Lurker > SolKarellen

1. Never pick a fight in flip-flops.
2. I love that flinch thing that those kind of idiot tough guys do. Hilarious to watch.

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

Not surprised.

The guy was the Rasputin of games devs.

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

If you turn this back a few decades, Tucker Carlson would be claiming that Mr. Rogers dipping his feet in the same pool as Officer Clemmons was indoctrinating children into accepting de-segregation.

There was a Hannity or Carlson segment, I cant tell the two apart from each other anymore, where one of their reporters went around a Japanese train station and claimed it was so clean because they were no immigrations. Amazing that segment ever got aired.

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

I totally lost interest in standard come Ikoria, mainly due to the companion controversy.

Doesn't help that all my friends are modern players, but they've lost interest in modern since the quarantine as they all favor paper over online. We're all EDH guys and gals now.

Which I don't mind, because anything I disliked in standard would probably be magnified in modern. I'd probably just make the cheapest modern mono red deck available just to have something to play in card shops with them, but with the quarantine and all...

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

They should really rethink the name of the second volume. Isnt it a little repetitious to use metal in both the title and the subtitle?

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

You cant expect much creativity out of that industry.

Whens the Bleach spin-off directly starring the casts children? Hahaha.

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

How did law enforcement get this bad?

And how do we fix it...?

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

WarfireX posted...

Does it even have a remotely satisfactory conclusion? This was the series that was supposed to flesh out all the other timelines in Xenogears and from what I remember hearing it never actually tied into XG in any cohesive way beyond Easter Eggs.

It was never tied to Xenogears. Its all just fan service.

And Ill say skip it as a Xeno series fan.

The series is a train wreck of a story being split into three games alongside developmental trouble.

One of the Episode 1 trailers had a scene that wasnt actually seen until Episode 2 and the games has flash-forwards to scenes that never actually happen or happen quite differently in subsequent installments.

Nearly every sub-plot or side story is infinitely more interesting than the main story and the character concepts were wasted on said main story.

An ultimately unimportant yet very interesting character who dies halfway through Episode 1 is given more backstory and cutscene focus than most of the main task throughout the entire trilogy. Keep in mind that a playable character in all three games had his entire backstory relegated to a cell phone game.

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

Ill never understand the belief that you have to go to a physical church to revere God. Is it because you have to be seen going to church?

Or are some churches afraid about what will happen without the collection bin?

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

Gobstoppers12 posted...

The climax of act 4 is scientifically proven to be better than sex.

My brother half-seriously predicted what would happen and was flabbergasted when it actually happened.

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

The soldering iron scene with Christopher Walken is legitimately the hardest Ive ever laughed at a comedy.

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

Armored Core didnt let you aim vertically with the right analog stick until Nexus, which was in 2004/2005. You had to do it with shoulders buttons.

Nexus, Last Raven, 4, for Answer, V, Verdict Day all have standard third person aiming controls.


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

There wont be any Timber Wolves in it.

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

As someone who can't work from home and is currently furloughed without pay, I'm getting pretty jealous of those that can work from home and are in fields mostly unaffected by the quarantine; I kinda feel like a second-class citizen.

This should lit a fire under me to get an actual desk job which was my plan for the spring and summer, but alas...why the hell did people make desk jobs sound awful during my entire High School and College career?

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

Silent Hill 2 isn't scary due to the monsters but because the idea of your young wife becoming deathly ill and killing her is fucking terrifying, that's why Silent Hill 2 is brilliant.

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

Shotgunnova posted...

Still not interested, although Red XIII throwing massive shade at Barret was gold. Hell House coming back is nice, too.

I was very hyped that they included one of the most bizarre random encounter enemies in the franchise and might have made it into a boss fight.

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

Guess we shouldn't be surprised that they gave Sephiroth/Jenova a bigger role in Midgar. He literally makes no physical appearances until the Kalm flashback after you leave; Jenova escaping and killing President Shinra was entirely off-screen. And they needed a bigger set-piece boss fight to end on than Motorball, granted Motorball looked pretty freakin' rad from the trailer.

