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I remember there being a point that leads up to Edgeworth appearing where it just feels like it's escalating with one thing after the other happening, and I really like it

That is a vintage screenshot

FFDragon posted...

And to that I counter:

fuck fandom

I'm not going to CE

Yeah like

Blocking literally every non-B8er might work but what an absurd fucking solution when, again, we HAD ONE POLITICS TOPIC

I mean I figured - not being able to play post-credits is shitty

5 - really don't like the setting and most of the characters, but at least Means was good.

I don't want to hit the PoNR until I've done everything, but jesus did I get downhearted once I got off the boat and was told there were loads of newquests. I've done all the intel everywhere except Cosmo Canyon (a couple more to mop up + the protorelic) so I guess it's just doing the new stuff, but man.

Yep, it's gone. What a devastating shame - truly the worst thing to come out of these site changes

Killalot

I tried Gears and Gambits last night and it annoyed me so I quit

I'll try again when I'm in a better mood

How is a Jaws remake of all things the actual nadir?

I changed mine yesterday. Didn't hate it. Badly tested, because some of em show crotch with certain combinations of outfit/post - they really should've thought that through.

Wish there was facial hair.

But the moments in TROS weren't fun? I think it's possible I hold Marvel to a lower standard, but I know a bad movie when I see one. There's no defending TROS, while I think NWH - for all its nonsense fanservice contrivances - had something to it at its core, whereas TROS is endless nonsense with no impact.

MarkS2222222222 posted...

Like folks love No Way Home but tell me how that plot is any better than bringing back the Emperor for no reason other than to see him zap.

Because movies aren't just plot and TROS is a silly, rushed mess

Jesus lol how much time did they put into developing the fucking card game

Oh yeah I figured it would be

I enjoyed that Vincent was a QB opponent. Hilarious. But then I gave him the biggest pasting in history

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0fffe1d7.jpg

Wanglicious posted...

making the tag auto-blocked by default so you have to opt into that tag, also easy. if you want to limit political talk on a subject, you can also just make the rule of political talk should have the tag, otherwise moderate it. essentially the same rule as this only instead of "ban outright" it's "in a topic with the tag." more complicated and annoying sure but far less egregious than an outright ban.

This option was discussed and rejected apparently

I'm so ready for the damn trailer now

Where is it

Another thing that just occurred to me - LUE itself

There was no decision made about LUE. Granted it's not very active, but like, if LUE is already walled off like CE, surely political discussion can take place there too? I mean that should be a no-brainer

After the pre-battle tintinnabulation is completed, please stare in pure, unadulterated horror and ominous presentiment at what is unequivocally the best and most versatile Pokemon in the game. Dare not incur Arceus's divine wrath, or else the consequences shall be severe and merciless, and life shall become but an evanescent wisp.

I genuinely think this writeup partly influenced me to use Arceus in my successful DP Ubers team, and to consequently still love Arceus to this day

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Here's the response to Dreamer in particular.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a2c2faec.jpg

Eesh. Right. Thanks.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

My favorite part of the whole thing was everytime someone brought up all the other non gaming boards the response was "well if you think another board should be shutdown we'll make sure to bring it up for review".

Wait, what? Which post was this

The name "Current Events" is a "problem" yes

Wanglicious posted...

worse than that Reg, CE is at the forefront of this issue because that's where a lot of are the mods come and where a lot of things get modded, partially because it's where a lot of people went to after the politics boards were killed.

The mods being CE-leaning has always been a bit of an issue for me, it unbalanced the way issues were presented and I think was key to this out-of-touch change. That's not really anybody's fault - it's the biggest social board, most mod apps come from there, etc - but I think it has been an indirect part of this.

Yesmar_ posted...

Reading between the lines, I'm not sure the endgame for Fandom is eliminating the site, but rather eliminating *us* the users. They want a younger, "hipper," crowd, and they think that if they can "reorient" the site to be all about gaming they can do that. None of their recent changes will do that of course, since none of the boards where people discuss politics are visible to new users, but this was probably some order from a sales/management person that doesn't understand how the boards work. They just told someone to remove politics and this was the compromise result. People are trying to get a "why" out of DToast in that second Feedback topic, but he didn't come up with this idea and he didn't want it, so he's not going to be able to provide anything.

The reason why Fandom doesn't care about us ultimately isn't because they don't care about their customers (although I'm sure it's some of that.) It's that they don't even see us as customers.

That's about right

Reading that Tim post reminded me of the European Super League rhetoric from a couple of years back. Older users are being treated like "legacy fans" were when the ESL was first presented
https://www.football365.com/news/european-super-league-liverpool-manchester-united-legacy-fans

So yes Fandom is broadly equivalent to the most grotesque attempt to disassemble a sport in my lifetime - nice job

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Also we don't care about CE or it's legacy, we just don't understand why it affects us

The picture has been painted that CE is the only social board. It's the most active for sure, but it's also the worst. That's what has pissed me off the most - we as a community agreed to essentially contain politics to one topic. B8 has - eventually, it got pretty bad there for a while, but eventually - handled political discussions far more effectively than CE has. But CE keeps political discussion and we're just beneath Fandom's notice apparently.

It also doesn't cover the regional boards. 313 is pretty popular and covers a very specific and local brand of politics. So now they need to go to CE to post there too, oh wait, maybe they can't because they never go there, so now they're just...what, locked out of any reasonable discussion on the site?

MoogleKupo141 posted...

non-politically, when you say youre in the middle you mean physically? Where are you? I thought you were from the UK. (but my memory is extremely bad these days)

I've lived in Qatar since 2015

Thorn posted...

