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I recall not having much trouble getting the Dwarf Scrolls myself. They seem to drop a lot.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Haley is like the only character who becomes a better character as they get to know you more, but boy she starts out bad.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Secret final screen became a lot easier when I realized I could diagonal-dash-cancel instead of up-dash-cancel to the spot where you throw the jellyfish on the vertical springs and it works 100% of the time instead of like 25% of the time.

Kinda feel silly about that now.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

They make pills for that, ya know.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Yeah, I'm there now and am back to getting my ass kicked. Gonna have to take a break for a bit.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

I can now confirm what I previously suspected, the last screen of Ch 9 isn't all that hard when you've beaten it once and your nerves are no longer shot.

(Which is not to say that Ch 9 doesn't get insanely hard, because it certainly does.)

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Just got through Ch 9 in 2912 deaths. Loved it! Then I find out there's a secret Berry at the very end. Of course.

(I replayed the original A and B sides first just to re-acclimate to the game, otherwise I'm sure it would have been way worse.)

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Part of the awkwardness in Clint's interactions is that Emily wasn't initially dateable and they didn't change his interactions whatsoever when she became dateable.

While he may be pathetic, he doesn't blame anyone else for his shortcomings but himself as opposed to a self-proclaimed "incel".

Of course none of that really makes him better enough to be better than almost anyone else. Pam is a much better written "terrible" character. Morris is basically as much of a straight villain as the game gets. Most everyone else is just obviously better.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

The game strangely never points this out, but the threat in 3-1 to kill all of the non-willing participants actually means none of them are in danger. It would tip their hands, though.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Monokubs are Monodam > who gives a fuck about the rest
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Invisopinions
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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The original FF7 localization is definitely much worse than FF8's.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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LeonhartFour posted...

exactly

so why did Irvine choke? because he remembers who Edea is

Okay, your point definitely makes more sense that way. Still, I'll have to take your word on it that they never said Edea's name up until that point. I certainly don't remember her identity (as Edea) being withheld that long, but maybe I just knew it from cards or something.

LeonhartFour posted...

They don't learn Edea's name until they've already begun the mission, so at that point, it's a bit late for Irvine to back out.

I still think a person who wasn't jaded enough to be able to assassinate their own mother without any qualms would still bring it up at that point. He's putting his childhood friends in danger if he can't hold up his end, after all.

LeonhartFour posted...

Yes, but it's couched in speculation and isn't ever confirmed until that moment. It's a possible side effect (and Garden and SeeD are skeptical about it; heck, even when it's brought up, Quistis mentions that it's just a nasty rumor), but it's not stated to be a definite.

C'mon, bringing up a detail like that and having someone dismiss it out of hand as a rumor in a story means it's true beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's on the level of having a cop say he's two days away from retirement right before dying.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

I don't recall any indication that the mission is supposed to fail. Just because Cid was her husband doesn't mean they weren't legitimately trying to stop her at that point.

Irvine sure as shit doesn't have a reputation for choking. Quite to the contrary, they do nothing but hype him up as the greatest marksman they have. The only thing I could even find to support that is his "Scan" description, and freaking lul if that's what you're basing it on.

The fact that Irvine remembers really makes the whole thing so much stupider than it is. The fact that he nevers mentions anything when given the task of assassinating his adoptive mother is fucking baffling.

Leonhart4 posted...

And there's the lingering question of, "Why is Balamb Garden the only place to use GFs, when they're obviously super powerful and beneficial?"

And yet you literally made the point yourself about how that was explicitly answered at the very beginning of the game in no uncertain terms.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Info-dumping a major plot device 20 hours in advance and never incorporating it into the story between then and it's reveal isn't foreshadowing. It's literally just spelling it out without it having any real consequences until the plot needs it because they clearly hadn't thought how they would make it work before writing the scene in the first place.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

That won't be an issue at the current purge rate.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Just a heads up, the next segment gameplay-wise has a bit of an awkward mechanic and you will almost certainly fail it once. Best to just accept that rather than trying to go all out to succeed your first time through.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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I thought Shuichi had come to the correct conclusion at that point and that's why Kaito decided to come out? Maybe I'm remembering that wrong.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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The best you can say for Bed of Chaos is that it was an interesting idea executed poorly, but DeS even essentially has a similar boss concept that isn't complete and total shit.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

All the standard BT areas used to not respawn when I "killed" them all. Now they seem to.

Or maybe it's just some of the areas? I haven't really figured it out.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Huh, at first I thought all the original BTs respawn in the postgame once, but it seems they keep coming back now. That's a bit dissapointing.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Many/most of the Preppers and Heads of Distribution have Santa hats now.

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-Toad, SMB3

Yeah, Seath is kinda lame.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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I am disappointed to find out that murder is not a permanent clear for MULE camps, just an extended reprieve compared to KOs.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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More or less.
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KamikazePotato posted...

After that it's self-evident.

