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Topic	Rightwing meme time!
adjl 11/10/22 4:56:22 PM #385	Zareth posted... Ted Cruz says that Democrats are winning because their policies are popular The nerve of them, doing things people actually want! --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rightwing meme time!
adjl 11/02/22 10:07:58 PM #375	mharbenedict34 posted... If land can identify as female then female can identify as land. Its only fair. Would an abortion count as an eviction, in that case? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rightwing meme time!
adjl 10/20/22 8:27:23 AM #338	I feel like a guy who calls himself "wankers_r_us" is probably saying that ironically, but Poe's Law is so rampant these days that I genuinely don't know. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/11/22 10:04:31 PM #131	Bastion was awesome, but Hades was better. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rightwing meme time!
adjl 10/10/22 9:29:33 PM #324	captpackrat posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/7/2/AAQwHjAADw9c.jpg Every time. I especially love the "I can't tell you what views are being censored because I'll be modded if I try" excuse. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/10/22 11:55:26 AM #122	GanonsSpirit posted... But you didn't say "Blizzard published Immortal" you said Publishing isn't making. You are wrong. But we all know you are literally incapable of ever admitting it. "Making" refers to the total process of creating a game. Publishing is a part of that, as is contracting a studio to develop the game you want to make and making sure that development is progressing according to your desired outcomes. Heck, if anything, Blizzard is probably more to blame for Immortal's issues than NetEase is, given that they would have been the ones dictating what sort of monetization should have gone in. The part that is actually a half-passable game is actually something NetEase should be credited for, because I very much doubt Blizzard did anything to contribute to that beyond loaning them the IP. If you really want to die on that pedantic hill, that's your prerogative, but given that the broader discussion is about Blizzard as a company and not any specific one of their development teams, attributing Immortal to them with no regard for who actually did the development is pretty reasonable and nobody is actually going to be confused by my word choice. To that end, I'm not sure why anyone would care enough to bring it up, speaking as an insufferable pedant myself, but you do you. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Not really. Like, at all. It's a completely accurate statement because the publisher very often does provide quite a bit of direction to the development process. That direction often hurts the final product (especially in the AAA sphere) because it amounts to "stop trying to make the game you think will be good and make the game I think will be profitable instead," which often leads to the game being designed around more monetization and/or shoehorned into chasing current market trends instead of what the development team is actually good at (see: Anthem), but it's nevertheless very commonly a thing that happens. Meanwhile, I don't even know what analogy you're trying to create, except the very, very loose association of saying that higher-ups have something to do with the labour of the peasantry (which... is also true in a broader sense and the wealth's failure to trickle down doesn't change that). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/09/22 10:45:39 PM #105	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] I'm sorry, the correct answer is "yes, Blizzard did publish Immortal." Better luck next time. However much you want to cling to the fantasy that, because Blizzard outsource Immortal's development to NetEase, it means it doesn't count as a real Blizzard game, Blizzard chose to publish it. Everything that we see as being wrong with Diablo Immortal is something Blizzard not only signed off on, but specifically requested because they knew the potential it held to make them ludicrous amounts of money. Diablo Immortal is the game Blizzard wanted. I don't know if you're grasping at pedantic straws because you don't want to admit that the Blizzard that put out some of your favourite games from the late 90's/early 2000's is dead, but the fact of the matter is that that company is dead. Its management has fully embraced the dystopian capitalist cesspool that is the modern AAA video game industry and its exploitative monetization. The only way they're going to let their developers create a game that isn't designed to manipulate as much extra revenue out of players as possible is if they feel like they need to do so to recover from bad PR that would otherwise hurt their next project's revenue (see: Starcraft and Diablo 2 remakes). That's just the reality of Blizzard in 2022 (and, in truth, has been the reality of Blizzard since ~2010, with the decision to hamstring Diablo 3's loot system so they could cash in on RMT more efficiently). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/09/22 6:22:04 PM #101	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] Did Blizzard not publish Immortal? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/09/22 2:12:25 PM #98	Blizzard put as much work into producing Immortal as they did anything else. That they outsourced it to another development team doesn't change that it's a Blizzard product. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/09/22 1:52:33 PM #95	shadowsword87 posted... People also wanted Warcraft 3 remastered. And Starcraft Remastered. I'm not saying that it's bad or isn't worth doing. I am saying that this being all they're doing, is creatively empty. Hey now. They also made Diablo Immortal. That was original. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/09/22 11:30:18 AM #86	Kyuubi4269 posted... The cosmetics are how they fund continuous updates. And yet there are countless games on the market that are able to provide continuous updates without artificially inflating the value of cosmetics by gating them behind arbitrarily insane grinds that make ridiculous price tags seem more reasonable. I guess Blizzard's just less capable of making online multiplayer games than goddamn Nintendo, because all three iterations of Splatoon have avoided such practices. The cosmetics are how they fund ludicrous executive paycheques and inflate their stock price to make shareholders happy. The continuous updates are just to keep people engaged for longer so there are more opportunities to squeeze money out of them. Characterizing this kind of monetization as anything other than manipulative, predatory greed is either blatant corporate propaganda or an example of staggeringly naive ignorance. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/07/22 8:28:29 AM #57	papercup posted... Why the f*** are people defending this. Because it's become normalized to the point that a lot of people just don't see it as being that crazy by comparison (because that comparison is to similar practices that would have been unacceptable a decade ago) Because getting mad about it interferes with their ability to mindlessly consume the entertainment they want to mindlessly consume Because an unhealthy percentage of their identity has been built up around defending the games they like, defense which gets extended to sequels by default and can be really hard to step back from --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/06/22 1:17:56 PM #50	Blightzkrieg posted... That's neat, maybe Blizzard should use that tech to recognize sexual predators They recognize them just fine. They just choose not to care. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rightwing meme time!
adjl 10/06/22 9:59:48 AM #302	How... oddly and specifically explicit. Somebody's thought this through. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	a 21nd topic of memes
adjl 10/05/22 10:21:06 PM #430	SoreChasm posted... The problem there is that it'd be a Canadian Ditto. All Dittos are Canadian. They just disguise themselves as other nationalities to gain your trust. Having just revealed the greatest secret of the Dittos, there's a good chance I'm going to disappear and be replaced by a Ditto soon. If you notice an abrupt change in posting style, that's why. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	a 21nd topic of memes
adjl 10/05/22 10:10:05 PM #428	Blue_Thunder posted... https://i.imgur.com/89q48oo.png I've dabbled a bit in needle felting, and I'm realizing it'd actually be really easy to make a Ditto. Maybe I should try that some time. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 10/04/22 5:25:19 PM #19	VideoboysaysCube posted... I can't believe Blizzard actually killed OW1 for this. I've never heard of any company deleting a game entirely the day a sequel comes out. Splatoon's servers got shut down almost immediately after Splatoon 2 came out. The single-player campaign still exists, of course, but that might as well have completely killed the game. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	a 21nd topic of memes
adjl 10/03/22 5:22:47 PM #387	keyblader1985 posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/0/AAHsOgAADvd8.jpg I just made that connection a couple days ago. I'm glad I'm not alone. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	I dont know music, but this is pretty cool
adjl 10/03/22 5:05:00 PM #5	OhhhJa posted... I'm a little bit of a theory nerd and I appreciate stuff like that but briefly changing keys in the middle of a bar isn't exactly groundbreaking lol Some might even call it accidental. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 10/02/22 8:27:37 PM #425	Revelation34 posted... I found an easy way to farm revives so I did that while also farming other things. Not sure how to farm burst affinity since it's so random. Do the stats carry over to NG+? Might be easier to just finish and restart. I believe they do carry over, but you might want to create an extra save file and use that just in case. Most fights aren't going to last long enough to have a decent chance at burst affinities if you've got endgame gear and skills, though, even if you delevel yourself. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 10/01/22 11:14:00 PM #417	I noticed Diofield Chronicle a little while back and it mildly piqued my interest. I should look into it further to see how it turned out. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	I'm finally playing Octopath Traveler
adjl 10/01/22 11:12:50 PM #29	11110111011 posted... side quests! And once you've done a solid chunk of the side quests, you'll get access to a quest chain that leads you to the true final boss and a lore dump that ties all the different storylines together. Don't feel bad about using a guide to tell you which quests to pursue, since it's not exactly intuitive. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Who had the biggest impact on gaming between 2017 and 2020
