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DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Canon is not what a work's creator says in interviews or in passing. it's what is found within their associated works.

This is my take as well. If you've ever written a story (especially something as expansive as your average jrpg), you know that you've got a hundred unused plot threads floating around in your head that never made it past the doodling phase, either because you couldn't fully iron out the details / logistics, they were just plain dumb to begin with, or they ended up not being important. These might be things that come up in an interview when the creator is pressed on a relevant subject, which are then treated as gospel by internet posters who need whatever ammo they can get to win and argument.

The 7-10 connection as it's presented in the games rides that middle ground where it's clearly more than a simple easter egg, but not detailed / logistically developed enough to be taken as literal canon, nor should it ever be. It's an interesting spiritual connection where the player is invited to either headcanon it by filling in the gaps themselves, or brush it off as a giant coincidence.

ChocoboMogALT posted...

Personally, I take it to mean they aren't canonically related, though they may have been at one point, but are definitely spiritually connected. There's more similar themes between the two than just simple easter eggs.

I agree with this. Having the kid in FF X-2 be named "Shinra" would've been an Easter egg on its own. Having him discover a method of harnessing energy from the Farplane almost identical to Mako is an eerie coincidence. Having Rin go on a surprisingly dark monologue about how the spiritually-minded Spirans' days are numbered and that it'll be the technologically-gifted Al Bhed who will soon inherit the world (all too similar to what happened with the Cetra) makes it all a deliberate yet purposefully vague spiritual connection between the two games. The addition of the Shinra character in the founder's photo in Remake is just icing on the cake.

It's obviously not set-in-stone canon and probably never will be, but dismissing the connection as just a couple of meaningless Easter eggs is equally shortsighted.

Apparently some fans get really pissy when you point out the 7-10 connection.

Mega Man X

Oh no! Not the hunky werewolf from Twilight...wait, who?

The Temple of Fartemis
The Mausoleum at Halitosis

K181 posted...

Quick, everyone report everybody in the Trump administration.

I know of a criminal with over 60 felony convictions who has yet to pay his debt to society.

The games I had the absolute most fun playing multiplayer with other people would be Mario Kart Double Dash and Conker's Bad Fur Day (honorable mention to MK64, because that was the only video game my brother and I could ever get our dad to play with us).

viewmaster_pi posted...

i hope it's not too late to go :(

Late comers are always welcome.

TomClark posted...

Ray Stands

Peter Bankman
Egon Spangled

kirbymuncher posted...

the cold war isn't even against russia it's against china

Which makes it even more shameful and embarrassing that Russia came back and won the thing with nothing more that a few roomfuls of internet trolls.

Trelve posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ad59f71c.jpg
I get the feeling he didn't like it.

I mean, judging the trailer in a bubble, you could walk away with the impression that the New Vegas aspect is little more than set dressing, which would unfortunately be on-brand for Bethesda Fallout. "Remember Dinky the Dinosaur? Ooh, we totally need to set an episode there!"

Fortunately, the show has a surprisingly great writing staff that already proved with S1 that they can treat the full breadth of source material about as respectfully as could be reasonably expected. Still, it didn't exactly put to bed fears that Bethesda is looking to retcon the West Coast lore with the whole "Fall of Shady Sands 2277" bit.

Ultimately s2 will finally answer the question of how Bethesda truly feels about NV the game; will they let the writers be respectful of the exsiting lore / game events, or is this finally their chance to play Salieri to Obsidian's Mozart and retcon that pesky fan-favorite out of canon for good and all?

Any clapback against this regime from celebrities equals an amount of time that the right-wing media machine is forced to spend addessing it, which is time away from them sanewashing Trump's bullshit.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

To be honest, this probably wasn't a big deal for the plane. That's the weakest quadrant of a hurricane, and it's just going through the outer bands.

This. While a hurricane may look like a massive ball of death from satellite photographs, the weather patterns within are quite varied; if you're between the bands it might just feel like an above-average windy day.

Which begs the question: are actual industry experts criticizing this move, or is this just social media seeing context-lacking ragebait pop up in their feed and reacting accordingly?

"Please accept five pounds of frozen shrimp."
"Hey, this shrimp is glowing...and my geiger counter's going nuts!"
"Okay, ten pounds."
"Woo-hoo!"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1e1d2438.jpg

Mainline LoZ comes closest; the only one I skipped was Skyward Sword and I loved playing all the rest of them (I say 'mainline' because I skipped most of the handhelds).

Imagine gaining all the powers and abilities of a shrimp! Such as, umm...

It is remarkable how well this tactic gets under their collective skin.

For those of you who think this is just ineffective trolling, please consider how much Trump and his regime blindly obsess over stuff like this. And how much time they'll have to waste combatting it rather than comfortably implementing their next horrible bone-chilling policy. And how much time Fox and the rest of the right-wing media machine will have to spend addressing it rather than sanewashing the next horrible bone-chilling policy the regime puts out. It certainly won't topple the regime singlehandedly, but any effective effort to stymie them should be pursued right up until it no longer works.

XII. Though please note that the topic title said "good." Not "great," or "thrilling," or "moved me to tears," just "good."

Then again I haven't played any mainline entries since XIII, so I can't judge anything that came after.

MC_BatCommander posted...

He does kinda suck, seemed like the writers got a little too try hard to be cool and poetic. It's a really strange DLC because it completely shits all over the roleplaying aspect of the game and forces a backstory on a character that was supposed to be a blank slate.

Has a lot of cool items tho, so at least it's worth playing.

Of course the kick in the pants was that they couldn't fully commit to giving the Courier a backstory with Ulysses because they didn't want to ruin the player's RP aspects, so we ended up with this wishy-washy "you delivered a package once that inadvertently destroyed a community and your carelessness became this guy's sole misplaced motivation to destroy everything and you don't remember any of this because bullet to the head or something."

Now with the benefit of 14 years' hindsight, I think I can say that LR's story would've been greatly improved if Ulysses had simply zeroed in on your faction choice as motivation to be your nemesis; the mechanic / most of the dialogue was already there, just needed fleshed out a bit. It wouldn't have been stellar, but it also wouldn't have left a bad taste in the player's mouth the way the vague halfhearted forced backstory did.

I'm pumped. The odds of this playing nice with NV's established lore are slim to none, but hell with it, S1 was good enough that I'll probably still enjoy this in its own right.

I'm still hoping we get Super Mutants and that Marcus or another high-functioning 1st gen is the viewer's introduction to them. Lucy sees her first one and immediately screams and shoots, and he brushes it off with "knock it off, human."

Salieri's ghost: "Hey, at least it got people listening to my music again."

NA Kirby devouring the thin veil of reality between us and the neverending void is peak cover art regardless of whether or not he can do that in the game.

"So, you let yourself get hyped over a Silksong announcement..."

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/502bc01b.jpg

(If this post actually reverse-jinxes Silksong into getting a release date then I'll happily take those lumps)

Been ages since I've seen it, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit.

Luke Skypilot
Han One
Chewtobacco
Artoo Amnot

Azul the Cerulean
Rosso the Crimson

...wait...

I didn't know they gave out wings and halos in Hell.

Syril Karn ended up having a bit more in common with Ashli Babbit.

Ryu Dragonbuster

ZMythos posted...

Exactly my sentiment. Conservatives are immune to shame and satire.

I'd like to suggest the possibility that the demographic of low-info, vibes-based undecideds who made the big-brained decision to cast their votes for Donald Fucking Trump in the Year of Our Lord 2024 are also those who will find Newsom's trolling to be absolutely hilarious.

"I wish Democrats would grow a spine and fight back, dammit! ...But not like that! ....or that, or that...eww! Definitely not like that! Or that. Or that. Or that..."

Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bdcb7980.jpg

02fran posted...

Models sign up for anything. I'm sure you've seen those commercials where black people are stereotyped.

But why male models?

I was one of the half-dozen people on the planet who genuinely enjoyed it at release. The parts that don't work are terrible, but the parts that do work are really great. The Michael Giacchino soundtrack is the lynchpin for me personally.

SpawnShadow posted...

Does anyone who makes a deal with the devil ever read the fine print?

Literal Dethklok is smarter than Candace Owens.

https://youtu.be/7xDSNA4iSb0?si=C1s1yrMya_T7xg9s

Not a day goes by where I don't lament that they cut the quest where Cass and the Courier get blackout drunk, wake up to the realization that they got married Vegas-style, and have to figure out how to deal with it.

One count Assault With a Delicious Weapon.

Is this the natural evolution of Antifa's weaponized soup cans?

Jordan Peterson is a high-profile public intellectual

Hah, almost forgot I was reading Newsweek there for a second.

"Just stay out of my way, or you'll pay! Listen to what I say!"

"How 'bout I just go eat some hay? I can make things out of clay, I can lay by the bay. I just may! Whaddaya say?"

I played, beat, and enjoyed it at release, but it's just now dawning on me how thoroughly forgettable the game was. Megas were cool, Diantha had an excellent battle theme, and the giant man had a pet flower...and that's it.

Once ORAS came out I never really went back to X/Y for that gen, which was incidentally the last gen I played (I'd previously ended my time with the franchise with B/W, but my brother talked me into buying Y).

thronedfire2 posted...

I wanted to get a big glass case for my lego sets but my apartment is so tiny

right now the few I have are all on my closet shelf

Ikea has Billy Oxberg glass door bookshelves for around $200 apiece, which was a steal when compared to comparable glass cases / shelves when I was shopping for them. They happen to be just right for fitting standard square baseplate sets (you can fit 2 1/2 baseplates longways per shelf, which was perfect for my modular building collection), though you will have trouble fitting larger sets.

The hurricane ruined my cabinets, but I managed to salvage the glass doors and individual shelves for whenever I can get settled again and reorder the cabinets.

If you do end up buying these, make sure you anchor the top to the wall as instructed; these shelves are incredibly front-heavy with the glass doors and have a high risk of tipping over when you open them.

"Hey babe, is it too late to change my answer to Canterbury Tales...?"

Seems to me like raking in piles of money is a hollow accomplishment in and of itself if the wealthy feel the need to constantly brag about how rich and successful they are. You'd think the fortune would speak for itself.

DuuuDe14 posted...

He's an unnamed human man.

Cloud's Mom: "Take me now, Unnamed Human Man!!"

High Charisma, skill check your way out of fighting, have your companions do the heavy lifting when you can't avoid a fight, and choose tricksy / betrayal options at every opportunity.

That way you can constantly tell yourself in your best Matt Berry voice "you really are the most devious bastard in Neeeew Vegas!"

Heh, the Technodrome was one of the last non-gaming toys from my childhood that I managed to hang onto, but I got rid of it when we sold our farm about ten years ago (by then most of the pieces were missing anyway). I don't need this, but man, for just 30 bucks...

Now if they reissued the Turtle Blimp, the money couldn't fly out of my wallet fast enough. As I kid I don't think that one made it a month before the inflatable blimp part got popped and trashed, and I always lamented not taking better care of it.

No. It was part of that cursed run of awful mid-00's threequels: X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, Pirates 3...Revenge of the Sith only half-counts because the two movies that preceeded it were also shitty. There may be worse movies out there, but it was still a major letdown, and it's unlikely that any amount of memetastic so-bad-its-good revisionism will ever change that for me.

Incidentally I think the moment towards the beginning when Harry gets cartoonishly clothslined on a web was the first time I remember thinking to myself "wow, that CGI effect looked fake as fuck."

If I have to say anything nice about the movie, it's that Thomas Hayden-Church was pretty decent.