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IIRC, I read an article which stated that the more sex partners a women has before marriage, the more likely she is to be unhappy with a marriage and/or get a divorce. The same correlation was not found for men, however. I haven't followed the topic though to see if the study had been revised/replicated/rebutted so take it with a grain of salt.

Awakening wasn't that bad on Lunatic, barring some chapters like 2 and 5. I'm gonna be disappointed if there is no Luna+ type difficulty in Fates. I used to think L+ was poorly designed until I did some reading on the FEA subforum.

Do we know yet if there is a Lunatic+ style difficulty?

Oboro's voice/battlecries get me every time.

SnK has a canon lesbian relationship? That's not the vibe I got out of the manga. Perhaps it is hinted/teased at, but canon?

I'm disappointed with the inclusion of the three kids, based on what we know. That said, I see no reason not to recruit them and perhaps use them. I just hope Luna's lines are less grating than Severa's.

Hoshido: Knights and Generals that aren't redundant/overkill on lower difficulties and aren't sub-par on higher difficulties/endgame content. Nohr: Knights and Generals that aren't redundant/overkill on lower difficulties and aren't sub-par on higher difficulties/endgame content. I think the reason why Elfie looks sad/expressionless in her portrait is because she realized she is a Knight.

From what I gather, perhaps the biggest problem with Awakening is Veteran. If Veteran didn't exist, then the devs might have put more effort into balancing the various difficulties in FEA.

I'm curious to hear the opinions of people who have cleared FEA's Lunatic+ without grinding, with regards to forging. I know that L+ can be cleared without using Barracks at all. Some players avoid it because of the random nature of the free stuff. From what I've read though, forging (and maybe that Renown second seal) are rather critical. FEIf is a different game, so we'll have to wait and see how the bonus content affects the difficulty curve.

So this is where a portion of the Devs' efforts and resources have been spent on. I'd prefer sharing war stories over a campfire to build supports. Given the war-centric theme of FE, something like that would fit better than face rubbing. The dragon thing, is it subject to permadeath?

Nitpick, "Up to X" and "X" are not equivalent, so the next few statements don't follow unless you qualify them with "sometimes."

This is just restating the assertion. 1) The option of Casual mode does not affect more than the player. 2) If something does not affect more than the player, then it should not be a point of contention or criticism. C) Therefore, Casual mode should not be a point of contention or criticism. The big problem is with 2, since for some people, they don't have a reason to accept the premise.

Moral abhorrence isn't the only criteria that determines whether 'it doesn't affect me so whatever' is a valid argument.

Why not? Irysa has been arguing that it was one of those situations. Or maybe I'm misrepresenting him. Anyways, simply saying it isn't one of those situations begs the question AFAIK. OK, lets ignore rape entirely. We need an argument as to why 'it doesn't affect me so whatever' is valid in the case of Casual mode.

Irysa wasn't comparing an aspect of a video game to rape. The comparison was to an argument (or rather an assertion). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum