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I didn't have a good relationship with my grandfather. He seemed to be very dismissive of me and never interacted with me much. But he died when I was 14, and I was not really old enough to think about what that meant. I did not have a lot of good memories so I did not have much of a reaction.

I don't really know what it's like to go through what you have
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No, of course not

Only 14 days off per year is bullshit
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i dont know if i would say one of the best movies ever but it is very good
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No, it's a spinoff
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it's super easy to just ignore his posts if they bother you

why are you even talking to him
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repeat of week 5 score?
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iiicon posted...

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Resi 4 easy

see this is what i was thinking too, but then square puts out romancing saga 2 on everything and it has me second guessing myself

yeah but where is my romancing saga 3
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Detroit Lions (8-7)
Minnesota Vikings (12-3)
Houston Texans (4-11)
Pittsburgh Steelers (12-3)
New England Patriots (12-3)
Washington Redskins (7-8)
Philadelphia Eagles (13-2)

Jacksonville Jaguars (10-5)
Buffalo Bills (8-7)
Baltimore Ravens (9-6)
Los Angeles Chargers (8-7)
Arizona Cardinals (7-8)
Los Angeles Rams (11-4)
Atlanta Falcons (9-6)
Kansas City Chiefs (9-6)
New Orleans Saints (11-4)

1. 11
2. 140
3. 28
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Baltimore Ravens (8-6)
Minnesota Vikings (11-3)

Los Angeles Rams (10-4)
New England Patriots (11-3)
Chicago Bears (4-10)
New Orleans Saints (10-4)
Detroit Lions (8-6)
Carolina Panthers (10-4)
Kansas City Chiefs (8-6)
Denver Broncos (5-9)
Los Angeles Chargers (7-7)

Jacksonville Jaguars (10-4)
Seattle Seahawks (8-6)
Arizona Cardinals (6-8)

Pittsburgh Steelers (11-3)
Oakland Raiders (6-8)
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no, my raise isn't until summer as laid out in my contract
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Xuxon posted...

Steiner posted...

i read this title like 30 times trying to figure out if one was the jug factor and what the other was

oh good i'm not the only one

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hard shit are satisfying?
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level 5: LA Rams (-3.5)

bonus: 9
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KingBartz posted...

Indianapolis Colts (3-10)

Detroit Lions (7-6)
Los Angeles Chargers (7-6)

Philadelphia Eagles (11-2)
Minnesota Vikings (10-3)
Baltimore Ravens (7-6)
Arizona Cardinals (6-7)
Carolina Panthers (9-4)
New Orleans Saints (9-4)
Buffalo Bills (7-6)

Los Angeles Rams (9-4)
San Francisco 49ers (3-10)
Pittsburgh Steelers (11-2)
Dallas Cowboys (7-6)

Atlanta Falcons (8-5)
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Indianapolis Colts (3-10)

Detroit Lions (7-6)
Los Angeles Chargers (7-6)
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sorry para didnt see this topic until now
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Anagram posted...

I don't live with them, I just live in the same city as them.

wow then you need to establish some boundaries
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sucks to live with your parents
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Arti posted...

Also, while the sale says until 12/19/2017, going to any individual game page shows that the sale prices run through 1/9/2018. So there's a lot of time to think over any purchases.

Most, but not all games. Some games are only on sale during a particular week. See https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0001-CUSA05008_00-ACLEGACYHD000000 for an example
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KingBartz posted...

New Orleans Saints (9-3)

Green Bay Packers (6-6)
Detroit Lions (6-6)
Oakland Raiders (6-6)
Minnesota Vikings (10-2)
San Francisco 49ers (2-10)
Buffalo Bills (6-6)
Cincinnati Bengals (5-7)
Dallas Cowboys (6-6)

Tennessee Titans (8-4)
New York Jets (5-7)
Los Angeles Chargers (6-6)
Jacksonville Jaguars (8-4)
Los Angeles Rams (9-3)
Pittsburgh Steelers (10-2)

New England Patriots (10-2)
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I like describing Episode 3 as a guilty pleasure. That is the perfect way to describe that film
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Seems like all these same games were on sale black friday
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New Orleans Saints (9-3)
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KingButz posted...

