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Sami1000 posted...

Supes powers irl are dangerous as fuck. If you went from idle to max speed you would just cause huge, massive explosion.

Superman literally has it as part of his powers that he doesn't create crazy sonic booms and things he picks up don't break from the weight not being supported properly or basically cause any negative side effects you'd expect his powers to
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Become the most famous person in the world, make tons of money doing all kinds of useful things to help society, and troll reporters when they try to ask me questions by carrying a pair of glasses around that I will take off and put on and pretend it changes who I am.
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Like plate mail, but reinforced with
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One of my favourite games of all time
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That second Balk fight is the part where almost every SCC needs to rely on some combination of luck and AI manipulation to realistically win
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Geomancer is always a fun job, especially when the status effects keep triggering for you
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The original translation is hardly free of lines that don't feel at all like real dialogue
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Jakyl25 posted...

To add to the discussion from the end of the last topic, remember that Vince is the arbiter of WWE morality the writers are appealing to.

WWE babyfaces will always exhibit qualities that Vince McMahon considers to be virtues. Let WWE's examples of what good people are like be a window into his soul.

So whenever Vince sees criticism of himself on twitter, he goes around backstage bragging about how he put so many people out of business?

Okay actually that does make sense, thanks
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LeonhartFour posted...

I mean not really because FFT is still very much playable regardless of translation but one version is "trying too hard" and the other is "not trying hard enough"

and I think I've learned that "not trying hard enough" is preferable to "trying too hard" with translations

idk I have a general rule with translations that if the grammar is consistently broken to the point that a 13 year old could have fixed it, it's automatically worse than a translation that uses the language properly regardless of how weird its choices may be. I personally prefer peculiar but competent work over shocking ineptitude.
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LeonhartFour posted...

Panthera posted...

The original translation is memorable and funny...because it sucks. I love all the dumb memes it provided too

sounds like solid reasons why it's better than the WotL translation to me

In the same way that Big Rigs is a good game, sure
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Also my favourite FFT "combo" will always be any strategy built around turning the enemy into chickens.
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One of my favourite games of all time

Also the new translation is way better, it's preferable to have a stylistic choice that might not click with everyone than to have your translation be something that could have been improved by asking a random 12 year old to fix the grammar for you. The original translation is memorable and funny...because it sucks. I love all the dumb memes it provided too but let's be real, FFT was released late enough into the age of video games for a translation of that quality to be unacceptably bad.
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I know the asshole face is a standard WWE thing but it feels like in the past they made the effort to make them likable assholes. Like I never liked The Rock much but they at least tried to make him seem like a cool, funny guy you could support. I don't even know why I'm supposed to like Reigns or Enzo.
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I know it's the most stereotypical smark thing ever to like the heels more than the faces, but holy crap does WWE even want their faces to be entertaining or likable? They're mostly just generic, boring jerks. Meanwhile team heel has Braun being a jackass in amusing ways, Cass being 100% right about Enzo being a douchebag that holds him back, the Mizbear army...
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It's not the concept itself that's hated, it's the over-use of it. I'm pretty sure everyone is on board with the occasional jump scare, the problem is that in addition to being overused, they usually don't even make sense and make it feel like the story is ignoring its own rules to make things happen. Plus they usually come along with random loud musical cues that are annoying to listen to.
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bng_mmmk posted...

so I used Zombie Attack to get him. honesty? I'm not sure what I would have done if they'd osmosed Auron one more time.....I was all out of MP restoring items and I wouldn't have been able to overpower the 9999 healing he does every time you hit him

His Gravijagawabawhatever hits himself as well. Even if you don't have zombie attack or reflect, if you wait he'll eventually drop himself to low enough health for you to kill him.
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The Gunslinger is awesome

The Stand is a frustrating book for me because the first half of it is excellent, but then the second half is pretty much dedicated to killing everything that made it good and has probably the worst example of villain decay ever.

Pet Semetary is great, one of my favourites. Definitely one of the more depressing books you'll read though, it's pretty much dedicated to proving that no matter how bad things get, they can always get worse.
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Because it would be a really stupid idea that would be impossible to get off the ground logistically even if you assume it would be smooth sailing once formed, which it wouldn't be? Mass relocation of a tens of millions of people on the promise of a potential future is a rather dramatic and expensive undertaking
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Mayweather is probably sitting at home wondering how on earth he managed to find himself such an easy pay day
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What if someone I disagree with is shooting at me? Like if I'm in a self-defense situation do I need to quiz my attacker to discern their views on abortion, gay marriage and tax rates before I can fight back?
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MattSFfrd posted...

i'm a 49ers fan and i've watched every professional snap he has ever taken. all politics aside, he's a fucking terrible traditional NFL quarterback. the only reason he had success under harbaugh was because they tailored that offense around his many weaknesses and exploited his few strengths (powerful arm, crazy fast and elusive). a team isn't going to do that for him at this point. he's done.

