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Still, you have to wonder if they suppress statistics to keep up the image. There's also some concerns with the Justice system. Aren't conviction rates in the 80-90 percentages?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Vol2tex posted...

SolKarellen posted...

My mother mother made fun of me for liking what she believes to be "old grandma" names.

Better than Skylar or Peyton.

Such as Gertrude?

Shirley
Eleanor
Agnes
Esther
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

_wwKd_ posted...

SolKarellen posted...

_wwKd_ posted...

Nightmare_Luna posted...

yeah almost like XC1 is good and XC2 is bad

I also definitely like the artstyle more than than the anime cross chibi style of 2.

"But the XC2 art style lets them better convey emotion!"

:/

XC2 killed my faith in Takahashi which is a shame as he was behind my favorite game. Feels like he surrendered to the infectious fanservice moe animu tarpit.

Ironic since the emotions in XC for the 3DS mind you have very expressive emotions already.

Such a shame since XC had the perfect art style for me. It reminded me of PS2-era Square games like FFXI and FFXII.

Was also impressed with the fluid animations in cut scenes. Good-looking fight scenes and excellent body language throughout (especially for Metal Face).
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

_wwKd_ posted...

Nightmare_Luna posted...

yeah almost like XC1 is good and XC2 is bad

I also definitely like the artstyle more than than the anime cross chibi style of 2.

"But the XC2 art style lets them better convey emotion!"

:/

XC2 killed my faith in Takahashi which is a shame as he was behind my favorite game. Feels like he surrendered to the infectious fanservice moe animu tarpit.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Illuminoius posted...

it looks really dumb
her swimsuit is more modest than her regular outfit
she's neither slutty nor a pirate so dressing her up as a slutty pirate is really strange

i was disappointed that eleanor never actually patched up the outfit because it could have actually been worth using

It's funny, though. There's actually a mod that makes her outfit less revealing, when the average mod makes clothing hilariously skimpy (ever look through Skyrim Mod Nexus).

It's the one game I've seen a mod like that for. Cracks me up.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

My mother mother made fun of me for liking what she believes to be "old grandma" names.

Better than Skylar or Peyton.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Making her the first female lead was such a damn good idea, I think.

Saved her from feeling like another edgy male anime protagonist and saved her from the siscon cliche with her brother (since you know Laphicet would be a little sister if Velvet was a dude).
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Aeriis posted...

SolKarellen posted...

I believe Rinoa suffered a bit from the localizatiin making her overly cutesy in dialogue which made her sound half her age.

Do you have any links to a translation of the original dialogue? I used to have a website with some examples but it went down ):

Honestly, all I have is second-hand knowledge. :(
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Speaking of Sports games, I think there was a Madden game where a quarterback's speed was so fast that nobody could catch him.

I remember a video of him making a U towards his own end zone, then doubling back for a touch down and none of the defenders could catch him.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I believe Rinoa suffered a bit from the localizatiin making her overly cutesy in dialogue which made her sound half her age.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Game has a half-decent justification for it in that Velvet was in a daemon-filled prison with the clothes on her back for two years and, aside from adding some accoutrement to it during the escape, obviously has no interest in her physical appearance during the game proper.

Tales has never really been shamelessly fan service-y.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

shokan_warrior posted...

TheCurseX2 posted...

Here's another thing, Honey Bee Inn allows you to look through keyholes of some rooms. In one of them you have President Shinra apparently dressed like a weirdo and doing some occult bullshit. Like he's full on trying to summon Satan.

FF7 was fucking nuts.

i prefer when my games actually summon satan

ready crowley's dialogue in the 2nd video "i'm so freaking horny!!"

i love smt 2

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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

clearaflagrantj posted...

SolKarellen posted...

Well, we Americans have a way of glamorizing alcohol to the point that it's deeply ingrained in the minds of people while growing up, then when they get the freedom of later adolescence they fly off the absolute handle. Media makes people that age think its socially acceptable to get shit-faced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=WrVLB3MtUjo

Goes all the way from the Super Bowl, the Hangover, to Archer, and everything in between.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Orthopox12 posted...

SolKarellen posted...

You mean the ending of The Pitt?

Most of New Vegas' decisions reek of dissatisfying cynicism for every choice so it doesn't really matter what you pick as all decisions feel the same. Not to mention the DLC where you have what is essentially Chris Avellone's ghost stalking you.

I kinda want to hear you go more in depth on that last part.

Ulysses. Seems like the devs really didn't like players supporting the NCR.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

You mean the ending of The Pitt?

Most of New Vegas' decisions reek of dissatisfying cynicism for every choice so it doesn't really matter what you pick as all decisions feel the same. Not to mention the DLC where you have what is essentially Chris Avellone's ghost stalking you.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Well, we Americans have a way of glamorizing alcohol to the point that it's deeply ingrained in the minds of people while growing up, then when they get the freedom of later adolescence they fly off the absolute handle. Media makes people that age think its socially acceptable to get shit-faced.

There's also the mystifying vagueness of when beginning to drink alcohol is acceptable in America. The age of legal drinking is 21, but how many people don't drink until that age? There's an aggravating culture of "looking the other way" when it comes to drinking around High School age, or even earlier and there's a huge blurring of when it is and isn't acceptable.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Zikten posted...

some people need to just focus on their homework. you don't need a job when you are still in high school. it's stupid to yell "get a job!" at a teenager.

Clearly, it was the teacher who didn't have a job.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Half the reason why is simply the fact that Squaresoft decided to do an opera with 16-bit technical limitations.

And then there's the fact that Celes tossing the bouquet reflects her trying to kill herself later in the game as a sad reprise of the opera theme plays.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Can someone explain to me why anime, MLP, and conservative politics intersect so often?

I still don't understand it.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

To think I use to believe it was made up by The Venture Brothers.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

But can they scrub The Donald and 4chan clean of Pepe?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Xenogears was amazing until they ran out of money and the second disc became more of a visual novel.

Some might argue that it was a better as a visual novel.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

That's honestly how I've always looked at this in video games.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Overheadnero posted...

LethalAffinity posted...

Still one of my most fond movie theater experiences. I haven't had a crowd as invested in a movie since.

So glad I saw it in theaters. Amazing experience

For me, too. A bunch of my High School class went to see it all together and it was a great time.

I remember everyone clapping when Gordon revealed himself to be alive.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I wish RPG devs would look back at DnD or Diablo II or something to get over rampant stat inflation.

Granted, Diablo III has infinitely scaling content with Greater Rifts and Diablo II has not.

With the later, there are only three difficulties and once you kill Baal on Hell difficulty you do the same thing but only aiming to do it faster.

But D2 will always feel better single-player than D3, though the idea of playing Diablo for single-player is widely mocked these days after D2 multiplayer got so popular.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

It's amazing what people are capable of after select groups of people have been dehumanized and demonized for years and years.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Now Laura Bailey doesn't need to feel bad about stealing an imaginary broom from him.

Never liked him, anyways.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Is my restored good faith in the series after Shadows of Valentia going to be shattered?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I expected more AKIRA jokes.

Seeing as how it, well, predicted the 2020 Olympics being in Japan...
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

EternalDivide posted...

2 murders isn't "serial killer" status.

That being said it's been a long time since a real serial killer was on the loose. A good 25-30 years now. I think the closest would have been those two guys that were shooting people in DC in the early 00s but that wasn't quite the same thing.

???

The Baseline Killer in my state killed nine people in the mid 2000's and he's only the first one that came to mind.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Esrac posted...

Rimmer_Dall posted...

A programmer at EA started celebrating TB's death.

https://archive.li/UuEJw

Apparently his Twitter is protected. So, hopefully some folks have been giving him a ton of shit for being a petty asshole.

Apparently his axe to grind is mostly "TB criticized games I worked on" and "something something Gamergate bogeyman".

That bloke certainly wrote a lot concerning his feelings over TB, wow. That's some pent-up anger because, as I've learned, criticizing a video game you like is the worst crime imaginable. I still don't know how someone can take all the time to write that and think it's still a good idea.

RIP, Biscuit. Life really isn't fair. My grandmother had cancer and she miraculously survived it after a very intrusive surgery...only for her husband to be diagnosed with it afterwards and he didn't pull through. In the words of Saints Row, fuck cancer.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I still believe that the closest example of 1984 double-think I've seen in reality is that the Republican idea of "religious freedom" is freedom for our religion to oppress your religion or lack thereof.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

cmiller4642 posted...

Gamefaqs was a strict message board where you could get banned for any little thing

When was this ever true?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

What is this Confederate apologist bullshit?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Sariana21 posted...

The Proteus Operation by James Hogan.

Great book, horrible human being (Hogan).

They don't actually create the alternate timeline, but close enough.

