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bryans7 posted...

I had to go to the grocery store yesterday, and I'd say about 10% of people had masks. (Not including employees, every place I've seen masks are required for employees.)

It's pretty crazy. People in new york city had been taking the recommendations very seriously- i'm talking 95%+ wearing masks 2 weeks ago, but now that we're in phase 1 of reopening all bets seem to be off.

I went out to buy supplies yesterday and I'd guess only 40% were covering up on the street and 70% in the stores. I felt a little bit like a goober, but I'm not trying to impress anybody.

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Good luck, hope everything goes smoothly and quickly

MoogleKupo141 posted...

the pee got backed up in me and they put a tube in my dong and it was a bad feeling

the cadence and rhyme of this is going to be stuck in my head for a while

was the pain pre or post tube worse?

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which ad blockers are you all using? with uBlock i can't remember the last time i've watched a youtube ad (beyond the type that the content creators directly shill)

haven't seen any political ads on my phone yet, even though i don't have any adblocker there

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Off the top of your head- favorite jrpgs of the past 15 years?

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Zachnorn posted...

No, not having time.

Used to be money though.

Time is money, friend!

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my friend says "a dice" and i finally questioned him on it

i guess he grew up reading a lot of warhammer 40k material, and they've always said it the wrong way. idk if it's a GB thing

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I can't explain why I get so frustrated when people say it the wrong way.

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people are bad at cube because they gave everyone a free draft

i bet > 90% of the players are derping around with their free token

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i know in the common american zeitgeist "Gypsy" basically meant "traveler", but when you eventually learn the real meaning of things you can sometimes decide to keep up with the times. Looking at the word as descriptive of a specific people just puts it in a different light.

come to think of it, if they had a card called "Pradesh Jews", that would be pretty awkward in a fantasy setting, too, even though the word jew isn't offensive


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this is 100% regional AFAIK

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i'm a lifelong/bigtime mtg player, and honestly, while some of these bans are dumb/unnecessary, it's hard to really care.

my identity isn't tied up with these

if these were competitive or famous for anything other than being stupid i might have different feelings, but banning some chaff from 1997 doesn't bother me. i guess crusade is used in commander sometimes

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redrocket posted...

Film Reviews do not complain about blockbusters generally.

A vocal minority of film critics and other random celebrities do. And many times its obviously self-serving attention seeking.

Maybe I phrased it backwards- art is inherently divisive, and anything with less generic protagonists, plots, themes, etc gets a more divided reaction from the average moviegoer. I mean, duh, of course it does

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There's a reason film reviews generally complain about blockbuster films, yet they keep getting churned out.

Safety sells.


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Leonhart4 posted...

This recent trend of Mario Sunshine apologists is strange

i agree. i don't know when this happened, but fans of mario sunshine, the prequel star wars movies, ff13 seem to just spawn out of nothingness

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+10 The Last of Us
+9 Batman: Arkham City
+8 Red Dead Redemption
+7 Persona 5
+6 Pokemon GO
+5 Donkey Kong Country Returns
+4 Radiant Historia
+3 Sonic Generations
+2 Bastion
+1 Final Fantasy XIII

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It's probably the best mainline 3d Mario, after 64, galaxy, galaxy 2, and odyssey

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i didn't realize that you were tornadoman

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my dad keeps texting me to take my money out (move it into money markets)

i usually prefer riding everything out. is he just a gambler?

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You're dead wrong, Corrik

The police are undeniably out of control. Not sure how you can see George Floyd die and say it's George's fault for being black.

You can go on and on about how black people commit more crimes on average. That doesn't excuse the fact that cops are kneeling on people's necks and killing them. In what world is that acceptable behavior?

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Showers are the absolute best.

The feeling of solitude, the feeling of a fresh start, the ability to be naked and lost in thought, the heat, getting 100% clean, and the privacy are all so great. i can be efficient, but losing track of time during 15-plus minute showers is the bomb. It's like a mini massage.

Downsides of showers:

1) the hot water runs out eventually (fix: hotel showers. downside: you're in a hotel)
2) you have to get out of the shower and go to work (fix: take the loss, and remember to enjoy a shower on saturday)
3) extended exposure to hot water is bad for your skin (fix: who cares about skin quality? i guess apply lotion sometimes)

Note that the only things that prevent showers from being perfect are all forces from the outside world that force the shower to end. Of course, if there's something wrong with your setup (shower head too low, poor water flow/temperature, etc), I feel for you.

those of you who like showers, i highly recommend going to a spa/russian bathouse/whatever they're called. memberships can be kind of cheap.

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fire_bolt posted...

Everyone make sure to watch Pun's 38 minute long shitpost about his lynch being trash

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

i just wanna say that this video made my friend want to join gamefaqs

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ctesjbuvf posted...

You do know they don't have to all charge at the same time right? Because I'm pretty sure I did 3-player Rocket League on PS4 with my roommates the other day just fine.

yeah, it's just a pain in the ass when you have 3 friends over and 3 controllers die at once

not sure why @Mac_Arrowny was so confused

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zoos are often depressing

the actual animals are pretty cool, and if the enclosures are big enough i don't feel so bad

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yeah

1) end the war on drugs. prohibition propped up the mafia, the drug war props up all of the "Bad Guys" and makes people afraid to call the cops for real problems
2) divide 'police' into separate services- a section for the cops who confirm who was at fault for an accident, write your parking tickets, help find lost kids, etc., a section for mental health responses, and finally a section equivalent to swat
3) if you're not in the swat section, don't carry weapons
4) transparency

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Nowadays, the only positive for consoles is that they're more easily set up for couch co op.

And that's been more dubious, since the ps4 only has 2 controller slots, and the controllers don't even come with charger cables

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What's wrong with you people!


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first of all, thanks to all of you gamblers for propping up the stock market during the objectively worst economic period in recent history

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Centurion posted...

Not sure why it should be included when it's in the courtyard.

oops, it's been a while since i played. i remembered the ghost level being behind the same progression barrier as the basement, but i'm probably wrong

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MGS2 is art.

My complaints about the game all have to do with the fact that the plot makes no logical sense. It does a good job of setting tone and creating memorable moments, but it falls apart if you look closely, or even at an average distance.

If you look at it through a more allegorical lens it's better. The Patriots predicting every physical movement everyone on the rig takes is asinine, but as an over-the-top metaphor for how governments and businesses use information in the information age it's pretty neat. This is doubly proven by how much people like to go back and quote it.

There's a reason MGS3 went into the past instead of into the future- Kojima painted himself into a corner of nonsense that needed 40 hours of backstory to even pretend to be logical.

The actual gameplay is solid. I think I'd rank it 2nd, maaybe 3rd out of the 5. ( 5 > 3: subsistence > 2 > 1 > 4 > 3 ). i'd have to replay subsistence to confirm, i remember the wound and food systems being very irritating

Raiden being annoying didn't bother me. I like protagonists that are different/unique/interesting and have real flaws.

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i'm pretty sure the human centipede series is a divine test

everyone who enjoyed a single one of the movies is going straight to davey jones' sweat locker

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Sorry, I'm going to have to ruin your premise by disagreeing. Shifting Sand Land is pretty great, and MIPS is memorable and makes the castle feel alive. Hazy Maze Cave is excellent, and the broad range of challenges is part of that. Are we not counting the spooky ghost zone? For some reason I usually lump that one in, too

To me, the laziest part of the game is probably that clump before the 50-star door. Wet-dry world, snowman's land, and tiny-huge island might have some interesting ideas, but reuse textures/ideas from the initial set of levels and feel a little rushed

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sure, i get that technically "next friday" is supposed to always mean the most immediate friday, but it depends on context

in fact, the movies are called "Friday", "Next Friday", and "Friday After Next" for a reason

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You're just playing the games in the wrong order.

GSC was by far the best pokemon game relative to the time of release- I think that's why it's so beloved

GSC added nearly every quality of life feature that's been taken for granted in subsequent generations. breeding is probably the biggest one. balance, exp sharing, happiness, sp atk/def split, etc

it brought the game from black and white to color

for better or for worse, the formula hasn't changed significantly since then. i played sun/moon, and the only notable enhancements were 1) the separation of attack type and attack stat and 2) the quality-of-life fixes for HMs and TMs (this one is a big deal)

So, given that you've been playing the later games in the series, which have only made the tiniest and most incremental of changes for 20 years, of course GSC isn't going to seem amazing.

You're basically comparing FFX to FFX HD Remaster, and wondering what the big deal about FFX was

the one thing i can say about the GBC games is that they ran more quickly. combat is sluggish in newer titles for some reason. i also think ruby/sapphire/emerald was a step back for the series in a few regards, which makes GSC feel better in comparison

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I'm hopeful.

I look at state polls, and give trump a 5-6% "I'm embarrassed to admit who I'm voting for" advantage.

With all of that in mind, biden would win the electoral college today.

But there's a long way to go, and a lot could happen between then and now. At the mundane end, the Vp pick could be a flop. At the extreme end, martial law could really screw things up

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I'm not concerned about my specific job, but i think as machines take over so much other work i could see a lot of people flooding into my industry and creating more competition

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Yep, i think i changed it last weekend, just not sure where the current value is actually displayed

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pxlated posted...

what's your player id? i'll invite you to the alliance

I'm so clueless that i was failing to find it today. I think it's the same as my character name- Countersmell

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So the civs play differently enoughfrom each other to keep it interesting?

