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| Topic | Any good prime day finds? |
| adjl 07/11/23 11:44:04 AM #8 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... Pi day is a thing, why would Prime day not be a thing as well?
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| Topic | ugh no matter what roguelite i play it just makes me want hades 2 even more |
| adjl 07/11/23 10:05:56 AM #41 | Yellow posted... You never pick up a powerup that makes you go "holyyyyy s***", it's just a slight buff to your existing build, and frankly it doesn't really matter which cards you pick up, if any. Which, sorry if I overstep, completely defeats the purpose of a roguelike? Or should I be calling what I want an Isaaclike? Seems like Isaac is a lone gem of innovation and a lost art. Have you played Noita? I haven't tried it myself, but my understanding is that it very nicely captures the "if you get lucky and build yourself properly you can literally melt the planet" aspect you're talking about. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you for or against Cluster Bombs? |
| adjl 07/10/23 7:22:39 PM #40 | Ozmose posted... Cluster bombs aren't restricted because a country uses them out of malice, they're restricted because they tend to leave a bunch of small unexploded munitions all over the place. The kind kids end up finding decades after the fact. Often with tragic results. While that's bad, I'm inclined to overlook that here for two reasons:
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| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| adjl 07/10/23 3:33:59 PM #50 | Metalsonic66 posted... lolol real shame what happened to the Timesplitters dood's tho Now that's what I call a shot glass. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | ugh no matter what roguelite i play it just makes me want hades 2 even more |
| adjl 07/09/23 9:37:44 PM #19 | I always forget about Atomicrops, but that one's really nifty. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Facebook Market is trash for apple products. |
| adjl 07/09/23 8:30:17 PM #3 | I can pretty much guarantee that any new electronics you find at appreciably less than retail price are stolen, outside of a small handful of instances where people buy them on sale then resell them later at more than the sale price but less than retail (and in that case, you also have the option to just wait for the same sales to come around). There's just no reason to buy something new, then turn around and sell it for less than you just paid. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do prices on everything keep going up |
| adjl 07/09/23 8:27:12 PM #35 | SinisterSlay posted... Want the actual cause of inflation. Except that's not what's happening at all. In terms of actual purchasing power, the middle and lower class have been progressively getting poorer than they ever were, with no recent noteworthy increases in purchasing power that can be cited as causing inflation. At no point has a majority of Americans been in the position of having more money than they can spend, which is the phenomenon to which you're referring (surplus money=willing to spend more=companies charge more). The only ones getting richer are those that are already rich, who boast about record profits then in the same breath claim that they need to increase prices to stay solvent in the midst of such rampant inflation. If you want a specific trigger, a large part of the current wave stems from the petrochem industry realizing that the war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions on Russia were a good excuse to double gas prices despite there being no commensurate increase in the price of oil. They got away with that because the general public was happy to accept that war is disruptive, that established a new baseline for fuel prices much, much higher than the previous one, and cost increases to everything else trickled down from that because the world is cripplingly dependent on oil. Every other corporation then jacks their prices up further than is actually needed to cover the cost of petrochem executives' greed because "inflation" is enough of an excuse for them to get away with it (not that anyone can really do anything about it because there aren't really alternatives that aren't doing so), and you get a cost of living crisis. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do prices on everything keep going up |
| adjl 07/09/23 5:04:33 PM #22 | SinisterSlay posted... It contributes It does more than contribute. If rising prices were actually caused by low-level wage increases, with prices increasing just as much as they needed to cover those increases, you wouldn't see purchasing power at the top go up. It would either stay the same or go down (in the rare case that an executive says "I have enough money, I can take a hit for our workers' well-being and to avoid straining customers too much"). Instead, you get corporations boasting about record profits, then turning around and whining about how inflation means they need to jack up their prices (while also not actually increasing wages in many situations, since minimum wage is still pretty stagnant). Inflation is an excuse. Yes, it's happening, but the price increases you're seeing and struggling with are a product of corporations knowing that "we have to increase our prices due to inflation" is something the vast majority of people will accept without knowing exactly how much of the increase is legitimate and how much is just seizing the opportunity to rip people off. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | ugh no matter what roguelite i play it just makes me want hades 2 even more |
