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Jupiter posted...

To realizing the religious/puritan aspect of it (which is actually a huge reason for doing it) is BS. Also, #96 explains a complication that came from being circumcised. As a 33 year old man who showered frequently, I have had ZERO issues or complications being uncircumcised. And it definitely has not negatively impacted my sex life. I've even been told by two girls that I was in a serious relationship with that they love the way it feels when it slides inside them.

I mean. Of course the religious aspect is BS. Why do you think Im only almost there? I already knew that and never said otherwise. Thats why I was openly saying something to the contrary.

well Im not trying to be too explicit here, but Ive had far more than two people express positive feelings about my situation.

Getting pegged like Deadpool, of course.

(not really, Im too self conscious for that)

Jupiter posted...

You're almost there.

huh? Almost where? To The Land of Ethical Sluts, a paradise of pleasure? Please explain.

CSCA33 posted...

Are you also in favor of cutting off ears? They might get dirty or infected, and they look so weird.

not even remotely the same thing for so many reasons. Could you maybe try to have an actual discussion instead of just spouting bs?

PraetorXyn posted...

i dont want literally anything to be 300 hours. Hell, Im sick of games being 100 hours, because they usually feel like 20 good hours and 80 hours of tedious crap.

Ill play these eventually. Hopefully modders will be able to mod in actual carryover a la .hack so you dont feel like you wasted dozens of hours grinding and mastering material etc.

yeah no thats not going to be moddable unless you completely destroy the games balance or do a literal fuckload of unpaid work to basically remake the entirety of combat across two games.

radical_rhino posted...

The only reason circumcision has been the norm in America is because of conservative religious wackjobs who thought sexual pleasure was sinful. All the shit about hygiene benefits is just what American doctors came up with to justify the tradition. If you were European you would be considered fucking crazy for even considering getting your baby circumcised.

this doesnt make any sense to me. being circumcised has not made me any less of a huge slut who loves sexual pleasure.

reincarnator07 posted...

Should you mutilate the genitals of your child without the consent of said child purely for cosmetic reasons while seemingly being unaware of the negative effects of said procedure?

No. You should never perform cosmetic surgery on someone who is literally unable to consent to it.

im not saying you should do cosmetic surgery on someone who cant consent, and I also dont think its actually purely cosmetic.

that said: if it was purely cosmetic, and I had the choice to transmit a message to consent back in time, I absolutely would. Very happy with the results and so is everyone else who has had an opinion.

CSCA33 posted...

There is no medical justification for it, meanwhile we have demonstrable harm from genital mutilation and removing a significant amount of sensation from that area. Its physically damaging and can be psychologically damaging as well. Not to mention the issue of consent.

Its not reasonable to perform such a procedure as a preventative measure. If you do this, its essentially because you want your kids penis to look a certain

if I had any more sensation in that area, I think that would be an issue.

can be psychologically damaging? How? What? Its physically damaging in the most literal sense, the same way any surgery is.

I always feel like the people up in arms about circumcision are arguing on my behalf when I literally could not care any less and actively prefer it this way.

CSCA33 posted...

Why are you not given any consideration to the harm done from performing this procedure?

as a circumcised person: what harm? I have not felt any harm, and Im pretty sure at the very least its made my life slightly easier.

wackyteen posted...

That's fucking crazy. <_<

anyways, as someone who was cut without consent, I'd at least have liked the choice.

A someone who was cut without consent, Im glad I didnt have the choice, because who the fuck wants to get a surgery they will actually remember? I prefer it this way, and Im glad I didnt have to go through a dick surgery as an actual thinking adult person.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

some of us never wanted Squeenix to dump millions of dollars and more than a decade of effort into a remake when they could have just created new, interesting ideas instead. like, FF7 is good, but nowhere near good enough to justify spending 60-80 hours three separate times, especially in disconnected chunks ~5 years apart.

yes. Thats why they made three new games that are good enough to justify that, because FF7 isnt.

yall are so weird, the way you treat games.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Do the games even ask this of you anymore?
Is there even a point to filling the Pokedex considering they don't put every Pokemon in the new games and half of the obtainable ones are sold back to you?

Pokemon Arceus' gameplay is about catching heaps of the same Pokemon, that game at least has to make catching them all worth your while right?

Catching them all has literally never been worth your while, all the way back to Gen 1. It was LESS worth your while then. At least now you get a shiny charm instead of literally nothing but a piece of digital paper.

Vyrulisse posted...

Yes let's exaggerate for effect and strip every level of nuance from the discussion. Classic.

The funny thing is when you add all the nuance back into the discussion and actually look at the situation critically and accurately, you reach THE EXACT SAME FUCKING CONCLUSION.

Which is probably why that poster didnt bother doing all that right here for your edification.

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oh, then what you said makes even less sense.

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no. You misread, assuming youre talking to me. Theyre complaining that they got more FF7.

