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NBIceman posted...

Always glad to find another fan! I know a lot of people hate the sniper boss, but I actually beat her on my first try. The big wall for me was the Edge, the one that came right after her. Apparently close-quarters combat was not my thing in that game.

Re: sniper, I'm actually not that surprised! That was part of my confusion/complaint/experience- I would die without really knowing what I did wrong, until one time I just sort of... won. In contrast to every other boss. My friend got turbo stuck on it and I didn't have any advice.

About the Edge... that's funny to me because the edge was one I beat either on the first try or after very few. Opposite of how the game hypes him up. If you just stand there and press 'counter' whenever you hear that one sound it feels almost trivial. In fairness when I watched my little brother play the game he used the laser waaaay more than I did, so maybe I was a melee specialist.

I don't have a great recollection of how far you'd have made it in 10-20 hours, but it sounds like people might've represented the "multiple playthroughs" thing. Route B is pretty similar to Route A, for sure, but there's a lot more of the lore that it sounds like you were ready for. And then after you finish that one, as Leon said, things start getting completely different - you're no longer playing through the same events at all.

That said, I understand the overhype issue. Unavoidable sometimes. But yeah, it's probably worth a longplay watch at some point at least.

Quick update, I just skimmed through a longplay and I think I might not have gotten as far as I said. And/or I spent a lot of time doing sidequests. I can't find stuff I remember and I see stuff I don't remember. Very mysterious. Are there branching pathways/choices on your first playthrough? I for sure got through the amusement park. Might have to dig out the ps4 to get to the bottom of it.

JK apparently someone in my steam family owns it and replicant. Adding it to the backlog

I feel like some verbal/campfire stories should make it. Apparently the main one I remember is called "the keyhole"

On the other hand, I bounced off of nier automata pretty badly. I think I let myself get overhyped before starting and was underwhelmed. Played for maybe 10-20 hours

It's clearly a well made game- the story and lore drip was too slow for me, I guess. People started telling me it would get good on the third playthrough and steam came out of my ears

I should skim through a longplay or something, because the mystery is intriguing and I do wanna know what the secrets are

Furi kicks so much ass. Love that game.

You get to move so fast, and the sound/light trigger telling you when to hit counter makes you feel great. And I always love the structure of a series of bosses, each representing something symbolically

It's hard but fair... mostly. That sniper level is bonkers and I would go as far to call it unfair. I also complained about a couple of the bullet hell segments at the end of some bosses requiring a bit of memorization- it was annoying to have to repeat the entire flight just to see it again

But other than that, it's immaculate. Agree on the best moment. Music fit perfectly everywhere, too

nice rare candy

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

People are forgetting that Costco is a hellscape and that navigating through the masses of people is difficult, so it would ultimately be easier to just leave your cart to get through some of the areas to grab the one thing you need. That said, you have to understand the risk you take doing so if it's empty. That's why it's better to just push your cart there.

...I don't actually think you should dox yourself, but I'm really curious where in the world this costco you're talking about is

I've never seen one that's anywhere close to a hellscape. Closest thing has probably been waiting in line for registers during some kind of rush hour (i think pre-holidays near closing), but the costcos i've been to in new england, california, florida, pennsylvania, new york, nevada, new mexico, hawaii, and probably other places have nothing in common with what you just descibed. the aisles and stuff are gigantically wide etc.

That does suck. Unless you saw the culprit, I have to imagine an employee or Samaritan cleaned it up. Just makes me happier to imagine the best

Otherwise I'm just as baffled as you are. It just doesn't make any sense to go in and hope you can take someone else's cart

it's not super uncommon. people like DK are one reason we have to go back to the office, unfortunately. and also why we sometimes have mandatory after hours work-social functions

i totally get enjoying coming into the office if you're very close with some of your coworkers, use work as your primary source of friendship or community, and/or genuinely enjoy your job. it sounds overly negative but it shouldn't be. i'm close with a few people who have somehow built an actual community with their entire team at work and just love being there (anecdotally, they're all either on IT or cybersecurity teams at colleges and corporations, not programmers) to the point that one of them was excited about a promotion without a way raise. I was negative about it at first, but I've seen how happy they are. commutes can also be fun for a while, especially if you're using a new form of public transit.

