Lurker > adjl

and then probably didn't intend to let her live either.

...That's not how culpability works I think.

But Muscles is right. It's how it is now. If you disagree with tipping, then...don't go out to eat. If things were 'the way they should be' you'd just be paying more for your meal because restaurants are running on a stupidly thin margin, that they take out on on their staff. People expect a 'certain price', and balk when it's raised due to inflation and to pay staff accordingly. Restaurant pay culture in North America f***ing blows. I'm still going to tip well when I go out so that the bloody staff can enjoy living a slightly less depraved life.

Shame on the place, but shame on customers that 'refuse to buy into tipping' while buying f***ing restaurant food for being just as callous towards those employees as the owners.

That's the second "Terrible US Police" topic I came across today.

The soul IS duplicated in the game. We have 2 mio's and 2 noah's at the same time.

The mud puppets contain duplicated souls of the originals which is why they have motes during the offseeing.

That video is way too long to watch for something I'm fairly certain won't convince me for a game I've already put behind me. It will continue to live on in my memory as the worst ending of anything of all time.

Something that previously xenoblade 2 had been in contention for.

Yeah I already finished. I figured out too late that I was doing it wrong. Forgot about cylinders. I got all my 100% before they from just luck and save scumming.

On a different note getting the final revive achievement is impossible since the fucking monsters only target the player character and nobody else. I set everybody to low level yet can't get the assholes to die.

You have to go to Vegas for niche stuff like that though.

betting tends to get more popular during a recession because the people betting see it as an easy way to get a lot of money with little money

but they don't win

Those aren't similar at all...

So what happens to Disney World and stuff when the hurricane hits? Is it still open?

I barely missed Fiona, was in Bermuda on the Tuesday before it hit

Guess there's no point in even going for the crystals since they just don't fucking drop. I can't beat Digalus because every attack topples and Gonzalez does not drop the topple resist crystals.
I'm assuming Digalus does not drop the debuff resist either at this rate.

Do you absolutely need 100% gems or is 99% good enough? Crafting is bullshit.

That's not you though. It's not functionally identical to surviving. Your consciousness turned off and never turned back on again. You died. Same as the teleporter example you mentioned when you brought it up originally. The easy proof of this is what happens if it makes that exact copy and you don't die? Is it that copy you? No, obviously not. You don't suddenly exist in two places as a dual being or something.

Like any of the secret societies actually control anything, when in reality they have just as much problems even organising a dinner party as the rest of us.

entirely depends on the situation and what the subject matter is.

As long as youre good at cooking, and using good ingredients

Depends how you are using them.

If you are adding the meat and vegetables while making the sauce (I.E. Bolognese, Puttanesca, etc.) then it is "part of the sauce".

If you are covering the meat and vegetables with the sauce after it is cooked, then no.

Only in the sense of heterosexual relationships. When Non-straight guys talk about it, its about unprotected sex where you finish inside

They are kinda blue-green, especially depending on the lighting, but blue is the color that we've chosen to use. Kinda like red (orange?) hair.

Wasn't Italian Fascism hyper-macho and strict on traditional gender roles, believing that the proper place for a woman is the kitchen and not politics?

Spot on. I just finished the game myself and loved it, but the fact that the "real" boss was optional and poorly integrated into the stories of the characters was disappointing. Not to mention the final gauntlet (which is really just a timewasting measure when you consider how easy it is at that point) and the 2 party battle being incredibly annoying.

get on tinder and tell chics you can get them into the park for free

By the time I finished all the main quests I didn't care enough any more to bother finishing

Depends on the woman. I know women who openly talk about sex and it doesn't phase them but I also know women who take offense to sexual conversations so it depends on that particular woman.

Some people are stiff when it comes to talking about sex because for the longest time in America, it was frowned upon women speaking openly and casually about sex and enjoying it.

Sex in America at one time was thought of as a dirty thing and in some ways, it still is.

As a public usage, the term might be offensive, as in it's one of those words no reasonable person should say in ear's reach of other people. In a more intimate setting, it comes down to consent, like so much else. Just as there are some folks out there who like being called "bitch" or "slut" at the right time or place, when they're in the mood for it, I imagine "breedable" is another such word they have to want to allow it.

I wonder what @adjl thinks... he hasn't logged in since the 7th. I hope he's ok.

Can you quote where they explicitly say this? Should be easy if it's explicit.

This is literally his only human trait and from the perspective of an immortal god, the people are dying and being reborn. He says it himself directly. And it should matter to him, it's the core of his being, or rather all of his being.

Again, no, they explicitly state that's not the case and that the converter absorbs the black fog. As for the 2nd part, the fact that the cannon works is proof enough. They absorb the black fog and shoot it and it causes annihilation. How could it be any different?

