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I thought there was Slash. It's pretty good given how crits work in gen 1.

There's certainly nothing that can be super effective though.

Go_Totodile posted...

The one flaw of 6 was the danger theme playing even after you beat the game the first time. How could they get that right on the others but fuck up th last one in the series?

Oh yeah, that is massively annoying.

2, 3 and 6 are my top 3 anyway, and all have their own advantages and disadvantages. 2 has my favorite Navis, scenario and world. 3 has my favorite post-game content. 6 has the best features and the fewest frustrating parts (e.g. the FreezeMan/BubbleMan/FlameMan parts in 2 and 3 and the NaviCust program to go on narrow walkways in 3).

Overall, I usually go for 3, because the post-game is really that good. 6 I sometimes choose for its particularly enjoyable core gameplay. 2 is the first one I played, so I have the most fond memories of that one.

Disappointing. :( Oh well.

As long as Cyberpunk 2077 stays on track to give me my Cyberpunk fix, I'm not *too* bothered.

This would have been nice though. Maybe it'll come out one day...

"The SJWs radicalized me."

Bloody console plebs!

Nah jk. Never actually played it to be honest.

As a Scot, Dunblane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

I enjoyed the game, but they went just a tad overboard with the plot twists. I suppose that's not at all unusual for a JRPG though. It's expected, even.

Also, the Alcamoth / Telethia twist. Holy shit.

You forgot the best ones, the Oddworlds and Tomba!s. SotN sort of counts, but I tend not to count it.

Also, disgonbgud.gif

Why are they perpetuating the tired stereotype that men have rounder shoulders and no mouth?!

The Admiral posted...

The left-leaning Guardian leaves out a fairly important piece of additional context

They touched on that, aside from the part saying he froze.

The initial article had more info:

Despite the fact that the termination letter focuses most of its attention on the decision not to shoot Williams, department officials subsequently told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the incident was not a primary factor in his termination.

Officials cited two other incidents involving Mader. Only one is mentioned in the letter, in just two sentences.

By contrast, on the Williams shooting the letter reads that Mader should be dismissed from employment due to to negligence on his part during the incident that occurred on 6 May 2016, in which a fellow officer had to react and unfortunately take the life of the suspect.

After Maders termination, officials said Mader froze during the incident. They also called him a disgruntled employee and a bad cop.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/rj-williams-shooting-stephen-mader-fired-lawsuit

It's a bit of a "he said she said" type situation.

wtf i love cops now

But amid Maders attempts to convince Williams to drop the weapon, two veteran officers arrived on the scene and, almost immediately, shot and killed Williams.

Oh. :(

DoubleDare posted...

All police officers should strive to be like this officer.

While there is scenerios they should shoot, it should only be an absolute last resort.

Yep.

You can take our website, but you can never take our freedom!

Yeah, this has been doing the rounds over the past few days.

Having read the study, it's maybe not as convincing or clear about its methods as I'd like. It's an interesting piece of research, but I'm not sure what it is beyond that. To be totally honest, I'm as anti-Trump as they come, and my default assumption is that Trump supporters share a shit-ton of "fake news" and conspiracy theories. I don't think for one minute they're unique in that, but it's definitely the sense I get and I do think they're particularly bad for it. I just wish the foundations of the study were a bit stronger.

On to the study, the "junk news" sites in the list are mostly right-wing (which isn't necessarily a sign of bias if those sites genuinely are less reputable), because they breached at least 3 of 5 metrics they came up with. However, as far as I'm aware, they don't show exactly what metrics each site breached, and how they determined those breaches (I could be mistaken). Also, what sites did they eliminate from the list on the basis that they didn't meet these criteria (i.e. what was the full list of sites before filtering)?

It's also helpful to be clear about exactly what the study states:

On Twitter, the Trump Support Group shares 95% of the junk news sites on the watch list, and accounted for 55% of junk news traffic in the sample.