I've made/had amazing friends at work, but we'd rather shoot the shit over a third party app from home and hang out when we choose. Making in-office friends absolutely slowed down once we got into our thirties and started getting promoted. Fewer peers == less fun. more juniors to review == less leeway for visible silliness or complaints about upper management. and once people have kids they start giving zero fucks and are refreshingly open about rather being home with their families. the mom of three always leaving at 5:00 sharp is the best because then everybody else feels free to do the same

I've always found kojima games endearing because they're good and bad at the same time

So yeah, they're good

I've never worked somewhere with cubicles. It's always either been offices or "open floor plans"

And the work has never been full on TPS reports menial (coding/"software engineering") but the end result has almost always been something super underwhelming.

Although I've interacted with people who worked for larger companies, been super specialized in what they do, and seemed kind of clueless about it so I think those jobs are still out there. Or, at least were, when I checked four years ago

Cody11533 posted...

My last job was exactly like that, I got super burnt out during the pandemic and quit before we returned to the office.

My man! I did the same thing. Best decision of my life

But yeah, if I was a kid taking a reading test (I took a shit ton when I was in second grade) I would expect the correct answer to be one of sneaking in or doing some kind of prank. People don't typically move in while windows are still boarded, but I wouldn't expect a kid to know that

The passage doesn't even say if it's daytime or nighttime

IfGodCouldDie posted...

This is the crux of the issue my wife and I are having in regards to this question. I don't agree that there should be considered one "correct" answer. Where as my wife does. Her answer happens to coincide with the academic book and she is being very rigid in her attempts to teach our son about "inference" when it comes to the school subject of English or Language Arts.

Teachers are on strike in our area and so instead of letting our kids just sit around and do nothing we are being proactive and trying to keep their brains active by going through their core subjects.

I personally think that having the "correct" answer is less important than being able to properly articulate how and why you have inferred your answer but my wife is arguing that getting the correct answer is more important.

I'm on your side. At first glance this seemed like a rorshach test, or one of those things where you ask a kid to tell a story to figure out what sort of things are going on in their lives. I assumed your textbook was a psychology one, lol

When discussing with her, maybe bring up flowers for Algernon. The narrator keeps being asked what the images are, and he keeps saying "ink" (or "clouds", I forget), which is literally correct, but eventually as the procedure works he realizes it's meant to be interpretive or abstract

All that aside, if there really needs to be a focus on learning how to interpret reading passages, the question needs to be phrased a little differently.

It needs to say "what is the most likely thing going on given XYZ". XYZ being a genre or real life. Otherwise you're literally just crushing your child's creativity

Let me know when you do the reveal, I love this stuff.

They're excited because they're about to bring the ghost of the house a deathday present.

that's super interesting. what made prismatic evolutions and surging sparks more hype than the other sets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion do be like how it is sometimes

it might be the mobile tcg reminding people that the physical card game exists. i personally know someone who migrated from go to pocket and then started collecting physical cards of their favorites. could also be the stonx market

i think collecting collectibles as an investment makes just as much sense as collecting them to look at. you can easily order custom trading cards for 30 cents a pop online whenever you want if you don't want to play in an official tournament, and i feel like the percentage of collectors who play in tournaments is less than 1%

nice! i'm glad shiny trading is in the pipeline, had a feeling it was coming at some point. Wonder how much dust it'll cost. gonna guess it'll materialize in... december? idk

not super excited for scammers to take advantage of their classmates/people over the internet with a good ol' "gift me X, then i'll gift you back Y"

For a niche single-player game the board might not have tried... I like to plug ECHO (2017). It's a beautiful stealth action game, very slightly puzzly. It didn't sell well, and the company went out of business.

If you have friends you want to play with competitively, Bopl Battle is the best thing that's come out in the past few years. Super fun and super funny.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

9 Kings, been playing it pretty obsessively since a friend randomly gifted it to me on Steam.

Someone I know recommended this to me the other day. It looks good, I just know I have to stay away from the genre for a while, ha.

skulltrumpets posted...

The only reason why I'm disappointed in Mega Starmie is that we could have gone with some cosmic horror space starfish alien creature.

But besides that, it makes me think of that one SpongeBob Movie scene with Patrick in the fishnets and heels. So, I guess it's more of a mixed bag.

