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Fire Emblem has some. Jagen, Wrys, Gotoh, Wendell, and Boah in FE1; Marcus, Dayan, and Yoder in FE6; Athos in FE7; and Gunter in Fates... just off the top of my head. Jagen would be my pick for the coolest of them.

Bonus points for having an old woman party member in FE6, too.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Another happy article!

http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/338296-six-resign-from-presidential-hiv-aids-council-because-trump-doesnt

I was going to post this.

At least he's still better on the issue than Reagan, who refused to do anything even as gay men were dropping dead at his doorstep.
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NeoElfboy posted...

You have a distorted view of the US of 60 years ago if you think its people were overall better off then. Life expectancy was lower, violent crime rates were higher, black people were treated as second-class citizens, gay people could lose their jobs if they were outed, women were denied high positions in society and could be legally raped by their husbands.

Spoilers: he thinks the last three are exactly why the US was better 60 years ago.
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Not_an_Owl posted...

Wouldn't it be globalist to want a better relationship with Russia, and nationalist to want them to mind their own business? Since Russia and the U.S. are, you know, entirely different nations.

Keep in mind that when he says "nationalism", he means "white nationalism," and when he says "globalism," he means "the Jews".
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TheRock1525 posted...

The trailer and gameplay looked damn good to me.

Gameplay looked fine, visuals aren't great tbh
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Not really a valid comparison when a pretty substantial amount of AM2R's work was reused assets that Nintendo made, not the developer

I don't really have an issue with sprite reuse, especially if the alternative is bad 3D. If you want me to just say it looks worse than Zero Mission or Fusion or Super Metroid instead, I'm fine with that!


TheRock1525 posted...

Samus Returns looks way way worse than AM2R?

I mean, it isn't out yet so I'll reserve complete judgment until I see it in person, but based on the trailer... yes?
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Epyo posted...

As for the switch to 3d, my understanding has been that intricate spritework is just too expensive and a skill hard to come by these days, and sure enough Iga says something about that during the video, although he also brought up something I hadn't thought of, that it gets difficult to support many platforms and resolutions and viewports when using pixel art since pixel art is inherently not intended to be scaled (his words are better than mine).

Yeah, they were pretty upfront about this even during the Kickstarter (or maybe it was soon after?). It's just a shame considering Castlevania used to be gorgeous. Same with Metroid and Samus Returns; it's kind of a black mark when your official remake looks way way worse than the one made by a single fan.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/evan_mcmullin/status/875722914636627968

It's the embedded Tweet that's more significant, but I liked McMullin's response

Newt is crazy

is this not just "if the president does it, it's not a crime" restated?
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Jakyl25 posted...

People don't understand what you mean when you say "racism" though, and they'll counter with things like "but the officer wasn't white! By liberal logic he can't be racist!" and then everything gets bogged down in semantics.

I think "prejudiced" is an easier word for people to grasp that still applies here and gets the message across.

Right, but "black men (and boys, who are seen as men anyway) are threatening monsters" is a huge part of racism. It's ingrained in our society, and it's taught to police officers either directly or indirectly because of that. Calling the officer prejudiced just makes him a lone maniac and absolves societal forces.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Let him have this.

Nope!


Jakyl25 posted...

this cop felt threatened for some insane reason.

it's called racism

sorry for breaking your desire for empathy and understanding on all sides but like, if it looks like a duck...
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Every video I see of Bloodstained makes me wish more and more that they had gone with sprites and not 3D.
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Uh, it sounds like that bill just extends previously existing hate crime and anti-discrimination laws to apply to gender identity... I'm not seeing anything about "criminalizing the use of wrong gender pronouns".

Maybe use other sources instead of the Daily Caller?

For example, you could read the actual text of the bill: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/third-reading
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Vlado posted...

Posing as arrogant only underlines your insecurity.

Kenri posted...

I mean, you'd know.

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SgtSphynx posted...

Dammit. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please

can you file FOIA requests against actual living beings
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ffmasterjose posted...

Like whoa. If we don't chop off heads we look like pussies?

Bring back the guillotine imo
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Vlado posted...

Need I repeat my previous comment? If you've got nothing to address the initial article, or the other two materials I posted, you might as well not post.

on the other hand, you're definitely not the best person for advice on when not to post
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Vlado posted...

You can play stupid all you want.

I mean, you'd know.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXb91uWAAE-60f?format=jpg&name=large

Presented without comment

There is no word in any language for the emotion this provoked in me.
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I think another way to improve it would be to make points the same regardless of difficulty, but not allow characters beyond a certain stat total/level/"quality rating" into lower difficulties. That way you could at least have character progression while you're grinding. Part of the drain with Lunatic 7 is that you're basically forced to use level 40 characters, so they don't grow at all during the endless grind.
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red sox 777 posted...

