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| Topic | A lazybones Karen calls the Cart Narc an antagonistic asshole |
| ellis123 09/24/24 2:04:11 PM #27 | MrDrMan posted... Cart Narc is the hero we all needPeople who commit sexual harassment aren't heroes. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Cute girl on 2nd date: 'Religion is the greatest evil in human history' |
| ellis123 09/24/24 10:56:57 AM #47 | Daremo posted... You've never heard of Buddhism?Non-theistic religions are not atheist. Especially not ones from countries that didn't go through the Enlightenment movement. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Think of a very hard video game before entering this topic |
| ellis123 09/23/24 8:34:23 PM #69 | archizzy posted... Man I played that game a lot in the late 80s. Loved that series and especially that game. Played it with no help and felt immense joy at just escaping the castle. Great memories of that game.III is definitely where they got in stride, but the game is just so BS with its difficulty. Sierra is notorious for games where you can make unwinnable saves, but there is no game that personifies it more than III. I'd say it is probably the single easiest , actually beatable, game to make a save in that you have unknowingly shafted yourself into making an unwinnable save. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Donald Trump buys groceries for the first time in his life |
| ellis123 09/23/24 8:31:00 PM #3 | Well, at least he gave them money this time. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | do you think we as a species will ever make it beyond mars |
| ellis123 09/23/24 8:29:33 PM #8 | AceMos posted... interstellar travel is very very likely impossible do to the light speed barrierThere is actually a very possible + very economic way to do interstellar travel. Basically we would turn the Sun into a massive engine and use its gravitational pull to just drag us everywhere. It just requires that our planet not be in the collision course with cooking us in our lifetime. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | do you think we as a species will ever make it beyond mars |
| ellis123 09/23/24 8:24:50 PM #3 | Maybe if you asked me a decade ago I would have said "yes", but now I would be shocked to see us live that long. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Think of a very hard video game before entering this topic |
| ellis123 09/23/24 6:58:50 PM #58 | King's Quest III. Never said I couldn't use a guide for the parts I don't remember so free $1 million. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | If Boeing made the Death Star |
| ellis123 09/23/24 6:54:47 PM #3 | Charged151 posted... Really wish the maker of planes vital to the nation had a better safety culture though?They did. Then they were bought out by someone who wanted to improve profits. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Looking for good mystery visual novel recommendations. |
| ellis123 09/23/24 6:51:44 PM #38 | dotsdfe posted... I'll look into it, thanks!I get it. Part of the thing is that AA clones almost universally will do some level of comedy as that's kind of what AA does: they are just copying the core of the original. It's just they aren't doing "Gumshoe pay cut" jokes, they're doing whatever is topical to that game. The main question is whether or not they pull off the whiplash that AA is known for, and that's where vetting comes into play. There are a *lot* of really not good AA clones, so knowing which ones aren't worth it is a thing. dotsdfe posted... I'd be interested to hear more about that game. What I know about it kind of made me feel like it was a bit low-stakes and probably not for me, but if it has more dramatic elements, I'd be willing to consider it. I've admittedly only heard bits and pieces, so I may just have a totally wrong perception of the game.It's a low-fi VN going for more personal drama than overarching. While it has higher stakes at times it's not exactly what you are likely thinking of. While I definitely recommend it (and similar games like Dinopunk) it's more a general recommendation than a topical one. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Rats we're rats |
| ellis123 09/23/24 3:38:18 PM #8 | Cartoon_Quoter posted... I'm not a rat, I swear. If I'm any rodent, it's the loyal capybara, king of the rats!That sounds like something a rat would say... --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Zenless Zone Zero is a busy ass game |
| ellis123 09/23/24 3:33:50 PM #31 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Characters aren't the story. So whether or not a gacha game has good character writing has no bearing on its story being good. Opera Omnia is the closest to "good story" that I've seen and it was still mediocre story carried by being a character drama. Similarly saying something is "better" is irrelevant. Being shot in the foot is bad, but it is better than being shot in both feet. Pokemon games don't have good stories, so being better than bad doesn't make something good. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Looking for good mystery visual novel recommendations. |
