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Got back from a belated family Christmas party since the snowstorm stopped the actual Christmas gathering. Had some damn good food and enjoyable conversations. My uncle gave scratch-off lottery tickets to everyone. The big winners were a couple of the kids, who won a whole $20 (out of a potential $150k top prize). Naturally, mine gave me jack shit. My aunt let me have the dime I used to scratch it off with as a joking compensation, so I technically came away richer than most.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

very good stuff from BigDad/Darnact as always.

I think once AI art perfects hands, human artists are truly doomed.

and while details of the anthro Chrysalis are a little odd (big Yoda ears and the sorta undulating segmented midriff), that's like a shonen anime scene where she's monologuing to the heroes before their big comeback and it's pretty awesome.

Cartridge88 posted...

I think once AI art perfects hands, human artists are truly doomed.

I think there's always going to be demand for human artists. No matter how good AI gets at art, it's always going to lack that human touch, that bit of personality. And some beloved artists have more simplistic art styles with less shading. Plus, it's impossible for it to make comics where the characters move convincingly from panel to panel. I also believe that anyone who tries passing off AI art as their own will always be found out.

Oh goody, I'm starting to develop a sinus infection. Because why should I get a break after getting over a days-long stomach bug? Good thing I've got some thieves oil on hand to stomp that shit out quick.

Anthro Ember by @hioshirualter

Anthro Celestia by @p4t4c0n

Anthro Applejack by @shamziwhite

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

seems this dress with the fishnet stripe is the new thing

Sonic Prime is really fucking good! Definitely give it a watch! It's obvious it was made by people who respected the games and knew how best to use every character's strengths and weaknesses, even in the alternate timelines.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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HAI, SUNSET-SAMA!

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This guy makes some damn funny GTAV machinimas. He also likes to hide Niko Bellic and John Marston in the background of some scenes if they're not involved in a significant role.

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Man, trying to watch a Red Dead 2 walkthrough when you're depressed is basically impossible. Anyone who played the first knows damn well that basically everyone is doomed.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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Trixie and Twilight would be like Natsuki and Yuri

Time for the bi-monthly freezer fan buzzing. You know, I decided to look up how many days we've gotten between each buzz. In the last topic, it happened on July 22, then again on October 26, so 97 days.

Next day was December 12, which was 47 days.

Now it's January 18, so it's gone down to 37 days.

It's fucking happening more frequently! The people who made this pile of shit better compensate us.

Anthro Somnambula by @dandy_nsfw

Anthro deer Twilight and Cadance by bunnywhiskerz

Human Fluttershy by @zaskart

Anthro Twilight by @cheezayballz

Anthro Ember and Smolder by @evov1atda

Anthro Chrysalis by @nauthleroy

Had a scare with the cat just now. She was pestering me to be let out, despite being 1am and under 40 degrees, so I did. Unfortunately, in the dark, I didn't see that some winds from a big storm upstate had blown our gate open, so she almost wandered out. Thankfully, me putting my arm in front of her made her turn around. But if she had decided to run, well... it's dark out and she has black fur.

We have to get a latch for that thing at some point. We've been making do with just a rock sitting in front of it.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

my heart would probably stop for a couple seconds in a moment like that.

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Got two more youtube recs. Josh Strife Hayes and Mandalore Gaming.

They're both long-form reviewers like Civvie and Ross Scott are. Josh has a history in theater IIRC, so he's able to make his reviews more eloquent, which compliments his British accent nicely. His main channel mainly talks about MMOs and his secondary channel, Josh Strife Plays, talks about a more general variety.

Mandalore, I'm the least familiar with, but he still clearly puts the effort in, and it shows. He once spent three years trying to get these two obscure, poorly-received adventure games called Ring and Ring II (no relation to the horror property) to run on his machine.

I wish more game sequels would at least try to come up with an explanation for why you can't use your old upgraded equipment at the start. God of War 2018 had you grab up quite a good few sets of armor, but GoW: Ragnarok has you start with a leather pauldron again, and even when Kratos pulls out some better armor he had stashed away, they're only mildly better than the starting one. You'd think a former god (of war, nonetheless) who is fully expecting other gods to come for him would hang on to them.

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood had a good way of doing it. The bad guys attack while you're in the bath, damaging the part of your villa where your equipment is and burying it all under rubble. Doesn't make sense for the prequel's ultimate armor, which is stated to be unbreakable, so it could have been salvaged and slapped onto a new outfit.

But they could do it wrong as well. Metroid: Other M is infamous for its excuse. Basically, you have everything, but you choose not to use it until your commanding officer says otherwise so as not to cause collateral damage. This includes several traversal options. It reaches a literal AND metaphorical boiling point where you have to spend several rooms taking damage from extreme heat before you get permission to turn your heat shield on. And that's just part of why pretty much everyone hated Other M.

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Been listening to the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack recently, and it occurred to me that it truly was one of those rare gems where everything blended together perfectly to create an enduring masterpiece. It truly was amazing to experience back in the day, when I was in middle school. Its only real issue was the English voice acting. The acting itself is good, but since English is spoken slower than the original Japanese, that sometimes leads to characters unintentionally cutting each other off, most infamously before the first Sonic/Shadow fight.

"You're not even good enough to be my-"

"I'll make you eat those words!"

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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very cute.

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if she's Nick, who's Judy?

Cartridge88 posted...

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Cartridge88 posted...

if she's Nick, who's Judy?

Fluttershy?

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Cartridge88 posted...
if she's Nick, who's Judy?

Fluttershy?

idk, Judy had a boldness to her to match Nick's, but with the more serious personality to be foil to his snark. not that Fluttershy hasn't shown confidence before, but I was thinking maybe Twilight or Starlight would be the Judy to Sunset's Nick.

So GoW: Ragnarok actually does acknowledge how you don't have your old armors. One of your dwarven blacksmith friends asks you "Hey, what happened to the other armors we made for you?" and Kratos says "They broke." Probably because of the abuse the armors went through, and Kratos not really being the type of guy to treat his possessions with care.

He asks you to take better care of your new armors and Kratos just says "No."

Also, an early boss has you seemingly fail a quicktime event and get killed, but instead of being prompted to reload, he says "It's not over until *I* say it's over!" And he fucking resurrects you so you can fight him more!

Rarity is pretty fine ngl

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It really annoys me when people don't put a space after an ellipses (you know...like this). It's fine if a sentence starts with one (...like this), but that's it. GoW Ragnarok also has two-dot ellipses as sentence starts (..like this) for some reason. Is that how vikings used starter ellipses or something?

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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very nice

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Found this channel called Let's Game It Out, which is about playing various games as wrongly as possible. This mostly consists of simulator and management games, especially if you're given control over what happens to employees or customers. Josh can and will spend hours on end making elaborate contraptions of suffering or seeing how far he can take an exploit.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Found this channel called Let's Game It Out, which is about playing various games as wrongly as possible. This mostly consists of simulator and management games, especially if you're given control over what happens to employees or customers. Josh can and will spend hours on end making elaborate contraptions of suffering or seeing how far he can take an exploit.

lmao nice

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I haven't beaten it yet, but I'm definitely giving GoW Ragnarok a recommendation. Everything is just fantastic, from the graphics, to the combat, to the writing, and even the ways they mix things up since it's not just a Kratos/Atreus journey the whole time now.

However, there is one annoying type of oversight. You'll regularly find this resource called Shattered Runes. Since you have to gather resources to upgrade your equipment, you'll naturally assume these would be used in some kind of rune crafting. But no, they're not used in any crafting recipes at all! They're only used for selling! Nothing in their description implies that. In fact, it says they still have energy in them, which only reinforces the idea that they'll be used in crafting. These things sell in chunks of 50 for 5,000 silver, which is a really big chunk of money here, and upgrades can cost over 10,000.

There's an option in the store to sell unused stuff, and a dedicated quick-sell button for collectibles, so I wish they would have made shattered runes part of the quick-sell pool.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

that does seem odd. they should've thought to call them something else, or even just go with saying you found precious metals/gems. even Pokmon has "Nuggets" of gold to just sell for big money.

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There should be an RPG where one of the weapons is a sword you hold by the blade. You'd take damage every time you swing it. The description would be "It's extremely powerful, but is painful to hold for some reason."

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

There should be an RPG where one of the weapons is a sword you hold by the blade. You'd take damage every time you swing it. The description would be "It's extremely powerful, but is painful to hold for some reason."

I feel like it'd have to be a weapon that is just all blade, if it were in a serious RPG. if it were in a goofier RPG, one that was poking fun at the genre, then you could do a regular sword that the character holds backwards.

My brother got a PS5 and the Dead Space remake. Lucky. Wonder if he'd let me take it for a spin and make my own file to play while he's at work. The original was the first PS3 game I'd ever gotten a platinum on and what I consider to be my sixth favorite game of all time, so I definitely wanna check out the remake.

Apparently there's a rumor of a DS2 remake in the works as well, which was also really fucking awesome. I wonder if that means a remake of 3 could happen as well. That definitely needs a revamp. EA forced the devs to include microtransactions, co-op, and to make it more actiony (even including regular, non-mutant human enemies). That turned off a lot of people (myself included), it sold poorly, and that was the end of the original series run.

EDIT: Also looks like PS5s are going for way better prices these days. Like, $550-600ish, even the ones with physical disc drives. Guess I was right about a price drop from the downfall of NFTs.

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Only Let's Game It Out could take a game about streaming and immediately find a way to escape the map, clone sellable items, and turn it into poor man's Minecraft.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Only Let's Game It Out could take a game about streaming and immediately find a way to escape the map, clone sellable items, and turn it into poor man's Minecraft.

heh nice

An odd little thing about my late cat was that he never folded his ears back when you went to pet his head. Even if you touched his ears and pushed them back yourself, they'd never fold. Meanwhile, if you graze the female cat's ears even slightly, they're down in an instant.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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very cute, and I like the flower tattoo(?) on her hand.

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The Retro Art 88 could use a better logo but I like his approach to the Equestria Girls design.

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nice and nice.