I'm also pretty sure interlinking was never said to attract black fog but it is a long game so I might have just forgot a conversation.

I don't accept that. I didn't free them so they could come to terms with their own death. That's so f***ing sad and s***ty.

Honestly continuing to even think about the game is just depressing me.

But who cares? Like, that isn't you, that isn't anybody you know. You saved nothing, you just created a new thing that you could have done anyway. It's incredibly unsatisfying.

Nah, you are straight up saying things the game doesn't say, that characters don't talk about, that nobody brings up. Even IF we assume the stuff you guessed at is true, the characters should be talking about it and it should influence their decisions in ways that it didn't.

What do you mean don't have the power to access it? They MADE it. Unlike the conduit, this wasn't something they found of exceptional power, this was something they created from the ground up.

And why do you bring up fundamentally changing physics? They freeze time, create a new planet from nothing but human willpower, and then rewind time. They haven't been playing by physics rules since the beginning of xenoblade 1.

Create a big ass spaceship and shuttle all the people off the planet or something.

Create a solid barrier preventing you from moving towards the collision site. Force the things off the trajectory they are on.

At least try instead of just giving up and accepting oblivion.

both the plot and musical themes kicked all kinds of ass

I don't care what metaphors there are, N committed genocide and is functionally a clone of Noah, not the same person. You can't just abstract away reality. They physically exist in 2 separate places doing separate things.

Um, we do that now in the real world.

They mention in some info discussions but the black fog converter is used for more than just the cannon and is the reason agnes castle can exist in the black fog area and not be annihilated. Shoot it into space if you have to.

The world continues to exist just fine despite our destroying of the clocks and the world does not immediately destabilize after we beat moebius.

However, this brings up maybe the most frustrating thing about the whole setup. Everything we do is pointless. Freeing the colonies doesn't mean anything if we just obliterate them in a few weeks.

Why the fuck did they make rebuff resist only available from a shitty high level dinosaur and not have it drop every time?

I don't think that's any better than just dying in the first place. Definitely not a solution by any means.

I also feel like the game doesn't say most of that and it's just you filling in the blanks with headcannon.

Why does origin have the power to freeze time?

And if it does, why aren't melia and nia using that function to stall so they have time to come up with a solution that doesn't involve killing everyone anyway?

Why does a desire to not die result in a world where everyone constantly dies? That seems antithetical to what Z should be doing.

If you are human maybe, but Z isn't. He is just a coalescence of human fear.

This was pretty much cubicle life for the last 70 years or so, so it's hardly a post-Covid thing.

And this has pretty much been conspicuous consumerism for the last 70 years or so, so that's not really a post-Covid thing either.

And this is a getting old thing. It's what people mean when they talk about getting stuck in a rut.

Congrats! You're starting to crest into your midlife crisis. Welcome to existential ennui!

Imo wait until you beat the game (or at least until you're thoroughly enjoying the base game) to get the expansion pass. $30 might seem like a lot but Torna is basically whole ass another game and you will probably be left wanting more after beating the game.

The extra blades you can unlock are mostly endgame or postgame stuff.

have you contributed more than you were before to justify an increase?

your employer is not your welfare agent. You get paid based on what you contribute. Inflation is an outside factor that has nothing to do with your employer.

maybe to make yourself more money you make yourself more productive to deserve more money cause you create more value in yourself.

So can you just work a half day every day

I think there have been a lot of studies that unlimited PTO is usually actually done for the benefit of the employer

I'm still unclear on what origin was originally supposed to do? It sounds like, the two worlds of xenoblade were going to collide and all the people on it die. We see this in a scene of the worlds literally colliding. Origin was supposed to "restart the world" after that. Wtf does that mean? Are they basically allowing all life on both worlds to die but they are content with creating life again afterwards? Thats not even a solution. Everybody dies, no one is saved (except the queens somehow).

Anyway, origin's power is somehow activated coalescing the dying peoples fear of being killed by the planet collision and freezes time right then and somehow creates a 3rd world that is a combination of the two in a frozen instant during collision. Somehow restarting origin just harmlessly splits the worlds back apart?

So then WHY does he make everyone suffer for his amusement?

Even IF you need people to die to harvest energy to keep the worlds from colliding, you can do that pretty peacefully. The amount of life energy they harvest has nothing to do with how fast they die, only how many get brought to life, since all of them will eventually die anyway. If you didn't erase their memories, they have eternal life effectively, and just have to swap out bodies every 10 years.

For extra badness, we get the scene were N and M sacrifice themselves to kill Z because apparently he's literally invincible to us and we can do nothing to hurt him making our involvement pointless and M who already regretted all this could have just killed him at any time apparently. Also, how the f*** is M still around? She escaped the flow with the homecoming, only to still exist because she and Mio are the same person, except they aren't. The fact that Noah is trying to beg N to stay, the same N responsible for committing genocide and torturing many people on this planet and perputating this awful pointless cycle of pain and killing because he was sad, it's f***ing pathetic. Why do jrpgs want so badly to forgive genocidal maniacs?

On top of that, they clearly created an annihilation converter for use with the cannon that sucks up all the black fog. [...] So basically, they've already solved this problem

There's nothing more still about the life on Aionios than on alrest or the xenoblade 1 world. People are born and live their lives and make choices and move forward constantly. We are a witness to it for the entire damn game.

I'm not too far from being able to join in that spoilery conversation. On chapter 7. Did all hero quests and side stories finally. There are SO many quests in this game. IMO possibly the best quests in a video game. While a lot of stuff is just fetch or kill, theres always story to go with every part and it fleshes out the world and characters so well. I feel like I know 100+ named characters and their personalities. That's wild. Also this game made me sad about a tirkin.

Should I buy Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or wait until a definitive edition?

Yeah, but it's also a judgment versus impulse situation.

Once people break up, they tend to over-romanticize the good times out of nostalgia and because they miss the dopamine hit from being together, while forgetting about all the things that led to break them up in the first place. So they go into it thinking "Oh, well this time it will be different", but it's almost never different. All of the reasons why you broke up in the first place will still be right there, sitting like landmines, waiting to blow up in your face all over again. And then you'll break up again, be miserable again, and probably stupidly want to get back together again.

Constantly chasing after old failed relationships is a pretty good formula for never being able to move on and actually develop new, worthwhile relationships. It's not a healthy mindset, and it will almost never pan out for you in a positive way. Just because you've idealized a relationship after the fact doesn't mean it was "meant to be" or you're somehow obligated to spend the rest of your life trying to recapture it or fix it. Not letting go is the thing that makes you miserable, not the mere absence of that specific relationship.

And there are other negatives involved when you're coming back into a relationship that has already broken (depending on the specific people involved). Short of a relationship that broke up entirely due to causes beyond the control of either person (like, say, both people have jobs/college halfway across the country and they decided they couldn't make a long-distance relationship work, but now circumstances have changed and they can get together again), you are almost ALWAYS better off not getting hung up on past failures. Move on. Be happy.

If they are cosmetics, then it's fine. It's a way to show when, and how long you have been playing.

Whats dumb is in old mmos, some of the raid bosses had drops that never dropped and respawned in contested zones after 7 days. Like.. it's a fucking video game dude. You programmed it and spent all this time on it and like 5% of users saw it. And yet it took +/- a weeks worth for wages for your entire staff to make. Please, stop.

Nothing contested should be that rare. Everything should be instanced. If you wanna make rare shit, let people earn it via account-wide achievements like swtor. Make people earn shit, not be there at a certain time and be lucky.

Then they use that as an excuse for why games are expensive to make, and need to be a live service, and sell season passes to make up the cost.

I thought it was clear from some exposition somewhere that the worlds were recreated again and split for a time, destined to eventually merge again, but Noah retained something from his connection to Mio that allowed him to find his way to Alrest. He disappears when the birds on the screen obscure him from vision in the final scene. If the worlds were merged, it wouldn't have been portrayed as being spirited away.

I should have been using Dunban from the start too.

Right now I have Fiora in to get some bonus affinity.

Yeah the ambiguity of it all left me in far more suspense than fiction usually accomplishes. I felt threatened by the prospect of a 2nd cycle the entire game honestly. and it was pretty cool that death for once wasn't the worst outcome. Usually I only like the beginning of stories because possibilities get minimized as time goes on, but that definitely wasn't the case here. I wasn't even sure if the split was actually going to happen at the very end.

so many redacted posts

Are they going to do a definitive edition for 2 too?

I had to fight then right away since most of the locations are inaccessible later.

also got a proper ogre break setup going and how the hell was i managing to live without this

another spoilery endgame xenoblade 3 thought: I think for sure 3 is my favorite game of the series, and possibly in my top 3 games of all time (RF4 and Rance 10 (if you count gameplay heavy vns) are hurdles man). It isn't a perfect game by far, but it hits so well so often.

End of ch5 -> early ch6 is absolute peak Xenoblade moments. Throws an infodump at you but also challenges you to think about why this is even being relayed to you, until time resumes and the gambit pays off. So much begins to make sense during the most bleak phase of the entire series. Noah faces despair and- unlike N, because he faces it in a different way- doesn't succumb to it.

like losing battles in jrpgs when ur cranked and ezwin

Any Mechonis location.

The youngest Golden Girl is still really fucking old.

The difficulty just spiked randomly for no reason. I had to lower it to casual.

can't rehabilitate a murderer,