| adjl 07/09/23 4:56:44 PM #17 | LonelyStoner posted... Exactly lol. As a general rule, I try to give most games a couple of hours before deciding if it isn't my cup of tea. Someone (hopefully) worked hard on it. I find it depends on the game, exactly what I don't like about it, and whether or not others' opinions give me reason to believe those issues are going to improve. Sometimes, giving it more time obviously won't help. Sometimes, it does. Other times, a tweak to how I approach it can make it more enjoyable. The worst example for me was Ogre Battle 64. I played it for a couple hours, was having a good time, but I was really tired for unrelated reasons and kept nodding off (it was a good game, but early on it wasn't exciting enough to compensate for my sleep deprivation). That was like 15 years ago and I still haven't made it back to try again. I know I'll have a good time if I do, but my subconscious just remembers falling asleep while playing it and that means I have zero motivation. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do prices on everything keep going up |
| adjl 07/09/23 12:34:07 PM #16 | SinisterSlay posted... The person at the bottom wants more money to survive. That's minimum wage (ya know, to prevent slavery). When they get more, everything goes up in price in response, and then minimum wage can't afford food again, repeat the cycle, prices go up. And yet the people at the top seem to be getting more and more inflation-adjusted purchasing power, while those are the bottom get less and less. I wonder if that's related to prices going up... --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | ugh no matter what roguelite i play it just makes me want hades 2 even more |
| adjl 07/09/23 11:23:57 AM #13 | LonelyStoner posted... I picked it up for about five minutes before having to do something else. I'll give it another shot. That's always the worst, because intellectually you know that you didn't play for long enough to actually form an opinion, but at some subconscious level you end up believing that you didn't like it because it wasn't able to hook you when you tried it, so finding the motivation to try again is hard. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | CrossCode is 6 bucks on Steam |
| adjl 07/09/23 10:10:52 AM #3 | I got it in some bundle or other, but I haven't played it yet. I do plan to, though, since I'm definitely interested in it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| adjl 07/09/23 10:09:02 AM #43 | captpackrat posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/4/AAQwHjAAEpBS.jpg That's actually pretty awesome. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I am going to catalog my liquor cabinet. |
| adjl 07/09/23 9:52:46 AM #16 | -1 mostly empty bottle of Glen Breton Ice (the last father's day gift I gave my dad, I've been having a glass of it on the anniversary of his death for the last few years and it'll probably run out this year) -1 bottle Kirsch -1 bottle salted caramel liqueur -1 bottle Captain Morgan rum (forget which kind, it's mostly for cooking/baking) -1 bottle homemade red wine (Zinfandel-Shiraz) -1 bottle homemade red wine (blend) -3-4 bottles homemade white wine (blend) -5-6 bottles homemade mead I think that's everything I've got. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | ugh no matter what roguelite i play it just makes me want hades 2 even more |
| adjl 07/09/23 9:44:03 AM #7 | Children of Morta is basically Moonlighter with more characters and less shop. Boneraiser Minions is Vampire Survivors but with more of a tower defense-y spin in that your minions do damage for you and you can build the arena to some extent (it's also dirt cheap). A Robot Named Fight is Super Metroid but Roguelite, which actually works really well despite how fundamentally incompatible Metroidvanias are with procedural generation (they get around it by randomising which new abilities you get on each run and limiting the map gen to only add obstacles that those abilities can clear, which feels really organic). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Kids these days are like |
