Lurker > Panthera

I'm pretty sure no amount of declining population will ever make them invite me over to help

ForsakenHermit posted...

It's also lame, the crimson mask look could have been cool if they kept it for special occasions. Using it as a default robs the magic of the look.

Somewhere Jon Moxley is crying.

Ar0ge posted...

But isn't he planning ANOTHER book after Winds of Winter to finish the series?

Even IF we do finally get Winds of Winter, we'll for sure NEVER get the last book.

Yep. I feel like we will get Winds of Winter in some form eventually, even if it takes someone else finishing it off from his notes after his death. Dream of Spring is straight up never happening under any circumstances.

WesternMedia posted...

I used to think this was egregious too but thinking it over it kind of makes sense when almost all of them take place in a medieval setting. Yakuza is like one of the few that doesn't and they have more realistic ages.

Low life expectancy in medieval times was caused by sky high infant mortality rates, not by people being ancient at age 40. People who made it past their first year or so tended to live into their 60s or 70s on average, younger than now but not by anywhere near enough to make JRPG ages make sense.

toreysback posted...

is panthera really that smart?

Yes

In fairness, she was intended to be able to kill the pegs - the 2x effectiveness thing was changed in the international release, the original version of the game has the usual 3x effectiveness, which does give her the damage to one shot them. On the flip side she's still shooting one enemy per turn and thus falling behind in levels anyway and even when she's up to date in levels she would still be bad...

Compsognathus posted...

A special shout out needs to be given to FE7 though, where reduced effective damage means Archers can't even one-round Pegasus without considerable investment, which is like their whole entire niche

Eh, they can pull this off pretty easily, but that's because the enemy Pegasus Knights in FE7 are atrocious. Like, the boat map features Pegasus Knights with 0 AS. The issue with Pegasus Knights is that Rebecca doesn't OHKO the early game ones in HHM (she generally doesn't even do enough damage for Eliwood to kill, it needs to be her + Lowen/axe guy), and Wil needs to gain strength in Lyn Mode to be able to OHKO the ones on his join map with a Steel Bow, and only if they roll low on HP/Def. If you actually use them they can handle one wyvern rider per turn later on, but actually using them is a colossal pain when their base performance is so terrible and the payoff is so mediocre.

They're good in Three Houses. Very good in Echoes, albeit it takes a while and you need to know what to do (forge a Killer Bow ASAP because they're mediocre without it). Sniper is a fairly good class in FE12 because of its high speed cap and how you can't just mow things down easily on enemy phase. Other than that generally no. There have been individual bow users who are good but usually despite the class, not because of it. Only real exception is Binding Blade where the Snipers are both solid units and one of the two nomads is great (the other is also decent), but the unpromoted archers are both still hot garbage.

7/10

Which is basically a 10 by Pokemon standards

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak (demo): Symphony of the Night

I mean, it does have a vampire...

Xerun posted...

Very keen to know proper impressions of weapons. I was GS main in World and changed to SnS for Rise. might switch back with the new switch skills

GS is insane now, that new Hysteria skill is bonkers. The timing takes some getting used to (there's a bit of a delay on when you can activate it after you start a charge attack) but once you do you can just block your way into free true charged slashes all over the place.

averagejoel posted...

Genealogy isn't super difficult, though it can be easy to screw yourself over with bad romantic pairings.

You have Seliph, Ares and Leif no matter what, as well as Oifey to carry early on. Nanna also does the important part of her job regardless of father. The kids you can modify are almost all just the backup brigade, only a couple can ever be serious difference makers.

ctesjbuvf posted...

Man with all my inexperience and after spending a full day telling Kirby he's making flawed statements; anyone saying I should have seen Chris being third party here, now that's a flawed.

Everything looks different if Chris doesn't get to night kill as Bulbasaur too. Everything. I might have died too then, but I certainly begin to suspect then. I wasn't as hard on Kirby as it seemed though knowing he was town he was being too sure about some dumb things probably. I looked at setup and everything and I couldn't piece together Chris being scum. The 1 kill a night was too perfect for me to consider third party at that point. An SK might not be as obscure as what I was trying to figure out, but it sure required way more conditionals to be there. Not bad at all, I'm sure watching such is frustrating knowing the truth, but jeez, take off those 20/20 hindsight glasses. This is before considering I have nothing to compare his play to. He played great but as he said himself; super lucky too lol.

People are wrong about rule 1 of b8 mafia. They think it means "If Chris lives more than a few days he's scum". It doesn't, that's rule 2. Rule 1 is "everything is always obvious after the game is over". There's never been a single good scum/indy play in the history of b8, just bad towns failing to know what the dead town totally knew before the host told them.

Oh yeah I would echo starting with one of the GBA games, they're easy to get into and straight forward. I would suggest Sacred Stones, it doesn't have the stand out bad maps that FE7 has or the awkward "no item use in prep menu" thing Binding Blade has. Also lets you start on its hard mode from the first playthrough, which is not going to be hard for anyone who has played a Fire Emblem before but is more engaging than FE7 normal mode which is a joke.

Genealogy

Or more likely most of the creepy assholes in Hollywood were more or less open secrets and everyone was cool to ignore it besides making occasional jokes until something came up that made them have to pretend they totally didn't know and disapproved.

Unbound and Radical Red

You have shown no remorse for the suffering you put that family through, Charlie Brown.

After how much normal Pokemon stuff they cut out of Sword/Shield I don't even want to know how little they'd be able to do with a Pokemon game that aimed for good graphics. They'd probably have time for like, 5 gyms, and you could fight the Elite Two as soon as you finished exploring all eight routes and six towns. The graphics are the least of my concerns at this point.

Doubt it. I'm an Oilers fan so I'm hopeful and I think they have a decent shot against Colorado (I'll call it 40% chance of victory) but I don't see them beating Tampa in the finals. Maybe if the Rangers make it instead they could win but I'm not expecting it.

PowerOats posted...

It's been so long I don't remember. Can the Red Chocobos cast meteor or something?

They have Choco Meteor, which is decently strong, has a ton of range and bypasses evasion. The Red Chocobos also have very high speed and move, so they can walk up and pelt you from a huge distance away, then retreat on their next turn while attacking again and then repeat. If you've leveled up a lot that battle becomes brutal (this is one of the two or three mandatory battles with level scaling for enemies) if you get a lot of Red Chocobos spawning (it's a bit random), especially if you use a lot of slower/lower range classes.

What is she ready for?

plasmabeam posted...

Like how Magus goes from having 6666 HP as a boss, then has HP in the hundreds when he joins you? Yeah, this one drives me nuts.

I mean, he may lose a ton of HP but his damage also goes up, and in the long run gets way higher than it ever was an enemy. This is more of a function of the fact that JRPG combat systems almost always have enemies with tons of health but low damage and players with the opposite than anything else.

:)

Medussa posted...

one anti vote for any organization that would employ Milan Lucic.

Doesn't really answer the question

I would say "Yes, first you should know that this is the most famous street in the city, where 37 women in the past six months have turned up dead after moving into town and being rude to someone. The police say the motive is unknown and that there are only 31 victims, but trust me on this one."

Oilers always

Characters dying and coming back to life, and basically any time you do fake out deaths where you try to milk the emotions of a death scene where the other characters react like it was real only to pull the rug out from under it later. All it does is make me not want to bother paying attention to the story because I don't expect anything it shows me to matter, I assume it will just backtrack on anything serious/negative it suggests as a possibility so I don't give a shit. I realized just how sick I am of this kind of shit in stories recently when I played a game with an actual character death and I barely even acknowledged it until after the fact because I'm so used to seeing a character seemingly die and having it be just a cheap way to try to create drama without doing something actually dramatic.

