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and my actual answer is that i'll ignore the mechanic until it becomes mandatory, or i get the sense that i'm struggling more than i should

then i go online

also, for something small i think it's way easier for people to pump out a mediocre video guide than type out an FAQ

a lot of games i play barely have FAQs here

Seanchan posted...

I hardly ever replay games anymore. There's simply too many I haven't played once!

same. although i rarely replayed stuff as a kid, too- my parents limited my screen time enough that a few games a year filled up that time

to answer the question, i think it has to be super mario 64. i'm not a speedrunner or anything, but it's straightforward enough to blast through on a lazy saturday. i think i've beaten it maybe four times

fallen order is great. the lack of fast travel was inconvenient every once in a while, but traversal was fun enough that i (almost) didn't mind

i just beat Monster Sanctuary (PC) and it was equal parts frustrating and satisfying. It's really about theory crafting, sifting through talent trees and items to figure out which team is going to synergize. Hardcore pokemon with a better battle system. The PvE metroidvania aspects were cute and fun as hell, but are somewhat overshadowed by the combat

I wish any of my friends were into it so I could play pvp!

At the same time, I've been playing a metric butt-ton of Evolution with some of them, which kinda scratches that same itch

i feel like the nidoran line deserves respect for being in the opening of the first pokemon game ever made (in english, at least)

still voted cosmog, tho. was so sad when that bad boy evolved

i'm envious of people who can wear those comfortably. i'm 100% an over-ears noise-cancelling headphones guy

i have zero motivation to rewatch either of them, they were both bad

i enjoy prequel memes a lot, but i'm never watching those movies again

Wait, middle bottom is a real pokemon? WHAT

I genuinely thought you made a joke

there's something disturbing about its extremely human looking (pokemon anime style) face combined with that stubby dog/bull body

i'm picky when it comes to branded or gaming-related clothing, so it's not a huge insult to say i'm not feeling any of these

ff6's design was the closest. remove the text, bump down the image to compensate, and maybe put some more snow, and maybe we're talking. put something abstract on the back, too

for a sec i thought the ff2 shirt had an entire battle scene with japanese text on it and i got a little excited. a kind of complex battle scene wimmerbilder would be up my alley

now that i mention it, a hoodie or shirt pattern with all of the title shapes ( ff7's comet, ff12's sword man, ffx's dancing yuna, etc) would be kind of neat

excuse me, please be anatomically correct, this is not playstation plus

this is playstation essential double plus bonus extra deluxe premium (price tbd)

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Then pretend you didn't read that. It's a good time.

Full agree with this

If I chose to dislike things that had any odd fans, I wouldn't like anything at all

Seriously!

it's just really hard to imagine pokemon without ditto

random anecdote time, i have a gamergater acquaintance who idolizes sam hyde

he is weirdly obsessed with blizzard and brings up the company whenever he can

hating blizzard for certain specific reasons is becoming one of those community pillars

I'm gonna go on a rant because I think this is cool, but do whatever makes you feel happy!

I'd say to get one with more side buttons. You can always completely unassign a button if you don't want to accidentally hit it. On the other hand, you can't later on wish an extra button into existence

For a specific recommendation- I have a Logitech G600 and enjoy it a lot. A friend recommended it to me a long time ago and we're both still using it.

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-mice/g600-mmo-gaming-mouse.910-002864.html

here's my setup:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/0/AAUE4-AADOyE.jpg

Idk if my hand is big or "normal"- i find the left two columns in the image very comfortable to hit, but the right two are a little more awkward because i have to angle my thumb more.

Granted, I use absolutely none of them for 90% of the games I play. It's just really nice when I find a good use case. Even if it's just, like, remapping "open journal" from J to the mouse

I could go on a deeper rant, but I think that's enough for now :)

guy in S rank looks like a mobile game icon lol

that's cool. is it more than they usually give you?

i got this game as part of a bundle and... it is not great

if you're looking for smash on PC i'd recommend brawlhalla

yup. i don't know how exactly it happened, but this board feels like a unique shared experience

Nanis23 posted...

Like, think about it
What if someone comes up with a very good idea for a character
"Let's make a Monkey King type of character! " (let's ignore for a moment that MK is very overused and I don't want it, it's just an example)
And everyone really likes that idea
But then the Blizzard executives comes and say "this is a real good idea! but I have to shut it down. We don't have enough represantive for old people. So try to make that new character a crazy old professor instead"

Now granted, that old professor can be a very good and unique character too, but the original idea was shut down because of this and I am not a fan of this

you're imagining a creative team getting shut down by someone outside the team using this tool

if you have unrelated management coming down to stifle the creative team, that's a different problem. i guarantee you that these creative teams already care about diversity, but if it were to be forced from up top they wouldn't need a tool like this

what i think is, more likely, you have a group of people trying to brainstorm and they all have tons of creativity. they're a creative team. they have the confidence to create anything they want, and they start pulling stuff out of a hat to decide where to start brainstorming. this tool is just another hat to take into consideration

i'm honestly kind of curious as to why these things make you so alarmed

StealThisSheen posted...

We've seen Nanis flip out over diversity in hundreds of topics by now, best not to engage.

i know, i know. i guess i was in the mood to allow nanis to put himself under the magnifying glass again

you never know when someone will have a eureka moment

Nanis23 posted...

So only positive opinions are allowed? Got it, thanks

where did i say that? you didn't answer my question

Nanis23 posted...

How are people ok with this? This is the most "forced diversity" I have ever seen

are you having issues? is this a real "how the sausage is made" moment for you?

this looks like a fancy way of saying they have a randomizer and logger/tracker

pretty silly for them to advertise it. i also don't see anything wrong with it. presumably they're mandated to show some kind of progress to their PR equivalent of a parole officer

it's clearly another tool people can look at for 2 seconds when whipping up new characters.

you can have whatever feelings you want about (i'm trying to phrase this as neutrally as possible) diversity in gaming, but these companies were already trying to come up with new ideas, and this is going to be one extra step in a pipeline

blizzard "proper" also hasn't used it yet. presumably King was using it to randomly generate stock characters for their mobile shovelware

Pretty sure he's just another streamer vying for your attention. I doubt b8 is in the target demographic

No, I haven't

This kid I babysat for a couple summers was. She was bitten by a crazy neighbor dog that escaped. It scarred significantly, but thankfully she had no other serious health effects

It wasn't while I was babysitting, through sheer luck. I would have felt so irrationally guilty

I personally was only bitten by the family dog once, and it wasn't serious. My mom was his favorite, and she had just gotten out of surgery. I guess she smelled "off"- our dog was extremely upset and didn't want anyone near him. Curled up and growling, etc

I, being an idiot kid, went to pet him anyway (thought it would be reassuring, I guess?) and he bit me on the hand, just barely drawing blood

This topic brought back a couple of interesting memories, thanks

abomasnow and banette look kinda cool

Lopen posted...

Person you're lending to is someone you trust completely. A very close friend, family member, or long time lover.

are you lying about this part?

why is this even a question? is there something about them that gives you pause? are you admitting that you're blinded by infatuation? i feel like i need storytime

i have all sorts of advice for when it comes to loaning to slightly less reliable friends, but you've just said you trust them completely so it shouldn't matter

i do hate having to keep track of stuff in my brain. worst case scenario, just create an email chain where you say "i'm loaning you $4000 for ____ and you'll pay me back sometime this year" and they respond "yep"

The scariest part was actually in an article linked to in the article- the book author claims trump wanted to send missile strikes into Mexico and then just pretend it wasn't us

xp1337 posted...

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1524119134740815872

sharing because it is so rare these days i find myself surprised at the absurdity of this world

some of this (especially the stuff in Esper's book) is very difficult to believe, but at this point i can't rule it out

frankly, it doesn't even matter if it is true so i'm not going to worry about it

voters had better turn out in 2024, and 2022 for that matter

i was caught by a speed trap once when driving through Utah.

Apparently... Utah has a speed limit of 80 on the highway, but the limit suddenly goes down to 65 when within a mile of an exit. So they set up cars to wait 0.9 miles before an exit and ding you for going 87 in a 65 mph zone

and this was really boring, flat highway country

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Particularly with my Pokemon... how does PokeBank work with this? A lot of my Pokemons are still on my 3DS. (I'll look into it but I'm already doing four things at once lol)

i'd be interested in this answer as well.

the last pokemon game i played was Sun, and i'm pretty sure I have a few promo pokemon on it (whoever was sharing codes on here, i think it was pun, thank you). if i ever come back to the series i'd probably enjoy keeping them

Disclaimer- I stopped watching sometime during season 2. Maybe even like the first episode. And warning... 14 year old Breaking Bad spoilers

All of the adult protagonists are bad people but good entertainment. The reason I stopped was because the actual events that occurred made little sense. The writers clearly start by thinking of where they want to get, and then invent events to justify getting there. I prefer plotting closer to the opposite- "what would realistically happen, and what scenarios naturally emerge from that?" They would have been caught five times over. Their methods of murder, figuring out passwords, and generally doing anything don't make any sense. You kind of have to turn your brain off to appreciate everything except the characters

That being said- I feel like it takes serious blind spots to think Marty is a good person

Does Wendy get a lot worse as the show continues? I didn't think S1 Wendy was notably worse than other characters. I was very appreciative of the relationship they chose for Marty and her. She started out on board the "let's do illegal crap for money" train instead of having the show be mired in the "hUsBaNd, aRe yOu dOiNg iLlEgaL tHiNgS?" drama of early breaking bad. She's also constantly working for the same objectives Marty is.

The only other difference is that they moved the cheating to pre-show instead of in the middle (in response to Hal's obvious and complete disconnection, sketchiness and dishonesty). In that way, I always felt the premise of Ozark was "Breaking Bad, but starting in season 4"

Jonah starts out the show pre-pubescent, I think he gets a pass

Bowser's suicidal side b is one of my favorite things

That's pretty cool, thanks for making it.

I wouldn't be surprised if board 8 users were not evenly distributed

Litwick isn't bad, but I think I'd like it even better if it had a little more color/difference between the top and bottom

oh and yeah, i don't read the mtg books

Waluigi1 posted...

This is real??? How do I get it??

pay way too much money for cardboard online https://secretlair.wizards.com/us

Lucavi000 posted...

yeah that was my point, its a promo card essentially so it will more than likely never actually be seen in the wild in a deck lol

you'd be surprised. mtg players love to bling out their junk

and it's a reskinned version of an existing card so who knows https://www.cardkingdom.com/mtg/odyssey/bearscape

Aecioo posted...

shut up guiga

deeps is guiga? it all makes sense now

there are straight up recommended methods to terminate a pregnancy in the bible (recommended in cases of adultery)

modern bible thumpers are so full of shit

ok, i've seen some "omg, how dare a company create a non-straight product without TRULY BELIEVING in it". pretty silly

i like this. hopefully any controversy is light

Lucavi000 posted...

isnt this part of a secret lair drop?

yes https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/first-look-pride-across-multiverse-2022-05-02

Paratroopa1 posted...

awesome. also it's apparently a promo card so who gives a shit

also this. i'm not serious enough about the game to ever purchase a secret lair. if i were really hankering to get serious about modern or legacy or something i might

this is incredibly embarrassing for our country

Suprak the Stud posted...

Yeah, also this, 100%. The number of smug "this is never going to happen both parties are the same" takes I heard definitely aren't aging well at the moment. Although if I had to guess, most people saying this just didn't actually care about Roe v. Wade.

GuessMyUserName posted...

Roe v Wade is literally the prime issue that was always argued we never had to actually worry about, to justify not voting. What a bizarre way to open this thread.

the part that frustrates me is how everyone's going to collectively choose to forget this. they're all going to pretend it was obviously going to happen, there was no deception, etc etc

just like how by 2009 there mysteriously weren't any republicans who remembered supporting baby w bush's war in iraq

Echo fighters first, obviously. Too many FE characters as well

But among unique characters...

I think olimar's gameplay and design is bad

And do you know anyone who plays Mewtwo?

The "correct" move would probably be to look at playtime statistics and start trimming from the bottom

Yeah, we should probably be retiring the penny and creating a $500 bill

It would be useful for paying stuff like rent, cars, group dinners, etc. Stuff we normally pay for with checks or cards

Guess it depends on whether the goal is to eventually completely migrate to cards/digital payments, or we want to keep cash viable

Atelier Fructis

I feel like I need more details on this example- it's very interesting, but I'm just failing to wrap my brain around it

Yeah, kind of surprised. I feel like nobody ever goes to prison for this sort of thing

Don't think he's feeling the love now

i'm cautiously optimistic that the FF team is actually re-dedicated to creating a coherent narrative

i'll be paying attention to this for sure, even though i normally prefer FF settings that trend further towards alien or alternate present fantasy (as opposed to medieval/elemental crystal fantasy)

i've always been surprised by how late stories are mapped out during game development, but i still have to assume it's gonna be another year before it comes out

CoolCly posted...

I felt similarly of It Takes Two. Everyone seems to think that game was amazing but I had a problem with how every gameplay gimmick (which it introduced a new one in every level) was implemented in the most simple way, then you'd solve some very simple puzzles with it, then move on to a new area with a new mechanic. What I really expected was for the game to naturally give you more interesting challenges with escalating difficulty to solve for each gimmick but it never really happened. Not necessarily "hard" challenges but more satisfying ones to flex the muscles you develop when using those mechanics.

I'm getting way off track here, but in its defense, "it takes two" really had to be that way, perhaps unfortunately

The game was marketed and designed to be played co-op with your casual spouse or other relative! The length of the game, combined with the difficulty of some puzzles and boss fights is already borderline too much for that sales pitch

You really don't want to feel like you need a skilled player at your side to win in a game that doesn't have a single player mode. And higher difficulty co op puzzles tend to leave one player feeling stupid, giving up, and just doing whatever the other player says. Happens a lot with coop board games

FWIW, it looks like it's because elden ring only consists of a few very large files, and has to unpack and scour through an entire file if it's updated

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/9/AAUE4-AADLez.jpg