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The worst part is the time you spent on this.
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CyricZ

Because KAAKAAAROOOOOOOOOTT!
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CyricZ

As someone who has been on this site for almost twenty years:

There is little here worth preserving for posterity.
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CyricZ

She left you drained, huh?
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CyricZ

Yeah I'm with the "went too far" side on this.

So who's next for the Internet to get fired?
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CyricZ

One doesn't call attention to it for himself.
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CyricZ

What a fair and nuanced take that falls apart immediately because it assumes it knows what "right" and "wrong" are in filmmaking.

People who liked the movie liked the good parts more than disliked the bad parts.

People who didn't like the movie disliked the bad parts more than like the good parts.

That's all it is. That's all it's ever been. That's all it will ever be, regardless of movie.
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CyricZ

Square Enix "Please please no one take this as a call for FFVIII Remake please please no one say this for god's sake"
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

There are plenty of normal games

Why not yet the pervs have their perv games?

Because apparently Tecmo does not want to live by the money of pervs alone.
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CyricZ

How do you expect to convince people to take your opinion seriously with such a hyperbolic statement?
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CyricZ

Most people wouldn't call attention to the investigation about them, but...
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CyricZ

Yeah pretty much.
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SpinKirby posted...

many suspect that they're trying to get that Esports money

This I believe. Tecmo has certainly had issues breaking into that market.
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CyricZ

The term "gamer" had problems in the public eye well before the articles. Anyone who wasn't insulated deep within the gaming community could see that.

Then game journalists say "Hey, man. This is what they're saying about us. Are we gonna take it?" The answer was "Hell no we're not going to take it from YOU!" because they didn't want to believe the world at large thought so little of them.

FaultyGourry posted...

Can you think of any other industry where insulting your consumer base would be an acceptable practice?

Which is why assuming this was the intent is so fallacious. No one in their right mind would do such a thing, yet toxic and misled gamers just assumed that here's the exception, because they couldn't see past their own anger over being called out.
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FaultyGourry posted...

that purported to be for the gaming community insults, lies to and lies about said community

The fallacy here is assuming that the articles were directed against the entire community and not the toxic elements of it.

Not a single article said "You. Yes, you. Are the problem with gaming." Toxic people just took it personal because the toxic qualities resonated with them, and boy did they not like being called out.
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Darkman124 posted...

Stories are not supposed to mirror real life.

Quite frankly, I love when lofty stories suddenly come crashing back to real life.

Must be why TLJ resonated well with me.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Critics don't want to be wrong.

Nobody wants to be wrong.

I'd posit that it's not the critics who are worried they're wrong in their opinion.
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CyricZ

Riku's right. They should definitely bring back Leia in Episode 9.

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

I don't really think it shows they have no confidence in the new cast. Hell I consider Lando to be nearly equal to the main three characters, and thought he clearly should have been in by this point.

And I can't imagine he'll play a role as important as Han, Luke, and Leia did. Will most likely be just a fairly minor character.

Your opinions are noted, but that doesn't assuage my unease.
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CyricZ

I'm ambivalent on this news. I believe he can be Lando again, and I'm sure he'll do fine (even though he really doesn't look like Lando these days). I'm just not sure what the ST needs is more nostalgia characters. It just shows that Lucasfilm isn't confident the new cast can hold a movie on their own.

Then again, this will probably work fine for the casuals. I just hope his role is kept to a minimum so they can actually focus on resolving the story for the main cast.

PlsGodDontBanMe posted...

at least Rian tried to do something different.

It's not on CE, but I'm in another topic talking about Star Wars and there is legitimately someone in the topic saying "You have to aim for a certain style and never ever deviate from it." That's verbatim words in a post. There are people out there absolutely content with stagnation, completely ignoring the fact that stagnation was what let the franchise to reduce to almost nothing in the early 2010s.
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Esrac posted...

We had a bunch of articles disparaging the gamer identity that all occurred within the span of a couple days

This always struck me as the impetus for the movement taking off. That was a real bad look, especially since it started with Patricia Hernandez, who was rarely a favorite of the community.

I've read a whole bunch of these articles and honestly, they're all relatively tame, and most are written better than Hernandez's version. Basically the idea was "don't let the industry define and dictate who you are and how you act" and "don't just accept how the public sees you and let that isolate you from others". Specifically, they called out the harassment campaigns and the picture that painted of the gaming community, such as it was.

But Hernandez's article got out of the gate first, which was quite a bit harsher than most of the others, and here we are.

In the end, GG as a movement suffered from a lack of centralized direction and vision. It needed some proper leaders to get behind it quickly and early and it didn't. They let the opposing names get out in front of the media, and those names were allowed to paint the picture for the public. Further, there was little to no work within GG to push away the "anti-SJW" message so those viewpoints were allowed to run rampant, which pretty deeply subsumed any just cause against the bogeyman of gaming journalism.

And now, whenever a new online movement comes up with similar undertones (ie. this ComicsGate malarkey), it will be referred back to as an embarrassing footnote.
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CyricZ

As a big Ace Attorney fan, I both want to and don't want to start another run of that game. It does some really good things, but the pace is still a little slow for a lot of it.

That said, nothing is as slow as the first case, having to listen to the hippie sing sloooowly through his text.
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CyricZ

I've seen her pic. She looks good. It was a few years back, though.

Still can't believe she's reduced herself to conservatrolling, though. Either she got really bored with us or just took the Kool-Aid. Either is equally likely, honestly.
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DeadSite posted...

Hardly obscure for anyone paying attention

And yet I'll never shut up about the Yakuza series.
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CyricZ

Quirrel is the bro-est of bros.
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CyricZ

What are those hurdles exactly?
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CyricZ

Please await with bated breath while Howl imagines his response
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CyricZ

I'm more concerned with the fact that his body count is in the hundreds.
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CyricZ

Doe posted...

-anime expo
-cosplays of Videogame characters

Here's a fellow who's never been to a convention.

I'd need a serious crew to run with if I were ever to do an anime con again. Too many little squirts (13-18) making as much noise as humanly possible. Antisocial types suddenly social and not knowing what to do with it.

Give me MAG or PAX.
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Turbam posted...

I think he's probably a Nightmare main, but he subs Ivy.

Trump mains Necrid and you know it.
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CyricZ

We've reached a new level of Inception. Before we had Trump supporters telling us what Trump really means. Now we have Trump telling us what Kim Jong-un really means.
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CyricZ

No you can't, Mr. Simpson. No one can!
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

A better answer would require knowing how many bosses you've killed total, probably.

Good point. I think I count 17 bosses beat, including "second rounds" against certain bosses.
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CyricZ

Vyrulisse posted...

Honestly irrelevant. You should think more on how she sulked all day and didn't even try to enjoy something in the Faire and then about how she talked constantly about her ex. Stay away fella trust me on this.

Wisdom.
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CyricZ

From what you're describing, I think you made the right choice. Good luck on your next encounter. :)
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CyricZ

https://twitter.com/Ishfery/status/1015781084984893440
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CyricZ

I honestly don't know how far I am through the game.

Collected one Dreamer. Currently a few steps away from a second. Got... um... a whole bunch of stuff. Lots of places fully explored but apparently there are still more.
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CyricZ

How unfortunate for them.
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CyricZ

That's correct.
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Payzmaykr posted...

The moderators wouldnt let trump finish his sentence if he went over and they gave Hillary MINUTES of extra time.

You're right. We should do the whole thing over right now.
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CyricZ

Gafemage posted...

someone is going to try to fuck the balloon

Not if it fucks someone first.

Which... given the subject...
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CyricZ

Well according to the registry, I'm supposed to do it at an abandoned subway terminal at MGM Studios:


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CyricZ

Hang on. I register my silly walk with the ministry. Wasn't aware that there was a Ministry of Fancy Walks as well.
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CyricZ

Baby Balloon 2020
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CyricZ

...where the hell am I supposed to do my fancy walking?
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CyricZ

Yeah, the only thing Best Buy ever charges for is CRTs or monitors.
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CyricZ

Inside Out.

Every Pixar movie has made me laugh and feel joy.

Inside Out is the one that made me feel.

WALL-E comes in second for similar reasons.
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CyricZ

No it didn't. Snake used a hologram to effect his own escape, not to help others escape.

Similar idea, but hardly plagiarism.

Other examples of the trope:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DecoyGetaway

or

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActuallyADoombot
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Metro2 posted...

If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.

Or at least they would have been given the freedom to promote their own designer brand of air as "better" than natural air, regardless of whether or not it was true.

That's basically what this move is about.
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CyricZ

There's Human Meat in This Pot, Charlie Brown
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CyricZ

Forget it. It's Chinatown, Charlie Brown.
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