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link between worlds is probably the "right" answer but that didnt stop me from voting for warioware

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i have admittedly never seen a single season of big brother but i found rachel to at least be at her most unpleasant in tar31 because the sort of hilarious patheticness of tar20 rachel was missing, replaced by smug and exhausting entitlement

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i struggle to place tara & wil in general, but i'll be damned if they don't have one of the most complex and compelling (and downright tragic) story arcs in the entirety of the show's history

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bj & tyler absolutely suck

almost as much as inviso's reality takes

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after watching tar31 i cant defend rachel in any capacity
imho, just because the other people in the season sucked doesn't mean she was any better, and tbqh tar24 was a godawful trainwreck from the get-go anyway

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there are only two teams left that strike me as very out of place, and it's the self-righteous winners from tar 9 and any team involving rachel reilly in any capacity

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i meant the reverse - flo is too brutal to ever reach even "decent" tier

better than the truly trash winners, and zach was never anything but a saint, but yuck

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season 1 and 25 winners being this close with season 3 winners is a crime

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well they just could have pushed it back for several years like tar32...

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Certainly one of the greatest multi-season character arcs, if you mean who I think you mean.

yeah, whoops, that's what i meant, multi-season is an important word there.

But newbies vs. veterans is always a bad idea, and they picked five really strong, consistent TAR teams to take on five Survivor/BB teams that all had some sort of obvious Achilles heel going in, plus Nicole & Victor.

i am still unsure of where i stand, i think in the cases of micronesia and caramoan it was certainly set up for the guys you love and want to root for (supposedly) to crush the minnows, and it shows
but there is some degree of that kind of being fun, and creating genuine underdogs. i think chris & bret's arc is a lot less enjoyable if they aren't overmatched basically the entire time

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174. Tramel & Talicia (Season 3, 11th place)
173. Ryan & Chuck (Season 7, 11th place)

two huge "gone-two-soon"ers, both of these teams could have been greats had they lasted

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tar31 ruled, but it also had what i would call the greatest character arc in the entirety of reality tv history (and lo and behold, i am a biased observer)

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oh yeah, bergen/kurt are a big dislike for me as well. they exemplify (and perhaps by virtue of the blind-partners season most distinctly) my least favorite trait of any tar team, which is a disconnect of effort. it just absolutely sucks when one person clearly cares about trying and the other person has given up, without any clue of how much they're hurting their partner by not even giving a shit. nick/vicky from tar17 are the other immediate example that comes to mind for me, though i'm sure there's plenty more too

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man, this was an ADVENTURE trying to remember who the hell 90% of these teams were

i (thankfully) forgot about keith & whitney in tar; they sucked in south pacific, sucked in race, and would totally fit right into the rachel reilly "irredeemable in every way" tier tbqh

i was totally rooting for blake & paige in the f3 of season 2 when it first aired, and hey, toms shoes are a genuinely good cause, so i have pretty good feelings for that team

and i know you were posting about tar12 rewatch (relatively) recently, but both nate/jen and tk/rachel are surprisingly low to me. tk & rachel were fairly likeable winners, and even if they were generally unexciting across the board, i thought they had a compelling enough arc to place a little higher.
nate & jen fit right into the mold of villians i liked akin to chad/stephanie and abby/ryan earlier, i thought their brand of "villainy" came across as enjoyably bumbling (they were never particularly great racers) and satisfyingly ending (their elimination leg is pretty funny, tbqh)
but god dang, it really has been a long ass time since i've seen tar12! i re-caught the first 7 seasons when they re-aired on gsn back in 2005, and also watched them through again with my mom (who missed out on the early tar) so those are the ones just burned into my brain, lmao

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justin/diana is a really difficult one, i couldn't stand him and thought their edit dominating season 27 was a big pox on the season, but...knowing that the whole setup was for him to fail triumphantly makes it hard to place. i totally get anyone who can't stand him though

also:
Idries & Jamil (Season 22, 10th place)
my brain really can't remember these guys at all, aside from some vague idea that i sort of liked them?? curious why they're placed this low, maybe it'll jog my memory

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every appearance of rachel would be at the very bottom of my tar team ranking, only ahead of the teams with actual spousal abusers

so on that note your rankings seem pretty dang agreeable, though i generally had no beef with the linzes, and thought both abby/ryan (21) and chad/stephanie (17) were pretty enjoyable villains by the end of their edit

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honestly this is an all-too-relatable feeling but i know there are tons of ppl out there who are glad i'm still here and i know there's people out there for you as well

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i have a ds lite with a broken hinge and a gba sp with garbage battery life but they're still fully functional

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i thought this was a really touching reunion of the mvgx cast in light of sunday's recent cancer diagnosis - worth a watch if you have any fondness for any of these people whatsoever :p

https://robhasawebsite.com/sunday-burquest-survivor-cancer-again/

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wow i really did completely erase that season from my memory

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i dont really remember specifically what happened at any point in tar28 until, like, the final 5 lmao

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given that magic the gathering exhaustively works to make sure its current game is up to standard through bans and errata, the idea that applying even a modicum of that thoroughness to potentially racist cards is a slippery slope is goddamn hilarious

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given that they've gone through tens of thousands of unique magic cards and pulled out exactly seven, i'd say this is really not "overreactive" in any capacity

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i think the context of it being titled "crusade" is pretty important there

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huh, somehow you managed to pull out an even shittier galaxy-brained take than "the paper mario trailer that showed partners in battle doesn't actually have partners"
well done

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banananor posted...

the one thing i can say about the GBC games is that they ran more quickly. combat is sluggish in newer titles for some reason. i also think ruby/sapphire/emerald was a step back for the series in a few regards, which makes GSC feel better in comparison

yeah this is a big reason why i still love coming back to 1st/2nd gen games from time to time, they're such a breeze to blow through casually


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considering i would put 4 first and 5 near-last i beg to differ

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gabon is a very weird season in general, it's safe to say

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like most survivor fans, i don't like redemption island or edge of extinction and don't want to see ways for players to get put back into the game after being eliminated

so that said, if it's part of the game in a particular season, i'm not gonna cry if someone happens to utilise that to their advantage - and in chris's case it was genuinely a surprise; he got one of the "better" edits on the edge, but for someone who had been mostly unthought of for ~10 weeks to storm through the finale and win was by far the most unexpected winning scenario in the past 10-20 seasons, and given how much the edit tends to telegraph the winner, i really enjoyed that aspect of it!

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i love aubry, but i'm still not sure how to gauge her eoe appearance. i was bummed out hard after that boot

that said, she has the most comprehensive edit of any of the kamas in eoe despite being the only one not to make the merge, which speaks volumes of how abysmal the edit is on eoe

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i played through crystal 2 years ago and the game still rules

difficulty curve is fine, given that the game's never actually hard just like every other pokemon game ever

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while i don't like the kanto-locking of new pokemon, i DO dig that they made so many of them rare/awkward to find, because it made it feel like a much more organic evolution of the previous region, rather than "we never knew of these pokemon before, but now they're everywhere!"

2nd gen just rewards you so much for being willing to wander off the beaten path, and felt like it was just stuffed full of content for a game boy game in 2000.

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

I've been playing a good amount of SM64 Rando lately, and while the game is still fun, I am mostly annoyed by control issues. Stuff like 'you landed on a slope on your stomach, so you're fucked' and being unable to work certain slopes at all.

with regards to sm64 rando, that'll sometimes ask you to do some awkward slope jumps (and generally places stars) in places where you wouldn't be required to get to normally (i'm looking at you snowman's land)
doesn't quite seem like a fair comparison there imo

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wall jump angles are pretty much as fine as any other game, the timing window to not bonk is a lot tighter but it's seriously not that bad

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i think people are missing the forest for the trees here

game still has super tight controls and level design that is to this day not only the blueprint of modern mario games but many other platformers

like, yeah the camera is definitely wonky and the controls are tighter and less forgiving than they are now - but the whole experience still holds up fantastically

this should be a slam dunk "yes" tbqh

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i think lauren and victoria would both be pretty compelling returnees with high upside potential (and a realistic possibility of getting cast again too)

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avalon/resistance are pretty much the perfect versions of mafia for me; i get that some people like the experience that a huge game of werewolf/mafia brings, but avalon just distills all of that experience into one tight, compact package. the rules are as complicated as they need to be, and there's still all of the moments of brilliance/agony you get in those longer games

it's also in my top 10! i think we finally hit a cross-over, yahoo

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i think rodney has such an absurd motormouth (as highlighted in the funny 115) that it's a disservice to him to be hastily compared to anyone else

he's not joe mena or wardog

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wardog was surprisingly, like, non-interesting to me
i don't remember being particularly inspired to have a strong opinion on him one way or the other at any point

which is interesting because he's definitely a big personality, and like everyone else on lesu actually got a complete edit

i dunno, i could see your point about growing to appreciate him as a character if i ever go back to eoe again but as it stands he was just not much of anything for me

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i feel like in general kama just got screwed by the edit entirely

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the motion controls are generally fine, essentially requiring them sucks

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on-topic, i listened to sophie and michele's interviews with rob the past few days, and i thought they helped fill in a decent amount of the gaps in the season's edit (though i'd still like to hear from denise!)

more than anything, i was happy to hear they both seemed to have an experience that helped turn things around from the crap they got after their initial wins and being seen as "lower-tier winners", whatever that means

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can only hope that extends into a ban for that clown

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fwiw i just don't get the rick devens hate

the editing of eoe? yeah, i get that. the edit absolutely sucked and did a terrible job at giving anyone other than devens and the returnees any attention

but like, the people themselves are fine. david wright is always great and even though he didn't have anywhere near as compelling an arc as mvgx, he's still lovely. wentworth wasn't as much fun as when playing from the bottom, but she's still an appealing personality

ymmvs obviously but man i don't get how, like, keith and erik are ahead of anyone

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this list is very not good

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i think she's been good on her funny 115 appearances solely because mario is a great writer, but she was at best unenjoyable and generally downright miserable throughout the entirety of nicaragua

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i dont know how this has ended up as a hot take but

naonka sucks, and sucked the entire season before she inexplicably quit in the worst manner in survivor history

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i feel like half of vanuatu's cast sucks, nicaragua is terrible, and kaoh rong is dragged down by scot and jason too much tbqh

sjds is a pretty good answer but the blue tribe has most of the stars there

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i think trish was pretty good for an early boot, and ryan s made for a good revenge arc with the outcasts twist

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cagayan, china, david vs goliath

you are basically right about pearl islands, though the fact that one tribe (of 8) has 3 of the show's biggest all-time characters is still worth a whole heck of a lot

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