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I'm terrible about keeping up on chores, so maid it is.

Lokarin posted...

also one of the reasons she couldn't get parents consent is cuz they're both dead :/

Poor kid.

I like greens the most, but I think the real issue is that colors are best enjoyed when playing off of each other. A favorite color is nice and all, but color combinations are just better, I think, and oddly as a result, most of my favorite artworks do not feature my favorite colors prominently very often. Like... the only art print I own is one of Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree, and while there is some green in it, the piece is largely yellow/orange and blue.

If you cannot provide empirical evidence to support your assertions, I am not going to waste my limited time entertaining them. Even if anyone ceded the argument that there may be a deity or deities, that does not at all support any specific religion.

"My religion explains things!" Every religion explains things.
"My religion makes people better with its rules!" Every religion claims to do this.
"My religion predicts things!" Most religions also do that, too.

Provide me actual evidence or stop wasting my time. You know what's arrogant? Thinking that of all the sets of beliefs in the world throughout human history, the one you happen to follow is both some sort of immutable truth and inherently morally superior to all others, and that your particular interpretation of your particular religion oh so conveniently supports your socio-political positions.

I love them, have since I was 5. They are such interesting animals. They're going through a really tough time right now which sucks because they are great insect control/pollinators. People keep finding bats starving, wounded, exhausted, and with heat stroke lying on the ground.

The races are easily my least favorite part of that game. They seem to require quite a bit of luck as well as (imo) an almost ridiculous amount of precision for a game that was clearly aimed at younger players. I have chronic hand pain and slow reflexes so I don't think I was able to win any of the slide races or the rabbit one. I *think* I beat the owl? Can't remember.

I've actually played that game a lot, though. It is WAY too repetitive, but there's something almost meditative about it when it's at its best. I feel the same way about Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, actually, though both of those are without question better games than DK64.

Come to think of it, a lot of the game's problems would be solved by making it like... split-screen co-op, so two players could play as different kongs and go after different parts of an area at the same time.

I like Twisted Mansion and Shy Guy Falls a lot, but I really like Shy Guys so that one wins.

A party that must travel in at least two groups + limited inventory + unique character skills + permanent party member death, so that if a character dies, the others must sacrifice inventory space to carry an item that can perform that unique ability. I am talking about the meshing of mechanics of the NES game Sweet Home, which is imo one of the best aged rpgs on the NES.

Lokarin posted...

Personally, I don't think the double tech system from Chrono Trigger has been used enough... maybe ONE other game uses it

Rogue Galaxy had a variation on this, as did Final Fantasy IV: After Years (blegh).

Black_Crusher posted...

I like how in NES Legacy of the Wizard enemy drops are tailored to what you need more of.

I was just thinking about Legacy of the Wizard for this topic as well. The ability to choose different characters to tackle a sort of pseudo open world-ish/metroidvania-ish dungeon is not really something I've seen in another game. Sad. :(

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Oh, a small example of something I wish more games had is limited multiplayer in adventure/rpg games. Mostly I'm thinking about Super Mario Galaxy, where a second person could control a cursor+the luma friend. It means that if someone is watching you play the game, they can still play but without needing to put in as much skill or effort. I think it's a great mechanic not just if you have a kid around, but if you are trading off who is the main player based upon how up for play they are. It allows people who are mostly just observing to actively participate a bit in play. I like it a lot.

Ice cream in any form, probably.

Yet people make threads titled "Israel killed 11 kids this week" b

Why are you conflating Jewish people with the State of Israel?

Corporations engaging in "wokeness" is just a byproduct of capitalism. Anti-wokers need to grow the fuck up; if you don't think a product appeals to you for reasons as shallow as "it has a woman main character" "it has a poc supporting character" "it has a gay/trans background character," don't buy it. Creators are under no obligation to exclusively make products that only appeal to whiny bigots.

adjl posted...

It's not even necessarily a misogyny thing. I expect more of it is "this is what the libs want so we oppose it."

Reactionary behavior, yes.

It's not entirely fair to blame voters in general when the nation is so heavily gerrymandered and does not operate off of the popular vote.

Lol, reactionaries get triggered over everything.

Does Ditto count? I like Ditto.

hera posted...

we just got this big lumbering beast walking around hanging out, and they're like half our height. they're strong as all get out with a mouth that'll tear you to shreds a nose that'll smell you from miles away and radar ears and they are our best friends by default

Those facets are exactly why humans domesticated them. Makes sense to me. No point in domesticating an animal that can't do anything. *glances at hedgehogs, goldfish, etc*

I've played all the Xenoblade games so far and enjoyed each of them despite their flaws. I did get 3 and am a couple hours in. The pacing in this one is absolutely atrocious to the point where I feel like I've sat through 2 movies already, and the game keeps putting up invisible walls to keep me on rails, but I am just starting so hopefully that problem does not continue. Other than that it seems like a marked improvement from XC2, and I think the characters so far have solid foundations to make the story good. Gameplay seems fine, too, and they've added more layers to enemy mechanics and combos, which is inarguably good (I still miss being able to change enemies by targeting limbs like in XCX, but alas). We'll see.

Edit: Btw, by all accounts overleveling in XC3 is very ill-advised. It causes other things to become much more grindy until you reach NG+ and can de-level the characters, so if you do get the game, try to avoid overleveling. :(

Entity13 posted...

Whereas so much of the first game was, "Are there machines? If yes, waste time on the one ability so everyone else can do basically anything

Literally over half the party has all or most of their important attacks pierce all that anyway (Shulk, Melia, Riki, Seven).

your face gets pounded by the mobs because neither tank can take aggro.

I didn't even use the tanks most of the time in XC1, tbh.
NGL, XC1 has problems but your complaints are pretty weak. If you don't want to use the mechon weapons or Enchant, you don't have to; just use the other options given to you.

shipwreckers posted...

I know some people hated it, but I REALLY wish they'd do a remaster ("definitive edition") of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Somehow that "filler" was bearable to me (at least more than the BLATANT time-gating filler in Torna). XCX's biggest crime was that it released on a doomed console. (The western censorship didn't help XCX either.) But, I think it would look and play phenomenally on a Switch!

That absolutely was not the weakest part of XCX. X is my favorite of the -blade games that I've finished, but its story is absolute trash because it's not complete. And I don't mean in a "we had to really rush the late-game story content so it's poorly paced." I mean that it's actually fucking incomplete. It literally ends on "There's something about this planet." Cool, you gonna let us find out what that is? No? Not even in optional post-game content? Great. :-/

Game needs a ton of QoL features (especially audio sliders, a faster way to change party members, and maybe making the text bigger because I had a hell of a time reading large chunks of the menu settings) but that's basically a given with any proper remake, one would hope.

Legacy of the Wizard! I still haven't seen another game quite like it (I know it's part of the dragon slayer series but it's very different from other installments).

It's just a coward's way of saying "I don't like that famous person's opinion."

You should take photographs of your injuries.

Uh, no. Fuck no. Fuck these states, that's fucking disgusting. This just makes abusers more likely to murder their abused partners.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I really don't think I can take a discussion seriously when a scantily clad male-voiced Catgirl is talking about the issue. Somethign about it feels... wrong.

It's on purpose, lol. Just listen to the audio; I do that with most videos anyway.

Worse, because I have chronic hand pain now. I'm worse at typing as well, it takes longer and I make more mistakes.

It's not that bad, really.

Jen0125 posted...

I'm just finding it extremely pathetic that some people are so insecure in their own choices in life that they think they need to force a path on everyone

No. They don't think they need to. They just want to.

wpot posted...

Huh. Who knew THAT was a cover?

I did, though I didn't know that growing up. Can't remember where I found out about it, either, but I think it got brought up in a conversation about how they tweaked the lyrics slightly.

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

But it hurts. :(

Gameplay-wise? Probably one of the Tales of healers, some of them are just monstrously efficient and kitted out to completely wreck everything. Estelle from Vesperia and Elize from Xillia and Marta from Symphonia 2 immediately spring to mind; they can spam full-heals incredibly fast with very little cost and they are also good combatants in general so when they don't need to use support, they can thrash the enemies. For pure healing, Elize is faster, but Estelle has a more diverse kit and is significantly tankier which is a great attribute for a healer to have.

Serena from Act 2 of Dragon Quest XI is an excellent healer, as is Rosa in the DS version of FFIV provided you augment her properly, but there's no auto-revive spell in FFIV so that holds her back a bit.

Heat+gas prices, maybe. And people are more stressed in general, which means their ability to tolerate or make allowances for things is strained more.

Lyll from Legacy of the Wizard was based off of an anime character who was based off of Red Riding Hood.

I never grew up on Tool, but when I first heard Schism, I listened to that one song for like... an hour? two hours? A long time. I don't like all the songs of theirs I've heard, but when I do like a track, I *really* like it.

ToastyPOP posted...

Didn't even play Spirit Tracks.

You should listen to the OST, at least. It has some nice tracks.

Was just thinking about Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel the other day, actually. I didn't like the song when I first heard it years back, but it grew on me pretty fast. Shockingly underrated song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhk-DiPqhr8

Polio: Up yours, woke moralists! We'll see who cancels who!

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Caramel pecan tends to be decent, butter pecan sounds terrible.

Butter pecan is good, and yes, it's made exactly how it sounds; there's butter in it. I have been told that there's an odd divide when it comes to butter pecan caused by Jim Crow/segregation, where African Americans were often arbitrarily denied goods and services. Butter pecan was, according to some, popularized among African American communities because shit-bag racists wouldn't serve them eat vanilla ice cream.

Edit: Had to go afk in the middle of making my post. Anyway, I have trouble picking a favorite ice cream. I guess it depends on my mood? There's a honey fig ice cream that I've had that was really good.

I don't really understand the love for plain vanilla/chocolate. They're boring.

adjl posted...

Because he was actively participating in a crime (specifically, harbouring a fugitive). Not a crime that deserves capital punishment, obviously, nor any sort of violent response and probably not even a criminal conviction, but he was nonetheless not an innocent bystander.

This is a bizarre leap in logic coming from you.

Depends on the noise. I do have audio hypersensitivities. I particularly hate the sound of crying/screaming children.

I wear jewelry sometimes, none of it particularly expensive (I don't blow shit-loads of money on non-functional things, especially not things that are easily stolen), mostly pendants, and most of them were gifts. If you want a rough run-down:

The most recent pieces are glass pendants with painted insects inside from Etsy (Edit: SelflessAxe was the shop). Got a couple of dragons and dragon claws, a medallion of the phylogenetic tree of life, a blue+purple glass lizard, an hourglass, a silver pyramid and a silver piece with my name inscribed on it from one of my uncles... I have two ammonite pendants (one is pyritized)... one of my sisters made me a hemp piece with a single glass chunk that creates an optical illusion. I have a little glass owl, but I don't wear him because he was a present from my aunt who died and I don't want to break him. I have a little bat with a body of stone and wings+head of leather and googly eyes, lol. I have a little playable clay ocarina with an owl carved into it, which is appropriate because if you play it right it can sound like a little hooting owl- gift from my father.

I have some bracelets and earrings, but I prefer to wear long sleeves and I like my hair loose and earrings always snag on my hair, so I don't really wear those anymore. Weirdest one is probably a chunky bracelet made of stained bones that fit in alternating triangular shapes, a present from my mother's mother.

Those are all the ones worth noting design-wise, I think... actually a bit maudlin now going through the box; a lot of these are gifts from dead people. :(

They're okay. ST inarguably has a better OST than PH if nothing else, and they improved the controls a bit from PH to ST, though the pipes set the game back significantly in that regard. I liked the more prominent role Zelda got in ST.

I also liked being able to just draw on your map; I wish more games would let you do that in addition to having stamps and such.

I don't think I'd play them again without some sort of modification to their control schemes, tbh.

Buddyblade posted...

Is it donut or doughnut?

I use donut because it's faster but both are fine.

Best kind of donut?

The donut kind.

other donut thoughts

I want donuts now. :-/

Holy shit.

Muscles posted...

My grandma

Yes, there are exceptions like this. I am being hyperbolic, but I guess I didn't go over the top enough, lol.

acesxhigh posted...

easier said than done

Oh, believe me. I know. orz

Ah, landlords. The most disgusting socially normalized parasites.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

the kennel claims she broke a nail???

That can definitely cause a lot of pain depending on where it broke. Do you have neighbors who could watch her?

I've not had a lot of different cheeses, but I usually like them. Years back I had a cheese covered in sliced almonds... it was really orange, but it wasn't cheddar I think? Didn't taste like cheddar anyway. Was good.

Straughan posted...

Another thing lots of people get ruined on is good wine.

I've only ever had one wine once that I thought was really good. It was the wine at my sister's wedding. Holy shit it was good. I kept asking people what it was and no one ever told me and I never found out. orz

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My bad, I don't pay much attention to the nitty gritty details of billionaire leeches abusing their power since it happens so often and nothing is ever done about it.

It will give rapists a new line of attack against their victims in court. "She's just claiming it was rape so she can get an abortion."

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... Dude, come on... he raised her and then married her, use your brain for 5 seconds and think about how she was probably raised.
https://www.rainn.org/news/grooming-know-warning-signs
It's like textbook abusive behavior; they manipulate the victim into believing that:

1. the abuser can be trusted. He was raising her, this is an easy thing to cultivate if the abuser is a family member.
2. this "relationship" is normal (but secret), often by calling the victim their girlfriend/boyfriend or saying that they have an arranged marriage planned or something like that. He almost certainly told her long before she was of age that he was going to marry her.
3. (if they are a minor at the time) that if they tell anyone about what is happening, those people will judge/shame the victim.
4. they often give the victim lots of gifts and affection early on. Since he is her wealthy parent, there is obviously no barrier to him engaging in this kind of manipulative behavior.