd have had to be to put together a video of that quality given that isolation like that is only a few months old phenomenon, modernly speaking.

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Haikyu!! is normally outside my general preferences as well, but people kept saying good things about it and honestly, more than anything else, the ost is what drove me to check it out.

I think you could more easily count the people who don't ship those two than the monstrous horde that do.

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If a hot person dies, the average person has an ever so slight bump in total hotness, which might just give them a rounding error in their favor for their next date. If an ugly person dies, however, the reverse is true...therefore the ugly person dying must be viewed as sadder if numerical ratings are to have any significant meaning.

If the above holds true, then it logically follows that the best way to get a date is to murder all the beautiful people until you are the most attractive by default. Society will need to be restructured around this ideal, and you will have to spend the rest of your life fighting off ugly people, but it is a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.

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Ace Attorney was the first thing I thought of...only one that comes readily to mind too.

Amazing how much of b8 has been influenced to experience the games XD

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So after Darwin's Game, I was still in a survival game mood and finally got around to checking out Mirai Nikki. I gotta say, I went in knowing one character was the postergirl for yandere, so I was expecting a certain level of violence. What I didn't expect was all the comedic elements. Some of it is because watching this in 2020 with them using flip phones, I struggle to take it seriously despite knowing when the manga came out it they were appropriate tech. Then there's everything Mur Mur does...post credit scenes are all pretty amazing. And then you get the dark humor like episode 17 being called 'family discount' and what happens to yuki's mom. Followed up by next episode yuki's crush looking suspiciously similar to his mom.

I'm still in the middle of episode 18, but it's been an interesting ride so far.

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Came into this topic thinking it would be easy to dismiss TC's concerns. "It isn't actually spikes, it would soften into the helmet!"

but nope, there's a picture and everything. Why do you hate us, Snrkiko?

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I am now imagining an isekai anime where truck-kun sends the protagonist to the star trek universe and they have to win some martial arts tournament using a Bat'leth and dumb things that star trek technology permits like teleportation/replication of virtually any material/time travel.

It would be the dumbest best thing, and still probably better than all of modern star trek.

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It probably only helps for certain sword forms/styles and the right kind of culture/mentality to justify their existence.

Idk, i'm not a ring sword expert, I just thought this one looked cool enough to be talked about, so on that front it was mission accomplished.

also, re:Bat'leth even Star Trek nerds generally accept that it is a highly impractical weapon. Melee combat has never been one of Trek's selling points, so it's never been a big issue.

Lesse...howabout Squall's Gunblade

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/a/a7/Dissidia-Revolver.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20110218050949

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Definitely one of the better movies involving prime numbers that I can remember.

There are a few other 'people trapped in weird puzzle scenario' movies I've since seen Cube, though none I'd particularly recommend. It is quite the niche genre.

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Folks have tried to explain into the badlands' lack of guns, and they all fall short at some point because of course it makes no logical sense. It's just one of those things that is the way it is so that all the amazing wire fu action scenes can be reasonably justified.

edit: also, you didn't rank the badlands

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The Badlands (Into the Badlands)

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Hang on, before we high five, I'm going to need you to put on these gloves and a mask.

No...that's still too unsafe. How about you take a picture of your hand held high, and I do the same, then we can print them out and press them against each other simultaneously then burn the pages afterward, just to be safe.

Although that is a lot of work. Maybe we can rent a space and fill it with robotic arms with realistic hands and start a business whereby people can sign up to deliver virtual high fives to a willing participant. They could have cameras on them and be coded to accept virtual reality tactile feedback. Slap a green screen in every arm pair cubicle and the virtual high five could be projected across any type of scene imaginable. We'd only need like, a few million in kickstarter money too. As a stretch goal, we could set up handshaking routines too, for the corporate world. This'll be the next big thing guaranteed!

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Underleveled posted...

Getting shot in the leg is healthier than getting shot in the head.

This depends entirely on if you are a human or a robot who has cleverly made their leg the home of their computational core due to the silly human bias towards assuming the head is the weak spot, cementing robot dominance over organic life for all of eternity.


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https://www.hanbonforge.com/BLOG/What-is-the-function-of-the-rings-on-broadswords

Rings in a broadsword are actually super useful. They offer a little extra oomph with gravity/inertia, can aid in intimidation/distraction with the sound, and should the sword get stuck they can offer extra purchase to extract it.

Another source suggests that the sound of the rings can be useful for training purposes as you can literally hear the quality of the strike you make.

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So youtube decided I needed to see this video. It is a few weeks old, which is forever in coronatime, but still just as good today, or any day really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MvbkehQqOY

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Stargate

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Business school? And they didn't obey the literally only regulation they had to follow?

Not only should you not suspend them, you should give them A's and take note of their names for when they make it big in the real world.

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Ive only seen Snowpiercer. Was a pretty fun movie. Plot was nothing special, but the presentation was superb.

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I'd like the buck to stop with Donald Trump, our current president. That would, however, require living in an alternate reality where Trump isn't a self-absorbed moron concerned more with profit and votes than the health and safety of American citizens.

Frankly, we should just give Bill Clinton an unconstitutional 3rd term. He beats the pants off any of his competition and we could spend 4 years making crude sex jokes while the nation heals. Everyone wins.

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scarletspeed7 posted...

