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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
The Secret of Monkey Island
Myst
The Walking Dead

sounds about right.
if anything Phoenix Wright is the weak link of this lineup, though i feel modern representation from a different part of the world is important too.

you missed Activision Blizzard in that list too but yeah, that list is literally western studios and Sony, whose big dogs are western studios too. Square Enix belongs in that category as well though also doesn't get as much ire. they do put out flops too though, like Forspoken. also can't ignore CDProjekt as a new entry to that list considering they literally became bigger than Ubisoft after Cyberpunk.

yeah i'd sooner say it's more that the giant western studios kept bloating themselves to a point that they're popping. like bethesda was always gonna be a bubble, same with microsoft when they decided to buy like half the studios out there. eventually there's gonna be things that die, get reborn, and repeat.

settling down, a couple things come up.

first, the price of leather goods. they're cheap, of good quality, and can be found in the street markets which occur regularly. San Telmo on Sundays, Boca daily, Recoleta Saturdays, there's more i missed. high quality bags or belts will also be there, prices will vary from shop to shop and even more if you're being tourist taxed (see: no price listed and they come up with it on a whim that's very out the ordinary). bear in mind i still didn't bother with things like leather jackets or shoes because frankly i don't have any reason to get a leather jacket and i have more than enough shoes here. wallets and belts though? very useful and nice stuff to find.

second, i already mentioned the pro and con to the beef but i should go more in depth: if you order meat in a restaurant just go for the best cuts. steak and egg is a common one you'll find in the more overpriced section and is never worth it. hell, eggs are priced similar to here in the US, same for all fruits and veggies. that part's surprising really, a lot of basic groceries were not cheaper but similarly priced, maybe within a dollar. restaurants meanwhile are priced way, way cheaper and meat in particular will be a better value there. there's some exceptions, i did go to one of the high ends and had an absolutely fantastic shrimp sandwich but this was a good $100 USD for 2 dinner, with a couple drinks involved. over here i could see that be double the price and that's roughly what the high end essentially is - half price for similar quality as you'll get in the US (didn't do the 2 star michillin place but that's also how they price themselves, 0.50 - 0.75% US equivalent). for more standard places, mentioned it already but can easily be found for $40-50 for a meal for 2, drink included. do bear in mind however that the more authentic it is, in Buenos Aires anyway, the less salt and spice you'll find. even their milaneses which are prided on, breaded meats, will lack in flavor. some exceptions will exist, high quality sandwich shops in particular will be better at it, but note that difference. pork meanwhile, much easier to have in those standards. choripan is just chorizo and bread and you'll be good, common enough street food to find for $2-3 USD. more than that, you're being tourist taxed. also empanadas are great, at a consistently good price, where the price range is $0.60 - 1.20 USD. those actually will have spices and things inside to add to flavor, so i don't really get why the restaurants are the way they are. oh, burgers are a great one too - don't need to do much to that kind of meat, it's extremely tender, and great cheeses exist over there too so they end up being a great bang for buck every time. highly recommend burgers.

do however, mind terminology. bife de chorizo = only beef, it's a strip steak/New York strip. steak scallop = no actual scallops, just steak. i don't understand how the second exists but it does and it's disappointing. did also try other country foods there to see how they compare, Japanese is meh, Chinese is meh, Venezuelan is good, Colombian is good. Pizza there usually sucks but i did find a spot which was actually genuinely amazing and it was at a great price, in an area within Boca.

Mr. Garrison
Ms. Frizzle
Professor X
Master Roshi

Garrison totally deserves to be on this. from teaching in South Park to becoming Ms. Garrison to going back to Mr. Garrison only to become president of the United States, there are zero teachers who have had more character evolution or twists and turns than this.

Frizzle stands out as a teacher for a generation that grew up with magic school bus, which is a lot.
Professor X is kind of a gimme.
Roshi is an anime pic because anime has so many teachers/sensei that he's just eternally there as literally Goku's teacher.

i mean closing the Redfall studio is a surprise only in that it wasn't already closed after releasing Redfall in the first place.

Hi-Fi Rush though, that's a surprise. feels like something backstage happened there as there's no obvious reason to release a studio fresh off an extremely loved game release.

Sheamus was such a bad run because he was already main event talent and didn't need it.
Barret was such a shame but he was supposedly held back hard during his time as an active wrestler. KOTR and Bad News Barret were both potential points to really drive him up the card but Vince didn't want it.

Corbin is WWE's Millhouse meme.
...i forgot Woods won.

there's some great potential this year though!

