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I think James at his best is when he's talking about his passion: movies. Giving interesting insight and easter eggs that nobody ever noticed before. He's still IMO my favorite guy for that.

Honestly I think that is more entertaining than his AVGN thing. I LOVE Cinemassacre's Monster Madness series.

I dont like preachy games that punish me for killing things, as a rule. The difference between Undertale and games like Dishonored as both do that is that Undertale doesnt really have anything appealing to me to offset that.

it literally does not matter how you raise a Shih Tzu with respect to its potential to do harm

As far as overall... I do think there should be limits to what can be "consented" to, and if a sub is asking for or agreeing to extremely harmful or dangerous activities, the dom has responsibility as a human being to not go along with or encourage it. "Consenting adults" is great, but some people are incapable of consent (drugged, significant mental illness, under coercion, ...whatever the current politically correct term for "extremely low IQ to the point they can't function normally" is, etc...).

Picked 21 because of Blackjack.
"...Great cosplay."

I liked it now im just waiting for Deltarune to be complete

I mean, I'm no expert on his life; he might not now, but there's no way he wasn't more interested in video games when he started avgn. He has enough believable memories and thoughts on games and I find it difficult to believe he'd start filming himself talking about something he didn't give a shit about even as a one off side project.

They do the same things. Yes.

It's just some very strange opinions.

Dude, this is super delusional. It's more that I'm not hanging around all day because I do things besides spam refresh to see if someone responded.

And the "genocide" vs "pacifist" thing can basically be summed up as "good" or "evil" routes that you see so very often in video games.
KOTOR, KOTOR2, Alpha Protocol, Fable 1-3, Jade Empire, Dragon Age all of them (they don't specifically monitor them, but the game keeps track of them for you). That's like... 10 right there. All pre 2015. Like seriously, this wasn't breaking any new grounds. Like... Every Bioware game made it a thing, and that's before you even count games like Wasteland or Fallout or anything that tries to resemble DND.

I don't even think they're necessarily shit takes.

The op is exactly why people even have an adverse reaction to the game at moments because instead of having proper discourse, it's over hyping the game while ignoring the lacking or even grating aspects of it.

Arti's giving some shit takes, but I feel like you could also present better arguments for Undertale's case.

Here's the video, in case you want to watch it for yourself. Warning: it's long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_-fSWys71E&t=10528s

The five appellants engaged in sadomasochistic sexual acts, consenting to the harm which they received; whilst their conviction also covered alike harm against others, they sought as a minimum to have their mutually consented acts to be viewed as lawful. None of the five men complained of any of the acts in which they were involved, which were uncovered by an unrelated police investigation.

The physical severity was not disputed. Each appellant (having had legal advice) pleaded guilty to the offence when the trial judge ruled that consent of the victim was no defence.

The question approved and certified as in the public interest on appeal was whether the prosecution had to prove (in all similar cases) a lack of consent on the recipient's part. The appellants argued against conviction under the Offences against the Person Act 1861 as they had in all instances consented to the acts they engaged in (volenti non fit injuria), that as with tattooing and customary-site body piercings their consent would be directly analogous to the lawful exceptions laid out by three cornerstone (and other) widely-spaced precedent cases.

The certified question of appeal which the House of Lords was asked to consider was:
Where A wounds or assaults B occasioning him actual bodily harm (ABH) in the course of a sado-masochistic encounter, does the prosecution have to prove lack of consent on the part of B before they can establish A's guilt under section 20 or section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861?

The Lords by a bare majority, two out of five dissenting answered this in the negative, holding that consent could not be a defence to these (typically overlapping) offences.

Lord Templeman stated:
"It is not clear to me that the activities of the appellants were exercises of rights in respect of private and family life. But assuming that the appellants are claiming to exercise those rights I do not consider that Article 8 invalidates a law which forbids violence which is intentionally harmful to body and mind. Society is entitled and bound to protect itself against a cult of violence. Pleasure derived from the infliction of pain is an evil thing. Cruelty is uncivilised. I would answer the certified question in the negative and dismiss the appeals of the appellants against conviction.

