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FFXIII plays so much better if you set up good battle controls. As in paradigm decks, because paradigm shifting is the primary command point. Focusing on auto-battle spam is missing the point entirely.

opopopza posted...

I'm playing through FFVII right now, about half way through. People need to be honest with themselves, VII is more linear than XIII. They aren't technically hallways, but there is still a very very set path to take. And this is the most beloved game in the franchise.

As some of the others have touched on, the problem isn't actually the linearity. The problem is the relative lack of exploration and the near complete lack of non-combat gameplay. How much that matters to someone is going to depend a lot on how they get their primary enjoyment from JRPGs. For someone like me who primarily cares about combat and story it's barely a hindrance, whereas someone who primarily plays for exploration and side content is likely to be highly displeased by FFXIII.

Doe posted...

preferably a turn based game

bonus points for very playable on KB + M like Undertale

Child of Light

MaxEffingBemis posted...

What is Grandia about? The collection is on Switch.

Grandia 1 is about a teen going off to become an explorer, but his explorations keep getting in the way of the plans of a large empire. Shenanigans ensue.

Grandia 2 is about a mercenary getting pulled into accompanying a religious acolyte on her quest to stop an ancient, evil force that is progressively breaking out from various seals.

crazygamer21 posted...

Isn't war of the lions the recommended version? I have the android version.

Yes, although some strongly prefer the original translation.

Lordgold666 posted...

Dragoon/chrono cross >

Have yet to play lunar, are they as good as the poll claims?

Lunar SSC has a fun story and characters, great music, decent dungeons with on-map enemy indicators, and a pretty unique battle system that's sort of a mix of classic turn based and tactical combat. There's only a few battle systems that I like more (Grandia being one of them).

I voted Grandia after debating LSSC, FFIX, and Wild Arms. So I'm amused to see exactly those games also having 1 vote each right now.

sabrestorm posted...

I noticed people that complain about capitalism never do anything to try and get ahead, they sit around complaining and want everything for free

I've noticed people who think this tend to dismiss anyone who doesn't fit this worldview. Otherwise they might have to acknowledge that lots of successful people are critical of capitalism (especially in its current state).

Data says unemployment is generally low, and (as seen in this thread already) we have numerous anecdotes from places that have already ended the bonus where these jobs are still not being filled. So no, I don't think the $300 boost is why these jobs aren't being filled, and therefore I don't think ending it will get them filled.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Are they random?

I'm pretty sure, although it's been a while since I played and I might not remember correctly.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Once you know what you're doing you'll pretty much always win but it's pure luck whether you win 9-0 or 3-2 or 1-0. That's why it's bulls***

Also, even if you know what you're doing you can lose if the rng hates you enough. Your defense/goaltending aren't good enough to stop the Goers if they play smart, and there are three random blitzoffs (start of each half, and when Tidus subs in). If the Goers get possession on all three of those, and score every time they have possession, the best you can do is tie by scoring when you get the ball after their goal--and if they score when you don't have enough time to answer, you lose.

Shezarr posted...

Reading sigs is hard apparently

Much harder than projection, I would guess.

NES: I
GameBoy: FFLegend II I don't care that it's actually SaGa
SNES: VI
PS1: VIII
PSP: Tactics WotL
GameBoy Advance: Tactics Advance (by far my least favorite on this list)
PS2: X
PS3: XIII

GeraldDarko posted...

Surely some people being careless doesn't negate the countermeasures.

True, and this is why we avoided a massive, nation wide overburdening of our health care system. However, some people being careless can absolutely negate the preferred end state of 0 virus spread.

My personal tiers:
Top tier: VI, X, XIII
Great tier: VIII, Tactics
Really good tier: I, VII, IX
Pretty good tier: IV, XII
Didn't get into tier: II, V
Never played tier: III, XI, XIV, XV

Horizontal is sideways like the horizon.

Ratchetrockon posted...

Thank you

Screenshotted your post on my phone for future reference. Is that ok?

Yep, no problem.

More seriously: when you affect something you act on it, and you produce an effect. Thus the effect comes after the affecting action (just as e is after a alphabetically).

Those are the mnemonics I used to use to help keep them straight in their common uses (at this point the knowledge is basically ingrained).

Perhaps your affect has affected the effect you wished to effect with this topic.

I laughed... and voted, unlike the other topics.

