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Hayame_Zero posted...

Yup. Kefka tends to be revered in terms of how successful he was. But outside of that, he's just another clichd maniacal overlord who wants to rule the world.

Slight correction on that. Dude is a super nihilist. He just wants to destroy everything, including himself at the center of it.
At the time of FF6's release, there were at least two others before him (Cloud of Darkness, Exdeath) who essentially wanted the same thing. Kefka's just number 3 on the list who was going full-omnicide.

DuuuDe14 posted...

Why do people care so much about other people's opinions?

Enjoy the game if you do, or don't. It shouldn't affect you.

But, you're on the internet! You must find validation for what you like/don't like with mutual others, or else what you believe in has no meaning or worth!
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/s

I can understand why people put Sephy into a box descriptor by saying he has "mommy issues," but thinking about it, it's kind of incorrect.

"Mommy issues" imply he's had trauma from his would-be mother, when his actual blood-mother had little to do with him, and Jenova...he just imprints himself on as he drove himself off the deep-end.

wackyteen posted...

Yeah, it's rough af in some spots, but aside from the Lego people aesthetic for charcter models, a lot of the environments still hold up and do their job.

Remember, the fact that said environments are pre-rendered probably helps with that.
Anything 3D modeled (even the characters in the FMVs) are all quite simple.

For comparison's sake, FF9 aged a little bit better on the PS1 due to improvements in graphics by the time that game came out.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Hell of a lot more well-written and interesting than Kefka.

Kefka's popular because he's essentially The Joker in Final Fantasy flavoring. The nihilistic variant from the DCU. Though notable in that he did get most of his goals accomplished.

While Sephiroth's goals, when broken down all the way, basically amount to him wanting to become a god, the method for it and how he psychologically torments the hero on a personal level helps a bit more.

SilvosForever posted...

I promise you that. If "not identical to original" = "bad" then they were never going to like the game, no matter what it was.

Amen.

Bet if the game was essentially similar to OG FF7, just with better graphics, you'd get loads of folks who would also complain because "it's all still the same."

You know of those recorded incidents of Karen-types going up to minorities in neighborhoods saying "You don't belong here!" ?

Well, there's good chance things will get even worse in those instances if cops are called and they respond.

wackyteen posted...

Like i know he thinks of himself as an Ancient (or the heir to) after the Nibelheim incident but I feel like more explanation would have benefited as to why he wanted the Black Materia to summon Meteor to destroy the planet. <_< Maybe I wasn't paying attention but it just felt like he was doing villain things because that is what villains do.

The original game did explain it, though you might have glossed over it since so much was already happening at the time.

But Sephiroth wanted meteor to hit so that (he theorized) the planet would use the Lifestream energy to fix the damage. But it would be a lot of energy, that Sephiroth was planning to be in the center of to take for himself and become similar to his "mother," Jenova.

mystic_belmont posted...

The books have been made since the 1970s.

JKR did a lot of borrowing.

I mean, yeah?

I knew of the books beforehand, but was mentioning it also had a TV show later down the line in 1998.

...
And as I was looking up the above, I also came across the darn made-for-TV movie that came out in 1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkVcd7SbTw

CableZL posted...

My favorites were the ones involving Cable,

The wild man from Borneo.

*shifty eyes*

See ya around.

Remember, they basically did a soft retool on everything since Season 5 was an "extra" season (the show was supposed to end after the Season 4 "Beyond Good & Evil" multi-parter).
Season 5 had different animation studio and writers and such, and couldn't even get all the OG voice actors back.

A hand-me-down HP Pavilion from like, 2002 or some such.

mystic_belmont posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Witch

This had a TV series IIRC.

WingsOfGood posted...

Magic Schoolbus

Wrong context: Topic is calling for books and other media about schools where people learn magic, not using magic to teach science.

For clarification about my dislike on cheese on everything...

It's more of a dislike on it being in stuff I don't expect or don't want it to be in (let's say, cheesy bread, cheesy grits, Mexican corn which I did not expect....). I don't care for stuff that's solely cheese (cheese pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches...). Even had one bad incident where a hole-in-the-wall seafood place mixed in cheese with their fried shrimp batter. Hated it so much, I figured that was when I made decision to never go back to it.
Oh, and had a restaurant dress up my mashed potatoes "loaded" but used waay too much unmelted shredded cheese (in big chunks, too) that I wound up dumping the lot of that crap out.

Kradek posted...

They don't understand that their views are not popular amongst everybody else.

Oh, they know, it's just that those of their skin color aren't "woke" to their ideology yet or are "race traitors."

They just use such language to make it think there's more of their ilk out there than anyone realizes. Yet we know they're still in a minority with their abhorrent, bigoted beliefs.

