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Toon Link could solo an entire reactions pics topic.

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I can confirm that is a 100% Athletic Pokemon card.

SecretBase posted...

"Blue MAGA" is used in a limited capacity

The people who use it with a straight face certainly have limited capacity.

Murphiroth posted...

Frostcrag Spire pretty easily, especially in the remaster where you can see it from much further away. I just enjoy hurtling down the mountain every single time I go somewhere, and it has all the amenities I'd want. I don't particularly care about it not feeling homely or whatever.

Yeah, stepping out of the sewers for the first time and seeing Frostcrag clear as day perched on the northern mountains was a real treat. This is especially true after spending years console modding Skyrim and having to turn down LOD versions of textures and housing mods because it eats too much into free space.

^The_Korey was probably referring to Rosethorn in Skingrad, which also lets you hire a maid. I say 'probably' since not everyone would've purchased the DLC houses at the time; especially Battlehorn, which came out at the extreme ass-end of Oblivion's post-release lifespan, to the point where I was genuinely shocked when it dropped because I was sure they were done with the game at that point.

Euripides posted...

I'm sure Tapper will also be writing a book about how the current White House is hiding Trump's cognitive and physical decline.

Right?

Jake???

I could write a book right now about how Trump's mental decline has been obvious for the better part of a decade and yet a slim majority of the American voting populace simply did not give a shit.

It would be exactly one sentence. ^That sentence.

It's honestly a tough call between X-Men and Spider-Man. X-Men came first and was the dividing line between the limits of purely practical effects and the possibilities that digital effects opened up, but Spider-Man was the bigger box-office hit by almost triple the amount; and they both came out within a close enough window that you could easily split the credit between them being the progenitors of the modern superhero blockbuster.

Your reaction when AI slop starts churning out millions of six-fingered men:

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Hexenherz posted...

Yeah, it makes me appreciate all the later Bethesda games that I'm always trashing more. The dungeons are just as copy-pasted in the new games but there's usually more to each one, either just in the form of some basic lore or in the form of unique loot.

I remember an early cave in Morrowind where you run into an Argonian slavery operation... now I'm wondering, was that a unique discovery in Morrowind? I never really saw anything like that in Oblivion.

Back in the day when I was trying to convince people that yes, Skyrim put a bit more work into its dungeons to give many of them at least a touch of uniqueness over Oblivion, I think I counted a grand total of 4 dungeons in the entirety of Cyrodiil that had some form of unique gimmick or self-contained story (and weren't quest related): Vilverin, Rockmilk Cave, Goblin Jim's Cave, and I've forgotten the 4th one.

Shivering Isles bumps up the numbers a little with Fain, Ebrocca, Dire Warrens, and possibly another one I'm forgetting.

EDIT: just remembered the 4th one, which is Lost Boy Cavern. Which is kinda bad on my part since I just did that dungeon a couple days ago.

SSJGrimReaper posted...

i remember always having one disc that's scratched/beat up than the rest

At one point my second disc of FF7 got scratched enough that it always froze during a certain point of the Northern Crater. A friend at the time suggested that I flush the disc in the toilet to fix it. Amazingly enough, it worked.

Antifar posted...

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"Equality feels like oppression to the privileged" has never been truer.

Personally I thought it was more impressive that GTA San Andreas (iirc) used cutting-edge dual layering tech to somehow jam that entire game onto a single disc.

I've said this before, but for all Bethesda's shortcomings in the writing department, they did a pretty decent job giving the Empire vs. Stormcloaks issue enough layers that people are still debating it to this day.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that last person to defend the Blades in the Blades vs. Paarthurnax dilemma was driven off this site in shame sometime in early 2012.

"I have long ago informed Tim Apple..."
"Erm, Tim Cook of Apple, sir."
"SHUT UP I KNOW THAT!!"

Rika_Furude posted...

Someone was making an AI picture story thread here a few weeks ago and it had a barret pic with the gun exactly where youre picturing

My first thought as well. Which of course begs the question as to why exactly Dyne grabbed on to that when he was dangling off the cliff.

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Mearcstapa posted...

They should get rid of the nickel too

Please refer to post #14 for a necessary PSA.

DoesntMatter posted...

Bace Rannon

Quonny Jest

Bomb from Final Fantasy, for some reason.

Corbenik posted...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iX07phK0_5U

this gen is baked

"There generation is soooo cooked"

When insulting someone else's intelligence online, always be sure to spellcheck.

They also stopped selling DVDs / blurays this year. So fuck 'em for both political and apolitical reasons.

Arkham Asylum and City are two games that I loved when I played them, but have never gone back and given them a replay. I should fix that sometime.

City took the crown back in the day simply because Asylum's boss fights fuckin' suuuuuucked; most were just rehashes of the first Bane fight, the 'encounter' with Killer Croc was a major letdown, and Harley's fight was so annoying that I wanted to chew my own foot off just so I'd have something besides my controller to throw at the screen. Meanwhile in City the Mr. Freeze fight was legendary, you had surprise encounters with Solomon Grundy and Clayface, and the Joker fight was much more what I wanted out of Joker fight, which was him pretty much being just a normal guy sending waves and waves of goons at you.

And I know open world gameplay is automatically treated as a negative these days, but it really lent itself a sense of self-discovery in City that I didn't get out of Asylum; okay, lemme follow a clue to this uninhabited part of town and holy shit I'm suddenly in a Mad Hatter dreamworld! There were also little touches in the open world that made you feel like Batman which wouldn't have been feasible in the more enclosed Asylum setting, like the knocking on the door to Penguin's club and watching the bouncer piss himself as soon as he sees who's on the other side.

Honestly, I had no interest in any of the games that came after because I knew the chances were slim to nil that City would ever be topped.

ai123 posted...

There's one or two, but they are the kind of silly people who would take pride in being named.

Pretty much this. Naming them would just be an invitation for them to hijack the topic.

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DoesntMatter posted...

oh great, he's gonna save us taxpayers $56 million? wonderful! great job Trump! but what the fuck about the BILLIONS of dollars of our tax money that is going to all of the services and programs that you are cutting and absconding with the funding? $56 million up against several BILLION? fuck you.

"DOGE: spending billions to save you MILLIONS since 2025."

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School of Hard Knockers 2: Summa Cum Loud

I'm Kraven a good ol-fashioned Morb-out.

Rai_Jin posted...

nice FFXII mark card. I wish there was a real FFXII-2

I'm glad they threw a bone to Yiazmat, but also disappointed that the superboss who famously has the most HP in the franchise gets an unimpressive 5/6, in spite of his ability (also he's Holy element in the game, so the Black casting cost is a clash).

K181 posted...

The Empire has its problems, but why the fuck would I as an Argonian ever support such a blatantly Nord supremacist group as the Stormcloaks?

Sounds like a question you should be asking a slim majority of the American voting populace.

Evening_Dragon posted...

Related, I like when the "fair fight"/proper rules guy realizes that's stupid and learns to fight pragmatically. This was done very well in the final fight of s-CRY-ed. Ryuho talks shit about a low class opponent throwing dirt in the first episode, but ends up doing it to that very same opponent in the last. It's a unique way to show respect. Respect and rage.

I think my first experience with the trope was an old Dragonlance prequel where Raistlin and Caramon are employed in a mercenary company. This is half-remembered at best, but iirc the merc company boss was a dwarf or other race of diminutive stature, and at the climax of the story the villain leader challenges him to a one-on-one duel - the merc boss accepts, instantly clubs the villain in the kneecap, and lets his men hack him to pieces.

Yep. And I never forgave FF9 for trashing it and every other major city.

Ivynn posted...

Do I keep Umbra or nah? I'm getting conflicting answers on whether it's worth it on higher levels or not.

It just depends on which one you think you'll get more use out of. Umbra is the strongest one-handed weapon in the game in terms of base damage, so if you favor swords, keep it; on the other hand, the enchantment's not very useful, and you can get more damage output from other weapons with strong damage enchantments. The Masque isn't very useful enchantment-wise, but it is rather cool and unique-looking - I used to rock it with a suit of Blackwood armor.

I'd say just keep the quest active so you can keep the sword for zero weight, but you have to complete all Daedric Shrine quests in some way shape or form to get Hermaeus Mora's quest. Still, you can put off completing the Vile quest for as long as you want until you're ready to do the Mora quest.

LonelyStoner posted...

Im having trouble following this post because none of those acronyms match up with any of the three Austin Powers movies. Ive been wrong before.

TSWSM = The Spy Who Shagged Me

I could never really get into TSWSM due to it being my first exposure to the specific brand of 'woman in the fridge' trope where the lead actress is killed off at the start of the sequel because the writers don't know what else to do with her after our hero has 'won' her. Like, I get it: it's a comedy, it's playing off the disposable Bond Girl trope, etc. But in spite of everything, Austin and Vanessa's relationship did end up feeling genuine by the end of the first movie, and I was really looking forward to seeing how it would develop in the sequel. For all of the faults present in Kingsman: Golden Circle, they put a much better spin on the Bond Girl trope.

TSWSM definitely had its moments, though. Rob Lowe as Young No. 2 was an inspired choice. Love the ad-lib when Dr. Evil is hitting him with the inflatable globe; he was supposed to grab it and hit Dr. Evil back, but he broke down laughing in the middle of the scene and covered it up by fake-crying.

Absolutely. The overquoting left me burnt out on the series for years, but pretty much every scene involving Dr. Evil is just brilliant satire / deconstructionism that still gives a laugh whenever I think about it.

And credit where it's due, it was Austin Powers of all people who taught me at an impressionable age that it's not right to take advantage of drunk girls.

Doe posted...

I personally have not really seen fan Rushmores be ranked in order.

I'm just gobsmacked that not a single post had the misguided notion to contest the Wicked Witch. I thought for sure there'd be at least one CEman come in and say 'bruh my favorite obscure gaming / anime villain is waaay more memorable / better-known than the WWotW!"

I think the one quality for making it onto a villainy Rushmore (or any category of Rushmore, for that matter) is that the character has to be instantaneously recognizable by even the most oblivious, pop-uncultured member of the general public. No one on the planet who's ever even glanced at a TV wouldn't immediately recognize Vader or the Wicked Witch; Joker too, but again that might be highly dependent on which version is used.

Biofighter55 posted...

wait really??

I know it doesn't make sense since both damage and defense are supposed to scale with difficulty changes, but even when NPCs are strictly fighting each other they always seem to last waaaay longer on harder difficulties than on easier ones.

DrizztLink posted...

I had my first experience with enemies that have Spell Reflection the other day.

Tried to use Mehrune's Razor on a Lich, the death effect triggered, and the Lich went "no u" and I keeled over on the spot.

Oh yeah, that's always a fun one lol.

I swear though that Remaster drastically toned down the number of Dremora who use Spell Reflection. When I played the OG game recently it seemed like every other jackass Dremora I ran into was either absorbing my spells or bouncing them back on me, but it seems like a much rarer occurrence in Remaster.

And I can now see why Silence was taken out of Skyrim, and for good reason. Granted, magic is severely overpowered in Oblivion compared to melee and archery, but neither of those have a counter-effect that shuts them down completely the way Silence does to pure mage builds, and way too many enemy types spam it (not to mention that all Bandits and blunt-wielders will inherently use it at higher levels due to Remaster's change to the Blunt perk system).

UnsteadyOwl posted...

Antivaxxers don't make any damn sense to me. There are plenty of things wrong with the modern medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies specifically, but the existence of vaccines isn't one of them. Preventing serious illness is far better and less costly than treating it.

Apart from being generally stupid and fearful of things they don't fully understand, they're quite ironically spoiled by living all or most of their lives in a world that has been made exponentially safer by vaccines. They don't see the value in vaccines because they've never truly experienced the pain and suffering of living in a world without them.

And the same could be said of any government service that the Trump regime is slashing; the people cheering them on take for granted things like infrastructure maintenance and functioning agencies like the National Weather Service and FAA, and aren't capable of fathoming how bad their lives will get once those things are gone.

Alucard188 posted...

Feels like I need to do this to survive on expert mode because them doing 3 times as much damage and me doing 0.4 is really an exercise in running away. Thank goodness my summons just tank one for one.

Yeah, in any given Bethesda game all NPCs scale accordingly with difficulty changes, including followers and summons.

That's why if you're having trouble keeping an NPC alive for an escort mission or anything similar, it's typically beneficial to raise the difficulty so that they can tank more hits.

You know who else was just following orders? Hitler!!

LonelyStoner posted...

Is there an option to go against both the people who tried to have you killed just because as well as the racists?

You can side with Ralof in the intro and then join the Imperials later, which like I said gives you the opportunity to kill the specific person who condemned you while not throwing all-in with the racists.

Terminal Overdrive
Blood Heat
Midnight Exposure

Stormcloaks are the obvious initial choice (Ralof is a bro, and going with the 'Cloaks lets you kill the Imperial Captain who ordered your execution), but Imperials are the better long-term choice once you realize what a little shit Ulfric is.

Dammit, I was gonna make a similar joke about a chicken but this one came first.

Zack Snyder is the prime example of why co-directing should become more acceptable. He does incredible work from the visual side of things - to the point where DoP would still probably be too limiting for him - while being absolute shit at the non-visual storytelling aspect.

The Omega superboss was first introduced in FFV (later added to earlier games via rerelease), and the Ultima Weapon (both sword and boss versions) were introduced in FFVI; both UW's carried over to FFVII, but strangely enough, visually the boss used a modified version of the Demon (Poltergeist) boss from VI instead of the original UW model, a design choice that carried over into FFVIII (which also introduced the "Omega Weapon" variant), and largely into Final Fantasy X. Entries after that brought back the Omega superboss that was far closer to the original quadripedal robot design.

"This is just wrong, man, even for you. Look at her!"
"I have watched you pull a mans eyes from his head and make him dance like a marionette with his own optic nerves!"
"At least I didnt break his heart."

It'd be fun to list which games introduced which franchise staples. I know FF6 introduced Tonberries and Alexander.

"Are you sure? There's an awful lot of them."
"They hit me with a truck."