adjl 10/01/22 1:33:13 PM #12	Animal Crossing is a bit of a weird case because it came out at the absolute best possible time: In mid-March 2020, lockdowns were ramping up around the world, leaving everyone with a ton of free time, massive disruptions to their regular routines, having to come up with new ways to interact remotely with their friends and family, and a whole lot of fear about what was happening. So when Nintendo released a game on March 20, 2020 that offered plenty of play time, defined routines, new ways to interact remotely with friends and family, and a really relaxed, comforting aesthetic and atmosphere, it absolutely exploded. It's by no means a perfect game and there's plenty of room to improve it, but Animal Crossing was exactly the game the world needed at the time it was released, which paved the way to it becoming a genuine social phenomenon. That said, calling the Switch a "port machine" is pretty silly. Most of the WiiU's notable library has been ported to it and MK8 still dominates monthly sales charts, but it's no more reliant on ports/multiplats than any other system and has plenty of notable exclusives. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Ukraine filed for NATO membership
adjl 10/01/22 12:49:20 PM #39	See, this is an example of a exhausting all potential good faith discussion potential the troll has brought to the table. At this point, rather than derailing the discussion to continue feeding the troll, it's best to ignore them and continue the discussion without acknowledging their interruptions. Any questions? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Ukraine filed for NATO membership
adjl 10/01/22 12:44:40 PM #37	Stop what, contributing meaningfully to this new discussion about how best to approach trolls? I shall do so once I feel I no longer have anything meaningful to contribute, which will really only happen once I'm satisfied that everyone involved can get over themselves to enough of an extent to not feel the need to call trolls out at the expense of the real discussion. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Ukraine filed for NATO membership
adjl 10/01/22 12:39:04 PM #35	adjl posted... If a troll asks a question that can be answered in the form of a good faith contribution to the discussion, answer it as though it genuinely is. Think in terms of what you contribute to the discussion, not in terms of what somebody else doesn't. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Ukraine filed for NATO membership
adjl 10/01/22 12:20:11 PM #33	ZangsBeard posted... Feeding him is feeding the trolling, not innocuously answering him. It's also contributing meaningfully to the discussion. Letting some nebulous concept of "feeding the troll" get in the way of that is just silly, and in fact does more to let trolls win than any amount of "feeding" ever could. If a troll asks a question that can be answered in the form of a good faith contribution to the discussion, answer it as though it genuinely is. If they try to troll further from the answer you give, ignore them. It's quite simple. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Ukraine filed for NATO membership
adjl 10/01/22 11:09:32 AM #29	Cacciato posted... It is, until you see the guy writing it is the guy that cant even read an article, let alone do his own research. specifically post #47 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80180881 It's still a pretty innocuous question, and answering it would only serve to further everyone's understanding of the discussion at hand. That's unilaterally a good thing, so I'm not sure why you're letting your angry grudge against him for being an annoying weirdo most of the time get in the way of that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Would you slap Heidi Klum on the ass for $750?
adjl 10/01/22 11:02:53 AM #14	With her permission, sure. That's also presuming I don't have to put in the work to track her down and travel to her, since that would cost way more than $750. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Who had the biggest impact on gaming between 2017 and 2020
adjl 10/01/22 10:57:32 AM #10	faramir77 posted... Things like [...] early access have done serious damage to gaming, Eh, I wouldn't say that. There's no shortage of examples of it being abused to sell as many copies of a half-finished project as possible before scrapping it completely, but it's a very powerful tool that has made games like Minecraft, Factorio, and Hades far greater than they'd be without it. Used properly (that is, by a developer that's committed to gradually improving their product and listening to community feedback), it's a fantastic idea, and I don't really think it's damaged gaming as a whole. Now, the informal "early access" approach of shipping a half-broken game for the sake of meeting deadlines and patching it later? I'd agree that that's damaging. That's not formal early access, though, that's just executives not understanding how to make good games trying to please shareholders who don't care about anything other than meeting deadlines and sales targets (fuelled in part by a customer base that's also not very tolerant of delays). Early access as a development strategy is fundamentally a good thing. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	6 promising rpgs coming out in october.
