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My geode must be acknowledged!

"I disagree. Wanna fuck?"

Mike Johnson: "It's not a charade you demented old dolt, it's a mummer's farce! Get your terms right!...Hey, I wonder if we can impeach him for that too...?"

If you want a meaty challenge, do what I did and explore / complete the stormy sky area above Faron Jungle before the game directs you there.

https://youtu.be/YUk4ai6krwU?t=6425

(EDIT: the timestamp's acting weird on me, the SfF track kicks in about the 1:47:00 mark)

FF6 is my all-time favorite game with my all-time favorite soundtrack, yet 'Searching for Friends' was never one of my favorites. I appreciate it as being a great track, but I think it was having to listen to it on repeat through all those hours of grinding Tyrannosaurs and Brachiosaurs that kind of numbed me to it.

But damn, they really went all out with the track in the Remaster; starting off in the first verse with the familiar forlorn flute melody and then ramping it up with a full triumphant orchestral backing in the second. This easily one of my new faves on the soundtrack now.

Setzer's Theme also stands out as being a vast improvement - the little "ba-ba-da, ba-ba baa~" flourish they added leading into the familiar "dahhh, da-da dahhh..." (I don't know music terms, lol) really adds a lot to the song.

I honestly can't wait to experience the ending again, I'm crossing my fingers that they nail it soundtrack-wise (and someone here confirmed for me awhile back that they finally fixed the syncing issue that has plagued every rerelease of this game since the original SNES version, really hope the Remaster doesn't let me down on that front).

The man used the word 'entitlements' three times in the same rambling sentence. But please, let's hyperfocus on Biden's questionable mental faculties.

Phantom_Nook posted...

Why are people talking about RFK's potential VP picks? It's not like he's going to matter in November.

While loony no-chance presidential candidates have existed long before our time, Trump has unfortunately opened the floodgates and given every egomaniacal jackass with a minimum 8-figure net worth a nonzero chance of actually winning the presidency.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that among his potential vice-presidential prospects is New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers

I really do not enjoy living in a post-satire reality.

It's the Nides of March, aka the Nearly Ides of March.

So that's it, huh? We're some kinda Skywalker Squad?

__aCEr__ posted...

That's what happens when you lick a gay frog. You get the hunger.

Dammit this got me good.

Liberals...I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears I knew it was them!

HylianFox posted...

Okay, but wtf are Mario, Toad, Luigi, and that Goomba looking at...

They're all gaping in amazement that Link managed to keep a Hudson Construction sign from falling over. To be fair it is pretty mind-blowing, I mean HOW IS THE PRESIDENT STILL STANDING?!

Hitler's one and only good one-liner: screaming 'This is all YOUR fault, teddy" to Bobo just before offing himself.

Venixon posted...

Oh, so not all that memorable then?

For my tastes, no, completely forgettable, apart from the aforementioned PG-13 nude scene that I only remembered years later when I somehow remembered the movie and thought "holy shit, that was Daniel Craig, wasn't it?" And I saw the movie when I was a horny teen who would've been hot for both Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie.

Venixon posted...

How was the Tomb Raider film out of curiosity?

If you're talking about the Angelina Jolie one, the one and only thing I remember about it was that it had a pre-fame Daniel Craig nude scene (conveniently censored of course).

For my tastes, Red, easily:

Arcanine > Ninetales (Arcanine is one of my all-time favorites)
Vileplume > Victreebell
Scyther > Pinsir
Electabuzz > Magmar

MechaKirby posted...

I got the platinum, but I remember beating the game at around 70 hours, and 100%/ Plat almost 70 hours later, even with prep

Blitzball and filling out the sphere grid took forever.

Blitzball - 6 hours
Other dumb mini games - 4 hours
Capturing monsters - 15 hours
Sphere grid grind to match Dark Aeons - 30 hours
Sphere grid completion for every character 10 hours

Actually fighting the Aeons and Penace - 3 hours at best

I love FFX, but it did not respect your time at all. That's why I don't bother with 100% anymore. FFX-2 is even worse

It's for these reasons (well most of them, I only ever played the original PS2 release) that FFX holds the distinction of being the first RPG that I ever clocked over 100 hours on a single playthrough. Even FF7 with all its minigames, sidequests, and level grinding to beat Emerald and Ruby never pushed me higher than 50 or 60 hrs per playthrough.

Of course those number became positively quaint once I got addicted to Elder Scrolls / Fallout games and started sinking several hundred hours into each playthrough.

ReiRei89 posted...

COVID isn't going away no matter how much you want to pretend it doesn't exist. Bitching about it makes you about as bad as a Trumper and antivaxxer.

Golly, you really aren't familiar with your fellow posters here, are you? Accusing Greg of being a covidiot misses the mark about as far as accusing Scorsese of ruining cinema with low-effort fanservice B-movies.

Bob Hoskins is my spirit animal when it comes to my disdain for the original SMB Movie. It admittedly has a couple jokes that still make me chuckle (mostly from Iggy and Spike), but overall I will never accept it as having 'so-bad-it's-good' camp value.

Another funny anecdote was when Dennis Hopper's then-8-year-old son asked him why he did the SMB movie. "To buy you shoes," Hopper replied. "I didn't need shoes that badly," the kid fired back.