I remember that clip. Looney toons shit right there.

That show Road Rage is something else.

Well, the last thing the lot of those types want is to be exposed for what they truly believe in...
almost like they know the crap they spew would be jeered and abhorred by normal functioning people.

Not familiar with StoneToss at all....but the material must've really been a piece of work for people to go and out the sucka.

The setpieces kicked ass.

Would make for badass punk apocalypse Mario level of some sort, lol.

Too bad the flick itself was stank.

KFC is fine (may eat it once a month, though)

Cheese on a number of things is a turn-off to me (I detest cheesy bread).

I don't care for eggs much (once in a while, but usually part of something bigger like a breakfast taco or burrito, with other things alongside it).

I don't get the love for avocados. They're fairly tasteless to me.

NO2_Fiend posted...

Depends on the observer in an instance like that. If someone is able to achieve arousal from it then it is pornographic even if the intent of the creator was not to create arousal.

Which would make the description of "pornographic" itself subjective to heck and back.

ClayGuida posted...

Final Fantasy the Spirits Within

It was meh, not bad.

I actually put in the effort to list the bad video game animated flicks :D

Well.. there is Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQlH4bJgyI

As for other animated flicks, the most I can also think of is the old Art of Fighting anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3t9rcFNFr0

And oh! The Street Fighter Alpha Generations movie, that got derided to hell and back when the folks at Capcom saw it. And then even more when everyone else did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mP3dHSX7EM

They got it way earlier compared to the US and was one of the early anime series shown there through the years.

Revisited posted...

I checked it out, what do we think of the art style though? I usually prefer comics that have the same art style as the cartoon they're continuing from like dcau comics

Clearly artist is doing their own thing.
Everyone's still recognizable, though the painterly art style will take a bit getting used to, even though so far it has all the trappings of the 80s show down fairly well.

Eh, Murphy with 80s imagined sci-fi tech versus the much more advanced sci-fi tech in Cyberpunk.

Nah, he would not do very well.

He'll need at least a similar upgrade like the 2014 reboot version to even stand much of a chance.

Kradek posted...

El Paso, so it's rather blue and we don't really have poll watchers or people infringing on election rights.

Lucky.

I dunno how the hell El Paso did it when they got off of the Texas electric grid to have their own, but that shit sure did save them a whole lot of pain during that 2021 blizzard.
That zero people still hadn't paid a price for due to the outaages.

Kradek posted...

Just finished voting, it was electronic.

I would ask what county but....

Ack, nevermind.
Guess it's patchwork depending on where ya go.
Unfortunately I'm in an area where I'm surrounded by Red and there are a number of Agent Orange true believers....

Yeah, a lot of news places (even semi-mainstream ones) ignore the lot of them now since at this point, they're small potatoes.

Don't think they get along with MAGA, either, so they'll stay irrelevant.

HylianFox posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1e32df5f.jpg

With the way the current Jurassic movies have been going, they need to go full-on kino and make a Cadillacs & Dinosaurs movie.

Minor bump for now.

I wonder if anyone else encountered the change backwards from electronic to paper ballots in the US.

Theodore Rex was some kooky shit, but...

trivialbeing posted...

when the Carnosaur movies exist? Really?

Yeah. TC showing they're a young'n.

A lil bit more context, but the state has been using electronic voting machines for years.

None of this BS came about until Agent Orange and his vile nonsense about rigged elections that all this started coming about.

*Be me, black man who lives in middle of Texas voting in primary*
*Same venue and all that, slight steady stream of people*
*get into main hall of the community center, notices people hunched down at tables with those dividers*
<Me>: "....Paper ballots?"

*asks one of the workers how come the paper ballots for this year*
<Me>: *already has an idea, but wanted to know if she knew* "Hey, why are we on paper ballots this year?"
*She doesn't know, but calls over one of the 'leaders,' some big tall white dude*
<Me>: *asks him the same thing*
<Dude>: *gives a spiel that basically is paraphrased as thus* "It's easier to keep track of where the votes go on a paper ballot"
<Me>: "Really?"
*Oh god....either he's naive or really is a believer in the conspiracy*
<Me>: "But, the electronic ones were secure before, they weren't connected to anything on the outside."
<Dude>: *I can see him struggling to answer that* "They...had a connection ((a lie right there)), but..." *goes back to odd 'answer' about paper ballots having a better trail on who person voted for, which...makes little sense*
<Me>: "Okay, thank you."

....
*walking outside of the community center, an older black woman is also walking out at same time.*
<Me>: "That was fun, huh?"
<Woman>: "At least it was fast."
<Me>: "The electronic machines were faster."
<Woman>: "Yes they were."
<Me>: "And-"
<Woman>: *interrupts* "And we both know why they took 'em out. Believing in conspiracy theories."

