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Thankfully, even with my whole body was cringing in pain, from stomach up to the brain, I was always able to resist them.

But I'm every time pissed when I try to hit that pixel of an close button, and it opens because I'm off by another pixel.

I have nothing against F2P side games using ad revenue as their business, but fuck the games using such scam ads.

On another note, I have to admit that if I see an add that at least tries to show some kind of gameplay without the provoking 5 IQ bait, it may be enough to bait me.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I remember in high school it was a minor meme that people born on Feb 29 are only 3 years old (for example), or at least officially considered as such. But nowadays I assume no one in real life actually thinks that way.

Memes and jokes I get, but an actual ID-Check system should be able to calculate a date since... well, always.

Ofc sad for everyone loosing their job, but it seems like it simply had to shrunk down again.

Just look at how many people worked at Baldur's Gate 3, and we yet call this a "small indy studio".

The scale of everything just grew immensily, and not always with the results justifying it.

SiO4 posted...

It is funny when they get ID'ed.

It says there are like eight or whatever the hell in many systems.

Because these systems simply check a calender and count how many Feb 29ths are in there?

I highly doubt that.

bsp77 posted...

I get what you are saying, but to be honest, I have little sympathy for people who have not given it a proper try and are complaining

Bloodborne was my first and it admittedly did take me a while to get used to it

I did try multiple dark souls games, had no fun any time at all every single time, because dying felt more frustrating than it had to be, and that's why I simply stoped playing the games and have no interest in the whole genre at all anymore.

I die, have to get to my stuff, but because of fuck ups, it's gone for real. If I get punished for playing it not in peak condition, I don't play it at all, easy as that.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Yet I can't even state that oppinion without getting "wtf, you didn't even try, git gut, stop complaining" bullshit as a reaction.

Two jobs as a student during summer.

One job for 5 1/2 years.
Another job now for 3 1/2 years.

So, yeah, 4 in total. Even if the first one was a joke.

Difficulty isn't the same as difficulty.

I think something like 95% of all "Dark Souls is too hard" complains would already be solved with the removal of any death penalty.

At least for me that was always the biggest turnoff for these games. The risk of loosing quite some progress because I did a stupid mistakes because I'm not at full concentration after a day of work.

I'm fine with dying and dying and dying for 3 hours straight, making 0 progress at all, but when my progress ends up negative, that's when I drop the controller and go to bed.

Better be annoyed than contorting in pain unsure of it's deadly or not.

embrace the uwu.

SauI_Goodman posted...

I actually would. Knowing how these fools can't agree on nothing it'd be a hung jury aand I'm home free.

But what if they just want to mess with you out of spite?

Probably?

These days I would worry more about the GPU / VRAM.

Dakimakura posted...

Certainly could have a different disability than whatever is required for throwing trees but I didnt click the link so I have no clue about the scenario.

"back and neck pains from a car crash"

Crimsoness posted...

Mega eevee should retain normal type

It will be fighting eevee full of muscles.

Xenogears15 posted...

I don't know why I'm surprised. I am, but I know I shouldn't be. Now I'm actually kinda mad.

Thanks. Never buying a Blizzard product again.

No, that's the point when I don't blame Blizzard.

When a stupid microtransaction makes more money for nearly no costs and therefore 0 risk, it's obvious what they would do.

A microtransaction mount needs nearly no testing, no quality checks, no marketing, nearly no team at all.

Just take some guy from the graphics department and let him to some fancy stuff as a side project, while you don't even bother the animators because you can reuse the horse animation from 5 years ago anyways.

The guy making that horse probably has even fun while doing it, because he can go all out and take his time for every detail in his mind, instead of rushing it to fill a quota.

The problem is that people pay insane prices for it.

Username checks out.

whitelytning posted...

People spend money on lots of things you may find dumb that they enjoy. Why let it bother you? Seems like a very unnecessary burden to carry.

My problem is that people like that are the reasons why scamy microtransactions even exist.

When a 10 skin or 10-pull cashgrab is more profitable than a truly good AAA game, then something is wrong with us as the playerbase.

Yes, seems like you watched and understood The Dark Knight.

NeonOPPAl posted...

"No Gen 1 on NSO again, Neon? You're running out of sick days"

Well, at least pokemon day is only once per year.

Aressar posted...

The skiing-and-sniping thing from the Winter Olympics is pretty cool. Not sure what it's called.

Biathlon.

I also somewhat agree with too many events, but more about the variations of the same event.

