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FFDragon posted...

(but thank you for at least confirming the mod staff also agrees about Fuck Fandom)

Of the remaining GameFAQs regulars (there are probably still a few thousand of us left), I'd be surprised if a single non-troll *didn't* share in this opinion. Even the couple of people on the Fandom payroll like DToast probably wish they were working with another community.

I love both games, so if it were up to me, I'd prioritize the one on sale. Hell, by the time you're done with Remake, Rebirth might be getting its first sales!

Edit: And happy birthday =)

I'm conflicted on what to recommend. On the one hand, it's an enormous and spectacular game, well worth $60 or $70. On the other hand, it'd be hard for me to justify full price to myself for a game over two years old.

Politicians are like Human Resource Reps - disliked and spineless, but ultimately shills of the much more powerful executives (the rich) that run the company.

Samurai_Man posted...

Half of these losers were just bullied in high school and are taking out their frustrations on the general public.

Cops are much more likely to have been the high school bullies themselves, bullies who never grew up and instead found a lucrative career path to utilize their "abilities." The biggest, most vile bully of my graduating class now works for ICE.

They're standing there shooting the shit with bar patrons while this man is face-down and completely motionless at their feet. For several minutes.

Fuck all of these people, including the miserable drunks at the bar.

ai123 posted...

As long as they are doing the job competently, it doesn't matter. You don't get the 'real' person, you get showbiz.

Not when the persona is a big part of the entertainment they're selling. If we all suddenly learned that Fred Rogers was secretly a surly, abusive drunk, it would stain every episode of television he ever created.

Baron_Ox posted...

https://pagesix.com/2024/04/26/entertainment/ellen-degeneres-on-being-kicked-out-of-show-business-for-being-mean/

"The Finding Dory voice actor reminded viewers that she also got the boot from TV when she came out as gay, thus ending her eponymous sitcom Ellen in the late 90s.

Eventually theyre going to kick me out for a third time because Im mean, old, and gay, she quipped."

Gotta admit, that's a good joke lol

For a song/video called "Thong Song," there was hardly any thong'd booty in it. Horny 14-year-old me was immeasurably disappointed.

Apart from Chapter 14, I thought Rebirth was pretty consistent in its (excellent) quality, with no "high points" that really stood out. This is in contrast to Remake, where Wall Market distinguished itself as an all-time-great caliber level.

I do think that the wealth Millennials are expected to inherit over the next couple decades will cause a greater political shift in the generation than anything else. Nothing turns a person into a steadfast Republican vote quite as fast as safeguarding unearned money.

bigblu89 posted...

Millennials are in their 30s now.

Theyre not new grads

I know, but I'm specifically responding to the claim that Google is paying 500k to "new grads." That's not a common starting salary anywhere, even San Francisco tech.

iGenesis posted...

even singles, making over $500,000/year. Working in technology (Google alone pays that much to new grads)

Come on now. New grads aren't making 500k in any field short of medical doctors, post-residency.

Never bothered with Eternal because I found myself getting tired of 2016 by the end. I was loving it early on, but it felt like the gameplay loop got stale a few chapters too soon.

I saw some recent clips online, and the voice actors are sounding rough. Marge sounds like Patty or Selma after throat cancer.

Thanks! I just got through all the character-specific Legendaries, leaving only the final two trials to go. They're also the last hurdles I need to clear in order to complete Johnny's hotel (WHAT'S IN THE BOX) and earn the plat.

Yeah, I was using the Yuffie ATB strat and still hitting a wall with the final round. I'd get caught in the first Shadowy Chains, which I was prepared for, but would then immediately get hit with another. I didn't even think to parry it until I watch a YouTube vid last night, but lo and behold, everything clicked this morning and I beat it on my first attempt!

I've been stuck on the final Brutal Challenge for like a week. The last fight is such a wall.

I give James a ton of credit for likely being the first online video creator to hit 20 years of relevance - that's a huge accomplishment. It's not a surprise that his reviews have lost their humor as we've grown older, but one thing I wish he'd do more is just evolve the character.

He's perfectly capable of doing that. For example, his Earthbound video is arguably his best ever, and it's one where he reviews a good game he genuinely likes, and the AVGN character doesn't suffer a single shit-flinging tantrum. I think his fanbase would prefer seeing more videos like that as well, but the problem is... they take a ton of effort. You can tell James really poured his heart into the Earthbound video, taking time to analyze the game's themes and communicate them in an emotionally resonant way. But ss a father in his mid-40s, he'd probably much rather make low-quality content for the steady income.

Crimsoness posted...

We should start punishing white collar crimes like this in the US

I'm not a big supporter of capital punishment, but I'd be less opposed to it in cases like this than I would for the people who usually get it. How many innocent people lose everything and decide to kill themselves as a direct result of these white collar thieves? How many communities are sucked dry? White collar criminals are fucking heinous, and they are insulated enough from the consequences of their crimes that they can sleep like babies forever. Fuck em.

George Carlin said it well decades ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXYWxdwh9g

Please tell us about the beef, including restaurant prices. I'm being sincere - that's definitely one of the reasons I'd ever choose to visit Argentina, and I'm not even *that* big of a steak guy.

Also, have fun!

Snake5555555555 posted...

Don't count Sheva as a dual female lead?

LOL. Sorry, I don't. How many times does the main villain even acknowledge her? Might honestly be zero. She's not a bad character or offensive or anything, she was just clearly shoehorned in and definitely not a "lead" the same way Chris is.