I wonder if they're going to alter how in the original game the Sephiroth you were following the entire game was just Jenova and Sephiroth was in the Lifestream at the Northern Crater the entire time.

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

I've only seen my friends ask it to play Despacito.

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

I wish the cast from Golden Country was the cast of XB2, to be pretty honest.

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

I was handling it fine until today where I felt the anxiety kick back in.

Have a mandatory work conference tomorrow where Im probably getting laid off. Im fine economically and intended to give my two weeks around late April or early May but it still feels bad.

I was going to finish some schooling and get do some job-hunting for a real job but that idea is completely screwed now.

Im getting quite jealous of some of my friends who are white collar with jobs that can be done from home and are mostly unaffected.

On the bright side, this at least lights a fire under me to get a desk job once this is all over because Im really understanding the benefits now.

Another bright side is more video game time with friends since theyre mostly working from home and cant go anywhere else.

Bought my first deck for Magic on a whim after a friend sent me a Snap of his pauper commander deck coming in. Friends have been teaching me until Im shop-ready. Cant play now but at least that gives me something to look forward to.

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

Its a shame that the PS3 mostly killed the double A games scene due to the oblique hardware and the rising costs of development.

Now you mostly have only Triple A games and Kickstarter indie titles with little in between.

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

1. Many of my closest, long-time friends live in California and work in the film and service industry and hence have no incomes right now. The two that can work from home and are financially secure are still stuck sheltering-in-place.
2. After a roller-coaster of emotions following two of my close friends getting married last year to wonderful women (Ive never felt so happy in my life or felt so anxious), Ive resolved to better myself by being more outgoing, being a better friend, and building a career where I planned to do some intensive job hunting once Ive finished some additional classes in late Spring...this virus fucks up both of them.

Ive tried to see my friends more and was having huge successes at that but now I feel guilty at having seen them last Sunday due to the virus and some of my other friends were shaming me for it.

At least my financial situation is fine and my savings are strong. My work is giving me at least the next week off and paying me 4 out of every 5 hours of it so that lessens my fear of getting sick and still making money.

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

DevsBro posted...

I'm not sure it's all that arguable tbh.

It was a way more ambitious game and is also a way longer and more content-rich game despite also having way more cut content. Not to mention it's highly catered to the Japanese market with its episodic anime-style story and all sorts of anime and Japanese culture stuff.

Yeah, it's never gonna happen, but it's probably the #1 game on both the "needs a remake" list AND the "deserved a remake" list.

It would also indisputably get an M rating today which is different from Squares image and somewhat out of place for a JRPG, but then again Persona is extremely popular despite having an M rating.

Xenogears and Xenosaga really squeaked by the ESRB, granted Saga did require edits to keep the T rating.


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

NeonOctopus posted...

Yeah, I'm cooking tons of trout and selling it back to the grand exchange and i'm watching a movie while I'm doing it. It feel mindless but it's also satisfying at the same time. idk why >_>

I also splashed my magic to lvl 55 so I can get high alch, but idk what to use it on to make money. Everything on the grand exchange sells for more than high alching. Plus I have to take into account that nature runes are a 270gp expense on top of that.

Yeah, I did the entirety of my Graceful set grind just chatting with the guys in Discord. It's actually pretty relaxing.

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

Best game ever made.

So romantic. Really avoids the issue of most fictional couples just being in love all of a sudden and they never actually explain how it makes them feel, how they feel about the other person, or what they gain from being in a romance with the other person.

I read an interesting article about how the devs believed that the game was more slanted towards female players due to the emotional and romantic themes and this was the reason they decided to make the lead of Xenosaga a woman which was very rare back then, and still kinda is in JRPGs.

Shame it'll never get remade. It's arguably harder to adapt to modern video game standards than FF7, Square Enix won't invest money in a large scale remake that doesn't have Final Fantasy in its name, and I'm not sure if a single person who worked on it still works at Square Enix.

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

It's a rare show that gets better every season. Watching the first season is so jarring with how different the quality is from what we expect now.

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

I didnt understand it why some of my friends got back into it.