"oh"

Okay, yeah, then this is just trying to enforce a negative peace.

yes Fandom is supposed to be a place of joy

Thorn posted...

Did they ever communicate to you/the mods why they were doing this and not taking these more reasonable compromises?

I mean, I'm guessing the answer is "lmfao no" but...

The answer is "sort of yes but not really". Fandom doesn't want political discussion anywhere, hence the removal of 261 last year. Keeping political discussion until now has been "reasonable" on their part.

LightningStrikes posted...

But would a better strategy not just be limiting all politics discussion to the social boards (except where it directly relates to the game or whatever)

This was suggested too btw

Grimlyn posted...

okay while I liked the Hayden Christensen one Keanu's a perfect fit

I think they do this on purpose, you know. Start rumour buzz on social media, then exceed expectations. They hinted Momoa for Knuckles, who was good, and then got Elba, who was way better. Hinted at Christensen for Shadow which would have been fine, got Keanu, even better.

Oh hey Iran and Israel might go to war and I'm in the middle, CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT THOUGH

WarThaNemesis2 posted...

When you think about it, smfffc has trading, and trade and how allowed it should be is politics, so smffffc should be banned.

Not to mention the environmentalist message of ff7...

It's funny to see posts like these which echo exactly the concerns the mod staff had

All discussion is or can be political, it's so dumb

fwiw most mods were opposed to this, me included.

Awful, fucking patronizing idea and the fact that CE, which had by far the most toxic political discussion among social boards (due to 261 overspill and the fact that it's CE in general), is allowed to continue, while our one political topic (which by internet standards is civil) gets hit, is fucking asinine

Ron

I got Legend rank in PoGo PvP twice, which took a while of practice

Mirror's Edge platinum I remember being a bitch. Fucking Jacknife speed run

KamikazePotato posted...

Landing on the Sun Station in Outer Wilds.

Also this fuck this

Bug

Solo is good fun and I like it

Rogue One fucking rules though

Linkin

Knuckles > Magus
Snake > Sephiroth
Starcraft > Halo
Vivi > Mario > Ganon

I like him to a point but he's a fucking lot and I was already pissed at the Cait Sith section

Yeah I started getting the hang of it, but Jesus

And then following it up with Roche when my patience was already at its limit was fucking asinine. I shut off the ps5 as soon as he came out of the helicopter

Cait Sith section stopped the momentum of the game stone dead, bad shit
Then that fucking yin/yang thing

Then 10m later, Roche. "Yay"

Vincent fight was fun tho

I really, really don't get the Nadji Jeter thing

How long have you been waiting for that

I'm back from vacation.

I'm about to head up to get the key card in Nibel but I also have all the side shit to do in Cosmo and Gongaga so gonna do that first before progressing

Also there was a ton of little things, my favorite of which was Cody's attempts to hit multiple Cross Rhodes

Solo stopped him after 2 last year, Rock stopped him after 2 last night, then tonight he hit 1 and got kicked by Jimmy, then 2, looked around waiting to be hit and still got hit by Solo in the one place he couldn't look (directly behind), then finally got all 3

That also means he hit like 7 Cross Rhodes in total because I think there was one before(?) the run-ins, but like, that's how you do finisher spam right

I mean we're using the word overbooking but given the story it just felt like...booking

Like they had a match the night before to basically say "yes, this match will have a ton of interference", and then almost everybody that interfered made complete sense

also yes there was a very well-worked 20m match in there before things went crazy, though I guess it was slightly flat because everyone was just waiting for the run-ins

I don't want to harp on about it too much but that really showed how fanservice can be a good thing and also how it can be a hollow thing

Like HHH vs. Sting, that was bad fanservice. Like I guess I was still entertained by the clusterfuck, but for all of a few minutes. There was nothing to really appreciate beyond the initial dopamine hit of nostalgia. That story was about Sting as a vigilante fighting HHH's corrupt leadership, not digging up WWE vs. WCW or DX vs. NWO 15 years later. They crowbarred that in because it was WM and people would pop for those guys showing up/the two different theme songs, but it was hollow and stupid

Tonight, we saw an example of what I would say is bad fanservice with Taker's appearance, because it didn't serve the story whatsoever and is really the only hair in that soup. He hasn't been fucked by the bloodline, lost to Reigns at WM 7 years ago... yeah I don't buy his "vengeance" here unless you play fast and loose with him being the "conscience of wwe" coming back to put an end to Reigns' nonsense. Even then, it still just feels a bit off - since everyone else involved was far more relevant to the Bloodline. That said, if Austin was the plan that wouldn't have been any better. You get the visual of Austin and Rock facing off, and yeah cool we get to see Rock oversell the stunner again, but every other interference in the match made storyline sense - all the faces had been fucked over by the Bloodline, including the ones that came in after the match was over (Punk being there in the post-match was also a bit silly and off-theme, but not really a big deal). And then there was just...Taker. Or what should have been Austin. Sure? It just felt like one thing too many. Brock actually makes more sense in that spot (but was not an option), and even HHH.

Meanwhile, Rollins appearing in his Shield gear and psyching out Roman was the good kind of fanservice that served the story. The long-term storytelling of Roman taking his eye off the ball because Rollins was there in Shield gear was perfect, but you also get the cool pop of the music and that nostalgic dopamine hit of the music etc.

Undertaker = CGI Nic Cage in the Flash
Rollins in the Shield gear psyching Roman out = Walt and Jesse's scenes in Better Call Saul