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Baron_Ox posted...

Kiwami 2 uses the engine from Yakuza 6, so it looks better and fights feel more dynamic, iirc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDur8XEVst0

i am on the opening cutscenes now. is the game bigger/longer than 1?

i just finished yakuza kiwami and it was really solid, but not nearly as good as zero and much shorter. zero was incredible imo

starting 2 now, how does it stack up to those other two?

deal only because i would put cameras everywhere and leak the footage of him saying the most vile shit to try and tank his election chances or get him in more legal trouble

WingsOfGood posted...

reminder the CEO of Citron who is currently shorting GME and just bought more shorts literally cannot even call this illegal

so next time some CEman is like "market manipulation" remember that the SEC Chair says you have the right to talk about stocks and the guys who are going to lose a fuck ton of money are even like "yea he didn't do anything illegal"

so why the fuck is some random CEman dying on that hill?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/43412d41.jpg

if you are talking about igen, he has a 20+ year gimmick of shilling for far right wing shit and licking the boots of extremists

ScazarMeltex posted...

It's funny how this is considered market manipulation but none of the shit Musk does is.

yeah, or any hedgefund really. all the big institutional investors tell everyone what they invest in and they have infinitely more influence on the market than a guy named deepfuckingvalue/roaringkitty

on topic, i never saw the appeal of 4chan. i visited the site when i first became aware of it a bunch of years ago (but well after i had been on gamefaqs for years). it just seemed even much more childish and edgy than lue was when i was an actual child along with almost all of gamefaqs.

Dio posted...

4chan's "ironic racism" was never ironic. That was just a lie to lure in gullible people. 4chan has always been racist/sexist/transphobic. The internet as a whole has gotten even worse. Reddit is overwhelmingly infested with people crying about woke and DEI.

reddit has those types but they are largely relegated to their obscure subs.

deepfuckingvalue/roaringkitty started with like 50k in gme years ago to kick off the craze with posting an informed post on why it was wildly overshorted. he eventually ran that up into 100 million + and now has the second largest position in the company behind the ceo. that is not only not illegal, its not any different than what institutional investors do by revealing their positions in a number of ways.

the idea that a redditor known as roaringkitty can somehow shape markets and cause harm while 11 and 12 figure hedgefunds dont receive that level of scrutiny is insane. that same ag tried to investigate him before and came up with nothing.

wr woo and bricktop wept their apprentice

Qaz posted...

What about bidens word salad?

'whatabout biden' lmao

Ricemills posted...

This is always the excuse.
And the result we plunge even deeper each year.
Have you not even realize there will be no "right time" unless we act to make one?

not voting for biden is a vote for trump in a swing state. you have two choices and if you choose to allow trump to win you are the same as any trumper

Nukazie posted...

so he's not that different from what's happening right now

so surely you can point out where biden has threatened to deport protestors?

barkley is the best nba talking head in my lifetime. he is an absolute riot and so quick on his feet to dunk on other commentators.

if inside the nba ceases to exist after next year when tnt loses the tv contract it will be a crime losing chuck and ernie. shaq and kenny suck, but ernie and chuck make it still the best product of its kind by a mile

some states make judges retire when they turn a certain age, like 70 or 75. that should be a federal thing for sure

Tyranthraxus posted...

I mean.... They did.... It just failed. For some stupid reason they were allowed to continue to exist which let them win elections later.

yeah that was worded poorly. should say they didnt attain power via a literal coup

the beerhall putsch was such a dumbass attempt at a coup also, if that lady had just let hitler kill himself immediately after maybe history is much better and eighty million people dont die in a ww2 that we avoid.

i typed out a response to the scazarmeltex post that said nazis didnt attain power through violence and the topic closed so i will post it here

idk what they teach now but when i was in school they taught me that hitler was appointed chancellor by people that thought they could control him. the nazis definitely used violence to consolidate power though. they instigated a false flag with the reichstag fire to ram through the reichstag fire decree, and eventually the enabling act. they absolutely used violence and voter intimindation leading up to the enabling act, and after the reichstag fire decree they started crushing political opposition through violence.

the nazis didnt stage a literal coup like the italian fascists, but they absolutely used violence at every step along the way. the current gop also deploys violence though. the insanely charged rhetoric and notably the jan 6 insurrection are examples of this. they arent literally sending democrats to concentrarion camps, but many of the lunatic fringe that they empower openly want to.

