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I see Aeris, Tifa, and Yuffie. Did you accidentally bite your tongue before making this topic?
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I loved it for its time. It actually made me appreciate the Star Wars soundtrack a lot more when I went back and watched ANH and ESB after playing.

Also, the dianogas (i.e. that cycloptic trash-compactor monster from ANH is now a giant spider-squid that roars at you) gave me a fear of getting attacked in murky water, even in video games.
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'Aerith' ith pretty much the penultimate example of nitpicky internet nerdth caring more about thomething being 'correct' than being 'good.' Who careth how thtupid it actually thoundth when you try to thay it aloud; that'th the way it wath originally, tho that'th the way it mutht be. Thith ith the kind of mentality that thucked thome life and originality out of the FF6 retranthlation and a ton of life out of the Chrono Trigger retranthlation.
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I wonder how they end up being troopers again after losing the station and switching to local cops?
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I'm a Preservative, and u jez Jelly.
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Mike_Stanton posted...

You know guys, stuff about aliens is actually more plausible than a guy ON EARTH having magical powers. Think about it.

Shit's deep, man. Like Rick and Morty deep, man.
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Frolex posted...

Don't know why hollywood keeps pushing comic book movies, they all suck, they'll never catch on

They seem to keep thinking they'll work for some reason. Hell, rumor has it that even Marvel's finally trying to get their Iron Man movie out of development hell with that junkie punchline Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role. Movie's never gonna even get off the ground at this rate.
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I feel like whenever they do actual history anymore, they're putting all their eggs into high-production miniseries like The Men Who Built America and The World Wars (both of which I personally enjoyed quite a bit).
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Worst topic of 2017 so far

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Legends dawnt burn dahwn villages.
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(Assuming you're wanting show characters only)

1. Dolorous Edd Tollett
2. Prince Oberyn
3. Davos Seaworth
4. Olenna Tyrell
5. Tyrion Lannister
6. Twyin Lannister
7. Barristan Selmy
8. Tormund Giantsbane
9. Jorah Mormont
10. Samwell Tarly
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Darkninja42 posted...

Sinroth posted...

Lol ff9 Brady guide

What was so exceptionally bad about that one?

Instead of actually giving you the full information about...well, anything, the guide would give you a little side bubble with a specific url to check on their fledgling PlayOnline.com. Here's an example: 'you can find a very powerful weapon somewhere in this cave! To find out where the weapon is, go to PlayOnline.com and type in 12345XYZ.' This was the case for every piece of information in the entire player's guide, and that's not an exaggeration. This was in an era where most households had dial-up at best - my family didn't even have home internet at the time. Without internet access, the guide is almost completely useless (and nowadays it is completely useless, since the site no longer has the FF9 info). It's inarguably the worst professional player's guide ever produced.
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Teddytalks posted...

I hope the game fails tbh. I Love metroid, but if they're going to resurrect it as a zombie carrying their bullshit DLC practices, it needs to die and die gracefully.

If this game in particular sells poorly, there's only one conclusion Nintendo will arrive at: 'despite all the vocal fanboyism, no one actually wants classic Metroid anymore.' The concept of 'voting with your wallet' is fine, but there's only two ways you can vote in this case: for the success of a series, or the death of the series. So if you want to vote with your wallet, try to get people to boycott the amiibo, not the game itself. Admittedly you won't make much of a dent since they'll be deliberately short-stocked and will sell like hotcakes regardless, but at least that way you won't be shooting yourself in the foot.
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Deadpool_18 posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

let her live her life. she's just feeling her oats.

I will when she stops annoying me every week with her obnoxious personality.

Why should she act over 20 when you can't even act over 10?
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TomNook20 posted...

Topics like these should be an instant ban.

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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

"I can i i everything else," Bob reportedly said to Digital Journal, to which Alice replied: "Balls have zero to me to me to me..."

XD

Jeez, a couple of robots can't even make awkward dirty talk with one another without people thinking it's the apocalypse.
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Rika_Furude posted...

The earth is the only planet that is flat

Mars is actually a cube. You only see it as a sphere because you're looking at it through a round telescope.
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LittleRoyal posted...

Returning_CEmen posted...

LittleRoyal posted...