Quote from wikipedia about the swimming events:

Similar to the 2020 program format, swimming features a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long-course, and distances are in meters unless stated):

Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500;
Backstroke: 100 and 200;
Breaststroke: 100 and 200;
Butterfly: 100 and 200;
Individual medley: 200 and 400;
Relays: 4 100 free, 4 200 free; 4 100 medley (men's, women's, and mixed)
Marathon: 10 kilometres

Same with ice skating during winter:

500m
1000m
1500m
3000m (women only)
5000m
10000m (men only)
Mass start
Team pursit

And then you also have the short track ice skating too:
500m
1000m
1500m
2000m relay (mixed)
3000m relay (women only)
5000m relay (men only)

That seems... extreme.

RadDude9000 posted...

Oh and I used the magic powder on the bowl of blood in the underground cave. Got a demon bat or something to double my magic capacity.

Yeah, this is also a nice extra and you will bless the day you found this.

I purchased the red shield for like 600 I think?
North on map and west of the mountain. Dark world shop I think?

I was suspecting that.

The cane wasnt too hard to get. Just go south and east in dark world from top of mountain. Somewhere around there.

Yeah, I think you just need the golden gloves and enough HP / potions. Maybe my memory is a bit more dramatic about the damage you get there.

And yes, I'm also one of the guys who can't praise Lttp enough. It did so much for the Zelda series that is even used today, especially the OST and some lore including the Master Sword itself.

thisworld posted...

Agreed. For average person it's probably the Boeing 747, Cessna 172 and the Space Shuttle. Maybe the B-2 Stealth Bomber too. Show them a photo of Spitfire or Messerschmitt Bf 109 and they'd probably ask "umm something from WW2?"

I'm just not sure how many "false positives" you will get if talking about the 747.

I think many people will call a passenger plane "a Boeing" (with the 747 the most common one) and any small plane will be called "that's a Cessna".

RadDude9000 posted...

So far:
Bow, boomerang, hookshot, magic powder
Fire rod, ice rod, bombos, ether
Lamp, magic hammer, flute, net, book of mudora
3 bottles, cane of byrna, magic mirror
Speed boots, gold power glove, flippers, orb thingy
Red sword/sword level 3 (I took him through the mirror portal!), red shield( f u zoras or creatures or whatever you are! Haha)
13 hearts
I'm going to go to level 5 soon but I got a thing or 2 to check out first.

*salutes*

Oh and I think I maxed out my arrow and bomb capacity from island girl(beach boys song)

You got the cane of byrna before the magic cape? That sounds like literal pain.

Also, how did you get the red shield? But yeah, seems like you got most of the optional stuff already.

I'm curious what optional items you already got.

Some are pretty easy to find, some are a bit more tricky.

Crimsoness posted...

Better than D4?

I heard yes.

But I also heard that this is a low hurdle to take as soon as you have beaten D4 story once.

If I were not so busy with other games right now, I would take a look myself, but I certaintly have an eye on it.

That's how we are gonna end with it.

Someone is too lazy to write a full mail, so it just gives ChatGPT the bullet points, and then the AI writes a nice big mail, with "lot of thought" in it.

Until the receiver is too lazy to read a full mail, so it just gives it to ChatGPT to extract only the bullet points, because they don't give a fuck about anything else anyways.

Dealing with fast food customers seems to be the worst of the worst of customer interaction, but such money would be tempting for sure.

No idea.

I got banned yesterday from my local newspaper board (once again).

I'm already looking for something else to lurk and discuss stuff, but somewhat decent communities are hard to find.

I never got some moderation with karma loss here on gamefaqs, but I already burned 3 or 4 accounts there.

I mean, they are right with saying that we should care or even worry more about others even if they are strangers, but...

... if I would worry about everyone who looks worried while waiting for a train, this would probably mess me up even more.

Not to mention how to deal with the negative backlash and rejection.

I read many times about this, but never saw it happening to me.

Only issue I noticed was the read only mode a few days ago.

EDIT: I said that, and ofc the very next topic I open has exactly this problem.

Last time I had some real desire for a beef burger during my lunch break, and Burger King was simply the closest one.

Usually I would be more like "anything goes".

Yeah, it's crazy and sadly it seems to work for them.

Even after 10 years you have to explain this every single time, or have people who call "Story of Seasons" an Harvest Moon clone.

It's just sad at this point, especially because the "new" "Harvest Moon" games seem to be beyond trash. I don't think I have ever heard anything good about them.

They only make use of the brand, and destroy the name Harvest Moon had.

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/26a6907d.jpg
On a Global basis, Date Format Standards seem to vary drastically.

I know this is the map from Wikipedia, but it truly feels wrong every time I see it.

No one here (Austria, shown as YMD and DMY), absolutly no one, uses YYYY-MM-DD outside of putting the date in some database.

We don't talk YYYY-MM-DD, we don't write YYYY-MM-DD, we don't read YYYY-MM-DD.

