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There's no way to provide universal accessible daycare during a pandemic. That's a non-starter. Like, if that's the solution then just keep the public schools open (but good luck finding teachers lmao)

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I mean, I do think it's fair to say "this should be coming out of the bank accounts of the specific government employees who did it, not from taxpayers"

Insanely unrealistic and infeasible, but fair

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsP0ByjyU6A

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None really? Like I've even bought a couple fully explicit games but I've never been like, "gotta get this for the anime sideboob"

...I'll admit that it was the reason I used to like Dead or Alive, but even then I never bought it...!

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

BT probably thinks pointy-haired boss from dilbert is a misunderstood genius who works his ass off

The Dilbert guy is a Trump supporter so this might be canon tbh

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Ah yes, the "whacky" conservative notion that all men are created equal, and should be treated as equals. I never stopped to think about that aspect of it, but CRT being a thinly veiled "white savior" style of racism totally tracks. The idea that laws that treat people equal regardless of race/gender/whatever are inheriantly racist, and thus must be changed to benefit minorities sounds like some grade A bullshit racism.

Canada has a very racist concept in our legal system, where sentencing guidelines for someone convicted of a crime need to take into account "racial history" but only if the convicted is first Nations. The government saw the higher rates of crime committed per capita in first Nations people and decided the only way to fix that was to give them more lenient prison sentences for committing the same crime as a person of any other way ethnicity.

If you don't believe me, look up Gladue sentencing.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

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swordz9 posted...

The game Im currently playing I believe. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.

This exactly

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You all are being much too kind, complaints about CRT just mean "my kid is being taught the truth when I want them to be taught conservative propaganda"

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Like almost anything you see talked about by uneducated people on the internet, it should require critical thinking before you continue to spew it further

Tantalizingly close to being self-aware

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Not weird (though I don't do it personally). Plenty of people brush after meals, and plenty of people eat at/during work.

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Didn't see that second comment before posting but it doesn't really change what I have to say. I do think it would be very easy to spinoff Tales into a proper fighting game though

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I remember ads in the mid-2000s trying to argue that Tales "plays like a fighting game" so you're definitely not the first to make that comparison, but it always felt kinda specious to me because like... sure, the combat does. What about the other 50-75% of Tales gameplay when you're not in combat? There's nothing in Smash regardless of which mode you play that's similar to running around towns buying new equipment, for instance. Maybe the campaign in Ultimate if we're very generous.

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Dragon Warrior IS similar to Tales of Vesperia. Definitely more so than either is to Mario Party, you know?

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If someone told me Smash feels more like Mario Party than, say, Street Fighter 2 (much less something goofy like Guilty Gear or DoA) I would honestly think they haven't played any of the series in question. I accept it's an opinion one could have but personally I have no idea where it comes from.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

I never understood the "REEEE I HATE RICH PEOPLE" mentality

Yeah there's a lot you don't understand

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lordjers posted...

Is House of the Dead not horror either?

It's a light gun game. I'd never describe it as horror, no.

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I've done it twice in the past but haven't really been in a writing mood the last few years. I might try it again this year and see if I can break out of the funk.

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I'd also connect the alpha/beta stuff to, like, flat Earthism, as part of the same "I don't care about reality, I just want to spout my made up bullshit" movement. Maybe that's part of neo-nationalism too, idk

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It might be a horror franchise but it's definitely not a horror game franchise.

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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

Like every critic, indie game fans and their metric for scoring an indie game. Oh gee wee, this game is pretty fun to play, that and it is made on a shoestring budget, lets give this 7/10 game a 10.

what a bizarre post lmao

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8

I think the plot itself is actually kinda weak, but everything else - the characters, the writing, the setting, etc - is superb.

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Because it's the MCU and they didn't want you to think it was Mary Jane because otherwise you'd know immediately she would be Peter's love interest, hence why they swerved it at the end to get people excited.

But it was revealed beforehand anyway? I dunno, I guess if this was legitimately the reason then that's reasonable, but I'm not convinced it would look any different if they were doing it for completely cynical reasons.

StealThisSheen posted...

Eh, if they were hedging their bets, they wouldn't have had her go by "MJ," since now you can't have another "MJ" without killing one off. Like Biscuit said, I think they just did it because it's the MCU and they want to try to be clever about everything.

Sure they can, just have a random one-liner about it and it's fine. You can get away with two characters coincidentally having the same nickname in a way that you can't get away with two characters coincidentally having the exact same full name.

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If she's meant to be the exact same character as Mary Jane why not just keep that name? "Michelle Jones" strikes me as a pretty obvious way of hedging your bets, so if the audience reacts poorly you can bring in the "real" Mary Jane later. Regardless of the weird way this argument went I'm pretty sympathetic to Lasa's original position (and I agree with Dels' last post too; this style of headline is super common and very, very tabloidy)

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I feel like I need a year just to unpack the "reproductive organ of a female ape" line, why would anyone *ever* describe it like that.

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Sayonara Wild Hearts because that game's only like 40 minutes long.

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Shonen_Bat posted...

Doesn't have anything to do with this game specifically, but I've never been able to get into isometric-view RPGs. I have a hell of a hard time reading how the battlefield is laid out.

Vouch. I've played through a few isometric SRPGs so I can deal with it if necessary, but I always end up wishing they'd just done a normal overhead view.

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WickIebee posted...

Oh yeah? Well I heard the next Dracula will be hispanic.

is his name going to be soma cruz?


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Rogue Legacy (Switch)

It was a fun sort-of-Metroidvania, but I don't feel like it has enough depth or polish for me to keep playing after beating it once.

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KamikazePotato posted...

"Corners were being cut and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue shooting,

Phrasing

Also JFC this whole thing sounds like a shitshow

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Last August I'm pretty sure

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

That doesn't stop the Twitter brigades from screaming from the rafters about how "cEnTrIsM = NaZi" or whatever garbage they're pushing.

shout-out to that time famous twitter brigader Martin Luther King Jr. said that white moderates might be worse than the KKK

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Dancedreamer posted...

In the future, conservatives will be campaigning on issues that are provably not true.

...In the future??

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Best: Rufus
Worst: Scarlet

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Definitely one of Chimchar, Sobble, and Chespin for me. Chimchar might be my least favorite despite easily having the best final form of the three...

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Are you all just rating 7 the lowest because of the epilogue? Because I dislike the epilogue too, but the adventure feel of the book itself, the overall grand scale of their quest and the fact that they were essentially fending for themselves was all stuff I loved.

I never liked the "meta plot" of Harry Potter; it was always my feeling during books 1-6 that you could basically lose the whole Voldemort side of things and only improve the books by doing so. Obviously a book that's almost 100% stuff I don't like ends up last.

And the epilogue is bad, but it wouldn't be book-ruining on its own.

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Those aren't skirts.

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3 > 4 > 1 > 2 >>> 6 > 5 >>> 7

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Best: Ornstein and Smough
Worst: Bed of Chaos

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Best: Revenge of Meta Knight (honorable mentions: Milky Way Wishes, Spring Breeze)
Worst: Gourmet Race (dishonorable mention: Samurai Kirby)

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The two Ramza solo fights in FFT were my first thought, considering they're infamous for making people restart the entire game to beat them. But that's arguably more of an oversight with the way game saves work than genuine difficulty; they're not hard on subsequent playthroughs at all.

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I don't think this is the actual answer, but Traitor Lord in Hollow Knight is probably up there if he counts (required for most endings but optional for the most basic ending).

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Last time I quit at the final boss was Disgaea, since he could one-shot all my characters and I did barely any damage to him. Most of my part was in the 20s and 30s for levels IIRC. Game was fairly challenging until then, but he was too much.

lmao, Disgaea was the exact game I was thinking of as I read this topic. That was such an absurd difficulty spike. I ended up grinding and then accidentally ground too much and kinda crushed him.

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That is an insane price tag. Maybe it'll go on sale now like PS+ does? You can get a year of PS+ for $30 around the holidays; $25 for this wouldn't be bad.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1coVl7uMEvWpQdBZkZpV07vP5-YZz09sLretrNYd3R_4/edit

I don't think there's any chance of this becoming less sketchy anytime soon

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Snake5555555555 posted...

She's So Mean

Pretty great band, I like a lot of songs by them!

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Best: Fibbage (3 specifically I guess)
Worst: Earwax

Fibbage, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party, and Fakin' It are definitely my go-tos. In theory Quiplash is good too but I feel like it's so open-ended that half the room always just completely whiffs.

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All of them, but with a special shout-out to Charmin

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Only Supergiant game I haven't played, gotta get to it someday.

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Underleveled posted...

Other: Was expecting you to present a scenario that happened and ask us if you were in the wrong.

This, but I was also planning to post "For thinking that we could be something for real?" so I voted for that one

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10/10

I love this game's story. I think the setting and conceit are pretty compelling, but what really elevates it is the way it's told.

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