His judgment examined the acts to be "unpredictably dangerous and degrading to body and mind and were developed with increasing barbarity and taught to persons whose consents were dubious or worthless".

I actually watched the 46 minute video that the one dude posted in this topic.

Was the AVGN always just a stepping stone for James to get into filmmaking?

Israel/Palestine
India/Pakistan
Some of Africa's troubles

to name a few

The Middle East, Cyprus, India/Pakistan, Ireland (sort of) . . .

British policy was 'we're going to fuck off now. If you could just fight amongst yourselves for a bit, instead of blaming us for all the shitty Empire stuff, that would be great!'

This sounds like a personal problem. Like again, in Dragon Age, there are some weapons that do have significance. Your base sword in the human origin has significance. In Fire Emblem Binding Blade, some of the weapons are references to characters from the manga that was made. Not everything needs to have a pun as well, but some can and do.

The worldbuilding is actually kinda garbo in Undertale. That's literally what I'm saying, it's not that great.

I feel like you're even less imaginative since your response to getting a counterargument is to insult the creativity / intelligence of the person rather than attacking the argument.

Equipment that does something significant when you acquire it wouldn't improve the gameplay???

Choosing to not enjoy something because a fanbase for it is bad is really fucking weird.

Several RPGs have had weapons that have storyline significance. This is nothing special in the least. A lot of western RPGs weapons will have significance and aren't just "some random weapon you buy at the store."

Which isn't particularly interesting. And I have no idea why you'd even count this as something that's significant.

Using equipment as items has been a thing in several RPGs from as early as games like Final Fantasy 1. You can't be serious on thinking this is interesting. It's an indie game. And Japanese games tend to have a ton of puns.

No. I said... It barely has much outside of slight differences. Hence me saying "Paper Mario" style upgrades, as Paper Mario upgrades are simplistic and nature and generally change things about attacks. IE, you put on a badge that makes you immune to spike damage. There's no attack increase, but changes how you can approach combat differently. You can now jump on flying enemies with spikes. I meant what I said, and you confirmed it with what you're saying.

No, it's kinda like playing a game and being told that the differences between a red and blue soccerball are super significant because the red ball is owned by Marco and the blue ball is owned by Luis.

Yes, and when a person could potentially go through a game and not notice the effects of equipment, that literally solidifies my argument through your own acknowledgement that people could possibly not pick up on what equipment does.

Because that's what it is.

A non-lethal playthrough of MGS2 is significantly more challenging to do.

It's a shitty metanarrative that shoots itself in the foot.

"Friends" yes, the people that were all trying to kill you. That's exactly what I would call a friend. The people that you could spend most of it running from when combat presents itself.

KOTOR, KOTOR2, Alpha Protocol, Fable 1-3, Jade Empire, Dragon Age all of them (they don't specifically monitor them, but the game keeps track of them for you). That's like... 10 right there. All pre 2015.

Like seriously, this wasn't breaking any new grounds.

Gear in the game is so basic that even bothering to have an equipment system on offense and defense may as well have been something as simple as a Paper Mario style upgrade.

The graphics are actually terrible. And I don't mean because they are simple, I mean they are actually bad. Inconsistent, ugly, and in some instances just having really jank perspectives.

And the "genocide" vs "pacifist" thing can basically be summed up as "good" or "evil" routes that you see so very often in video games.

Someone get ChatGPT on this right now. I want a fanfic.

How about I just don't have an interest in it at all.

You know what number I had to pick, now I have a personal Messiah.

Why isn't the DOJ on this?

Gear in the game is so basic that even bothering to have an equipment system on offense and defense may as well have been something as simple as a Paper Mario style upgrade.

The graphics are actually terrible. And I don't mean because they are simple, I mean they are actually bad. Inconsistent, ugly, and in some instances just having really jank perspectives.

And the "genocide" vs "pacifist" thing can basically be summed up as "good" or "evil" routes that you see so very often in video games.

What did you mean by this? In what ****ing universe is supporting a country that got invaded by Russia is progressive signaling.

Thought this would be about actual color blindness, shame

Why was Chris' called Not a Hero btw? Chris is like the biggest hero in the world and has saved the planet anywhere between 3 and 6 times.