Lurker > masterpug53

"Hate" is a bit too strong, but I'm definitely getting tired of it. Especially in the Floridian summer; there are times when operating a push mower for an hour in Florida feels just as draining as sitting on zero-turn mower for 4 hours in Ohio.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Lieberman and Tipper Gore got real weird about censorship

I was just barely not old enough to vote yet at the time so it didn't really matter, but I remember thinking considerably less of Al Gore when he picked Lieberman as his running mate in 2000.

Trumble posted...

Sounds like it's a recommendation, not an actual prohibition? Hopefully, anyway. A dumb recommendation can simply be ignored.

That's what I'm banking on / crossing my fingers over. I'm gonna call up my local CVS Sunday or Monday to schedule a booster, and if they refuse because I'm under 65, I'm going to ask if they can direct me to a local pharmacy / booster provider that actually knows how to do their fucking jobs.

Remember that guy who murdered thousands of innocent civilians by dropping a literal city on them? Well he's your buddy now and he's gonna be eating up more screentime than most of the OG party members combined! Fun!

Humble_Novice posted...

So Boebert was also bullying a pregnant person who asked her to stop vaping?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lauren-boebert-called-pregnant-woman-182100489.html

Perfectly on-brand for the modern GOP. Florida's esteemed Surgeon General and handpicked DeSantis toady Joseph Ladapo infamously refused to mask up around a cancer survivor during the height of Covid and had to be removed from the premises.

Dark_Arbron posted...

(The party shouldn't be as "friendly rival" with the Turks though, given they were responsible for dropping the plate.)

Yeah, this was just barely passable in the original game since they were still ultimately treated as enemies up to the end, but it really sat poorly with me by the time Advent Children came around and Reno and Rude are all buddy-buddy with everyone (and hogging just about as much screentime as Cloud and Tifa ffs).

I used to love feature-length comedies as a kid and young adult, but they really fell off hard for me after the first Anchorman. Talladega Nights, Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Step Brothers...didn't care for any of them. Walk Hard was the lone exception, I liked that one.

The only feature-length comedies I've genuinely loved since then - Hot Fuzz, Deadpool, The Nice Guys - drift closer to action-comedy than just straight comedy.

Remember when Yosemite struggled to develop functional bear-proof trashcans because "there is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists?"

...and a Barbie bluray, please.

<___<

Avirosb posted...

Why would you want to talk to NPCs tho?
In Oblivion they only have two topics each and in Skyrim do you get to the cloud district very often?

It's a pretty noteworthy step up in design from Morrowind to Oblivion that every single one of the hundreds of townsfolk and other minor NPCs in Cyrodiil - even those that serve no gameplay purpose whatsoever - has a unique line of dialogue to briefly describe their life, role in the city, or simply crack a joke about Khajiit cooking.

And you're half-right in that Skyrim is a bit of a step down from Oblivion's dialogue design. Bethesda took the memes about mudcrab conversations to heart (too much so, imo) and gave certain NPCs fixed dialogue instead; ideally a step-up, but it's rare to encounter the majority of the fixed NPC encounters, and you'll end up getting just as sick of the Windhelm blacksmith bitching to his apprentice about his lost hammer as you ever did with mudcrab conversations. And while most townsfolk now actually have several unique lines of dialogue apiece, some genius set them to always play in a fixed order rather than randomly; so while Nazeem has lines other than the Cloud District one, it's probably the only one you'll ever hear unless you go out of your way to spam the action button over him.

creativerealms posted...

Man I love that it's gun charges.

He's being federally charged for not using them enough.

AbsolutelyNoOne posted...

God dammit, does it look like this site populated by ANTS?

The comic should be at least...

...

...

...three times this big!!

gamerofNS posted...

I'm surprised we're getting 4 characters instead of 2. But is the CSS going to be uneven now?

.... Unless we get a volume 2 that adds 4 more...(Parakoopa, R.O.B, Honey Queen, and.... Chargin' Chuck. There's 4 more potential characters right there)

I noticed this too, my best guess is that Wave 6 has a couple more characters they haven't revealed yet.

What I'm still trying to figure out as a particularly-livid Floridian is if Lapdoggo actually has the authority to block me from getting the booster, or if he's just blowing smoke to curry favor with his boss.

Neat, looks like I'll finally get to play TTYD after all these years of hearing people talk about it (at least in remake form).

Funky Kong, boyos!

I'm watching at work and had the volume turned down, but I'm pretty sure I heard a little of his MKWii VA. Was crossing my fingers that they'd bring that back too.

Also, looks like they showed 4 new characters added when their were only 3 visible slots left in-game. So maybe there's a few more they're holding back on revealing?

Karovorak posted...

The last few MK8 teasers were always videos on their own, and not part of a direct.

And even then it's 40 minutes.

You were saying...?

Just tuned in. Saw bits of what looks like a Contra + Contra 3 remake? Nice.

Honestly, the 'modern three' have enough high points and flaws between them that I can't definitively pick a best one.

Morrowind's high points are lore and worldbuilding creativity, things that still held up for someone playing it for the first time in 2019; and those qualities are good enough that I fell in love with the game, and have been instilled with a perpetual desire to replay it. But the combat is a janky chore, the stats are overworked (there's no good reason why fatigue needs three different attributes governing it), and the game is virtually dialogue-free; there's monologues, sure, mountains and mountains of expository monologues dumped on the player, but precious little in the way of genuine dialogue or memorable characterization. I remember people praising Neloth's appearance in Skyrim as the triumphant return of some great memorable character, but when I finally encountered him in Morrowind I had to ask if we had all played the same game.

Oblivion gets shit on for repetitive conversations about mudcrabs, but it does add a much-needed sense of dialogue to the worldspace, making it feel more alive and interactive. It also has some of the best-written quests out of the 'modern three,' and the subtle horror undertone that lurks behind nearly every facet of Cyrodiil's pristine veneer gives the game a very unique and memorable atmosphere. It also has the single best DLC out of the three (though to be fair I still haven't gotten around to Tribunal and Bloodmoon). But Cyrodiil's landscape (while pretty) is very one-note compared to the other three, the minigames are a chore (particularly the speech wheel), and the leveling bring over Morrowind's worst counter-intuitive qualities while simultaneously stripping out fun weapons / skills and making it even grindier at times (capping skill training per level was a big misstep).

Skyrim's worldspace is probably its biggest selling point - the overworld wilderness is considerably more well-designed than the others, with memorable landmarks, more biome diversity, and a focus on vertical design that handily puts it over the other two worldspaces. Dungeons are generally more unique and well-designed as well, with convenient looping layouts and self-contained stories and unique enemy dialogue. I'm also of the mind that Skyrim's streamlining of the leveling system was not a bad thing; as much as I might appreciate the greater nuance of the previous game's systems, I much more appreciate not having to micromanage my skill usage and / or actively avoid using my primary skills. Still, while I appreciate Skyrim's increased biome diversity, between the washed-out weather systems, the scraggly-ass trees, and the snot-colored moss hanging off cave walls (among other examples), the graphics are generally so butt-ugly that I simply can't play the game anymore without texture mods. Combat magic is weak and tedious as shit, and the removal of spellcrafting was a major blow to the sense of player customization that defined the series. And while the game has a few standout quests, the writing is a noteworthy step down over the previous games (the Thieve's Guild questline is Fallout 3 levels of bad writing in particular).

Poor guy.

I know exactly three Tone Loc songs, and only one of them is not like the others. So I'll throw a pity vote to 'If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody.'

lightsaber go vvwoosh bzzz vvwoosh

"Why didn't the survey ask if people consider physically abusing your spouse or being a convicted felon to be red flags? I am very intelligent."

PraetorXyn posted...

Its not that its not turn based, its just not what people think of when they think Final Fantasy. You dont even have party members for most of the game, the RPG elements are more toned down than ever, usually / writing wise it more resembles A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones than a FF story.

There is a segment of aging gamers who grew up in the 90s and prefer turn based combat, but were a minority.

Honestly, this is what killed my interest in seeking the game out. I'm pretty much over the ASoIaF / GoT style of political fantasy at this point, and even when I was hot for it it was the opposite of what I sought in a mainline FF game. I was never a big fan of FF's earlier attempts at political fantasy to begin with; didn't care all that much for FF Tactics' story (it was the gameplay that sold me hook, line, and sinker), and while I liked FF XII overall (not loved, liked), this aspect of its story dragged the game down and made it and every non-Balthier character involved stodgy and unrelatable.

