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"[City Name] Athletics" is a great oldschool sounding sports team name. But just being "The Athletics" is lame as hell. That poor franchise.

AceMos posted...

and yet people are still proping up the rest of the franchise

no mater what version if you support it your supporting a pedophile

Did...did you even read my comment? Can you read at all, son?

Where did you hear that Korea bans Jpop? And why did you believe it? Even now it is somewhat difficult for Japanese media to go from 0 to 100 in Korea but stuff that has any cultural heft (Pokemon, Nintendo, Shohei Ohtani, One Piece, etc) gets just as popular in Korea as anywhere else. Jpop is just globally pretty weak right now anyway. Who is even popular these days?

AceMos posted...

you should not watch anything from that franchise

considering its creator is a pedophile

You didn't even read the first sentence of the first post? And not even the whole sentence even.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It's a thing Nintendo has been doing for a long time. Both the NES and SNES had redesigned versions that came out after their successor consoles were already out.

Redesigns are a totally different thing. A customer might not be 10000% sure of every difference between a DS and a DSi but they're buying essentially the same product that will play the same games. The Wii to WiiU handoff was famously (possibly to the point it was overstated) a total disaster because they seemed pretty similar and were not compatible products at all.

Doesn't he decide to kill everyone because he freaks out over finding out his own backstory?

Possibly gauging interest in another game but also it was probably a relatively easy/inexpensive training project for the team. All of these already-in-HD-and-patched-for-current-consoles remakes are basically training projects.

Its not 1996 and a name like Switch 2 is not a Wii / WiiU situation. Having the older console on the market is not going to confuse anyone. Nintendo definitely learned their lesson, which is why the name Switch 2 sucks but is unmistakable as a new and different system.

This is also standard policy for Nintendo. It just so happens that older consoles tended to be unwanted relatively quickly. It was very easy for them to stop selling the WiiU. The 3DS however was sold for a long-ass time because it had no direct replacement and people liked it.

Citizen Kane is such a funny relic that's stuck around. I mean, if you care about how modern movies exist it does have a lot to offer and people should watch it. But a modern "movie guy" has absolutely no need to see it and most people that like movies have never watched it. Its like how the floppy disk is the save icon and a great deal of computer users these days are too young to have ever even seen one in real life (or at all).

In conclusion, Final Fantasy VII is a very good game. Even in the original PS1 version with no mods or anything its a worthwhile play. Although, it is probably not very expensive to buy on Steam or you could find some edited ROMs that clean up the translation and fix some bugs and stuff if you want a cleaner experience.

Games get announced too early these days is why. Apparently its for hiring purposes (hey people! We're making Kingdom Hearts 4! You could too!) but on the consumer end its pointless.

metralo posted...

Didnt they say they would only do this for American IPs?

It shows as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" for me outside of the US.

And for anyone misunderstanding, Google didn't "roll over" or whatever the fuck about this. When something changes in official government sources they follow that automatically. There's no thought process behind it.

Just let them continue to be happy with their life. Don't poison them with that crap.

MICHALECOLE posted...

god why cant I stop thinking about the Dutch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUs5X9glCc

It is the best Final Fantasy.

Persona 4's reveal was good. You can piece it together earlier on but it can also be a big "Oh riiiiiight!" at the intended moment if you've been playing in more of a "just get to the next cutscene" sort of way like I did many years ago.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/12465fa3.jpg

Oh yeah, I also saw a place called "Black Coq" in Korea. This picture is clearly somewhere French.

I saw a "craft beer and pizza" restaurant called "Crapizz" once. I'm not sure how long it stayed in business.

Also, somewhat infamously, there is a ramen restaurant in the Mazda Stadium (where the Hiroshima Carp play in Japan) called "C-men". Even calling it "Carp Ramen" would sound kinda gross but the actual name is obviously worse.

How have two separate people said MGSV? What planet are you people from where that game is disliked? That's even more insane than the people that keep saying FF8 which is also an immensely popular game.

Intro2Logic posted...

https://youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?si=kyJ_YLp_sQhBpKMT

This is what I was expecting.

People saying FF8 are insane, lol. Its like saying your favourite obscure movie is Donnie Darko. I think more people talk shit about it these days in FF discussions but it is very popular.

I like Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers a good deal. Its more obscure than disliked but it has a mediocre (but not awful) Metacritic score for the 3DS version.

Armored Core: Last Raven is one of my favourite videogames and it has an embarrassing 59 on Metacritic. The game is well-liked but also sort of feared among AC oldheads since its ball-bustingly hard. If you play it without importing data (as most critics probably did) you're fucked unless you know exactly what you're doing and are very good at the game. Because of that a lot of people don't feel the need to build up to playing it.

I also got the same youtube recommendation.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Part of me is saying they should stop making these, but another part is looking forward to it.