Also silent protagonists are generally bad. The ones who get enough dialogue choices aren't so bad (I don't mind the Persona ones too much because while they do strain credibility a lot, at least they do say stuff several times in pretty much every conversation so it never feels like they're just total non-entities) though still not ideal, but in general the problem is silent protagonists break the world they're in by having no one respond to them properly. The whole "self-insert" thing doesn't work at all because they're still clearly pre-defined characters - they always do the same things, make the same decisions, have whatever nebulous personality traits make the other party members like them and their enemies dislike them, etc. They just don't have any of their dialogue shown so you don't get to see much about who they are, or in the cases of the ones who don't even get treated as if they are saying things you don't get to hear/see you're left wondering why no one around them ever comments on them never talking.

Oh, so THAT'S why the Joker is so crazy

The only vague hope Hulk has is that Broly will go full stupid and just fight him up close forever. Even then Broly should win but at least that way Hulk gets to pretend he's in a real fight. If Broly uses a fraction of thought he quickly realizes he can fly, nuke the planet and win instantly with zero effort.

We laugh at this now but I really do think that in a year or two the media will have succeeded in mostly rehabilitating her image. As soon as the trial isn't fresh in people's minds articles that gloss over her abusive behaviour and talk about how it must be suspicious that people were happy about a woman who told her story of receiving horrible abuse losing in court won't get the same immediate pushback they get now and they'll help ensure that in the long run people will just kind of remember it as the trial where poor Amber Heard got called a liar just because she wasn't a total saint. I hope I'm wrong but I don't really expect to be.

Because it's a different game?

I definitely didn't have a high school crush with breasts that size

It's pretty good, I've been meaning to give it a second playthrough. From what I've seen it's fixed one of the biggest issues I had with it now (originally it made EV training pretty tedious until long after the point where it's reasonable to go without, but the new no EV option solves that problem) so that's nice.

You're not vegy, you can't make girls call me ugly

350k for an account that barely matters because I can just use my other one and the only downside is I lose access to LUE, which I only post on about once a year these days? Uh, yeah, sign me up

Water obviously. Your body is made of 99% water, so the pre-humans had to invent water first before they could invent humans, and we know early humans were the ones to invent fire

I watched the series a few months back, it really takes a while to get going, the early episodes are mostly pretty bad, a few good jokes here and there but mostly just repeating the same dull crap. It got a lot better as it went on, which is pretty different than DBZA which had its bad first few episodes, then got really good for a while and went downhill later on

Well obviously she wants me to pull my dicks out so I can give her one of them so her boyfriend can use it for his experiments, so that's what I do

Well, yeah, I read the books multiple times and I never had the slightest clue he was actually a woman named Elizabeth who was known for being oddly fond of croissants

It's not weird at all. If you grew up knowing that ghosts are objectively real, you wouldn't think that was strange at all, it's just life. The idea of them not existing would be the thing that would weird you out.

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Master of Puppets
Battery
Disposable Heroes
Damage, Inc.
Leper Messiah
The Thing That Should Not Be
Orion

Metallica instrumentals are always bad. Other than that I like every song on this album but even the best tracks are only good, not great. Definitely falls short of the high points on Ride the Lightning.

Ampharos is my second favourite Pokemon ever. I love Luxray and Eelektross but they're not topping Amphy

Good luck Corrik, hope the remaining times goes by...fast

Are you stuck in the Vatican again step-Sistine?

I love Shinx but the Mareep line is my favourite in all of Pokemon. Nothing is beating my sheep.

Girl 1 is making that Wiimote wet, which makes her untrustworthy. If she's going to do that for the sake of a picture you can't be sure she won't ruin other things for fun as well.

Girl 2 chose to pose in a way showing she's angry. No one does that unless they think having anger issues is cute. Probably the type of girl who posts "If you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best" unironically.

Girl 3 isn't even looking at the monitor like holy shit girl get it together, my great grandmother understands modern technology better than you do and she died 17 years ago.

Girl 4 however is perfect

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

-Obi-Wan Kenobi

Honchkrow is one of my favourite Pokemon. I like everything on this list that isn't Swoobat and Mandibuzz (Swanna as well to a lesser extent).

Deathwish - At the Edge of Damnation