Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF]

(+) Yeah! (+)

Titan up

we killed the dynasty

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The Mana Sword posted...

tonight we are all titans fans

I agree with this. Hail Vrabel using Belichek time tactics against him to maximum effect

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Vrabel even wore a friggin' hoodie to the game

he wasn't scared of this team

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Golden Deer route complete! That last battle was really cool. So much lore coming together! While I think I enjoyed the Blue Lions arc more just because it was so character-centric and the cast is so strong, if you only had one playthrough to spend on Three Houses, Golden Deer is probably the one since it offers so many answers.

As for all the pairings:

Byleth/Marianne
Ferdinand/Dorothea
Felix/Annette
Hilda/Seteth
Raphael/Ignatz (although he technically married Raphael's sister)
Lorenz/Lysithea
Claude/Ingrid

Not sure when I'll get around to a Black Eagles run. It'll probably be a little while though!

Golden Deer rankings: Claude > Marianne > Lorenz > Lysithea > Hilda > Raphael > Leonie > Ignatz
Blue Lions rankings: Felix > Dedue > Dimitri > Ashe > Mercedes > Annette > Ingrid > Sylvain
Church of Seiros rankings: Flayn > Seteth > Rhea > Shamir > Catherine > Hanneman > Cyril > Manuela

Doesn't feel fair to rank the Black Eagles yet, so I'll abstain. Not sure what I should do about the female character rankings, but I feel pretty strongly that Petra will probably end up my favorite either way, but yeah.

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Lysithea and Shamir too low. Marianne, Lorenz too high but obviously I viewed them from a Black Eagles perspective.

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No Gilbert or Alois in your rankings?
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Lorenz is great! He's like the Steiner of Three Houses. If you take everything he says at face value, he's incredibly unlikable, but if you take him as an over the top satire of a stuffy nobleman, he's hilarious.

Lysithea is cool, but she's a little too...childish for me sometimes.

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

No Gilbert or Alois in your rankings?

Oh right, Alois is so bad that I forgot all about him!

And I forgot all about Gilbert because he has virtually nothing to do with the Golden Deer route!

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I think it depends on which side of Lysithea you see. There's the one in supports like Felix which yeah not that great. But then there's the more serious ones like Hanneman, Linhardt, or Edelgard (obviously this one you wouldn't have access to) where she's a lot better.

As for Lorenz, eh, maybe. Like I said, I only really saw him through the lens of the Black Eagles (and Byleth supports) so I'm sure there's plenty more I'd see on Golden Deer.

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I think her support with Felix is actually kind of sweet (pun intended). She just spends so much time getting mad at people for treating her like a child. She usually gets better by the end of the support, but yeah.

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LeonhartFour posted...

(pun intended)

And yet you hate on Alois, >_>
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I don't hate Alois because of his puns! It's everything else about him that's lame.

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Yeah, Lorenz is hilarious.
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Alois is pretty good!

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Oh right, Star Wars rankings. I need to finish those.

#4. Episode IV: A New Hope

The Good: It's the sci-fi version of the hero's journey! What's not to like? You've got a strong cast of characters with both the good guys and the bad guys (Tarkin is an underrated villain). The dynamic between Luke, Han, and Leia just immediately works. Obi-Wan is a great mentor character. I like seeing the interactions between those who believe in the Force and those who don't, and you can see it with the good guys and the bad guys. There are so many fun moments throughout. It just oozes charm from start to finish. It's an incredibly quotable movie, too (just check out how many tropes on TVTropes are references to Episode IV!). It's hard not to like it (although apparently some people here have managed to pull it off...!).

The Bad: I mean, it's a movie made in 1977, so it shows its age in certain areas, especially if you watch the original instead of the updated versions that try to cover some of those things up. The lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader is a little rough. I still have no idea what Obi-Wan's lightsaber is doing in certain parts of that fight! We've never seen another lightsaber do that, so I can't tell if he was doing that on purpose or if it was malfunctioning somehow!

The Best: The space battle over the Death Star is just so good. You have the trench run, with Han Solo coming back in right as it seems all hope is lost. You have Luke finally learning to trust the Force and making the impossible shot to destroy the Death Star. You have the tension the entire time of the Death Star slowly getting into range of the rebel base. Also, the medal ceremony afterwards is cool, but the star of that scene is the music. I love that song so much. Might be the best Star Wars track, and that's saying a lot!

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LeonhartFour posted...

Might be the best Star Wars track

not duel of the fates so unlikely

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I have high respect for Duel of the Fates, too, but this one is right up there with it!

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Listening to an old Ted Woolsey interview from like 13 years ago

I didn't realize that he had almost finished translating FF5 before Square opted not to bring it over!

He also mentioned feeling like Chrono Trigger never got the recognition it deserved; guess he would fit in on Gamefaqs...!

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FF14: Ifrit beated. Pretty cool fight!

Long cutscenes while in a group are super awkward though... the longer they go on the more I feel like I should be skipping them to not keep everybody else waiting...

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The Mana Sword posted...

Tataru secretly the best Scion

She very well might be! She's now a master juggler lmao.

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Playing Ori and the Blind Forest again and I hate this feeling of not knowing what I'm supposed to do next so now I'm just wandering aimlessly and hoping I don't miss the thing to trigger the next area or whatever. The lack of clear direction is frustrating in Metroidvania style games for me.

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Can't help but feel like the Saints should've tried to win it outright at the end of regulation there. Some odd time management.

