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video game reviews have this weird thing where anything 5/10 or below is considered a dumpster fire

a 2/5 for a movie is used the same way a 6.5/10 is used for a game

Glad you're feeling better!

drowzee is just so unrepentantly stupid looking that i love it. it's probably one of the worst psychic pokemon but i put it in my original red team because of tha

I bought the persona 4 anime as a gift in 2013

I think that might be the only dvd/blu ray thing I have ever purchased

this thread brings all the b8ers to the yard

or maybe a sonic adventure 2 boss, or a gundam

a lot of these barely look like pokemon to me. i would've guessed they were digimon or something

TomNook posted...

That's kind of on you. Sometimes you have to waste a guess on a bunch of letters on a word that obviously isn't it just so you don't lose. As tempting as it may be to go for GLORY, and a fast answer, you have to think realistically.

I learned that a month ago back on "SHAKE" when I almost lost and wasted so many guesses on the last consonant. Never again. Spend a 'wasted' word on all possible guesses. Then you win.

If it could be SHAKE, SHAPE, SHARE, etc. You should guess something like "PERKY" to cover your bases. That's just basic strats.

That's if you're playing on easy- normal/hard/whatever requires you use all confirmed letters

You had your fight response triggered. That's normal.

I think what happened (kids leaving) was the best possible outcome

You did good. The right thing to do is to get up and yell at them in that supremely direct and succinct way that anger provides. Make things awkward. don't get violent or too ad hominem and the crowd will be with you for it.

You can either simply cow the kids, get them kicked out, or leave and get a refund. No solution is going to make you both feel completely better

I find the iframes hurt the viewing experience- it is a series of attacks clearly hitting the player, but because they're upside down they take no damage

But aside from that, the very visuals in general have been excellent!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Across the Roots Site of Grace in the Deeproot area. 3 stationary enemies directly next to it giving 3-4k souls each depending on your buff. Kill the 3, teleport, repeat.

thanks!

And remember the entire supply chain

the raw material supplier has to make a deal to transport the materials to the manufacturer, who had to make a deal to send the products to retailers who will then sell them to end customers

And they all have to make deals with their employees! And pay rent!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

You can get over 40k souls in 2 and a half minutes with zero risk even before the endgame near one site of grace, there's a point you reach where anything under 6 digits is pocket change.

That's nice. Where is it?

for me, sound and music is such an integral part of the experience that it's hard for me to answer

i guess there are some simplistic and brutal action games that just wouldn't be the same without the music, like furi or hotline miami

I suspect I'm on track to get the bad ending, but since nothing is explained properly i don't think i mind!

tough for me between xerneas and solgaleo

i thought ho-oh looked excellent on the gold cartridge, but current drawings don't look as impressive

MoogleKupo141 posted...

please no hard r

gamea

Excuse me it's pronounced gayma

RyoCaliente posted...

Is it? Gross. The Rebels Inquisitor looked more threatening, this guy just looks like a dweeb.

are you talking about this guy?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/7f/GrandInquisitor-TSWB.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20201027055308

Leonhart4 posted...

Duel of the Fates yes please

every time i hear the beginning i expect the auralnauts' dance of the fates

i'd love to, but i hate being bad at things. going through that awkward (and possibly permanent) phase between high-school level and true fluency would make me so uncomfortable

i appreciate my mastery of the english language, and speaking in another language will always feel like trying to eat dinner properly while wearing a giant mascot suit

pjbasis posted...

trophy hunting

stop hurting yourself!

despite (or perhaps because of) all of the weirdness and wonkiness i think mgs has to be my favorite video game series of all time. even when it was eyeroll-worthy it was at least always trying and always evolving

it's so hard to choose a favorite- they all have strengths and weaknesses- but i'm very glad that i started the series with mgs1 back in the early 2000s

even the worst entries in the series were meaningful. i had a blast playing mgs4 even though it was like 20 hours of cutscene and 10 hours of mediocre gameplay. it hit all the right story and nostalgia beats

someone i know said squeenix had been pretty strict with takedown notices on youtube recently

hopefully everything they take down they will later upload themselves

Yep, you don't need the information in that case!

FYI a lot of these are asset packs, tabletop rpg pdfs, or gags

i'm still gonna buy the bundle, but make sure you look through and check and make sure there's something you want. best to avoid sour feelings!

Yeah, it really sucks only being able to hop in with one swing at a time

I'm not even bothering with the ultra greatswords so far because they're just too slow. Stuff like swords and axes are better for that- the upgrade stone bell bearings are so clutch

MoogleKupo141 posted...

this is a totally in researched thought, but it feels like going in hard on either dex or strength is the wrong move because you can just go in hard on faith or int and get a weapon that scales with one of those, + then you get the benefit of being able to cast better spells

I think about this, too. My impression (untested) is that weapons naturally scale more with str/dex, and the scaling for int/faith weapons caps out lower

I don't think about it too hard and just keep swinging my brick hammers and greatswords with my strength build

I have heard that dex/arcane is the nuts, though

i haven't gotten to the endgame, but to those of you getting one-shot... how much vigor and endurance u got?

i've been matching my primary offensive stat with vigor and endurance and that seems to be working okay

yes, i guess you could say i've "retired" for now

my job was absolutely fine, but wasn't very fulfilling.

normally that's not a problem- i make my life about stuff outside of work. but none of those things were happening in 20 or 21. half the time when they were happening either it was annoying to coordinate enough time off, or i'd be exhausted from work and crap out early for the first day or so.

i'm sure i'll go back eventually, but i'm in no rush.

previously i was just kind of earning money compulsively with no end or goal in sight. for now, i'm content with what i have. when i decide i want to do something specific i'll have more motivation to get back in there. it would be amazing to have a passion or pet project be enough to pay the bills

I'm very thankful that everyone I know who got it is now healthy for the most part

Some senses of smell went away, but they're ok

On

masterplum posted...

The Only exception might be if you are passing an unbeatable bomb in an 8 person pod, but even then I probably wouldn't do it unless the pack had nothing good for me

Always splash the unbeatable bomb

It's unbeatable!

The immovable object vs the other immovable object

It just dawned on me that every arachnid Pokemon has only six legs

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Simping Achieved. Ending locked in, as far away as that may be.

U spoiled the endings for yourself? Crazy person

That's a long damn movie. When are we bringing back the intermission?

Solfadore posted...

I see you have discovered the area beyond the Gargoyle fight. I did a quick once over and had to laugh at the number of runes you can get just riding around killing those stationary enemies.

A nice chill farming spot would be very nice for upgrading weapons. I feel much less constricted than in normal dark souls games, but I did the math on catching one up to my primary and it is quite a bit

Mega Mana posted...

I think Final Fantasy VII. I know I got far enough to be able to fight Weapons, but I think I got super disillusioned with Final Fantasy superbosses and the need to grind forever for post-endgame stuff

Maybe I'm reading the prompt wrong, but I wouldn't consider optional bosses required to finish a game

But it's interesting to consider the alternative

xp1337 posted...

...Wait, I know the answer. Pillars of Eternity 2. I could basically have started endgame but was experiencing burnout because of some silly decisions made on my part. Really need to, at some point, get around to that. ...By making nearly the exact same questionable decisions that led to the drop lol.

oh man. i don't think i've ever actually completed an isometric crpg that had combat (this clause is to account for disco elysium). icewind dale, tyranny, pillars of eternity, pathfinder: kingmaker, others... i've somehow accumulated all of these highly reviewed games that i cannot stomach

Raka_Putra posted...

FF IX. My CD didn't work. I've been replaying it on Steam but it's been slow.

My ff9 CD broke at the cutscene before the final dungeon

This also reminds me of the time I bought tribes 2 as a kid at GameStop and the CD key was already used

Outer wilds. I felt like using a guide would be cheating more than usual, and at a certain point I lost interest in checking everywhere again for the requisite coordinates

MoogleKupo141 posted...

was pretty managable

He was pretty manageable, but he still killed me a good number of times. His hit and hurt boxes felt odd

I think it's implied you're supposed to hit him in the band-aid but that also wasn't right, either. the number of bosses in this game that use "shockwave" damage to hit you without needing art assets to touch you is higher than normal!

What builds are you all using? I might be gimping myself for going full strength/endurance, and slapped some in arcane early on when I thought it would be useful. Right now I'm deciding whether to spend my next 5 or so points going quality, faith, or int

It has the shield buff, faith has resistance, healing, and status cure spells, and quality has a greatsword down the road

Also can't remember how scaling works in this game exactly. Whether 40 strength with a strength scaling weapon is better than 20 strength and 20 dex in a quality wep, for example

he should convince Stephen King to finish the series for him

I've never played the game, so I'm happy to sit this one out

i originally liked aeris way more for many reasons in the original story. aeris was more interesting, but mostly i didn't like that tifa was witholding important secrets from cloud. didn't help that tifa's boobs were so ridiculous in cutscenes. i also got the impression that tifa and barret were a couple for the first few hours, which tinted my assumptions about who cloud was supposed to be interested in.

but i think the fact that aeris is still in love with zack kind of nixes it, especially in the remake

yes

excellent character

Peace___Frog posted...

I've only met him the once. Where else have you seen him?

i found him in some cave to the east. there was a paper thin wooden wall/door blocking his way, so presumably he's stuck there until i figure out how to open it from the other side

wow hisuian litten is looking a little green in the face, is it okay?

That's super interesting, thank you. I guess a lot has changed in the past 3-4 years

Hopefully they can reset the escalation while still keeping the ultra hardcore engaged

I was gonna vote no, but I have for sure collaborated as a group on some assignments that were meant to be individual. I just can't remember what they were specifically

I don't think I ever did it to get a better grade, but rather to make it more fun and to get through it more quickly