Lurker > Unbridled9

Yup. Gonna try this sort of thing out.

Every day I'll try to get a new poll up in which we rate all the nations of the world on a scale of 1-10. I'll have the results posted below as well. It will be tackled in alphabetical order from A-Z. A 10 is 'I love and adore this nation' and a 1 is basically 'horrific hellhole of a nation'. Some basic facts below.

Name (official): Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Population: 34,656,000
Capitol: Kabul
Official Language: Pashto, Dari
Government: Unitary presidential Islamic republic
Current Leader: Ashraf Ghani
Motto: "There is no God but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
GDP: $21,000,000,000
GDP per capita: $572
Currency: Afghani
National Sport: Buzkashi (Goat-Pulling)

Fun Fact: The worlds first oil-paintings come from Afghanistan in the caves of Bamiyan and date back to about 650 B.C.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Not really. Plenty of schools don't have them and those that *do* tend to either have them be individual stalls or in places where it's expected you'll wear swim uniforms. It's often a bit obvious as to why as well. It's not like they're expecting students to live at the school and shower there in the morning after spending the night snoozing in the woodshop.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Are too afraid to say that they support Trump, even now with him as president, out of fear of backlash, public shunning, and potential repercussions elsewhere? Do you feel like the far left has gained a strangle-hold on the media and is willing to crucify anyone who does not agree with their political agenda? Or do you feel like Trump never really had much support in the first place? That the media is largely unbiased and Trump, and conservatives in general, are just that bad?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

No. It's not.

Putting aside the current PC environment, it's really not. You need to sit down and work hard to get anywhere's. A lot of PoC seem to think that being white gets you things like, say, a white Santa coming by on Christmas and giving you an office job and PS4 when, in reality, the majority of us end up working the same crappy manual labor jobs that the person who believes in white Santa does. We sit down and have to work hard at school, need to work hard for raises and paychecks, and so-forth. Plus we have a constant string of negative stereotypes that follow us around just like PoC; like the redneck or white trash ones.

Factoring in the current social justice climate and it can be outright terrifying. Imagine potentially losing your job because a PoC decided you were racist and filed a complaint with the company; regardless of if you were following the script or even said anything to them. Or hearing constantly about how your race is horrible monsters who do nothing but enslave, oppress, and abuse PoC despite how your ancestors didn't even come to 'Murica till 1930 and you come home to cry every night into your mattress in the barren hovel you call 'home' because your entire life is basically devoted to trying to get enough money to pay bills. Heaven forbid you are a straight, white, male and say anything against whatever the current PC focus is on.

It's like people hear that you're an elf and instantly assume you're the high elf kind whom everyone loves and adores who get everything handed to them on a silver patter, only to find out you're a Santa/Keebler elf who spends their days working hard to make small things they took for granted or a Dark elf whom people outright despise.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Sandwiches only? Yea. I could handle it. Wouldn't be the happiest, but I could handle it.

Full meal? Uggg... The fries would kill me.

Though, I have to wonder, do you think Trump's ever trolled the store by ordering one of everything on the menu?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Melissa Fahn here.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

No. We don't. Women just don't brag about it. After all, it takes two to tango.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

GoldenSun3DS posted...

Kazuma_Yagami posted...

Some of these responses show that all people think about in dating is sex

You make no sense.
Mating is the end goal of dating, otherwise you're just good friends. If she's too young to bang, she's too young to date.

Though, even if mating IS your end goal, you can't opt to just wait it out till she's legal?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

BlackScythe0 posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

This is stupid I can't date a girl half my age. It's illegal.

No. You totally can. You can't just do anything sexual with her.

That isn't dating, that is called baby sitting. Well... baby sitting a 15 y/o is weird.

Well... Look at it as a weird inversion of baby-sitter porn then.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

BlackScythe0 posted...

This is stupid I can't date a girl half my age. It's illegal.

No. You totally can. You can't just do anything sexual with her.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

So it's either a 14 year old... or an 84 year old. Yea. I'm going with the former. Dating someone doesn't mean I'm *doing* anything with, or to, her or that I desire to do the horizontal bop until she's legal. Sides, I can probably get her to at least like games a bit (if she doesn't already) and who says it HAS to last and I can't just break up with her?

Compare that to a woman who may no longer be able to control her own bowels, likely won't live more than a few years, and may not even be able to remember who I am... yea. I'm going with the younger girl. Had it been double there *might* have been a dilemma, but it wasn't.

This is kinda stupid for a question. If you're 36 or older (or live in a state/nation where the AoC is lower than 18) not only is the former answer legal, but the latter has you dating someone who is 108 at LEAST! Even if you're 18 you're still clocking in at a minimum of 54 years old. Triple is just too much since there is a good chance the person you're dating will be dust.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Why do Americans insist Japan wasn't going to surrender? They just weren't willing to give unconditional surrender, and considering how they're extremely prideful and the kind of crap the US forced on Japan, I get why.

There has been plenty of research and documentation done on this event from all sides. There were multiple reasons why Japan surrendered such as the russian invasion, but had they NOT surrendered they were ready to fight for every last inch.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Besides, had Japan not surrendered the subsequent invasion would have almost certainly resulted in massive amounts of casualties on all sides, most certainly a higher civilian casualty count being among that. I'm smart enough to know it wasn't JUST the bombs, but the fact is that... war and history is a complicated thing. It's easy to go 'that was horrible' by our modern standards only for a future generation to see something we decided was terrible was fine while wondering how we could even consider something like exposing our children to the brain-rotting influence of Kindergarten. How could we NOT know just how badly it was screwing up our kids! (Note: I'm not condemning Kindergarten. Just using it as an example of how something we see as acceptable now can end up being condemned by future generations)
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Lokarin posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

*sigh* How the **** does EA stay in business?

Exclusivity deals.

I'm going to put money on 'hiding drug money' instead. I mean, jeez, they seem to be constantly ****ing up for years.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

*sigh* How the **** does EA stay in business? Are they, like, just a front for some drug smuggling company or something? Cause seriously, how... the hell... do you MAKE a mistake like that? I mean, come on! We've got a LOT of linear games that sell extremely well (just look at Pokemon) and quite a few people outright prefer the more linear stuff due to it being a better platform for things like story. Where is their money coming from?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Sand_Flare posted...

How about not get into wars in the first place?

Not really feasible. There are a multitude of reasons people will go to war. Be it territory disputes, economic issues, political issues, overthrowing a government (both internally and externally), religious reasons, threat of nuclear weapons, and so-forth. Many of them simply cannot be solved at the diplomacy table or end up have any chances blown apart. For example, WWI started off with an assassination and a sandwich which cascaded into a mire of defensive pacts, political maneuvering, and failed diplomacy attempts. Many despots have both been removed, and installed, by a group of people resorting to violence to oust the prior ruler. That's not to mention the odd sociopath who is just willing to kill and invade to increase their power base.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Saying "We should take all reasonable steps to avoid killing civilians" is not incompatible with acknowledging that deaths will still sometimes happen.

Well sure. However something I've noticed is that it seems nations are MORE than glad to ignore the convention unless it's someone they hate who just killed civilians. Then suddenly it becomes a big deal. I do agree that all reasonable steps should be taken to avoid them. I'm also saying that, when dealing with people perfectly willing to use civilians as shields, use civilian cover to hide, and ignore the convention if they even bothered to acknowledge it in the first place, acting like someone is a monster because they shot a civilian miiiight not be reasonable.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

darkknight109 posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

darkknight109 posted...

XlaxJynx007 posted...

It's against the Geneva Convention to target civilians.

Exactly.

I mean, this shouldn't be a difficult issue.

Its not that easy since a lot of soldiers will use civilians as shields and many armies just dont care about the convention. North Korea certainly wont give a crap for example.

So you're saying we should be more like North Korea?

I'm saying that believing something like a simple convention will suddenly turn all war into a clean-cut gentlemanly conflict in which civilians never get hit in the crossfire, people don't use civilians as shields, and it doesn't become important to do things like disable production capabilities (which results in civilian casualties), all to the tune of a piping kettle and hot cup of tea is stupid. We shouldn't be like North Korea; but we shouldn't act like the convention is also going to just stop civilian casualties except when done by crazy sociopathic lunatics either.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

darkknight109 posted...

XlaxJynx007 posted...

It's against the Geneva Convention to target civilians.

Exactly.

I mean, this shouldn't be a difficult issue.

Its not that easy since a lot of soldiers will use civilians as shields and many armies just dont care about the convention. North Korea certainly wont give a crap for example.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

It seems today that a lot of people see war like it should be a clean and cut thing. Only militants get killed while civilians, at worst, are only killed by 'the bad guys' with even accidental shootings being war-crimes. Do you feel this is a good thing? Please note: I am NOT saying something like 'if you feel it's okay to kill civilians you want to mow them down in the streets with a light machine gun'.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Too be honest, no. I wouldn't. I always felt Obama was a bit limp in the backbone and I've yet to see Trump do stuff like that.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

No. It's not a scam. But you should be aware that China has a massive hand on its value and can control it somewhat through their media. So how successful you'll be will likely depend on how China is feeling.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

green dragon posted...

What's with all the racist post all of a sudden?

It's... not racist. Certain people are attracted, or unattracted, to certain things. Some people love red hair, others hate it. Some love tattoo's, others find them disgusting. Black skin is just another factor to be considered in attractiveness.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Well, first off you have to have *actual* arguments to back up your opinion. Even if it's on something subjective you need at least some claim to validity.

Secondly, don't be up and in your face about it. One of the quickest ways to get someone to reject you is to come up into someones face and be like 'The world is flat you sheeple and I have evidence to prove that you've been knowingly lied too all these years by evil conspiritors!' That's not going to make you credible (even if it's true... which it isn't). It's just going to make people think you're crazy.

Thirdly. KEEP CALM! You will be mocked and insulted for it; so it's important to keep your cool. If you can come off looking like the better man you can get a lot more people to listen to you. After all, you stayed calm and reasoned while your opponent was shrieking at you.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

... You're joking right? I mean, jeez, even a quick wikipedia search proves you wrong. Heck, of the armed conflicts that the US has been part of since WWII, not including on-going ones, we've won 15 while only losing, like, 4.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

The chem-trails thing always baffled the heck out of me. I mean... seriously? What would the point of spraying us all be if all we had to do to avoid it was head inside? Not to mention that they'd have no way to discriminate between innocent civilians and their own people. I mean, there's plenty of holes in the... hypothesis... but it's not even really worth being called that.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Yes. I got a lot smarter. For one, I learned that history, while certainly esoteric and not a money-earner, is a VALUABLE thing to know and learn, especially if you don't want to get manipulated. I learned that voting along political lines is a terrible idea. How to cope with people; including ****heads. Not to mention plenty of other things like how the world functions and how much more... stuff... there is in the world. To be specific I tend to love intersteller geology along with history.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I *prefer* dubs, but I hate it when the VA's are terrible and a lot of times the companies censor stuff. This means a lot of times I end up watching the sub just because the dub company went cheap. Plus, if I have to sub to get episodes that aren't state-side, no biggie.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

In of itself I do not see hunting as morally wrong. Animals are animals and beneath man, even if we find some so wuvy and fwuffy and cwuddaly cute, majestic, or close-as-a-friend or whatever else. However, elephants are largely an endangered species. It's not the same as going out and hunting a deer. I would say that hunting an endangered species without VERY good reason (like, say, a murderous tiger or starvation) means you are intentionally, knowingly, driving an entire species extinct just for trophies and/or the thrill. I feel that that is, most certainly, worthy of being called 'bad'.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Huh. I expected DS9 and Voyager to get a bit more. The latter for the exploration theme it gives off.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Straight-forwards. Which show had the best opening credits? Ignore show quality, just focus on the credits here.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

There is no taboo about wearing your shoes in-doors. That said, most people don't do so, at least when just visiting friends or lounging around.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Neither. I'm working that night so people can buy various medical goods should the need arise.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

In comparison to 1917? Better by a longshot. I mean, the sheer amount of medical improvements alone...

