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at the time i had complaints about how long and sappy the finale was, but on rewatch it's excellent

but, then again, i enjoyed plowing through the entire extended cut trilogy in one weekend

Thanks- I'll keep an eye out for this and grab it when there's a price drop and I can pressure a friend into co op

colliding posted...

this type of game doesn't benefit from voice acting. I guess people would complain if it wasn't there. hopefully you can replace it with ace attorney-esque sound effects.

I've always thought the downside of voice acting is it made it more difficult for the devs to quickly add more content- making it toggleable doesn't change that, unfortunately

Gonna guess the editor was depressed or something- it really shouldn't take that long

I'm a bit deflated about no ps/pc crossplay, but I don't know which company to get mad at about that

The banality of evil is overwhelming

ninkendo posted...

I just stick to hard mode now because I enjoy it more when I have to use the letters that I've already discovered

Yep, been doing this. It feels like the "right" way to play

today's word gave me way more trouble than it had any right to

Just tell me about the crystals.

I'm almost there, Jack! Just a little further!

they should leave them in foster care

yep, sign me up

well, this was my first legit 2-guess. the other was when the site gave me the same puzzle twice for some reason




BREAD
CRI MP

just... how does that happen? i always start with the same word, and i guess the answer was the first word i thought of that fit without repeating letters

was expecting to vote for cacnea, but i guess its evolution is grass/dark

Grand Kirby posted...

There's a chance I may have not played a single hour of Playstation in the past year.

same here. i think i've gone full PC

it's a harsh experience when you realize your friend or acquaintance is legitimately low intelligence, yet super confident. i mean, half of everybody is below average, but many aren't insufferable about it

what do you do in that scenario? you can't argue them out of it, it's just the way they are

do you just let all of their bad opinions slide? isn't that kind of patronizing? do you just cut them off entirely? i dunno

interesting result (and set of finalists!)

i considered yelena the best character in an unremarkable movie, and gi-hun an unremarkable character in the best tv series

Yelena

put clippy in

Nanis23 posted...

No fucking justice
ATVI up almost 40% premarket

I hate this fucking world

why? it's still down 30% overall in the past year

Tactical Espionage Acton: Resident Evil 4

i didn't even know the sewaddle line existed until now, but i think it's hilarious that it's themed around a swaddled baby evolving into a nanny

UT1999 posted...

are you personally worried there won't be anyone to care for you in your old age?

lol, that's a pretty big gamble mister. no guarantee your kids will be able or willing

if you're really worried about your well being in old age, take the money you *would* be spending on your kids, put it in an index fund, and take it out when you need that kind of help

i mean, i'll still die eventually?

but yes, all of my mundane problems will be solved. still clicked no, though

Seanchan posted...

I was thinking a bit about NFTs today and I'd like someone to tell me why this gross idea isn't going to happen... Or god help us maybe it's happened already...

yeah, it might happen. i personally think it's unlikely, but it's possible

if i were being argumentatively selective, i might say that games can already do this without NFTs. but it does seem like a game studio high on crypto would be more likely to attempt that kind of garbage

foolmo, people have already explained this a dozen times in this very thread and you're just not absorbing the information

Strife2 posted...

Celes because her tech is situational at best and Terra's is OP as fuck. Celes's story is so freaking good in FF6, I can't not use her.

was celes that bad? i vaguely remember keeping her in my main party and feeling good about it, but when i try to recite my main party, it's

Celes
Locke
Terra
Edgar
Sabin

which is clearly more than 4

Everything FT writes feels like it's been sent through a translation program once or twice

But not a literal translator, an emotive one

yeah, i can complain about the direction of mass consumerism all i want

but the big secret is that i've never been a mass consumer, so the companies don't care what i think or do

i've never watched movies in theaters unless somewhat dragged me to something. i used moviepass for a couple of months, but that was just a ridiculous deal

i am a little concerned what the internet will do once it figures out i'm not a worthy advertising target aside from very specific things

MyMainAccount posted...

There's noting more puzzling than essentially saying "Why are those stupid manchikdren angry at me when I say things? Don't those stupid fucks know that discussion without personal attacks is better?"

gonna save this to use later

Brayze_II posted...

I was reading about Game of Thrones and from what I can tell, the plot is fine so long as it's about palace intrigues, but the moment the guy starts pulling god powers and ice people it goes completely stupid
For those of you familiar with the series, how accurate is this assessment?

Idk, it's just a chill show to watch with your partner

It's more like it's good until they get to the part where the books end and the show writers start dumping raw egg on their own faces

Without spoilers- They're worth watching, but temper your expectations a little.

they're very much designed to complement the originals and give the fans something

As to what's positive, each movie is different from the others, at least a little. You've already seen a ton of Evangelion. You can soldier through a couple hours you're not impressed by

There were movies that I thought were way too long and crammed full of stuff I didn't like (boring, nonsensical fight scenes, mostly, but other stuff too ), but I can't blame them throwing other parts of the fanbase a few bones

that's a lotter animer

KCF0107 posted...

You can laugh at me if I am wrong, but it is one of the few JRPGs that I have played multiple times, including in 2020-2021.

i've never heard of this one before. given your strong recommendation, i'll keep an eye out for it

Does the psvr2 need to be connected to a ps5?

up to you! i loved the game

every time i attempt to replay it i never get very far. the controls (especially camera controls) and UI feel super dated

if you think you can deal with that, i say go for it. otherwise, it might be interesting to experience the remake completely fresh

Mr Lasastryke posted...

it's certainly not ALL nonsense. one thing that makes 1 feel so separate from 2 and 3 is that the original is a very straightforward movie and the sequels are way more symbolic and insinuating. i won't bring up truffaut's law again, but 2 and 3 are movies that definitely get better if you watch them several times. and even then, a lot of the stuff in it only makes sense if you know a decent amount about philosophy and religion. i know i'm coming off as a pretentious "you just didn't get it" asshole - and maybe i am one - but it's pretty frustrating to see 2 and 3 get dismissed as 100% bullshit by people who probably can't even tell the difference between jean baudrillard and ayn rand. (edit: to be perfectly clear, this isn't in response to your post. i'm talking about people in general who dismissed the movies as 100% bullshit.)

first of all, i appreciate your well-thought out post. and yeah, that's part of why why i'm planning on rewatching.

i've become more down with allegorical (as opposed to rational/logical) fiction over time. stuff that used to frustrate me because it didn't make sense i now can take a step back and let wash over me

it's part of managing expectations. on that subject, i think what turned people off was the fact that the sequel to a rational movie was irrational (or allegorical, or to use your words, "less straightforward")

not quite the same, but remember how "drive" was marketed as a "fast and furious" movie, and then people entered the theater and watched an hour of near silence followed by a guy smashing a watermelon? not saying the movie would magically become good, but people would have been less unhappy if they knew what they were getting into from the start

i'm willing to guess that the sequels do not make sense rationally but might be okay allegorically

i've got to imagine the allegory is more interesting than "hey guys, remember jean baudrillard? hey guys, remember ayn rand? hey guys, remember christianity? remember buddhism? remember semester 1 of philosophy?" i think cinema has the ability (and perhaps a mandate) to do more

a friend of mine is finishing up her phd in cognitive science, and she always makes sure to mention that she dislikes the trilogy for reminding her too much of her stoned freshman and sophomore classmates

i'm hoping she's wrong and just extra jaded from 8 years of schooling on the subject

foolm0r0n posted...

PoS also does use a good amount of energy. It's thousands of times less than PoW but that still puts it way higher than a web request. The cost is absolutely worth it for decentralized currency, but absolutely not for decentralized game skins and shit.

i do agree with you on this point though

are you specifically asking (or arguing, as you put it) what the purpose of blockchain is for gaming? i posted about that in page 1 and this page, and the answer is not a whole lot. if you skipped those posts i forgive you

maybe it's confusion on my part. i don't understand what you're trying to argue

you ignored my post about deeds to houses, so i assume it's not related to that

foolm0r0n posted...

This is a totally different and laughably weak argument. Imagine if btc or eth came out with this argument in their white papers?

hold up for a second- what do you think i'm arguing?

i suspect we're miscommunicating here, and i apologize if i've been confusing

i'm not required to (WFH), but yeah we have PTO for vaccines/boosters

... we also have 'unlimited' PTO in general, but they have a specific thing in there where your boss can't reject a request if it's vaccine related

but really, what you're saying sounds eerily similar to people in 2006 asking why we need smartphones

which was really just being curmudgeonly, and complaining that new things exist

wg64Z posted...

I've still yet to read a single instance where NFTs actually improve anything. At all. I've heard and read lots of explanations for what it does, and can do, but not a single drop of WHY it is needed, wanted, or helpful to humanity in any way.

ah shit, i lost the deed to my house and the town hall burned down

good thing it's recorded as an NFT on the blockchain

NBIceman posted...

Furi has become my default rec.

furi is excellent. also short and difficult in a couple of places

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

But the blockchain doesnt record stats, mesh, physics, ability effects, or anything relevant to gameplay, it will still require a developer to implement everything. (Were also ignoring copyright/licensing).

yep. it makes more sense for more light-weight games, like TCGs, where the entire definition of the card could fit into a few lines of text. or old school wargames, where unit stats have to fit on little pieces of paper

edit: although, i will add that a blockchain is literally just a big honkin' ledger. you can record whatever you want on it, which could include battle history, stats, etc

This theoretical could likely only be used between games by the same dev, in which case they could just do it without blockchain.

why couldn't it be used across multiple devs? maybe think about potential indie crossovers. like, i dunno, i've seen shovel knight pop up in games by other devs. or as part of an indie TCG crossover framework

Just seems like so much extra, with massive potential downsides, for so little.

agreed. i think an actual good implementation would have to be oriented around more of a "tabletop simulator" than "call of duty"

the only unique capability of a blockchain implementation (compared to a server-side company-owned one) is that the record of you owning the trading card or whatever will exist as long as the blockchain is alive, even if the original game is dead

that would allow your item to be used in multiple games, etc, without each game needing to build an API and consume every other games' APIs

view it as a replacement for the steam marketplace

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

you are describing the nemesis system from the recent Lord of the Rings games, except with a PvP and trading element

Why does this need blockchain

same reason why the deed to your house requires paper

it doesn't.

anything NFTs can do could be implemented on a company's private servers. i already addressed this on page 1, and the pros and cons of that vs a blockchain, which you apparently skipped

this looks like a pitch for fyre festival 2

.. wait, it's 18 minutes long

it's already unlisted- how long before it's pulled entirely?

tbh, i think the correct implementation of NFTs for gaming would be some kind of open framework where people can make their own TCGs or whatever, rather than everyone depending on the Tabletop Simulator (or whatever) servers working properly. hopefully on one that's light on energy and therefore fees

uniqueness of digital items is actually cool.

imagine a pvp game like total war: warhammer where you can trade specific units or heroes with your friends between battles. wouldn't it be cool if your unit remembered a history of all of the battles it's been in, all the times it's died, and all of the victories it has achieved?

maybe it'd gain exp or develop unique AI preferences like an amiibo

that would mean your demon hunter wouldn't be the same as anyone else's demon hunter, and they can't just be traded without you knowing. You might even call them non-fungible

you just slap events on a blockchain and they'll stay there. all of this can be implemented on a company's server side already anyway, and i've already covered that on page 1

every complaint i've seen on this page about NFTs also applies to server-based implementations of the ideas they're afraid of. gacha games are butt, no matter the implementation, and i don't think nfts change that

Had to think about this for a while, but as soon as I remembered it I knew it was the answer

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