Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Best Smile Edition [SELF]

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They claim that is IT, no more

"By the way, take tomorrow off. We should have work for you Monday, maybe Tuesday"

Great confidence booster!
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well at least you've got Monday for sure
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My brother just got laid off; I think they let go of something like 30% of the company

Looks questionable that they wont go under, though, so Im guessing he would have been looking for a new job regardless
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Dantezoid posted...

They claim that is IT, no more

uh huh

I'm sure that's how it always works
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Looks questionable that they wont go under, though, so Im guessing he would have been looking for a new job regardless

This is kinda my major fear - I don't think things are THAT bad, but we lost a major client a few months ago and just had major projects pushed from another so it was bound to happen.
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But yeah by pure numbers we lost 20% of our group, but that's kinda a mix of two groups and all the losses are on the structural side, so it was really closer to 25%
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oh good everyone has a vote

I always feel bad when poll options get shut out
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I haven't voted on any of my accounts
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Ok now I have
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Kathy: I'll tell you what, Chandler. Why don't you call me when you grow up?
Chandler: Yeah, well, don't expect that to happen anytime soon!
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Playing through 0.2 now. Finished the Cinderella area, now on the Snow White area. The gameplay seems really fun so far, which is encouraging since I imagine this is a prototype for KH3.

This whole "offering me costumes in exchange for completing objectives" thing is kind of weird, but hey, who hasn't wanted to see Aqua in cat ears
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Me

I haven't
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well you're missing out
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0.2 beated, so I guess I am officially ready for Kingdom Hearts III now!

Also, I guess the epilogue provided the pretext for Sora starting KH3 at level 1. I liked the lampshade hanging joke from him when he said, "Happens all the time!"
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Atlantica beated

Halloween Town time
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congratulations on surviving Atlantica

that world's a doozy in KH1
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Yeah, not many games do water levels well

Halloween Town and 100 Acre Woods beated
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Still more of a doozy in the sequel
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pjbasis posted...

Still more of a doozy in the sequel

yeah but for a totally different reason
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Well I had a lot of fun in the sequel
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what kind of fun
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Finny fun, of course
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That's right
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So just finished my first playthrough of the series and DMC4 > 3 > 1 > 2
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I feel like having a cold in summer might be worse than winter if only for the apparent irony. Argh, been miserable the past few days.

Dragged myself to play enough Persona 5 finally to complete that mission of mine to uncover the mystery of the 100,000 fishing point armor.

rarely have i felt so betrayed by a game

It's absolutely terrible. It's outdone by armor you can put in the laundry from the 6th Palace. In fact, Tanaka's shop in mid/late December allows you to buy armor that when put in the laundry is literally an enhanced version of that very armor. I mean, I guess the "appeal" is that if you waste a ton of days on fishing early you could probably get this armor way earlier at a time when it would actually be well above what you have access to but still. I was thinking given its price it would be in the neighborhood of ultimate armors.
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grinding is still the worst
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LeonhartFour posted...

grinding is still the worst

again i literally had nothing to do with the time

I've been to the gym so much that I have over 750 HP (over 200 more than Ryuji who is 2nd) and nearly 70 SP more than Morgana!
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and yet
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Played P5 on Easy and maxed social links in one playthrough in 80 hours. It sounds like the dungeons are insanely grindy on normal or harder difficulties, since most people take 100 hours to beat the game on normal.

I wish RPGs just had customizable difficulties that give you more XP/money so you don't have to grind as much.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I wish RPGs just had customizable difficulties that give you more XP/money so you don't have to grind as much.

One of the best things Persona 4 Golden did
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So I guess I'll also try to play BBS before KH3 comes out. The question is whether I should replay/watch cutscenes for some or all of the other games.
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pretty sure you're going to need to be familiar with the events of BBS before KH3 comes out

it is definitely the most "necessary" of the non-numbered games, along with DDD
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Oh. Right. Leon, how critical would you guess that 0.2 and X would be to KH3?

Again, I'm sure I'll play it just want to know how high a priority I should try and make it.
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I feel like themes from 0.2 and X will be referenced a lot in KH3, but I don't know how much the events themselves will actually be directly referenced. It'll mostly just be a continuity bonus, I'd guess. Heck, 0.2 itself alludes to stuff from X, but I don't think it would've been a huge deal for me not to know that.

But 0.2 only takes a few hours to beat, and the cutscenes for X on 2.8 only take an hour to watch, so it's not a big time investment either way.
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Thanks.

Yeah, I'm probably overthinking it since it shouldn't take much time at all but still!
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RED ROSS RED ROSS

I liked Emily as a character, actually. Shame that it ended up the way it did with her.
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Neverland seemed super short

I always thought Peter was lame, but Hook is a pretty fun villain
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Hook is definitely one of the better Disney villains.

Peter Pan was better when Robin Williams played him.
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Hollow Bastion beated

Heartless Sora > regular Sora tbqh

(Also Roxas >>> Sora of course)
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Well, that was extremely frustrating

I had beaten Riku on my second try originally, but somehow forgot to save and got killed by a freaking Sniperwild. It probably took me another 7 or 8 tries to kill Riku the second time.
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yeah but that's still the best fight in the game

Hollow Bastion so good
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P5 NG+ beated.

Think I'm feeling a bit more down on the ending than I was first time through.

just another thing for p5 crimson to fix. somehow. this would admittedly be a bit of a challenge. I was gonna say make the timeskip from Valentines to March 19 playable but without the Metaverse that might be challenging. And bringing it back would be silly unless done very well/they change things.

Still a great game but P3/P4 still better.
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Yeah, the ending fell a little flat for me the second time around, too. I don't think they really can do anything to fix that aspect of it, unless they just want to make all the new scenes take place during that window of time, which would mean no bonus dungeon unless it's located somewhere else in Mementos, I guess.
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I need to figure out what to play next.
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DQ8!
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Accidentally activated the Sephiroth fight in KH2

Got two shot
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yeah that fight doesn't mess around in KH1

I beat him in KH2 but never tried that hard to in KH1

LordoftheMorons posted...

DQ8!

I still need to buy the 3DS version first
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Persona 5 anime episode 13 complete

Interesting twist on Yusuke's Confidant arc, but they've been finding ways to give Akechi more screentime throughout the show. Next episode preview seems to indicate a Joker/Makoto episode, so hype!
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Maybe I should play a Tales game in celebration of finally getting Vesperia. I have both Xillia and Berseria on hand.
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Tales of Berseria always a great option.

Also Trails of Cold Steel or Tokyo Xanadu eX+. I think my next thing will be replaying the latter so we could have parallel playthroughs~
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