So the 95% figure that has been banded about is the percentage of the sampled sites that they shared content from, not the actual raw amount as some have stated (which is 55%). Also, is something necessarily junk news just because it comes from a "junk news" site? Note the difference between "fake news" and "junk news". I think their term is a bit more inclusive (i.e. news that isn't necessarily outright false, but put across in a misleading way, with few sources, anonymous authors, overly emotional and partisan headlines, etc.).

The sample is also fairly limited:

From this reduced dataset of 10,691 [Facebook] pages, we collected all posts from the 90 days between October 20, 2017 and January 19, 2018

This reduced the dataset to 13,477 Twitter users.

They had a dataset a few times larger and filtered it down. The time period was the ~3 months before the SOTU.

Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.

Thoughts?

I suppose they gave me a good laugh at times. It was on the FF8 board I mainly came across him.

Theresa Mao

On a more serious note, he abuse some receive is shocking, but I'm a bit iffy about criminalization, except perhaps in the most extreme of circumstances. The police are struggling to deal with more serious crimes as it is. I'm of the view that we should be locking up as few people as possible anyway.

This is in the early stages and may not go anywhere, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

Funbazooka posted...

"Bolshevik Marketing"

Not very subtle.

I guilty as charged then.

Questionmarktarius posted...

https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ecological-footprints/hothouse-earth.html

According to geologists at the University of North Carolina, this period of intense warming triggered the greatest mass extinction in the Earth's history about 250 million years ago, as opposed to the theory that the mass extinction was caused when a meteor hit the Earth. Instead, they claim that volcanic eruptions and global warming were the causes of the mass extinctions during the Permian. As a result of their research, they have determined that the climate turned exceedingly hot because

Also harmful to life on the planet was the enormous amount of hydrogen sulphide that entered the atmosphere, which damaged the ozone layer and killed the majority of life-forms.

Oxygen content was drastically reduced, causing major die-offs of deep-sea foraminifera.

Groovy.

Sativa_Rose posted...

I don't get why Nazis would be holocaust deniers. You'd think they'd be holocaust supporters if they really loved Hitler so much.

It's the classic "It didn't happen but if it did they deserved it."

Up yours, Daddy-O!

This video about the topic has been doing the rounds:



Thoughts?

Use https://pastebin.com/ to preserve the indentation.

I had a quick look and this line stuck out:

return niddleIndex = i;

It's not particularly clear. I think you just want to return i.

As parkman said, you also want to modify numOfComparison rather than comparisonNum in LinearSearch. Presumably you're passing the latter in as the final argument.

Even assuming being gay is purely genetic, wouldn't it still be possible to have gay offspring without actually being gay (it'd be more likely, even, given there are more straight people)? There's also the reverse: i.e. that being gay doesn't necessarily mean you'll have gay offspring either. Ergo, the gay population won't necessarily go down.

Not to mention that many don't want to get married, and even if someone does, there's surrogacy. Supporting something doesn't mean you think everyone should do it.

None of this even necessarily implies homophobia anyway. I mean, what is the alternative here? Outlawing gay marriage (and the repression that it would necessarily entail)? Unless you think the latter isn't homophobic, then everyone is, by this logic.

The Champions League returns this month. :)

inb4soccersucks

Clearly you have to blow on the cartridge first.

As a Glaswegian, Edinburgh speak is like a different language to me. Ditto for how people speak up north, in the east generally, and probably down in the borders too.

eston posted...

That's probably why I don't remember, because who the fuck takes the stairs

I do both. It's like in the Deus Ex games when I have to take every path.

The low quality graphics definitely help, as they leave a lot of stuff up to the imagination and make things seem less comical. Imagine the cross-dressing scene(s) in full HD graphics, for example. I still want to see these kinds of things for the hilarity though. And the stink some will no doubt kick up. :P

Did Killzone 2 have one? I think I can remember there being one.

AeroFlash15 posted...

Just so you know

Yep. A decent video on the topic:

You're in it! Muhahahaha! Seriously though, you are. The Dark Web is the "sinister" one.

DarkDragon400 posted...

inb4ceisdeepweb

Damn you! :P

The Kilmarnock-Celtic game yesterday already did that to me, albeit in the bad sense. :(

On a more serious note, that was an insane end. The Wanyama goal was practically unsaveable. Then the penalties and Salah's goal...

- Half-Life 3. I completely forgot about it. I've pretty much just accepted it won't be happening.

ArchangelBaruch posted...

Mega Man Battle Network 7 (not Starforce)

That'd be great too. It'd make sense with the technology we have now (e.g. augmented reality). They could do something interesting with that. It'd probably work well on the Switch actually.

I feel the opposite to be honest (as long as unused characters get EXP too). I like having options, especially on subsequent playthroughs. Obviously it sucks when some party members are way worse than the others, but I don't think that alone is an indictment of having party choices. There usually still enough viable characters for it be worth it, even if there is an 'optimal' party. Some games are better than others at that.

I'm also a sucker for unlockable / optional characters. Discovering them is a nice surprise. They do have their pitfalls though, like generally not having a big role in the story to reduce the number of variables (see: Vincent and Yuffie, and similarly FFVI's optional characters).

- Metroid: Dread
- F-Zero UX (hopefully we get a new one on the Switch now)
- Skies of Arcadia 2 (completely unconnected to the first / in a different universe so that we still have the same sense of adventure.
Kineth posted...

Chrono Break

- Dark Cloud 3

Sure. The system isn't really that different from the ATB system of old, with the obvious exception being that you can move around with no battle transitions. There are also a bunch of flaws that could easily be rectified in future. Gambits weren't everyone's cup of tea, but the underlying system is separate from them. A hypothetical future game wouldn't need to be built around them. Technically they were optional even in FFXII, although not using them brings extra challenge (which some would welcome).

While not my favorite FF game (it's somewhere in the middle for me, behind VI-X), I still very much enjoyed it. Exploring the world and completing side quests / hunts are a great deal of fun. The story has its moments, but the storytelling and pacing leave a lot to be desired. The change of director shows.

On a 10 point scale, I'd probably give it a 9. I like the WoR, but it could be better.

On this scale, I have to give it full marks I think. Brilliant game.

Nah. I do agree that it will probably change though. The number of Pokemon is fast becoming prohibitive, unless Game Freak just reuse the 3D models they currently have, at least for the time being.

Their alternative options would be:

- Stop creating new Pokemon and focus on other content / features (with maybe an 'ultimate' game where you can go to multiple regions or something similar).
- Keep creating new Pokemon every gen, but *only* let you catch the new ones (similar to get the Black/White approach). They could treat this as a reset of sorts and let the new Pokemon accumulate again.

It's hard to imagine either to be honest. I think Nintendo might do both: the former as a one-off and the latter for the mainline games.

Hopefully it's just that more feel able to come forward now (including for historic allegations, as the article mentions) and not that more are actually being assaulted. There's still a lot to be done though, both by the authorities and wider society.

Probably Python.

I know a bit more about C++, but I can't always be bothered with it. Very few things actually require it.

The earlier ones will always have a special place in my heart.

SA > V > VC > IV > III > II > I

V is the best mechanically, but SA's missions, characters and world are my favorite. I also feel that it rewards you better. More and more things open up gradually rather than being available from the start. I prefer earning it like that.

I'm a Linux Mint pleb. :P

I'm not hardcore enough for Arch.

hollow_shrine posted...

Came in to say that.

Digital Devil Saga has a couple of good ones too:





And Tales of Symphonia:



Battle Network 6's:



hollow_shrine posted...

Also one of my favorites.

The other regular battle theme is great too, perhaps even better:

I'm not ideologically opposed to random battles (although controllable encounter rates and similar features seem almost mandatory nowadays), but I tend to prefer other systems like enemies in the field that you have to touch or get close to.

Relient_K posted...

Random encounters make since in several games such as pokemom.

Pokemon is an interesting case in that it has a sort of hybrid system, with various other ways of encountering Pokemon (e.g. fishing), some of which actually show visible enemies in the field.

I particularly liked ORAS's approach where some Pokemon would actually be visible in the grass, with the DexNav giving extra information on them (and a screen showing what Pokemon you've already found, greyed outlines of Pokemon you haven't, and medals for certain combinations of Pokemon).