Chaeix posted...

its just so unoriginal

they literally just extended a few of its points

there was so much potential but they squandered it all

also i saw a leak of mega meganium and am also disappointed in that

yeah, those are good points. my mind kind of ignores mega forms already so i did have low expectations

it's been a while since i put together a computer, but i'll add that when i did i had to google to check and make sure the various parts were compatible/could fit together

most things did end up fitting, and idk if things have become even more standardized since then

lol, thank you for sharing mega starmie, i love it. pokemon should be a bit goofy, and that design fits right next to hitmonlee and clefable

yeah, it feels a little weird that it's crossing the barrier between object (yes, starfish are animals, but starmie just looks like some jewelry) and humanoid designs, but we've already gotten over the weirdness of 4 legged cat --> wrestling human cat type migrations

to get the experience you're looking for you can buy tickets to initial midnight screenings or whatever. i'll be honest, i prefer watching at home so i only go when a group motivates me to. i do enjoy the newer theaters with bigger seats and little tables for food and stuff

i'm also a little jaded, not sure what constitutes great at this point. dune 2 got some great reactions at points. last set of huge audience reactions i remember was at a showing of rocky horror picture show, but that's kind of a different beast entirely

those missions are pretty goofy but I like them. Not fun when they're actually hard, though!

I think for that one I just slapped a bunch of stage 1 electric Pokemon in a trenchcoat and won

how the fuck did I get third place when I've only played four games?! This board is more indifferent to Dragon Ball than I thought.

I have theories! But also I feel like the board just has people crazy passionate about most series- I'd say finishing 4 is a "normal" high number!

Re: today's... 0. I've never been able to get into visual novels, which is a little odd. I did watch one of the anime adaptations

I like reading books/comics/manga, and I like watching shows/movies, and I like playing games, but for some reason the hybrid of the three doesn't land

It's like... reading a book, but with a really bad frame rate or frame stuttering, if that makes sense

TeamRocketElite posted...

Also, this isn't a gacha game. There's no gacha to roll on.

true! i hadn't looked around- instead made an assumption that the cash shop had some kind of gacha element. i never participate so i didn't notice it not being there, ha

TeamRocketElite posted...

Levels are capped in the lower tiers so it isn't possible to beat opponents just by grossly outlevelling them. Up to level 5 isn't too bad to get to. Level 6 is a bit of a grind. I haven't gotten anyone to Level 7 yet.

it's good that there's a cap. i'm pretty sure i got smashed by someone with all level 4 abilities when i was level 1, which i guess is just normal for mobile gaming. Since i leveled a character to 4 i started smashing other players in turn. it's fine/fun, just takes a little getting used to

idk if i'd call it bad luck, computers break eventually. 12 years is a very good run

Ahriman are cool. They lose a few points in my mind (just like the slime/flan) for being very, very close to the most iconic dq monsters

I think the malboro squeaks out in the top spot for me.

I like ones that create unique & memorable play patterns, have original & creative visual design, are believable diagetically, and can fit appropriately in normal gameplay loops.

Malboro > Cactuar > Tonberry > Bomb > the rest

I finished the trilogy a literal dozen years ago, so it might be difficult to do this ranking. But I was passionate about it back then, so i still wanna. Consider this a tag

KanzarisKelshen posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDBpc2VTzU

thank you to whoever picked this video, it's amazing. i'm also confused. did a butterfly block the bullet for her at 1:43?

kateee posted...

if I want to get good at the game, I'll be fine with getting my ass beat over and over and try to take something from it.

i agree with that! i'll revise to say that once i get to a certain skill level i can enjoy/learn from getting crushed. like, i have to already enjoy and be comfortable with the game enough to play it for... let's say a dozen hours minimum on my own time. i guess i just don't like mixing my 'initial fundamentals practice' with my 'tactics/mindgame practice'

NBIceman posted...

Top 10 Video Game Weapons

the ones i recognize are good choices. it would be reeeally tough for me to pick my own top 10. does a portal gun count as a weapon?

i actually like the concept of this game and see why they made in an auto-battler (imagine waiting for two other players to make their TRPG moves), but after playing a few times it seems like the winner's mostly just determined by whoever paid to level their characters more

not that i can tell for sure, it's pretty normal for gacha games to obfuscate things

Bossman_Coolguy posted...