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Yeah, I'm kind of surprised they took the 10 second runoff instead of using their timeout. I mean, I kinda sorta get why they did it, but I don't agree with it.

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Okay, now I've finally figured out where I'm going in Ori. The sequence where I've been chasing after this Gumo dude is pretty cool, and now I have the double jump!

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i think that's around where I stopped (because I was playing on my parents' PC with a keyboard over winter break a year or two ago)

...I should probably get Ori for Switch

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Whoops, wrong topic

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we've broken containment

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i was told i'll be working on something related to containment for SMRs at work here soon, so that'll be cool

i'm happy to be moving on to new projects since i was getting tired of what i was working on

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I got the bash technique in Ori and the game instantly changed the way it was played. I'm impressed.

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#3. Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

The Good: Yes, I am a big fan of this movie! It has its flaws (which we'll get to shortly!), but I think the strengths outweigh the weaknesses. I liked the fact that they made Rey a nobody. It shows that the Force isn't tied down to bloodlines, heritage, a particular group like the Jedi, or anything. I think Luke did a good job of pointing out the inherent problems with the Jedi Order, and Yoda really drove the point home. Speaking of Yoda, his cameo was perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the entire sequel trilogy. I never expected him to show up again, and I loved it. Also, the lightspeed ram was legit great. I didn't like Holdo as a character at all, but she more than made up for it with that tactic.

The Bad: Honestly, The Last Jedi is probably longer than it needed to be. The slow speed space chase is largely uninteresting, and the Finn/Rose sidequest feels like unnecessary filler (although BB-8 is great during this part), especially since they end up doing nothing with the Code Breaker in Episode IX. The Poe/Holdo standoff feels like it could've been avoided entirely with a simple explanation. I mean, Poe is still in the wrong for being insubordinate, too, but communication solves most problems! Also, how horribly impractical are those bomber things at the beginning of the movie? That's the real nonsensical aspect of Episode VIII...!

The Best: The Luke/Rey/Kylo dynamic is so good. I get the complaints that Luke felt out of character, but the dude felt like a complete failure for screwing up Ben (Mark Hamill's delivery on, "Leia trusted me...with her son," is really well acted. You can really feel the emotion in his voice). It reminds me of Cloud in Advent Children a bit where people seem to act like character regression can never be a thing, but it makes sense for me, albeit maybe he took it to too much of an extreme. Also, Luke trolling Kylo with the Force projection at the end was an A+ moment. It made me want him to come back in Episode IX as a Force Ghost just to troll Kylo some more. Also, the fight in the throne room where Rey and Kylo team up after he kills Snoke was really fun. It's one of my favorite big fight scenes in the series.

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TLJ Luke obviously played KotOR II during the timeskip and took its commentary to heart. best kotor game stays winning.

But yeah, TLJ was great! surprise darth yoda burning down the jedi temple. The Rey/Kylo/Snoke Throne Room scenes (both with Snoke alive and the the fight after) were excellent. As was Force Illusion Luke trolling Kylo at the end.

I guess the closest thing I may have had to a criticism was the SERIOUS BUSINESS of the Rey/Finn ship taking some heavy incoming fire from both sides.

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I watched the second episode of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated. Yeah, it's a fun show with some lowbrow adult humor in it since I'm sure they figured some of their core audience would be adults who grew up watching the original.

Also, I was going to try to start up Dragon Ball again, but the Funimation app wouldn't cooperate. Another night then!

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TLJ was definitely the best of the sequel trilogy

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i will be able to definitively rule on that when i watch rise of skywalker in like 2022

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Whew, the escape from the Ginso Tree was pretty intense! Getting used to the fact that you have to hold in the opposite direction to deflect projectiles in the desired direction has been tough, but the game has definitely opened up now.

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Violet Evergarden ep 10 beated

This one made me cry at the end

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Oh yeah, I knew there was a show I had forgotten that I was watching! That one.

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I received word from user SaveEstelle today that he has completed the first Phoenix Wright game.

His rankings: 1-4 > 1-5 > 1-3 > 1-2 > 1-1

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!!!

Is he playing the rest?

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LordoftheMorons posted...

!!!

Is he playing the rest?

Little by little. He's been playing it together with one of his friends when they get together.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Violet Evergarden ep 10 beated

This one made me cry at the end

Same here
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I just got the climbing skill in Ori and the Blind Forest. This should make getting from place to place a lot easier!

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Damn it FF14 don't make me cry. Watching poor Tataru struggling to find her value hurts like hell. She's right now standing all dejected next to the Arcanist guildmaster, someone please give her a hug. My emotes aren't good enough.

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Dragon Ball Episode 21 complete

When last we saw our heroes, they had entered a fighting tournament and breezed through the preliminary rounds. Today, we saw Krillin win a battle by farting in a fat guy's face.

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Red flags everywhere oh no

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Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated Episode 3 complete!

It's kind of strange that Fred is kind of a generic everyman in the original show, but spinoff cartoons like this one (and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) have really fleshed out his personality by taking one of his traits to the extreme. In this show, it's his penchant for trap making, and in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, it was the fact that he (and the rest of the gang) could never figure out who the culprit was until they unmasked them.

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Violet Evergarden Episode 4 complete

It was nice to get some background on one of the other Dolls, although overall I'd say it's the weakest episode so far (but still fine).

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FF14: black mage GET

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I made it to the Forlorn Ruins in Ori. Hopefully it's as good as the first dungeon!

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Back from adventures with friend! Ive got some willfully weird voice acting clips for yall later

But for now Im tired

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