But now I do.

Its usually very relaxed and casual, you can usually play for small amounts of time and stop when you need to, you get satisfying continual progress in the game, you dont have to spend much attention usually so you can alt-tab it with something else or just chat with buds on Discord.

It also has group raid content now, even though it takes a while to get into.

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

philsov posted...

4 was a soap opera by today's standards. The only members without twists are Edge, Cecil, and Rosa.

4 is fair for its day. You have to realize that it was the first FF game to have a plot beyond "get crystals" and has actual characters with their own personalities and arcs rather than the blank slates you had in the first three. In 1 and 3 all your characters had zero dialogue or character. It was a pretty big deal for its time.

And I've always liked the idea of Aeons in FFX basically being dream magic.

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

If youre not old, an infant, or have a compromised immune system, youre fine.

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

Then weirdly at the very beginning of disc 3 he's like head over heels in love with her and talks about how he can't live without her. It's very jarring. I used to think the romance was pretty amazing (and still consider the ballroom dance to be one of the best scenes ever) but considering Rinoa was in love with Seifer initially for some odd reason, it kinda sours the relationship.

Love is a crazy thing. I knew somebody for nearly six years and one day realized that I loved her. Especially in Squalls case where his love epiphany happens when shes absent due to her coma.

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

Vesperia essentially has no plot.

And the gameplay goes from OOO->Azure Edge to infinite combos very quickly.

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

Never understood the appeal of the game though it did have good, underlying ideas.

You outleveled everything so quickly, small enemies are almost never a threat, BBI is mostly the same enemies with boosted stats, extremely underbaked over world, game is extremely biased towards the rogue classes as large enemies are usually climb and button-mash fests, fighter and warrior can barely interact with large enemies as they have neither good climbing attacks or ranged weapons, magic classes require too much channeling...

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

Corrupt_Power posted...

That was a good twist

I hate how people always mock FF7s plot and make dumb jokes about Sephys momma problems and how emo Cloud is.

Its almost like theyve never played the game or forgot that Aeris death isnt the only plot twist.

The plot twist in FF7 is incredible and I cant wait for new people to see it for the first tine.

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

First time I ever had a Margarita we were bar hopping for a friends bachelor party and one of my friends raised her Margarita glass to me and told me drink.

I had such a bad headache I thought that I was going to die when we were waiting on food later.

Oddly enough, since that day, Margaritas have become a drink of choice.

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

The normal boss music is really underrated, too.

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

My friends today still are the ones from High School and most of us still live in the same metro area while the ones that moved are only a state away. Were all still in Discord nearly daily playing games.

For High School, Id love to be able to see my friends every single day of the week.

Its weird to think as an adult that I wish I could see my friends 40 minutes south of me more than once a week max. Shit, I use to literally live with two out of three of them for a year of College and the third one was always over because she was dating my roommate.

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

Enjoy the feeling of being too old to be a JRPG protagonist and being the old man in his late 20s or 30s.


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

Gun X Sword, aside from that terrible fan service episode.

Really surprised it reappeared in the latest SRW game, but I guess Banpresto is revisiting older mecha anime (Mightgaine, GaiGaiGar, Nadesisco, Dunbine, etc) since the quantity of new mecha anime has dropped.

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

I remember the Halo 1 PC flamethrower being so terrible that youd light yourself on fire if you moved forward while shooting it.

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

Healing.

I've always been a White Mage at heart.

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

Im not sure why people like Harley Quinn so much.

I mean, they must be trying to tap into some kind of market with Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, and whatever that animated show is with her and Ivy.


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

Liam struck me as never paying attention and constantly jumping the gun while Matt only seemed to spout catchphrases every dozen seconds or so.

Pat and Woolie is the best duo of the four.

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

IBO was the first time Ive enjoyed Gundam in more than a decade. People were way too upset about it not having a diabetes-inducing happy ending like most anime.

The fact that IBO reminded me more of BattleTech than Gundam didnt hurt.


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

NieR

In the end both the antagonist and protagonist are halves of the same person who want to both save their daughter .

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