Lurker > masterpug53

Speaking just of the OG version...that's a tricky one. The character himself is a typical stick-up-ass mommy's boy with delusions of grandeur who only appears onscreen in his actual physical form like two times in the current-year story. The buildup of in-world hype surrounding the character is quite good, though; from his sword mysteriously sticking out of the back of your primary antagonist up to that point, to Cloud's line of "his strength is unreal, he's far more powerful in reality than any story you've heard about him," to the shot of him leaving a tree-impaled Midgar Zolom in his wake, etc. He's a character who's much cooler to have other characters talk about than to actually appear on-screen.

I think it's fair to say though that he wouldn't be half as memorable if Aeris' death was factored out of the equation.

LeCh0nk posted...

That's because most people don't consider that particular move a "subspecialty." It's just airbending used lethally.

With metalbending and bloodbending you're finding bits of the element in something else and using it to bend that. The "breathbending" is just air.

Nah, it's more similar than dissimilar. Both bloodbending and breathbending are forbidden techniques invented by modern masters in the contexts of their respective shows to demonstrate that even the 'good' elements have a dark side. The only real difference is that Zaheer didn't take five minutes to overdramatically telegraph the concept of 'BREATHBENDING' before using it the way Hama did (iirc he kept his dramatic monologuing down to a tidy 30 seconds or so, lol).

badjay posted...

How do people forget that? Sure it'll be a while but we'll probably have a psychic suck the air out of your lungs air bender if they want to exist similar to psychic blood bending.

Yeah, I was surprised reading through this topic that it took someone so long to mention breathbending. But it's no surprise that the internet in general has a particularly selective memory when it comes to discussing and critiquing LoK.

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When literal cartoon caricature Scrooge McDuck could explain to you in one sentence why this will never happen, it's time to rethink your life, your job, and what you do and do not contribute to society.

This is the new peak of post-satire lunacy.

aarrgus posted...

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=julie+opperman&contributor_state=CA

Oh... so Julie Opperman is MAGA. Makes sense...

She's abusing the Foundation for a political agenda.

Makes sense. RBG is the MAGA cult's favorite liberal justice ever, owing to the fact that she passed away at the most opportune time imaginable for them.

I thought this was settled almost 20 years ago with Dirge of Cerberus.

Tyranthraxus posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLJrzfWTu9E

Ducktales 2017 at least acknowledges that there's a special art to it, and you'll crack yourself wide open if you don't know what you're doing.

Still waiting for her to successfully fake it at being smart. Any day now...

KLouD_KoNNeCteD posted...

So I looked up "kicked in the panis" on Google and near the top is the question "What happens if ball hits Pennis?" wtf lol

Babby is not formed in that instance.

Roll around on the ground moaning in pain and shock, driven mad from agonizing over whether the topic title is a typo of 'penis' or 'pants.'

VirtuousWrath posted...

Technically, the CDC only recommends that every adult get at least one updated vaccine:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

If you're not immunocompromised, the CDC makes no hard recommendation for you to get a booster.

It's not 2021 anymore. Health measures have changed and I'll continue listening to the experts and trusting the science.

lol. Lmao, even. It's truly fascinating to see how covidiocy has mutated to survive with almost the same frequency and efficiency as Covid itself.

I normally don't go out of my way for so-bad-its-good schlock, but Poohniverse might just be a preorder-worthy event.

Some women who've had kidney stones claim it's probably the closest a man can ever get to knowing how it feels to give birth. So...godspeed, soldier.

My dad got a horrendous kidney stone when he was around my age. He also drank an ocean's worth of iced tea which I hate, so hopefully that's a point in my favor.

Ah, the 8000 character limit takes me back to the good ol' days, when my sig was actually relevant and I'd waste countless hours of my life pointlessly arguing, or describing a complicated exploit in a Bethesda game.

Ctrl+F = Humor not found.

No, but the grim reality is that by saying 'yes' I'd simply be accelerating their fate by a few decades. Still, no amount of money is worth it being my fault.

texanfan27 posted...

Its a good series, but its almost impossible to get the story straight at this point between the spin offs having critical info in them. I wont be getting 4 when it comes out due to this.

spin-offs should add to story, not be mandatory, especially when they are spread across consoles every which way.

The comeback to this will invariably be 'dude, there's synopsis videos included in the game if you want to catch up.' And that's fine, good on the devs for adding those, it's a genuinely smart and self-aware move. But there are some stories that simply can't be synopsized because they sound fucking stupid as hell unless you've invested enough time and money into them to have your mental faculties worn down to the point where it all suddenly makes sense (I personally call this the Scientology Effect). Like, I've read the bullet points of KH3's plot, and it sounds like a complete waste of time; if I'd actually played through the entire game and experienced its better moments firsthand, I'd almost assuredly have a more favorable opinion of it.

KH simply isn't worth the investment at this point, imo. They clearly chose to go full-throttle into their convoluted plotlines and original-characters-do-not-steal, which were at best a secondary motivation for me to play these Disney-meets-FF crossover games. The FF aspect has been all but completely jettisoned from the series, and I'm convinced that they'd ditch the Disney angle as well if they thought they could get away with it.

Kingdom Hearts is like the Terminator franchise of the video gaming world; the first one was great, the second one was great, and everything that came after is easily ignored because the second one wrapped things up well enough with a satisfactory conclusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJF-wVW1F2o

Were_Wyrm posted...

What's an alamo?

What's a battle?

Tyranthraxus posted...

intelelctual

It's actually a rare alternate definition of the word that only TC has the intelelct to comprehend.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand TC's topics...

LonelyStoner posted...

How does Amon take peoples vending away with just blood bending?

According to a quick google search, chi / qi and the circulatory system are very synonymous, i.e. energy flow and blood flow. So it could be assumed that Amon was able to perform a permanent hyper-advanced form of chi-blocking via his mastery of bloodbending.

I typically create an alternate RP motivation for the Civil War; I usually side with the Empire for obvious reasons, but whenever I go with the Stormcloaks it's because I'm a vampire / necromancer / warlock who wants to make Ulfric my own puppet and have Skyrim to myself without the Empire in my business.

WingsOfGood posted...

Did they? Didn't notice. Actually isn't the only pic of Rogue her facing away?

Btw iyo which image has the bigger butt? The one on the left or the one on the right?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c28004a4.jpg

There are plenty of times that, as an erotic illustration hobbyist / occasional professional, I worry that I'm not perceiving shapes and proportions correctly. Then I see a CEman make posts like this, and I get a much welcome surge of self-assurance.

Yeah, the only reason I know this site exists is due to niche fetish stuff, so I can't imagine this to be a sound business decision.

WingsOfGood posted...

isn't it the same?

Gotta stick around for the second verse / repeat before it ends / loops. The original SNES track never changed it up the way the Remaster does.

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.