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"Jack of all trades master of none" doesnt work in this game. Pick an area and focus on it. It's fine to take a skill or two from another area to compliment, but minimize how much you do so. Also, most skills are only worth taking if you take them all the way to 5.

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LeperMessiahXX posted...

Why would protesters target that in the first place?

none of that matters. all that matters is that Trump will PROTECT STATUES OF JESUS praise jesus

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my norm is right around 150 lbs. when i was drinking i go to just over 200. i was fat af

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he's not ideal. just like how any nominee of any major party will not be "ideal" for everyone. they try to hit as many boxes as they can.

sure, Biden favors the rich more than I like, but when compared against the alternative (literally Trump), who you think favors the rich more?

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the trash is just taken to a dump, its not sorted through. i throw dog shit into my outdoor trash on the regular.

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burning the flag is literally the proper way to dispose of one.

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really want to play / 5
want to play / 5
5/5

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"oh FFS who is interrupting me now"

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that # is meaningless without broader context. gaining 4.8M one month means diddly squat if we lost 20M the previous and are still 15.2M short

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fuck. that. if the hardware is there and i've already paid for it you can fuck right off if you think im going to SUBSCRIBE to use it.

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the more he says the less i respect him

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MyTummyHurt posted...

With all due respect man most JRPG trash mobs literally just take mash X on attack until dead. Its not something exclusive to this

It sounds like genre fatigue

a friend of mine brought that up. and you're both absolutely correct that in JRPGs most fodder mobs can be easily eliminated with nothing more than regular attacks. i struggle to explain why those entertained me but this does not, other than maybe my tastes have changed over the last 20+ years.

i used to make a little game out of min/maxing the damage i did per turn. so i'd learn the most efficient way to take down enemies with the least # of turns (ex: this one mob takes one hit from cloud and one from tifa to kill it, but that other one takes two hits from cloud, etc). i realize that i could do things like that to 'make my own fun' here. again, i struggle to explain why i just lack motivation here.

i honestly wonder if i would enjoy a SNES/PS1 era JRPG if i played it for the first time today.

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like one morning i woke up and he had left like 25 messages on our group text. just stream of consciousness ramblings that darted from one subject to the next and went on and on and on. how do i even respond to that?

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A friend of mine is going through a manic episode and I'm struggling with how to handle / respond to it. He has all these grand ideas and plans about things he wants to do and is spamming our friend group with dozens of requests over a couple of hours and if we don't respond positively within like an hour he starts on with "OK I guess you guys all hate my ideas" or "You guys don't appreciate me".

I feel like if I tell him to calm down a bit he'll take that negatively. But if I ignore him he responds negatively. There's no way I can actually respond to everything he asks.

From your experiences what's the best way to handle mania in friends?

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No. As long as I am able to perform the job duties adequately then I feel like what I do during my person time is none of their bloody business.

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sylverlolol posted...

You're not playing on normal if you're just mashing square and thinking that works. Won't get you anywhere with mechs, the bosses, etc. unless you enjoy fights taking 525415142154165 times longer than they need to. Most everything else is fodder that is meant to die quickly anyway to give you the sense that your characters are getting stronger.

ive stated numerous times that "most" fights don't require more than mashing attack then spamming Braver/Triple Slash. the bosses and a handful of regular mobs are the exception.

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like, this entire chapter (Ch16) has had almost zero gameplay aside from walking towards the dot on the map. i think the only combat so far has been the one required battle in the simulator. the rest of this chapter has been walking forward and watching people talk.

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KeeperOfShadows posted...

Honestly it sounds like you simply don't like the genre. Most jrpg combat isn't any more complex. Hell, the original FF7 is even simpler most of the time.

ive been trying to take this into perspective. i always had fun with random battles in ATB-based FF games for some reason. i found it interesting to micro-manage which characters attacked which enemies to win in the fewest number of turns. i could be applying that same mentality to this game and strive for the most effecient combat possible but, IDK, i'm just not motivated to.

Tyranthraxus posted...