They make shitloads of money despite being awful. Jurassic Park is a well-known and respected name but its also not held to such a specific standard as something like Star Wars that horrible nonsense movies like Jurassic World 3 could knock it into trash limbo. Dinosaurs are also eternally cool to kids and the brand attracts big enough stars that the movies pass as blockbusters. I honestly wonder how bad these would have to get before audiences complain or how many have to flood the market before people get exhausted.

It is well known that all the LLMs are based on massive theft. Its why people laughed so hard about OpenAI crying about DeepSeek "copying" their data or whatever. Current AI/LLMs would not exist if the creators had been stopped from stealing mountains of data to train on. They could probably have done it legitimately with enough time but clearly they didn't want to take the time.

It mostly just plays junk for kids during the day and then a random assortment of stuff at night. Odds are pretty low that anything interesting will be on it at any given time. It would've been wild back in like 1996 though.

Did they get tired of paying Chris Pratt for these or something? Seems like this acknowledges the previous ones so its the softest possible of reboots. I just wish this series would either go away or do something wild. They've all been dogshit and the last one in particular was nearly enough to get me to walk out of the theater. And yet, they've all made like a billion dollars so there's no incentive to do anything different. At least Colin Trevorrow is gone because good lord. Outside of Alex Kurtzman I can't immediately think of anyone who did a more thorough job of murdering a franchise than him.

The only non-mmo Final Fantasy that I've never played at all. Now that I've finished my replay of X I'll get to it after I do a replay of XII.

I only really like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. I can have an alright-to-good time watching about half of them on tv or something (with friends doesn't count because that can make anything fine) and the rest are just not worth my time.

Trying to imagine the sort of Trump voter that would come to this topic and not just make everyone expecting an answer supremely angry for one reason or another.

The sloppily done stuff can be bad but there's so much good that foreign aid does that those blights are worth it if the choice is "Keep it all or eliminate it all". And it is also a pittance in the US budget to do all it does. Idiots that think the US spends trillions in taxes to prop up the entire world economy and cutting USAID will give them a huge tax refund are in for a rude awakening (that awakening being forgetting they ever had an opinion on USAID at all, continuing to think the US should do less even after stopping all programs, seeing no local difference to their lives while things worsen globally, and unknowingly aiding the advent of future major global disasters).

Maybe Army of the Dead.

I used to like 300 but its become unwatchable for me. Not that I actually hold it to a historical standard or anything but after learning that Sparta was basically Ancient Greek's North Korea and what hilariously inept losers they actually were I cannot take anything seriously that portrays them as badasses.

Pikachuchupika posted...

Is there any other religion where you can get killed for burning their book? Insane.

You're specifically setting the timeline for this as the past 50-ish years or so right? Otherwise I'd suspect something dumb like Scientology would be the only religion without a massive blasphemy related death toll.

josh posted...

nah, rest of us have nothing to contribute so we just step over the thread.

I would've and should've just ignored this thread but 30+ posts in like a day about bullying was just shocking. I probably would've been drawn in if I saw a similar number of posts in a thread like "How often do you shave your feet?"

McmadnessV3 posted...

Like the movie still has Bond silliness in it of course but the idea of a media mogul working with a government figure to take over a country isn't hard to believe considering what Fox does these days.

No...you definitely have to have borderline terminal levels of brain rot to make that leap in logic. Rich people that own media outlets typically cozy up to power structures in corrupt countries because they want to keep their money and influence stuff but something along the lines of an Australian plutocrat and a Chinese military figure knocking over the government of Costa Rica (for example) is blithering nonsense. Unless you water down the definition of "take over" to something like how Russia gives lots of money to the weirdo political fringe in Estonia so their elections are more annoying there's no case at all for what you're describing.

And what "hardware" was Murdoch supposedly getting from China? What does hardware even mean to someone like him? You're making it sound like Fox media has a secret stash of chemical weapons.

SinisterSlay posted...

So you were probably the bully

I can see how getting bullied might warp someone's perception of how much of the world is "bullies vs bullied" but I would've thought reaching adulthood would give you some perspective on how narrow that reality is.

The idea that a media conglomerate would have enough power to make news events happen is still idiotic. The modern media economy is terrible and narratives can be willed into existence by collective idiocy but its not like Rupert Murdoch has a special forces team selling plutonium to Liberia or whatever.

Zikten posted...

Who would you say is the most powerful big bad in the entire Final Fantasy franchise?

Thinking about it, aren't they all roughly within the same level of "kill all living things/make a dark world"? I suppose Ultimecia does transcend that into dimension/time destroying power but its weirdly controlled by her having to possess Rinoa for some reason.

I don't really use reddit anymore but I got up to about 3500 unread notifications before I stopped.

Christ, am I the only person on this board that didn't get bullied?

Salrite posted...

Not true. There's nothing at all wrong with it. I have a picture where I'm smiling at the Maid of Honor's speech at my sister's wedding and it looks great.

Also not true. 0 matches in three months use proves otherwise. It's not even just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUWw_W-DTlc

Lol, alright, dude. OP asked for general advice about pictures and I' sure you nitpicking some random extremely specific example about how you look amazing smiling off camera will help him a lot. Especially after you admit that you haven't got a match in 3 months despite having that absolutely stunning picture.

Definitionally, half of any population is below average.

Goldice posted...

The cell saga is a classic as long as you ignore everything that led up to cell and don't ask questions about the gaping logic holes.

I'm being serious too. The overall result and where the road leads is great. But everything at the start is just a gigantic mess that often contradicts itself

People that closely scrutinize stuff made by Toriyama live such impoverished lives. The man gave absolutely no fucks about any previous rules he made or implied by anything that happened earlier in the manga. The way tail grabbing immobilizing saiyans gets instantly hand waved away is a perfect example. DBZ kicks so much ass but acting like its based on a world where minute calculations of power interactions mean anything is something everyone should have learned not to do by now.

God help whoever the lone FF13 voter is. That game is dogshit. I'd rather play literally any other FF than touch that garbage ever again.

I do sort of feel that cutting off the PS2 ones is sort of arbitrary since they've got HD remakes and play as pretty modern games but fine, 12 is nearly 20 years old so whatever. Either way, that leaves a pretty weird list. Its crazy that Final Fantasy has been so lost for so long. Square-Enix tried so hard to make 13 into a thing but no matter how many people say 13-2 is good I will never believe them because of how bad vanilla 13 is.

Rambling aside, 15 is probably the best game I've played on that list. I think I'll probably like 16 equally or a bit more but I did mostly like dicking around with hunts and stuff in 15 (which is also why I like 12).

I don't understand why two people quoted me to act like they disagreed with me and then confirmed exactly what I said. Nobody that actually likes donuts likes Dunkin more. If you really really like donuts a lot then you probably don't like either of them that much since they're the McDonalds and...dumpster behind McDonalds of donuts but one is clearly better.

You shouldn't use blurry pictures. Its probably fine to have one picture where you're smiling in the camera or whatever but only one. You could also do one looking off camera with a neutral expression (don't smile at something off camera though, it looks weird). Ideally your other pictures should be of you doing stuff and taken by other people/by a timer. Pet pictures are fine but some people see men with cats as kinda wussy but maybe that's a sort of person you'd rather weed out.

Everyone else is whining about how men are disadvantaged in online dating and that's not really true. If you're looking to line up 5+ chicks for 1st date bangs a week then, yeah you're not in the 1% that can swing that. If you're just looking for some matches that might turn into dates then you should be fine. Its been quite a while since I was using Tinder but as an average looking not particularly tall guy I was able to get what I wanted out of it at the time. You shouldn't get 0 matches ever as long as your pictures aren't blurry and repetitive.

I have two fancy watches (over $1000 value) that were gifts from family. I collect enough other stuff that I wouldn't really bother with collecting more but I think its good for an adult man to have a nice watch (doesn't have to be thousands of dollars). Men are pretty limited in mature accessories and not having one or two for a special occasion at least is a bit of a waste.

Dunkin sucks. I couldn't imagine anyone that particularly likes donuts not liking Krispy more.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

I know that some people actually did this, but I just can't comprehend, even as someone who loves to see numbers go up and to hear the achievement ding, how someone could possibly derive enjoyment from maxing out their items for fear of not having a 100% file, per a definition they set for themselves. It really is just grind for the sake of itself. Any actual content the game offers is depleted tens if not hundreds of hours before you achieve that.

People that do that for FFX are literally mentally ill. If they had actual friends they would intervene and stop them from attempting to waste their lives doing that idiotic pointless crap. Weirdos that commit their lives to hitless runs of Dark Souls or whatever can at least probably monetize the videos and streams. Grinding 999 lightning dodges in FFX is a hateful waste of your life and electricity.

I wonder if he cares that much about the single vote. He's probably still riding his high from the Japanese hall of fame induction recently.

Although hilariously, in the The Athletic's write-up of his induction they used the wrong kanji for his name and also didn't realize he (and the Japanese media) doesn't write his name in kanji. He is only.

For pretty specific collectibles and for selling old stuff, yeah. Lately I've been using Mercari and a shipping proxy though. Lots of cool Japanese stuff either doesn't exist or is insanely overpriced on eBay but on Mercari is much better priced.

They all have at least one difficult level in them during the normal campaign. The secret world levels are genuinely pretty hard for the most part. I played 3 most recently and some of the harder levels were due to the gimmicks rather than enemy placement or anything but there's a handful of actual tricky levels there.