Snake5555555555 posted...

Don't count Sheva as a dual female lead? Or RE6 with Sherry & Ada getting full campaigns?

Maybe I should backtrack this one a bit since 6 is the only one I haven't played, but I thought Sherry shared her campaign with a male co-lead, one who is far more important to the overall narrative than Leon's female co-lead? RE6 may be a game with playable female characters, but I always figured that, like 5, it was a game that never elevated them to the level of the male stars. This is in contrast to the first six years of the franchise, where the female characters really were "leading ladies."

Kotetsu534 posted...

It is somewhat odd that FF games had more agentic and prominent female characters 25 years ago than they do now (see FFXV and XVI).

I don't want to hijack the topic, but Resident Evil fans have been complaining about this exact thing for at least 15 years. Being a pretty big fan, a part of me has always resented how Western Hollywood Action Explosion-Time rotted what was such a cool part of the franchise.

Resident Evil 1 - dual female/male leads, female character way more popular
Resident Evil 2 - dual female/male leads, about equally popular
Resident Evil 3 - female lead
Code Veronica - dual female/male leads, female character more popular
Resident Evil 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 - male leads

Better Call Saul might have been the only weekly TV show I bothered keeping up with over the last decade (Breaking Bad was over ten years ago), and in all that time, it feels like the only culturally relevant thing I missed was Game of Thrones.

Queen's Blood is on the shortlist for greatest minigame of all time, imo. The more I think about it, the more impressed I am.

I'm in it now but only pop in occasionally. I'd likely do the same, and be content in knowing that we still exist as a community.

This guy is a douchebag Trumper, right?

Despite that, I still sympathize with him. I've had to face completely false claims brought on by a vengeful lover, and something like that is absolute hell to go through.

Bumpo

Snake5555555555 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0caaac35.jpg

Detailed cock, wow

My heart is full, for BAIG is remembered.

I've never been, but the prevailing bit of "fun" advice I've always seen is to eat lots and lots of beef. Argentina apparently has more cows than people and price of high quality steak dinners is supposed to be among the best values in the world.

Sigh, if this site even sees the end of 2024, it'll be in a very different state. I try reddit, but it's no substitue for the traditional message board format I love, and the Discord can keep us connected, but again, I much prefer the message board format. This feels like another sad step in a long goodbye. =(

The one thing I've enjoyed about this is Allen's troll topic, which shows beyond ambiguity just how unfriendly his exit from fandom was. Good on ya, SB.

Every line from the second half of that playcall is legendary. One of my favorites is "Secretariat is now in a position where he's impossible to catch!"

BlueTigerLion posted...

So what are the God tier chocolate? Is it Toblerone? Or something less mainstream.

Assuming you're into dark chocolate, most of the stuff they sell at Trader Joe's is delicious and very reasonably priced.

OJ definitely compelled me to make this topic here, but I made a similar topic on CE like a year ago, and the results were practically reversed. The voters there are much more likely to believe accusations regardless of the outcome in the justice system, so I wanted to see how B8 felt.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

Decent, but no more than that.

Fair enough, but the price point makes it legendary. "FuggetAboutIt" pizza places charge like $30 per pie these days, so getting an acceptable pepperoni pizza for $6 is the best deal in fast food.

Fiop posted...

I had no idea how to get access to this and kinda assumed I never would.

Yeah, I remember noticing fan letters in Nintendo Power being sent "via the internet" and thought those people were geniuses using indescribable tech.

HaRRicH posted...

They had a reviewer named Shoe, and I thought they had another reviewer who was referred to as a ninja but it's hard to remember.

That was Sushi X!

I probably own a few dozen EGMs from the late 90s to early 2000s. It and Nintendo Power were the only game mags I read and kept up with, and the contrast between them was stark. NP was very safe and steralized, while EGM was much more risque with its opinions, language, and advertisements. I remember reading "shit" in one of their issues for the first time and wondering if they had maybe gone too far, but I loved them for pushing the envelope like that. Their editors were also known to readers and had unique personalities, something that seemed to be completely missing from NP.

Even back then, I could tell that NP was carefully scrubbed by Nintendo, while EGM seemed like a group of young guys living the dream in an office where they played games all day, and it was the much cooler product because of it. Pretty sure I saw EGM as a dream job back in the 90s.

Yeah, I've usually kept everyone fully slotted to maximize AP growth (two of my three Elementals are MAX, and the third is close), but apart from the main party - usually Cloud/Tifa/Aerith - I rarely give consideration to what everyone's actually got equipped. I think it's the combination of actually strategizing for six characters in conjunction with like an hour of final boss phases that's really keeping me from jumping in.

I'm at the final boss stretch in Hard Mode, but I've put it off for like three days because I really don't want to intelligently allocate Materia for every fucking party member.

First time through, I swear I counted 11 phases to the final boss stretch.

Among those sports, definitely the least athletic but likely the most skilled.

There are gay bars in like every major city in America.

No way. She's younger than Alito and Thomas and seems to be far and away the most liberal justice. I understand that the court has now been politicized, but I don't think you should pressure a good justice to retire while they can potentially carry out 10+ more years of service.

No one averages 40 mpg though. I'd guess the goal is to gradually condition him to 35, which is high for a modern big man.

What's worse, this or a college professor sleeping with one of their students?

I will agree with part of that - Barret's beach outfit fucking sucks.