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One thing I found long ago that I feel is worth reading about the game is this:
https://oumakokichi.tumblr.com/post/166327441530/what-do-you-think-about-nisamericas-localization

This post specifically focuses on the character of Kokichi Ouma and the differences between the original and localized dialogue around him. Big spoilers for the average person, but TC is in the clear to read it at this point.

Big omissions like how Kokichi actually hated killing and his organization expressly forbid it really stand out. This leads into a moment in the last trial where Shuichi just suddenly mentions out of nowhere that DICE forbade killing even though it never came up before this point in any way.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The one we have made a spatial map of the house by wandering it that was remarkably accurate. I assume it then just fills rectangular areas by going back and forth, moving slightly along the length of the rectangle each time. Obviously not going to do an amazing job where furniture it can't fit under is concerned, but for just mid-week maintenance to keep pet hair down between full cleanings where we move and lift stuff it seems fine.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

DeadBankerDream posted...

That's not the case here.

Am I supposed to use my truth blade even though there's no orange weak point statements?

I think it's just a matter of making slashes do as much damage as possible, then. Slashes do more damage if you cut across the statement rather than along it (so cut vertically if the statement is displayed horizontally), and if you cut twice in one direction then once in the opposite direction, the reversed slash does double damage (e.g. up, up, down does four cuts of damage rather than three).

There is also a purchasable skill that makes the minigame easier IIRC.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

DeadBankerDream posted...

Uuuuuh, what am I supposed to do in this Showdown Rebuttal? I don't have enough cuts to destroy all his statements.

I don't remember the exact part you are at, but there are times during Rebuttal Showdown where you have to wait for additional statements to appear onscreen before slashing to hit multiple statements at once. (They don't always immediately leave the screen if you ignore them.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

CommonGrackle posted...

ah the never-ending emergency

If "it's been a year so far" equates to "never-ending" in your head...

Are you saying that there isn't a global pandemic, that masks don't reduce the spread significantly, or what? What is this other than selfish bitching and moaning?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

You guys do realize that Nintendo doesn't actually have a first-party title that hosts multiplayer matches on a server, Monster Hunt Rise included, right? These servers are for matchmaking, lobbies and recording match results, not for running the game and mediating the connection. There isn't going to be any impact on lag in the games you're playing.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

AlCalavicci posted...

How so?

I wish I had the n64 cart I had growing up, but I lent it to my friend and then that jerk never gave it back

I've also heard the 3DS version was not good because of all the changes

The Gamecube can't properly emulate N64 games that need the extended RAM from the expansion pack; as a result, the Gamecube version of Majora's Mask is extremely unstable and prone to spontaneous crashing. In a game where you tend to only save once per two to three hours, this can be devastating.

kirbymuncher posted...

I think the main story is definitely not an issue guideless. Some of the side quests are complex but if you're willing to go around talking to people, and then actually paying attention to what they say (maybe even writing notes for yourself or something) it's not like there's anything totally unhinted. just that there's a lot to keep track of and it's easy to forget stuff

Funnily enough, the single biggest issue I had with completing the game as a kid was something guides couldn't even help with. When you need to give Koume the red potion, you have to do so during her dialogue. There is a prompt that comes up that says to press Start to open the menu, assign something to a C button, and use it, or something to that effect. What I didn't realize is that you can (and have to) do this before this text box leaves the screen; I thought it was a tutorial on how to do it once the dialogue was finished (like how it worked in Ocarina of Time). But you can't just hit the red potion button in front of Koume because you'll just drink the potion no matter what. So I spent hours trying to figure out how to position or what I needed to do to just hand over the potion. >_>

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I mean, there are parts about the open world system I don't like, and the way that all the towns except for like two are just unmemorable filler with some vendors and sidequests and nothing else of note.

But I thought the combat was extremely fun and satisfying, the story once it gets going was interesting and emotionally gripping, and most of the major characters had a sidestory that I enjoyed following (with some exceptions like the hunting lodge chick, but hey, at least you fight a bunch of big monsters for the quests).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Darmik posted...

Turns out deplatforming does work. Even against world leaders. Or at least the world leaders that are incredibly lazy.

I mean, it was Trump's decision not to do weekly radio addresses like literally every president since FDR. Radio airwaves are considered public property, so there's no corporation to tell him he can't address the nation.

