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| Topic | Third party switch controllers |
| scar the 1 02/10/21 4:43:00 PM #10 | Cheers for the tips guys! To be specific, I'm looking for a Pro controller but third party. Wired won't work with the way my TV and switch are set up sadly. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Third party switch controllers |
| scar the 1 02/10/21 1:24:13 PM #4 | Bump --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | More adventures with the spoiled rich girl |
| scar the 1 02/10/21 7:18:31 AM #19 | Feels silly to have debt before you even try inheriting massive amounts of money --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Third party switch controllers |
| scar the 1 02/10/21 4:00:54 AM #3 | Because I've had third party PS2 and GameCube controllers way back when and they really sucked --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Third party switch controllers |
| scar the 1 02/10/21 3:34:36 AM #1 | My joycons are shit, so I need another pro controller for playing co-op games. The first party one is pretty expensive! Do you guys have any experience with third party controllers? Like, are there any decent ones? --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Biden Iran has to follow agreement that WE broke, before we work with them. |
| scar the 1 02/09/21 10:49:40 AM #35 | divot1338 posted... Dont pussyfoot around.It is, quite clearly --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Old school software developers are a curious bunch. |
| scar the 1 02/09/21 9:39:02 AM #3 | WrestlinFan posted... Do you think theyre just burnt out and jaded at this point from so many years. pinky0926 posted... I don't think it's "hate software despite being a programmer", I think it's more directly because of. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Israel razes Palestinian Bedouin village for second time |
| scar the 1 02/09/21 2:14:57 AM #27 | RebelElite791 posted... Ding ding ding.What if they're Palestinian --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Boy I sure wish Ninja Garden wasn't a dead franchise |
| scar the 1 02/08/21 4:58:57 PM #7 | I actually enjoyed the stylus based DS game more than I thought I would. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | 100%'d Link to the Past again. I still think it's overrated >_> |
| scar the 1 02/08/21 12:48:09 PM #21 | It's solid and one of the better games in the SNES library. But I agree that it's not amazing. To me it's a bit of an ambivalent installment in the series: trying to do both a sort of non-linear, go wherever you want thing (although dialed down compared to LoZ) while at the same time trying to figure out the quirky, cartoony feel of the modern games. And it doesn't fully deliver on either. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Israel razes Palestinian Bedouin village for second time |
| scar the 1 02/08/21 10:27:01 AM #12 | Choco posted... i agree that it's dumb and annoying af when people act like criticizing israel is some horrible thing when every country should be criticizedAre they conspiracy theories about Jewish people, or are they actually bad things that Israel does? --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/07/21 4:17:35 PM #119 | Why would you waste time bickering about sources when everyone knows that there is no authority that defines genre? --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
| scar the 1 02/07/21 1:15:07 PM #52 | Wait hang on are you moving away from Scotland pinky? --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
| scar the 1 02/07/21 12:40:32 PM #26 | Is it possible for you to contest it? I wouldn't be surprised if he's cheekily asking for more than he would legally be owed. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | One Piece 1003 *Spoiler* |
| scar the 1 02/07/21 10:46:15 AM #28 | averagejoel posted... I want to see Usopp beat all the Numbers so that one lie about him beating a bunch of giants can come trueThat would be pretty funny. Usopp definitely needs an arc where he's more in focus. Hopefully we get like 2-3 more arcs, and they shift focus between the crew members so it's like, Luffy and some of the rest getting the spotlight. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | One Piece 1003 *Spoiler* |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 11:36:05 AM #22 | ChrisTaka posted... Gear 4 stopped mattering when Big Mom one shotted it by blocking it lolI mean Luffy did pretty serious damage to Kaidou with G4 just now so idk --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Sweden has a new Vice PM (and other Government changes). |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 11:33:50 AM #8 | Visst r det det, men det r ju inte s mnga nya som tillkommer, det mesta r skyffla runt folk. Men det r absolut anmrkningsvrt att mp fr s stor plats i regeringen nr de r typ vrldens minsta parti i riksdagen --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Sweden is sending troops to the Norwegian border. |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 9:27:31 AM #23 | BalanceLost posted... Norway and Denmark are both NATO-members so probably Norways side. Sweden and Denmark are both EU-members however which might make Denmark take a neutral stance.They would definitely stay neutral and then swoop in and conquer both countries once we've weakened each other --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Sweden has a new Vice PM (and other Government changes). |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 9:19:40 AM #3 | I don't really know what to make of this. It's just a bunch of words to me, I have no idea how it will affect anything. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | One Piece 1003 *Spoiler* |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 7:46:34 AM #15 | pinky0926 posted... It kind of sucks that Sanji has turned into a meme character now. The monster trio doesn't feel like it's a thing anymore.Yeah it would have been pretty neat if he'd been up there, too. But he was always number three, so it's not surprising. Agree that it sucks though --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 7:44:14 AM #113 | Fluttershy posted... i kinda wanted to call it a platformer rpg but i thought that would've been pretentious. i settled on action rpg because i figured action did/would cover platformers as well, if a bit vaguely.If I were to make a name for it outside of just like, adventure game (which can be deceiving, because people might expect point-and-click type games like Monkey Island), I would say it's a "proto action RPG" but that sounds even more pretentious, hehe --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 6:26:26 AM #111 | andri_g posted... The Extra Credits group has an interesting approach to this.I think that's pretty good reasoning. Genre is pretty widely discussed in critical analysis, so a lot of what we're seeing in this topic is just rehashing the same kinds of discussions that have been happening for pretty much thousands of years. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 5:57:12 AM #109 | Fluttershy posted... i would probably go with 'action rpg' for zelda 2. but that's my point -- you can borrow elements and take ideas and not have them define the genre of your game. it's the actual focus of the gameplay that decides that, and how the progression system interacts and informs the gameplay.I can see your reasoning, and you can very clearly see the connection between action RPGs of today and AoL. However at that time, the RPG genre wasn't what it is now, and the game plays closer to a platformer than an action game. Heck the action genre didn't really exist in the first place! So if you tell me that a game is an action RPG, then I play it and it's Zelda 2, it would not live up to my expectations. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 5:17:12 AM #105 | Fluttershy posted... zelda 2 is an rpg because the entire game is built around the idea of you being at certain levels throughout and the entire game rewards you with exp and pushes you along the progression track. the experience is entirely informed by the exp and leveling system.To me the entire Zelda series consists of games that borrow differently many RPG components. LoZ, AoL, and BotW are probably the ones that borrow the most, but personally I wouldn't really describe any of them as an RPG first. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 5:14:20 AM #104 | Genre is still useful, it's just not very useful to try and define it very strictly. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | What's the story behind your username? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 5:12:13 AM #44 | Fencing club where I grew up is called Scaramouche. I originally tried versions of just Scar or scar_88 but they were taken so eventually I ended up with this stupid name but it has spaces in it and it's a really old account so I don't want to change --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 5:04:49 AM #101 | The whole thing about genre is that the more strictly you try to define it, the worse the definition gets --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | One Piece 1003 *Spoiler* |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 4:53:17 AM #11 | MorganTJ posted... If there was no drawback to Gear 4, he'd just spam it against everyone. At least it lets Gear 2 and 3 get some action occasionally whenever Luffy isn't all in on a fight.The drawback of Gear 4 is definitely going to disappear when he introduces the next one. That's how it always is --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 4:36:18 AM #99 | Notti posted... Added the levels/exp in after. Was more referring to the stats. Should've made that clearer.I would argue, for example, that a dating sim is a kind of RPG, and it doesn't necessarily have stats. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Will third stimmy be last? |
| scar the 1 02/05/21 2:09:48 AM #4 | Isn't the stimmy getting means tested now --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 3:04:18 PM #93 | Conflict posted... Oh you're talking about regular SaGa, not Romancing SaGaIt does. But let's be clear here - the distinction between a "stat system" as you call it, and Zelda, is essentially that in one case there's numbers, and in the other the numbers don't show up on the screen. Link's life total is still a number, his damage is a number, and enemy health is a number. In some games he can slow/be slowed, so there's another number for speed. The distinction is arbitrary IMO, and more importantly has very little to do with what is supposed to be characteristic of an RPG. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 1:03:52 PM #91 | Conflict posted... But you still gain EXP through combat regardless of what actions you're doing.No, not in FFL 1 or 2, nor in the remake of 3. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 8:21:09 AM #89 | ssjevot posted... Most people consider the SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) games RPGs and it is very possible to build parties that can only level up through purchasing upgrades or eating meat. There aren't even experience points for the first 2 games or the remake of the third. I really think experience points is a poor hill to die on because even tabletop RPG systems often don't have them.SaGa is a fun example because apparently, Kawazu (creator) was very inspired by DnD in creating the first game. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 7:59:11 AM #87 | AlisLandale posted... using currency to buy power-ups doesnt make something an RPG lol. if you collect enough music notes in Banjo Kazooie you double your health. >_>So... according to this reasoning, it's that the currency is called experience that distinguishes an RPG from an adventure game? And that the transaction is somewhat mandatory, rather than optional? --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 7:38:59 AM #85 | It's weird that AoL gets this special status as RPG just because it has numbers. It indicates that for a lot of people, "RPG" seems to mean "grindable avatar strength". Because every Zelda game has variable avatar strength. Heck, in Zelda 1 you can double your HP if you grind enough numbers to purchase the blue ring, or if you increase your heart numbers enough to get a new sword. The thing that makes AoL stand out, I guess, is that it's actual numbers instead of represented by hearts, and you can increase the numbers by just doing the same chore over and over. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 6:39:58 AM #83 | Choco posted... "most RPGs aren't RPGs" is clearly a worse take than others thoughI could see the case if someone is arguing from a "purist" standpoint with tabletop games in mind, but I agree it's not very useful these days since the term RPG has come to mean something a bit broader than, say, Fallout New Vegas. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How far does your definition of RPG go? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 6:33:22 AM #81 | This generally tends to devolve into very similar arguments. I think the first thing people need to accept is that the RPG genre within video games is something completely different from tabletop RPGs. There are similarities, but they are different things. Videogame RPGs are called such because they historically took inspiration from tabletop games like DnD. From there, though, the genre has kept growing on its own. And like with any genre, there isn't a very strict definition that's not how genres work. Some people will argue that stats is what makes a game an RPG. Others will argue that it is the degree to which you as a player can determine the fate of the character you play. To me it's essentially just a mix of a lot of such traits. When a game is labeled as RPG I know it could mean a lot of different things depending on who made it. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Dog Breeds Tier List |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 4:48:35 AM #65 | I'm a cat person, and even I know that there's no such thing as a bad dog. My favorite breeds though are collies and st bernards --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | How would you prefer a remake of a game to be? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 4:37:07 AM #5 | Heavily depends on what you're remaking. But at any rate I would want updated/changed/reimagined gameplay. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | Anybody got a weighted blanket? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 4:29:08 AM #8 | I've tried one and I liked it a lot! --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
| Topic | When will we admit to ourselves that capitalism is a shitty economic system? |
| scar the 1 02/04/21 3:53:38 AM #86 | That's cool. I knew about him for a long time. Unsurprisingly, when he was finance minister the media (at least in Sweden) portrayed him as a loony guy saying crazy and provocative things. It wasn't until recently that I found out he's a Marxist, so I started checking out some of the talks he did while promoting his new book/campaigning for the EU parliament. He's pretty charismatic and has interesting thoughts. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent |
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