I was never amazing at civ, but i enjoyed aloha centauri

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played for a couple hours on ship 3 last night, i really have no idea what i'm doing, even though i played a ton of pso1 on the dreamcast

it's kind of nice being clueless in an "mmo". not a feeling i get very often

and over-the-shoulder is about a billion times better than the top-down camera angles of diabloesques

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red13n posted...

talk to a financial adviser.

this, but also keep 5 million as a slushy fun fund.

i also wouldn't tell anyone outside the financial advisor that i had the money. i'd quit my job, and pretend to be doing freelance work.

after i got used to having the money, i'd gradually loosen up, start letting myself look a little richer and do some actual good with it.

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i was a coward. a relative called me up telling me to swap everything into money markets by EOD and i missed it

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

biscuit stuff is very hit or miss, depending on how dry it is. i would never call either 'good', but they get you the calories when you're at a truck stop or whatever

obviously both are just $3 (idk prices nowadays) cardiac arrests

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gamefaqs feels like my personal corner of the internet

there are plenty of sites with better features, content, etc, but i enjoy gamefaqs and this board in particular for being a niche/unique community and having a particular sense of humor and shared history. the fact that it's difficult for newcomers to find helps as well

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NFUN posted...

The lore is so good though. it's incredible to see people picking up the pieces left and discovering the backstory. From what I've seen, Bloodborne's is ambiguous but well-devoloped--the devs at least put enough effort in crafting it so that there are complete theories you can create with evidence behind them, enough so that it doesn't necessarily matter if what you've come up with matches the exact intentions.

It's not a traditional story. It's still good. It's like getting super into a series that's only half-finished and using the hints and foreshadows the author scattered to figure out what hasn't been explicitly said and what hasn't happened yet. It's different then reading the complete series, of course, yet has its own unique joy in using your insight and creativity to fill the spaces intentionally left blank.

Who cares if the situation around the main character isn't the focus? That's like people whining that "Link doesn't even have any lines!". A million games, some with good stories, have an excuse protagonist impetus undeveloped beyond "save the world". Like you said. It's not what the game's about.

this post brought to you by Sanderson's Cosmere, where having only a fourth of the novels written is half the fun!

I 100% agree that it's a fun experience if you're in the mood for it! I used to read d&d setting books just to absorb the lore of those worlds, so I feel like I get it.

The entire story of a soulsborne is like reading the back of a fantasy novel- you get a sense of the world's backstory, and now you're primed for a story in said world. In some ways, grading bloodborne is like grading the Silmarillon, which is a giant lore dump.

I don't care if the main character isn't the focus- I actually like that. I just need to have my understanding of the world and the protagonist's understanding of the world align. If my character knows what he/she is doing, why don't I?

A convenient way that many games handle it is by having the protagonist be a newcomer as well, and not know what is going on- so the protagonist and player learn together

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As someone who has played every "from soulsborne" made in the past ten years or so, i agree with all of your criticisms.

souls games are designed to reward players already in the know- they reward mastery and familiarity. that makes them vague, unfair, and frankly bullshit to new players. it's just a stylistic/game design choice that many people enjoy.

you're supposed to feel at a loss, and ask your friends (ideally. more realistically for some, the internet) what the hell you're supposed to do and what the tricks are.

if you really know your shit, blitzing through the sections between bosses will be no problem for you, and it'll be kind of like a boss rush mode. you might enjoy the randomly generated labyrinth mode, or whatever it's called.

the subtle lore is a crock of shit. it's not a plot or story. it's kind of an interesting backdrop, but i still think it's messed up to not even understand the basic motivations of the character you're playing as, other than 'i am in a video game and want to progress'. but that's not what the game's about, really

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"Liberator"
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"Queen Bitch"
"Selfie"

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can you explain what happened at 0:18? you jump up and it sends you sideways

this is impressive! i stopped well before this level, because it started feeling like the game was playing me, rather than the other way around. also i wasn't that amazing at it

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NFUN posted...

have you ever driven a car with a family member in it?

stahp it, i already have family members that are weirdly terrified of driving!

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i guess i've talked myself into a corner a little bit, if one were to extrapolate it to a broader context.

i assume we are extrapolating it to being a soldier for a psychotic, despotic ruler and being asked to shoot POWs. i do think future society would judge you for following orders upon penalty of death, but not for the reason you might expect.

it wouldn't be for ethics, it would just be to scare people shitless into sacrificing themselves against future despots and lowering their follower count.

now, extrapolating further, i think the ethical line is losing your livelihood vs losing your life. it also has to be an actual social organization, and not just a psycho with a gun that can't be trusted

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