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JebronLames posted...

are you getting breath of the wild for the switch? i think that's easily the biggest game on switch.

I'm not sure how much I have left in it, but I'm definitely getting the impression that Xenoblade 2 is bigger. I'm pushing 120 hours there already, which is more than I put into BotW before drifting away from it. Part of that is definitely because I've been distracted and doing random other interesting stuff instead of advancing the story, but that describes pretty much the entirety of BotW, so...
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

adjl posted...

She enjoys playing some. She's not an avid gamer, and she's not very good at them, but she has fun playing with me on occasion, usually stuff like Mario Kart. Snipperclips was a particular hit. She also just enjoys watching me play sometimes, which is nice, especially where the Switch's controller comes apart so I can move my arms as needed to cuddle while playing.

I've never cuddled while playing a video game.
I can't cuddle while Killing bandits, draugrs, and dragons.
I've got places to go and shit to do.

It doesn't work so well during more intense moments when I do the stereotypical "lean forward with elbows on knees" stance, but for more leisurely stuff it's pretty nice. A decidedly underrated perk of the joycons.
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

wtf is the justification for a $70 controller?

It is awfully expensive, but at the same time, I didn't have to spend a cent on controllers for the WiiU, so I'm a little more open to spending more than usual for Switch controllers. I still haven't, since that's still a lot of money, but recognizing how much I save on WiiU controllers does soften the blow a bit.
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Andromicus posted...

If you passed on the Wii u like me it's a perfect system to catch up

Especially with how many higher-profile WiiU titles have been ported or given a very similar sequel (Splatoon 2). MK8 in particular is one of the best MK games, so if you haven't had a chance to play it before now, picking up the remake is a fine idea.
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Beans.
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Entity13 posted...

I tire of Mario as a franchise,

That's a valid reason to give, say, a new NSMB a skip, but Odyssey is a very different game from 3DW or Galaxy. There are gameplay similarities at the most fundamental level, but that's about it, and if you're tried of those, that's going to extend to a whole lot more than just Mario.
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green dragon posted...

I would never do that. Zero incentive.

Eh, I wouldn't say a lengthy task necessarily needs an incentive to be worthwhile completing. If it's fun to work on it, it can be its own incentive. That's why I ended up with 999 moons in Mario Odyssey, and why I put off grinding coins to get the last three costumes until I was able to do so while watching something else (since it wasn't that fun to grind).
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Andromicus posted...

I thought this was about skin color and was about to get angry but I see it was simply a ruse to intentionally anger me, hah

I knew it was going to be about something other than skin colour, because it was just too obvious to actually be that, but my first thought was egg whites, not clothing.
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Heropon is bestpon.
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What a weird topic this is.
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ImCallingYouOut posted...

I also didnt specify physical book.

The word "book" typically refers to a physical object, not a PDF.

Millennials, man. Can't comprehend anything from a world before their time.
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ImCallingYouOut posted...

itt: electronic textbooks dont exist

You didn't specify electronic textbooks. Why shouldn't I assume that saying "book" actually meant "book"? It's only logical.
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ImCallingYouOut posted...

okay sorry all those long ass textbooks you copy and paste then.

How does one copy+paste a textbook? The best I could do in that regard would be an OCR scan, and that's far too much work.
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ImCallingYouOut posted...

why do so many people go for a your mad post when they cant think of anything of substance to say?

I don't. I'm just amused by how mad he is. This is an obvious joke topic that's got a silly drunk person making a fool of himself. Is there really anything of substance to say?

ImCallingYouOut posted...

Has Wikipedia sued you for your constant plagiarism yet?

Being public domain, Wikipedia's content isn't copyrighted at all, so it's actually impossible for anyone to be sued for plagiarizing them.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

no, im s***faced

Oh, so schmen's always mad, and it's just coming through more clearly now that he's lost the ability to conceal it. Not surprising.

Troll_Police_ posted...

and who asked you?

Aren't you always going on about freedom of speech and how it's the best and most important thing ever? Seems awfully hypocritical of you to try and stifle that, now doesn't it?
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Lol schmen's mad.
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Cacciato posted...

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Cacciato posted...

Damn yall are too worried over circumcised dicks.

So what are your opinions on female genital mutilation?

I dont have female genitalia, therefore Im not in a position to tell them to get the fuck over it.

And what are your opinions on the women that tell victims of FGM to get over it?
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I don't plan on ever doing that. It just doesn't strike me as a fun sort of completionism. I like that exploring and finding interesting places usually rewards you with one, because that's fun, but hunting them all down just sounds like tedious work to me.
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She enjoys playing some. She's not an avid gamer, and she's not very good at them, but she has fun playing with me on occasion, usually stuff like Mario Kart. Snipperclips was a particular hit. She also just enjoys watching me play sometimes, which is nice, especially where the Switch's controller comes apart so I can move my arms as needed to cuddle while playing.
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Ogurisama posted...

German sausage > all others

German sausage is the wurst.
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Because it's bigger, on average.
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Italy's quite a bit more significant, historically, and as a result has had substantially more cultural influence on the modern world. The fact that it's the de facto language for musical terms is a testament to how pivotal the country was.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

What happened, then, is that Republicans sold the public a narrative that wasnt true, then used that narrative to repeal the regulations that protect the internet.

So... just another Wednesday for the GOP?
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Cacciato posted...

Damn yall are too worried over circumcised dicks.

So what are your opinions on female genital mutilation?
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Wouldn't it make more sense to just get recommendations for individual manga, rather than ordering everything by a certain publisher with a good reputation? Even the best publisher is going to end up printing some bad stuff from time to time, and limiting yourself to one publisher is going to mean missing out on a lot of good stuff.
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SteamedHams posted...

Just reminding everyone of this classic

Then why not present it as such?
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a_doyle_42 posted...

I'd suggest selling your Wii U Mario Kart and getting the Switch version used if you can. Might be able to get away only paying 10-15 bucks on the swap that way, the Switch battle mode versions are definitely worth it.

How good of an idea that is is definitely going to depend on whether or not you play any local multiplayer with more than two people, since you'll need to get more controllers to play multiplayer on the Switch.
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Yes, anime are Japanese cartoons. Why use an extra two syllables, though? Cars are internal combustion-powered transportation devices, do you use the latter term over "car"?
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MacrossSpecial posted...

From what I understand circumcision is a creepy religious rite where boys have their genitals mutilated that now masquerades behind pseudo science having to do with hygiene.

The only possible medical basis that I've seen provided for doing it proactively (as in, not to treat phimosis or any other medical problem) is that being uncircumcised increases your risk of penile cancer... by like 1%. Which makes sense, because there's about 1% more penile tissue if you don't chop about 1% of it off. If that's a valid medical justification for circumcision, then it's also a valid medical justification for removing every organ and tissue you can live without for the sake of avoiding cancer of that tissue, and that's just stupid.
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Online on the GC, as well as Blue Burst on PC a while after that, plus the GBA collection of the first 3, which I never finished.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

murder out of ignorance

By definition, that's not a thing.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

you're a menace to society, it's best to be locked away for life.

It would seem that a judge with access to all of the case's details disagrees with you. What a shame that you're so much more impotent than somebody with more information than you. Armchair judges/juries/jailers just can't catch a break, huh?
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The Joy-Cons, as a pair, are the main controller for the system. There's also the Pro Controller, which is a more standard sort of controller.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

once again your missing my f***ing point. my only point being that these comparisons are stupid and one should have no bearing on how we consider dealing with the other.

They should, however, inform how paranoid people are about the risks. People are afraid of flying, when in fact driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous. Ergo, people should be more afraid of driving than of flying. Similarly, people are afraid of Islamic terrorists (to the point of wanting to ban Muslims from entering the country), when there are many things that present a much more immediate threat that should command greater fear.

It's not really about dictating what should be done to solve the problem (though given finite resources, it does make more sense to allocate those resources toward solving greater threats), it's just saying that it's stupid and logically inconsistent to be afraid of something while not being afraid of something else that's more dangerous.
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I'm reminded of the story of a woman who went to emergency because of vaginal pain, and when they examined her the doctor almost passed out from the stench. The woman had miscarried without knowing it a couple weeks prior, and the lost fetus had decomposed into black ooze.

I'm probably getting some details wrong because I can't find the original story and it's been a while, but it didn't exactly sound pleasant.
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Amuseum posted...

adjl posted...

Amuseum posted...

70 years since the last nuclear bomb. So why are we so afraid of north korea and Iran using bombs? according to statistics, the chances of nuclear bomb killing anyone is effectively zero.

Right, because thats not risk assessment work. You cant neglect the potential harm from stats.

Because Muslims aren't nukes.

But you think lawnmowers have the sentient capacity to cause mass destruction and societal uproar?

No, I think that lawnmower use can be dangerous, which should prompt a certain degree of caution. This is supported by statistics on lawnmower injuries and fatalities. By comparison, the use of lawnmowers is more likely to result in a fatality than allowing a Muslim immigrant into the country.

Incidentally, literally any person with a weapon (especially a gun) has the sentient capacity to cause mass destruction and societal uproar (see the Vegas shooting for the most recent example), so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there.
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HagenEx posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

HagenEx posted...

First I need to be convinced to buy a Switch, and the only way that's happening is if they announce either a new Golden Sun or a new The World Ends With You.

that's like someone saying "I'll only get a ps4 if they either announce a new Spyro or A New Sly Cooper"

it just ain't happening

Exactly. So I'm never getting a switch.

That's a pretty silly reason. If you don't want one, just don't get one. Justifying it by saying that you want new games from dead series (or in the case of TWEWY, not even a series) is just silly.

LittleRoyal posted...

No just because I dont know the characters and thats half the fun.

Eh, that's not really true. It's the novelty of fighting with familiar characters that sells Smash, because that's a cool idea, but that novelty doesn't last that long once the game itself starts. As far as actually playing the game goes, characters are just models to attach hitboxes and movesets to. Doesn't matter if it's attached to Mario or to Bob the Janitor, the game's going to be just as fun to play.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

adjl posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

there's been a lot of polls showing the majority of Muslims want gays to be arrested, women to be property and sharia law to be in effect.

And how many of those polls include countries in which gays are already arrested, women are already property, and sharia law is already in effect?

These are English polls, England doesn't condone that behaviour in the slightest, even less than America.

How many English people do you think want gays to be arrested and women to be property? Do I need to remind you that homosexuality was illegal in England a mere fifty years ago?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

there's been a lot of polls showing the majority of Muslims want gays to be arrested, women to be property and sharia law to be in effect.

And how many of those polls include countries in which gays are already arrested, women are already property, and sharia law is already in effect?
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Questionmarktarius posted...

The bigger issue is that trains are held to the tracks only by gravity.

Trains are really freaking heavy. "Only by gravity" is kind of downplaying just how much force gravity exerts on them.
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Amuseum posted...

70 years since the last nuclear bomb. So why are we so afraid of north korea and Iran using bombs? according to statistics, the chances of nuclear bomb killing anyone is effectively zero.

Right, because thats not risk assessment work. You cant neglect the potential harm from stats.

Because Muslims aren't nukes. You let a Muslim into a country, 99.9999 times out of a hundred, they're just going to go about their lives no differently from anyone else. You drop a nuke on a city? We do have pretty solid mortality stats for what that can do.

You absolutely can assess risk from annual stats when the cause did happen in those years. You'd have to completely ignore the principle of cause and effect to not see the flaw in "nobody died from nukes in years where no nukes were dropped on people."
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Amuseum posted...

Maybe the low kill count by terrorist were due to stronger stance by current administration? Was that ever considered that new policies may have mitigated such risks?

The new administration hasn't even been in effect for a year yet. If new policies could have influenced the annual average by a measurable degree, then the average isn't based on a large enough sample size to be remotely meaningful. Bonus points where, if you look at the picture, the date that's covered up by the watermark on the bottom is January 29, 2017. No matter how desperately you want to fellate Trump, surely not even you are not going to suggest that he was able to appreciably influence the year's statistics in nine days. Plus, as Zang said, it's 2001-2011.

So yes, it's been considered, and no, Trump has had no impact on those statistics.

mooreandrew58 posted...

how many people died at one time in 9/11. when has a lawnmower ever killed that many in such a short period of time.

Extreme isolated incidents often get left out of average statistics because of how much of an outlier they are. Nothing like 9/11 had happened before, and nothing like 9/11 has happened since, so letting it inflate averages to inform public perception about the risk posed by Islamic terrorism would be misleading. Especially where airport security has already been dramatically heightened since 9/11 (the reasonableness and effectiveness of which can certainly be questioned, but that's another matter) to prevent anything like it from happening again, meaning the risk is much lower than including 9/11 in the average would suggest.

It's like not counting a hypothetical freak accident where a guy loses control of a ride-on lawnmower and plows into a crowd, killing 150 people. Those would be lawnmower-related deaths, but being such a rare, isolated incident, letting it inflate the annual stats would exaggerate the actual risk posed by lawnmowers.

mooreandrew58 posted...

i'm also not saying we should never let immigrants in just because "omg possible terrorists" but i'm also saying we shouldn't say f*** it not s*** we can do about it. I prefer immigrants to be checked for any possibility of being a criminal before they are allowed in.

The thing is, nobody's saying that immigrants shouldn't be vetted. Plenty of people (the president included), however, are saying that the risk of terrorism is too great to allow any Muslim immigrants in at all. That's clearly false to anyone that looks at the stats on the matter, because the risk just isn't high enough to justify such an extreme measure.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

I really doubt its more of a risk than terrorism. except for where I live where only a dumb terrorist would try s*** as the kill count would be too low to accomplish anything much.

and what I mean is i'm willing to bet most lawnmower deaths are user error related somehow where as terrorists attacks you as a citizen have zero control over.