My asspull guess on the 'unbothered' one is that they're A) aloof and disinterested in getting to know you B) just plain boring, and / or C) putting on a fake 'everything is cool, whatever you like I agree with you' persona just to get laid.

MrFingers07 posted...

It turns out that the Moon is moving away from Earth at us at 3.82 centimetres a year. That means that, eventually, itll result in Earth days lasting 25 hours in 200 million years time.

Me waiting for the time when we can finally have an extra hour in every day:

https://youtu.be/delPMUUdYnA?t=7

There's a key difference between 'not seeing the Barbie movie' (as the topic title suggests) and 'refusing to the see the Barbie movie,' as the actual poll specifies.

Whoops, ninja'd.

MICHALECOLE posted...

>_>

really

I glossed over the OP and didn't realize it said 'alt' instead of 'all.'

The only thing I know about this movie is that Kate Winslet purposefully scheduled the scene in question to be filmed on Saoirse Ronan's birthday.

Gotta admit, I was halfway into a serious response before the joke finally clicked with me. Good one.

Factoring politics out of it (a herculean and arguably pointless task, I know), it's the simple fact that seeing videos of the Twin Towers burning and people being crushed to death, burned to death, or leaping to their deaths plays on people's instinctual fears a lot more easily than hearing about a number going up on the news. Covid deaths do not have that visceral immediacy when it comes to instilling fear; most people simply can't comprehend how awful a prolonged Covid-related death can be unless they're going through it themselves, or have been bedside with a loved one who's died from something similar.

Probably have a teaser for the last MK8 Booster Pass Wave, showing the one new track and one of the 3 remaining characters.

Large Marge is a root canal in human form. Anything she touches will be long and painful.

Love it. Artoo looks like he's about to punch Threepio back to life in the last panel.

Italy once elected a full-blown pornstar to their parliament. I don't say this very often - in fact this is probably the one and only time I'll say this - but we really need to get on Italy's level in terms of governance.

ninja'd on mentioning Kimchi, but the wiki even calls him a fart cloud:

https://chowder.fandom.com/wiki/Kimchi

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/6/AARIckAAE1ac.png

Westernwolf4 posted...

This. Aside from a ridiculous impeachment of Biden being a corrupt mockery of our system of government, it is going to backfire politically. The GOP cant win a national election without expanding the cult base. This will have the opposite effect.

Extreme republicans pushing this like MTG are morons. McCarthy is less of a moron (not by much) but is too weak to stop them.

I am now even less worried about Trump beating Biden.

I'm still genuinely flabbergasted by how Republicans have taken it upon themselves in the last year to co-opt some of the worst election-fumbling qualities that were previously stereotypical of Democrats, particularly self-defeating infighting and the ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like, I knew the Trump cult was fated to devour itself on a long enough timeline, I just never imagined it would start happening this quickly.

Destroyer53 posted...

The articles are easier. The judge not so much because I'm not so sure where to look for the stuff on the judge.

This is such a weak excuse that it genuinely made me laugh out loud.

twanderer posted...

Don surber covered this. Change the law or change the policy.

I'm starting to see why your username is a fitting portmanteau of 'wanderer' and a word I'm not allowed to say on gamefaqs.

He already eats horse paste, so why not take him to the best horse hospital for humans in town?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/6/AARIckAAE1Z0.jpg

"Recuse" - word #56,376 that Republicans only have in their vocabulary because it's been previously used against them so many times.

AceMos posted...

ppl going "hey it was normal back then" yea so fucking what it was wrong back then to

thats not a defense of things

and this is a man who wrote a letter to defend a confirmed rapist

and as has been pointed out his organization has mostly just screwed over sex workers

In the late 90's / early 00's, cracking inappropriate blue jokes about teen actresses / pop stars was nearly as synonymous and pervasive as, say, using 'gay' as derogatory slang; it was incredibly fashionable for a time, a rare few realized from the outset that it was in poor taste, others slowly came to this realization themselves, and eventually it fell out of fashion.

You are correct, it's not a defense of a person's character to point this out, because it was bad behavior at the time, and it took some people longer than others to realize it. But at the same time, when someone digs it up in Current Year as an attack on their character, in terms of damning evidence it's about as compelling as revealing that they wore JNCO jeans in the 90's. The other evidence you mentioned is far more worth everyone's time to focus on.