| adjl 07/07/23 11:16:49 PM #4 | Muscles posted... Remember back in the 90s when every page took at least a minute to load? Kids couldn't handles what we thought was normal Let's be real: We couldn't handle it now either. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/07/23 4:43:52 PM #187 | I slapped a triangle on to one side of my house and liked how it turned out. It's kinda wonky, but then so's the whole house, so it worked. I get what you mean about being better suited for building up, with their smaller footprint and being able to use fewer rooms to close off the walls of a tower, but I was okay with just having one level of it. I'm more than a little bothered by the fact that the only way to get a door is to use a foyer, though, as well as that gaps between rooms remain completely open when the build is finalized so you need to close everything off. At the end of the day, it's just a silly little minigame that has very little bearing on the game as a whole, so it's not the end of the world, but I'd really like to be able to just add walls and doors instead of needing to fit a whole other room in to close off an opening. Also flipping rooms. I had a setup I liked, but I only had one square's worth of opening into my bedroom, and it opened into the bed half instead of the emptier half and that just felt awkward. I had to flip the entire build to get it positioned the way I wanted, and that screwed up other parts because the foyer is asymmetrical. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which Newer Social Media Platform Do You Plan to Use More? |
| adjl 07/07/23 11:20:45 AM #21 | ParanoidObsessive posted... I don't use social media and I've heard of precisely one of them - and that only because when all the Twitter drama started people in precisely one of the online communities I'm part of started talking about trying to jump to Mastodon. It also doesn't help that Musk actively censored discussion on Twitter of any potential alternatives, which threw a massive wrench into raising enough awareness for them to steal a significant portion of the user base. Champion of free speech and the free market and whatnot. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Would you feel safe swimming at the public lakes ...beaches... |
| adjl 07/06/23 8:17:36 PM #7 | The closest body of water is the harbour, which is ostensibly safe for swimming since they stopped pumping raw sewage into it, but every time we get a significant rainfall that overwhelms the amount of water the treatment plant can handle they issue a warning about it being unsafe due to bacterial contamination, so I can't say I'm too eager to hop in there. Other ocean beaches, sure. Lakes are alright, but I prefer the ocean. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| adjl 07/06/23 4:57:02 PM #10 | And now that's stuck in my head. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Another Day Another Mass Shooting being blamed on a LGBTQ person... |
| adjl 07/06/23 1:26:28 PM #2 | pionear posted... You think this will be a problem going forward? Republicans desperately clinging to anything they can possibly blame gun violence on instead of doing anything to change how readily available guns are? I don't think that's ever not been a problem. Trans people just happen to be the GOP's current favourite punching bag, so combined with that one trans shooter a few months back (but ignoring the obvious association between attending a Christian private school in Tennessee while being trans and having serious mental health issues), they're the excuse of the month. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 9:36:42 PM #24 | Muscles posted... It's just a woman with a masculine trait that may or may not also be more feminine overall And why is that trait specifically representative of an ideal man, instead of an ideal person of any gender? The answer, of course, is because you've spent your whole life having such gender roles ingrained in you and you're struggling to look at the world through a different lens than that. That struggle is understandable, since old habits die hard, but you need to recognize how and why you're struggling. That way of thinking is a mistake. You're not going to be able to reconcile it to be logically consistent with a more open-minded understanding of gender, so stop trying. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 4:38:25 PM #19 | Muscles posted... It is beneficial but that doesn't necessarily make it masculine/feminine So if a man is strong and protective, that makes him masculine, but if anyone else is strong and protective, then it's just a beneficial trait with no gender qualifier attached to it? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 3:53:04 PM #17 | Muscles posted... Generally it breaks down to men being strong protectors and women being comforters/care takers And is it not equally beneficial for a woman to be a strong protector or a man to be a comforter/caretaker? Note that I'm not suggesting the inherent biological/psychological differences don't cause men to tend toward the former and women the latter, if we're looking on a broad, statistical scale. I'm asking if there's anything about those traits that requires you to identify them as being the "ideal man/woman" instead of just saying they're good traits and leaving gender out of the evaluation process entirely. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mario rpg is going to disappoint a lot of people |
| adjl 07/05/23 3:51:57 PM #36 | Zareth posted... "We'll never get Sora because he's owned by Disney" my brother in Christ, do you actually think Disney gives a shit about Sora? Only when they can charge an arm and a leg to use him. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 2:00:17 PM #15 | Muscles posted... I know you are smart enough to realize the biological and psychological differences while also knowing they are equal. Can you name a single trait that you consider "masculine" that is not equally beneficial for women to have? What about one that you consider "feminine?" Are there differences? Sure. Do those differences have anything to do with what constitutes good or harmful behaviour? Not so much, which makes using gender as a proxy for those virtues/sins completely pointless. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why does the West still support Israel? |
| adjl 07/05/23 1:36:11 PM #13 | LonelyStoner posted... I've learned that even being right about the current situation about Israel and Palestine is seen as offensive. Some extremists have even seen fit to say antisemitism is the most radical form of racism due to the unparalleled success of Jewish communities success after World War 2. I'm gonna sit this one out and let the world burn, because even having an educated opinion on Abrahamic religion will get you banned. Bonus points where being "right" about the current situation is "they're all douchebags and should stop murdering each other, Israel's just currently winning the murder contest and therefore deserves the most negative press." Of course, the actual history is a bit more nuanced than that and mostly comes down to how the West decided to carve up the Ottoman Empire, but at the end of the day, "just stop killing each other and share" solves the whole problem. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 1:33:11 PM #12 | Muscles posted... What are you even talking about? People get so lost about what's masculine and what's feminine they can't see the forest for the trees. As a man you should try and be the best man you can be, which is doing the best you can to live like the heroes we hold up. Be honest, be a good person, stand up for the little guy, be a hard worker, etc. Here, let's try a little experiment: As a person you should try and be the best person you can be, which is doing the best you can to live like the laudable people we hold up. Be honest, be a good person, stand up for the little guy, be a hard worker, etc. Did anything actually change about the core meaning of your post for having removed all references to masculinity? What does that tell you about your decision to reference masculinity? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 1:25:31 PM #10 | Muscles posted... "Toxic masculinity" is just the lack of masculinity. No, it's the promotion of toxic traits as being acceptable, laudable, or even required under the pretense that they're "masculine." Even without considering the social ills, it's a pretty fallacious bit of reasoning. It's like if I murdered somebody, and you were all like "you shouldn't murder people," and I was all like "it's okay, it's the glarfindoogy thing to do" and walked away as though that had somehow settled the morality of the matter. "Masculine" offers exactly zero semantic value in that context. More generally, though, it's a product of gendering traits and activities that don't need to be gendered. Being honest and courageous aren't "manly" traits, they're just good things for anyone to be. Gendering virtues and then treating the gender itself as being the virtue in question misses the point of the actual virtues and opens the door to lumping non-virtuous things in under the banner of the gender. Just skip the gendering part. It's completely useless and often outright harmful. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why does the West still support Israel? |
| adjl 07/05/23 12:30:54 PM #8 | Jen0125 posted... I don't like how it somehow makes you anti-Semitic to not support Israel in its current form. It's largely an overcompensation for the Holocaust. Much of the West wasn't a huge fan of Jews for a while before WWII, which contributed significantly to Hitler's ability to persecute them. People felt guilty about that, so they try to err on the side of being nice to Jews and default to taking their side. It doesn't help that there's still a non-trivial amount of actual anti-semitism floating around, so it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that that's why any given person is decrying Israel if one hasn't paid enough attention to understand the details of the situation (which I wouldn't call reasonable ignorance, given how easy it is to learn, but that's a different tangent). The irony, of course, is that there's also a substantial amount of Islamophobia floating around, which is the basis for a lot of people assuming that Israel must be in the right. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Lowest you've paid for gas this year? |
| adjl 07/05/23 11:59:55 AM #6 | Like $1.35/L, I think. I don't remember exactly, but probably somewhere in that range. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why does the West still support Israel? |
| adjl 07/05/23 11:59:13 AM #2 | Because a very significant number of people don't understand that changing your mind in response to new information or changing circumstances isn't a sign of weakness or moral failure. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mario rpg is going to disappoint a lot of people |
| adjl 07/05/23 11:58:19 AM #29 | To be fair, Smash is all about the fanservice and discourse around what would make each individual fan happy is therefore inevitable, but it would be nice if people would A) stop taking it so ridiculously seriously, and B) have the self-awareness to recognize when their fantasies are far too specific or irrelevant to ever even be worth dreaming about. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mario rpg is going to disappoint a lot of people |
| adjl 07/05/23 11:45:06 AM #27 | It's just occurred to me that the "Geno for Smash!" crowd have probably become absolutely insufferable with the news of this remake. Though I guess that goes without saying, since it is the Smash community we're talking about and any discussion of "representation" and who "deserves a slot" is always insufferable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 11:40:53 AM #3 | LonelyStoner posted... You sound like every average straight man in America who is experiencing the decline of toxic masculinity and finally comfortable with saying pedicures make them feel good. Pretty much this. Don't worry so much about trying to label yourself or figure out your identity. Labels describe. They don't define. Just do what you want without worrying about whether or not it fits what you believe about your personal identity. If those beliefs need to change, they'll change on their own as you figure out how to better describe yourself. If you can't figure out how to label yourself, just put off labelling yourself until you find it easier. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | the egg definitively came first btw |
| adjl 07/05/23 7:34:24 AM #6 | FrozenBananas posted... The egg needs to be laid by a chicken, though. So the chicken has to come first The creature that laid the egg that hatched into the first chicken would have been the chicken's immediate evolutionary precursor. This proto-chicken would not have itself been a chicken, therefore the egg came first. Less pedantically, if we look more broadly at the overall evolution of egg-laying, the "chicken" came first. The creature that laid the first thing that we would conclusively call an egg would have had a new mutation that allowed it to encase its offspring in a protective membrane, but because its parent did not possess this mutation, it would not have hatched from an egg. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mario rpg is going to disappoint a lot of people |
| adjl 07/05/23 7:26:41 AM #18 | Dikitain posted... What is likely going to happen is 90% of the people will enjoy it and it is going to sell extremely well, maybe to the point that they finally decide to do a sequel. The other 10% will be people loudly voicing their displeasure over nit-picky things and getting butthurt that the 90% can overlook these "flaws" and still enjoy the game. That is usually how it goes here with every major game release, Nintendo or otherwise. In addition to nitpicky things, there's going to be a lot of "I wanted them to add *insert highly specific, largely implausible change here* and they didn't! 0/10." That's usually how highly anticipated releases go, even remakes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/04/23 6:10:05 PM #185 | They do have triangles, though I can't say I've explored how to use them and fitting them in with all the rectangles and only 15 blocks may be tricky. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/04/23 4:46:39 PM #183 | Oh yeah, I've gotta do more homebuilding. If nothing else, I've got a boomerang I'll never use to stick on a rack, so that'll take me back to Tarrey Town. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How does this image make you feel |
| adjl 07/04/23 1:49:59 PM #29 | Jen0125 posted... i am opposite of you. i prefer the mayo based coleslaw to vinegar based. Well in that case I have no choice but to despise you and all you stand for. My apologies for the inconvenience. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it petty to complain about missing McNuggets? |
| adjl 07/04/23 1:46:38 PM #14 | Rasmoh posted... Not petty, but probably not worthwhile if you aren't still at the restaurant. I'll go with this. There's nothing wrong with wanting to get what you paid for, but if you're spending as much on gas as that one nugget cost (to say nothing of whatever value you give your time), it becomes less a matter of trying to recover lost value and more a matter of acting on principle/to spite the restaurant, and that crosses into petty territory. "Complaining" should also just mean "hey, I only got 9 nuggets, could I get another one?" and not going full Karen, but I'm guessing you know that. Saying that, if they make a habit of short-changing you like that, I'd say that's a solid reason to use a different McD's. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How does this image make you feel |
| adjl 07/04/23 11:55:23 AM #22 | Well, it's creamy coleslaw and not vinegar, so that's a pass right out of the gate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I walked in on my boyfriend going to the bathroom |
| adjl 07/04/23 11:51:54 AM #22 | Jen0125 posted... Was trying to peekaboo that shit More like peekapoo. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/04/23 11:44:15 AM #180 | I can kind of understand it in this case, just so fusion works more consistently (the alternative would be having weapon power stated accurately, then having the hidden multiplier weapon power gets now applied to fusion items' stated power amount when you attach them). It also simplifies comparing weapons to each other: Higher weapon power=more dps. The damage per hit varies, thanks to the hidden multiplier, but if you've got a spear with 20 power and a greatsword with 20 power, they're going to be doing roughly the same amount of damage overall. Well, at least that's the theory. I'm not 100% sure how it plays out in practice. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What the hell, Nintendo changed the Pikmin 3 logo to look more like 4 |
| adjl 07/04/23 11:24:32 AM #42 | I liked 1 and 2 in different ways. Having some time pressure is fun, but limits your ability to explore freely. Not having the time pressure gave more freedom to explore and have longer, more complex boss fights that demanded army management more than speed, but days ended up being really long and there wasn't much by way of motivation pushing me to do anything quickly. Conceptually, I liked how 3 balanced the time pressure of 1 with the freedom to explore of 2, in that your fruit supply meant there was a time pressure, but that playing well and exploring meant you could amass a surplus to give you more breathing room. In practice, though, it only took like a day or two of half-competent play to collect enough fruit to realistically never run out ( --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/04/23 10:13:41 AM #178 | It works roughly the same either way. You either have Link gesturing as a representation of the story being told, or you have a fade out. representing that it was told in the interim. I think Link gesturing is more consistent with how the game handles similar things in other contexts (games with non-silent protagonists need a fade out because otherwise they'd have to write out the dialogue, but here it's routinely implied that Link has said something, skipping the need for that), but either works. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | SCOTUS rules Biden can't cancel 20k of student loans |
| adjl 07/04/23 8:40:35 AM #83 | potdnewb posted... no one is arguing that only one user is acting like the confederates didnt identify as democrats I'm pretty sure somebody just called the confederates "conservative" and you jumped from there to the conclusion that they didn't realize they were Democrats. The reality, of course, because that Republican/Democrat didn't have the clear conservative/liberal divide we see today due to party lines not being drawn along sweeping ideological divides, is that they were largely conservative Democrats. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/04/23 8:32:58 AM #176 | LinkPizza posted... Tbf, that would make sense if it was only Link there. But it seems like the story was more for the benefit of the sages instead. They could have just went with a fade out, though Alternatively: Modern Sage: "The Imprisoning War?" Link: *Gesticulates to indicate that he's explaining* Modern Sage: *Whatever response they give after the cutscene* All the narrative consistency, none of the reruns. I also found all the Lightroots, and was rewarded with I do kind of wish I'd learned how pristine weapons work sooner. I've been largely ignoring any pedestal that had a Traveller's or Knight's weapon on it since very early on, since even their pristine versions aren't really worth throwing away a Royal or similar weapon, but apparently that's prevented new weapons from spawning with every blood moon, and those new weapons could be not-useless ones (specifically, any weapon type that I've already broken, with some regional limitations). My inner min-maxer now wants to run around the Depths and clear out as many as possible so that after the next blood moon I can stockpile a bunch of pristine Royal and Royal Guard weapons, but that sounds hideously tedious and largely pointless, so I'm not going to be doing that. I'd call this a mechanical blunder, given that respawning all of the weapons each blood moon instead of just the ones I've taken would single-handedly fix the issue and make exploring the Depths for weapon upgrades a reasonable plan, but as it stands I'm just going to keep ignoring pristine weapons unless a useful one somehow falls in my lap. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 27lb meme burrito |
| adjl 07/02/23 5:47:25 PM #459 | A part of me is glad to see how routinely "wind-powered ships!" is presented as a new idea and is immediately mocked into obscurity by people who remember what sails are. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tears of the Kingdom Thread 2 |
| adjl 07/02/23 4:45:33 PM #168 | Yeah. Especially so where all four of them have a point in the present-day scene where the ancestral sage says "You don't know about the Imprisoning War? Let me tell you... *exact same scene with a different narrator saying the same things*." Even if they didn't want to put in the effort to make four different scenes, absolutely nothing was stopping them from only playing it the first time and having the other three say "I see you've already learned about the Imprisoning War," cutting down the post-temple cutscene slog by like 60-70%. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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