Just remember that effect is a noun and affect is a verb... excepting the times when effect is a verb or affect is a noun, of course.

pure_temper posted...

i want a journal, not news

Links from the previous article:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252086v1

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab103/ 6129932?guestAccessKey=39d1c850-0ae9-469e-9f21-5b7b2c3e6b5e%20%0d%0d
(Space added)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776560

pure_temper posted...

source on the prevalence of these outcomes by age group?

https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/ studies-show-long-haul-covid-19-afflicts- 1-in-4-covid-19-patients-regardless-of-severity/2021/03
(Two spaces added due to character limits)

Current data shows that over 1 in 4 covid patients have long haul effects. This percentage range holds regardless of patient age, prior risk factors, or severity of the infection.

PowerOats posted...

Why does Kimahri suck?

Because the natural thing to do with him is make him a worse version of someone else. If you use him right* he'll be your best character from midgame to endgame. Postgame is a different story, but character power levels for postgame work on entirely different bases than character power levels for main storyline play.

*: there are multiple L2 locks near the beginning of grids that cut into the end portion of another character's grids. Kimahri can easily take advantage of one of these to skip to endgame stat boosts and skills as soon as you gain a L2 key sphere, and from there it's very easy to bounce him around to other endgame grid areas. Holding back the other characters to cut through these locks isn't as attractive as it might be since most grids connect into grids that favor entirely different stat lines, but Kimahri has the base stats to go with any of the powerful options. I favor Rikku -> Yuna because a second character with Steal and Use adds a lot of utility while you wait to amp Kimahri's magic power and give him Holy (and thanks to Lancet, Kimahri can easily sustain Holy spam). Wakku -> Lulu and early tier 3 spells or Tidus -> Auron for massive strength and maybe early Mental/Armor Break are also great options. You can also go Lulu -> Rikku but her endgame is easily the weakest so the other choices seem better. Yuna -> Tidus for early Quick Hit is of course also awesome, but that one costs two L2 key spheres whereas the others only need one (plus a L1 key sphere).

Part of the dominant conservative ideology is the belief that rich people are rich because of good decisions and (other) poor people are poor because of bad decisions. If you believed that being rich were proof of good decision making, wouldn't you be more inclined to give rich people leadership and trust their decisions?

Not a conservative, but here's why:

• Fear tends to increase authoritarian tendencies
• The rapid pace of change in the modern world is a source of fear for most conservatives
• On top of that, conservative news sources like Fox News have been pushing fear-inducing narratives for decades
• Also, since the late '70's the Republicans have been deliberately courting the largest existing organized mass of people inclined towards authoritarianism in America (evangelical Christians)

c.f The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer for sourcing and more detail on the first two points: https://theauthoritarians.org/

84. So not quite

Nah. The chipmunk vocals hit one element of nightcore but it's missing others. This is nightcore:
https://youtu.be/3HjKJngme3Y

RedJackson posted...

Sounds like religion, also nah the atheist does no such thing

because this assumes the common atheist is a scientist, most of them are not thus will undoubtedly follow the path of least resistance to a conclusion like someone religious would

So, you agree that both religious people and atheists have choices? And that it's possible for people to follow either philosophy in an uncritical manner? Ok.

RedJackson posted...

someone who is atheist does not have a choice at all lol they are revoked of thought since theres a paper that tells them the stars are here

Wrong. An atheist has the choice to look at that paper and the reasoning presented in the paper and choose whether or not they agree with the reasoning. If they don't agree with the reasoning, they are free to challenge the paper with their own interpretation of whatever facts and arguments formed the basis of the paper. That's literally how science progresses.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

kimari basically isnt worth using. You can make him work if you try hard enough but hes so mediocre during the early/mid game and is the worst character in the mid/late game. Theres one time period between him unlocking some skills and another party member joining your team where you can make him shine, but he is immediately outclassed once this new party member join and is never relevant again. His Mighty Guard overdrive is his best one but its never really needed when you can just cast the relevant spells or use a different party member to get the same effect

No, if you route him correctly he'll be fine early, fade a bit in the early midgame, dominate the mid-late midgame, and remain one of your most powerful characters into endgame. Only if you carry on to postgame (or do enough grinding that you could) will he eventually be eclipsed by the others.

Kimahri can be awesome, but not if you go conventional with him. If you go conventional you get this:

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Kimarhi is useless no matter what lol

a-c-a-b posted...

Yeah.

He was by far my least used party member in my last playthough.

If nothing else, they make it easy to prosecute people who cause fires or similar.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night didn't play like a typical platformer. I mean, it's literally half of the reason we call them metrodvanias.

TheOtherMike posted...

No it doesn't. Backing in requires pulling past the spot, and carefully backing up between parked cars. Backing out into the comparatively open lane takes half as long and doesn't create confusion around you in the lot. Backing into parking spaces serves literally no purpose and takes longer.

Backing in only takes twice as long as backing out if you're not experienced at backing in. The times are comparable for me. And yes, it can create confusion which is why I sometimes choose not to do it, depending on traffic.

But it absolutely serves a purpose. When you back in, you always have clear sight lines on where you're going and on the cross traffic, both when parking and when leaving the parking spot. When you back out you do not have clear sight lines on cross traffic. Backing in--and pulling out forward--is demonstrably safer.

Derwood posted...

And now your trunk is inaccessible because its up against another car

Eh, in my area the parking spots are big enough that I can easily leave a foot in my parking space behind me. But yes, if I'm planning to be putting something large/bulky into my trunk that's another reason I might choose not to back in that time.

Derwood posted...

Backing in inconveniences everyone around you

So does backing out. Defaulting to backing in but not doing so if there are cars right behind you doubles the chance of no one being inconvenienced when backing.

I always back in at home. It took a while but now I'm quick enough and good enough that I back into most parking spots (though I still pull through if that's an option).

We need to decrease our carbon and methane output and increase the rate of carbon capture. We may need to look at methane capture also.

Decreasing carbon output mostly means shifting to renewable and/or nuclear energy production. A full switch away from coal/gas powered plants requires an alternative way to handle baseload. That means more nuclear, or better (for the purpose) batteries, or some sort of new idea for energy production. There's a lot of research happening right now in these areas.

Carbon sequester technologies can help stabilize the current temp and could potentially reduce some of the damage we've already done. It might also serve as a solution to the battery/energy storage issues--in principle we could use energy from wind/solar to create fuels with which we can run conventional power plants for baseload purposes.

We might also need to look at more radical ideas for reducing global temperatures, such as the sun shade idea already mentioned.

What you can do is support and/or participate in these initiatives. You can also support and advocate for policies and politicians that will take action on these initiatives.

I don't need to click the link to know that my scores are going to end up similar to yours. But I might later this weekend.

WalkingLobsters posted...

lol @ thinking the Big Bang is real

What's your theory?

Also, part of the point of the story with the White Tower is precisely that they have lost touch with the rest of the world. Between their insular practices and the influence of the black ajah, they have indeed been steadily becoming more and more useless. It's not a coincidence that most of the highly capable Aes Sedai we meet are ones that have spent large amounts of time away from the tower.

PC-Builder_Pony posted...

Can there be a bad sandwich?

Anything with american cheese. Blah.

mobilebloechel posted...

This is a ghetto Reuben

More or less. It's a nice alternative if I'm not in the mood for the corned beef.

Another: Egg salad, arugula, gruyere cheese on wheat or multigrain bread.

Kombucha posted...

Interesting, I've never had Russian style dressing. Is it the kind of dressing you have to go to a special store for or could you find it in the international section at a big chain? Everything else sounds good.

It's very similar to Thousand Island, which would also work in that sandwich combo. I'm just used to seeing Russian dressing where I live. I have no idea how easy it is to buy at a grocery store.

Turkey, sauerkraut, russian dressing, swiss cheese, marble rye bread

S-E recently did an excellent remaster for SaGa Frontier. Besides updated graphics, changes include:

• Improved UI showing a lot more information about abilities and equipment, most notably all of the different defense ratings for armor/accessories and the damage types associated with attack abilities
• The ability to fast forward at 2x or 3x in battles, and on the overworld, with easy controls for switching between speeds
• Many, many many more save slots
• Unlimited room for character recruitment
• Various bug fixes
• Updated translations (mostly for the better although some of the changes are questionable)
• Autosaves on top of the normal and quick saves that the original game had
• New Game+ with highly customizable choices for what carries over
• Restored content that was cut from the original release AND the ability to play without this content

I don't necessarily expect the last two, but if they include most of the other features in these pixel remasters then I can see them being worth $10-$15 each.