It's sad as hell to see the 'voting fraud' conspiracy theory bullshit that the GQP politicians gleefully harped on about take shape and make things go backwards in terms of progress.

Oh, and to make sure I wasn't talking out of my ass, I checked this, but keep in mind, it's an article from 2022....

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2022-10-26/texas-voting-machines-are-secure-heres-how-they-actually-work

Hacking concerns unfounded, state says
One false allegation that circulated around voting machines is that they are hackable because of a connection to the internet. Scott explained why this isnt true.
Voting machines in Texas are never connected to the internet, he said. In fact, in order to be certified in Texas elections, they cannot even have the capability of connecting to the internet.
This allegation comes from a misunderstanding about how voting data gets transferred and counted.

Revisited posted...

Um isn't that role already filled by Panthro? They missed a chance to make tigra the lancelot of the group, even if it's an overdone trope... I mean I personally always liked him most so

Comic is still only one issue in, so we'll see who does what role-wise.

Also, slight spoiler. No Snarf in sight.

McMarbles posted...

2011 Cheetara was hotter. Facts.

80s and 2011 are hot in their own ways.
Both are awesome.
Seems the Dynamite Comic version takes a bit from both worlds.

Mistere_Man posted...

When did tigra get the mustache?

They made em the older gentleman smart guy of the group.
Prolly easier for the women to fawn more at Lion-O.

itcheyness posted...

https://youtu.be/tci4IWnDgro?si=8SGa7kT2XPnTWvL4

Dude, next time write what the video is about so people will know. Titus isn't as big as John Oliver, so no one knew what the heck you were posting.

Get the jalapeno ones.
Then add some extra sea salt to them.
Soo much delicious.

When I discovered kettle chips long ago, I was like "how come I haven't heard of these sooner?!"
Started with a brand called "Dirty's" but haven't seen em around in any store since.

Revisited posted...

What's the deal with dynamite comics making new comics and stories of series we loved as a kid? This, gargoyles, I'm seeing their brand name pop up more and more

The Gargoyles comic rules. Continues after the last comic series that continued after the show.

That publisher is on a roll.

What's this remake supposed to be called? Not getting any decent search engine hits.

Starks posted...

https://twitter.com/MissouriGOP/status/1763216492110180626?s=20

They're booting him from the ballot

Said too much of their quiet parts out loud, so he got the boot!

DipDipDiver posted...

Insurance is a nightmare in Florida right now, a lot of these people are probably getting out because they can't afford it anymore. Better to take a loss than go bankrupt

Oh, and it gets even messier: House insurance companies are also pulling out of Florida because of the expense.

So options are becoming limited and getting super expensive.

firedoom666 posted...

I have no idea why anyone would put Baseball on the list. It is mostly standing around doing nothing, unless you are the pitcher

Until the ball comes your way if you're an outfielder, then you gotta run dat ass and throw fast and hard and accurately as possible to attempt to get an Out on the guy running for a base.

But that's only if that guy makes a good enough HIT on the ball in the first place (and hit it accurately, too, without making it a foul ball).

And that depends on if the Pitcher is good enough to even not let that guy hit by making consistent, accurate, fast and HARD throws to strike that person out in the first place, or risk letting em walk.

You really can't underestimate any sport until you break it down into what all requires what. It's only slow and boring to us audience who don't care for it much unless someone does make an exciting hit.
These days, baseball went through some rules change to speed things up in order to drum up excitement, and so far, it seems to be working.

Yeah, Hockey does look like it'd be tough as hell, considering all the stuff the guys have to do while keeping balanced on ice and constantly moving, while wearing heavy equipment.

Basketball is up there.

Football/Gridiron is obvious.

I wouldn't sneeze on Golf, either, considering if you're just swinging as an amateur, it's easy to see how tough it is to even get CLOSE to any consistent hits...and that's before learning how to putt the damn ball right.

Anyone who says NASCAR/F1 racing isn't hard are fooling themselves.

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Honestly, a lot of sports, especially professionally, are tough in some degree or another. Making a list for top hardest is gonna fall into subjectives.

Unless if someone brings up that stupid "slap" sport.

Never touched this board any until Politics got nuked, but I had to endure the slew of gimmicks there that were annoying as all of hell, to say the least.

I really don't get the need to make an online "gimmick" outside of cheap attention grabs. The times I tried to get something straight out of said people, it got ignored or just had NPC-like behavior spewed back at me, so makes me think of em less as people since some of the worst-behaving ones don't bother to break out of that shit for just one moment.

tl;dr I'd rather people just be themselves. Jokes are fine, but there's is such thing as overusing it.

PS: glad duckbear vanished.