| ellis123 09/23/24 1:40:10 PM #29 | dotsdfe posted... Honestly, a lot of the AA-likes felt more like meme-y parody games to me, but are they legit? With AA, a big reason why I love it is because it strikes a really good tone where it's super goofy and lighthearted a lot of the time, but it also gets serious and hits hard on the drama front when it needs to. If the others don't have that aspect, I'd be a bit less interested, but if they can take themselves seriously when need be, I'd be willing to give them a chance.The ones I mentioned, yeah. I definitely get where you get the whole "they're just all memes" bit as there are a lot of them that I didn't mention specifically because of that aspect (and you already mentioned not wanting lighthearted stuffs (so something like Socrates Jones would be an example of something you didn't want). While there is no getting away from the art, I would argue that having a dark-ish game with cutesy art style is basically the norm to the point that there is no escaping it (hence why your own tier list is basically made up of games that would apply). While I find that AA is still kind of the best at the tonal whiplash some of the clones stand out at being able to pull it off as well. Aviary Attorney is the only one that I wouldn't say really applies there of the ones that I mentioned, but that's more because it never really tries to be lighthearted for 95% of the game and most of the times it is being lighthearted it's more from the viewer's perspective (ie. "lol, bird with hands"). Regardless, there is a reason that I recommend those as they are the most likely to be what you're looking for. I play basically any mystery game (that requires that you actually solve things) that I find out about so those are nowhere near the total list of games I could give you, just that they are the most "safe" suggestions based on what you've brought up in this topic (moreso because of gameplay rather than tone, as most of the mystery games I've felt were worth playing tend towards not just being purely VN). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Re watched Princess and the Frog, I wish New Orleans was real... |
| ellis123 09/23/24 1:22:31 AM #5 | I wish wishes were real. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Pikmin 2...good game or nah? |
| ellis123 09/22/24 9:54:21 PM #4 | Yeah. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Marvel x MTG cards supposedly leak |
| ellis123 09/22/24 9:52:49 PM #18 | Alteres posted... at first I was wtfing at wolverine being 2/2 and cap 4/4 in what goddamn worldTo be fair, Wolverine's "Double all damage" bit makes him effectively a 4/2 that scales wildly out of control + his toughness being low feeds more into him being tough due to regeneration rather than because he actually no sells like other superheroes (which is accurate). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Zenless Zone Zero is a busy ass game |
| ellis123 09/22/24 9:49:59 PM #13 | PowerOats posted... Does Genshin/Honkai have good stories? I'm not 100% in ZZZ story, mainly because of execution, but it's not the worst thing ever.Gacha games do not have good stories. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Looking for good mystery visual novel recommendations. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 9:47:30 PM #20 | Looking at the tier list one of the things that sticks out is the lack of games inspired by Phoenix Wright. To that end I'd recommend Aviary Attorney, Staffer Case, and Tyrion Cuthbert as the ones that stood out there. For games leaning more on the VN side I would recommend The Sekimeiya and WILL: A Wonderful World. For games on more the adventure side I would recommend Heaven's Vault and Murders on the Yangtze River. Depending on which ones I mentioned and why you like any particular game I can give further recommendations. dotsdfe posted... I think, for YTTD, I'd rather just wait until it's done rather than risk starting it and then forgetting big plot details or anything. I tend to avoid demos of story games for a similar reason.Fair. I'm somewhat the same way, I just played through it long enough ago that the idea of them actually finishing the game was pretty tenuous as a prospect. dotsdfe posted... RL is an interesting one. A friend of mine HATED it, but I feel like I've seen good opinions elsewhere?I didn't really remember it by name, but looking it up I remember it now. It's a game that is best thought of as "babby's first edgy VN" in that it has a ton of the things that a super compelling when you're a teenager that hasn't ever seen that sort of thing before, but kind of falls apart whenever you've experienced it before + are actually thinking about the ramifications of what is going on/how a real person would act. While that might seem like something that would also apply to some of the other games you've listed, something like Phoenix Wright as an example, the levels at which it botches its own plot far outdo anything that competent VN writers will ever pull. There is a reason that the first recommendation for "Raging Loop Youtube" on Google is a video titled "Raging Loop is a Huge Mess": it's a poorly thought out story (and I would recommend just watching that video in lieu of playing the game). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Marvel x MTG cards supposedly leak |
| ellis123 09/22/24 9:06:31 PM #7 | solosnake posted... magic has fallen so far in the last decade or so, its mind bogglinghttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7180a8b9.jpg --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Your entry into RPGs. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 8:21:08 PM #108 | Kim_Seong-a posted... I thought souls-like just meant "metroidvania but 3d and kinda hard"Not all games that people label as "Souls-like" are 3D (Hollow Knight), Souls games themselves aren't even guaranteed Metroidvanias (they universally tend to lack new movement tech to open up new areas + Demon's Souls is flagrantly not a Metroid style game at all), and difficulty isn't a genre thing as it is in the eye of the beholder (though you can definitely make the argument that the first two Zeldas also very much qualify there). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Your entry into RPGs. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 8:14:25 PM #103 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Souls-like is not a real genre in that literally the only thing that binds anything Souls-like together is either something from Zelda, something from Monster Hunter, or is just a vague "because it's hard." --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Your entry into RPGs. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 8:12:03 PM #98 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Not outside of memes, no. It's action-adventure/Souls-like. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Looking for good mystery visual novel recommendations. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 7:59:23 PM #7 | dotsdfe posted... Your Turn to Die - Last I knew, it's still not finished?Correct, though you should 100% play it. It's very much "indie Danganronpa" and is a blast to play. IIRC the save should also hold to the release game, so you can play through to the various end points that you want (as it has branching paths). dotsdfe posted... Rain Code - Was on my radar, but I heard pretty eh things on its release. I'm willing to give it a shot if people loved it, but most of the opinions that I heard were very lukewarm.It's good, but the minigames drag it down. The writing is fun and and the twists are novel, but it constantly has you solve everything through pretty meh minigames rather than deductive reasoning. And I'll do recommendations later. Busy right now. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What happens if you look right-left-right instead? |
| ellis123 09/22/24 3:23:52 PM #5 | Cocytus posted... Instead of what?You don't need to know. Just make sure your life insurance is the premium plan. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Your entry into RPGs. |
| ellis123 09/22/24 2:24:09 PM #90 | IIRC it was Might and Magic V. Played some games prior to that but I want to say that was the first RPG that I did. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Last *Buffet* style place you been to? |
| ellis123 09/22/24 2:16:12 PM #29 | Purely buffet, or partially a buffet? Went to Himalaya Kosheli as the last place with a lunch buffet, but before that it I have no real clue what it would have been as not only would it have been a place that hasn't existed for decades but it's not like it was actually worth remembering. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Was Stone Cold vs Da Rock da most hypest thing in entertainment history? |
| ellis123 09/22/24 12:48:32 PM #3 | No. It was the final episode of MASH. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | I might become public enemy number one on CE for saying dis but... |
| ellis123 09/21/24 9:28:07 PM #3 | Why would this make CE against you? --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Cards Against Humanity is suing Elon Musk for $15,000,000 |
| ellis123 09/21/24 7:55:50 PM #13 | Glorious. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What do the Tales of titles mean |
| ellis123 09/21/24 7:54:40 PM #2 | https://old.reddit.com/r/tales/comments/28tl39/meaning_behind_the_titles/ --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | I got modded for calling out a person for saying something bad |
| ellis123 09/21/24 7:47:46 PM #15 | VeggetaX posted... No need the mods have bullied me heavilyClearly not seeing as this topic exists. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | I got modded for calling out a person for saying something bad |
| ellis123 09/21/24 7:43:11 PM #7 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Do you remember |
| ellis123 09/21/24 7:36:35 PM #15 | Mistere_Man posted... Holy shit that is awesome, and hilarious! What a fun looking game!The games are great. Definitely recommend them if you are into rhythm games (in particular Osu!, as that was directly just EBA/Ouendan ripped into being a PC game). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Do you remember |
| ellis123 09/21/24 6:38:15 PM #10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDuQx-AXObo --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | can you 'beat' the original Simon toy? |
| ellis123 09/20/24 7:02:57 PM #5 | Zeeak4444 posted... ya I dont think it does. Ive gone on some crazy sessions and while I have no doubt theres people who will make me look laughable I have a hard time imagining where the end point is since I havent hit it yet.The world record is beating it 14 times in a row (it has a limit of 31 in memory). --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What are you views on racism |
| ellis123 09/20/24 3:30:35 PM #7 | Enclave posted... There's a flaw with this poll. Racist people often don't think they're racist.Watched a video with that had some "commentary" by Sagaar in it. It was pretty hilarious how much he had to bounce back between "the Irish/Haitians were/are a problem by existing" and "I'm not racist." Guy needs to be locked up, not given a platform. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What are some non-negotiables in a turn-based RPG? |
| ellis123 09/20/24 3:26:30 PM #14 | Trumble posted... Final Fantasy X is solid proof that this isn't necessary. Unless you count the airship as a world map, but I'd say it's more just a primitive fast travel.Not even just FFX, CRPGs had been doing "no worldmap/overworld" for years prior to JRPGs being a thing. Needing an overworld is just an extremely reductive take on what an RPG is. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Do you like "soulslikes" (note: NOT fromsoft games) |
| ellis123 09/20/24 2:33:59 PM #36 | I do not play Zelda for its combat, no. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Last game you played and beverage you drank. |
| ellis123 09/20/24 12:27:07 PM #32 | 9th Dawn III Coffee --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | How do I level up on Steam? |
| ellis123 09/20/24 12:20:14 PM #16 | The seasonal badges are probably the "easiest" way to jump up in level. Badges give 100 exp each tier, meaning that game badges cap at 500. The seasonal ones cap at 40, so you end up with 4k exp from one of them + if you're buying games you end up with a bunch of misc points sitting around that can be thrown at it. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Fame seems like the lamest it's ever been now |
| ellis123 09/20/24 11:22:38 AM #4 | Hayame_Zero posted... The early 2000s is the peak example you used? The height of reality TV? Really? --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Logan Paul and MrBeast have a Lunchables competitor that they say is healthy |
| ellis123 09/18/24 1:01:49 PM #13 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/06074065.jpg --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What's the worst enemy move/attack in a video game? |
| ellis123 09/17/24 6:35:19 PM #21 | Nuclear Armadillo's explosion on death. Very much a BS attack that purely existed to make you do the fight again. They later let you block it (though it could still kill you if you weren't high enough health) but even that was something that already had the presupposition that you kind of knew it was coming so it was always a "do this fight again" attack. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | How do spiders quickly ascend their webs? |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:45:26 PM #4 | You should play Webbed. It will answer this question and more. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What's the worst game you've beaten? |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:25:49 PM #40 | archizzy posted... Anyone listing something thats like PS3 or newer and is somewhat known as a quality game has lived some very privileged gaming lives if the truly no bullshit worst thing you played was Uncharted or a From Software game.Do you think that no one has ever not finished a game that they started? That plenty of people have played worse games than the one that they listed here but because they never finished them they didn't list them? --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | 20k or you have bottomless bags of perfect Apples, and Potatoes |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:20:24 PM #10 | Bags, easily. Even with the stipulation it would be trivial to make 20k with them + the savings on not having to buy potatoes would add up fast. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | a gamefaqs poll is successful in proportion to the closeness of the results |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:14:59 PM #3 | None of those. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What's the worst game you've beaten? |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:12:12 PM #29 | DodogamaRayBrst posted... Tbh now I wanna play it.It is special in that it somehow manages to make each new story beat dumber than the previous one in spite of a long run time. I legit walked away in the middle of the ending as I just stopped giving a crap, the only game that has ever made me do that. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | What's the worst game you've beaten? |
| ellis123 09/17/24 4:07:34 PM #26 | Star Ocean: The Last Hope. JFC that game was so mind numbingly bad. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Every minute that you don't use the internet, you gain $0.15. |
| ellis123 09/17/24 3:38:37 PM #16 | How would I get the money? As having to use the Internet to obtain it would put a damper on it pretty fast. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
| Topic | Your reaction: Your dog kills a burglar during a break in. |
| ellis123 09/17/24 1:54:11 PM #32 | Ivany2008 posted... Am I dealing with a Killer Rabbit situation here? --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. |
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