Of course, that would mean he would actually have to make coherent statements rather than tweet tiny snippets of things he read on conservative websites without any evidence or context.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Very unfortunate. There's three possibilities here:

One: the lot was somehow contaminated after initial distribution, perhaps at the clinic level. This would be found during further investigation. Distribution could resume at other sites if this was proven to be the case, although the manufacturer might issue a voluntary recall.

Two: the lot was contaminated or a flaw in the manufacturing process occurred at the laboratory. This is the worst-case scenario, as it means the whole lot will be scrapped, and could affect other lots as well.

Three: the incidents were over-reported. Patients can complain or self-report that normal side effects are allergic reactions because they don't know better, or clinics can report any adverse side effect as an allergic reaction out of an abundance of caution. Without further details, it's hard to discount this possibility entirely. Not sure what happens here or what decision best maintains the state and public's confidence in the vaccine.

It's too far of an outlier to at all be feasible that it's just random chance occurring within the probability distribution of a vaccine that only has this effect on one in 100000 people, though.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Since that URL is sketchy as all fuck, the actual document is hosted here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

apolloooo posted...

damn i wouldn't have known if weren't for this, i saw it on my reccomendation but it looked like hentai puzzle shovelware so i didn;t know . thanks lol

It used to be in the top 50 games on SteamDB for a couple years after release (based on their algorithm that considers overall rating and total number of votes) and is still in the top 100. I only picked it up since I saw someone else playing it on stream and it looked really challenging, but I've since put over 350 hours into (it's about 20-30 hours for a first playthrough, but it's so damn replayable with all the difficulty options, 0% runs, speedruns, challenges for playing around with the item/boss order, etc.)

Here's gameplay video against a boss you are likely to fight somewhat early (technically almost every boss from the first arc of the game can be fought in any order):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUFYwoVJvtc

On PC, I'd highly recommend the "Is the order a DLC?" content as well, which is a proper two chapters with new areas and unique, ridiculous bosses. This is just part of the game on other platforms. However, you don't miss anything except outfit customizations until you've beaten chapter 8 of the vanilla game, so you don't have to instantly buy it. Halloween DLC is free and includes a small area + fun and flashy extra boss.

The Before Next Adventure DLC adds four post-post-post-postgame bosses (yes, the game literally has four levels of postgame at this point) which are very cool, unique fights with special mechanics, but two of the four are kind of just absolute bullshit hard (at least on the highest difficulty) so YMMV on that DLC. I thought it was worth it, but I really loved the game. Also, they're about to finally release the second playable character as part of the BNA DLC as well, but she's still only in beta for now.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

pegusus123456 posted...

They're satellites.

From space.

They're literally controlling Biden from space. Biden is the puppet of Italy being controlled by Italian satellite from space. Only the Great Hero Trump has the power to stop them. But when Trump heroically led the people to break past the evil guards planted by Antifa to rescue Biden by ripping the nanochip out of him, he wasn't able to predict how far their influence had spread, and they failed because the good men on the inside had also been implanted with Japanese nanochips.

If Trump is removed from office, then China's insidious plans to rule the US will be unstoppable. Don't let Germany and their proxy of EVIL, the Democrats, win!

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Rabi-Ribi is a Metroidvania adventure with a very deep combat system (featuring bullet hell patterns that you navigate by jumping, walking, sliding, wall-jumping, air dashing, etc. on the bosses' side, and a combination of a surprisingly deep melee combo system and multiple ranged shots to choose from on the player's side) and something around 50 bosses plus six difficulties (not counting the many additional modifiers you can add to the difficulties or the infinitely scaling repeatable New Game+). The boss rush mode for just the main game bosses takes around 100 minutes to finish, and then there are special bosses split into two more boss rush modes; the final boss of chapter 10 (DLC on PC, included on other platforms) alone is about a 20 minute fight.

The downside is that the aesthetic is shameful, but the game is so damn good otherwise. The Metroidvania part of it is really well-done too, with tons and tons of collectibles, a badge system, ridiculous non-linearity, and hidden paths that let you skip every item if you want (with some bosses adjusting their attacks based on mobility items you do or don't have).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Veggeta X posted...

We just hired someone who has no clue how to use a computer and then HR expects the IT department to train them. Not happening. I told HR we are NOT the training department, and we are not a computer training company LMAO.

I feel like this has to happen at way, way too many companies. "This job requires basic computer skills to even get off the ground, and some level of computer literacy is not only necessary to do the job but also for security of the information we deal with. Let's hire someone who doesn't know how to open a file from their computer, pick the directory while saving, or type in a web address."