Yeah basically on a trial run. They've been gatekeeping certain responsibilities to more senior positions even though my job description says I'm allowed to do XYZ. So I'm literally the only person at my pay grade that's given authority to do it, even though we should have been doing this to start with.

makes sense, thanks for elaborating. sounds like they're getting some free 'senior' work for now, eh?

after thinking about it, i think what i really mean is that i'd prefer work that starts as 2 and gradually transitions into 1 after a certain amount of time. progression and eventual mastery with periodic challenges, in video game terms i suppose.

if you don't think it'll ever transition into 1 i might stay away. however, i imagine if you're teaching stuff to/training people, the longer you teach/train it the more it'll become second nature

NBIceman posted...

I'm pretty sure I've never played any video game at all with anyone from Board 8. My anxiety is such that I have to psyche myself up just to play online against strangers, let alone against anyone I even vaguely know from the internet.

I would definitely like to, though. Maybe for the first half of next year or so when I have some actual time on my hands to dedicate to fighting games again.

In my experience, 1v1 fighting games with friends are only fun if you're both equally (in)experienced in the genre/title. I have an absolute blast with one friend every once in a while when we get together and try a new fighting game because we are both complete garbage and can progressively discover/reinvent tactics and layers of the game as we go along in our own little metagame. there are a handful of games we play every once in a while, but the key is that we only play against each other- we're not gaining skills "off camera" against online opponents or the AI

I have another friend who I sometimes do the same thing with, but they play fighters all the time so I can only squeak out a few wins in the time period before they acclimate to the individual game's mechanics. It's not super fun but I do it for social reasons. It's more fun when games have a 2v2 mode and we can queue up together, but that's more platform fighter than fighter fighter

i suppose this is all true of any genre, it just comes up the most in fighters. an ancient memory of mine is knowing a kid who owned goldeneye on the n64, had the spawn locations/order memorized, and always wanted to play 1v1 on one-shot-one-kill mode (i think it was called golden gun). miiiiserable experience, haha

Do you feel supported by your peers/bosses/the people providing the critical feedback? I think that's what it boils down to. If they're gonna promote you beyond your existing skills and then hang you out to dry that is butt

I don't fully understand how you can feel out of your comfort zone & be getting critical feedback about it before you've accepted, but it's all good. must be on a trial run

If they recognize where you're at and have a plan to get you up to speed, that seems like a slam dunk accept even if it were theoretically gonna take 2 or 3 months to get your bearings. it's also a slam dunk accept if you feel like you're learning. it's metaphorically the difference between.... feeling soreness/a little pain after working out so you know you're building muscle versus going too hard, clearly tearing something and feeling pain for no benefit

even my first jobs as a teenager were stressful. you're not born knowing how to operate an espresso machine or negotiate (argue) soccer/basketball rulings with youth coaches/parents

boring grind jobs and taxing, challenging jobs sap emotions in different ways, i think you have to decide by feel

Also, there is a limit, obviously. Only you can know where it is

I hit my own limit once by accepting a ridiculous promotion at a ridiculous company after only two months of being there

Good for the wallet and resume but absolutely horrendous emotionally and for the soul

Cavedweller2000 posted...

I'd vote for option 2 on the proviso that you feel you'd improve in that role and get to a point where the negative feedback gets less and less. However if you're not much of a critical thinker then you may be better off with option 1 or looking for an entirely new option

Yeah, I'll second this entire post. It's good advice.

I'll add I think the unspoken implication is that option 2 also pays more, or at least sets you up with a stronger resume for future advancement

There's also an unspoken implication that the company is vaguely competent and isn't setting you up for failure

All that being said, I'm not sure what I'd pick if presented the choice today. I'm doing fine, feeling secure, my ambition is at an all time low, my life is about non work stuff. But it's still hard to imagine my ego letting me pass on something exclusively because of the challenge

Wanglicious posted...

but what you're gonna ultimately reach is the point where music will have built-in DRM within each MP3/FLAC and i like that future a hell of a lot less. it, ironically, will be made much easier through the use of AI. but for this method's pretty cool.

you're gonna have to explain what you mean a little better- i'm a little slow, i can't connect the dots

are you talking about like how every printer puts little unique dots on every page so people can know where the page was printed?

if you watched the video at all, i believe it also spends the first minute or two explaining why this poison pilling is very good for artists/the ones who create the original training data

idk if this guy is cool or a dick or what but i enjoyed this video about putting inaudible stuff in songs that fucks with ai algorithms trying to copy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA

It's the worst

It ruins my suspension of disbelief in a role playing game if I can't imagine the protagonists winning the fight on their first try

Everybody has added the exceptions that prove the rule already, but one more I'll add is if the story of the game somehow incorporates/acknowledges multiple tries/respawns directly

mnk posted...