But is Luffy's lack of ambition a sign of an actual dearth of swiftness?

If Luffy cared about speed, he would have ditched Nami a long time ago, as her breasts started taking up alarming fractions of the ship's total weight. Clearly Luffy is not motivated to get anywhere anytime soon.

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Tried to give Fire Force a go, as I was in the mood for good animated fight scenes. Sadly, that's about all the show has going for it. I had to call it quits after a baddie's personality did a 180 after a minute of talk and one moderate punch. Imagine if Yugi beat Kaiba in a duel and then Kaiba started acting like Joey and slobbering over Yugi. Even bad fanfiction would pause before stooping so low. That, and while the universe had an interesting premise, I didn't feel like it would remain interesting for the time the series wanted me to invest. If I get in the mood for fire-based action again, I'll just give Promare another watch.

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We have not witnessed Church Lady moving at high speeds, so it is likely that Church Lady can move so fast that our eyes perceive a relative lack of motion. A simple feet for any speedster to accomplish.

Luffy, on the other hand, has failed to circumnavigate the globe and had been traveling for a number of years now. He's had literal decades worth of episodes to find One Piece but has failed to do so. The real treasure being the friends found along the way sounds an awful lot like what a slowpoke would say to divert attention away from their slowness.

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How many cubes can you simultaneously imagine in your mind's eye?

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I haven't seen it. It can't be that perfect.

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That particular Dresden Files moment with the dinosaur was quite the memorable scene and pure rule of cool. If you wanna nitpic to that level, literally everything on the list is gonna be full of similar inaccuracies.

Now then, time for something a little different...howabout rating/ranking your dnd setting. The name of it escapes me. The one with the floating islands and the three op wizards who ruled everything. :p

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GANON1025 posted...

But doesnt chocolate do things like, cause skin irritation/acne? And isnt chocolate worse for your teeth?

In large enough quantities of chocolate, those can be issues, but the fractional amount of chocolate in an oreo cookie will be vastly overshadowed by the much greater quantities of sugar and saturated/trans fat.

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What is this?

Basically power levels if they were steeped in daoism. You have a number of different tiers which can be broken up into different stages which themselves might be broken down numerically. To give an example, at the start of the book the very first part of cultivation is the 'qi condensation' stage which is known in the world to have 9 levels. You're absorbing qi from the world and condensing it internally. In this stage you learn to fly and don't need to eat/drink. Think of a level 20 dnd monk or late dragonball/early dbz. That's the starting point.

From there, you take the qi inside you and start forming dao pillars with it in the Foundation Establishment stage. Guess how many you can form? That's right, nine! Also it matters if your pillars are shattered/fractured/flawless/perfect as to how powerful you actually are.

Makes perfect sense? Good, because next is the Core Formation stage where you melt your pillars that are inside you and form a core, but what color core you form matters.

I could go on, but there are several stages past this, and we haven't even gotten past mortal cultivation. Essentially you manipulate qi inside you to do things, often through various meditation techniques or extensive use of pills (alchemy is a valuable skill in this world, for every stage of cultivation there's an assortment of pills that can help if one has enough spirit stones). As you get higher up the ranks, your lifespan gets increased too. It is not uncommon to hear about old sect leaders being secluded in meditation for centuries.

Ultimately, it is a way for the author to go "look at this main character, he is fighting somebody that is in the late stage of x while he is still in the early stage of x!" but it also helps a lot with worldbuilding, as breaking into each higher stage raises the status of the main character and forces him to deal with greater threats in kind. Like how a low level dnd party might help find a lost cow for a village, but by the end of their adventure they're dunking on gods and mythological creatures like nothing. That's kinda what this story does.

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1600 chapters is pretty tame for a lot of the xianxia novels I've seen out there (there is some padding that goes on with these web novels for financial reasons...even the good ones suffer some from it). But you're right, it is a pretty confusing experience. You see so many names like 'Meng Hao' or 'Chu Yuyan' that they all kinda start feeling normal. Helping it immensely is the translation by Deathblade who makes it feel almost like an ancient storybook. It's definitely not for everyone, but I enjoyed my time with it. It scales almost in a logarithmic fashion, kind of if DBZ and Gurren Lagann had a baby except instead of giant mechs and power levels it's really big chinese people and cultivation levels.

Also Meng Hao could probably beat superman.

Anyway...because my Shadowrun game got postponed today....The Sixth World (Shadowrun)

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Not without an e and an apostrophe, I'm not!

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gamer man posted...

If you are worried about getting sick then you obviously dont go to the beach? Why cant we have both

Because the virus is really good at infecting people even if no symptoms are present?

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red sox 777 posted...

Yes, a sneeze can project outward at 100+ mph I think. But if you are coughing/sneezng you should not be at the beach.

"It's just allergies"
"Some sunshine will do me good"
"What are you, a medical expert?"

Just off the top of my head, I can easily think of reasons and rebuttles the average person would give. Regardless of if they should or should not, they will do it regardless. Anything less would be unamerican.

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gamer man posted...

Those people must feel so liberated
Wish the beach near me reopened

Wonder how liberated they will be feeling...in about 2 weeks.

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While we are at it, let's ban test drives of vehicles and demos of games.

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Mountain and Sea Realm (I Shall Seal the Heavens)

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