No. I did oral but it wasn't a great expirience for me I hated all of it. I mostly just did it to fit in since some people I was talking to st the time were making fun of me really bad.

You gave?

Yes bleeeh I could feel it in my throat for weeks.

I feel ya (on the opposite end of the spectrum, anyway). First girl I ever went down on was...unhygienic, to put it mildly. I came this close to throwing up and it scarred me for awhile. What a pleasant world of difference it was when I got over it and went down on my then-girlfriend a couple years later, who took much better care of herself.
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Prima's no slouch either. The Fallout: New Vegas collector's edition guide is about as in-depth as you can get (with some nice art and lore in the back pages). But what really sells it is that it's written by an actual gamer who's not trying to sell you on a game you've already bought - he'll tell you openly which perks are great and which perks are a complete waste of time, for instance. It's also peppered with some funny pop-culture jokes; when he mentions the Wild Wasteland granny gang, he writes out the full intro of the Monty Python sketch that inspired it.

And Brady's got the albatross around its neck that is the infamous Final Fantasy 9 player's guide.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

masterpug53 posted...

Oh, well, we call it 'pandering' on this side of the pond. Totally huge difference, trust me.

... how is an interracial couple in a cereal commercial pandering?

Give it a few years and people will look back on what currently gets bitched about as 'pandering' with the same incredulity.
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Tezlok posted...

Mars has 2 The Moons

Yeah, but they can't help but knock into each other every time they try to pass.
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Jeez, you people and your giant turtle fantasies. It's a lion-turtle, obviously.
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3rd_Best_Master posted...

chill02 posted...

no one cares around here

Milkman5 posted...

you're basing your view of America on a guardian article

CE was triggered by that Cheerios commercial.

Oh, well, we call it 'pandering' on this side of the pond. Totally different reason for hating on nonwhite people that isn't at all racist, trust me.
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Deadrool?
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Nope. Thankfully I knocked that out within a few weeks of going to college with the first girl who showed interest in me. Not exactly a girl you'd parade around to your friends, though she did have a decent athletic body. Still, I have more than a few regrets from my time at college, but losing my virginity and ending up with a sex-buddy for a couple months wasn't one of them.
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damn...well I only lost out by about a year.
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SGT_Conti posted...

I get some mad Star Wars vibes from the game.

Hmm...well, a desert-dwelling orphan meets up with a war veteran long thought dead, and then joining up with a dashing pirate and his furry copilot to rescue a princess from a floating battle station...nah, I don't see it.
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DezCaughtIt posted...

Ashe's stupid gasping makes my ears bleed

*Some character mentions Nethicite*

Ashe: *gasp!*

This happens in nearly-identical scenarios almost a dozen times throughout the story, and it drives me nuts as well. I know I sound like a broken record to anyone who reads FF XII topics, but I think Ashe really falters as a 'lead' character because her arc hinges exclusively on the weighty moral dilemma of whether or not to smite her enemies with the magical equivalent of an atomic bomb. And what gamer at any point thinks a FF protagonist will actually opt to go that route in the end?
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I seem to remember disliking Cid's combat role more than Edward's. But that could've just been my prejudice in expecting more out of Cid.

Also inb4 the FF VI topic where everyone picks Relm.
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hockeybub89 posted...

It's current year and people unironically support Alex Jones.

If you will permit me a moment of shameless potential self-gratification...I started saying 'current year' maybe a year or so ago, after I started getting fed up with the type of lazy internet brats who would say things like 'It's 2016, why isn't racism totally dead yet?' Is there even a hint of a chance that I was the one who started saying 'current year' in place of it, or did someone beat me to the punch?
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frozenshock posted...

I don't understand the thing about budget constraints... isn't this one of the most successful tv shows ever? And if I understand correctly the network was trying to convince them to make 10 episodes in each of the last two seasons but the creators were like no way

I get the feeling that they're just trying to get rid of it and finish as soon as possible so that they can get started on their american civil war show

Everyone likes to blame D&D for everything, but I can downright guarantee that they're far from the only ones involved in the show that want the damn thing to end. GoT is easily some of the most complicated and time-and-energy intensive filming that's ever been done for an ongoing TV show. The cast and crew have spent the majority of the last half-decade living and breathing this show (considering it's all shot on location), and it's not hard to believe that they're all tired as shit of it.
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Philoktetes posted...

the worst part about the dark tower ending was not the ending itself, but the part before the ending where stephen king scolds the reader for expecting a good ending

This did piss me off a bit. Especially considering that the ending he warned us away from was the most fitting ending (or punishment, if you will) for Roland's character.
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No kidding. If I go out to a gay bar to get my ass fucked, I don't want it to be a sausage fest.
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NeonOctopus posted...