Secluded Springs is tradeable now, if anyone has a spare Jumpluff EX. My spreadsheet page is updated, including a few added things from my Deluxe packs.

Sent! Looking for either Lugia ex or lickilicki ex

Ahh the airplane/mech sff

foolm0r0n posted...

This is an absolutely genius interview. Just let the guy talk clearly and lay it all out. I never knew he existed before this, I thought Vought was the leader of christian nationalism in P2025. But now this guy is out in the open, and the Hegseth connection is wild. "We're not using guns to promote our ideology, just the Secretary of War"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlz_0kwno0c

Any alarm aside, I think my favorite quote from this video is "I don't want to be ruled by finite beings who breathe through their nose"

i was about to say this is one of those things where people are either gonna get 0 or 100%

but i went 2/13 for anime (the first i recognized cracked me up, good choice) and then i think 2/13 for vgm. my guesses are below, the remainder i had ZERO clue. so i think that means it's a bad difficulty for bar trivia but good difficulty for internet trivia

anime: 6, 13 dn, jj
vgm: 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 ffx, some kinda sonic, sms, that fighting game i can't remember, one of the shantaes, some kinda mega man x

looking at my steam library, i played bastion back in 2013. i didn't get far enough to form an attachment.

once i unlocked the ability to get bonus XP by temporarily turning on the hard mode constellations i stopped to think about whether i wanted to use them, and then... never picked it back up

i wasn't yet savvy enough to realize just going through without them would've been perfectly fine, but in my mind it felt like a decision between a bustingly challenging early game or a bustingly challenging late game, which is a silly choice to make on a first playthrough

Sounds like it's a good thing I've been saving up an obscene number of hourglasses

I also haven't decided whether I'm going to officially "cap" my engagement with the game at exactly a year

If I don't, and they ever have some kind of event that allows trading shinies, if someone remembers and can help me with the below, even temporarily, I'll be pretty happy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/78234ab3.jpg

Bat178 posted...

First of all, it's very unlikely Comey will be convicted for this, so that'll throw cold water on this "lurch towards autocracy/facism/dictatorship". This indictment is an obvious rush job to do something before the statute of limitations is up

this is amusing to see on gamefaqs, because it's the exact argument my right-wing boomer relatives have been making for years now.

they just kind of blubber confusedly whenever i mention any of the things they also said would never happen that have already happened. i've stopped doing it, i bit my tongue the last time they said "oh well they can't do THAT, that's against the constitution!!!"

MartinFF7 posted...

my reading of the "free" situation was that you "Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud" - which is a separate thing from oneDrive?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/16866bd6.png

The Windows Backup settings are for stuff like Accessibility, Personalization on colors/font settings, Language preferences etc (under Accounts > Windows Backup). Had it toggled on since I assume that was the default and then toggled everything off.

I really don't think I've ever used or even signed into oneDrive so maybe it's not needed and doing that "Windows Backup" on the settings with the bare minimum will be sufficient to get the free enrolling...

That tracks

I ended up going through with it and getting the year of support on a new/empty windows login. Literally just windows key --> windows update --> enroll for extended whatever --> associate account

Idk if I'll have to log into it periodically to get the updates

It managed to grab the account settings, "installed apps" (which I assume means windows store apps, of which I have none) and the account's empty documents and pictures folders first, so I probably messed up something, but fine whatever.

I'll save everyone's advice from this topic, I appreciate it all. That being said, it's possible I'll be in the same spot again in September 2026, checking if anything has changed

It seems as long as you have a onedrive account with them and have backed up at least once they're happy

Just tried creating a onedrive account, and the process decided to hang forever on one of the final steps. Internet says I have to muck around with my router's firewall to allow it, but unfortunately (for MS?) I'm unwilling to put that work in for now