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Squall, who is still my favorite character in gaming.

The bad end was the long night. It's been avoided. Now we just get the options of varying levels of mediocre ends.

I guess this is just how I see it but to me, Jaime wants to be a good person, and his desire to be a good person is at odds with the fact that everyone already views him as an irredeemable person, including himself, and so he basically puts his entire self worth into his relationship with Cersei. He has basically throughout made it clear he will do ANYTHING for her, and their relationship is all that really matters to him. So, when Jaime says he doesn't care about the people in kings landing...its half true. In reality, he does care about them. But does he care about them more than he cares about saving Cersei? Not at all, he would let the entire world burn for her. He also loves Tyrion, and Brienne...but ultimately they don't matter in comparison, either. Him being a good person is always going to be conditional, and Cersei is the condition.

Nanis23 posted...

Can someone explain the goddamn HORSE please

the show is bad

Jaime is just a yandere husbando

This show has, for years, been like Heroes, where Cool Shit overtakes any kind of consistent character behavior. But even in the beginning they would do things like portray Stannis burning people fighting against his cause as if he is an evil madman, and portray Dany burning people alive as heroic because they were bad. They always, even when it was pretty good, treated the audience like we needed the show to have Good Guys and Bad Guys. It is antithetical to the material. I guess we will find out next week if that is because the shows ending subverts the thematic nature of the books leading up to it.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

22. Syrio Forel

yea I said it

syrio was the horse

GANON1025 posted...

I'm glad it wasn't Theon or Yara who finally took out Euron, but a guy Euron barely ever interacted with who only fought him basically only because they were at the same place at the same time.

the real tragedy is that this season spent that much time on a euron fight scene when he should have just burnt up with his fleet and the screen should have went black, issued a formal text apology to the viewers for the introduction of the character, and then moved on.

v_charon posted...

colliding posted...

for some reason.

This is pretty much the theme for Season 8.

this has been the theme since they ran out of book material. if you listen to D&D explain themselves, they quite literally will say things like "it was satisfying for us because we wanted it to happen" to justify their decisions.

yas slay! burn the peasants!

Jaime definitely is different than his book iteration in the show, but the writing of him in this episode was at least tonally consistent with his show portrayal so far. Stannis, on the other hand, gets written inconsistently even within the show. If we are talking about getting screwed in a sense of like "who got a shitty adaption" then Jaime still isn't even second, that is fucking Euron, what a joke his entire character was.

It's too early to say if Biden could win right now. He could, obviously Hillary almost won. But the idea that polling ahead in the democratic primary right now makes him the strongest candidate is a farce.

TheRock1525 posted...

Bernie did better with Democrat leaning independents.

Clinton did better with true independents.

Completely not a refutation of my argument in any way.

The argument people made last time is that Bernie was the better general candidate because polling indicated he was, due to his strength among independent voters. The argument being made now is that Biden probably also is weaker among independent voters due to his similarity to Clinton. If we near the election and polling indicated the opposite, you will be right, but doing well in a democratic primary in no way indicates better general election strength. It's insanely narrow to think like that.

I really don't think tanking is a serious problem, and most measures people bring up to address it make the problem worse.

TheRock1525 posted...

"I can't get past Joe Biden but surely I can beat an incumbant president."

This is a pretty tiring argument.

Yeah, imagine how tiring arguing with someone who would say that would be. Holy shit.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Its Johnny Cage

this. scorpion and sub zero are kind of emblematic of the series, but cage is the kharacter who will most impact you overall.

if your parents think its scary that people now want everyone to get healthcare and get paid a living wage, then their concerns are pretty stupid.

xp1337 posted...

People like Biden because: name recognition, he was Obama's VP, he's a white male, and he represents a "de-escalation" of politics/"return to normalcy." Surprise most voters don't care about policy.

yeah, hence why I don't understand voters. I wasn't saying I don't get that these are the reasons, I just literally cannot understand thinking a single one of these things are something that matters compared to policy at all.

Nrrr posted...

There is a bigger disparity between Bernie and Biden than between Biden and Trump.

now this right here is some bs

I'm totally against Biden winning the nomination and think he's awful on a wide variety of issues and will be frustrated as hell when/if he wins the nomination but this just demonstrates a blindness to what Trump and his administration have done and are continuing to do.

I don't think I am the one being blind here. Trump is not some blip on the radar, he is just the GOP with the mask off. Biden is basically the GOP with the mask on. SephG would be totally okay with Biden being president for a reason!

As long as we only have two parties and both of them are right wing parties you are going to have to deal with people on the left getting so fed up they refuse to vote, sorry. If you don't like it, gotta fight to change the system. And guess who loves the system? Establishment centrists, the ones the system benefits. There is a bigger disparity between Bernie and Biden than between Biden and Trump.

What does anyone even like about Biden? Like what are the things he wants to do that people are on board with? He is indistinguishable from a republican in a blue state. I don't fucking understand voters at all.

none

If I see someone using a capital letter or two at the beginning of the sentence I just assume they have a BRoken keyboard

ShatteredElysium posted...

It always baffles me with second hand games how many don't have original boxes in stores. Like the fuck are people doing with them

Maybe Pun can give a better view on this but there's always tons at gamestop without original box and instead have the shitty boxes with no box art

Well I can speak from my experience as a kid, my brother managed to break just about every single case we got somehow. I imagine a lot of kids just break them.

INCEPTlON posted...

foolm0r0n posted...

INCEPTlON posted...

But way way way less people are going out there and buying Shrooms illegally than they are weed.

You did and you hurt yourself though.

The point is, criminalizing it means criminalizing the education and safe practices and studies about it too. So if you just want education, then literally the ONLY way to get that is to legalize it. (The Netherlands allow education and studies even if it's banned recreationally, but that is not politically feasible in the US)

As a CO resident, there isn't a lot of education where people need it; the dispensaries. People aren't picking up the pamphlets to learn more about Weed and the effects it can have, and I can see people following the same practice or (lack of practice).Your bud tenders don't bother to educate and inform their shoppers, they just make the sale and move on to the next customer.

At the same time, I've seen the benefit of making Weed legal and it's done a lot of great things for the economy and I personally love that I can go to a shop to purchase it and I'm not going in and out of shady people's trailers anymore.

At the same time though, Shrooms are way more potent of a drug.

When it comes down to it though, I don't have a full picture of the pros and cons so I wouldn't vote on the issue. I'm not going to be a yes voter for future polls regarding the substance, but I won't be a no either.

It can be decriminalized without being sold in stores

that is the only good post i have ever seen on this board

I have kids now so I wanna send other people's kids to prison for the shit my kid is definitely going to experiment with one day, and I myself experimented with ...you see, because I'm no longer a selfish idiot like when I was a kid...this is called wisdom my friend

Beginning to suspect power makes people assholes

It obviously should be decriminalized and used medicinally where appropriate. I really don't care if it is ever legalized for recreation as long as nobody goes to jail over it. I have had exclusively very negative experiences with it and felt like it actually harmed my mental health, so I'd never use it again.

Steiner posted...

redrocket posted...

All these peeps be like, we dont play Final Fantasy for the gameplay!

But then, But please change the gameplay for the remake!

Never change bros.

not me!

This. Like I enjoy more than just the gameplay but I wouldn't and won't enjoy it as much with action gameplay.

foolm0r0n posted...

Nrrr posted...

Outdated in 1997? Really? This is one of the dumbest things I've seen about games posted in awhile.

Yeah, Chrono Trigger and SMRPG were out already, then there's Grandia and a bunch others. You should start reading your own posts if you want to see dumb.

???? those first two games have extremely simple, turn based combat as well. Materia is infinitely more complex and fulfilling a system than the system those games have, with completely linear progression where you just learn pre-set moves as you level up that are stronger than the move you had before. I genuinely have no idea what goalposts you are using to suggest a battle system is outdated or not. SMRPG was like explicitly designed to be boring shitty combat, it is meant to be an introduction to RPGs. It feels infinitely more archaic.

foolm0r0n posted...

And yeah 7's combat was so bland and almost outdated in its own time, let alone today. But it's not like FF has had a good track record with battle systems lately, so who knows how this will turn out.

Outdated in 1997? Really? This is one of the dumbest things I've seen about games posted in awhile.

eaedwards6400 posted...

The difference between this and HHH even I'm over Rick. He's the worst of the Holloway, Driebergen arctype

This is weird to me because those two were significantly worse for me. Not a huge rick fan but after this episode...he deserves to win. I really like Victoria but they should have called devens bluff and voted Julie tonight. Made absolutely no sense not to. If he plays the idol, Aurora still goes. If he doesn't play it, you get bonus points against Devin's by defeating his plot.

I really hate the move to action based combat but I'll probably get it eventually when it's cheap.

The small government thing has always been a lie. People need to understand this about conservatives - don't take anything they ever say at face value because they collectively lie to avoid saying the truth. The idea they want "small government" has never been true, what they want is a government that works for their interests, as they find the other parts wasteful or a hindrance since it helps other people or gets in their way. It's tyranny when it happens to them, and the only consistency in conservative thought is only caring about yourself and people like you.

