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  1. On 11/23/2020 at 8:29 PM, Dark Holy Elf said:

    I actually found SoV's version of it a bit comical. Delthea picks up a sword post-promotion and is apparently super-strong compared to someone like, say, Clive, because they wanted her to deal high damage with magic.

    Pretty sure SoV is the only game like that. The GBA games have only one offensive stat, but without hacking, nobody can use both physical weapons and tomes/staves IIRC, making it moot. Same with Heroes, if you count that. Judgral, Tellius, the Archaenaea remakes, Awakening, Fates, and 3H all use separate strength and magic stats. Dunno about FE1-3.

    I was saying SoV fixed more along the lines of just within the 3DS era of games. I've personally never played Geneology/Thracia 776. Even if units like Deathea could wield swords in my experience I rarely physically attacked with due priestess pathetically low physical defense which meant units like Delthea could often die to a single physical hit on retaliation so she just zapped people 97% of the time. Usually the only folks she'd melee were witches.  

  2. 19 minutes ago, Shrimperor said:

    I think it's better that way, or those classes would've been waaaaaaay overpowered. Not to mention it makes more sense, since they also target different defences.

    At the very least they should have more weapons like the Levitow sword that use the opposite stat for attack power or vice versa and have said weapons available at E rank and up. Trying to level up dark knights to C rank in swords to use it was pure hell. 

  3. 2 hours ago, eclipse said:

    That's better.

    Fates has gameplay on its side.  Introducing another weapon triangle was ambitious, and if daggers were a bit better balanced, it would've been amazing.  It also got rid of gender-locked classes, by introducing female fighters/berserkers, male pegasus knights (albeit under a different name), and the male equivalent of a magic-and-staff-on-a-horse.  The Hoshido/Nohr weapon split was a good experiment, as were the various penalties on Steel/Silver (whether or not they made a difference in the end is something I can't say).  IMO the biggest omission was some variant of the Restore staff, given the giant number of new status effects.

    Never mind things like map/difficulty design, where it wasn't pure stat inflation for difficulty.  But I think someone who's legitimately analyzed Lunatic would be better qualified to speak on this point.

    Characters/story fell flat on its face.  Fortunately, my expectations for FE games is quite low in regards to both.

    I concur, the story left alot to be desired. But I do enjoy and applaud the gameplay changes even if I don't necessarily want every single one return. One thing that irked me was the classes that used a combination of magic and physical weapons without a shared attack stat. That was cancer that only got fixed in SoV. 

  4. Plazma was a name given me for the "Z" in the PSP game Ratchet and Clank Size matters in multiplayer. Basically some guy randomly messaged me asking to join. Being like 10 at the time I thought it was the coolest thing at the time. Only prerequisite to joining was changing my name to "PlazmaZ". Prior to that I had some generic random name.

    I've using the Plazma name since in various forms only ditching it briefly in favor of "AllenSugar" from like 2010-2011, and AssaultSugar from like 2011-2013. 

    PlazmaZ

    PlazmaZ5 (This was because runescape claimed "PlazmaZ" and offered me several alternatives of which I choose "PlazmaZ5")

    AllenSugar (Allen is my middle name, sugar cause I thought it was hilarious especially since I'm a dude and having people call me "sugar") 

    AssaultSugar (Assault was a reference to the Assault class in the Battlefield series which was always my most played class) 

    AssaultPlazma (Bringing Back Plazma) 

    PyroPlazma (I melted a golf club in the oven when I was a young child. Also tend to like fire based techniques/elements within video games) 

  5. 5 hours ago, Shoblongoo said:

    Cops routinely respond to emergency calls and disrupt crimes in progress. The problem is thats a very, very, VERY small percentage of the work that we actually have police doing atm. 

    We moved away from the idea that this is supposed to be their main job. 

    They're mostly just out there now doing highway patrol, harassing motorists, and issuing ticketing citations for traffic offenses and violations of low-level municipal ordinances subject to minor fines. (because thats how The State makes its money)

    ...and then at some point, we also decided its their job to be the one's called out as the first line of response when someone with a mental illness or a drug habit is in crisis...

    And I think one of the institutional fixes that needs to be made is that we have to move back to the idea of police-work being narrowly focused on responding to emergency calls, catching criminals, and disrupting crime.

    ...police aren't supposed to be social workers.
    ...police aren't supposed to be highway tax collectors.

    Think about this: for many Americans living outside of high-crime areas, your only regular interactions with police officers are at traffic stops. 

    And you actively go out of your way to avoid them.

    And when you see a cop car out on the road your gut-response isn't thank you Mr. Police Officer, for Protecting our Streets.

    Its Oh Fuck. Whats the speed limit?  Did I signal when I made that last turn? Are my high-beams on? Is my taillight out? Is my registration up-to-date? Whats this fucker going to pull me over for this time? 

    And I think one of the most basic things we can do to restore public confidence and policing even outside the whole issue of police brutality is take that role away from them, and get them laser-focused back on stopping crimes. 

    Do you have an actual citation for cops "routinely disrupting crimes in progress"? 

    Besides that I agree with everything else you said. Defund the police is a good idea with a horrible name and equally horrible political optics. 

    I still believe in citizens being armed regardless. 

  6. 22 minutes ago, Shoblongoo said:

    This becomes something of a circular argument:

    AMERICAN POLICE:  "We need to use more aggressive police tactics and resort to force more often than police in this country, because in America anyone could have a gun and we always have to assume a belligerent suspect is armed." 

    PRIVATE CITIZENS:  "We can't trust the police to provide law enforcement services without resorting to excessive use of force, so we need to protect ourselves with more guns."

    AMERICAN POLICE:  "Well now we have to be even more aggressive and use more  violence, because there's even more armed-and-dangerous individuals that we have to assume we're encountering on patrol."

    PRIVATE CITIZENS: "Well now the police are even less trustworthy, so we need more private self-defense and more guns."

    AMERICAN POLICE:  "We wouldn't be so quick to resort to extreme force if you didn't have so many guns."

    PRIVATE CITIZENS:  "We wouldn't need so many guns if you weren't so quick to resort to extreme force." 

    AMERICAN POLICE:  "You're the reason we have to do that."

    PRIVATE CITIZENS:  "No you're the reason we have to do that."

    ...and so on, and so forth....
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    I think I'd rather just reform broken institutions and restore public trust in policing, then substitute private violence for the state-sanctioned variant.

     

    It's not circular because the police are straight up lying to you. Crime has been going down as with police deaths. So the police have been arming the ever living crap out of themselves to deal with a increasingly safer country. Further more increased militarization has been shown to not seriously affect already decreasing crime rates overall.

    You still haven't addressed large swaths of my post. Such as the basic reality that cops will rarely arrive to actually stop crimes in progress or that police have no legal obligation to protect citizens as per the supreme court. Please address my individual points. 

  7. 3 hours ago, Shoblongoo said:

    Very interesting how police now are literally like how can you expect us to do our job if we can't beat and murder whoever we want without being filmed, and don't have immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability when we get caught??? Thats outrageous--we can't work under those conditions.

    ...its almost like they've become accustomed to doing whatever the hell they want with no real accountability or oversight, and let the so called ((bad-apples)) become the professional standard...

    (HINT: thats exactly what happened) 

     

    This is the core of why I'm pro gun rights. I use to drink the kool-aid of "it's to protect us against a tyrannical government!". But these days the country is far to hyper partisan and hyper divided for that to ever be remotely successful. 

    I just never understood how people in good faith believed they should place 100% of their protection in the hands of an institution that....

    1. Has no legal obligation to protect you according to the Supreme Court (see the Parkland shooting for a real world example of this ruling coming into play)

    2. Vast majority of time won't even be there to protect you

    3. Are rooted in racism and discrimination. Or just general ****headedness towards lower class people they know can't fight back legally speaking of which......

    4. These days have barely any accountability for their actions up too and including controversial/unlawful shootings of innocent civilians  

    5. Are increasingly well armed to the point of being indistinguishable from actual national guard/military units. So much so a national guard unit had to rumor control saying cops engaging in police brutality weren't them. I'm a Army vet and currently Active Duty Air Force and this stuff disgust me!

    So the idea of placing 100% of the burden of your protection to these people is and has been baffling to me. I was on the ACAB train before the whole protest thing went down. I've literally had a friend unironically tell me that he believed the police were loose cannons who were out of control (pre protest). But still believed they should be the only ones armed. Of course when I politely brought this point back up he casually denied/side stepped it and tried to gas-light me lol. 

    Normally I try not "I told you so" too hard, but..... yeah....... You see how police in America get down.... 

  8. 1 hour ago, Integrity said:

    it sure does, and i have apologized as of last year to both of the users who ever posted in it

     

    cheers tho

     

    I love your Avatar. I wish THQ didn't go under and we would have gotten Space Marine 2 and 3. If only SEGA would revive it we'd get more Lt Mira. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Armchair General said:

    I'm just being paranoid, because you never know what's going on in people's heads nowadays.  Although I would settle for a stun gun, less of an liability issue there.

    A large dog would also maybe be an alternative. Lots of upkeep with that one, but with the added benefit of companionship. Also nothing paranoid about wanting to be prepared to potentially deal with violent people especially in a time like this. 

  10. 3 hours ago, Armchair General said:

    I live in Cali and the last thing I feel like dealing with is some crazy idiot jumping me...and I can't call the police about it.

    Sorry to hear about that. I know California is super restrictive but have you considered picking up a firearm for protection? 

  11. 15 hours ago, eclipse said:

    Doesn't work in reverse, since I'm older than you.  Nice try, though.

    Believe what you want.  But I'm not going to advocate silencing you because you're speaking from ignorance.

    You haven't seen a company's philosophy change with the leadership, ever?

     

    How old are you? 

  12. 20 hours ago, Dai said:

    In a move that should surprise no one as to the depths of Trump and his administration’s cruelty, they have reversed policies on protections for transgender in health. Not only during Pride Month, but on the fourth anniversary to the day of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/868073068/transgender-health-protections-reversed-by-trump-administration?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com

    Ugh that's horrible! Why can't people just leave transgender folks alone? I just cannot fathom how these right wingers can be convinced people who represent like 1-2% of the U.S. population along with possessing literally ZERO socio-political power represent some kind of existential threat to America..... 

  13. On 5/25/2020 at 7:07 AM, whase said:

    Am I the only one who likes the current Merlinus mechanic? And thinks his character and story importance is fine as it is?

    I wouldn't oppose to him leveling per chapter and having a separate deploy space though, but also don't believe he needs it.

    I can't think of a single player who elects to take Merlinus over an actual fighting character....  

  14. 32 minutes ago, XRay said:

    For fuck's sake, if that dumbass did not keep making a big deal about the bunker, we are going to forget about it sooner or later and not use it against him in the future. But since he is so adamant about not hiding in a bunker, that only makes him sound like he is in total denial and a complete and utter lying wuss. Being a wuss does not look good, but we are all wusses at one time or another, very few of us are actually completely fearless. But to be in a complete denial about being a wuss just makes him look worse and completely repulsive. This lying piece of wuss is alone and afraid and does not do anything to stop being a wuss. A normal wuss admits it, asks friends for help, and does whatever they need to do stop being a wuss.

    Masculinity in a man is not measured by how much macho you can hoard and show off, masculinity in a man is measured by how much you are willing to lose. I feel comfortable wearing a pink shirt because I feel so manly already that wearing a pink shirt is a subtle way of saying "I am wearing a pink shirt and I am still manlier than you." If he was a real man, he would not be so afraid of some protesters grabbing him by the crotch and walked to the church in front of protestors and took some photos with the reverend.

    If you're wearing pink clothing/items and people criticize you for wearing it just claim it's for breast cancer and guilt trip the f#*! out of them!

  15. So nice to see the various Militia groups, 3%'s, Oath Keepers, Don't Trend on Me guys completely silent during all of this. I thought they trained and armed up their whole loves to fight "government tyranny". Yet when the clearest forms of government tyranny to date in recent history comes knocking they're nowhere to be found. I guess it's not tyranny when the innocent people being tear gased, shot by rubber bullets in the face and beaten by cops have more melanin in their skin. 

    Bunch of spinless LARPers they are.

    Before anyone tried to say "I told you so" yes I already knew most of them (alongside modern american conservatism) is general where a bunch of hypocrites who as usual beat their chest about their supposed values then turn right back around on said values. Yes I know most right wing/republican gun owners claim to hate the government and demand small government then hero worship the very foundation of strong centralized core government a heavily armed police force or siccing the military on the civilian population.  

  16. 1 hour ago, German FE Nino said:

    They are canon tho. Just that their adventure happened prior to the events of FE6 instead of intertwining with it like in the manga(which was based on a betascript anyways). I would much prefer there to be a prequelcampaign that focusses on that instead of just retconning that potential tale out of existance.

    Whoops forgot about that. I meant to say use the Manga style of events which is pretty close to FE6 itself just including the extra characters (it's been years since I read it) 

    I don't how a FE6 prequel would work, cause isn't that literally just FE7 by every regard? 

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