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Jabodie posted...

For general gameplay, there is no reason to hoard armor and weapons. Just sell the shit you don't need aside from Witcher gear, which have quest upgrades.

While selling is appealing, I played on PS4 and noticed loading times got longer and longer as the game went on. I strongly suspect it is because I kept selling to vendors (instead of breaking it down for materials), which AFAIK, the game kept in memory every item I ever sold so it was there for the buyback option later.

And I don't remember which spell it is, but I loved the brainwashing one. Helps with dialogue checks, and fun times fighting humans.

Let's make a deal. Candidates will send thank you notes as long as companies follow up with everybody they interviewed, which means letting people know they didn't get the job instead of going the no contact route.

Yuuko-Chan posted...

Ingredients and labor costs more.

Why does the antiwork crowd not understand basic economics yet demand drastic change?

How come even when labor stays flat (or goes down because they keep cutting workers), prices still go up?

ExtremeLuchador posted...

Get a skill and you won't have to worry about what Starduck's is doing.

Say everybody gets a skill and stops working minimum wage jobs, so this will shut down fast food, gas stations, retail, grocery, and so on.

What is the next step, O Great Wise One?

YWS-is-King posted...

Used to be a minimum wage job but they keep putting flyers in my bag saying they will start you at $14 with no experience with guaranteed raises every 6 months.

I'm pretty sure there was a tiny asterik on the sign, indicating "Up to $14/hr"

I knew a few people who did it for a summer about twenty years ago. Yes, they mentioned it was crap pay. Seems like they didn't care at first because they were thrilled to work at Disney World, but the glow eventually wore off.

My biggest gripe with the 3rd one is that it didn't feel like you were exploring exotic lost locations. They all seemed to be a quick day trip away from a nearby village.

Moderna here for me.

First two shots, took the next day off of work just in case, but it turned out to not be needed. Slight sore arm, no other side effects.

Didn't bother for the booster, and ended up calling in sick. Headache, tired, general feeling of blah, and got the arm pain to migrate to the lymph node under my armpit. Fine the following day.

ssjevot posted...

I find I actually find action RPGs the most boring. You tend to lose the skill of straight action games and the strategy of turn based, and it often devolves into just mashing attack. That said many turn based RPGs have extremely shallow systems that often devolve into just picking attack and healing as needed. But stuff like SMT and even DQ is great at providing you a lot of strategy in battles.

Ones that I recall really loving were the Grandia games, FFX, and Atelier Iris 3. Being able to manipulate the turn order to shut down the enemies completely was a lot of fun.

Sure, but do it like back in the 8 and 16-bit era. Anything less than normal, and you only have access to a couple of levels, or no end scene, just a note telling you to try it on normal.

Nah. I'm a George Costanza type guy for life when it comes to my wallet.

Even knowing the story and watching a LP of it, I still found it worth it to play. Being in control of the game yourself can still suck you in, and the tension from that can never be replicated by just watching.

Will never forget. Was home sick from school that day and it was all that was on television. Shittiest birthday ever.

I enjoyed finding them throughout the series, except for the racing ones in Knight. I did prefer the ones that had some kind of gimmick to unlocking them rather than standing on a map marker swinging the camera around to see what ceiling it was stuck on.

Nemu posted... "repeat this one action 500 times unnaturally because you'd never use it that much in normal gameplay," then it's just being done for the sake of the system.

Uncharted is the poster child for this crap. "Get 20 headshots while hanging off a ledge"
"Kill 50 enemies while blind firing" "Get X kills with Y weapon" (and it repeats for every weapon in the game)

You can have a separate system for multiplayer.

I loved how the original Mass Effect games did this one. There were multiple either/or trophies that you could get through either single player or multiplayer. Like "reach level 30 in single player OR reach rank 60 in multiplayer"

Are there any grandparents in the picture that could watch the kid for a day? My sister's youngest had the same problem, so our mom and dad took him one day a week just to give my sister and her husband a small break.

Grew up in the Chicago area. Got a laugh when I heard floridians complain about 70 degrees being cold.

Femputer posted...

Idts, i'd always schedule that day/week off if it was a release I was really lookin forward to

That was me with FF8, 9, X.

I did call in late once when SF2 came out for the SNES. Just moved my shift back like 2 hours.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

You'll be able to find those people with any big release. Unless you mean the majority or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to really doubt them when their last game was one of their best yet

The most annoying will be the ones bitching about stuff changing from the network test, and about stuff not changing from the test, in the same breath.

WingsOfGood posted...

This is gonna be the most boring biopic because Weird Al is a standup dude who never did bad things.

But then maybe the biopic will actually be more interesting cause it has to really focus on his music since there isn't the usual stuff they can focus on.

I think he got one of the rare 2 hour episodes of Behind the Music on VH1. Focus on his early days and trying to make a name for himself. But yeah, once he started becoming a household name, there doesn't seem much to talk about except maybe for making UHF and the whole thing with Coolio.

Favorite auto-translate message I saw on a person

{cooking}{skill}{too weak}
{burn}{down}{mog house}
{sleep}{inside}{box}{tonight}

And P'so Xja was a favorite zone for leveling bst. Diremites were great pets, and nobody even went there unless required for a mission.

TheOtherMike posted...

I bought $70 games in the SNES era...

Super Ghoul's and Ghosts
Street Fighter 2
Link to the Past
Fatal Fury

Was like the default price at Babbages and Toys R Us back in the day, and those were your best option to find them.

Robot2600 posted... FF8 only leveled enemy HP, so their str and other stats remained the same. It's actually dynamic leveling done right.

It also affected loot tables. Some upgrade materials get harder to acquire if the enemy hits a level break point, which is where the lvl up/lvl down abilities come in handy.

radical rhino posted...

Combat in Bethesda games is hardest right at the beginning. By the halfway point of Fallout/Elder Scrolls youre dominating every enemy you come across, so I dont get complaints about dynamic scaling making the game harder.

I think it could be more for a player who loves magic. Based off of spell descriptions in Skyrim, it seems like a lot of them only work on lower level enemies. So hit level 30, and most of the fun spells in the Illusion school no longer have any effect.

Loved FF6, thought 7 was OK, 8, 9, X were all better than the one before. Then I played 12 and was crushed by how much I wasn't a fan of it. Didn't care for 13 that much either, but I was no longer hyped for the franchise.

Batman Arkham Knight. No way it could have lived up to my personal hype.

Ultima 8. Played through 7 and 7 pt2 many many times. Couldn't even finish 8 once.

TheChariot posted...

I don't know how the IRS is able to exist. I don't mean morally. The government would kidnap homeless people of the street and cremate them into diamonds if they needed the money and the IRS employees would do the dirty work themselves for the paycheck. I mean how hasn't a powerful corporation just spirited away the entire agency themselves? Nobody would even miss them. They're just a bunch of gang members.

Wait until you find out how the IRS treats large companies/rich individuals vs mom and pop shops/average citizens. They basically do the bidding of powerful corporations already.

Eramir posted...

Man whos trying to say its wasnt a coup?

The new KKK?

The GQP, so yes, exactly.

Gwynevere posted...

Do you think everyone who is currently renting could go buy a house tomorrow?

Of course. It's not like a bank would turn you down for what would turn out to be $500/month as a mortgage, even if you are currently paying $800/month in rent. /s

All the time. The less I eat, the more I somehow fill the bowl. Makes no sense.

That sounds messed up. I understand gating DLC until you reach a certain point in the game, but locking you out for progressing too far, just ugh.

gunplagirl posted... People spending over 24 hours in a single straight attempt to defeat Absolute Virtue

I thought it was 18+ hours trying to do Pandemonium Warden, which is why they put in a hard 2 hour cut off.

And i see BST mentioned. Job was great for learning BLU spells since charm wasn't capped to your sub level (so like a 68blu/34bst would still charm like lvl 68 assuming you had bst that level). They screwed the job when the level cap was raised. Higher level mobs started becoming uncharmable, so you were forced to use jugs. Not nearly as fun as throwing local mobs at stuff, but letting them go so they don't die, along with the abrupt chaos when a charm failed.

YugiNoob posted...

GrayStillPlays

My niece got into him because of his sims stuff, but he hasn't done a new one in over a year.

I tried to get her to learn about our glorious leader Jim Pickens, but so far no luck.

Semi related, but I recently learned that the cover for the original I Spit on Your Grave is Demi Moore.

Smackems posted...

I would like to try it. Too bad PlayStation is allergic to making their older games playable. Legally

Was it available on the PS? i thought it was a gamecube only game.

pinky0926 posted...

I don't think Biden is great or anything but I love the classic republican response of petulantly and deliberately ignoring any and all calls to help with covid (in literally any tiny way at all) and then being mad at Biden for personally not ending it

Like, what do you expect to happen? Where's your bootstraps?

It's so obvious. People were admitting they purposely delayed getting the vaccine just so Biden wouldn't hit his target last year about X% by a certain date.

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Nothing wrong with that. The government should have thrown a bone to us "essential workers" to at least put us on par with the expanded unemployment bonuses. Business could have done more than a pizza party or swag bag for the employees as well.

I just don't get the people who got pissed at those collecting unemployment.

Because they realize Creep by STP is a superior song from the same year and don't want to be reminded of it.

David1988 posted...

Is this true? I dunno where the word comes from.

Comes from the movie C.H.U.D. Cannibilistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. The "totally not a trump supporter" you quoted is just butthurt, as evidenced by the fact only chuds throw around the term regressive left.

Kung Lao body surfing Nitara into his hat was the best scene in the movie.

Slayer_22 posted...

I am the very model of a scientist salarian, I study speices Turian, Asari, and Batarian.

You can't post that and not link it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Netxts7zD3k

Jagr_68 posted...

And of fucking course co-op isn't allowed there either so you have to subject yourself to dying over and over and over x100 until you've seen every frame of her attacks. Fuck that fight.

No, you can summon other players. Watched a guy shred her health bar with the painted guardians blade.

I'm so inconsistent on this boss. Sometimes it seems her AI does the dumbest things and hands me the win. Other times, she does that invisible leap non-stop.

Then again, I only fight her now if I want to do the Ringed City DLC early.

Of course. He carries a shotty, and gets to upgrade his sombrero halfway through the game. Why play anybody else?

Tom Clark posted...

This is true. Although tbf on my first playthrough the card modding didn't click with me until well into Disc 2, so I didn't end up breaking things too early, haha.

Played it on release, and did learn that card modding was a good way to get upgrade materials. What I didn't pay attention to was the fact that not leveling up in this game makes you more powerful. Kept grinding on T-rexs in Garden and was annoyed that I never hit a point where I could just mop the floor with them.

Then there was the terror when I realized that having everybody at level 100 is terrible when a random mob casts lvl 5 death.

Doe posted...

Hmmmm..... that makes 10 sound 6

Doesn't play out the same. You see the queue for the next 8 people going or so, but nothing actually happens until the person at the top selects a command. Some moves have longer/shorter recovery, so learning to manipulate the turn order is a big part of the gameplay. Not to mention that since you can see the order of who is attacking, you can focus on trying to shut down the next enemy to attack.

Summons are also quite different. Your team leaves the battlefield and the summon comes in, with you in full control of their actions until you choose to dismiss them.

Another big point is that your party can use their turn to swap members, so you bring in Wakka for the flying mob, Lulu for the one weak to magic, and Auron for the guy with crazy high defense.

Huh, I always thought Secret Squirrel was it's own show.

My love was for the stuff I got during Underdog. Tennessee Tuxedo, Go-Go Gophers, and Commander McBragg.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Their overall goal (better working conditions) is good, but the sub is full of misinformation and fake stories. The community is very toxic as well.

It was better before news stations started to mention it. Almost as if corporations decided to start paying people to fight back against it by sowing distrust and kissing the boots of big business. I'm sure that is just a coincidence.

JailRickSaleeby posted...

Tick tock, Seth Rogen.

Were there ever allegations against him, or just that he kind of stood by and quietly let it happen?

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In the movie Molly's Game, based off of real people, it is rumored that one of the biggest asshole poker players was basically Tobey Maguire.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Even if I got good the gameplay still sucks.

You're the type of guy that would beat cancer then go back to work at the carpet store.