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YellowSUV posted...

For propaganda in Russia.

Also propaganda for the fascists and tankies outside of Russia.

It's hilarious how the tankies claim to be leftists and then simp for far-right regimes and repeat the talking points of Trumpers like Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens on Ukraine. Truly the most pathetic alliance. Like when the Soviets allied with the Nazis to invade Poland. Tankies love defending that too.

Phantasy Star IV.

gmanthebest posted...

It's like chess for me. One mistake can fuck up an entire encounter. Wish Final Fantasy still had ATB centered systems

For better or worse Bravely Default has taken up the role of traditional crystals, jobs, and turn based FF game. That said FFVIIR was an exciting blend of action and turn based, and I hope we see more of that.

I find I actually find action RPGs the most boring. You tend to lose the skill of straight action games and the strategy of turn based, and it often devolves into just mashing attack. That said many turn based RPGs have extremely shallow systems that often devolve into just picking attack and healing as needed. But stuff like SMT and even DQ is great at providing you a lot of strategy in battles.

It's meant to reference a lot of pop culture. The premise is 7 Samurai to begin with.

pinky0926 posted...

Of those 20k people, let's say 95% are really just thirsty dudes here to fap to your pics. So we're down to 5k.

Might want to check your work on that.

FL81 posted...

Norway is a capitalist country

This is correct. It is actual an example of social democracy. A lot of Americans, including Bernie Sanders, conflate social democracy with democratic socialism. I've noticed in general there is a strong effort among Americans to divorce the word socialism from its association with worker control of the means of production.

furb posted...

What's your friend's opinion on this one? I recently bought it because it has some souped up board inside it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengai_Maky%C5%8D_Zero

I can't read but dang it has some great graphics.

I really like that game (I collect Japanese RPGs). The battery dies fast because it uses a real time clock though. I had to replace my battery, which also lost my save.

If you didn't have an HD TV they looked pretty good.

Played the original as a kid but never got very far and then someone loaned me 2 in school and I loved it. Super Metroid was one of the first games I played on SFC. I actually didn't go back and finish 1 until after I had played Prime and Fusion. Not really a fan of 1, I think Zero Mission is much better.

I just checked and it's 4900 yen a year here in Japan. I wonder if it's because Japan is so small the free shipping doesn't cost them much.

They technically made a spiritual successor, except it was a terrible series.

This was the game:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kengo

I played it on Very Hard and it wasn't as bad as many SMT games are.

Xethuminra posted...

I don't want to offend anybody.

I don't get it. The Dreamcast was competing against PS2/GC/XBox. The Saturn was against the PSX and N64. Both Saturn and Dreamcast sold about the same number of units:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

I don't know they both lost their generations, so I don't get the point of comparing across generations.

Xethuminra posted...

The Dreamcast suffered from a terribly unergonomic controller, glitchy games, a lack of decent exclusives which were propped up as great games by advertisers and leaned on existing beloved properties thus creating mass confusion, and ultimately.... just ended up looking a worse version of the PSX with SLIGHTLY better graphics. It wasn't even a trade-off. I think most people regarded it as a knockoff. At least the N64 had its own identity.

Why are you comparing the Dreamcast here and not the Saturn?

It's best to think of 2D games as a graphical style, like traditional hand drawn animation. It has charms that 3D doesn't have. That is what draws people to it. It's not just nostalgia.

Smackems posted...

Seems like something they will eventually crack down on it it's as widespread as you say

If you look up rule of law rankings by country China usually ranks near the bottom. There are a lot of laws that are poorly, arbitrarily, or just not enforced. It's not the police state people imagine in most respects. There are a small subset of crimes they take seriously (usually related to things that could be a threat to the government), and using a VPN and/or importing games isn't one of them. It's not uncommon to find stores blatantly selling games not approved for sale out in the open.

ForsakenHermit posted...

I wonder if China will try and make consoles always online over there to limit video game playing entirely.

It doesn't matter, because they aren't buying Chinese consoles. The Chinese Switch can only play Chinese approved games, so no one wants one. They just import one.

Indoril posted...

Self-identified communists have been either praising Russia or condemning Ukraine since this mess started; it's ridiculous.

Tankies are much more like right wingers than anything resembling an actual left wing ideology. Their opposition to workers controlling the means of production or even forming their own unions is a pretty dead giveaway.

For online games following Chinese regulations this is true (3 hours a week, with facial recognition to confirm the child isn't using someone else's account). The reality, and this far predates the new rules, is most gamers in China don't use Chinese game services. They use a VPN to connect to international Steam, PSN, Nintendo eShop, etc. And play unrestricted international games. You probably play online games with Chinese gamers. That's not possible on actual released in China according to regulation games. They aren't allowed on international servers.

I haven't been back to China since after the pandemic, but there was definitely still little to no barriers during the pandemic. My wife and her parents were stuck in Wuhan longer than me because they couldn't take an evacuation flight. They didn't return to Japan for months (and actually now you cannot return to Japan at all if you are overseas). But my wife got Animal Crossing (not released in China), and played FFXIV on Japanese servers no problem using a VPN during that time. It's extremely widespread.

josifrees posted...

RT is the russian state media it is nothing like Fox News

Fox News has a number of people explicitly endorsing Russia's position, including Tucker Carlson.

Damn_Underscore posted...

As a PC gamer this seems almost like a nonissue, PC gaming is already consolidated

Not quite. You have Epic game store exclusives and not sure if the Blizzard store will still be needed after it becomes Microsoft, but either way there will still be Microsoft store exclusives as well.

Zikten posted...

The Slime from Dragon Quest is possibly more famous than Pikachu in Japan

It's not (though as a big DQ fan, I kind of wish it was). It's definitely extremely well known to the point where the vast majority of people know of both here, but Pikachu shows up on random merchandise much more often. I sadly have yet to see a slime themed vending machine.

Zikten posted...

Dragon Quest Monsters might have began in 98 but its based on elements of gameplay in earlier Dragon Quest games. Which predate Pokemon . Apparently in Dragon Quest 5 specifically, you can catch and train monsters . Dragon Quest 5 released in Japan in 1992

In V a small subset of monsters can join your party. VI has a specific class that can catch a small subset of monsters (though this was changed to just recruiting them in the DS remake). But either way Megami Tensei allowed you to get the vast majority of enemies in the game to become your ally either through negotiation or fusion. Fusion was there from the start which makes the lack of breeding in the first Pokemon rather strange (DQM also had breeding from the start).

What's funny is I learned Japanese specifically for Megami Tensei and Dragon Quest V because I thought the idea of using monsters in your own party was the coolest thing ever. Pokemon blowing up later in the US was a pleasant surprise for me. Though I am not happy with where the franchise is now at all.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

play one visual novel or JRPG and now 90% of what they recommend you is just porn

i don t want to be recommended anything if thats how they are going to behave. just show me the current trending games and top sellers and major new releases

I actually came in to post about how my playing Metroidvania games got me a bunch of porn game recommendations somehow.

It's more like a new entry in the series.

Dodge attacks. Do damage during witch time. Outside of which time focus on dodging to get back into witch time. Shooting your guns constantly is a nice passive source of damage as well. But if you have to chose between focusing on landing a cool combo or dodging, do the latter.

He didn't get cancelled. He left the show and didn't finish out his own contract (but kept the money).

Law is a social construct, government is a social construct, literally money is a social construct, lots of things that affect your life are social constructs.

Spiritlittle posted...

Don't know why you're buying fighting games then; they're literally designed to be played against other people.

Some people like the single player and that's fine. And I say that as someone who only plays single player if it unlocks something for multiplayer.

OVERGOATED posted...

China

China sells Israel weapons and has a good relationship with their government. The US was just recently complaining about China developing ballistic missiles with Israel.

I think the chance of Israel just going on a full genocide of Palestine and annexing all the lands completely would be increased.

1337toothbrush posted...

What's with all the negative attention that sub is getting? Are conservatives so scared of the status quo changing that they're bashing random reddit users of a popular subreddit?

It's largely their own users upset with the mods. Who can blame them? Unelected mods did interviews with media despite the community not wanting them to and then proceeded to claim they represent the community while embarrassing themselves in the interviews. For people who cared about the community it should be obvious why this upset them. Both mods have deleted their accounts due to negative backlash from their own community.

Makeveli_lives posted...

Hard mode is BS honestly. No heading outside of battle makes it annoying as fuck to make progress.

I actually really enjoyed it. It requires some specific strategies sure, but it's a legitimate challenge.

It is funny how conservatives went from freaking out about sex being in everything to freaking out about things being desexualized.

Absolutely Jet was well cast. That's about it.

I think her opinions are harmful and I hate that she chooses to use her celebrity to promote them instead of focusing on the books people enjoy or promoting things that help people instead of hurting people.

Honestly the only problem I had with Wind Waker is it was easy to the point of making you lose interest in anything combat related.

Are you talking about the anime? Because the animation quality is awful. I definitely prefer the manga version.

I read in another article that if you have a nut allergy they have a sign saying you need to specifically tell them that because they prepare that food in a special blender that doesn't ever have nuts in it. The blender they normally use has the residue of other nut drinks even if you order a drink without nuts.

Technically it started as a turn based RPG since RE was originally a remake of Sweet Home.

They forgot appeasement doesn't work and now with Putin coming back for more they assume they need to yell a little more before they let him have that too. Ukraine should never have given up their nukes. A guarantee of protection from either the US or Russia is worthless and that has been shown many, many times.

Out of curiosity is loud windmills a thing? I stood directly under some huge ones here and they didn't make much noise.

The music is the main thing these have going for them. Many of them have versions that look basically just as good already.

Sackgurl posted...

this seems like it's either untrue or a significant abuse risk to the exchanges

This is absolutely true. No exchange actually wasted money doing every single transaction on the Blockchain. They just do bulk buys and sells as needed to cover people withdrawing cash/crypto.

I think most of crypto is pointless but I also made a lot of money off of it. The money making aspect isn't related to the technology itself though. I think that's what bothers me about it. People are in it to make money, but the technology works just fine without baby of the speculation. There are literally stable coins pegged at being worth $1 all the time, there are coins to that require no mining of wasted electricity. All the speculation and money making off mining is pointless.

But I also made a lot of money off crypto, so I guess I am somewhat of a hypocrite.

Last time I bought any it was worth $6000 a coin. No way I am buying even at this price.

I don't know if I want to see my childhood in a TV Program.

I could tell even before I clicked the link that was a TERF site. They're way too obvious about it.

lolife67 posted...

"Chinese New Year" isn't considered offensive, so no, that's not a real thing.

There is some amount of controversy over the term in recent years:
https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/festivals/chinese-new-year-vs-lunar-new-year.htm

Basically because different cultures also celebrate it, calling it Chinese New Year can be considered offensive. Though it's important to note the dates may not be the same between different cultures.

The term Chinese New Year isn't used in Japanese or Chinese, so I only see this on English social media sites.