In comparison to 2007? ****ing WORSE! I mean, we've got a lot more luxuries and the like, but now we have a generation of brats who are willing to decry Lincoln as being 'racist' yet can't even answer basic questions about history and are willing to accuse a white man accidentally bumping into a black woman of 'micro-aggressions' if not out-right racism.

Do you know why so many people think millenials don't work? Because work usually means having to do things like, well, work with other people. And when you work with other people you hear viewpoints you disagree with and get challenged on them and so-forth. At the end of the day, though, you have to either stare that sexist, racist, trans-phobic white man in the face and realize he's none of the first three and just a guy wanting a cheeseburger, or screech about it and likely get fired.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I'd like to point out that that final bit of 'Don't let them. Use this question to call them out. Reveal them for what they are. Demand they answer your question, and when they don't, slap that big ol' Scarlet P of the Patriarchy on them. The end.' should reveal that this person is a bit of a loon. Your choice has absolutely nothing to do with the question of if a society is male-dominated or what-not. It's a question on the value of life. However, it further misses one insane point.

This is a situation in which the conclusion doesn't follow the argument. Roughly akin to pointing out how the smurfs lived in harmony without nuclear power as a justification for nuclear disarmament. Here's why. When it comes down to the pro-life/abortion debate, especially within this argument, the issue isn't one of the value of a human life. After all, it could be easily changed to, say, choosing between saving ten children at the beginning of their life and fifty elderly people near the end. Arguments can be made both ways (and I'm not going to get into which one I feel is right) but then claiming a person hates old people/children or doesn't see human lives as having the same value or so-forth is utterly meaningless. People in panicked or desperate states will not pick the 'honest' answer, they'll pick the one that their panicked mind comes up with first. For example, if you were *really* in this situation, I'm going to wager that, assuming option C was artificially blocked off, everyone would pick A. Why? Because the child is there, crying, and in need of help while your mind probably can't even process the term '1000 viable human embryo's'. After all, your bum's on fire and you're trying to get out of the building ASAP.

But, more to the point, this isn't representative of the actual debate, plain and simple. The question of if a woman has a right to an abortion, the various conditions and circumstances where it would or would not be acceptable, and so-forth, is completely detached from this situation and has reduced a vast multitude of questions, judgements, logic, and so-forth down to a simple 'yes/no' question, disguised itself, then walled off other options. For example, a pro-lifer might realistically try and save both even if it meant that they might die. After all, is 1,001 human lives worth more than 1? They could see the 1000 embryo's as being completely artificial in the context of the question and opt for the child. They could suspect it's a trick question and answer dishonestly. There are an insane number of possibilities, answers, reasoning's, and so-forth. As such I answer C. Die and die flipping off this horrible question designed to shove a political agenda.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

It's honestly what I'd expect on the whole. The poll being dominated by VI and VII (since they were the 'best' SNES/PS1 titles respectively) With IX and X pulling up a 3/4 spot (Underrated classic and first JRPG for the PS2 era) with the rest having varied results with the MMO's (due to a multitude of reasons) bringing up the rear beating only II and III which were weak entries in the series.

Really I'm mostly surprised at how well both V (since it wasn't released state-side until the GBA era) and VIII (very often badmouthed) are doing.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

_PandaMaster_ posted...

PK_Spam posted...

Okay, I need to know. Is Lymle a case of bad dubbing, or does she have a traumatic past or something that makes her so... unemotionally unenthused?

Traumatic past mostly. You learn more about it as the game goes on. You'll learn a lot specifically during a side mission late-game.

Both.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

PK_Spam posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

All I can say is, master blindsiding with Reimi then find a good spot (IIRC there's a great one just outside of the cave) to practice blindside kills. That board will be OP'ed in no time flat.

Is it next to that heal point? Or on the other side near where I entered from?