Ah, that reminds me of when I realized that Orson Scott Card was an asshole. That was my first "celebrity fall from grace" moment of my life when I was a teenager that read a lot of his work.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I hate the term mancave.

I also hate the sitcom stereotype of men coming home from work, getting a drink, then reading the newspaper all night and ignoring his family, and this gentleman seems to genuinely want that in reality.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

For once in my life, I'm going off the grid for spoilers. I usually cave in or read something by accident, but not this time. This is going to be one of the rare times I don't start a video game without knowing most of the plot.

Not only for story, but for the gameplay as well. I want to find my own solutions and setups for my first playthrough.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Eh, I'll never understand the "travel back in time to change the future" plot. If time travel exists, doesn't that mean that the ability for someone to travel back and alter the past has always existed since the dawn of history?

I think Final Fantasy 8 actually has the most tantalizing time travel plot I've seen. You can't "change the past" and everything is a big loop dependent on something else. In the end, Squall goes back in time to Edea's Orphanage the moment she's possessed by Ultimecia after the later is defeated by the party and Squall's presence in that scene inspires child Squall to become like the man he sees, all while implanting the idea of SeeD in the past so it'll exist for him to become a member of in the future.

Edea, possessed by Ultimecia, goes on to create the create the events that drive the plot in the game proper out of fear of her death at the hands of SeeD.

Everything is an infinite loop and time isn't a straight progression.

Or is the entire argument that there's an infinite amount of parallel universes and not simply one?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Divinity 2's main problem is that the game is great at setting up player freedom, exploration, and creating backdoors for everything, but this is absolutely hindered by the absolutely insane stat inflation in the game. Being a single level under your enemies is a massive disadvantage due to how huge stat gains are on equipment that's a single level higher--cool loot is usually rendered obsolete after a single level. This incentivizes the player to murderhobo steal and kill everything just to maximize your gold and EXP gain, despite how you actually want to play the game.

There's also tons of ways to completely break the game even outside of combat like talking to a vendor with one character, then stealing with another and they have no way to detect you due to them being completely frozen while talking (a side effect of the game being built from the ground-up for co-op, unfortunately), and the same trick with some metagaming allows you to talk to a boss and reposition your other characters to extremely favorable positions pre-fight with no way for the enemies to stop you.

I will always prefer a DnD-based system that keeps the stat inflation in check, make unique items be useful for longer, and Pillars didn't have any crazy exploits.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Red XIII and his dad.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Trump is as responsible for the peace talks as Obama was for killing Osama.

Of course, Donald Trump (and his followers) find it impossible to not making anything about themselves/their president.

And, let's not forget that North Korea is a rogue nation--how is it that Conservatives criticize Obama for his Iran deal based on the grounds that "they won't keep their promises," but when North Korea agrees to denuclearization, their word is suddenly golden based upon who the president is.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Looking at my old PS2 memory card and seeing an FFX save dated 2001 makes me feel old.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

It was bad enough trying to choose a party with the limit being dropped to five and choosing between making new friends with the new companions or chilling with your old buds...

...but then they announced the entire Critical Role voicecast so it's now impossible to choose.

I think a were-shark Druid voiced by Travis Willingham is on lock, though.

EDIT: Also, isometric view is best view.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Weird. Wasn't this the same criticism that Fox News leveled towards Obama when our troops left Iraq and Afghanistan?
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

tremain07 posted...

CrimsonRage posted...

tremain07 posted...

Also, Japanese police are not only incompetent they actively refuse to go out of their way to solve a difficult crime.

can't have a high crime rate if you don't acknowledge crimes happening

Don't forget their absurdly bullshit justice system. 99 percent conviction rate? God knows how many innocent people are sitting in their prisons. Public defenders don't seem to even exist in Japan

The weird thing about Phoenix Wright is when you realize it's actually somewhat based on reality.

The average prosecutor in those games are caricatures of Japanese prosecutors who only care about their number of convictions.

And ever realize that's there no jury in the series? Japan doesn't have trial by jury; the Judges likely have the same thought processes the prosecutor does.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Ashley Johnson?

I only know Pike Trickfoot, the Gnomish War Cleric.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

Xi Jinping declaring himself leader for life has felt like a knife to the gut, then there's this...

I feel like China deserves better than this. I still cannot fathom the mental processes it takes for one person to believe that they should lead a nation indefinitely.
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.

I really regret not trying FF11 back when it came out...
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We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical.