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Block_that_Kick posted...

Ive read a lot of that lately. So many MAGAs are saying why even bother voting cause the Democrats will just cheat to win anyways. Its a self fulfilling prophecy.

If there's one thing I've learned from living with Republicans all these years, it's that they simply can't function without an excuse to bitch about the government: if a Democrat's in office they're of course bitching about the country going to hell (usually as the delayed result of his Republican predecessor's short-sighted policies), and if a Republican's in office they're bitching that the country's going to hell because no one's getting in line behind him and the media's being mean to him (and not, of course, because he's an ineffectual moron).

But under normal circumstances, they just enjoy the misery-loves-company style bitching and aren't actually motivated to action, because due to a hard fact that is wholly unfathomable to them, the government isn't actually oppressing them in any measurable way. Which is why I'm fairly confident that the current cult fervor will die with Trump.

Notti posted...

If there's one things FF games are known for, it's their nonlinearity.

One of the few true non-linear segments of main series FF games is FF6's WoR, and it sure seems like that's the part of the game that everyone other than me complains about.

brestugo posted...

IIRC, Ohio has part of Appalachia and Amish country too.

Indeed. For most of my life I lived right on the border of Appalachia in southern Ohio; as in, you could drive about a mile down the road, go down a steep hill, and you could instantly tell you'd just descended into backwater mountain country.

*Aloof masturbatory wrist action*

"You beat Dexys Midnight Runners!"
"Well you haven't heard the last of them!"

Premise:
After being saved by Maximus in Gladiator, Lucius, the nephew of Commodus, is now a grown man.

Err, hopefully this gets fleshed out a bit more.

Requiem posted...

Operation anchorage dlc... I swear, that dlc was created just as an official "i win" mod for console players without access to unofficial mods.

Infinite stealth? Check
Overpowered sniper rifle? Check

Otherwise, probably the least interesting DLC.

Now compare this to something like Skyrim, where the vast, vast majority of 'unique' weapons and apparel have enchantments that are so underpowered / uninspired that they're hardly worth the effort (even without factoring in self-enchanted gear).

Are we only celebrating cats that have traveled out of the country?

Crimsoness posted...

Isn't the power armor also unbreakable? I think it's bug tho

I know there's a famous exploit that lets you walk away with an unbreakable Gauss Rifle and whatever other gear you had in your inventory when the simulation ends.

I just looked it up on the wiki, and apparently the Winterized T-51 PA you get normally is flagged as the 'sim' version instead of the proper 'wasteland' version, so it's technically unbreakable as well.

It was Heartomaton who planted a remote device on a crossbow in revenge for Vegy stealing his signature Meme Diamond. Look at the seating arrangement. It triangulates Hearto just perfectly with that thing, which is loaded with a dummy bolt. Aimed directly at Mr. Vegy. Now I believe close inspection will reveal some sort of remote triggering device, but more damning, that is a vintage Jayhawk brand crossbow. Jayhawk, Hearto Jay. Of course, there are other superfluous and rather clumsy clues. The hedgerow in the south garden spells letter H. Hearto's room is the sacral chakra, which is the one blocked by guilt. Blah, blah, blah. But the motive, yes, on the cleverly planted 1998 issue of The Face magazine with Hearto on the cover [chuckles] he famously wore what became known as the Meme Diamond. And thats a family heirloom, I believe. Mr. Vegy, the large pendulous locket which is Has not left your neck. [chuckles] Bit out of keeping with your breezy island style. Would you kindly open it for us? [Reveals Meme Diamond] A dramatic, passionate and colorful crime for a fashionista. Mister Hearto Jay. Unfortunately, this crime clashed with the presence of Benoit Pug.

VeggetaX posted...

I looked it up. The Chinese Stealth Armor? I mean, are you not detectable at all?

It's basically an infinite Stealth Boy that activates whenever you crouch.

VeggetaX posted...

Didn't know so many of yall were from Ohio

I was born there and lived the majority of my life there. Thankfully I finally got out and moved to the great state of...Florida. :/

SMBA is y'all's karmic retribution for never treating SMB2 like a 'proper' Mario entry.

Super Mario Advance: Special Edition, directed by George Lucas.

Why was FDR idolized and Hitler villainized?

He cheated on his universally-beloved wife and was idolised as a war hero. Hitler tried to gave all his citizens a Volkswagen in every garage but was paned by the pubic.

Requiem posted...

Be sure to take your time and read various journals on computer/terminals.
Not going to give you any special perks or exp, but they add so much background/emotional impact for the world.

The terminal outside the Germantown Police HQ (aka where you go to save Red during 'Big Trouble in Big Town') has a particularly bleak and poignant story.

kingdrake2 posted...

uh oh :(.

i followed a guide myself when to do which DLC.
if planning to do them all save the zeta dlc for last it has alot of issues.

Or get it out the way early, or just avoid it entirely. Loot's pretty nice though, and all those tubes of alien epoxy sure are helpful.

Thompson posted...

I just remembered that I hardly ever used power armor in Fallout 3.
I think it's because I felt like I was Generic Video Game Hero #33105 whenever I was wearing power armor.
My playing style also leaned more on sniping from afar and letting my companions engage the enemy. Heavy armor was not necessary when I was not (the one) getting shot at.

Me neither, same with NV. Fallout 4 got plenty of things wrong, but its take on PA was right on the money imo - it finally felt like an eventful upgrade / lateral playstyle, as opposed to just 'weird looking tin can with slightly higher numbers.'

VeggetaX posted...

That sounds hard

Saying that you want to be sneaky in Fallout 3 without going through Operation: Anchorage and getting the stealth suit is like saying you want to take a vacation to the Bahamas but never go outside.

Plus the stealth suit makes the game piss-easy, so there's some extra motivation.

Fable posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/2/AATb69AAEvCu.jpg

Raikoufarig?

Yeah, Watchmen is a prime example, for all the reasons listed and countless others. And the guy who was most illiterate of its message got to make a movie out of it!

On a different subject, I've seen an opinion thrown around a few times that Aang struggled hard for everything in his life while Korra is a Mary Sue who gets everything handed to her. Like, I get it, you hate LoK, that's fine, but this opinion in particular is the nadir of media illiteracy: Aang being a naturally-gifted bending prodigy (much to the chagrin of the hard-working Katara) is a plot point in numerous episodes, and his greatest obstacle (learning earthbending) is overcome in a single episode; on the other hand, it famously takes Korra an entire season to learn airbending.

It's also weird to me how Ghostbusters 2016 turned out to be exactly what the wrong sort of people thought it would be in regards to how it views men: there isn't a single male character in the movie that isn't a jerk, a wimp, a creep, or an idiot.

Compare that to something like She-Hulk, which was at least well-written enough to have some more upstanding male characters like Pug and Matt Murdock to balance out the chauvinism.

"Oh, I only grew half an inch! I'm still too short."
"Growing half an inch in one day is still pretty good, Bart."
"Yeah, that's how fast Grampa's shrinking."
*top of Grandpa's head bobs past the kitchen table*
"Oh, I'm as tall as I ever was!"

Heartomaton posted...

Not Murikilometers?

Came in to post this.

Tough call in a bubble, but Celes is the last FF6 character standing, so that's an easy tiebreaker.

Irony posted...

I'm pretty sure it's 7 and 13 for both

You could count on one hand the number of people on the planet who find 13 to be either the best in the series or in any way overrated.

I'm guessing the answers are 6+14 and 9+11. But which one is which in TC's book?

I ripped a big ol' fart on my morning jog. Just once I'd like to have someone nearby to hear me say 'booster rockets engage' right after.

bigblu89 posted...

The closing credits.

It was so awesome when they teased Zuul! I can't wait for the sequel!

MICHALECOLE posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/7/AAFeIUAAEueP.jpg

just be careful

It's supposed to be yo momma. You roll the dice dropping the 'hard ur.'

GeminiDeus posted...

Gloom Hands are great, but they'll never replace the fear of having 2 or more Guardians chasing/homing their lasers on you.

I gotta disagree here. My first encounter with Gloom Hands went thusly: "Oh, I'm just walking along the Hyrule plains, minding my own business, sure is a pleasant sunny day...wait, what's that weird glowing puddle heading my way...oh geez, it's like a nightmare Wallmaster or something, moving fast, better run away...oh god the sky's gone blood-red and the music just turned sinister AHHHH CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB GET AWAY GET AWAY OH HOLY GOD WHY IS IT RAINING ALL THE SUDDEN AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH *Ded* Intimidating as the Guardians could be at times, they never made an impression on me quite like that.

I avoided them like the plague whenever I saw them, but I got ambushed by one around a treasure chest in the Depths and was forced to finally beat it, even if my strategy was just 'mash and mash and mash until the screaming stops.' Phantom Ganon rising out of the ooze was certainly a surprise, but thankfully he's much more manageable imo.

I'm mostly voting for one of my all-time favorite FF characters, but tbh I'm also slightly voting against the FF9 character after Terra lost to Vivi.

As much as I adore the original Ghostbusters otherwise, there's a good chance that it turned an entire generation of low-info American voters against the EPA thanks to Walter Peck.

VeggetaX posted...

I lost over 2 hours of gameplay yesterday because I went to a fort and it crashed my game and the auto save is corrupted. This totally bums me out. Just lost almost all motivation to play this game now.

Never ever trust the autosave in a Bethesda game (Oblivion's autosave is notoriously unreliable in particular). Always hard save, keep at least 3 saves at a time, and it doesn't hurt to delete old saves and make a fresh save every time instead of overwriting old ones. Quicksave's fine if the option's available, just make sure to hard save every half-hour, hour max.

Not looking down my nose at you with this advice either, it was born from countless motivation-killing hard lessons myself.

Random pic I saved on my phone of our old barn cat hitching a ride on our donkey:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/3/AARIckAAEu3V.jpg

darkace77450 posted...

I'm hoping today, in response to the threat he made over the weekend, the judge bars him from social media. Then I'm hoping she jails him for contempt of court the instant he violates that order.

Cue Donnie hopping onto alts and getting aides to shitpost for him just like he did right after Twitter suspended him, with much the same results.

Gotta go fast right to your hips.

Kajagogo posted...

Janosz is one of my favorite cinematic characters.

"Johnny...where in the hell are you from, anyway?"
"Zee Upper Vest Side...?"

Maybe it's because I only had the sequel to watch religiously as a kid instead of the original, but I've never hated Ghostbusters 2 the way most people do. Peter MacNicol was great at least.

Also, WWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNSTTONNNNNNNNN...

s0nicfan posted...

Chrono Trigger, especially if they keep the dual and triple techs.

Plus imagine seeing lavos for the first time, but in the 7R graphic engine.

Monkey's Paw: the director pulls a Zak Snyder and replaces the cool giant alien with a glowing blue energy ball.

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Nah, Winter Soldier still barely edges it out. Hard to believe a 20 year old Marvel movie could have that kind of staying power, but it does.

I gave up on Cuphead and Metroid Dread due to the difficulties of their penultimate and final bosses, respectively.

Funny thing is, the message of the story is pretty severely undermined by the postgame, in which Marche and Ritz - arguably the two who had the most going for them in the real world - get to keep farting around in Ivalice indefinitely, while Mewt and Doned get to eat shit.

Shotgunnova posted...

Are you going to dupe the vamp/orc guy's equipment? I think his shield had 70% magic reflection or something crazy.

It's full 100% resist magic (which is why it's unobtainable outside of SoC cloning exploits).

UnfairRepresent posted...

What was your favorite part of the female Ghostbusters reboot?

When Kristen Wiig calls Andy Garcia 'the mayor from Jaws' and he gets pissed off about it. Genuinely the only laugh the movie got out of me. I went into it thinking 'oh I'll give it a fair shake, it can't be that bad,' but sadly it was a genuine stinker.

And that wasn't even the worst movie I watched that day; that dishonor goes to Suicide Squad (I was really bored one day and decided to watch a grab-bag of mid-2010's blockbusters I'd skipped out on).

Yep, that's what caused me to forever lose interest in FF 13 after a mere five hours of playtime...extreme linearity. That must be it.

In an open-world game, I will go everywhere but the critical path. In Skyrim, I didn't visit the Greybeards for the first time until I'd logged about 700 total hours across three different characters. I've probably put 70-80 hours into TotK so far and have yet to do one of the four major settlements / temples (though I did stumble onto the Spirit Temple due to wandering around).

...actually, I guess that's not so much a 'sin' as it is 'the only correct way to play these games, you pitiful plebeians!'