I'm gonna grind out a little bit. my niece likes it when she sees female "superheroes" (playable girls in video games) so I'll introduce her to the game and have her (pretend to) play

I believe that's the spot. Plus, it's a great way to practice blind-siding in general.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

All I can say is, master blindsiding with Reimi then find a good spot (IIRC there's a great one just outside of the cave) to practice blindside kills. That board will be OP'ed in no time flat.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

PK_Spam posted...

helIy posted...

... cool?

it's Laura Bailey in this game.

she was kid trunks, lust in both fmas, rise in persona 4, Serah in ff13

she was not neptunia. that's melissah fan who is Welsh in a different star ocean.

I believe Laura Bailey also voiced Cheria in Graces F

You're making it sound like Welch is this game's Sid. Or is she just in more than one SO Game?

She's the series mascot.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

helIy posted...

Welsh is best girl.

Fun fact: Welch's VA is also Neptune's VA from Hyperdimension Neptunia.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

While I can think of a few they're not the 'good' kind. In other words, they're the shitty kind of game where the programming was complete crap. But in well-designed games it's pretty rare.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Probably someone he knows IRL told him that. Anyways, yea no. It's entirely fine to tell a girl to calm down; though it obviously depends on the situation. If, say, she's being mauled by a bear telling her to calm down isn't gonna help the situation much.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I'd say get it.

If you wanna cheese the game and make it stupidly easy, use Reimi. Her combat style is OP'ed in the hands of a player and it's really easy to master blindsiding with her. So much so that it's also easy to fill up the board with skill point chips and max out every skill as a result.

Anyways, game gets more flak than it deserves.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

FatalAccident posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

This happened with Bullfrog, Maxis, Bioware, and now Visceral.

fucking dont even start

andromeda was such a bloody disaster of a game

What's interesting is that you can pinpoint the exact moment Bioware gave up the ghost. Namely the end of Chapter 1 of Dragon Age II.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

As sad as that is... It's EA. They're the vampires of the video game industry. Taking young, virginal, and blossoming companies before embedding their fangs and sucking them dry till they're withered and worthless husks, then tossing them aside to roam the night for their next victim. This happened with Bullfrog, Maxis, Bioware, and now Visceral.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

pionear posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-declares-emergency-over-white-supremacist-event-233221687.html

Is it that serious? I thought these were only reserved for Hurricanes, etc.

Ayup. In fact this is the exact sort of thing that a state of emergency is designed to handle. Namely disaster, civil unrest, or armed conflict.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=34.8&d=31.9&g=39.6&s=40.4
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Duck-I-Says posted...

PK_Spam posted...

I feel like the people who criticize Hawaiian pizza have either never had it or have the taste buds of a 4 year old.

Or maybe they have different preferences than you. Shocking I know as most people have precisely the same preferences in everything.

Yea. But there's a huge difference between 'It's not my preference' and 'you put pineapple on a pizza? You're an ignorant monster who doesn't get what pizza is!' I don't like anchovies. I hate them in fact. I'm not gonna give a peep if someone wants anchovies on their pizza.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

IMO a large part of the problems with Morrowind come from simply archaic design and poor explanations. For example, the quest journal was just horrible. Disorganized, vague, and simply not well-made. Better difficulty scaling would also be very good. I remember my first (and only) time playing it went basically like this...

Made a mage because, ya know, magic be awesome! Went out into the first town and stumbled about like a wide-eyed newbie would. Eventually left and started heading out until I entered into a cave that had some bandits/slavers in them. Figured 'Okay. This should be easy! Let's see what combat is like!' After all, who in their right minds would put enemies that could so easily kill you right outside the starting town? Died.

Got annoyed and reloaded before heading out. Encountered a little bug thingy. Tried to cast and, since I wasn't being stabbed to death swiftly, realized that my spells were CONSTANTLY failing despite having basically gone as magey as possible in creation. Only theory is because I was trying to move as I cast which seemed like a no-brainer. I mean, I'm squishy so why would I stand in the way? Killed it after much frustration and went '**** this' and rerolled a pure melee meathead. Pounded that bug thingy into dust, reached the next town, ended up getting a journal with a bunch of quests and went 'they're not even gonna sort them out?' Pulled the game out and put in KoToR instead.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage