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Before skipping, here's my highlights for Season 7..

...Since Season 7 starts with "Liasons", the worst episode of anything.

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Gambit Part 1 and 2, awesome episodes.
Phantasms isn't bad

Force of Nature is a required canon episode, even if it's not great... it's the basis for a lot of stuff later on

Parallels is a fun episode

The Pegasus is a canon important episode

Lower Decks is among the best episodes in the franchise

Thine own self is pretty decent, same with Masks

Preemptive Strike is also a canon critical episode.
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Depends how you define dissociative...

I often feel stuck on auto-pilot and even when I get brief moments of self-awareness I find it hard to break free of it...

But I don't feel like your description.
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r/lamia
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LinkPizza posted...

Mead posted...

If folks are actually worried about bombs on crowded places this is what they need to actually keep an eye out for

Bags, too... But that is a really nice pot... Someone might try to take that home...

It all started with a shoe
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https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/cpf5y4/navy_quietly_shut_down_climate_change_task_force/

Article: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060877355

Linked to the reddit itself since the REAL winners are the commenters
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How is that even a bet, did anyone seeeeee the Dora preview? It looked hella dumb
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ultra magnus13 posted...

Smallest via mass, or diameter? Or just "weakest"?

It's more of a "look at dem cute tiny bullets!"

So I figured it'd only be applicable to the smallest possible game, which would either be really tiny birds, or mice or something.
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I brain derped and played games I don't like again.

Anyways:

For people who are interested in good game design in a puzzle game - I highly recommend watching (at triple speed :V, it's a beastly slow game) or playing a run of the MSX version of Castle Excellent.

Most puzzles rely on the "a-ha" moment where you put all the clues together and figure out what has to be done... this suits an adventure game like Zelda where the reward for the puzzle is an item, and builds anticipation :|: But in a puzzle game, the reward for a puzzle is another puzzle, so you can't rely on Eurekas all the time. This is what Castle Excellent does so beautifully. Instead of relying on Aha moments, you tend to instantly figure out puzzles as soon as you see them... since they all use similar mechanics with very few gimmicks. The real reward comes from the "I C WUT U DID THAR" moments.

For example:

There's a puzzle early on at about 11:40 of

It's very obvious from the way the puzzle is set up that you'll have to break all the objects from their respective sides to get to the blue door on the left-middle.

It's not until about 12:10 when, if you are paying attention to the map, that you'll realize what the outcome of the puzzle is... the way to get to the green key in the room. You have setup and anticipation, and the payoff is satisfying since you not only get the green key - but you get revenge on the 2 knights in the room.

Then comes the trick. Further exploration to the left will lead to a room with 5 green doors that rewards you a purple key. (25:00) although you may have found it earlier since it's one of the first rooms you can go to... those green doors set up a throughline for this entire section of the map. Your rewards become the anticipation for the next set up!

You have the purple key and continue, you get your various rewards and rescue the fairy (which requires said purple key).... but it's not enough! You got the treasures and can't continue...

But this is a bait'n'switch! Because you gain a pink key by doing this you can get TWO purple keys (51:45) later, which lets you finally get the fairy.

...so why is there any extra purple key? You got the seemingly end goal of this section of the map, why have this dangler? Well, at 54:08 there's a purple door that serves as the exit to the sewers...

Of course, you can be savvy and use your keys in different ways to get different outcomes, but the throughline for the game is very natural.

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The NES version (known as Castlequest) does have many of the same puzzles... the NES version is more 'open world' in its design. The throughline goes away pretty fast and the game is more about managing a key economy so you don't perma-lose your run. Both designs have merit, I love both games... but in terms of execution in a puzzle game, the MSX Castle Excellent is among the best puzzle games there are.
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GanglyKhan posted...

All of FFVII is just a ghetto.

To Ivan world ghetto
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huh, .12HMR is available

What about .410 flechette?
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ya brah, i was snortin' guano
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aHappySacka posted...

That's hella hot
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I would if we had them. I miss going to the midway and playing the games and stuff
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Like, really small...

Like, for trophy hunting hummingbirds or something
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If you don't have Smitty's in Americaland, they're basically Denny's only with better eggs.

I do kinda want some premium breakfast... but, like, going into a sit-down restaurant is, like, a family/friends activity. It's weird sitting in for breakfast by myself

idk
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This is terrible, he could have been valuable testimony
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https://i.redd.it/t1vzmk8gvib31.jpg
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DevilSummoner1 posted...

edit: pretty sure shedinja doesn't even learn destiny bond to being with >.>

Ya, my first google result was Diamond... which was 11 years ago

:V

It doesn't seem like he can learn Destiny Bond even now, though
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Like, does that work?
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

That's about the time I left PotD

Oh! I didn't know you were gone since I have trouble following alt accounts. Welcome back!

What're your dreams? What do you want to accomplish?!

I think I'm trying to get back into game design - I have a topic about it up

EDIT:

Oh! When you left I was still living with my parents. I've had my own apartment the last 4 years!
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Stop that!

Just self-deprecating humor... but I did legit mess up the song
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Wait. Is that for real?
D:

Hyperbole. About 4~5 years ago I was diagnosed with Schizoid Personality Disorder because stuff, and I haven't been the same since... very unproductive and can't think right 'cuz of my medication.
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This is how I know I'm defective...

I knew the lyrics, but I did the wrong song.... "Total Eclipse" (insert brain damage) "It's not too late, you give looove a bad name"
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Why are you responding to my negative topic and not all the other topics where I am constantly telling you that you can be a better person, you can overcome any obstacle, and there are people who love you? Why are you attracted to this negativity?

It's the brain damage
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He's sleeping...

https://imgur.com/vAo0yWB
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the whopper sucks, sp a fake whopper must be good by default
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I'm considerably depressed.
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Centaurs are insects.
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Does punching a maga hat count as a hate crime?
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Is white an economic class, or is poor a race?
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Ya, I don't think we should focus on "gun" violence... just call it "weaponized" violence, so as to include knives/bats/etc and so that it's easier to normalize the statistics across countries.
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Does anyone remember any of the projects I mentioned?

y'know... to jog my memory?

Brain damage is a tough thing... if no one remembers anything I'll start from scratch.
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mass protests and riots are pretty much guaranteed. People riot over everything... even hockey.
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I like mine well done marinaded in jam

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... ya know? in-peached
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@Aculo

I was diligent in making video games for a long time, but I got sick like 4 years ago and haven't done, well, ANYTHING...

No programming, no job, no volunteer work.

I don't wanna give up, but I don't know where I am.
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Aculo posted...

hey @Lokarin, sully will actually finish and sell his game. what's your excuse?

Developing Schizoid Personality Disorder and mild Schizophrenia.

But mostly because of my Steam backlog
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Is it racist to call a non-caucasian white person a causasian?
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Nah, NPCs on the same RNG will generate the same repsonses.
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There are no shit posters, only shit readers.
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I wasn't gunna blow up ma neighbour, but since Walmart has 15% off on grenades... how can I not at these prices?
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...

So what is the moral quandary with buying pringles?

Knowing before hand it would hurt and doing it anyways
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Mead posted...

Lokarin posted...

Who's this Crowder guy people keep mentioning? I don't watch MSM

Hes a youtube edgelord that makes a career out of triggering the libs

oh, that doesn't sound like someone I'd like.
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Mead posted...

-FiftyFour54- posted...

Just listened to him on steven crowder

Of course you did

Who's this Crowder guy people keep mentioning? I don't watch MSM
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Oh, I didn't know Kana was Mead. Neat.

As the title says. These religious single-income households that have like 20 kids or whatever and the dad doesn't have any post-secondary education, but they're somehow well off

That seems impossible.
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

can you explain without posting a video please, i don't want to give clicks to the people you watch

You don't like Mr Atheist, one of the most progressive people on YouTube?
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