WingsOfGood posted...

another tragedy of this I suppose

wonder how different the sales would have been if it was all in one game instead?
we often think the splitting was greed-based or let's say finance needed incentive to approve the project but it might actually have had the opposite effect

Im fairly certain they had a vision and wanted to do the game justice and the splitting is due to that. They put massive amounts of dev time and money into these, its not like they pushed out three cheap games or split one game into three for profit. At worst the idea was people like FF7, they want FF7, lets give them a huge version of FF7 and a lot of people will buy the three games. But they could have literally just made any three games with that time and cost.

they made FF7 because thats what people wanted, and they gave it the resources and dev time of three fucking games, only for people to endlessly whine about getting more FF7.

WingsOfGood posted...

Btw I don't hate Remake. Some part of it I enjoyed and was happy about.

I will have to say though I did infact cringe through the whole ending.

ending spoilers

The whole we just beat Sephiroth and then Cloud goes "He is still out there. I will find him!"
and Barret is like "WTF didn't we JUST beat him!"
that was like the pinnacle of stupidity for Remake. Had to facepalm so hard. Barret was infact right.
And to make matters worse
--Rebirth introduction not really spoiler but warning--
the whole ending is kinda like it never happened.
Rebirth begins at the Kalm segment from OG FF7. It is as if that didn't really happen or more realistic to say it was shoved in which is 100% was.

But they did do a good job on the battle system. It not being pure action was a good touch. I liked the Yuffie dlc even though it was essentially pointless fluff but at least it was a side story that didn't detract or mess with anything.

I think youre confused about what happened at the end of FF7 remake. They didnt beat sephiroth. He is definitely still out there. The one they fought probably isnt even the same one that is out there. Either way, it all happened, and they go from the end of remake to Kalm, in a pretty obvious fashion. You didnt have to see the literal car trip in the back of a truck to connect the dots.

SilvosForever posted...

I don't see what's stupid about that part though - it's literally a NEW dungeon. You seem to be taking the stance that anything not in the original automatically = bad. The dungeon took a while to get through, but it looked rad and overall I thought it was cool.

Close your eyes and imagine the original FF7. Now consider this question: "What if every city was bigger?" "What if there were more bosses and more dungeons?" And then fill in what those would be.

I think the Remake team did a great job in that.

The end product of all of this is going to be 3 separate games, but it's going to ultimately be a hell of a lot more content and a lot bigger scale than what people were even asking for originally. And I think that is a damn good thing.

The fact that the story is also familiar but unpredictable is also fine by me - I don't want to know how a story ends before I get to the end. That's how you get people just going through the paces.

Again, this whole project isn't a 1:1 remake. It is a retelling. An adaptation. A pseudo-sequel.

How many times has Spider-Man (in comic books) been told over again. It's like that. Or every time they make a new Batman origin movie.

Stop being laser focused on every single difference from the original game (which you perceive as imperfections) and try just enjoying the ride for what it is, seeing where they go with it, and judge it on its own merits at the end of the experience.

I for one am excited about the possibilities. More Turks backstory and characters. More Zangan. New villain characters, new SOLDIERs. New materia, new weapons, new summons. New everything. The characters have new abilities and limit breaks.

It's just the worst kinds of whiners man. I wonder how these people ever enjoyed any video game ever if they were always complaining about what could have been instead of what is.

I think people are going to look back on Remake and Rebirth as some of the best FF games ever made, but it's going to take a bit of distance and hindsight (and getting your heads out of your asses) to fully appreciate them.

this is one of those times I wish gamefaqs had a like button or something so I dont have to write a message that just says youre right and you said it well.

viewmaster_pi posted...

kinda sounds like you should go there

I assume in your head that made sense, but Im pretty sure its the dudes whining about fuck all and literally inventing reasons to be upset that fit in there better.

Resetera is way too heavy handed and over the top for me. Thank you for your insightful and witty contribution though. Really pushed the bar.

NeonOPPAl posted...

Here's mods at Resetera having a conniption over harmless boob and model loving
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/68c7a99e.png
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a5919261.png

oh so literally not remotely the thing that was originally said, and instead some mods banning users for being publically gross. Which has nothing to do with the game itself. And is just resetera being resetera.

meaning you went to a site you KNOW is like this, just to find something to get upset about.

wow, you sure showed me!

Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's a consulting firm that makes games worse and advises people to threaten their employers with "media outrage" if said employer doesn't hire a consulting firm to increase diversity in the game's writing.

They're attached to a lot of recent games that are incredibly mediocre at best.

oh look. Who could have seen this coming.

NeonOPPAl posted...

Yeah people hating on boobs in video games like Stellar Blade and FF7 Rebirth unironically need to touch grass and get a life >_> There's more important things to worry about than denying happiness to people over things that don't impact society

Meanwhile over here in reality, youre going out of your way to get upset over an extremely tiny minority of people who have the issue youre talking about. If any, since Ive certainly seen absolutely no one hating on boobs in those games.