Vicious_Dios posted...

So irrelevant that you went out of your way to make a topic about him, giving him yet even more exposure... Man, you're bad at this, tc.

dunking on dipshits on gamefaqs isnt 'giving them exposure'. this site isnt some social media post that can go viral lol

sabin017 posted...

Omar comin

first thing i thought of

lock him up

both are awful

hunter biden has always been irrelevant but is particularly irrelevant now that the gop is running an actual convicted felon while being unable to put anything at all on joe biden

screw that, he is a blatant criminal and should be an example that trying to destroy democracy comes with major consequences.

he couldnt pardon the state crimes anyway but there is zero chance biden would give him a walk regardless

just finished rewatching the wire (aka the greatest show of all time). the early seasons of got are some of the very best tv. the quality definitely dipped after s4 but i am not as low on it as many are. the first two episodes of s8 are still really good imo

anyway, i am on s1 ep 5 now

it definitely isnt a race thing, its a jealousy thing. some players have been jealous of her popularity since her college days. its just bizarre since she has made womens basketball so much more popular and the viewers she brings will eventually help raise salaries for all wnba players

definitely a malicious cult and a naked scheme to print money

i would pay 10x that amount for this to happen in front of a camera that is live broadcasting so obviously yes, i take the money

obviously yes

there have always been ways to reach students in case of emergency in school and them having a personal cellphone isnt needed for that

obviously i mean this for highschool level and below. once in college people are nominally adults and become responsible for their own education

EventualDecline posted...

Weird how two people immediately chimed in with the word "stereotype". Very bizarre. I know a lot about dog breeds in general, so I know what I'm talking about. And I'm a proud owner of a German Shepherd (the best dogs, in my opinion, with Golden Retrievers a runner up).

Also, I'm not going by "stereotypes", that's an odd word to use when referring to dogs. I'm going by statistics. You can look up the stats for dog attacks. Pit Bulls attack and kill humans more than any other dog breed, followed by Rottweilers being the second deadliest dog. German Shepherds are the 3rd most dangerous dog, but they are a DISTANT 3rd after Pit Bulls and Rottweilers. So no "stereotypes" involved here. These are stats tracked over a very long period of time for these breeds, so this is accurate information about which dogs are the most dangerous in general, and which ones are prone to random attacks. When it comes to random, unprovoked attacks, Pit Bulls are the clear winner, and everyone knows this.

Anyway, yes, it's possible that a Husky randomly attacked a baby. But unlikely. If it were a Pit Bull though, no one would be surprised.

pitbulls are also vastly overrepresented compared to basically any other dog. 'pitbull' has become a catchall term for dogs that vaguely resemble each other and there are definitely more than 10x more pitbulls than german shephards. naked statistics mean nothing without controlling for population.

its insane to me how nakedly jealous of her a few of the wnba vets have been. diana taurasi in particular was just vile to her.

clark has done more for womens basketball the last couple years than anyone else ever has as far as expanding the popularity and viewership.

big if true

the entire elected gop are all both gutless cowards and gleefully evil

SaikyoStyle posted...

How come nobody ever tells them what the correct way to protest or raise awareness is? Theyd probably do it.

not taking money from oil barons to do faux outrage protests would be a step in the right direction.

climate change is the most important issue facing humanity for sure....but these dipshits ruining paintings arent doing anything to actually help alleviate the problems and are sometimes even funded by oil barons trying to make people concerned with climate change out to be nutjobs

yeah, jokic is definitely the guy so far in the 20's. he has 3 mvps in 4 years and should have 4 straight. i could see luka maybe being the guy going forward but jokic was a hair better in the regular season and was still sensational in the playoffs despite losing to minny. wembanyama will also be in contention going forward but its hard to see him being better than jokic in the next 3 years at least

damn i thought i was posting this on the nba board but its a good discussion regardless

superben posted...

