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Topic	Street Fighter 6 Open Beta 5/19-21
Not_an_Owl 05/20/23 5:10:42 PM #21	The absolute madlads at Capcom managed to make Ryu interesting and fun to play for the first time in history. I thought it couldn't be done. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.
Topic	PlayStation Showcase Wednesday May 24 4PM Eastern
Not_an_Owl 05/17/23 1:31:48 PM #26	MacArrowny posted... Does MGS1 require story baggage? There are several references to Outer Heaven and Big Boss that don't make any sense if you haven't played MG 1 and 2. Not enough to completely ruin the story or anything, but it might leave a new player wondering why ~~the ninja hates Snake so much.~~ --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.
Topic	Can you name some RPGs that are explicitly anti-monarchy?
Not_an_Owl 05/06/23 2:39:50 PM #12	Final Fantasy Tactics. Before the game starts there was a conflict between kingdoms, and Ivalice (the kingdom where the game takes place) raised a large army of commoners to help fight. The war ends in a bloody stalemate, and the commoners are all sent home with no money to rebuild their homeland. A solid core of that army raises up in rebellion against the nobility that used them and then threw them away, but are ultimately crushed. The old king dies, leaving behind two potential heirs - a late-teens daughter (who may or may not even be related to him by blood) and an infant son (who, hilariously, has the same caveat). Two factions of nobles spring up, each plotting to manipulate one of the heirs to put themselves in absolute power. A civil war breaks out, further worsening conditions for the common folk (who are still trying to recover from that prior-events foreign war - that ended like 2 years before the civil war starts). The heirs themselves are puppets with no real power over either their own lives or the fate of the kingdom. The ultimate indictment of the monarchy is Delita, childhood friend of the main character and a commoner. After watching his sister die on the orders of the nobility, Delita wheels, deals, and backstabs his way into a position of power in the faction controlling the princess, kills the nobles in the hierarchy above him, wins the war after all of the leadership of the other faction dies, marries the princess, is crowned king, and then murders his queen shortly thereafter. He's a king with absolutely no royal blood, with no redeeming qualities besides ambition, who goes so far as to manipulate his best friend to further his own aims. The game ends before you can see any of what he does as king, and you're just kind of left to imagine how much worse things can get. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.
Topic	Are you more bummed by this tv writer's strike or the one that
Not_an_Owl 05/03/23 1:17:03 PM #32	Leafeon13N posted... Nah fuck management. High profile strikes are good for everyone. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.
Topic	Final Fantasy XVI BANNED in Saudi Arabia
Not_an_Owl 05/03/23 1:12:23 PM #15	Leafeon13N posted... I dont know that any major XIV characters even have mentions of relationships at all because it would ruin everyone's WoL fantasies. This is Dulia Chai Nuzz erasure and I will not stand for it. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.
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