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first of all, have you seen the announcement that all political discussion is banned on gamefaqs outside of CE now

and that their definition of political discussion is pretty broad

foolm0r0n posted...

Honestly a decent rule would be, you can only come to this board if you plan on creating a bracket for the theoretical next contest

can i at least guarantee honorary citizenship for as long as i keep my guru sig from eleven years ago

Doe posted...

They also said it was our fault essentially for being too toxic for Fandom or whatever.

the worst part is, the people who were behind all the harassment, doxxing, and death threats that got the politics board shut down and now CE privated (it's a tiny subreddit of disgruntled users mad at mods about being banned) got exactly what they wanted. they were literally aiming for this outcome from the beginning

not too sure about samus's new power suit design, but I guess you have to pick a suit based on what you're fighting

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Nearly every major change

raising the karma limit on CE (which people on CE were largely supportive of), mentions, youtube/twitter/imgur/etc embedding, the shift to https, an actual fucking functioning profanity filter instead of having to asterisk yourself out in specific ways, the optional multi-paged FAQ format (it doesn't work everywhere, but it's way better for some guide writers and types of guides), block feature, flairs and flair filtering, better quoting, signatures changed to being live (I got a sigwipe back in the day because they changed the rules and then deleted years of old posts...), and probably some more stuff are all things that happened under sballen in the past decade or so that are just straight up good things. since he's stepped down a year ago, literally all that has happened is the removal of the politics board and now this shit

the only thing I can remember that got massive backlash and is still poorly received is the revamped moderation system (doesn't affect me, but it's still dumb to not have multiple eyes look over a moderation). sballen admits he could have done more (especially more contests dude) but he did listen to feedback and implement ideas or rollback changes based on it

meanwhile I suspect fandom's trying to ship of theseus us into a primarily younger, more monetizable demographic because they just don't like gamefaqs like users do

it's nugget from yakuza 0, obviously

my favorite tiny bit of those threads, a response to someone saying "fuck Fandom":

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/38a8e8f9.png

Dedf1sh posted...

What is the context of this response...?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/10-ask-the-mods/80718723

Cruddy_horse posted...

Also Sidenote this game is an unstable pos on PC.

bethesda open-world games are all janky pieces of trash without That One Mod That Fixes A Million Bugs (and sometimes a 4gb aware patch)

yeah, it's [removed]

https://i.imgur.com/YXYyEeH.png

that's what I see when I click on the link, so probably

ConfusedTorchic posted...

why is it blurry

https://imgur.com/a/bPy7lyl

it's probably trying to show you a "view this in the app" thing at the bottom but the formatting broke lol

i saw your reddit post on the gamefaqs sub got deleted btw lol

which I guess is fair because it's run by mods and claims to use the same rules as this site

made after his death and not during it, because he would never invent anything so damn tasty

I still can't get over how insanely successful kellogg's propaganda machine was. we have a set type of breakfast food because one religious guy thought hypnoxing was the devil and bland foods would counteract that sinful desire

Overall, the main feedback weve received is that the decision to lock the Current Events board and generally prohibit explicitly political topics elsewhere is unpopular amongst a large percentage of commenters. I dont want to duck or run from that takeaway - this is something Fandom discussed and anticipated before making these changes. Ultimately, we will be standing by this decision because doing so aligns with how we operate other parts of our platform, and how we want GameFAQs to be positioned in broad gaming discourse.

Admin came out and admitted feedback's useless. Shocking!

ParanoidObsessive posted...

They don't really need to drive people off for that. If they wanted to shut the site down they could do it tomorrow and it wouldn't really matter in any meaningful way.

it'll still be a stain to be used against them for a website to fail within two years of their acquisition, so I think they want to draw it out. make it an inevitable "gamefaqs wasn't going to last forever" thing but a little faster

I also wonder if they're going to challenge guide rights in the near future tbh. SBAllen said it wouldn't happen but he made a super bitter post about this whole situation on CE earlier, so his input on the situation is out the window

OhhhJa posted...

