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CyricZ He/him

BloodMoon7 posted...

We all know you won't be able to land a second date anyway.

Actually it was a second date and we've already planned our third. Oh god no. >_<

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David1988 posted...

I mean, authors have been pushing for eons how great and free America is to children, thats how you end up with so many people believing in American exceptionalism

Y'know what that's fair enough.

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ClunkerSlim posted...

all the tweets are still out there.

And thank you very much for showing them to us.

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Zeus posted...

Authors with agendas have pretty routinely tried to push on kids

Like what?

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CyricZ He/him

Oh that Cyberpunk driving one had me in stitches XD

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CyricZ He/him

I've never seen Dios be so obviously anti-trans before, but here we are.

Anyway, what does it say that the author of this book gets their ideas from the crows in Dumbo.

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CyricZ He/him

I searched for a bit for proof on "Kevin Smith's lies" and got a runaround to a bunch of whining about his career and connection with Harvey Weinstein of all things.

So enough of that.

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CyricZ He/him

2Snacks just never stops trying to improve his animation, and it's great that Hololive gives him such inspiration.

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CyricZ He/him

TC I had a date today. Are you telling me to scrap it for my own happiness? :(

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CyricZ He/him

EDIT: Ah crumbs joke got made before I could post.

Anyhoo, the Star Wars hate is three and a half years and going strong.

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CyricZ He/him

There is never anything average about Hamill's performances. I mean call it derivative if you must, but c'mon, let's properly contextualize our criticisms here.

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CyricZ He/him

It's fine. It's a mechanic, like so many others.

It allows me to strategize long-term rather than trying to just have good reaction speed and think on the fly.

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CyricZ He/him

Clearly the work is done here.

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

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CyricZ He/him

Honestly I think Mark Hamill was perfect and it's based on two things.

1. This series wanted to establish Skeletor as a credible threat, which he very rarely was in the 80's series.
2. They did not want to completely abandon the camp that Alan Oppenheimer brought to the character, which (as I recall, it's been a while) they did for the '02 series.

So, camp and credible threat to the heroes. Who better than the Joker?

But otherwise I'm with you on the animation. My least favorite scene was the boat fight in Episode 3, where you can see two characters fighting at a time while others are just standing around, despite it ostensibly being a big donnybrook.

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CyricZ He/him

Left column is voted for Trump in 2020.
Right column is voted for BIden in 2020.

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CyricZ He/him

Note how Flauros deftly changed the focus of the argument.

Magnus says it's dumb to call indigenous Americans "Indians".

Flauros said "Oh so no one EVER called them Indians?"

Like that's not the argument bro. The argument is calling them "Indians" in the year of our dog 2021. You'll note we no longer have a baseball team called "the Indians" and it was that way since the end of 2020, not yesterday. It was literally one of the last holdouts.

Unless you wanna be the last holdout on this, in which case, be my guest. Even Riku had the late-arriving sense to edit his post.

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CyricZ He/him

"People who are 'male feminists' are the real rapists while people who claim cartoon designs aren't sexy enough are just joking bro".

Is that really where we want to take this?

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God it's so funny when people just play their hand without thinking.

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A small group that I meet up with semi-regularly. :)

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I mean they definitely looked up what little lore existed for some of these characters and played with it.

One in particular being the fact that just what the heck is Scare Glow? He was released as a toy before he could get any serious amount of lore so people had a bunch of theories about him being a time-displaced Skeletor from the future.

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There's a reason the village gets shipped thousands and thousands of condoms.

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Esrac posted...

I'm saying I think this guy is trying so hard to perform as a good male feminist, that I would wager he's sexually harassed women before

I think this is a bit of a reach.

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CyricZ He/him

Mark Hamill was great. Lena Headey was great. Liam Cunningham was great.

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CyricZ He/him

I'm 41. I barely remember the series but I did watch some of it when I was like five or six.

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CyricZ He/him

I really liked it, but yeah, this seems like a show for people who vaguely remember the show. :)

Someone else was posting in another topic on how this shits all over all the amazing lore of the old series.

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Evening bump.

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There are literally two teams named after colors of socks.

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I liked it. :D

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Smackems posted...

Wtf are these weird ass labels

Do you mean the results on the axis or each end of the scales?

Equality ( Ownership )
Those with higher Equality scores tend to reject the idea that private ownership should be the basis for the economy. They tend to support unions, common land ownership, and socialism.
Property ( Ownership )
Those with higher Property scores believe that private property should be maintained and that inequality is a natural part of life. They tend to support wage labor, landlords, and class systems.
Coordination ( Market )
Those with higher Coordination scores believe that the economy should be planned out to best suit peoples needs. They tend to support regulation, high taxation, and at high values, economic planning.
Commerce ( Market )
Those with higher Commerce scores believe that free markets are the best way to distribute resources. They tend to support deregulation, low taxes, and reject intervention in the economy.
Dominion ( Power )
Those with higher Dominion scores believe political power should be held by a select few individuals. They tend to support strong governments, and at high values, autocracy.
Anarchy ( Power )
Those with higher Anarchy scores believe political power should be spread amongst the population. They tend to support local governance, and at high values anarchism.
Permission ( Autonomy )
Those with higher Permission scores believe an individual should be able to act as they please so long as they arent harming others. They tend to believe in free speech, bodily autonomy, and individualism.
Restriction ( Autonomy )
Those with higher Restriction scores believe that strict rules should be put in place to limit what an individual may do. They tend to support paternalistic social policy and limitations on speech.
Inclusion ( Identity )
Those with higher Inclusion scores believe that all identity groups in society should be treated equally. They tend to support feminism, racial equality, and LGBT acceptance.
Supremacy ( Identity )
Those with higher Supremacy scores tend to believe that some identity groups have innate differences that set them above or below other groups. They tend to support ethnic nationalism, gender roles, and eugenics.
Heritage ( Progress )
Those with higher Heritage scores believe that rapid change is risky and that the past should be cherished. They tend to value religion, nature and preserving culture.
Novelty ( Progress )
Those with higher Novelty scores believe that holding on to the past is irrational and instead we should look to the future. They tend to support secularism, transhumanism and rewriting culture.

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CyricZ He/him

Took this the other day and posted it on 261:



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GiftedACIII posted...

character designer

Character Technical Director. Basically the person in charge of the 3D model and its rigging. If she had designed the original concept, the tweeter would have said so.

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RustyFerret posted...

Seems he's just trying to artificially create controversy over something that didn't seem like a big deal all that recently ago.

If nothing else, well done on the research.

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Stagmar posted...

wait, wait, wait... Your prisons are for-profit?

Oh you didn't know...

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GiftedACIII posted...

I don't care about whatever social commentary this is about but if outside influences want to alter the original writer's intentions I consider that censorship whether it's removing or adding features they didn't intend.

I counter that with the notion that video games are not works spawned from a single person (most of the time). They're a collaborative effort. To imply that only the head writer should have a say in the creative effort is to discount the character designer, the dialogue writer, the art director, the voice actor, etc.

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CyricZ He/him

Y'all havin' the troubles but it's keeping this topic bumped so I'm not complaining. :-P

Anyway, MAG is a super great time so I'm hoping they get to have it in person.

Duncanwii posted...

Is anyone going to bother answering me, the only person on topic?

Post #12 dude.

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lww99 posted...

You simply can't deny their intention with said date.

First or second weekend after New Years is when MAGFest takes place. Thursday to Sunday.

Again, this predated MAGA.

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CyricZ He/him

Okay from what I've been able to piece together my opinion is the following:

1. Having a balance of perspectives in the creative process is important and gamedev is legendarily terrible at this.
2. Having more women in this particular discussion would not necessarily have resulted in a Rivet without feminine features.
3. As none of us were in that room, we can't know for sure how these decisions all went down. Could have been toxic af. Could have been respectful and ultimately democratic.

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lww99 posted...

pretty sure its intentional for views

MAGFest existed before MAGA did.

Duncanwii posted...

The Gaylord was completely filled when we tried to get a room in October or so. Would trying to get a room now be any better?

The rooms aren't open yet. Just follow MAGFest on Twitter or get on an e-mail list.

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DirkDiggles posted...

Lol I thought the title said MAGAFest.

Every time.

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CyricZ He/him

Wait what are we mad about now?

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https://super.magfest.org/blog/super-magfest-is-january-6-9-2022

@MegaTech
@Aeriis

No tickets up yet, just the announcement (and you can request guests, submit a musical act, or apply for being a vendor).

I'm hoping to submit a panel: I want to run a riichi mahjong "clinic" for Yakuza and FFXIV fans.

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CyricZ He/him

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The Essence of Quacking



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What no Yakuza music? No Pledge of Demon? No For Faith? NO GET TO THE TOP?

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Take a shot.

...of whisky (probably should specify that).

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pokedude900 posted...

The Bad Batch takes place between episodes 3 and 4, so calling it a sequel to The Clone Wars is a little misleading. But it is true that it's got a similar style and even some returning characters.

Specifying that it takes place after Ep 3 is important, and that's a good point to make. I still call it a sequel series given it has MANY returning characters. :)

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CyricZ He/him

So there's "Clone Wars" and "The Clone Wars".

Both series are based between Episodes 2 and 3.

"Clone Wars" was begun in 2003 and was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, etc.) It's a 2D animated "microseries" that has two seasons. The first season shows a bunch of vignettes of the war and then moves on to more serialized storytelling in the second season, but it ended when Revenge of the Sith came out.

It's a pretty quick watch and I heavily recommend it, but it's not considered "canon".

"The Clone Wars" is a much larger (and fully canon) CGI series that was largely directed by Dave Filoni after Episode 3 came out, but still taking place between Episodes 2 and 3. For much of the early seasons, the take is that it's an anthology series, where each episode (or small series of episodes) focuses on a different front in the war. It was REAL shaky out of the gate, but there are some incredible stories to be found in it.

Also there's no common cast of characters the series follows. You could be with Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano in one episode, then another could focus on Ki-Adi Mundi, or the focus could shift to a group of clones, or Yoda. That said, Ahsoka Tano and a clone named Captain Rex serve as major recurring new characters for the series, so they get a lot of development.

It had a "final season" that came out last year, although there's a sequel series in "The Bad Batch" that's currently in its first season.

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CyricZ He/him

Franchise is fifty years old. I don't care if they do an entirely Indian cast at this point.

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