That's basically just standard expectations in a JRPG though. If you look at the original game it's far more barren and even less interesting.

see, its been like 20 years since i played the original. the last SNES-era JRPG i played was Chrono Trigger like five years ago and I still had a blast with it (admittedly that could be nostalgia). i never felt like i was just walking through a movie, like i do with this game a lot of the time.

Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

I have no idea what youre on about, Ive had more fun with the combat system than any other game this year besides DOOM Eternal. Especially when I went back and played it on hard. Its so much fun setting stuff up and swapping between the characters as you balance their ATB bars.

when the combat is engaging and tense it is quite fun. the bosses and the summon battles have been the highlight of the gameplay for sure. again, i think if i was able to play on hard from the start i would have gotten a lot more out of it.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

It's so utterly padded to hit that 30-50 hour mark despite only having about 17 hours of game in it.

yes

UnfairRepresent posted...

To be fair this has been true of every Final Fantasy since X

This is what fans like

i didn't feel that way about XII at all. XII has some issues with the pacing of the story (ie spread too thin especially between sidequests), but i never felt like i was just walking from scene to scene. i was usually exploring or fighting between them

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also, a lot of folks are addressing my complaints about the combat being easy, but nobody is talking about the overabundance of scenes and how much of the "gameplay" is just walking forward, or from the entrance right to the exit because most rooms are totally devoid of anything interesting except background scenery.

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creativerealms posted...

I tried getting out of a normal battle quickly by just spamming the attack button. I ended up dead.

do you use auto-cure or provoke?

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Tyranthraxus posted...

That might work on the rats in sector 5 but doesn't work on virtually any bosses or many normal enemies midway through the game.

i said bosses are practically the only fights i find fun. the _vast majority_ of regular mobs don't require any tactics or anything, just fill the ATB bar ASAP, spam Triple Slash or Braver. yes, some regular mobs like the Strigas or w/e that Toad you in the sewers were semi-challening. but _for the most part_ i find regular battles not very engaging.

creativerealms posted...

My only problem with the combat is how the boss battles last way too long.

agreed. lots of them feel spongey.

I am now crawling through the vents and i just want to die this is so boring

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Bullet_Wing posted...

How so?

Do you think that poster is interested in a genuine conversation about this?

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

people like it because it's new and flashy

that's the way i feel about it. SE created this really epic interactive cinematic experience. but it's not a very fun game to play.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

You are not going to be able to complete a single chapter on hard.

i mean if mashing attack while spamming two moves wins on Hard too that would be terrible.

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eston posted...

He should have refused to serve them. Them being in uniform does not mean he can't tell them to leave his establishment.

exactly this. the same types to flip their shit about tEh GoVmInT forcing them to wear a mask should surely support a business's right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, right .... right?

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for the most part the responses to my points have been valid. CE did good today

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i can disable those fancy features on my laptop so its just a basic "move the cursor and nothing else" touchpad. for the most part i like 'em, but i find myself accidentally zooming in (accidentally "pinching") a lot and its annoying

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Can't really call the gameplay boring when you're not playing on the best difficulty. You would get bodied if you mindlessly mashed square to win on Hard mode.

The game didn't let me play on Hard or I would have. I think if the combat required more attention I'd have a lot of fun with it.

FF_Redux posted...

How have you gotten this far and not explored the combat? You should switch between your characters often. Just put on easy mode since you don't even utilize the combat system.

I guess I haven't really needed to aside from boss fights. For regular mobs I just use Cloud. For most enemies when I focus on building stagger the enemy is almost dead by the time I actually stagger, so I find its more efficient to focus on pure damage vs stagger. I was fighting against some enemy in Ch15 and the assessment told me to use wind to stagger it. So I cast Aero on the thing and it filled the stagger bar by like 30%. I cast it two more times and finally staggered it, then it died in like 2-3 regular attacks. The next enemy (of the same type), I instead focused on mashing square. It died faster and without using MP.

During boss fights I do actively rotate between characters and use spells, etc.

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Cheese_Crackers posted...