I almost feel like they're trying to kill the site

they bought it as a package deal with cnet so it's not implausible they literally do not care about gamefaqs at all or they want to actively kill it off because there's no foreseeable revenue source for the site

gamefaqs really hasn't been getting new users for the past decade and everyone already here uses ublock

Since you brought up SC2, as a Coop veteran, Artanis's Tempests. They do relatively high damage per hit, have absolute massive range, are aerial, and you can kite while shooting. They sound like an ultimate unit that if you can get a bunch out you've already won the map. In practice? You have 15 ships firing on one zergling in a group of 30, overkilling the hell of it with a slow rate of fire, as the other 29 run past you and murder your base. The unit is essentially only good at killing buildings, which is only actually the objective in one map. Compare this to mass Battlecruisers or Carriers and while those take as long to really get off the ground macro-wise, they can both handle small and larger units extremely well, don't waste firepower on overkill very much, and are only really countered by hard counters like Vipers, mass Scourge, or whatever the hell Terran does in coop. Basically, enemies in coop use their numbers to offset how dumb the AI is, and Tempests just are usually not functional against mass anything

Instead of these basically vanilla campaign/versus units, on Artanis, you can warp in Zealots with charge and even better spin than usual, Phoenixes that can lift two units, and his Dragoons have extra range and are easy and safe to mass like sniper Marines (I should also note you can effectively immediately warp them in anywhere). Best part is you don't even unlock Tempests until later on in progression so you assume they should be good enough by default. Not really!

Dreamprism posted...

It's so common across other sites that sometimes I instinctively want to "Like" something and remember that's not an option.

i'd love for this to happen just so that the next time they announce a change, they get 2000 clown emojis and promptly disable the feature on admin posts

You know what, can we just have a like PotD Politics topic on CE, is that allowed or is that like invasion/brigading

and CE doesn't have that tag lmfao

bacon whens the next contest

B8 topic already got closed so lmao look forward to this one dying soon

hell yeah we do

abortion's in the news lately as well, so I'm guessing we just made that issue worse too

PMarth2002 posted...

If you didn't invest any of it, sure. Although even if you do invest, you'd probably need to make a lot of really good investments to hit a billion at just a million per year.

it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each other

i used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth

if you make a million per year, it'd take a million years to be a trillionaire

musk and bezos are about a fifth of the way there, and given how income inequality seems to be speeding up, that's probably achievable in their lifetimes

do you have some scholarly sources or reputable news to share because that just looks like clickbait

I'm not clicking on something called "Headlies" and polluting my youtube feed

FTL: Faster Than Light probably fits pretty well

I took the asvab as a side thing and I had so many military people trying to recruit me afterwards

and i was not really that smart

I am unfortunately unsurprised, but if it's true I think his lawyers did a great job dressing him up

I always thought he was fake as shit but there was always a bit of plausible deniability for people to latch onto

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000009392733/al-shifa-hospital-raid-before-after.html (thankfully somehow not paywalled)

literally looks like nukes were dropped or hundreds of years passed due to some calamity

https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1775948208935461163

they're firing on civilians trying to open humanitarian aid air drops

BW2 is absolutely my favorite gen or sub-gen whatever you wanna call it, BW1 was just ok

Devil_May_Cry posted...

i am willing to do good faith intellectual and civil discourse.

"Should mods ban anyone who votes for Donald Trump in 2024?", "Jon Stewart is evil and stupid", "Israeli soldier brutally killed by Hezbolllah", "Brave Israeli government officials confront the UN" are some of your recent-ish topics

(to be clear I think trump and hezbollah are terrible, but you're very much not interested in having a good faith both sides discourse, because all of your topics start from one angle of perceived moral superiority)

honestly if you want an echo chamber, go check out reddit/worldnews, except not right now because the sheer audacity of the most recent attack on aid workers has managed to overpower the pro-israel bots. it'll probably be back to normal in a few days

you've made multiple topics about israel yourself though

you just don't like it when they don't go your way

god i wish the authentic gem market died a few generations back. then elon would have less money

adjl posted...