U have tim Duncan over kobe?

definitely. shaq was the unquestioned best during the threepeat while duncan was always the best spur during that decade. duncan was better during the 00s and is higher in general on the alltime list

i will start with the 70s and this is who was the best overall for the decade

70s-kareem. this is obvious, he was clearly the best of the 70s
80s-magic/bird. a tie is kinda cheap but this is the decade that was truly as close to even as it can get. bird takes it in the early mid 80s and magic takes the crown in the later mid 80s. jordan became the best player by the end of the 80s but the decade was dominated by magic and bird
90s- jordan. like kareem in the 70s this wasnt close
00s- duncan. there are others like shaq and kobe who were great and lebron emerged in the late 00s but overall duncan was the best of this decade
10s- lebron. this one is fairly obvious like kareem in the 70s and jordan in the 90s. you have guys like kd and curry that had some great years towards the end of the decade but lebron was obviously the player of the 10s overall.
20s- tbd. its too early to call and there are several candidates. jokic and giannis are the leading candidates but luka is emerging as a strong candidate as well

it wont happen but the judge would be a national hero if he sentenced trump to prison time and remanded him to the custody of the state immediately upon sentencing. that would be treating him like the normal street urchin criminal he is

the cult is not taking this well shockingly

a whole rock isnt nearly as much as it was 25 years ago but its still a lot for a month

Gobstoppers12 posted...

There's a decent chance that it encourages more of his supporters to turn out and vote. It feeds into the narrative that he has successfully managed to cultivate among his base that the system is "rigged" and that he's being "targeted" by "unfair" investigations and accusations.

On paper this seems like it should weaken his position substantially, but historically, nothing that should weaken Trump's support has ever actually done so. I'm just saying, now is the time to remember that focusing on "Trump is a convicted felon!" as an argument isn't actually going to dissuade the people who still support him.

Don't neglect the other factors. Don't fixate on this one thing. It's not a silver bullet.

anyone wanting to vote for trump was voting for him regardless. no 'moderate' is gonna see him become a convicted felon and suddenly think he won their vote. this can only hurt him

in 2020 america saw him be an alltime bad potus and voted his ass out. he lost literal georgia as a republican. his cult supports him no matter what but he needs a lot more than them

user 'npc' is already suspended lol

i know it wont happen but would mark out if the judge remanded him until sentencing

verdict coming back so quickly is almost always good for prosecution. when i saw verdict was coming in i figured it had to be guilty. glad they smoked his ass

CyricZ posted...

Yeah I have nothing to add except I hope you enjoy the games. :)

thanks, i am using your guide as needed. the only thing that feels a little more annoying than 0 is the fetch quest stuff like getting the dogfood and then having to get other stuff and the game doesnt put the marker where the girl/dog were so i just wander around the general area until i found them again

thats what i was thinking, thanks. zero was phenomenal, hoping they are all so good

trump will always appeal anything he doesnt like even if futile but a guilty verdict will make him a convicted felon which is deserved

i have only played zero so i am assuming i should play yakuza kiwami first? i have all the games

R_Jackal posted...

AI absolutely can replace creatives in mainstream, and they will eventually. The average person generally doesn't care where the content comes from, just that it's there and adequate.

it will never replace novelists. ai can only process information and attempt to emulate human art, it isnt capable of actual independent creativity. there is a reason ai writing is so easily discerned, it just isnt capable of writing a compelling narrative and can only regurgitate surface level stuff. until we create ai with consciousness (we wont, that is not even theoretically possible at the moment) there is no chance it replaces novelists or quality script writers.