The stats don't lie. You are more likely to be killed by a lawnmower than by a terrorist. You do have more power to avoid being killed by a lawnmower than to avoid being killed by a terrorist, but the point of the stats is that that's perfectly fine. Putting more effort and concern into avoiding terrorism than you would into avoiding a lawnmower accident is completely at odds with the reality of the risks involved.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

not getting into if its over exaggerated by conservatives or not, just going to point out when liberals talk about gun deaths they don't like it when conservatives bring up car related deaths and some claim apples to oranges. or that just because one thing is worse you shouldn't ignore the other. so yeah double standards.

That's not really a relevant comparison. Car-related deaths are brought up in an effort to dismiss gun-related deaths, not as a way to provide perspective on the significance of the associated risks (it's also a pretty flawed argument, given that extensive measures are taken to minimize the risks of driving, and liberals also tend to be stronger proponents of active/public transportation developments to cut down on the amount of driving people do). Here, deaths by lawnmower is presented as a statistic that almost nobody would ever consider to be significant, given that it's quite small. Pointing out that it still constitutes more of a risk than terrorism is meant to illustrate just how small a risk terrorism really is, and to point out the folly of devoting so much hysteria to preventing it.

Blaqthourne posted...

What this says to me is that kids need to man up and walk to school. Look at all the lives that would be saved by getting rid of buses.

Or by putting everyone on a bus. Can't be hit by the bus if you're inside it.
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Zeus posted...

Sounds like a zealot looking for a cause. Surprisingly good-looking bloke for a complete nutter. Really can't tell with some of them.

The guy's a Nazi worshiper who was looking to join the most prominent terrorist organization in the world, and you brush it off as just looking for a cause to support and toss in a superficial compliment for good measure? Right.
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Naked Dunban is far better than he has any right to be, at least for the midgame.
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That seems like it'd fill up awfully quickly. But then I guess I'm used to modded games, where the ore comes piling in absurdly quickly once the ball starts rolling.
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OmegaTomHank posted...

Ive never played any of them

Then you are excused for not picking up on those clues. Carry on, my friend.
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streamofthesky posted...

adjl posted...

They're highly resistant to physical damage, so ether arts are the only way to kill them in a timely fashion. You'll be getting a party member in Makna Forest that deals primarily ether damage, so until then just put up with them being slow fights that blow you up at the end.

Well, technically... (spoilers about party members only for Makna Forest, safe to read once you're done there, and honestly it's pretty minor spoilers before then, too)
You get two ether users in Makna Forest. One primarily uses ether, and the other gets a 50/50 split of physical and ether arts available that you can set up to your liking (ie, more of a warrior or more of a mage, or just w/ both).

I suppose that is technically true.

OmegaTomHank posted...

Which xenoblade

Presumably the first one, given the other context clues in the first post.
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culture_den posted...

How do you beat those floating clouds that respond to ether, those nebula thing? Only Sharla's ether arts seem to affect them, and I definitely don't want to use Sharla.

They're highly resistant to physical damage, so ether arts are the only way to kill them in a timely fashion. You'll be getting a party member in Makna Forest that deals primarily ether damage, so until then just put up with them being slow fights that blow you up at the end.

ernieforss posted...

I found out agility is the best skill to max out. it makes you attack faster and dodge too.

Maxing out agility is very important, but it doesn't affect attack speed at all. It affects accuracy and dodge (the hit formula subtracts the target's agility from the attacker's agility before adding a few other numbers, so each point of agility is an additive 1% chance to hit or dodge). Attack speed is increased with Haste gems.

culture_den posted...

definitely want to get rid of the 10 pages of crystals and cylinders I have but don't know what to sell and what to keep in case I want to get into gem crafting.

You can pretty safely sell everything that isn't the highest tier of a given gem type (i.e. sell Strength III crystals if you have any Strength IV crystals). While leveling, you're also pretty safe selling everything that doesn't make you immediately say "I want to use that." It's tempting to keep a million different gems around just in case you run into something where you'd be better off with a different setup, but in practice, the mid-game really isn't hard enough to warrant min-maxing (and when it is, coming back with a few extra levels makes much more of a difference than any amount of min-maxing would), and absolutely every crystal/cylinder that isn't Rank V will be obsolete by the time you hit endgame content and start min-maxing for real, so don't worry too much about it. Just make some decent Aggro Up gems for your tank and Agility Up gems for every physical attacker, and fill the rest of your sockets with whatever damage boosts you have readily to hand and/or defensive boosts that you find yourself wanting.
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Zeus posted...

What if he's looking for weirdos?

Then they're still likely to be turned off, because anyone weird enough to match that level of weirdness will have to have specialized their weirdness, and probably taken that specialization in a different direction.
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