One small correction for you, though: It's a deliberate anti-Israel statement (specifically anti-current Israeli government, since I recognize that most Israeli citizens are not complicit in this genocide), not a pro-Hamas one. Hamas is also bad. Israel is just measurably the worse of two evils at this moment,

in the same way I condemn the US's currently unconditional support for Israel to be at fault for Israel's actions, I consider specifically Netenyahu's government to be significantly at fault for Hamas's existence tbh. he's outright stated he wanted a more extreme government in Gaza to politically divide Gaza and the West Bank as part of his strategy to see Israel have control "from the river to the sea" (a phrase he also says is antisemetic/genocidal, when spoken by anti-zionists)

https://twitter.com/nissimv/status/1711261388809568458 (just google translate it)

these kinds of people are currently deciding Israel's warpath and Gaza's future. it's genocidal rhetoric

I liked Game Informer but fell off after a few years because I really was only a Nintendo guy. I liked Nintendo Power for years but then I found their review of Riviera: The Promised Land to be terrible because I loved it and they didn't. I remember it ending with "...but Final Fantasy this is not." it's one of the more unique jrpgs out there it's specifically trying to NOT be final fantasy!!

augh i need to cool down

Twilight Princess
Wii Sports
Xenoblade Chronicles
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

did this without looking at any other results for once! I liked Radiant Dawn more than any of these but I really feel like it doesn't belong for some reason. I also freely admit Xenoblade is huge personal bias

josh posted...

Who said you had to? The jewlers I spoke to said in their stores more people get synthetic than real.

to be fair, society as a whole. we're still pretty weird about worshipping ""natural"" gems as being better

I can see immediate family being weird about it if they ever found out

Iirc they were three British (one possibly Irish, but I haven't seen a confirmation), Australian, Polish, a US/Canadian dual citizen, and one Palestinian driver. I've seen a few official sources claim their own citizen

streamofthesky posted...

Israel has lost ~ 600 IDF soldiers thus far in <6 months of fighting.

yeah maybe they should try taking it slower and be more careful, because they're getting their own soldiers killed needlessly in their rush to wipe out gaza

but netenyahu is rushing the war because as soon as it ends, he's getting removed from power and probably thrown in jail. it's probably the main reason for escalating tensions with syria/iran earlier. if he starts WW3 he gets to stay in power for the whole thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V64BDBfsIK4

bad star fox game because it isn't one, alright exploration game, tried and failed to turn me into a furry with Krystal

I know I beat it because I vaguely remember the final boss, but 95% of that game is a blur. it's also one of the few games I have a guide for! I think I got it with NP or something

ParanoidObsessive posted...

We should totally be outraged. After all, it's not like the US would ever do anything like that.

I think you're misunderstanding me here. The reason Israel thinks it has carte blanche to commit war crimes is because of the US, which is ultimately just at fault for the ongoing slaughter as Netenyahu's administration

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sometimes, like it or not, when you're at war, you're going to hit some civilian targets by accident.

These were three vehicles, separated over a distance of two kilometers, which were in direct contact with the IDF relaying their location (and going exactly where the IDF instructed), in vehicles clearly marked by for humanitarian aid. They were all struck at the same time

It was multiple guided missiles, each vehicle received multiple hits and it wasn't like just shrapnel hitting the surrounding. This was an intentional effort to speed up the starvation in Gaza, as one of the largest humanitarian aid organizations was forced to cease operations temporarily

There is no plausible deniability in this specific situation. It's actually horrific and you should look up what happened before you repeat IDF talking points

israel bombed seven world central kitchen workers earlier too

israel's not even claiming they were hamas (only the driver was actually palestinian), they just said oopsie our bad

why does he like that letter so much

VideoboysaysCube posted...

To add to this, I know there's at least one map in the campaign where lava regularly rises and falls, forcing you to be mindful of where you leave your army.

It's in coop, too. Absolutely annoying as hell of a map, but Johnny Vermillion is great, at least

honestly i'm on the shittiest dsl known to man so in a modern sense, i'm still on dialup

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f9b3795c.png

I did have some issues on mobile around the time I first saw your post the other day, but it's been fine since