Is it though?
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Yeah, overwhelming odds are they weren't settling for any less prior to a court date after he's already been served since they were already handling a boatload of other cases. Your advice, Corrik, vastly applies more prior to the state this topic started out at.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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I read through this a long ass time ago, but iirc your advice, Corrik, was to literally just pay the amount they were asking. How the hell is that supposed to lead to settling for less?

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Lmao at Die-Hardman's real name.
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Also finally beat it.

Weird game. Cool game.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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I constantly get notifications of road repairs from others and I haven't had to repair one yet myself.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Also I think the Hide Spoiler option hides signs for structures you haven't unlocked either, but that's so trivial as well.
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Yes
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ninkendo posted...

Reminder to everyone to finish all 5 pizza missions

Can confirm the value in this. In fact, do them all ASAP to make sure you get the last one when it becomes available. The timing and routing works out really well that way.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

I'm glad you like poison swamps, because Miyazaki sure as hell does!
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Oh hey, you can Dismantle vehicles same as everything else. That's a good change, but I'd still rather they just not spawn people's trucks entirely blocking an entrance all the time.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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https://youtu.be/z_h-NvMJK-c
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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If you want a massive hint for Shuichi: the reason you're having trouble with him is that his VA didn't have enough lines for you to remember what he sounds like.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Negative in both cases. Neither is in the cast. (And as a reminder Nagito and Makoto are the same.)
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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You do get to see what the weapon stats will become right before you upgrade/modify it, so it's not like it would have caught you completely off guard when you saw the red hyphens.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Also the letter grades are ranges, so when you're upgrading a weapon and the letter doesn't change it's still upgrading the scaling by a steady amount.

Peace___Frog posted...

In general, the higher a weapons letter grade, the better it scales with that stat (but not always, because dark souls!).

Technically I think this is always the case. The caveat is that the scaling bonus is actually percentage of the weapon's base stats. So A scaling on a 500 base AR weapon would certainly be better than S scaling on a 100 base AR weapon.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

Raw is for low requirement weapons that you don't want to invest in stats for. A high requirement weapon with scaling will likely outclass Raw damage simply by fulfilling the requirements.

In later DS games where switching between types is significantly more trivial, it can actually make sense to use Raw infusion early on even if you intend to use the weapon for a while. On the other hand, it's not like it'll make a huge difference for very long.

However, in DS1, not only is that not the case, but Lightning and Fire also have no scaling and are thus probably better options for the same idea.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

GANON1025 posted...

Sam, it's Die-Hardman. You might be wondering what "PlayStation trophies" are. Well, believe it or not, before the Death Stranding, people spent a considerable amount of time playing computer games. These so-called "trophies" measured your progress in the game. Now this goes without saying, but these weren't physical "trophies" that you may familiar with. In a way, this mimics your own travels to complete the chiral network. Every person you meet is another "trophy" marking your progress towards uniting America. I have more information if you are interested, visit the nearest distro center for more details.

I just furiously spammed the Like button for this post. It didn't work.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Also my path from South Knot to Timefall Farmers would absolutely not work without that extra 50 meters to get across the river.

Getting them to level 2 isn't so bad and is absolutely worth it. Getting them to level 3 mostly depletes an area of a full stash of Chemicals per zipline. Still did it anyway as my ziplines were getting close to non-functional degradation.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Waluigi1 posted...

I haven't had any bandwidth problems yet, never even looked at how much I have or have used lol. I suppose I'll see soon!

You really shouldn't run into problems until you start building ziplines everywhere, unless you really like building safehouses.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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You also only have to have one or the other of the ziplines upgraded to get that benefit, although the indicators when placing a new zipline only account for the extra range if the one already placed has it and the game doesn't always properly update what the actual distance is when you're out of range. Plus it can be annoying to really tell if you really have LOS without the line in general.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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Except I don't think many people* are complaining that he hated playing the game rather than it's a bad (or flawed to be more accurate) AVGN episode.

*(I of course am limiting that to people here. I can only imagine what the comments on the video itself are like.)

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
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To put it another way, his complaint about Goron jumping precision is something you could say he was bad at, but at the same time it's still a believable problem.

The change in day making the explosive barrel go away, while an obvious setup, is a legitimate flaw with the game, and pretty much all he should have devoted to that segment.

Making it look like after dozens of attempts you can only get the explosive barrel where you need it to be with barely enough time left is legitimate DSP-level nonsense.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

I mean I've played plenty of the other games he's done (as AVGN) and I never felt he was exaggerating ineptitude to make a joke or a point nearly to the extent he did here. He's done other good games and other "not necessarily horrible but definitely hard" games without it being like this. Hell, he did Zelda 2 and it wasn't anything like this was, and I don't think anyone in their right mind would call it an easier game than Majora's Mask.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3

I think it's poise damage that counts on tail cuts or something weird like that? I know that some weapons can cut off a tail in 1-3 hits and some daggers may literally not ever cut it off before you get the kill.

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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3