The only times I have seen someone using YMD is when someone from IT (including myself) is trying to index some date or uses some database in the background using YMD.

And if we need to schedule some international date, we just write the month in name to be sure.

Humble_Novice posted...

Looks like the accuser has another account.

Ofc. Just reset, start anew, and keep your posts protected.

They still see no problem with creating a list aimed to harass people.

They still think that they just did some mistake, but are still 99% in the right, so they can go on like usuall.

ai123 posted...

This one seems to be on the police and prosecution who pursued the case despite little or no evidence.

I don't think 16 year olds who make up stories about having a relationship with a celebrity should be brutally beaten. (By who? Are we now suggesting that agents of the state should be sanctioned to violently assault those who commit crime? Do we maybe want to think about how that plays out?).

Oh no, a 16-year old child doing stupid things like that is one thing.

But as soon as that "fan" saw what kind of trouble it created for their "idol", she should have come clean ASAP.

If it's a one time thing because she had to vent everything out once, I would not mind it. Sometimes it's necessary, and I'm not better in that regard.

If it's happening every single time, that's more problematic. Some people simply are like that.

No matter what you do or say, it should always be about them and their problems.

That's already annoying in a one-to-one discussion, but it's even worse when it's in a group.

I mean, you can try to bait her. Get serious, and talk seriously about a serious problem of yours.

If she tries to help and listen to you, it's fine, if she goes like "I know, I actually have that problem too, with my mother, and it's even worse for me, because...." that's a red flag.

1. Neither Palworld nor Helldivers are "fads".
2. Seems like that the next nice surprise is Last Epoch.

We got Pokemon with guns, and Starship Trooper the game, now it's time for some Diablo 4 comparision.

It's wonderful to simply see such nice games getting released out of nowhere, being fun, compared to getting hyped for AAA games which end up disappointing.

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The process itself was probably not so problematic in itself.

But then there was this fuck up, and that fuck up too, and then it should be taken care by this failsafe, but it seems someone already fucked that up 5 years ago without anyone noticing.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

The thing Europeans don't understand about how 12hr time works is that the AM/PM is completely unnecessary. If you ask someone to meet you at 3 and they show up at 3AM, then you're dealing with an idiot and you're better off missing them anyway.

It's somewhat strange, but we usually use both for some reason.

Writen: 24h all the time.
Talking: Anything goes, pure anarchy, fuck the rules, mix them up however you want.

And then we have the regional problem if "half 8" means "half past 8" or "half towards 8".

pokedude900 posted...

They vaguely allude to it. NPCs will say things like "two pokemon of the same level can have different stats" and "a trained pokemon is stronger than a newly caught one of the same level".

This wasn't only talked about by NPCs, it was in the red/blue manual too.

But the exact details were not there of course.

kirbymuncher posted...

if you even understood the concept of stats or knew where to find them ,you are a far more advanced pokemon player than I was back then

Pokemon Stadium 2 had all the nerd information available in some classroom thing.

Reading that was enough to make 11 year old me the pvp king of school.

No idea how we were supposed to learn that in gen 1. Probably bit by bit by some NPC dialogs.

Don't forget that Amnesia was the most broken move in gen 1, especially on Mewtwo, yet we all replaced it by something else because it did no damage.

Bonus points if it was hyperbeam.

Bottom.

Just lay down. Relax. Enjoy. Let the others climb up and do the work

I mean bunkbeds of course too.

I will never forget how my little brother beat me in pokemon because I wasn't up to date with the changes.

I was only playing it up to Gen 2, and many years later my brother challenged me because he got black and white for cheap.

So, I simply went with old school gen2 meta into gen 5.

Little Brother: plays Alakazam
Me: plays Chansey.

Alalazam uses Psycho Cut.

Me after my Chansey gets trashed:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e8f93fcc.jpg

Lesson learned.

flop vs. game of the year

That's why I draw the line between left and right like that:

Left: The community exists to increase the quality of life for the individual. Individual >>> Community.

Right: The individual exists to create prosperity for the community. Community >>> Individual.

Ideally, there is balance in there.
Individual freedom for everyone, no one gets excluded and society makes sure that no ones suffers, yet there are enough rules, taxes and authority in place to make sure that everything goes well and society can prosper as a whole too.

Use right politics to keep the system running, use left politics to keep the system fucking worth to live in it in the first place.

Now take a guess what Hitler was, wo went "fuck individual rights and freedom, gimme the total 3rd Reich and make it great, as we put every single Deutsche Reichsmark into our plans for world domination!"

If I would, I would be gone beyond fast.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0be55364.jpg

No escape.

7/10

Joaquin Phoenix was incredible, and we got some nice memes out of it, but that's it.

There were still many scenes I thought were, unnecessary or even redundant.