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Did you guys know that literally every single President since JFK has addressed the public by radio on a weekly basis and Trump is the first to not do this?

So don't bitch that he can't address the public. He just can't post a one-sentence headline-like statement with zero sources or context just to get reactions. Trump never used Twitter to actually convey useful information, only to whine, attack and insult people, or post whatever conspiracy theory of the day was in his head with no source or evidence.

A platform that limits you to few enough characters to fit in a text message is not an appropriate tool for political discourse to begin with.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Depends on context. Haste is normally broken as fuck, but in LLG context, vanish/image is even more broken as well as stuff like FFV Dragon's Kiss (give target Dragon and Heavy types, so party members are immune to lot of really nasty stuff while enemies take 8x damage from certain farmable weapons) or the stuff that literally just lets you boost levels (set enemy levels to 255 so level 5 death kills them, which works on literally everything in the game that isn't undead, or make yourself do the same damage at level 1 real level as you would as if you leveled to 255). Gau has a bunch of bullshit statuses he can inflict in FFVI that don't have any sort of defense or immunity against them and basically work as instant kills or better (Charm).

The strategy I use for level 1 solo Lenna vs final bosses in FFV makes liberal use of Haste, Image, self-granted status immunities, level boosting, and !Hide if you consider that a status.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

iPhone_7 posted...

Terrorist seems a bit harsh. I think you meant to say QAnoner who may have had too much sugar, misbehaved a little, & acted quite silly.

Not sure if you're serious, but you generally draw the line for "absolutely prepared to commit an act of violence" when someone brings a firearm.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Smashingpmkns posted...

One of the computers in her office was unlocked from the pics online.

Fucking lol, then

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Smashingpmkns posted...

And just decided to take a pic of themselves using a phone, or putting their feet up on a desk. Could have searched "Epstein" or "Wayfair" or "Ice Cream" on her computer or something.

I mean, maybe try to smuggle out the hard drive or something, but... you know what a lock screen is, right?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

DepreceV2 posted...

She just said the machines are proven to be hacked when Georgia said that is impossible. WTF?

There should be a requirement to make any statements here under oath so we can just deal with claims like this with a charge of perjury and a swift removal from office.

For those who don't understand, the voting machines literally do not have any sort of connection to the internet, so this would require physical tampering that went undetected both before and after the election.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

So, this is a bit tangentially related, but why does no one ever talk about Zelda's Adventure, the third shitty CDI Zelda game with incredibly weird cutscenes? (Totally different style though - they use a live action wizard character.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

HBOSS posted...

each side gave no middle ground.

The fuck is a middle ground here? Claims into election fraud were taken seriously by the states to the fullest extent possible. Investigations were launched. Video footage was made available where possible. Officials have made multiple lengthy public statements about the findings of the investigations and many efforts to increase transparency in every way imaginable. Courts have heard the claims where it is in their jurisdiction.

But this is all with the knowledge that the claims are so blatantly false, nonsensical, and unbacked by evidence that there is very little to be done with a lot of them. When Trump's lawyers were asked to answer as a member of the court (the judge's code for "Your license to practice law will be under investigation soon if you lie to me here") as to whether there was any merit to the claims, they had to say no. When they were asked to present evidence, they didn't have any except for third-hand testimony here and there ("I heard someone else say she saw a third party do...").

The claims themselves include completely impossible claims like tens of thousands of unregistered voters or underage voters voting by mail, when you can't receive a mail-in ballot without filling out a form to request it, meaning you can't receive a ballot at all under the above conditions; ballots that were not sent out would not be countable, since the serial number has to match a ballot that was sent out and the identity assigned to that ballot, and is unique.

So where is the middle ground? It seems like the investigation that was done and making information transparent would be the middle ground to me. But the claims that there was fraud are endless. Trump just posts random headline-like statements like (direct quote) "They just happened to find 50,000 ballots late last night. The USA is embarrassed by fools. Our Election Process is worse than that of third world countries!". (Note: that particular statement was referring to the Senate runoffs, but I'm just referring to the general format of his tweets.) Zero sources. Zero context. Zero further explanation. No one cares to question it.

You cannot do anything in this situation but simply proceed to inaugurate Biden. Any investigations that are still pending do not have the potential to find fraud in the numbers Trump would need (they're things like, "did we have 6 instances of felons voting, or maybe some of those are just name and DOB matches with other people?") and are irrelevant. States have certified their winners and sent electors.