It's not a perfect game but I think it's fun. I love the ridiculous "this is a JRPG" moments like the squat contests and the crossdressing. There are a lot of cutscenes and dialogue, but that's what I want from FF.

i like dialog and scenes too. they drive the story and a good story is like half of why i liked JRPGs. but dialog and cutscenes should be woven into the gameplay and used to drive it forward, not be a substitute for it. there have been so many times in this game where i watched a scene, then did nothing but walk forward to trigger the next scene. its like the designers were talking and said

"hey guys, this scene has been going on for like 5 minutes. we should break it up with gameplay so the player doesnt feel disconnected"
"good idea .... what should we do?"
"hmmm .... i dont know. theres nothing that really makes sense"
".... i know. have the player _walk forward_ for like 10 seconds!"
"BRILLIANT"

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cjsdowg posted...

You know you could have used a elevator .

it seemed like the wrong choice because of the reasons Cloud stated. but yeah, i should have gone that way. maybe i would have had to actually do something besides run in circles for five minutes. and seriously fuck the game designer right in his face for making you walk SO SLOW during the last five flights.

between auto-cure and being able to cure outside of battle, i rarely do anything in random battles besides mash square and use braver/triple slash whenever possible. and there are so few battles in the first place like wtf.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

TC plays the game on Easy Mode and then criticizes the combat system

My sides

Giant_Aspirin posted...

I'm playing on Normal. I would have played on Hard but the game wouldn't let me.

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FabIemaster posted...

Stop playing on easy if you think mashing sqaure is better than playing the game correctly.

I'm playing on Normal. I would have played on Hard but the game wouldn't let me.

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Yes, it's beautiful. Yes, the music is amazing. Yes, the combat _can be fun_.

But most of the game is spent either watching cutscenes or walking forward (to get to the next cutscene). The vast majority of the combat is boring because mashing square to win is faster than actually fighting "correctly". A few battles were actually engaging and asked me to think a bit, but most of them are a button mashing snooze-fest.

I'm in Ch16 right now, which a lot of people said was their favorite part, and it's probably the most boring section of the game. The building is mostly empty and all I do is enter a giant, empty room and run to the exit. Going up the 59 flights of stairs was beyond painful and the entire sequence that forced me to walk through the museum was worse. The only "gameplay" in this entire chapter so far involved me playing as Tifa doing some really janky platforming (it was not fun).

Maybe I just don't like JRPGs anymore?

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eston posted...

I know from a practical standpoint he doesn't need one since he's tested every day and the mask is to protect people from him, but he needs to set an example. That's basic leadership.

this is because Trump is not a leader. Trump is only serving his own interests.

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"do as i say, not as i do"

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how much cocaine do you guys think he did

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Antifar posted...

Presumably the same way they enforce having your genitals covered.

do you think these same types of people flipped their collective shit in the same way when we made laws requiring pants?

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i had 3 ear piercings but i havent worn any of them in like 15 years so idk if they're still open

i had my tongue pierced for a while but took that out 10 years ago and its definitely closed up

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of course they did. both that and COPS were basically pro-police propaganda painting those guys as absolute heroes only trying to help save the world.

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not at all. it makes it a little harder to speak tho

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once you enter the boss room immediately roll to the left

NotYou posted...

so I didn't have to go on a journey every time. That's another aspect I'm not too wild about tbh.

i agree that sometimes the route from a bonfire to the boss is a bit much. once you learn the route you can just sprint the whole way.

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i mean i dont really agree with Tucker on anything, really, but kudos to him for standing up to his party

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troll_swag posted...

<racist bullshit>

get this racist bullshit outta here and fuck off. the vast majority of white people i know wear masks.

edit: just noticed the username. i got played. mark him and move along

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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon seems pretty hateful to me.

that is not what the proposed slogan is. Trump just threw that in there to rile up folks who lack reading comprehension. the plan is to write "BLACK LIVES MATTER", that's it.

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first he re-tweets a video of a guy chanting "WHITE POWER" and now this. it's like he's trying to lose.

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monkmith posted...

did you see the agreed upon price? our health care system was likely the only 1st world system wiling to give that company so much money.

why aren't people equally criticizing the company for making the choice to sell it all to us?

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why did they let us buy it all?

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Another one, eh? The last reboot seemed to end really quickly.

because it was bad.

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