Edit: and before someone brings up libertarians, maybe there is like a handful of ideologues who are devout small government devotees but most are just regular conservatives who have self interests that differ from the mainstream party (ie: I want weed, or I am gay, or I want to eliminate age of consent)

RyoCaliente posted...
I do think it's kinda funny how GoT has always struggled and fought against people calling it misogynistic, but pretty much all the remaining women (in power) are scheming, unlikeable bitches, except for maybe Arya and Brienne, but Arya schemes, is a bitch, and both are more manly than they are feminine, probably.

I think neither Dany or Asha are real schemers. Dany had a play with Gendry this episode but generally follows what her advisors tell her to do (on a scheming level).

They should have just kept having people walking into the room bewildered by the giant wolf they just saw offscreen and Jon repeatedly making the joke "what's wrong? You look like you saw a ghost!" But never show ghost again.

I feel like just not mentioning ghost or giving a throwaway line about him being taken care of or something would legitimately have been better then that weird half measure we got.

RyoCaliente posted...

I do think it's kinda funny how GoT has always struggled and fought against people calling it misogynistic, but pretty much all the remaining women (in power) are scheming, unlikeable bitches, except for maybe Arya and Brienne, but Arya schemes, is a bitch, and both are more manly than they are feminine, probably.

I don't agree all the women are unlikable or "bitches", but uh yeah all the people with power in the game of thrones have some capacity for scheming, hence currently being alive and still having their power.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/teenage-pricks-pareene

A really good read.

The greyjoys have really big dumb guy energy. They absolutely are the axe body spray of houses.

Maniac64 posted...

Nrrr posted...

SeabassDebeste posted...

martin became obsessed with logistics and small details that make it impossible to tell a story.

AGOT and ASOS relied heavily on coincidence and stuff happening off screen and yes, fast travel. in AFFC and ADWD martin expands the world, gets rid of fast travel, and insists on having POVs for everything that happens, even if it is off screen/the active agents are not POV characters

This is what I was trying to get at. He clearly fell in love with exploring the universe he created instead of the story he was writing. He obviously gave D&D the basic outline of his ending, he knows the gist of it, he just doesn't wanna write it. At least that is how it seems to me. Could be being too generous towards him I suppose.

He has flat out said he cant make the next book work based on problems he created in the previous books. He calls them knots and has said multiple times he cant untangle it.

I mean I already mentioned this before and don't disagree, but the idea he had no vision is absurd. He just fucked up his vision and now doesn't really care about it.

SeabassDebeste posted...

martin became obsessed with logistics and small details that make it impossible to tell a story.

AGOT and ASOS relied heavily on coincidence and stuff happening off screen and yes, fast travel. in AFFC and ADWD martin expands the world, gets rid of fast travel, and insists on having POVs for everything that happens, even if it is off screen/the active agents are not POV characters

This is what I was trying to get at. He clearly fell in love with exploring the universe he created instead of the story he was writing. He obviously gave D&D the basic outline of his ending, he knows the gist of it, he just doesn't wanna write it. At least that is how it seems to me. Could be being too generous towards him I suppose.

He absolutely had a vision, he just kept making it more complicated and drawn out as time gone on because the basic story is old news and he just likes exploring the world and doesn't mentally want to "finish it". We won't ever get book 7, but it's not because he doesn't know how to finish it, but because he just doesn't care about doing it.

The show is insanely popular and has widely varying opinions on what aspects of the show they like. People aren't necessarily "insane" for feeling differently about the episodes. For instance, ulti loves the episode because it pissed off black people. Nanis loved it except for the scenes where the girl acted like a human. People have wildly varying stupid reasons for liking and disliking any given thing.

The truth is that polls are flawed and only go after old people who aren't working or at school and people dumb enough to answer random numbers who call then during the day. That is partially why the polls skew old and conservative. But it's also true that hardline Dems who participate in primaries are the older and more conservative ones, young people are more likely to be more left wing, more likely to register independent, and less likely to be knowledgeable about the voting process or just have less permanent living situations than older people.

4 OTs, crazy.

NFUN posted...

pyresword posted...

I'm just going to say that it is a waste of both time and energy to try and tell me not to respond to or engage with any particular user.

Not as much as a waste of time and energy for all of us for to you respond or engage with some particular users.

It's a waste of time to care about your opinions about who should be addressed because you only post to complain about who is being addressed

Johnbobb posted...

already fucking hate the bunny thing

(throws rotten vegetables in your general direction)

The phrase "fuck duck of a doubt" was the opposite of alpha