The middle ground cannot perpetually slide farther to one side, nor does objectivity actually have a concept of a middle ground to begin with.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

PoundGarden posted...

I mean...yeah? Isnt that why terrorists do what they do, their side lost/wants to be in power?

Do you really not understand the difference in the situation between a bunch of people storming the capital because they believe that Trump should be president just because he's Trump, and them believing he actually won the election?

If Trump refused to leave office and a bunch of government officials in conspiracy with him kept him there, and no one intervened, and he assumed a role as a dictator, do you not believe that democracy would die there unless he was removed from office, by force if necessary? Because that is objectively what would happen in that situation: either violent means would have to be introduced, or we would have a dictator in the White House. So what if you thought the truth was that Biden was the dictator and the figures in government keeping him there were conspirators?

If you mischaracterize the motivation of these people as "they would fight for Trump even if they knew he was lying about everything" rather than "they hold a deep regard for America but have no concept of what the reality of the situation is", how do you hope to fight against it? You can't literally just launch a military strike against American citizens and root out the terrorist training centers that are purely online. The only option is to attempt to reach people and bring them to their senses.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

yusiko posted...

literally every terrorist thinks their actions are justified
no member of isis thinks they are the bad guy
you dont give terrorists a pass because they think they are the good guy

Okay? What I said was that these people think they are trying to protect democracy, not overthrow it. I didn't say they're right; I was speaking against the statement that they're doing it because they're upset they lost.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Samurontai posted...

Burning down a police station in reaction to police brutality is not even remotely the same thing as storming the US Capitol because you lost an election through a democratic process, what the fuck

That's a horrible mischaracterization of the protestors. They clearly genuinely believe that the election is a fraud and Trump actually won. They believe that if no one stands against it, then democracy is lost, the same as anyone who has basic common sense and accurate information believes the opposite. You could definitely say they are doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.

This is the result of the President and the Republican party being able to say things through channels that filter out anything the recipients do not want to hear. It's the result of social media being the absolute shithole that it is (deeply believe it's one of the biggest threats to American democracy in the modern world), where Russian and Chinese memetic infographics and fake quotes can reach tens of thousands of people in hours to days who will believe it as the truth while no actual information can ever see the light of day, and the movement of people away from reputable/mainstream (held to some standards, even if still very flawed) media as encouraged by Trump. It's from the curated creation of people who simply do not live in the same reality as we do. It is not, however, from a lack of moral integrity on the protestors' part. (Though it is from a lack of two brain cells to rub together, as the lies that Trump tells are ridiculously thin bullshit that doesn't even make sense like votes coming from non-registered voters by mail-in ballots, and they clearly hold the belief that conspiracies can be kept by thousands of people without leaking or morally objecting while one man with everything to gain can never lie.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Archer is the only way to learn Concentrate in FFTA, so it's a key cornerstone for any top-tier build since Concentrate is completely and totally broken. It also has a bunch of disables that are roughly as good as an instant kill even if it can't actually do damage for shit.

Thief is a bad solo class but has absolutely insane passives, and !Steal is an incredible ability for getting good equipment and powering chemists.

Beastmaster, at least in FFV, has access to very early 9999 damage and other boss-cheesing strategies like releasing four monsters that do 1/4 of all enemies' max HP in damage (with no immunity because it's straight damage, not a gravity-type spell). It also helps with learning blue magic.

Not sure why Samurai is on this list when throwing money generally is freaking amazing for a speedy way through the game, and it tends to get really good equipment to boot.

Gadgeteer at least has Night But Shitty so you might have to cast it a few times before it hits the right team, but it's bad, yeah.

FFV Bard is ghetto Chemist in that it lets you hit like trucks in a low-level game without using resources (but can't make you immune to most elements and status effects or any of the other really broken shit Chemist does), and it can do decent damage to undead and dragons, at least. !Hide in FFV is actually an insane ability for fighting at level 1 as well, if you know monster AI scripts well. FFIV Bard is basically irredeemable, though.

Berserker is the joke option that other people pay to give you when you run Four-Job Fiesta and opt into the "Berserker Risk" setting, because it's literally worse than having a job that doesn't learn actual combat abilities like Knight (which is a blank class against anything that doesn't use single-target physical skills but wins for free if you can berserk the enemy). !Item becomes a rather good command late-game with Mirage Vest glitching, elemental shield swapping, Magic Lamp, etc. and zerker is the only class that can't use it. It's not as bad as it could be because you can at least give them a hammer that casts Quake (although, four berserkers can't steal the one that comes early enough to matter...), but if you've ever seen four berserkers vs Sand Worm before...

Never played a game with Onion Knight in it before.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

SPE posted...

We have become so corrupt.

do you remember the comedian who got a visit from the secret service and had her life destroyed over some bad taste jokes about the prez? Even liberal cnn fired her.

yet you have this Lin wood character, who is not a comedian, nor an elderly woman making serious (non joking) threat comments regarding the life of the VP and many other politicians, and literally inciting mobs too and he hasnt even lost his law degree, let alone gotten a secret service visit or any sort of real consequence.

if dear leader likes what youre saying, youre protected. This is the stuff you see in banana republics, it makes me so angry what the GOP has done to our great country

You can literally be convicted of being a traitor to the nation, a mass-murdering war criminal, or corrupt to the extent that you would embezzle millions, but don't worry, Donny will give you a presidential pardon, because the ideas of "laws" and "courts" are so beneath him and your acts directly benefit his wallet. Unless you spoke out against him, anyway.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Minor spoiler about the outcome: You don't have to pick just one. You're all immortal, and should you choose to go with more than one lover, you'll all agree that it makes no sense to only have one partner for literal eternity.

Also, you can have a threesome.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Cool Ranch is too inconsistent. They're kinda gross if too much of the flavoring ends up on one chip, and taste a bit off without enough of the flavoring as well. Nacho Cheese doesn't have that problem and is always good.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

g980 posted...

it was thoughtless but i think "taunting" comes with some malice that we have no reason to believe exists

The people whose role it is to make sure the company is secure are going to be completely different people from the ones who are responsible for payroll and bonuses (and may not even be privy to whether there will be bonuses or not).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

You think scammers and hackers care if they're being cruel when they send their own phishing attempts like this? If people are willing to click an email from "[email protected]", then that means they are at risk of having their actual accounts compromised, and that is a common enough story. The pain of hearing you fell for your company's phishing email is nothing compared to hearing that you wear the source of a major data breach, or your bank account has been emptied, and these are common enough stories around the holidays. My company already had at least one instance of an employee who typed their login into a phishing site this holiday season.

If GoDaddy employees aren't making enough to survive the year, that's one thing, but it's not like 2020 has done anything to especially increase cost of living or hurt economic welfare for people who are still employed with a tech company. The people are hurting are the ones who lost their jobs.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

DD Divine posted...

the interests rates are ridiculous and take advantage of people. The interest rates need to be more fair

Huh? Aren't student loan interest rates ridiculously low, like 3% or so for subsidized loans and 4-5% for unsubsidized? I've literally heard economic advice to repay them as slowly as possible and instead invest the money you have spare for higher returns than these interest rates (just as long as you're investing it and not spending it).

This is federal student aid, mind you, not private loans... but I don't think the government has any say in forgiving private debt?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

A big thing about World to consider that no one has mentioned here is that unlike other games in the series, it allows you to do most of the story content with other players... but it's terrible at it and such a hassle to do, you're better off just playing through the story solo, or at the very least not trying to play with someone else who hasn't completed the story. Otherwise you'll have to constantly have people start quests and abandon them halfway through just to be able to fight monsters together.

Games aside from World have a separate single-player campaign (which is required to unlock most of the essential systems of the game, so you can't ignore it) and multiplayer quest list (which has completely separate progression). You can play the multiplayer quests as a single player, and it just sort of becomes a slightly harder mode, since they're always roughly scaled for 2-3 players regardless of the number of people in the quest. World, on the other hand, dynamically scales the monster's health based on the number of players in the quest (1, 2, or 3+ players) and is the only game to allow players to join mid-quest.

Also, I personally hate the Generations series because of how it reduced the elegance and available options of weapons' natural movesets while favoring extremely one-dimensional strategies for many weapons, and would say that 4U was just a better game all around, if you don't mind playing on 3DS...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Socrawheeze posted...

dude does anyone else just like, never see Calls, ever? what's even the point of them? I saw poseidon's, once, when Calls were introduced. that's it

Athena call used to last like 25 seconds with a couple poms so you could basically just skip the second half of every boss fight, but they just nerfed the shit out of it. Most of them just do a burst of damage in some way. I think Dio call (using only regular calls, never greater) does the most overall damage now, but there are still a few options for invincible calls, and epic Ares call does a shitton of damage while invincible (for some reason Ares call scales ridiculously hard with rarity to a scale far beyond most boons).

