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I'll do it in public places, but at home who the heck cares.
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swordz9 posted...

I heard Dick Van Dyke is gonna be in it and even has a song/dance. If so thats amazing because he was in the first movie and also because hes gotta be early/mid 90s in age.

if the movie has this I will go from hating this to legit being hyped
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23. Beat a sports game


1080 Snowboarding

Red's topic about beating something that seemed impossible as a kid inspired me to go back to this game that I could never manage to even beat one level of. Luckily we live in age of speedrunning, so I just watched some videos of the best tricks, looked up the techniques, and the game was beat in less than an hour! Now that I'm good at it, I have to say the game is a lot better than I remember!
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12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried

Rime - PS4

I'm kinda done with walking simulators, which is essentially what Rime is, although there was a puzzle or two that stalled me pretty good. Even though the "Beautiful indie game thats meaningful" trope has been done to death, this game never really made me feel bored while I was playing it. Even though the puzzles are just silly busy work, the game has an interesting enough variety, and it never lingers on one type of puzzle too long.

12/52
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This was me with the N64 coin in donkey kong 64 earlier this month

It was fairly challenge, probably the hardest thing to do in the game, but it certainly wasn't as undoable as my childhood shelf remembered
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SmartMuffin posted...

EmoCombeeDancin posted...

I say go for it!

partly because I want to see you have a long lukewarm marriage with this girl that's practical and loveless

I mean this is what a normal person life looks like isn't it?

Most of my friends from high school ended up married to the first average-looking girl they dated in college. Can't be that bad of a life, can it?

Nah I mean it might have sounded sarcastic, but as a pretty romantic person, I often wonder how much easier a marriage would be if there was no passion at the beginning. If there's nothing left to fade, then what does a late term marriage look like? Probably not bad by comparison.
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yup. this is the one thing trump does right

I use the word "does" as loose as possible.
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I say go for it!

partly because I want to see you have a long lukewarm marriage with this girl that's practical and loveless
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

by the same token, is she also arguing that charity is actually NOT empathetic and makes people worse off or whatever?

That's a much bolder claim, and though it's left fairly ambiguous in the novel, it does seem to waggle a finger and unmindful charity.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

i also don't understand at all how acts of self interest are empathetic.

Read the book or play the game!
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37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time


Donkey Kong 64

I've owned this game since release day, and after restarting it so many times for various reason, I finally sat down and completed the game from start to finish. Really just an incredible game, DK64 really is the golden standard for "Difficult but doable" in gaming. Although I loved the hell out of this game, I would be happy to never play beaver bother ever again
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Tank had 4 gallons left when I refilled it

The nice thing about this hill is that it's kept my tank from ever genuinely going low!
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aren't you an actor or something

just act like someone who know how to say "I don't think that's a good idea, sorry"
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my gas light went off last night coming home

but that's because I drive up a giant hill which makes the gas hit the back of the tank and the fuel reads wrong.

I hope
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Emeraldegg posted...

Yeah but frasier's better than both

fraiser is just big bang theory for the wealthy elite
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BowserCuffs posted...

That's strange considering Tales games usually support empathy where Ayn Rand is directly responsible for the wave of people who treat sociopathy as a philosophy to pursue.

It's understandable that you might think this way never reading a Rand book, but it's a poor summary of her philosophy. Rand is know for taking the standard question in philosophy "Are acts of empathy and altruism ultimately ones of self-interest?" and turning it on it's head: True acts of self interest are by their very nature empathetic and altruistic. I won't pretend I have the ability to break down a book that comes with the warning "team lift" into a gamefaqs post, but the general gist is "Do things for yourself first, take responsibility for your actions and hold those around you accountable to do the same, only then can you and those around you truly reach self-actualization."

All in all, I would say the tales game does a much better job illustrating the theme than the book, and since money isn't involved, it comes off as much less distasteful to it's viewers.
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That's pretty much the same idea I had, with "completing" being unlocking every minigame
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they took out "don't forget me" in the update?????????

wtf, why would they remove literally the only thing about this game that I loved
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what we are totally buds
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Anyone have any opinions on what would constitute "beat" for a mario party?
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of course Magilou was already fully aware of all of this so that image is 100% perfect
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I'm going to intentionally keep this as spoiler free as possible (for tales of beseria)

Thinking about the book today, I couldn't help but realize how much Velvet reminds me of Dagny Taggart, which lead me to realize the book and the game have almost the exact same themes. A group of innovators motivated by self-interest come together to stop the entire world from stagnating. The entire game is basically an exploration of the ineffectiveness of government mingling, while the anarchists continue to seek self improvement towards their own goals throughout the story.

Similar themes:

- Characters from both media use the phrase "Don't expect me to apologize" as a catchphrase
- The concept of striving to surpass a goal, and the peace of being surpassed by someone who works harder than you is repeatedly driven through both stories
- Using "Reason" as a buzzword to destroy all reason

It's pretty cool that the best tales game ever is a rousing endorsement of capitalism!

On another note, the incredible repetition of ideals as catchphrases is a trademark of both Rand novels and Tales games alike! I bet Ayn is kicking herself for not thinking of the phrase "courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality"
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I laughed to be fair

though with smartmuffin there's a pretty high chance he was being genuine
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Yeah once when I was driving a car I was unfamiliar with. The gas gauge was behind the the steering wheel so I had to perch over to see it.
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Mr Crispy posted...

this release lets you ng+ at any point if you get stuck or frustrated and some of the other content added makes things a bit easier.

how does this work? What types of things are carried over? I'm intrigued because I've restarted Romancing Saga for PS2 so much without any benefit whatsoever.
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how was it? I've been debating buying it for switch
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