I keep hearing that Vaan literally has no purpose in the story and Balthier should've been the protagonist. Is that true? >_>

Yes. Vaan is a stock prettyboy added later in development to appease the Japanese fanbase, and actively brings the game down with his presence. Balthier has the best lines, most personality, and most character reveal / growth in the party (even over Ashe).
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

Depends, how fast was Jesus driving after he took the wheel?

This should have been /topic, but some of these others are pretty good too.
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The Pros:

- quite possibly the most expansive and richly-detailed world in FF history
- the combat, while divisive, can be quite fun and engaging if you give it a chance.
- a shitload of side content
- Balthier
- Fran's backside

The Cons:

- Vaan actually deserves the hate
- several underdeveloped characters
- similarly, the story isn't bad (it's actually quite good in places), but a five-minute cutscene just can't stand against the 2-3 hours it took you roaming and fighting to get to it.
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So I guess my takeaway from this topic is that watching oiled 80's beefcakes and listening to GnR will make me a man's man and directly increase my sperm count. Seems legit, and not at all something that Mac from Always Sunny in Philadelphia would say.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...

Best
Oracle of Seasons
Oracle of Ages
A Link Between Worlds
Spirit Tracks
The Minish Cap
Tri Force Heroes
Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda
A Link to the Past
Phantom Hourglass
Link's Awakening
Four Swords
Worst

Who even needs the Master Sword when an edge like this can shred Ganon to ribbons?
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I predict freedom of access to mods on the Switch version will definitely be better than Microsoft's and definitely not be laughably worse than Sony's.
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Arcvalons posted...

Antifa is not a movement. Completely decenttralized, no leadership, no rules, all antifascists can form their own chapter at any time and at any moment.

So they can take group credit for any positive action but can write off any negative action as 'just a fringe group?' Sounds convenient.
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Shadowstrike007 posted...

I don't tip because you should have a better job.

You know EXACTLY what you get in the food biz.

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Well, since they omitted the ability to recreate your character upon exiting the tutorial dungeon in Skyrim, making a save before character creation only spares you about five minutes or so. And I actually like Fallout 4's intro quite a bit. So in these two cases, no.
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I mean it's cool that Tilda Swinton landed such a big role in these movies, but I would have just as soon cast her as older Mon Mothma.
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male mickmig, orb.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

git gud

Took you long enough to play that card.
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People seem to hate Fusion for alleged hand-holding and praise Zero Mission, while Fusion was much more difficult than ZM. I have a little trouble computing that, to be honest.

Personally, ZM was ultimately pretty forgettable for me (apart from the final mission, which I didn't care for), and Fusion is one of my favorites. I loved it specifically because it took you out of your comfort zone and put a new spin on the franchise - it rewarded your fandom by taking familiar things and turning them on their head, whether it be a super-sudden (and super-freaky) countdown timer event, or good ol' familiar Ridley instantly mutating into badass Mega Ridley. Personally I think people who get too wrapped up in what something 'should be' rather than what it 'is' deserve their disappointment if they can't see far enough past their expectations to recognize quality.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

masterpug53 posted...

a basic bottom-tier revive spell...and it costs 100 fucking magic points to cast...in a game where your magicka starts at 0 every battle and regenerates at a snail's pace. There's challenging, there's unforgiving, and then there's a masochistic game designer getting off on being withholding of the most basic skills of an RPG.

And there's easily purchasable consumable items that restore a unit's MP or speed along its regeneration.

For everything else, there's MasterCard.

Someone mentioned that last time I vocalized my beef with this game, and it still doesn't come close to justifying the ridiculous casting cost in a game where money is scarce and every turn has to count.

For the longest time I wondered why no one ever talked about TO: LUCT, given how FFT is an offshoot of the series. After I played it, I stopped wondering.
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