Exactly, hence the need for a full blown trial. Although, it's probably a bad strategy. If Hillary goes on trial It's only fair that someone else goes on trial too, right?

A full blown trial would be the worst possible move. First, for the reason you said. Second, there's no case, so Trump would look incompetent to even his supporters for failing to secure a sentence somehow. Third, even if she somehow was found guilty, that destroys Trump's ability to build support by deflecting to Hillary. Fourth, the Trumps and the Clintons are family friends, so he has no interest in seeing her go to jail (or be punished in any way whatsoever) -- them rich folk gotta stick together.

All a full blown trial gets him is a momentary distraction, and it wouldn't even be very good at doing that.
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Trump doesn't actually give a shit about Hillary, he's just trying to drum up support for himself. You know, just like during his campaign.
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Emeraldegg posted...

I saw that too:
Twitter: HILLARY WON THE POPULAR VOTE
Trump: HILLARY LOST THE ELECTION

uhh i know it's believable but that's a parody account not actually him


Jakyl25 posted...

It was his excuse for why he doesn't do cardio

He could've just said he was rich, that seems like a better excuse.
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I'm pissing myself off just going for 6000 points. I don't know how the rest of you are doing it.
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are we sure he's not just too dumb to understand aging
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Also according to a google search that I did not check the sources on, Kenobi was 57 in New Hope and Luke is 53 in Force Awakens.
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MariaTaylor posted...

can't speak to the character ages but

alec guinness was 63 when a new hope came out
mark hamill is currently 65

i am legitimately shocked by this
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I wouldn't be shocked if Luke is handicapped by his age in the same way Obi-Wan was (and to a lesser extent, Vader). Dooku is kind of a special case in that the prequels were garbage so of course he was still doing a bunch of flips and shit.

But I think it's going to end up a lot like Obi-Wan in A New Hope, where everyone thinks he's their savior but actually he's just some old dude whose main impact will be inspiring the next generation.
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MrGreenonion posted...

Yeah but that wasn't a fight. Luke won the fight.

I mean, sure.

I guess "he nearly dies outright to one of his enemies in his big climactic scene" is what I mean, "fight" just sounds more pithy.

He definitely beats Vader, but Vader isn't that impressive of a swordfighter in the OT either. (His force abilities are impressive but IIRC he barely uses them against Luke, except to throw shit at him.)
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MrGreenonion posted...

Kenri posted...

outright loses his big climactic fight in the third

http://customstarwars.x3.hu/film/vader.jpg

This looks like winning to you?

I feel like you're forgetting the other guy who was on Team Evil and almost killed them both. <_<
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Luke never impressed me much in the OT. Luke isn't a fighter in his first movie (which is the point), skips out on training to save his friends in the second (which is the point), and outright loses his big climactic fight in the third, only winning by appealing to Vader's goodness (...which is the point). The idea of the super badass Jedi Luke is something invented by other Star Wars properties -- it was never really in the three films.

Rey had been fighting for longer than Luke before she even touched a lightsaber. That's why she could beat people's asses with a staff, whereas Luke had to be saved from a bar fight. Whether she surpasses Luke in legend status is whatever (I don't really expect it), but she's pretty much already stronger than Luke was in ESB and I'd be surprised if she didn't crush his RotJ peak.
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Eddv posted...

As with all things there were different reasons different people supported it.

Part of it did have to do with that - the language on militias in particular was valued in the South but not just for slave patrols (as economic thinking at the time was that slavery was going to stop being economically viable which changed due to the Louisiana Purchase and changes in technology and there were plans to phase the practice out). It was particularly important in North Carolina which had its own little Civil War prior to the Revolutionary War and the rural areas were deathly afraid of violence from their own state government and vice versa.

Makes sense. I didn't know that about North Carolina, that's pretty interesting. Thanks!
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redrocket_pub posted...

Kenri posted...

Most plausible explanation is that it was meant to allow slave patrols to be armed (without explicitly saying so). So I guess if we needed to nuke some runaway slaves, yeah the 2nd amendment would cover that.

Now this is a theory.

I believe it's the historical consensus (...or as close as there is to one for this topic) but admittedly my focus begins about a hundred years later so I guess it's possible I'm wrong.

Edit: Eddv, I forget your area in history -- do you know more about this than I do?
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charmander6000 posted...

Question for the Americans

Under the letter of the law would the right to bare arms technically include access to WMDs?

Answer: nobody actually knows what the 2nd Amendment means because it's A) incredibly vague and B) written in English that sounds like it's been through 10 rounds of Google translate.

Most plausible explanation is that it was meant to allow slave patrols to be armed (without explicitly saying so). So I guess if we needed to nuke some runaway slaves, yeah the 2nd amendment would cover that.

...does this answer the question
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tbf we'd probably be a lot better off if we were still part of Britain so I can see the argument
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None (except a 3DS)
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http://www.theonion.com/article/virginia-shooting-somehow-proves-what-every-single-56246
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maybe it was the talk of hitting sessions with an anvil, but it's like clue and we got the wrong person and weapon
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HaRRicH posted...

Disagreeing and taking action with your political beliefs should never include attacking elected officials. Period.

I mean, this sounds great in theory, but in practice there have been a lot of uprisings against (at least ostensibly) democratically-elected officials that the world is, in general, fine with.

I don't condone it but it's more complicated than you're making it seem.
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Is Bernie or Bust even a significant group? Bernie's best demographic was also Clinton's IIRC. Not convinced they swing the election, or even make any notable difference to it.
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red sox 777 posted...

The voters. The voters who elect the electoral college. The voters who matter.

Your point already sounds weaker. "The voters who matter are ultimately the people who are sovereign, and they decide the country's destiny"? It's like a line from a story about how bad dictatorships are or something.
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red sox 777 posted...

No, Kenri, you've quite missed my point if you think that. I've made it quite clear that the majority of the popular vote is not in any way sovereign and counts for nothing.

You have indeed made it quite clear (but only when called on it), and you being consistently intellectually dishonest despite that does not mean I've missed your point.

Your point is just dumb.

To avoid this in the future, instead of saying "voters", try saying what you actually mean: "the electoral college," or "538 arbitrary individuals," or "a system which weighs some people's votes more heavily than others." But then your points just sound so much, I don't know, weaker? It's weird.
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red sox 777 posted...

The voters are ultimately the people who are sovereign, and they decide the country's destiny.

isn't your whole fucking gimmick in this topic pointing out how this isn't true

reminder that the "sovereign" voters chose hillary and were overruled lmao
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It would be sort of a cool idea if you could only inherit skills into blank slots, but since you can just not use any of a character's innate skills anyway... I dunno, I guess it's sort of nice for people who don't have a Falchion user yet?
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Xuxon posted...

if you mean Lunatic 5 sweep with A team vs Lunatic 7 lose with A team, win with B team, then Lunatic 7 is better

if you mean you outright lose with all 4 teams in Lunatic 7, then winning Lunatic 5 is better. though i'm not really sure how that could be the case.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Winning on Lunatic 5 is better if you can do that consistently. However, the final map is the same for Lunatic 5 and Lunatic 7. If you can consistently win on Lunatic 5, you'll also get some wins on Lunatic 7 which will push it ahead of Lunatic 5.

This topic has nice charts on how effective different strategies are:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/204447-fire-emblem-heroes/75439837

Thanks for the info! My only issue is with Veronica so I'll probably stick with Lunatic 7, no guarantee I can win even on Lunatic 5.


MrSmartGuy posted...

Oh yeah, not sure whether it's been clarified on the Masked Marth's skills yet, but at least from the 4* one, they were not, in fact, hiding her skills:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/278706978220408833/323017444610539521/Screenshot_2017-06-10-03-35-33.png

So uh... is it just a bragging rights character or what?
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Tag.

TRE (or anyone else), do you know if it's better points-wise to lose on the boss fight of Lunatic 7 or win Lunatic 5?
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Got back to the last map and lost again...

Lunatic 7 Veronica has 66 HP, 57 Atk, 32 Spd, 36 Def, and 29 Res plus her broken weapon, Savage Blow, Renewal, and a fast charging Bonfire. I don't know if there's any variance between attempts or if she's always the same (the other units seem to change somewhat).

She's like... basically unkillable, even with two teams so she starts weakened.

And of course Light's Blessing doesn't work because why would they make it actually useful in any way?
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Not_an_Owl posted...

SupremeZero posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

Let's not lose sight of what's important here. An opportunity to make fun of the representatives of small states:

https://twitter.com/oneofeverything/status/872909945162747904

...

Good job, Idaho.

Idaho is pretty damn red. Saying "Barack Hussein Obama" on television probably just gained him two points in the polls.

Just checking: you guys realize this is from a humor piece on WaPo, right?
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charmander6000 posted...

They're attracted because she looks female, not because she claims to be one.

what does "looking female" have to do with being attracted to genitalia? it seems like you're saying the exact same thing I am, but trying to claim that it's about genitals somehow
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So I got through all of Tempest Trial on the hardest difficulty with no problem until I hit Veronica, who takes like 0 damage from my strongest red unit.

...so uh

I don't know how to deal with that aside from trying to trap her
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