Sapphire Weapon
Diamond Weapon
Ultima Weapon
Emerald Weapon
Ruby Weapon
Golden Titty Weapon

...gobble...
...snarf...
...snap...

A wee bit hypocritical considering that major media outlets have done their damnedest to keep their thumbs on the scales in service of promoting a 49.9 / 50.1% rematch.

Neat. Shame though that Peach has been jailed indefinitely for driving on it.

The 'Korra is a villain' notion is slightly accurate in that Korra is basically Zuko who had the good fortune of being born on the good guy's side. She is a flawed protagonist, and if you give her a chance, eventually she'll move you. Zuko, Sokka, Iroh, etc are some of my favorite characters in popular fiction, but Korra manages to beat them all for the crown of favorite character across both series. Korra's arc actually helped me recognize and come to terms with depression in my own life; I can count on one hand the number of times a fictional character has gotten through to me to such a degree.

"Ah! How is the President still standing?!"

I used to have fun telling friends "Happy birthday! Can you believe that [x] years and nine months ago your parents fucked?"

I don't have any friends anymore.

I thought 200cc was a terrible idea when I first tried it, but after I got used to it, it's an absolute blast. 150cc is boring as shit by comparison.

That release date can't be accurate, right?

archizzy posted...

Hell yeah. Gen X all the way.

Y'all got some explaining to do for dumping Marjorie Taylor Greene on the rest of us.

The astronomer who first made the discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8c1UmwD0Y

Rare future photo of the 2024 Republican National Convention:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/383ee6df.jpg

I'm...kinda surprised that people are surprised by this. Self-contradicting contrarian spin is right-wing media's bread and butter.

The internet sure is a funny place this week. On one hand you've got people gushing over the Netflix Avatar adaptation for 'trimming the fat' from the original, and on the other you've got people gushing over FF7 getting the 'Hobbit' treatment to the Nth degree.

Yes, yes, I know someone is aching to Ctrl+V the 'It's almost like different people have different opinions' line after reading that, but let's not pretend that particular Venn diagram is two perfectly separate circles.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


I mean, yeah, it was clear even before Fallout 4 released that New Vegas was going to be the last of the 'original' Fallout universe. Bethesda is bent on maintaining the more generic post-apocalypse vibe of the universe, where it feels the bombs fell no more than a year ago no matter how many centuries pass; it's more marketable and easier to keep producing survival sandbox games in loosely-connected settings, and the old style of games where civilization actually grows and develops beyond the apocalypse is wholly incompatible with that.

But, to reiterate, Bethesda-brand Fallout has a decent chance of working perfectly well in a tv series format. Fallout-style dark humor paired with the commitment to capturing 4's aesthetic in particular (which I maintain is leagues better than 3's at the very least, especially in this context) could draw in a lot of people who wouldn't be otherwise interested in yet another post-apocalypse story.

Baha05 posted...

I mean to be fair it can very well be the same ship and them coming from the East.

Nah. Based on the show being confirmed canon and this latest trailer, it's finally time to call a spade a spade: Bethesda is taking big steps to retcon the old games / West Coast storyline out of canon, either subtly or overtly. I'm surprised they held out this long, tbh.

mercurydude posted...

I think someone found out those two pics were from the exact same episode of the old series, not the new series... and they posted the two pics to troll, but then idiots took it seriously and the fake outrage took off from there.

Doesn't seem likely, given that Rogue's hair is much less finely detailed in the 2nd pic, which would fall in line with modern animation standards (plus she's wearing a jacket). Could be wrong, though.

Writers / Director: "Thanks for collaborating with us on this project, Mr. Howard! These games were really cool to play and analyze!"
Todd: "Hey, no problem! I just wanna make sure the Fallout universe is portrayed as accurately and faithfully as possible."
Writers / Director: "Hey, someone on staff brought up the fact that the games we played were numbered 3 and 4. Was there ever a 1 or 2? Also I thought I remember hearing about some 'Vegas' spinoff or something..."
Todd: *Stares daggers at them*
Writers / Director: "Oh, uh...nevermind, I guess."

Skipping leg day is more expensive than ever.

Turn-based. Even though FF6 is my all-time favorite game, I've always had a certain disdain for ATB as a worst-of-both-worlds mechanic, and always choose 'Wait' when available.

TotallyNotAGirl posted...

Shit I must've missed out when society was Mid-Satire

Understandable; the Mid-Satire Period only lasted from June 16th 2015 through Nov 8th 2016.

TMOG posted...

No, it's intelligence.

Intelligence and copium are virtually indistinguishable in our post-satire society.

I'm very intrigued, and I hope this delivers. Unlike, say, the Avatar adaptation, I'm going into this with zero expectations, other than my longstanding belief that Bethesda-brand Fallout's story only ever really shines in side quests (aka disjointed episodic bursts), and thus would probably make a good template for a picaresque TV series.

Walton Goggins is probably gonna carry the show. Love that they're clearly giving him a 'chem fiend' angle in this new trailer. Visuals don't usually impress me nowadays, but this is so 1:1 that's its impossible not be impressed by it.