Washington Redskins

New York Jets (4-7)
Buffalo Bills (6-5)
Denver Broncos (3-8)
Chicago Bears (3-8)
Detroit Lions (6-5)
Minnesota Vikings (9-2)
Green Bay Packers (5-6)
Tennessee Titans (7-4)
Jacksonville Jaguars (7-4)

Los Angeles Chargers (5-6)
Los Angles Rams (8-3)
Oakland Raiders (5-6)
New Orleans Saints (8-3)
Philadelphia Eagles (10-1)

Pittsburgh Steelers (9-2)
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Your critieria seem very arbitrary but I will try to add a few

Baltimore -- the inner harbor, the old factories, and all the neighborhoods
Miami -- port of miami, cruise ships, virginia key
San Diego -- beaches, balboa park, mission architecture
Seattle - space needle, jazz/rock/grunge history, pike place, puget sound
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This game was sitting on my PS3 hard drive for at least 3 years, but I finally got around to playing it 2 months ago. I did not hear (or happened to miss) much talk about this game on the board but I guess it was a fairly big hit if they are localizing the sequel. It was a time consuming platinum, but the game itself was fairly easy once I learned the rules, and once I finished it the platinum wasn't that far away. I had a good time with it but I feel this game is too flawed to recommend without any reservations.

I like the Ghibli animation style, but the actual animated cutscenes were few, far between, and not the highest quality. The story was OK, the characters are paper-thin, and the big plot twist became obvious in the hour or two leading up to it, but I liked the whimsical atmosphere and it was certainly a feel-good game. However, it was very easy to tell that the last 10% of the game was tacked onto the original version despite the interwoven scenes with the White Witch and Pea. Certainly feel like the original ending would have been better, and the content afterward was not as compelling.

The ideas are very good, but the execution is flawed. The collect-them-all aspect doesn't matter much, because although you can have 9 familiars in your party, and new ones you collect start at such a low level that it doesn't make much sense to pick up any past the first half of the game. Magnifying this problem is that unlike pokemon, catching monsters is completely random. I think to capture a monster for a quest I spent like 3 hours just grinding out battles until the 4% capture rate popped. The game also lacks much in the way of differentiating the creatures for you in terms of how they work or what they will be good for, and the stats are all very opaque (never figured out how to compare attack speeds across species, for example). The starter creatures do not really keep up, and after the fact, I learned online that there are a few monsters you can grab fairly early on that will trivialize the entire game.

Gameplay is very hit and miss. Almost all of the sidequests are simply "talk to this person," "fight this monster," "collect these items/familiars," or some combination of those. The broken heart thing was neat but it just boiled down to "talk to people who glow green on the minimap." The dungeons were very short and, outside of a couple near the end of the game, completely bland.

The battle system seems like it could have been much better than it was. The design is great but is hampered by just a couple things. The two computer-controlled allies are practically brain-dead. You are giving a limited set of preset behaviors, but they aren't enough to make the AI competent. I ended up playing 99% of the game with "Do not use any abilities" because otherwise they will spam their highest MP abilities and within 2 random battles will be completely out of juice. In other instances, they will sit there in the heat of a battle doing nothing for seconds at a time. Even selecting "Keep everyone healed" will cause them to repeatedly use buff spells until they have no MP left.

The other problem in battles is a minor qualm but towards the end of the game was very frustrating. Whenever someone uses a field ability(cast on all enemies or all allies) it will cancel all other commands on the battlefield. I lost track of the number of times a clutch heal or steal or other charged ability was canceled because an enemy cast smoke bomb or an ally cast an AoE spell.

Those problems aside, battles were fast-paced and fun and somewhat tactical. I thought it was good enough to sink about 100 hours total into it. It seems like a solid JRPG.

I haven't looked at a ton of reviews or thoughts from other players so I'm not sure if other people share these opinions. But I would certainly love to hear from anyone else on the board who also played the game, love it or hate it.
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nothing really

shitty blog sites i guess
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Level 5:
OAKLAND (-14.5)

Bonus: 3
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I found you, fakeKB!
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KingButz posted...

Minnesota Vikings (8-2)
Los Angeles Chargers (4-6)
Washington Redskins (4-6)

Cincinnati Bengals (4-6)
Carolina Panthers (7-3)
Tennessee Titans (6-4)
Atlanta Falcons (6-4)
New England Patriots (8-2)
Philadelphia Eagles (9-1)
Kansas City Chiefs (6-4)

Seattle Seahawks (6-4)
Oakland Raiders (4-6)
New Orleans Saints (8-2)
Jacksonville Jaguars (7-3)
Pittsburgh Steelers (8-2)

Baltimore Ravens (5-5)
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I feel bad for retail workers in general, but there are tons of jobs that have to work on Thanksgiving and don't complain about it like retail workers complain about working on Thanksgiving.

Even before black friday creep, people who work for restaurants, movie theaters, hospitals, TV stations, Law enforcement, DoD, EMTs/firefighters, and so on have worked on Thanksgiving.
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KingButz posted...

Tennessee Titans

Jacksonville Jaguars (6-3)
Miami Dolphins (4-5)
Green Bay Packers (5-4)
Detroit Lions (5-4)
Minnesota Vikings (7-2)
Arizona Cardinals (4-5)
Kansas City Chiefs (6-3)
New Orleans Saints (7-2)

Buffalo Bills (5-4)
Cincinnati Bengals (3-6)
Oakland Raiders (4-5)
Philadelphia Eagles (8-1)

Seattle Seahawks (6-3)
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Level 5

Jacksonville (-13.5)

Bonus: 14
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most people have no idea who that person.
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Meow1000 posted...

Lightning Strikes posted...

Meow1000 posted...

Anyone who says no needs to seriously rethink their life.

I agree. But I ended up looking at some papers today and apparently only 40% of men and 60% of women do.

I have only ever seen this happen once, and I was horrified.

That seems horribly, disturbingly low.

you never see how they tell you to use a towel to touch the sink handles and the bathroom door? it's because half the people are touching the door with their shithands
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KingBartz posted...

Seattle Seahawks

New York Jets (4-5)
New Orleans Saints (6-2)
Detroit Lions (4-4)
Tennessee Titans (5-3)
Chicago Bears (3-5)
Jacksonville Jaguars (5-3)
Washington Redskins (4-4)
Pittsburgh Steelers (6-2)

Los Angeles Rams (6-2)
San Francisco 49ers (0-9)
Atlanta Falcons (4-4)
New England Patriots (6-2)

Carolina Panthers (6-3)
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define use the bathroom
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You disregard the first 2 games and the Saints have looked like a complete super bowl team. Eagles are still the favorite but I think Saints could give them a run for it
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Seattle Seahawks
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Finally made it out of 3
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I logged into my rewards account and apparently have $21 just hanging out in there

That was a nice surprise
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banh mi
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Mega Mana posted...

Speaking of inflation, you know what I find insane?

New games cost pretty much the same as they did twenty years ago when they come out, maybe ten dollars more sometimes. Yet inflation has made it so everything else seems to cost double, possibly triple, prices twenty years ago and AAA-games have tons more people working on them than in the SNES/PS1 days.

Basically, I don't understand video game economics and wonder how anything turns profit.

Distribution costs have decreased dramatically. Games used to come in a box with a cartridge($5-20), a colorful manual with tens of pages($1-3), and a larger shelf profile. The retailer margin has changed from ~15% to ~5%. Especially for old cartridge games, the prices would vary based on how big a game was, as more memory cost more money to manufacture, and also based on the size of the run.

The switch to discs really gave games a lot of room to absorb inflation increases, since a dvd or blu-ray disc costs cents compared to a cartridge which costs dollars, the cases are now standardized and also costs cents to make, and manuals no longer exist in most cases.

edit: to address your question about the increase in costs to support larger team sizes, publishers get higher margins than they used to, and the market has expanded significantly. So a AAA game today can be expected to sell many more copies than a similar game in 1995, and therefore more revenue goes to the publisher to recoup the higher development costs.
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tag

I'll be shopping for a TV, monitor, and possibly laptop
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Level 3:
(+12.5) Indianapolis
Detroit (-2.5)

bonus: KC/Dallas
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KingButz posted...

Definitely the Buffalo Bills

lolme

New Orleans Saints (5-2)
Atlanta Falcons (4-3)
Los Angeles Rams (5-2)
Tennessee Titans (4-3)
Jacksonville Jaguars (4-3)
Philadelphia Eagles (7-1)
Indianapolis Colts (2-6)

Seattle Seahawks (5-2)
Arizona Cardinals (3-4)
Kansas City Chiefs (6-2)
Oakland Raiders (3-5)

Detroit Lions (3-4)
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If I had the "cilantro = soap" gene then what would I be living for

cilantro most excellent herb
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I forgot to quote my earlier post but I did pick the first 2 games
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New York Jets (3-4)
Carolina Panthers (4-3)
Philadelphia Eagles (6-1)
New Orleans Saints (4-2)
Los Angeles Chargers (3-4)
Buffalo Bills (4-2)
Cincinnati Bengals (2-4)

Houston Texans (3-3)
Washington Redskins (3-3)
Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2)

Kansas City Chiefs (5-2)
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