adjl 09/30/22 12:24:29 PM #10	EchoBaz posted... Note: I don't know what else they following 3 games are coming to besides the PC. Hope that they come to everything else, as they all look like games that the Switch can handle. Triangle Strategy is coming to the PC October 13th Triangle Strategy has already been out on the Switch for several months. They did the same thing with it that they did with Octopath. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Hurricane Ian 2: Electric Bugaloo
adjl 09/30/22 8:58:07 AM #5	captpackrat posted... Katrina did that in 2005, though it was going the other direction (east to west). And Katrina wasn't exactly a typical storm, so I guess I'm right to think that this is unusual. Wild. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Have you gotten the newest covid booster shot yet?
adjl 09/30/22 8:56:26 AM #33	JixHedgehog posted... Ha! Someone's out for a fight :) But since I've already been modded for expressing not only mine but most people's beliefs, I'll leave you to it ;) Next time, lead with "I don't actually understand anything about reality, so anyone looking to assess he world around them like a comptent, logical individual should ignore everything I say." You'll get modded less often that way. Alternatively, just stop being wrong, but apparently you're unwilling to do that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Who had the biggest impact on gaming between 2017 and 2020
adjl 09/30/22 8:47:28 AM #4	Probably EA/Activision, with the extent to which they've pushed the envelope on loot boxes and worked to normalize "live services" as the primary focus on the AAA industry. A lot of people seem to conflate "largest impact" with "doing the most stuff I like," but large impacts on an industry scale usually mean paradigm shifts, and these days most of those come in the form of new levels of monetization becoming normalized. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Oh cool, Overwatch 2 has $20 skins
adjl 09/30/22 12:01:28 AM #10	Blizzard's making the decision to boycott them awfully easy these days. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 09/29/22 11:59:23 PM #415	YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~The game was building up to liberating aionios from Z, not destroying aionios, something that would have happened eventually anyway.~~ Except Aionios' inevitable annihilation would have taken the other worlds with it. I'm not sure how you can suggest that abandoning everything from the entire series to oblivion is equivalent to ending the artificial world in which copies of everyone in the original worlds just lived in suffering so that the real worlds could live on (after a momentary blip which could technically be called not living on, but given that everything about them persists through it, that's not a technicality with much practical merit). YoukaiSlayer posted... I also quite liked xenoblade 2, just not the ending or really the last 3rd of the game. Uhh, the last third of the game is when all of the story's actual value shows up. Everything up to that point is just an extremely generic "rawr we bad give us ur girlfriend" "oh noes don't take my girlfriend" that only qualifies as an excuse to keep playing because they periodically drop hints about more interesting worldbuilding to come later. It's really only after the end of chapter 6 that it starts actually delving into the characters, the world, and the themes of existentialism that underpin it all and make it a really interesting story. It's extremely back-heavy on the exposition and character development (mostly on the villain side of things) that it needs to be engaging, which is probably it's greatest flaw (and, and being a really slow start mechanics-wise as well). YoukaiSlayer posted... Xenoblade 1 was similar but it's jump the shark moment was closer to 50% of the way through ~~(stuff with mumkar or whatever the claw guys name was)~~. ... You mean when the story developed into more than just a straightforward revenge story against the evil robots? I'm starting to think you just don't like stories with villains that have any depth to them. Prison Island was a major turning point for Shulk's character and shifts the story in a way that really elevates it to be something great instead of a pretty straightforward "beat the bad guy" story that you can get from any Mario game. YoukaiSlayer posted... The only xenoblade with a solid ending is X, Okay, what? X doesn't even have an ending. The story stops after what feels more like a midgame boss than a final one (story-wise. Gameplay-wise, it was definitely final boss material), says "wow, this planet sure is mysterious," then rolls the credits without resolving any of the myriad questions that arose throughout the game and in those final cutscenes. It's blatantly half a story, clearly set up for a sequel that has yet to materialize. X very emphatically does not have a good ending. YoukaiSlayer posted... I understand the dynamics of so many people striving their best to survive in this world and make it liveable and peaceful in a place that had only known war. That's why it feels so s*** to just crush all that work and say "actually, you don't need to pick up the pieces and strive to find a way to make things work, we'll just delete it all". Except all of that is what it took to defeat Moebius. Killing all those consuls wasn't just beating up bosses for sidequests, it was a matter of helping everyone rise above the despair that had gripped them and feel hopeful for the future. It's because they didn't have that hope that Moebius arose in the first place. Kindling it in the people of Aionios in turn kindled it in the copies of the corresponding people from the original worlds stored in Origin (again, Origin is shown to store data from Aionios), allowing them to overcome their collective fear that Origin would fail. Riku's "world is supervillainpon" line carries more depth than it might seem to at first glance. Not only is the endless war a product of how the world works, but it's the world and all the people who live in it lacking the will to rise above it that perpetuates the suffering. Every colony you liberate is a blow against that world because you're giving people the opportunity - and by extension, the will - to fight back. This is why the final battle is not just the party punching the big bad in the face, as was the case in 1 and 2. It's everyone in the world fighting against Moebius because they've decided they don't want anyone else to suffer as they have, and that collective decision is what allows Origin to move forward. That they might not know that they're bound for oblivion (putting aside for a moment the question of their memories and experiences being preserved and passed on to their real-world counterparts) doesn't actually take away from this: they've decided to give up their lives if they need to for the sake of the cause for which they've chosen to fight. As it happens, they do need to, but they've already committed to that. Is it sad to put that work into securing bright futures for people that are only going to be around for a few months? Absolutely. Again, though, if the party failed, most of those Commanders would be dead within 1-2 years anyway, so it's not that big of a difference. Otherwise, you can think of it as a sort of palliative care, making sure that they can enjoy the small amount of time they have left. Sad, but still meaningful and worthwhile (even putting aside the role it plays in winning). I'm okay with that. --- This is my signature. 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Topic	Have to played Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon?
adjl 09/29/22 10:42:12 PM #8	A friend of mine had it and I think I may have played a few minutes, but I've never owned it or played it for real. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Hurricane Ian 2: Electric Bugaloo
adjl 09/29/22 10:40:14 PM #2	How often do hurricanes have enough energy to keep going after they cross Florida? I'd kind of assumed that was pretty rare, but I realize I don't actually know at all. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Have you gotten the newest covid booster shot yet?
adjl 09/29/22 6:59:32 PM #29	You've done nothing to improve it. All you're saying is "some people don't want to get it." That is not a valid basis for your belief. Your belief is an empirically verifiable one: The risk of serious adverse effects from the vaccines and the risk of serious adverse effects from Covid infections have both been very thoroughly quantified. You are claiming that the former is greater than the latter. Do you have a basis - that is, data from which you have drawn this conclusion which you are able to present in support of it - for believing in this claim? Or are you just spouting off the same unsubstantiated bullshit you've been humping for the last two years because doing so makes you feel better than paying attention to empirical reality? If you want to make an empirically verifiable claim, empirically verify it. If you aren't willing to do that, stop pretending you have anything of value to say. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 09/29/22 6:25:42 PM #412	Minor Xenoblade 1 Spoilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvOPYaSMFY --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	So im going to be away for awhile (blogfaqs)
adjl 09/29/22 5:43:12 PM #13	I recognize the name, but don't have any particular memories associated with it. Regardless, I wish you luck and hope this decision can improve your life. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rest in Peace Google Stadia (2019-2022)
adjl 09/29/22 5:12:15 PM #18	Krow_Incarnate posted... I thought the concept of Cloud gaming was going to be relentlessly pursued at this point. Oh, it is, and will continue to be. Stadia is just another in a long line of services trying to capitalize on the idea. It failed, but others will try again, and eventually, somebody will make it stick and everyone that gave up for now will jump back in to capitalize on the market once it stabilizes enough to allow competition. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Have you gotten the newest covid booster shot yet?
adjl 09/29/22 4:59:02 PM #27	JixHedgehog posted... A new, widely untested booster vs the majority of people who know covid is something no longer to be feared (if you're healthy and under the age of 75), have most likely already had covid and believe in natural immunity and most people being generally sick of hearing about it People will opt out, the only folks in line for the next jab are the people you still see wearing masks None of what you said has anything to do with the belief that the vaccine's side effects are worse than the disease. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Have you gotten the newest covid booster shot yet?
adjl 09/29/22 3:11:04 PM #23	JixHedgehog posted... I think we're at the point where the possible side effects are worse than catching whatever variant is doing its rounds What's your basis for believing that? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Have you gotten the newest covid booster shot yet?
adjl 09/29/22 1:32:40 PM #19	I get a bivalent booster in two hours, unless it turns out they don't have any (which has been an issue here because the new government has utterly dropped the ball on Covid and taken us from being an international paragon of pandemic response to one of the worst in the country). DrYuya posted... They don't cone to my house with them. They actually want me to drive up to some place and do it. Oh no! Not an able-bodied individual with a functioning car being asked to go somewhere to receive a service that's difficult to deliver remotely! The sheer, unmitigated, unfathomable, irredeemable audacity! Metalsonic66 posted... Is the new one different? Not sure off-hand what's approved for use in your area, but Moderna and Pfizer have both put out bivalent vaccines that target both wild-type Covid and Omicron. If available, it's a pretty good idea to get one because of what a poor job the original vaccines do against Omicron. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Rest in Peace Google Stadia (2019-2022)
adjl 09/29/22 1:28:37 PM #5	I genuinely thought it had already shut down >.> --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 09/29/22 1:27:34 PM #410	YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~None of the events besides escaping the dream of are of any real consequence.~~ ~~And escaping from it is the whole point of the entire game, which is a very real consequence because it saves both worlds from stagnating eternally while they gradually erode away into oblivion.~~ YoukaiSlayer posted... The theme is inconsistent because they don't fight against the status quo of annihilation. They just accept it as unchangeable fact. They don't fight against being torn apart at the end, they just accept it. There's so much they accept and don't fight to change. The story is simultaneously about coming to terms with your lot in life and also about not coming to terms with it and fighting to change it. They fight annihilation as much as they can with the time and technology they have, coming up with a solution that isn't perfect, but prevents everything in both worlds from being lost forever. That's not inconsistent with a story about trying to fix what can be fixed instead of clinging to a clearly harmful status quo, that's just the nature of problem solving as anything less than a god. YoukaiSlayer posted... If souls somehow lose no energy reincarnating and acting as origin's power source and creating new souls through birth, thats also a pretty physics defying system that lets energy come from nothing, unless each soul is only fraction of the energy of their parents soul. It's pretty overtly stated that every person in Aionios was already stored in Origin before it began, even those that were born native to Aionios. The whole life energy thing is weird and seems to draw on a nebulous concept of "life force" that's not strictly a form of energy, but the conservation issue is consistent with the world gradually annihilating into energy because that would provide Origin with the power to keep going (so long as there's a world left, that is). YoukaiSlayer posted... Then theres origin that can magically harness that energy to mend or break realities in just such a random arbitrary way as to allow for this story. It feels so inconsistently applied. But we just give it a pass for some reason to create this story. Maybe thats the better way to phrase it, it feels incredibly contrived. The entire scenario of the story that is. It makes enough sense. All matter/antimatter in the worlds annihilates into energy upon contact, Origin takes that energy and turns it back into the matter/antimatter that it used to be. It's all just a matter of energy/mass interconversion, with the pre-established technology of core crystals guiding the reassembly process. That's clearly pretty far-fetched technology, but it's within the realm of what's reasonable in fantasy and is internally consistent with how everything else works. Similarly, it makes enough sense that a sufficiently powerful entity who interrupted that process could manipulate Origin to use that energy in a different way to create a different world based on the information Origin provided. That kind of manipulation falls into the realm of the divine, but the notion of the collective unconscious creating a god from a sufficiently strong shared desire or emotion is not a concept unique to this game and is easy enough to accept. YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~Why can people get teleported into the final boss fight in origin? Why do physical attacks have any affect against a ball of energy infused with a consciousness? Why can only N and M defeat him?~~ ~~Because those phases happens outside while everyone is nearby and can be flown in pretty easily~~ I think you might be playing the wrong genre if you're going to take issue with physical attacks damaging non-physical entities. Even then, Blades are established throughout the game as having special properties that just plain stabbing somebody does not (notably, taking someone's life requires them to be killed with a Blade and not a Levnis or other method, to say nothing of the whole "materializing out of thin air" thing), so you can chalk it up to being a matter of those special properties and ether manipulation or something like that if you want an explanation beyond "the game would suck if you couldn't." Because if Noah and Mio didn't let go of N and M - their incarnate desires to be with each other at the expense of everything else - the collective wish for the Endless Now (Z) would remain too strong for Origin to work properly. This is another question that that video answers. YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~If they are really going to go with everything being fine afterwards and the worlds separating and that s**, then don't just introduce the entire goal of the main cast during the final boss fight.~~ They didn't. Nia explained it in no uncertain terms when she first explained how Origin worked and what it was meant to do. This is what I mean by you not understanding it: If you think the worlds separating at the end came out of nowhere, it's because you missed the part where it was explicitly stated that that would happen. I agree that it would have been nice to see more content exploring how the characters felt about separating, but I can also understand leaving it unsaid as everyone pushed their concerns and hesitation aside for the sake of dealing with what had to be done. YoukaiSlayer posted... People come to different conclusions because it's portrayed terribly and all of this stuff is arbitrary with no build up.* It's more that it's a long game with a lot of details to keep track of that some people miss either because they didn't pay enough attention or they did so much other stuff that they forgot it by the time it was needed again. Everything needed to understand the game is there, it's just a lot to take in and it's easy to get overwhelmed. keyblader1985 posted... FMA Day is coming up soon ("Don't Forget Oct 03"), Huh. Today I realized that Mean Girls Day and FMA day are the same. I feel like this has meme potential, but I'm too lazy to capitalize on that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIX
adjl 09/28/22 10:25:59 PM #405	YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~The story is basically on the level of "it was all just a dream".~~ Except, you know, the part where Melia explicitly states that all of Aionios is no less real than anything else and Origin is confirmed to keep records of what happened in Aionios (hence Moebius can give people a slide show of their past lives and people like Ashera and Eunie retain some memories). There's every reason to believe that people will end up remembering their time in Aionios and that the worlds will figure out a way to unite in the future. How and when are uncertain, but Origin has granted them the time they need to figure out how to do so safely. It will happen, and it's the events of this game that will catalyze that. All of which, incidentally, is covered in more detail and with references to specific in-game comments that support the conclusion in that video you're refusing to watch. It even explicitly shoots down the "it was just a dream" interpretation. YoukaiSlayer posted... Additionally, if I play the game and watch everything and pay attention and still didn't understand a mass marketed AAA game, the game f**ed up it's storytelling. I shouldn't need 45 minute breakdowns to understand the story and if you look at other peoples impressions of the story, a lot of people reached very different conclusions on what physically happened. The information was conveyed poorly. Virtually all of the information is there, you just have to pay attention and occasionally read between the lines a bit. People reach different conclusions not because the story is told poorly, but because they don't know how to find the point without having their hands held. A 45-minute breakdown is nothing* compared to what's been done to analyze any of the stories that are widely considered to be the best ever written. That doesn't mean they're poorly written. Quite the opposite: It means they're written with depth and subtlety that stands up to deeper analysis and exploration of their themes and context, which in turn means that not everyone is going to fully understand them on the first pass and may need to study it further. While I'm not about to suggest that Xenoblade 3 should be held up as a literary masterpiece, the fact that there's room to explore its story like this after the fact is very much a good thing, not a failure. YoukaiSlayer posted... ~~an inconsistent message about acceptance while fighting the status quo.~~ But it's not inconsistent. At every level, the core message is that it's better to try to make an uncertain future better than to cling to a status quo of suffering out of fear that the future might be worse. Nothing about that is inconsistent with fighting the status quo. Judgmenl posted... Oh did Takahashi end up screwing over blade like he did with saga? Some people don't like how 3 ended. To call that "screwing it over" would be a little melodramatic, but there is a pretty sizable butthurt minority out there complaining about it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Police kill Amber Alert victim when she tries to run to them
adjl 09/28/22 9:48:37 PM #44	Cacciato posted... I just meant because of the whole him being dead part. Yes, I'm sarcastically understating that for comedic effect. Oh ho. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
Topic	Police kill Amber Alert victim when she tries to run to them
adjl 09/28/22 4:10:10 PM #30	Cacciato posted... I doubt it I suppose there might be some legal technicalities in this case that will prevent it. KodyKeir posted... They charged the two cops that killed the baby in the shootout in Ontario last year Yeah, but that's in Canada. Up here, it's not as socially acceptable for police to shoot people ~~that aren't Native~~ as it is down south. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.
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