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Funerals are a scam. I don't want some price gaugers profiteering over my passing once I'm gone.

It doesn't seem like the rules are applied to celebrities equally. It looks like Diddy is going to be in big trouble for this, as it seems he should be. However Chris Brown nearly killed Rihanna when he assaulted her like 15 years ago, and NOTHING happened to him.

Baha05 posted...

Wonder whats going on with Walmart and Amazon

I pre-ordered from Amazon and I recieved an email last week saying it won't arrive until June 3rd.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Legit, the entire theater was silent for a few seconds after the big NO

I virtually never talk during movies, but when that moment happened I immediately said "expelliarmus" quietly to my friends sitting around me, but a lot of people around us heard and laughed out loud, I was pretty proud of that.

My (slow) progress continues! I've completed the Great Bay Temple (which honestly isn't as confusing as people make it out to be), ventured into Ikana Canyon, received the Mirror Shield, and learned the Elegy of Emptiness.

One thing that really has stood out so far is that the dungeon design is WAY better than Ocarina of Time. They clearly put a lot more thought into how Link can move through the world, and refined the world design to match that excellently.

Some things remain a bit too cryptic, though. I knew the Gibdo well maze required a ton of items, so I looked it up before venturing down the well. If you didn't know that, it probably would be the most frustrating part of the game, because there would be a TON of backtracking every time you provide a Gibdo an item, only to find the Gibdo in the next room needs another random item. It wouldn't be as bad if they just needed bombs (as one does), arrows, rupees, or any other common item, but requiring niche things like fish, milk, and Magic Beans is kind of a crappy move.

It's also kind of jarring just how little the completion of the Great Bay Temple does for that region. Completing Woodfall meant that the poison in the swamp goes away. Completing Snowhead brings springtime to the mountains and melts most of the snow, totally changing the environment. Completing Great Bay supposedly gets rid of the "murky water" (???) which is such a minor change it's honestly bizarre. I know that completing Stone Tower does even less. It's weird how they set up this idea that you're fixing the world and yet you don't get much to show for it from the last two dungeons. Ocarina of Time was kind of guilty of that with the Water Temple too, though (Zora's Domain never thaws, but at least Lake Hylia goes back to normal).

My next goal is to farm for rupees to get the 5000 rupee bank Heart Piece. I'll defeat a ton of Redeads in Ikana Castle to do that. I'll also get to Stone Tower but then play the Song of Time to ensure I have a new three day cycle.

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I'll get it soon after launch. I hope it sells well so that Nintendo gets the message that people would rather have the traditional Paper Mario style of game rather than new type of Paper Mario.

What the actual fuck

The Shamrock Shake is an abomination and I've only heard that the Grimace Shake is somehow even worse.

I haven't played any other them since Sun/Moon because I don't feel comfortable giving my money to a company that makes full priced games that graphically look like they belong on the GameCube at best despite being made by the most successful entertainment franchise in human history.

Lots of progress in the last week, but slow, as I've been busy at work (as well as stressed with the usual annual announcement that we'll be reducing staff, hopefully I'll be safe).

I got the Gilded Sword, which might be my favourite sword in the series. What a massive upgrade from the tiny Kokiri Sword you start the game with.

I've collected nearly every Heart Piece available at this point in the game. I've also collected every mask except for the Gibdo and Giants Masks, both of which are required for completing the game and will be collected through following the story regularly.

The Anju and Kafei sidequest is pretty sad. There's an optional cutscene where you listen in on a conversation between Anju and her mother, and her mother is planting anxiety and distrust in Anju by suggesting that Kafei is missing because he's cheating on her with Cremia at the ranch. This is made especially interesting when you also complete the Romani Ranch sidequest and Cremia confides in you that she's worried about Anju and that she cares a lot about her (obviously not someone who would run off with her fiance). That's a pretty intense thing to have in a Zelda game.

I'm just at the third dungeon now. Since the major sidequests are all out of the way now, I'd estimate I'm about 75% done the game. I'm hoping to have this and both Oracle games done by the end of June.

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I saw nothing by 12:30 when I went to bed, but I checked my security camera when I got up and they looked super bright around 3:00. I can't feel bad though, I was way too tired to stay awake until then.

No, the beef is just prepared by a kid getting paid minimum wage, and thus is likely contaminated with loads of salmonella. Your body reacts that way because in all likelihood the tacos they sell are literal poison.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Strong Southern Accents are awful, they immediately make me think you're less educated and I'm rarely wrong about it. I was born in the South and was actively taught to avoid the accent and slang that goes with it.

It's the same with the stereotypical "Canadian" accent. Educated/intelligent Canadians virtually never have that accent, it's just the hicks. Another dead giveaway is saying "I seen" instead of "I saw".

I don't remember hearing anything about the Switch in March 2015. In fact I very specifically remember first hearing about the Switch in the fall of 2016, followed by its sudden release in March 2017.

Mario Party

Consoles malfunction too, and are usually harder to fix. My Wii U destroyed its own graphics card just by sitting unplayed. I turn it on and there's glitchy yellow bands/splotches all over the screen, and the other colours are all messed up too.

Microbrews are always a wild card because they can be the greatest thing you've ever tried, or an abomination that shouldn't even legally qualify as drinkable.

I've only poured two beers down the drain. One was a microbrew that I can't remember anything about other than it tasted abysmal. The other was Budweiser.

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It's been a few days, but here's an update. I've finished the first two dungeons, including collecting all the Stray Fairies for each. I've always felt that the reward for that in the first two dungeons was better than the last two (especially the very last dungeon). Also, I've fully upgraded both my quiver and bomb bag. I've also found most available Heart Pieces for where I'm currently at in the game. Lastly, I've also got Powder Keg certified.

What I'm most impressed with myself about with all this? This has ALL been done in the first three day cycle. I've only played the Song of Time once, and that was the required time when you get the Ocarina in the first place. I'm going to play it shortly after posting this, which will save a HUGE amount of progress.

I'm really appreciating how big of a quality of life improvement this game is over Ocarina of Time. It does a great job at feeling distinct, which is incredible given that many of the NPCs are reused from Ocarina of Time.

My biggest issue so far is the lack of dedicated mask buttons. This is similar to my complaint about Ocarina of Time. The D-pad really should have been used as mask buttons, even if it was just for the transformation masks. The Bunny Hood is so useful that I almost always have it set to a C button.

I'll continue plugging away. My next big priority is to get the Gilded Sword, Epona, and the Hookshot. Before I go to the next dungeon, I intend on doing a lot of sidequests. The Hookshot opens a huge amount of content up.

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I hear the Google Pixel 6a has lots of action

The saddest thing about his literal baby tear rant (about how it is an unfair and cruel reality that suffering is offloaded on the individual rather than the group) is that he's accidentally damning the very ideologies he loves to support and lamenting the lack of existence of the very ideologies he spends half his time denouncing.

Hey Lois:

Diarrhea

Jordan Peterson is the textbook definition of an absolute moron's idea of an intellectual.

It's always the saddest fucking people who listen to this guy. Let's get life advice from the guy who thinks human psychology is a derivative of lobster psychology, whines about transgender people, received life altering injuries from eating only meat for over a month because vegetables are liberal food, and then developed a severe addiction to benzos.

Kamil posted...

I do want to know what the next rank would be after that. Feels like I've just been in a listless state though I know there are ppl with way higher karma than me.

It's "???" at 10,000 karma. There is very little chance I'll ever reach that, the site would have to be open another 8 years.

I can't see them changing their console naming system that they've used for the last 30 years.

I own my house. But my mortgage has to be renewed in a couple years and I'm going to get hit hard by that unless interest rates come down (which they probably won't by much).

adjl posted...

I usually end up getting that one early simply because there's very little else to do in the first cycle if you know what you're doing. If the choice is between sitting around and waiting for the clock tower to open or bashing my head against the playground, I'll take the playground (though it is indeed much easier now than I remember it being as a kid. Funny how that works).

That's exactly what I did! In the past I used to just spam the scarecrow dance to get to the final night but this time I chose to just get this over with. It was the first heart piece I got, followed closely by the nearly unavoidable one on the platform on the Clock Tower.

FrozenBananas posted...

Did you get all the heart pieces? Damn you did that fast

My total play time was probably around 10 hours (I didn't actually time it though). I know the game through and through, so not much time was wasted.

I started Majora's Mask last night. I made it to the first dungeon but I want to complete some sidequests before I actually do the dungeon.

One of the heart pieces is obtained from the Postman by pressing the A button after exactly 10 seconds. You're supposed to do this with the Bunny Hood (which reveals an on screen timer for you to watch), but I did it on my FIRST try without it, lmao. Absolute boss moment.

I'm impressed with how much more polished Majora's Mask feels compared to Ocarina of Time. It also has a much more defined personality as a game. I don't know if I'll bother getting all heart pieces in this one (I remember one of them required you to deposit something like 5000 rupees in the bank, good lord that takes forever). However, I have already obtained the one from completing the Deku Playground minigame on each of the three days, which I used to think was one of the toughest heart pieces in the game to get.

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You don't lose 55 lbs in 2 months.

Colonel_Lingus posted...

wtf constitutes hornyposting?

Not allowed to post if you currently have a full or even semi chub

TomNook posted...

That isn't a real board.

People really love doomsday rhetoric. This board will still be here for atleast another 10 years.

It really depends on what Fandom's plans are and how the community responds to it. I can't see the message boards still being operational in 10 years. I can't even see them still being operational in 5 years. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they are removed without notice in the next 3 months.

I started on the Ocarina of Time board and the Animal Crossing Wild World board. Back in 2006, the ACWW board was insanely fast. The full first page of 50 topics would fly by in a matter of a minute or two.

There was a user on the OoT board named Danimakesitrain who was awesome. She was genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever seen on this site. She had some health condition though, and in 2010 she used to talk about how she was excited for Skyward Sword but was worried her health condition would make it hard to use the motion controls. She suddenly stopped posting in the summer of 2011, before Skyward Sword even launched. We heard she was hospitalized. We never heard anything from her again. That was the most emotionally difficult thing I've seen on this site.

Runescape General Board during the mid to late 2000s was awesome. The only GameFAQs user I ever encountered in real life was on there, his name was coneheadsguy. He worked at a very well known restaurant in a town my family would vacation to each summer, and he was working the day I visited there in the summer of 2009. The Runescape Social Board was also great, this moment gave me a great laugh.

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PotD has been my main GameFAQs home since 2010, obviously representing the vast majority of my time here. I'll miss it when this site shuts down in the likely not too distant future, but I'm glad a Discord was made.

His dog must be an Australian Shepherd

I'll give credit to GameFAQs, the process of enshittification has been slower with this site than pretty much any other site ever.

Others happen quick. Tumblr went from one of the top visited websites to a bygone obscure low traffic site in a matter of days with a single strict policy change regarding NSFW content.

But I have to admit, it's kind of funny that GameFAQs ends with an admin typing out the word "hornyposting".

Edit: for the record, I think the limitations on political conversations are the main nail in the coffin. But closing or limiting several long standing message boards is a sure way to pushing more people away to an already rapidly shrinking site.

I've finished Ocarina of Time. Wow. This game was easily the best so far, which wasn't surprising in the least. This game was a masterpiece. We knew when it released that we'd still be talking about it 10 or even 20 years later, but now over 25 years after it released I can boldly but confidently say people will still mention how significant this game was even 100 years after its release.

By modern standards, it might not seem significant. But compared to its predecessors, especially when played in sequential order, it absolutely shines. The gameplay is solid, the dungeons are unique and require little backtracking, the world is beautiful, the characters are diverse and meaningful, and the changes between the past and future times have a subtle emotional shift that is hard to put into words.

There are also small lore connections to previous games, especially ALttP. They reference the creation of the Dark World during the events of this game, which somehow never clicked with me before. The fact that Ganondorf didn't have a strong and righteous mind was what prevented him from becoming the full King of Evil through the use of the Triforce, which ALttP established as well though the Triforce's purposefully weak interpretation of Ganondorf's wish to "rule the world".

Ocarina of Time was what I considered the best Zelda game for nearly 20 years, until Breath of the Wild released. I'd like to see if that impression stays as I continue through the series. I'll likely start Majora's Mask tomorrow. As I mentioned yesterday, I'm sad to see this game end. The N64 era of Zelda means a huge amount to me. I'll do my best to enjoy every bit of what Majora's Mask has to offer.

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LinkPizza posted...

I would say you should also do it for MM

I'm considering it, I'll definitely be doing a lot of the sidequests in MM because that's what really sets that game apart. I might even aim to get all the masks.

I'm in the Spirit Temple right now. I have all the Heart Pieces, I only need the Heart Container from this dungeon to have the full 20 hearts (I doubt I'll bother doing that for any other Zelda game, but this one is pretty special to me, so it gets that extra level of treatment).

I just got the Mirror Shield. The Spirit Temple is probably my favourite dungeon in the game, and the connection between the past and the future was a great touch.

I know this isn't the most unique perspective, but good God the owl is annoying. I don't know how or why they greenlit that character, it's totally out of place and he never provides advice that wouldn't be better off figured out on your own. At least in Link's Awakening it sort of fit the bizarre dreamland vibe the game had.

It's bittersweet to be coming to the end of this game. What an absolute treasure this game is, even with its flaws, and even with the N64 crappiness that comes with it (the last time I saw the owl, he flew away straight through the Spirit Temple exterior wall). Despite how simple it is compared to modern games, the differences between the past and the future always strike an emotional note with me. The brief dialogue with Saria after the Forest Temple, saving Lon Lon Ranch (and Malon remembering you after all those years), seeing Darunia's son, all these things were such awesome world building details that outmatch most of what the previous games put forward.

I'll likely finish the game by Friday (there really isn't much left to do), and I'll hopefully get a start on Majora's Mask this weekend. I've been slower in my progress lately, but that isn't to say I'm not enjoying this goal! I'm trying to savour every bit of these games; I'd say the games released from ALttP to WW were the golden era of the Zelda series.

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Ogurisama posted...

The only issue I had with the water temple was the key behind the longshot. The block was just perfectly hidden behind the chest.

Not exactly a key, but under the block there was a hole that dropped you into a room that was a long winding route that ended with a key chest. I think I remember having that issue, too.

Bruh

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It felt weird setting my server username to Faramir given that I haven't used this username for anything new in about 18 years.

adjl posted...

It really cannot be overstated just how much that game did to maintain structure in my life during a time that otherwise would have had very little

Bro the 5pm music though

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Not getting sick even once from March 2020 until like late 2021 or early 2022 was great. I've never gone more than like 6 months without getting a cold before.

Animal Crossing became a daily routine for at least 2 months. There has never been a better timed release for any other form of entertainment media ever.

Or honestly just anything Smash Mouth made

Bring Me to Life by Evanescence

I'm currently in the Water Temple. I've beaten this game so many times that the idea that this dungeon was ever confusing for people is hard for me to relate to anymore, but I will admit that the room hidden under the block that floats up when you set the water level to medium isn't very clearly shown. Dark Link was very fun to fight, especially without "cheating" by using the Megaton Hammer. This was another reason I opted to find as many Heart Pieces as possible, as Dark Link's health matches your own (so in my case, he took 16 hits to beat).

The interface flaws of this game are put on full display in this dungeon. The biggest issue is pausing numerous times to switch the Iron Boots on and off, when they easily could have been put on the D-pad. The Ocarina really should have been a D-pad button, too.

That said, I can appreciate the greater freedom that Ocarina of Time brought with the number of items you can have equipped at a given time. In Link's Awakening you technically could have 2, but that was only if you unequipped your sword, which was something I had to do on only a few rare occasions. Having 3 items equipped PLUS a sword and a shield at all times is a huge improvement, and the game responds by giving you many different challenges requiring many items all at once, which unfortunately counters out any benefit achieved through having more items equipped.

I know that it's easily to look back in retrospect and point out these shortcomings, but the pacing of the Water Temple because of this is so jarring that I'm honestly surprised it wasn't corrected in development. N64 games were often scared to use both the D-pad and the analog stick, likely because of the ridiculous controller design, but it wouldn't have been as annoying as having to pause to change items so often.

One other total random observation: when you hit enemies with arrows, you can see the arrow spin off in a random direction afterwards. This feels intentional but I can't understand why they'd program that, lmao. I've always noticed that, but this playthrough it's actually bothering me because I focus on looking for it happen. I wonder if it was an inside joke.

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People can like things that I don't like.

I can think they're wrong for liking things I don't like.

I don't care enough about literally anyone to try to change their mind about what they like.

I remember the L Block one but I don't even know who Draven is at all.

Probably because as soon as Character Battles started I'd just avoid the poll for the month or whatever that it lasted. I appreciated the effort the site put in to make something engaging but those contests would drag on for way too long.

I tried a Big Turk only once maybe about 20 years ago. Never again.

I imagine the moment that will forever define Amber Heard as being similar to the horse head scene in The Godfather.

Johnny Depp wakes up and can tell something isn't right. He pulls the bed sheets back to reveal a horrific blue ribbon dookie the size of an adult man's forearm nestled in his linens. Amber has made herself Heard.

Revelation34 posted...

I will always save scum shit like this.

You mean reload the game to try again? I honestly would have done that if I hadn't got it on that last try. The rupees aren't the issue, it's more the time commitment. Rupees aren't used for much in this game aside from minigames, it seems they were used much more in the earlier games (aside from Zelda 2 which straight up has no rupees at all).

I've just finished the Forest Temple. The level design is mostly better than the earlier games, but what has really shined has been the bosses. Every single boss has been better than literally any boss from the first four games. The cinematic entrance of King Dodongo is still awesome, even after over 25 years. Barinade is my favourite boss in the game, as it makes you really move to dodge it's attack, feels much more engaging. Phantom Ganon was great, too.

The revelation that Link isn't a Kokiri but is actually a Hylian was one I enjoyed as a kid but now just seems flat. The game doesn't build up this story element enough for you to care. I feel like they could have handled it better to make the reveal really stick.

On a side note, it occured to me that I'll be playing a lot of the next several Zelda games on the Wii. After Ocarina of Time, 4 of the next 7 games will be on the Wii. In fact, I could even hook up my GameCube, which with the Game Boy Player I have I could play all 7 of the next 7 games on it! I remember when Twilight Princess came out, Nintendo made a big deal out of the fact that every single Zelda game up to that point could be played on the GameCube. Neat.

The work week is starting up again so my progress on Ocarina of Time is likely to slow down, but I'd bet I'll have it finished by next weekend. I know this game like the back of my hand, so even if I manage to get all 20 hearts it won't take me too long.

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