Fate/Stay Night
Steins;Gate
Higurashi When They Cry
Sengoku Rance

Fate is the #1 of the genre for this.
Steins;Gate is significant enough with its anime, multiple releases including steam, and best represents that semicolon series.
Higurashi > Umineko in importance and scale, even if i like the latter way more. it's just more significant.
Rance needs an entry considering it's been going on since the 80s, represents AliceSoft, has had a ton of influence in the industry, and Sengoku is just flat out one of the most addicting games i've ever played. it's also the inspiration of a ton of games afterwards.

i mean we don't need to imagine it, Playstation VR and VR2 happened, with the 2 not having any backwards compatibility. so everything on the 1 is done, everything on 2 is unique to it, and it's on hold from production because mysteriously nobody bought it.

and i just figure they mean it won't get any new updates or whatever. game should work, if it doesn't then pirates will make it work as always.

was wondering what the joke was, then i saw the meta logo and went 'oh there it is.'
but exclusive, lmao.

seeing that list just grow and grow is wild.

it's like 90% of eastern europe, gone.
Africa, nope. middle east or subsaharan, just nope.
carribean islands, gone. even some surprising ones like dominican republican and puerto rico somehow, despite being a US territory - same for Samoa. hell, i'd have thought bahamas was a wealthy spot due to tourism but apparently it's also a non PSN spot so that's out.

then there's the random south asian ones like vietnam or phillipenes. the hell happened there?

Xuxon posted...

If a game is good it's good. I don't care if it was finished by the original developers or fans. To me this is almost like asking "if a game sucked in beta but is good now, is it actually good?"

well no because when you download the product, you aren't needing to add extra stuff to make it good.
like that's the main sticking point to vanilla versus not, it's the "out the box" versus "tinkered with."

Tacos
Burritos
Quesadillas
Nachos

aka, like 99% the same thing but packaged in different ways.

impressive sony move by sony.

the admins in charge of the Star of David part of the Minecraft world already fired back on the "I Ran!" group.

this world instance might already be in a world war scenario and just isn't aware yet. we'll see how the other regional admins respond.

i mean it still runs the issue that the news is politics, politics is banned, news isn't, so ???.

like this isn't even a hypothetical with something as basic as poll of the day - internet privacy is highly political, we had a poll on it in January earlier this year, and it's blatantly because of the Google court case with a 5 billion dollar settlement.

it took the news then asked a political question - internet privacy - with multiple different answers.

there's no guideline or explanation whatsoever on how news can be covered really. intentionally broad sure but still really dumb at best, an asshole move at worst.

flight's tomorrow.

migrate is a strong word.
use from time to time, sure. use as a common place to go and check stuff, not for most things. wrestling yeah, maybe an interest or two if a game rolls out and i'm wanting to play with people. otherwise uh... probably not that much?

ah, wording correction. by "that title" i meant the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, that's what Moxley won and whatall those people have had. Omega hasn't had that one yet, he had its predecessor, the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. they merged the IWGP Intercontinental Championship with it to make it more uh... worldly.

okay naming schemes aren't their strong forte. it's clearly meant to continue the same legacy as big NJPW belt but in its infancy i find it remarkable to see all those people win it, then go to AEW. or be in AEW.

you made me think he was dead for a sec.

just saw a stat and laughed at it, but apparently since 2020 the Shield has had all of 4 days without somebody holding a world title.

just as Seth and Roman lost theirs, Mox won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship a few days ago.
weirdly AEW has more people who've had that belt than NJPW does - Ibushi, Ospreay, Okada, White, Moxley - and they can make rivalries if they really wanted to.

but didn't see anything in here point out that hey, he's the first grand slam champ of WWE, AEW, and NJPW.

did they get mad about how many poll of the days talk about politics?
was the poll in fact a political one and therefore got suspended?

like take this one, almost a year ago to the date:

04/22/2023 How concerned are you about environmental issues like climate change, pollution, and sustainability?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/9165-how-concerned-are-you-about-environmental-issues-like

decided to check through polls and this one stood out the most for the year so far as a very political subject:

01/28/2024 Are you concerned about your privacy on the Internet?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/9446-are-you-concerned-about-your-privacy-on-the-internet

internet privacy is highly political with lawsuits in the billions, in fact this poll was likely inspired from Google's 5 billion dollar settlement the month prior to it.

how dare the poll of the day talk about such subjects!

doesn't surprise me at all. i'd expect both of those to have come up first before going 'nope, just ban it all, no halfway measures, fuck 'em.'

which is to say yeah, the policy is to run people off the site. there isn't any other actual answer. the theory would go "heavily political people are toxic, we don't want them, it'll be a less toxic community without them so we'll just ban all politics and kick them all out."

now this ends up grabbing way more people in the crossfire but the ends justify the means. until those ends result in losing so many people that even with desperate attempts like, say, another contest, you don't get remotely close to the traffic you once had because you ran people off and they don't care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pb9NWGZ_N0&ab_channel=SafetyClink

this is a fever dream of a chess match that i didn't even know about.

pong has two paddles and a ball, sounds easy enough to make erotica out of it.
does big rigs have any people in it? genuine question.
bad rats i don't know the first thing of either.

yes i'm looking for bottom of the barrel trash that's so bad it's hard to make an erotic premise off it and the visuals leave everything to be desired.

Hong Kong 97

i don't know what other 3 yet but i mean.
that's a start.

we're gonna be here until election day with jury selection like this.

politics can definitely derail a topic that has nothing to do with it, that part's fair. and if that's what people get annoyed with, totally get it.

but blocking all of it is just the other extreme when there was a lot of middle ground to work with and now instead stifles discussion. making a politics topic to absorb 90% of it, easy. making the tag auto-blocked by default so you have to opt into that tag, also easy. if you want to limit political talk on a subject, you can also just make the rule of political talk should have the tag, otherwise moderate it. essentially the same rule as this only instead of "ban outright" it's "in a topic with the tag." more complicated and annoying sure but far less egregious than an outright ban.

easy examples would be say somebody wants to talk about gun ownership or about a relative having an abortion. topic could simply be about that without delving into gun control or pro-life/pro-choice arguments. if people wanna talk about that in those terms, just use the tag. if they don't, don't.

i mean in the topic about it on LUE a mod straight up went "Nah" to whether it's gonna apply to them.
which makes sense, they are de facto cut off from the rest of the site so almost none of the rules should apply.

Wanglicious posted...

Michael Jordan
Steve Jobs

first one is famous for saying "Republicans buy sneakers too." but there might be something else in there for political stuff.
Jobs was pretty famous for people not knowing his politics and it being a very murky mess.

alright, gonna finish this. final 4 for now:

Michael Jordan
Steve Jobs
Michael Jackson
Selena

i figure the last won't get much (understandably so) but fair to get at least 1 vote. the two Michaels though are both surprisingly good pics unless i'm missing something.

i'm still not over the fact that it's an account with sub 90 karma controlling the site.

like bro you couldn't even use the boards properly until like 2 weeks ago, how are you supposed to be someone who knows a thing about the site when there's more polls proving you wrong than days you've been here.

FFDragon posted...

...

hold up

let him cook

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e85287aa.jpg

also the answer is yes, let them "investigate if they should shut down the boards." either rip the band-aid or call the bluff.

Is Saudi Arabia considered political?

Given the context it can be. As you opened the post tying it with LGBT, it is considered political in this case.

i mean unsurprising but now let's go a step further with this logic: Saudi Arabia wants to host the World Cup. let's say they succeed.

if somebody's asking how safe it is to go to that country because they're gay, this is no longer allowed. that is explicitly tying Saudi Arabia and their position on gay people.

i mean i can't blame him for starting to collapse if he's actually engaging with people because it's an untenable position. even by its own framework, definitions purposefully don't exist and explanations, unfortunately, keep the parts people are talking about vague and with unknown standards. you can't actually argue for the rule when the rule doesn't actually exist in any clear way and is admitted to having no reasonable definition that can apply, you can only shove it through. argument and conversation demand reason, the new rule explicitly lacks it.

looking on wikis and all that, Selena died at 23 and didn't get into politics. there's some religious aspects to her life and lifestyle but that's about it. and she did change latin music and the popularity of latin music forever.

then J'lo stole her life but that's a different story!

Kenri posted...

In CE in particular, "News event happened" conveys a very different message to start a conversation than "Political Party was Right Because News Event" happened.

that's just framing.
if you ban the latter the former will have it be implied so uh... doesn't matter.

Kenri posted...

I don't think it's possible (or reasonable) to try to sit here and think of an all-encompossing definition.

if you can't find a possible or reasonable definition then maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place because nobody knows what the fuck you mean.

even the idea of a "basic human right" isn't clear to everyone. some places consider water to be it, others don't. the US considers free speech the cornerstone of basic human rights, most of the world doesn't. as a result, both are political. there is no way to do this without policing speech. i don't get what's complicated.

Leonhart4 posted...

So basically the most famous Americans who died in childhood?

kinda the direction i'm leaning to.
which immediately made me think of Selena, who's from Texas.

uh... hm. John Cena's not that political as much as a corporate stooge. though he did endorse Linda Mcmahon for office as a result so maybe that's out. Stone Cold? Jim Henson? most comedians are gonna be out, even Seinfeld since he talked about political correctness on campus and that's a hot button issue.

man are we seriously looking into basically who's famous but died before they could get too political?

that son of a bitch tricked me
damn you canada

oh.

3rd pick:
Keanu Reeves

i think that one's safe. he tries to avoid politics as well.

Michael Jordan
Steve Jobs

first one is famous for saying "Republicans buy sneakers too." but there might be something else in there for political stuff.
Jobs was pretty famous for people not knowing his politics and it being a very murky mess.

i mean... the easiest thing to do since we already have tags is just make it an opt in setting in site settings. bam, done, if your issue was people seeing toxicity they literally won't unless they choose to.

so many obvious things to be done that nope, can't do it.

AriaOfBolo posted...

I understand that by its nature compromise doesnt make anyone 100% happy

except this isn't a compromise, it's a demand.
know the difference between a complete ban and the allowance of it on CE? zero. absolute zero difference between that one board, a board people actively refuse to go to, and everywhere else.

those are not terms of a compromise, those are the terms of a go fuck yourself.

worse than that Reg, CE is at the forefront of this issue because that's where a lot of are the mods come and where a lot of things get modded, partially because it's where a lot of people went to after the politics boards were killed.

essentially home field advantage + adopted the problem child + lowest common denominator.

highly doubt places like here, the UK board, or any other region has the same issues. with CE's already declining numbers, B8 + UK + another decent sized social board would have more content in all ways and a significantly smaller footprint of trouble. but it doesn't matter because that's not where the staff is or the "perceived problem."

based on board activity?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/explore/3-special-interest-boards
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/explore/1-game-boards

we're a forum of anime and wrestling above everything else.

also wait a sec.
political topics wouldn't be part of gamefaqs at all? hmmm.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll

let's find out.
"election"

09/19/2023 Are you registered to vote?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/9315-are-you-registered-to-vote

11/08/2016 Who do you most want to win today's US presidential election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6511-who-do-you-most-want-to-win-todays-us-presidential-election

11/06/2012 Who do you most want to win today's US presidential election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4895-who-do-you-most-want-to-win-todays-us-presidential-election

10/21/2004 Do you plan to vote in the US presidential election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1796-do-you-plan-to-vote-in-the-us-presidential-election

10/20/2004 Who do you think will win the US presidential election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1795-who-do-you-think-will-win-the-us-presidential-election

11/04/2000 Who do you want to win the US Presidential Election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/341-who-do-you-want-to-win-the-us-presidential-election

11/03/2000 Who do you think will win the US Presidential Election?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/340-who-do-you-think-will-win-the-us-presidential-election

search for "Vote"
11/07/2000 Are you going to vote or have you already voted today?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/344-are-you-going-to-vote-or-have-you-already-voted-today

search for "politic"
08/16/2012 How would you describe yourself politically?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4813-how-would-you-describe-yourself-politically

03/27/2009 How would you describe yourself politically?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3435-how-would-you-describe-yourself-politically

11/15/2007 With a recent poll saying that liberals game more than conservatives, how do you lean politically?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2936-with-a-recent-poll-saying-that-liberals-game-more-than

04/22/2003 How would you describe yourself politically?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1235-how-would-you-describe-yourself-politically

11/07/2000 Are you going to vote or have you already voted today?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/344-are-you-going-to-vote-or-have-you-already-voted-today

11/06/2000 How would you describe yourself politically?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/343-how-would-you-describe-yourself-politically

so am i not allowed to talk about the subjects which these polls, made by management across 20+ years, are about? because it sure looks like if gamefaqs was made today politics would be part of it like it always was.

also

in before they decide to turn on topicality to this board after over a decade without it.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Also we don't care about CE or it's legacy, we just don't understand why it affects us

worse than that, it's that they don't acknowledge there's other social boards beyond CE. B8 might be the biggest but there's a lot of other communities too.

"We have this social board you can use.
Yeah but that one sucks, that's why we don't use it.
Ah, but we have this social board you can use."

completely tonedeaf and said nothing.

that's a lot of words for "we hear you, but go fuck yourself."