This is really the biggest issue, like Toast keeps saying. Kaep can be "effective" (not great but not worse than a lot of guys in the league) in a very specific offensive system, but NFL coaches generally don't like to run that kind of offense because it's a lot less effective than it is in college. His political stance likely does dissuade teams from taking a chance on him, but signing him is just taking a gamble that he can somehow become effective at a style of play he's never shown much aptitude for in the past. Only the fact that competent NFL quarterbacks are hard to come by allows him to be in the conversation.
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"Zack Ryder" and "going to do something meaningful" sound weird in the same sentence even when the latter isn't a reference to the former
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Not really. MH4 has a more fleshed out story than the rest of the series, but not by much. Generally speaking the plot is "There's a monster, go stab it and make a hat out of its kidneys" and that's all that matters

legendarylemur posted...

The point of Monster Hunter is that all the monsters have really deep lore behind them, and they fight according to their lore.

Eh not really, you have a paragraph of very basic background in the notes and plenty of monsters ignore their stated behavior completely - notably anything that is supposedly territorial is still a pacifist to all other monsters and will only ever target the player (this is especially notable with Deviljho, whose intro scene in 3U/Tri is him crushing a Great Jaggi, but is then followed up with he and the Jaggias just hanging out together until they notice you)
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It's definitely not like rain on your wedding day.

It does somewhat resemble a free ride when you've already paid though.

It has nothing to do with good advice you didn't take though.
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Because while the rest of the decadent modern society is run by shallow people like you who obsess over "musicians" that rely exclusively on technology to make the music they themselves cannot, and more attention is given to what someone wore than what they meant, metal is still operating on the premise that there is only one truth in life, and that truth is energy, intensity, riffs, and most of all that if you live the right way in the end Satan will devour your soul and...actually that sounds kind of unpleasant, maybe I've been doing it wrong all this time.
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Veggeta X posted...

Panthera posted...

I'd probably dislike it from an entertainment perspective if I were a bigger basketball fan than I am

So you dislike it the same form for Durant right? Right?

To a lesser extent, since the Cavs still existed this year so it wasn't quite as one-sided as the hypothetical Lebron Warriors would be. There's a difference between finding something less entertaining and thinking less of the players involved though - I wouldn't think less of Lebron even if it did make the NBA boring as hell (and the boredom isn't all that relevant to me anyway as someone who only semi-follows the NBA)
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Veggeta X posted...

Panthera posted...

It's funny to see the same type of sports fans who judge everything based on number of championships won and insist a great player sucks for not winning more even if their team was way worse than the competition turn around and say that the quality of the team suddenly matters for Durant. If you judge individual careers based on rings, you can't object to what Durant did. Dude won, case closed. And oddly enough was the finals MVP, turning in an amazing performance in the biggest games of the year...hmm, seems like maybe he didn't need to be carried, maybe his OKC teammates are just overrated for not being able to win even with him.

Not every NBA fans are what you think. There are many people like me who thinks people with rings are still shit because of the way they got it.

Then you're not who I'm laughing at. I disagree with you but I'm not going to make fun of you for being consistent.

Veggeta X posted...

People who are totally okay with Durant joining the enemy team to get a very easy trip to win a ring, I got a question.

Lebron joins GSW next year. It's all good right? No ill shit against him right? It's all perspective now.

That would be hilarious. I'd probably dislike it from an entertainment perspective if I were a bigger basketball fan than I am, but I wouldn't think less of him for doing it. If winning is his sole priority, he might as well do his best to win.
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It's funny to see the same type of sports fans who judge everything based on number of championships won and insist a great player sucks for not winning more even if their team was way worse than the competition turn around and say that the quality of the team suddenly matters for Durant. If you judge individual careers based on rings, you can't object to what Durant did. Dude won, case closed. And oddly enough was the finals MVP, turning in an amazing performance in the biggest games of the year...hmm, seems like maybe he didn't need to be carried, maybe his OKC teammates are just overrated for not being able to win even with him.
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ChainedRedone posted...

And your example is flawed because Americans and Canadians aren't vastly varied like in other countries, which was your point in the first place.

No, that wasn't my point. Try reading next time, it helps.

My point was that they are varied, and thus the popular vote encourages politicians to ignore certain parts of the country. I didn't say they were unique, I said they were examples. This applies to any country with variety...which is almost all of them, which is why the idea of the popular vote is not inherently the "fairest" thing. Any democratic system you come up with is always going to inherently favour certain parts of the voting populace over others.
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"No I am a good Christian man and I think you need Jesus in a bad way"
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Paige
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ChainedRedone posted...

Panthera posted...

Popular vote being all that matters is a lot less appealing in a place like America or Canada that has very diverse regions.

Do people actually believe this shit? You've never heard of Russia, or Switzerland where people legit don't even speak the same language? Though now there is much better unification of an official language in those places, the point still stands. It seems Americans think "well we're very different from the rest of the world". No, you're not special snowflakes. At least not in the ways you think you are.

I'm not American you illiterate dweeb.

They're called "examples". People on GameFAQs are far more familiar with America and Canada than they are with what languages Switzerland uses or anything about Russia beyond Putin memes and homophobia.
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Stand still deliberately letting yourself get hit in a game about hitting the opponent until you can kill them.

Be surprised when you get hit.

Profit?
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Girls go to Pluto to get less planet
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legendarylemur posted...

Actually, sacrificing units for the sake of winning in the end is like the sloppiest, most ineffective strategy. I've seen my friends that play casual. They make really really dumb moves and get away with it even if 2-5 units die like nothing.

The fact that they get away with it shows why it's effective! It's very easy to beat Fire Emblem maps when you have no reason to care if a unit dies. Every situation where you have to worry about how to bait a given group of enemies becomes trivial when the answer is "do whatever, the AI can't actually beat you unless you let it". It's silly, but it gets you to the end, and that's why permadeath exists in Fire Emblem - to give the enemy an actual win condition of sorts to ensure you can't just mindlessly brute force every map without paying attention
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dave_is_slick posted...

Milkman5 posted...

is it even possible to lose any chapter in Casual mode?

Duh? What kind of question is this?

It's pretty hard to lose in Casual mode without deliberately trying to. Sacrifice bait is a ridiculously strong tactic in Fire Emblem when it has no cost, and all you need to do is not use your Lord for anything meaningful and make sure you don't sacrifice your boss killer.
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Why do you think that you liking something makes it impossible for someone else to not like it?
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No electoral systems are actually pretty controversial in a lot of places.

Popular vote being all that matters is a lot less appealing in a place like America or Canada that has very diverse regions. The more similar individual parts of a country are, the more it works. The more different parts are, the worse it is, as you open the door to candidates that essentially campaign on screwing over the less populated areas for the sake of the more populated ones. You essentially encourage politicians to never consider the well being of the people outside the big population centers.
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I remember I grinded for an eternity on my first FFX playthrough, my main dudes were doing 9999 damage per hit by the end of Mt Gagazet. Apparently 13 year old me had a lot of patience and also sucked at winning via anything resembling tactics
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Helpful FFX tip: Attempt to reduce the enemy's HP to zero before they can do the same to your party
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I'm not sure what you want man. It was pretty clearly not a real piece of news.

So your original post was intended to be "the important thing is that today we can invent random jokes that have no connection to anything, which apparently we can't any other day"? I don't see the purpose of it myself but hey, whatever suits you
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But what kind? Salmon, trout?
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It's really good

AdmiralZephyr posted...

I like it. It doesn't strictly follow the tried-and-true Fire Emblem formula, but doesn't deviate so far that it's unrecognizable. In that regard it's kinda like Pokemon Sun/Moon for that franchise.

<_<

Uh...

It's pretty hard for a surprisingly faithful remake to be like a game that went in a fairly new direction <_<
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Metal_DK posted...

Ulti was fine if you learn to not take everything somebody says as some personal attack.

Nice thing about Ulti: I'm pretty sure he would admit that a lot of what he says *is* some personal attack
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Ulti...has a great...The Rock Bottom!
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I used to play a lot of chess online with a friend. For some reason he was obsessed with some "fence" strategy where he moved all his pawns up alternating between one and two spaces in the opening stages of the game. It was annoying and tedious but really useless and I'd almost always win when he did it. But when he actually decided to try something non-absurd he'd beat me more often than not.
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If Pokemon were real I'd have a pet Arcanine named Rover who would get me in big trouble when he accidentally bit a little kid, lighting her on fire and burning her to death in the process. Rover would be put down and I'd be really sad and commit shot self
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Joe vs Lesnar is not what I was expecting
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