Anyway, yeah, Hades is a pretty easy game unless you're playing on very high heat, like 50 or so, and at that point it starts to force you to take pacts like Approval Process (barf) and Routine Inspection 1 that just remove your options. Play with Routine Inspection 4 and you'll quickly realize how hard the game holds your hand without heat. I appreciate that runs are relatively short, though, because one thing I do not like about Dead Cells is stomping through the whole game without any chance of dying whatsoever only to die to Hand of the King an hour+ in (and with no way to practice him other than repeatedly taking an hour to get to him).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

If this is a 3D, real-time RPG, bow and gun are just so much better than the other options. Bow is really fun, but you obviously have to take guns if this is a setting where they exist.

If this is a turn-based RPG, greatsword, twin daggers, and magic are almost always the best choices. Axes, hammers, and spears tend to be treated as wonky greatswords that are usually overall slightly worse, one-handed weapons that you don't dual-wield are a joke, and defensive kits are a complete and total joke in turn-based RPGs.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

This is related to a widely distributed piece of business software (the Orion product from Solarwinds) that was compromised by inserting a trojan into the file on the hosting web server for downloads, which went undetected for months as institutions around the world used the software.

This is not journalistic fluff; this is one of the largest breaches of cybersecurity the nation has seen. The topic title here is misleading, though.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/suspected-russian-cyberattack-began-with-a-little-known-but-ubiquitous-software-company-11608036495

Note that gaining access to information about the stockpile is still wildly different from actually hacking anything related to deployment or access codes.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The Lost Age has a nifty randomizer available if you want some more replay value. Makes good use of how much of the game world is open to you at once.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Jx1010 posted...

Thats my biggest concern.
Who is made responsible when people end up in the hospital from a severe allergic reaction to this?

No one? The VIS for any vaccine tells you outright "If you have a history of allergies to so-and-so, you should not have this vaccine." Before getting any vaccine, you fill out a brief questionnaire that asks if you have those allergies. If you don't have any known allergies, you get the vaccine, and then there's a monitoring period before you leave if there's a higher risk of a reaction from that particular vaccine. But why would you think that someone should be responsible for an allergic reaction that literally cannot be predicted from someone with no known allergies? That's like expecting a restaurant to be liable because you had an allergic reaction when you tried a totally new food there.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Rika_Furude posted...

im telling you to give us the long term data which you believe exists and negates the need for long term testing

Are you seriously suggesting waiting 40+ years before we start dealing with COVID, which we already know has way worse long-term effects than any vaccine has a decent chance of having?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

PoundGarden posted...

That's a man that knows a fucked chicken when he sees one LMAO

It's pretty obvious when a bird has absolutely no external injuries but presumably has blood coming from its vent...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Socrawheeze posted...

luigi bit it years ago

Mario already died when Ridley was announced, but how quickly the public forgets...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Giant_Aspirin posted...

think of ice cream but made with non-dairy milk (ie soymilk etc)

Edit: Never mind, there are multiple things here with similar names. I misread.

Non-dairy frozen dessert is generally made with vegetable oil and milk (in this case, sunflower milk) and often contains trans fats. The nutritional value is generally even worse than actual ice cream.

Frozen dairy dessert, on the other hand, is a label that results because the FDA does not allow products to be called ice cream if they contain less than 10% milkfat, contain more than 100% overrun (that is, the product can't be more than literally half air whipped in), or weigh less than 4.5 lbs per gallon. It is generally still a dairy product.

Frozen dairy dessert is an utter plague on the grocery store ice cream isle. The stuff is gooey and paste-like. It literally doesn't melt into a liquid but instead turns into a sort of sludge. It tastes awful as well. Generally the flavors with a bunch of candy and such mixed in are frozen dairy desserts because people will buy them regardless. Even the stuff they can still label "ice cream" has dramatically dropped in both size and quality over time, but half the stuff in the aisle is basically inedible frozen dairy dessert now.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Proving once again this man has absolutely not the slightest shred of an idea of what it means to be a leader. Meanwhile other world leaders publicly broadcast that they will be getting the vaccine because it eases people's concerns.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I understand these sorts of concerns, but please remember you are weighing concerns about side effects of the vaccine against concerns about the effects of contracting COVID-19 and/or spreading the disease onward, not against being absent from the situation. The lasting effects of the disease are known to be quite significant in many cases.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia